Report: Colonial Pipeline Paid European Hackers $5 Million Ranson Last Week

Colonial Pipeline forked over nearly $5 million last week to the Eastern European criminal group that hacked the company, shuttering the largest oil pipeline in the US, spurring widespread gas shortages and panic buying across the Southeast.

Bloomberg News reported that Colonial coughed up the ransom just hours after the ransomware attack took place on Friday.

The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company paid the ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reported, citing two people familiar with the transaction.

Once the hackers received the payment, they provided Colonial with a decrypting tool to restore its downed IT network, according to the outlet, which reported the fix was so slow that the company opted to use its own backups to help restore the system…

…The FBI believes that the crippling cyberattack was orchestrated by a Russia-based criminal group called DarkSide.

Payment came shortly after attack got underway last week

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/report-colonial-pipeline-paid-european-hackers-5-million-ranson-last-week/

Israeli media in hot water after state TV broadcasts ‘lynching’ of ‘Arab’ by Jewish mob

News that Israeli television broadcast the beating of a supposedly Arab man live amid the ongoing violence has drawn condemnation on social media, with users questioning Israel’s reputation as the Middle East’s only democracy.

Footage from Wednesday evening showed a man being dragged from his car, beaten and set upon by dogs in Bat Yam, Tel-Aviv, and was aired live by state broadcaster Kan.

While the violence was broadly condemned on social media, many commentators focused on the fact that Kan, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, aired the horrifically violent footage live on national television.

One Twitter user labeled the Israeli media “incorrigible perverts” for “showing [the] mob lynching of an Arab live on national TV.” He added that it reminded him of scenes he had seen on Indian TV.

Another user questioned Israel’s reputation as the most progressive country and only democracy in the Middle East, claiming that Israel is the only nation where you can watch someone being dragged from their car and lynched by a crowd of hundreds on live TV.

“At what point do we say Israel has a white supremacy problem?” another person tweeted, adding that this brazen violence on a ‘non-white’ man took place “in FULL VIEW of a TV camera.”

However, some weren’t so critical of the broadcaster’s decision to air the footage. “Should be shown over and over again on Israeli TV for several weeks so people can see the inevitable. Young blood thirsty cowards with no fear of justice,” one person wrote.

Others hit out at the Western media organizations that had highlighted Kan’s broadcast of the lynching. One suggested that AFP, a leading global news agency which drew attention to Kan’s decision to air the lynching, was “infected by fake news” and that it “supports [the] largest socialist #organizedcrimesyndicate [in the] world.”

Another commentator called on AFP to focus on the violence initiated by Palestinians against Israelis.

Wednesday’s disturbing footage comes amid escalating violence between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, as well as increasing civilian unrest which has seen both Arab and Israeli groups engage in heated demonstrations.

The Jerusalem Post reported that an angry mob of Israeli far-right activists had been marching around the Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel-Aviv, on Wednesday evening, terrorizing non-Jews and smashing Arab-owned businesses.

The victim of Wednesday’s aired lynching is reportedly in a stable condition and improving. Some reports suggest he was actually Jewish.

https://www.rt.com/news/523690-israel-palestine-conflict-tv-lynch/

THOUSANDS Protest in Chicago Against Israel Carrying Palestinian Flags — Chanting for Israel’s Destruction

Hamas, a terrorist organization located throughout the Gaza strip, targeted Israel this week with over 1000 rockets and other explosives over a span of 3 days. Hamas and Palestinian fighters say this was in response to Israeli airstrike operations killing multiple Hamas leaders.

These rockets were overwhelmingly launched towards civilian and residential life in Israel.

A group of hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors began to gather in Chicago protesting Israel’s response to these attacks. The protesters marched with signs demanding a halt to the U.S funds that go to Israel. Here is a link to a local Chicago news report on the massive pro-Palestinian protests.

Jay Tcath, the Executive Vice President of the Jewish Defense Fund told reporters, “We should not confuse the arsonist with the firefighter.” He went on to say the Israeli military is, “Responding with strength and proportionate force.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/thousands-protest-chicago-israel-carrying-palestinian-flags-chanting-israels-destruction-video/

Senator Rand Paul: “Dr. Fauci Could be Culpable for the Entire Pandemic”

On Tuesday the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on the efforts to combat COVID-19.

As Cristina reported earlier, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped into Dr. Fauci about funding the Wuhan laboratory in Wuhan, China.

In May 2020, TGP reported this: The leader of the US task force overseeing the country’s response to the China coronavirus, Dr. Tony Fauci, was the one who funded the Wuhan bat virus work and kept it going.

Since May 2020, The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s likely illegal funding of coronavirus projects at the Wuhan Virology Center.

It is clear that they successfully isolated the coronavirus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species-to-species transmission.

Rand Paul confronted Fauci on Tuesday: “Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?”

Arrogant Fauci shot back at the Kentucky lawmaker: “Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan institute.”

** The video is here.

Tuesday night on Rob Schmitt Tonight Senator Rand Paul responded to Dr. Fauci’s statements from today’s hearing.

Senator Paul rightfully accused Dr. Fauci of being dishonest while under oath.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/boom-senator-rand-paul-dr-fauci-culpable-entire-pandemic-video/

AZ GOP Chair Dr. Kelli Ward: Legal Action Is Imminent — Breach of Voter Identification Information Occurred Last Election Cycle

Arizona Republican Chair Dr. Kelli Ward released a daily audit update last night on Twitter.

