COVID Tracking Apps Have Eerie Echoes of Chinese Surveillance System

President Joe Biden's COVID team appears to have entertained an electronic test-and-trace program pioneered by the University of Illinois that would have let businesses deny service to patrons based on their health data, a PowerPoint presentation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows. The program has eerie echoes of China's surveillance system, which uses data from citizens' phones to impose quarantines.

A PowerPoint produced by the school suggests scaling up the university's intrusive contact tracing system for use across the United States. Its file name, "2020-12-14 Shield Biden Covid Team," indicates that it was presented to the Biden team in December, amid an ongoing search for solutions to a seemingly insoluble problem: how to stop the virus without stopping the economy? The presentation proffered an answer.

The school's system uses a mobile app that records test results and Bluetooth data to determine who has been exposed to the virus—and "links building access" on campus to that information. Local businesses have also embraced it, making entry conditional on a "safe status" reading from the app.

The system resembles the one being used in China, where a mandatory app gives each user a "health status"—green, yellow, or red—that dictates access to public spaces. The University of Illinois app likewise divides users into three categories: "yellow" if they've recently tested negative, "orange" if they've potentially been exposed, and "red" if they've recently tested positive. Only students with a yellow status may enter buildings.

The proposal would amount to a more extreme version of the "vaccine passports" being rolled out by airlines and some U.S. cities, which are already causing controversy. Those passports, such as New York's "Excelsior" app, indicate whether an individual has tested negative or been vaccinated, but not whether they've been exposed to the virus based on tracking data. They collect less information and use a less granular classification scheme than the University of Illinois app, meaning they pose relatively fewer risks to civil liberties.

It's unclear how such a scheme would play with liberal activists. While it represents the sort of ambitious, nationwide COVID response Biden has said he wants, it also threatens to exclude far more Americans from public life than measures like voter ID laws, which progressives have decried as the "new Jim Crow."

Only 11 percent of Americans do not have a government-issued ID, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, whereas 19 percent don't own a smartphone. Widespread adoption of the app could ice nearly a fifth of the United States out of the economy, never mind the polling booth.

Stacey Abrams's Fair Fight, whose founder has called voter ID laws a way to "scare people out of voting," did not respond to a request for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/covid-tracking-apps-have-eerie-echoes-of-chinese-surveillance-system/

Biden Puts Susan Rice in Charge of Effort to Expand Vote by Mail

Executive order requires agencies to boost registration efforts

President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting.

Biden signed an executive order in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce "relevant information" on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice "a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation" within 200 days under the terms of the order.

"Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process," the order states. "The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation."

It requires agencies to distribute registration and vote-by-mail ballot application forms, as well as to assist any applicants in completing the forms. It also pushes agencies to allow "approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises."

Biden arrived in the White House thanks in large part to the record number of mail-in ballots in the 2020 election. Former president Donald Trump led in many major swing states at the close of Election Day, only to see his lead evaporate as mail-in ballots were counted that heavily favored Biden.

Critics of Biden's order warned that it represents a massive federal government overreach into election policies put in place by state lawmakers. Chase Martin, legal affairs director for the Foundation for Government Accountability, said the order is "an overly broad federal mandate."

"The order is about inflicting the federal government's will on the states," Martin said. "There's a ton of room for this process to be abused."

The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment on the order.

Rice has come under fire for her tenure as national security adviser under the Obama administration. Republicans have criticized her handling of the Benghazi crisis and the Bowe Bergdahl hostage exchange as well as her alleged attempts to reveal the identities of Trump campaign and administration officials. Rice denied that she leaked any names or identities and said she only obtained information to add context to intelligence reports she received.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-puts-susan-rice-in-charge-of-effort-to-expand-vote-by-mail/

Psaki grilled on teachers giving in-person instruction to migrant kids before own students

White House press secretary defends arrangement, says 'context is important'

EXCLUSIVE: White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday was grilled about San Diego public school teachers volunteering to teach migrant children in-person before returning to the classroom to teach the students in their own district.

Psaki seemed to defend the in-person instruction while students are on spring break, saying "context is important."

Fox News first reported that teachers from San Diego Unified School District are teaching migrant children in person, while SDUSD students are still learning in an online-only format.

The district is expected to move into a hybrid model of in-person and online learning on April 12. Psaki was asked during the press briefing whether the White House supported the arrangement.

