People in parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and other storm-stricken states are standing their ground as looting reports flood X. This dire situation highlights the harsh reality that when disaster strikes and the government is nowhere to be found, being prepared and armed will save your life.
Eight illegal aliens were arrested in the eastern part of Tennessee for looting following the tropical system that unleashed flash floods in Washington County. Maybe these migrants were searching 'for bread' to feed their families... We suspect not.
The other five men — Albin Nahun Vega-Rapalo, 24, David Bairon Rapalo-Rapalo, 37, Kevin Noe Martinez-Lopez, 25, Marvin Hernandez-Martinez, 43, and Dayln Gabriel Guillen Guillen, 37 — were charged with aggravated burglary for breaking into occupied structures, the sheriff's office said. -NYPost.
In Greenville County, South Carolina, just an hour south of storm-damaged Ashville, North Carolina, Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis told looters his residents are "very well armed."
Just north of Greenville in western North Carolina, a video uploaded on TikTok, then X, of realtor Leigh Brown, who warned, "The looting has picked up major steam," adding, "I was advised by a county sheriff to make sure that anybody out and about is 'carrying' and in his words 'carrying with the safety off.'"
Brown said the people out in the storm-ravaged area might not be "awful people, they're desperate" as their homes and towns were wiped off the face of the map by 'biblical floods.'
Another individual in the area also warned, "There are a lot of looters," adding, "If you have a weapon, keep it on you."
This person said looting and chaos had unfolded.
Others on X report, "There is looting."
The key takeaway is that law-abiding Americans must receive firearms safety training and own multiple firearms in the event of a disaster because the government is usually nowhere to be found in the early days of a crisis. Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration, with their billionaire friends at anti-gun groups, continue to wage war against the 2A.
There is no longer an American democracy, and the American Republic is disintegrating as those in control of what is generally referred to as “The Left” aggressively pursue the elimination of the Constitutionally-created Electoral College, a process created specifically to diffuse power and prevent a single group from gaining total and permanent control of America’s federal government. America was a vast, sprawling, diverse, and complex nation at the time of its creation. That scale, diversity, and complexity have been multiplied exponentially since that point.
As Aristotle warned, one of the flaws of democracy was that even though such systems began with a sense of shared community, eventually a majority would emerge that understood its voting power essentially provided full power to dictate rules. The flaw that undermined the system was that the members of the controlling majority would come to realize they could help themselves by extracting from the minority a growing share of social goods and benefits. This would allow the controlling majority to impose higher costs on the minority that often disproportionately created greater returns. I guess we could think of this as imposing a “Wealth Tax” or even more a tax on “Unrealized Income” under the rubric of “Fair Share.”
America is changing by the moment into a new political form, the “Post-Democracy Electronic State.” It has “morphed” into competing fragments seeking power operating within the physical territory defined as the United States while tenuously holding on to a watered-down minimal list of the basic creeds that represent what we long considered an exceptional political experiment. The Rule of Law is significantly weakened and the institutions of law are being used politically by those in power. Freedom of speech and the press are increasingly corrupted to the point that you can’t be certain of the truth or intent of what we are seeing and reading.
Our “leaders” have morphed into cartoon characters who unfortunately have no real understanding of the challenges we face and potential solutions that could preserve the integrity of America. We are beset by various crises—economic, the effects of Artificial Intelligence, immigration, and much more—that are weakening and distorting the nation and appear incapable of understanding or coping. Our educational systems in too many instances have become instruments of propaganda over critical matters over which our “educators” are taking one side of issues with complex elements rather than methods for educating an advanced population in ways that provide them the knowledge and focus needed to deal with the challenges we face.
The post-democracy political order now in power paradoxically consists of a combination of fragmented special interests eager to punish anyone who challenges their desires and a central government that is consolidating its power to monitor, control, and intimidate its citizens. This set of anti-democratic actors also includes an insatiable coterie of Big Data/Big Tech information gathering businesses that are functioning as “enablers” by amassing an inconceivable amount of data on Americans and everyone else for that matter. In some ways they have become a sort of “quasi-government” that subtly and surreptitiously operates almost invisibly but wields incredible influence.
A flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
None of us can claim the quality of original insight achieved by Alexis de Tocqueville in his early 19th century classic Democracy in America when he observed that the “soft” repression of democracy was unlike that in any other political form. De Tocqueville explained:
[T]he supreme power [of government]…covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided…Such a power does not destroy…but it enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
The US, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe are far along in experiencing a “gentle” drift of the kind Tocqueville describes and are rapidly losing their integrity to the point they are becoming “pretend” democracies. The technological power of the Internet, and here I am using that term as shorthand for the host of information and communication capabilities that have developed over the past 15 to 25 years, has come into national and global society with such overwhelming speed that a “social tsunami” has swept through our society in ways that have devastated existing institutions and corrupted the traditional order.
Linked with the psychological effects of what is certain to be a multi-generational (if mislabeled) “War on Terror,” the changes generated by this incredible “event” involve phenomena we are still struggling to understand. The result is that we have changed seemingly overnight from a world in which government and communications media moved at relatively slow speeds with highly controlled access to political decision-makers, data sharing, and investigation, to one in which everyone is endowed with the unprecedented ability to present their views, establish relationships, and organize networks and action groups for both good and bad purposes.
On the Internet, we have billions of voices resounding in an uncontrolled cacophony where 95 percent represent ignorance and malice and perhaps five percent useful insights. This “new normal” includes the strange effects of X.com (formerly Twitter) as an “instant public opinion poll” for political hacks who will do anything to remain in office. It can be used to stir up rage and indignation, make absurd accusations, and create false impressions of a non-existent groundswell of support for the agendas of interest groups that have organized to use the Internet’s capabilities to push for what they want and punish those who deny or otherwise threaten their overtures.
The impact of this still-evolving system on governments and other traditional institutions is profound. One element of what is taking place is a change in the basic nature of society into the “surveillance state.” That newly created system is one in which powerful governmental and private actors increasingly keep track of everything we do in the name of national security, social cohesion, and consumer preference.
Nor is it solely the fading democracies of the West that are experiencing the angst of uncontrollable communication and all-penetrating surveillance. China, Russia, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern nations are all trying to cope with the fact that they are no longer in control of information and the levers of propaganda. The solution of course is to censor, deny access to specific sites, monitor the communications of citizens and others, and take “legal” steps to punish those defined by the governmental monitors as violators of communications defined as harmful or offensive such as “misinformation” or “disinformation” as defined by the state. China has recently arrested its most prominent blogger and enacted harsh criminal laws that impose multi-year prison sentences for spreading rumors through the Internet.
The upshot in the West is that there has been a shift in the nature of government from a reasonably representative hybrid form of complex democracy to a strange mixture of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm along with William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Perhaps one of the most ironic features is that as Internet-based communications systems and applications have come into use over the past two decades they have greatly enhanced the ability for widespread communication among a nation’s citizens. For the first time in our history, we have overcome physical distance and separation to the degree that it is possible to achieve face-to-face interchanges of the kind we always assumed were central to true democracy.
Unfortunately, the ability to communicate has been overwhelmed by numerous competing factors. This includes the discovery that we are a somewhat less than admirable species when provided a “voice”. The Internet has revealed an embarrassing level of ignorance, an increase in cynicism and distrust that has further weakened our views of others, and the loss of any sense of “civic virtue” or community. We no longer seek or achieve compromise in the interests of the larger common community because there is none.
The anonymous nature of many of our Internet communications is both cause and effect of the disintegration of the American community. Too many people hide behind masks while spewing venom and unfounded claims in a sort of “Urban Legend” syndrome circulated as fact. The cowardice and/or cynicism of anonymity is made even worse by the malice underlying much of the commentary as well as the over-hyped sensationalism of our mainstream media, and the disturbing desire for “fifteen minutes of fame” that characterizes many of our individual messages.
