Biden Admin’s Payroll Set To Be Most Expensive Ever

According to the White House payroll report, The Biden administration is set to have the most expensive payroll in history.

Estimated cost under Biden: Over $200 million

Cost under Trump: $164.3 million

Cost under Obama: $188.5 million(first term)

Just The News reported:

President Biden’s White House payroll is projected to be the most expensive in U.S. history.

A White House payroll report released Thursday shows the cost of Biden’s four-year term is projected to exceed $200 million, according to Forbes.

Adjusting for inflation, the previous Trump administration spent $164.3 over four years, while President Obama spent $188.5 million during his first term, 2009-2012.

The payroll report includes the names, status, salary, and position titles of all 567 White House employees. Biden also spent more on a larger staff for his first lady, Jill Biden, than his predecessors.

There are 320 female staffers in the administration and 240 male staffers.

22 aides make the maximum salary.

Here are a few of the salaries for members of the Biden administration.

Jen Psaki- $180K

Ron Klain- $180K

Susan Rice- $180K

Kate Bedingfield- $180K

Steve Richetti- $180K

As the American people suffer through rising inflation Biden’s handlers are cashing in!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/biden-admins-payroll-set-expensive-ever/

History in the Making in Europe: 16 Right-Wing Parties Vow to “fight back with all our might”!

16 right-wing European parties signed a charter Friday, July 2, 2021, a major step to forming a bloc that could become the biggest or second-biggest in the European Parliament and finally begin to push back against the globalists dominating Brussels.

The right-wing parties in Europe are currently split into three factions:

the European People’s Party (EPP) dominated by Angela Merkel

the European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) founded by the British Conservatives, in which the Polish Law and Justice Party are now the biggest party after the departure of the Tories Brexit,

and the Identity and Democracy (I&D) faction around France’s Marine Le Pen, Italy’s Matteo Salvini, the Austrian Freedom Party, and the Alternative for Germany.

After feuding over policy differences since 2015, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán left the RINO-style EPP in March and met with Salvini and Polish PM Jakub Morawiecki in Budapest on April 2 to plan the right-wing bloc.

Today’s historic “Decalaration on the Future of Europe” was signed by Viktor Orbán, Matteo Salvini, Marine Le Pen, Polish PIS chair Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the Chair of Spain’s Vox Santiago Abascal Conde, as well as Giorgia Meloni (Brethren of Italy) and Austrian Freedom Party chair Herbert Kickl.

Other signatories include JA21 (Netherlands), EL (Greece), PNT-CD (Romania), LLRA (Lithuania), VMRO (Bulgaria), Vlaams Belang (Belgium), DPP (Denmark), EKRE (Estonia), and PS (Finland).

The list currently does not include the Alternative for Germany (AfD) or either of the major right-wing Dutch parties, Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party PVV or Thierry Baudet’s Forum for Democracy (FvD). The Sweden Democrats were also notably missing.

“We fully support the content and spirit of this declaration, and look forward to joining a strong, democratic, freedom-loving conservative bloc in the European Parliament”, the co-chair of the Alternative for Germany and I&D faction Jörg Meuthen told the Gateway Pundit exclusively. A spokesman for the Dutch Forum for Democracy told TGP, “we are very supportive of any type of cooperation by nationalist and conservative parties and we are always eager to take part in such cooperation.”

Update: The Dutch FvD split-off “JA21” posted on Twitter, retracting their support. That would make it 15 parties.

“We are convinced that the cooperation of European nations should be based on tradition, respect for the culture and history of European states, respect for Europe’s Judeo-Christian heritage and the common values that unite our nations, and not on their destruction. We reaffirm our belief that family is the basic unit of our nations. In a time when Europe is facing a serious demographic crisis with low birth rates and aging population, pro-family policymaking should be an answer instead of mass immigration”, the Declaration reads.

“We are laying the foundation for an alliance in the EU Parliament with this agreement,” said Austrian Freedom Party Chair Kickl. “The EU is in need of serious reform, in which the patriotic parties need to speak with one voice. Instead of protecting our continent, its cultural heritage, and its freedom, the EU itself has become the source of a lot of problems and dangers. Our new alliance will fight back with all our might.”

“This is a historic day”, reported Lega Youth international spokesman Davide Quadri from the PiS Congress in Poland. “If July 4th is American Independence Day, July 2 will go down in history as the beginning of the process to a European Independence Day!”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/history-making-16-right-wing-parties-vow-fight-back-might/

Report: Over 168,000 Ballots Missing Chain of Custody in Cobb County, GA

Dr. Kandiss Taylor released a report yesterday identifying over 168,000 ballots in Cobb County, Georgia, missing required chain of custody documentation.

We’ve been reporting for months on the hundreds of thousands of ballots missing chain of custody documentation in Georgia. In April we reported the following:

Joe Biden “won” in Georgia by only 11,779 votes.

The report above linked to a report from the Georgia Star that showed more than 89,000 ballots in Cobb County missing chain of custody documentation.

However, a new report out of Cobb County finds that the Elections Director had data drives with election data taken to a separate location, and printed tabulation tapes from a different machine.

This reportedly violated the standard procedure and chain of custody.

In a press release from Dr. Kandiss Taylor yesterday, Taylor, a candidate for governor, claims that there is sufficient evidence of process violations and malfeasance that would be adequate to place in doubt the results of the presidential election. Taylor writes:

The proper process of closing a precinct for advanced early voting or election day voting includes the printing of tabulation tapes from each ballot scanner where votes are cast. This provides the starting counter number (called the Protective Counter), unit serial number, number of votes scanned, date, time, and other vital information. Most precincts attach a printed hardcopy of these tapes, at the end of the day, to the door of precincts to show voters, in an act of transparency, how many votes were cast in each precinct. This is proper procedure for all voting precincts. The Protective Counter is comparable to an odometer by keeping track of how many ballots were scanned since the machine went into action. It cannot be reset nor rolled back for auditing purposes.

When the auditing team was examining the tabulator tapes for advanced voting, they noticed that some tapes were produced by the same machines with the same serial number, and the protective counter numbers stayed the same. Tapes, in some cases, were printed minutes apart. Each scanner should have produced its own tape, with its own counter number, with its own serial number on it, and with unique date and time stamps.

