Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 1:37 p.m. No.10067003   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7148

List of Hollywood, political and British royalty names connected to Pedogate

 

In 2018, The Washington Pundit published a list of (big) names connected to Pedogate.

 

Although the Washington Pundit post has since been deleted, State of the Nation republished the list on August 2, 2018.

 

Below is the original Washington Pundit post, which consists of a simple list of names with no description or comment after the names. I added brief comments for three names (Stephen Collins, Charles Windsor, Peter Soros), and embedded links to relevant FOTM posts on some of the names.

 

The names in this list are tied to the PedoGate scandal in various ways. Some through public advertising of known pedophile symbols, some are convicted pedophiles, some have been photographed attending cultist rituals that revolve around pedophilia and/or cannibalism, such as Spirit Cooking and Bohemian Grove. We will be writing articles on each name and providing information and evidence to support our claims. This will be a long process due to the length of the list and the amount of research and writing it takes for each name. We will be updating this list regularly and will be posting articles within our ‘PedoGate’ category on our site as each individual’s articles are completed.

 

Note from Dr. Eowyn: It appears Washington Pundit either did not write articles on those named in the list or has taken down those posts because I searched for “pedogate” on the site and got the message: “Nothing Found”.

Hollywood Names:

 

Seth Green

James Gunn

Dan Scheinder

Steven Spielberg

Tom Hanks X

Steven Colbert

Jimmy Kimmel

Ashton Kutcher

Kevin Spacey

Kathy Griffin

Oprah Winfrey

Shawn Carter

Beyonce Knowles

Anthony Kiedis

John Legend

Chrissy Teigen

Jim Carrey

Steven Tyler

Ben Affleck

Stephen Collins: “In 2014, Collins admitted to sexually abusing three underage girls between 1973 and 1994.” (Wikipedia)

Will Ferrell

Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam (Akon)

Marshall Matthers III, aka Eminem

Jeffrey Jones

Victor Salva

Marc Collins Rector

Charlie Sheen

Tyler Grasham

Madonna Ciccone

Katheryn Hudson

Gwen Stefani

Stefani Germanotta

James Franco

Will Smith

Justin Roiland

John Cusack

Demi Moore

Brian Affleck

Meryl Streep

Wanda Sykes

Chelsea Handler

Michelle Wolf

David Yarovesky

Pharrell Williams

Quentin Tarantino

Robert Downey Jr

Courtney Love

Alec Baldwin

 

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/list-of-hollywood-political-and-british-royalty-names-connected-to-pedogate

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 1:38 p.m. No.10067009   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7066

The Media Is Ignoring a Huge Hole in the 'Trump Cheated on His SATs' Allegation

 

Since the release of Mary Trump’s tell-all “memoir,” a whole slew of allegations has been repeated unquestionably by the media and on social media. One such allegation is that Trump paid a proxy to take the SAT exam for him, helping him earn admission into the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School.

 

The media has reported widely on the allegation.

 

Mary Trump identified the proxy as Joe Shapiro in her book. “To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker to take his SATs for him,” she explained in her book. “That was much easier to pull on in the days before photo IDs and computerized records. Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.”

 

The problem is the widow of Joe Shapiro, Pam Shriver, says it’s impossible.

 

“My late husband Joe Shapiro passed away 21 years ago. He was a man of great integrity, honesty; he was a hard worker. He was literally the smartest person I ever met. He went to University of Pennsyvlania, member of the class of 1968. It was while he was at University of Pennsylvania where he met Donald Trump. They became friends; they loved the sport of golf. They shared the same hometown of New York City; they shared the same campus. They stayed in a little bit of touch through the years,” she explained. “But obviously Joe’s not here to defend himself and say what happened, but I just want to recollect what he told me about where he met Mr. Trump. And I want to thank all of Joe’s close friends and his sister Beth for our talks in the past 24 hours about what an upstanding, outstanding man Joe Shapiro was.”

 

Mary Trump tried to defend her bogus claim during her interview with George Stephanopoulos by claiming it was some other Joe Shapiro.

 

“You do have one potentially explosive allegation in the book. At least one. And you write that– when the president was trying to transfer from Fordham to Penn, he had someone else, a man named Joe Shapiro, take his SATs?” Stephanopoulos asked.

 

“Yes,” Mary Trump replied.

 

“This was 1964. How do you know that?”