It was explosive to say the least.

LEGAL ACTION IS IMMINENT!

Dr. Kelli Ward: The Democrat plan for reengineering our country starts with open borders and open elections. Forget the rules, anyone can enter our country illegally, and if you ask for voter identification or try to stop phony mail-in ballots from being counted, or try to stop those dead people from voting, well, that is what those Democrats call voter suppression. And at this very moment, while the hand-counting of ballots continues, there’s a lot happening behind the scenes and legal action is imminent… And now Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer has revealed in a letter to voters that he learned that prior to his term a breach of voter identification information occurred last election cycle and is now being investigated by law enforcement. If I were a Democrat I think I’d be in a frenzy myself.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/az-gop-chair-dr-kelli-ward-legal-action-imminent-breach-voter-identification-information-occurred-last-election-cycle-video/

More than a quarter of EU adults reluctant to get Covid vaccine, survey finds

Vaccine hesitancy rates in the EU are raising alarms, after a survey found that 27% of adults across the bloc said they’d be unlikely to accept a Covid-19 jab, amid a “failure” to persuade people of its efficacy and safety.

A Eurofound survey investigating vaccine take-up across EU member states flagged concerns about the success of messaging from health officials on Covid jabs, warning that the failure to fully convince the adult population to be inoculated could put the fight against the pandemic at risk.

Some 27% of those surveyed across Europe, including half of French respondents and 67% of those in Bulgaria, said they would be very unlikely or rather unlikely to get a Covid vaccine. There were big variations between states though, with people surveyed in Eastern European nations more likely to be more cautious about taking the jab. Hesitancy figures were above 30% in several states, including Croatia, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia.

“Unfortunately, these findings reflect a failure to deliver persuasive and clear communication regarding the efficacy and safety of vaccines,” Daphne Ahrendt, senior research manager at Eurofound, said.

Looking at the possible root causes of vaccine hesitancy, researchers found a link between people who said they were less likely to get a Covid jab and social media as a main source of information. Among those surveyed who said they primarily relied on social media for their news, vaccine hesitancy was at 40%, compared with 18% who used traditional news outlets.

The study’s release comes as countries throughout Europe seek to expedite their vaccine rollouts, so they can reopen after a year of Covid restrictions plagued the continent.

Eurofound’s latest round of data was collected in February and March 2021, with 46,800 respondents providing their thoughts on the impact of the virus, their attitudes towards vaccines and vaccination programmes, and the impact of social media on the pandemic

https://www.rt.com/news/523722-eu-covid-vaccine-hesitancy/

Florida governor to pardon everyone in state charged with breaking Covid restrictions

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced he will pardon all Floridians who have been legally charged for breaking coronavirus restrictions on mask wearing and social distancing, arguing guidelines should be advisory.

Appearing Wednesday on Fox News with Florida gym owners Mike and Jillian Carnevale, who were arrested on several occasions and threatened with months in prison for allowing people to enter their business without a face mask, DeSantis said he would overrule the “total overreach” against them.

“This is exactly what we ordered against last summer, many months ago,” the governor declared, before announcing that “effective tomorrow morning” he would “sign a reprieve under my constitutional authority” that would “delay the case for sixty days.”

DeSantis then also revealed that in the coming weeks he would “issue pardons, not only for Mike and Jillian, but for any Floridian that may have outstanding infractions for things like masks and social distancing.”

“The fact is, it’s not even right to be wearing masks when you’re exercising,” he argued, noting that the World Health Organization “advises against it” and that coronavirus restrictions “should be advisory.”

DeSantis – a close ally to former President Donald Trump – has been a staunch opponent of authoritarian practices during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Unlike many other governors, DeSantis has called coronavirus lockdowns a “mistake,” rejected mandatory face masks, and overruled local authorities’ restrictions.

Earlier this month, DeSantis also banned all businesses and government buildings from requiring Floridians to disclose their vaccination status in order to enter – a more complete ban than other governors, who merely prohibited government buildings, but not private companies, from requiring vaccine passports.

https://www.rt.com/usa/523712-florida-governor-pardon-coronavirus/

Trailer Maker Utility Targeted In Ransomware Attack

Utility Trailer Manufacturing, one of the largest U.S. producers of trailers for the trucking industry, was targeted in an apparent ransomware attack that exposed personal information of numerous employees.

The California-based company told FreightWaves that it had “suffered a cyber event” that disrupted some systems temporarily. The company disclosed the incident after the Clop ransomware gang leaked over 5 gigabytes of data to the dark web this week.

“Upon discovery, Utility immediately responded to secure its systems and commenced an investigation into the nature and scope of the event,” Utility said in a statement. “Utility is working around the clock with assistance from third-party forensic computer specialists to investigate the full nature and scope of the attack and to bring the offline systems back online safely and securely.”

Utility did not not address the scope of the cyberattack, including when it occurred and and whether it has impacted operations. The company also did not disclose the extent of the data compromised.

The data reviewed by FreightWaves, which isn’t accessible via standard web browsers, includes an extensive amount of sensitive personal data about employees, including payrolls and human resources information.

