Trans Reddit User Posted Hundreds of Pornographic Drawings of Child Characters Under 10, Mods Banned Anyone Who Criticized Them

A former Reddit moderator is blasting their former fellow moderators for protecting a transgender user that posted over 750 pornographic drawings of characters under the age of 10, and banning anyone who criticized them.

Yet, Parler and other right wing social media platforms are the problem?

The former mod of r/LesbianGaming also alleges that they do not have proper age restrictions in place to protect minors from pornographic content.

“The subreddit r/lesbiangamers is a subreddit that is dedicated to sapphic gaming. Upon joining their discord after a couple of months the discord was abruptly shut down. There were a lot of horrific rumors about how the past owner did horrible things,” the former mod wrote.

In their post, they explained that a couple of months ago, a new Discord was created under the management of the subreddit mods. This person says that they pointed out security issues they noticed, including that users were allowed to access pornographic channels without having to verify their age.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/trans-reddit-user-posted-hundreds-pornographic-drawings-child-characters-10-mods-banned-anyone-criticized/

Church In Indonesia Rocked By Twin Suicide Bombing On Palm Sunday

Coming a week before Christians around the world celebrate Easter, a packed Roman Catholic church in Indonesia has been targeted by two suicide bombers during a Palm Sunday service.

It happened on Indonesia's Sulawesi island and the blast injured at least 20 people. The explosives were reportedly detonated just outside the church, and so far authorities have said the only fatalities were the pair of suicide bombers themselves.

The AP reports that "video obtained by The Associated Press showed body parts scattered near a burning motorbike at the gates of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province."

One of the attackers is believed to have been a woman. Both bombers had arrived on motorbike, and the carnage could have been much worse but they were confronted by security guards based on suspicions, after which they detonated outside the building.

"Rev. Wilhelmus Tulak, a priest at the church, said he had just finished celebrating Palm Sunday Mass when a loud bang shocked his congregation," the AP writes. "He said the blast went off at about 10:30 a.m. as a first batch of churchgoers was walking out of the church and another group was coming in."

Over the past years Indonesia's minority Christians have been subject of multiple Islamist attacks and bombings of churches. Not only is Indonesia the most populous Muslim country in the world, but it has large pockets especially in rural areas where hardline clerics and militant groups hold sway.

Security footage captured the moment of the terrifying explosion…

Indonesian Christians especially tend to be targeted during their holidays such as Christmas and Easter. The AP reviews: "Indonesia has a history of battling Islamist extremist groups. In December, police arrested the head of Jemaah Islamiyah, an Al Qaeda-aligned terror group most famously known for a 2002 bombing that killed more than 200 people."

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo sought to assure that security services will remain on high alert in order to protect places of worship amid the fundamentalist threat: "I call on people to remain calm while worshipping because the state guarantees you can worship without fear," Widodo said in televised remarks in the wake of Sunday's blast.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/church-indonesia-attacked-twin-suicide-bombing-palm-sunday

With Biden Pushing Gun Control – Will His Son Hunter Be Held Accountable for Breaking Current Gun Laws?

Biden wants to stop gun use but his own son won’t comply with gun laws. Maybe Biden should focus on enforcing gun laws instead!

On Friday Grant Stinchfield on Newsmax reported on the Hunter Biden gun story. In his reporting, Stinchfield noted that we were the first to report on Hunter’s criminal actions with a gun as shared by Hunter in text messages with a family friend. Here is the text we first reported in late October shortly before the 2020 election. Big Media wouldn’t cover this. The gun story is embedded in this long crazy rant:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/biden-pushing-gun-control-will-son-hunter-held-accountable-breaking-current-gun-laws/

Trans Reddit Mod Under Fire for Inviting Minors to Their Home for Hormone Shots, Behind Parents Backs

Trans Reddit moderator Ianna Drew Urquhart is facing scrutiny for allegedly having minors come to their apartment to take hormones and puberty blockers — apparently without their parent’s knowledge or consent.

In a post on Reddit, Urquhart joked that “with the number of trans girls that have come thru my apartment, I need to rename it Drewie’s House of Wayward Trans Girls.”

Speaking to a young Reddit user under their handle “Drewiepoodle,” Urquhart wrote, “if you want me to jab you with a very sharp needle and load you up with two weeks of SUPER GIRL JUICE, then come on over. lord knows i’ve given plenty of trans girls, plenty of shots from my supply.”

The moderator added that their “girlfriend or one of my other roomies will be more than happy to slip you a spiro, or 30.”

Spiro refers to Spironolactone, a prescription drug used to lower testosterone levels and reduce the body’s response to testosterone.

Last week, Reddit fired a controversial new-hire, former Reddit moderator and U.K. politician Aimee Knight.

Previously known by the surname Challenor, Knight, who is also transgender, was suspended by the U.K Green Party in 2018 for hiring their father on to their campaign. Their father was charged with taking indecent photographs, false imprisonment, rape and sexual assault of a child in November 2016.

