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US Strategic Command A historic milestone for the submarine community
https://twitter.com/US_Stratcom/status/1392207031860350979
Commander, Submarine Forces Atlantic OTD in 1960, the radar picked nuclear submarine USS Triton (SSRN 586) arrived back in Groton, Conn., after successfully completing the first submerged circumnavigation of the Earth. Capt. Edward J. Beach Jr. commanded Triton and charted its historic trip. #SubmarineForce
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Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials
Sophie Cornish 17:16, May 12 2021
The Catholic Church has confirmed it is investigating claims children from a Wellington boysā home were prostituted out to Church officials.
It is also calling on anyone with personal information on the matter to come forward and speak to them.
The allegations were made at a Royal Commission of Inquiry hearing on Tuesday by Keith Wiffin, a former ward of the state who lived at Epuni Boysā Home in Lower Hutt in the 1970s.
A victim of sexual abuse at the home when he was 11 Wiffin, now 61, said he never personally experienced the practice himself, but had learnt the Church was investigating the claims.
He said he had also been told the information by a former ward of the state who lived at Epuni around the time he lived there, who had experienced the practice.
He alleged boys were taken from the home in a van on several occasions by a housemaster, Alan Moncrief-Wright, to a Church site, where clergymen would walk around the van looking at the boys, selecting the ones they wanted to sexually abuse. Eleanor Parkes, director of New Zealandās ECPAT Child Alert organisation, which focuses on addressing the sexual exploitation of children, said the practice, if true, would fit within the United Nations and New Zealandās definition of child trafficking.
āTrafficking is the reception, recruitment, transport, transfer, concealment, or harbouring of any person for the purposes of exploitation. It does not have to involve crossing international borders at all, and most of the trafficking cases in New Zealand that we know about are domestic,ā Parkes said. On Wednesday, the Church confirmed it was investigating the claims and that it had previously provided information to the Commission relating to the alleged events.
Catherine Fyfe, chairperson of Te RÅpÅ« Tautoko, an agency created to coordinate Catholic engagement with the Royal Commission, said the information formed part of the extensive documentation which the agency provided to the Commission.
āChurch authorities are aware of an allegation similar to that raised by Mr Keith Wiffin at the Royal Commission this week.
āChurch authorities continue to work with survivors to investigate matters associated with the complaint. The Royal Commission will be aware of this from documents the Church has provided,ā Fyfe said.
āThe agency, bishops and congregational leaders of the Church are urging anyone who might have personal knowledge of the matters raised by Mr Wiffin to contact the Royal Commission or the Churchās National Office for Professional Standards.
āThe Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand asked to be part of the Royal Commissionās inquiry and will continue to strongly support the inquiry and respond there to any issues that are raised, including Mr Wiffinās evidence,ā Fyfe said.
Moncrief-Wright was convicted and jailed on a number of sexual violation charges against boys, including Wiffin, and has since died. Wiffin has previously given evidence to the Commission on two occasions.
At Tuesdayās hearing, he told the Commission of his own experiences going out on excursions in the van, driven by Moncrief-Wright.
The housemaster would take boys to pick up videos and lollies for the Saturday night entertainment and would sometimes take groups of boys to see movies.
He said it wasnāt uncommon for boys to be taken to the homes of staff members and away for weekends.
In March, the Catholic Church formally apologised to survivors of abuse for the first time.
Cardinal John Dew made the apology at a hearing for the Commission, on behalf of the bishops and congregational leaders in New Zealand, stating the church could offer no excuses for the actions of the church that caused harm.
He said the abuse was perpetrated by people, such as priests, brothers and sisters and lay people that victims should have been able to trust and that the systems and culture of the church allowed abuse to occur.
Dew acknowledged the abuse caused pain, hurt and trauma which continued to have an impact on the lives of survivors.
Abuse in faith-based institutions such as churches or religious schools between 1950 and 1999 makes up a large part of the inquiry.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300305591/catholic-church-investigating-claims-children-were-prostituted-to-church-officials
STUNNING TESTIMONY:AZ Elections Witness, Jan Bryant, Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite, NOT Election Workers, Then Delivering Them to Counting Center
Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature.
Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION! Dominion employees John and Bruce did.
Janās testimony might explain why Maricopa County officials do not have Admin passwords or access to the Dominion voting machines.
They never had them!
Jan also testified under oath that county staff, not even IT staff were allowed access to the voting machines and that she witnessed Dominon employees with a laptop computer in the counting room.
Jan worked 6 days at MCTEC, has an MBA, and project management background in technology.
