Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:24 a.m. No.12821789   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

'Beijing Biden Is Not My President:' Troops' Social Media Posts in Spotlight After Capitol Riots

 

Airman 1st Class Sean Brinson wanted his peers to know that he didn't consider President Joe Biden a legitimate commander in chief.

 

In a post on the popular Facebook group Amn/NCO/SNCO Jan. 12, Brinson pledged to "continue to say 'Beijing Biden is not my president' for 4 years."

 

"End of god damned story," wrote Brinson, identified as being assigned to the 691st Cyberspace Operations Squadron, part of Air Combat Command located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. "A letter from JCIS [sic] does not negate the events that stain this election, or answer glaring questions about selective application of law, something that IS constitutionally, ethically, morally, and LEGALLY deplorable."

 

Brinson has since deleted the post from the group's page.

 

The Joint Chiefs of Staff had made clear the military's position on the matter, condemning a pro-Trump mob's violent assault on the U.S. Capitol ahead of the inauguration and reminding troops that Biden would be their next commander in chief.

 

"The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process," the general and flag officers wrote.

 

Across social media, however, some U.S. service members have defiantly posted in support of former President Donald Trump, condemned Biden and spread political conspiracy theories. While the military has worked to discipline those whose public posts violate political speech rules and reminded troops to think before they share, some say recent events have exposed gaps in the services' social media policies and warn that order and discipline could suffer if they aren't addressed.

A Call for Investigation

 

Social media posts by military members and veterans have been in the spotlight since the Capitol assault – an event that has led to the arrests of more than 150 people, four of whom currently serve in the Army or National Guard and 17 of whom are veterans.

 

Much of the organization for the protest that preceded the Capitol attack occurred on social media, as did the underground plot to break into the building and possibly target lawmakers.

 

Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who serves as chairwoman of the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, is calling for the Pentagon to thoroughly investigate military recruits through their social media pages.

 

She wrote Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to direct the services to establish procedures to review the social media activity of incoming recruits, supplemented by guidance "to assist recruiters in identifying extremist groups and activities."

 

"Social media is not reviewed during the military's accessions process or even as part of the background investigation process for security clearances, despite collection and reporting of other intrusive, private data, such as financial and behavioral health information," Speier wrote. "This gap is inexcusable."

 

But the Defense Department walks a thin line between squashing service members’ First Amendment rights, discipline and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday.

 

"There aren't necessarily uniform understandings across the services about how to look at social media, whether and to what degree, and there's First Amendment issues here. There's real First Amendment concerns that we have to look at," Kirby said.

 

Service members across the ranks have gotten attention for social media posts that violate military political speech rules and even call their personal loyalties into question.

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/02/04/beijing-biden-not-my-president-troops-social-media-posts-spotlight-after-capitol-riots.html

 

Privacy is dead, did DOD buy the data from FB/twat?

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:27 a.m. No.12821807   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1896 >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

About 730 deaths and 8 cases of spontaneous abortion recorded by EUDRA following Pfizer vaccination.

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/about-730-deaths-and-8-cases-of-spontaneous-abortion-recorded-by-eudra-following-pfizer-vaccination/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:28 a.m. No.12821820   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Biden Asia Czar’s Holdings May Present Conflict of Interest

 

Kurt Campbell owns part of a firm that gives advice to corporations doing business in Asia

 

President Joe Biden's Asia czar owns part of a "shadow lobbying firm" that gives strategic advice to corporations doing business in Asia, a position that ethics experts say could create conflicts of interest.

 

Kurt Campbell is the founder and former CEO of the Asia Group, a strategic consultancy firm based in Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong. He spent the past eight years running the group and is still listed as the owner of the Asia Group's investment bank arm, according to the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.

 

The Asia Group bills itself as the "premier strategic advisory firm to the world's leading companies seeking to excel across Asia" and provides businesses with strategic advice on government policy and business, including "advice to market leaders looking for investment opportunities in China's Belt & Road Initiative," a global infrastructure project by the Chinese government that has been deemed a security threat by U.S. officials.

 

Campbell's work for the firm could pose a conflict with his role as director of Asia policy at the National Security Council, where he is likely to encounter issues that overlap with his former clients' interests.

 

Jeff Hauser, the director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, described the Asia Group as a "shadow lobbying firm." He said such firms, which have become prevalent in Washington, provide lobbying-like services but use legal loopholes to get around laws that would otherwise require them to register and disclose their clients.

 

Campbell's appointment to the National Security Council position was "worrisome because Campbell has been spending the last few years advising multinational and non-American companies in how to get the best results in Washington and capitals across Asia," said Hauser.

 

"I think it's just kind of hard for him to do his job without there being a conflict," Hauser said. "I think [the White House is] sort of baking conflict in by hiring somebody who has had such a disparate number of clients."

 

One conflict could be Campbell's work in China, the country that poses the most pressing geopolitical concerns for Biden's new administration. The Asia Group, which doesn't disclose its clients, says on its website that it "represents a diverse client base in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, from leading Fortune 500 multinational corporations to cutting-edge early-stage companies" in the defense, tech, aviation, and medical industries in Asia.

 

Corporate records show Campbell founded the consulting firm in 2012, during his final months serving as an assistant secretary at the State Department. He spent the past eight years as CEO, stepping down on Jan. 14 after Biden appointed him.

 

Campbell still co-owns the Asia Group's bank arm, the Asia Group Capital Advisory Partners (TAG Capital), with a Shanghai tech tycoon with close ties to the Chinese government and numerous business interests under the jurisdiction of Chinese regulators.

 

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-asia-czars-holdings-may-present-conflict-of-interest/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:28 a.m. No.12821825   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1950 >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441 >>2451 >>2498

US Admiral Warns Nuclear War With Russia, China Is a ‘Real Possibility’

 

STRATCOM chief calls for a policy that views the use of nuclear weapons as a 'very real possibility'

 

The head of US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) warned that a nuclear war with Russia or China is a “real possibility” and is calling for a change in US policy that reflects this threat.

 

“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons, if they perceived a conventional loss would threaten the regime or state,” Vice Adm. Charles Richard wrote in the February edition of the US Naval Institute’s monthly magazine.

 

Richard said the US military must “shift its principal assumption from ‘nuclear employment is not possible’ to ‘nuclear employment is a very real possibility,’ and act to meet and deter that reality.”