Knight’s ties to pedophiles don’t end there.

The following year, Knight was suspended by the Liberal Democrats, the next political party they attempted to join, when people noticed that their husband Nathaniel Knight has been writing and sharing child rape fantasies online.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/trans-reddit-mod-fire-inviting-minors-home-hormone-shots-behind-parents-backs/

Soros Asset Management Is Betting Big On "Crypto Infrastructure"

During an interview with Bloomberg TV, Soros Asset Management CIO Dawn Fitzpatrick, one of the most powerful women in the asset-management industry, said her firm is betting on crypto for the long term.

But rather than focusing on the virtual currency itself, Fitzpatrick said she is focusing on "the whole infrastructure" surrounding crypto.

Bloomberg: "Do you have an especially high level of conviction, high or negative, about strategies or themes?"

Fitzpatrick: "We think the whole infrastructure around crypto is really interesting and we have been making some investments into that infrastructure…we think that is at an inflection point."

These "crypto infrastructure" plays include exchanges, asset managers, custodians and companies that purport to help with taxes on crypto gains. Just yesterday, it was reported that Soros Asset Management has invested in Lukka in the company's $53 million Series D funding round. Her comments also come just days after Coinbase, one of the most visible crypto firms, and one of the most popular exchanges.

Also this week: Fidelity announced plans to launch its own bitcoin ETF, the firm's latest step in trying to establish itself as a leading establishment player in helping retirement savers add bitcoin exposure to their portfolios.

Asked about potential threats to crypto's rise, Fitzpatrick noted that growing interest in digital currencies from central banks might pose a threat, especially as the PBOC continues with its trials, eager to cement its first-mover status by launching the digital yuan, or "e-RMB", in the next year or so. Jerome Powell and Christine Lagarde have expressed interest in digital currency projects of their own, and earlier this month, John Rubino explained why central banks projects could be the first big test for bitcoin.

Fitzpatrick also described China's involvement as "a potential threat" to bitcoin. Though she believes BTC will survive.

"The one thing also when you think about bitcoin, central bank digital currencies are going to be here quicker than people expect. China has been running their trial for a while now, and I think there are some strategic reasons why they're going to be a first mover, and I do think that, from a geopolitical perspective, they want to use that digital currency…they want it to be used around the world.

[…]

"I think it's a real threat, but I don't think they'll be successful at permanently destabilizing bitcoin.

Readers can watch the clip from the interview below:

https://youtu.be/3ifd18s85TM

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/soros-asset-management-betting-bit-crypto-infrastructure

Fury after CNN refers to Uber Eats driver’s death during carjacking by black teen girls as ‘accident’

CNN has been blasted on Twitter for using the term “accident” while describing an attempted carjacking by two black teen girls that led to the death of the victim, an Uber Eats driver.

The crime in question happened on Tuesday in Washington, DC and was filmed by an eyewitness. The graphic video shows a scuffle at a car, which then speeds away with the driver clinging to open door. The vehicle is seen crashing at a nearby intersection, turning on its side. The driver can be seen lying motionless several meters away by a fence, while two carjackers climb out of the car and are apprehended.

The two girls, aged 13 and 15, were arrested and charged with felony murder and armed carjacking. The victim, who died during the carjacking attempt, was identified as Mohammad Anwar, 66, an immigrant from Pakistan, who was working as an Uber Eats delivery man. His family started a fundraising page in his name, which says he was a hard-working family provider, “a beloved husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend who always provided a smile when you needed one.”

Some recalled another infamous description aired by CNN last August, when the network was covering a public disturbance in Kenosha, Wisconsin after a police officer shot and crippled black man Jacob Blake. It ran a caption calling the events “fiery, but mostly peaceful protests,” a spectacular contrast to the burning cars in the background.

https://www.rt.com/usa/519414-cnn-carjacking-death-accident/

They’re Not Sending Their Best: Over 861 Criminals Caught Crossing US Rio Grande Border including 63 Gang Members, 92 Sex Offenders and Murderers

Salvadoran murdered captured at the US border

This is Joe Biden’s America.

As the massive wave of Biden migrants flood across the US southern border, US border patrol agents continue to arrest and identify hundreds of criminals including rapists, gang members, and murderers.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/criminals-gates-861-criminals-caught-crossing-us-rio-grande-border-including-63-gang-members-92-sex-offenders-murderers/

‘So proud to have a woman justifying mass murder!’ Secretary of State Blinken roasted for calling Albright his role model

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken caught flak after he praised the legacy of Madeleine Albright, who once appeared to justify the deaths of Iraqi children, saying that she made the country “more respected globally.”

Blinken took to Twitter on Friday to hail Albright, a former US ambassador to the UN and secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton, as a ‘woman of courage’.

“During her diplomatic career as U.S. Ambassador to the UN & the first female Secretary of State, her tenacity & effectiveness left the U.S. stronger & more respected globally,” Blinken tweeted, adding that Albright is a role model for him and “many of our diplomats.”

