Rather than let the articles of impeachment filed by the GOP House for HHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the DNC-led Senate voted to dismiss the articles altogether, dismissing historic precedent in the process. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) submitted each article as a point of order contending the charges didn’t rise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The first point of order passed with all Dem votes and a couple RNC votes. The second point of order passed with all Dem votes and no RNC votes. GOP Leadership responded in a joint statement: “By voting unanimously to bypass their constitutional responsibility, every single Senate Democrat has issued their full endorsement of the Biden Administration’s dangerous open border policies. Secretary Mayorkas alongside President Biden has used nearly every tool at his disposal to engineer the greatest humanitarian and national security catastrophe at our borders in American history,” Excerpt from www.theblaze.com The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to put the kibosh on the impeachment push targeting Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer raised a point of order for each of the impeachment articles, claiming that they did not allege activity that reached the level of constituting a high crime or misdemeanor and were consequently unconstitutional. Both points of order were voted to be “well taken,” with all Democrats and independents scrapping the articles as unconstitutional.
Bank of America saw its overall profits drop by nearly 20 percent year over year due, it claimed, to higher expenses connected to higher interest rates. They posted a profit of $6.67 billion, which is down from $8.2 billion from the same quarter last year. Excerpt from www.wdtn.com NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America said its first-quarter profits fell 18%, as the bank dealt with rising expenses due to the impact of higher interest rates. But the results beat analysts’ estimates. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank posted a profit of $6.67 billion, or 76 cents per share, compared with $8.2 billion, or 94 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier. BofA had to make a one-time $700 million payment to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to help the agency replenish the deposit insurance fund.
George Soros just gave Democracy PAC $60 million to promote Democrat House candidates, pro-choice pushers, and black candidates, all of which are willing to disavow the American constitution and embrace Soros’ brand of far left authoritarianism. This follows a $125 million donation to the same PAC in 2022. It is the second largest donation of the 2024 election cycle, but the first by a single doner (the other was a super PAC that donated $82.5 million to the DeSantis campaign). Excerpt from www.dailymail.co.uk The billionaire George Soros has donated $60 million to Democracy PAC, a super political action committee he uses to support Democrats, the second-biggest campaign donation in the 2024 election cycle. A nonprofit founded and funded by Soros gave cash to boost the campaigns of congressional Democrats, pro-choice campaigners and black candidates in down-ballot races, a filing with the Federal Election Commission shows. Democracy PAC spread $21 million to a dozen super PACs in the first quarter, including $4 million donations to both the House Majority PAC and the Senate Majority PAC.
Despite claims to the contrary by Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that China’s efforts to interfere with the 2021 elections were a failure, newly released intelligence documents reveal China was pushing for a Justin Trudeau win and they succeeded in making that happen. The discovery was made by the Canadian Intelligence, whose investigation of the 2021 election revealed how the CCP helped Trudeau win, by using Chinese immigrants, Chinese-language news outlets, and more to push the Trudeau narrative and assure Chinese Canadians voted for the Liberal Party as well. Excerpt from thenationalpulse.com Revelations in February that the Chinese communist government sought to interfere in the past two Canadian elections on behalf of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the ruling Liberal Party have sparked a public inquiry in Ottowa. Over the past three weeks, the inquiry commission has heard testimony from top Trudeau government aides, national security and intelligence officials, and the Prime Minister himself. Despite Trudeau’s insistence that the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections were “free and fair,” testimony from intelligence officials suggests otherwise. “It would just seem very improbable that the Chinese government itself would have a preference in the election,” Prime Minister Trudeau testified last week before the inquiry, which Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Marie-Josée Hogue heads. However, intelligence documents made public in the course of the inquiry detail a sophisticated and concerted effort by agents acting on behalf of China to push Chinese-Canadian voters to back Liberal Party candidates over their Conservative Party opponents. In response to the proceedings, The Washington Post concluded: “China got the outcome it wanted in 2021 — the reelection of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a minority government.”
