[OffThePress] The I-Team has learned that the Belmont police officer arrested for rape last week had an arrest for domestic violence several years ago, before he became an officer.
That’s raising questions about whether he should have been hired at the Belmont Police Department in the first place.
We have new information on his previous arrest and his immigration status. The I-Team confirmed Felipe Gomes is not a U.S. citizen but has a work permit, so he is allowed to serve as a police officer in this state under a recent law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Just four months ago, Belmont Police Chief Ken Stenquist presented his new recruits, including 35-year-old Gomes.
“He was in the Brazilian Air Force and part of their Air Force Police,” Chief Stenquist said. “He was a full-time police soldier and left that position when he moved to the United States. He enjoys practicing jiu jitsu and attending church when he’s not working.”
Last week, Redwood City police arrested Gomes at the Belmont police headquarters on penal code 261 (a) (1).
[X] That’s 19-year-old Boston college student Owen McIntire, 19, who threw a Molotov cocktail at a Tesla facility in Kansas City, MO, during spring break.
BREAKING: Judge releases suspected Tesla firebomber citing ADHD and no access to "gender-affirming care" pic.twitter.com/oKB9nzNgOL
So this Tesla firebomber needs to move back in with his parents in order to help him have access to gender affirming care because he has “gender dysphoria”. Wow. pic.twitter.com/Mf2G7Prvi8
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Another tick towards civil war. Keep showing the people that its not a republic. Keep showing the people that those who sit for life without accountability rule them. Keep showing them that laws only apply to those who they regard as trash.
#5
How to explain to our fore fathers that No, we were not brought low by Iroquois nor Comanche, neither the Kaiser or the updated goose stepping version or a multitude of Asian men banzai-ing themselves into a frenzy. Nope. America handled all of that and more.
But the liberal white woman is a pure menace to America and western civilization at large. As relentless and mindless as cancer with much the same stench.
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A mentally ill young man with a proven tendency to violence is useful to the left. Give him some psych meds, put a gun in his hands and he'll be the next mass shooter.
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#6 I believe you do have a core issue here. It ignited an unnatural desire turned pathology to live a life completely free of the consequences of one's poor life choices - all the while receiving accolades and even political power. Very seductive/addictive I imagine.
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/\ You have to examine precisely what has changed in society Rex. At least a contributing factor I suspect.
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I'm still not clear on what sex this person is; is he a 'woman' receiving 'care' to pretend to be a man or the other way around? If he's a man wanting to be treated like a woman I am sure he will have no problem with that in the men's prison.
[IsraelTimes] Washington provides Amman assurances that annual financing for budgetary aid, water infrastructure and defense to remain intact
Millions of dollars in US grants for Jordan’s largest water desalination project abruptly dried up when US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... announced sweeping cuts to foreign aid in January.
Within two months, support was flowing again, a result of diplomacy that has arguably put the pivotal Middle Eastern state on a more solid financial footing than before the US president’s shock move to reshape global foreign aid in January, conversations with more than 20 sources in Jordan and the United States reveal.
Jordan — which stands behind only Ukraine, Israel and Æthiopia among the largest recipients of US aid globally — has won assurances from Washington that the bulk of financing worth at least $1.45 billion annually remains intact, including military and direct budgetary support, according to Rooters conversations with the sources.
Most of the sources, including Jordanian officials, diplomats, regional security officials, US officials and contractors involved in US aid projects, asked not to be named to discuss sensitive ongoing diplomatic discussions.
Four of these payments resumed in March to US firm CDM Smith, which USAID tasked with overseeing the $6 billion Aqaba-Amman Water Desalination and Conveyance Project, seen as key to the self-sufficiency of the arid kingdom.
The United States has for decades relied on Jordan to help achieve its goals in the Middle East, including during the Iraq War and as a partner in the fight against al-Qaeda in the region. Jordan hosts US forces under a treaty allowing them to deploy at its bases. The CIA works closely with Amman’s intelligence services.
Although several sources said much of the $430 million annual assistance for development programs remains frozen, hitting education and health projects, Molly Hickey, a Harvard doctoral researcher studying US aid and Jordan’s political landscape, said these areas are considered less strategically important.
"Trump has protected funding considered critical to Jordan’s stability, namely defense, water, and direct budget support," Hickey said, citing contacts with US officials that corroborate Rooters’ findings.
A US State Department spokesperson confirmed Jordan’s military aid was intact, calling Jordan a strong US partner with a critical role for regional security.
A decision has now been taken to continue US foreign military financing to all recipients, after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... completed his review of foreign assistance awarded by State and USAID, the spokesperson said.
The assurances to Jordan, extended during visits by Jordan’s King Abdullah and Prime Minister Jafaar Hassan to Washington in recent weeks, have not previously been reported, and appear to mark a reversal of Trump’s earlier warning he could target Jordan’s aid if the country did not agree to take in large numbers of refugees under a proposal to turn Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... into a beach resort.