“Utility treats its responsibility to safeguard client, customer and employee information and data as an utmost priority,” the company said.

Ransomware gang’s victims include rail operator CSX

Ransomware gangs like Clop typically begin leaking data after victims refuse to pay them. The group blamed for the Colonial Pipeline attack, DarkSide, uses the same tactic.

Clop has hit multiple major companies, including rail operator CSX and the Canadian fuel distributor Parkland.

Utility is the third-largest trailer producer in the United States, according to Trailer Body Builder. The company says it is the single largest manufacturer of refrigerated trailers.

Headquartered in the City of Industry, Utility operates five factories in the U.S.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trailer-maker-utility-targeted-ransomware-attack

Amazon offering $100 to new employees for proof of Covid-19 vaccination as company set to bring on 75,000

Amazon is gearing up to bring on 75,000 new employees, and one of the incentives they will be offering new hires is a $100 bonus payment for proof that the worker has been vaccinated against Covid-19.

With its less than stellar reputation on employee welfare, Amazon is resorting to offering perks to workers as the US job market struggles to fill positions.

With more and more people turning to e-commerce sites to do their shopping during the pandemic, it is one of many stores looking to quickly hire fulfillment and logistics employees.

Besides the $100 for proof of vaccination, new Amazon employees will also receive another $1,000 as a new hire.

It also plans to increase worker wages by between .50 cents and $3 an hour. The new positions being filled will pay an average of $17 an hour, it said. Companies like McDonald’s and Chipotle have also announced plans to begin increasing their hourly wages.

Many companies have also been working to incentivize employees to get vaccinated as pandemic-era restrictions ease. Dollar General, Target, Best Buy, and others have offered their employees the chance to either get vaccinated during their work hours or to receive paid time off to get their doses.

Direct bonus payments – similar to Amazon’s strategy – have also been offered by companies like grocery store chain Kroger, which is also offering a one-time $100 payment to fully vaccinated staff.

Amazon began implementing on-site vaccination clinics at warehouses in various states last month to encourage employees to get inoculated.

Even government officials have been getting into the vaccine-promotion game, with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine making waves this week after announcing the state was offering a chance to win $1 million or a college scholarship in special lotteries if they get their Covid-19 vaccine.

https://www.rt.com/usa/523740-amazon-covid19-vaccines/

Israel Orders "Massive Reinforcement" Of Reserve Troops To Quell Riots; Ground Forces Amass Near Gaza

On Thursday Israeli troops have begun amassing at Gaza's border amid widespread rumors of preparations for a ground invasion. It comes also as violence between Jewish and Arab communities inside Israel ratcheted further overnight, taking the form of mob riots and attacks on either mosques or synagogues.

Overnight from Wednesday Israeli media estimates that 150 rockets and mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip into Thursday, bringing the total fired since fighting began early this week to around 1,500 total rockets.

Israel has in return continued to pound the densely packed Gaza Strip with airstrikes, with the death toll soaring to at least 83 Gazans killed, including 17 children, and and additional almost 500 wounded, according to Gaza's health ministry on Thursday. At least seven Israelis have died, including a 5-year old boy, with dozens injured from the inbound rockets.

Reuters is reporting that additional forces have arrived to Israel's southern border after last night Israel's Security Cabinet approved expanding operations in Gaza, especially the airstrikes which are expected to continue through the week.

"Israeli troops massed at Gaza's border on Thursday and Palestinian militants pounded Israel with rockets in intense hostilities that have caused international concern and touched off clashes between Jews and Arabs in Israel," Reuters details.

A number of social media videos in the past days have purported to capture large convoys of Israeli tanks headed toward Gaza.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-orders-massive-reinforcement-reserve-troops-quell-riots-ground-forces-amass

Jeff Younger, Rep Slaton Make Final Plea To End Transgender Surgeries For Kids, ‘This Should Not Be Happening In Texas’

"Of the Republicans on that committee, five of them are authors of the bill. They never voted to schedule their own bill."

Bills to stop child chemical castration and transgender surgeries in Texas have been stalled by the Republican legislature, effectively killing H.B. 1399 – which would strip liability insurance from doctors who perform such acts in the states – when they scheduled it with hundreds of bills left to pass and only days left in the session. Now, Jeff Younger, the father of 9-year-old James Younger, whose mother began forcing him to wear dresses and telling him he is a girl at only two-years-old, has recorded a video with Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton, pleading with the Texas legislators who are working against young children, and asking viewers to call Rep. Stephanie Klick and Rep. Dustin Burrows in a bid to pass another bill that would classify these types of surgery as child abuse.

“I’m honored to have my good friend Jeff Younger here today, and we’ve got an update for you,” Slaton began in a video recorded yesterday. “We are still currently, in the House, working on Monday’s calendar. The bill to protect his son, HB 1399, was scheduled on Wednesday’s calendar on page 8 out of 10. There are literally hundreds of bills in between our first one today and the bill that would protect his son and other children from child gender modification. That’s very sad and unfortunate, and very frustrating as well.”