"As I understand it, San Diego public schools are opening in early April," Psaki said. "Students will be back in the classroom — part time — and certainly you know our objective from the White House — 5 days a week for majority of schools across the country."

Psaki suggested teachers are "volunteering" to teach migrant children during this period.

"The context is important," she said. "These kids are going back to school for hybrid learning, we of course want this to be five days a week, and we're confident we’ll get there early next month."

She added: "I believe they’re also on spring break right now. I am not sure if its volunteer, or paid, you'd have to ask a local school district, while the kids are on spring break, which, I think, the context is pretty important."

A SDUSD spokeswoman confirmed to Fox News the district has shared information about the opportunity for teachers to volunteer teaching migrant children in person during their spring break this week.

She noted she doesn't know if teachers are getting paid, saying that it's up to the county.

"The San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) is providing the educational program for the unaccompanied migrant children who will be staying at the San Diego Convention Center through July. All children in California, regardless of immigration status, have a constitutional right to education. We also have a moral obligation to ensure a bright future for our children," an SDCOE spokesperson told Fox News in an emailed statement.

"The educational program will include English language development and social-emotional learning opportunities. The teachers who are participating in the program are doing so voluntarily, and the program is following a COVID-19 screening protocol based on guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/psaki-migrant-kids-teachers-in-person-instruction

Armed Services Committee Lawmaker May Quit Early to Take Job at Newsmax

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is considering not running for reelection and taking a job at Newsmax instead, according to reporting from Axios.

Gaetz, a second-term congressman, serves on the House Armed Services Committee and makes regular appearances on Newsmax; he showed up on the channel at least three times in March.

News of his prospective departure from Congress comes a week after an Armed Services hearing on extremism. Some Republicans, including Gaetz, questioned the need for the hearing, despite a large number of veterans and service members taking part in the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol.

"I would categorize this hearing as total nonsense," Gaetz said. "The House Armed Services Committee is engaged in a review of constitutionally protected expressions of our troops. How utterly weak of us."

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the chair of the committee, called Gaetz a demagogue.

"The terrible thing is we have demagogues on both sides," Smith said during the hearing. "And sorry, Mr. Gaetz is the best example of the demagogue problem we have today."

Newsmax is a far-right media platform that has promoted the theory that the 2020 election was rigged against former President Donald Trump. This included unproven allegations that electronic voting machine company Smartmatic rigged voting machines to flip votes against Trump.

Earlier this month, Newsmax also sent an email encouraging readers to opt out of getting COVID-19 vaccines, urging them to buy a nutrition book instead.

A spokesman for Gaetz did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/30/armed-services-committee-lawmaker-may-quit-early-take-job-newsmax.html

Joe Biden & Democrats: “American Lives Don’t Matter”

We know Democrats support “BLM: Black Lives Matter.” It’s all they talk about. While I’m no fan of the Marxist BLM organization, I think all of us can agree that “Black Lives Matter.” No one wants a single law-abiding, innocent, black American to die needlessly.

But someone needs to ask puppet President Joe Biden and every Democrat politician in DC a simple question:

Do “American Lives Matter?”

Because from their actions, it’s pretty darn clear, they don’t. It seems like they’re purposely trying to destroy the lives of American citizens.

Who in their right mind would open the borders, stop construction of the wall, invite the entire world to come to America, announce you won’t deport anyone, and incentivize them with free lawyers, free welfare, bus or air fare, and of course, free healthcare?

Even worse, who in their right mind would open the borders in the middle of a Covid pandemic?

Who’d be insane enough to demand every American citizen returning to the US has to take a Covid test, but refuse to give Covid tests to thousands of illegal aliens illegally breaking into our country each day?

Who would spend $86 million on nice hotel rooms for illegal aliens, yet ask our brave, selfless troops to sleep in freezing cold parking garages, on concrete floors, with only 1 bathroom for 5,000 troops?

Who would open the borders to the Mexican drug cartel, drug traffickers, sex traffickers and pedophiles? Who’d want to give easy entrée to the US for MS-13 murderers?

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/joe-biden-democrats-american-lives-dont-matter/

Report: US Preparing to Offer New Proposal to Iran

Sources told Politico the US might ask Iran to halt certain nuclear activity in exchange for some sanctions relief

According to a report from Politico, the Biden administration is preparing to offer a new proposal to Iran on a way to possibly revive the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.