NPR has suspended without pay one of their senior veteran editors, Uri Berliner, for exposing the near-total Democrat Party support found inside the NPR newsroom. He exposed the bias that led the news team to become de facto Democrat Party content marketers, though he didn’t use those terms, even if he should have. NPR answered the charges with a memo penned by editor-in-chief Edith Chapin, claiming “We’re proud to stand behind the exceptional work that our desks and shows do to cover a wide range of challenging stories. We believe that inclusion — among our staff, with our sourcing, and in our overall coverage — is critical to telling the nuanced stories of this country and our world.” Excerpt from slaynews.com NRP has suspended a veteran editor after he blew the whistle on the “news” network’s leftist agenda. Uri Berliner exposed the left-wing bias at the taxpayer-funded outlet during a public rebuke of the organization last week. Berliner’s five-day suspension without pay began on Friday, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik reported. As Slay News reported, Berliner penned a bombshell piece in the Free Press that criticized NPR’s coverage of the Russiagate Hoax, the Covid lab leak theory, Hunter Biden’s scandalous laptop, severe anti-Trump bias among staff, and the embrace of the far-left theory of “systemic racism.” … A former high-level NPR executive who worked with Berliner reportedly told Fox News recently that it would be hard for Berliner to remain at the company. “It seems to me that it would be very difficult for him now at NPR,” he continued. … In response to Berliner’s claims, NPR’s editor-in-chief Edith Chapin sent a memo to staff. In the memo, Chapin said she and her team “strongly disagree” with the veteran editor’s assessment of the quality of NPR’s journalism and integrity.
Over 1,300 illegal aliens descended on City Hall in NYC demanding better resources, including getting green cards so they can gain employment. The vast majority of the illegal aliens were from Guinea, which is located in West Africa. The mass gathering was triggered by Mayor Adams’ office, who called for a hearing at City Hall to “understand how the [Adams] Administration is addressing language access barriers, cultural competency challenges, health needs, and other roadblocks.” Excerpt from pjmedia.com It is an old maxim in business that you should always underpromise and overdeliver. However, under the current political climate of these United States, our government has overpromised and underdelivered. Immigrants who walk, climb, fly, float, or bunny-hop their way into the country expect to end up on the receiving end of a cornucopia of goods and services at the expense of American citizens. New York City is currently up to its Big Apple core in immigrants, legal and otherwise. Of course, this is the natural result when you add the word “sanctuary” to your nom de metropole. The New York Post notes that on Tuesday, the city held a hearing at City Hall to discuss “the black experience in the city shelter system.” In this case, the discussion was supposed to center on the plight of African migrants. A press release said the hearing was taking place to “understand how the [Adams] Administration is addressing language access barriers, cultural competency challenges, health needs, and other roadblocks.”
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have developed a way to create quantum memory, a feat doubted as possible because of how such memory would require data to stay in the quantum state. In essence, the team theorizes creating mechanical memory for quantum data using quantum drums. Mads Bjerregaard Kristensen of the Niels Bohr Institute, lead author on the project, said of the breakthrough “This opens up great perspectives for the day when quantum computers can really do what we expect them to. Quantum memory is likely to be fundamental for sending quantum information over distances. So, what we’ve developed is a crucial piece in the very foundation for an internet of the future with quantum speed and quantum security.” Excerpt from www.futurity.org Researchers have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with new light sources when needed again. The results demonstrate that mechanical memory for quantum data could be the strategy that paves the way for an ultra-secure internet with incredible speeds.
The U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, Far-Left Anti-American activist Alejandro Mayorkas, is now officially impeached after the U.S. House’s GOP leadership filed their articles of Impeachment with the U.S. Senate. The move is being seen by many as an empty gesture given the promise by the Senate’s DNC leadership to table these articles and let the die without being processed. Given the nature of the fecklessness of GOP leadership in the Senate, there’s no real reason to believe the Dems will fail to deliver on their tabling promise. Excerpt from www.dailymail.co.uk .. Mayorkas arrived just before 10:00 a.m. for a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee on why his agency requires $108 billion in funding for the 2025 fiscal year, House Republicans will be readying the articles for delivery to the Senate. ‘You abolished working policies, and following the statements of your boss on his campaign trial—promises to improperly grant asylum to anyone who came,’ Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said in his opening remarks. ‘As a result, people from all over the world tested the system, came and were released, phoned home, and the mass waves began.’
