NJ Military Base Confirms Multiple Contraband-Smuggling Drone Incursions This Year

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A New Jersey military base said that after numerous drone incursions this year, it has established countermeasures to detect and thwart the aircraft attempting to smuggle illicit items into a federal prison within its perimeter.

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, which houses FCI Fort Dix prison, confirmed to military blog The War Zone that it’s taken the defensive measures after numerous attempts to sneak drugs and other contraband into the federal penitentiary.

The airspace above the joint base has “standing flight restrictions” in place which prohibit drones or other aircraft from operating without authorization, base spokesperson Kitsana R. Dounglomchan told the outlet.

“We take each case seriously and aggressively coordinate with local law enforcement to ensure the safety and security of our installation. The majority of the drones were intercepted or recovered,” he said. . .

The Garden State has been inundated by unexplained drone sightings over the last month, with thousands of reports received so far, according to law enforcement sources. (Read more from “NJ Military Base Confirms Multiple Contraband-Smuggling Drone Incursions This Year” HERE)

This Is America’s Most Expensive Fast-Food Chain: ‘Rip-Off’

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As fast food chains hike prices around the nation, one came out on top for being the priciest of all.

A new study found that Shake Shack received the most complaints for being overpriced, followed by Five Guys, which has been slammed for their “out of control” prices.

Earlier this year, Shake Shack raised menu prices by 3%, the burger chain’s CFO Katie Fogertey said during an investor call.

The Post has reached out to Shake Shack for comment.

The study, conducted by Preply, also found that celebrity-owned restaurants regularly received complaints about being overpriced — specifically, Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants. (Read more from “This Is America’s Most Expensive Fast-Food Chain: ‘Rip-Off’” HERE)

The Hidden Danger in the Air That Can Cause Infertility, Colon Cancer and Lung Problems

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This is rubbish!

Researchers say that deteriorating car tires and decomposing garbage are sending minute plastic fragments into the air, which may be fueling infertility, colon cancer and respiratory illnesses.

There’s long been concern about how exposure to microplastics — found in cosmetics and toothpaste and shed from food containers and clothing — can hurt humans. Growing evidence suggests that these particles smaller than a grain of rice can damage cells, trigger inflammation and disrupt the balance of bacteria in the gut.

After reviewing 3,000 studies on the matter, researchers from UC San Francisco (UCSF) concluded that microplastics are “suspected” to harm reproductive, digestive and respiratory health, with a suggested link to colon and lung cancer.

“Microplastics are basically particulate matter air pollution, and we know this type of air pollution is harmful,” said senior study author Tracey J. Woodruff, a UCSF professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences.

The research team reports that companies worldwide generate nearly 460 million metric tons of plastic each year — a number that is expected to rise to 1.1 billion by 2050. (Read more from “The Hidden Danger in the Air That Can Cause Infertility, Colon Cancer and Lung Problems” HERE)

Americans Overwhelmingly Support MAHA, RFK’s Plans To Reform The Food Industry

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The new movement to “Make America Healthy Again” is incredibly popular.

According to a recent YouGov poll released last week, Americans were three times as likely to hold a favorable opinion of the MAHA movement than they were to hold an either “very” or “somewhat unfavorable” perspective. Branding aside, Americans overwhelmingly favor the major pillars of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposals to reform the food industry as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) even as opinions of Kennedy himself were profoundly polarized.

Majorities of both Republicans and Democrats were united in support of “requiring nutrition education in federally funded medical schools, banning certain food additives, funding research into alternative and holistic approaches to health, increasing restrictions on the use of pesticides in agriculture, and banning processed foods from public school lunches,” according to the poll.

Out of the 1,064 adults surveyed online between Nov. 19-20, respondents were most united on rules to prioritize nutritional education in medical schools, with nearly 8 in 10 who said they supported the proposal. However, as outlined in my new book Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself), U.S. medical programs are already failing to meet the minimum standards for nutrition classes set by the National Academy of Sciences. Just 27 percent of medical schools met the academy’s recommendation of a 25-hour minimum embedded in curriculums, according to a 2010 survey.