 

The STRATCOM chief said Russia and China “have begun to aggressively challenge international norms and global peace using instruments of power and threats of force in ways not seen since the height of the Cold War.”

 

Richard hyped up Russia and China’s nuclear modernization, calling for the US to compete with the two nations. When it comes to China’s nuclear weapons, the US and Russia have vastly larger arsenals. Current estimates put Beijing’s nuclear arsenal at about 320 warheads, while Washington and Moscow have about 6,000 warheads each.

 

Even if Beijing doubles its arsenal over the next decade, as the China hawks are predicting, it will still be small compared to Washington’s. The US would have to eliminate a good amount of its arsenal to convince Beijing to participate in arms control agreements.

 

Since STRATCOM is the command post that oversees Washington’s nuclear arsenal, its commanders are always overplaying the risk of nuclear war and asking for more money to modernize the stockpile. But with the US prioritizing so-called “great power competition” with China and Russia and an increased US military presence in places like the South China Sea, the Arctic, and the Black Sea, the threat of nuclear war is rising.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/02/03/us-admiral-warns-nuclear-war-with-russia-china-is-a-real-possibility/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:30 a.m. No.12821839   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Biden to announce end to US support for offensive operations in Yemen

 

President Biden will announce an end to U.S. support for offensive operations in Yemen during an address at the State Department on Wednesday afternoon, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at a White House press briefing.

 

“That is a promise that he made in the campaign that he will be following through on, but he will go further than that,” Sullivan said while previewing Biden's speech. “He will talk about the United States playing a more active and engaged role in the diplomacy to bring an end to the conflict in Yemen, and that will include the naming of a special envoy.”

 

Sullivan did not say who the special envoy will be, but reports have identified the choice as veteran diplomat Timothy Lenderking.

 

Biden’s announcement will not affect U.S. military operations against Yemen’s al Qaeda affiliate because those are “actions that we undertake in service of protecting the homeland and protecting American interests in the region and our allies and partners,” Sullivan said.

 

“It extends to the types of offensive operations that have perpetuated this civil war in Yemen that has led to a humanitarian crisis,” Sullivan said of Biden’s move, specifically pointing to two sales of precision-guided munitions approved by the Trump administration that the Biden administration has announced it is pausing.

 

The United States has been providing logistics and military support to a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen’s civil war, as well as billions of dollars in weapons sales. Last week, the State Department announced it was pausing and reviewing arms sales to the Saudis, as well as to the United Arab Emirates.

 

Officials in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which is also part of the Yemen coalition, have been notified of Biden’s decision to end support of offensive operations, Sullivan said.

 

“We are pursuing a policy of no surprises when it comes to these types of actions, so they understand that this is happening, and they understand our reasoning and rationale,” he said.

 

Support for the Saudi coalition began during the Obama administration as the administration sought to mend ties after Saudi opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. The Saudi coalition is fighting Houthi rebels that U.S. officials say receive weapons and other support from Iran.

 

But opposition to U.S. support for the war mounted as thousands of civilians were killed in Saudi bombing raids. The United Nations has also warned Yemen is on the verge of widespread catastrophic famine.

 

U.S. lawmakers in both parties have also been increasingly opposed to support for the Saudis after their killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

 

Biden pledged during the presidential campaign to review the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, at one point describing the kingdom as a “pariah” state.

 

The Trump administration ended the U.S. military’s aerial refueling of Saudi jets in the war amid the mounting opposition but in other ways ramped up support for the Saudis, which it saw as critical to its so-called “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.

 

Former President Trump pushed through an $8.1 billion arms sale to the Saudis in 2019 over congressional opposition by invoking “emergency” authorities, citing alleged threats by Iran.

 

The Trump administration also approved two more precision-guided bomb sales to the Saudis in the final weeks of his presidency.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/537346-biden-to-announce-end-to-us-support-for-offensive-operations-in-yemen

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:31 a.m. No.12821854   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Democrats urge Biden to cancel up to $50k in student loan debt by executive action

 

Biden extended pause on federal student loan payments and interest through Sept. 30

 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Thursday urged President Biden use his executive authority to cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt for federal student loan borrowers.

 

Schumer, D-N.Y., Warren, D-Mass., and Pressley, D-Mass., on Thursday reintroduced a resolution, which would allow the secretary of education to "cancel up to $50,000 in federal student debt."

 

The resolution also called on Biden to take executive action to "administratively cancel up to $50,000 in Federal student loan debt for Federal student loan borrowers" using "existing legal authorities" under the Higher Education act of 1965. The resolution also "encourages" Biden to use executive authority under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which would prevent administrative debt cancellation from resulting in a tax liability for borrowers.

 

The lawmakers also encouraged Biden to "continue to pause" student loan payments and interest for federal student loan borrowers for the "entire duration of the COVID-19 pandemic."

 

More than four dozen Democratic lawmakers in both the House and the Senate joined the resolution on Thursday.

 

"Student loan debt is weighing down millions of families in New York and across this country," Schumer said in a statement. "During a time of historic and overlapping crises, which are disproportionately impacting communities of color, we must do everything in our power to deliver real relief to the American people, lift up our struggling economy and close the racial wealth gap. Democrats are committed to big, bold action, and this resolution to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt is one of the strongest steps the president can take to achieve these goals."

 

Warren added that "President Biden can take the single most effective executive action available to provide a massive stimulus to our economy, help narrow the racial wealth gap, and lift this impossible burden off of tens of millions of families" by cancelling the student loan debt.

 

"President Biden has the legal authority to cancel billions in student debt with the stroke of a pen and he must meet the moment by using that authority, which would not only set us on a path to an equitable recovery, but would also help reduce the racial wealth gap," Pressley said.

 

Biden, on his first day in office, extended the pause on federal student loan payments and interest through Sept. 30, 2021.

 

On Thursday, though, Schumer said: "President Biden has taken some good steps in the direction of student debt but we think he has to go much further."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-biden-cancel-student-loan-debt-executive-action

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:34 a.m. No.12821881   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

'Dangerous' for YouTube to remove doctor's Senate testimony on coronavirus treatment: Ron Johnson

 

Dr. Kory's testimony showed promising results of a widely available drug

 

Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., slammed YouTube's "dangerous" actions Thursday, after the platform censored a video of Dr. Pierre Kory testifying before the U.S. Senate about a widely available drug that early studies show may help treatment and prevention of Covid-19.