Citing people “familiar with the matter,” the report said the proposal could be put forward as early as this week. One source said the proposal asks Iran to halt some nuclear activity, such as new advanced centrifuges and the enrichment of uranium at 20 percent, in exchange for some relief from US sanctions, although details are still being worked out.

It’s not clear from the report how much sanctions relief the US would offer. Iran is under an enormous amount of US sanctions. Some are devastating to the country’s economy, and others are more symbolic. So the Biden administration has a lot of options of sanctions it could lift that would not really give Tehran any relief.

Up until this point, the Biden administration has been demanding that Iran return to the limits set by the JCPOA before any sanctions are lifted. In recent weeks, the US has said it is willing to talk with Iran and is trying to portray Tehran as the obstacle to a JCPOA revival, and Western media outlets are happy to go along with this narrative. The reality is, the US can restore the agreement at any time by lifting sanctions.

One reason the US could be trying to get this proposal in soon is the upcoming presidential election in Iran. Iranian officials have said during the transition period, Tehran will not be able to make any significant policy changes, so restoring the JCPOA would be more difficult at this time. But the Politico report said that while Biden officials are aware of the upcoming election, it is not a factor for their approach with Iran.

As for Biden himself, sources told Politico that the president “appears in no rush to restore the original deal.” That seems to be the case since his administration has not made a sincere effort to revive the deal and is a sign that any future offer from the US will likely not be enough to bring Iran to the table.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/03/29/report-us-preparing-to-offer-new-proposal-to-iran/

FFS any excuse to keep the death and heroin flowing

Pentagon Would Face Costly Lawsuits If US Ended Afghanistan War

Military made contracts anticipating years of war

Since February 29 of 2020, the US has had a peace deal in place, intending to withdraw from Afghanistan on May 1 of 2021. The US military was always averse to that, but seems to have been basing its contracts on the idea it wouldn’t happen.

Former financial officials are warning that if the US does leave Afghanistan, either on May 1 or any time in 2021, the Pentagon would be facing down a “barrel full of lawsuits” from contracts that had not been fulfilled yet.

This is rather a flimsy excuse for dragging the war on, and such a clumsy situation to be in with the knowledge of the war’s end being public throughout, that it must inevitably be questioned if this was just many, many colossal blunders, or if the Pentagon was openly trying to contractually obligate itself to the Afghan War.

Another obvious question is why, as theses contracts kept being signed, officials weren’t raising the issue of these contractual obligations throughout 2020. At the very least, that would’ve been a chance for someone to convince them to stop making such contracts before now, which once again makes this seem nearly deliberate.

Of course none of this really obliges the US to stay in Afghanistan. Rather, it just imposes a cost for making good on the peace deal. Its hard to imagine that the US would honestly keep the war going just to avoid these lawsuits, even if that’s the obvious implication of officials pointing out the risk.

To the extent anyone might be swayed, it’s an administration that is undecided on the pullout, and which might be inclined to put off making any decisions to avoid embarrassing lawsuits.

Deals extending beyond the 2021 pullout dates were still being made by the Pentagon as recently as this month, according to officials. At some point, one would hope that the military realizes the hole they’ve made for themselves and stop digging, because the US cannot possibly stay in Afghanistan forever to avoid lawsuits.

Even if the Pentagon gets its way and keeps the war going beyond 2021, this is an embarrassing way to go about it, and should once again draw attention to the Pentagon trying to avoid military pullouts by appealing to the momentum the war already has.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/03/29/pentagon-would-face-costly-lawsuits-if-us-ended-afghanistan-war/

Judicial Watch Statement on Supreme Court Refusal to Uphold Court Ruling Requiring Hillary Clinton Email Testimony

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s refusal to grant cert to Judicial Watch’s challenge to an appeals court decision exempting Hillary Clinton from testifying under oath about her emails and Benghazi attack documents:

Hillary Clinton ignored the law but received special protection from both the courts and law enforcement. For countless Americans, this double standard of justice has destroyed confidence in the fair administration of justice. Americans would never have known about Hillary Clinton’s email and related pay for play scandals but for Judicial Watch’s diligence. We expect that the Biden State and Justice Departments will continue to protect her and cover up their own misconduct as we press for additional accountability through the courts.