“Where we’re at now, we have a week and a day, and the only bill left is Senate Bill 1646, it’s passed the Senate and it’s referred to the Public Health Committee, so now where we’re at, Chairman Klick is Chair of Public Health, once it’s voted out of there it goes to the Calendar Committee, that’s Chairman Burrows,” Slaton explained. “We’re literally right back where we were, with a week and a half to get things done. What I’m asking you to do is get on your knees and pray. This should not be happening in Texas, and I want you to also think, if this was your child or your grandchild, what would you want an elected official to do?”

https://nationalfile.com/jeff-younger-rep-slaton-make-final-plea-to-end-transgender-surgeries-for-kids-this-should-not-be-happening-in-texas/

West and Rights Groups Accuse China of Massive Uyghur Crimes

UNITED NATIONS—Human rights groups and Western nations led by the United States, Britain, and Germany accused China of massive crimes against the Uyghur minority and demanded unimpeded access for U.N. experts at a virtual meeting on Wednesday denounced by China as “politically motivated” and based on “lies.”

China’s U.N. Mission sent notes to many of the U.N.’s 193 member nations last week urging them not to participate in the “anti-China event.” And China’s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun sent text messages to the 15 Western co-sponsors of the meeting expressing shock at their support, urging them to “think twice” and withdraw it.

He warned that if they don’t, it will be “harmful to our relationship and cooperation.”

At the meeting, Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward called the situation in Xinjiang “one of the worst human rights crises of our time.”

“The evidence, from a growing number of credible sources—including satellite imagery, survivor testimony and publicly available Chinese Government documents—is of grave concern,” said Woodward, who previously was the UK ambassador in China. “The evidence points to a program of repression of specific ethnic groups. Expressions of religion have been criminalized and Uyghur language and culture are discriminated against systematically and at scale.”

In recent years, an estimated 1 million people or more have been confined in camps in Xinjiang, according to foreign governments and researchers. Most are Uyghurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group. Authorities have been accused of imposing forced labor, systematic forced birth control, and torture.

The Chinese regime has flatly rejected the allegations. It has characterized the camps, which it says are now closed, as vocational training centers to teach Chinese language, job skills, and the law in order to support economic development and combat extremism. China saw a wave of Xinjiang-related terrorist attacks through 2016.

Organizers said there were 152 participants in Wednesday’s event, including 51 countries, and speaker after speaker called on China to end its abuses against the Uyghurs.

Germany’s U.N. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen thanked “all the co-sponsors who came together despite some massive Chinese threats.”

https://www.ntd.com/west-and-rights-groups-accuse-china-of-massive-uyghur-crimes_612492.html

Gretchen Whitmer Changes Story, Drops Original Claim She ‘Traveled at Her Own Expense’ on Private Jet

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) again attempted to explain her secret Florida trip in March aboard a private jet and her story seemed to change Wednesday.

Via the original MIRS News report in April:

While Communications Director Tiffany Brown wouldn’t say where the Democratic governor traveled, a source tells MIRS that Whitmer’s father, Richard Whitmer, has a home in Florida.

“Her dad was fully vaccinated, and the governor is tested regularly and has never tested positive for COVID [coronavirus],” Brown told MIRS, noting the governor traveled at her own expense and that utilized no state resources. … (emphasis added)

Brown said Gov. Whitmer wasn’t on spring break but was assisting “her elderly father who is battling a chronic illness.”

“A brief trip,” she claimed during a Wednesday press conference. “It was not a vacation and it was not a gift,” a reference to a lobbying legal term.

“This flight was not a gift,” Whitmer reiterated moments later. “This flight was not paid for at taxpayer expense.”

It is not clear why she did not simply say she “traveled at her own expense,” as her office originally claimed.

Breitbart News asked Whitmer’s office why her story changed and if she could provide any evidence to indicate who paid for the private plane, but neither communications director Tiffany Brown nor press secretary Bobby Leddy would explain.

Whitmer’s secret Florida trip came just days before she urged Michiganders not to travel to the very same state. After that demand, two of her top aides, Chief Operations Officer Tricia Foster and Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel went to Florida and Alabama respectively for spring break.

The governor’s claim she was tending to her ill father was possibly undermined when he was spotted shopping and driving in Lansing weeks later.

“Michiganders are tired of the growing stream of lies coming from Gov. Whitmer,” Republican Governors Association spokesman Chris Gustafson said in a statement.

“Whitmer’s refusal to disclose basic details about her vacation to Florida is simply more proof that she is unfit to lead and it is time to Fire the Damn Governor.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/13/gretchen-whitmer-changes-story-drops-original-claim-she-traveled-her-own-expense-private-jet/

‘You Never Knew What You’re Going To See’: Reporter Watches As Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts Ocasio-Cortez, Demands Answers

A reporter from the Washington Post described watching Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confront Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside of the House Chambers on Wednesday.

“The one thing about covering Capitol Hill is you never know what you’re going to see based on where you are,” Washington Post reporter Marianna Sotomayor explained on CNN’s “New Day” with Co-Host John Berman. “I was with my colleague Jackie Alemany and we were just waiting for leadership to emerge from the House floor.”

“This was when the House was wrapping up votes for the day. We saw Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez walk off the floor and just seconds after her, Marjorie Taylor Greene start to call out her name,” Sotomayor described.

Sotomayor said Ocasio-Cortez didn’t stop and Greene continued “peppering her with questions” and yelling at her. The reporter said Greene wanted Ocasio-Cortez to defend the policies she supports, such as the Green New Deal.