When questioned about these data anomalies, the Election Director told the auditing team leader that she decided to make the decision to remove original memory cards that held vote ballots and totals from the scanners. She had these cards brought back to her location, and the cards inserted in different machines she had at the county office. The cards would be officially closed. She effectively cast the voters’ ballots in a different machine and in a different location than where the voter originally cast their vote. Then, her staff proceeded to break the seals on the machine, remove the memory cards, and bring the cards back to her station. In doing this, the vote was flawed and did not protect the chain of custody of the ballots. The cards, which contained the ballot information and your vote totals, were haphazardly and, without chain of custody, mishandled with no proof of security or time-stamp.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/breaking-huge-exclusive-168000-ballots-missing-chain-custody-cobb-county-ga/

Biden says NO plan for imminent withdrawal of remaining troops in Afghanistan, despite earlier reports

Following multiple reports indicating that a full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan was imminent, President Joe Biden said there is no immediate scheme for the remaining troops to leave, but insisted plans are "on track."

Major news outlets had reported earlier on Friday that troops leaving the Bagram Air Base, one of the largest military sites in Afghanistan, would be followed by a full withdrawal within days.

However, Biden dismissed those reports while speaking to reporters at the White House. Asked if a full withdrawal was taking place in the next few days, the president said “no.”

“We're on track exactly as to where we expect to be,” he said, referring to the plan as a “rational drawdown.”

Former President Donald Trump had previously made a deal to leave Afghanistan by May, though this deadline was pushed back by the Biden administration, which set a goal of having troops gone by September.

As he was hammered with questions on Afghanistan from the press, Biden grew visibly frustrated, citing the “holiday weekend” as his reason for not wanting to focus on “negative” stories.

“I’m not going to answer any more questions on Afghanistan,” Biden told reporters, throwing his hands up. “Look, it’s Fourth of July … I’m concerned that you guys are asking me questions that I’ll answer next week.”

NOW - Biden: "I'm not going to answering any more questions on Afghanistan. Look, it's the 4th of July… I'll answer all your negative questions… not negative, your legitimate questions." pic.twitter.com/F2joLTW5aj

— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 2, 2021

Despite insisting he wanted to talk about “happy things,” Biden did offer some insight into his perspective on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Regarding concerns expressed by activists and military officials that the US departure could create a vacuum that would quickly be filled by insurgents, Biden said he is confident the Kabul government “have the capacity to be able to sustain government down the road.”

According to reports earlier on Friday, the Pentagon was planning on a withdrawal that could have happened just in time for Fourth of July celebrations.

September 11 of this year — Biden's proposed withdrawal deadline — will mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which triggered the two-decade long conflict.

The war led to more than 2,300 US troop deaths and more than 20,000 others wounded. That is among the estimated tens of thousands of other war-related deaths and casualties, including around 1,000 troops deaths among other NATO forces.

A 2020 report from the Department of Defense estimated war-fighting costs had topped $815 billion. The Costs of War project at Brown University estimates the US has spent a total of over $2.2 trillion on the conflict.

https://www.rt.com/usa/528250-biden-no-imminent-withdrawal-afghanistan/

Questions Swirl After Mysterious Drowning Death Of 41-Year-Old Bitcoin Billionaire

A Romanian bitcoin billionaire who died suddenly at the age of 41 has left behind more questions than answers - chief among them; where's the money?

41-year-old Mircea Popescu, an outspoken figure and an early adopter of Bitcoin, left behind an estimated $2 billion in bitcoin after reportedly drowning off the coast of Costa Rica near Playa Hermosa, according to local news reports, which said that he was "swept away by the current and died on the spot."

And while his death has since been confirmed by three women who were reportedly close to him, others have suggested he may have faked his own death.

According to the Daily Mail, rumors are swirling that Popescu's family doesn't have access to his digital assets - which, as crypto analyst Alexander Marder of Crypto Briefing notes, could mean that tens of thousands of Bitcoins are 'off the market.'

Other Bitcoin watchers have similarly suggested that the reported $2 billion in bitcoin could be lost forever.

"It looks like that with the deaths of Mircea Popescu and John McAfee a significant amount of $BTC might be lost forever. RIP," tweeted Marder (though McAfee claimed to have been broke near the time of his death).

It looks like that with the deaths of Mircea Popescu and John McAfee a significant amount of $BTC might be lost forever.

RIP https://t.co/8KGPows3Kh

— Alexander Mardar (@amardar1) June 28, 2021

Popescu was known for being eccentric and outspoken - causing offended critics to dub him the 'father of Bitcoin toxicity.'

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/questions-swirl-after-mysterious-drowning-death-41-year-old-bitcoin-billionaire

French Senate considers mandatory Covid vaccines for adults aged 24-59 in effort to curb potential fourth wave

The French Senate is considering implementing obligatory vaccinations for those aged 24-59 to help the country weather the anticipated next spike of coronavirus infections in what would be a fourth wave of cases.

The body published a report from its Common Mission of Information on Thursday, advocating for mandatory vaccinations of young to middle-aged adults on the grounds it could significantly lower hospitalization rates and deaths. The report issued a stern warning: “act now to limit impact”.

The report follows Prime Minister Jean Castex’s announcement on Wednesday that he will consult elected officials and chairmen of parliament on the compulsory vaccination of caregivers, with senators pushing for this to also include 24-59 year olds.

The age group was chosen as over 90% of people infected with Covid are under 60 in France, the Pasteur Institute said. To prevent hospitalization rates rising like last year, the Institute found that among 12-17 year-olds, a 30% vaccination rate was needed, and 70% among 18-59s. A vaccine uptake of 90% for those over 60 was deemed necessary.

However, France's vaccination campaign – which has prioritized those most susceptible to catching Covid, such as healthcare workers and people over 65 – is lagging behind these targets. Among 18-29 year-olds, 15.36% are fully vaccinated. Just under a quarter of those aged 30-49 have been inoculated, while the figure rises to half among 50-64 year olds.

The government is also considering introducing other measures aimed at increasing inoculation levels, such as sending doctors lists of unvaccinated people in order to encourage them to get the jabs. France is also considering scrapping free ‘convenience’ Covid tests for unvaccinated people who wish to travel.

https://www.rt.com/news/528197-france-mandatory-vaccination-covid-considered/

Huge blast at Romania's largest oil refinery sends black smoke billowing into sky

An explosion at a Petromidia’s Black Sea crude oil refinery in Romania has sent plumes of black smoke rising into the sky. Several people are injured, and ambulances have arrived at the scene, according to reports.

A government official, Silviu Cosa, told local TV station Digi24 on Friday that an explosion had occurred in the morning at a refinery at Navodari, Constanta County. “It was a blast. Ambulances are being sent there, apparently there are two victims with burns,” Cosa stated.

Raed Arafat, head of the Department for Emergency Situations, told Reuters that there were "four victims, of whom one is missing. One has severe burns and two others have mild burns." He added that the danger of further explosions was diminished as firefighters were working to put the fire out.

The government has advised people to not come within a one-kilometer radius of the plant, according to reports.

