John Merrill Confesses To Affair, Will Not Be A Candidate For Senate After National File Report

'I will obviously not be a candidate for the United States Senate'

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has admitted to his affair with a legal assistant, which was first reported exclusively by NATIONAL FILE. Merrill first denied the affair, but he broke down on Wednesday and confessed to it. Merrill said that he is not going to run for U.S. Senate in 2022, as he was expected to do. President Donald Trump endorsed America First candidate Mo Brooks for the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Alabama Wednesday following the Merrill revelations.

“It’s clear that I had an inappropriate relationship with her, and it is not something that I am proud of or something that is something that — I’m very disappointed in myself. I’m also disappointed that I allowed my family to be embarrassed by this action. And it’s something that I certainly will always regret because of the pain that it has caused my family,” John Merrill said, as reported by AL.com, which credits NATIONAL FILE for breaking the Merrill scoop.

I will obviously not be a candidate for the United States Senate nor will I be seeking any other elected position in 2022, because I think it’s important to me to make sure that I become the man that I have been before and that I am working to put myself in the position to be the leader that I have been before, as a husband, as a father, as a friend and as an elected official,” Merrill stated.

https://nationalfile.com/john-merrill-confesses-to-affair-will-not-be-a-candidate-for-senate-after-national-file-report/

Pelosi Says We Were in a Bad Situation at the Border Under Trump, But Joe Biden Saved the Day and Put Us on a “Good Path at the Border”

This woman is insane.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said the border was a total disaster under President Trump but Joe Biden has saved the day with his open borders policies.

“The fact is we are on a good path at the border under the leadership of Joe Biden,” Pelosi said. “It’s about restructuring how we do what is happening there because we were in a very bad situation under the Trump Administration.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/pelosi-says-bad-situation-border-trump-joe-biden-saved-day-put-us-good-path-border-video/

Vaccine expert says it's 'hard to say' if Queensland nursing home death has causal link to jab

The elderly woman died four hours after getting the Pfizer vaccine, with police called to the Blue Care Springwood Yurana Aged Care Facility about 1.30am

A leading Australian vaccine and infectious diseases expert says it's "hard to say" if the death of a Queensland nursing home resident had a causal link to the COVID-19 jab she received.

Authorities will investigate the death of an 82-year-old woman who passed away in an aged care facility in Logan, south of Brisbane, on Friday. However, they do not believe the death is linked to the vaccine.

Speaking to Today, University of Sydney Professor Robert Booy said the woman's death would be investigated "really carefully".

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-covid19-vaccine-authorities-investigate-death-no-causal-link/9d225195-2309-4ba4-ab3c-4f084a69edfd

Australia's turn for deaths and MSM spin to cover

Former CNN Anchor Brooke Baldwin Exits Company By Accusing The Network Of Being Male-Dominated

Departing CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin complained that the network is too male-dominated during a recent interview that touched on her exit.

Baldwin announced in February that she’s leaving the network mid-April to start “the next chapter” 0f her life. Prior to her official announcement, she was replaced by CNN’s Jake Tapper on-air leading up to the 2020 election, Fox News noted. Baldwin aired her issues with the network’s largely-male leadership during an interview, published Monday, with “Ms.Magazine.”

“Well, let me lift the curtain a little bit, and again, this is only my experience here at CNN, but you know, in my … so, I’ve been anchoring for 10-plus years, the majority of that time two hours in the afternoon, and in that time, you know, the most influential anchors on our network, the highest-paid, are men,” Baldwin said during the interview. “My bosses, my executives are men. The person who oversees CNN Dayside is a man, and my executive producer for 10 years is a man.”

“So, I have been surrounded by a lot of men, and I do think it is changing. I know it is changing just by looking at some of the faces that are popping up more and more on our channel and on other channels, but that is just … and even going back to my early 20s, you know, I mean, the majority of my time spent as a cub reporter on into my 30s was spent with majority male photographers running around, shooting stories at whatever city I was living in at the time, and yes, there would be certainly women in the newsroom, but oftentimes, especially early on, they were women with very sharp elbows, and so, I was surrounded by a lot of dudes,” she added.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/07/cnn-anchor-brooke-baldwin-bashes-former-network-male-dominated/

McInerney Details Hybrid War Being Waged Against Conservatives

https://rumble.com/vfgq2x-dark-secrets-revealed-thomas-mcinerney-details-a-hybrid-war-being-waged-aga.html

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Massive Fire Rages At Texas Industrial Plant

A massive industrial fire is raging in Channelview, Texas. The two-alarm blaze broke out late this afternoon. Residents heard loud noises and then saw a huge fireball fill the air, reported Click2Houston.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/holy-smoke-massive-fire-rages-texas-industrial-plant

Kim Kardashian Makes Forbes Billionaire's List For The First Time

When Forbes memorializes that you're a billionaire, you're officially a billionaire.