 

“I’ve been told this by people in my family,” she explained. “I am absolutely confident that it’s true. I’m happy to finally be able to speak about it. I also know that it was not the Joe Shapiro people have been focusing on, who just happened to be at UPenn when Donald was and who happened to be born in New York along, I’m guessing, with many, many, many other Joe Shapiros at around that time. But I stand by it, absolutely.”

 

But, according to Raw Story, the Joe Shapiro who allegedly took Trump’s SATs for him, was, in fact, the Joe Shapiro who died 21 years ago, and whom Trump didn’t meet until after he started at UPenn. Other outlets have similarly profiled the late Joe Shapiro as the subject of Mary Trump’s allegation. It’s been over two weeks since Joe Shapiro’s widow debunked Mary Trump’s most explosive claim, yet no other Joe Shapiro has come forward nor has another otherwise been identified.

 

Mary Trump nevertheless insists her claim is true, even though she can’t prove it. Mary herself doesn’t even know if the “real” Joe Shapiro is even alive.

 

Despite the obvious falsity of this allegation, many still repeat it as if it were true. For the media, when it comes to Trump, or frankly, any Republican, it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters above anything else, not the veracity, that merits wall-to-wall coverage.

 

If journalism today had standards, this allegation would have never gotten the attention it did because it fell apart so quickly. If publishing had any standards, Mary’s book would have never seen the light of day.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/07/24/the-media-is-ignoring-a-huge-hole-in-the-trump-cheated-on-his-sats-allegation-n684255

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 1:39 p.m. No.10067017   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7076

Medical experts urge political leaders to shut the country down and start over on COVID-19 response

 

Bad idea

 

A group of medical experts believes state and national leaders should take the country back into lockdown and start from square one in trying to contain COVID-19, CNN reported.

 

Some states are just now starting to return to some level of normal activity, but as the total number of cases increase, some experts believe that's a sign that more lockdowns are needed, including the widespread closure of businesses that decimated the economy from March through May.

 

"Non-essential businesses should be closed. Restaurant service should be limited to take-out. People should stay home, going out only to get food and medicine or to exercise and get fresh air," the letter states. "Masks should be mandatory in all situations, indoors and outdoors, where we interact with others. We need that protocol in place until case numbers recede to a level at which we have the capacity to effectively test and trace. Then, and only then, we can try a little more opening, one small step at a time."

 

The letter accuses politicians of not making good use of the time during the first lockdowns by increasing testing capacity and contact tracing capability to higher levels, even though U.S. testing has increased significantly over the past few months, and the U.S. is fourth in the world in per capita testing.

 

"In March, people went home and stayed there for weeks, to keep themselves and their neighbors safe," the letter reads. "You didn't use the time to set us up to defeat the virus. And then you started to reopen anyway, and too quickly."

 

The letter calls for the U.S. to have the testing capacity to test every person with flu-like symptoms, as well as at least 10 people for every symptomatic person to account for those they may have been in close contact with before reopening. The letter claims the U.S. is only at 35% of that capacity right now, citing a New York Times analysis.

 

They also want hundreds of thousands more contact tracers to track the spread of the virus.

 

The medical experts who have signed the letter include University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, William Hanage with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Northwestern University's Dr. Seth Trueger, and Yale School of Medicine's Dr. Reshma Ramachandran.

 

Following this proposal could lead to weeks or months more of lockdown, and it is unclear how the economy could withstand that level of inactivity. Also, there is evidence that lockdowns are not the answer to controlling COVID-19, as states like California that had extremely strict lockdowns are still seeing spikes in case numbers now.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/medical-experts-shut-country-down

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 1:39 p.m. No.10067019   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7263 >>7468 >>7567 >>7587 >>7681

DOJ: 18 Protesters Arrested in Portland, Facing Federal Charges

 

Eighteen people have been arrested and face federal charges in connection to ongoing riots in the Democrat-controlled city of Portland, Oregon, the Department of Justice announced Friday afternoon.

 

The arrests, which began on Monday, stemmed from rioters’ alleged roles in attacking Portland’s federal courthouse.

 

“U.S. Marshals Service deputies and officers from the Federal Protective Service, Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection working to protect the courthouse have been subjected to nightly threats and assaults from demonstrators while performing their duties,” U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said in a statement.

 

The following individuals were arrested in Portland (via KGW8):

 

July 20-21

 

Jennifer Kristiansen, 37, is charged with assaulting a federal officer.

Zachary Duffly, 45, is charged with creating a disturbance.