Footage taken from a nearby beach, as well as elsewhere in the vicinity of the plant, shows heavy black smoke emerging from the crippled refinery. In one photo the fire can still be seen raging at the base.

In a statement, Rompetrol said that the incident had occurred at the diesel oil refining installation. All technological processes had been halted safely and in accordance with internal crisis management procedures.

The refinery is less than a mile away from the beach and coastal resort of Mamaia, which sits on a thin strip of land between the Black Sea and Lake Siutghiol.

https://www.rt.com/news/528199-romania-plant-oil-blast/

Israel Bombs Weapon Manufacturing Site in Gaza After Hamas’ Incendiary Balloons

A series of incendiary balloons launched by Hamas terrorists towards the southern Israeli border led to an overnight bombing on a manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip, military officials said Friday.

The Islamic terrorist group that rules Gaza confirmed that one of its manufacturing sites which focuses on researching and developing weapons was hit in the attack. No immediate reports of casualties were reported from the strike.

“In response to the arson balloon fire towards Israeli territory today IDF (Israeli military) fighter jets struck (a) weapons manufacturing site belonging (to) Hamas,” the military said in a statement.

Last month, Hamas caused some 20 fires in Israeli communities after launching arson balloons in the Gaza periphery, affecting farmers’ fields and agriculture.

On Thursday, the terrorist group again launched balloons laden with incendiary material across the southern Israeli border, causing another round of fires that have burned fields.

Israel Fire and Rescue Services said most of the fires were small and not dangerous with responders being able to manage the situation quickly and gain control over the fires, the Times of Israel reported.

https://www.ntd.com/israel-bombs-weapon-manufacturing-site-in-gaza-after-hamas-incendiary-balloons_636756.html

Chicago Mass Shooting Leaves Baby Girl Shot In Head, 6 More Injured As Lightfoot Says ‘Crime Is On The Decline’

“Crime is not out of control in our city, in fact, crime is on the decline," Lightfoot said less than two hours before gunfire riddled a baby's car seat and left 7 people injured

A mass shooting in the city of Chicago, Illinois left a 1-month old child with a gunshot wound to the head, her car seat riddled with bullet holes, and six other people injured on Thursday as mayor Lori Lightfoot falsely claimed during a press conference that, “Crime is not out of control in our city, in fact, crime is on the decline.”

Video footage of the shooting shows three black males jumping out of a Jeep Cherokee SUV and opening fire on pedestrians in broad daylight, seemingly at random. The gunfire goes on for at least twenty seconds before the gunmen drive away. The footage was posted to Twitter with the caption, “Video of the mass shooting tonight at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old girl, by gunmen who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles. #Chicago”

https://nationalfile.com/breaking-chicago-mass-shooting-leaves-baby-girl-shot-in-head-6-more-injured-as-lightfoot-says-crime-is-on-the-decline/

Biden Refuses To Take Foreign Policy Questions Because He’d Rather Talk About ‘Happy Things, Man’

"This is a good - I'll answer all your negative questions, not negative, your legitimate questions."

Democrat President Joe Biden refused to take questions from the press concerning his policy on the region of Afghanistan during a press conference on Friday, explaining that he’d rather talk about “happy things,” and rambling about the supposed successes of his administration at a time when many Americans are paying inordinately high prices for gas and food.

When a reporter asked about Afghanistan, Biden scowled and shot back, “I wanna talk about happy things, man.” Unlike his predecessors, the President received surprisingly little pushback from the press on this issue, and went on to monologue about all the things he’s believes his regime has accomplished instead.

https://nationalfile.com/video-biden-refuses-to-foreign-policy-questions-because-hed-rather-talk-about-happy-things-man/

‘God Is Non-Binary’ Says Church of England’s First Transwoman Priest

The Church of England’s first-ever transwoman priest has declared that “God is non-binary” and questioned whether He is “just genuinely like a guy?”

Reverend Canon Sarah Jones, currently of the St John the Baptist Church in Cardiff, Wales, was ordained by the Church of England some two decades ago, telling the Anglican state church at the time: “‘Look, there’s this medical history that you need to know about.”

The cleric told ITV News that “They were fine” with the disclosure, although, as she put it, they were initially “a little bit sort of, ‘Oh, OK, we don’t really know what to do, but give us some time, and we’ll work it out’.”

“And it did take them time, but they did work it out and eventually I was ordained,” Jones recalled.

The canon claimed that “There have been some occasions where it’s been made pretty plain to me that I wouldn’t be welcome in a certain post and that people disagreed that I should even be ordained” but that, for the most part, support has been “tremendous” — particularly in Wales.

Anglican clergy in Wales have on occasion displayed a marked tendency towards the “woke” politics of the social justice left, with female bishop Joanna Penberthy recently feeling compelled to delete her personal Twitter account after reports revealed she used it to abuse Brexit and Conservative supporters in vitriolic terms.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/01/god-is-non-binary-says-church-of-englands-first-transwoman-priest/

Attorney General Merrick Garland orders HALT on all federal executions after Trump administration reinstated them after 18 year gap

US Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered a halt on federal executions after telling officials that capital punishment is too arbitrary, disproportionately targets people of color, and risks wrongly killing innocent people.

Garland sent a memo to Department of Justice Officials Thursday sharing his 'serious concerns' over federal executions, including the 'troubling number of exonerations' for people sentenced to death.

The AG's statement added: 'The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States but is also treated fairly and humanly.'

Executions ordered by the US government were halted for close to two decades over shortages of drugs used for lethal injections, and concerns that that method of putting prisoners to death was inhumane.

But Attorney General Bill Barr - who served under Donald Trump - ordered them to resume in 2019. That saw 13 prisoners put to death by the federal government between July 2020 and January 2021. No president in more than 120 years had overseen as many federal executions.

Executions on the federal level have always been rare and the government has put to death only three defendants between restoring the federal death penalty in 1988 and Trump's presidency. The last came in 2003, when Louis Jones was executed for the 1995 kidnapping, rape and murder of a young female soldier.

In 2014, following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, President Barack Obama directed the Justice Department to conduct a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs.

Barr said last July that the Obama-era review had been completed, clearing the way for executions to resume. He approved a new procedure for lethal injections that replaces the three-drug combination previously used in federal executions with one drug, pentobarbital. This is similar to the procedure used in several states, including Georgia, Missouri and Texas, but not all.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/07/attorney-general-merrick-garland-orders.html

Citi, BofA, Goldman, other banks accused of credit default swap antitrust scheme and market manipulation. (2008 flashbacks anyone?)

New Mexico’s sovereign wealth fund brought a federal antitrust lawsuit claiming Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and other top financial institutions rigged the credit default swap market by manipulating a key benchmark.

