Senator Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci Must Answer Questions on Why He Continued to Fund Dangerous Human-Virus Studies after they were Banned in US

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Maria Bartiromo earlier today on Sunday Morning Futures.

During their conversation, Senator Paul scolded Joe Biden for wearing a mask on his international global warming calls this week, saying, “I guess this means that Dr. Fauci now believes you can get COVID, you can catch it over your webcam.”

Senator Paul then said Dr. Fauci must answer questions on why he funded dangerous human-viral testing even after it was banned here in the US.

Senator Paul, “There’s a huge ethical question about the origins of the virus. The ethical question is should we be doing gain of function, should we be upgrading animal viruses in the lab to make them more susceptible to humans… We have to ask Dr. Fauci, why did he in overseeing these labs allowed gain of function? Why did he allow labs to get money to upgrade animal viruses so they can infect humans? We got worried about this around 2 or 3 years ago. We closed down about half of them but then Dr. Fauci and his committees opened them back up. We need to ask him why are we doing this in China but are we doing this in the US?”

Almost a year ago, The Gateway Pundit reported on Dr. Fauci’s unethical and possibly criminal funding of research at a Wuhan, China lab that is now suspected of being the likely source of the coronavirus.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/senator-rand-paul-dr-fauci-must-answer-questions-continued-fund-dangerous-human-virus-studies-banned-us-video/

‘Non-Binary’ Singer Sam Smith Gets Insanely Creepy Tattoo of a Little Boy in High Heels and Underwear

British Grammy Award-winning singer Sam Smith, who uses the pronouns “they/them,” has a new tattoo and it is creepy as heck.

The tattoo, done in simple black line art, features a very young boy in his underwear and high heels while looking in the mirror.

Of course, this disturbing imagery is being celebrated and cheered on by the liberal media — who are doing the whole “stunning and brave” bit while claiming this rubbish is some meaningful art about his “gender identity.” Though the fawning media class was quick to assign deep sentiments about the half naked child art, Smith himself has not actually commented on his motivations.

Page Six even went as far as referring to the little boy in the tattoo as a “short-haired person” to apparently avoid misgendering a tattoo.

“Though neither Langford nor Smith, 28, have commented on the meaning behind the tattoo, the latter — who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns ‘they, them, and theirs’ — has been open about their love of high heels and past body-image issues,” Page Six wrote.

Smith had liposuction at age 12 and has considered a sex change operation.

“I’m not male or female,” Smith said on far-left actress Jameela Jamil’s Instagram podcast. “I think I float somewhere in between.”

“When I saw the word non-binary/genderqueer and I read into it and I heard these people speaking, I was like, ‘f***, that is me,’” he explained. “Non-binary/genderqueer is that you do not identify in a gender. You are a mixture of all different things. You are your own special creation. That’s how I take it—I am not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between — it’s all on the spectrum.”

“I’ve always been very free in terms of thinking about my sexuality,” added the “Dancing with a Stranger” singer, “so I’ve just tried to change that into my thoughts on gender as well.” Smith said he will “think like a woman sometimes.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/non-binary-singer-sam-smith-gets-insanely-creepy-tattoo-little-boy-high-heels-underwear/

Big Tech Giants From Twitter, Facebook and Netflix Donated $7.5 Million to BLM Cofounder — Then Censored Stories About Her Real Estate Spree

Big Tech moguls including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and Patricia Ann Quillin, the wife of Netflix’s billionaire CEO, have donated $7.5 million to groups associated with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors.

Big Tech has been censoring stories critical about Khan-Cullors and her real estate buying blitz — while she and her groups advocate for policies that the Silicon Valley billionaires support.

Specifically, Khan-Cullors has been loudly advocating for Net Neutrality.

“Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire co-founder of Facebook, and his wife Cari Tuna, are among the biggest donors to groups controlled by Khan-Cullors. Through their Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures non-profits, they contributed more than $5.5 million between 2017 and 2020, according to public records,” the New York Post reports. “The cash went to Dignity and Power Now, a non-profit started by Khan-Cullors, and Reform LA Jails, a California state political action committee she co-founded to lobby for civilian oversight of the L.A. Sheriff’s Department.”

Dorsey has also also been a big donor to the controversial Marxist. He funneled $1.5 million to a coalition of anti-capitalist groups founded by Khan-Cullors in 2020 using his #startsmall initiative and in connection with the Clara Lionel Foundation, a charity founded by singer Rihanna.

“In addition to providing cash, social-media giants have censored perceived criticisms of Khan-Cullors and the BLM movement, including a story first published by The Post about the activist’s recent $3.2 million in real estate purchases. Facebook earlier this month blocked its users from linking to the story — which was based on public records — saying it violated its ‘privacy and personal information policy.’ Twitter blocked journalist Jason Whitlock when he tried to post a story about Khan-Cullors’ purchase of a $1.4 million Los Angeles home earlier this month,” the Post report states.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/big-tech-giants-twitter-facebook-netflix-donated-7-5-million-blm-cofounder-censor-stories-real-estate-spree/

"This Is Massive": Shadowy DARPA-Linked Company Took Over 'Chunk' Of Pentagon's Internet In Inauguration Day Mystery

A shadowy company set up last September linked to a DARPA / FBI contractor who peddled a 'lawful intercept' internet spy device to government agencies and law enforcement a decade ago, took over a massive portion of the Pentagon's idle internet addresses on the day of President Biden's inauguration, according to an in-depth investigation by the Associated Press.

The valuable internet real estate has since quadrupled to 175 million IP addresses which were previously owned by the US Department of Defense - about 1/25th the size of the current internet, and over twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.

"It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet," said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at network operating company Kenntic.

The company, Global Resource Systems, was established by a Beverly Hills attorney, and now resides in a shared workspace above a Florida bank.

