==Unusual Supreme Court vote rules illegal immigrant can avoid deportation on technicality

The entire case centered on the word 'a'==

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of an illegal immigrant who was facing deportation, stating that they are entitled to discretionary relief because the government did not follow the rules.

Federal law says that an illegal immigrant in such a situation can avoid deportation at the attorney general's discretion if they have been in the U.S. for at least 10 years. The clock officially stops when they receive "a notice to appear" with information about their hearing. But in cases like plaintiff Agusto Niz-Chavez's, the government sent multiple documents containing different pieces of information. The court's majority ruled that because the law says "a" notice, that means it must be a single document.

"At one level, today’s dispute may seem semantic, focused on a single word, a small one at that," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the court's opinion. "But words are how the law constrains power. In this case, the law’s terms ensure that, when the federal government seeks a procedural advantage against an individual, it will at least supply him with a single and reasonably comprehensive statement of the nature of the proceedings against him."

Gorsuch led an unusual collection of justices in the 6-3 decision. Siding with him were liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, as well as conservatives Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas. Justice Brett Kavanaugh penned the dissent, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.

Niz-Chavez came to the U.S. in 2005, and the Supreme Court began the removal process in 2013, after which he was ordered to leave the U.S. voluntarily or be deported. He had received two notices, one in March 2013 with his charges, and another in May 2013 with the time and place of the hearing.

"I find the Court's conclusion rather perplexing as a matter of statutory interpretation and common sense," Kavanaugh wrote in his dissent, noting that Niz-Chavez had received all of the necessary information by May 2013, well within the 10-year period.

The government argued that it is difficult to send all of the information in one notice, because the time or place of a hearing could change.

"But as this Court has long made plain," Gorsuch countered, "pleas of administrative inconvenience and self-serving regulations never 'justify departing from the statute's clear text.'"

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-vote-ruling-immigrant-avoid-deportation

‘Worse than Solyndra’: Republicans Press for Information on Biden Admin’s Favorite Electric Battery Company

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has up to $5 million invested in company Biden promoted

Republican senators are working to make the electric battery company President Joe Biden toured to promote his $1.9 trillion infrastructure plan this administration's Solyndra.

Biden's promotion of electric battery and bus manufacturer Proterra has struck a nerve on Capitol Hill after the Washington Free Beacon reported that Biden's energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, still has up to $5 million invested in the company. The administration's $1.9 trillion infrastructure plan includes a $174 billion investment in electric vehicles, as well as plans to replace diesel-powered buses with electric-powered buses—the very product Proterra specializes in.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) says the conflict of interest created by Biden's visit has the potential to be "even worse than Solyndra," the solar panel company that went bankrupt after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in government-backed loans from the Obama administration.

"President Biden's decision to heavily promote a business where his energy secretary holds a multimillion-dollar stake has all the potential to be even worse than Solyndra," Cruz told the Free Beacon. "President Biden and Secretary Granholm should immediately remove themselves from their glaring conflict of interest."

The Solyndra boondoggle became a lasting symbol of failure during the Obama administration, which awarded the green energy firm a $535 million loan guarantee through the 2009 stimulus package. The loan was announced with fanfare by then-vice president Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu during a Sept. 4, 2009 speech at Solyndra's California headquarters. Obama, even after being warned that the company was on the brink of failure, visited its headquarters a few months later and hailed it for "leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future."

The company months later shut down all operations and declared bankruptcy.

The overt promotion of Solyndra bears resemblance to the current treatment of Proterra, which in the first hundred days of the Biden administration won a visit by the president as well as a visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to one of its largest partners. Biden predicted during his virtual visit that companies like Proterra were "going to end up owning the future." Biden also promised the company he would return for an in-person visit in the near future.

The White House says Granholm, who has been given a major role in both crafting and selling the infrastructure package, played no role in planning the visit to Proterra. Granholm resigned from the company's board but has yet to divest her up to $5 million in the company, which was acquired for $1.6 billion this January.

Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has asked the Department of Energy's inspector general to investigate any conflicts of interest created by Granholm's stake in Proterra.

Barrasso pointed in the letter to assurances made by Granholm during her confirmation hearing that she would not only resign from Proterra but also recuse herself from any issue with an "effect on the financial interests of Proterra" until fully divested. Biden has since used an executive order to place Granholm in charge of "identifying risks in the supply chain for high-capacity batteries, including electric-vehicle batteries, and policy recommendations to address these risks."

"Secretary Granholm leads the Department of Energy, which plays a central role in the nation's development of electric vehicles, batteries, and charging infrastructure," Barrasso said.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/worse-than-solyndra-republicans-press-for-information-on-biden-admins-favorite-electric-battery-company/

So massively inflate the price for 180 days then sell at huge profit - this graft/inside trading is disgusting

Bill Gates, China, 23andMe, and Your DNA

Recent reports reveal that a Chinese company with connections to the Gates Foundation is involved in COVID-19 testing and poses a potential threat to American privacy, particularly the medical and health data of those who have been tested for COVID-19.