Such is the case for Kim Kardashian, who has been included on the World's Billionaire's list for the first time ever on Tuesday thanks to her business empire and her television series. Her net worth, helped along by “Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and endorsement deals, increased from $780 million to $1 billion from October 2020 to now, according to the NY Post.

She has earned "at least $10 million pretax" from her reality TV show, per year. Kardashian launched her KKW Beauty brand in 2017, following in the footsteps of her sister, Kylie, who also found success in cosmetics.

“It’s the first time I’ve moved away from having licensing deals and transitioned into being an owner,” she said at the time.

She then sold 20% of her cosmetic company to Coty for $200 million, which valued her company at $1 billion.

She also launched shapewear company Skims in 2019, raising money from Net-a-Porter’s Natalie Massane and Theory’s Andrew Rosen, Forbes wrote. She leverages her 69.6 million Twitter followers and 213 million Instagram followers to help promote, and sell, her brands.

Forbes estimates that Skims is worth more than $500 million, which would put Kardashian's stake at about $225 million.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/kim-kardashian-makes-forbes-billionaires-list-after-net-worth-rises-200-million-october

=Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime and Conspiracy Charges for Threatening Journalists and Advocates

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-neo-nazi-group-pleads-guilty-hate-crime-and-conspiracy-charges-threatening-journalists

Pakistani National Indicted and Sanctioned for Human Smuggling Conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pakistani-national-indicted-and-sanctioned-human-smuggling-conspiracy

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1379932541562523651

Texas Governor reveals abuse allegations where 1,300 migrant children are being held at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio

“Children at this facility are being sexually assaulted." -@GregAbbott_TX

Watch: Illegal Aliens End Hunger Strike After Winning $2.1B in Taxpayer-Funded Aid from Andrew Cuomo

Illegal aliens are ending their 23-day hunger strike after successfully lobbying New York state Democrats and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to provide them with billions in taxpayer-funded aid.

While more than a million jobs have been lost in New York and an estimated 80,000 New York businesses may not make it to the end of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo and state Democrats will provide $2.1 billion in stimulus checks and unemployment-style benefits to nearly 200,000 illegal aliens.

In comparison, as Breitbart News reported, small businesses devastated by the pandemic are receiving just $1 billion in tax credits and grants — $1.1 billion less than illegal aliens in the state.

Many illegal aliens who stand to benefit from the aid are ending the 23-day hunger strike they started last month, eating a meal at a victory rally on Wednesday.

Previous estimates suggested illegal aliens could receive up to $28,600 a year thanks to the taxpayer-funded benefits approved by Cuomo. Weekly, illegal aliens could receive $500. For those unemployed since March 2020, illegal aliens could receive, on average, $12,600.

New York, and particularly New York City, has been ravaged by Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) economic lockdown measures that have now been in place for more than a year. Historic venues, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and local neighborhood spots have had to close their doors for good as a result of the lockdowns.

Those forced to close include The Roosevelt hotel in Midtown East, which opened in 1924; the Copacabana nightclub, which opened in 1940; The Paris Cafe, which opened in 1873; and Empire Coffee & Tea, which opened in 1908, among hundreds of others.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/07/watch-illegal-aliens-end-hunger-strike-after-winning-2-1b-in-taxpayer-funded-aid-from-andrew-cuomo/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/07/watch-illegal-aliens-end-hunger-strike-after-winning-2-1b-in-taxpayer-funded-aid-from-andrew-cuomo/

Unearthed E-mails Place Hunter Biden at West Wing Meeting With Then VP Biden and Burisma Board Partner Devon Archer.

Previously unseen e-mails on Hunter Biden’s “Hard Drive from Hell” point to never-before-seen evidence of involvement by Joe Biden in his son’s lucrative business dealings in Ukraine with natural gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

In a previously unreported email reviewed by The National Pulse, Rosemont Seneca Partners employee Joan K. Peugh advises Hunter Biden – who is addressed by his given name, Robert – that he is scheduled for a White House meeting on April 16th, 2014.

Previously, it was believed on Devon Archer had attended the meeting in the West Wing, and the corporate media excused the matter as an “art project” discussion.

But just days after, then Vice President Joe Biden visited Ukraine, and both Hunter and Archer would start receiving whopping checks from energy company Burisma, an industry in which they had zero experience.

Hunter Biden recently admitted the previously dismissed “hard drive from hell” actually “could” be his.