 

Johnson, who appeared for an interview on "Fox and Friends," wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Google’s YouTube "had ratcheted up censorship to a new level."

 

The senator went on to criticize US health agencies, claiming that they have failed to put money and research into exploring "repurposed, cheap, generic drugs," like the one in Dr. Kory's findings. Dr. Kory testified before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in December, citing the use of a widely available drug called ivermectin, as a potential early treatment and prevention of COVID-19.

 

The drug, which is widely available to treat tropical diseases caused by parasites, showed promising results from a study done in Argentina. In the study, 800 healthcare workers received ivermectin, while another 400 did not. Of the 800, not a single person contracted COVID-19, while more than half of the 400 did.

 

SEN. RON JOHNSON: Since we had that hearing December 8th, I just watched the views of that video rise to over 8 million, 7.7 million on Fox News Now, about half a million on my website. I got notified January 27th that it just wasn’t passing the YouTube censors, so they are gonna take it down off of our website and they also took it off of Fox News Now’s. I think it still may be available on some lesser sites with far fewer views but this is dangerous when you have censorship of information.

 

You know, Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice had a decision almost 100 years ago in 1927 that actually dealt with falsehoods and fallacies that might cause societal harm said ‘the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.’ That was pretty wise back then, but we’re moving in the exact opposite direction now…

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/youtube-remove-doctor-senate-testimony-coronavirus-ron-johnson-big-tech

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:36 a.m. No.12821904   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Report Requested by Congress Says US Should Stay in Afghanistan

 

The State Department said 'no decisions' have been made on the withdrawal

 

With the deadline for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan approaching, a congressionally mandated report was released on Wednesday that calls for the Biden administration to stay in the country.

 

The US-Taliban peace deal signed in February 2020 set May 1st as a deadline for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan. The report, released by the Afghanistan Study Group, says the US should push the deadline back. The study repeats the usual talking points that hawks use to justify prolonging the almost 20-year war.

 

The report says if the US leaves by May, a civil war will break out since intra-Afghan peace talks are not complete. But that ignores the fact that fighting is already ongoing between the Taliban and the US-backed government.

 

Since the US-Taliban deal was signed, Taliban attacks on US troops have subsided. But the Taliban has vowed that if foreign troops don’t leave by May 1st that those attacks will start up again, a sign that if the US stays, more violence will erupt.

 

Also on Wednesday, a Biden administration official said the US hasn’t made a decision on the Afghanistan withdrawal. “At this time, no decisions about our force posture have been made,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters, adding that the administration is reviewing the US-Taliban peace deal.

 

While the US hasn’t made an official announcement, there is little hope that the withdrawal will happen. The Pentagon said last week that the withdrawal timeline is uncertain, and NATO officials told reporters that foreign troops will be in Afghanistan after May 1st.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/02/03/report-requested-by-congress-says-us-should-stay-in-afghanistan/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:38 a.m. No.12821920   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Loud explosions from Haifa's petrochemical industry rattle residents

 

Residents said that the incident caught them off guard, as they received no warning in advance.

 

Loud explosions rattled the usually serene city of Haifa in northern Israel on Thursday, N12 reported.

 

The explosions were heard coming from the area of the Haifa Chemicals factory, one of the most pollutant factories currently operational in the Haifa Bay, raising serious concerns among local residents.

 

Moreover, residents said that the incident caught them off guard, as they received no warning in advance from the company running the factories or the city's authorities.

 

Similar incidents originating from Haifa's petrochemical industry complex, located at the heart of a civilian population, have happened before, continuing to disrupt the daily lives of tens of thousands of people.

 

In mid-December last year, an unusual malfunction at Haifa's refineries complex caused two torches to burn intensely and emit a large amount of smoke into the air.

 

Additionally, the enormous explosion that tore through the city of Beirut last August, led to resurfaced concerns over Haifa's chemical facilities, attracting the attention of law-makers as well.

 

“We need to remove the dangerous chemicals from the Haifa Bay,” said Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel to 103FM at the time. “The plan is to remove the [chemicals] within five years and then [take] another five years to clean the area.”

 

Blue and White MK Miki Haimovich, chairman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee, also stressed that Israel should be “very troubled.” She called to promote a plan to close Haifa’s petrochemical industry, “in the heart of a bay and a population.”

 

Haifa Chemicals is owned by the American holding company Trance Resource Inc., which is controlled by the Trump Group. The group's co-chairman are its founders Jules Trump and his brother Eddie Trump, Jewish-American businessmen born in South Africa, who have no relation to former US President Donald Trump.

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/loud-explosions-from-haifas-petrochemical-industry-rattle-residents-657833

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:39 a.m. No.12821923   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1953 >>2030 >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

House Democrats asking Trump to testify under oath for Senate impeachment trial

 

The request came in the form a letter

 

 

House Democrats are asking former President Trump to testify under oath for Senate impeachment trial scheduled for next week, the Associated Press reports Thursday.

 

The request came in the form a letter, but who wrote it and to whom it was sent remained unclear as of early Thursday afternoon.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-democrats-asking-trump-testify-under-oath-senate-impeachment-trial

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:48 a.m. No.12822012   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Unanswered questions shadow NIH-funded Wuhan lab that performed COVID research pre-pandemic

 

Feds have denied controversial "gain-of-function" research; grant-funded projects sought to study "emergence potential" of coronaviruses.

 

Critical questions continue to surround a series of coronavirus research projects performed at a viral laboratory in Wuhan, China just prior to the start of the pandemic there, with significant amounts of the funding sourced to the National Institutes of Health by way of a science nonprofit.

 

Just the News reported in September on the NIH's funding of New York nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance to carry out a series of experiments that sought to determine, in part, the "emergence potential" of pandemic coronaviruses in China, including "what factors increase the risk of the next [coronavirus] emerging in people." The grant was awarded by the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which has been run for several decades by Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert who has helped manage the federal government's response to the COVID crisis under both the Trump and Biden administrations.

 

Federal spending records indicate that EcoHealth Alliance sub-awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars from those federal funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in partnership on that research.

 

Questions have persisted over whether or not any research at the Wuhan lab in the years leading up to the pandemic — whether funded by NIH or not — constituted "gain-of-function" experiments, a controversial biomedical procedure in which scientists increase the pathogenicity of a virus in order to study its potential transmission in human populations.