In late January, CBS’ 60 Minutes reported:

“60 Minutes has learned Chinese company BGI Group, the largest biotech firm in the world, offered to build COVID labs in at least six states, and U.S. intelligence officials issued warnings not to share health data with BGI.

The largest biotech firm in the world wasted no time in offering to build and run COVID testing labs in Washington, contacting its governor right after the first major COVID outbreak in the U.S. occurred there. The Chinese company, the BGI Group, made the same offer to at least five other states, including New York and California, 60 Minutes has learned. This, along with other COVID testing offers by BGI, so worried Bill Evanina, then the country’s top counterintelligence officer, that he authorized a rare public warning.”

“Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests” declared the notice. Evanina believes the Chinese are trying to collect Americans’ DNA to win a race to control the world’s biodata.”

Evanina said a foreign entity could learn about a person’s current or future medical conditions by studying their DNA and using this information to gain a monopoly over necessary drugs and treatments.

BGI Group declined to be interviewed by 60 Minutes and said the idea that Americans genomic data has been compromised by BGI is “groundless”.

Concerns around BGI also arose in late January when Reuters reported that more than 40 publicly available documents and research papers show BGI’s links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Reuters said the research dealt with topics as varied as mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science.

The Gates Foundation and BGI

In March, journalist Natalie Winter of National Pulse uncovered documentation of a relationship between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and BGI going back nearly a decade. Winter found a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Gates Foundation and BGI to “form a collaboration on global health and agricultural development with the goal of achieving common objectives in health and agricultural development.”

Specifically, this collaboration deals with developments in human, plant, and animal genomics, the study of DNA. In the press release for the MOU, the co-founder of BGI directly mentions the partnership as focused on genomics.

“BGI looks forward to partnering with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in this significant collaboration to apply genomics research to benefit global human health,” said Dr. Huanming Yang, Chairman and Co-Founder of BGI.

Bill Gates also visited BGI headquarters in 2010, according to a report from the Financial Times. The Times stated that BGI “is working towards a goal of building a huge library based on the DNA of many millions of people.” BGI’s goal is to use this information for new drugs, genetic research, and “transforming public health policy”.

It would appear the COVID-19 crisis has helped BGI and the Gates Foundation step into the role of influencing and transforming international health policy.

Winter’s report also notes that:

“the Gates Foundation has also funded BGI projects relating to genome sequencing alongside Chinese Communist Party bodies such as the Ministry of Science and Technology and Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Similarly, Dr. Tadataka Yamada, the former president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s global health program, serves as the Chairman of BGI’s Scientific Advisory Board.”

It’s clear that BGI Group and the Gates Foundation have a documented relationship over the last the decade. It’s equally apparent that BGI Group has an extensive relationship with the Chinese military and government. It is these connections – the relationship that exists between the Chinese government, the BGI Group, and the Gates Foundation – which has sparked fears regarding the potential misuse for the COVID-19 tests manufactured by BGI.

BGI and the DNA Testing Industry

Since March 2020, BGI has sold millions of their COVID-19 test kits around the world, including the United States, Europe, and Australia. Reuters reports that shares of BGI Genomics Co. have doubled in the last year, giving BGI a market value of around $9 billion USD.

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/04/bill-gates-china-23andme-and-your-dna.html

The Reparations Agenda

“The problem with reparations is it punishes those who are not responsible, and gives money to people who may not be damaged … it’s a theory of damage that has really no basis in the law.”

Judicial Watch is investigating a race-based, taxpayer funded reparations program instituted by the City of Evanston, Illinois which allocates $10 million to provide Black/African-American residents or their descendants with a $25,000 reparation payment. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton has described the program, which excludes all other residents or direct descendants of residents, as having “self-evident” moral and legal issues. The program, as he continues, is part of a broader effort on the part of the Left to “destroy this country using the crucible … of racial division.”

Describing it as an “extremist policy,” Fitton noted that as “a government program that provides taxpayer money to individuals based on race, [reparations], plainly violates the law.”

As Fitton further observed, “is one payment enough? How does that fix the legacy of racism if that’s what they’re truly concerned about? The equivalent of a stimulus check? How much money is it? And is it ever going to be enough money?” Regardless of the thinking behind reparations, Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit and asked for records from the City of Evanston to find out more about what appears to be a “racially abusive” program. Read more about our lawsuit on the Evanston City Reparations Program here.

If you’re concerned about the unconstitutionality of race-based reparations programs such as the one instituted by the City of Evanston, read and support our work today.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/deep-dive/the-reparations-agenda/

European Parliament approves resolution on Russia

The document calls for sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, Rosatom nuclear corporation, ‘Russian oligarchs’ and disconnection from SWIFT

BRUSSELS, April 29. /TASS/. The European Parliament has approved the resolution on Russia with calls for sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, Rosatom nuclear corporation, ‘Russian oligarchs’ and disconnection from SWIFT. 569 members of the European Parliament voted for approval of the resolution, with 67 against the approval.

