Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:32 p.m. No.13599371   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9383 >>0057

US Border Patrol, PRPD Arrest 4 Undocumented Men Smuggling 462 Pounds of Cocaine Near Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

 

AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico – US Border Patrol and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau interdicted Thursday morning a vessel, in which four men from Dominican Republic transported 462 Pounds (209.6 Kilos) of cocaine to be smuggled thru the southwest coast of the island. The estimated value of the seized cocaine is $ 6.2 million.

 

Near midnight May 5, Ramey Border Patrol Agents responded to a request for assistance from the Puerto Rico Police after they arrested four Dominican Republic nationals and seized 186 bricks of cocaine, found inside a 21-foot fiberglass vessel, and one outboard engine, after they were intercepted by PRPD near the Pitahaya sector of Cabo Rojo.

 

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assumed custody of the migrants and the contraband for investigation and processing.

 

The Ramey Sector is one of the twenty-one Sectors spread out across the United States. Encompassing the U.S. territorial islands of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, it is the only Border Patrol Sector located outside the continental United States. The Sector's entire border area is made up of coastline and its area of responsibility is made up of some 6,000 square miles of land and water area, including the twelve-mile band of territorial water surrounding the Islands.

 

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/us-border-patrol-prpd-arrest-4-undocumented-men-smuggling-462-pounds

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:33 p.m. No.13599378   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

Laredo Sector Border Patrol Shuts Down Three Stash Houses Apprehending Over 180 People

 

LAREDO, Texas – Within hours of each other on May 4, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents and law enforcement partners shut down three stash houses and apprehended over 180 undocumented individuals throughout the City of Laredo.

 

The first incident occurred when agents assigned to the Laredo South Station, Laredo Sector Special Operations Detachment, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Webb County Constable’s Office Precinct 2 (WCCP2) investigated a possible stash house in central Laredo. Officers contacted the occupants and discovered 68 individuals who were in the country illegally.

 

The second incident occurred later that evening when agents assigned to Laredo South Station acted on information of a possible stash house in south Laredo. Agents along with HSI and WCCP2 Deputies apprehended 50 undocumented individuals.

 

The final stash house was closed late that evening after receiving information of a possible stash house in north Laredo. Agents, with the assistance of HSI, SOD, and WCCP2 responded, and a search of the property resulted in the apprehension of 65 individuals who were in the United States illegally.

 

The individuals from all the stash houses were identified as nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. None of the individuals were wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) when found. The individuals were provided PPE and were medically screened then processed accordingly.

 

Stash houses continue to be a threat to national security and to the citizens of our nation not only because of their use by criminal organizations but they are also a danger to the people they exploit by concealing them in dilapidated close quarters such as these.

 

The cooperation between our local law enforcement partners in our communities continue to have a great impact to the criminal element, making our communities safer. Help us to take a stand against these criminal organizations and potentially dangerous acts by reporting suspicious activity in our neighborhoods.

 

“All of the people rescued from these Stash Houses were being held against their will. Human Smuggling/Trafficking are dangerous situations. Please help others by reporting suspicious situations you see; you just might save a life," said Deputy Chief Patrol Agent Carl E. Landrum.stash houses 180 people

 

To report suspicious activity such as alien and/or drug smuggling, download the “USBP Laredo Sector” App or contact the Laredo Sector Border Patrol toll free at 1-800-343-1994. If you see something, say something.

 

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/laredo-sector-border-patrol-shuts-down-three-stash-houses-apprehending

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:35 p.m. No.13599390   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

New York City Man Charged with Nearly $4 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme and Money Laundering

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-city-man-charged-nearly-4-million-covid-19-relief-fraud-scheme-and-money-laundering

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:35 p.m. No.13599394   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9537 >>9550 >>0057 >>0061

World Bank Group Stays Mum About Office on Myanmar Military-Owned Land

 

With pressure mounting on international institutions to cut all ties to Myanmar’s junta, the World Bank Group has refused to say if it is considering moving out of the office it rents in a complex on military-owned land.

