Video: Americans Flock To Aurora, CO To Defend USA From Venezuelan Gang Takeover
Americans from other states are reportedly flocking to an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex that has allegedly been overrun by criminal Venezuelan gangs, despite Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) recently dismissing the dangerous situation.
“This is our fucking community!” said one tattooed man out of a megaphone while driving down a street in the area where the gangs have reportedly taken over.
Volunteers showing up to Aurora to take the city back. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/LhiCl0OPpB
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 2, 2024
While he was filming, the man encountered several other people also monitoring the streets for the Venezuelan gangs terrorizing locals.
“We’re here to take our country back,” said the man behind the camera.
“We from Dallas, Texas,” another person said.
The video was uploaded online just days after unconfirmed rumors spread online claiming Hells Angels bikers were on their way to Aurora to potentially combat the Venezuelan drug gang.
Start from the Top
Last week, to mark Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s historic endorsement of Donald Trump, I wrote a two-part series on ultra-processed food and endocrine disruptors, which RFK Jr. has identified as among the principal causes of America’s unprecedented health crisis.
Kennedy and Trump have promised to Make America Healthy Again, with a wide-ranging investigation into the underlying causes of chronic disease.
A fundamental part of that plan involves addressing significant failures of government that have allowed corporate food manufacturers to fill their products with cheap rubbish ingredients like soybean oil and high-fructose corn syrup, and an ever-expanding list of additives whose safety is anyone’s guess; and allowed America’s food, water and air to become contaminated with toxic chemicals that have been linked to diabetes and obesity, cancer, heart disease, behavioural conditions like autism and neurological diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
HUGE STUDY LINKS PROCESSED FOODS TO DEPRESSION.
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) May 27, 2024
Yet more evidence that processed food is about the worst thing you can eat if you want good physical and mental health. 👇 pic.twitter.com/Ty0MZvIHrI
Kennedy’s emphasis on structural factors and corruption is absolutely correct. Organizations like the FDA, and the systems they have in place to regulate the food supply, medicines and industry, just aren’t fit for purpose. They favour corporations at the expense of the American people. And is it any wonder, since regulators glide straight into corporate jobs—often with the companies whose products they’ve approved?
For example, an investigation by Science magazine in 2018 reported that “11 of 16 FDA medical examiners who worked on 28 drug approvals and then left the agency for new jobs are now employed by or consult for the companies they recently regulated.” Science concluded, weakly, that “This can create at least the appearance [my emphasis] of conflicts of interest.”
In last week’s piece on ultra-processed food, I looked in detail at the FDA’s “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) system for food additives, which I’ve suggested really ought to be renamed “Generally Recognized as Insane.”
Under the guise of regulating novel additives to the American food supply, we’ve ended up in a position where there are as many as 10,000 food additives, compared to around 2,000 in the EU.
I say “as many as,” because the simple fact is, we don’t know how many there are. And what’s more, we have to trust the corporations that manufacture them and add them to their products, that they’re safe.
The GRAS system was first introduced in 1958, when the Food Additive Amendments were passed, to require that all non-standard food additives—ingredients that aren’t typically found in a normal home kitchen—should be tested adequately for safety in humans. At first, manufacturers had to submit new ingredients to the FDA for testing if they wanted to use them commercially in food, but as the demand for approvals grew, the FDA simply couldn’t keep up. So manufacturers just started adding new ingredients to their foods without telling the FDA. Instead of reining manufacturers in and reasserting control, the FDA regularised this system in 2016, retrospectively and prospectively.
In 2024, a company can produce a new food additive, decide it’s safe and then bring it to market without any scrutiny from the FDA at all. Like I say, this is insane.
A boy’s blood testosterone levels at just three months old will predict his semen quality when he’s 18-20. This is why estrogenic endocrine disruptors are so pernicious: because exposure happens at all stages of physical development and it can have lifelong effects. pic.twitter.com/Xy8yCQ0ucd
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) November 26, 2023
The insanity extends well beyond food additives. I was reminded of this a few days ago, when I read about the FDA’s approach to plastic food-contact materials. On top of regulating what goes into food, the FDA is also in charge of regulating food packaging too.