The proposed class action, docketed Thursday, also targets Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA, Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Natwest Group Plc, and three industry groups.

By rigging the “final auction price” used “to value all CDS contracts market-wide at settlement,” the banks have made “billions of dollars in cartel profits at the expense of non-dealer market participants,” according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.

bloomberglaw.com/class-action/citi-bofa-goldman-other-banks-accused-of-cds-antitrust-scheme

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/citi-bofa-goldman-other-banks-accused-of-credit-default-swap-antitrust-scheme-and-market-manipulation-2008-flashbacks-anyone/

Russia, Turkey conduct swap of Syrian soldiers for militants in Aleppo

A swap of five Syrian soldiers kept by the armed opposition units for five members of illegal armed groups was conducted near the settlement of al-Bab in the Aleppo governorate on July 2

https://tass.com/politics/1309949

YouTube removes videos exposing China's abuse of Uyghurs, citing policy violation: report

Human rights group leader said he 'never trusted YouTube'

A human rights group that gained popularity on YouTube largely because of its videos exposing China's human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslims had several of its videos removed from the platform, with YouTube citing unrelated policy violations, according to a report.

Reuters reported that the YouTube channel Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights, which is based in Kazakhstan, also had its channel temporarily blocked by YouTube. The activist who runs the channel, Serikzhan Bilash, has been called a "well-known rights activist" by the group Human Rights Watch.

According to Reuters, 12 of Bilash's videos were removed this year by YouTube amid an apparent campaign by groups who deny China is committing genocide to mass-report the Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights videos. The channel was completely blocked this month and only restored after inquiries from Reuters.

YouTube eventually removed the block on the channel, according to the report, but has not reinstated all of the videos it took down, citing policies that ban personal information in its videos that could result in harassment. Bilash's channel has those testifying about Chinese human rights abuses show their government-issued IDs, the report said, which the platform bans due to the possibility the personal information could lead to harassment.

But Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights maintains that those IDs are critical to its credibility to prove the people in the videos are in fact related to individuals subject to Chinese government abuse.

"The people giving the testimonies are talking about their loved ones," Bilash told Reuters.

"I never trusted YouTube," he also said.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marked its 100th anniversary on Thursday with fanfare and propaganda. The anniversary of the party that controls China's authoritarian regime was met with derision by many across the world – members of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced resolutions condemning the party for 100 years of human rights abuses.

"The House of Representatives condemns the Chinese Communist Party for 100 years of gross violations of human rights, including repression, torture, mass imprisonment, and genocide," the House resolution said. It added that the House "looks forward to the day that the Chinese Communist Party no longer exists."

"Our harassment policy clearly prohibits content revealing someone’s personally identifiable information (PII), including their government identification or phone numbers. We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and removed the violative videos uploaded by Atajurt Kazakh and terminated their channel," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News. "However, we recognize the important human rights work by Atajurt Kazakh and that the intention of these videos was not to maliciously reveal PII. Upon careful review of their appeal, we reinstated the channel and are working with Atajurt Kazakh to explain our policies so they can make the best decisions for their channel."

According to YouTube, it allows videos with educational or documentary content but the Atajurt videos did not meet that standard – the company did not elaborate as to why.

YouTube did not address questions about whether the Chinese government contacted it regarding the videos; whether it is concerned about abuse of its reporting feature to silence human rights groups; and whether it agrees with Secretary of State Antony Blinken that China is committing genocide.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/youtube-removes-videos-exposing-chinas-abuse-uyghurs-citing-policy-violation-report

Shocking new study reveals covid vaccine TERMINATES 4 out of 5 pregnancies via “spontaneous abortions”

A shocking new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that when pregnant women are given covid vaccinations during their first or second trimesters, they suffer an 82% spontaneous abortion rate, killing 4 out of 5 unborn babies.

This stunning finding, explained below, is self-evident from the data published in a new study entitled, “Preliminary Findings of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnant Persons.” Just as disturbing as the data is the fact that the study authors apparently sought to deliberately obfuscate the truth about vaccines causing spontaneous abortions by obfuscating numbers in their own calculations.

Originally brought to our attention by a Life Site News article, we checked with our own science contacts to review the data and double check all the math. In doing so, we were able to confirm two things:

Yes, the study shows an 82% rate of spontaneous abortions in expectant mothers given covid vaccines during their first or second trimesters.

Yes, the study authors either deliberately sought to hide this fact with dishonest obfuscation (explained below) or they are incompetent and made a glaring error that brings into question their credibility.

In other words, this study was almost certainly a cover-up to try to claim vaccinating pregnant women is perfectly safe. But the study data actually show quite the oppose.

Here’s how:

700 of the 827 women were vaccinated in the third trimester

Table 4 from the study, shown below, reveals that a total of 827 pregnant women were studied. Out of the 827 women, 700 of them received their first vaccine in their third trimester of pregnancy. This means 127 women (which is 827 – 700) received a vaccine during their first or second trimesters. (You have to read the fine print below the table to see this disclosure.)

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2021/07/02/depopulation-alert-shocking-new-study-reveals-covid-vaccine-terminates-4-out-of-5-pregnancies-via-spontaneous-abortions/

UK Official Accused of Breaking Ministerial Code on Arms to Israel

And James Cleverly is not the only member of Boris Johnson’s government to fail to answer parliamentary questions on the same subject, Mark Curtis reports.

James Cleverly has been accused of breaking the U.K.’s Ministerial Code and of “obfuscation” in refusing to properly answer questions put to him in the House of Commons.

Declassified has found 14 recent cases where the foreign minister has failed to provide direct answers to written questions by MPs.

Cleverly, who is also a reserve officer in the British army’s royal artillery regiment, has been particularly evasive when asked if U.K. arms were used by Israel during its latest bombardment of Gaza, which saw 66 Palestinian children killed in May.

The U.K. has sold over £400-million worth of military equipment to Israel since 2015 and applies no restrictions on how these supplies might be used.

Under the Ministerial Code, ministers have a duty to “be as open as possible with parliament” and to “give accurate and truthful information.” A House of Commons guide states that “this requirement governs the answers ministers provide to parliamentary questions.”

While ministers routinely provide minimal information to parliament, it is not normal for them to refuse entirely to directly address specific questions.