 

EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak, whose name is on the NIH documentation detailing the nonprofit's government funding stream, has failed to respond to numerous queries over the last several months from Just the News, including questions regarding the full scope of the work conducted by EcoHealth and via the Wuhan lab.

 

The National Institutes of Health, meanwhile, has denied that EcoHealth and the WIV were participating in any gain-of-function research using NIH dollars.

 

An institute spokeswoman last year told Just the News that a 2019 EcoHealth project "did not involve the enhancement of the pathogenicity or transmissibility of the viruses studied," and thus did not qualify as gain-of-function research under government definitions.

 

Asked this week about a 2014 EcoHealth project that utilized "reverse genetics" and "virus infection experiments" to assess coronavirus threats, the spokeswoman referred Just the News to the earlier EcoHealth initiative, again denying it constituted gain-of-function experimentation.

 

Asked repeatedly to clarify whether the 2014 project and any other EcoHealth projects funded by NIH involved gain-of-function experiments, the spokeswoman said they did not.

 

The Wuhan laboratory has been the focus of intense scrutiny over the past 13 months due to its immediate proximity to the location where Chinese officials claim COVID-19 was first detected. The Communist Chinese government officially posits that the outbreak likely originated in a wet market in the city of Wuhan, just a few miles from the WIV.

 

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/unanswered-questions-surround-nih-funded-wuhan-lab-performed-covid

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:49 a.m. No.12822023   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2341

Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media

 

Pandering to Israel as part of the political process in the United States has become part of the DNA of both major parties.

 

The job of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must have some kind of curse on it as it seems to attract a type of woman who seeks to prove her suitability by running up a tally of how many wars she can start and how many people she can kill. One recalls fondly Bill Clinton’s monstrous Madeleine Albright, who famously declared the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children as “worth it” due to the sanctions that Washington had imposed and enforced. And then there was Barack Obama’s darling Samantha Power, who was the spokesperson for the completely unnecessary slaughter of Syrians and Libyans to bring them democracy. And, most recently, we have had Nikki Haley, who didn’t start her own war but kept the ones ongoing during her watch on the boil while also taking on the task of being the most strident defender of Israel’s war crimes.

 

And now we have Honest Joe Biden’s nominee to be the U.N. ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She is predictably black and is a career diplomat who ended up as head of the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs. Upon retirement in 2017, she took a position, predictably, with the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington. The Albright in the name comes from Madeleine and the Group is where many Democratic Party establishment foreign policy types wind up. Thomas-Greenfield might not be a drama queen like Nikki Haley or evil incarnate like Albright or Samantha Power, but she demonstrated in her confirmation hearing before the Senate that she knows the lines she has to speak as well as anyone in Washington.

 

Thomas-Greenfield dutifully spouted the usual cant relating to the Palestinians, which means that she did not mention them at all and is completely indifferent to the gross violations of their human rights by Israel. In response to several queries from legislators about how she would work to fend off international criticism against Israeli policies, she unleashed an attack against the non-violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (B.D.S.) movement which criticizes Israel’s human rights record and urges people to support Palestinian rights by pressuring Israel’s economy through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. It deliberately eschews violence or punishing ordinary Israelis for the actions of their government and it’s economic approach is a tactic that was used successfully against the apartheid South African regime in the 1980s.

 

One assumes that Thomas-Greenfield, as a black American diplomat who was active when South Africa adopted majority rule, is fully aware of the fact that Israeli apartheid backed by an army of occupation that does not hesitate to shoot to kill is more pervasive than the South African version ever was. She may even be aware that what Israel does is driven by racism and amounts to genocide. Nevertheless, she told the Senators “[B.D.S.] verges on anti-Semitic, and it’s important that they not be allowed to have a voice at the U.N., and I intend to work against that… I look forward to standing with Israel, standing against the unfair targeting of Israel, the relentless resolutions proposed against Israel unfairly.” In short, Thomas-Greenfield sounded more than a little like Nikki Haley, who used to amuse the U.N. General Assembly with her homilies in defense of the Jewish state that culminated in U.S. withdrawal from the Human Rights Council, refugee agency (UNRWA), and its cultural organization (UNESCO) over claims that they all had an anti-Israel bias.

 

There should be no question but that the friends of Israel constitute the most powerful foreign policy lobby. It’s ability to shift policy in its favor in unmatched by any other organization that promotes the interests of a foreign nation at the expense of the United States itself. No other nation comes close to having the power to actually write legislation that is then approved by Congress while also influencing decision making in the White House. No other country avoids accountability for its actions either among politicians or in the media to anywhere near the same extent as Israel. If anyone doubts that that is true, it is only necessary to review the recent confirmation hearings of Biden appointees, where foreign policy discussions are limited to bashing China and Russia followed almost immediately by the question “And what have you done for Israel lately?”

 

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/04/why-always-israel-only-one-country-matters-to-congress-and-the-media/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:51 a.m. No.12822043   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

McKinsey Will Not Admit Wrongdoing After Reaching $573 Million Settlement In Opioid Lawsuit

 

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company has agreed to pay a settlement of $573 million for its role in the opioid crisis in America and the advice given to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to market the highly addictive painkiller.

 

McKinsey is required to pay out $478 million within the first 60 days, The New York Times reports. The remaining balance of the settlement will be paid out over four yearly payments beginning in 2022.

 

As part of the settlement, McKinsey won’t admit to wrongdoing but will abide by court-ordered restrictions barring the company from work involving certain types of addictive narcotics.

 

McKinsey will also be required to make tens of thousands of pages of documents related to its opioid work available on a public database and keep emails for five years as part of the ongoing investigation into the opioid crisis.

 

On Thursday, McKinsey issued a statement claiming it believed “its past work was lawful and has denied allegations to the contrary.”

 

The settlement comes after 47 states, the District of Columbia and five territories filed lawsuits accusing drugmakers of intentionally marketing the painkiller and ignoring red flags about the inappropriate way OxyContin prescriptions were being used, Reuters reports.

 

One of the memos showed McKinsey advising Purdue Pharma to focus on health care providers that had high records of prescribing OxyContin and avoid those with lower statistics.

 

In 2019, Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy as part of a $10 billion settlement that accused the drugmaker’s marketing of OxyContin of fueling the opioid crisis across the country.

