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Texas Farmer Faces Hefty Prison Term After Armed Agents Raided Home Over Foreign Chicken Eggs
“I told the lady [in Vietnam], ‘I’m taking these eggs to America if they let me,’ and she was like, ‘Oh, that’s great,’” Mayo recalled.
Mayo went through customs in the Philippines on her way back to Texas. The eggs were inspected before she boarded the plane. “They searched through my bags. The guy said, ‘What kind of egg is this?’ And I said, ‘It’s chicken. Chicken eggs.’ He said, ‘Okay,’ and sent me on my way.”
Mayo proceeded to LAX, where she planned to declare her possession of the eggs.
“I get to LAX, still nothing... It was completely my intent to declare them,” she said, adding that she didn’t see a single customs agent as the airport was under construction. “What I had read on the website for customs was that it was at the discretion of the customs agent. So I was like, ‘If they let me through, they let me through. If they don’t, I had a wonderful experience on this trip,” she said.
Excited about her purchase, Mayo told her friends on Facebook about the process. But the excitement would soon turn to horror.
A team of heavily armed federal agents raided Mayo’s farm in July 2023. The officers also detained her tenants, placing them in handcuffs.
“They kicked in all the doors. They handcuffed my tenants. They kept one of my tenants standing outside, handcuffed in his underwear, for two hours,” Mayo recounted. In total, around 40 officers were involved, including U.S. Marshals in riot gear. “Look at me. Do I really look like I’m gonna run?” she asked, incredulous.
The raid’s most devastating moment came next, when the agents killed Mayo’s Dong Tao chickens without her consent.
“They asked the attorney I had at the time for permission to kill the birds... My boss, who was also my friend, told them, ‘No, she does not give the attorney permission.’ They were like, ‘No, we’re doing it anyways.’” she said. “So they killed the surviving Dong Tao.”
WTF is with these FEDs having to show up with 40 cops including UIS Marshals in RIOT GEAR for a middle aged woman with some chickens over eggs ...
Woman admits to smuggling rare chickens
A 46-year-old Aransas Pass resident has pleaded guilty to smuggling Dong Tao chickens into the United States
It is illegal to import poultry into the United States from regions affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza or regions where Newcastle disease exist in commercial poultry populations unless specific conditions are met.
According to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Vietnam and Cambodia are listed as regions affected with highly pathogenic avian influenza and are not listed as free of Newcastle disease.
Special prosecutor slams Hunter Biden's bid to dismiss his indictment after dad Joe's pardon
Special Prosecutor David Weiss says Hunter Biden's tax crimes cannot be dismissed – despite his father's presidential pardon.
Hunter's lawyers filed papers asking a California judge to dismiss the case as soon as Joe Biden pardoned him on Sunday.
But in a response on Monday, Weiss, the senior Justice Department official who ran the prosecutions against the felon First Son, argued that it's not that simple.
In their filing, Weiss and his prosecutors Leo Wise and Derek Hines slammed Hunter's lawyers for trying to 'blot out guilt' and erase the shocking deeds he admitted to in court.
They said that the court should instead close the case with a note acknowledging Hunter's presidential pardon, but leaving his guilty plea on the record, along with the official finding that prosecutors' charges of debauchery, deliberate tax-dodging and political perversion were true.
The DoJ officials accused Hunter's hotshot Washington DC attorney Abbe Lowell of 'misrepresent[ing] the law' adding that 'Nothing requires the dismissal of the indictment in this case.'
Billionaire Tech Investor Says Biden Admin Pressured Financial Institutions To ‘Debank’ Opponents
“We have this thing called the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, CFPB, which was the – it’s sort of Elizabeth Warren’s personal agency that she gets to control,” he continued. “And it’s an independent agency that just gets to run and do whatever it wants, right? And if you read the Constitution, like, there is no such thing as an independent agency. And yet there it is.”
“Basically, it terrorizes financial institutions,” he explained. “Prevent new competition, new startups that want to compete with the big banks … just by terrorizing anybody who tries to do anything new in financial services.”