Along with these go abuses of power, illicit and criminal uses of Internet technology to harm and intimidate, and the inability of governments to know how to draw limits on their desire for information. At this point, we do not have the slightest clue about how to deal with the interacting forces of the new and still evolving forms of government and accompanying social order.
One thing that seems clear, however, is that much of it is not a positive evolution. The paradox is that the emerging system is in the process of becoming increasingly repressive at the same time it has expanded into a profoundly fragmented society. Each piece, whether representing an economic interest or one of political activism, is committed to relentlessly pursuing its particular agenda. This paradox disappears when we realize that fragmentation works well for the most powerful central political and economic organizations because it implements a “divide and conquer” strategy in which fragmented groups can always be set against each other while the core “power brokers” continue to consolidate power and reap the rewards of their “game.”
The threat from massive government surveillance of its citizens is psychological. The apprehension about what they “could” be doing and who might be looking at our profiles intimidate and “dumb us down.” We “think” without knowing that the National Security Agency (NSA), Department of Homeland Security, or FBI are building up something like our High School Permanent Record or our “social credit” record. Former Director of US National Intelligence James Clapper eventually was forced to admit he misstated (or lied) to Congress during testimony concerning the extent of his Agency’s illegal monitoring of US citizens’ telephonic communications.
Our “virtual” NSA Records could contain potentially bad things about us that we are not allowed to see or rebut, including the opinions of people who may have reasons to criticize us fairly or unfairly. Whether NSA or other actors we experience the fear of exposure of things we would prefer to remain hidden.
The fear exists even though we can never be certain of what “They” actually “know.” It is as if J. Edgar Hoover and his secret files have suddenly been brought back to life. Hoover was long thought to retain his enormous power over politicians in Washington due to possession of secret files detailing the “sins” of our leaders. Now the ability to control all of us by our “sins” if we “get out of line” has been moved to the corridors of the National Security Agency, Homeland Security, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook.
"The disastrous border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration are only one dimension of the US Federal government's complicity in the mass trafficking of children. The entire migration pipeline from South America up to the US Southern border is controlled by networks of human traffickers who funnel tens of thousands of alien children into the United States every year. For many alien children, crossing the US Southern border is only the beginning of their problems," Muckraker's Anthony Rubin said in a bombshell report titled "Finding The Feds' Missing Children | CHILD TRAFFICKING IN AMERICA."
Rubin conducted a three-month investigation to give readers a glimpse of the exploding child trafficking industry in the United States, all of which was facilitated by the globalists in the Biden-Harris administration.
Here's a breakdown of what Rubin and his team found after tracking down some of the 320,000 illegal alien children lost by the Biden-Harris administration:
The federal government is sending children to strangers.
A CIA contractor is moving children across America.
Children are being sent to labor trafficking rings.
Traffickers use deportation as a threat to exact "debt" payments from sponsored children.
"This report reveals the cold, hard truth about the reality of the Biden-Harris administration's open-border policies, which have resulted in the trafficking of untold numbers of children," Rubin noted.
Since 2021, an average of 400 unaccompanied children have been smuggled into the United States every day.
These children, who cross into the United States without parents, are subsequently detained, processed by the federal government's unaccompanied children program and eventually released into the country.
Per the DHS' August 19th announcement, 291,000 of the 300,000 unaccounted-for children were released into the United States without a scheduled court date, while another 32,000, who were given court dates, never showed up for their scheduled court appearance.
In June of 2024, an insider from the department of Health and Human Services provided Muckraker with a list detailing the names of over 8,000 alien children, and their last known addresses. So, we began an operation to find the missing children ourselves.
Over the course of our investigation, we discovered the dangerous places where children have been delivered, confronted a CIA contractor who moves these children, heard shocking stories from children who the federal government has lost track of, and exposed a child trafficking network in Florida.
Children and minors who enter the United States illegally and without parents are subsequently detained and placed in holding camps while the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR for short) works to find the child a permanent home through their Unaccompanied Children or UC Program.