The European Parliament "Demands that the EU should reduce its dependence on Russian energy, and urges the EU institutions and all Member States, therefore, to stop the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and to demand a stop to the construction of controversial nuclear power plants built by Rosatom," the document says.

It "underscores that if such a military build-up [on the border with Ukraine-TASS] were in the future to be transformed into an invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the EU must make clear that the price for such a violation of international law and norms would be severe; insists, therefore, that in such circumstances imports of oil and gas from Russia to the EU be immediately stopped, while Russia should be excluded from the SWIFT payment system, and all assets in the EU of oligarchs close to the Russian authorities and their families in the EU need to be frozen and their visas cancelled," the resolution notes.

The European Parliament also "underlines that EU Member States should no longer be welcoming places for Russian wealth and investments of unclear origin; calls on the Commission and the Council to increase efforts to curb the Kremlin’s strategic investments within the EU for the purposes of subversion, undermining democratic processes and institutions, and spreading corruption; continues to insist that Member States such as Cyprus, Bulgaria and Malta must abandon their ‘golden passport’ regimes," according to the document.

This resolution of the European Parliament, just like all others, is advisory by nature and is not binding on EU institutions.

https://tass.com/world/1285053

Trump hits McConnell again, saying GOP needs new leadership

Former President Trump on Thursday renewed his feud with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) by calling for Senate Republicans to find a new leader ahead of the midterm elections, suggesting doing so would boost their chances of taking back the upper chamber next year.

Asked by Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo how Republicans will fare in the 2022 elections, Trump said he expects GOP candidates to do very well but said the party needs new leadership in the Senate.

“I think we’re going to do very well. We need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not done a great job, I think they should change Mitch McConnell,” Trump said during an hourlong interview Thursday morning.

But Trump said his own support of GOP candidates would help Republicans win back Congress.

“I’m looking at the right people to endorse and when I endorse people it means a lot,” he said. “I think we’re going to have a great victory in 2022. I think we’re going to take back the House. Everybody’s working very hard.”

Most Senate Republicans remain solidly unified behind McConnell and have repeatedly defended the GOP leader from Trump’s attacks.

No Republican senator has stated any desire to challenge McConnell, whom many GOP lawmakers view as one of the smartest tacticians in Washington.

Trump highlighted his work with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who traveled to Trump’s Palm Beach resort in January to meet with the former president.

“I’m working in conjunction with Kevin McCarthy and the group and I think we’re going to take back the House,” he said.

McConnell, by contrast, hasn’t spoken to Trump since mid-December and rarely invokes the former president by name after denouncing him on the Senate floor in February for inciting an unruly mob of supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. McConnell, however, did not vote to convict Trump on a House-passed article of impeachment accusing him of inciting an insurrection.

Trump ripped McConnell afterward in a lengthy statement that warned “the Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm.”

He declared if “Republican senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.”

Trump took another shot at the GOP leader at a fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, ripping him as a “dumb son of a bitch” and a “stone-cold loser.”

McConnell tried to put the feud to rest when asked about Trump’s attacks.

“What I’m concentrating on is the future and what we are confronted with here is a totally left-wing administration, with a slight majority in the House, a 50-50 Senate trying to transform America into something no one voted for last year,” McConnell told reporters earlier this month.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/550944-trump-hits-mcconnell-again-saying-gop-needs-new-leadership

Two Year Old Baby Died Within Six Days Of Taking Second Shot Of Pfizer Vaccine In Clinical Trials On Children

A two year old baby has died within six days of taking the second shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the ongoing experimental clinical trials on more than 10,000 children under the age of 5 to 11.

Pfizer and Moderna are going through clinical trials for their mRNA shots on more than 10,000 children as young as six months old. The trials of these vaccines started in mid-March.

Moderna refers to its study as KidCOVE. The children are also being used as guinea pig by Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca.

Meanwhile, its possible the parents of these children are unaware of these facts.

Michelle Lynam is the current Dr. United States of America, an anesthesiologist in Midlothian, Virginia. She posts videos on Facebook sneaking over experimental shots. She is also subjecting her children to these experimental shots.

Lynam registered her two teenage daughters for clinical trials of Pfizer. She enrolled her six year old daughter for clinical trial of Moderna.

Clinical Research Partners in Richmond, Virginia is facilitating the guinea pig trial of children by Moderna in the state.

There is very low possibility that people would know about any negative results of these trials. However, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) provide an insight on the effects of the experimental mRNA shots on these children.

A two-year-old girl received her second (Dose 2) experimental Pfizer mRNA shot on February 25. She apparently developed some sort of serious adverse reaction on March 1. The baby was dead on March 3. No further details were provided.

https://greatgameindia.com/pfizer-clinical-trials-children/

Iran bans 15 people reportedly involved in Zarif leak from leaving the country

Following the leaked audio of Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran executed travel bans on the 15 people who are reportedly behind the leaks. However, Zarif has kept his position, and expressed remorse in an Instagram post.

