MI Citizens Told Gov. Whitmer Can’t Accept THOUSANDS of Affidavits Demanding Forensic Audit: She “hasn’t been in her office for 2-3 years!”

As part of her April 9, 2020, executive order, Michigan’s unpopular Governor Gretchen Whitmer banned travel for Michigan residents between their primary home and vacation homes. At the same time, with no scientific evidence to back up her decision, Whitmer forbade Michigan citizens from enjoying their motorboats in the Great Lakes state.

From 100 Percent Fed Up – The moment the highly criticized governor lifted her order on the use of motorboats, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s husband tried to cut ahead of other MI residents with a local dock company to get their boat placed in the water before other citizens who were waiting in line. When 100 Percent Fed Up broke the story, Whitmer laughed it off, saying her husband was just making a joke. We spoke with the owner of the dock company, who assured us that her husband was NOT making a joke.

Almost exactly one year later, she was caught traveling to Florida on a private jet while telling Michigan citizens to “Stay home and stay safe!” as a way to prevent spreading or contracting COVID.

On Thursday, John Clore of Us Against Media, Michigan’s only conservative news outlet, joined several Michigan residents to deliver copies of thousands of affidavits demanding a forensic audit of the November 2020 election to Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s office in Lansing, MI. When they arrived at the George W. Romney building, they were stunned to discover that Gretchen Whitmer, who’s proved over and over again that she’s above playing by the same rules sets for everyone else in Michigan, hasn’t been to her office in the past 2-3 years!

Yep…you heard it right. Even before the Wuhan pandemic hit the state of Michigan, the iron-fisted Democrat Governor wasn’t coming into the official governor’s office in Lansing.

When will MI taxpayers demand that their Democrat governor start acting like a public servant and not a queen?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/wow-mi-citizens-told-gov-whitmer-cant-accept-thousands-affidavits-demanding-forensic-audit-hasnt-office-2-3-years-video/

Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm

110 pages

A think-piece designed to set the foundation for more detailed research and development on human augmentation.

Details

The Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) has worked in partnership with the German Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning to understand the future implications of human augmentation (HA), setting the foundation for more detailed Defence research and development.

The project incorporates research from German, Swedish, Finnish and UK Defence specialists to understand how emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, bioinformatics and the possibility of brain-computer interfaces could affect the future of society, security and Defence. The ethical, moral and legal challenges are complex and must be thoroughly considered, but HA could signal the coming of a new era of strategic advantage with possible implications across the force development spectrum.

HA technologies provides a broad sense of opportunities for today and in the future. There are mature technologies that could be integrated today with manageable policy considerations, such as personalised nutrition, wearables and exoskeletons. There are other technologies in the future with promises of bigger potential such as genetic engineering and brain-computer interfaces. The ethical, moral and legal implications of HA are hard to foresee but early and regular engagement with these issues lie at the heart of success.

HA will become increasingly relevant in the future because it is the binding agent between the unique skills of humans and machines. The winners of future wars will not be those with the most advanced technology, but those who can most effectively integrate the unique skills of both human and machine.

The growing significance of human-machine teaming is already widely acknowledged but this has so far been discussed from a technology-centric perspective. This HA project represents the missing part of the puzzle.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a-new-paradigm

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/986301/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf

Charles Hurt: Proof Hunter Biden’s Scandals Far, Far, Far Worse Than Any of Trump’s

There is Bernie Madoff-level government corruption in Washington. There is Clinton Foundation-level grift in politics. And there is Anthony Weiner-level sleaze wherever the media, government, and politics collide.

And then there is Hunter Biden.

Seriously, what does Hunter Biden have to do to become a scandal around here?

How about cheating on his wife and children to sleep with his dead brother’s widow? Nope. That just spawned waves of pity over the tragic loss of his brother.

President Trump once famously joked that he could go out into the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and “wouldn’t lose any voters.”

While Mr. Trump never actually shot anyone on Fifth Avenue, he was accused of so many worse crimes by the Democrats and the media during his time in office: Russian stooge. Racist. Rapist. Gasser of protesters. Murderous insurrectionist.

All fantasy and Mr. Trump was accused of all of it — often in extensive collusion with U.S. government intelligence services. Not only did Mr. Trump not lose any voters, he gained some 13 million more in the 2020 election.

Which brings us back to Hunter Biden and how curious it is that he is shrouded in this cult-like protection by the media.

Mr. Trump spoke for millions of Americans and secured tremendous accomplishments for them. Hunter Biden, on the other hand, speaks for no one and has never accomplished anything.

Yet, somehow there is this religious hysteria among the media to cover up his misdeeds no matter what he gets caught doing.