His choice of role model struck many as odd. The replies were inundated with the clip of Albright’s infamous 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl, in which Albright said that the deaths of half a million Iraqi children allegedly due to sanctions was “worth it.”

“Albright, yourself, and your predecessor Pompeo all prove that the US only chooses literal psychopaths to head the State Department,” Independent Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone tweeted, calling the State Department “America’s other war department.”

“So proud to have a woman justifying mass murder! Neoliberal imperialism. It’s like the slow-boiling lobster. People don’t realize it until it’s too late,” a self-professed anti-fascist and BLM supporter said.

Another critic said that with his praise for Albright, he was at least admitting that imposing sanctions that cause children to suffer is what US officials deem “role-model behavior.”

Albright later criticized Stahl’s interview, claiming she unwittingly fell into a trap planted by the journalist and did not mean to suggest that Iraqi children are dispensable. However, the backlash she faced following the segment did not appear to influence her views on the issue of sanctions. Asked at an event in Charlottesville in 2012 about the US sanctions on Iran, Albright outright rejected the parallel with Iraq, saying they were “absolutely not the same.”

Albright was also one of the most outspoken champions of the 1999 US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, over alleged atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

She has also been criticized for blocking UN peacekeepers from intervening in the Rwanda genocide, among other things.

Most recently, the former diplomat courted controversy for saying there is “a special place in hell for women” who do not support then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

https://www.rt.com/usa/519407-albright-role-model-blinken/

Alabama Shakes drummer Steve Johnson busted on child abuse charges

Alabama Shakes drummer Steve Johnson was being held in jail on Sunday on charges of “willful torture” and abuse of a child, according to reports and jail records.

The founding member of the Grammy Award-winning rock band was arrested on Wednesday and was ordered held in Alabama’s Limestone County Jail on Sunday morning, jail records show.

He was indicted on charges of willful torture, willful abuse and cruelly beating or otherwise willfully maltreating a child under the age of 18, News 19 said. No further details were given on the alleged abuse.

The 35-year-old rocker was also accused of violating conditions of his probation given along with a one-year suspended sentence in March 2020 after he pleaded guilty to violating a protective order, WAFF said.

The Limestone County District Attorney, Brian Jones, asked the court to revoke that suspended sentence after the latest accusations, the outlet said.

He alleged that Johnson “failed to avoid injurious or vicious habits” and “failed to avoid persons or places of disreputable or harmful conduct or character,” according to WAFF.

Johnson was held on bond set at $21,500, records show. It was not clear if he has an attorney who could comment on the charges. Managers for the band did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

An arraignment date is set for April 7.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/28/alabama-shakes-drummer-steve-johnson-busted-on-child-abuse-charges/

Fauci’s Orders: Children Not Allowed To Play Together Unmasked Until They’re All Vaxxed

Children must either wear masks or segregate between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, says Fauci.

While appearing on a Sunday show, Anthony Fauci made yet another controversial COVID-19 health dictate that seems to go against the science: Children are not allowed to play together while unmasked unless they have all been vaccinated.

When asked about children playing together in groups, Fauci said “The children can clearly wind up getting infected,” and, therefore, When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks when they’re interacting with groups or multiple households.”

Fauci did, however, offer a ray of hope for America’s children: They may be able to hit the jungle gym unmasked as soon as this summer. Apparently not wanting to allow too much hope, Fauci simply acknowledged, it is “conceivable that will be possible.” Should the current vaccination rate continue, he explained, then there is a “good degree of flexibility during the summer … with things like camps.”

Fauci did not note that children suffering serious symptoms from COVID-19 is incredibly rare. Children account for only 13% of COVID-19 cases, per the Mayo Clinic, and of those who do contract the China-originated virus, “Many of them have no symptoms,” reports Harvard Health. “Those that do get sick tend to experience milder symptoms such as low-grade fever, fatigue, and cough.”

The Biden regime appears to let the longest serving government employee make decisions for the entire country on a regular basis, in sharp contrast to the Trump administration, which repeatedly sidelined Fauci. National File reported:

“I got along with him fine, but I didn’t listen to him too much,” President Trump continued. “He said don’t close it up to China, and I did, very early. He said don’t close it up to Europe, you know we had the problem with Italy and France, I did, I closed it up to Europe very, very early. He said don’t wear masks, masks don’t work, they’re no good, no good.”

“The way I look at it, you saw him throw out the first pitch in Washington, right? He is a better pitcher than he is at what he does,” said President Trump, referencing an almost comically bad pitch from Fauci that went nowhere near its intended destination.

“But he’s a great promoter, but I got along with him,” joked the former President. “If you really look, I didn’t really listen to him too much because I was doing the opposite of what he was saying.”