The line item of the e-mail, itself dated April 15th 2014, reads: “1115AM- Meet Devon and Luke @ Peet’s Coffee and head to WH (Jamie Lyons is ####### if anything comes up).”

Lyons, at the time, was an assistant to Joe Biden’s chief of staff Steve Richetti, which indicates attention by the Vice President himself into the visit of the two soon-to-be Burisma board members.

Significantly, this April 16th meeting occurred only five days before Joe Biden took his second vice presidential trip to Ukraine to deliver a substantial package of assistance to Ukraine, including energy security, some of which directly benefitted the company – Burisma – which would simultaneously start fattening his son’s wallet.

Obama White House Visitor Logs dated April 16th 2014 and reviewed by The National Pulse confirm Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer and his son Luke Archer were, indeed, admitted to the West Wing at 1130AM to meet the Vice President.

As a family member of the Vice President, Hunter Biden would have been able to access the White House without having a visitor’s appointment, so his name would not appear in the visitor logs. To this date, it is unclear if he was a part of the meeting.

This newly published email is the first traceable evidence that Hunter Biden was also present at his business partner’s West Wing meeting with his father, and it potentially refutes Joe Biden’s assertion that he knew nothing of Hunter’s business in Ukraine. If anything, this looks more like a planning meeting for the three.

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/hunter-biden-burisma-emails/

‘Operation Home Alone’ leads to arrests of 10 child predators in South Carolina

YORK COUNTY, SC – Ten potential child predators have been arrested. For multiple days during the month of March, the York County Sheriff’s Office along with 13 other state and federal law enforcement agencies participated in an online child exploitation investigation called “Operation Home Alone”.

https://breaking911.com/operation-home-alone-leads-to-arrests-of-10-child-predators-in-south-carolina/

4 Syrian soldiers injured in 'Israeli aggression' over Damascus, Syrian state media report

Flashes and explosions tore up the night sky over the Syrian capital of Damascus. Air defenses intercepted the majority of incoming missiles, Syria's SANA news agency reported, calling the reported attack an “Israeli aggression.”

Four Syrian servicemen were injured in the attack, that has also inflicted material losses, SANA reported. The missiles reportedly came in from the direction of Lebanon as well as the Golan Heights, a territory occupied by Israel since 1973.

There were reports of a “huge explosion” to the west of Damascus around 1 am local time on Thursday.

Israel routinely launched air strikes into Syria, saying it is targeting “Iranian” assets. Tehran has backed Damascus in the war against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists as well as Islamist militants backed by Turkey and the West that launched an insurrection against President Bashar Assad’s government in March 2011.

Thursday morning’s attack was the first since March 16, and ninth since January, according to the Jerusalem Post. Israel has not officially commented on the strike.

https://www.rt.com/news/520414-syria-israel-attack-damascus/

Democratic-led House to vote on D.C. statehood bill week of April 19

The Democratic-led House passed a D.C. statehood bill in the last session of Congress but it did not move forward in the GOP-led Senate.

The Democratic-led House will vote on the Washington, D.C. statehood bill during the week of April 19, Just the News learned Wednesday.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's House member, said the vote will take place after the chamber's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's markup of the legislation on April 14.

Norton, who as a delegate cannot cast a final floor vote, expects the legislation to pass in her chamber.

“The week of April 19th the House will take a historic step in righting the monumental wrong of denying the 712,000 federal taxpaying American citizens who live in the nation’s capital voting representation in Congress and self-government without congressional interference into local affairs,” Norton, a Democrat, said in a statement.

Norton also said she was grateful to House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., for scheduling the hearing and markup early in this Congress. She thanked Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., for scheduling the "historic "House floor vote, during which "we expect the House to pass the D.C. statehood bill for the second time in history.”

The Democratic-led House passed a D.C. statehood bill in the last session of Congress, 232-180, but it did not move forward in the GOP-led Senate.

The Democrats now have a 51-50 majority in the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote but the legislative filibuster is still in place. The statehood bill would need to overcome the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the chamber.

Maloney said the House bill currently has 215 Democratic cosponsors and the Senate companion bill has 42 Democratic cosponsors, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

"The bill would admit the State of Washington, D.C. and reduce the size of the federal district," Maloney said.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/democratic-led-house-vote-dc-statehood-april-19

Legacy Media Corruption Is At The Heart Of Our National Conflict

The Georgia example is instructive in illustrating exactly how much of our conflict is downstream of the broken media.

The media’s false reporting about new election legislation in Georgia whipped up a controversy that left millions of people grossly misinformed, frightened voters, mired major corporations in high-stakes public relations frenzies, distracted the political discourse, and furthered the country’s divisions. In short, it’s a perfect example of how the media is fueling our national conflict.