Hunter Biden uses incendiary, racist, anti-black and anti-Asian language casually with family and colleagues. It would be enough to destroy a political career or get a child kicked out of school. But Hunter Biden? Hardly a peep.

Hunter Biden gets caught using his father’s powerful position as vice president of the United States to secure lucrative contracts with international concerns — including our global adversaries. No big deal.

Naked pictures, sex tapes, crack pipes, sleeping with hookers, sleeping with crack pipes — it’s all out there. What happens to Hunter Biden? He gets a $2 million book deal.

Now — finally — Hunter Biden claims to have accomplished something. Art.

Using a metal pipe about the size of a glass crack pipe, Hunter Biden blows some kind of mixture of paint and alcohol onto special paper to create colorful blotches. It is the sort of thing you would tape to the fridge door if your kindergarten child created it with finger paints.

But Hunter Biden? It’s a generational wealth windfall.

“For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist,” Hunter Biden told one newspaper earlier this year. “Now I feel comfortable saying it.”

Dutifully, the art world was “floored,” as one New York art dealer put it. That art dealer predicted that Mr. Biden‘s works could fetch as much as $1 million.

That same dealer admitted that the prices Hunter Biden could expect are at least a 1000-percent mark-up because his father is president.

“He‘s the president’s son,” the dealer said. “Everybody would want a piece of that.”

Nice work — if you can get it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/21/charles-hurt-proof-hunter-bidens-scandals-far-far-far-worse-than-any-of-trumps/

Dozens of Companies Urge Senate to Pass Law Nationalizing U.S. Elections: Override ‘Abusive State Laws’

Dozens of companies have signed a letter urging the Democrat-led Senate to pass the radical left’s measure designed to nationalize U.S. elections, the For the People Act, as it will, they say, override “abusive state laws.”

Over 70 companies signed the letter to express corporate America’s support for the radical proposal, asserting that they have a responsibility to employees to “ensure they can vote safely and without undue obstacles.”

“This is why we support the For the People Act—one of the most significant pieces of legislation to strengthen our democracy since the Civil Rights era,” they wrote.

The companies claim that states this year have introduced barriers to silence Americans’ voices — minority voices, particularly.

“These bills work in stark contrast to our interests, and make it more difficult for Americans to have a say in key decisions from healthcare to the economy by limiting our ability to register to vote and cast a ballot early or by mail,” they continued, contending it is not a “partisan” issue.

“The For the People Act is not about choosing one party or one issue over another, it is about common sense reforms that protect and expand our democracy, and put the power in the hands of the people,” they claimed.

Signers include Ben & Jerry’s, the Black Economic Alliance, Collaborative Solutions, Kangaroo Coffee, Legacy Vacation Resort, the National Hockey League, Patagonia, Social Goods, Tumblr, and dozens more.

The letter’s assertion, that recent state election integrity measures are suppressive, is false. For example, Georgia’s law — which prompted the MLB to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta — actually expanded voter access.

“The nuts and bolts of [the law] are this, it makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said during a March appearance on Breitbart News Daily:

The biggest — probably the top four things to me — is it replaces a signature match with a voter ID on absentee ballots. It secures ballot drop boxes around the clock. It also requires poll workers to continue tabulating ballots until all votes are counted and then it actually — contrary to what the national media and those that are profiting off of this whole exercise of not being truthful with people — expands voting access, especially on the weekends.

As Breitbart News extensively detailed, the For the People Act would nationalize U.S. elections by stripping states of their ability to implement basic election integrity safeguards, such as voter ID. It would also protect illegal aliens who are registered to vote, prevent states from purging their voter rolls, allow unlimited ballot harvesting, and make nationwide vote by mail without photo ID a reality.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/21/companies-urge-senate-pass-law-nationalizing-elections/

Five Charged in Scheme to Export Thermal Imaging Scopes and Night Vision Goggles to Russia, in Violation of Arms Export Control Act

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-charged-scheme-export-thermal-imaging-scopes-and-night-vision-goggles-russia-violation

Turkish Businessman Arrested in Austria on Charges that He Allegedly Laundered Over $133 Million in Fraud Proceeds

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/turkish-businessman-arrested-austria-charges-he-allegedly-laundered-over-133-million-fraud

Former Deutsche Bank Commodities Trader Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-deutsche-bank-commodities-trader-sentenced-prison-fraud-scheme

Leader of Pittsburgh Heroin Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty, Faces 10 Years to Life at Sentencing

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/leader-pittsburgh-heroin-trafficking-organization-pleads-guilty-faces-10-years-life

Kanawha County Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charge

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/kanawha-county-man-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-charge

Springfield Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Offenses

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/springfield-man-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-offenses

Vaccines Exhibit "Reduced Efficacy" Against "Delta" Variant, WHO Doctor Warns

As the mutant COVID-19 strain known as "Delta" picks up steam across Europe and the US, one of the WHO's leading doctors has just expressed concern about recent research published in the Lancet showing that the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines aren't as effective at protecting against "Delta".

