Narco tunnel linked to El Chapo found across from Mexican National Guard base

It was right under their noses.

Mexican authorities discovered a 650-foot tunnel built by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Tijuana — across the street from a National Guard base, Mexico News Daily reported.

The tunnel, equipped with ventilation, lighting, and carts and rails, was discovered after a package of marijuana was left outside the house where the tunnel was hidden.

Authorities believe it was intended to connect to a Tijuana-to-San Diego underpass unearthed in 2019, as part of a network built by the now-jailed Guzman.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that there are more than 13,000 narco tunnels in Mexico, most of them in territory controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel.

Some of those tunnels can span nearly 1,500 feet, Mexico News Daily said.

Guzman, once the most notorious of Mexico’s drug kingpins, was extradited to the US, convicted and sent to a supermax prison in Colorado in 2019.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/09/narco-tunnel-linked-to-el-chapo-found-near-national-guard-base/

Another 'Mystery Explosion' Has Hit An Oil Tanker Off Syria's Coast

An oil tanker off Syria's Mediterranean port of Banias has been hit with an explosion Sunday, resulting in a fire on board which was reportedly extinguished soon after.

There were reportedly no casualties, but subsequent photographs showed large plumes of black smoke rising above the tanker, which may have been engaged in offloading its cargo. The 'mystery' blast comes after a series of alleged Israeli covert attacks against both Iranian and Syrian ships believed engaged in "sanctions-busting" activity related to Washington-led anti-Assad measures.

However, Syrian state media was quick to call it a "technical fault" which "took place in one of the engines of the oil tanker near the coast," according to the description.

Journalist and Syria analyst Danny Makki quipped in the wake of the incident, "This comes amid a sharp and unexpected rise in engine malfunctions in ships near the Syrian coast" - strongly suggesting that it appears anything but a mere engine accident.

Reuters reviews some of the latest incidents involving oil tankers off Syria's coast as follows:

Local radio station FM Sham earlier said an explosion had hit a tanker during maintenance works after it had caught fire a few days earlier while offloading its oil cargo.

Last month, Syria’s oil ministry said firefighters put out a fire on an oil tanker off the Banias refinery after a suspected attack by a drone coming from the direction of Lebanese waters.

This comes after a separate mystery incident being simultaneously reported at a distillation unit at Homs Oil Refinery, though there's little that's been verified at this point.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-mystery-explosion-has-hit-oil-tanker-syrias-coast

Fauci: ‘Quite Possible’ Seasonal Mask Wearing Will Become Permanent in America

National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it is “quite possible” Americans will wear masks seasonally to stop the spread of respiratory-borne viruses.

Anchor Chuck Todd said, “Let’s get to mask-wearing. At what point can we stop wearing masks outside? At what point if vaccinated people, do you take the masks off? Is the mask going to be something we have with us in a seasonal aspect?”

Fauci said, “You know, that’s quite possible. I think people have gotten used to the fact that wearing masks, clearly if you look at the data, diminishes respiratory diseases. You know we’ve had practically a non-existent flu season this year, merely because people were doing the kind of public health things that were directed predominantly against COVID-19. The Australians during their winter, same thing they had almost no flu largely due to the things including mask-wearing. So it is conceivable that as we go on a year or two or more from now, that during certain seasonal periods when you have respiratory-borne viruses like the flu, people might actually elect to wear masks to diminish the likelihood that you’ll be spreading these respiratory-borne diseases.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/09/fauci-quite-possible-seasonal-mask-wearing-will-become-permanent-in-america/

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Stacey Abrams: ‘Absolutely’ My Ambition Is to Run for President

Former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on this week’s broadcast of “CBS Sunday Morning” that she was “absolutely” planning to run for president of the United States in the future.

Abrams said, “You earlier said people take voting for granted. When you’ve never had to think about the hardship of voting, then yes, these conversations on voter suppression seem absurd to you. When you have never spent more than seven minutes in line, it is nearly impossible to imagine that there are poor Black people who stand in line for eight hours, miss an entire day’s wages, risk losing their jobs simply to cast a ballot in an election that may or may not have any benefit in their lives.”

Correspondent Erin Moriarty said, “Ensuring that right to vote may someday help Abrams achieve her greatest dream, running for President.”

Abrams said, “Do I hold it as an ambition? Absolutely. And even more importantly, when someone asks me if that’s my ambition, I have a responsibility to say ‘Yes,’ for every young woman, every person of color, every young person of color who sees me and decides what they’re capable of based on what I think I am capable of.”

She added, “It’s about, you cannot have those things you refuse to dream of.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/09/stacey-abrams-absolutely-my-ambition-is-to-run-for-president/

Biden’s Ag Chief Has Hyped a Number of Massive Chinese Communist Projects, Including Known National Security Threats.

President Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has repeatedly spoken at the U.S.-China Business Council – a lobbying group that “serves the interests” of Chinese and American companies – even defending a controversial Chinese state-funded project flagged as a “national security risk” by the U.S. intelligence community.

In 2013, Vilsack headlined a U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) event, “Dinner in Honor of the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue.”

Celebrating that relations between the U.S and the Chinese Communist Party have grown “stronger and deeper,” Vilsack also lobbied for the China Garden Project – a $100 million, 12-acre arboretum paid for by the Chinese Communist Party – in his speech.

“Not only will it attract people to the nation’s capital and the wonderful arboretum that we have, but it will be a living symbol of the strengthened relationship between our two countries and it will be a constant reminder to all of us about the importance of continuing to build on that relationship,” he emphasized.

The project, however, was flagged by The Wall Street Journal as being labeled a “national security risk” by the U.S. intelligence community:

The project, a planned $100 million Chinese garden at the National Arboretum, was deemed a national-security risk because it included a 70-foot-tall white tower that could potentially be used for surveillance, according to people familiar with the intelligence community’s deliberations over the garden. The garden was planned on one of the higher patches of land near downtown Washington, less than 5 miles from both the Capitol and the White House.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/bidens-ag-chief-hyped-chinese-threats/

Church of England Begins BLM-Style Review of Thousands of Monuments for References to Slave Trade

The Anglican Church will embark upon a review of thousands of historical monuments which reference the British Empire or the slave trade, as the Church continues with its Black Lives Matter-inspired agenda.

The Church of England, which campaigned for the abolition of slavery since the early 1800s, is set to issue guidance this week to its 12,500 parishes and 42 cathedrals, calling for a review of supposedly problematic monuments.

Monuments or plaques with so-called contested heritage could be contextualised, altered, relocated, or even removed. Some could be left untouched, but the author of the review said that local church leaders would not be able to ignore the programme.

