Biden to Propose $6 Trillion Budget For 2022, Pushing Federal Spending to Its Highest Sustained Levels Since WWII

Joe Biden on Friday will propose a $6 trillion budget for 2022 to “boost middle class and infrastructure” according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

“Biden’s first budget request as president calls for total spending by the U.S. government to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031,” the NY Times reported.

Joe Biden plans to pay for this massive budget by taxing corporations and high earners.

What the Democrat-media complex won’t report on however is that Biden will also be taxing the lower and middle class through inflation.

The New York Times reported:

President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget on Friday that would take the United States to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II, while running deficits above $1.3 trillion throughout the next decade.

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that Mr. Biden’s first budget request as president calls for the federal government to spend $6 trillion in the 2022 fiscal year, and for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031. The growth is driven by Mr. Biden’s two-part agenda to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net, contained in his American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending.

In the meantime, the United States would run significant deficits as it borrows money to finance his plans. Under Mr. Biden’s proposal, the federal budget deficit would hit $1.8 trillion in 2022, even as the economy rebounds from the pandemic recession to grow at what the administration predicts would be its fastest annual pace since the early 1980s. It would recede slightly in the following years before growing again to nearly $1.6 trillion by 2031.

Total debt held by the public would more than exceed the annual value of economic output, rising to 117 percent of the size of the economy in 2031. By 2024, debt as a share of the economy would rise to its highest level in American history, eclipsing its World War II-era record.

Joe Biden’s budget includes money for roads, water pipes, EV charging stations, funding for daycare and universal pre-K.

Biden has already proposed the American Jobs Plan and a $1.8 trillion American Families Plan.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/biden-propose-6-trillion-budget-2022-pushing-federal-spending-highest-sustained-levels-since-wwii/

HUNTER BIDEN Admits on Audio He Smoked Crack With DC Mayor Marion Barry – Intel Agencies Covered This Up

An audio recording of Hunter Biden talking to a friend about smoking crack cocaine with a famous mayor of DC was recently handed over to The Gateway Pundit.

This reintroduces the fact that Joe Biden wrote laws about drug usage that he had no intention of following, even in his own family. It also proves, once again, that the government covered up crimes by the Biden family by suppressing Hunter’s laptop, and that our Intelligence agencies’ leaders interfered in the 2020 Presidential election.

Hunter Biden: “You know what? I actually smoked crack with Marion Barry, I swear to F–king god.”

Unidentified man: “Jesus.”

Hunter Biden: “Over in Georgetown he used to go to a place right next the guards, and I was a sophomore I guess, do you know when that happened? He could come and drink, I mean late-late… and I would go to the bathroom… but anyway.”

Unidentified man: “Huh?”

Hunter Biden attended Georgetown University after high school in Delaware.

He graduated from Georgetown in 1992.

Hunter Biden’s first drug arrest was at 18.

The audio recording came from Naval Veteran Jack Maxey, a former co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room who has a copy of the hard drive that has been confirmed as once belonging to Hunter Biden. According to Maxey, the “I smoke crack with Marion Barry” recording is from that laptop.

“At this point I am just trying to save the country,” Maxey told me. “It needs to be exposed because this is what these intel guys are covering up to stay in business with the Chinese Community Party.”

“Let’s paint those intel guys individually as the ones who stole the election with their credentials and a compliant press,” Maxey said about John Brennan, James Clapper, Mike Hyden, and others, reminding me of two posts in Politico that falsely claim Hunter Biden’s Laptop was “Russian disinformation”.

“It must be nice to be a Biden because the FBI had the laptop and this very evidence. The Intel agencies had it. Biden should have been stopped before the Democrat Primary. Bernie Sanders people got screwed over again. Trump shouldn’t have been impeached, Biden should not have been called the winner of the election, and making these things from the laptop public, back then, would have stopped all of those things from happening,” Maxey told me.

Consider the hypocrisy of Joe Biden covering up drug crimes for his son when many other Americans were prosecuted for drug crimes. Hunter was not specific about what age he was when he smoked crack with the Mayor of DC, but it might have been exactly when Joe Biden was trying to make a name for himself as being tough on drugs and punishing other people’s sons for the same and worse as what Hunter did.

