Smugglers Stealing License Plates Off Government Vehicles Near Border
Smugglers are stealing license plates from official vehicles in South Texas and mounting them on cars and trucks used to smuggle humans and drugs into the U.S., according to reports.
Authorities in Sabinal, a city near the southern border in Uvalde County, are noticing an uptick in license plate theft likely tied to organized crime.
The Sabinal Police Department provided a collection of recent incident reports to NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley.
#EXCLUSIVE Sabinal PD in Uvalde County says human/drug smugglers are swiping license plates from vehicles that belong to city officials and local residents and putting them on their vehicles in order to get past law enforcement—The criminals are targeting generic vehicles like… pic.twitter.com/lbRaKqiFkw
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) July 11, 2024
“Sabinal PD in Uvalde County says human/drug smugglers are swiping license plates from vehicles that belong to city officials and local residents and putting them on their vehicles in order to get past law enforcement,” Bradley reported on Thursday.
“The criminals are targeting generic vehicles like white trucks and SUVs which are often city/government vehicles.”
At least three such thefts were recorded in June while another was reported on Monday.
Sabinal Police Chief Jesus “Chuy” Reyes told Bradley that Border Patrol recently busted a smuggling operation involving a vehicle bearing locally-stolen plates.
Chaos unfolds constantly along the U.S.-Mexico border, as Infowars regularly reports.
Newly Empowered French Leftist Coalition to Introduce 90% Income Tax Rate
France’s left-wing electoral coalition, the New Popular Front, is set to introduce a massive tax increase following its victory in the country’s legislative elections. The left-wing bloc wants to impose a 90 percent tax rate on all French men and women who have an annual income of over 400,000 euros ($430,000).
The NFP first proposed this massive tax hike in late June, when Eric Coquerel of the far-left La France Insoumise party – the largest party in the NFP and one of the most radical – who represents the first constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis admitted during a television interview that the coalition would raise the top marginal income tax rate to 90 percent on the wealthiest members of French society.
La France Insoumise has previously tried to pass a similar proposal back in 2019 which would apply to all taxable income over 411,683 euros annually ($445,000). Currently, the income tax rate in France tops out at 45 percent on income over $177,106 euros annually ($192,000).
It should also be noted that the last time French politicians tried to introduce a top income tax rateanywhere close to what La France Insoumise and the NFP are proposing was during the administration of left-wing former President Francois Hollande – current President Emmanuel Macron’s predecessor. Hollande’s proposal was for a 75 percent rate on all income above one million euros ($1.1 million).
France’s top constitutional court – the Constitutional Council – threw out the proposal, forcing Hollande to transform the proposal into a temporary levy paid by corporations on all salaries above one million euros.
NFP requires Macron’s support to pass 90% tax hike – which it is unlikely to receive
The NFP came out of France’s recently concluded legislative election as the largest group in the National Assembly. However, despite its commanding presence with its 180 seats, it does not have the necessary 289 seats to form a majority.
Macron’s liberal and centrist Ensemble coalition came in second with 159 seats – thanks in no small part to an anti-conservative alliance Macron formed with the NFP – and the major conservative and anti-illegal immigration National Rally party and its allies came in third with 142 seats despite winning the most votes.
The lack of a majority in the National Assembly means the NFP will have to reach out – most likely to Macron, smaller parties and independents not aligned with National Rally – to get its 90 percent marginal income tax rate proposal passed.
Furthermore, before the NFP can even table its income tax hike proposal, the National Assembly still needs to figure out if it can form a stable majority that can govern for the next five years, and the first step is for Macron to appoint a prime minister who will be tasked with forming a government that can survive a vote of no confidence.
“The president must appoint as prime minister someone from the New Popular Front to implement the NFP’s program, the whole program and nothing but the program,” said Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France Insoumise and deputy for Bouches-du-Rhone’s fourth constituency. “We are preparing to govern, to apply the program which is ours.”
Other NFP domestic proposals include lowering the retirement age from 64 to 60, committing at least 150 billion euros ($162 billion) in spending on public services over the next three years and raising the minimum wage by 14 percent and forever linking salaries to inflation, increasing government investment on the so-called green transition and imposing price controls on essential goods and services such as food, fuel and utilities like electricity and heat.