On the audio, Zarif makes mention of John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. According to Zarif, Kerry allegedly knew about 200+ Israeli covert operations on Iranian targets in Syria. Kerry denies the allegations.

After the leak, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh acknowledged that the audio was authentic. He told journalists on Monday that the recording was a small part of a seven-hour interview Zarif gave to a well-known economist.

https://saraacarter.com/iran-bans-15-people-reportedly-involved-in-zarif-leak-from-leaving-the-country/

Iranian Patriots fighting

Combat Footage: PKK’s Guided Missiles Destroyed Two Tanks In ‘Secret’ Turkish Base In Kurdistan

On April 29, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced that his fighters had attacked a secret Turkish base near the village of Sheladize in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

PKK fighters targeted two M60 battle tanks, which were parked in the base, with anti-tank guided missiles. The Kurdish guerrilla group released a video of the attack that took place on April 27. Both tanks received direct hits.

The PKK’s attack on Sheladize base indicates that the Turkish operation is not going so well. The Kurdish group is still moving freely in the Kurdistan Region.

https://southfront.org/combat-footage-pkks-guided-missiles-destroyed-two-tanks-in-secret-turkish-base-in-kurdistan/

Military Situation In Syria On April 28, 2021 (Map Update)

On April 29, Russia reported that Idlib militants had violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 38 times: 22 – in Idlib province, 10 – in Latakia province, 6 – in Hama province, 2 – in Hama province.

On April 28, the Ansar Abu Bakr al-Siddiq group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Turkish military vehicle on the Ariha-Saraqeb road.

On April 28, two explosions were reported in Jarabalus town. One child reportedly killed.

On April 28, a motorcycle bomb exploded in the Sawr area. No casualties were reported.

On April 28, clashes between the YPG and Turkish-backed forces were reported in the Kafr Kalbin area.

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-april-28-2021-map-update-2/

While China is 'hooking into Australia' for standing up for itself, NZ is 'being praised' for toeing the line

Sky News host Paul Murray says while China is "hooking into Australia" for standing up against it, New Zealand is getting its praise for abstaining from admonishing China over its treatment of Hong Kong.

"China, of course, continues to claim it is a developing nation which means it gets to continue polluting all the way to 2030, while the United States promises to cut its emissions in half, he said.

"But how many developing nations in Africa are launching permanent space exploration?"

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6251032490001

15 arrests across the Capital Region for human trafficking

CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — “The threat of human trafficking is here in the Capital Region,” said FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Peter Magnetto.

During a four-day period last week, 15 people were charged in a human trafficking operation.

The sting netted arrests in 4 of our local counties.

“So in the capital region alone right, you had Albany County, Saratoga County, Schenectady County, Rensselaer County all affected by this threat of human trafficking,” said Magnetto.

Magnetto says dozens of agencies were involved including the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force from the Albany Division of the FBI, State Police Troop G, local law enforcement, and district attorneys.

“Over that four day span, we certainly had upwards of nearly 100 different law-enforcement professionals working on this,” he said.

Magnetto says out of these 15 people who were arrested by State Police, the FBI was able to bring a federal charge against one man a few days later.

25 year old Bradley Boisen of Waterford appeared in court this week on a charge that he attempted to pay $60 to an adult in order to have sex with a 14 year old child.

Magnetto says that arrest highlights the importance of their task force bringing multiple different agencies together.

“It allows us to be flexible to bring folks to justice no matter what the crime is or where the best fit is to prosecute it, that model allows us to go out and make an impact on the threat.”

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/15-arrests-across-the-capital-region-for-human-trafficking

The Human Trafficking Unit

• San Patricio County

The Fugitive Apprehension Unit arrested five individuals in Mathis for Trafficking of Persons Under 18 Years of Age and Sexual Assault of a Child.

These arrests stem from an investigation conducted by the Human Trafficking Unit. This case was received as a tip from the Polaris National Hotline, as well as a request for investigative assistance from the Mathis Police Department regarding a minor that made multiple outcries of being trafficked.

During the course of the sex trafficking investigation, it was determined that Viviana Rivas trafficked the child to Francisco Silvas, who sexually assaulted her for the payment of narcotics.

A separate offense occurred when Jason Morales arranged for the child to travel to his residence for the use of narcotics, where she was subsequently sexually assaulted by Michael Bentancur and Manuel Caranza Jr. During the assault, Bentancur displayed a weapon to the victim.