The company did not return phone calls or emails from The Associated Press. It has no web presence, though it has the domain grscorp.com. Its name doesn’t appear on the directory of its Plantation, Florida, domicile, and a receptionist drew a blank when an AP reporter asked for a company representative at the office earlier this month. She found its name on a tenant list and suggested trying email. Records show the company has not obtained a business license in Plantation.

Incorporated in Delaware and registered by a Beverly Hills lawyer, Global Resource Systems LLC now manages more internet space than China Telecom, AT&T or Comcast. -Associated Press

One name is linked to Global Resource Systems in the Florida business registry - that of Raymond Saulino - who as recently as 2018 was listed in Nevada corporate records as a managing director of a cybersecurity/internet surveillance company called Packet Forensics. According to the report, "The company had nearly $40 million in publicly disclosed federal contracts over the past decade, with the FBI and the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency among its customers."

In 2011, Packet Forensics and Saulino, its spokesman, were featured in a Wired story because the company was selling an appliance to government agencies and law enforcement that let them spy on people’s web browsing using forged security certificates.

The company continues to sell “lawful intercept” equipment, according to its website. One of its current contracts with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is for “harnessing autonomy for countering cyber-adversary systems.” A contract description says it is investigating “technologies for conducting safe, nondisruptive, and effective active defense operations in cyberspace.” Contract language from 2019 says the program would “investigate the feasibility of creating safe and reliable autonomous software agencies that can effectively counter malicious botnet implants and similar large-scale malware.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/massive-shadowy-darpa-linked-company-took-over-chunk-pentagons-internet-inauguration-day

Fire At Baghdad COVID Hospital Sparked By Oxygen Explosion Kills 82 People

A massive blaze broke out at a hospital in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq that was treating COVID-19 patients on Saturday, which left at least 82 people dead and 110 injured.

Iraqi officials are saying the fire appeared to have started on the pulmonary intensive unit floor of Ibn Khabit hospital, and an "immediate investigation" has been ordered. An initial report by the Interior Ministry said the fire was sparked by an oxygen tank explosion on that floor.

"We urgently need to review safety measures at all hospitals to prevent such a painful incident from happening in future," spokesman Khalid al-Muhanna said on state TV.

One eyewitness described a chaotic scene where patients and doctors alike were jumping out of windows to the streets below. "The fire spread, like fuel… I took my brother out to the street, next to the checkpoint. Then I came [back] and went up from there. To the last floor, that did not burn. I found a girl suffocating, about 19 years old, she was suffocating, she was about to die," Ahmed Zaki told Reuters.

"I took her on my shoulders, and I ran down. People were jumping… Doctors fell on the cars. Everyone was jumping. And I kept going up from there, got people and come down again," Zaki said.

As part of the investigation the Interior Ministry has detained the hospital's manager and the heads of security and maintenance for questioning and to find negligent parties. There's also growing public anger aimed at the Health Minister and the Prime Minister over the national tragedy.

However, there's this 'big picture' illuminating line which points to the broader context for the horrific weekend tragedy in the Reuters report…

"Iraq's healthcare system, ruined by decades of sanctions, war and neglect, has been stretched during the coronavirus crisis. The country has recorded a total of 102,5288 infections, including 15,217 deaths, the health ministry said on Saturday. "

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fire-baghdad-covid-hospital-sparked-oxygen-tank-explosion-kills-82-people

Twitter Admits To Censoring Criticism Of The Indian Government

On Saturday, Twitter admitted that it is actively working with the Indian government to censor criticism of its handling of the pandemic as the number of cases and deaths continues to skyrocket. There are widespread reports that the Indian government has misrepresented the number of deaths and the true rate of cases could be as much as 30 times higher than reported. The country has a shortage of beds, oxygen, and other essentials due to a failure to adequately prepare for a new surge. Not surprisingly, the Indian government has moved to crackdown on criticism. This included a call to Twitter to censor such information and Twitter has, of course, complied. With the support of many Democratic leaders in the United States, Twitter now regularly censors viewpoints in the United States and India had no trouble in enlisting it to crackdown on those raising the alarm over false government reporting.

Buried in an Associated Press story on the raging pandemic and failures of the Indian government are these two lines:

“On Saturday, Twitter complied with the government’s request and prevented people in India from viewing more than 50 tweets that appeared to criticize the administration’s handling of the pandemic. The targeted posts include tweets from opposition ministers critical of Modi, journalists and ordinary Indians.”

The article quotes Twitter as saying that it had powers to “withhold access to the content in India only” if the company determined the content to be “illegal in a particular jurisdiction.” Thus, criticism of the government in this context is illegal so Twitter has agreed to become an arm of the government in censoring information.

Keep in mind that that some of this information could be true and actually protect lives. It is not “fake news” but efforts by journalists and others to disclose failures by the government that could cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Twitter’s policy states:

Content that is demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm (such as increased exposure to the virus, or adverse effects on public health systems) may not be shared on Twitter. This includes sharing content that may mislead people about the nature of the COVID-19 virus; the efficacy and/or safety of preventative measures, treatments, or other precautions to mitigate or treat the disease; official regulations, restrictions, or exemptions pertaining to health advisories; or the prevalence of the virus or risk of infection or death associated with COVID-19. In addition, we may label Tweets which share misleading information about COVID-19 to reduce their spread and provide additional context.

Here critics are saying that Twitter is acting in coordination with the Indian government to censor criticism of its response — criticism that could expose “significant risks of harm” from government neglect. Moreover, Twitter does not appear to be merely flagging the tweets but blocking them at the behest of the government like an out-sourced censor bureau.