 

Foreign investors have found themselves in an awkward position since February 1, when Myanmar’s military abruptly reversed a decade of political and economic reforms by ousting the civilian government.

 

Some international firms have said they would halt business to prevent investments from funding the military, which has killed at least 769 people, including dozens of children, since the coup.

 

“Investors have a responsibility to take action and ensure they are not contributing to and profiting from the bloodshed,” said the advocacy group Justice For Myanmar in a statement on Thursday, as it released a list of companies with connections to the military.

 

Included on the list was Shangri-La Asia Ltd, which owns Sule Square, a high-end development in the center of Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon, that hosts the World Bank Group and other foreign companies and institutions.

 

“We are currently assessing the situation in Myanmar, according to internal policies and procedures that we are following carefully,” said a World Bank Group spokesperson by email.

 

The spokesperson refused to say if the assessment included its rental payments to a company that has provided funds to the military, or if it was aware when it rented the office that Sule Square was on military-owned land.

 

“The lease was signed a number of years ago based on World Bank Group procurement policies for renting and acquiring real estate space,” said the spokesperson, who declined to specify whether the policies include restrictions on providing funds indirectly to militaries.

 

The land Sule Square sits on is owned by the Quartermaster General’s Office, which oversees military businesses,according to a filing with the Myanmar Investment Commission by another tenant.

 

Sule Square was developed by two Myanmar-registered companies, Traders Square Company and Shangri-La Yangon Company Limited. Both are owned by Shangri-La Asia Limited, an international property development company that is incorporated in Bermuda, and raises money on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

 

Shangri-La Asia and its owner, the Kuok Group, which is headed by Malaysian billionaire Robert Kuok, did not respond to emailed questions. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it “does not comment on individual cases or companies.”

 

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14350-world-bank-group-stays-mum-about-office-on-myanmar-military-owned-land

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:37 p.m. No.13599402   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor May Face Graft Charges in France

 

Three anti-corruption organizations have filed legal complaints in France against several people including Lebanon’s central bank governor, Riad Salame, whom they have accused of corruption and money laundering.

 

Sherpa, an anti-corruption NGO based in France, and the Collective of victims of fraudulent and criminal practices in Lebanon submitted their complaint last week to France’s National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), alleging that Salame, who is a French national, has “illegally” amassed a fortune which cannot be justified by his official salary.

 

The complaint, seen by OCCRP, cites assets worth “several hundred million euros,” and names Salame's brother Raja Salame, son Nady Salame, and a central bank associate, Marianne Houwayek.

 

“The lodged complaint targets not only money laundering facts in connection with the outsourcing of considerable capital from the autumn 2019 crisis onwards, but also the suspicious conditions under which real estate, sometimes very luxurious, has been acquired by private or public Lebanese officials on French territory in recent years,” Sherpa said in a statement on Monday.

 

“Our final objective of this Ill-Gotten Gains procedure is the restitution of stolen assets to the Lebanese people and the fight against corruption,” it explained.

 

The complaint draws on the findings of an ongoing investigation of Salame by OCCRP and its Lebanese media partner Daraj, and follows an April 16 complaint filed with the PNF by Accountability Now, a Swiss foundation whose “mission is to support Lebanese civil society in its desire to put an end to the impunity of leaders.”

 

Riad Salame, Lebanon’s central bank chief since 1993, denied the allegations, telling Reuters that his French properties “were acquired prior to being governor.” He has not responded to a recent OCCRP request for comment made through his attorney.

 

The complaints in France follow an ongoing Swiss federal investigation into allegations that Salame embezzled more than US$330 million from Banque du Liban (BdL), Lebanon’s central bank, through transactions to an offshore company owned by Raja Salame.