Arrest warrants were issued for the five suspects and FAU executed the warrants. The following five suspects and their respective charges are listed below:

4/21, Viviana Vela Rivas, 34, Trafficking of Persons

4/21, Michael Anthony Bentancur, 37, Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child and Violation of a Court Order/Prohibited Substance Item in Community Corrections Facility

4/22, Manuel Carranza Jr., 37, Sexual Assault of a Child

4/22, Francisco Carranza Silvas, 34, Sexual Assault of a Child

4/22, Jason Morales, 35, Sexual Assault of a Child

https://smcorridornews.com/weekly-ag-round-up-texas-joins-20-state-coalition-in-urging-biden-congress-to-reconsider-packing-the-supreme-court/

Lawfare Groups Ask For Federal Intervention in Arizona Ballot Audit – Send Letter to DOJ Asking for Immediate Involvement

After the Democrat Secretary of State failed to get the Arizona State Attorney General to initiate an investigation of the audit; and after a Democrat state judge rejected the Democrat effort for a temporary restraining order; and after all other efforts have failed…. now we see three outside left-wing election groups (claiming bipartisanship yet led by lawyers from NYU) asking the DOJ to intervene in the Maricopa County, Arizona, ballot audit.

The audit started on April 23. A judge on April 28 rejected the attempt by Democrats to halt the process.

The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved.

The arguments within the letter [pdf here] are identical to the arguments made previously by other Lawfare groups, including Perkins Coie, to a state judge. The state judge rejected the arguments because there was no evidence submitted to the court to back them up.

Obviously there is a great amount of fear amid the network of Lawfare and leftist activists about this ongoing ballot audit. The letter only highlights the worry they carry that Arizona’s election fraud might be demonstrably proven the the wider U.S. electorate.

WASHINGTON DC – A group of election security and administration experts are asking the Justice Department to send federal monitors to Arizona as the Republican-led state Senate carries out an audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County in the state’s 2020 presidential election.

In a letter to the top official at the Justice Department’s voting section, five elections experts from the Brennan Center for Justice, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference expressed deep concerns about how the audit is being conducted, warning that it has put ballots “in danger of being stolen, defaced, or irretrievably damaged.”

“They failed to ensure the physical security of ballots by keeping doors unlocked and allowing unauthorized persons to access the ballot storage facility,” the letter reads. “They also risk compromising the integrity of the ballots themselves, using materials and technologies that will cause the ballot paper and marks to deteriorate, such as holding ballots to ultra-violet light without gloves. (read more)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/29/lawfare-groups-ask-for-federal-intervention-in-arizona-ballot-audit-send-letter-to-doj-asking-for-immediate-involvement/

https://www.scribd.com/document/505441326/AZ-Letter-to-DoJ-04-29-21#from_embed

Why are certain 5G cell tower components labeled “COV-19?”

Reports are coming out to show that some of the electrical components being used in 5G tower installations bear the marking of “COV-19,” which just so happens to be almost identical to COVID-19, the name used for the infection supposedly caused by the Wuhan coronavirus.

The “Patriot Street Fighter” account on Telegram is one of the latest to share video footage of the components, which can clearly be seen with the marking of COV-19 on their chipsets.

5G component installers all around the world have reported similar markings on the equipment going into their towers, which shows that the phenomenon is strangely widespread and clearly not coincidental.

As you may recall from early on in the plandemic, reports emerged about how Wuhan, China, where it all originated, had just turned on its 5G towers at almost the exact same time that area residents started to get sick. Some of them got so sick that they dropped dead in the streets, or so we were told.

Donald Trump fast-tracked the rollout of 5G here in the United States not long after that, and here we are a year later with many who are sick and dying, purportedly from the “virus.”

What is really going on here? We will leave it up to our readers to decide if there is a connection between 5G and the symptoms and sickness associated with the Chinese virus.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2021/04/29/why-are-certain-5g-cell-tower-components-labeled-cov-19/

The Biden Regime Is Carrying Out The Worst Attack On Our Democracy Since The Civil War

Joe Biden on Wednesday night called January 6th "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War."

It's his administration that's carrying out the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.

Every lie we were told about the supposed "insurrection" has now been debunked.

We now know that no cops were killed and not even one person was arrested for having a firearm in the Capitol building or on Capitol grounds.

https://youtu.be/ddyCx6Bifhc

The only people killed were five Trump supporters, including 14-year Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt who was executed on video by Capitol police.

The damage to the Capitol building consisted of a few broken windows and a broken book shelf.

The Capitol protesters are being treated like terrorists with the FBI/Biden regime staging terroristic raids on their families, stripping everyone involved of their rights, holding them in indefinite detention without a trial, subjecting them to vicious torture and racial abuse at the hands of DC corrections officers who told them they "hate all white people" and locking them in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.

The Biden regime is doing all this while dropping charges against Black Lives Matter rioters and letting them off easy!

The Biden regime now appears to be stripping Americans who haven't even been charged with any crimes of their right to fly by putting them on the No Fly List (or Terrorist Watchlist) for their political views!

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62193

Ghislaine Maxwell pictured for the first time behind bars — with a bruise

An attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell on Thursday released the first photograph of the accused madam since she was arrested last summer, showing the former socialite with a wrinkly face and a bruise under her eye.