Judicial Watch argued that the Supreme Court should hear its case because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in undermining the Freedom of Information Act in giving Clinton unwarranted special treatment that conflicts both with Supreme Court precedent and the precedents of other courts of appeal, including its own.

The cert petition arose from the Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242), which led directly to the disclosure of Clinton’s use of a nongovernment email server to conduct government business. On March 2, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth authorized Judicial Watch to depose Clinton about her emails and the existence of relevant Benghazi attack documents. The court also ordered the deposition of Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other State Department officials.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/hrc-scotus-refusal/

Hunter Biden blockbuster: Memos detail quiet effort to assist indicted Ukrainian oligarch

At time, his father's administration considered Dmitri Firtash a fugitive felon.

Hunter Biden and his business partner engaged in an effort to assist a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch indicted by his father's administration, an effort that briefly captured the FBI's attention and led one of the lawyers in the case to express concern that using the then-vice president's son might backfire, according to emails, text messages and interviews.

The effort by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to assist Dmitri Firtash began in spring 2015 when they were contacted by one of the oligarch's associates, and an American lawyer for the oligarch was instructed to provide them an overview of the case, including desires to contact U.S. government officials.

Firtash, one of Ukraine's wealthiest businessmen, already had been indicted by the Obama-Biden administration more than a year earlier on corruption charges in Chicago, allegations that Firtash has long denied. Firtash was challenging extradition to the United States from Austria, where he was living, and was seeking to return to his home country of Ukraine, where the economy and security teetered after a Russian invasion of its Crimean region.

"The case is weak and ultimately, and perhaps as soon as next week, a loser. Moreover, Austria at the highest levels has zero enthusiasm for its continuation," Adam Waldman, an American lawyer for Firtash, emailed Archer on April 21, 2015 in an overview about the case. The email, entitled "6 points," was immediately forwarded to Hunter Biden by Archer.

"The only ask is that an introductory meeting be arranged in Vienna between some designee of the USG and DF," Waldman wrote, apparently referring to Firtash's hopes. "This could then lead to closer communication from him about his intentions and direction in his country."

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2015_04_21 - Re-DF - Waldman and Archer.pdf

The email chain was found on a laptop turned over to the FBI by a Delaware computer repairman, who claims Hunter Biden left the device at his shop in 2019 and never picked it up. Waldman confirmed the email's authenticity to Just the News.

By spring 2015, Hunter Biden and Archer had been involved for years in a series of businesses under the umbrellas of Rosemont Capital and Rosemont Seneca and other spinoffs. They also had developed ties in Ukraine after both had been added to the board of the natural gas giant Burisma Holdings, a firm that U.S. officials considered to be corrupt. The younger Biden's father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, oversaw Ukraine policy for the Obama administration at the time.

The emails and text messages indicate that on-and-off effort to assist Firtash stretched through the summer and fall of 2015, with discussions centering on contacting various State Department officials including then-Secretary of State John Kerry (the stepfather of Rosemont partner Christopher Heinz) and then-Deputy Secretary Tony Blinken, now America's top diplomat under President Biden.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/tuehunter-biden-involved-effort-assist-indicted

Connecticut School District Shows Second Graders Video Featuring Cartoon Erect Penis, ‘By Mistake’ (VIDEO)

The Greenwich school district in Connecticut is under fire after playing a cartoon video for a second grade remote class featuring an erect penis.

The video features two owls talking about fear before showing images like parents fighting, physical abuse of a child, and child sexual abuse. The sexual abuse portion featured a profile of a man’s erect penis standing in front of a small child and graphic descriptions of abuse.

Greenwich Schools Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones said in an email to outraged parents that the cartoon was most likely meant for a private therapy session for children who have experienced trauma.

“Around the midway point in the video there is reference to situations in which children may become afraid, including being afraid of abuse, both physical and sexual,” she wrote. “The content at this point in the video was not appropriate for our GPS second grade classrooms.”

Jones also apologized for any “questions or concerns this may have raised for children.”

Conservative political commentator Carl Higbie, who has children in the school, but not in that class, is demanding that someone be fired for this egregious incident. He has also emailed everyone involved demanding that they preserve all emails and records related to the incident for a Freedom of Information Act request that he has filed.

“The two possibilities of how this happened are; 1. The teachers didn’t care enough to review this before playing it or 2. They thought it was OK… in both cases these folks have no business teaching our kids,” Higbie told Gateway Pundit.

