There is an underground economy of sex-trafficked children. A new movie, City of Dreams, is in the theaters now. It isn’t a political movie, but it’s obvious that the open borders and the children pouring in are partly responsible. However, it has gone on a long time. They are invited in, but no one takes […] The post Shocking, Incredible Story of a Heroic Boy Sold Into US Slavery Now in Theaters appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

After claiming innocence for years, Hunter Biden pled guilty to tax evasion, which means he served as a foreign agent. Hunter funneled money from Rumania, Russia, Ukraine, and China without paying taxes and without registering as a foreign agent. Biden had previously denied allegations that he intentionally avoided paying $1.4m (£1m) in income tax from […] The post Hunter Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion [Being a Foreign Agent] appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

One of the main lines of attack against Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil until 2022, was one that we’re all very familiar with at this point. Liberals claimed that Bolsonaro was an “enemy of democracy.” Media outlets — both in the United States and Brazil — claimed that Bolsonaro was an autocrat who wanted to suspend the rule of law and use the force of government to punish his political enemies. This message resonated with Brazilians because some very prominent figures promoted it — including a former prosecutor-turned Supreme Court judge named Alexandre de Moraes. Among the Brazilian Left, de Moraes was something of a hero for taking on Bolsonaro. Most notably, the judge presided over a tribunal that banned Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 years. Why? Bolsonaro allegedly spread “lies about voting machines,” which supposedly inspired a mob to ransack Congress, the presidential palace and other government buildings. It was basically Brazil’s January 6. So in the name of protecting democracy, the judge prevented people from voting for Bolsonaro for the better part of a decade. He did to Bolsonaro exactly what the Left wanted to do to Donald Trump. So what are the “defenders of democracy” up to in Brazil, just two years later? How are these crusaders for democratic norms faring in 2024? As you may have heard, de Moraes just issued maybe the single most undemocratic and authoritarian court decision in the modern history of Brazil. He has unilaterally ordered a total ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X. No one in Brazil — a country where more than 20 million people used X — is legally allowed to use the platform. Anyone caught using a VPN to bypass this restriction can be fined roughly $9,000 per day, which is about 6 times the average Brazilian’s monthly salary. Additionally, de Moraes has fined X more than $3 million. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show He’s also frozen the assets of Elon Musk’s company Starlink, which provides internet access to hundreds of thousands of Brazilians living in remote areas. The point was to compel Starlink, an independent internet provider, to ban X as well. And on top of that, the Brazilian court system is now pressuring SpaceX, even though they have nothing whatsoever to do with the company. So SpaceX now has to pull employees out of Brazil. The judge has gone to war with X for a very simple reason: The company refused to block certain accounts that, in the eyes of the Brazilian government, “harmed democratic institutions in Brazil.” And then, X refused to appoint an in-person local legal representative in Brazil, because the judge had threatened to arrest the representative to extract concessions from X. So in order to “protect democratic institutions” supposedly, tens of millions of Brazilians can no longer access the single most popular news app in the country. They have to turn to the corporate press to learn what they’re allowed to hear. Only approved narratives are allowed in Brazil right now. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. For Elon Musk, the showdown in Brazil is obviously a major test. He’s long maintained that he’ll obey the laws of whatever countries his companies are operating in. But he maintains that Brazil’s judges are violating Brazil’s constitution, which isn’t exactly a hard case to make at this point. This week The Economist took a closer look at the judge who issued this order against X and Starlink. Here’s what they found: Mr Moraes also has form: he is a man who likes and understands power. He has extensive contacts in the federal police, military and intelligence services. … Other decisions have made the court look authoritarian. In 2019 Mr Moraes was put in charge of investigating misinformation about the Supreme Court and threats against the court’s members and their relatives. These had spiked after the election of Mr Bolsonaro. The ‘fake-news’ inquiry was contentious from the start. Normally investigations are opened by the public prosecutor or the police. By giving itself the power to initiate investigations the Supreme Court became victim, prosecutor and judge all at once. No time limit was set, there is no legal definition for disinformation in Brazil and Mr Moraes has not made public which accounts he has ordered shut and why. This is a violation of one of the most basic principles of every functioning legal system, which is that courts are only supposed to resolve legal disputes that are brought to them. That is their one and only job. Some party — whether it’s a citizen or the government or some other entity — needs to bring a case to the courts. And then the courts rule on it. Once the courts have the authority to generate cases on their own, and make up arbitrary rules to enforce, then they’re not really courts anymore. Instead of judges, you have de facto dictators. And that’s what’s happening right now to Elon Musk and his companies in Brazil. You’d hope that an incident like this would trigger immediate condemnations from the State