In this case, the media uncritically regurgitated Georgia Democrats’ partisan hyperbole, treating a narrative the party strategically crafted to defeat the legislation as fact and turning it into a long and false national news cycle. That news cycle left the public with an impression that the legislation was objectively racist.

That impression scared and motivated the public, leading employees to pressure executives into action. Worse, the false coverage led millions of people to believe that a major political party representing half the country was seeking to reinstate Jim Crow.

The coverage from our country’s major publications was so bad that after a few days, even liberals like Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips and Will Saletan of Slate began pushing back. Those responsible for the bad coverage, which is the bulk of the legacy press, appear to be facing no consequences.

Over at RealClearPolitics, Carl Cannon wrote a poignant column on the offensive absurdity of invoking Jim Crow in this context.

“When Donald Trump likened his being impeached to a lynching, living relatives of Willie Edwards and Emmett Till called this comparison ‘ignorant’ and ‘insensitive’ and ‘offensive.’ They were right,” Cannon wrote. “But now Biden is invoking racist history, and doing it to score partisan political points. Millions of Americans who voted for him hoped they were done having to listen to such blasphemy from the White House.”

https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/07/legacy-media-corruption-is-at-the-heart-of-our-national-conflict/

Police raid Canadian church for defying COVID orders, erect barricade blocking entrance

Rebel News reporter Sheila Gunn Ried, who is at the church this morning, tweeted that 'RCMP and private Paladin security are here. RCMP have no documentation to present to the church re: closure, but are keeping members off the property.'

EDMONTON, Alberta, April 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In an early morning raid Canadian police have constructed a barricade around a Christian church in Alberta which has remained open, despite a local police order mandating its closure after its pastor refused to comply with COVID regulations.

According to Rebel News, who provided LifeSiteNews with details about the early morning raid, Christian Grace Life Church (Grace Life) located in Spruce Grove, Alberta, was walled off with two layers of security fencing, as well as a black tarpaulin sheet, concealing the entrance to the church.

The church’s Pastor James Coates was recently freed from jail. Coates was jailed from February 16 until March 22 for defying COVID-related orders in Alberta. He refused to agree to bail conditions which blocked his release unless he agreed to not hold church services amid severe lockdowns.

Rebel News reporter Sheila Gunn Ried, who is at the church this morning, tweeted that “RCMP and private Paladin security are here. RCMP have no documentation to present to the church re: closure, but are keeping members off the property.”

Section 176(2) of the “Criminal Code of Canada” bans interrupting or disturbing a religious worship service.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) issued an order on January 29 that demanded that the church doors of Grace Life remain shut. Coates and Grace Life elders continued to conduct worship services despite the order.

Rebel News also told LifeSiteNews that “they're installing port-a-potties on the site, which may be in anticipation of 24 hour survelliance.”

Coates walked out of the Edmonton Remand Centre as a free man on March 22, after a $1,500 fine was paid “as time served.” After his release, he went straight back to preaching, despite police presence outside his church this past Sunday.

Current Alberta COVID rules state that churches and other places of worship can operate at no more than 15 percent of the capacity allowed by the building fire code. Masks are mandatory, as are the sanitation of hands and keeping away from other people.

Gunn Reid tweeted of the raid of GraceLife: “The government is so hell-bent on enforcing the closure notice that they are now blocking the shared driveway access to a private landowner next door. The landowner next door cannot access their own property because the state raided GraceLife church.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-police-raid-canadian-church-for-defying-covid-orders-erect-barricade-blocking-entrance?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

Jemima Goldsmith quotes the Koran as she leads criticism of her ex-husband Imran Khan after the Pakistan PM blamed how women dress for rise in rape cases and said 'not everyone has the willpower to avoid it'

Imran Khan blamed 'vulgarity' in society for sexual violence, saying modesty must be preserved because some men 'do not have the willpower to avoid it'

Khan made the comments during a question and answer with the public when he was asked for a solution to rising rape cases in Pakistan

He responded that society must play a role by preserving modesty and avoiding media or culture that promotes 'vulgarity or obscenity'

Khan picked out 'sex, drugs and rock n roll culture' of the UK in the 70s and India's Bollywood as examples of moral decline

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9444837/Pakistan-PM-Imran-Khan-blames-women-dress-rise-rape-cases.html

The Truth About the Government Mandated Shutdowns:

“If You Want to Go to Work Go Take a Job as an Essential Worker.” – New York Governor Cuomo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=22DMH4OMGEo&feature=emb_logo

“We Have Become Used to Totalitarianism.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=_ICgtv1JMtA&feature=emb_logo