Later during questioning by Republican Rep. Mark Finchem, Jan Bryant told the Arizona lawmakers that there were daily election ballot deliveries to MCTEC by Runbeck Election Services. According to witness testimony (transcribed below), these deliveries happened in 2020 from Nov. 3rd to at least the 10th.
Repeated explanations by supervisors at that time was that āRunbeck has high speed scannersā.
According to Jan Bryant, she was told the ballots were scanned offsite by Runbeck and then delivered to the Maricopa County Election Center.
This should disqualify all of Maricopa County results.
Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri6flxaXww&t=23970s
Here is the transcript from Jan Bryantās testimonyā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦..
Jan Bryant: ā¦ten days before they quit tabulating they thought they were done. And then more truck loads of ballots would come in. And Iām like, how can you not know how many ballots are still out there.
State House Rep. David L. Cook: Mr. Chairman Iām sorry. WOULD YOU REPEAT THAT. They thought they were done, and then there was WHAT?
Jan Bryant: They thought they were done multiple times. Multiple times the people that were running the rooms thought they were done (counting ballots), or almost done. Or were gonna be done Wednesday morning (Nov. 4th), then Thursday morning (Nov. 5th), then Friday morning. Then it went on the whole next week. And Iām like, I asked the question, You donāt know how many ballots are still left to come in? I donāt know who does, againā¦processā¦project management, but zero.
State House Rep. Mark Finchem: On that point Maāam, Iām tracking with you but, what day did the truck show up?
Jan Bryant: Every day, yeah, every day.
Mark Finchem: OK. Just a minute. I want to make sure we capture this properly. So there were trucks that showed up on the 3rd, and then the 4th, and then the 5th, and how long did that go on. How many days?
Jan Bryant: I wasnāt there the whole last week. My last day was the 10th and they were still coming in. They were coming from a company called Runbeck, that does the high speed scanning and printing of duplications, and I think the military ballots. And now Iām getting out of my comfort level here talking about this. I donāt know what they are doing but those ballots are coming in from a high speed scanning company called Runbeck thatā¦. apparently you havenāt heard of Runbeck.
Mark Finchem: No, Iāve heard of Runbeck Maāam. What Iām trying to figure out is whether they printed them or if they scanned them. And if they scanned them offsite, to what purpose?
Jan Bryant: I canāt tell you.
Mark Finchem: Wasnāt that your job to scan them? I mean, not your job, but the (MCTEC).
Jan Bryant: No, all the high speed scanning happens at Runbeck. So, those ballots go to Runbeck. As far as I know there were no observers there. I donāt know. I never got called to work at Runbeck. Thatās all I can tell you.
Mark Finchem: OK, with all do respect Mr. Cook, now weāve now opened up a whole new can of worms.
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Jan Bryant: And again I donāt know enough about it to be the witness.
Mark Finchem: No thatās fine. Your observation is useful here. What you telling me is the scanning wasnāt actually done on site at a Maricopa County structure. It was done someplace else.
Jan Bryant: Where they have very high speed scanners.
Mark Finchem: Right now I really donāt care what the speed is. I want to know were they Dominion scanners?
Jan Bryant: No, no, I donāt think it has anything to do with Dominion.
Mark Finchem: Iām trying to understand what was the purpose of scanning them in advance of them being tabulated on the Dominion equipment.
Jan Bryant: They were duplicate, duplications. The ballots that wouldnāt read through the tabulation machines. They were ballots that came in from Military and overseas. BUT THERE WERE MORE BALLOTS THAN THAT. So I donāt know where the rest of them were coming from. Because they kept bringing trays of them in. So I donāt know where they were coming from. Thatās a question for the county employees to explain to you, where those ballots came from that whole next week. I donāt know where they came from.
Rudy Giuliani: So you were there from Nov. 3rd through the 10th. Seven days later (after election) ballots were still coming in.
Jan Bryant: Yes.
Rudy Giuliani: Were those ballots counted?
Jan Bryant: I watched them go through the tabulation machines. And I watched people working on the adjudication of those ballots.
Rudy Giuliani: And how many ballots.. Jan Bryant: Oh, I donāt know.
Rudy Giuliani: What was the largest number you saw in one day. Just a guess. How many cartons? Jan Bryant (06:58:13): OK, there wasā¦.I wasnāt thereā¦there was usually 2 or 3 shifts. I wanna say one day they thought 90,000 was a good number, for a shift. And if they were running multiple shifts a day. It was somewhere between the 3rd and the 10th. (2 more minutes of Rudy numbers questions)
State Senator Sylvia Allen (07:00:09): Ms Bryant, Iām curious, why did the county on the last days you were there, brought in county employees to take part in, being part of the observers?