 

From 1999 to 2018, there have been around 450,000 overdose deaths reported. Over 3,200 lawsuits are pending against pharmacies, drugmakers, and distributors for their contribution to the opioid addiction epidemic.

 

States that receive portions of the settlement money are expected to use the funds for opioid recovery, treatments, and prevention programs.

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/mckinsey-will-not-admit-wrongdoing-after-reaching-573-million-settlement-opioid-3137747

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:52 a.m. No.12822051   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2071 >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

SERIOUSLY? Hunter Biden Memoir, Called 'Beautiful Things,' to Be Published in April

 

The controversial scandal-plagued son of Joe Biden has a memoir coming out in April, and I can’t even.

 

A primary subject of his memoir, titled Beautiful Things, will be his well-known issues with substance abuse. The book is being published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Last month, Simon & Schuster canceled Senator Josh Hawley’s book, in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.

 

Hunter Biden is currently under investigation by the Justice Department for tax issues, he refused to pay child support to a stripper he had a son with out of wedlock, and there were reports that Hunter Biden’s laptop (which he infamously left at a Delaware repair shop) allegedly contained inappropriate images of underage girls. In September, a Senate report linked him to a human trafficking ring, but Simon & Schuster did not cancel Biden’s memoir from publication.

 

The most interesting thing about this memoir is the fact that it was acquired in the fall of 2019, but was kept under wraps as Hunter Biden’s business dealings became a significant liability for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

 

Several left-wing authors were given advance copies of the memoir and provided predictably smarmy blurbs for it. Stephen King called it a “harrowing and compulsively readable memoir,” and credits Hunter Biden with proving that even the son of a president “can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley.”

 

The book description, available via Amazon on an inconspicuous product page, reads as follows:

 

“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.

 

When he was two-years-old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction.

 

In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life.

 

It is not clear whether the memoir will address the allegations of selling influence with his father, or how his dad threatened to withhold a billion-dollar loan to Ukraine unless the prosecutor investigating Burisma, the natural gas company Hunter was on the board of despite having zero experience in the field, was fired.

 

I doubt it will take long for this memoir to hit the bargain racks.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/02/04/seriously-hunter-biden-memoir-called-beautiful-things-to-be-published-in-april-n1423082

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:54 a.m. No.12822076   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2101 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Al Jazeera: Bangladesh PM Close to Dhaka Mafia Family

 

An explosive Al Jazeera investigation revealed this week the strong links between Bangladesh’s Prime Minister and a criminal family led by the head of the army who is using his post and the country’s security forces to extract bribes in return for state contracts and job positions.

 

Bangladesh CrimeCorruption in Bangladesh reaches the highest levels of power (Photo: Mehaniq, Shutterstock)For over a decade, General Aziz Ahmed has been selling military and civilian procurement contracts and senior public posts while protecting his fugitive brothers, Haris and Anis Ahmed, who were convicted for the murder of a supposed political opponent of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the two-year investigation found.

 

Titled “All the Prime Minister’s Men,” the investigation contains undercover footage and documents that reveal the pervasive high-level corruption afflicting Bangladesh and reaching all the way to Hasina, who first encountered the so-called “Ahmed Clan” during her turbulent time as opposition leader in the military dictatorship of 1980s Bangladesh.

 

Aziz Ahmed’s brothers started out leading a Dhaka-based street gang that provided muscle to Hasina and her political party, the Awami League, with Haris and Anis both acting as her bodyguards until they fled the country after killing a supposed political rival.

 

While a third brother, Josef Ahmed, spent 20 years in prison for the murder, Haris and Anis remained wanted criminals. The two have new identities and reporters found that Anis settled in Malaysia, while Haris ended up in Hungary. Both enjoy high-level political protection from Bangladesh.

 

The brothers, particularly Haris, became middlemen for domestic enterprises and foreign businessmen seeking public contracts in Bangladesh, using their corrupt connections to solicit bribes and, it is implied, their network of European businesses to launder the money.

 

In 2015, for example, a Hungary-based company secretly controlled by Haris Ahmed bid on a Bangladeshi public contract for military bunk beds. The tender was addressed to the Director General of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) – at the time, Aziz Ahmed.

 

The deal was made after Prime Minister Hasina won the 2014 elections, deemed the most violent ballot in the country’s history.

 

Besides being Director General of the BGB at the time, Aziz Ahmed also enjoyed close connections in Bangladesh’s elite police unit - the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) - which was also accused of partisan brutality for cracking down on protesters and opposition parties alike during the run-up to the elections.

 

Aziz Ahmed was promoted to Army Chief of Staff in 2018, weeks after his jailed brother, Josef, was granted a presidential pardon.

 

In secret recordings by Al Jazeera, Haris Ahmed claims his work in Hungary is sanctioned by the Prime Minister herself - a reward for his family’s loyalty, and boasts that RAB works for him.

 

“My gangsters are RAB. I don’t need thugs. They are my thugs” he can be heard saying.

 

Haris is also heard admitting to using the Ahmed Clan’s connections to sell senior public posts in Bangladesh, including in the national and Dhaka police forces, and asserts that then-RAB Chief, Benazir Ahmed (no relation), arrested Haris’ enemies on his orders.

 

Benazir Ahmed has since been promoted to Inspector General of the Bangladesh Police, the country’s top cop.

 

Meanwhile, Aziz Ahmed’s nephew, Asif Ahmed, won election as a Dhaka councillor last year, running on an anti-corruption platform.

 

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13792-al-jazeera-bangladesh-pm-close-to-dhaka-mafia-family

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:57 a.m. No.12822119   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

How Many Sears And Kmart Stores Are Left? More Locations Closing [Complete List]

 

More Sears and Kmart stores continue to disappear from the retail landscape as additional closures plague the retailer.

 

The company will close at least 12 Sears stores and six Kmart stores by mid-April, USA Today reported.

 

Sears, which held 489 namesake stores and 360 Kmart stores in 2019, filed for bankruptcy in October 2018. The retailer emerged from Chapter 11 in a $5.2 billion deal from its former chairman Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund ELS Investments.

 

Under the new company, Transformco, several Sears and Kmart stores have been quietly closed after the company announced back in November 2019 that it would close the doors at 96 locations by February 2020.

 

Since that time, Transformco has not publicly announced that it was closing more stores, but local reports indicate that more locations are shuttering, leaving only about 36 Sears and 30 Kmart stores left, according to a recent Forbes article.