“If We Wait Until Everything Is Gone, Our Economy Will Be Gone Also.” – Ben Carson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSBI5u-VcYs&feature=emb_logo

The co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield California, (Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi) share why the government-mandated shutdowns and lockdowns were not necessary. – https://www.bitchute.com/video/WILzn9YvrUL8/

“We Can’t Let COVID-19 Destroy Us and If We Continue to Stay Home It Will Destroy Us.” – Mayor Rudy Guliani – https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=AcnC2Xri2cs&feature=emb_logo

Meet the Socialist / Communist Mayor of New York for the First Time | The Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio’s Birth Name Was Warren Wilhelm, Jr.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was previously named “Warren Wilhelm Jr.” and once supported the socialist government of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deblasio-nicaragua-warren-wilhelm/

The man who could become the city’s 109th mayor was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961, in Manhattan, his birth certificate shows. – https://www.nydailynews.com/news/election/de-blasio-names-de-blasio-article-1.1463591

Learn More About Warren Wilhem Jr.

“600 Physicians Say Lockdowns Are A ‘Mass Casualty Incident’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2020/05/22/600-physicians-say-lockdowns-are-a-mass-casualty-incident/#220a9f0350fa

Why Did Over 6,000 Scientists Just Sign an “Anti-Lockdown” Petition? Read the Newsweek Article: https://www.newsweek.com/over-6000-scientists-sign-anti-lockdown-petition-saying-its-causing-irreparable-damage-1537047

Reaching Immunity: A Private Summit of Epidemiologists Against Lockdowns (Video) – https://www.aier.org/article/reaching-immunity-a-private-summit-of-epidemiologists-against-lockdowns-video/

Thousands of scientists urge end to ‘devastating’ lockdowns – https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/8/thousands-scientists-urge-end-devastating-lockdown/?fbclid=IwAR08u0tnradrcjKHHzjdC67hRyjmvsM-06i-X_Y66MB-N2ieeVubA3qGMn4

20,000 Scientists and Medical Professionals Have Now Signed the Great Barrington Declaration Against Future Lockdowns – https://gbdeclaration.org/

Coronavirus: WHO Backflips On Virus Stance by Condemning Lockdowns – https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus-who-backflips-on-virus-stance-by-condemning-lockdowns/news-story/f2188f2aebff1b7b291b297731c3da74

“The evidence continues to accrue that the dominant policies sold to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak were catastrophically wrong” – https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/20/left-attacks-scott-atlas-for-saying-same-things-about-covid-as-the-new-york-times-six-months-earlier/#.X7gjL7LHDgY.twitter

Bill Maher Slams Democrats For Hypocrisy On COVID-19 Protocol – https://www.oann.com/bill-maher-slams-democrats-for-hypocrisy-on-covid-19-protocol/

Gavin Newsom’s Health Secretary Admits the TRUTH About Outdoor Dining Ban – https://rumble.com/vbvvt3-gavin-newsoms-health-secretary-admits-the-truth-about-outdoor-dining-ban.html

Birx traveled to Delaware vacation property with family after warning of holiday gatherings – https://www.foxnews.com/politics/birx-delaware-property-delaware-coronavirus-thanksgiving-holiday

https://timetofreeamerica.com/government-shutdowns/#scroll-content

Pentagon & Defense Contractors Revolving Door Report

Military Industrial Complex

Major Findings

There were 645 instances of the top 20 defense contractors in fiscal year 2016 hiring former senior government officials, military officers, Members of Congress, and senior legislative staff as lobbyists, board members, or senior executives in 2018 (see chart below). Since some lobbyists work for multiple defense contractors, there are more instances than officials.1

Of those instances, nearly 90 percent became registered lobbyists, where the operational skill is influence-peddling.

At least 380 high-ranking Department of Defense officials and military officers shifted into the private sector to become lobbyists, board members, executives, or consultants for defense contractors.

Of the Department of Defense officials POGO tracked through the revolving door, a quarter of them (95) went to work at the Department of Defense’s top 5 contractors (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman).

Military officers going through the revolving door included 25 Generals, 9 Admirals, 43 Lieutenant Generals, and 23 Vice Admirals.

Instances in Which Defense Contractors Hired Senior Government Officials as Executives, Directors, or Lobbyists

Full report in link

https://www.pogo.org/report/2018/11/brass-parachutes/

America’s Transformative New Organ Donation Rule Goes into Effect Over Objections from Monopolistic Contractors

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has confirmed to the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) that the most transformative rule in more than 35 years of providing oversight for federal contractors recovering human organs for transplant became effective on March 30, 2021. No public announcement for the change, which could have been delayed or abandoned entirely, has yet been made, but for the first time, the government will require objective data, not industry-reported metrics, to evaluate contractors’ performance, a shift that the Department of Health and Human Services has projected will save more than 7,000 lives annually. The new rule, though in effect now, will first be applied next year. Although the measure already won broad support from Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate, it was bitterly opposed by the organ collection industry. Indeed, the fight to ensure its implementation was not a pretty one.