The photo of Maxwell was included in a letter filed in her Manhattan federal criminal case by her attorney Bobbi Sternheim, who wrote that the apparent injury has caused friction between her and guards at the jail, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

“Last night, she was confronted by MDC staff due a visible bruise over her left eye,” Sternheim wrote in the letter.

“No guard addressed the bruise until Ms. Maxwell, who has no mirror, caught a reflection of her aching eye in the glean of a nail clipper. At that point, MDC staff confronted Ms. Maxwell regarding the source of the bruise, threatening to place her in the SHU if she did not reveal how she got it,” she added, referring to the special housing unit.

Sternheim added that guards at the MDC put inmates in the special housing unit if they’ve been injured in the jail or subjected to abuse by other inmates.

But Maxwell’s attorneys believe she got the bruise because she’s forced to cover her eyes with a sock or towel every night because guards shine lights in her cell every 15 minutes.

Maxwell is awaiting trial for sex trafficking and other charges related to her allegedly procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse in the 1990s and early 2000s.

She has pleaded not guilty and faces trial this summer.

https://nypost.com/2021/04/29/ghislaine-maxwell-pictured-for-the-first-time-behind-bars-with-a-bruise/

VIDEO: Daily Wire Hosts Shill For Big Business, ‘We Need To Raise Taxes On The Poor’

"We need to raise taxes on the poor. I'm not joking, I'm not joking, the poor in this country paid zero, the lower middle class in this country paid net zero"

Video footage from a roundtable of hosts at the neoconservative internet publication The Daily Wire shows co-founder Jeremy Boering stating that taxes should be raised on the poor and lower middle class because they “don’t pay their fair share” compared to the ultra-wealthy.

During an episode of Daily Wire Backstage, Daily Wire co-founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro went on a rant about how the ultra-rich are unfairly persecuted.

“So we have a group who pay no taxes, a group of people who pay no net taxes, a group of people who pay all the net taxes, and his argument is that it’s category 3 who don’t pay their fair share,” Boering continued. “Fair share means your percentage of taxes. We’ve determined that there’s some people who shouldn’t pay any percentage of taxes, the only fair tax system is one in which everyone pays.”

https://nationalfile.com/video-daily-wire-hosts-shill-for-big-business-we-need-to-raise-taxes-on-the-poor/

Yesterday, I had a heart attack

My cardiovascular system is completely normal & healthy

But last week I took the Pfizer vaccine and there are reports that it’s been causing heart complications

Most causes have been ruled out and it looks like Pfizer may have done this to me…

The number of people (specifically younger men) that’ve reached out saying they’ve had heart issues too post vaccine is astounding

Even people in my immediate network

“Low odds of happening” doesn’t seem too low from where I’m sitting

Moreover, according to my doctor, there have been many more cases of my exact situation in this very hospital

Young men, 18-30 years old, going through mild to severe cardiac events post vaccine (even Moderna + J&J)

This is scary.

It’s official. I have myocarditis.

Cause?

Either from a viral infection (which I have no symptoms of sickness) or from the vaccine

I think the answer is clear.

Feeling better. Should be discharged with medication later today 🙏

Also, I’m getting a physician exemption from needing to take Pfizer shot #2

Make of that what you will

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387409305574514694.html

'Antifa' issues veiled death threat against Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in alarming video

A person purporting to represent Antifa has reportedly targeted Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) after he issued a plea for the community to assist in "unmasking" rioters and members of Antifa.

Just last week, Wheeler asked the public to identify any violent or destructive demonstrators as riots have continued to erupt across the city for more than a year.

What are the details?

According to a Thursday report from PJ Media, a person purporting to represent Antifa threatened Wheeler in a video shared Wednesday night.

In the video, a masked person threatens the Democratic mayor and even goes as far as to publish Wheeler's home address.

The person concluded, "Ted, we are asking for the last time that you resign. If you ignore this message outright, the destruction to your precious way of life is going to escalate. Blood is already on your hands, Ted. The next time, it may just be your own."

https://t.co/JzS9n2QFWR

— nefelibata33_ (@nefelibata33_)1619658021.0

If the above link does not work, you can also access the video here and below.

@tedwheeler @FBI @FBIPortland @POTUS Just a myth huh? Seems like "Antifa" just took it up a notch. https://t.co/xv56sruhGj

— PT News Network (@PT News Network)1619666245.0

What else?

On Thursday afternoon, The Oregonian reported that police are investigating the video.

Jim Middaugh, a spokesman for the mayor, said that he and his office learned of the video Wednesday evening.

Middaugh added that the city's police bureau also notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"Middaugh said the mayor's office has seen a dramatic uptick in messages following the press conference, most of them critical of Wheeler and the remarks he made," the outlet reported. "Some claimed the mayor's comments would encourage right-wing vigilantism while others said hardline approach was too-little, too-late."