Speaking to the left-wing Observer, the author of the guidance and director of the Church of England’s churches and cathedrals, Becky Clark, said: “Our church buildings and cathedrals are the most visible part of the C of E, a Christian presence in every community. The responsibility to ensure they include, welcome and provide safe spaces for all is a vitally important part of addressing the way historic racism and slavery still impacts people today.”

Clark argued that the guidance, which will be left up to local parishes to interpret as to whether the artefacts warrant removal or merely to be contextualised, seeks to “empower rather than shut down conversation”.

“It doesn’t make political statements, except to say the history of racism and slavery is undeniable, as is the fact that racism and the legacy of slavery are still part of many people’s lives today. Responding to those in the right way is a Christian duty. Doing nothing is not an option. There has to be engagement with this,” she said.

“The job of local parishes is to figure out how this impacts our communities today. Are there people who feel this church is not for them because of the built heritage, and what can we do about it?” she said.

Clark did admit that alongside monuments which “celebrate or valorise those involved in the slave trade”, others were also constructed as “simple memorials to somebody who was loved by their family”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/05/09/church-england-begins-blm-style-review-thousands-monuments/

One Mosque Built, One Christian Monument Destroyed Every Two Weeks in Modern France.

A French expert on France’s religious heritage is sounding the alarm that “one mosque is erected every 15 days in France, while one Christian building [church or monument] is destroyed at the same pace.”

Edouard de Lamaze, the president of the Observatoire du patrimoine religieux (Observatory of Religious Heritage) in Paris, is warning French media about “the gradual disappearance of religious edifices in a country” which has long been called the “eldest daughter of the Church.”

His warning followed on an April 15 fire (“deemed accidental”) which destroyed the 16th-century Church of Saint-Pierre in Romilly-la-Puthenaye, Normandy, northern France, exactly two years after the fire that ruined much of Paris’ famous Notre Dame Cathedral.

Most of the monuments being destroyed are Catholic. There are around 45,000 Catholic “places of worship” in France, where Catholicism still represents “a large majority.” Lamaze explained his concern in an interview with Catholic News Agency:

“Lamaze told CNA in an interview that in addition to one religious building disappearing every two weeks — by demolition, transformation, destruction by fire, or collapse — two-thirds of fires in religious buildings are due to arson. . .

‘Although Catholic monuments are still ahead, one mosque is erected every 15 days in France, while one Christian building is destroyed at the same pace,’ Lamaze said. ‘It creates a tipping point on the territory that should be taken into account.’

Lamaze believes that on average more than two Christian monuments are targeted every day. Two-thirds of these incidents concern theft, while the remaining third involve desecration.”

Recent figures from the French central criminal intelligence unit states the number of attacks on Catholic “places of worship” in 2018 alone was 877.

“‘These figures have increased fivefold in only 10 years,’ Lamaze said, noting that 129 churches were vandalized in 2008… Currently, 5,000 Catholic buildings are potentially in danger of disappearing.”

Lamaze cited the “deep negligence” of public authorities as responsible for this state of affairs, noting that only 15,000 Catholic sites “are officially protected as historical monuments,” with 30,000 Catholic sites “practically left to decay.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/one-mosque-built-one-christian-monument-destroyed-every-two-weeks-in-modern-france/

Hezbollah on military alert ahead of massive IDF drill

Lebanese based Hezbollah terror group was put on high alert ahead of a month-long IDF drill that will begin on Sunday.

Israel's military maneuver will imitate the outbreak of war on multiple fronts including missile fire at civilian population areas.

Lebanon media reports Hezbollah increased preparedness in South Lebanon and on the Syrian Golan Heights.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1TUoyrOO

Large-scale study finds that masking students is ineffective and a form of child abuse

A dataset called the “COVID dashboard project” has revealed that forcing children to wear a mask all day at school is a pointless exercise in child abuse.

Put together by Brown University professor Emily Oster, the project was designed to fill the gap concerning the “coordinated federal effort to track COVID cases in context.”

“By ‘in context’ I mean with information on how many people were in in-person school and what mitigation factors allowed school to operate safety,” Oster clarified in a March 1 update to the dashboard.

Launched back in early September, the dashboard’s initial announcement included data on roughly 100,000 in-person students. All of it came from schools and districts that opted-in to the study to provide relevant data for research purposes.

“These data provided a first, early look at case rates in schools,” reports explain. “The sample was selected, yes, but it provided a first look at case rates in schools.”

Since that time, a second “wave” of data was received on about 12 million students, roughly six million of whom are taking in-person classes – this is roughly 20 percent of all school enrollment in the United States.

“At this stage of the process, we still collect data from districts and schools who opt-in,” Oster explains. “But we’re also pulling in comprehensive data at either the school or district level from a number of states (New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Florida).”

“The result is data with less geographic balance but significantly more representativeness (and many more observations).”

Masked schools are seeing 37 percent more Chinese Virus infections in students than unmasked schools

While back in March Oster was of the persuasion that masks might be beneficial, the data has since shown that the case rate of Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “infections” is actually 37 percent higher in schools that require masks.

Even worse, masked schools are seeing a case rate that is 84 percent higher in staff compared to unmasked schools. All the way around, masks have proven to be both useless and harmful.

This is the available data in areas that are considered to have “high community transmission.” However, similar disparities were observed in areas with “low community transmission,” where “masks required” districts are seeing noticeably higher rates of infection compared to “no masks required” districts.

All of this is what you call science, by the way – you know, that think the pro-mask, pro-injection crowd is always accusing us of rejecting. It is now clear that they are the ones rejecting science in favor of Faucism and other cult-like belief systems that have no basis in either science or reality.

Wearing a mask has become nothing more than a religious ritual for those who believe themselves to be scientifically superior to everyone else. They wear one – or two, or even three – to virtue signal their ignorance, which they believe shows how “smart” they are.

Well, we now know based on actual science that masks are an emblem of stupidity – and in the case of young children, an act of child abuse that is destroying their mental health as well as their physical health.

“… it stands to reason that any data collected on such an issue would show at least somewhat less transmission in masked vs unmasked schools, IF masks worked to slow the spread of COVID-19,” writes Scott Morefield for Townhall.

“They don’t, obviously. Meanwhile, some blue state school districts are still forcing tennis players and track runners to wear face muzzles over their breathing holes outside, in the name of ‘science,’ or something.”