Higbie also provided Gateway with a copy of the video, titled The Alfred Jr. & Shadow – A Short Story about Being Scared, which can be viewed here. The shocking content begins around the 5 minute mark:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/connecticut-school-district-shows-second-graders-video-featuring-cartoon-erect-penis-mistake-video/

“Fauci Is a Sociopath!” – Peter Navarro GOES OFF on Compulsive Liar and Dangerous Dr. Fauci (VIDEO)

Former Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy under President Trump, Peter Navarro, joined the Bannon War Room on Tuesday morning. During the discussion, Navarro brought up Dr. Tony Fauci’s massive lie on CNN on Sunday.

Fauci said it was his idea to push for a COVID vaccine back in January 2020. This was the same month he famously downplayed the pandemic. Fauci then often repeated how it would be years until there was a viable vaccine. The guy is a stooge.

Navarro went off!

Peter Navarro: “I’ve been going by the theory that Fauci is just a befuddled old man. From the first time I met him he just did not make a lot of sense. We’ve seen all of his flipflops. My new theory is he is simply a sociopath. He just lies to advance his own interest. And nothing is more proof of that than the interview he did this weekend where he wants to take credit for the father of the vaccine in January 2020… So, Fauci is a sociopath. Fauci created the Wuhan lab gain of function genetically engineered virus… well, guess what, Tony? If you allow the Chinese communists working with the People’s Liberation Army, to go in and screw around with a bioweapon using your gain of function which was slipped past President Trump behind his back. Guess what? You’re going to get deadly and dangerous viruses that are then going to mutate and continue to thwart our efforts to get herd immunity by things like vaccines and people who are already being infected. Tony Fauci, you need to be held accountable!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/fauci-sociopath-peter-navarro-goes-off-compulsive-liar-dangerous-dr-fauci-video/

NATO Pushes For Creation Of “Democratic Resilience Center”

In NATO, the creation of the Center for Democratic Resilience has surfaced, yet again.

According to the idea, it will have to monitor the facts of violation of democracy in the member countries of the alliance and help the allies to develop democratic institutions more effectively.

For the first time, the initiative to create this office was voiced in 2019, then it was noted in the concept for the development of the NATO alliance 2030 and, finally, in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly a working group was created that will try to translate this idea into reality.

Suffice to say that the main purpose of the Center is to presumably deal with censorship of the information space and discrimination against ethnic minorities in the Baltic States, the constant accusations of human rights violations against Turkey by Greece, as well as Poland’s undemocratic attitude towards abortion and the LGBT community in the European sense.

The top priority for the NATO PA is to help the Alliance rededicate itself to its democratic foundations.

“The assault on the US Capitol on 6 January has demonstrated that democracy, while resilient, is also fragile. And the evidence released recently of Russia’s interference in our elections highlights the threat which the global march of autocracy poses to our democracies,” noted Congressman Connolly. “We must constantly strengthen and protect democracy against attempts to undermine it – both from within and from without.”

Importantly, members and the invited speakers discussed how to advance the Assembly’s recommendation to establish a NATO Democratic Resilience Centre.

“NATO has a well-oiled machinery focused on military matters, but it lacks a body which is fully focused on defending our democracies,” the President stressed.

Congressman Connolly first proposed the idea for such a Centre in 2019. It has since been backed up by the Assembly as a whole as well as the independent Group of Experts appointed by the NATO Secretary General for the NATO 2030 process.

Back in January 2021, NATO PA President Connely also spoke of the centre with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Its aim is to assist members and partner nations to strengthen their democratic institutions.

The Assembly advocates for NATO to rededicate itself to the shared democratic foundations. As part of these efforts, the Standing Committee set up a Working Group to refine a concept of a Centre for Democratic Resilience within NATO – an idea Congressman Connolly introduced in 2019 on the occasion of NATO 70th anniversary and since backed by the Assembly as a whole.

“NATO has a well-oiled machinery focused on military matters, but it lacks a body which is fully focused on defending democracy. This must change.” President Connolly stresses. “Establishing a Democratic Resilience Center inside NATO Headquarters would show that NATO is truly serious about defending our democratic model.”

https://southfront.org/nato-pushes-for-creation-of-democratic-resilience-center/

The CDC Extends Its Eviction Moratorium for Landlords for Another Three Months Through June

The CDC which can’t get much right since the China coronavirus came to the States believes it has the right to extend eviction moratoriums due to the pandemic.