“Like you mentioned, Greene really wants to debate Ocasio-Cortez specifically on that policy. But, she took it a step further as well, really questioning Ocasio-Cortez about why she supports terrorist groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/13/marianna-sotomayor-marjorie-taylor-green-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-confrontation/

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Signs Bill Requiring Burial or Cremation of Fetal Remains

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a bill into law that will require the burial or cremation of the remains of surgically aborted babies.

Lee signed HB1181/SB828 last week. The bill summary states:

Generally under present law, the method of disposition of an aborted fetus or aborted fetal tissue must be in conformity with the rules of the board for licensing healthcare facilities. This bill deletes that provision and instead requires that final disposition of fetal remains from a surgical abortion at an abortion facility be by cremation or interment. This bill provides that a pregnant woman who has a surgical abortion has the right to determine the following regarding the fetal remains:

(1) Whether the final disposition is by cremation or interment; and

(2) The location for the final disposition.

The bill also “requires an abortion facility to pay for and provide for the cremation or interment of the fetal remains from a surgical abortion performed at that facility.”

If the woman, however, chooses another location for final disposition of the fetal remains, other than that selected by the abortion facility, she is responsible for the costs related to the burial or cremation.

Lawmakers who sponsored the legislation published statements on Monday regarding Lee’s approval.

“Tennessee is overwhelmingly a right-to-life state,” said state Rep. Tim Rudd (R), according to the Murfreesboro Voice. “While it’s disheartening that we have to propose legislation to ensure a preborn child’s body will be treated with the same respect as any other human being, I’m grateful for the support.”

The measure does not restrict access to abortion, but provides directives for the disposal of aborted human remains, just as there are already regulations regarding the remains of pets.

“It is a tragedy in Tennessee that we regulate how veterinarians properly dispose of the remains of animals, but there are no regulations regarding human babies,” said state Sen. Janice Bowling (R). “These are the remains of human beings and should be treated as such. This new law corrects that oversight and ensures that the remains of unborn children are treated with dignity.”

Abortion rights advocates typically attempt to distract from the scientific fact that abortion ends the life of a human being.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/13/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-signs-bill-requiring-burial-cremation-fetal-remains/

Israeli Flags Burned and Synagogues Attacked in Germany

German police have arrested several people of “Arabic appearance” following attacks on synagogues in North Rhine-Westphalia, including incidents where suspects burned Israeli flags in front of temples.

Police responded to reports on Tuesday that people were burning Israeli flags outside of two synagogues in Münster and Bonn. Members of the public had reported seeing a “group of about 15 people with an Arabic appearance” at the Münster synagogue burning the flag and shouting slogans.

In Tempelstrasse, Bonn, too, responders found the remains of a burnt Israeli flag, and there was damage to the entrance of the synagogue where suspects had thrown stones at the building.

Police arrested two 20-year-old men and a 24-year-old man. Investigators also found three notes, allegedly written in Arabic, at the scene, according to Suddeutsche Zeitung.

Just the day before, a so-far unidentified suspect in Düsseldorf set fire to a memorial to the former Great Synagogue on Kasernenstrasse. The Great Synagogue had been destroyed after National Socialists set it on fire in 1938 during Kristallnacht.

Oded Horowitz, chairman of the Jewish Community in Düsseldorf, commented on the suspected arson attack, saying: “We are very concerned that this attack took place here in the heart of Düsseldorf, in the immediate context of the current escalation of violence in Israel.”

On Wednesday, police in Gelsenkirchen dispersed an anti-Israeli rally involving 180 people who marched towards a synagogue and chanted anti-Israeli slogans. Police stopped the demonstrators before they could reach the temple.

The protests and attacks on German synagogues come as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which began on Monday, continues.

In Israel proper, Arab-Israelis have attacked and set on fire synagogues in the city of Lod this week.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/05/13/israeli-flags-burned-synagogue-attacked-germany/

Large Majority of Police Support Marine Le Pen for President

A poll has revealed that as much as 60 per cent of the French police support populist National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen for president ahead of next year’s presidential elections.

The data, which was part of a survey published by the Centre for Political Research of Sciences Po (Cevipof), reveals that in the first round of the presidential election, a plurality of 44 per cent of police and soldiers would vote for Ms Le Pen.

In a second-round run-off vote against current French President Emmanuel Macron, the amount of support from the military and the police rises to 60 per cent, according to the figures, which were first published by the newspaper L’Opinion.

The figures are a slight increase for Le Pen from her second-place finish in the 2017 presidential election, in which she scored 57 per cent of the vote from the military and police.

Almost Half of French Would Support Military Intervention to Restore Order https://t.co/2RCFe8PfhR

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 1, 2021

When broken down by active and retired police officers, the difference is stark. While 51 per cent of retired police say they would vote for Le Pen, 74 per cent of active-duty police say they support the National Rally leader.

Around half the police, 48 per cent, say they have a positive view of Le Pen and say she “understands the problems of people like us”, compared to just 13 per cent who say the same of President Macron. Forty-two per cent also state that Le Pen would do a better job than the current French president.

Attacks on police and urban violence across France have become major issues in recent weeks, with the publishing of letters from former military generals and alleged active-duty military calling on the government to do more to guarantee law and order and warning of potential civil war.