On foreign affairs, the NFP is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the recognition of the State of Palestine, a halt to Russia’s “war of aggression” in Ukraine, more military aid spending for Kyiv and “unfailing” defense for the “sovereignty and freedom” of the Ukrainian people.
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Satellite Images Show Expansion of Alleged Chinese Spy Bases in Cuba
Satellite images suggest that the growth of Cuba’s electronic spy stations may be linked to China, including new construction at a previously unknown site located 70 miles from the United States’ naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank, follows reporting from 2023 that said China and Cuba were negotiating closer defense and intelligence ties, along with establishing a new joint military training facility on the island and an eavesdropping facility.
According to U.S. officials who didn’t disclose their locations, Cuba and China were already jointly operating eavesdropping stations on the island. It is also unknown which of those are included in the sites covered by the CSIS report.
Former officials and analysts are worried about the stations because China could be using Cuba’s geographical proximity to the southeastern U.S. to spy on sensitive electronic communications from American military bases, space-launch facilities and military and commercial shipping sites.
Leland Lazarus, an expert on China-Latin America relations at Florida International University, warned that the Chinese facilities on the island could also strengthen China’s “use of telecommunications networks to spy on U.S. citizens.”
The White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declined to comment on the matter.
After reviewing a year’s worth of satellite imagery, the authors of the CSIS report revealed that Cuba has noticeably upgraded and expanded its electronic spying facilities in recent years and targeted four sites at Bejucal, Calabazar, El Salao and Wajay.
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Some of the sites described by CSIS, such as the one at Bejucal, have already been identified as listening posts. However, satellite imagery offers new information about their capabilities, growth over the years and possible links with China.
Chinese spy facilities have “evolving mission set”
Matthew Funaiole, a senior fellow at CSIS and the report’s chief author, explained that these are active locations “with an evolving mission set.”
The report suggested that two of the sites near Havana, Bejucal and Calabazar, have large dish antennas that seem to be designed to monitor and communicate with satellites. The report added that while Cuba lacks satellites, the antennas would be useful for China, which has a substantial space program.
According to the report, the newest dish antenna was installed at Bejucal in January. Additionally, the antenna and other infrastructure upgrades were discovered at the sites within the last decade.
The most recent of the four sites, which is still under construction and was not previously known publicly, is at El Salao, located outside the city of Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the country and is near Guantanamo.
Construction at El Salao started in 2021, and the site seems to be designed to hold a large formation of antennas known as a circularly disposed antenna array. These antennas can be used to find and intercept electronic signals, according to the report.
Funaiole said that, when complete, the site could potentially monitor communications and other electronic signals coming from the Guantanamo base. Both the U.S. and Russia have stopped using this sort of antenna array and replaced it with newer technologies, but China has been building them at some militarized outposts in the South China Sea.
China has played a more significant role on the island in recent years. According to a 2023 White House statement, China conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials claim that the U.S. has a global network of military bases and listening posts.
In a statement, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington, wrote that America is “the leading power in terms of eavesdropping” and that it does not spare its allies. Pengyu also claimed that the U.S. constantly exaggerates China’s “establishment of spy bases or conducting surveillance activities in Cuba.”
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Ohio Mother Killed Trying to Save 6-Year-Old Son From Carjacker
A young mother was killed in Ohio this week when she tried to stop a carjacker who stole her vehicle with her young child inside, authorities say.
The horrifying incident unfolded just after 1 a.m. on Thursday in Columbus.
Alexa Stakely, 29, was picking up her 6-year-old son from a babysitter after working late at her second job as a waitress.
She placed the sleeping boy inside her Honda SUV and started the vehicle, according to authorities.
However, Stakely realized she had forgotten something and returned to the front door of the babysitter’s residence to retrieve it.
As she walked back to her car, it began backing into the road.
The mother was seen running after the SUV and witnesses say they heard her screaming for her child, WYSX reports.
Stakely reportedly jumped on the hood of the Honda but was thrown off when the suspect began driving erratically.
Responding officers found Stakely lying in the street, suffering from a traumatic head injury.
The vehicle was abandoned a short distance away and the boy was found inside, unharmed.
Stakely was rushed to a local hospital where she succumbed to her injuries hours later.
