Author: J.P. Knowles

The founder of the most successful porn site, Pornhub, Feras Antoon’s unfinished $16 million megamansion burned to the ground in a massive fire late Sunday night in a suspected arson incident.

Police responded to a call of two men breaking into the grounds located on the northern side of Montreal about half an hour before midnight. The house was ablaze, and a group of 80 firefighters spent roughly three hours battling the fire before it was extinguished, according to the Daily Mail.

The mansion was utterly destroyed with only a few walls and badly burned structures left standing on Monday morning.

Antoon is the CEO of MindGeek, the parent company of the porn site Pornhub. The explicit website is facing potential ruin under allegations that the site was used to sex traffic minors.

Activist Laila Mickelwait outlined some of the allegations facing Antoon’s sex site in a February op-ed for The Washington Examiner:

In the last few months, there have been several shocking cases of sex trafficking and child rape films that were hosted on Pornhub. A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for a year was finally found after her mother was tipped off that her daughter was being featured in videos on the site — 58 such videos of her rape and sexual abuse were discovered on Pornhub.

Her trafficker, who was seen in the videos raping the child, was identified using surveillance footage of him at a 7-Eleven where he was spotted with his victim. He is now facing a felony charge.

Also in recent news was the case of 22 women who were deceived and coerced by Michael Pratt, owner of GirlsDoPorn, into performing sex acts on film that were subsequently uploaded to Pornhub. These women sued GirlsDoPorn and won a $12.7 million lawsuit against the company. According to a federal indictment, Pratt and his co-conspirators produced child pornography and trafficked a minor. Pratt reportedly fled the United States for New Zealand and is currently wanted on a federal warrant. But there are other individuals complicit in these crimes who should also be wanted by law enforcement — CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Marmorstein Tassillo of Mindgeek, the Canadian-based company (technically headquartered in Luxembourg for tax purposes) that owns Pornhub.

You see, Pornhub is complicit in the trafficking of these women and minors and probably thousands more like them.

Pornhub scrubbed an estimated 60% of its content, including millions of videos, in December after allegations of sex trafficking and rape videos on the site surfaced. The site has recently undergone massive changes to many of its policies like only allowing new uploads from verified users. The porn-based platform has been banned from making and receiving financial transactions from Mastercard and Visa.

“As part of our policy to ban unverified uploaders, we have now also suspended all previously uploaded content that was not created by content partners or members of the Model Program,” Pornhub said last year. “This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute.”

The Mayor of Elizabeth City, North Carolina declared a state of emergency before its police department released body camera footage of a fatal shooting involving a deputy and a 42-year-old black man that happened last week and sparked protests in the city over the weekend. For many, this is an admission of guilt by Bettie Parker who is the Mayor.

In the declaration, Parker said, “In order to ensure the safety of our citizens and their property, City officials realize there may potentially be a period of civil unrest within the City following the public release of that [body camera] footage.”

Parker directed “all departments and agencies of Elizabeth City to take whatever steps necessary to protect life and property, public infrastructure, and provide such emergency assistance deemed necessary to preserve public safety.”

No arrests were made during the protests over the weekend or any damages to any property

Andrew Brown, Jr., was reportedly killed following an incident with law enforcement authorities on Wednesday. Brown is a 42-year-old black man. In a statement released by the Pasquotank County Sheriff, it stated that

The WUNC North Carolina Public Radio reported in a release:

Recordings of scanner traffic compiled by broadcastify.com from the morning of the shooting include emergency personnel indicating that Brown was shot in the back. An eyewitness has said that deputies fired shots at Brown as he tried to drive away, and car authorities removed from the scene appeared to have multiple bullet holes and its back windshield shattered.

“Only a judge can release the video. That’s why I’ve asked the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to confirm for me that the releasing of the video will not undermine their investigation. Once I get that confirmation, our county will file a motion in court, hopefully, Monday, to have the footage released,” Wooten said over the weekend amid the growing calls for the body camera footage to be released.

As reported by The Associated Press on Monday, new information has been revealed about the search warrant that is said to be the purpose for the deputies arriving at Brown’s house. The warrant “said that an investigator in nearby Dare County was told by the informant that the person had been purchasing crack cocaine and other drugs” for over a year from Brown. The warrant said that in March, local narcotics officers used the informant to conduct controlled purchases of methamphetamine and cocaine on two separate occasions. The warrant says both buys were recorded. Previously disclosed arrest warrants from Dare County included charges of possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine and methamphetamine against Brown.”

One of the deadliest civilian disasters in the history of Israel occurred at Mount Meron on Friday. Israeli officials issued a statement that a stampede broke out during the festival of Lag BaOmer killing at least 40 and injuring over 100 more.