This is the face of the new censors. The future in speech control is not in the classic state mdia model but the alliance of states with corporate giants like Twitter. Twitter now actively engages in what Democratic leaders approvingly call “robust content modification” to control viewpoints and political dissent.

When Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey came before the Senate to apologize for blocking the Hunter Biden story before the election as a mistake, senators pressed him and other Big Tech executive for more censorship.

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/04/25/twitter-admits-to-censoring-criticism-of-the-indian-government/

Biden's First Trip Outside Country Will Be To NATO Headquarters

White House Press Secretary Jen "Russia will be accountable by the international community" Psaki announced today that her boss, President Joe "I will continue with every fiber in my being to keep America involved with troops that can shoot and kill" Biden, will make his first overseas trip in June; in fact his first trip outside the country; only the fourteenth trip outside the capital with the exception of visits to his home in Delaware. In over three months in office.

His fairly abbreviated tour will take him to Cornwall for a G7 summit, then to Brussels for a NATO summit and a U.S.–European Union summit. Though it may be difficult to discern when one ends and the other begins. The U.S. (and Canada) + the European Union = NATO.

He’s not had time to visit forty-one states in his own nation (82% of them), but will play the merry summiteer in Britain and Belgium. One must have priorities as leader of the free world.

His are, to cite Psaki, to “highlight his commitment to restoring our alliances, revitalizing the Transatlantic relationship, and working in close cooperation with our allies and multilateral partners to address global challenges….” She added something at the end about America’s interests.

When he arrives in the Belgian capital he’ll deliver on what he was really elected to do, to “affirm the United States’ commitment to NATO, Transatlantic security, and collective defense.” Nothing about American interests at the end of that comment.

When he joins the other twenty-nine NATO heads of state to thunder against Russia and China – which will be the hallmark of his and other attendees’ speeches – and to plot NATO’s further penetration of the planet, as it’s not content with 70 members and partners on all six inhabited continents (with India as the projected big catch) – he’ll follow in the footsteps of his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was at NATO headquarters in March and again shortly afterward in April, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who was there during Blinken’s second visit. And while Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was there as well. Odd coincidence as the threat of war between Ukraine and Russia was then in the air.

Having proven his undying loyalty to war and militarism for half a century, Joe Biden is the American president NATO has always dreamed of. Even better than Dwight Eisenhower, who was NATO’s first Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe.

California, Alaska, New York and Florida, you’ll have to wait. Joe may see you after he returns from NATO’s new billion-dollar headquarters. Bomb Back Better.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/23/bidens-first-trip-outside-the-country-will-take-him-to-nato-headquarters/

Comparing vaccine certificates to the Holocaust? Anti-lockdown Brits spotted wearing yellow Star of David badges

Photographs of several people wearing Star of David badges during a massive anti-lockdown demonstration in London have riled social media users, many of whom thought the gimmick was in extremely poor taste.

Purportedly taken at Saturday’s protest against Covid-19 restrictions in the UK capital, the photographs began circulating on Twitter, appearing in trending hashtags such as “Holocaust,” “Anti-lockdown” and “Covidiots.”

In one photo, a man is seen wearing a badge saying “Vacc. ID,” while another pair of presumed protesters sported yellow stars that read: “No Covid certificates.”

A woman who shared one of the photographs claims that she was called a “Nazi” for wearing a mask, after having confronted a protester about his badge.

The images did not sit well with Internet observers. One Twitter user said that the “scum” were trying to suggest that “lockdown and masks are equal to what happened to the Jews during the Holocaust.”

The badges are “disgusting” and “disrespectful,” another social media user noted, a sentiment that was echoed by countless other commenters.

Others suggested that the individuals should be identified and that their employers should be made aware of their behaviour.

The official Twitter account for the Auschwitz Memorial also weighed in, arguing that repurposing the badges to lobby against vaccines is a “sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.”

Reactions on Twitter seem to suggest that the protesters had taken their opposition to vaccine IDs too far, but the proposed document has faced fierce opposition, with critics arguing that such documents would be discriminatory and a serious invasion of privacy. Although initially insisting that vaccine certificates were off the table, the UK government has signaled that proof of vaccination will likely be required to travel abroad. And, while some lockdown restrictions have begun to ease, authorities have floated the idea of preventing unvaccinated people from patronizing pubs.

The proposal has already been implemented in other parts of the world. In Israel, fully vaccinated people have been given “green badges” which grant them entry to certain businesses and venues.

https://www.rt.com/uk/522059-star-david-covid-certificates/

New photos show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton’s White House

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were once White House guests of former President Bill Clinton, new pictures prove.

The images were published by The Sun, days after Maxwell’s last court appearance on sex trafficking charges in Manhattan, related to her alleged procurement of underage rape victims for the convicted pedophile.

The disgusting duo were invited to the White House in 1993, after Epstein reportedly donated money to have the Oval Office refurbished.

They toured the East Room and the presidential residence during a reception, the paper reported.

The pictures expand the timeline of Clinton’s involvement with Epstein and Maxwell.

Prior to their surfacing, some of the oldest photos linking the trio were from 2002, Clinton was photographed aboard Epstein’s private jet along with Maxwell and one of the late billionaires’ rape accusers.

The former president also reportedly had a private dinner with Maxwell in 2014 — long after Epstein was convicted of child sex abuse.

Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island in the Bahamas, but accuser Virginia Giuffre has claimed to be on the island at the same time as the ex-president.

A book released last year claims that Clinton had an affair with Maxwell.

Clinton has maintained he was unaware of any sexual misconduct in his dealings with the wealthy financier. Epstein has also socialized with Donald Trump before he was president, and Prince Andrew — who Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with.

Epstein, facing a slew of sex charges, was found fatally hanged in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019.