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2021/05/large-scale-study-finds-that-masking.html

https://statsiq.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/5f78e5d4de521a001036f78e#/dashboard/5f78e5d4de521a001036f78e?pageId=Page_ffb4dc52-5543-46b2-8126-2b7229fd1b17

Mike Lindell: 'I'll Give Dominion a Little Scare, We Have the Machines'

https://rumble.com/vgpzc9-mike-lindell-ill-give-dominion-a-little-scare-we-have-the-machines.html?mref=9lbf&mrefc=2

Indication Ivermectin Drastically Reduces Deaths Keeps Trickling in From the Third World. Too Bad It’s a Cheap Generic

Would rain on the virus cult parade

Back in January I wrote an article about four randomized controlled trials of ivermectin as a treatment for covid-19 that had at that time released their results to the public. Each of those four trials had promising results, but each was also too small individually to show any meaningful impact on the hard outcomes we really care about, like death. When I meta-analyzed them together however, the results suddenly appeared very impressive. Here’s what that meta-analysis looked like:

It showed a massive 78% reduction in mortality in patients treated with covid-19. Mortality is the hardest of hard end points, which means it’s the hardest for researchers to manipulate and therefore the least open to bias. Either someone’s dead, or they’re alive. End of story.

You would have thought that this strong overall signal of benefit in the midst of a pandemic would have mobilized the powers that be to arrange multiple large randomized trials to confirm these results as quickly as possible, and that the major medical journals would be falling over each other to be the first to publish these studies.

That hasn’t happened.

Rather the opposite, in fact. South Africa has even gone so far as to ban doctors from using ivermectin on covid-19 patients. And as far as I can tell, most of the discussion about ivermectin in mainstream media (and in the medical press) has centred not around its relative merits, but more around how its proponents are clearly deluded tin foil hat wearing crazies who are using social media to manipulate the masses.

In spite of this, trial results have continued to appear. That means we should now be able to conclude with even greater certainty whether or not ivermectin is effective against covid-19. Since there are so many of these trials popping up now, I’ve decided to limit the discussion here only to the ones I’ve been able to find that had at least 150 participants, and that compared ivermectin to placebo (although I’ll add even the smaller trials I’ve found in to the updated meta-analysis at the end).

As before, it appears that rich western countries have very little interest in studying ivermectin as a treatment for covid. The three new trials that had at least 150 participants and compared ivermectin with placebo were conducted in Colombia, Iran, and Argentina. We’ll go through each in turn.

The Colombian trial (Lopez-Medina et al.) was published in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) in March. There is one thing that is rather odd with this study, and that is that the study authors were receiving payments from Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Janssen, Merck, and Gilead while conducting the study. Gilead makes remdesivir. Merck is developing two expensive new drugs to treat covid-19. Janssen, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, and Sanofi-Pasteur are all developers of covid vaccines. In other words, the authors of the study were receiving funding from companies that own drugs that are direct competitors to ivermectin. One might call this a conflict of interest, and wonder whether the goal of the study was to show a lack of benefit. It’s definitely a little bit suspicious.

https://anti-empire.com/indication-ivermectin-drastically-reduces-deaths-keeps-trickling-in-from-the-third-world-too-bad-its-a-cheap-generic/

https://anti-empire.com/indication-ivermectin-drastically-reduces-deaths-keeps-trickling-in-from-the-third-world-too-bad-its-a-cheap-generic/

Propaganda alert: Reuters is now calling discredited, anti-American 1619 Project “black history,” claiming any who oppose teaching fake history are RACIST

In yet another lame attempt at smearing Republicans as black-hating racists, Reuters ran a ridiculous headline claiming that conservatives are trying to interfere with Resident Joe Biden’s attempts to teach American students more “black history.”

The headline, “Republicans ask Biden to withdraw ‘divisive’ proposal to teach more Black [sic] history,” fails to explain that the “black history” in question is a piece of propaganda known as the “1619 Project” that has long been debunked as fake news.

As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the 1619 Project is a completely made-up piece of garbage that glamorizes communism and criticizes capitalism. It is part of the left’s “critical race theory” agenda to indoctrinate the next generation of youth into believing that all white people are evil and all black people are just wonderful.

Historically speaking, the 1619 Project never happened. It was manufactured out of thin air to push a false narrative that free markets create a “brutal economy” where “inequality reigns and poverty spreads.”

“Historians do argue over interpretations, but parts of the 1619 Project are sloppy, at best, with the facts,” is how the WSJ’s Allen C. Guelzo puts it.

In a nutshell, the 1619 Project contends that cotton plantations in the south, on which some blacks were enslaved, produced the “capitalist economy” in which we supposedly live today.

Sociologist Matthew Desmond wrote an essay based on this claim, alleging that slaves were whipped and tortured into planting and harvesting crops within a ruthless system of profit maximization.

Desmond talks about “vertical reporting systems, double-entry record-keeping and precise quantification,” these being “management techniques” that were later used as a model for “a union-busting capitalism of poverty wages, gig jobs and normalized insecurity.”

Were slave plantations capitalist or communist?

While it is certainly true that today’s “capitalist” model is indeed built upon a slave labor system of low wages, gig jobs, and normalized insecurity, especially for the younger generations, the history presented in the 1619 Project is just plain false.

The WSJ report goes into much greater detail about all this and you can read more about it at this link if the subject interests you. Suffice it to say that it paints the narrative of white-hating, black-worshipping extremism that we now see running rampant today.

“The 1619 Project imagines Southern slaveholders were practicing ‘capitalism’ simply because they made money,” Guelzo explains.

“But slavery had been around since antiquity – long before anything resembling capitalism existed. And what the South saw in its plantations wasn’t capitalism but the opposite. Writing in 1854, the pro-slavery propagandist George Fitzhugh described slavery as ‘a beautiful example of communism, where each one receives not according to his labor, but according to his wants.'”

On the other hand, those who support the narrative presented in the 1619 Project say that it accurately depicts how our nation’s founding ideals were “false when they were written.”

New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, who wrote a prize-winning essay about this topic,” alleges that much of American history as we know it is false, and that black Americans “have fought to make them true.”

“The latter part is true, but the former isn’t, and attempting to replace the nation’s ideals with a false and destructive story is no way to do history,” Guelzo says.

“The 1619 Project can wave its Pulitzer as credibility insurance, but credibility isn’t the same as truth. Pulitzers have been handed out before … only to collapse under the weight of falsehood,” he adds about the difference between credibility and truth.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2021/05/propaganda-alert-reuters-is-now-calling.html

Michigan Attorney DePerno Files New Findings – Alleges 1,061 “Phantom” Ballots Found in Antrim County 2020 Election

Attorney Matthew DePerno filed his latest finding in the Circuit Court for Antrim County on Friday.

According to DePerno, there were 1,061 “phantom” ballots found in Antrim County during the 2020 election.