We began our investigation by door-knocking the addresses of the most vulnerable children on our list, focusing on the youngest who were at the highest risk of trafficking.
One of our first finds was an abandoned house where two boys aged 7 and 10 had allegedly been delivered. It is unclear what happened to the boys who were delivered to the sponsor at this address, we were ultimately unable to locate them.
Our investigation eventually led us to the projects of the Bronx, where we found a girl who told us a horror story from inside the facility she was detained in at Pomona, California.
The girl pictured above, who we will call Alexa, was ultimately placed with a safe sponsor. However, she told us that while in a holding facility in Pomona, California, she encountered children who would cry because they were being sent to a sponsor who they did not know.
Alexa explained how children are woken up at 3 o'clock in the morning taken from the holding facility to their sponsors without the opportunity to say goodbye to their friends.
Alexa also told us about a friend of hers who was with her at the Pomona, California facility. Alexa and her friend had agreed to contact each other on Facebook once they were placed safely with their sponsors. Unfortunately, Alexa never heard from her friend again. It is unclear what the fate of her friend ultimately was.
The federal government uses contractors to move the children from detention centers, like the one Alexa was held at, into the hands of their sponsors. One of these contractors is MVM, a private security contractor with ties to the CIA, NSA, FBI, and Homeland Security.
MVM's work has included providing security at Guantanamo Bay, guarding CIA stations in Iraq, and conducting research for the FBI's High Value Detainee Research Group which is responsible for conducting interrogations of terrorists.
Over the past few years, MVM has secured contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to escort detained alien children to their sponsors across America.
The three states which have received the most unaccompanied children since 2021 are Texas, California, and Florida, with each state taking in over 10,000 per year.
We learned that two illegal aliens from Guatemala named Baltazar and Juana had requested to sponsor 13 children across 5 different addresses in Bonita Springs, Florida. Even more concerning, was that these same addresses were also being used by other illegal aliens who were attempting to sponsor children.
At one particular two bedroom house, 13 children were being sponsored by 4 different adults.
We were told that this trafficking case had been reported to HSI, the FBI, and HHS, but after sitting on the case for years, none of these agencies made any progress.
We managed to track down a brother and sister from Guatemala who had been delivered to the suspected trafficking ring in Bonita Springs, Florida, a few years earlier.
They claimed to have a trafficking debt hanging over them and described a labor trafficking system that targets unaccompanied alien children.
Watch: Finding The Feds' Missing Children | CHILD TRAFFICKING IN AMERICA
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If we want to get to the bottom of who the federal government hired to facilitate the greatest migrant invasion this nation has ever seen, more specifically, which companies are profiting, well, look no further than private security contractor MVM.
A quick glance at their website reveals their 'Mission Solutions,' which include "Transportation and care for vulnerable populations."
Want to know how MVM made its money? ... well, profiting off the endless wars in the Middle East...
Americans are well aware of the security disaster of the Biden-Harris open southern border — including 400 illegal crossers who were flagged on the FBI terrorism watch list.
But an alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York now demands American attention and diplomatic pressure be turned on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented mass immigration policies.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani citizen legally allowed a Canadian student visa in June 2023, stands accused in US federal court of plotting a mass shooting of Jews in New York City, to celebrate the October 7 anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Israel.
Khan hoped it would go down in history as “the largest US attack since 9/11.”
“We are going to nyc to slaughter them” with AR-style rifles and hunting knives “so we can slit their throats,” Khan told an undercover FBI agent he believed was a co-conspirator, according to an agent complaint.
“Even if we don’t attack an event, we could rack up easily a lot of Jews.”
Khan was among the record-breaking 400,000 issued foreign student vises by Canada in 2023 — on top of the 1.5 million foreign national workers the Trudeau government brought in as a new labor force since 2021.
In a joint undercover sting operation with the FBI, Canadian authorities on September 4 arrested Khan just 12 miles from the US border on his way to meet a smuggler with a pocketful of cash and a plan to attack Jewish Chabad centers in Brooklyn.