Wheeler's remarks also rankled some civil rights groups.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon condemned Wheeler's request in a statement.

“His comments are inappropriate, irresponsible, and dangerous," a spokesperson for the group said. “After more than four years as police commissioner, Ted Wheeler must finally recognize the role that unchecked police violence has in escalating tension in Portland."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/antifa-threatens-to-assassinate-portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-in-alarming-video

https://twitter.com/knotathreat/status/1387572430558752768

Oregon city issues emergency declaration to fight liberal governor's COVID edicts. Now other local governments are asking them how they did it.

The state of Oregon suffers a problem similar to its neighbor to the north, Washington. Much of the state — especially the east side — is conservative but is dominated by the hard-core liberalism of its biggest urban center in the northwest corner. For Washington it's Seattle. For Oregon it's Portland.

Because of the left's power, the Democratic governors of those states have been emboldened to push pandemic restrictions, mask mandates, and health edicts upon their subjects.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) ordered all indoor dining to stop, forced gyms and entertainment activities to be shuttered, closed outdoor recreation, required businesses to mandate work-from-home and close offices to the public, limited churches to 25 people, kept kids out of school, told Oregonians to call the police to rat on neighbors who violate her lockdown orders, and even reportedly used CPS to retaliate against a salon owner for reopening early.

Last month, one Eastern Oregon city decided it had had enough and came up with a unique way to fight Brown's orders — and now other cities and counties are coming to its leaders asking how they did it.

What happened?

Immediately after Baker City Mayor Kerry McQuisten was sworn in to her first term on Jan. 12, business leaders began asking her for help fighting Brown's mandates, the mayor told PJ Media this week.

The push started with a discussion of how to make Baker City a "sanctuary city."

“After we were all sworn in back on January 12th, local businesses brought forth to [city] council an idea of a Common Sense Sanctuary City," McQuisten said. "The idea was pretty funny, actually. It was a good idea. They were asking for local businesses to be able to adhere, or not adhere to the mask mandates, the OSHA [Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division] restrictions, as they saw fit individually."

The mayor told PJ Media that a town hall meeting on the issue showed how concerned her constituents were.

"Business owners poured in to give testimony," she said. "Some questioned whether the city could protect them from state OSHA regulations and targeting by these agencies."

As time went on, the discussions and meetings led to action. The city council sent a letter to Brown with their concerns and discussed a possible resolution.

They soon learned that would not be enough.

"After we got no response from the governor," McQuisten told PJ Media, "we brought forth the Emergency Declaration, and batted the language back and forth for a couple of weeks."

That led to the emergency declaration the city council passed March 23. The declaration cites Brown's "arbitrary, ineffective, and draconian" executive orders and the lack of legal ability the city has to "flout" the mandates, which keeps the municipality from defending local businesses.

It also notes that "that neither city, county nor state government has the legal right to flout the Oregon State Constitution or the United States Constitution" and that "our citizens are fully capable of making their private, individual healthcare and lifestyle decisions themselves."

The declaration also cites other negative impacts Brown's edicts have had and the legal dubiousness of the orders.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/oregon-city-emergency-declaration-fight-governors-covid-edicts

Italian Police Nabs Gang that Allegedly Trafficked Cocaine from Peru

Italian authorities ordered on Tuesday the preventive detention of 15 suspected members of an international gang believed to have imported cocaine from South America in cooperation with the ‘Ndrangheta, one of Italy’s four major mafia groups.

A court in Milan ordered the arrests of eight Peruvian and seven Italian citizens in the northern region of Pavia, while five gang members are believed to have left the country and are being traced by police, local law enforcement agencies said in a statement.

The Milan Prosecution Office launched an investigation into the gang two years ago in cooperation with Peruvian anti-drug officials. The so-called 'Mixtus' Operation has led to the seizure of more than 50 kilograms of cocaine worth about US$6 million, according to police estimates.

Italy’s Guardia di Finanza said the drugs were bought on behalf of ‘Ndrangheta’s Molluso clan, a powerful family of drug dealers.

The cocaine made its way from Peru to northern Italy through Spain. It was supposed to be distributed by the clan across the regions of Lombardy and Calabria.

To avoid customs controls, the gang used chemical procedures to hide the drug in book and magazine covers and in the coatings of suitcases. Once in Italy, the cocaine would be later refined in clandestine laboratories, such as the one police discovered in July 2019 in a car repair shop located in the Milanese hinterland.

With an influence that has outpaced its Sicilian counterparts as Italy’s most powerful criminal group, ‘Ndrangheta businesses engage in everything from drugs and arms trafficking, extortion, fraud and prostitution.