President Trump also referred to Fauci as a “media creation,” something that seems apt considering he is now the subject of a disturbing children’s book.

https://nationalfile.com/faucis-orders-children-not-allowed-to-play-together-unmasked-until-theyre-all-vaxxed/

US Military Ordered ‘Clandestine Burning’ of Toxic Chemicals in Poor Neighborhoods

New research conducted by environmental justice scholars at Vermont’s Bennington College reveals that between 2016 and 2020, the U.S. military oversaw the “clandestine burning” of more than 20 million pounds of Aqueous Fire Fighting Foam in low-income communities around the country—even though there is no evidence that incineration destroys the toxic “forever chemicals” that make up the foam and are linked to a range of cancers, developmental disorders, immune dysfunction, and infertility.

“Weighing out its own liability against the health of these communities, the Pentagon struck the match.”

—David Bond, Bennington College

“In defiance of common sense and environmental expertise, the Department of Defense (DOD) has enlisted poor communities across the U.S. as unwilling test subjects in its toxic experiment with burning AFFF,” David Bond, associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College, said (pdf) in a statement earlier this week.

Noting that scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and even Pentagon officials have warned that “burning AFFF is an unproven method and dangerous mix that threatens the health of millions of Americans,” Bond characterized the decision of the military to dump huge stockpiles of AFFF and AFFF wastewater into “a handful of habitually negligent incinerators” as a “harebrained” operation as well as a manifestation of environmental injustice.

“In effect,” he added, “the Pentagon redistributed its AFFF problem into poor and working-class neighborhoods.”

After months of compiling and analyzing data—obtained last year from the Pentagon and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation—the team from Vermont launched an interactive website this week that publicizes for the first time the results of their investigation into all known shipments of AFFF to hazardous waste incinerators in the U.S.

The Bennington College researchers summarized their findings as follows:

Over 20 million pounds of the toxic firefighting foam AFFF and AFFF wastewater was incinerated between 2016-2020;

The U.S. military, the EPA, and state regulators all expressed serious concern about the ability of incineration to destroy the toxic chemicals in AFFF during this time;

Six incinerators were contracted to burn AFFF. Each is a habitual violator of environmental law. Since 2017, three of the incinerators were out of compliance with environmental law 100% of the time while the other incinerators were out of compliance with environmental law about 50% of the time;

35% of known shipments of AFFF (7.7 million pounds) was burned at the Norlite Hazardous Waste Incinerator in Cohoes, New York, located within a densely populated urban area and less than 400 feet from a public housing complex. Norlite burned 2.47 million pounds of AFFF and 5.3 million pounds of AFFF wastewater, which likely was burned in violation of its Resource Conservation and Recovery Act permit;

40% of the national stockpile of AFFF (5.5 million pounds) was sent to “fuel-blending” facilities where it was mixed into fuels for industrial use. It is not clear where the AFFF-laden fuel went next, although the DOD contract stipulates incineration should be the endpoint; and

970,000 pounds of AFFF was burned overseas.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-burning-toxic-chemicals-poor-neighborhoods/

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China's cyberwarfare attack on 2020 US election tied to Mitch McConnells CCP connected wife Elaine Chao

https://theamericanreport.org/2021/02/19/chinas-cyberwarfare-attack-on-2020-us-election-tied-to-mitch-mcconnells-ccp-connected-wife-elaine-chao/

New evidence shows US government and the American Scientific establishment involved in cover up of covid-19s origin

https://theamericanreport.org/2021/03/04/new-evidence-shows-u-s-government-and-the-american-scientific-establishment-involved-in-cover-up-of-covid-19s-origin/

Shady Biden Port Deals

https://theamericanreport.org/2020/11/02/shady-biden-port-deals-placed-us-at-risk-from-russian-chinese-club-k-container-missiles-bidens-tiger-grants-set-the-table-for-gulftainer/

VP Kamala Harris Dodges Anti-Migration Task Set by Joe Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris is dodging a Wednesday request by President Joe Biden to bolster the enforcement of migration laws in Mexico and Latin American countries.

On March 24, in a televised statement, Biden directed Harris to get the Mexican and Central American governments to forcibly block poor migrants moving towards the United States. Biden said: “The Vice President … agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders — at their borders.” [emphasis added]

Biden said that Harris would work with “the countries that need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” and added that it was a “tough job.”

On Friday, Symone Sanders, Harris’s press secretary, redefined the request.

“The president asked the vice president to take on the diplomatic effort, with Mexico and countries in the northern triangle to address the root causes of migration,” she said. “There are many reasons that move these folks to make this dangerous journey.”

“This is an amazing dismissal by a vice president of her president in a very public fashion,” said Ken Cuccinelli, who served as deputy homeland security chief under President Donald Trump. “I cannot ever remember seeing this happen before.”

He continued:

Harris’s avoidance of enforcement or any attempt to stem illegal immigration flow points out that they actually want large numbers of illegal aliens to come into the country. Their other legislative and executive actions make clear they intend to then give them amnesty and have them registered to vote and ultimately of course to vote.