The Florida mansion where he allegedly raped hundreds of girls and women was demolished last week.

https://nypost.com/2021/04/25/epstein-and-maxwell-were-vip-guests-in-clintons-white-house-photos/

UK Govt’s ‘Maximum’ Lockdown Advocate Is Longtime Communist Party Member.

Professor Susan Michie – one of the British government’s top COVID-19 policy advisors championing “maximum” lockdown policies – is a longtime member of the Communist Party.

Michie, a Communist for over 40 years, is a senior member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, belongs to two other groups guiding Ministers, and appears on the BBC and ITV to share her ideas. She is also behind the country’s intense lockdown rollouts, arguing in favor of “global maximum lockdown” and offering praise for the Chinese Communist Party on Twitter.

“China has a socialist, collective system (whatever criticisms people may have) not an individualistic, consumer-oriented, profit-driven society badly damaged by 20 years of failed neoliberal economic policies. #LearntLessons,” she wrote.

The Daily Mail also notes Michie’s “militant” communism, recounting how fellow Marxists searched her baby’s stroller for “subversive” literature:

The super-rich Communist Susan Michie is so militant that her fellow Marxists once searched her baby’s pram for subversive literature.

They lifted the tiny infant out of the way, to check that the future Professor of Psychology was not smuggling ultra-hardline propaganda into a crucial conference.

No wonder that fellow students at Oxford a few years before had called her ‘Stalin’s nanny’.

“She is the blue-blooded descendant of an earl who, along with her brother, sold a family heirloom – a Picasso painting called L’Enfant Au Pigeon – to Qatari royals for £50 million in 2013. This didn’t stop her once urging fellow Communists to support Jeremy Corbyn at a presentation with the words: ‘We, the working class…,” the outlet adds.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/uk-lockdown-adviser-is-communist-party-member/

Turkey Summons US Ambassador Over Biden’s Genocide Designation

The foreign minister of Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara on Saturday to protest President Joe Biden’s decision to designate as genocide the killing and deportation of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.

U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield met with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal late on Saturday to receive Ankara’s condemnation.

“The statement does not have legal ground in terms of international law and has hurt the Turkish people, opening a wound that’s hard to fix in our relations,” the Turkish foreign ministry said.

Earlier on Saturday, Biden followed through on a campaign promise and recognized the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians beginning in 1915 as genocide.

“We see that pain. We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated,” Biden said in a statement, which did not include any references to Turkey.

Biden released the statement on April 24, the anniversary of the day in 1915 when Ottoman authorities began arresting Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.

Biden’s statement prompted statements of condemnation from Turkish officials.

Turkey’s presidential spokesman said on Sunday that Biden’s genocide designation is “unfair and unfortunate” and Turkey will respond in various ways over the coming months.

“There will be a response to this,” Ibrahim Kalin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman and adviser, told Reuters in an interview at an Ottoman palace in Istanbul.

Kalin did not specify whether Ankara would restrict U.S. access to the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, which has been used to support the international coalition fighting ISIS terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, or other measures it may take.

Turkey rejects the use of the word “genocide,” saying both Turks and Armenians were killed in the World War I-era fighting and has called for a joint history commission to investigate. American presidents have avoided using the word “genocide” for years.

The announcement comes as Turkish-American relations suffer from a host of issues. The United States has sanctioned Turkish defense officials and kicked Turkey out of a fighter jet program after the NATO member bought the Russian-made S400 defense system.

https://www.ntd.com/turkey-summons-us-ambassador-over-bidens-genocide-designation_603000.html

UK Govt: Vax Blood Clot Victims Must Prove They Are 60 Per Cent Disabled to Get Compensation

Boris Johnson’s government is insisting that people harmed by vaccine side-effects must prove they are at least 60 per cent disabled in order to receive compensation, capped at £120,000, according to reports.

168 people were believed to have suffered blood clots following vaccination as of last week, according to a report by Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), with 32 of those afflicted dying.

So far, 43 applications for compensation have been made under an official damages scheme for people harmed by government-approved vaccinations — which also covers more established vaccines for diseases such as tuberculosis — according to figures disclosed to the Telegraph, but as of the time of publication no payments have been issued, and the government is insisting that applicants “will need to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that the vaccination caused [a] disability and be assessed as being 60 per cent disabled” before they are compensated.

The harsh stance has caused disquiet among backbenchers from Boris Johnson’s own party, with Sir Christopher Chope MP, for example, stating his belief that “The Government has a moral duty to compensate people who have suffered as a result of doing the right thing by the Government of being vaccinated.”

“They were being vaccinated for the public good — it is not as though they are jay-walking across the street at their own risk,” he pointed out.

“The Government needs to look at these cases and reduce the threshold. If it is left as it is it is going to bar a lot of deserving people from any compensation.”

UK Child Trials of AstraZeneca Vaccine Suspended Amid Blood Clot Fears https://t.co/jeyzwRRojz

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 7, 2021

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), led by Matt Hancock MP, issued a long and unhelpful statement quoted by the Telegraph, insisting that “Vaccines are safe, effective and already saving thousands of lives.”

“More than 32 million people have now received a first dose of the vaccine, and PHE [Pulic Health England] have estimated over 10,000 lives have been saved through the vaccine programme so far,” he said.

“All vaccines being used in the UK have undergone robust clinical trials and have met the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) strict standards of safety, effectiveness and quality,” the statement droned on, wholly irrelevantly for the statistically small number of people who have in fact suffered severe side-effects — in part because the MHRA failed to take notice of adverse reactions which other national regulators caught in a more timely manner.

“The vaccine damage payments scheme provides a financial safety net to help ease the burden on individuals who have, in extremely rare circumstances, experienced harm due to receiving a government-recommended vaccine for a listed disease,” the DHSC statement concluded — signally failing to address the justness of requiring those harmed to demonstrate they are 60 per cent disabled in order to benefit from that safety net.