In a private White House meeting in February, Trump assured King Abdullah that US aid would not be used as leverage for political concessions, two US and two Jordanian officials familiar with the matter told Rooters.
The White House said questions on the issue should be directed to the State Department, which declined to comment on "ongoing negotiations."
Senior White House aides met in recent weeks to discuss the fate of Jordan’s financing, three officials with knowledge of the situation told Rooters, concluding that the kingdom’s stability was critical to US national security. There was agreement in the meetings that aid should be restructured and enhanced to directly support that goal, one of the officials said.
None of the sources described specific concessions by Jordan, instead pointing to its position as a stable ally whose longstanding peace deal with neighbor Israel and deep ties to Paleostinians were a bulwark against wider Middle East conflict.
"We appreciate the US economic and financial support and will continue to engage in discussions that will benefit the economic sectors of both countries," Jordan’s Minister of State for Communications Mohammad al-Momani told Rooters in response to a question about Hassan’s talks and whether Jordan’s lobbying to maintain critical aid was paying off.
ISLAMISTS OUTLAWED
A financial squeeze on Jordan does not serve US interests, given the kingdom’s vulnerability to "radical influences," said one senior Jordanian official, referring to the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund group, as well as Iranian proxies in the region.
Last week, Jordan outlawed the Moslem Brüderbund, a political movement that gave rise to Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... , after accusing its members of a major sabotage plot. The plot was announced on April 15, the same day Hassan met with Rubio. One official told Rooters the threat of political Islam and the Moslem Brüderbund was discussed at the meeting. Rooters could not establish whether they discussed banning the group.
Another bigwig and a regional intelligence official said economic pressure risked unrest among a population angered by the government’s treaty with Israel and its pro-Western stance. That view was bolstered by the foiled sabotage plot, the intelligence official said.
While Washington has moved to restore some World Food Program food projects to countries including Jordan, only a few of the USAID-led projects, including those promoting political and economic reform, have been brought back.
"Ensuring we have the right mix of programs to support US national security and other core national interests of the United States requires an agile approach. We will continue to make changes as needed," the State Department spokesperson said.
The largest component of US aid to Jordan is some $850 million in direct budget support, agreed under a seven-year strategic partnership signed in 2022. Government ministers had fretted in private that this money was at risk
"Eliminating that support would significantly worsen our deficit and debt burden," former Jordanian Planning Minister Wissam Rabadi said in televised remarks. "Today we face a deficit, and losing $800 million would be devastating."
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... five of the sources, including two US sources, told Rooters that Washington has now assured Amman this year’s support, due in December and already factored into the $18 billion national budget, would not be touched.
SHAKEN BY TRUMP
Shaken by Trump’s threats, Jordan has simultaneously been locking down further assistance from other allies. It has turned to Europe, Gulf neighbors and multilateral lenders since Trump unveiled the global aid freeze in a January 20 memo, with the State Department initially offering waivers only for military aid to Egypt and Israel.
Last week, King Abdullah visited Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... , the crown prince of Jordan’s larger Arabian peninsula neighbor, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... . One senior Jordanian official familiar with the discussions said Riyadh was considering a military aid package to strengthen Jordan’s defense capabilities. Ties with Saudi Arabia have been strained in recent years, and it has not previously provided military aid. The official did not give a sense of the potential scale of the package. The Saudi government media office and Jordan’s army front man did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Two officials and a senior Western diplomat familiar with the talks with the IMF said the government was close to finalizing a sustainability agreement with the IMF to supplement its existing $1.2 billion, four-year EFF program. The new arrangement could unlock as much as an additional $750 million in tranches, they added. The IMF declined to comment.
Other negotiations have already yielded results: 3 billion euros over three years from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , announced days after Trump’s aid cuts by European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen, who cited "geopolitical shifts;" $1.1 billion in fresh financing from the World Bank and a $690 million package from the Kuwait-based Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, both approved in April.
Domestically, Hassan has been rallying corporations and business leaders to contribute to a national fund, raising over $100 million to relieve pressure on government finances.
"Jordan’s economy has largely weathered the storm," said Raad Mahmoud Al Tal, the head of the economics faculty at the University of Jordan. The government’s lobbying "allowed it to retain the bulk of core aid and even get bigger donor packages beyond what was anticipated."
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With this Klingon sponsorship venue shuttered, we just may be entering a period of 'minding our own business' and global tranquility.
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USAID is NOT shuttered. A cut back is not closing shop. Scale back enough, and people think are you closed. Trickery. Enough USAID still lives that the levithan could be reconstituted.
Do you think the State Department will give up their ability to destroy any given democracy they dont like via Color Revolution and Death by NGO? Do you think State wants to give up their NAFO stooges?