Recall that Democrat Joe Biden, Hunter Biden’s Dad, is the author of landmark legislation on drugs that punished many Black Americans far more harshly than Biden himself is prepared to face, or that was required of his family to face, by his enablers.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/exclusive-hunter-biden-admits-audio-smoked-crack-dc-mayor-marion-barry-intel-agencies-covered/

Senate passes bill to declassify intel on Covid-19 origins as US & China lock horns over theory that virus is man-made

The US Senate has voted through legislation that requires the release of classified intelligence related to the origins of coronavirus, as Washington and Beijing trade barbs over what may have sparked the pandemic.

Sponsored by Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mike Braun (R-IN), the bill gives the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) 90 days to declassify “any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the coronavirus disease.”

The legislation requires the release of any relevant information pertaining to activities performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Specifically, the bill asks for details on any researchers at the Chinese lab who may have fallen ill in autumn 2019.

The Wall Street Journal previously reported, citing a US intelligence report, that several members of the laboratory received hospital treatment after becoming sick with flu-like symptoms in November 2019, just weeks before Beijing reported the first known case of Covid-19.

The legislation requires the ODNI to compile the information in an unclassified report to be presented to Congress.

Speaking on the Senate floor before the vote, Hawley said that the American people “deserve to know” how Covid-19 started, “and what’s China’s role in starting it.”

For his part, Braun said that the legislation was necessary in order to help people “make sense out of what has happened.”

The move comes after President Joe Biden ordered a new analysis of how the disease originated, stating that he would ask Beijing to be more transparent with any information it may have.

CNN had reported a day earlier that Biden shut down a probe ordered by then-president Donald Trump into whether the virus may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The theory that the virus may be man-made was widely dismissed by media outlets and experts. However, in recent weeks, a growing number of reports, many of them citing unnamed officials, have lent credibility to the hypothesis.

A probe carried out by a team from the World Health Organization concluded in March that the ‘lab-leak’ theory was highly unlikely. Their investigation supported the idea that the virus may have been transmitted to humans by animals, but did not pinpoint the disease’s origin. However, 14 nations, including the US and UK, issued a joint statement expressing concerns that the investigation lacked transparency and thoroughness.

China has fervently denied that the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab. Pushing back against the insinuations and allegations made by Washington, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian suggested on Thursday that the US may not be forthcoming about the activities of its own laboratories.

“I also want to emphasize that the Fort Detrick base is full of suspicions. There are more than 200 biological laboratories in the United States spreading around the world. How many secrets are there?” he asked.

In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a “cease and desist order” to halt operations at the Maryland-based germ lab over safety concerns.

https://www.rt.com/usa/524946-senate-covid-origins-report/

Rudy Giuliani: DOJ Has NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to Step in on State Election Audits

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump attorney joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Thursday morning.

During their riveting conversation Rudy was asked about the predictions that the Biden Department of Justice may step in and shut down the Arizona Audit.

Rudy says the DOJ DOES has NO constitutional authority to shut down the state election audits.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/rudy-giuliani-doj-no-constitutional-authority-step-state-election-audits-video/

One of Three Auditors Exits Windham, NH Election Audit – Law Requires a Team of Three Auditors

The conflicted audit in Windham, New Hampshire just incurred a major blow. One of three auditors selected to perform the audit has exited from the team.

Last night we reported on how the auditors in the Windham, New Hampshire audit all have serious conflicts due to their activities with each other and the Democrat Party.

On Tuesday, UncoverDC’s Michelle Edwards exclusively reported,

On Tuesday, the auditors will conduct a forensic analysis of the voting machines, one of which had more difficulties with folded ballots than the others. Each memory card will need 90 minutes to read. With no explanation provided, details emerged late Monday that auditor Phillip Stark would not be present for the remainder of the audit, which leaves the inspection under the command of Harri Hursti and Mark Lindeman.

It is simply shocking that one of these auditors ups and leaves, quits, and neither the Windham board of selectmen nor the NH AG and SoS have said a word!