“Who knows Joe and/or Kamala… and how can we get to them BEFORE” patient advocates do?

Coziness is nothing new, even—or especially—at the top of national politics. But attempts at influence-peddling and special access spotlight the public’s worst fears—the search for friends in high places who can be called upon to protect the interests of the powerful, the connected, and, sometimes, the misguided.

The urgent appeal appeared in a November 9, 2020, email sent right after major U.S. media outlets projected Joe Biden’s election victory. Obtained by the Project On Government Oversight, the query came not from a political operative, but from a prominent health care executive, Tom Mone, CEO of OneLegacy, America’s largest human organ procurement organization (OPO). OneLegacy collects vital body parts and tissue for 215 hospitals and 11 transplant centers across greater Los Angeles, and is part of an industry that wants to gut a new rule to improve the organ procurement process for hundreds of thousands of patients in need.

Recipients of Mone’s message included a top Washington lobbyist and CEOs in charge of some of the biggest organ procurement organizations in the country, which operate as government-approved monopolies in their assigned regions. But his nakedly political plea was unrelated to the nitty gritty of obtaining organs for transplant.

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https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2021/04/americas-transformative-new-organ-donation-rule-goes-into-effect-over-objections-from-monopolistic-contractors/

Telling the Truth About Afghanistan with Lt. Col. Danny Davis

Lieutenant Colonel Daniel L. Davis was one of the earliest public critics inside the military speaking out about the mounting failures in the Afghanistan War. He went public with his assessment of the situation on the ground there in 2012, shortly after his return from his last deployment. For that, he received the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling in 2012. He has gone on to become a prominent voice in Washington calling for a restrained foreign policy that would disentangle the United States from the endless wars that have come to characterize the 21st century.

Davis is now a senior fellow with Defense Priorities where he works to influence civilian and military leaders to end the wars stemming from the September 11 attacks, and to take a more constructive approach to world affairs. He also serves as a member of the military advisory board of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. In his new book, Eleventh Hour in 2020 America: How America's Foreign Policy Got Jacked Up – and How the Next Administration Can Fix It, he offers a new approach to American foreign policy that doesn’t see enemies in every corner of the globe.

Audio in link

https://www.pogo.org/podcast/telling-the-truth-about-afghanistan-with-lt-col-danny-davis/

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White House Announces Six 'Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence'

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https://sputniknews.com/us/202104081082567008-white-house-announces-six-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence/

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NASA Emails Employees Seeking Volunteers to Help Staff Facilities For Unaccompanied Illegal Alien Children

Barack Obama used NASA for Muslim outreach and now Joe Biden is considering using a NASA facility in California to house illegal alien children.

Our enemies are laughing at us.

This week NASA sent their employees an email seeking volunteers to help staff facilities for unaccompanied minors, per an internal email provided to The Intercept.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/nasa-emails-employees-seeking-volunteers-help-staff-facilities-unaccompanied-illegal-alien-children/

White House Announces Six 'Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence'

Reiterating the president's call for Congress to "pass legislation to reduce gun violence", the administration rolled out "its own steps" to "save lives".

Countering "ghost guns". The Justice Department is set to issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of “ghost guns" within 30 days.

Addressing stabilizing braces. Withing 60 days, the Justice Department will issue a proposed rule "to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act."

"Red flag" legislation. The "red flag" laws allow family members or law enforcement to ask for a court order that could temporarily prohibit "people in crisis" from accessing firearms in case they present a danger to themselves or others.

"Evidence-based community violence interventions". According to the statement, "community violence interventions are proven strategies for reducing gun violence in urban communities through tools other than incarceration".

Annual report on firearms trafficking. The Justice Department will release "a new, comprehensive report on firearms trafficking and annual updates necessary to give policymakers the information they need to help address firearms trafficking today."

New head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. The president will nominate David Chipman for the position of the Director of the agency.

According to the White House, the latest shooting incidents in the United States - ones in Boulder and Atlanta that took 10 and 8 lives respectively - "underscored the relentlessness" of what the Biden administration described as the gun violence public health epidemic.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

https://sputniknews.com/us/202104081082567008-white-house-announces-six-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence/

Former VP Mike Pence to Publish Autobiography, Launch PAC

Former Vice President Mike Pence will publish his autobiography as part of a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster. The announcement came on Wednesday, coinciding with the launch of Pence’s Advancing American Freedom PAC.

According to the publisher, the autobiography will focus on:

…Pence’s faith and public service, covering his trajectory from Columbus, IN, to his time as the second-highest ranking official in the Trump Administration. Pence will address the many pivotal moments of the administration, from the time he was selected to run as Vice President through Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021.

Pence is represented by David Vigliano and Thomas Flannery of Vigliano Associates. The first book is tentatively set to be released in 2023.

Pence also released information about his Advancing American Freedom PAC on Wednesday. The PAC’s goal is

…to promote the pro-freedom policies of the last four years that created unprecedented prosperity at home and restored respect for America abroad, to defend those policies from liberal attacks and media distortions, and to prevent the radical Left from enacting its policy agenda that would threaten America’s freedoms.

Members of the Advancing American Freedom Advisory Board include Kirk Cameron, Kellyanne Conway, Newt Gingrich, Larry Kudlow, Rick Santorum, Seema Verma, and Scott Walker.

The PAC’s Executive Director, Paul Teller, says:

Under the leadership of President Trump and Vice President Pence, Americans experienced unprecedented prosperity. The policies that led to those accomplishments are now under attack by the radical Left and the Biden Administration, and the foundation of our Nation is under siege.

CNN reported Wednesday that inside sources disclosed “the former vice president’s [book] deal is worth seven figures, somewhere in the range of $3 million to $4 million.”

Pence is the first prominent member of the Trump Administration to have a contract for an autobiography after President Donald Trump left office.

Dana Canedy, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster, said, “His revelatory autobiography will be the definitive book on one of the most consequential presidencies in American history.”

Pence consistently ranks high for Republicans as a possible 2024 presidential nominee.

In February, Breitbart News reported that Pence joined the Heritage Foundation. “The Heritage Foundation is a flagship of the conservative movement and I am profoundly honored to join them as a distinguished visiting fellow to advance conservative policies that will benefit every American,” Pence said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/07/former-vp-mike-pence-to-publish-autobiography-launch-pac/

Virginia’s Black Lt. Governor Likens Rape Accusations to a Lynching

I would like to write that the following is unbelievable, but that is not true. It is very believable given that Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor, Justin Fairfax, is a shameless horror of a human being. This man is still on the job despite two credible accusations of rape. The two women who accused Fairfax two years ago of sexual assault are Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson:

Tyson said she met Justin Fairfax at the Democratic convention in Boston in 2004 when he was a law student. She said he asked her to accompany him to his hotel room. . . . But suddenly, she said, he became violent, forcing her to perform oral sex. “He’s using his hand on the back of my neck. I couldn’t say anything cause I’m choking and gagging,” she said.

A tearful Watson recalled how he ( suddenly locked the door, turned off the lights and “did things you shouldn’t do to someone without their permission.” She said she tried to leave but he held her down and “forcibly assaulted and raped me.”

Both women are black Americans. But the Democrat establishment studiously has ignorned them.

But that fact did not prevent this shameless wretch from playing the race card:

Fairfax condemned fellow Democrats for calling for his resignation in 2019 when two women claimed that he sexually assaulted them in separate incidents in the early 2000s. No criminal investigation was ever conducted, and Fairfax denied the charges and refused to step down.

“The murder of George Floyd was horrific,” Fairfax said in response to a debate question about police reform and racial equity in the criminal justice system. “But it recalls a history in Virginia and in our nation where African Americans — and particularly African American men — are presumed to be guilty.”

“I was falsely accused,” Fairfax said. “He treated me like George Floyd. He treated me like Emmett Till. No due process. Immediately assumed my guilt. I have a son, and I have a daughter. I never want my daughter to be assaulted, and I never want my son to be falsely accused. And yet this is the real world we live in.”

Justin Fairfax is a souless miscreant. How dare he dredge up the memory of Emmett Till and paint himself as a victim. Do you recall the facts about Emmett Till?

[Emmett] was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store. . . . Till was accused of flirting with or whistling at Bryant. . . . [Till’s attackers] took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River.

Does that sound like what happened to Justin Fairfax? Justin was not accused of “whistling” at a white woman. He stands accused by two respectable black women.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/virginias-black-lt-governor-likens-rape-accusations-lynching/

Asa Hutchinson’s Trans-Bill Veto Draws Scrutiny over Special Interests’ Influence

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) appears caught in contradictory statements concerning corporate interests that may have encouraged his veto of Arkansas’ recent transgender surgery legislation.

Hutchinson was challenged on April 6 by Fox News‘s Tucker Carlson, who asked:

My question is — have you spoken to any of the biggest employers, the biggest companies in Arkansas about this? Have you taken any calls from Tysons, from Dillard, from Walmart? Has anyone from those companies called you about this bill?