Attorney DePerno also contends there was nearly 100% turnout between ages 65 and 80 in the county despite the threat of the coronavirus.

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BREAKING: Michigan Attorney DePerno Files New Findings – Alleges 1,061 “Phantom” Ballots Found in Antrim County 2020 Election

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Attorney Matthew DePerno filed his latest finding in the Circuit Court for Antrim County on Friday.

According to DePerno, there were 1,061 “phantom” ballots found in Antrim County during the 2020 election.

Attorney DePerno also contends there was nearly 100% turnout between ages 65 and 80 in the county despite the threat of the coronavirus.

DePerno says 1,061 ballots are not in the state database and do not exist on voter rolls, meaning they are likely phantom ballots.

From page 10 in the report:

DePerno explains that in the December hand recount of Antrim county, there was a total of 15,952 ballots counted; however, Secretary of State Benson’s official database only had 14,901 ballots which means there exists 1,061 extra ballots not on the voter rolls, i.e., “phantom” ballots.

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Phantom ballots could explain what happened at the hand recount in December when volunteers were told to count approximately 138 ballots with the very same signature. Despite their repeated objections and attempts to challenge the problem ballots, the Secretary of State official said, “That’s not your role at this very moment” and pushed the volunteers to count the ballots and finish the audit.

Based upon these findings, DePerno is not only demanding a complete audit, but due to false statements by officials who attributed the fraud to human error, DePerno is also amending William Bailey’s complaint to sue Sheryl Guy, Election Source, Jocelyn Benson and Jonathan Brater.

He states:

“Elected officials are charged with following the law, not hiding information and lying to their constituents in order to defraud and marginalize their right to vote.”

Seems as though we need to add several more elected officials to the list.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/05/breaking-michigan-attorney-deperno.html

https://www.depernolaw.com/bailey-documents—may-2021.html

Dr. Lee Merritt warns: Forced vaccines are a Holocaust-level crime against humanity

Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic spinal surgeon, was interviewed by Mike Adams on a recent episode of Brighteon Conversations. Dr. Merritt joins a growing list of medical professionals who see forced vaccines as a holocaust-level crime against humanity.

Medical systems are threatening doctors and nurses with termination if they do not comply with the forced vaccines. Universities are threatening to withhold education from students if they do not comply. Corporations are threatening to segregate people from venues, flights and other social gatherings if they do not comply. Governors like Gretchen Whitmer have turned the state of Michigan into a vaccine prison camp; she has threatened to take away everyone’s freedoms if they do not comply.

Lock downs are now tied to vaccination status, medical experimentation that echoes the crimes of the Third Reich

Canada is threatening Americans from the north, forcing them to show their vaccine papers to enter the country. Israel has already implemented a technocratic vaccine passport system that denies people entry into buildings if they do not show their digital papers of vaccine compliance. Israelis must renew their digital passport every six months, showing they have all the government-approved booster shots.

All of these acts of coercion and authoritarianism smack of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Since the start of lock downs, entire communities, school districts and job sites have literally been turned into prison camps of medical experimentation and brainwashing torture. A free society does not enforce bodily requirements, behavioral controls and various levels of obedience training, all to prop up medical fraud, bio-terror, medical error, fraudulently-calibrated medical tests, and censorship and omission of science-backed antiviral strategies that support healthy immune function. All the abuse is sold as “safety measures” but all of the paranoia, isolation and obedience training only weakens humanity, suppressing the immune system and making populations more susceptible to severe illness.

All of these acts violate fundamental human rights, the principle of informed consent and the Nuremberg Code, a code of medical research ethics that was established in the wake of the second world war. The Nuremberg Code restricts against medical experiments, which were conducted by regular doctors during the reign of Nazi Germany.

Three important points that will legally defend you against forced vaccines

If you or someone you know is facing intimidation and coercion to vaccinate, now is the time to stand up to the abuse. Here are three important points that you should pose in writing to any authority figure who is using coercion to compel you to comply with vaccines. EUA products are unapproved, unlicensed and experimental. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on emergency use authorization (EUA) of medical products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent practicable given the applicable circumstances” provided “they have the option to accept or refuse the EUA product.” Ask the authority figure if they are aware of this statement, and pressure them to inform all employees/customers that they have the option to refuse. Employees and customers are not the property of the CEO, the board, the governor, a doctor, or any public health official.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2021/05/dr-lee-merritt-warns-forced-vaccines.html

COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose

Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby “positive” is usually equated with “infected.”

But looking closely at the facts, the conclusion is that these PCR tests are meaningless as a diagnostic tool to determine an alleged infection by a supposedly new virus called SARS-CoV-2.

Unfounded “Test, test, test,…” mantra

At the media briefing on COVID-19 on March 16, 2020, the WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said:

We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test.”

The message was spread through headlines around the world, for instance by Reuters and the BBC.

Still on the 3 of May, the moderator of the heute journal — one of the most important news magazines on German television— was passing the mantra of the corona dogma on to his audience with the admonishing words:

Test, test, test—that is the credo at the moment, and it is the only way to really understand how much the coronavirus is spreading.”

This indicates that the belief in the validity of the PCR tests is so strong that it equals a religion that tolerates virtually no contradiction.

But it is well known that religions are about faith and not about scientific facts. And as Walter Lippmann, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and perhaps the most influential journalist of the 20th century said: “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”

So to start, it is very remarkable that Kary Mullis himself, the inventor of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology, did not think alike. His invention got him the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1993.

Unfortunately, Mullis passed away last year at the age of 74, but there is no doubt that the biochemist regarded the PCR as inappropriate to detect a viral infection.

The reason is that the intended use of the PCR was, and still is, to apply it as a manufacturing technique, being able to replicate DNA sequences millions and billions of times, and not as a diagnostic tool to detect viruses.

How declaring virus pandemics based on PCR tests can end in disaster was described by Gina Kolata in her 2007 New York Times article Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t.

Lack of a valid gold standard

Moreover, it is worth mentioning that the PCR tests used to identify so-called COVID-19 patients presumably infected by what is called SARS-CoV-2 do not have a valid gold standard to compare them with.

This is a fundamental point. Tests need to be evaluated to determine their preciseness — strictly speaking their “sensitivity”[1] and “specificity” — by comparison with a “gold standard,” meaning the most accurate method available.