“After the incident, two males were seen running past Stakely who was lying in the roadway. They continued running northbound, were observed jumping a fence, and disappeared into a neighboring apartment complex,” Columbus police explained in a statement.
“Earlier that morning, surveillance video caught a group of males looking into apartments in the area of Castenea Way. When confronted, the males proceeded eastbound further into the complex and out of view. Two of these males matched the description of the males seen at the incident.”
While authorities clearly have descriptions of the suspects, they have not released the information.
An investigation is ongoing.
InfoWars has been documenting the surge of crime across the United States, including carjackings, ‘street takeovers,’ smash-and-grab loot mobs, home invasions, and physical attacks on innocent victims.
DISGUSTING: Alexander Soros Announces Engagement to Anthony Weiner’s Wife
On the Thursday show Alex Jones discussed Alexander Soros’ engagement to Huma Abedin.
“You’re having sex with Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner and now Alexander Soros, you’re weird,” Jones said. “That’s a lot grosser than eating raw hamburgers.”
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Slovak Culture Minister Triggers Leftists by Blaming LGBTQIAAP2S+ Ideology for Low Birth Rates
(LifeSiteNews) — Slovakia’s minister for culture blamed the LGBT movement for Europe’s plummeting birth rates, arousing the ire of left-leaning ideologues.
During a July 3 interview with Slovak tabloid Topky.sk, Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová blamed LGBT ideologies for Europe’s dropping fertility rates.
“We heterosexuals are creating the future because we make babies. Europe is dying out, babies are not being born, because of the excessive number of LGBTQ+ (people). And the strange thing is (that it’s happening) with the white race,” the minister said in comments cited by left-liberal news outlet Politico.
“We are living in an amoral era,” Šimkovičová elaborated.
In response to Šimkovičová’s July 3 comments, Peter Weisenbacher, director of the Bratislava-based Human Rights Institute, lodged a criminal complaint with the general prosecutor’s office against the minister, alleging that her remarks were racist and anti-Semitic.
In another interview, the minister admitted that “we are a sick society.”
In January, Šimkovičová revealed that the country’s culture ministry would cease financing LGBT projects.
“The LGBTI+ organizations (…) will no longer parasitize on the money from the culture department. I will certainly not allow it under my leadership,” Šimkovičová wrote on Facebook.
She added that she “rejects progressive normalization” and that her plans are for “a return to normality.”
Besides her anti-LGBT views, Šimkovičová has been noted for her tough stance on immigration, much to the chagrin of the globalist elites in the European Union (EU) and their ideological allies. To address the issue of Slovakia’s falling population, the EU elites have suggested bringing in migrants instead of encouraging Slovak families to have children.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Andrej Danko from the junior coalition partner Slovak National Party said recently that Slovakia’s Culture Ministry will no longer bankroll movies with “themes crossing moral and ethical boundaries, including LGBTQ+,” Politico added.
According to Macrotrends data, the current birth rate for Slovakia in 2024 is 9.677 births per 1,000 people, a 1.39% drop from a year earlier.
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Šimkovičová is not the only Slovak politician to support her nation’s families and thus reap the left-wing whirlwind. Since his fourth stint as Slovakia’s prime minister in October 2023, incumbent Robert Fico has also been vilified by the pro-LGBT EU for his pro-family values, his anti-war stance with regard to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and his sovereigntist approach to governance.
He has also nearly been killed. In May, Fico was shot and gravely wounded in what Slovak officials portrayed as a “politically motivated” assassination attempt in the town of Hándlova, based on media reports. Observers like Slovakia Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok have since noted that Fico’s shooter, Juraj Cintula, did not commit the crime alone. There is evidence that “the crime may have been committed by a certain group of people” as Cintula’s online “communication history” was deleted merely two hours after his failed attempt on Fico’s life. While Fico fortunately survived, his health has been seriously undermined, according to Slovakia Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Robert Kaliňák.
“His health is still far from ideal. After a gunshot wound to the abdomen, those organs don’t work the way they did when you were 17 or 30. It’s still very erratic. As part of his regular rehab, doctors are doing everything they can to make sure he can do his job to his full potential, and we’re getting close to that,” Kaliňák was cited by the Euronews news portal as saying.
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