Losing an auditor places this election audit in direct violation of SB 43, the NH law which authorized this audit and it requires a team of three auditors, one selected by the Windham board of selectman (Mark Lindeman, acting executive director of Verified Voting), one by the NH Attorney General and Secretary State (Harri Hursti, Ph.D.) and one selected by those two auditors (Philip Stark, Ph.D.).

Why has the audit team, or Stark himself, provided no details as to why he walked away from his job?

Why did Stark pull out at the very moment that this team was to audit the hackable, insecure memory cards of these Diebold AccuVote Optical Scan (OS) machines? (The exact model no. is Diebold ES2000, shockingly also used by 137 other NH municipalities.)

Did Stark go MIA because he knows putting his name to an audit of these Diebold machines and memory cards could place his professional reputation at grave risk?

With Dr. Philip Stark making an unannounced bolt from this audit team, we have to wonder if word came down from on high from Speaker Pelosi, who appointed him, a high-ranking American computer scientist to his position on the EAC, to move on. Is he required elsewhere in another state, with yet another 2020 election audit about to blow up, needing to be crushed?

Stark, likely wanted off this audit to salvage his professional reputation and be as far away as possible from putting his name on an audit report which asserts NH’s Diebold machines and the 90-minute audit of each and every memory card by the team has revealed all’s good, nothing to see here.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/breaking-one-three-auditors-exits-windham-nh-election-audit-law-requires-team-three-auditors/

Middle East academic exposes how Facebook and Twitter emulate Nazi propaganda machinery… and sell war to Western citizens

Fake news is facilitating the destructive power of Western imperialism, according to a new book, ‘What Is Iran?’ In an exclusive interview with RT, author Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explains how the process works in practice.

Academic Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, professor in global thought and comparative philosophies at SOAS University, London, is the author of over 60 papers and six books on contemporary culture and politics.

In his latest work ‘What is Iran?’ he sheds fresh light on the title’s ever-burning question, along with analysis of Tehran’s history, domestic politics, international relations, and more. Along the way, Arshin identifies what he dubs the “fake news machinery” that oils the wheels of Western imperialism, and sells wars of aggression and plunder to the public.

RT spoke with him to discuss the concept in detail.

RT: How do you define “fake news machinery”?

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: Fake news machinery is a powerful assemblage of right-wing institutions, their staff, social media accounts, their political representation and global following. Fake news is the staple of right-wing politics.

In our techno-society, technology acts as a great incubator and facilitator galvanizing the process of disinformation. Facebook, Twitter and soon Clubhouse are what the Volksempfanger radio was to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda. Some of the facts and the truths are drowned by an armada of well-connected activists whose aim is solely confrontational and aggressive – against peace, against diplomacy, against immigrants, homosexuals, Jews, intellectuals, Muslims and anyone else identified as the enemy.

As such, this system of irrationality churns out lies on a continuous basis. The ultimate aim is power, of course. But we are talking about a particularly vulgar and destructive kind of power which is inherently inhuman, violent, and abusive, physically and psychologically.

https://www.rt.com/news/524979-fake-news-western-imperialism/

Clinton Administration Invited the Chinese Army into Sensitive U.S. Military Biodefense Centers

The deeper we dig, the worse it gets.

The infiltration of critical Department of Defense and related civilian research programs by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists began in the 1990s.

The infestation is now extensive.

Some returned to China with the most advanced knowledge and techniques, but many are still in the United States funded by U.S. taxpayers.

The following is only the tip of the iceberg.

Some of those invited into U.S. military facilities, like Liang-Ming Liu and Dai-Zhi Peng were clearly identified as PLA officers, other CCP scientists and PLA officers hid their backgrounds.

But no one in the Clinton Administration bothered to check.

It is also unclear why Guo-Ping Li is wearing a U.S. Army uniform while studying advanced laser technologies at the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment in San Antonio, Texas, or what happened to her afterward.