As an example, for a pregnancy test the gold standard would be the pregnancy itself. But as Australian infectious diseases specialist Sanjaya Senanayake, for example, stated in an ABC TV interview in an answer to the question “How accurate is the [COVID-19] testing?”:

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https://off-guardian.org/2020/06/27/covid19-pcr-tests-are-scientifically-meaningless/

State Passes Revolutionary Bill to Finally Ban “No-Knock” Warrants

This week, the state of Tennessee made history after the House gave final approval to Senate Bill 1380 (SB1380) that bans “no-knock” warrants in the state. Highlighting the bipartisan support behind the bill, it passed the Senate and the House without a single ‘nay.’

Sen. Mike Bell (R-Riceville) introduced Senate Bill 1380 on Feb. 11 and it has seen unprecedented support from both parties.

Last month, the full Senate passed the bill by a vote of 33-0. Then on Monday, the House substituted the Senate bill for the House version and voted for its approval with a 90-0 count. It now moves to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his signature.

Short of an unexpected veto from the governor, the bill will ban no-knock warrants. It also bans cops from using chokeholds except when lethal force is authorized — the same standard needed before an officer fires a weapon. The bill also revamps police training, teaching them de-escalation tactics instead of immediately jumping to deadly force.

Going further, the bill requires officers to have a “duty to intervene” if they witness excessive force and would be required to report the use of excessive force to a supervisor.

“This bill is pretty much my Christmas wish list,” Rep. G.A. Hardaway said during the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee meeting last month. “This bill will go a long way toward reestablishing the trust factor between law enforcement and the citizens of the state of Tennessee. I think without that trust factor, neither law enforcement nor the citizens are as safe as they could be.”

As the Tenth Amendment Center’s Mike Maharrey points out, the enactment of SB1380 would take a big step toward effectively nullifying and making irrelevant several Supreme Court opinions that give police across the U.S. legal cover for conducting no-knock raids.

In the 1995 case Wilson v. Arkansas, the Supreme Court established that police must peacefully knock, announce their presence, and allow time for the occupants to open the door before entering a home to serve a warrant. But the Court allowed for “exigent circumstance” exceptions if police fear violence, if the suspect is a flight risk, or if officers fear the suspect will destroy evidence.

As journalist Radley Balko notes, police utilized this exception to the fullest extent, “simply declaring in search warrant affidavits that all drug dealers are a threat to dispose of evidence, flee or assault the officers at the door.”

The SCOTUS eliminated this blanket exception in Richards v. Wisconsin (1997) requiring police to show why a specific individual is a threat to dispose of evidence, commit an act of violence or flee from police. But even with the opinion, the bar for obtaining a no-knock warrant remains low.

The idea of ceasing the use of no-knock raids is revolutionary when it comes to policing in the United States and its importance cannot be overstated.

Across the country—largely due to the failed drug war—police conduct tens of thousands of no-knock raids a year.

Breonna Taylor was murdered during one of them. Countless others are beaten, terrorized, and killed as well, and just like Breonna, cops often act on bad information.

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/05/state-passes-revolutionary-bill-to-finally-ban-no-knock-warrants.html

Minnesota school district adopts Black Lives Matter slogan as privileged 'government speech'

Unclear if approved resolution simply limits what messages can be posted in school buildings.

Many schools promote racial justice slogans such as Black Lives Matter. But one district in Minnesota has gone a step further, adopting several slogans as uniquely privileged "official government speech" tacitly exempt from challenge by dissenting opinion ordinarily protected under the First Amendment.

Rochester Public Schools board members unanimously approved a sweeping resolution that authorizes the superintendent to promote the slogans Black Lives Matter, Brown Lives Matter, Indigenous Lives Matter, All Are Welcome Here, and Stop Asian Hate.

The official is directed to take all actions "that further the objectives" of the resolution, including by approving "messaging, signage, and visuals" for the slogans. The district also adopted the six-color "pride flag" as government speech to support "a message of inclusion" within schools.

According to KAAL TV, the resolution was a legal defense move. A day before the board meeting, Superintendent Michael Muñoz told staff to ignore "misinformation circulating on social media" that top officials had ordered the removal of "BLM messaging" in classrooms.

The claim came out of a leadership meeting on “speech, First Amendment rights, and how we can support our students and staff,” wrote Muñoz, who previously agreed to resign at the end of the school year following a plagiarism scandal.

Someone asked a question about "BLM material," but the answer did not include "a directive to remove posters/flags or disallow wearing BLM apparel," Muñoz said, adding that the board would take up the issue the next day. He issued the same message to families in the district.

The resolution could be read to let the district shut down disagreement with the slogans by students, teachers and staff, and censor lesson plans that teach students about debate on racial justice issues. It makes no mention of the First Amendment rights of employees and students.

It has one qualification: The resolution is not intended as an "endorsement" of any policies supported by "organizations using the same or similar messaging." That likely alludes to the Black Lives Matter organization, whose founders are self-described Marxists and whose principles originally included "disrupt[ing] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure."

A law professor told Just the News the resolution might simply apply to the walls of schools, so that the district can exclude "rival views" to the government-approved slogans on its own property.

"This is actually pretty normal" except in the sense that a school board "made express" its view of government speech, UCLA's Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment expert, wrote in an email.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/school-district-adopts-black-lives-matter-government-speech-cant-be

2 More Infant Deaths Following Experimental COVID Genocide Jab During Clinical Trials In Latest CDC VAERS Report

That’s right, the unconstitutional agency whose Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System is fatally flawed and only reports 1% of deaths and adverse effects has added a 1 and a 2-year-old to the list of those who have died after receiving the experimental COVID genocide jab.

CDC’s VAERS Report Now Lists 4,178 Americans Dead Following Experimental COVID Injections – More Deaths From COVID Shots Than 20 Years Of Recorded Deaths Following Vaccines

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Health Impact News reports:

The CDC released more data in their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) today, and it included two new deaths of infants age 2 and age 1.

While none of the COVID injections have emergency use authorization for children under the age of 17 yet, there are ongoing trials with children being injected with the experimental shots as young as 6 months old.

One of the infants who died was apparently in a Pfizer trial, while the other one was apparently in a Moderna trial.

VAERS ID 1255745 involved a 2-year-old baby girl in Virginia who died 5 days after she was injected. The VAERS entry appears to be made by a family member who laments that the child’s death “was going to happen anyway,” apparently repeating what health officials were telling them, and that they would probably claim her death “had nothing to do with the shot.”

VAERS ID: 1255745 – Pfizer

Symptoms: Death, Product administered to patient of inappropriate age

SMQs:, Medication errors (narrow)

Write-up: she was going to die/dies after vaccine; 2-year-old patient; This is a spontaneous report from a non-contactable consumer via a Pfizer-sponsored program.

A 2-year-old female patient received bnt162b2 (PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE), second dose at the age of 2-years-old via an unspecified route of administration on 25Feb2021 (Batch/Lot number was not reported) as single dose for covid-19 immunisation.