Wyatt Ash-Milby, 18, is charged with trespassing on federal property.

Caleb Ehlers, 23, and Paul Furst, 22, are charged with failing to comply with a lawful order.

 

July 21-22

 

Jerusalem Callahan, 24, is charged with willfully damaging government property.

Joseph Ybarra, 21, is charged with arson.

Marnie Sager, 27, and Ella Miller, 26, are charged failing to comply with a lawful order.

Taylor Lemons, 31; Giovanni Bondurant, 19; and Gabriel Houston, 22, are charged with assaulting federal officers.

 

July 22-23

 

Joseph Lagalo, 37; Baily Dreibelbis, 22; Nicholas Kloiber, 26; David Hazan, 24; Hailey Holden, 30; and Cameron Knuetson, age unknown, are charged with failing to comply with a lawful order.

 

All 18 defendants made their first appearances in federal court and were ordered released pending jury trials or other court proceedings, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

 

Protesters descended on downtown Portland in late May to demonstrate against the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.

 

The DOJ’s announcement comes after rioters in Portland barricaded federal law enforcement agents inside the courthouse as they attempted to light the building on fire.

 

“Around midnight rioters attempted to set the courthouse on fire, as they have done numerous times before. They also threw smoke bombs into the flames causing the interior of the courthouse to fill with smoke,” a Department of Homeland Security official wrote in an email obtained by the Washington Examiner. “In response, a team of federal officers was forced to leave the building, taking one individual into custody. When they did, a rioter threw a bag filled with hard objects at officers.”

 

On Wednesday night, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) joined protesters and garnered booes and was hit with tear gas by federal officers. Wheeler, flanked by the police commissioner, said he would attend the protest in solidarity against federal law enforcement. “The reason I am here tonight is to stand with you,” the mayor said, as quoted by The Oregonian. “If they’re launching the tear gas against you, they’re launching the tear gas against me.” While addressing protesters, Wheeler decried President Trump’s crackdown on rioters an “egregious overreaction” and accused him of engaging in “urban warfare.”

 

This week, Wheeler joined the mayors of Atlanta, Chicago, D.C., Seattle, and Kansas City in demanding the Trump administration to remove federal officers directed to fight surging crime. The Portland mayor accused the president of “attacking progressive cities with a classic ‘divide and conquer’ tactics.”

 

On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he would expand the Justice Department program known as Operation Legend to Chicago as the Democrat-controlled city suffers from a crime wave.

 

Wednesday’s announcement comes after more than a dozen people were injured in a shooting at a funeral in Chicago on Tuesday night.

 

Trump on Wednesday said he had “no choice but to get involved” by sending federal officers to the cities.

 

“This bloodshed must end,” he said. “This bloodshed will end.”

 

On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted that she would push back against efforts to send federal officers to the city.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/24/doj-18-protesters-arrested-in-portland-facing-federal-charges/

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 1:40 p.m. No.10067021   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7263 >>7468 >>7567 >>7681

Nolte: Draft DNC Platform Declares White Americans Too Rich, Too Privileged, and Too Evil

 

 

The Democrat National Committee draft platform for its 2020 convention mentions “whites” a total of 15 times, each of them within a “damning” context — a detail first noticed by the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard.

 

“In more than 80 pages in the draft platform published by Politico, whites are mentioned 15 times, all critical, including three references to white supremacy or supremacists and one to white nationalists,” Bedard writes.

 

He adds, “In most mentions, the reference is to how whites are better off at the expense of others. And the promise often is to ‘close the gap’ between minorities and whites, though no solutions are offered.”

 

If this is a legitimate draft, the fact that it’s a merely a draft means nothing. It still reveals how ugly the Democrat Party has become and how ugly and divisive the future will be, should this approach to national politics ever prevail.

 

Bedard includes each of the 15 times whites are mentioned in the draft platform, a platform Joe Biden will certainly embrace when he accepts the presidential nomination later this year. Included in the 15 is an attack on the American military as racist and the not-subtle libel that white prosperity is hurting other racial minorities.

 

The extreme gap in household wealth and income between people of color — especially Black Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans — and white families is hurting our working class and holding our country back.

 

And, as we have seen throughout the country over the last two months, and in pretty much every Democrat-run city in America, libels like this are intended to justify and encourage the Democrat Party’s Brownshirts — in the form of the terrorist groups Black Lives Matter and Antifa — to rampage, riot, loot, burn, and desecrate our history.