The CDC has decided to extend the moratorium on evictions due to the China coronavirus pandemic. According to the CDC website:

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has signed an extension to the eviction moratorium further preventing the eviction of tenants who are unable to make rental payments. The moratorium that was scheduled to expire on March 31, 2021 is now extended through June 30, 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a historic threat to the nation’s public health. Keeping people in their homes and out of crowded or congregate settings — like homeless shelters — by preventing evictions is a key step in helping to stop the spread of COVID-19.

The Washington Examiner wrote:

The eviction moratorium, first implemented by the Trump administration last September, was set to expire on Wednesday. Its aim was to prevent people who have suffered financially from resorting to living in congregate settings such as homeless shelters, where COVID-19 can spread more easily from person to person.

The income cap for renters who qualify for coverage under the ban is $99,000, or $198,000 if a couple files taxes together. The renter must also offer “a completed and signed copy of a declaration” to their landlord that they are unable to pay their rent, and eviction could result in their becoming homeless.

A federal judge noted the following about the ruling:

“The federal government cannot say that it has ever before invoked its power over interstate commerce to impose a residential eviction moratorium,” Judge John Barker, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote in his ruling. “The federal government has not claimed such a power at any point during our nation’s history until last year.”

The CDC has messed up nearly everything it has touched since this pandemic occurred but they still somehow believe they can regulate how long renters who aren’t paying rent can remain in the premise they aren’t paying on. To hell with the landlords.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/cdc-extends-eviction-moratorium-landlords-another-three-months-june/

Who Raises Taxes During a Pandemic Already Creating Economic Turmoil? JoeBama, That’s Who

Think about the logical insanity of this position for a moment…. According to the Biden administration the economy is in trouble, people are struggling, and congress needs to spend trillions to bail out state, local and federal governments along with sending income subsidies to all Americans as the economic crisis around COVID continues.

Due to policies on energy, regulation and the COVID virus, simultaneously food prices are going higher, fuel prices are up 30 percent, overall energy prices are rising, transportation costs increasing and the inflationary impact on the middle-class is eating up their limited paychecks.

AT THIS EXACT MOMENT the same administration is now proposing a tax increase.

THINK ABOUT THE LACK OF LOGIC HERE.

(VIA AXIOS) […] The biggest-ticket item would raise the corporate rate from 21% to 28%. That’s worth $730 billion over 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center. The other three would:

Impose a global minimum tax on profits from foreign subsidiaries: $550 billion.

Tax capital gains as regular income for the wealthy and tax unrealized capital gains at death: $370 billion.

Return the top individual rate for those making more than $400,000 to the pre-Trump rate of 39.6%: $110 billion.

[..] Democrats close to the White House don’t expect Biden to fight as hard for other expected proposals, including one that could raise some $740 billion by imposing new Social Security taxes on the wealthy.

His campaign plan to impose a 28% minimum rate on the wealthy, which would raise $220 billion, is unlikely to cross the finish line.

And making it harder for small businesses to claim deductions, which would bring in $140 billion, will likely encounter serious roadblocks.

Changing the ways estates are taxed, which would raise $220 billion, may not make it into the final legislation. (read more)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/30/who-raises-takes-during-a-pandemic-already-creating-economic-turmoil-joebama-thats-who/

Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK

We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things that way.

Ten years ago this month, the US, UK and France attacked oil-rich Libya under the fictitious cover of ‘humanitarian intervention’. The bombing was ‘justified’ by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy by the supposed imminent massacre of civilians in Benghazi by forces under Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. As we have documented previously, the propaganda claims were fraudulent.

Libya, previously a wealthy state with free health care and education, was essentially destroyed. An estimated 600,000 Libyans were killed. Many more were displaced from their homes. In the barbarous conditions of the failed state, black people have been ethnically ‘cleansed’, lynched and auctioned off as slaves, illicit arms transfers and terrorism have become rife, and many Libyans have attempted to flee to better lives across the Mediterranean, thousands of them drowning en route.

As Jeremy Kuzmarov, managing editor of CovertAction Magazine and author of four books on US foreign policy, pointed out recently, the powerful Western perpetrators of this human calamity have never been brought to justice. He added:

‘In hindsight, it is clear that the U.S. was completing a 40-year regime change operation targeting Colonel Qaddafi for which media disinformation was pivotal.