 

In mid-January, Transformco announced that it sold five Kmart stores located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina; Jackson, Wyoming; Scotts Valley, California; Wall, New Jersey; and Auburn, Maine, to Target.

 

In a statement about the transaction, President of Transformco Properties Scott Carr said: “Transformco continues to pursue opportunities to create value from its real estate portfolio and to partner with retailers, property owners and communities as part of the ongoing reinvention of retail real estate .”

 

Over the past 15 years, more than 3,500 Sears and Kmart stores have closed, and about 250,000 workers have lost their jobs, USA Today reported.

 

Sears is not the only retailer that is closing stores. The pandemic has forced several companies to shut down their brick-and-mortar locations as consumers shift to online purchases.

 

In January alone, Macy’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Family Video, Godiva, Loves Furniture, Stock + Field, L'Occitane, Christopher & Banks, and American Eagle all announced that they were closing stores in the coming months as a result of the impact of the COVID crisis.

 

Here are Sears and Kmart stores that are scheduled to close in 2021, according to USA Today and local reports.

 

Sears Store Closures

 

California

 

Clovis: Sierra Vista Mall, 1140 Shaw Ave.

Los Angeles: Boyle, 2650 E Olympic Blvd.

Orange: Mall of Orange, 2100 N Tustin St.

Sacramento: Arden Fair Mall, 1601 Arden Way

 

Florida

 

Brandon: 686 Brandon Town Center Mall, 686 Brandon Town Center Mall

 

Hawaii

 

Aiea: Pearlridge Shopping Center, 98-180 Kamehameha Highway

Hilo: Prince Kuhio Plaza, 111 E Puainako St.

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-sears-kmart-stores-are-left-more-locations-closing-complete-list-3137726

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 10:59 a.m. No.12822136   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Pompeo: China Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Harm United States

 

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview aired on Feb. 4 that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will use artificial intelligence to comb through troves of personal data on U.S. citizens recovered from Chinese technology and apps and use the intelligence as a weapon to strong-arm the United States.

 

“They will use that information. They will use artificial intelligence to gather it up. And then they will turn around and tell us that if we don’t act in a way that’s consistent with what the Chinese Communist Party wants, they will impose real costs on the United States,” Pompeo told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.

 

Pompeo made the remarks in response to a question on whether the administration of President Joe Biden should keep in place the sanctions and other restrictions imposed on Chinese companies imposed under former President Donald Trump.

 

“The flip side is these technologies that infiltrate the United States and infiltrate Europe are things that our kids use, that we use, that are in our cars, that are in our television sets, that are in our handsets and phones, this information, also American information, whether it’s our personal information about where we live and who we hang out with, or information about our medical conditions and our DNA, that information goes back to the Chinese national security state,” Pompeo said.

 

Asked if the information could be used as blackmail, Pompeo said, “Yes, absolutely.”

 

“It will be used for bad intent. It will be used to harm the United States of America and those sanctions were put in place by our administration to protect the American people from these twin evils.”

 

The Trump administration imposed restrictions and sanctions on a variety of Chinese technology firms, including telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE.

 

Pompeo went on to say that he warned U.S. allies about the dangers posed by the CCP. The regime, he said, has consistently broken its promises over the past two decades and should be treated under the motto “distrust but verify.”

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pompeo-china-will-use-artificial-intelligence-to-harm-united-states_3684924.html

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:01 a.m. No.12822163   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Democrat House Working on 2021 Fiscal Year Spending Bill of Nearly $6 Trillion Leaving a Deficit of $4 Trillion

 

The foxes are in the hen house.

 

The Democrat House is working on a spending bill for fiscal year 2021. (This 12 month period started on October 1, 2020.) This behemoth of a bill calls for a budget of more than $6 trillion:

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/biden-pelosis-democrat-house-working-2021-fiscal-year-spending-bill-nearly-6-trillion-leaving-deficit-4-trillion/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:03 a.m. No.12822181   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2198 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

NOT THE ONION: CDC Warns Against Shouting, Cheering During Sunday’s Super Bowl

 

Welcome to the new normal, where the bureaucratic class nannies Americans anytime they wish to socialize.

 

The Centers for Disease Control has issued guidance on how Super Bowl watchers should behave when excitement strikes during the big game on Sunday.

 

No, this is not The Onion …

 

As part of its recommendations to avoid spreading Covid-19 when in small gatherings, the CDC is warning against “shouting, cheering loudly, or singing” as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV.

 

The agency recommends to “clap, stomp your feet, or bring (or provide) hand-held noisemakers instead.”

 

The nannies over at the CDC are also urging folks to view the game with others virtually or only with immediate family, even suggesting ways you can go about enjoying the game when avoiding other people …

 

From the CDC website (cringe warning …):

 

Host a virtual Super Bowl watch party.

 

Wear clothing or decorate your home with your favorite team’s logo or colors.

Make appetizers or snacks with the people you live with to enjoy while watching the game and share the recipes with your friends and family.

Start a text group with other fans to chat about the game while watching.

 

If you do gather outside your home for the game, it is recommenced to be outside and to “sit at least 6 feet away from people you don’t live with.”

 

And, of course, don’t forget to double mask, as per the small gathering guidelines.

 

“Wear a mask with two or more layers to stop the spread of COVID-19 to protect yourself and others,” the agency’s website reads.

 

The latest guidelines are reminiscent of those given in November when the CDC urged Americans to avoiding singing, chanting, playing loud music, and drinking too much alcohol during Thanksgiving.

 

Having fun is banned. pic.twitter.com/Zb27695cte

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 24, 2020

 

Welcome to the new normal, where the bureaucratic class nannies Americans anytime they wish to socialize.

 

https://planetfreewill.news/not-the-onion-cdc-warns-against-shouting-cheering-during-sundays-super-bowl/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:05 a.m. No.12822201   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Mike Pence to join Heritage Foundation as distinguished visiting fellow

 

New gig for Trump's VP

 

Former Vice President Mike Pence has a new gig now that his time at the White House has ended. The Heritage Foundation announced Thursday that Pence will be joining the venerable conservative think tank as a distinguished visiting fellow.