According to the video of his statement, Biden asked Harris to do much more than Sanders’ claim of “take on the diplomatic effort.”

Biden said:

It’s our responsibility to deal with [the migration], humanely, and to in to stop what’s happening. So this [migration] increase has been consequential, but the Vice President has agreed … — and I appreciate it — agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept the returnees, and enhance migration enforcement at their borders, and their borders.

We’re already talking with Mexico about that. She’s already done that. We’re dealing with a full team, now that we have to been able to deal with problems here at home, but also to deal with it now in terms of in-countries.

And I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this than … the woman who ran the second largest Attorney General’s office in America, after the United States Attorney General in the state of California, and has done a great deal of upholding human rights but also fighting organized crime in the process.

So, it is not her full responsibility in the job, but she’s leading the effort.

I think the best thing to do is to put someone who when he or she speaks [people] don’t have to wonder about “Is that where the President is?” When she speaks, she speaks for me.. [She] doesn’t have to check with me, she knows what she’s doing, and I hope we can move this along.

So Madam Vice President, thank you. I gave you a tough job and you’re smiling.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2021/03/28/vp-kamala-harris-dodges-anti-migration-task-set-by-joe-biden/

Biden Staffer Blocks Cruz From Taking Video at Migrant Facility

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) showed video of a woman he identified as a Biden administration staffer blocking him from recording at a migrant facility on this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

While Cruz was trying to film at the Border Patrol facility in Donna, Texas, the staffer blocking his camera said, “Please give dignity to the people. Please give dignity to the people.”

Cruz said, “So you work for the commissioner. You’re a senior adviser. You were hired two weeks ago, and you’re instructed to ask us to not have any pictures taken here because the political leadership at DHS does not want the American people to know it.”

The staffer responded, “Please don’t treat the people as such.”

Cruz said, “Your policies are unfortunately trying to hide them. I understand that you were instructed. I respect them, and I want to fix this situation, and the administration that you work for is responsible for these conditions.”

Discussing the video, Cruz said, “The Donna facility where that video you just showed was taken, the Donna facility is this giant tent city that they’ve built. It’s massive. It’s designed to hold a thousand people, but under COVID restrictions, its capacity is 250. It right now has over 4,000 people in it. It is at a 1,500% capacity, and that meant you saw in these cages children, little boys and little girls, side by side, they’re not 6-feet apart,” Cruz said on Sunday.

Hew added, “In that facility, children are testing positive for COVID at roughly a 10% rate.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/28/watch-biden-staffer-blocks-cruz-from-taking-video-at-migrant-facility/

Swedish Populist Politician Receives Threatening Letter Containing Bullet

A member of the populist Sweden Democrats claims he received a threatening letter containing a single 9mm bullet at his home.

The politician, who has not been named, found the letter when he arrived at his home on Wednesday and reported the incident to the police, who are now investigating the threat.

Jan Lorentzon, group leader for the Sweden Democrats (SD) in the municipality of Ljungby, spoke to online newspaper Nyheter Idag about the incident as the politician in question has declined to comment.

“There was a letter on the stairs when he came home after work and found there was a nine-millimetre bullet in the letter,” Lorentzon said, claiming the message’s content referenced the lawmaker’s political beliefs.

“There was something about ‘SD being racists’,” he said.

Lorentzon added that the incident was the first of its kind in the municipality.

“It is very unpleasant because it is an attack on the democracy that we have here in Sweden, which we have been protecting for quite a few years. But there are some who will then take liberties and disrupt it to get their agenda through,” he said.

Over the last several years, several Sweden Democrat politicians have not only been threatened but attacked as well.

The polling firm Demoskop published a study on municipal politicians across Sweden in 2019, which revealed that members of the party were the most likely to be subjected to threats or harassment.

The study revealed that 47 per cent of SD members claimed to have experienced threats, physical violence, or vandalism compared to 29 per cent of all parties’ politicians on average.

In one incident in 2018, a municipal politician in Stockholm saw an unidentified suspect attempt to set her home on fire late at night. She and her husband were able to extinguish the flames.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/28/swedish-populist-politician-receives-threatening-letter-containing-bullet/

Italy: Social Security Chief Proposes Expanding Basic Income to All Immigrants

The head of Italy’s social security entity has been criticised for calling to extend the basic income initiative to include migrants who have been in the country for less than ten years.

President of the Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS) Pasquale Tridico spoke to Italian media this week about his desire to expand the citizens’ income policy proposed by the Five Star Movement (M5S) in the first government headed by former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

“The income benefit has a ten-year residence requirement in Italy. This seems excessive to me and does not exist in any other European country,” Tridico said, according to Il Giornale, and called for an increase of the money given based on the size of families.

Currently, Italians, EU citizens, or legal immigrants who have lived in the country for at least ten years are eligible for the citizens’ income, so long as household income does not exceed €9,360 ($11,040/£8,000).