Department. After all, the Biden administration claims to care very deeply about democracy. It’s essentially all they ever talk about. But there has been no condemnation from the mainstream Left in this country. In fact, if you listen to the corporate press, you’ll find a handful of reports essentially blaming Elon Musk for objecting to what the courts in Brazil are doing. Here for example is the BBC, which for some reason is pretending Taylor Lorenz — who openly hates Elon Musk — is an impartial expert on this topic. Watch: “He could have prevented the ban, but he chose not to.” Notice how the Brazilian government — which just shut down an entire social media app for millions of people — has no agency in Taylor Lorenz’s analysis. A private company refused to do the bidding of the Brazilian government. And therefore, it’s the private company’s fault that they got shut down. That’s how Taylor Lorenz, who works for The Washington Post, is selling this decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court. It’s how the BBC is presenting the news. It’s not hard to see what’s going on here. Brazil is the template for mass censorship in the United States. If they can pull it off in Brazil, they’re going to try to pull it off here. That’s why the corporate press is presenting Elon Musk as the villain in this scenario. The media has a vested interest in shutting down X because it’s one of their biggest competitors. Random posts on X get more viewers than CNN’s entire primetime lineup. So in order to lay the groundwork for shutting down X in this country, they’re saying Elon Musk had it coming in Brazil.  And it’s not just the media that’s trying to send this message. Senior figures in the Democrat Party are doing it too. For example, Keith Ellison is the attorney general of the State of Minnesota. He’s the chief legal officer of a major state. He’s also closely aligned with Kamala Harris’ campaign. He just spoke at the DNC a few weeks ago. Here’s what Keith Ellison says about what’s happening to Elon Musk’s companies in Brazil. obrigado Brasil! — Keith Ellison (@keithellison) September 2, 2024 “obrigado Brasil,” which translates to “Thank you, Brazil.”  Again, Keith Ellison is not some backbench politician from a no-name congressional district. He’s the chief law officer of Minnesota. And he’s endorsing the total shutdown of a major social media platform because it wouldn’t censor the political opponents of the government. Politicians like Keith Ellison crave censorship because they’re corrupt. They only care about power. And they’re willing to lie in order to get it. Remember what Keith Ellison did during the George Floyd riots. Ellison’s office hid bodycam footage showing that George Floyd said, “I can’t breathe,” several times, while he was struggling with cops in the backseat of a police cruiser — long before he was on the ground with a knee near his neck. That was obviously relevant information because it suggested that Floyd was having a fatal overdose, and that he couldn’t breathe because he had taken a lethal quantity of fentanyl. So Keith Ellison’s office suppressed the footage. Democrats like Keith Ellison want total control of social media platforms like X so that they can suppress information like that even more often, and even more easily. They want to be able to shut down any information or opinions that contradict their preferred narrative. That’s why they’re thrilled with what’s happening in Brazil.  It’s also why they have no problem with what the Biden administration is doing to Tusli Gabbard. Gabbard has emerged as one of the most effective critics of the modern Democrat Party. She has what no prominent Democrat has, which is integrity. She was on the fast-track to be a senior official in the Democrat Party, even serving as vice chair of the DNC. But she threw all of that away because she wanted to follow her principles — particularly concerning foreign affairs — instead of seeking power. So, Tulsi Gabbard can’t be controlled by party elites. What’s their solution? They put her on a terror watch list. Watch: Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticized her. No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration. I put my life on the line for this country. Now the government calls me a terror threat. pic.twitter.com/3xjgjmrLhD — Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) September 4, 2024 This should be leading every nightly newscast in the United States. There is no reason for a political figure like Tusli Gabbard to be placed on any kind of terror watch list, or to receive 30 minutes of extra screening every time she tries to fly. The only conceivable explanation is that this is a federal program intended to harass and intimidate her. She’s not following the party line, so this is what she gets. But she’s able to speak freely about what’s happening to her on X, at least for now. That’s the platform where Tulsi Gabbard posted that video I just showed you. It’s where she — and many other political dissidents in many other countries — can speak their minds, for the most part. At the very least, it’s a freer platform than any of the alternatives. That’s why the government, in both this country and Brazil, wants to shut X down. It’s also why France is trying to shut Telegram down and jail its founder. We are in the middle of a historic war on the freedom of speech, in countries where it would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI If they’re allowed to succeed in places like Brazil and France, it won’t be long until they try the same thing here. Our Constitution won’t protect us. Brazil and France have constitutions that supposedly protect the freedom of speech, and it’s not working out so well for them. The only solution is to do exactly what Elon Musk and Tusli Gabbard are doing, which is to respond to censorship and intimidation with more speech — call out what they’re doing. And in November, do everything you can to prevent these tyrants from seizing any more power than they already have.