The Jewish religious festival attracted tens of thousands from the ultra-Orthodox community. The deadly stampede occurred when the attendees of the festival tripped on steps causing a huge domino effect that sent many people to fall over.

Police sources informed that there were over 100,000 people at the location during the incident while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu classified the incident as a “terrible disaster.”

לכבוד התנא: עשרות אלפים בהדלקה המרכזית של תולדות אהרן שמרעידה את הההר מצד לצד pic.twitter.com/b2pMQsXv1z

— משה ויסברג (@moshe_nayes) April 29, 2021

Eli Beer, director of the Hatzalah rescue service, said he was horrified by how crowded the event was, saying the site was equipped to handle perhaps a quarter of the number who were there.

One witness told the Army Radio station that “masses of people were pushed into the same corner and a vortex was created.”

He said the first row of people fell down, and then a second row, where he was standing, also began to fall down from the pressure of the stampede.

“I felt like I was about to die,” he said.

Even children were among the casualties. Rescuers reported that there were dozens of children whose parents were not answering the phone after the incident.

A professor at the Cypress College in Southern California ripped into a student for calling the police “heroes” during a Zoom online classroom.

Braden Ellis gave a presentation during a communications class on how “cancel culture” is “so destructive and tearing America apart.”

Ellis’s presentation on cancel culture mentioned how activists attempted to “cancel” the children’s show “Paw Patrol” during the Black Lives Matter movement anti-police agenda. These “woke” activists took to social media to explain how the children’s show was “bad” to reinforce the idea that police officers are there to protect and serve their communities.

As shown in the video, the professor took the designated time for questions and answer sessions for the students to scold Ellis for his American views that don’t adhere to the agendas that the radical left are pushing.

https://youtu.be/ex2gl3VvXfQ

“I was shocked to hear her comments about police, but I stood firm in my beliefs,” Ellis said. “We need to fight back against this liberal ideology spreading in our colleges and save America.”

Cypress College has not responded to requests for comment at the time of this publication.

On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted three men on hate crime charges in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery was the 25-year-old man who was fatally shot last year in Georgia after the video of the incident went viral on social media.

The indictment from the Department of Justice accuses the three men of targeting Arbery while running on a public street because of his race. Each man, Travis McMichael, 35, William “Roddie” Bryan, 51, and Gregory McMichael, 65, has been charged with attempted kidnapping and interference of rights.

The father and son, Travis and Gregory McMichael have additionally been charged with using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm.

Travis McMichael’s attorney spoke out against the slew of new charges that his client has been indicted on.

“There is absolutely nothing in the indictment that identifies how this is a federal hate crime and it ignores without apology that Georgia law allows a citizen to detain a person who was committing burglaries until police arrive,” attorneys Bob Rubin and Jason Sheffield said in a statement Wednesday.

The indictment alleges that the McMichaels “armed themselves with firearms, got into a truck, and chased Arbery through the public streets of the neighborhood while yelling at Arbery, using their truck to cut off his route, and threatening him with firearms.” Bryan, according to the Department of Justice, “got into a truck and chased Arbery through the public streets of the neighborhood, and used his truck to cut off Arbery’s route.”

In addition to the interference with rights charges, each of the three men was charged with attempted kidnapping for trying to “restrain Arbery, restrict his free movement, corral and detain him against his will, and prevent his escape.”

Gregory McMichael told police at the time of the shooting that he and his son pursued a man he believed was a burglary suspect. The elder McMichael also told police that the two men followed Arbery after grabbing weapons and that neighbor William Bryan joined in the pursuit at some later point.

Arbery was fatally shot after an encounter with Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael. Bryan was in a car behind Arbery shortly before his death and is the person who captured the video of the fatal altercation.

Wanda Jones, Arbery’s mother, has said that she believes her son was on a jog at the time of his death.

“The family of Ahmaud Arbery is grateful for the fed hate crime charges against the men responsible for his murder,” S. Lee Merritt, the Arbery family’s attorney, said in a statement Wednesday. “These charges will serve as a fail-safe to the state prosecution. Hate claimed Ahmaud’s life. Our justice system must combat intolerance.”

An attorney that represents the family of the fatally shot American Patriot Ashli Babbitt detailed their plans to sue Capitol Police on behalf of the Babbitt family, arguing against the “double standard” of the case.

Babbit, 35, was a veteran of the armed forces and an avid Trump supporter. She was unarmed when she was fatally shot by Capitol Police on Jan. 6 during the protests at the Capitol. She died from a gunshot wound to her left shoulder according to the local Medical Examiner’s office.

The Department of Justice announced earlier this month that the officer who fatally shot Babbitt will not be charged for alleged use of excessive force that resulted in the death of a true American, most likely due to the politics surrounding the case.

The officer’s name has never been made public.