UK to Offer Under-30s Alternative Coronavirus Vaccine to AstraZeneca Jab https://t.co/VSGiLlWLyP

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 8, 2021

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/25/uk-govt-vax-blood-clot-victims-must-prove-60-per-cent-disability-get-compensation/

'We'll learn from this': JP Morgan APOLOGISES for backing European Super League bid that involved UK based bankers as it admits it 'clearly misjudged' reaction from football fans

JP Morgan has apologised for its role in plans for the failed breakaway European Super League.

The American investment bank said on Monday it had committed around £2.8billion as start-up capital for the league which posed a direct challenge to UEFA's Champions League and also threatened to devalue Europe's top domestic leagues.

Twelve clubs announced they had signed up to compete on Sunday but by Wednesday afternoon nine had withdrawn, including all six English teams — Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur — who had initially backed the project.

Fan protests and outrage from UEFA, FIFA, leagues, clubs, players and even politicians, made the league a non-starter.

And while the bank was expecting some controversy, sources say it was taken aback by the level of public uproar.

The bank released a short statement yesterday morning apologising for its role in plans for the league.

It said: 'We clearly misjudged how this deal would be viewed by the wider football community and how it might impact them in the future. We will learn from this.'

JP Morgan's work on the super league is understood to have involved several London-based bankers and was approved by the company's internal reputation committee.

The key figures included Arsenal fan Viswas Raghavan, 54, who is the chief executive of the bank's business in Europe.

He is believed to have been one of the major proponents of the league internally at the bank.

The Indian financier is also a lifelong devotee of cricket and was instrumental in driving its lead sponsorship of Lord’s Cricket Ground.

And Argentinian Daniel Pinto, 58, one of the co-presidents of the bank, is also believed to have signed off on the plans but is not thought to have driven the project.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/04/well-learn-from-this-jp-morgan.html

President Trump: What CNN Did Was A “Massive Campaign Violation”

On Friday, Sean Hannity aired more of his interview with Donald Trump.

During the interview, Trump and Hannity discussed the bombshell videos Project Veritas released exposing CNN.

Trump blasted CNN stating what they did was a “massive campaign violation.”

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Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump enters the debate hall during the Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN, Salem Media Group and the Washington Times at the University of Miami, Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

On Friday, Sean Hannity aired more of his interview with Donald Trump.

During the interview, Trump and Hannity discussed the bombshell videos Project Veritas released exposing CNN.

Trump blasted CNN stating what they did was a “massive campaign violation.”

The Daily Mail reported:

‘That is a campaign violation,’ said Trump, describing Project Veritas’ work as ‘incredible’.

‘What they are doing is a massive campaign violation. When you look at what they did.’

In early April, Project Veritas released undercover videos of CNN’s Technical Director Charlie Chester.

In the first video, Chester admitted that CNN engaged in “propaganda” to remove Trump from office.

He even went as far as to say he joined CNN for that very reason.

The CNN director also admitted the network made Biden look like a “young geriatric” with his aviator shades.

‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That,’ CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester said. “Look what we did! We got Trump out!”

In part 2, Chester admitted that CNN fearmongered on COVID for ratings.

Chester also admitted that they only brought on guests who said what CNN wanted them to.

“Any reporter on CNN — what they’re actually doing is they’re telling the person what to say… It’s always like leading them in a direction before they even open their mouths. The only people that we [CNN] will let on the air, for the most part, are people that have a proven track record of taking the bait,” Chester explained.

“I think there’s an art to manipulation…Inflection, saying things twice — there’s little subtleties to how to manipulate people…I mean, it’s enough to change the world, you know?”

In their third bombshell video, Chester admitted that CNN is “trying to help” BLM by only pushing stories that make white people look bad.

Project Veritas has released a third bombshell undercover video of CNN Director Charlie Chester admitting that the network is “trying to help” Black Lives Matter by protecting their narrative on race.

Chester admits that they have only been pushing stories that implicate white people, during a conversation with a Tinder date that ended up being a Project Veritas reporter.

CNN is a far-left propaganda outlet.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/04/president-trump-what-cnn-did-was.html

'It's the biggest thing in the history of the internet': Pentagon quietly transfers 175 million internet addresses worth $4BILLION to mysterious firm at shared workspace in Florida

A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in.

A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world´s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.

That real estate has since more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 4 percent the size of the entire current internet. It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon.

'It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,' said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company.

The sell off of Internet space sparked theories the Pentagon could be eventually responding to repeated demands to monitise its collections of millions of dormant web pages.

But it now seems officials hope to place the pages on the open market in order to allow them to gather huge amounts of intelligence data about Internet users, including hostile actors.

The military hopes to 'assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,' said a statement issued Friday by Brett Goldstein, chief of the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service, which is running the project.

But it has not answered many basic questions, beginning with why it chose to entrust management of the address space to a company that seems not to have existed until September.

It also hopes to 'identify potential vulnerabilities' as part of efforts to defend against cyber-intrusions by global adversaries, who are consistently infiltrating U.S. networks, sometimes operating from unused internet address blocks.

The statement did not specify whether the 'pilot project' would involve outside contractors.

The Pentagon periodically contends with unauthorized squatting on its space, in part because there has been a shortage of first-generation internet addresses since 2011; they now sell at auction for upwards of $25 each.

Madory said advertising the address space will make it easier to chase off squatters and allow the U.S. military to 'collect a massive amount of background internet traffic for threat intelligence.'

Some cybersecurity experts have speculated that the Pentagon may be using the newly advertised space to create 'honeypots,' machines set up with vulnerabilities to draw hackers.

Or it could be looking to set up dedicated infrastructure - software and servers - to scour traffic for suspect activity.