Human Rights Watch is alleging that the Myanmar Junta are now kidnapping Rohingya men and boys and dragging them in to the military, to be used on the front lines as little more than cannon fodder for their mission. The Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, Shayna Bauchner, said “It’s appalling to see Myanmar’s military, which has committed atrocities against the Rohingya for decades while denying them citizenship, now forcing them to fight on its behalf. The junta should immediately end this forced recruitment and permit Rohingya unlawfully conscripted to return home.” Excerpt from Human Rights Watch The Myanmar military has abducted and forcibly recruited more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslim men and boys from across Rakhine State since February 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. The junta is using a conscription law that only applies to Myanmar citizens, although the Rohingya have long been denied citizenship under the 1982 Citizenship Law. Rohingya described being picked up in nighttime raids, coerced with false promises of citizenship, and threatened with arrest, abduction, and beatings. The military has been sending Rohingya to abusive training for two weeks, then deploying them. Many have been sent to the front lines in the surging fighting between the junta and the Arakan Army armed group, which broke out in Rakhine State in November 2023, and a number have been killed and injured. “It’s appalling to see Myanmar’s military, which has committed atrocities against the Rohingya for decades while denying them citizenship, now forcing them to fight on its behalf,” said Shayna Bauchner, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The junta should immediately end this forced recruitment and permit Rohingya unlawfully conscripted to return home.” Human Rights Watch documented 11 cases of forced recruitment, drawing on interviews with 25 Rohingya from Sittwe, Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Pauktaw, and Kyauktaw townships in Rakhine State and in Bangladesh.
It seems Alejandro Mayorkas, the now-impeached U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, is working with organizations connected directly to George Soros’ Open Society to aid in the importing of illegal aliens who are being recruited, before they even get to America, to vote for Joe Biden in the 2024 election. The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has found documents being circulated in foreign countries, written in Spanish for their targeted audience, which shows future illegal aliens how to make sure they vote for Joe Biden when they come here illegally. The fliers say things like “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” Excerpt from amgreatness.com A non-governmental organization (NGO) tied to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been caught distributing fliers to illegal aliens urging them to vote for Joe Biden. The shocking fliers, posted on the walls of portable toilets and handed out to migrants at the Resource Center Matamoros (RCM) in Matamoros, Mexico, were discovered by independent journalist Muckraker, and shared with the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. Translated from Spanish, the fliers read: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” … Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who recently was impeached by the House for not enforcing border laws, is a former board member of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which has reportedly received numerous grants from the Open Society Foundation over the years.
A major conservative conference that gathered, in part, to highlight the totalitarian intolerance of the woke ideologies now dominating leftist factions, was shut down by a woke Mayor, the Mayor of Brussels, where the conference took place. The Mayor claimed he did so over “safety” concerns, those concerns being the fear that ideas freely expressed would undermine their own truth claims that give them the power to control the lives of their neighbors. One of the attendees, Nigel Farage, the man credited with making Britain’s exit from the EU happen (Brexit), said of the shutdown, “This is what we are up against. We are up against an evil ideology. We are up against a new form of communism. This is like the old Soviet Union. No alternative view allowed.” Excerpt from www.nytimes.com A mayor in Brussels on Tuesday sent police officers to break up a gathering of prominent, self-described “anti-woke” conservatives from across Europe, including Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, declaring “the far right is not welcome” before the authorities quickly retreated. Emir Kir, the Socialist Party mayor of the central Brussels neighborhood where the gathering took place, issued the order to close the National Conservatism Conference on grounds of “public safety.” But critics said that Mr. Kir’s order only amplified one of the gathering’s main themes: that cancel culture targeting conservative voices has run amok. “This is what we are up against. We are up against an evil ideology. We are up against a new form of communism,” declared Nigel Farage of Britain. Mr. Farage, a former member of the European Parliament and a champion of national sovereignty, who helped drive his country’s exit from the European Union, was getting ready to speak when the authorities arrived. “This is like the old Soviet Union. No alternative view allowed,” he said.