‘It is important today as such to revisit the 2011 war so that U.S. citizens can learn from the history and not be duped again into supporting an intervention of this kind.’

The Stunning Silences Over Syria And Venezuela

But, when it came to Syria several years later, media disinformation was once again pivotal in unleashing Western firepower. As we have described in numerous media alerts, the corporate media declared with instant unanimity and certainty that Syria’s President Bashar Assad was responsible for a chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Douma on 7 April, 2018. One week later, the US, UK and France attacked Syria in response to the unproven allegations. Since then, there has been a mounting deluge of evidence that the UN’s Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has perpetrated a massive cover-up to preserve the Western narrative that Assad gassed civilians in Douma.

Earlier this month, five former OPCW officials joined a group of prominent signatories to urge the UN chemical weapons watchdog to address the controversy. Aaron Maté, an independent journalist with The Grayzone website, has been following developments closely since the beginning (see his in-depth article, ‘Did Trump Bomb Syria on False Grounds?’).

He noted that:

‘Leaks from inside the OPCW show that key scientific findings that cast doubt on claims of Syrian government guilt were censored, and that the original investigators were removed from the probe. Since the cover-up became public, the OPCW has shunned accountability and publicly attacked the two whistleblowers who challenged it from inside.’

In an interview, Maté pointed out the remarkable silence from the corporate media:

‘the western media, across the spectrum, has buried this story – which is pretty incredible. You have extraordinary allegations of a cover-up, you have whistleblowers; and not only…do you have allegations, you have documents – a trove of documents released by WikiLeaks.’

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https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79597/propaganda-by-omission-libya-syria-venezuela-and-the.html

Operation ‘Frontier Justice’ sees more than 250 arrested over 10 days in Topeka, Kansas

TOPEKA, Kans. – For 10 days in March, the U.S. Marshals and Topeka Police, working with multiple federal, state and local law enforcement partners, conducted an operation designed to reduce violent crime and drug activity in and around Topeka, resulting in 258 arrests.

Operation Frontier Justice was conducted in partnership with the Topeka Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, Kansas Highway Patrol, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI, Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office, Kansas Department of Corrections, Shawnee County Department of Corrections, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In addition to the 258 arrests, 16 of which were gang members, the operation resulted in the seizure of 24 firearms, nearly 19 kilograms of narcotics to include marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin and $25,000 in U.S. currency.

Operation Frontier Justice was conducted by utilizing strategies derived from the U.S. Marshals counter-gang model. These strategies include the targeting and arrest of violent fugitives, gang members and criminal offenders who have committed violent crimes such as homicide, shooting into dwellings, felony assault and sexual assault, illegal possession of firearms, illegal drug distribution, and robbery. Each federal, state and local agency uses its individual specialized enforcement techniques and statutory authority to disrupt the criminal operations of violent street gangs and career criminal offenders in Topeka and surrounding areas.

Developed by the U.S. Marshals, Operation Frontier Justice is a national initiative to reduce gang violence and violent crime in American cities.

https://breaking911.com/operation-frontier-justice-sees-more-than-250-arrested-over-10-days-in-topeka-kansas/

Florida Man Admits To Downloading Dozens of Videos From The Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which Was Funded By Bitcoin

Tampa, Florida – Jack R. Dove, III (41, Lakeland) has pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 29, 2021.

Dove had been indicted on January 29, 2019.

According to court documents, Dove used the cryptocurrency bitcoin to pay for a membership to a Darknet marketplace called “Welcome To Video,” which contained the largest collection of child sexual exploitation materials by volume on the Darknet. In March 2018, the Korean National Police in South Korea seized the server that was used to operate the “Welcome To Video” website, which contained over 250,000 child sexual exploitation videos. The website exclusively advertised child sexual exploitation videos available for purchase and download by members of the website using bitcoin. An analysis of the server revealed that Dove had created multiple accounts. In January and February 2017, Dove used one of his accounts to purchase “points” from the website. Dove then used those “points” to download and received approximately 8,700 megabytes of child sex abuse material. In August 2018, Dove used another account to pay for “VIP” membership to the website granting him unlimited downloads from the website over a six-month period. During his VIP membership status, Dove downloaded and received approximately 38 videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including young children.