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/07/01/uk-official-accused-of-breaking-ministerial-code-on-arms-to-israel/

Six Alleged Ms-13 Members Facing Federal Indictment for Extortion of Maryland Businesses

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/six-alleged-ms-13-members-facing-federal-indictment-extortion-maryland-businesses

Officials from Two Louisiana Healthcare Companies Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar Bank Fraud Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/officials-two-louisiana-healthcare-companies-indicted-multi-million-dollar-bank-fraud

Trader At Large Canadian Asset Management Firm Charged With Insider Trading For Engaging In Multimillion-Dollar Front Running Scheme

Sean Wygovsky Stole Confidential Trade Information from His Employer to Place Hundreds of Timely, Profitable Trades in Years-Long Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/trader-large-canadian-asset-management-firm-charged-insider-trading-engaging

Broome County Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Enticement and Coercion of a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/broome-county-man-pleads-guilty-attempted-enticement-and-coercion-minor

Two Nabbed In One Week In Fairfield County For Sexual Assault, Police Say

A pair of child sex abuse cases in Fairfield County have been closed with the arrests of two men.

Officers from the Stamford Police Special Victims Unit traveled to Los Angeles, to extradite 35-year-old Fredy A. Orellana back to the state for his part in a two-year prolonged sexual assault of a child under the age of 10 years old, said Stamford PD Captain Diedrich Hohn.

The investigation began after the victim was seen at a hospital with a sexually transmitted disease. Officers conducted a forensic interview of the child and were able to corroborate many of the allegations against Orellana.

The investigators worked with the States Attorney’s office to secure an arrest warrant for Orellana in May.

Orellana became privy to the arrest warrant and immediately fled the state. Officer Comerford stayed with the case and contacted the US Marshal Service and through numerous investigative techniques, Orellana was located in Los Angeles, Hohn said.

Orellana returned on Tuesday, June 29, and was charged with sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury to a child.

He is currently being held on a bond of $500,000.

In the second case, a 54-year-old Stamford resident, Natividad Zandoval, was arrested on Friday, July 2, for sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.

In early Oct. 2020, a 24-year-old woman reported to investigators that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Zandoval for seven years while she was a child.

Following an investigation, Zandoval made some admissions towards the crimes. Officers contacted the States Attorney’s office and secured an arrest warrant for Zandoval’s arrest. He is currently being held on a 1 million dollar bond.

"The Stamford Police Department would like to recognize the efforts of the officers who investigated these heinous crimes," Hohn said. "We also need to be mindful and recognize the courage of the victims. These investigations are very difficult to investigate and deal with, however, it is even worse for the victims. The courage of the victims to come forward and cooperate is a tough ordeal."

https://dailyvoice.com/connecticut/brookfield/police-fire/two-nabbed-in-one-week-in-fairfield-county-for-sexual-assault-police-say/811943/

Soros-Funded Austin D.A. Indicts Army Sgt Who 'Shot AK-47-Toting BLM Protester in Self-Defense'

Soros-funded Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza on Thursday had Army Sgt Daniel Perry indicted for fatally shooting AK-47-toting Black Lives Matter "protester" Garrett Foster after he approached Perry's car and allegedly raised his rifle at him during a "protest" in downtown Austin one year ago.

Perry was let go by police without any charges after the July 25, 2020 shooting but D.A. Garza is working to turn Austin into the next St. Louis by criminalizing self-defense.

Our office was proud to attend the flag raising ceremony today to mark the first time Travis County has flown a pride flag.

We celebrated how far our community has come and we are reminded of how much work we still have to do. pic.twitter.com/FKrBr9y2dl

— Travis County District Attorney's Office (@DATravisCounty) June 29, 2021

Today our office announced that a Travis County grand jury has returned indictments against Daniel Perry for the charges of Murder and Aggravated Assault in the death of Garrett Foster.

The grand jury also returned one indictment for a misdemeanor count of deadly conduct.

— Travis County District Attorney's Office (@DATravisCounty) July 2, 2021

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62350

President Gaslight Assures You That Your Rising Food Prices Are Down

attempt to get you to stop believing your own lyin’ eyes on food prices is today’s big crazy.

Plus:

Vaccine hoochies are a thing, apparently

Biden is losing it (but this time it’s just his temper) (again)

The ghost of Spiro Agnew has a message for Kamala Harris

Before we get to today’s big story, here’s a short video to make you lose whatever little faith you might still have in humanity.

This Is Not a Sane World, Exhibit #1,000,006

Planning a cookout this year? Ketchup on the news. According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July BBQ is down from last year. It’s a fact you must-hear(d). Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working. And that’s something we can all relish. (Jeebus, who writes this stuff?)

Glorious day, comrades! The Independence Day chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams from 25 grams!

This simple GIF — and Insanity Wrap really does mean simple — from the Biden White House brings immediately to mind Brandolini’s law.

Also known as the bull* asymmetry principle, Brandolini’s law states that the amount of energy needed to refute bull* is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.

Yet refute it we must, so Insanity Wrap goes once more into the breach.

Using a very narrow definition of what constitutes a cookout, Presidentish Biden’s crew was able to find a measly 16 cents in savings (for a family of four on a diet, we’re guessing by the portions) over last year’s cost.

But last year’s prices were artificially high, due to supply-chain disruptions caused by the lockdowns — which we now know were unnecessary.

Where are the hot dogs (prices up), the buns (bread prices on the rise), the beers (ditto), the fruits and veggies (even more price hikes)?

“Chicken has been a nightmare in terms of pricing and shortage,” a food truck owner told Boston.com, so now you know why there aren’t any chicken wings on the White House picnic table.

If you were planning on grilling steaks, fuhgeddaboudit: Cattle markets have been upended, and big meat producers are making 20 times the normal margins as beef prices soar.

The ribeyes that Insanity Wrap loves to grill are about 20% more expensive than they were a year ago, and almost outrageously so over 2019.

But ribeyes are a luxury for people who haven’t been hurt too badly by the lockdowns and by Bidenomics. For the rest, there’s this: Rising food prices deepen the woes of world’s poorest.

Please tell us more about how the Left is so concerned about poor people because we’ve been looking for an excuse to graduate from day-drinking to heroin.

Bloomberg reported just last week that even when prices are holding steady, you’re often paying more due to “shrinkflation.”

This practice became increasingly common in the 1960s and 1970s, when manufacturers confronting runaway inflation tweaked packaging rather than hike prices. At first, the practice attracted relatively little notice: It’s difficult to discern changes in unit prices when they’re camouflaged in different-looking boxes and bags.

But, if you’re willing to “enjoy” the meager meal being celebrated today by President Porchlight, you and yours will be able to stuff your retirement account with one dime, one nickel, and one penny.

Unless you were planning on driving anywhere this weekend, that is.

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https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/07/02/president-gaslight-assures-your-rising-food-prices-are-down-n1459067

Rapper Busta Rhymes Says ‘F**k Your Mask,’ Slams ‘Weird Ass’ COVID Mandates That ‘Take Our Civil Liberties Away’

"I can’t rhyme to you with a mask on. We can’t eat food with a f**king mask on. We can’t even see each other smile with a mask on."

Rapper Trevor George “Busta Rhymes” Smith Jr. railed against pro-mask extremists and “weird ass” government COVID lockdowns and mandates during the Seoul Tacos 10th Anniversary Block Party in St Louis, Missouri in June. Rhymes noted that “you can’t even breathe freely,” while wearing a mask, and said that government officials who try to “take our civil liberties away’ can “suck a d**k.”

“This is my second show in front of human life in the last fifteen fkin’ months,” Rhymes said, to raucous applause. “COVID can suck a dk. All these little weird-ass government policies and mandates can suck a d**k. Stop tryin’ to take our civil liberties away. It feels good to be back outside, we outside for real.”

“It’s called the God-given right of freedom, right?” he continued. “No human being supposed to tell you you can’t even breathe freely. Fk your mask. I mean I’m sayin’, some of y’all might feel differently but, fk your mask. I can’t rhyme to you with a mask on. We can’t eat food with a fking mask on. We can’t even see each other smile with a mask on. I come from a time when before i even used to want to holler at a chick, I used to have to do st with my face to let her know that I’m into her.”

Speaking about positive energy, Rhymes said, “All of that energy gets blocked when your mask is on. Energy is important, and we are all conductors of fkin’ good energy. We also got to be clear when a motherfker trying to give you bad energy, you can tell only from the expression on their face. I wanna see the face, fk your mask. I mean, I’m sorry I gotta go political and st, I miss my people, we gotta talk.”

https://nationalfile.com/video-rapper-busta-rhymes-says-fk-your-mask-slams-weird-ass-covid-mandates-that-take-our-civil-liberties-away/

Mass Evacuation Underway as Philippines Raises Volcano Danger Level

MANILA—Authorities in the Philippines started evacuating thousands of people on Thursday after the alert status was raised on a restive volcano that spewed a one-kilometer (0.62 mile) high plume of gas and steam.

The alert for the Taal volcano, about 70 km (45 miles) south of central Manila, moved to level 3 from level 2 on the 5-level scale, which the seismology and volcanology agency said meant a “magmatic intrusion” at the main crater “could further drive succeeding eruptions.”

Taal is one of the world’s smallest active volcanoes. Despite standing at only 311 meters (1,020-foot), it can be deadly and an eruption in 1911 killed more than 1,300 people.

In January last year, Taal shot a column of ash and steam as high as 15 km (9.3 miles) into the sky, which forced more than 100,000 people to abandon their homes, widespread flight cancellations, and heavy ash fall in Manila.

While the situation could go either way, authorities on Thursday warned that the type of eruption could potentially be more hazardous than that of last year.

Water in Taal’s crater boiled before and after its eruption, a video posted on the Facebook page of the seismology agency showed.

Magma made contact with the crater’s water, which then turned into gas and vapour, known as a phreatomagmatic eruption.

“Phreatomagmatic is more dangerous because there’s already an interaction with magma,” Maria Antonia Bornas, chief of the agency’s monitoring and eruption prediction division, told a news conference.

The towns of Agoncillo and Laurel, situated on the lake surrounding the Taal volcano, were in danger from eruption and volcanic tsunami, the seismology agency said.

The national disaster bureau warned of eruption-related quakes.

The evacuation of Agoncillo started late afternoon, Batangas provincial governor Hermilando Mandanas said, with 3,523 families or 14,495 people to be moved to safe areas.

Dump trucks were sent to assist and pay loaders and evacuation centers were being readied, he added.

https://www.ntd.com/mass-evacuation-underway-as-philippines-raises-volcano-danger-level_636777.html

Leaked Documents Show China Put Politics Before Law in Suppression of Spiritual Group

Leaked documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times detailed the Chinese judicial system was not in accordance with the law on suppressing Falun Gong in China, highlighting the ongoing tension faced by the spiritual group.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that includes meditative exercises and moral teachings centered around the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

The practice had attracted 70–100 million adherents by the late 1990s before the Chinese regime launched a nationwide eradication movement against Falun Gong in July 1999. Millions of its adherents have been arrested, sentenced, and detained, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.

However, human rights lawyers representing Falun Gong cases are targeted as troublemakers, said one internal document (pdf), issued by the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of Dandong Municipal Committee, Liaoning Province in June 2015.

The document is labeled as “Secret.”

“The courts and procuratorates at all levels [should] strengthen the punishment of Falun Gong … focusing on court trials of Falun Gong cases and preventing human rights lawyers from ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble,’” it said.

A May report released a month earlier wrote that the authorities “successfully” dealt with the trials when Beijing lawyers defended rights for Falun Gong practitioners.

Human rights lawyer Li Ming, who was forced to flee China in 2018, told The Epoch Times that the 610 office would attend and supervise the court hearing of Falun Gong cases.

The office, set up under the command of former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin on June 10, 1999, functions as an extralegal secret police force aiming to eradicate Falun Gong in China.

“Although [the judges and prosecutors] believe that Falun Gong practitioners are innocent in holding on to their beliefs, they do not dare to freely express themselves in that high-pressure environment under surveillance,” said Li.

Li was once threatened and suppressed by the local 610 office while working in Shanghai for defending Falun Gong practitioners.

The document also outlines surveillance and control tactics used both domestically and abroad, online and offline, such as eliminating hanging banners and spray-painted slogans by local practitioners, monitoring and blocking relevant information on the internet, and collecting information from overseas Falun Gong affiliate organizations.

In addition, an annual report released in July 2017 by the Municipal Committee on Politics and Law in Dandong shows that state media was weaponized to smear Falun Gong and lead the public opinion.

In 2016, local television stations and newspapers ran anti-Falun Gong programs as part of Beijing’s patriotic education, under the command of the propaganda department of the municipal committee.

The programs, including 60,000 papers, 8,000 advertisements, and a 5 column series, reached out to over 150,000 local residents, according to the report.

https://www.ntd.com/leaked-documents-show-china-put-politics-before-law-in-suppression-of-spiritual-group_636771.html

Docs 53 pages in Chinese

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20970935/dan-dong-shi-14xiang-wei-wen-ying-dui-chu-zhi-gong-zuo-gui-ding.pdf

“Bad for African Farmers, Bad for the Planet”: How the Gates Foundation Is Driving the Food System in the Wrong Direction

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better understand how the Gates Foundation is shaping the global agriculture agenda, GRAIN analysed all the food and agriculture grants the foundation has made up until 2020.

We found that, while the Foundation’s grants focus on African farmers, the vast majority of its funding goes to groups in North America and Europe. The grants are also heavily skewed to technologies developed by research centres and corporations in the North for poor farmers in the South, completely ignoring the knowledge, technologies and biodiversity that these farmers already possess.