As with the GRAS system, approvals are voluntary and it seems manufacturers of food packaging can simply get away with what they want. Companies can seek guidance from the FDA about their manufacturing process, but they don’t have to. The FDA doesn’t even monitor which companies manufacturers sell their products to.
This is true with recycled plastics, which more and more food makers are using. Coca Cola now uses 100% recycled PET bottles, for example, and Annie’s cereal boxes contain a liner that’s made with 35% recycled plastic film.
Recycled plastic presents unique risks to consumers that the FDA seems totally incapable, and perhaps even unwilling, to address.
I’ve said elsewhere, in a detailed Twitter thread on the subject, that if there’s one thing that’s worse than plastics, it’s recycled plastics.
Why? Well, for starters, we know that recycled plastics shed considerably more microplastics than “virgin” plastics. Recycled plastics are older and more brittle as a result of the recycling process, which usually subjects them to heat, mechanical stress and the action of various chemicals. That means a recycled plastic water bottle or food container will release even more microplastics into the contents than a freshly manufactured one. (The recycling process itself also releases massive quantities of microplastics into the environment.)
But it gets worse. Recycled plastics are also hugely contaminated with chemicals you wouldn’t normally find in virgin plastics. It’s easy to understand how this would be the case when you understand how plastics are processed for recycling. Even when plastics are sorted by type of plastic—for example, PET vs PVC—you still get plastics being mixed from a wide variety of different applications. You could have plastics used as food-contact materials being processed with plastics that have been used to store agrochemicals like glyphosate, medications or even human and animal waste products. All of these chemicals could end up, via recycled plastics, in your food and drink.
A recent study illustrated the extent of this contamination in detail. Researchers tested plastic pellets taken from 13 different recycling plants around the world. They found 491 readily identifiable organic compounds in the pellets, and tentatively identified a further 170. The chemicals spanned a whole variety of different classes, from pesticides and biocides, to pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, surfactants, fragrances, stimulants and even human metabolites (i.e. end-products of human digestion).
By far and away, the most common class of chemical found in the recycled plastic was pesticides and biocides—162 different compounds were discovered—followed by pharmaceuticals—89 compounds—and industrial chemicals—65 compounds.
Once again, it turns out the FDA’s regulations just aren’t fit for purpose. The current rules on recycled plastics in food-contact materials may benefit corporations pursuing a better bottom line, and also help them to “greenwash” their products by claiming they use “environmentally friendly” materials, but the truth is, they’re likely to increase the risk to consumers considerably. Once again, it’s consumers—ordinary Americans—who come last.
Plastics and plastic chemicals are a clear and present danger to our health today, but so are the attitudes and systems that allowed us to reach this point, where plastic food-contact materials are probably become less rather than more safe. Until we change those attitudes and systems, we can ban as many chemicals and additives as we want, but nothing will really change.
We need to start from the top and work our way down, right to the bottom.
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Report: US Seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s Plane
The US government has confiscated an airplane reportedly used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, claiming it violates Washington’s sanctions against Caracas, CNN reported on Monday.
The US has charged Maduro with drug trafficking and refused to recognize his victory in the last two Venezuelan presidential elections.
“Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions,” an unnamed Washington official told CNN, which first reported the story on Monday.
According to CNN, the plane is worth around $13 million and was seized in cooperation with Dominican authorities.
The US outlet did not identify the airplane, saying only it was seized in the Dominican Republic and flown to Miami, Florida. The departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, and Justice were involved in the seizure.
The Miami Herald identified the jet as a Dassault Falcon 900EX, a French-built corporate jet that has previously visited Cuba, Brazil and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, “often with Maduro on board.” It appears to be registered in San Marino.
The Herald cited records from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) showing that a Florida-based company sold the plane to a company in St. Vincent, which then resold it to San Marino. The US government alleges that the reseller was a Venezuelan shell company and that the sale violated its sanctions on Venezuela.
American officials described the jet as Venezuela’s equivalent of the US “Air Force One,” noting that Maduro has flown it to a number of places. It was unclear how it ended up in the Dominican Republic, as Venezuela suspended commercial air travel with the island after the July 28 presidential election.