 

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14348-lebanon-s-central-bank-governor-may-face-graft-charges-in-france

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:38 p.m. No.13599407   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

Ophthalmologists Now Ethically Obligated to Denounce COVID-19 Vaccines, as 20,000 New Eye Disorders Are Reported

 

In just a few months, the World Health Organization received approximately 20,000 reports of new eye disorders that occurred post covid-19 vaccination. These reports include 303 cases of blindness and 1,625 cases of visual impairment! The European drug monitoring agency had never recorded such a severe spike in eye injuries until after the experimental vaccines were launched. These reports were collected by VigiBase and analyzed by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Uppsalla, Sweden.

 

About half of the new eye disorders were additionally reported to the U.K.’s Yellow Card adverse event reporting system, which was set up to monitor the influx of adverse events that were anticipated during this live, experimental vaccine study. Back in 2020, the vaccine makers had already entered into liability-free contracts with governments around the world. This has enabled mass vaccine injury with no recourse or accountability and set up the framework for a historic, worldwide holocaust.

 

Ophthalmologists need more training to properly recognize and report vaccine injury

 

These experimental vaccines are designed to cause inflammation throughout the body, by reprogramming human cells to produce inflammatory spike proteins that are derived from the bio-weapon itself. Eye damage is merely a symptom of this inflammation, a sign of more serious problems to come with capillaries and autoimmune issues. The inflammatory conditions caused by the vaccines provide a new revenue stream for various industries within the medical system, including ophthalmology.

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/ophthalmologists-ethically-obligated-denounce-covid-19-vaccines-20000-new-eye-disorders-reported/5744481

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:41 p.m. No.13599430   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

DOJ Expresses Concern Arizona Audit Is Violating Election Law

 

The Department of Justice expressed concern that the ongoing audit of 2020 election results in Arizona may violate election law and lead to voter intimidation.

 

The Department notified Republican State Senate President Karen Fann on Wednesday that it was monitoring the state’s audit of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2020, according to the Associated Press. DOJ specifically worried that outsourcing the audit to a third-party contractor may violate federal election law that requires elections officials to control ballots for 22 months after an election.

 

The contractor’s intent to contact voters may also result in future illegal voter intimidation, the DOJ said, the AP reported. Such intimidation may also violate federal statutes on elections.

 

“Past experience with similar investigative efforts around the country has raised concerns that they can be directed at minority voters, which potentially can implicate the anti-intimidation prohibitions of the Voting Rights Act,” Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela Karlan wrote in the letter, according to the AP.

 

“Such investigative efforts can have a significant intimidating effect on qualified voters that can deter them from seeking to vote in the future,” she said.

 

Karlan requested that Fann explain how state officials are making sure the law is followed, according to the AP. Fann is reportedly working on a response to the DOJ.

 

In March, Fann announced plans to pursue a thorough forensic audit of the ballots cast in Maricopa County last year. Critics lambasted the attempt to uncover fraud as unnecessary and a waste of money, The Wall Street Journal reported.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/06/department-of-justice-arizona-donald-trump/

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:43 p.m. No.13599440   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

Israeli company denies 'security rumours' as Australian Defence removes multi-billion-dollar technology and quarantines Army IT systems

 

Defence has begun stripping Israeli-developed technology from Army equipment because of fears it could be used to harvest sensitive data from military hardware and systems.

Key points:

 

The Army has ordered Israeli-developed technology be removed from certain equipment by the middle of May

Elbit Systems of Australia "strongly" rejects "security rumours" connected to its multi-billion-dollar product

Military sources say Defence fears the Elbit technology could compromise sensitive military data

 

The company in question, Elbit Systems of Australia, has "strongly" rejected what it claims are "security rumours" connected to its multi-billion-dollar Battle Management System (BMS).

 

However, the ABC can reveal Army Headquarters last month issued a directive ordering Defence to "cease use" of the Elbit BMS Command and Control (BMS-C2) in preparation for a replacement system.

 

"The employment of the BMS-C2 system version 7.1 within Army's preparedness environment is to cease no later than May 15 2021," the order states.

 

Military sources have told the ABC that Defence believes the Elbit technology may compromise sensitive data, triggering a directive that it "not be configured or accessed" on certain Army systems.