A man who was arrested last month for allegedly chaining two children at their ankles inside a Fairfax County, Virginia, home is an illegal immigrant who was deported under the Trump administration before returning to the U.S., according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, along with his 47-year-old girlfriend Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, were charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction after police found two boys — ages 7 and 9 — chained to a post inside Rodriguez’s home, Fox 5 reported. Rodriguez is the mother of the boys. Melugin reported on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to Fox News that Guevara is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. ICE said that Guevara was arrested in November 2018 after illegally crossing the southern border near McAllen, Texas, and deported in February 2019. “Viera unlawfully re-entered the United States on an unknown date, at an unknown location and without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official,” ICE said in a statement. “Fairfax County Police arrested Viera Aug. 16 for two counts of child abuse/neglect: reckless disregard for life, two counts of child endangerment while in one’s custody, and two counts of child abduction: by force. Later that day, ERO Washington, D.C. lodged an immigration detainer against Viera with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.” NEW: ICE confirms to @FoxNews that the suspect charged in Fairfax County, VA in a horrific child abuse case where two boys, ages 7 & 9, were found chained at the ankles, is a Salvadoran illegal alien who was previously deported in 2019, but re-entered as a gotaway at an unknown… pic.twitter.com/gyXdIoP0Vo — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 5, 2024 Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Officers were called to investigate potential child neglect at Rodriguez’s home and heard chains rattling in the apartment when they knocked on the door, according to a criminal complaint. After the door was opened, officers saw the two boys with chains around their ankles next to a sleeping cot. Rodriguez and Guevara allegedly told officers that they kept the children chained up to “scare them” and keep them from leaving the apartment. Guevara also allegedly said the boys were left alone and chained up when he and Rodriguez were away. According to court documents, one of the boys got ahold of a phone and sent a photo of his chained ankle to their sister, and the sister called the police. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Rodriguez was released on bond after her arrest, and Guevara is being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on no bond, Fox 5 reported.

The FBI took a virtual beating on Thursday for an X post highlighting Director Christopher Wray’s “warning” to foreign actors who might have designs on meddling in American elections: “Knock it off.” With a display of force not seen since President Joe Biden told Iran, “don’t” enlist terrorist proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to attack Israel — or since Vice President Kamala Harris warned migrants, “do not come” — Wray urged foreign adversaries to butt out and leave American elections alone. “‘Knock it off.’ — Says FBI Director Christopher Wray to foreign adversaries meddling in American democracy,” the post read. “Knock it off.” – Says FBI Director Christopher Wray to foreign adversaries meddling in American democracy. https://t.co/DbocEMxFbRhttps://t.co/mpSEnuDVlZ pic.twitter.com/L9gj4aTcnm — FBI (@FBI) September 4, 2024 Critics made it clear that they fully expected Wray’s directive to be equally as effective as Harris’ and Biden’s had been — which is to say, not in the least — and they took to X to mock the bureau. “A fail-proof tactic,” Chuck Ross said of Wray’s strategy. A fail-proof tactic https://t.co/TlKEFzD3vy pic.twitter.com/9zunvSBu1u — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 5, 2024 Newsmax’s John Bachman added, “The @FBI employing same tactic to stop foreign election interference that my dad used to keep my feet off the back of his car seat.” The @FBI employing same tactic to stop foreign election interference that my dad used to keep my feet off the back of his car seat. https://t.co/O7OBhqRumQ — John Bachman (@JohnFBachman) September 5, 2024 “Did a 12 year-old from 1950 write this for Director Wray? Where are we as a country when something from the FBI is dumbed down to this level?” Jeff Clark asked. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Did a 12 year-old from 1950 write this for Director Wray? Where are we as a country when something from the FBI is dumbed down to this level? https://t.co/3QrYq5A9C4 — Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) September 5, 2024 “Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs are laughing at this and asking ‘Or what?'” Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) added. Xi, Putin, and the Ayatollahs are laughing at this and asking “Or what?” https://t.co/FuzMbGX8QV — Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) September 5, 2024 “From the people who brought you ‘don’t,’ I present to you the sequel ‘knock it off.’ The trilogy will end with ‘don’t you even think about it, buddy!'” Ethan Fine predicted. From the people who brought you “don’t”, I present to you the sequel “knock it off”. The trilogy will end with “don’t you even think about it, buddy!” https://t.co/rUhJkDmnw1 — Ethan Fine (@FineEthan) September 4, 2024