The patient”s medical history and concomitant medications were not reported. It was reported that the 2-year-old dies after vaccine on 03Mar2021. Reported on VAERS.

Look for the researchers to exclude her from the study, probably claiming her death had nothing to do with the shot, she was going to die that day, five days after vaccination anyway.

That”s how they roll. The patient died on 03Mar2021. The outcome of the event was fatal. No follow-up attempts are possible. Information on lot/batch cannot be obtained. No further information is expected.; Reported Cause(s) of Death: she was going to die

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2021/05/09/2-more-infant-deaths-following-experimental-covid-genocide-jab-during-clinical-trials-in-latest-cdc-vaers-report/

Major Fire Broke Out At Syria’s Oil Refinery: Israel & Militants Suspected

On May 9, a fire broke out at Homs oil refinery in central Syria as a result of what was described as an “accident” by local officials.

According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, the fire broke out at the refinery’s Distillation Unit 100. Refinery workers and local firefighters were able to contain and put down the fire within a short period of time.

“Firefighting teams, with great efforts, managed to control the fire,” Suleiman al-Mohamad, General Director of Homs refinery, told the state-run news agency.

According to al-Mohamad, two firemen suffered from suffocation while extinguishing the fairly large fire. Both men are now recovering.

The Syrian Minister of Oil and Mineral Reserves, Bassam Toumah, claimed in a statement that the fire was a result of a leak in crude oil pipes in Distillation Unit 100. The minister noted that the fire didn’t place the refinery out of service.

The Homs refinery is Syria’s main crude oil processing facility. The refinery was targeted on a number of occasions in the last ten years.

In December of 2019, Homs refinery was one of three Syrian oil and gas facilities which were struck by armed drones. Militants based in the northwestern region of Greater Idlib were reportedly behind the attack.

While the new fire may be also the result of an attack or a sabotage act by Syrian militants, it is also possible that the Israeli intelligence was involved. Syria received large shipments of crude oil from Iran in the last few weeks.

https://southfront.org/major-fire-broke-out-at-syrias-oil-refinery-israel-militants-suspected-photos/

"The Plague… I Don't Know When It'll Happen But It's Coming" And He Called Fauci A Monster!! IQ 220 MegaGenius Deepstater Red Pills The World For 4 Hours Straight In Historical Video!

A fantastic achievement worth watching is to see with such ease and grace, that Bill Deagle can flawlessly move through several complex and hidden areas of the deepstate. Peeps…this is important… and we can see elements of what was discussed in 2016, coming into view now in 2021. It is also important to not fall into hopelessness… because with God we are victorious! Be we do have to educate ourselves… even at the victory part which starts within… and then echoes outward… thanks for living as free and original you, each soul has a never ending journey that is shared with God. Blessings, Indian

https://youtu.be/1xFRO_-Znec

White House Covid Coordinator: “CDC Guidance Will Allow Vaccinated People More and More Privileges to Take Off That Mask”

Joe Biden’s White House Covid Coordinator Jeffrey Zients admitted the US government is creating a caste system wherein vaccinated individuals will have more freedoms and privileges than non-vaccinated people.

“I think everyone is tired and wearing a mask can be a pain but we’re gettin there,” Zientz said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “The CDC guidance across time will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges to take off that mask.”

“15 days to slow the spread” has turned into: mandatory mask mandates and vaccine passports in order to ‘return to normal life.’

How will people know if others are vaccinated or not?

Immunaband company introduced new blue silicone wristbands that will carry your Covid vax card information. The company is hoping this will catch on and that Americans will rush to purchase their wristband to let others know you’ve been vaccinated.

These wristbands will do until the microchips are rolled out and made mandatory.

“ImmunaBand,” the blue silicone wristband, has a built-in QR code that will carry your Covid vax info and will let others know you are safe to be around – that’s according to the company that created the product.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/white-house-covid-coordinator-cdc-guidance-will-allow-vaccinated-people-privileges-take-off-mask-video/

BILLIONS in US Money, Knowledge and Skills Were GIVEN to China’s Virus Research Programs, Ultimately Resulting to COVID-19 Pandemic

U.S. government officials, the media, and, in particular, members of the scientific community, for their own personal, political or financial advantage, have continued to promote the false narrative that COVID-19 came from nature.

It did not.

COVID-19 was one product of a wider program of gain of function virus research being conducted by Chinese Communist Party scientists within a dual use, military-commercial program.

That is, COVID-19 was made in a laboratory.

COVID-19 has a number of unusual features, which cannot be explained by a normal evolutionary process.

The only questions remaining are how and where COVID-19 was made and whether its release was accidental or deliberate.

In China, there is no difference between military and civilian virus research.

In recent months, I and other COVID-19 detectives have conducted a virus research network analysis of China’s virus biowarfare program.

Here, in this video, is what we have discovered about its origin and structure.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/exclusive-billions-us-money-knowledge-skills-given-chinas-virus-research-programs-ultimately-leading-covid-19/

When Americans Lynched a Jewish Pedophile/Murderer

In 1915, Georgia Governor John Slaton was almost lynched when he commuted the death sentence of a prominent Jew, Leo Frank, who was convicted of raping and murdering a child. Then, the people of Georgia took the law into their own hands.

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Saturday, April 26th, 1913 - (noon)

Leo Frank had Conley (a black man) to 'watch out' for him while he 'chatted' with 12-year-old little Mary Phagan who had come to pick-up her weekly pay from working at the pencil factory. Frank demanded sex, and Phagan refused. Next, Frank in cocaine-induced rage, beat her mercilessly. He then pulled her underwear off, tied it around her throat, and raped her. After Frank finished he strangled her to death with the cord.

Frank then summons Conley into the office, where he finds Leo crouching over the unconscious girl. Leo tells him that Mary had resisted his advances, and when he grabbed her, had fallen and struck her head. When he had finished with her, he decided to kill her with a garrote.

Mary Phagan has been strangled with a seven-foot length of cord tied in a slipknot still tightly wrapped around her neck. Quantities of cord of this character are found throughout the building. Her tongue is swollen and protruding. She has soot on her face, dirt in her eyes, and cinders in her mouth and nostrils. She has a black eye, there are wounds on her scalp and below the knee and scratches on the elbow, and her clothing has been torn. There is fresh blood in her underclothing, and she appears to have been raped vaginally and anally. She has also been robbed, her purse containing the $1.20 is missing.