Just a few months after arriving for school in Canada, Khan began plotting his US attack on the “zionist Jews” for a “one of a kind attack on US soil” in an unnamed city, timed for the upcoming Yom Kippur high holy day services — “indoors in a confined space” and to know exit door locations “so we can trap them and kill them inside.”
A disassembled weapon posted online by Khan.SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
It was to be a suicide attack using semi-automatic rifles and knives “to sacrifice oursel[ves] so that the . . . muslimeen can wakeup and support the State [i.e., the Islamic State, or ISIS],” court records show.
For his border-crossing murder spree plan, Khan went online to the wrong jihadist chat groups to form a “real off-line cell” of six conspirators who could be split into three teams for simultaneous attacks for “maximizing casualty count” but who — fortuitously — turned out to be undercover FBI chat room lurkers.
At first, Khan planned to hire someone to smuggle him southward over the US-Canadian border to attack an unnamed “City 1.”
“If we[’]re successful this is going to be one of the largest attacks ever on jews outside of the israeli territory in recent times,” he told the undercover FBI agent, and “that too in America would be big and a good propaganda victory for the islamic state . . .”
In the end, Khan settled on Chabad organizations in New York City for his killing spree because “the “population of jews in new York city is 1 million” with “tons of Jews walking around the neighborhood[,] hundreds of synagogues” and “[very] unprotected . . . perfect to target jews.”
An extradition proceeding is planned to bring Khan from detention in Quebec to stand trial in New York.
The Khan case is a blaring wake-up siren for how lax Canada’s immigration policies have been, and the security threat from our northern border.
Beginning in 2021, Canada’s progressive liberal government in 2021 embarked on a program to import a new foreign national workforce in the hundreds of thousands per year from all over the world.
So far this year, US Border Patrol’s illegal entry apprehensions of foreign nationals from 21 countries have doubled from 2023, to more than 20,000 in 2024.
Khan was arrested with cash that he allegedly planned to use to pay smugglers to take him across the Canadian border.SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
That is still a tiny fraction of southern border crossings but enough of an increase that US Border Patrol has had to redeploy forces north.
Khan’s plan is only the latest in a series of six Canadian terror plots police have foiled just since October 7, some of which involved recent immigrants the Trudeau government brought in and vetting failures.
Even though the other plots happened in Canada, they still place the United States in harm’s way and justify a new and robust US diplomatic pressure campaign to force change on both sides.
One typically egregious example occurred in July when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested 62-year-old Egyptian Mostafa Eldidi and his 26-year-old son Mostafa Eldidi for an alleged advanced-stage plot to carry out a “violent, serious attack” in Toronto.
The elder Eldidi arrived in Canada in 2018 and received citizenship in May 2024, under lenient Trudeau government policies, despite being flagged as a security threat. There was evidence that he assaulted a prisoner for ISIS in a third country during 2015, an incident ISIS filmed and posted on its social media accounts.
Khan said he hoped his plot would be “the largest US attack since 9/11.”Quebec Superior Court
The younger Eldidi apparently studied for a time at Iowa Wesleyan University in the United States on an approved student visa after Canada denied his student visa application in 2019, then a year later crossed the Canadian land border and asked for asylum, which was approved under the lenient Trudeau policies.
The Trudeau government is already facing a backlash from Canadian conservatives for the vetting failures. But the government’s reaction has been tepid; in the wake of the US border-crossing plot involving an immigrant student, the Trudeau government says it will reduce those visas from 400,000 to a still-record-breaking 360,000 next year.
American politicians are starting to worry.
In May, the Trudeau government announcement that it would increase the number of Gazans who will be allowed into his countryprompted Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and five other Republican senators to send a letter of objection requesting “heightened scrutiny by the US Department of Homeland Security should any of them attempt to enter the United States at ports of entry as well as between ports of entry.”
Democrats should join them in the effort.
The first order of business should be the use of economic leverage to force Canada to reduce the numbers very substantially and enhance its security screenings. The safety of both countries depends on it.
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, is the author of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.”