 

Elbit's BMS, introduced a decade ago, allowed Army commanders to replace maps and analogue radios with advanced digital, encrypted technology and networks to better coordinate their units in the field and to protect classified information.

 

Army's directive last month also demanded items such as USB memory sticks and software "be withdrawn from issue to users and consolidated and quarantined by signals support staff".

 

"Defence is to cease use of the BMS-C2 in accordance with timings in order to prepare for the transition to an interim Battle Management System capability."

 

In a statement, Elbit Systems of Australia managing director, retired Major General Paul McLachlan, strongly rejected suggestions the company's product posed any risk.

 

"Elbit Systems of Australia strongly refutes the security rumours raised in recent media articles," Major General McLachlan said.

 

"Elbit Systems of Australia utilises secure software development processes in collaboration with the Department of Defence, including the provision of all source code."

 

Major General McLachlan added: "Elbit Systems of Australia will continue to work closely with the Australian Defence Force to deliver its network capability requirements."

 

The Defence Department and federal government are yet to comment on the decision to stop using Elbit equipment, which has begun to receive significant media attention in Israel.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-07/israeli-company-elbit-systems-of-australia-removed-army/100121238

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:45 p.m. No.13599459   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9503 >>9506 >>0057

Report: Blue States Lost Double the Jobs Than Red States During Pandemic

 

States that voted for President Joe Biden in the last election lost more than twice the number of jobs during the pandemic on average during the pandemic than states who voted for former President Donald Trump, according to a recent study.

 

Job losses differed significantly during the lockdowns for the Chinese coronavirus pandemic for states based on party affiliations, according to a recent analysis by the Daily Mail.

 

According to the report, states that voted for Biden on average lost 6.2 percent of jobs versus states that voted for Trump, which only lost 2.5 percent of jobs.

 

The Daily Mail analysis shows one of the main reasons job loss rates differed could be the varying severity of state lockdown restrictions. “Between February and December of last year, states that went for Biden saw the total number of people working drop an average of 6.2 percent, versus a 2.5 percent decline in those voting for the Republican,” the report claimed, referencing federal jobs data.

 

The 13 states that saw the least amount of decline in employment are all strongly Republican-leaning. The chart is led by Alaska and Utah, which according to the report, saw an increase in the jobs by 0.7 and 0.3 percent, respectively.

 

Of the states with the highest loss of jobs during the pandemic, 13 of the 14 states voted for Biden. Nevada and Hawaii led this group of states, which decreased employment by an extraordinary 10.2 and 9.3 percent, respectively.

 

Another report from Reason explains why the difference in jobs lost is not because of the pandemic itself. The report points to states like Hawaii, which “is not just the job-loss leader; it’s also the state with the least mortality from the pandemic,” The report added, “New York is third in job loss, second in death rate.”

 

The report shows the job losses are from the difference in how the states handled the “restrictions on businesses and school closures.”

 

“Blue-state governors in California and New York and Michigan have been far more strict about shutting down economic and physical activity than their red-state counterparts in Florida, South Dakota, and Texas,” the report continued. “The comparative death tolls are roughly the same (California tracks with Florida, New York with South Dakota, and Michigan with Texas); the economic performances are anything but.”

 

One other possibility from the report shows voters for Trump tend to be more spread out in rural areas, in addition to having a “different employment mix including more industries such as farming and mineral exploration, which continued apace through the pandemic.”

 

The Daily Mail based their analysis on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from the employed civilian labor force in each state from February to December in 2020. In the states with a split electoral college, Daily Mail put the data from the state under the candidate who garnered the majority of electoral college votes there.

 

The report additionally said, “nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate reached 6.7 percent last December, up from 3.5 percent when the pandemic began.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/05/06/report-blue-states-lost-double-jobs-red-states-during-pandemic/

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:49 p.m. No.13599486   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9706 >>9753 >>0057

Maricopa County Defies Subpoena, Won't Release Hardware For Election Audit Over 'Security Risk'

 

Update (1400ET): Wow, something must be really worrying Democrats?