Jan Bryant: They werenāt observing they were actually adjudicating. So they were doing.. I think they just need all hands on deck. I mean, that was the intent, was to get the work done and finish counting because they kept thinking they were done and.
Senator Allen: I was thinking they were working to make up for the lack of not having Republicans. So were we (Republicans) short of having volunteers to go in and observers in Maricopa.
Jan Bryant: I donāt believe so. There was always at least two of us in the tabulation center and at least one in one of the other rooms like signature verification. What the (county) employees were doing was the adjudication work which also requires two different parties to adjudicate each ballot. So you had to have at least 2 of the 3 parties to do that. So thatās what the county employees were doing at the end. They brought them on just to help with the backlog.
State House Rep. Bret Roberts: You got to a point where they continued to say they didnāt know where these trucks of ballots were coming from.
Jan Bryant: Itās not that they didnāt know. Itās that they didnāt know how many were still coming.
Bret Roberts: I assume at this point in time these were not early ballots in any way shape or form. Iām just kind of curious, did anything stand out to you as far as these new ballots, didnāt know where they were coming from, as far as a physical appearance in any way?
Jan Bryant: No. Everythingā¦ they just looked like ballots. Just kept coming. They all came in the same binsā¦..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/stunning-testimony-az-elections-witness-testifies-private-company-scanning-ballots-offsite-not-election-workers-delivering-counting-center/
š“LIVE: Arizona State Legislature Holds Public Hearing on 2020 Election: Jan Bryant's testimony on Dominion and Maricopa County on election day.
Begin at 6:39:30 it goes for 11:15:09 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri6flxaXww&t=23970s
Mass. churches amassed over $82M in small business PPP loans; Roman Catholic dioceses alone collected over $20M
Isabel Contreras Boston University Statehouse Program May 10 2021
BOSTON ā Massachusetts churches, including Catholic and Christian religious organizations, received upwards of $82 million in forgivable loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program, according to Small Business Administration data released last month.
The Roman Catholic Dioceses of Worcester, Fall River and Springfield, along with the Archdiocese of Boston, collected over $20 million in PPP loans, distributed among different churches and administrative departments under their jurisdiction. Bostonās Archdiocese, led by Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley received the most within this group, with over $8 million in PPP aid.
Ray Delisle, director of communications for the Diocese of Worcester, said the PPP loans were necessary to keep people employed in the diocese, while continuing to provide services to the community during these hard times.
āThe purpose of the program was to keep peopleās jobs and if we couldnāt keep them employed, theyād be on unemployment, further pressuring the system for support,ā Delisle said. āThis allowed us to keep on being able to provide the supports that society relies on us for, and we have to keep those going, especially during a pandemic.ā
Paycheck Protection Program loans allowed small businesses across the country to borrow up to $10 million to pay for employee wages, utilities and rent, with the opportunity of loan forgiveness as long as the funds were used for their intended purposes.
Larger churches and dioceses would not normally qualify for this kind of government aid, since there is a 500-employee cap for businesses and organizations to qualify for PPP loans, but through lobbying the Catholic Church convinced the Trump administration to grant them an exemption from this rule last year.
Northeastern University law professor Peter Enrich said he sees no legal issue in providing PPP aid to non-taxable entities like churches, since the program was designed to maintain wages and the money ends up in the hands of workers. However, he said there would be a legal issue if the government had denied churches loans because of their religious affiliations.
āTo launch an aid program but then say āweāre not going to do that for any religious entityā would raise very serious concerns about the federal Constitutionās free exercise of religion clause,ā he said. āThe government canāt discriminate against entities just because they are religious entities.ā
'Important considerations to why some' secular organization should not have received aid
American Atheists Massachusetts State Director Zachary Bos said the secular organization does not object to religious institutions receiving PPP funding when needed to support their employees, but that there are important considerations to why some of them should not have received aid.
Bos said the churchās non-taxable status is conditional to their abstinence from political influence and lobbying, but that the church often sways political candidates and policy.
āThe issue is some of these religious organizations exist solely because of their refusal to follow the rules,ā Bos said. āIf they wanted to continue with political advocacy, that would be fine. They just have to pay to play like every other organization has to do. Iām not sure why PPP funds should be subsidizing a tax cheat.ā
Bos also said churches with valuable assets were not in as much need as small businesses that had no other way of staying open than to secure PPP loans, and that some of the churches in financial trouble were in that position because of past coverups of child sexual abuse.