Answering a question from a reporter during the organization's regular Monday briefing in Geneva, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said that there is data "showing a reduction in neutralization" for the Delta variant, but not as much as the "Beta" variant - better known as the mutant strain that was first discovered in South Africa.

She continued on, noting that the first generation of vaccines are still highly effective: "Having said that, these vaccines are still highly effective, they produce enough antibodies to protect against serious disease and death. While we are seeing some reduced efficacy, they are still effective at preventing severe disease and death including against the delta variant."

Ultimately, the WHO needs to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible - which is the goal of Covax, the WHO's program to vaccinate the world - to give dangerous variants less opportunity to take root and spread.

"The goal of Covax is that we need those who are most at risk to severe disease, and those who are most exposed, to receive those vaccines and to be protected," Dr. Kerkhove said.

To learn more about vaccine efficacy, the WHO has been "working with a global network…to get these studies under way…and to look at real-world efficacy data as well." New research is coming in "fast and furious" and WHO is doing everything it can to determine what's relevant and what's not. The agency remains vigilant, however, because they fear that over time a growing number of "double" or "triple" mutants could further erode the efficacy of the first generation of vaccines. What's more, "there may be a time where we have a constellation of mutations that arise in a variant" that will cause vaccines to lose potency entirely.

Readers can watch the entire briefing below. Dr. Kerkhove is asked about the threat posed by mutant strains just before the 1-hour mark:

Recent evidence suggests that the Delta variant, which has prompted concern worldwide, has also led to new surges of COVID in under-vaccinated parts of the US. According to BBG, even as the number of fully vaccinated Americans reaches 150MM, the genomics firm Helix has analyzed about 20K samples from COVID tests across more than 700 American counties and found that cases of the Delta variant appear to be spreading much more quickly in areas with lower vaccination rates than in areas that have higher rates.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/vaccines-exhibit-reduced-efficacy-against-delta-mutant-who-doctor-warns

ProPublica Donors Absent From Bombshell Report on Billionaire Tax Dodgers

Nonprofit pub has thousands of private tax docs on nation's wealthiest

ProPublica made waves after it obtained thousands of private tax documents for the country's wealthiest citizens and published a scathing investigation centered on the tax rates of Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Michael Bloomberg, among others. Absent from the report: any of the publication's largest donors, including Laurene Powell Jobs, David Filo, and Pierre Omidyar.

The nonprofit news organization's June 8 story boasted about a "trove of never-before-seen records [that] reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax." ProPublica documented the staggering wealth of business and finance titans, while emphasizing that they paid taxes to the federal government at a lower rate than many middle-class Americans. Conspicuously missing from the report, however, were details on whether the billionaires who fund ProPublica engage in similar tax avoidance schemes. ProPublica declined to say whether it had obtained tax returns for any of its donors or whether it planned on publishing them.

The organization initially stayed mum when asked by the Washington Free Beacon how they chose which tax returns to divulge out of the "thousands" they obtained. In a follow-up email, ProPublica president Richard Tofel said he is "not commenting on what we have until and unless we publish it."

"I note that your list of questions seems to involve individuals who have contributed to ProPublica, directly or through entities they have created," Tofel said. "I would note that our first story contained information about George Soros, who is similarly situated, but about whom you didn't ask."

Although ProPublica did make a passing reference to Soros—alleging that he "paid no federal income tax three years in a row" and printing a statement from his spokesman—the Hungarian-born billionaire is not a major funder of ProPublica.

In 2019, the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations gave $353,000 to the organization, the 20th-largest donor. In contrast, the Yellow Chair Foundation, helmed by billionaire and Yahoo cofounder Filo, donated $1.8 million. Jobs’s Emerson Collective gave $4.6 million in 2018, the third-largest gift ProPublica received between 2017 and 2019. Democracy Fund, founded by eBay cofounder Omidyar, gave $3 million in 2017. Over three years, ProPublica accepted donations totaling in the tens of millions from individual billionaires, the family charities of billionaires, or multibillion-dollar corporations.