On November 30, 2018, federal agents executed a search warrant at Dove’s Lakeland home and seized several electronic devices. A forensic analysis of the devices revealed that Dove had in fact received the child sex abuse videos that he had previously purchased from the “Welcome To Video” website and was in possession of additional child sex abuse material depicting young children, including infants and toddlers, who had been bound and subjected to sadistic and violent acts during the production of the videos.

https://breaking911.com/florida-man-admits-to-downloading-dozens-of-videos-from-the-largest-darknet-child-pornography-website-which-was-funded-by-bitcoin/

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What a Benevolent "Reset" Would Require

The Covid hoax has given mankind a unique opportunity to throw off the yoke of the satanist (Masonic) central bankers responsible for Communism, war, depression, pandemics, terrorism, corruption & decadence.

I sense a seismic shift. The bankers have overplayed their hand and exposed themselves and their vassals (our elected "leaders") as traitors, gangsters, psychopaths, perverts and mass murderers. Florida, Texas and South Dakota have broken ranks and proven Covid 19 to be a lie.

This is what a truly benevolent reset would entail.

1. First and most important, the nations would regain control over control over their credit and currency creation. They would renounce all "debt" created out of thin air. They would create the medium of exchange by spending it into existence, debt-and-interest free.

1. mRNA vaccines would be banned. All politicians, journalists and medical officials who collaborated in the Covid hoax would be fired. Jacob Rothschild, George Soros, Bill Gates, and Tony Fauci would be tried for crimes against humanity and have their wealth confiscated and added to public coffers. Joe Biden would be jailed for rigging an election. The traitor Donald Trump will be tried for reality show opposition and dereliction of duty. All those complicit in the election rigging, including Trump, Pence, Congress and the Supreme Court judges would be fired and put on trial.

1. Media and tech monopolies would be nationalized, broken up and resold to people who will guarantee free speech and the free flow of information. The CIA and FBI will be shut down and reorganized. Local and state police will be purged of Freemasons.

1. Freemasonry would be banned. Its leading members would be tried and incarcerated. Freemasons would be banned from holding public office or employment.

1. Communists would be purged from the education system, especially universities. Universities would protect free speech and inquiry. Scientific method would be re-instated.

1. Antifa, feminists and other Leftists would be sent to "re-education" camps.

1. Elections would be publicly funded. No private contributions would be permitted. Politicians would not be permitted to profit from their office.

1. The promotion of Satanism, gender dysphoria, illegal migration, climate change and all globalist shibboleths would be punishable by fines and prison terms.

1. Family values marriage, fidelity, responsible parenthood would be become government policy. Human life would be considered inviolate. Abortion would be scaled back or banned.

A healthy national and racial pride would be encouraged. Everybody would be afforded opportunity on the basis of individual merit and industry.

1. There will be a collective effort to discern and enact the Creator's Design. The public would be encouraged to celebrate the Miracle of Life and praise God!

https://henrymakow.com/2021/03/what-a-benevolent-reset-would-require.html

WHO Report Blames Animals Instead of Wuhan Lab Leak for CCP Virus Outbreak, Questions Unanswered

A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes COVID-19 likely spread to people via an animal, but WHO’s chief said the mission to study the origins of the virus did not adequately analyze other theories.

“As far as WHO is concerned, all hypotheses remain on the table,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement on Tuesday after the report was released. “This report is a very important beginning, but it is not the end. We have not yet found the source of the virus, and we must continue to follow the science and leave no stone unturned as we do.”

According to the findings from the WHO team, a scenario where an animal host such as a wild animal that was captured and raised on a farm “very likely” spread the virus to humans. However, that animal has not yet been determined.

“The possible intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2 remains elusive,” the report stated, referring to another name for the virus.

The report’s conclusion was largely based on the WHO’s investigative efforts in January and February of this year. Critics noted that the Chinese communist regime had a significant role in their investigation and accused them of again engaging in a cover-up.

Tedros also stated Tuesday that “scientists would benefit from full access to data including biological samples from at least September 2019” and that “in my discussions with the team, they expressed the difficulties they encountered in accessing raw data. I expect future collaborative studies to include more timely and comprehensive data sharing.”

https://www.ntd.com/who-report-blames-animals-instead-of-wuhan-lab-leak-for-ccp-virus-outbreak-questions-unanswered_589471.html