Suspicious Package Containing White Powder Sent to Senator Rand Paul’s Home – Rand Paul Responds

A suspicious package from and unknown sender containing white powder was delivered to Senator Rand Paul’s home on Monday.

The FBI and Capitol Hill police are investigating and the large envelope is being examined for harmful substances, Politico reported.

The Kentucky Senator said he takes these threats seriously and blasted Twitter for allowing washed up ‘celebrities’ to encourage violence against him.

“I take these threats immensely seriously,” Paul said in a statement. “As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family. Just this weekend Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we receive this powder filled letter.”

Richard Marx is a washed up singer and songwriter from the 1980s who tweeted on Sunday: “I’ll say it again: If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/suspicious-package-containing-white-powder-sent-senator-rand-pauls-home-rand-paul-responds/

‘Breaking the News’ Reveals: Amazon’s Black Lives Matter Donation Tied to Convicted Terrorist

Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for “organizations supporting justice and equity,” including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist. It’s a major oversight for Amazon, the self-anointed arbiter of domestic terrorism.

Amazon’s ties to Rosenberg are fully exposed in Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption, my new book revealing the secret ties between the establishment media, Big Tech, and the activist left.

Rosenberg, a former member of the Weather Underground, came to national prominence as a central figure in the May 19 Communist Organization, a group responsible for a series of violent incidents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among May 19’s best-known crimes is the group’s role in the 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck which resulted in the murders of two policemen and a security guard.

The group also claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol. According to historian William Rosenau, May 19 “also bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, and the South African consulate in New York, D.C.’s Fort McNair and Navy Yard” over a 20-month period.

In 1979, the group helped break Willie Morales, a Puerto Rican nationalist responsible for a series of deadly bombings, out of New York’s Metropolitan Correction Center. They later assisted in the jailbreak of Joanne Chesimard, AKA Assata Shakur, a radical black nationalist convicted for the 1971 murder of a New Jersey State Trooper. Morales and Chesimard, now residing in Cuba, are both on the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists.

Rosenberg was eventually apprehended while helping to load 740 pounds of explosives and an arsenal of weapons (including a submachine gun) into a storage locker near Philadelphia.She was sentenced to 58 years in prison before she was granted clemency by President Clinton.

Apparently,Rosenberg’s brand of violent left-wing extremism isn’t enough to raise Big Tech’s hackles. Amazon later banned social media site Parler over its alleged ties to the January 6 Capitol mob. But donating millions of dollars to an organization associated with a convicted terrorist whose former group was involved in bombing the Capitol is A-okay.

Read all the bombshell details in Breaking the News, out now.

Facebook Reduced Political Content and Replaced It With Something Even More Diabolical

Have you noticed that there is very little political content on Facebook these days? There’s a reason for that. From the Facebook Newsroom:

As Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on our recent earnings call, one common piece of feedback we hear is that people don’t want political content to take over their News Feed.

Over the next few months, we’ll work to better understand peoples’ varied preferences for political content and test a number of approaches based on those insights. As a first step, we’ll temporarily reduce the distribution of political content in News Feed for a small percentage of people in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the US in the coming weeks. During these initial tests we’ll explore a variety of ways to rank political content in people’s feeds using different signals, and then decide on the approaches we’ll use going forward.

That was in February. Apparently, Facebook liked what it was seeing, because, although Facebook hasn’t announced anything, it seems the company has expanded the policy to everyone’s Facebook feeds. Just about everyone in political media is complaining about it because reduced distribution represents reduced revenue and influence. Part of the equation is overly aggressive fact-checkers who actively work to reduce the reach of conservative sites. The other part is the reduction of political content across the board.

The idea behind Facebook’s decision to reduce political content was that in doing so, it would make the platform a happier place for all—a community where we could all share recipes and pictures of our grandkids while avoiding partisan bickering. Facebook vowed to promote Groups, where like-minded individuals could get together to chat on topics of mutual interest, for the benefit of all.

The reality is something completely different—and it’s much worse.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2021/05/24/facebook-reduced-political-content-and-replaced-it-with-something-even-more-diabolical-n1449268

Biden Admin Condemns ‘Shocking Act’ After Belarus Forces Down Passenger Plane, Seizes Journalist On Board

White House press secretary Jen Psaki condemned Belarus’ decision to divert a passenger flight and arrest opposition journalist Raman Protasevich, who was on the aircraft, over the weekend.

Longtime Belarus leader Aleksandr G. Lukashenko – who has a history of suppressing free speech – had a military aircraft intercept, divert and force down a Ryanair flight carrying about 170 passengers Sunday. Belarusian air traffic controllers told pilots there was a possible “security threat on board” while the plane was flying over Belarus, prompting the aircraft to be escorted by a fighter jet and land in Minsk, according to The New York Times.

Once on the ground, Protasevich was removed and arrested. The incident has caused international uproar, with European Union (EU) leaders threatening sanctions and the Greek Foreign Ministry dubbing it a “state hijacking,” the NYT reported.

“We certainly … condemn Lukashenko’s regime’s ongoing harassment and arbitrary detention of journalists simply for doing their job,” Psaki said. “This was a shocking act. Diverting a flight between two EU member states for the apparent purpose of arresting a journalist constitutes a brazen affront of international peace and security by the regime.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/24/joe-biden-administration-condemns-shocking-act-belarus-ryanair-flight-journalists-seized/

EU Moves to Bar Belarusian Aircraft From Entering Bloc’s Airspace Over Ryanair Landing

Earlier, a Lithuania-bound Ryanair flight was grounded in Minsk, Belarus, over a bomb threat that turned out to be fake. However, among the passengers was Roman Protasevich, a Belrusian journalist who co-founded the banned Telegram channel Nexta. Protasevich and his companion, Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, were both detained during the stopover.

European leaders condemned the forced weekend landing of a Ryanair flight on Monday and began the process of banning Belarusian airlines from flying over the European Union’s airspace or landing in its airports.

A special meeting overseen by Charles Michel, president of the EU’s European Council, further concluded that all EU-based carriers would be banned from flying over Belarus’ airspace, as well as calling for a full investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

An urgent ICAO meeting has been scheduled for Thursday; However, the New York Times has reported that it “may take months to complete” a probe into the weekend events.

Additionally, the bloc called for the “immediate release of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega and that their freedom of movement be guaranteed.” Officials are also seeking to compose a list of entities and persons that the council will target with sanctions over the indiscretion.

The measures were backed by all 27 representatives of the EU members.

“What happened yesterday is an international scandal,” Michel told reporters ahead of the meeting. “The lives of civilians, including Europeans, were put in danger. It’s a threat to international security and to civil aviation.”

Data provided by airspace tracker Flight Radar 24 reveals that flights being operated by airliners British Airways, Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have already begun to weave their previously scheduled flights to go around the former Soviet state.

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) May 24, 2021

Lithuania had already shuttered its airspace to Belarus, and UK airlines were advised to avoid Belarusian airspace. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had stated earlier that Britain would also be pulling its operating permit for Belavia, Belarus’ state-owned airline.

Reports previously suggested that some officials would oppose implementing airspace restrictions over concerns that the move would escalate tensions in the region further, whereas other analysts hinted that the move would create financial setbacks for flights from Europe to Asia.

The latest actions by the European Council are not the group’s first against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The block previously imposed sanctions against Lukashenko and his associates in 2020 over the violent crackdown that emerged after the country’s August elections.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105241082986464-eu-moves-to-bar-belarusian-aircraft-from-entering-blocs-airspace-over-ryanair-landing/

Lockstep with the EU. The attempted color revolution failed when they tried it so it looks like this is a FF to start a war on Russia doorstep

Washington Reality Versus American Reality

Authored by Newt Gingrich, op-ed via The Epoch Times,

Washington reality reflects the fevered conversation over lunch, cocktails, and dinner between the Washington press corps, lobbyists, and government officials.

Washington reality reflects the narcissistic self-absorption of the Imperial Capital.

Rep. Liz Cheney’s fate consumes days and days of gossip and speculation. Is her dismissal as House Republican Conference Chair a sign of House Republican unity or an alienating event that will weaken the GOP?

House dictator Nancy Pelosi’s fight over wearing masks with pro-freedom Republicans is a major chapter in the evolution of Washington.

Washington says when 35 House Republicans bolt to vote with Democrats for the Pelosi Commission to investigate Jan. 6, it brings into question Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s control of the House GOP. Of course, when McCarthy gets Senate Republicans to agree to block the investigation, it highlights Speaker Pelosi’s partisanship and failure. Which narrative is more important?

All these Washington-centered conversations are like a mild spring rain behind which a mammoth hurricane is building.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/washington-reality-versus-american-reality