'This greatly increases the space they could monitor,' said Madory, who published a blog post on the matter Saturday.

What a Pentagon spokesman could not explain Saturday is why the Defense Department chose Global Resource Systems LLC, a company with no record of government contracts, to manage the address space.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/04/its-biggest-thing-in-history-of.html

Microchip Precursor? GROCERY STORE PALM-SCANNING PAYMENT IS COMING

You were warned. The rulers of the globe want everyone tracked, traced, vaccinated, surveilled, and enslaved. If they can’t do it with a microchip, they will use your unique biometric data. And that dystopian future is right around the corner.

This probably only the first to the chip. Amazon’s One (a palm scanning payment system) is expanding to its biggest area yet: the company is now testing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods, starting with a single store in Amazon’s home city of Seattle.

According to an Amazon FAQ, the palm-scanning technology analyzes “the minute characteristics of your palm — both surface-area details like lines and ridges as well as subcutaneous features such as vein patterns” in order to identify a customer, allowing them to use the biometric scan as an alternative (and, theoretically, faster) method of checking out than fumbling around with a credit card or cash. -The Verge

Customers who want to use their palms to pay at Whole Foods will be able to register their palms at kiosks in the supported Whole Foods stores, allowing them to associate a physical credit card to that palm scan. (Amazon One users who have already registered may have to re-link their cards once to be able to use them at Whole Foods.) And of course, Amazon One users will be able to link their Prime accounts to their scans to get the subscription service’s discounts when shopping, according to CNBC.

There is a push to make this seem “normal.” Is this a precursor to the microchip? Perhaps. Only time will tell. But many mainstream media outlets have reported on this and in a positive light trying to convince people this is a good idea.

Once again, use your discernment and apply critical thinking to everything. Stay alert and be aware of what’s being said and what’s going on around you. Anything new could be a piece of this agenda that they are ramming forward at an increased speed.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/microchip-precursor-grocery-store-palm-scanning-payment-is-coming/

India vows to HANG officials for delaying Covid oxygen supplies to desperate hospitals in devastating 2nd wave ‘tsunami’

INDIA has vowed to "hang" anyone who delays the delivery of oxygen supplies as the country buckles under a devastating second wave of coronavirus.

A high court in New Delhi today warned it would use the death penalty after brazen local officials intercepted and diverted oxygen tanks to desperate hospitals in their areas.

The court, which was hearing submissions by a group of hospitals over the oxygen shortages, described the devastating rise in infections as a "tsunami".

Covid patients are "dying on the pavement" outside hospitals - and doctors fear infections will soon hit 500,000 per day.

And India's fatality rate means that there could be 5,700 deaths per day at the peak.

The surging Covid cases are pushing health services to the limit, with medical oxygen scarce and hospitals understaffed and overflowing.

Intensive care units are full with nearly all ventilators in use, leaving doctors no choice but to beg for help on social media.

Tanks of oxygen are being shuttled across the country to hotspots to keep up with the demand - but local officials in several states have disrupted movement of tankers and diverted supplies to their areas.

A tanker-truck carrying oxygen supplies in Delhi’s neighboring state of Haryana went missing yesterday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

And days before, a minister in Haryana blamed Delhi authorities for looting an oxygen tanker when it was crossing their territory.

"Unfortunately, many such incidents have occurred and have dire effect on hospitals in need of oxygen supplies," Saket Tiku, president of the All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers Association, said.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2021/04/india-vows-to-hang-officials-for.html

NY Times: Whiteness is a 'Suicide Cult,' Blackness is a 'Superpower'

These two articles from the New York Times make for an interesting contrast.

The first article from 2018, "The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult," argued that white people stole everything they have and will destroy the planet.

Between Sarah Jeong & this cliched moron, Pankaj Mishra, the NYT should change its name to, "THE WHITE PEOPLE SUCK REVIEW" https://t.co/NdZaiHce0l

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 30, 2018

New York Times contributor Damon Young just a few weeks ago wrote a column for The Root stating that "whiteness is a pandemic" and "the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it."

The second article from Friday, "When Blackness is a Superpower," argued that black people stealing white comic book characters and recasting them as black will save the world.

Falcon. Black Panther. A potential new Superman. A wave of heroes, reimagined by Black creators, is conquering screens and comic book pages.

Here's a look at how this new generation is turning Blackness into a superpower. https://t.co/lCGkqHJvEO pic.twitter.com/SIRY3nX1Rf

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 23, 2021

One of the comics the Times highlighted features Harriet Tubman slaying white demons (see middle left).

hello we have a BLACK SUPERHEROES package today:

first, from @vvchambers:

From Falcon to Black Panther to a potential new Superman, a wave of rejuvenated heroes, reimagined by Black creators, are rewriting superhero mythologies.https://t.co/cOnHzPbYVi

— 𝚍𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚒 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚝 (@dodaistewart) April 23, 2021

Excerpt:

In fact, the notion of Harriet Tubman as a superhero is a favorite subject of comic book fan art. She is also the subject of a graphic novel series by David Crownson, which was funded by a Kickstarter campaign.

The slave catchers aren't just evil: They’re vampires. Harriet Tubman doesn't just defend the people she's guiding to freedom; she wields katanas and wordplay to outwit and overcome the white men who see her and her people as mere chattel.

All of these heroes are, in their own way, fighting for an equality that seems ever elusive. For Spellman, the opportunity to write stories about Black superheroes is part of a concerted effort to tip the scales.

"I absolutely believe that this helps re-contextualize us in a more universal way," he said. "If we are first and foremost perceived as less than, and I do believe that everybody on the planet looks at us that way, a superhero is greater than. That primal math, via a megaphone like Marvel – that's powerful."

Note how the Times has begun capitalizing "Black" but not "white."

Demons can't be afforded the same reverence as angels!