Soon there are court trials, and on the witness stand, the sworn testimony and first-hand eyewitness account as presented by Jim Conley is absolutely devastating. It was on the seventh, and pivotal, day in the trial of Leo Frank that Jim Conley, who was employed as a sweeper at the factory, was called to testify and he presented a gruesome, graphic, and sometimes revolting tale. In fact, his testimony was so lurid that Judge Roan ordered all women and children cleared from the courtroom.

Conley testified he had 'watched out' for Frank on several occasions, while he entertained young women in his office. According to Conley, Frank had confessed the murder to him and had tried to get him (Conley), to burn the body in the factory's basement furnace. Frank's lawyers, despite all of their bribes and trickery, were unable to shake Conley's story.

Some of his descriptions of what he saw intimated that Frank was a sexual deviant and 'not built like other men.' Conley tells of walking in as the Jew was molesting the girl, and boys. There were explicit details explaining how he and Frank had dragged the body to the basement furnace room. They returned to the office where Frank had Conley (who was illiterate) write notes indicating Newt Lee the watchman…

https://henrymakow.com/2021/05/when-americans-lynched.html

POLL: 91.7% Of Texans Say Child Sex Changes Should Be Illegal, But Abbott, Phelan, And Burrows Are Stalling Bill To Ban Them

An overwhelming majority of Texans want gender bending surgeries made illegal for minors, yet Abbott, Phelan, and Burrows refuse to act.

In a recent poll of Texans living in District 21, 91.7% of the respondents indicated they believe child transgender surgeries and drugs should be made illegal. This poll was released even as Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, and Texas Rep. Dustin Burrows – all Republicans – are stalling legislation to ban such surgeries and drugs for minors in the state.

According to the poll, 91.7% of parents believe that Texas politicians should pass legislation to ban children from becoming “transgendered with drugs or surgical procedures.” Similarly, 89.4% of parents believe that “parents, psychologists, and medical doctors” should not be allowed to “alter a child’s body with surgery or drugs for gender transitioning purposes.” Additionally, 92.1% of respondents believe that biological males should not be allowed to compete in girls’ sports. An overwhelming 91.6% of respondents said that it is not okay for “Texas to have a Speaker that supports chemical castration of children.”

The overwhelming majority of respondents, 77.9%, believe that Phelan – who multiple sources tell National File is stalling the legislation to prevent Abbott from having to sign or veto it – should “demand that Governor Abbott sign Bills that would protect Texas children from gender transitioning procedures.” 84.6% also said it is important for Phelan to protect children from “being transgendered by parents.”

The poll of around 500 unique households living in Texas House of Representatives District 21 was conducted May 3 through May 6 by the Conservative Response Team. 64.9% of respondents identify as Republican, 13.1% identify as Democrats, 16.8% identify as independent, and 5.2% identify as Libertarian. 36.2% of respondents were male, and 63.8% were female. District 21 encompasses all of San Antonio, and a large portion of Austin. Over 800,000 Texans live in District 21, and the district has generally voted Republican since 1978.

National File obtained the poll as Texas Republicans have only day remaining to add H.B. 1399 to the calendar, something controlled by Rep. Dustin Burrows. Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller recently appeared in an advertisement urging Burrows to place the item on the calendar, and on Friday appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to urge immediate action from Burrows, Abbott, and other Texas Republicans.

"This gender modification has got to stop. It's just cowboy logic." pic.twitter.com/nR8y2QrE0M

— National File (@NationalFile) May 8, 2021

Yesterday, National File interviewed Jeff Younger, the father of James Younger, a 9-year-old boy who became the focus of national news after he was recorded by his father on video, at the age of two, explaining that his mother – Jeff Younger’s ex-wife – was forcing him to wear dresses and nail polish, and told the boy he was a girl. Younger told National File that the proposed legislation is “mild” but would protect children like his son, and urged the Texas legislature to act immediately, or face an end to their time in the legislature. Younger also warned that he and others will work against Abbott, regardless of his future political goals.

https://nationalfile.com/poll-91-7-of-texans-say-child-sex-changes-should-be-illegal-but-abbott-phelan-and-burrows-are-stalling-bill-to-ban-them/

Former acting defense chief to testify on Pentagon’s response to Jan. 6 Capitol riot

WASHINGTON — Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller is scheduled to testify next week about the Pentagon’s role in responding to the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the latest in a series of high-profile congressional hearings centered on the insurrection.

WASHINGTON — Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller is scheduled to testify next week about the Pentagon’s role in responding to the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the latest in a series of high-profile congressional hearings centered on the insurrection.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/05/09/former-acting-defense-chief-to-testify-on-pentagons-response-to-jan-6-capitol-riot/

Pierre ‘Pete’ Du Pont IV Dies; Ran for President in 1988

WILMINGTON, Del.—Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV, a former Delaware governor and congressman who sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 86.

Du Pont, a scion of the family that established the DuPont Co., died at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday after a long illness, his former chief of staff, Bob Perkins, said.

Born to wealth and status, du Pont broke with family tradition in the 1960s, forgoing a comfortable career with his family’s chemical company for a life in politics.

“I was born with a well-known name and genuine opportunity. I hope I have lived up to both,” du Pont said in announcing his longshot presidential bid in September 1986.

As a presidential candidate, du Pont attracted attention for staking out controversial positions on what he hoped would reverberate with voters as “damn right” issues. They included random drug testing for high school students, school vouchers, replacing welfare with work, ending farm subsidies, and allowing workers to invest in individual retirement accounts as an alternative to Social Security.

Some of those ideas have since become more mainstream.

He won the endorsement of New Hampshire’s largest newspaper but failed to gain traction among voters. He ended his campaign after finishing next-to-last in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.

Afterward, du Pont remained engaged in politics. He frequently wrote opinion pieces for publications such as the Wall Street Journal and co-founded the online public policy journal IntellectualCapital.com. He also served as chairman of Hudson Institute, the National Review Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonpartisan public policy research organization.

Pierre du Pont IV was born Jan. 22, 1935, in Delaware. After attending Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, he graduated from Princeton University in 1956 with an engineering degree. Following a four-year stint in the Navy, he obtained a law degree from Harvard University in 1963.

He joined the Du Pont Company, where he held several positions, resigning as a quality control supervisor in 1968 to begin his political career.

https://www.ntd.com/pierre-pete-du-pont-iv-dies-ran-for-president-in-1988_610294.html

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Cuomo investigation expanded to include top adviser who may have linked vaccines to political support for Cuomo: report

Cuomo investigation expanded to include top adviser who may have linked vaccines to political support for Cuomo: report

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) opened an investigation into Cuomo earlier this year after numerous women came forward with sexual harassment allegations. The scandal boiled over just Cuomo was taking heat from federal officials over his COVID-related nursing home scandal. The U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York is handing the nursing home investigation.