Babbitt has not received the justice that she and her family deserve because of the politics of the case and her open support for former President Donald Trump. The attorney will be pursuing a civil action on behalf of the family alleging a violation of Babbitt’s constitutional rights, he said.

“I’m handling the civil action that will be filed, that’s my role,” Roberts said. “The family and I were disappointed in the Department of Justice’s decision on this, but my role is, really, to bring a civil action and in that way, vindicate her rights.”

“We think the evidence is ample and supports criminal charges against the officer,” Roberts argued, claiming the officer could see Babbitt was not armed and offered her no warning.

“This is a situation in which the officer could have easily arrested her, if he had grounds to arrest her, without using deadly force,” he said. “So, this was an egregious act of excessive force and he should have been charged.”

Roberts told Newsmax “that there is a double standard at work.”

“If you were to change the circumstances, change the location a little bit, it’s a certainty that there would be charges,” he argued. “Obviously, the political climate is such that charges are not favored here. It really bothers us that there is a double standard at work.”

If the circumstances were just changed by race then there would be protests & riots in the streets in front of the Capitol till this day in Babbitt’s name.

“Lets reward parenthood, marriage, and work.” – Sen. Josh Hawley

American working-class families are the heart and soul of America as a nation. Conservatives have long held the belief that family is the highest core value to hold onto. And that is the hard truth. But like many American institutions today, American families could use some savin’ as well.

Marriage rates are at historic lows, parents often say they have fewer children than they want, and working parents find raising kids more and more costly. While there has been nothing done to save those values of the American family in decades.

Government public policies should promote families, and give parents the power to raise their children as they see fit. Even though many parents say they would prefer to stay home to raise their young children, they simply can’t afford it. It’s time for a new approach that gives families the choice of how to raise their kids.

Start with the problem. Washington’s policies over the last few decades have contributed to the brittle condition of the American family. Our tax and trade policy has rewarded out-sourcing, off-shoring, and labor arbitrage.

Democrats, for their part, try to make family life more affordable by pushing both parents into the full-time workforce while subsidizing commercial childcare. Not surprisingly, this is the family policy of choice for the Democrats’ upper-income, college-educated voters. And many existing federal policies in fact require both parents to be in the workforce to receive childcare benefits.

These policies, like the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, also require children to be enrolled in commercial childcare.

“Starting a family and raising children should not be a privilege only reserved for the wealthy,” Hawley said in a statement. “Millions of working people want to start a family and would like to care for their children at home, but current policies do not respect these preferences. American families should be supported, no matter how they choose to care for their kids.”

“That is why I’m proposing a new approach, a Parent Tax Credit—one of the largest tax cuts for working families in American history,” Hawley added.

The Parent Tax Credit is a fully refundable per-parent tax credit available to households with children under the age of 13. The credit has an annual value of $6,000 for single parents and $12,000 for married parents. Unlike other proposals that send parents no-strings-attached cash, families MUST WORK to receive the Parent Tax Credit and must work consistently to qualify.

Households must report prior-year earnings equal to or greater than income from an average of 20 hours per week of work at the federal minimum wage to even qualify.

“This is not welfare.” – Sen. Josh Hawley

“It is a long past time for conservatives’ policy priorities to match their rhetoric. Conservatives have bemoaned the travails of the American family for years. Now it’s time to do something about it. By rewarding parenthood, marriage, and work, the Parent Tax Credit is a start,” Hawley said in closing.

The Department of Justice has filed charges against Obama White House adviser Seth Andrew for the theft of $218,000 from a charter school he founded. Andrew used the funds he stole to lower the interest rate on a luxury apartment in Manhattan.

In 2005, Andrew established “School Network-1,” a series of charter schools based in New York City. He began work for the Obama administration’s Department of Education back in 2013 and eventually became the senior adviser of the Office of Educational Technology at the White House.

Andrew allegedly continued to receive paychecks from School Network-1 between the spring of 2013 and January 2017. After leaving his post at the White House in November 2016, he quickly ended his relationship with School Network-1 the following January.

According to the Justice Department, Andrew pulled funds out of all three escrow accounts, without any preauthorization, in March of 2019. The escrow accounts were designed to only be emptied if School Network-1 dissolved.

When he cashed those escrow accounts, he was provided with two checks, prosecutors say. One was for the amount of $71,881.23, the other two for $70,642.98. The checks were made out to two different charter schools.

Andrew allegedly created a fraudulent business account at another bank, where he deposited the checks days apart. The bank that Andrew deposited the check was offering special incentives and interest rates for keeping a particular amount in their accounts. At this time Andrew was looking for a new mortgage rate according to prosecutors.