When Rogan asked for an example, Andressen answered:
“Under current banking regulations, after all the reforms of the last 20 years, there’s now a category called a ‘politically exposed person,’” he said. “PEP. And if you are a PEP, you are required by financial regulators to kick them out of your bank. You’re not allowed to have them. “
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“This is where the government and the companies get intertwined,” he continued. “And back to your fascism point, which is there’s a constitutional amendment that says the government can’t restrict your speech, but there’s no constitutional amendment that says the government can’t debank you, right? And so, if they can’t do the one thing, they do the other thing. And then they don’t have to debank you. They just have to put pressure on the private company banks to do it. And then the private company banks do it because they’re expected to. But the government gets to say, ‘We didn’t do it. It was the private company that did it.’”
“It’s this sleight of hand that happens … it’s a privatized sanctions regime that lets bureaucrats do to American citizens the same thing that we do to Iran, just kick you out of the financial system,” he explained. “And so, this has been happening to all the crypto entrepreneurs in the last four years. This has been happening to a lot of the fintech entrepreneurs, anybody trying to start any kind of new banking service because they’re trying to protect the big banks.”
“And then this has been happening, by the way, also in legal fields of economic activity that they don’t like,” he recalled. “And so, a lot of this started about 15 years ago with this thing called Operation Truck Point, where they decided, as marijuana started to become legal, as prostitution started to become legal, and then guns, which there’s always a fight about, under the Obama administration, they started to debank legal marijuana businesses, escort businesses, and then gun shops, just like your gun manufacturers. And just like you’re done, you’re out of the banking system. And so, if you’re running a medical marijuana dispensary in 2012, guess what? You’re doing your business all in cash because you literally can’t get a bank account. You can’t get a Visa terminal. You can’t process transactions. You can’t do payroll. You can’t do direct deposit. You can’t get insurance. You’ve been sanctioned, right? None of that stuff is available.”
He turned to the Biden-Harris administration. “And then this administration extended that concept to apply it to tech founders, crypto founders, and then just generally political opponents. … Operation Truck Point 1.0 was 15 years ago against the pot and the guns. Truck Point 2.0 is primarily against their political enemies and then to their disfavored tech startups. And it’s hit the tech world. We’ve had like 30 founders debanked in the last four years. This is one of the reasons why we ended up supporting Trump. It’s like we just can’t live in this world.”
“We can’t live in a world where somebody starts a company that’s a completely legal thing and then they literally like get sanctioned, right, and embargoed by the United States government through a completely unaccountable – by the way, no due process,” he said. “None of this is written down. There’s no rules. There’s no court. There’s no decision process. There’s no appeal. Who do you appeal to, right? Like who do you go to to get your bank account back, right? And then there’s also the civil asset forfeiture side of it … that happens to people in a lot of places now who get arrested and all of a sudden the state takes their money. … There will be some investigation into safe deposit boxes, and the next thing you know, the feds have seized all the contents of the safe deposit boxes, and that stuff never gets returned.”
CFPB is illegal and needs to be dissolved, but the courts pussied out and refused to the JOB
Yesterday, NBC ran a story headlined, “Obamacare coverage for DACA recipients in 19 states blocked by federal judge.” On Monday, a federal judge in North Dakota blocked a Biden administration rule allowing DACA recipients (“Dreamers”) to sign up for Obamacare.
In a case filed by 19 Republican state attorneys general, U.S. District Court Judge Dan Traynor, a Trump appointee, held that the Biden rule violated a law banning public benefits for people with illegal immigration status.
Unfortunately, the ruling only applies in the 19 plaintiff states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
But still. It’s progress. And just wait till next year.
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In a case filed by 19 Republican state attorneys general, U.S. District Court Judge Dan Traynor, a Trump appointee, held that the Biden rule violated a law banning public benefits for people with illegal immigration status.
Unfortunately, the ruling only applies in the 19 plaintiff states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
But still. It’s progress. And just wait till next year.