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62185

Government of Canada is using Uber mailing list to distribute vaccine information

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/government-of-canada-is-using-uber-mailing-list-to-distribute-vaccine-information/

Three Killed in Attack on Iranian Tanker Off Syria’s Coast

Attack believed to have involved a drone in Lebanese airspace

On Saturday, an Iranian fuel tanker was attacked off the coast of Syria, the first such attack in years. Three Iranians, including two crew members, were reported slain.

Details are still emerging, but suspicion immediately shot to Israel, who attacks Iranian targets in and around Syria all the time. A previous report had suggested that the Israelis had targeted a few vessels carrying Iranian fuel in the past.

This fuel tanker was close to port, and it is believed to have been attacked by a drone or a missile fired from Lebanese airspace. This again points to an Israeli attack, as Israel tends to use Lebanese airspace with impunity.

Before the war, Syria was self-sufficient on oil and fuel, but production and transport has struggled, and now they are heavily reliant on imports to run the economy. With the US trying to keep Syria from buying anything, and trying to keep Iran from selling anything, it’s only natural this would be a key trading partner for them.

The US has been trying to stop Iranian exports, seizing some of the tankers in the past. This is the first time one has come under attack, however, which is certainly more along the lines of what Israel would do.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/24/three-killed-in-attack-on-iranian-tanker-off-syrias-coast/

Democrats move to expand voting rights for felons

Democratic states are moving to expand the voting rights of felons as the GOP seeks to tighten voting rules following a spate of losses in the 2020 election.

New York, Washington and Virginia have all recently taken legislative or executive action ensuring previously incarcerated men and women will have easier access to the ballot box.

Advocates have argued that most people who are affected by felony disenfranchisement come from communities of color.

“The history of this is very much connected to Jim Crow and racism. And sadly, our nation has deep and long history about choosing who gets to vote as a mechanism to keep some people down,” said New York Assembly Member Daniel O’Donnell (D), who sponsored legislation that the legislature passed expanding voting rights to previously incarcerated felons.

"And you look at the population within our prison system. You can see why that would be,” he said.

The Democrat-led efforts come amid a growing battle over voting rights, with Republican-controlled state houses across the U.S. moving forward with their own legislation critics argue is intended to restrict voter access.

As of March 24, 361 bills had been introduced in 47 states aimed at tightening voting rules in some way, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

But granting voting rights to felons once they have completed their sentences appears to have bipartisan support.

A poll from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday found that 70 percent of Americans favor allowing people convicted of a felony to vote after serving their sentences, including 84 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of Republicans.

Neil Volz, deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRCC), said the conversation shouldn’t be purely about politics.

“This is more important than red or blue. This is about humanity. This is about how we see our democracies, and whether we believe that every voice matters,” Volz said.

No state permanently bans previously incarcerated felons from voting, but the debate centers around how long a felon should wait until they are released from prison before being able to do so.

O’Donnell’s legislation in New York and legislation passed in Washington state both granted felons the right to vote immediately upon release from prison, even if they are on parole or probation.

Washington State Rep. Tara Simmons (D), who sponsored the legislation, says her own experience being previously incarcerated drove her to push for it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/550010-democrats-move-to-expand-voting-rights-for-felons

Maryland to investigate Derek Chauvin defense witness' tenure as state's chief medical examiner

Dr. David Fowler testified that George Floyd's primary cause of death was a sudden heart rhythm disturbance during police restraint

Maryland officials will conduct an investigation into all deaths that happened in police custody that were overseen by the state's former chief medical examiner, who testified as a defense witness in the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Maryland attorney general and governor's offices announced Friday. Chauvin was convicted last week of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd,

Dr. David Fowler, who was Maryland's chief medical examiner from 2002 to 2019 and is now a member of a consulting firm, testified that the primary cause of Floyd's death was a sudden heart rhythm disturbance during police restraint due to underlying heart disease.

The retired forensic pathologist also said the fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd's system, and possible carbon monoxide poisoning from auto exhaust, were contributing factors in his death. Fowler's testimony contradicted other experts who testified Floyd died due to a lack of oxygen. He also classified Floyd's manner of death as "undetermined," breaking from even Hennepin County’s medical examiner, who ruled it a homicide.

The announcement of the investigation came from Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday, less than 24 hours after the Attorney General's Office received a letter from Washington, D.C.'s former chief medical examiner Roger Mitchell, and signed by 431 doctors from around the country, saying Fowler’s conclusions were so far outside the bounds of accepted forensic practice that all his previous work could come into question.

"Dr. Fowler's stated opinion that George Floyd's death during active police restraint should be certified with an 'undetermined' manner is outside the standard practice and conventions for investigating and certification of in-custody deaths," the letter said. "This stated opinion raises significant concerns for his previous practice and management."

The letter called for probes at the state and federal level into Fowler’s medical license as well as a review into the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during Fowler's 17-year tenure.

Raquel Coombs, a spokeswoman for Frosh, said the office had been having internal discussions for weeks about launching an investigation into in-custody death reports conducted during Fowler's tenure and contacted the governor's office about how to proceed, the Washington Post reported.

"We agree that it is appropriate for independent experts to review reports issued by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) regarding deaths in custody," Coombs said in a statement. "We are already in conversations with the Governor's Office about the need for such a review, and have offered to coordinate it."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-chief-medical-examiner-derek-chauvin-defense-testimony

USAID spends millions on remedial education abroad, as American students fall behind

Public school students have been out of classrooms for a year and are falling behind across the board, particularly in mathematics.

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 United States Agency for International Development for allocating $10 million in taxpayer support to remedial education classes for the children of Zambia, while American students continue to struggle with the academic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the agency, the goal of USAID's grant to Zambia is to "support innovative solutions to administer remedial instruction in grades three to five, thereby contributing to improve learning outcomes and expand access to quality basic education in Zambia."