Cuomo is also being investigated over allegations "misused state resources to write and promote his pandemic book" about the pandemic, NBC News reported.

What are the details?

According to the Wall Street Journal, investigators have questioned at least three Democratic county executives "who said they were surprised to receive calls from Larry Schwartz," Cuomo's COVID vaccine czar who abruptly resigned from his position as a "volunteer adviser" last month.

More from Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Schwartz contacted more than a half-dozen executives in early March, executives said, as Mr. Cuomo faced mounting calls for his resignation from members of his own political party and was personally contacting state lawmakers to shore up support.

The executives said that at the time of Mr. Schwartz's calls they were typically speaking with him about the allocation of vaccine supplies, not politics. Mr. Schwartz has said he didn't link vaccine distribution to political considerations. On Friday, he referred questions to his lawyer, Guy Petrillo, who declined to comment.

At least one of the county executives filed a complaint with the state's attorney general's office after fielding a call from Schwartz, the Journal reported.

"Right at the time that every county was working, and desperately needed more vaccines, to receive a call from the person who was responsible for allocating those doses gauging political loyalty to the governor was an obvious conflict, and at best ethically gray," one county executive told the Journal.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz (D), meanwhile, told the Journal he did not feel Schwartz tried to pressure him into supporting Cuomo.

Why did Schwartz step down?

According to the New York Post, Schwartz stepped down after the New York State Legislature repealed a controversial rule that allowed some individuals to serve as volunteer officials during the pandemic.

The rule change, according to the New York Times, meant Schwartz would have been "treated as a public officer following the legislative changes, which would have required him to file financial disclosure forms and be subject to a two-year lobbying ban after his service to the state."

Numerous staffers have resigned from Cuomo's office in recent months as investigators continue their investigations into Cuomo. "Those include aides Max Orenstein, Laura Edidin, Christopher O'Brien, Caitlin Girouard, Eric Hammond, Will Burns, Kumiki Gibson and Gareth Rhodes. Most recently, Cuomo spokesman Jack Sterne left in mid-April, a year into serving in the communications department," the Post reported.

Cuomo's communications director, Peter Ajemian, is the latest to leave. His last day was Friday.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/new-york-investigators-expand-cuomo-investigation

The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 1 – Big Education

Chapter 1: Big Education

Public schooling is a ritual that most children endure during the most impressionable years of their lives. While the assumed goal of public education is to educate the children so that they may become the doctors, teachers, artists, and leaders of the future, some suspect a more sinister agenda is at play. Some believe that mandatory public education has become the tool for the governments of the world – and the education organizations which advise governments – to influence and manipulate the opinions of the youth.

So how accurate are these claims? Is government involvement in education a flawed attempt at achieving a worthy goal? And what role does government education play in influencing the minds of youth?

To answer these questions we have to go back to the origins of education. Plato’s The Republic is well known for popularizing the concept of mandatory education, but other resources note that Jewish leaders have been requiring parents to provide some form of education for their children since ancient Judea.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Aztec Triple Alliance made education mandatory for boys and girls beginning at age 15. There were at least 2 known types of schools for the Aztec children, a practical and military based education, and learning writing, astronomy, theology, and other ideas.

In 1496, Scotland established education for all children of privileged, elite families. With the enacting of the School Establishment Act of 1616 all children were required to attend school. However, the compulsory school model that gradually spread all over the world was largely based on the Prussian model of education, which was established in 1763.

Although Prussian King Frederick William I promoted the concept of compulsory schooling as far back as 1716, education did not become mandatory until 1763, when his son King Frederick the Great ruled that children must attend a state-sponsored school. Under the new ruling, children were required to attend school from their fifth to their 13th or 14th year, with fines imposed for not attending.

Much has been written about the Prussian model of education. For years, it has been popular to refer to the Prussian model as the Industrial or Factory model. In more recent years, some educators and historians have pushed back on the idea that the Prussian model was designed to produce obedient workers. So what’s the truth?

First, it is important to note that the Prussia education model was funded via taxation of the population. Some researchers describe early schools as “free” public goods, but the reality is that every subject of the Prussian Kingdom funded the mandatory schools through taxes.

The idea that the Prussian school system was about maintaining state control over education, and thus the people, was affirmed when King Frederick issued another ruling in 1794. This ruling declared:

– “schools and universities are state institutions charged with the instruction of the youth”

– “may be founded only with knowledge and consent of the state”

– “it is the duty of the school inspectors… to see that all children of compulsory school age are kept in school, if necessary by force and by punishment of negligent parents.”

Horace Mann, sometimes known as the father of American public schooling, was a strong lobbyist for the Prussian schooling design, while still acknowledging that the system had its critics. As he wrote in 1843:

“Numerous tracts were issued from the English press . . . strongly denouncing the whole plan of education in Prussia, as being not only designed to produce, but as actually producing, a spirit of blind acquiescence to arbitrary power, in things spiritual as well as temporal – as being in fine, a system of education adapted to enslave, and not to enfranchise, the human mind.”

https://theconsciousresistance.com/the-conscious-resistance-network-presents-the-pyramid-of-power-ep-1-big-education/

DC Mayor Bans Dancing At Weddings… & Other Absurdities

Are you ready for this week’s absurdity?

Here’s our weekly roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.

CIA goes full woke in new recruiting campaign

The CIA has gone full woke in an “unapologetically me” campaign designed to drive new recruits to the agency.

In the video, we hear from a CIA officer who tells us, “I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cis gender Millennial who’s been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. . . I am intersectional. But my existence is not a box checking exercise.”

Wait, what? If your existence isn’t about box checking, why did you literally just check off all the boxes in which you identify? Racial identity: check. Gender identity: check. Disability: check.

The video goes on to showcase all the diversity and inclusion awards that the officer won during her time at the CIA. And she continues:

“At 36, I refuse to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.”

There you have it— the CIA’s new mission is not gathering and analyzing intelligence to defend the nation. It’s fighting back against the patriarchy.

America’s enemies are shaking in their boots.

Click here to watch the video.

DC mayor bans dancing at weddings

The Mayor of Washington DC has issued a health order which demands wedding guests stay seated at wedding receptions.

The order specifically notes that at weddings, “Attendees and guests must remain seated and socially distanced from each other and other household groups… Standing and dancing receptions are not allowed.”

Standing… is now illegal.

The real irony here is that Washington DC is one of the MOST VACCINATED cities in the US, with 631,000 vaccine doses administered out of an adult population (according to census data) of 577,000.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-mayor-bans-dancing-weddings-other-absurdities