According to CNN, the US intends to confiscate the plane through asset forfeiture process. This means Venezuela could theoretically challenge it in court – if it can find a way around the sanctions to do so.
This is the second Venezuelan jet to be seized by the US this year. In February, Argentina sent the US a Boeing 747-300M cargo plane confiscated in 2022, because Caracas allegedly bought it from a sanctioned Iranian company. Maduro called the seizure “a blatant theft” on part of Argentinian President Javier Milei’s government.
Washington has seized $2 billion worth of Venezuelan bank accounts and assets in recent years, one unnamed official told CNN.
Watch: Kamala Wears Headphones to Avoid the Press!
Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris was seen wearing headphones as she exited her motorcade to board Air Force Two on Monday.
Video shows Harris exiting her vehicle wearing wired earbud headphones that were connected to her smartphone. She was seen fiddling with the earbuds as she ascended the stairway to Air Force Two before giving a final wave to onlookers.
Kamala Harris departs Joint Base Andrews, headed to Detroit, Michigan pic.twitter.com/QQY9UiXlQL
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) September 2, 2024
She did not answer any questions or engage with reporters.
The unusual display led many to speculate she was wearing headphones to avoid talking to the press amid reports her poll numbers are slumping following her joint interview with CNN.
“It’s hard to imagine anything more unpresidential than Kamala Harris stepping out of her motorcade, deliberately wearing headphones to avoid answering questions from the press,” one user wrote on X.
“This is not just a minor faux pas—it’s a blatant display of arrogance and an outright disregard for the principles of transparency and accountability that are supposed to define democratic leadership.”
It’s hard to imagine anything more unpresidential than Kamala Harris stepping out of her motorcade, deliberately wearing headphones to avoid answering questions from the press. This is not just a minor faux pas—it’s a blatant display of arrogance and an outright disregard for the… pic.twitter.com/gNABHeVRLr
— Torsten Prochnow (@TorstenProchnow) September 2, 2024
I knew kids in high school who might do this, but never seen it done by a political candidate.
— Alexander Sheppard 🇺🇸 (@NotAlexSheppard) September 2, 2024
4D Chess? pic.twitter.com/W6nZE43RoM
What’s she so afraid of?
— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) September 2, 2024
How I walk around my neighborhood to avoid stop and chats https://t.co/uBQDh8hqvz
— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) September 2, 2024
You can tell it’s to avoid the press because they are wired, which you rarely see these days. They are wired to let you know that she is wearing headphones and to not shout out questions.
— Marty L✌ (@SMaganaut) September 2, 2024
The media: “look at how cool and hip Kamala is with her earbuds in. Lady boss at work!” 🙄
— VMAC (@projection1984) September 2, 2024
She’s listening to Tupac, leave her alone 😂
— LEAHmemes (@itsreallyleah) September 2, 2024
Can’t even answer a question cause she knows it’ll be incoherent or mention burdens 3 times lol
— Wilford Brimley (@AmericanTrump4) September 2, 2024
Of course, Harris’s reluctance to engage with the press is par for the course with her Basement Campaign 2.0, where she avoided speaking to reporters or holding a press conference for 39 days before talking to CNN in a carefully scripted pre-taped 18-minute joint interview with her running mate Gov. Tim Walz (Minn.).
Watch: US Soldiers Assaulted By Turkish Mob After Navy Ship Makes Port Call At Izmir
On Monday a mob of Turkish men attacked American soldiers who had been walking the streets of Izmir in southern Turkey, apparently as the US personnel were on liberty after the USS Wasp which they are attached to made port call.
Social media video shows a group of men surrounding one US soldier and while violently constraining him. The Turkish men then stick a white bag over his head in an effort to humiliate and possibly kidnap the American and those with him. The brief clip then shows a couple more US troops jumping in to push the Turkish men off their fellow soldier.
A group of people put sack on the head of an American soldier allegedly serving on a US warship (USS Wasp) arrived at the port of Izmir, Türkiye.
— Clash Report (@clashreport) September 2, 2024
“Yankee, go home!” the group chanted.