āItās especially morally problematic that Catholic dioceses in many places, including Boston, were paying huge settlements and penalties for child sexual abuse,ā Bos said. āThat money is going out the door and their coffers are being refilled by taxpayer dollars. I donāt see the economic justification for supporting morally abusive businesses.ā
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/2021/05/10/massachusetts-churches-paycheck-protection-program-roman-catholic-dioceses-worcester/4987932001/
Other Massachusetts nonprofits received PPP loans including $64M to universities; $175M to other education institutions
Many other Massachusetts nonprofits also received PPP loans, including universities, which amassed over $64 million according to the SBA data. Nonprofit preschools, together with primary and secondary education institutions, received over $175 million in PPP loans. These included schools with religious affiliations.
Religious organizations of other denominations ā including synagogues, seminaries and temples ā received around $14 million through the program.
Nicolas Duquette is an economist specializing in nonprofit taxation and spending policy at the University of Southern Californiaās Sol Price School of Public Policy. He said churches have some differences from other nonprofits, but they do depend on hired workers and have costs like others do.
āA church differs from, say, a research university in that a lot more of its resources will come from donations or from people volunteering their efforts for service,ā Duquette said. āBut there are also many programs that run behind the scenes ā soup kitchens, support groups, counseling, daycare centers ā that do require paid staff and incur costs.ā
Duquette said churches are in fact non-taxable entities, but that it is important to highlight that their payroll is still subject to income taxes, just like wages in for-profit businesses.
āFor-profits donāt pay taxes on the money they pay their employees either. They only pay taxes on profits left over after they pay their payroll,ā he said. āFor purposes of economic policy, we really shouldnāt care if people have a religious or secular job, a business or nonprofit job, if the goal of the program is to keep people employed and able to pay their bills.ā
Duquette said that the ambiguity of spending activities in churches is an important factor in some peopleās skepticism of their use of donations and financial resources.
āChurches come in all shapes and sizes, and we know less about them than we do about other types of charities and nonprofits because they are not required to disclose their finances in the way that any other secular charity, with only a few exceptions, must,ā Duquette said.
āPart of the reason why I think some people are concerned with what the church is up to is that we know so little about their activities, so skepticism has no way to check itself.ā
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/2021/05/10/massachusetts-churches-paycheck-protection-program-roman-catholic-dioceses-worcester/4987932001/
Biden delayed his call with Israeli leadership and restarted funding to the Palestinian Authority through the UN ā both signal to Hamas & terrorists in the West Bank that America places less value on our relationship with Israel. It matters who leads.
https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1392458415570620421
ICE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/ice-nominee-worked-with-blm-to-push-false-claim-that-white-man-murdered-7-year-old-black-girl/?
The Texas sheriff nominated to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement pushed a false claim that a white man murdered a seven-year-old black girl from Houston, even after receiving a tip that the actual killers were black.
Ed Gonzalez, the Harris County sheriff and the Biden administration's choice for ICE director, worked closely with Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King to identify Jazmine Barnes's killer. Gonzalez amplified the family's claim that the gunman was white even after he received a tip that Barnes's killers were black. An attorney for the man King falsely identified as the shooter said King's allegation might have contributed to his client's suicide.
Morning Anon's:
A dirty DEMONCRATIC WETBACK cop.
Thank GOD B2 bomber put back hangings into the scope of operations.
This asshole needs to be hanged.
@disclosetv
JUST IN - Liz Cheney has been ousted from her GOP leadership post by House Republicans.
8:22 AM Ā· May 12, 2021Ā·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1392470358641582083
Liz Cheney has Trump in kill box
Liz Cheney after the vote: "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president [Trump] never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office."
mornin G
If a politician raises $1, under H.R. 1, taxpayers have to pay the politician another $6 (for small contributions).
Taxpayers would owe Bernie Sanders ~$500 million+ for his 2020 campaign.
No wonder Democrats don't want to talk about the substance of this bill: it's toxic.
https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1392115998199799808
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Judge orders IRS to reveal if it criminally investigated Clinton Foundation, citing records āgapā | Just The News
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1392454533717102592
More recently, reports have emerged that Special Counsel John Durham is investigating whether an FBI effort to investigate the Clinton charity was wrongly thwarted by politics.
In his latest ruling, Gustafson suggested that the IRS whistleblower office was withholding important information for the case.
"There are facts and information, uniquely within the knowledge of the Whistleblower Office that need to be considered in connection with the resolution of the petitioner's claim,ā he wrote.
drip drip drip FLOOOOOOD
Full story here
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/w-judge-orders-irs-reveal-if-it-criminally-investigated-clinton
Senators Introduce Bill Forcing Colleges to Disclose Financial Ties With Beijing
Lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would force American colleges to disclose their financial ties with the Chinese regime, including its Confucius Institutes, in order to qualify to receive international students.