 

This draft platform is nothing less than monstrous — monstrously un-American and dangerous.

 

While every decent America finds white supremacism repulsive and is also fully aware that supremacism is nothing close to a widespread or “systemic” problem, what you have here is the Democrat Party furthering the dangerous and divisive conspiracy theory that white supremacists are everywhere, that whites are to blame for everyone else’s problems, that white prosperity and greed eat up America’s wealth (because wealth is a zero-sum game).

 

Nowhere, obviously, are there any calls for racial reconciliation between blacks and whites, nowhere is there even a call for black Americans to look beyond the past and towards the future, or to forgive a past that has nothing to do with any living white person today.

 

You know, a relationship cannot heal – not between husband and wife and not between black and white – if both sides are not working towards healing, if one party is constantly and relentlessly nursing a grudge, if that party simply refuses to move on, forgive, let the matter drop, stop picking the scab, and move forward.

 

If the injured spouse is constantly throwing an act of adultery in the other spouse’s face, the marriage is doomed.

 

This is even more true if one race refuses to forgive another race over the sins of the past, the sins of their forefathers, sins that reach back decades and even centuries. How is there supposed to be racial reconciliation if one race continues to pick at that scab, continues to hold a grudge against people who had nothing to do with the sins of the past?

 

Well, there can be no reconciliation, and that, of course, is what Democrats are up to here.

 

As we have seen in pretty much every Democrat-run city in America, cities plagued by failure, by massive income inequality, by poverty, terrible schools, poorly-trained police, and racial strife, Democrat ideas and the Party’s agenda are a proven failure. In one city after another, Democrats hold total power. There is no Republican opposition in a countless number of these cities, which gives Democrats carte blanche to institute their ideas and policies unopposed… And they have failed, failed miserably. So…

 

All Democrats (and their propagandists in the corporate media) have left is the un-American poison of identity politics, which means they have to keep us divided, keep us at each other’s throats, and even go so far as to declare Rev. Martin Luther King’s vision of a colorblind society “racist.”

 

And this is why the first draft of Joe Biden’s platform, the first swing at the pitch, which is always the most honest, lies and smears and divides and pits American against American.

 

This election is for all the marbles, folks. If this toxicity succeeds in 2020, that will be our future. If this hate, this total repudiation of e pluribus unum wins the day, that will be our future.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/24/nolte-draft-dnc-platform-declares-white-americans-too-rich-too-privileged-and-too-evil/

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 1:54 p.m. No.10067108   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7215

Israeli Helicopters Attack Targets in Southern Syria, IDF Says

 

According to the Israeli army, several rocket projectiles hit a ceasefire line in the disputed Golan Heights from the Syrian side earlier in the day.

 

Israeli helicopters have attacked Syrian Army targets in southern Syria, in retaliation to munitions fired towards Golan Heights, the Israeli Defence Forces said.

 

Earlier in the day, the IDF announced that Israel's armed forces are further stepping up security measures on the northern border on the heels of an escalation that was unfolding on the frontier with Lebanon and Syria the past few days.

 

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007241079978377-israeli-helicopters-attack-targets-in-southern-syria-idf-says/

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 2:08 p.m. No.10067236   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Wayne Dupree: US mayors show they’re on board with the destruction of their cities. This makes them accomplices of insurgency

 

When Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler went out to protesters and, despite getting verbal abuse and calls to resign, sided with them against the president, he became complicit in the destruction of the city he had been entrusted with.

 

Last week, Ted Wheeler said: “President Trump has used our city as a staging ground to further his political agenda, igniting his base to cause further divisiveness. Mr. President, federal agencies should never be used as your own personal army.”

 

That was from an afternoon press conference last Friday. A couple of nights ago, he decided to walk among the anarchists to have a chance to speak to them, and guess what? The atmosphere that he and his progressive cohorts have created smacked them right back in the face. They didn’t accept him or his rhetoric of peace, because these Constitution haters are not about bringing the country together but about bringing it down.

 

Don’t get it twisted; the Mayor was part of a riot, not a protest. This is quite evident in the videos. Anyone remaining on the scene when violence is happening is complicit in this matter, especially after 50 days of attacks upon a federal building.

 

Let’s not forget that it was Wheeler who let the federal building in Portland be vandalized. It was he who refused President Trump’s offer to help quell the rioting. Instead of working to diffuse these anarchists, Wheeler tells the federal employees to leave and clean up the graffiti.