 

"Over the course of the past four years, our team at Heritage has worked closely with members of the Trump administration on a host of policy accomplishments," Heritage President Kay C. James in a statement said. "That's why I am excited Vice President Mike Pence will join forces with Heritage to ensure we continue to advance conservative principles and policy solutions. His allegiance to the Constitution and commitment to advancing a conservative policy agenda make him an outstanding fit for The Heritage Foundation."

 

The Heritage Foundation is a nationally recognized think tank based in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1973 that promotes limited government, free markets, traditional American values, and a strong national defense in its policy work.

 

As a distinguished visiting fellow, Pence will advise Heritage experts on public policy, deliver speeches on policy issues, and write a monthly column for the Daily Signal, a publication of Heritage.

 

"The Heritage Foundation is a flagship of the conservative movement and I am profoundly honored to join them as a distinguished visiting fellow to advance conservative policies that will benefit every American," Pence said. "The Heritage Foundation helped shape my conservative philosophy for decades and played a pivotal role advancing conservative policies throughout the Trump Administration. I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and working with the all-star team at Heritage as we continue to take the case for a strong national defense, free markets and traditional values to policymakers across the Nation and to every American who cherishes our Heritage of Freedom."

 

"Mike Pence served with honor and excellence in his home state of Indiana as a congressman and as governor before becoming one of the most consequential vice presidents of our time," James said. "A man of faith, principle, and character, Vice President Pence is a heroic protector and defender the Constitution and the values that unite us as a nation.

 

"I am overjoyed that Heritage will continue to work alongside Vice President Pence as we have for the last 30 years. As much as we've accomplished in that time, especially over the last four years, there is so much more to be done. Knowing that Vice President Pence is still in the fight is an adrenaline shot for the entire conservative movement."

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/mike-pence-joins-heritage-foundation

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:06 a.m. No.12822214   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2236 >>2258 >>2377 >>2441

Facebook permanently bans pro-gun group without explanation: Report

 

'This was correctly actioned and we will not be republishing'

 

In another concerning example of Big Tech censorship of conservatives, Facebook reportedly removed a pro-Second Amendment group's page from its platform this week without providing an explanation.

 

Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, an active gun-rights advocacy group in the commonwealth, told the Washington Free Beacon that the group's page suddenly disappeared on Tuesday without any note from the tech giant.

 

In a statement, Facebook acknowledged the removal, calling its decision final, but made no mention as to why the action was taken.

 

"This was correctly actioned and we will not be republishing," Facebook spokeswoman Kristen Morea said. According to the Free Beacon, Morea "declined to elaborate on the decision."

 

Facebook confirmed the action to TheBlaze, noting that the page was removed and administrators were disabled for violating the company's Community Standards. A Facebook "group" operated by VCDL remains active on the platform. Facebook added that its removal of the page came after employees re-reviewed their original action to remove violating content found on the page.

 

According to Van Cleave, the group reportedly used its Facebook page primarily to organize events and communicate with members about legislative initiatives, such as to raise awareness about Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's controversial 2020 gun control agenda and to mobilize efforts for "Lobby Day," an annual pro-gun driving demonstration.

What else?

 

However, the group's resistance efforts may have been interpreted much differently by some in the media. In a recent article published by the Guardian, VCDL appeared to be lumped into a large group of guns rights supporters that the news outlet said were "openly discussing violent resistance and civil war."

 

In the article, VCDL was characterized as "a local pro-gun group that's politically to the right of the National Rifle Association" that served as "the main driver" of the state's the sanctuary movement. The movement pushes for local municipalities to act as sanctuaries for gun owners from national or state laws that are thought to impede upon citizens' Second Amendment rights.

 

Van Cleave was quoted in the article as saying, "I'm telling you, people that have never committed a crime, that are law-abiding, and pay their taxes, do everything right, don't even have a speeding ticket, are saying, 'I'm not giving up my guns.'"

Anything else?

 

The no-explanation ban issued by Facebook against VCDL may foreshadow similar bans against other conservative organizations, Van Cleave told the Free Beacon.

 

"If they did this to us, it's just a matter of time," he said. "I think we're a high-profile group and that's why we got singled out. Those who aren't as high profile as we are, I'm sure they're on the chopping block next."

 

Van Cleave claimed neither he nor the group ever advocated violence or were involved with protesting the 2020 election results.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/facebook-bans-gun-group-without-explanation

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:09 a.m. No.12822249   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2262

High levels of toxic heavy metals found in some baby foods: report

 

U.S. congressional investigators found “dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals” in certain baby foods that could cause neurological damage, a House Oversight subcommittee said in a report released on Thursday.

 

The panel examined baby foods made by Nurture Inc, Hain Celestial Group Inc, Beech-Nut Nutrition and Gerber, a unit of Nestle, it said, adding that it was “greatly concerned” that Walmart Inc, Campbell Soup Co and Sprout Organic Foods refused to cooperate with the investigation.

 

The report said internal company standards “permit dangerously high levels of toxic heavy metals, and documents revealed that the manufacturers have often sold foods that exceeded those levels” and it called on U.S. regulators to set maximum levels of toxic heavy metals permitted in baby foods and require manufacturers to test finished products for heavy metals, not just ingredients.

 

Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat who chairs the panel that released the report, said it found “these manufacturers knowingly sell baby food containing high levels of toxic heavy metals … It’s time that we develop much better standards for the sake of future generations.”

 

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman said it was reviewing the report.

 

The agency noted toxic elements are present in the environment and enter the food supply through soil, water or air. “Because they cannot be completely removed, our goal is to reduce exposure to toxic elements in foods to the greatest extent feasible,” the FDA said.

 

Campbell said in a statement on its website that its products are safe and cited the lack of a current FDA standard for heavy metals in baby food. The company said it thought it had been “full partners” in the study with congressional researchers.

 

Walmart said it submitted information to the committee in February 2020 and never received any subsequent inquiries. The retail giant requires private label product suppliers to hew to its own internal specifications, “which for baby and toddler food means the levels must meet or fall below the limits established by the FDA.”

 

Hain Celestial, which makes Earth’s Best, said it had not seen the report and did not have a chance to review it.

 

A Gerber representative said the elements in question occur naturally in the soil and water in which crops are grown and added it takes multiple steps “to minimize their presence.”

 

The report was critical also of the administration of former President Donald Trump, saying it “ignored a secret industry presentation to federal regulators revealing increased risks of toxic heavy metals in baby foods.”

 

The report said “in 100% of the Hain baby foods tested, inorganic arsenic levels were higher in the finished baby food than the company estimated they would be based on individual ingredient testing.”