French Military and Police Increasingly Supporting Right-Populist Marine Le Pen https://t.co/xSoSfXadqQ

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 17, 2019

A report released by the newspaper Le Figaro this week details the extent of attacks on police as they carry out their duties, claiming that last year alone 8,719 police officers and gendarmes were injured and 11 officers killed.

In the first three months of 2021, the newspaper states that 727 officers have been injured during operations, and notes that an officer is assaulted on duty every hour in France, on average.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/05/13/large-majority-of-police-support-marine-le-pen-for-president/

Mexican Feds Probe Border State Gubernatorial Candidates for Election Fraud

Mexico’s government generated controversy after the recent announcement that federal investigators were targeting two of the top three gubernatorial candidates for the border state of Nuevo Leon, alleging election fraud. The candidate who is not under investigation belongs to the country’s ruling party, MORENA.

The case first surfaced Monday evening, when Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced it was investigating Nuevo Leon gubernatorial candidates Adrian De La Garza of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), and Samuel Garcia from Movimiento Ciudadano. Recent polls show them matching or beating Clara Luz Flores of MORENA.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/05/12/mexican-feds-probe-border-state-gubernatorial-candidates-for-election-fraud/

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/05/12/mexican-feds-probe-border-state-gubernatorial-candidates-for-election-fraud/

US Spends 90% More Than It Collects In First 7 Months Of Fiscal 2021

With "base effect" all the rage this month, moments ago we also got the 1-year anniversary of the Covid crash in the US budget deficit dataset when the Treasury reported the April government revenue and spending. And while the data in isolation wasn't pretty, it was absolutely stellar compared to last April's blowout $738 billion deficit.

Last month, the US collected $439.2BN in receipts, a solid improvement to the $267.6BN in March and 81.6% higher than the $241.9BN in receipts collected last April when the US economy was in freefall. Of note: $7.2BN of the money collected by the Treasury included $7.2BN in Fed remittances from "profits" on the Fed's QE.

Outlays, while ugly at $664.8BN, were also an improvement compared to the $927.2BN the US spent in March when it funded the latest Biden fiscal stimulus, and down 32.2% from the $979.9BN last April when the Trump admin unleashed the first stimulus.

The resulting April deficit was "only" $225.6 billion, which while still staggeringly high, was a fraction of the near record $738BN deficit recorded a year ago.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-spends-90-more-it-collects-first-7-months-fiscal-2021

Shredded Ballots Purportedly Found During Maricopa County Election’s Dumpster Dive

A criminal investigation could be initiated in connection to an attempted break-in of a warehouse used by Maricopa County’s election department, according to a county spokesperson.

The incident came to light Saturday after Staci Burk posted several photos to social media claiming that shredded ballots were discovered in a dumpster outside the warehouse. The group’s activities were captured by a surveillance camera, said Megan Gilbertson, the election department’s communication director.

“The fact is, these individuals were dumpster diving on Maricopa County property,” Gilbertson said. “Security footage shows they attempted to break into the warehouse entrance of the Elections Department on Saturday with a board from the dumpster. Maricopa County plans to follow up with law enforcement about these activities.”

Burk’s assertions that the shredded ballots were connected to the 2020 General Election received swift pushback from Gilbertson.

“Maricopa County has not, and would never destroy voted ballots until legally authorized to do so after the 24-month retention period,” Gilbertson said, adding that official ballots are stored in a vault, not the warehouse. “The vault is under the watch of a 24-7 camera.”

Gilbertson also stated that no election materials from the vault were in the dumpster. As to the fact some items were found in the dumpsters, she explained that “as a matter of business, the county can and does throw out trash.”

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer also commented Saturday that his office does not use the yellow bag seen in Burk’s photos.

Burk attracted scrutiny in December 2020 when she filed a lawsuit in Pinal County Superior Court in an unsuccessful legal challenge the result of Maricopa County’s election results. The case was quickly dismissed.

In her lawsuit, Burk claimed a man admitted having information about “illegal ballots” being unloaded from a plane at Sky Harbor Airport and that he threatened her life due to Burk’s attempts to uncover election misconduct.

Burk even posted to her personal Facebook page at the time that a personal security team had been “mobilized by (former National Security Advisor) General Mike Flynn at my house” as a result of the threat.

Nothing that sinister was suggested by Burk’s recent posts on March 6 which included dozens of images of what she claims are the remnants of election ballots.

“Ballots shredded and in dumpsters behind the Maricopa County Ballot tabulation center,” she posted. “Physical evidence collected. Went to three different dumps after that tracking down the other bags.”

Some of the photos show a man, who Burk identified as a “Purple Heart Vet,” inside of one of the dumpsters. “Wrapped up physical evidence collection with a Purple Heart Vet willing to dumpster dive for his Country,” she posted.

Another Burk post alleged that boxes of ballots were visible and readily accessible through an open warehouse door without any security presence. “I was there for 10 minutes or so and no one was around at all,” she posted. “I could have easily grabbed some boxes.”

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/03/07/shredded-ballots-purportedly-found-during-maricopa-county-elections-dumpster-dive/

HE WENT THERE: Tucker Carlson Calls For Criminal Investigation Of Dr. Fauci

The walls may be starting to close in on Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is now facing questions over his role in approving funding of research at the Chinese lab that the coronavirus may have escaped from.