Criticism came immediately from members of the centre-right coalition, such as populist Senator Matteo Salvini who called the idea “absurd” and demanded that the government help Italians facing difficulties first.

National-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni also criticised the proposal, saying that “this would be yet another absurdity of a measure already totally insufficient to save our businesses on their knees”.

Senator Anna Maria Berini, a member of Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, called it “a nonsensical and inappropriate proposal, because this only feeds new social conflicts while we are in such a dramatic situation, with millions of Italians plunged into poverty due to the pandemic crisis.”

The Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on businesses in Italy, with the nation’s gross national product (GDP) shrinking by 8.9 per cent in 2020, down to the same level as 23 years ago.

Last month, a member of Milan’s Gastronomy Association estimated that up to 60 per cent of the restaurants and bars in Italy’s second-largest city could permanently close due to the lockdown restrictions implemented to combat the pandemic.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/28/head-italian-social-security-proposes-basic-income-all-immigrants/

Endless Waves of Migrants Fleeing Poverty Overwhelm Border Patrol

Video shot this week in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas shows firsthand, the never-ending stream of migrants illegally entering the United States. Many of the migrants shared their stories as they made their way to a receiving area set up by the Border Patrol. The migrants, depending on where they illegally enter, walk up to several miles to reach the area where they will surrender.

In a few short hours, near Mission, Tx, Breitbart Texas observed more than 250 migrants illegally crossing the border from Mexico. The endless groups of migrants consisted mostly of whole families and unaccompanied children. Some unaccompanied children, as young as 9 years old, walked through the brush and farm fields in search of Border Patrol agents. The migrants guided themselves by following makeshift signs on sheets of plywood placed strategically to keep them from getting lost.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/28/exclusive-video-endless-waves-of-migrants-fleeing-poverty-overwhelms-border-patrol/

Krispy Kreme CEO defends giving out free doughnuts to vaccinated customers, insists it is about generosity and 'if folks don't want to visit, they don't have to'

The CEO of Krispy Kreme is pushing back against criticism that the company is sending the wrong health message with its offer of a free doughnut to the vaccinated.

The doughnut franchise announced earlier this week that a COVID-19 vaccination card would be good for a free glazed doughnut through the end of the year.

'We all want to get COVID-19 behind us as fast as possible and we want to support everyone doing their part to make the country safe by getting vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available to them,' Krispy Kreme said in a release.

But the announcement came with criticism, including from comedian Stephen Colbert, who couldn't help but mock how Krispy Kreme's well-intentioned offer could feed into America's obesity epidemic.

CEO Mike Tattersfield defended the company to Yahoo Finance on Friday.

'We're a sweet treat company, [and] if folks don't want to visit a doughnut shop, they don't have to,' Tattersfield said.

'[If] folks that want to get a vaccine, if they decide to combine a Krispy Kreme pickup [for] a doughnut, they can,' he continued. 'That's how we look at it…. generosity.'

There is no limit to how many times a customer can claim a free doughnut, and could score one a day for the rest of the year if they keep their vaccination card on hand.

Also, the brand promised to drop off free doughnuts for support workers and volunteers at vaccination sites across the US within the next few weeks.

Last year, Krispy Kreme also gave away a dozen glazed doughnuts to the country's healthcare workers when the pandemic first began to rage.

http://www.madnesshub.com/2021/03/krispy-kreme-ceo-defends-giving-out.html

Liberman announces he will recommend Yair Lapid to be prime minister

"Any person who cares about this country, would have reached the right conclusion a long time ago and would have handed over the reins to someone else," Liberman said.

Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman announced on Sunday that his party will be recommending Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid as the prime minister.

"As we have previously said, we will be recommending the party leader from the 'pro-change block' with the most mandates as the candidate for forming the government," Liberman wrote in a Facebook post.

Liberman addressed the complex political situation that Israel has found itself in - having held four rounds of elections within two years - blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reaching this point.

This situation "is the direct result of the political survival plan of one person - Benjamin Netanyahu, who has failed for the fourth time now to establish a stable and functional government," he wrote.

המצב הפוליטי המורכב בו אנו נמצאים היום הוא תוצאה ישירה של תוכנית ההישרדות הפוליטית והאישית של איש אחד - בנימין נתניהו,…

Posted by ‎Avigdor Liberman - אביגדור ליברמן‎ on Sunday, 28 March 2021

"Any person who cares about this country, would have reached the right conclusion a long time ago and would have handed over the reins to someone else," he added.

Referring to Netanyahu's ongoing criminal trial, Liberman promised voters that following the inauguration of the 24th Knesset, his party would submit a bill that would force a prime minister with a pending indictment to submit their resignation.

Liberman noted that in 2008 such a bill had passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset with the support of the Likud and Netanyahu, as well as the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties.

He also said that his party would submit a bill for limiting the tenure of a serving prime minister to two terms only, a bill that Netanyahu has supported in the past as well.

Finally, Liberman called on all political parties that have aligned themselves in the "pro-change block" to put their egos aside and prevent a fifth round of elections, which currently seems like the most likely outcome.

"Overcoming this political entanglement will happen by finding creative solutions and thinking outside the box," Liberman concluded.

Liberman has said that the country would become a “Khomeini-style state” if the right-wing, religious bloc wins the election.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-elections/liberman-announces-he-will-recommend-yair-lapid-to-be-prime-minister-663445

EPA spent $52 million in violation of law Congress passed to curb wasteful spending

The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act was designed to limit wasteful government spending on IT programs. EPA didn't get the memo.

The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just the News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s.

This week, our award is going to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for spending more than $52 million in taxpayer funds without approval from the chief information officer of the agency — a direct breach of a requirement under the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act.

The EPA had a 10-year, $83 million contract with a consulting firm called CGI Federal to provide the web-based application the agency used as its financial system, i.e., the program that dealt with the outfit's accounting functions, budget report, transaction tables, and the like. In 2015, the agency had started the bidding process for a subsequent contract, meaning the agency was supposedly assessing the open market in search of a new firm that might offer a better product, better rate, or just might be a better fit for the job that the American taxpayers were paying for. But, two years later, EPA had come up with zilch, prompting the agency to extend its contract with CGI Federal for one year.

The EPA paid CGI Federal an additional $17 million for the extra year of work, and then awarded them the new contracts worth a combined $52.5 million. According to a recently released report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General, one of these contracts was an open-competition contract, meaning, at least theoretically, other companies were allowed to pitch the agency for the contract award, and the other contract was a sole-source award, meaning the agency opted to go with the company that was right in front of them without necessarily surveying the open market. In both cases, however, the EPA settled on the same company they had used before and had already paid an additional $17 million.

The 2013 Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) was enacted for the specific purpose of mitigating wasteful government spending related to information technology (IT). Under that law, the EPA's chief information officer was required to review and approve the multimillion dollar contract transaction. Even the initial one-year contract extension with CGI Federal should have been reviewed and approved by the agency's CIO.

At the time of FITARA's passage, the U.S. government was spending upwards of $80 billion a year on IT costs, more than half of which went to maintaining systems that were slow and out-of-date. The goal of the legislation was to efficiently update the IT systems at federal agencies while simultaneously reducing wasteful technology spending. To do that, the bill handed increased responsibility to government CIOs, who became singularly responsible for the successes and failures of all IT projects and updates within the agencies.

Under FITARA, agencies are not allowed to enter into contracts or agreements for IT services worth more than $1 million, unless the CIO has approved the deal. But, according to the OIG , "The EPA awarded $52.5 million for these three contracts without federally required approval from the CIO."

"As a result of not obtaining FITARA approval, the CIO was not informed of the $52 million purchase and was unable to review price competitions and cost reductions," the watchdog report found.

One recommendation made by the IG report is that the agency should determine whether or not to terminate the contracts that were awarded in breach of the law. Unsurprisingly, the agency opted not to end the contracts, saying that they would get it right next time around.

This EPA violation may not be especially egregious as wasteful government spending goes, but it is a dismaying sign that even when the feds set up spending parameters for themselves — as with FITARA — they neglect to follow them to the tune of millions in taxpayer dollars wasted.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/hold-epa-spent-52-million-violation-law-congress-passed-limit

Great Success! US-Backed Fighters Seize US-Made Missiles Heading To Other US-Backed Fighters In Syria

In an unusual turn of events in Syria, militants once backed by the US have seized a shipment of US-made missiles that was heading to fighters currently backed by the US.

The missiles, US-made TOWs, were seized on March 28 by the Syrian Task Force, a join force of the Turkish Police, Counterterrorism Unit and the National Syrian Army (SNA), near the Turkish-occupied town of Azaz in the northern Aleppo countryside.

According to the Turkish Ministry of Interior, the smugglers confessed that that they had been trying to transfer the weapons to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the town of Manbij in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.

Beside two TOW anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), the weapons shipment included 24 AK-type assault rifles, a designated marksman rifle, two gun tubes and ammunition.

Most SNA factions were once backed by the US, which supplied them with TOW ATGMs up until late 2017. The YPG and the PKK, one the other hand, are the core of the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is still receiving US support.

Between 2012 and 2017, the US shipped loads of weapons and ammunition to rebels in Syria on the hopes of toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pentagon led the efforts to arm the Syrian rebels with direct support from US allies in the Middle East, first and foremost Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

US efforts didn’t only fail to topple the Damascus government, but also ended up turning Syria into a large black market for advanced weapons. Many of the weapons supplied by the US and its allies found their way to the hands of terrorist group like ISIS and al-Qaeda’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. Some of these weapons were found in Iraq and even Lebanon.

Today, weapons like TOW ATGMs, are being used by militants once supported by the US against Washington’s current proxies in Syria and vice versa.