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-babyfood/high-levels-of-toxic-heavy-metals-found-in-some-baby-foods-report-idUSKBN2A420C

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:13 a.m. No.12822305   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2377 >>2441

How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees

 

If you were online during January 2020 you likely saw the barrage of video clips that were supposedly coming out of China depicting ghastly “Coronavirus” scenes.

 

Most of those videos have been quietly wiped off the internet, but back in January and February those grisly videos were a viral sensation and they scared the shit out of Americans.

 

The videos captured supposed Coronavirus victims in various stages of pandemic horror. Some showed people foaming at the mouth and collapsing in the streets, while others featured ominous government officials wearing Hazmat suits, hovering over lifeless bodies struck down from the virus.

 

It was a virtual buffet of fear-porn, and Americans couldn’t get enough of it.

 

Personally, I saw hundreds of those videos. The comments from people sharing the clips would range from sarcastic “Just the flu” type stuff – intended to mock and shame anyone who tried to downplay the seriousness of the virus – to wild conspiracy theories claiming Coronavirus caused brain swelling, spontaneous convulsions, and instant death.

 

It was some of the most powerful video propaganda I’ve ever witnessed.

 

Imagine being a soccer mom and logging onto Facebook and seeing your sister-in-law’s post of a Chinese man foaming at the mouth and dropping dead, with the caption “Just the flu 🙄” You keep scrolling down your timeline and see the same clip over and over, and other similar shock videos shared by neighbors, friends, and people you work with.

 

You’d lose your mind, and rightfully so. That’s powerful messaging and it had a major impact on the American psyche, day in and day out for two months straight.

 

For me, being a suspicious person by nature, it all felt very hysterical, staged, and phony. But at a time when fear, confusion, and distrust were at an all-time high, it was virtually impossible to talk rationally about the virus with friends and family who were sucked in by the “terror propaganda.”

 

It’s understandable because even though I didn’t buy into the hype, there was still a nagging voice in the back of my head whispering “what if…”

 

And even that quiet little “what if” was tremendously powerful.

 

In just two short months Americans were whipped into a fear-frothing frenzy which set the table for the tyrannical lockdowns and mask mandates that would follow. Lockdowns that consumed our nation, pitted neighbor against neighbor, struck down our booming economy, and wiped out small businesses from coast to coast.

 

Two years ago, if you would have told Americans they would voluntarily shut down their businesses and lock themselves in their homes they would’ve laughed in your face. But those viral videos laid the groundwork for lockdown acceptance. They were the first of many perfectly-timed events that Americans would use to justify tossing away their rights and livelihood in exchange for harsh restrictions and lockdowns – after all, nobody wanted to foam at the mouth and keel over while shopping for cappuccino makers at Bed Bath & Beyond.

 

However, there was one very big problem…little did we know back then that all of those spine-tingling videos that laid the groundwork for the lockdowns were fake.

 

More

https://www.revolver.news/2021/02/how-phony-coronavirus-fear-videos-were-used-as-psychological-weapons-to-bring-america-to-her-knees/

Anonymous ID: f06dea Feb. 4, 2021, 11:24 a.m. No.12822403   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2446 >>2526

>>12822351

 

HCQ home recipe

 

By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

8-3-20

Note – The following is for informational purposes ONLY.

If you are sick, see your doctor. This is one person’s opinion and is not suggested as a cure or treatment for anything.

 

It is just a point of information from the net.I don’t know who provided this formula but if you click on the URL you will see they censored the link. In any event I was able to get it. One doctor said in a video he was using Hydroxychloroquine for his lupus patients and the pharmacist wouldn’t fill it. Ohio had tried to ban it and the Governor intervened. It’s been used for 65 years.

 

Dr. Judy Mikovits who wrote “Plague of Corruption” has written another book I just received called “Plague”. She writes about chronic fatigue syndrome among other diseases. About the time of the release of aspartame the Epstein Barr Association changed their name to Chronic Fatigue. The Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote over an entire page and a half called “The Enemy Within” on Chronic Fatigue. They said it came out in the early 1980’s which is when aspartame was marketed through the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld. The aspartame pandemic is now called Rumsfeld’s Plague.

 

Dr. H. J. Roberts and I attended the American College of Physicians in Atlanta in March 1995. You could join different discussions in classes and we choose one that advertised Chronic Fatigue, It was next to the last subject and wouldn’t you know it, the professor said “we don’t know where this came from so we will skip it”. We wanted to advise the group the connection is aspartame. Cher suffered from Epstein Barr and was advertising Equal. I sent her information and she turned down the $900,000 they offered her to continue to advertise this addictive, excitoneurotoxic, genetically engineered, carcinogenic, teratogen, drug and adjuvant.

 

In “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic” by the late world expert H. J. Roberts, M.D. he goes into the autoimmune diseases that can be triggered or precipitated by aspartame. Dr. James Bowen said about lupus: “The ability of methyl alcohol/formaldehyde to create antigenicity, especially as combined in aspartame molecules is so great as to cause severe autoimmune reactions to the tissues deformed by formaldehyde polymerization, adduct formation. The immune system turns against the victim’s tissues: Lupus.”

 

Dr. Mikovits also speaks of autism. MIT said by 2025 one out of two babies will be born with autism. One aspartame victim said she has three children by two husbands and drank diet soda through pregnancy. All three children have autism . They work two jobs for a trust to care for their children when they are gone. It has been known for years aspartame causes autism as well as vaccinations. It has also been attributed to Round Up. G. D. Searle made a deal with the FDA to seal the teratology studies and it took me 8 years to find them. Read the Bressler Report. My web site are the initials for Mission Possible World Health International with a dot com. Social media has censored the site because there you can find the FDA reports, scientific peer reviewed research, the real CDC investigation along with congressional hearings and other documents that are suppose to be a matter of public record.

 

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Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible World Health Intl

 

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  1. WHAT IS HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE EXACTLY? IT IS NOTHING BUT QUININE. SOMETHING THAT ANYONE CAN MAKE AT HOME…AND SOMETHING THAT IS BEING MANUFACTURED EACH AND EVERY DAY IN THE FORM OF SOMETHING WE HAVE ALL SEEN AT THE GROCERY AND LIQUOR STORES…NONE OTHER THAN TONIC WATER.

 

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