 

There appears to be a full court press effort to delay and defer any and every effort to audit Maricopa County's election results. The Biden justice department added to pressure from Arizona's chief elections officer (a Democrat) and the Arizona Democratic Party, and now, Daniel Payne at JustTheNews.com reports that officials in Arizona's Maricopa County are withholding materials subpoenaed by the state legislature as part of its audit of the county's 2020 election, claiming that surrendering them would constitute a security risk for both law enforcement and federal agencies.

 

A Monday letter sent from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to Ken Bennett, the former Arizona secretary of state and the liaison between the state Senate and the auditors, said the county had elected not to turn over "several routers" requested by the legislature due to an alleged "significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies."

 

Given that President Biden is the most popular president ever and we know from the mainstream media that there was no, none, zip, nada, election fraud anywhere in America, why are Democrats so aggressively interfering in the process of auditing the county's election?

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizona-elections-chief-alleges-problems-maricopa-county-audit-2020-election

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:58 p.m. No.13599538   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9985 >>0057

“If They Do Interfere I See a Big Problem with That” – AZ Audit Director Ken Bennett Speaks with TGP’s Jordan Conradson after Biden DOJ Threatens to Interfere in State Election Audit

 

The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson interviewed Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett after the Biden Department of Justice threatened to interfere with the Arizona State Audit.

 

On Wednesday the Biden Department of Justice threatened to interfere in the Senate audit of the Maricopa County ballots.

 

This was another terrific interview by Jordan Conradson.

 

Jordan Conradson: On DOJ – what capacity are they stepping in?

 

Ken Bennett: They sent a letter to Senate President Karen Fann last night… saying they had two concerns. One was Ballot security and the other was voter intimidation… There’s a spot check that goes with voter participation information and the DOJ says they want to make sure that that happens without there being any voter intimidation… Another one was a concern about the security of the ballots which I think is completely unfounded because we have 24-7 security of the ballots, guarded security. We have a very tight perimeter around the building… Once you’re in the building we have guarded security, as well. Live stream cameras. I don’t think there’s any concerns about security.

 

Jordan: Does this give your future concerns about more interference or attempts to undermine the process?

 

Ken Bennett: You always wonder if a letter expressing concerns is a precursor to a lawsuit or something like that. We’ll have to see if one turns into the other. I hope not.

 

Jordan: Do you any issues with the federal government interfering with the Arizona legislature-directed audit?

 

Ken Bennett: If they do interfere I see a big problem with that. If they want to send a letter to Senate President Karen Fann and ask her and me as a liaison to address a couple of questions, we’ll do that. But if they do something more than that I think that would be interference.

 

There’s much more in the video:

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/interfere-see-big-problem-az-audit-director-ken-bennett-speaks-tgps-jordan-conradson-biden-doj-threatens-interfere-state-election-audit-video/

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 1:59 p.m. No.13599546   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Borrowed Billionaires’ Private Jet to Secretly Travel to Florida During Lockdown

 

As previously reported, Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer vacationed to Florida during Michigan’s Covid-19 surge while telling Michiganders to stay home and avoid travel.

 

Whitmer specifically attacked Floridians and blamed “snow birds” traveling from the Sunshine State into Michigan for her state’s Covid surge.

 

The governor’s spokesperson confirmed last month that Whitmer took a “personal trip” to Florida in March during spring break.

 

But Brown denied the allegation. Brown said Whitmer “did not go on spring break,” but traveled “to assist her elderly father who is battling a chronic illness,” according to a report from Detroit Free Press. Brown added that Gov. Whitmer has left the state three times in the last six months.

 

Whitmer’s office insisted the governor didn’t travel to Florida on taxpayer dime.

 

Deadline Detroit reported that Gretchen Whitmer borrowed a private jet from a group of uberwealthy Detroit businessmen.