"It’s clear, though, from aggregate IRS data, tax research, and what little trickles into the public arena about estate planning of the wealthy that they can readily escape turning over almost half of the value of their estates," ProPublica wrote in its story. "Many of the richest create foundations for philanthropic giving, which provide large charitable tax deductions during their lifetimes and bypass the estate tax when they die."

https://freebeacon.com/media/propublica-donors-absent-from-bombshell-report-on-billionaire-tax-dodgers/

Ron Paul: The Road To Authoritarianism Is Paved With Fiat Currency

Last week, the Federal Reserve announced it will maintain an interest rate target of zero to 0.25 percent for the rest of 2021. The Fed said it will also continue its monthly purchase of 120 billion dollars of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities.

Some Fed board members are forecasting a rate increase by late 2022 or 2023, though with the rate still not reaching one percent.

The Fed will neither allow interest rates to rise to market levels nor reduce its purchase of Treasury securities. A significant increase in interest rates would make the government’s borrowing costs unsustainable.

The Fed also raised its projected rate of inflation to three percent, although it still insists the rise in prices is a transitory effect of the end of the lockdowns.

There is some truth to this, as it will take some time for businesses to get back to full capacity.

However, the Fed began taking extraordinary measures to prop up the economy in September of 2019, when it started pumping billions of dollars a day into the repo market that banks use to make short-term loans to each other.

The lockdowns only postponed and deepened the forthcoming Fed-caused meltdown.

Germany’s Deutsche Bank recently released a paper warning about the Federal Reserve continuing to disregard the inflation risk caused by easy money policies designed to “stimulate” the economy and facilitate massive government spending.

Germans have reason to be sensitive to the consequences of inflation, including hyperinflation.

Out-of-control inflation played a major role in the collapse of the German economy in the 1920s, which led to the rise of the National Socialists.

www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/june/21/the-road-to-authoritarianism-is-paved-with-fiat-currency/

House Republicans Demand To Know How A Left-Leaning Group Allegedly Channeled Private Funds To Election Agencies

A group of House Republicans sent a letter Monday to the left-leaning group Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), calling on them to explain where the hundreds of millions of dollars they were given during the COVID-19 pandemic went, saying the group spent less than one percent on personal protective equipment (PPE).

The Daily Caller first obtained the letter which was spearheaded by Republican New York Rep. Claudia Tenney who was joined by 13 other House Republicans. The letter mentions that CTCL gave $350 million to nearly 2,500 election officials in 48 states and the District of Columbia in 2020. The lawmakers call on the CTCL to immediately publish their full financial 990s for public review, saying it is the groups legal obligation as a registered 501(c)(3).

“Many state and local entities have reported spending your grant money on expenses as varied and unrelated to COVID-19 as advertising, designing absentee ballots, registering teen voters, automatic voter registration, and even pay raises and new vehicle purchases. An elections supervisor in Lowndes County, Georgia, stated that CTCL was ‘very lenient regarding what we could spend the money on. They put virtually no restrictions on it as long as it relates to the election.’ Furthermore, it appears that 92% of CTCL grants were given to overwhelmingly Democrat-leaning precincts,” the letter states.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/21/house-republicans-letter-center-for-tech-civic-life-funds-election-mark-zuckerberg/

https://www.scribd.com/document/512584884/DAILY-CALLER-OBTAINED-Ctcl-Zuckerbucks-Letter-Final-final-1#from_embed

Rep. Jordan files letter to Microsoft's president over company's alleged bias against conservatives

Jordan alleged Microsoft through LinkedIn censored posts about Hunter Biden, the Wuhan lab, and more.

Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan is pressing Microsoft's President Brad Smith for information about the company's alleged bias toward conservatives.

Jordan made his concerns clear in a letter Monday to Smith in which he said: "Big Tech, including Microsoft, Inc., is out to get conservatives."

Jordan's letter comes as the House Judiciary Committee prepares to discuss on Wednesday a series of bills regarding anti-trust laws that take aim at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

The legislation would make it harder for tech companies to complete mergers, according to CNBC News.

Jordan, the committee's top Republican, says in the letter that multiple LinkedIn users alleged that the company, which Microsoft owns, has censored posts related to stories about a laptop belonging to President Biden's son Hunter Biden, including ones by the conservative-leaning Washington Times newspaper, and has restricted accounts related to COVID-19 and the origin of the virus.

He also argued that Microsoft has been "exerting editorial control over user-generated content in its word processing program, Microsoft Word." Jordan says that its processing program "urges users to avoid language that Microsoft dislikes and instead to adopt language Microsoft considers to be appropriate," such as "gender-neutral" language.

Jordan asked for Smith and Microsoft to "provide an accounting of all content moderation decisions" and whether the new anti-trust legislation would apply to the company.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rep-jordan-files-letter-microsofts-president-over-companys-alleged-bias-against