Despite the narrative that COVID was the product of a bat in a “wet market,” the theory that the virus actually originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has gained increasing support.

The article by Nicholas Wade makes the case that the virus likely did come from the lab and that Fauci who was in charge of disbursing grant money approved of funding the “gain of function” research that had been banned under the Obama administration.

Tucker Carlson broke the mold by asking a VERY serious question: “why isn’t there a criminal investigation into Tony Fauci’s role in this pandemic?”

According to Carlson, “Millions of people have died of COVID-19. So it’s not a matter of score-settling or blame assignment to figure out where it came from. If you want to prevent the next global pandemic, you have to figure out how this one started,” he said.

Tucker continued; “And so the World Health Organization said it would get to the bottom of it. The World Health Organization, of course, is beholden to China, and so it tried to hide the basic facts of the origins of this pandemic. And to hide those facts, WHO appointed none other than Peter Daszak as the only America-based representative on the investigative team looking into where the virus came from.”

He added, “In what turned out to be a sham report, that team concluded that it is quote, “extremely unlikely” that the virus came from the Wuhan lab. Again, that’s not true.”

Carlson then zeroed in on Fauci, “The WHO’s investigation in the origins of the virus was fraudulent and that matters to public health globally. But one thing you’ll notice is that Tony Fauci did not say that. Why? Because once again, he is implicated in it personally.” He said, “The gain-of-function research that Peter Daszak was bragging about in the video we just showed you had in fact, been banned explicitly by the U.S. government.”

Tucker delivered the damning details; “There was a federal moratorium on the funding of exactly the kind of gain-of-function experiments that went on at the Wuhan lab due to disastrous effects. So why didn’t the U.S. government halt its funding of the lab in Wuhan? That is a central question and Nicholas Wade, to his great credit, looked into it. And here’s what he found, quote, “Someone wrote a loophole into the moratorium. The moratorium specifically barred funding of any gain-of-function research that increased the pathogenicity of the flu, MERS or SARS viruses.” He said, “But then a footnote on page two of the moratorium document states that quote, ‘an exception from the research pause may be obtained if the head of the U.S. government funding agency determines that the research is urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security.’”

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2021/05/he-went-there-tucker-carlson-calls-for-criminal-investigation-of-dr-fauci/

Top Israeli Official: Hamas Can Surrender, Or ‘We’ll Hunt Down Every Commander, Every Post, Until We Win’

“It’s up to Hamas as long as Hamas keeps [attacking Israel] in order to murder Israelis across the state — by the way, Arabs and Jews alike,” Bennett said. “Hamas already murdered two Arab Israelis in the city of Lod, a dad, 52 years old, and his daughter Nadin, 16 years old, Israeli Arabs who were murdered. A Holocaust survivor, 85 years old, was murdered by Hamas, in her wheelchair.”

“If Hamas thinks they can get away with this, they’re wrong. We’ll hunt down every commander, every post, until we win,” Bennett said. When questioned about dozens of civilians who have died in Gaza from Israeli airstrikes, Bennett said Hamas bears responsibility for those deaths as well.

“Indeed Hamas killed them. Because when you hide your rockets behind women and children, you are effectively murdering your own people,” Bennett said. “We will defend ourselves. And if Hamas decides to turn schools into terror bases, and hospitals, in a cowardly manner, into terror bases, they are responsible for murdering their own people.”The host then tried to suggest Israel bore some responsibility for the civilian deaths because, in Gaza, the people lack bomb shelters like most Israelis have. Bennett dismissed the notion as “nonsense.”

“Instead of taking its money and investing in hospitals, in schools, in building a future for its people, [Hamas is] spending all its money on terror, on trying to kill Israelis. It’s both stupid and wrong. It’s stupid because they are not going to succeed because we’re strong and we are going to defend ourselves. And, you know, I am in the position now, but make no mistake, we are all united, we stand strong united. And there’s one way for this to stop: For Hamas to lay down its arms. And then, it’ll stop,” Bennett said.

Asked about the political implications on the ongoing war with Hamas, Bennett said that all of Israel stands “united.”

“When we get hundreds of rockets a night on Israel, we all stand united. No one will divide us and we’ll fight back,” Bennett said. “We’re a democracy. I’m darn proud of that, that we’re a democracy. And, yes, part of democracy is the ability to criticize one another, but we in Israel have a sort of an unspoken rule: When we’re at war with an enemy that wants to annihilate us, we stand together.”

Bennett also dismissed claims that the ongoing conflict has sprung out of Hamas’ and Palestinians’ lack of a recognized state or any unjust “occupation” by Israel.

“We gave Hamas everything, unfortunately,” Bennett said, referring to a 2005 agreement in which Israel completely evacuated the Gaza Strip. “If they decide that they want to start governing and stop being a failed terror state which is a miserable future for their own people, they’ll find a peaceful neighbor. But if they continue this, it’s just going to get worse.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2021/05/top-israeli-official-hamas-can.html

The Corona Crisis: Has “Depopulation” Already Begun?