 

The Detroit billionaires have major dealings with the state of Michigan so when they were asked by Whitmer if she could mooch their private jet, they said yes.

 

Detroit Deadline reported:

 

When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was outed last month for a secretive trip to Florida in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, her office claimed Michigan taxpayers did not foot the bill.

 

What they did not tell us, however, is that Whitmer asked a group of wealthy Detroit businessmen to provide a private plane they share.

 

“We wondered why she reached out to us instead of booking a private charter,” said one of the plane’s owners, who exchanged his candor for confidentiality. “You can’t tell a governor no. Who needs that kind of trouble?”

 

Had Whitmer booked a round trip flight from Lansing to West Palm Beach through a private charter company, it would likely have cost $10,000 to $20,000, or a whopping $40,000 for the actual jet she took, according to private jet websites. The latter is more than 25 percent of the governor’s salary — before taxes.

 

It is unclear whether Whitmer reimbursed the company – Air Eagle – which manages the aircraft owned by the businessmen. And, if so, at what price and from which bank account?

 

Gretchen Whitmer was asked about Deadline Detroit’s article on her borrowing a private jet and she basically told the peasants to shut up and stop asking questions.

 

“I’ve said everything I’m going to say about my trip to check on my father,” Whitmer told WWTV reporter Eric Lloyd. “I’ve got nothing to add.”

 

“We don’t discuss my travel. I have received an incredible number of death threats over the last year and a half. There are a lot of reasons we don’t discuss how I travel and when I travel,” she added.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/democrat-governor-gretchen-whitmer-borrowed-billionaires-private-jet-secretly-travel-florida-lockdown/

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 2:07 p.m. No.13599590   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

South Carolina Governor Orders End Of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Programs

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. – In order to address ongoing workforce shortages throughout South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster today directed the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) to terminate South Carolina’s participation in all federal, pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs, effective June 30, 2021.

 

Governor McMaster directed the agency to take the action in a letter to DEW Executive Director Dan Ellzey.

 

“South Carolina’s businesses have borne the brunt of the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those businesses that have survived – both large and small, and including those in the hospitality, tourism, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors – now face an unprecedented labor shortage,” governor McMaster wrote.

 

The governor continued: “This labor shortage is being created in large part by the supplemental unemployment payments that the federal government provides claimants on top of their state unemployment benefits. In many instances, these payments are greater than the worker’s previous pay checks. What was intended to be a short-term financial assistance for the vulnerable and displaced during the height of the pandemic has turned into a dangerous federal entitlement, incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace.”

 

In a memo to Governor McMaster, Executive Director Ellzey outlined existing federal unemployment programs and what will change when the governor’s directive goes into effect on June 30.

 

Those programs include the following:

 

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA)

 

Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC)

 

Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (EPUC)

 

Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC)

 

Emergency Unemployment Relief for Governmental Entities and Nonprofit Organizations

 

Temporary Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week

 

“At the current time, there are 81,684 open positions in the state of South Carolina. The hotel and food service industries have employee shortages that threaten their sustainability. However, no area of the economy has been spared from the pain of a labor shortage,” said S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce Director Dan Ellzey. “While the federal funds supported our unemployed workers during the peak of COVID-19, we fully agree that reemployment is the best recovery plan for South Carolinians and the economic health of the state. Last week’s initial claims numbers were the lowest since the pandemic began, and employers around the state are eager to hire and anxious to get South Carolina back to business.”

 

https://breaking911.com/breaking-south-carolina-governor-orders-end-of-federal-pandemic-unemployment-programs/

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 2:11 p.m. No.13599610   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

Foriegn Intelligence Surveillance Court Rubber Stamps Mass Surveillance Under Section 702 - Again

 

As someone once said, “the Founders did not fight a revolution to gain the right to government agency protocols.” Well it was not just someone, it was Chief Justice John Roberts. He flatly rejected the government’s claim that agency protocols could solve the Fourth Amendment violations created by police searches of our communications stored in the cloud and accessible through our phones.