Exactly what students are taught about nutrition in medical school meanwhile remains controversial as the public health establishment still promotes the low-fat diet as conventional wisdom. Kennedy, on the other hand, has rightfully condemned the low-fat dogma promoted by the food industry, though the YouGov survey did not go into details about how the potential new HHS secretary might reform nutrition curriculums in higher education. (Read more from “Americans Overwhelmingly Support MAHA, RFK’s Plans To Reform The Food Industry” HERE)

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Mayor Says Radioactive Material Missing From Port, Connects It To Drone Mystery

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By Daily Caller. Belleville, New Jersey, Mayor Michael Melham connected a string of mysterious drone sightings to a report of a radioactive shipment that went missing earlier in December.

Melham said the drones have been hovering over critical infrastructure and residential areas in his state for at least four weeks, suggesting that their grid-like flying patterns indicate they are searching for something specific. . .

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) confirmed in an event report Friday that a Ge-68 pin source shipped by New Jersey‘s Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) went missing from the Port of Newark on Dec. 2. Melham said the materials were lost in transit.

“It was a shipment. It arrived at its destination. The container was damaged, and it was empty,” he told the hosts.

The NRC classifies Ge-68, a radioactive isotope of Germanium, as a “Less than Cat 3” material, which the NRC describes as “very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury,” though it can still be hazardous to humans. (Read more from “Mayor Says Radioactive Material Missing From Port, Connects It To Drone Mystery” HERE)

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New Jersey Governor Urges State to ‘Calm Down’ as FBI Looks Into Drone Mystery

By The Guardian. The governor of New Jersey has asked residents of the state plagued with unexplained drone sighting to “calm down” as federal and state authorities warned of pilots of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes by laser pointers aimed from the ground.

The FBI and New Jersey state police said in a statement on X: “There is also a concern with people possibly firing weapons at what they believe to be UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] but could be manned aircraft.”

The law enforcement agencies added that they have been out every night to legally track down drone operators “acting illegally or with nefarious intent” and warned that there could be “dangerous and possibly deadly consequences” if manned aircraft are targeted.

The warnings came as the FBI, US homeland security department, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and defense department issued a statement that said an examination of “the technical data and tips from concerned citizens” concluded “the sightings to date include a combination of lawful commercial drones, hobbyist drones, and law enforcement drones, as well as manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and stars mistakenly reported as drones”.

“We have not identified anything anomalous and do not assess the activity to date to present a national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in New Jersey or other states in the northeast,” the statement said. (Read more from “New Jersey Governor Urges State to ‘Calm Down’ as FBI Looks Into Drone Mystery” HERE)

Doctor Who Won’t Release Results of Federal Transgender Study Is Sued by Ex-Patient

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The doctor who has refused to release the results of a federally funded study on “gender-affirming care” is being sued by a former patient, a young woman who says she was “fast-tracked” into a gender transition that culminated in having her breasts removed at age 14.

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, oversaw the treatment of Kaya Clementine Breen. Doctors diagnosed gender dysphoria at age 12 during her first appointment in December 2016.

Ms. Breen’s medical negligence complaint says Dr. Olson-Kennedy “affirmed” the girl’s transgender identity within minutes of meeting her, put her on puberty blockers at age 12 and testosterone at age 13, and then referred her for a double mastectomy.

“She represented that if Clementine got a double mastectomy at an early age, the healing process would be easier, and that if she waited any longer, it would be impossible to do it right,” reads the lawsuit, filed Dec. 5 in California Superior Court in Los Angeles.

When Clementine’s parents objected, Dr. Olson-Kennedy asked “if they would rather have a living son or a dead daughter,” even though the girl had not experienced or expressed suicidal thoughts, the complaint says. (Read more from “Doctor Who Won’t Release Results of Federal Transgender Study Is Sued by Ex-Patient” HERE)

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Two Men Die After Using Bat Poop — Described as ‘Natural Superfood’ for Weed — To Grow Pot: Study

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Two men from New York died from pneumonia they contracted from bat feces — after they used the excrement as fertilizer to grow marijuana, a new study found.

The unidentified men from Rochester, ages 64 and 59, smoked pot that had been tainted with a fungus found in the bat droppings, known as guano, that caused fatal lung infections, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Disease earlier this month.

Their deaths were not connected to each other, which the researchers said highlights a growing trend of using bat waste to produce marijuana since the drug has been legalized.

The 59-year-old man had purchased the bat guano — described as a “natural superfood” for cannabis plants due to its high nutrients — from an online store, according to the study.