Meanwhile, math scores for U.S. students in grades 3-8 fell by an average of 5-10 percentile points following last year's widespread public school closures mandated in response to the pandemic, according to a study of data from 4.4 million students by the Northwest Evaluation Association, a nonprofit that administers standardized tests.

The NWEA found that students in the third, fourth and fifth grades suffered the sharpest drop-offs. The overall results from the NWEA's MAP Growth tests might obscure even steeper declines among minority and low-income students, according to researchers for the group. Students from these populations might be underrepresented in the data, they suspect, because a disproportionate number of them may have avoided the 2020 tests, either because they stopped attending class or lacked the technology to take the test remotely.

"We've really just gone back to the basics where we're focusing on literacy and math," an assistant superintendent in San Joaquin, Calif., told the Associated Press. "That's all we do."

After a year of distance learning and academic regression, it sounds like the U.S. public education system has its hands full with its own students in grades 3-5 in need of remedial instruction.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/hold-us-government-spends-millions-education-programs-abroad

Satellite Images Show Damage At Israeli Missile Factory After Alleged Explosion

On April 25, Iranian sources shared new satellite images showing damage at an Israeli missile factory where a large explosion was reported earlier this week.

The factory, which is located in central Israel in proximity to a residential area, belongs to the Tomer defense company. The large company manufactures missiles for use the by the Israeli defense forces and other Israeli defense systems, including the Arrow interceptor.

Locals reported a large blast in the company on April 21. However, the company said that a test was taking place at the factory.

“This was a controlled test with no exceptional circumstances,” Tomer said in a statement.

The new satellite images show scorch marks near what appears to be a missile engine test pad in Tomer’s factory, that is known to be among the most sensitive military facilities in Israel.

Iranian sources, including defense journalist Hossein Dalirian who shared the images, alleged that the missile factory was the target of a sabotage act. According to the claims, the explosion was caused by an infiltrator.

These claims were completely dismissed by many defense experts, who noted that the scorch marks were simply the result of a routine missile engine test. This theory appears to be more realistic.

Earlier this month, a sabotage act orchestrated by the Israeli intelligence rocked Iran’s main uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Tehran responded by enriching uranium up to 60%. Yet, some in Iran are still expecting a military or a covert response.

https://southfront.org/satellite-images-show-damage-at-israeli-missile-factory-after-alleged-explosion/

Sherri Tenpenny–COVID Vaccines are "Perfectly Designed Kill Machine"

Sherri Tenpenny is an Ohio Osteopath who has written four books challenging the vaccination narrative.

"They're not asking people who've been diagnosed with this mutant strain, is 'Have you had one of the not-approved vaccines?' Nobody's putting that together."

Dr Sherri Tenpenny has mapped out eight mechanisms of action of how the mRNA vaccine is going to kill people.

She says, "When you inject the mRNA, the Messenger RNA starts to code for the spike protein…the NIH is now fighting with Moderna over patent rights, because you can't patent anything that's out in nature, so they had to manipulate the spike protein, in order to be able to patent it and then make an antibody to the spike protein.

"Well, this anti-spike protein antibody is deadly. It's absolutely deadly. And the first three papers I went through, I found that one of the things the spike protein does is it directly attacks lung tissue and breaks it down.

"The second thing that it does is it inhibits your M2 macrophages, which are your anti-inflammatory macrophages, so you get cytokine storm and you die.

"The third is that when that Messenger RNA goes in and makes an antibody to the spike protein, it binds it loosely, carries it into a cell and causes permanent replication. So it's like having an "On" button with no "Off" button. You're constantly making this little piece of protein develop more spike proteins against it, make more destruction.

"And then, with this paper that I read last night, of this anti-spike protein, it attacks the astrocytes and the oligodendrocytes, which are two different kinds of cells in your brain. Two different kinds of central nervous system [cells]. It attacks the inner mitochondria membrane, in two different mechanisms and it attacks this neurofilament protein, which are the motor nerves, which suddenly -we've seen those people [with strong tremors], it's because the spike protein antibody is affecting their motor neurons and their central nervous system.

"And then the primary, number one symptom that people have after they get this vaccine is debilitating fatigue, that they can't even function in the main part of their lives. Well, it's because the spike protein antibody attacks the mitochondria and it attacks the GAD 65, which is the intracellular antigen inside of your mitochondria and it can also attack you pancreas.

"If you're diabetic, it'll make your diabetes worse. If you're not diabetic, it can cause you to have diabetes, stiff-person syndrome, cerebellar ataxia, which is what thing that you're watching [massive tremors]; people not able to walk.

"In the experiment that they did, they took different tissue antigens, like skin and lung and all this other stuff and then they dropped the serum that had the antibody all over it. 27 out of 55 of the tissue types reacted adversely to the spike antibody.

"So you get this vaccine, you create this antibody, that's why in the most recent VAERS report that came out this week, 181 deaths, already that have been reported and when you start reading through them, you kind of lay out what these antibodies do, you can see it, right in the VAERS report, what has happened to these people and it's the anti-spike antibody that's attacking them and that's why the most number of deaths occurred about 19 days after the injection, because it takes a while to develop the antibody response. It doesn't happen just like that.

"Unless you have an anaphylactic reaction - probably to the polyethylene glycol- unless you have an immediate reaction to it, the delayed reaction is going to start - it takes a while - I talked to a bunch of epidemiologists in Europe and they said that it takes about 48 weeks to really see the most profound effects of autoimmune disease.

"When I found the first four mechanisms of action, I said to a few friends of mine, 'This is a perfectly-designed kill machine.'

https://henrymakow.com/2021/04/sherri-tenpenny-eight-ways.html