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Another out-of-the-park Trump nomination; Humptedy McConnell falls; British chest feeding u-turn; we don't hate NYT nearly enough; no free healthcare for illegals; FBI drone report to Congress; more.
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This is what happens when bureaucrats who have never run a business make rules for the rest of us
First off, they say that banks “love overdrafts” which implies that they love covering bad checks—but they don’t. People that repeatedly write bad checks are bad customers for the bank. If the bank has to repeatedly cover bad checks they will close the account because they are a pain. The bank needs deposits to make loans and investments. If a customer has a negative account balance, the bank doesn’t want them.
If the fee is lowered to $5, more will be incentivized to write bad checks, and that would destroy their credit rating. The bank will just return the check to the payee, and they will charge the customer, and no one will accept their checks.
Once a customer is known for writing bad checks and having them returned, they will be blocked at other institutions from opening an account.
Writing bad checks is also a crime, either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the amount of the checks. Of course, Democrats don’t seem to care about crimes. They are anti-business.
Free checking accounts will be taken away from other customers who don’t write bad checks, but these CFPB bureaucrats and Biden administration officials don’t care. They got their talking points out that they are saving customers $5 billion per year, and this will save the typical household $225 per year. That is obviously not true. The typical household does not write bad checks, so it will save them zero—but it’s likely to cost them if they’re now suddenly paying for the services for which banks typically don't charge.
The CFPB, under Obama, also had a slush fund where it shook down corporations and gave some amounts back to political supporters instead of victims. There were also slush funds at EPA and the Justice Department.
JPMorgan Chase warned the CFPB and Biden administration that they would start charging for services that were previously free if this rule went through, and that these fees will hurt the poor and middle class the most (people about whom the Democrats only pretend to care). From a Wall Street Journal article:
It is a true shame that most people posing as journalists just repeat what they are told instead of doing independent thinking and research, no matter what the subject is.
Clem72
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Based on what? For decades now they have had preferential practices for the hiring of minority owned small businesses at the federal level.
OccamsRazor
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Good job breaking the streak...
Where’s Our $300 Million?
Benz, deputy assistant secretary of State under President Donald Trump, tweeted earlier this week that “The Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. 11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon’s businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses.’”
He included the receipts, as the kids like to say, showing which departments and agencies funded which lines of attack on Musk’s businesses, and the amounts they sent.
In another tweet, Benz says that Reuters, “between its newswire services, its network intelligence services & its data services” has raked in more than “$1.56 billion dollars in U.S .government contracts.”
“Does Reuters’ customer relationship with government agencies taint its news coverage of government actions?” he asks.
Well of course it does.
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Just last month, Google told us our Nov. 21 editorial “Unburdened By What Has Been, Trump Is Poised To Deliver Bigly” contained “unreliable and harmful claims” and disabled ads that bring us a modest amount of revenue that would have appeared with that editorial.
It wasn’t the first time. A search of our site shows Google’s history of demonetizing I&I because we dare challenge the account that the political powers and their media lackeys are feeding the public.
Google, Facebook, and other tech giants – who now serve as arbiters of what people can read – were more than happy to let the Biden administration outsource its censorship campaign to them.
There’s a chance this industrial-censorship-complex will come to an end under the next administration. President-elect Trump has tapped Andrew Ferguson – who promised to “hold big tech accountable and stop censorship,” and “protect freedom of speech and fight wokeness” – to head the Federal Trade Commission.
Continuing Resolution Will Imprison You For Making Intimate Forgeries Using AI
We've already given so many examples of how the 1,500-page continuing resolution has nothing to do with keeping the government operating until March. We wanted to give this one special attention because someone went to a lot of work making an acronym for this act. Take for example the PATRIOT Act. The worst example we've seen so far comes from the January 6 select committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, who proposed stripping Donald Trump of his Secret Service detail with the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act, or the DISGRACED Act.
This continuing resolution includes something called the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, also known as the TAKE IT DOWN Act. Is this what congressional staffers get paid to do? Think up ridiculous acronyms? In short, you can be thrown in jail for two years for posting "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions."