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‘There is currently no evidence that a crime was committed,’ claims Capitol Police.

The US Capitol Police won’t pursue charges after a Democrat staffer allegedly filmed a gay sex tape in a Senate hearing room earlier this year, sparking criticism over the two-tiered justice system that imprisoned J6 suspects while allowing utter debauchery to unfold.

In a statement released Thursday, the USCP wrote:

“For now, we are closing the investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding a sex video that was recorded inside the Hart Senate Office Building on the morning of Wednesday, December 13. After consulting with federal and local prosecutors, as well as doing a comprehensive investigation and review of possible charges, it was determined that – despite a likely violation of Congressional policy – there is currently no evidence that a crime was committed. Although the hearing room was not open to the public at the time, the Congressional staffer involved had access to the room. The two people of interest were not cooperative, nor were the elements of any of the possible crimes met. The Congressional staffer, who has since resigned from his job, exercised his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and refused to talk to us. Our investigators are willing to review new evidence should any come to light.” – The United States Capitol Police

The USCP’s decision not to press charges is in regards to a gay sex tape allegedly filmed in the Hart Senate Office Building by a staffer of Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.) and posted in a private group online.

After the Daily Caller exposed the video, Sen. Cardin announced the staffer, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, had resigned the following day.

Following the incident, the staffer threatened to sue claiming the allegations were causing him to lose job opportunities.

“While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement, I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace,” Maese-Czeropski wrote on LinkedIn. “Any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated and I will be exploring what legal options are available to me in these matters. As for the accusations regarding Congressman Max Miller, I have never seen the congressman and had no opportunity or cause to yell or confront him.”

Conservatives on social media highlighted how no charges came from the incident or the cocaine that was found in the White House last year, while nonviolent individuals who simply entered the Capitol on January 6th have faced full legal prosecution.

No charges for cocaine in the White House.

No charges for filming gay sex in a Senate hearing room.

Remember this is the Party that vowed to bring decency and dignity back to Washington after some mean tweets.

— Moshe Hill (@HillWithView) February 1, 2024

Greenlight to film gay sex in the US Capitol and federal buildings after hours when closed to the public apparently. Just don’t walk peacefully through wearing a Trump hat

— Banana Republic Justice Swan ? (@TheWuhanClan) February 1, 2024

The real crime is that Congress is doing to Americans every day what someone was doing to that gay dude. pic.twitter.com/ActDh7TDSD

— And Don’t Call Me Shirley. (@Meme_Behavior) February 1, 2024

They’re not investigating because if that one domino falls, the rest follow.

They don’t wanna prosecute themselves.

— ZNO ?? (@therealZNO) February 1, 2024

Simply walking around on Jan 6 got people thrown in jail, but two homosexuals filming themselves performing sodomy in the Senate hearing room is ok?

Absolutely disgusting.

— Tez (@Tez_720) February 1, 2024

But don’t you dare walk thru the Capitol after being let in by USCP…

— Semenproducingindividual (@Semenproducer) February 1, 2024

TWO TIER JUSTICE.

— Earthling ? (@Earthling50bn) February 1, 2024

Others recalled Jill Biden had once claimed, “Decency was on the ballot.”

man… all that decency that was promised

— Ahmed Al Asliken ?☪️✈️ (@assliken) February 1, 2024

Decency is back on the ballot

— The Dank Knight ? (@capeandcowell) February 1, 2024

Something something, decency is on the ballet

— SM (@Scottymcmahon22) February 1, 2024

The Biden administration is not a serious presidency.

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In the international sphere, countries are the highest authority. Nothing stands above them with the power to enforce their promises.

A new pandemic treaty is in the works. Countries are negotiating its terms, along with amendments to international health regulations. If ready in time, the World Health Assembly will approve them in May. The deal may give the WHO power to declare global health emergencies. Countries will promise to follow WHO directives. Lockdowns, vaccine mandates, travel restrictions, and more will be in the works. Critics say that the agreements will override national sovereignty because their provisions will be binding. But international law is the art of the Big Pretend. 

You drive down Main Street. Cars are parked everywhere. The signs say “No Parking” but they also say, “The City does not enforce parking restrictions.” In effect there’s no rule against parking. Laws are commands imposed with the force of the state. Rules without sanctions are mere suggestions. Some people may honor the request, but others won’t. Those who disagree with the rule can safely ignore it. In domestic law, “enforceable” and “binding” are synonyms.

But not in international law, where promises are called “binding” even if they are unenforceable. In the international sphere, countries are the highest authority. Nothing stands above them with the power to enforce their promises. No such courts exist. The International Court of Justice depends on the consent of the countries involved. No international police enforce its orders. The UN is a sprawling bureaucracy, but in the end, it is merely a place for countries to gather. The WHO is a branch of the UN whose mandate countries negotiate amongst themselves. 

In the proposed pandemic treaty, parties are to settle disputes through negotiation. They may agree to be subject to the International Court of Justice or to arbitration. But they cannot be required to. 

Yet international law jurists insist that unenforceable treaty promises can be binding. “The binding character of a norm does not depend on whether there is any court or tribunal with jurisdiction to apply it,” Daniel Bodansky, a professor of international law at Arizona State University, wrote in a 2016 analysis of the Paris climate agreement. “Enforcement is not a necessary condition for an instrument or norm to be legally binding.” Without this Big Pretend, international law would collapse like a house of cards on a windy beach. 

All countries are sovereign. They are free to retaliate against each other for perceived wrongs, including breaches of treaty promises. They can seek to have other countries censured or expelled from the international regime. They can impose trade sanctions. They can expel ambassadors. But retaliation is not “enforcement.” Moreover, international relations are a delicate business. Aggrieved countries are more likely to express their disappointment in carefully crafted diplomatic language than to burn bridges.

The threat from WHO proposals come not from outside but from within. We live in a managerial age, run by a technocratic elite. Over time, they have acquired for themselves the discretion to direct society for the common good, as they declare it to be. 

As journalist David Samuels puts it, “Americans now find themselves living in an oligarchy administered day-to-day by institutional bureaucracies that move in lock-step with each other, enforcing a set of ideologically-driven top-down imperatives that seemingly change from week-to-week and cover nearly every subject under the sun.” These bureaucracies regulate, license, expropriate, subsidize, track, censor, prescribe, plan, incentivize, and inspect. Pandemics and public health are the most recent justifications for yet more control. 

Domestic governments, not international bodies, will impose WHO recommendations on their citizens. They will pass laws and policies that incorporate those directives. Even an exasperated WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said so in a briefing this week. “There are those who claim that the pandemic agreement and [amended regulations] will cede sovereignty…and give the WHO Secretariat the power to impose lockdowns or vaccine mandates on countries…These claims are completely false…the agreement is negotiated by countries for countries and will be implemented in countries in accordance with your own national laws.”

Ghebreyesus is correct. Local and national authorities will not give up their powers. To what extent international commitments will be “binding” on a country depends not on international law but on that country’s own domestic laws and courts. Article VI of the US Constitution, for example, provides that the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties together “shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” That does not mean that treaties supersede the Constitution or federal laws. Domestic legislation and policy will be required for the proposed pandemic treaty and WHO directives to be enforced on American soil. Such legislation is an exercise of sovereignty, not a repudiation of it. 

The proposals are not benign. Domestic authorities seek cover for their own autocratic measures. Their promises will be called “binding” even though they are not. Local officials will justify restrictions by citing international obligations. Binding WHO recommendations leave them no choice, they will say. The WHO will coordinate their imperatives as the face of global public health.

The WHO is not taking over. Instead, it will be the handmaiden for a coordinated global biomedical state. Managers hate straight lines. Diffuse, discretionary powers avoid accountability and the rule of law. The global health regime will be a tangled web. It is meant to be.

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Alex Jones: We’ve Moved Beyond The Crossroads, It’s Time To Choose A Side

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Making matters worse, manufacturing has been in recession

Recent data have many cheerful about the economy. But according to Peter in his latest podcast, the economy may already be in recession. 

Here are some of Peter’s biggest causes for concern:

The recipe for GDP growth is a recipe for disaster

“The big factor driving the GDP was the increase in government spending. Well, where’s the government getting this money? It’s borrowing it! That’s not a recipe for economic growth — that’s a recipe for disaster!”

Spending increases caused massive increases in national debt and liabilities.

The US national debt currently stands at $34.1 trillion. Total unfunded liabilities tower in the hundreds of trillions, mostly from Social Security and Medicare.

Peter states that this used to be a priority, but is no longer:

Back in the 1980s, 1990s we were still pretending we were going to do something about entitlements —about Social Security, about Medicare, that there was going to be some effort to fix the problem before it blew up… Nobody at this point believes that we’re going to do anything about stopping the bomb from going off. In fact, it’s already gone off. We’ve already passed the point.”

Social Security is officially broke

Social Security trust funds are now liquidating their treasury holdings, putting a massive net drain on the US treasury. 

And it’s getting worse:

[The] drain is getting bigger every day as more people retire whether voluntarily or involuntarily and more people just drop out of the labor force and stop paying taxes.”

Peter explains that many roles are being replaced by AI and automation tools, which don’t help the Social Security fund:

They’re not going to be paying Social Security taxes. Computer programs don’t have to pay into FICA. This this is going to get bigger but given the fact that we have this huge hole in Social Security, we’re bleeding — we’ve got a massive deficit that’s running out of control.”

Peter projects a total depletion of Social Security reserves within the next few years. 

Making matters worse, manufacturing has been in recession

This confounds the administration’s narrative of a healthy economy:

They keep talking about a “Manufacturing Renaissance.” They got the “r” right, except it’s a recession instead of a renaissance.”

The Fed Philly Manufacturing Index has been negative for 18 out of the past 20 months, a manufacturing dark age.

This all begs the question:

How can you talk about a great economy? How healthy can the economy be when a vitally important part, the goods-producing sector, has been in a recession for almost two years?”

There are signs of higher inflation to come

Peter points out that just this week, oil prices rose $5 a barrel and the M2 money supply increased a whopping $100 billion, a significant expansion.

Plus, the Fed won’t deny voters anything this election year.

Peter concludes:

I’m correct that inflation is going to be picking up, it’s going to be weakening the economy. We could see a more meaningful turnaround. Maybe we’ll even get the government to come back and officially acknowledge that we’re in a recession.”

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‘My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost him.’

Senile puppet politician Joe Biden called the family of U.S. soldier Spc. Kennedy Sanders, who recently died in a drone attack while serving in Jordan, and claimed he could resonate with their loss because he too had a child die while serving overseas.

While Biden repeatedly tells military families he lost his son Beau in Iraq, he actually died of brain cancer in 2015.

After informing Sanders’ parents she is being posthumously promoted to the rank of Sergeant, Biden told them “It means a lot to me. My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost him.”

The habitual liar Sleepy Joe has been telling the fib in front of Gold Star families for years now.

An interesting thing to note regarding Beau Biden’s death is that Joe allegedly believes toxins found in smoke from burning tar pits at U.S. military installations around the world contributed to his brain cancer.

So, the very same military industrial-complex that controls Joe Biden is likely responsible for the death of his son and yet he continues sending people like Kennedy Sanders to die for globalist causes.

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Package revives various business tax breaks related to R&D and capital expenses, and expands the child tax credit

On Wednesday, the House passed a $78 billion bipartisan tax package which revives various business tax breaks related to R&D and capital expenses, and expands the child tax credit.

While the package passed by a vote of 357-70, a major win for House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), and it handed Democrats a significant win on the child tax credit, it faces serious hurdles in the Senate.

As Punchbowl News suggests: “This popular bipartisan tax bill is going to get caught up in a Senate legislative logjam over the next few weeks Just consider what’s on the agenda already for the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body”:

• The Senate is currently in the middle of trying to craft a national defense supplemental, including border security money and aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. This is the chamber’s top priority right now. 
• The federal government’s shutdown deadlines under the current continuing resolution are coming up very soon — March 1 and March 8. Each of these bills include hundreds of billions of dollars in spending, and party leaders will need plenty of time to get them across the floor.   
• The FAA’s authority expires March 8. The Senate Commerce Committee has yet to mark up the upper chamber’s version of the FAA reauthorization. But March 8 is a hard deadline for the FAA to be reauthorized.   
• Most importantly, if the House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — which could happen as soon as next week — the Senate will need to hold an impeachment trial immediately. Impeachment has the highest privilege in the Senate.

And after next week, the Senate will leave town for two weeks during the Presidents’ Day recess. According to the report, both the House and Senate will only be in session at the same time for just three days in February. 

That said, Senate Minority Whip John Thune said that part of the recess may be scrapped if the Senate addresses the border security-Ukraine bill by the end of next week. “I don’t know that you could let this thing hang out there much longer,” he told Punchbowl.

And even if Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tries to move the tax legislation as a standalone bill, it would likely take at least two weeks to process.

GOP is in no rush…

In the lead-up to the House vote, Republican Senators weren’t getting on board Wednesday – and have instead been pushing for changes to the tax bill. What’s more, they’ve been pushing for it to be marked up by the Senate Finance Committee, which could stall the entire effort.

The top Republican on the Finance panel, Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, has been in no rush to embrace it, and he’s pointed to concerns over the child tax credit expansion as the reason why.

“I look forward to working with my colleagues to vet the legislation, address concerns, and make the necessary changes to build support,” Crapo said in a statement.

Senate Republicans have picked at the child tax credit policy in the bill, the pay-for and the broader politics.

“I think passing a tax bill that makes the president look good, may allow checks before the election — means that [Joe Biden] could be reelected and then we won’t extend the 2017 tax bill,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told reporters. Those are the 2017 Trump tax cuts. -Punchbowl

The new tax plan would be financed by curbing the employee retention tax credit, a pandemic-era measure which was designed to keep workers on the payroll – but which as the NY Times notes, has become a magnet for fraud.

The Wednesday package that passed the house was brokered by the two top tax writers in Congress, Smith, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Finance Committee, and has the support of the White House.

Republican proponents have held up the business tax breaks as a win, and have even framed the child tax credit as a victory.

“The child tax credit reforms in this bill are pro-family policies that maintain the child tax credit structure of the Trump-era G.O.P. tax reform,” Smith said in a statement. “The child tax credit provisions in this bill help families crushed by inflation, remove the penalty for families with multiple children and maintains work requirements.”

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Michael Yon joins Alex Jones to issue an emergency warning to those American and Texan patriots who wish to actively help protect the southern border.

Targets will include Iranian personnel and facilities in both countries, officials say

The United States has approved plans for a series of strikes over multiple days against targets in Iraq and Syria in response to recent attacks on US forces in the Middle East, including the drone attack that killed three service members in Jordan last week, CBS reported on Thursday, citing US officials.

The targets will include Iranian personnel and facilities in Iraq and Syria, the officials said. They added that weather will be a major factor in the timing of the strikes.

On Sunday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said three US soldiers had been killed and 25 others injured in a drone attack at a US military base in Jordan’s northeast near the border with Syria. On Monday, CENTCOM said the number of injured US soldiers had risen to 34, eight of whom had to be evacuated.

Jordanian cabinet spokesman Muhannad Mubaidin said that the strike targeted the US’s Al-Tanf base in Syria, not a base on Jordanian territory.US President Joe Biden pinned the blame on unspecified Iran-backed militant groups, while also saying the US was still gathering the facts. Iran has denied playing any role in the attack.

On Monday, US media reported that US President Joe Biden discussed a “significant military response” to the attack during a meeting with top US officials on Sunday. Later in the day, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the White House was seeking to respond to the attack “in a very consequential way,” but was not willing to escalate tensions in the Middle East.

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Michael Yon joins Alex Jones to issue an emergency warning to those American and Texan patriots who wish to actively help protect the southern border.