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned on his podcast that Vice President Kamala Harris wants to encourage mass illegal immigration into the United States because it could secure Democratic victory in American elections indefinitely. Cruz tore into the Biden-Harris administration’s performance on the border as he explained that Democrats are enabling mass illegal immigration into the United States to bolster their longterm political ambitions. The senator from Texas argued that Democrats want to increase the number of illegal immigrants present in the country “by 20 million, to be 30 million, to be 40 million,” explaining that “in their view, if that happens, Democrats win every election forever and ever.” Cruz went on to assert that Harris and the Democrats want to use mass illegal immigration “to fundamentally shift the policies of the United States of America and to move them dramatically to the left.” “Kamala Harris wants more illegal aliens to invade America because she views every single illegal alien as a future Democrat voter,” he stated in a post on X before pointing out that the Mexican government is also enabling mass illegal immigration into the United States. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Cruz specifically pointed to the Mexican government’s practice of busing non-Mexican migrants to America’s southern border if they are attempting to claim asylum in the United States. While migrants could previously only book asylum appointments from northern Mexico, the Biden-Harris administration recently changed the policy to allow migrants in southern Mexico to set up asylum appointments as well. Cruz’s statements come amid broader concerns that illegal immigrants could fundamentally alter America’s electoral landscape. One data analysis found that Democrats win 90 percent of Congressional seats in districts that have a higher than average foreign born population, while polling from Pew found that just four percent of illegal immigrants from a Hispanic background favor the GOP over the Democrats. The data also found that legal permanent residents and foreign-born U.S. citizens support Democrats 49 to 8 percent and 54 to 11 percent, respectively. Illegal immigrant amnesty or fraudulent voting could also have an outsized impact in critical states. All 15 counties in Arizona, for example, were just named in a lawsuit from America First Legal, which claimed that they failed to remove illegal immigrants from the voter rolls. Arizona, which is worth 11 electoral college votes, is a crucial swing state that could determine the fate of the 2024 presidential election. Even if illegal immigrants do not receive amnesty or are unable to vote, their presence in the United States could still sway the balance of power in the Congress toward the Democrats. Elon Musk has specifically accused the Democratic Party of leveraging illegal immigration to grow their political power, in part by allowing illegal immigrants to be counted in the Congressional district apportionment process, as immigration status is not accounted for in the census. More than 10 million people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since Biden was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 during the Trump administration.

Sadly, the summer concert season is coming to a close. We will miss filling stadiums and amphitheaters with thousands of our closest friends singing our favorite songs. Cooler temps are on the horizon, so it’s time to start planning our indoor shows, right? Blake Shelton agrees and just made a huge country music concert announcement. Blake Shelton’s super popular Friends & Heroes 2025 tour is hitting the road, and we can’t wait. He teased the new show with a super, clever video on Instagram. All we see is the inside of an old car with a very old radio. The indecisive driver can’t decide what he wants to listen to and keeps changing the station. We soon find out all the artists we hear will be joining Blake on tour. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) Blake Shelton Wants You To Get Ready For Some Amazing Country Music During The Friends & Heroes Tour The country star will join, Craig Morgan, Deanna Carter, Trace Adkins, and special guest Emily Ann Roberts on tour. Blake Shelton shared on Instagram, “Friends & Heroes 2025!!!!! I’m so excited to be bringing back the Friends & Heroes Tour next year… this is one of my favorite tours and I can’t wait for y’all to see what we’ve got up our sleeves!!!” Fans can’t wait. One joked in the comments, “Do I shave my legs for this or???? This is epic! Can’t wait!” And another cheered, “Let’s GOOOOO! Can I be your ‘pack mule/donkey?'” The tour currently has stops planned in Tennessee, North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania and will run from late February through March 2025. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 13, but fans can sign up for pre-sale access now at blakeshelton.com. This is going to be an incredible show, and we’re so excited to hear more. This story’s featured image is by Debby Wong via Shutterstock. The post Blake Shelton Has Big News For Country Music Fans appeared first on InspireMore.