The 64-year-old had harvested a thick layer of guano in his attic, where he had a heavy bat infestation, to fertilize his plants. (Read more from “Two Men Die After Using Bat Poop — Described as ‘Natural Superfood’ for Weed — To Grow Pot: Study” HERE)

House Republicans Expose J6 Committee’s Lies, Cover-Ups, Scandals in New Report

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The Democrats’ illegally established and since-disbanded partisan Select Committee on Jan. 6 ran a two-year operation to frame political opponents as criminal insurrectionists and then covered up members’ own misconduct.

According to a nearly 130-page interim report released Tuesday by House Republicans who reviewed the panel’s work, lawmakers under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s direction suppressed evidence that contradicted the committee’s narrative, circumvented a key witnesses’ legal representation, and deleted more than a terabyte of digital data related to the investigation.

Georgia Republican Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight who led the probe into the probe, wrote in the report’s introduction letter that his team’s findings “reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.”

“It was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities,” said Loudermilk. “Even amid multiple failures, there were two common elements that significantly contributed to the security issues: an excessive amount of political influence on critical decisions, and a greater concern over the optics than for protecting life and property.”

Many of the failures around “optics” had already been previously reported by House Republicans who exposed Pelosi’s refusal to deploy the National Guard multiple times ahead of the riot. (Read more from “House Republicans Expose J6 Committee’s Lies, Cover-Ups, Scandals in New Report” HERE)

Three Russia Hoax Bombshells Hidden In IG Report On DOJ Surveillance Of Congress

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Last week the Department of Justice’s inspector general released a report on some of the DOJ’s tracking of communications from media and congressional figures as part of its purported investigation into who was leaking classified information against President Donald Trump in 2017. Three significant bombshells about the Russia collusion hoax were hidden inside the dense and dry 100-page report.

For context, when Trump won the 2016 presidential election, anonymous Democrat operatives in the federal government and Congress began leaking like sieves as part of a coordinated effort to paint Trump as a mastermind spy who had worked with Russian President Vladimir Putin for decades in order to steal the election.

Two Washington Post stories, a New York Times story, and a CNN story were all found to have included classified information. None of the four stories are specified in the report, but they all appeared in the first half of President Trump’s first year in office.

The first Washington Post story is likely the April 2017 story by Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett, and Adam Entous revealing that DOJ had gotten a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Carter Page, a Trump affiliate. The true story of that warrant would end up revealing the corruption of the DOJ, including how it falsified evidence in its application and relied on the laughable Steele dossier as the basis. But at the time of its publication, the FISA story suggested that an honorable DOJ had serious reason to suspect the Trump campaign of colluding with Russia to steal the election.

As outlandish and unhinged as the conspiracy theory was, it was fueled with daily drops of classified and deceptively packaged information designed to make it appear legitimate. The corporate media dutifully regurgitated, published, and aired the leaks as part of their campaign against the Republican president. (Read more from “Three Russia Hoax Bombshells Hidden In IG Report On DOJ Surveillance Of Congress” HERE)

Trump’s Pick To Head DOJ Division Responsible For Weaponizing Gov’t Against Conservatives Spent Years Fighting It

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Few Trump picks have been met with more enthuthiasm from supporters than Harmeet Dhillon, who President Elect-Donald Trump selected to run the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights division.

With a track record that includes taking on physicians who performed irreversible transgender surgeries on minors and suing over COVID-19 policies that shuttered churches, clients and allies alike are confident Dhillon is the perfect choice to clean up the DOJ division they believe was behind the most brazen targeting of conservatives.

“There’s literally not another person in the United States of America better suited for this job,” California attorney and conservative commentator Kurt Schlichter told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “She checks all the boxes twice.”

Founder of Center for American Liberty, Dhillon’s prominent clients include detransitioners like Chloe Cole, who Dhillon helped sue Kaiser Permanente for allowing her to undergo surgical procedures as a young teenager. She also helped one mother secure a $100,000 settlement after school employees secretly encouraged her daughter to identify as transgender. During the 2024 election, she led the RNC’s election integrity team in Arizona. (Read more from “Trump’s Pick To Head DOJ Division Responsible For Weaponizing Gov’t Against Conservatives Spent Years Fighting It” HERE)

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