The bill, put forward by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would make such disclosure a condition to a universityās eligibility to be part of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which provides approval for schools to enroll students holding non-immigrant visas.
āThe centerpiece of this bill is disclosure and transparency,ā Grassley said on the Senate floor on May 10. āIf the schools want visas for their foreign students, theyāll first have to disclose their ties to the Chinese government.ā
The bill comes amid heightened scrutiny on the Chinese regimeās influence on American campuses. A 2020 investigation by the Department of Education found that universities received almost $1.5 billion in contracts and gifts from China from 2014 to 2020.
āThe communist regime poses a serious threat to U.S. research as well as undue influence on our college campuses,ā Grassley said in a May 5 statement.
One of the vehicles of Beijingās influence is Confucius Institutes. Billed as Chinese language and culture centers, the institutes have been sharply criticized for promoting Beijingās propaganda and suppressing academic freedom in universities across the country.
From 2006 to 2019, the Chinese regime poured more than $158 million to about 100 U.S. universities through Confucius Institutes, according to a 2019 U.S. Senate subcommittee on investigations report (pdf). There are currently 47 Confucius Institutes in the country, according to the National Association of Scholars (NAS).
āThis legislation will shine a light on any funny business that the Chinese government is trying to play on our campuses under the guise of Confucius Institutes and any financial ties between our educational institutions and the communist regime,ā Grassley said in the statement.
The proposed legislation would effectively codify a Trump-era policy proposal that was automatically rescinded when President Joe Biden took office because the proposed rule not been formalized through regulatory processes before the end of former President Donald Trumpās term.
Last year, the Trump administration designated the Washington-based Confucius Institute U.S. Center as a foreign mission. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time that the measure was a recognition of the centerās role in āadvancing Beijingās global propaganda and malign influence campaign on U.S. campuses.ā
The Senate in March passed a bill that would force host universities to take full control of Confucius Institutes or lose their federal funding.
In the past few years, dozens of Confucius Institutes have closed down around the country. But in their place, many universities have simply entered into new rebranded partnerships with the Chinese regime under a different name, according to the NAS.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/senators-introduce-bill-to-force-colleges-to-disclose-financial-ties-with-beijing_3812225.html?v=ul
One pipeline hacked, one shut down for "EPA violations", another pipeline shut down by the governor of Michigan for no apparent reason, and now Biden says they "haven't ruled out additional pipeline closures"
Notables so far
>>52782 You will drive nowhere and be happy
>>52779 Senators Introduce Bill Forcing Colleges to Disclose Financial Ties With Beijing
>>52778 Judge orders IRS to reveal if it criminally investigated Clinton Foundation
>>52777 Insurance Brokers Sell Assets to Win Approval for $35 Billion Merger
>>52775 Japan to restart nuclear reactor beyond 40-year limit in June
>>52768 U.S. consumer prices post biggest gain in nearly 12 years as inflation pressures build
>>52767, >>52769 Liz Cheney has been ousted from her GOP leadership post by House Republicans.
>>52766 CE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl
>>52765 Biden delayed his call with Israeli leadership and restarted funding to the Palestinian Authority through the UN
>>52763, >>52764 Mass. churches amassed over $82M in small business PPP loans; Roman Catholic dioceses alone collected over $20M
>>52761, >>52762 STUNNING TESTIMONY:AZ Elections Witness, Jan Bryant, Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite
>>52760 Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials
>>52759 @US_Stratcom A historic milestone for the submarine community
>>52757, >>52758 Stage is being set for new election
>>52756 The Spirit of America
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MEET BERNHARD STEMPFLE - CATHOLIC JESUIT PRIEST WHO WROTE AND EDITED PARTS OF MEIN KAMPF - HITLERS EARLY HANDLER
āBernhard Stempfle (1882 in Munich ā 1 July 1934) was a Roman Catholic priest and journalist.
He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf.[1]
He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives.ā
āMultiple authors and eyewitnesses, such as Konrad Heiden[4] and Nazi "apostate" Otto Strasser, report that
not only did Stempfle correct the galley proofs of Mein Kampf, but that he indeed copy-edited certain passages.
Historian and Hitler biographer Alan Bullock likewise discusses this.[5]ā
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Stempfle
Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show Next Year After 19 Seasons
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ellen-degeneres-to-end-talk-show-next-year-after-19-seasons/ar-BB1gEnTT?ocid=msedgdhp
Breaking News
Moments ago, Representative Anon from Kek's 17th Congressional District, nominates Marjorie Taylor Greene for the position of Conference Chair
Story still developing..........
Baker has to run across town and drop off papers, back ASAP