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^With our birthrates where they are, the world is about to go through a huge depopulation event. 8.2 billion people now, but estimations that by 2100 we will be at 6 billion. And the Han ethnicity will be down to 500 million at least.
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I saw it claimed the other day that what with the unadmitted Covid deaths and considerably lower-than-claimed birthrates for some time — and looking at the evidence of a variety of indicators that I’m afraid I don’t remember — China’s population is currently about 900 million instead of the claimed 1.4 billion.
Sarah Hoyt separately has claimed that in much of the world, whether for pride or to get more aid money, birth rates have been lower than claimed for as much as two generations.
#7
That's systemic racism, Grom. C'mon, you should know that.
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This is about Medicaid. Some Republicans want to impose a per capita cap in the Federal share of Medicaid. The Federal share ranges from about 60% to 80% depending on the State.
Abut 80 million people rely on Medicaid. Because there is no cap, there is less incentive for efficiency.
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From the link: Texas hospitals are on the hook for a $121.8 million bill incurred by illegal aliens across 31,000 visits in November 2024 alone, according to data collected by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (THHSC).
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Mr. Jennings has been going toe to toe for months — or maybe longer, I don’t know — against the rest of the CNN panel, droving them to foaming at the mouth anger as he irrefutably defends, explains, and counters the leftwing lies the rest parrot about Donald Trump and his administration. Should he win, he will be highly articulate and amusing in the Senate — he will definitely be both on leading up to to the Republican primary
The question is whether he can win, but the Republicans definitely need to replace Senator McConnell with someone in the MAGA camp.
[NYPOST] Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... created a monster in Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Then she wanted to be Joe Biden's vice president, so now she can sour grape about that too... — and years after she first burst into the national political spotlight, she continues to punish them for doing so.
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When you sit next to a person like Stacy, you might think she's taller than you are. But if you stand next to her you'll see that she is really shorter. That's because all the lard in her ass makes her sit higher in a chair.
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Stacey Abrams is the another Democrats’ self-made nightmare
#7
Living on campaign expense money is a lifetime career it seems, and far more luxurious than she otherwise could afford. I wonder how she will create a pension plan in the years to come?
[Breitbart] Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard reported that nearly 600 individuals with ties to terrorism were allowed to enter the United States under the Biden administration. The individuals were “paroled” into the U.S. by the Biden administration after they illegally entered the U.S.
DNI Gabbard told President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday that her office identified 700 “alien terrorists” who have ties to MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and the Sinaloa cartel. President Trump designated these cartels and transnational criminal gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Gabbard said the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) “identified almost 600 individuals with ties to other terrorists who came through our borders illegally, claimed asylum, and, under the Biden administration, paroled here within our borders.”
The director said her agency is working with the Attorney General and the NCTC to prioritize its focus on finding these potential terrorists and gang members. She pledged to find those “who are already here in our country because of the Biden administration’s four years of open borders.”
Her agency is working with the Drug Enforcement Administration to identify the cartels that were designated as foreign terrorists by the president and stop them at the border. She said the agency is turning over names to the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI “to be able to find those who are already in our country.”
Breitbart Texas reported extensively on illegal aliens who were on the Terrorist Watch List and other aliens with known or suspected ties to terrorists who the Biden administration released into the U.S.
In December 2024, the Biden administration released a suspected terrorist into the United States after being warned by Texas law enforcement officials of the terrorist connection, Breitbart Texas reported.
Breitbart’s Randy Clark wrote:
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the number of migrants arrested attempting to enter the United States illegally at the southwest border who appeared in the Terror Screening Database skyrocketed. During the four fiscal years of the Trump administration (FY 17 through FY 20), agents apprehended only 14 migrants appearing in the national security database, compared to the more than 385 terror watch list migrants encountered since fiscal year 2021
In September 2024, Breitbart’s John Binder wrote:
From Fiscal Year 2021 through July 2024, Biden and Harris have watched as record levels of illegal immigrants have poured across the southern border — including a record number of illegal aliens on the Terrorist Watch List.
During this less-than-four-year period, almost 400 illegal aliens on the Terrorist Watch List have attempted to cross the border between Ports of Entry. For comparison, from 2012 to 2017, about 100 illegal aliens on the Terrorist Watch List were caught crossing the border.
At the same time, a bombshell interim staff report from the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement reveals that since the start of 2021, the Biden-Harris administration has released at least 99 illegal aliens on the Terrorist Watch List into the U.S. interior.
The report states:
So far during fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol has encountered tens of thousands of illegal aliens nationwide from countries that could present national security risks, including 2,134 Afghan nationals, 33,347 Chinese nationals, 541 Iranian nationals, 520 Syrian nationals, and 3,104 Uzbek nationals.
More information on known or potential foreign terrorists released into the U.S. can be found here.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...every time you hear the phrase 