The syndicate's activities are believed to account for five percent of Italy's GDP despite being settled in one of the poorest regions.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14313-italian-police-nabs-gang-that-allegedly-trafficked-cocaine-from-peru

SAP Admits to Thousands of Illegal Exports of its Software Products to Iran and Enters into Non-Prosecution Agreement with DOJ

First-Ever Voluntary Self-Disclosure of Export Violations Leads to Non-Prosecution Agreement between Global Software Company and Justice Department

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/sap-admits-thousands-illegal-exports-its-software-products-iran-and-enters-non-prosecution

Corrupt DOJ

Amazon Hits Record High On Blowout Earnings And Guidance

With the bulk of the FAAM(N)G stocks reporting somewhat mixed earnings so far, with NFLX and MSFT disappointing offset by solid results from Google and Apple (although one wouldn't know it looking at today's stock price), investors were keenly looking for a tiebreaker from today's Amazon earnings, where according to Bloomberg, the biggest question for Amazon is how sustainable are the growth trends that boosted its performance during the pandemic. The Internet giant was one of the biggest beneficiaries of shifts in consumer and business behavior last year.

Many consumers flocked to buy things online as they wanted to avoid infection at physical stores. Further, Amazon Web Services revenue soared on back of rising usage from Internet digital services - including remote-working software, videostreaming and gaming. But with the wider available of vaccines and as employees start to return to physical offices, the risk is some of these trends may start to reverse. Bloomberg also notes that investors will be also looking for any commentary on the future prospects for regulation and antitrust legislation.

Questions aside, Amazon shares rallied in recent weeks, gaining about 18% off a year-to-date low in March. The stock has been approaching an intraday record of $3,552.25 that was set in early September. Shares rose about 0.3% Thursday ahead of results.

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So with that in mind, how did Amazon do? Well, in the first quarter since Jeff Bezos announced his departure, we just had another blockbuster quarter for the online retailer which blew away consensus estimates and also guided solidly higher than expected, potentially tipping the scales bullishly for the megatechs. Here is a summary for Q1:

Net Sales $108.5B, beating estimates of $104.56B

EPS $15.79, beating estimates of $9.690

Operating Income $8.9B, beating est. $6.11B

AWS net sales $13.50 billion, beating estimate $13.09 billion

Amazon Web Services net sales +32%, estimate +22.5%

Online Stores Net Sales $52.90B, beating est. $50.63B

Free cash flow increased to $16.8 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/amazon-hits-record-high-blowout-earnings-and-guidance

Dems Push Military Inequity Commission ‘Educating Public’ On Discrimination, ‘Apologizing’ To Minorities.

House Democrats introduced a bill to study “inequity” among LGBTQ servicemembers and veterans, creating a commission to advise the government on how to best “apologize” and “educate the American public about institutionalized and government-sanctioned discrimination.”

The bill, introduced by Representatives Mark Takano and Anthony Brown, would establish a 16-person commission to “study the stigmatization, criminalization, and ongoing exclusion and inequity for LGBTQ servicemembers and veterans.”

Broadly, the commission would “identify and compile a corpus of information about the history of military policy regarding homosexuality, from 1778 onward.”

The bill requires the commission to “hold public hearings” in cities across America where LGBTQ members of the Armed Forces and veterans can divulge “their experiences.” The commission would also advise on how “the government may offer an apology for enforcing discrimination that led to psychological, emotional, and physical harm” and “recommend appropriate ways to educate the American public about institutionalized and government-sanctioned discrimination.”

“Diversity and Inclusion policies of the Department of Defense may be revised, and how resources may be committed to diversity training,” the bill also adds before calling for “the service of LGBTQ individuals in the Armed Forces [to] be made more visible in materials distributed by the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/dems-intro-bill-studying-lgbtq-inequity/

‘Operation Dirty Water’: $50M worth of meth seized in multi-agency investigation across 2 states

In early 2021, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (HIDTA) and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) initiated a joint investigation of a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Juarez Mexican Drug Cartel. The primary drug trafficking broker operated from a federal prison in Georgia.

The investigation began on January 14, 2021, when a parcel shipped from Quebec, Canada containing approximately 2,500 Xanax pills was intercepted by investigators. PCSO undercover detectives conducted a controlled delivery at 3237 Xerxes Avenue NW in Winter Haven and arrested 37-year-old Amber Cayson of Winter Haven. Also seized at the residence was 24 pounds of THC edibles, 2.4 pounds of marijuana, and a pound of methamphetamine.

As the investigation progressed, PCSO detectives learned of a suspected drug trafficker in Georgia, 37-year-old Brian Stanton, known as “Lil B,” who was arranging for the sale and delivery of methamphetamine in Polk County. Stanton is currently incarcerated in the United States Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta.

https://breaking911.com/operation-dirty-water-50m-worth-of-meth-seized-in-multi-agency-investigation-across-2-states/

Huge changes proposed for Australia’s national curriculum

Students will be taught about the “invasion” experience of First Nations Australians as part of a major shake-up of the national curriculum.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/huge-changes-proposed-for-australias-national-curriculum/news-story/fd536b85a43d74d1338be1cb29803c06