Remember Bill Gates’ infamously saying with his seductive smile, something to the extent, even if I’m no longer around, the system has been set up and will continue without me. This is not a verbatim but a contextual quote. Unfortunately, any reference to this and other similar anti-current narrative references were deleted from internet.

It’s part of a massive censuring effort. Of course, without censuring the alternative media – the plan falls flat. The mainstream media, as well as the social platforms, are bought with hundreds of millions of dollars to keep propagating the fake and criminal corona narrative.

The plan is horrifying. It is a public relation distortion of the truth, of what’s behind the enormous, coercive “vaccination”. “The everybody -must be vaxxed drive” is so enormous, for a disease that has a 99.9% survival rate – and is about as deadly as a common flu (0.3% – 0.8%) – so, that anybody who still can think straight must wonder what’s behind it. What’s the real agenda?

The British Government has invested in excess of £184m on communications, read propaganda, relating to Covid-19 in 2020, figures from the Cabinet Office show. It is said to plan another at least £320m (about US$ 380 m equivalent) through 2022. See here.

So, how believable is then Boris Johnson, who said on several occasions that by the end of 2021 all will be over? Though, he also warned, we will never return to the old normal, that a New or One World Order (OWO) will emerge from this unique covid-opportunity.

Same words as uttered by Klaus Schwab, the “father” of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the alleged author of The Great Reset which – fair enough – presents us with all the horrendously inhuman plans they have for us, so horrendous, nobody really listens.

But listen we should, because these plans have already begun being implemented – and we are in the midst of them, still closing our eyes to what they tell us will come – and is coming simultaneously with their warnings. So, we better wake up, with eyes wide open, and our spirits and consciousness ready to act.

This unique “covid opportunity”, as the WEF’s guru, Klaus Schwab, calls it, has started with an equally unique death toll from this mRNA-type covid injections, falsely labeled as vaccines.

This is where one of the most severe crimes of our governments around the world begins, selling us the experimental injections – with basically no testing – as vaccines. It’s a BIG lie. They all lie to us. All of the 193 UN member governments and, of course, the UN political body, led by Secretary General, António Guterres, go along with this monster lie, with the coerced deadly “vaccination”, a fraud of epic proportions never experienced in what we know as our current civilization.

The EMA (European Medicines Agency), reports 5,993 (May 3, 2021) deaths from corona jabs. That’s a 50-fold increase over the death rate of traditional vaccines; see this. In fact, the covid injections, falsely called vaccines, administered in Europe and the US, are mRNA-type inoculations, that were never to be called “vaccines”. They were allowed (not approved) by CDC as “emergency gene-therapy” treatments.

All governments and institutions calling them “vaccines” are lying to you. They are committing a fraud, a Crime Against Humanity.

Criminals should be and shall be prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity under Nuremberg 2.0, a criminal prosecution patterned according to the Nuremberg Trials after WWII and following the Nuremberg Code. The leading architect and lawyer for this endeavor towards global justice is Dr. Reiner Füllmich, co-founder of the World’s Doctor Alliance; watch the video below.

Dr. Füllmich said without a shadow of a doubt, “this has never been about the virus. This has never been about health. See this. https://youtu.be/7RG3k76zTRM

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-corona-crisis-has-depopulation-already-begun/5744805

The storm which Netanyahu unleashed

On the morning of Tuesday 11 May we woke up to the news that 21 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza, nine of them minors, and that two Israeli women had been killed in Ashkelon (one of them, it later turned out, was a migrant worker from India). Since then, the death toll on both sides had more than doubled.

Then came the email which I was expecting. Noa Levy of the Hadash party sent an urgent call for protests in Tel Aviv and Haifa. A second message, from the Forum of Israeli and Palestinian Bereaved Families and Combatants for Peace, endorsed the Hadash call and added a Haifa protest venue initiated by the Haifa Women for Women Centre.

The government is playing with fire [and] all of us [may] get burned! In a desperate attempt to cling to power, [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu is dragging us into war, killing and suffering and pain for both peoples. Stop the escalation! Cease the fire! Stop the expulsion of families from Sheikh Jarrah, stop the police rampage in East Jerusalem. There can be no peace and no quiet as long as the West Bank lives under occupation and Gaza suffers a suffocating siege. The solution: an end to the occupation, an end to the siege of Gaza, and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, with East Jerusalem as its capital. We all deserve to live in freedom and security. The time to act is now!

This was followed by several hours of frantic work at the computer and phone, spreading the message by Facebook and WhatsApp to all who nay be waiting for such a call on such a day. And then, looking out from the bus to Tel Aviv, the Kugel Boulevard, the main thoroughfare on which all buses to Tel Aviv travel, it was a completely normal daily bustle. On King George Street in Tel Aviv there were already several hundred people gathered outside the Likud Party headquarters. Among them were familiar faces, the determined minority of Israelis who always show up on such days, as in 2009 and 2014.

“Stop the fire, stop the bloodshed!” chanted several hundred throats. And “On both sides of the border / Children want to live!” and “Sheikh Jarrah, don’t despair / We will end the occupation yet!” and Also “Gaza, Gaza, don’t despair / We will end the siege yet!” and “Netanyahu, Netanyahu / The dock at The Hague awaits you!”…

https://www.redressonline.com/2021/05/the-storm-which-netanyahu-unleashed/