 

Are we now supposed to feel sorry for Wheeler getting gassed? Allowing these crimes to happen makes him an accomplice in this insurrection and treason. And so is the Portland City Council, which adopted new policies on Wednesday banning all local police bureau members from working with federal law enforcement and prevents them from intentionally arresting or using force on journalists and legal observers.

 

The worst thing you can do is repeat some of the nation’s mistakes by not having law enforcement agencies in tune with what is happening in real-time. The Portland Police should protest themselves, have their march, and threaten to walk off the job if this is the case. Support peaceful resolutions, do not support criminal conduct.

 

I think it’s fair to say that the president isn’t causing these riots; these Marxist mayors and governors are letting it happen while the commander-in-chief sends in forces to quell the insurrection as he has every right and power to do.

 

Every time I watch these videos, it makes me wonder. How does burning buildings, looting businesses and flat out killing people in some cases, further your cause? Racism? These protesters are literally defining and further cementing old stereotypes from years past. Who’s running this show? What’s their end game? If you want the absolute majority of Americans who AREN’T rioting to hate you and whatever the heck your cause is, then just carry on.

 

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/495787-portland-mayor-blm-trump/

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 2:15 p.m. No.10067293   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israel Demolishes Covid-19 Clinic in Epicenter of West Bank Outbreak

 

Palestinians living near the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the occupied West Bank are without a badly-needed testing and quarantine center following the Israeli government’s demolition of a building that was meant to give relief to overwhelmed hospitals.

 

The Israeli Civil Administration demolished the building, being constructed on land belonging to Palestinian Hebron resident Hazem Maswada, on Tuesday, claiming the structure was being erected illegally without a permit. The building was set to open to the public next week.

 

The demolition came as Hebron recorded the most coronavirus cases in the West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Wednesday that there were 154 new cases in Hebron district the day the building was destroyed, including 60 in the city itself.

 

Hospitals in Hebron are filled to capacity, the Middle East Eye reported Tuesday.

 

“The cruelty of the occupation knows no bounds,” tweeted Palestinian rights advocacy group If Not Now.

 

The Israeli government demolished a Palestinian coronavirus testing center for the crime of… not having a permit.

 

The cruelty of the occupation knows no bounds and it's on all of us to materially oppose it.https://t.co/oK41vTOykL

 

— IfNotNow? (@IfNotNowOrg) July 21, 2020

 

According to Haaretz, the Palestinian Health Ministry was involved in the decision to build the coronavirus center, and Maswada donated his land to the city of Hebron temporarily to help the community during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

The Maswada family told the Middle East Eye that the project cost them about $250,000 and that they built the center in memory of their grandfather, who died of Covid-19.

 

Construction began three months ago, and the family did not apply for a permit from the Israeli government; Israel controls the area in which Hebron lies, known as Area C, where Palestinians are rarely granted building permits.

 

“If we applied for a permit, we would not have gotten it,” Maswada told the Middle East Eye. “We thought maybe during Covid-19, there would be some exceptions.”

 

Maswada told the Civil Administration that the building was to be used for testing and quarantine measures after officials issued a demolition order on July 12, but to no avail.

 

The administration used an order reserved for new construction, which can be carried out within 96 hours, making appeals nearly impossible.

 

Israel’s assault on Palestinians’ ability to fight the pandemic is “nothing new,” tweeted Daniel Lubin, an organizer with the British anti-occupation group Na’amod.

 

In March, the Civil Administration confiscated tents that were meant to form a field clinic and emergency housing in the West Bank during the pandemic.

 

“There is no humanity in destroying grassroots attempts to support an already deprived health system suffocated by occupation,” tweeted Lubin.

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/24/israel-demolishes-covid-19-clinic-in-epicenter-of-west-bank-outbreak/

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 2:17 p.m. No.10067311   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7567 >>7681

37 Senate Dems Join GOP to Approve $740 Billion War Budget

 

Progressives reacted with disgust at the misplaced priorities made evident by the Senate’s approval of the Pentagon budget and the GOP’s proposal on Covid-19 relief.

 

Hours after the Republican Party released a coronavirus relief proposal including $0 for election assistance funding and no additional funding for cities and states as the country continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday, allocating $740.5 billion to the Pentagon.

 

The annual military budget bill was passed with a vote of 86-14, with 37 Democrats joining the Republicans in supporting the proposal. View the full roll call here.

 

Progressives including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA),and Ed Markey (D-MA) voted against the bill.