The US plans to arm Syrian rebels inflamed the war, threatened neighboring countries and even ended up turning Washington’s tools against each other. Some not very tolerant social media users would call these great achievements a brilliant example of “clusterfuck.”

https://southfront.org/great-success-us-backed-fighters-seize-us-made-missiles-heading-to-other-us-backed-fighters-in-syria/

100 % OPEN: Texas COVID cases, hospitalizations drop, despite Biden’s ‘Neanderthal’ comments

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas did it right. He reopened his state to 100 % despite President Joe Biden’s insulting comments that Abbott’s decision to do so was that of a ‘neanderthal.’

The COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to a downward trend nearly more than two weeks after the state ended its mask mandate. Businesses have also reopened to full capacity.

For example, on Saturday, the latest data shows that Texas’ seven-day COVID positivity rate reached an all-time low of 5.27 per cent. Hospitalizations fell to their lowest level since October, states the data.

The state recorded 2,292 new coronavirus cases, about 500 fewer on average from last week, and 107 new deaths, according to the report.

Read the full report at The Texas Tribune and get the latest numbers.

https://saraacarter.com/100-open-texas-covid-cases-hospitalizations-drop-despite-bidens-neanderthal-comments/

Delta Airlines and TSA Target & Intimidate a Passenger Without Cause

On March 7, 2021 a Delta Airlines flight attendant targeted a first-class passenger for not wearing a mask – only, she was wearing a mask and following “the rules.” She took it so far as to report her to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), who followed up with a threatening notice, citing incorrect and exponentially high fines to potentially intimidate this passenger, while informing her that this is going on her “compliance history record.” Delta Airlines took it so far as to put her on a no-fly list with them. See both letters below.

What began as a day of exhaustion for Shannon (not real name) because she was about to spend an entire afternoon and evening in airports for a long travel home to Nevada, while sick (not from Covid), turned into a horrifying experience of being harassed throughout the flight by a flight attendant.

Shannon entered the airport to her connecting flight with her husband, both donning their masks. Yet, when Shannon stepped foot onto the plane, the flight attendant informed her that she wasn’t wearing the “correct” mask and needed to change it. She was wearing a “homemade mask made of a piece of solid material, without slits, exhalation valves, or punctures” as per CDC’s exact guidelines, reflected on the TSA order. The mask allowed Shannon to breathe a little better than when sporting the maxi pad style mask that the flight attendant was requiring. Despite being sick with inhalers on hand, Shannon complied and switched her mask out.

According to the TSA’s new executive order, “refusing to wear a mask is a violation of federal law and may result in denial of boarding, removal from the aircraft, and/or penalties under federal law.” If one doesn’t wear a mask, they will charge a “fine ranging from $250 for the first offense and up to $1,500 for repeat offenders. Based on substantial aggravating or mitigating factors, TSA may seek a sanction amount that falls outside these ranges.”

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was formed by Homeland Security in response to the 9/11 attacks. It was signed into law November 19, 2001 by George W. Bush and has been criticized for its overreach ever since. Ultimately, they have security oversight of the entire transportation system for railroads, busses, airplanes, and other public transportation.

Once Shannon and her husband took their seats in first-class, Shannon quickly realized she was being scrutinized by this flight attendant, as she pulled her mask slightly down to eat snacks and then pulled it back up – which is allowed according to the CDC and TSA. When Shannon would pull it down to eat, the flight attendant would tell her she had to keep her mask on. Not feeling well, she decided to take a nap, and it was then that her mask slid down just below her nose. Suddenly, she was being jarred awake by the flight attendant, telling her she needed to put her mask on, and showing her a flyer about fines and how she could be put on a no-fly list. Shannon pulled her mask back up over her nose and stated that she had fallen asleep but the flight attendant continued to intimidate her. Shannon asked, “why are you doing this?” She had complied with the rules, even with the mask change which wasn’t required of her, and wore it the entire time on the flight, but this lady wasn’t letting up.

By the end of the flight Shannon couldn’t wait to get out of her seat and exit the plane, after enduring repeated harassment. As she was standing, the flight attendant came over to her and told her she was going to report her and that she would be met by someone to escort her. Shannon was furious, and at that point she stood up, began walking to the nearby exit door, and removed her mask as she exited the plane. A security man followed Shannon and her husband off, and walked them over to a woman who sat behind a desk, where they proceeded to take down her information. The woman said, “don’t worry, you won’t be fined or put on a no-fly list, but I do have to report this.” Later, Shannon found out she was put on Delta’s no-fly list.

Eleven days later, Shannon received this Warning Notice from TSA, in the mail.

https://www.coreysdigs.com/law-order/exclusive-delta-airlines-and-tsa-target-intimidate-a-passenger-without-cause/

What if Biden was trying to ship nukes to Iran thru the Suez and this is why it's been blocked and the US and Russian Navy's are blocking both ends of the canal?

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https://theamericanreport.org/category/home/gulftainer-papers/