Take A Tour Inside El Salvador’s CECOT Prison Where The World’s Most Dangerous Prisoners Rot
El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) houses some of the world’s most dangerous gang members, and journalist Nick Shirley was able to get a firsthand look inside the famous facility that helped fix the nation’s crime crisis.
President Nayib Bukele started cracking down on Salvadorian gangs in 2022 and has since cleaned the country so much it now boasts one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
INSIDE CECOT (full video):
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) July 27, 2024
I entered into El Salvadors mega prison know as The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), it is home to some of the most dangerous gangs and gangsters in the world. El Salvador was once controlled by these gangs and known as the most dangerous country… pic.twitter.com/0dK1HDDMHA
During his tour, Shirley experienced the strict security measures for visitors to the prison and was able to briefly ask a few questions to the violent criminals.
“When an inmate walks through these doors, he never leaves,” he told the camera.
The extremely hardcore jail framework is largely credited with helping El Salvador fix its crime problem and many people across the world are looking to the country as an example of how they could also cleanse their nations of criminal gangs.
Don’t miss the epic Tucker Carlson interview with President Bukele to further understand how the country has transformed under his anti-globalist leadership.
President Nayib Bukele saved El Salvador. He may have the blueprint for saving the world. pic.twitter.com/92etFh7sSI
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 6, 2024
Meta Owes Texas $1.4 Billion For Illegally Using Facial Recognition
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed on Tuesday Facebook’s parent company Meta has been ordered by a court to pay the state a $1.4 billion settlement for using personal biometric data of Texan Facebook users without their authorization.
According to the 2022 lawsuit, the social media giant was using facial recognition software on Facebook user photographs despite not having permission.
“This settlement is the largest ever obtained from an action brought by a single State and the largest privacy settlement an Attorney General has ever obtained,” wrote Paxton. “This serves as a warning to any companies engaged in practices that violate Texans’ privacy rights.”
?BREAKING NEWS: We have secured a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta to stop the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the authorization required by law.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) July 30, 2024
This settlement is the largest ever obtained from an action… pic.twitter.com/AkOppAGO0K
Paxton said:
“After vigorously pursuing justice for our citizens whose privacy rights were violated by Meta’s use of facial recognition software, I’m proud to announce that we have reached the largest settlement ever obtained from an action brought by a single State. This historic settlement demonstrates our commitment to standing up to the world’s biggest technology companies and holding them accountable for breaking the law and violating Texans’ privacy rights. Any abuse of Texans’ sensitive data will be met with the full force of the law.”
In the future, Meta will be given 60 days to reverse its policies if Texas again finds an issue with the social media site’s collection of biometric data.
The company will soon pay $500 million to the state with $225 million being paid each year from 2025 to 2028.
Watch: Acting Secret Service Director Admits NOBODY’S Been Fired After Attempted Trump Assassination
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Secret Service Acting Director Ronald L. Rowe Jr. got into a heated exchange Tuesday during a hearing focused on the security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Rowe Jr. became Acting Secret Service Director after Kim Cheatle resigned from the post last week in the wake of the Butler, PA shooting that left a rallygoer dead and others injured, including Trump himself.
Hawley grilled Rowe Jr. over why nobody at the agency has been held “accountable” for the numerous security failures that almost resulted in the death of Trump, to which Rowe responded that he didn’t want to put his “thumb on the scale” during an ongoing investigation.
For example, Hawley highlighted the official who didn’t place the AGR building, on which the shooter positioned himself to shoot Trump, within the security perimeter has not been relieved of duty.
So Trump gets shot, a good American is murdered, other individuals are critically injured – and the Secret Service hasn’t fired or taken off duty a SINGLE person involved on the day pic.twitter.com/2tv4PR0U7h
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 30, 2024
Additionally, Secret Service officials responsible for the communication failures between the agency and local law enforcement also have not been fired, as well as the official who decided not to pull Trump from the stage when a security threat was established.
“What more do you need to investigate to know that there were critical enough failures that some individuals ought to be held accountable? I mean, what more do you need to know?” Hawley asked.
The Secret Service director says it’s “unfair persecution” to relieve of duty leadership responsible for the Trump rally security debacle? Are you serious? It’s called accountability. Of which so far there has been ZERO pic.twitter.com/ZYMN3i3CZI
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 30, 2024
“Isn’t the fact that a former president was shot, that a good American is dead, that other Americans were critically wounded — isn’t that enough mission failure for you to say that the person who decided that building should not be in the security perimeter probably ought to be stepped down?” Hawley said, referencing the AGR building Thomas Matthew Crooks fired from.
“A lot of people didn’t do their jobs,” Hawley said.
Rowe Jr. continued, “I cannot put my thumb on the scale, otherwise–“
“What do you mean, put your thumb on the scale?” Hawley asked.
Rowe Jr. shot back, “You’re asking me, senator, to completely make a rush to judgment about someone failing. I acknowledged this was a failure.”
“A former president was shot!” Hawley yelled.
Full exchange:
Sen. Josh Hawley’s went straight for Acting Director Ronald Howe’s canned, pre-scripted answers that have never been good enough.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 30, 2024
Here’s the full exchange. Watch.
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After Hawley insisted Rowe Jr. “fire somebody and hold them accountable,” an emotional Rowe argued he didn’t want to see Secret Service officials “unfairly persecuted.”
Rowe Jr. said, “I have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days, just like you have, and I’ll tell you, senator, that I will not rush to judgment, that people will be held accountable and I will do so with integrity and not rush to judgment and [make] people unfairly persecuted.”
“Unfairly persecuted?!” Hawley exclaimed.
“Unfairly, sir!” Rowe Jr. yelled.
“We’ve got people who are dead!” Hawley snapped.
Rowe Jr. continued to insist it would be irresponsible to assign blame before a thorough and fair investigation concluded.
“I don’t really care much about your protocols,” Hawley responded. “I think if your protocols don’t provide for the fact that when a former president is shot, when an American is killed, when other rally goers — innocent people who just showed up on the day — when they are shot at and critically wounded, if that isn’t a protocol violation…you should revise your protocols.”
The Secret Service director to me today: a lot of people made a lot of mistakes but we won’t tell you who and we won’t fire anybody
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 30, 2024
Watch the full Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing:
Green Day Frontman Sparks Outrage After Holding Trump Head On Stage In Wake of Assassination Attempt
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong came under fire this week after he held a head on stage resembling Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, just weeks after the former president narrowly survived an assassination attempt.
The aging 90s rockers’ frontman held up a Trump mask during a show Monday at Nationals Park in Washington D.C., with “idiot” scribbled on the mask’s forehead.
I’m not a part of the maga agenda #greenday pic.twitter.com/B8JP8bBl62
— Green Day Inc. (@GreenDayInc) July 30, 2024
How innovative—@GreenDay holds a Trump mask up on stage pic.twitter.com/Pup4ywufl2
— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) July 30, 2024
Crowd members were also photographed holding the mask, which one X user claimed was thrown on stage and picked up by Armstrong.
Photo credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
Armstrong’s stunt was labeled tone-deaf on social media, especially considering Trump nearly lost his life to a would-be assassin’s bullet earlier this month, with some suggesting the symbolic gesture was intentional.
Lead singer of Green Day Billie Joe Armstrong held up a Donald Trump head/mask at a concert in DC just a couple weeks after President Donald Trump was shot in the head at his Butler, PA Rally
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) July 30, 2024
These people know what they are doing pic.twitter.com/rgZkKgENuI
Disgusting Display After Trump Assassination Attempt!
Here’s Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer for Green Day, holding up a Donald Trump mask as an effigy at a concert – barely 2 weeks after Trump was almost assassinated!
Does this type of action infuriate you?#GreenDay… pic.twitter.com/PhOIiQ9m5V— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) July 30, 2024
The image was somewhat reminiscent of comedian Kathy Griffin’s inane photo-op where she held up a bloody Trump head, which was later investigated by US Secret Service as a possible death threat toward the sitting president.
The singer has also been swapping out lyrics in his popular 2004 title track, “American idiot,” from, “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda,” to, “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”
Green Day’s latest anti-Trump stunt comes as acoustic comedy rock duo Tenacious D apologized and declared they would cancel the rest of their tour after member Kyle Gass urged a second shooter to take a shot at former President Donald Trump, issuing a birthday wish stating, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
Gass’ talent agency, Greene Talent, later dropped him from their representation.
Despite calls from Democrats and liberals to “lower the temperature” and “tone down the rhetoric” in the wake of the assassination attempt, just weeks later, unhinged anti-Trumpers appear to be back to their old ways.
Secret Service Whistleblower Warns Another Assassination Attempt Against Trump IMMINENT!
A Secret Service whistleblower has warned that another assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump could happen again as soon as within 30 days.
A Secret Service counter-sniper sent an email Monday night to the entire Uniformed Division of the agency saying they “SHOULD expect another assassination attempt” against Trump before November unless “5 high-level supervisors are either fired or removed from their current positions.”
“This agency NEEDS to change,” the sniper wrote in the email obtained by RealClearPolitics. “If not now, WHEN? The NEXT assassination in 30 days? Because we SHOULD all expect another attempt to happen before November.”
??? EXCLUSIVE: A Secret Service counter sniper sent an email Monday night to the entire Uniformed Division (not agents) saying he will not stop speaking out until “5 high-level supervisors (1 down) are either fired or removed from their current positions.” The counter sniper… pic.twitter.com/0dg99EESQk
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 30, 2024
“We’ve exposed our inability to protect our leaders due to our leadership,” he wrote, adding agents who worked the Butler, PA rally “did their job with their hands tied” thanks to poor leadership.
“Secret Service supervisors ‘knew better’ and the foot soldiers working, made the best of a BAD situation that resulted in a civilian death and a near miss of the protectee and our Technician shooting and killing the suspect,” he revealed.
The sniper also claimed he voiced his concerns up the chain of command, only to be dismissed.
“Sadly we have fallen short for YEARS,” the counter-sniper lamented. “We just got lucky and looked good doing it. I have conveyed these thoughts to not only supervisors (to include the current Captain of CS, but those responsible for training us (SOTS/CS). Only to be brushed off as those with less experience somehow knew more than me.”
The counter-sniper went on to explain that he’s now ashamed of his affiliation with the secret service over its failure to protect Trump.
“The team I was once proud to be a part of, is something I have to somehow hide as I move into my next career,” he wrote. “Who wants to hire a USSS CS guy who failed? That’s the public perception I’m now faced with. The USSS CS team is a stain I will never be able to cleanse.”
He reiterated that the attempted assassination of Trump was the result of failed Secret Service leadership, not because agents on the ground neglected to do their duty.
“We failed. Not because of commitment or sense of dedication. But because our SUPERVISORS (aka leadership) knew better and thought our concerns were less than important,” he wrote.
He concluded with these two lines: “The motto of the USSS…CYA. And every supervisor is doing it right now.”
The agency ended up quickly deleting the email, a source told RealClearPolitics.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday over the agency’s security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of Trump and in the wake of the resignation of former Director Kim Cheatle.
Watch the hearing:
Hillary Clinton, Whose Campaign Manager Attended Satanic Spirit Cooking Rituals, Calls Trump ‘Weird’
Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday joined the chorus of progressive liberals parroting the talking point that Republicans are “weird.”
However, Clinton has little room to talk after her own 2016 campaign was derailed by allegations the top member of her inner circle participated in bizarre occult rituals that involved menstrual blood, semen and breast milk.
If Republican leaders don’t enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 29, 2024
“If Republican leaders don’t enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling,” Clinton wrote on X.
Hillary’s take was part of a carefully curated DNC smear campaign aimed at shaping voters’ perception of the “weird” Republican ticket.
SUPERCUT!
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 29, 2024
Proof the entire Democrat-Media Complex outsources their brains to DNC talking-point writers #JDVanceIsWeird pic.twitter.com/ceN2qvIPTM
Unfortunately for Hillary, her own past was exposed to be pretty “weird,” to say the least.
DNC emails exposed by Wikileaks just days ahead of her 2016 face-off with Trump showed her campaign manager John Podesta was invited to a “spirit cooking dinner” by performance artist Marina Abramovic to take part in an occult ritual founded by Satanist Aleister Crowley.
In an email dated June 28, 2015, Abramovic wrote, “I am so looking forward to the Spirit Cooking dinner at my place. Do you think you will be able to let me know if your brother is joining? All my love, Marina.”
The email chain shows Podesta’s brother, Tony, forwarded the email to John Podesta and asked, “Are you in NYC Thursday July 9 Marina wants you to come to dinner.”
The Podestas’ “Spirit Cooking” dinner?
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 4, 2016
It’s not what you think.
It’s blood, sperm and breastmilk.
But mostly blood.https://t.co/gGPWFS3B2H pic.twitter.com/I43KiiraDh
When it comes to spirit cooking and Abramovic, “weird” doesn’t even come close to describing it.
The US State Department has a page for Marina Abramovic. The satanic elite are in control. pic.twitter.com/tpMORrU7hJ
— Colbey Gross (@ColbeyGross) July 29, 2024
The ritual involves an occult “art” performance during which menstrual blood, breast milk, urine and sperm are used to create a “painting.”
It’s reportedly intended to signify “the union between the microcosm, Man, and the macrocosm, the Divine, which is a representation of one of the prime maxims in Hermeticism ‘As Above, So Below.’”
Footage on YouTube shows Abramovic mixing the revolting concoction and smearing on a wall, instructing participants, “With a sharp knife cut deeply into the middle finger of your left hand eat the pain.”
O chefe da campanha de Hillary Clinton teve envolvimento com um ritual ocultista entitulado “Spirit Cooking” feito por Marina Abramovic. pic.twitter.com/0l5ogMZ83u
— FattyPup (@fattypupp) November 4, 2016
In the 1990s, Ms. Abramovic created “Spirit Cooking,” a series of works in which she painted recipes on gallery walls in pig’s https://t.co/iEHerHMUI3…Marina Abramovic; via Sean Kelly Gallery/(ARS), New York pic.twitter.com/RRCUo7pftH
— Isthisreal (@1sthisr34l) September 18, 2021
Images have also shown Abramovic, who has her own State Department page, hanging out with high-profile celebrities who evidently embraced the bizarre performance art.
From the same event. Lady Gaga and Marina Abramovic…Blood Drinkers all. Even if it’s symbolic, they can’t hide their disdain for God and adoration for Satan. pic.twitter.com/FNylwr89Sx
— Mark Chudy (@ChudyMark) May 28, 2023
Marina Abramovic Sprit Cooking. Symbolic of Satan pic.twitter.com/dvSNDMuh1Z
— Мотохару ямаки (@Yamakih1) January 14, 2017
In the end, all the occult rituals and smeared semen were not enough to take Hillary across the finish line, and when she failed to gracefully accept the loss, Podesta had to appear on stage and tell her supporters to go home.
Clearly, when it comes to “weird,” Clinton’s camp takes the cake.