Also, despite the Foundation’s focus on techno-fixes, much of its grants are given to groups that lobby on behalf of industrial farming and undermine alternatives. This is bad for African farmers and bad for the planet. It is time to pull the plug on the Gates’ outsized influence over global agriculture.

In 2014 GRAIN published a detailed breakdown of the grants made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote agricultural development in Africa and other parts of the world.1 Our main conclusion then was that the vast majority of those grants were channelled to groups in the US and Europe, not Africa nor other parts of the global South. The funding overwhelmingly went to research institutes rather than farmers. They were also mainly directed at shaping policies to support industrial farming, not smallholders.

Much has happened since then. For starters, Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce in May this year, leaving the future of the Foundation and its grant-making in doubt. The news came as Bill Gates himself came under fire for supporting Big Pharma’s patent monopoly on COVID-19 vaccines, for effectively preventing people’s access across much of the world, and for how he treats – or mistreats – women.2 The Foundation’s agenda with agriculture has also been coming under increased scrutiny. A 2020 report from Tufts University concluded that its work in Africa completely failed to meet the objectives that it had set itself.3 The African Centre for Biodiversity published a string of reports denouncing the Gates Foundation for pushing GMOs and other harmful technologies onto Africa.4 Amongst all this, the US Right to Know collective started a “Bill Gates Food Tracker” to monitor the multiple initiatives that Gates is involved in to reshape the global food system.5

GRAIN wondered whether the Gates Foundation had been receptive to the criticism of its food and agriculture funding. So we set out to update our 2014 report, downloaded the Foundation’s publicly available grant records and created a database of all of the Foundation’s grants in the area of food and agriculture from 2003 to 2020 – almost two decades worth of grant-making.6

The results are sobering. From 2003 to 2020 the Foundation dished out a total of 1130 grants for food and agriculture, worth nearly $US6 billion of which almost US$5 billion is supposed to service Africa.

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https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/07/bad-for-african-farmers-bad-for-the-planet-how-the-gates-foundation-is-driving-the-food-system-in-the-wrong-direction.html

Prosecutors to Investigate Brazil President Bolsonaro's Alleged Involvement in Vaccine Graft Case

Earlier this week, opposition lawmakers in Brazil launched a fresh bid to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been hit by more corruption allegations linked to criminally mishandling the acquisition of coronavirus vaccines.

The office of Brazil's attorney general announced on 2 July it’s probing claims that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro failed to report corruption linked to the purchase of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2021

© REUTERS / ADRIANO MACHADO

Several Parties Have Filed a 'Super Petition' For the Impeachment of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro

Earlier this week, Brazil's health minister announced the country would suspend a $324 million Indian COVID-19 vaccine contract that has mired Bolsonaro in accusations of irregularities.

Brazilian federal prosecutors also opened a probe into the deal, citing comparatively high prices, suspiciously quick talks, and pending regulatory approvals as red flags. It’s also being probed by a Senate panel investigating the government's handling of the pandemic.

On 30 June, Brazilian lawmakers and lawyers filed a collective impeachment request against Bolsonaro. The president himself denies any wrongdoing.

Meanwhile, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 65,163 within the past 24 hours, bringing the total number to 18,622,304. Brazil has the world’s second highest death toll behind the United States with more than 604,000 fatalities, and third in the number of confirmed cases after the US and India.

Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic, including the lack of a coordinated national response.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202107021083293849-prosecutors-to-investigate-brazil-president-bolsonaros-alleged-involvement-in-vaccine-graft-case/

Croatian Anti-Corruption Police Arrest Head of State TV

Several close associates of Zagreb’s former mayor, including the head of the state media HRT, were arrested in Croatia on suspicion of corruption, bribery and abuse of power.

The arrests on Wednesday were made, according to HRT, by Croatia's anti-graft body, the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK), after months of monitoring people under suspicion of corrupt activities in the previous administration.

Kazimir Bačić, the director of HRT, is suspected of “committing the criminal offenses of ‘bribery for trading in influence’ and ‘trading in influence,’” an USKOK statement said on Thursday.

The investigation alleges that Bačić “used his social influence as a longtime director general of HRT” to obtain certain permits from the mayor.

Also among those arrested, according to media reports, was Denis Mohenski – known by the nickname “King of the Advent” – who is suspected of bribery and abuse of position during the allocation of stands at Zagreb’s popular Advent Christmas fair.

Tomislav Tomašević, the recently-elected grassroots-activist-turned-mayor of Zagreb, confirmed that the police started an investigation early on Wednesday morning.

The Independent Balkan News Agency reported that Tomašević said the new city administration fully supports the independence of state institutions and will continue advocating for transparency in the city administration.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković also welcomed the investigation, saying that it was “proof that USKOK and the police are doing an active and concrete fight against corruption”.

Over the last decade, “USKOK has successfully prosecuted more than two thousand defendants,” according to Foreign Policy – which referred to the agency as “one of the world’s most formidable anti-corruption outfits”.

USKOK had also launched several investigations against former Mayor Bandić, who died from a heart attack earlier this year, after a series of corruption scandals during his term.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14746-croatian-anti-corruption-police-arrest-head-of-state-tv

Six children victim of sexual abuse removed from harm as a result of Europol’s Victim Identification Taskforce

Six victims of child abuse have been identified and removed from harm as a result of the 9th Victim Identification Taskforce organised by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3).

Between 14 and 25 June 2021, 41 victim identification specialists from across the world joined forces to identify as many victims of child sexual abuse as possible.

Europol is managing more than 59 million unique images and video files in its dedicated repository. To prepare for the action, Europol specialists selected footage of victims whose location and identity had not yet been established.

The participants combined their efforts to assess over 300 series. For 47 of these, the likely country of production was identified. The concerned EU Member States were immediately notified so that they could launch their own investigation at the national level. Europol is now providing support to these countries to help safeguard the children as quickly as possible and apprehend the offenders.

The following countries and agencies took part in this edition of the Victim Identification Taskforce: Australia, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, INTERPOL, Latvia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, US ICE and US FBI.

HOW YOU CAN HELP STOP CHILD ABUSE

In June 2017, Europol launched its crowdsourcing Stop Child Abuse - Trace An Object initiative, which stemmed from the work of this Taskforce.

As part of this initiative, non-confrontational details of images extracted from child sexual abuse cold cases are regularly made public in the hope that someone might recognise a detail which could help narrow down the location of the victim.

So far, this initiative has yielded the following results:

Over 26 800 tips have been sent in via the general public;

Investigators were able to narrow down a country in 105 instances;

12 children victim of child sexual abuse have been identified and removed from harm;

4 offenders have been identified and prosecuted.