Note: The Youth Union of Turkey (Türkiye Gençlik Birliği, TGB) is a prominent Turkish youth… pic.twitter.com/lp85LQXf1L
Reuters has confirmed of the incident, “A nationalist Turkish youth group on Monday physically assaulted two U.S. soldiers in western Turkey, the U.S. Embassy in Turkey and the local governor’s office said, adding that 15 assailants had been detained over the incident.”
The same report says that a total of five other US soldiers quickly came to their fellow servicemember’s aid to fight off the attackers, after which local police quickly intervened.
The US Embassy in Turkey has subsequently confirmed the American personnel are safe after the incident, “We can confirm reports that U.S. service members embarked aboard the USS Wasp were the victims of an assault in Izmir today, and are now safe,” it said on X. There was no mention of injuries.
USS Wasp’te görevli ABD’li askeri personelin bugün İzmir’de saldırıya maruz kaldığını ve şu an güvende olduğunu teyit ederiz. Olaya hızlı müdahale etmelerinden ve olayla ilgili soruşturma başlatmalarından dolayı Türk makamlarına teşekkür ederiz.
— U.S. Embassy Türkiye (@USEmbassyTurkey) September 2, 2024
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We can confirm reports that…
The Izmir governor’s office identified that the attackers were part of an ultra-nationalist group called the Turkey Youth Union (TGB), which is associated with the opposition Vatan Party. The statement said that the Turkish group “physically attacked” two American soldiers who were in civilian clothes in the Konak district.
The assaulting group reportedly chanted “Yankee, go home!” while detaining at least one of the Americans. It all happened in broad daylight.
The UK Mirror details of the USS Wasp’s weekend port call:
The USS Wasp arrived in the port of Izmir on Sunday for a scheduled visit, with sailors and marines taken on tours organised by the ship’s Morale, Welfare, and Recreation team during while it is docked. Previously on a scheduled deployment to Europe, the Wasp was recently sent to the Mediterranean and Middle East amid rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel along the border with Lebanon, and had made a stop in Turkey. It marked the first time that the Wasp had operated in the Mediterranean region since being moved back from Sasebo, Japan to Norfolk, Virginia in 2019.
Turkish journalist and regional correspondent Ragıp Soylu described that it was “A payback in their understanding for US soldiers placing sacks over Turkish soldiers operating in Northern Iraq almost 20 years ago.”
It appears that the whole incident then turned into an anti-American demonstration, and involved US Marines which the crowd tried to detain or essentially kidnap:
US Marine cries out “help” with a leftist mob restraining him, chanting “Yankee go home!”–moments ago…in Turkey
— Sinan Ciddi (@SinanCiddi) September 2, 2024
A fellow NATO ally hosting US service members on shore leavepic.twitter.com/2XCE5sRxKj
One commenter said that it is time to “kick Turkey out of NATO” and provided additional details as follows:
Second US soldier comes in trying to help his comrade but disengages shortly after receiving several punches – likely fearing an escalation, aware of the mob-mentality and readiness to use excessive violence by these elements of the Turkish society. Incident happened in the tourist area of Izmir close to the harbour where the USS Wasp aircraft carrier of the US navy is anchored.
However, Turkish investigators have yet to given an official motive. Likely it could also be connected with events in Gaza. Turkish-Israeli relations have of late reached a low point in modern history, and it is well understood in the region that US-supplied bombs and aircraft aid in Israel’s Gaza operations.
Such an attack on a group of American service personnel is incredibly rare in Turkey, which is a NATO country, given also the presence of several US military installations attached to bases in the country, and frequent US Navy port calls.
Editor’s note: More online critics are calling out Turkey’s role in NATO after the incident.
Why is the U.S. in NATO? Turkey is an ally. They do this. The UK is arresting people for social media posts. The EU is threatening Elon Musk. France is doing worse. What exactly are we doing in NATO? https://t.co/HWRVxswPk4
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 2, 2024
Kick Turkey out of NATO https://t.co/TjIudRdXsW
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 2, 2024
WTF is an islamic country doing in NATO? https://t.co/7m0CVfBvPX
— De L’Essart (@slessard2000) September 2, 2024
America isn’t respected or feared. We cannot survive 4 more years of Harris Biden. https://t.co/x4MYqtsABq
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 2, 2024
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