“Specifically, for every $250,000 on deposit, up to a total of $1 million, [the new bank] would lower that qualifying customer’s mortgage interest rate by 0.125%. Thus, in total, if a qualifying customer maintained $1 million or more of his/her funds in [the new bank] accounts that customer would receive a 0.5% interest rate deduction on a … mortgage,” a press release explained. “But to take advantage of the interest rate deduction promotion, [the new bank] required that the funds a customer deposited be funds owned by the customer or, in some instances, a business the customer-owned, controlled, or was lawfully associated with. [The new bank] did not permit a customer to utilize money owned by someone else to gain the benefit of the interest rate deduction promotion.”

The stolen funds, prosecutors claim, made a drastic difference in the interest rate. Without the more than $142,000 in stolen funds, Andrew’s interest rate would have been 0.375% higher. Because of the funds, the former Obama official was able to obtain a $1.77 million loan with an interest rate of 2.5%.

Andrew allegedly took the funds, along with more than $2,000 in interest, and rolled them into a deposit certificate, which was then transferred to a bank account under another organization’s name. The move, prosecutors state, was to “conceal the money’s association with School Network-1.”

“As alleged, Seth Andrew abused his position as a founder of a charter school network to steal from the very same schools he helped create,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement. “Andrew is not only alleged to have stolen the schools’ money but also to have used the stolen funds to obtain savings on a mortgage for a multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment. Thanks to the FBI’s diligent work, Andrew now faces federal charges for his alleged scheme.”

Andrew’s wife, who co-signed on the loan, is CBS News anchor Lana Zak.

Andrew is facing charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a financial institution. It is unclear if Andrew’s wife will also face charges.

Warnings shots echoed through the north Persian Gulf as Naval warships fired upon armed speed boats belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN).

According to an official U.S. Navy statement following the incident, the fast inshore attack crafts (FIACS), the Iranian speedboats, begin to act in an unsafe manner, coming within the standard of 68 yards of the two patrolling ships. The Navy ship USS Firebolt (PC 10) fired warning shots to dictate the Iranian speedboats to move away from the two ships. There has been a video that was released showing the nighttime incident.

https://youtu.be/yzKVl04Iat8

The video shows lights that can be seen on the water before a massive crack echoes through the air. A tracer round appears to streak towards one of the ship’s lights and bounces off of the water not far from the FIACS. A spokesman representing the Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet could not immediately confirm that the video showed a tracer being fired.

The Navy said that throughout the incident Iranian speedboats ignored warnings from Firebolt and the Coast Guard’s USCGC Baranoff (WPB 1318). The U.S. ships issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio and loud-hailer devices.

“Throughout the interaction, U.S. forces proactively communicated with the IRGCN vessels and executed pre-planned responses to reduce the risk of miscalculation, avoid a collision, and to de-escalate the situation,” the Navy press release states. “The IRGCN’s actions increased the risk of miscalculation and/or collision, were not in accordance with the internationally recognized Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) ‘rules of the road’ or internationally recognized maritime customs. In addition, the IRGCN actions were not in accordance with the obligation under international law to act with due regard for the safety of other vessels in the area.”

The incident came shortly after the Navy reported a similar April 2 incident in which three more Iranian armed speedboats and a larger 180-foot twin-hulled support ship swarmed around a pair of U.S. Coast Guard cutters.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s “top” immunologist, has gone on to state first that Americans didn’t need to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Then he said wear two masks, then back to one mask. He has also insisted that Americans should wear masks outdoors even if they’re vaccinated.

Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, said now he thinks that isn’t the case and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon update its COVID-19 guidance on wearing face masks outdoors.

“I mean, if you are a vaccinated person, wearing a mask outdoors, I mean, obviously, the risk is minuscule,” Fauci said on Sunday.

“What I believe you’re going to be hearing, what the country is going to be hearing soon, is updated guidelines from the CDC,” Fauci stated on ABC News. “The CDC is a science-based organization. They don’t want to make any guidelines unless they look at the data and the data backs it up.”

“But when you look around at the common sense situation, the risk is really low, especially if you’re vaccinated,” he said.

Back in March 2020, when the World Health Organization (WHO) was telling everyone it was mostly surface transmission, Fauci declared, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”

Just last week, the CDC put out new guidance. “It is possible for people to be infected through contact with contaminated surfaces or objects (fomites), but the risk is generally considered to be low,” the guidance says. The CDC added that the chance of contracting the coronavirus through surface transmission is lower than 1 in 10,000.

The truth of the matter is that scientists even after a year of studies still don’t really know everything about this virus.

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, said last month that the six-foot social distancing mandate put in place across much of the U.S. “wasn’t based on clear science.”

“This six-foot distancing requirement has probably been the single costliest mitigation tactic that we’ve employed in response to COVID … and it really wasn’t based on clear science … We should have re-adjudicated this much earlier,” he said in an interview with CNBC.