 

Apparently, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) didn’t get the memo. That’s because, under a recently declassified decision from November 2020, the FISC again found that a series of overly complex but still ultimately swiss cheese agency protocols that are admittedly not even being followed resolve the Fourth Amendment problems caused by the massive governmental seizures and searches of our communications currently occurring under FISA Section 702. The annual review by the FISC is required by law – it’s supposed to ensure that both the policies and the practices of the mass surveillance under 702 are sufficient. It failed on both counts.

 

But this time the FISC has let us all down again. It’s time for the judiciary, whether a part of the FISC or not, to inoculate themselves against the problem of throwing out the Fourth Amendment whenever the Executive Branch invokes national security, particularly when the constitutional violations are so flagrant, long-standing and pervasive. The judiciary needs to recognize mass spying as unconstitutional and stop what remains of it. Americans deserve better than this charade of oversight.

 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/foriegn-intelligence-surveillance-court-rubber-stamps-mass-surveillance-under

Anonymous ID: 2552b9 May 6, 2021, 2:15 p.m. No.13599634   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0057

US Special Forces trained Mexican drug cartels linked to decapitation, torture, rape

 

An investigation into how U.S. Special Forces trained feared Mexican drug cartels responsible for grisly murders, and how Pentagon-backed counter-insurgency in Colombia and Guatemala has bled into organized crime.

 

The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has established itself as one of the most feared paramilitaries in Mexico over the last decade. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of the Mexican cartels writ large. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable against even conventional armies.

 

In an interview aired on Mexico’s Telemundo network in May 2019, a former CJNG soldier described his experience at a training camp and claimed that the cartel employed U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to train their recruits.

 

According to the former sicario (assassin), there was “a group of elite Marines, there were [members] of the United States Navy, there were Delta Forces, there was everything there.”

 

The cartel dropout’s account is consistent with years of reports which show that U.S. Special Forces training is diffusing into the service of paramilitaries in Mexico.

 

The Special Forces training has been funded under the Plan Mérida, which has resulted in the U.S. providing more than $1.6 billion for fighting the War on Drugs, most of it in military aid.

 

In 2019, after a U.S. ex-pat family was killed by drug cartel gunmen, then-President Donald Trump tweeted that now was “the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.”

 

However, the goal of defeating the cartels is undermined when U.S. Special Forces soldiers are actually assisting their enemy, and training drug cartels that commit horrific atrocities.

 

Mexico’s Los Zetas cartel trained by U.S. military forces

 

The most well-known example of U.S. training disseminating into the wrong hands has been Los Zetas.

 

The Zetas were enforcers for the Gulf cartel, which recruited deserters from Mexico’s Airborne Special Forces Group (GAFE). Formed in 1986 as an elite quick reaction force specializing in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare, the GAFEs received their first combat experience in the brutal fight with the leftist Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Chiapas, when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in 1994.

 

According to reporting by Mexican journalist Carlos Marin, the army deployed the GAFEs in Chiapas to create paramilitaries and displace the population in order to disrupt the support of the people in the area for the EZLN – a counterinsurgency approach which would later be used against organized crime.

 

In reporter Ioan Grillo’s book El Narco, he describes how the mutilated bodies of rebels captured by the GAFES were dumped along a riverbank with their ears and noses sliced off, the sort of spectacular exhibitions of violence for which the Zetas would later be known.

 

Some of the original members of the Zetas were reportedly trained by the U.S. at the notorious School of the Americas, although conflicting accounts exist about exactly who, where, and when, with some sources like the FBI claiming they were trained at Fort Benning, and others like a former Special Forces commander claiming the GAFEs trained with the Army’s Green Berets at Fort Bragg.

 

A classified 2009 memo from the U.S. State Department published by WikiLeaks claimed that their own incomplete official records found that none of the known Zetas had ever participated in U.S.-funded training programs using their real names, but acknowledged that other intelligence sources indicated that one former Mexican military officer trained in the U.S. was forcibly recruited by the Zetas.

 

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