Hutchinson responded, “Uh, No.”

Tucker asked again, “Have you spoken to one corporate interest in the State of Arkansas about this bill?”

“I answered that question and I said, ‘no, I have not.’ Do you have another question?” Hutchinson responded.

But just a few days earlier, Hutchinson made reference to why some corporations are “certainly worried about the image of our state.”

“We’re the home of some major global corporations here in Arkansas. They’re certainly worried about the image of our state,” Hutchinson stated on March 31 to host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Fox News Primetime.

“But we’re trying to send the signal that you can protect conscience, you can protect girls in sports, without being discriminatory, and trying to say, ‘we’re not diverse and tolerant of different lifestyles.’ That’s important for us, as a state, and what we have to achieve as a nation,” he continued.

Just after Hutchinson vetoed the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act,” which the state legislature overrode Wednesday to make law, the Walton Family Foundation, an organization founded by Helen and Sam Walton, who are also the founders of Walmart and from Arkansas, released a press statement.

“We are alarmed by the string of policy targeting LGBTQ people in Arkansas. This trend is harmful and sends the wrong message to those willing to invest in or visit our state,” the foundation wrote Tuesday after the measure was made law.

“We support Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s recent veto of discriminatory policy and implore government, business and community leaders to consider the impact of existing and future policy that limits basic freedoms and does not promote inclusiveness in our communities and economy,” it concluded.

According to the National Review, “neither Hutchinson’s office nor the WFF returned requests for comment — the two have ties.

Per FEC records, “the Waltons are longtime financial supporters of Hutchinson’s political career, as is Walmart.” Adding, “Sam Walton’s brother, Steuart Walton, is a current board member at Walmart and was tapped by Hutchinson last April to chair the state’s ‘Economic Recovery Task Force.'”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/07/asa-hutchinsons-trans-bill-veto-draws-scrutiny-over-special-interests-influence/

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More Than 70 Guns, Half Million In Cash Seized In Seattle Cocaine Ring Bust

Seattle – (DOJ) – Twenty-one people were arrested today on indictments and criminal complaints charging an extensive drug dealing conspiracy by defendants who often illegally possessed firearms, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Law enforcement teams from FBI, DEA, Seattle Police Department, and other public safety organizations executed about ninety search warrants across the Puget Sound region from as far north as Everett and as far south as Spanaway. In addition to 16 of the 19 people named in the indictments, 5 additional defendants were arrested on criminal complaints. Those arrested will make their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Seattle and Tacoma over the next few days.

“Too often the intersection of drug dealing and gun possession leads to violence in our communities,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. “These defendants enriched themselves by feeding the addictions of the vulnerable and harming community health and safety. Community safety remains a priority for the Department of Justice.”

Nineteen defendants are charged in four related indictments with both drug and gun crimes. Multiple defendants in today’s takedown have criminal histories that preclude them from legally possessing firearms. Prior to today’s takedown, thirty-three firearms were seized from drug traffickers identified in this case. Today, another 40 firearms were seized by law enforcement.

Those named in the indictments unsealed today include:

Eugene McGee, 54, of Federal Way, Washington

Larry W. Collins, 48, of Seattle, Washington

Johnathan F. Harrington, 43, of Seattle, Washington

Randolph P. Brown, 48 of Federal Way, Washington

Marco Calvert-Majors, 51, of Seattle, Washington

David A. Kelley, 52, of Seattle, Washington

Adam Anderson-Dotson, 41, of Seattle, Washington

Jerrell G. Ingram, 42, of Seattle, Washington

Kefentse Lumumba-Olabisi, 40, of Tacoma, Washington

Kenneth N. Lee, 58, of Tacoma, Washington

Edward Coleman, 65, of Tacoma, Washington

Jimmy J. Carter, 42, of Spanaway, Washington

Kevin L. Gipson, 45, of Seattle, Washington

Curtis G. Snipes, 50, of Tacoma, Washington

Richard D. Lewis, 47, of Seattle, Washington

Yusef H. Parrish, 51, of Seattle, Washington

Terry Cameron, 61, of Federal Way, Washington

Michael L. Hopkins, 51, of Tacoma, Washington

Jamar J. Howard, 48, of Renton, Washington

The defendants are all charged with drug distribution counts involving possession of cocaine and crack cocaine. Brown, Kelley, Parrish, and Snipes are charged with gun possession crimes, including being a felon in possession of a firearm and/or possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

https://breaking911.com/more-than-70-guns-half-million-in-cash-seized-in-seattle-cocaine-ring-bust/