15 State Attorney Generals, all of them Republicans, have sent a letter to the Bank of America asking it to address charges it is cancelling bank accounts based on political and religious belief alone. It is the first step before potential charges could be filed by these AGs should BofA not answer their concerns and stop the illegal action if they are, in fact engaging in it. Alliance for Defending Freedom, who has been the victim of this de-banking effort by BofA, celebrated the letter, stating through their Senior Counsel, Jeremy Tedesco “We commend Attorney General Kobach and his colleagues for taking bold, appropriate action to put customers first and hold Bank of America accountable on these crucial issues. Unfortunately, megabanks like Bank of America have shown a disturbing pattern of de-banking people for their religious or political views. Bank of America needs to rebuild trust with its shareholders and customers. The American public deserves to know basic information about its policies and practices to ensure everyone receives equal treatment regardless of their political or religious views.” Excerpt from adfmedia.org WASHINGTON – In a letter sent Monday to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, 15 state attorneys general, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, called on the head of the megabank to address and curb its disturbing pattern of discrimination and politicized de-banking. The letter also calls upon Bank of America to participate in the survey portion of Alliance Defending Freedom’s Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index. In 2023, Bank of America relied on a vague “risk tolerance” policy to close without explanation the account of ADF’s client Indigenous Advance, a Tennessee-based Christian charity, along with accounts belonging to an associated LLC and a supporting church. Bank of America has de-banked others in recent years for similarly vague reasons. And just last month, the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government singled out Bank of America for voluntarily handing over confidential customer information to government agencies without a warrant and without notifying its customers. Government agencies had flagged ADF and other mainstream religious and conservative organizations as “domestic terrorist” threats, urging major banks to disclose private transactions involving keywords like “Cabela’s,” “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” and “religious texts.”
Researchers out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to build Lithium-Ion batteries that could make them significantly less prone to catch on fire and could also increase their overall power. Eugene Mamontov, ORNL Chemical Spectroscopy group leader explained, “It all comes down to the study of materials. And polymer electrolytes won’t catch fire the way liquid electrolytes do in lithium batteries.” Excerpt from techxplore An international team of scientists has found a way to improve battery design that could produce safer, more powerful lithium batteries. The team used quasi-elastic neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to set the first benchmark, one-nanosecond—or one billionth of a second—for a mixture of lithium salt and an organic polymer electrolyte. The work is published in the journal Nature Materials. “It all comes down to the study of materials,” said Eugene Mamontov, ORNL Chemical Spectroscopy group leader. “And polymer electrolytes won’t catch fire the way liquid electrolytes do in lithium batteries.” The team used the neutron technique to validate computer simulations, ending a long-standing debate about how long it takes lithium ions to break free from tiny cages created by polymer electrolytes. The rate at which ions in any battery break free from such environments, or solvation cages in polymer electrolytes, helps determine how energy flows through the battery. Polymer electrolytes could enable more energy-dense electrodes, like lithium metal, resulting in more powerful lithium batteries.
From Freedomist.com IRAN ATTACK MIGHT NOT BE THE DUD YOU THINK IT IS – If you read most media outlets, be they MSM or “independent,” you will mostly hear the attacks on Israel by Iran were a big dud, and that might not be the full story. Iran has done two successful things; they breached the highest level of air security Israel and the U.S. could offer and they cost Israel over $1 billion.