Every piece of information helps. The images can be viewed at: https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse

Please have a look and see if you can help us identify a detail which could lead investigators to a child victim of abuse.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/six-children-victim-of-sexual-abuse-removed-harm-result-of-europol%E2%80%99s-victim-identification-taskforce

ICE HSI arrested Los Angeles-area man on federal child pornography charges alleging he paid impoverished Filipino boys to film sex acts

LOS ANGELES – Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles have arrested a Redondo Beach man on charges of producing child pornography, allegedly by developing a relationship with at least one boy in the Philippines who performed sex acts online in exchange for money.

Billy Frederick, 51, was arrested Wednesday morning without incident, following HSI’s investigation into the matter. During his initial court appearance late Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. magistrate judge ordered Frederick jailed without bond pending trial. The criminal complaint naming Frederick was unsealed this afternoon.

According to the complaint filed on June 22, Frederick stored in his Google accounts various images and videos depicting child pornography, at least some of which he obtained from video calls on Google Hangout. The affidavit in support of the complaint details one video from July 2020 in which a boy, who appears to be between 11 and 14 years old, engages in sexual activity while Frederick records the video call. In messages sent relating to the video call, the victim calls Frederick “master.”

HSI’s investigation also uncovered chats between Frederick and the victim prior to the video call in which the boy asks to borrow money to purchase underwear. Immediately after the call, Frederick chatted online with the boy, who asked for money to be sent to his brother.

The affidavit outlines other online chats from 2020 between Frederick and a person claiming to be relative of the victim seen on the Google Hangout video. In one chat, after telling Frederick that the victim had broken his leg and required medical aid, the relative wrote, “we’re just poor so I agree to my [relative] for what his doing,” according to the affidavit.

During a search of one of Frederick’s online accounts, “I discovered many CSAM [child sexual abuse material] images of young nude male minors ranging from approximately 6 years of age to 15 years of age,” according to the affidavit by an HSI special agent. “Further, I discovered messages where Frederick would discuss the solicitation of CSAM of young boys, including enticement to engage in sexually explicit activity.”

Frederick is charged with production of child pornography for transportation into the United States, an offense that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum penalty of 30 years. Frederick is scheduled to be arraigned in this case on July 22.

The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California’s Violent and Organized Crime Section.

HSI is a directorate of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for investigating transnational crime and threats, specifically those criminal organizations that exploit the global infrastructure through which international trade, travel and finance move. HSI’s workforce of over 10,400 employees consists of more than 7,100 Special Agents assigned to 220 cities throughout the United States, and 80 overseas locations in 53 countries. HSI’s international presence represents DHS’s largest investigative law enforcement presence abroad and one of the largest international footprints in U.S. law enforcement.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-hsi-arrested-los-angeles-area-man-federal-child-pornography-charges-alleging-he

Contract Rehabilitation Therapy Providers Agree to Pay $8.4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to the Provision of Medically Unnecessary Therapy Services

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/contract-rehabilitation-therapy-providers-agree-pay-84-million-resolve-false-claims-act

Police raided home of PTSD suffering ex-soldier and his Army veteran wife in child porn probe four days before they killed themselves in suicide pact

Peter, 54, and wife Deborah McGuinness, 49, former PA to three heads of Army, killed themselves last year

Officers raided the property in July last year and seized a number of devices before their deaths in August

Ex-Head of British Army paid tribute to 'model soldier' after she and her soldier husband killed themselves

Mr McGuinness had suffered from depression possibly caused by PTSD after several tours of Iraq

But his wife, who had been given the all clear from cancer before her death, had no history of mental illness

Anyone seeking help can call Samaritans free on 116 123 or visit Samaritans.org

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9749495/Police-raided-home-PTSD-suffering-ex-soldier-Army-veteran-wife-child-porn-probe.html

High Court rules transgender women CAN go into female prisons: Judges rule government's policy is lawful despite claims from inmate it raised risk of sex attacks

Female prisoner, known only as FDJ, brought challenge against MOJ policy

The inmate said accommodating transgender women risked sexual assaults

High Court judges rejected FDJ's claim and upheld the MoJ's policies as lawful

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9750105/High-Court-rules-transgender-women-female-prisons.html

'Visionary' ex-British Army Captain, 48, behind Syrian 'White Helmet' volunteers mysteriously fell to death from Turkish balcony 20 minutes after talking to wife - but coroner says there is 'not enough' evidence to rule suicide

James Le Mesurier, 48, died after falling from a balcony in Turkey, coroner found

It was 20 minutes after talking to wife, inquest at Woking Coroners' Court heard

His body was discovered under his apartment in Istanbul on November 11, 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9749569/Ex-Army-Captain-White-Helmet-fell-balcony-talking-wife-coroner-rules.html

KC man arrested for child solicitation following attempt to meet with a child

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Kansas City man was arrested in Osage Co. after he attempted to meet with someone he believed to be a child.

The Osage Co. Sheriff’s Office says it has arrested Steven E. Spradley, 56, of Kansas City, Mo., was arrested following an investigation regarding the online solicitation of a child.

On Thursday, July 1, said it took Spradley into custody as he attempted to meet with someone he believed to be a minor.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, Spradley was taken into custody without incident and transported to the Osage Co. Jail for aggravated human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of a child and unlawful use of a communication facility.

https://www.wibw.com/2021/07/02/kc-man-arrested-child-solicitation-following-attempt-meet-with-child/

34 arrested or wanted on racketeering charges in Central Florida gang-busting operation

More than 30 people, many described as leaders of violent gangs, have been recently arrested or are wanted on racketeering charges, as part of a crackdown Central Florida law enforcement officials say they hope will dismantle the criminal organizations driving recent gun violence and killings.

Orlando rapper Jacquavius “9lokkNine” Smith, described by Orange County Sheriff John Mina as a leader of the Army gang based in the Mercy Drive area, is one of the 25 men and women arrested in the months-long, multi-agency investigation on racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (RICO) charges and conspiracy to commit racketeering.

Smith, 21, whose stage name is pronounced “Glock Nine,” is currently jailed with bail set at $750,000.

Hundreds of pages of court records in his case and those of others arrested in the probe remain sealed, but officials said Friday at a news conference they have been able to link Smith and the others to repeated instances of violence and illegal activity, sometimes including drug trafficking.

Another local rapper, Javarri “Hotboii” Walker, who Mina described as a leader of a rival gang based in the Silver Star Road area, 438, is also wanted on RICO charges, but has not yet been arrested.

“The ongoing feud that has been going back and forth between these gangs has been responsible for over 30 shootings and several homicides in a number of our jurisdictions,” Mina said Friday.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-orange-gang-feud-update-20210702-o34nmsh3obbupeac2idxefhf64-story.html