There is a Guo-Ping Li now working for the Chinese space program using laser technologies for radio telescopes.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/exclusive-clinton-administration-invited-chinese-army-sensitive-u-s-military-biodefense-centers/

That Didn't Age Well: Wuhan Propaganda From MSM Laid Bare

For nearly 18 months, the mainstream media engaged in journalistic malpractice - quashing any suggestion that COVID-19 could have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, because their arch-nemesis, former President Trump, dared promote this very logical conclusion. Let's also not forget the deep ties Beijing has formed within the United States, which include universities, entertainment, sports leagues, and of course, Washington DC and its liberal surrogates.

And with that, the lab-leak hypothesis was legitimized almost overnight - sending liberal outlets scrambling to quietly append their previous reporting. This flood of hypocrisy was compiled into an epic Twitter thread by journalist Drew Holden:

Expect no apologies, of course.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/didnt-age-well-wuhan-propaganda-msm-laid-bare

‘Completely baseless & false’: India slams NYT report questioning official Covid-19 death toll

A New York Times report suggesting that the actual death toll from Covid-19 in India is much higher than official figures indicate has been dismissed as “false” and “distorted” by the country’s Health Ministry.

The suggestions made in the article were based on “distorted estimates” and not supported by evidence, a ministry spokesman said during a briefing on Thursday. He went on to blast the report as “completely baseless and false,” as cited by PTI news agency.

In Wednesday’s piece – entitled ‘Just How Big Could India’s True Covid Toll Be?’ – the NYT offered several possible scenarios regarding the coronavirus crisis in the country, and in all of them, the number of fatalities was considerably higher than the official count.

According to the paper’s estimates, which the NYT said were based on an analysis of Indian health data and interviews with a dozen experts, the “true” death toll in the country could range from 600,000 to 4.2 million.

With Indian hospitals overwhelmed by Covid cases, many people were dying at home, especially in rural areas, and as a result were omitted from the official count, according to the experts who spoke to the NYT. They also said the systems used to maintain key records in India are “shaky at best.”

The latest official figures from the Indian government indicate that over 27.3 million Covid-19 cases have been recorded across the country, with more than 315,000 deaths due to the disease since the start of the pandemic.

Following a major spike in cases, which put India’s health system on the brink of collapse, the country has seen a steady decline in infections for 20 days now, the Health Ministry’s spokesman said on Thursday. The recovery rate among Covid-19 patients has also climbed to 90%, he added.

https://www.rt.com/news/524977-india-nyt-coronavirus-death-toll/

Report: US Could Leave 600 Marines in Afghanistan to Guard Embassy

The US wants hundreds of Turkish troops to stay at the Kabul airport to keep it from the Taliban

Since President Biden ordered the withdrawal of troops out of Afghanistan, US officials have hinted that a small military presence could continue under the guise of protecting a diplomatic mission.

According to a report from The Sun, the US is considering keeping 600 Marines in Afghanistan to protect the US embassy. The report cited anonymous sources who also said the US wants Turkish troops to stay at the Kabul airport to protect it from the Taliban or other militant groups.

There are currently several hundred Turkish troops guarding the Kabul airport. On Tuesday, The New York Times also reported that the US wants Turkey to continue protecting the airport. US officials believe Turkey is looking for concessions from Washington in order for them to stay.

Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said the US was working with some of its NATO allies on ways to secure the Kabul airport after the withdrawal so the US and other countries could keep embassies in Afghanistan.

Biden ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal to be completed by September 11th, but the Times report said the US and its coalition allies are on track to be done with the pullout by early to mid-July. As the withdrawal is moving along, the Pentagon is scrambling for ways to maintain influence and assets in Afghanistan. Securing the Kabul airport to protect embassies could be the excuse the US military needs to keep personnel and equipment in the country.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/05/26/report-us-could-leave-600-marines-in-afghanistan-to-guard-embassy/

Russia Blocking Any EU Flights That Circumnavigate Belarus In Alarming Escalation

Sky News' Europe Correspondent Adam Parsons is reporting a worrisome huge escalation between the EU and Russia in the wake of the Belarus-Ryanair plane diversion and arrest of Roman Protasevich on Sunday. European carriers have been avoiding Belarusian airspace after widespread condemnation of what was dubbed "state hijacking" after Belarusian MiG fighters escorted the Lithuania-bound flight to Minsk where authorities grabbed the anti-Lushenko activist and his girlfriend based on prior charges.

Britain's Sky News is now reporting that Russia is "stopping EU flights from entering Russian airspace - IF those airplanes have circumnavigated Belarusian airspace on the way."

Parson's follows by emphasizing, "Bearing in mind the size of Russian airspace, and the position of Belarus - that's a significant move."

This could mark the beginnings of a "battle" over crucial Eastern Europe and Baltic airspace and flight paths as more countries also ban airspace for Belavia flights (state airline of Belarus) in the wake of the Ryanair controversy and fallout, which has further put President Alexander Lukashenko back in the crosshairs of the West and expanding sanctions.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-barring-any-eu-flights-circumnavigate-belarus-alarming-escalation

UK police detain 1,100 people in 1 week in county lines drug dealing crackdown

A nationwide operation against county lines drug dealing has led to the arrest of 1,100 people and the seizure of more than 292 weapons, as authorities continue to crack down on the remaining 600 county gangs.

The operation ran from May 17 to 23, as authorities increased their activity against county lines drug gangs across the UK, which exploit children and vulnerable adults to move and store drugs across the nation.

Out of the remaining 600 county gangs still believed to be operating in the UK, police managed to detain 1,100 people and identified 80 phone lines used by criminals to communicate and facilitate their drug-dealing operations.

In London alone, 27 drug operations were hit by police, more than £120,000 ($169,418) in cash was confiscated and individuals were intercepted while attempting to distribute illegal substances, with eight kilograms of class A drugs and 11kg of class B.

In the latest police crackdown, 904 homes were raided and 1,138 exploited individuals were rescued.

Speaking after the arrests, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for county lines, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Graham McNulty, stated that “intensification weeks like this allow us to dedicate a burst of activity and resources nationally, highlighting to the public our absolute determination to rid communities of this abhorrent crime.”

Alongside the domestic operation, the National Crime Agency worked with authorities to intercept drugs being smuggled into the UK for distribution by county lines gangs. Around 500 kilograms of cocaine was discovered in a shipping container in London, 107 kilograms of cocaine was found in a heavy goods vehicle driver’s lorry on a ferry arriving from the Netherlands and 17 kilograms of heroin was seized from a Polish driver travelling in France.

https://www.rt.com/uk/524942-uk-police-county-lines-drug-dealing-crackdown/

Johns Hopkins professor says 'ignore the CDC' — 'natural immunity works'

A professor at the renowned Johns Hopkins School of Medicine advised Americans recently to "ignore" guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention due to the public health agency's puzzling refusal to recognize natural immunity from previous infection.

Dr. Marty Makary, who also serves as a professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, suggested during a Tuesday appearance on "The Vince Coglianese Show" that 150 million Americans, or "half the country," likely already have natural immunity to COVID-19 due to having been infected with the virus and then recovering.

Yet despite that staggering figure, Makary lamented the fact that the CDC, in concert with Biden administration officials, have neglected to recognize the reality of the situation. Instead, previously infected individuals who decline being vaccinated are routinely "demonized" by health officials who insist that virtually all Americans must be vaccinated before normal life can resume.

But "herd immunity" has already been reached, argued Makary, citing up-to-date vaccination and infection data to suggest that 80% to 85% of Americans are currently protected from the virus.

"I never thought I'd say this, but please ignore the CDC guidance," Makary stated, advising Americans to "live a normal life, unless you are unvaccinated and did not have the infection, in which case you need to be careful."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/johns-hopkins-professor-ignore-cdc-natural-immunity-works

During Sex Assault Investigation, Police Chief Caught Running Child Porn Ring on Facebook

East Helena, MT — The city of East Helena is currently looking to fill the position of police chief within their department as their current chief is no longer employed. He quit in March amid a sex assault scandal and has just been arrested for distributing child sexual exploitation material on social media.

On March 2, Police Chief William Harrington submitted his resignation letter to the city of East Helena after he was accused of sexual assault. According to public records, on February 1st, someone filed a complaint with the Lewis & Clark County Sheriff’s Office, claiming that Harrington had sexually assaulted them. A criminal investigation by the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation was launched in March and is currently still underway.

Fast forward to this month and the chief’s case is looking grim as he now faces new charges of receiving and distributing child pornography on Facebook.

According to the criminal complaint, Harrington was under investigation for child porn before the sex assault investigation. The complaint states that in September 2020, a law enforcement officer began investigating a Cybertip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline, a national centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children.

As the Independent Record reports:

The court documents alleged that the investigation led to a Facebook account that used the fictitious name Stella Carlson and was created and controlled by Harrington, who was the East Helena chief of police at the time. The documents further allege that Harrington distributed child pornography to the Facebook account of another person multiple times via Facebook Messenger.

Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton said the other Facebook user is the subject of an ongoing investigation and other persons of interest are involved.

Harrington allegedly used an email address associated with a mobile disc jockey business he ran and his date of birth when creating the fake social media account.

The criminal complaint asserts that the investigation into Harrington’s crimes was ongoing while he was still police chief.

In one instance, Harrington is accused of sending 28 pornographic images and videos to the other Facebook user, at least four of which are believed to depict females in their early teens, on May 22, 2020, the criminal complaint states. Other such exchanges occurred in August and November of 2020.

According to police, after executing a search warrant at Harrington’s residence, they found multiple devices, including his personal cellphone which contained child porn. After his arrest, Harrington admitted to distributing and sharing the images in his child pornography social media ring. He also admitted to running the fake “Stella Carlson” account on Facebook in order to commit these heinous crimes.

The entire time he was exploiting society’s most vulnerable, he was the chief of police.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/during-sex-assault-investigation-police-chief-caught-running-child-porn-ring-on-facebook/

DOJ reportedly tells casino mogul Steve Wynn to register as foreign agent

The Department of Justice has reportedly told casino mogul Steve Wynn to register as a lobbyist for China over his 2017 efforts to curry favor with Chinese authorities.

At the root of the order is Wynn’s efforts to persuade American officials to send Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman with ties to former President Donald Trump, back to his home country, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Guo, who fled to New York in 2014, has been charged with a range of crimes in China including sexual assault and corruption — and Chinese authorities consider him a fugitive.

He has denied all allegations, saying that he simply fell out of favor with Communist Party officials in China.

Prosecutors have prepared evidence about Wynn’s work in recent months, readying for court if he doesn’t register as a foreign lobbyist on his own, the Journal reported.

The law, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, doesn’t provide for civil penalties, but the Justice Department could seek a court order to force Wynn to comply, the report said.

“I am glad to hear the DOJ is investigating Steve Wynn and frankly believe they should criminally indict him for serving as a greedy spy of the Chinese Communist Party,” Guo told the Journal.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/doj-reportedly-tells-steve-wynn-to-register-as-foreign-agent/

US Judge Rejects Bayer’s $2 Billion Deal to Resolve Future Roundup Lawsuits as ‘Unreasonable’

A U.S. judge rejected Bayer’s $2 billion class action proposal to resolve future lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, saying in a Wednesday order that parts of the plan were “clearly unreasonable.”

U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the proposal “would accomplish a lot for Monsanto,” which Bayer acquired for $63 billion in 2018, and “would accomplish far less for the Roundup users” who are currently healthy.

The agreement would have paused litigation linking Roundup to non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) for four years and would have barred Roundup users from seeking punitive damages once the pause on litigation expired.

In return, users could be eligible for free medical exams and compensation if they were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The proposed class action settlement was aimed at claims by people who have been exposed to the weedkiller and who become sick in the future.

Separately, Bayer has committed up to $9.6 billion to resolve ongoing claims of people who blame glyphosate—the main active ingredient in Roundup—or an existing illness. The company’s chief executive told analysts this month that 90,000 existing claims have been resolved and 30,000 are still being negotiated.

https://www.ntd.com/us-judge-rejects-bayers-2-billion-deal-to-resolve-future-roundup-lawsuits-as-unreasonable_618950.html

Secret Pro-Trump ‘Task Force’ Document Plans For ‘Alternative Elections’

The Document Claims That A Patriot Task Force Is Working On Political Separation

NATIONAL FILE has exclusively obtained a document that a source claims was written by an underground group of strong President Donald Trump supporters that plans for the rise of “alternative elections” separate from the elections recognized by the political class. The 16-page document details a worldview in which American patriots live separately from the globalist authoritarians occupying the United States when it comes to business, social media communications, and political governance. The task force that wrote the document is apparently trying to get President Donald Trump’s Office of the Former President to adopt “alternative elections” as a Trump priority. The document claims to have gained support for its ideas from Republican leaders nationwide including members of Congress.

“There are some very high-net worth individuals funding them, and most of the guys on the team are much brighter than I am,” one self-identified political source in the Washington, D.C. area told us. “This is about 150 people, some who own companies and provide all kind of logistics, and they seem very serious…”

The “internal strategy document,” entitled “Passing the Torch,” states: “Last year, we observed a rapid succession of unprecedented global crises and foresaw that America would undergo a turbulent period of low-intensity conflict. Based on that prediction, we convened a task force to ensure the pro-American agenda would emerge from this conflict victorious…The most pressing question to the pro-American coalition is its leadership: with 45 presently removed from power, we must rebuild the right and determine how to pass his torch to new, more effective pro-American leadership. This cannot be accomplished through the current electoral system, compromised as it is by systemic fraud and partiality, despite the claims of many conservatives that it needs only a few conventional reforms. The paradigm must change, and 45’s Office of the Former President (OFP) introduces an expedient means by which real Americans can restore true representation through alternative elections. Such a proposal would constitute no less than a refounding of America that, like the original founding, would create the opportunity for unfettered innovation and personal liberty. Although competition and conflict would inevitably arise from the regime change, it is not a vision of civil war – it is a vision of civic renewal.”

The document calls for peaceful “Pro-American Regime Change,” writing, “Election experts who watched the vote counting unfold on the evening of November 3 immediately and publicly raised concerns about election irregularities such as unprecedented vote-counting shutdowns, often on bogus pretexts like a “water leak,” vote count observers being kicked out of precincts and windows papered over, and even tabulation anomalies and software malfunctions. Those raising the alarm were silenced by social media and deplatformed by mainstream outlets, some of which declared a Biden victory even before the coordinated election interference was completed. Fox News, particularly the election night Decision Desk manned by Arnon Mishkin, was a key accomplice in slowing the reaction of Republicans to these events…Democracy has lost its meaning for millions who no longer have even a seat at the table with the globalist oligarchs who rule the country. Liberty and justice for the American people cannot be reclaimed by merely doubling down on the current order.”

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-secret-pro-trump-task-force-document-plans-for-alternative-elections/https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-secret-pro-trump-task-force-document-plans-for-alternative-elections/

Chinese State-Run Media Chief: It’s ‘Reasonable To Maintain Suspicions’ About Wuhan Lab.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Communist Party-run media outlet Global Times asserted it’s “reasonable to maintain suspicions” about the role of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in spawning COVID-19.

The comments, coming from a video featuring the outlet’s Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin, were part of a Global Times editorial piece bizarrely calling for an investigation into U.S. biolabs for their alleged role in creating COVID-19.

“It’s reasonable to maintain suspicions about the laboratory, but the search’s scope must be expanded,” Hu notes. Despite the mainstream media and Chinese Communist Party-peddled narrative that COVID-19 is traced to a wet market in Wuhan, The Global Times posits that a probe into biolabs is key to understanding virus origins.

In other words, the Chinese Communist Party’s top media outlet appears to be abandoning the theory that COVID-19 counts natural origins in its entirety.

“There are a lot of signs that are pointing people’s suspicions toward US biolab at Fort Detrick. The US is obliged to cooperate with the WHO team of experts to visit and investigate the institute,” Hu adds in the video before accusing the U.S. of “political manipulation” and “propaganda” regarding the origins of the virus.

“The signs of political manipulation are so obvious. Washington should not think that they can do whatever they want with their powerful propaganda machine,” he concludes.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/ccp-media-chief-asserts-reasonable-to-be-suspicious-about-wuhan-lab/

Govt COVID “Expert” Is Actually a “Racial Equality” Activist, Not a Medical Doctor.

A doctor from the UK’s Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) actually specializes in “racial equality” and has no relevant medical qualifications. She is now criticizing the British government’s steps to remove the nation’s lockdown measures.

Dr. Zubaida Haque – a founding member of the Independent SAGE – has worked on “government-commissioned reports on welfare issues” and focuses on “racial equality,” according to the Telegraph.

Speaking during an interview for the Good Morning Britain television show, Dr. Haque indicated that she thinks the UK government is moving too fast out of COVID-19 lockdown.

“We didn’t pass test four — test four of the government’s roadmap said that if we think that there’s any further risk from new variants of concern, we should stall — they completely ignored that and have gone ahead,” Haque stated.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 “pandemic” and associated lockdowns, Haque has offered advice in numerous television interviews and newspaper columns on such subjects as vaccine passports, “financial support for low-paid workers needing to self-isolate,” and school reopening. She has “no medical, clinical, virological or epidemiological qualifications.”

The title of Haque’s PhD thesis was “Exploring the validity and possible causes of the apparently poor performances of Bangladeshi students in British secondary schools.”

She is currently employed by the Hamilton Commission, “an organisation set up by Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton to improve the representation of black people in UK motorsport.”

Other members of Independent SAGE also publicly critiqued the UK’s “latest step towards freedom.”

Sir David King, Independent Sage’s chairman, stated: “When we set up Independent Sage we wanted to ensure that it was truly multi-disciplinary and fit for purpose when it comes to giving the best possible evidence based advice in relation to the pandemic. We are proud to have such a wealth of experience to call upon as required.

“Dr. Haque’s experience on inequality speaks for itself, her consistent championing of deprived communities across the country who are so disproportionately affected by this disease has shone through in the many reports we have produced.

“Dr. Haque and the whole group give up an extraordinary amount of time, free of charge, to contribute to Independent Sage simply because they believe it is the right thing to do. I remain immensely grateful for the inputs of all members.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/govt-covid-expert-is-actually-a-racial-equality-activist-not-a-medical-doctor/

‘Breaking the News’: Marlow Reveals How the Biden Administration Seemingly Rewarded Big Tech After the Election

Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow’s new book, Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption reveals the deep connections between Big Tech and the Democrat party establishment.

Joe Biden, who benefited from Silicon Valley election meddling during the 2020 election, wasted no time in appointing members of Silicon Valley’s elite class to influential positions in his transition team.

Marlow writes:

Jeff Zients, a former Facebook board member, is Biden’s COVID czar. Erskine Bowles, a former Facebook board member, advised the transition. Jessica Hertz, formerly a government affairs executive at Facebook, served as the Biden transition team’s general counsel.

The book goes on to explain how executives from other companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft were placed in the “revolving door” between Big Tech and Big Government.

Breaking the News also reveals the emerging trend of collusion between Big Tech, with its vast surveillance apparatus, and the U.S. national security deep state. Marlow explains:

After Biden’s election win, the convergence of the national security establishment and the Masters of the Universe began to reveal itself. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines both worked for the consulting firm WestExec, which Blinken cofounded with Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense under President Obama. Google hired WestExec to help them land valuable Department of Defense contracts.

From a Reuters report from December 2020: “Google’s former Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, a billionaire who is a Silicon Valley titan, has been making personnel recommendations for appointments to the Department of Defense—as the company tries to pursue military contracts and defense work, according to three sources.” When Biden was sworn in, Schmidt was appointed to lead a government panel on artificial intelligence.

Marlow contacted Schmidt’s team in an effort to confirm the Reuters report — but they refused to comment.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/05/27/breaking-the-news-marlow-reveals-how-the-biden-administration-seemingly-rewarded-big-tech-after-the-election/