Amit Privayadan Mehta, a U.S. District Court Judge in D.C. who is regularly pronouncing draconian sentences against January 6 protesters is now moving to protect Media Matters against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who wants to investigate the Democrat Campaign firm for illegally taking grants intended for non-partisan, non-profit groups. The quisling judge issued an order to block Paxton from continuing his investigation into Media Matters, triggering an approving response from Media Matters. DNC campaign outlets like Rolling Stone are only including Media Matters’ response to the ruling, while coloring Paxton as an extremist rogue who is violating the First Amendment rights of the press. Excerpt from nz.news.yahoo.com A judge on Friday moved to halt an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) into the liberal watchdog journalism organization Media Matters, issuing a preliminary injunction in the case. Calling Media Matters a “radical left-wing” and “anti-free speech organization,” Paxton claimed to be investigating “potential fraudulent activity” by the group under Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act, in response to its reporting about X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Media Matters President and CEO Angelo Carusone said in a statement on Friday evening that X owner Elon Musk had “encouraged Republican state attorneys general to use their power to harass their critics and stifle reporting about X,” adding: “Ken Paxton was one of those AGs that took up the call and he was defeated. Today’s decision is a victory for free speech.”
It turns out the Biden plan to fund TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) to the tune of $6.6 billion could be just another Democrat Party kickback. The President of the firm, Brian Harrison, is the same man who helmed the solar energy company Solyndra, the same company that received $500 million in loans from the Obama administration just before the company went bankrupt. It should be noted that an inspector general said of the Solyndra failure that the “actions of certain Solyndra officials were, at best, reckless and irresponsible or, at worst, an orchestrated effort to knowingly and intentionally deceive and mislead the Department [of Energy].” Excerpt from thenationalpulse.com The Biden government announced it will grant $6.6 billion to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) Arizona subsidiary. The firm’s president, Brian Harrison, is the former chief executive of Solyndra, a solar energy company that took $500 million in government loans from the Obama government before collapsing. In addition, the subsidy raises national security concerns as TSMC continues to source some equipment used in semiconductor fabrication from mainland China. Harrison acknowledged appealing for federal funding for the semiconductor firm last year. The cash infusion is part of the CHIPS and Science Act, aimed at advancing domestic chip manufacturing and countering China’s hold over the industry. In October last year, the Biden government issued a sanctions waiver allowing several chip makers to purchase critical technology from suppliers located in mainland China, despite concerns the equipment could be compromised by Chinese Communist intelligence. TSMC and Samsung — who agreed to construct semiconductor facilities in the United States — received waivers.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida used his time spent to address the joint chambers of the U.S. congress to announce to the world that Japan’s relationship with the U.S. has changed, from being a support system for American-led defense to being a co-equal working in shared partnership for a common defense. The Prime Minister declared “I’m here to say that Japan is already standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States. You are not alone. We are with you. The Japanese people are fully committed to these values. I do not want to leave our children a society where human rights were oppressed, where political self-determination is denied, where our lives are monitored by digital technology. I know you don’t either,” Excerpt from www.cbn.com WASHINGTON – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in Washington, D.C. this week discussing security concerns in his part of the world. In an address before a joint session of Congress, Kishida stressed that Japan is now not only a defense ally of the U.S. but also a global partner, ready to take on a greater role in international affairs. “I’m here to say that Japan is already standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States. You are not alone. We are with you,” Prime Minister Kishida said.
Researchers from Australia have used lasers and metal powder to create a new super material, a “metamaterial” that is stronger than anything you can find in nature. Ma Qian, a lead researcher on the project, conducted out of RMIT University, said “We designed a hollow tubular lattice structure that has a thin band running inside it. These two elements together show strength and lightness never before seen together in nature. By effectively merging two complementary lattice structures to evenly distribute stress, we avoid the weak points where stress normally concentrates.” Excerpt from www.freethink.com Using lasers and metal powder, Australian scientists have created a super strong, super lightweight new “metamaterial” — but they got the idea for this sci fi-sounding creation from plants. … What they’ve been able to create so far using available manufacturing techniques have fallen short, though — an uneven distribution of load stress is a major reason these synthetic materials don’t turn out as strong as their natural counterparts.