 

The bill was passed a day after an amendment proposed by Sanders and Markey to cut the Pentagon’s budget by 10 percent and redirect that funding toward significant investments in education, healthcare, and housing in poor communities — was rejected in the Senate, with a majority of Democrats siding with the GOP.

 

Democrats in the House also overwhelmingly joined Republicans to block a similar amendment put forward by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Mark Pocan (D-WI).

 

The Senate bill includes $636.4 billion for the Pentagon’s base budget, $25.9 billion for national security programs within the Department of Energy, and $69 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

 

President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the bill — on the grounds that it includes an amendment, introduced by Warren, to rename military bases which memorialize Confederate figures — but the budget was passed with more than two-thirds of the Senate’s support, a veto-proof majority.

 

The House and Senate are now expected to reconcile their two versions of the NDAA; the House bill includes a 3 percent pay raise for troops and $3.6 billion to combat China.

 

Earlier on Thursday, the GOP released its proposal for the next coronavirus relief bill, stipulating that the party would not approve the continuation of the full $600 boost in unemployment insurance, included in the CARES Act in March, which helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in the first months of the pandemic.

 

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who joined other progressives in the House in voting against the NDAA, reacted with disgust at the misplaced priorities made evident by the Pentagon budget’s Senate approval and the GOP’s proposal on Covid-19 relief.

 

I don't want to hear anyone tell me that we can't afford to expand enhanced unemployment benefits when we spend more on endless wars than the next ten countries combined.

 

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) July 23, 2020

 

Paul Kawika Martin, senior director and policy and political affairs at Peace Action, called on Democrats who continuously support hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending to “take note that voters want government spending to put ‘people over Pentagon.'”

 

The Senate just passed the overfunded Pentagon (#NDAA) with 14 voting no. Nearly 50% of the Democrat Sens. and 40% of Reps. voted to cut 10% to help communites in need. Democratic leaders should take note that voters want government spending to put #PeopleOverPentagon. pic.twitter.com/Yc8aBxjIJJ

 

— Paul Kawika Martin (he/him/his) #GlobalCeaseFire (@PaulKawika) July 23, 2020

 

“We should prioritize eradicating poverty, not war,” wrote Markey on Wednesday, after the amendment he introduced failed in the Senate. “We should prioritize battling global-killer diseases, not developing new weapons designed to eradicate the human race. It is time we fund education, not annihilation. Medicaid, not missiles.”

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/24/37-senate-dems-join-gop-to-approve-740-billion-war-budget/

Anonymous ID: c67699 July 24, 2020, 2:19 p.m. No.10067337   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7399 >>7539 >>7567 >>7616 >>7681

Trump Signs Executive Orders Lowering Drug Prices, Says Effect Will Be 'Massive'

 

President Trump says his actions will mean a "massive" reduction in drug prices, especially for seniors

One of the orders allows for importation and reimportation of drugs that sell for much lower prices in foreign countries

The National Association of Manufacturers already has introduced an ad campaign critical of Trump's plan

 

President Trump on Friday signed four executive orders he said will dramatically reduce drug costs, requiring Medicare to pay no more than other countries and allowing states and pharmacies to buy drugs from foreign countries.

 

“Congress has been working on this for decades and decades. We are now doing something that will be incredible for the American public,” Trump said, describing his action as “bold.”

 

Trump acknowledged it can cost billions of dollars and 15 years to get new drugs to market.

 

“We pay for all the research and all the development in foreign countries, and our people get charged more,” he said.

 

Trump decried restrictions that have prevented the U.S. government from negotiating drug prices. He said Americans often pay 90% more for the same drugs “from the same factories” as people in other countries.

 

Trump said his orders will restructure drug markets.

 

Trump said middlemen have been bilking Medicare, building personal fortunes by not passing on discounts as high as 50% when selling to pharmacies.

 

The first executive order requires community health clinics to pass on drug discounts for insulin and Epi pens to patients, the second allows importation of drugs from foreign countries, and the third cuts middleman profits.

 

The fourth order, dealing with favored nation pricing, will not be implemented until Aug. 24 at noon to give pharmaceutical companies time to come up with a pricing solution.

 

Trump said his action will lead to a “massive” reduction in drug costs while restoring the principles of free enterprise. He said the current system has meant American citizens were subsidizing drug costs in socialist countries.

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-signs-executive-orders-lowering-drug-prices-says-effect-will-be-massive-3016913