Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 12:46 p.m. No.14038540   🗄️.is 🔗kun

White House Supports AG’s Halt to Federal Executions Amid Pressure to End Death Penalty for Good

 

Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered a temporary halt to the scheduling of federal executions on Thursday amid growing concerns regarding the fair treatment of inmates, with a review underway into the department’s policies and procedures on the matter.

 

The federal stay on executions is an “important step forward,” and the president supports Attorney General Garland on the matter, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced Friday.

 

“The president felt it so important that it was a part of his discussion with the attorney general when he interviewed him and talked to him about the job. Now, the attorney general has announced that there will be a halt in executions while there is an important review. And the president feels that’s an important step forward,” Psaki said, speaking to reporters in Washington.

 

Asked to comment on pressure on the government to commute federal death sentences, Psaki said she couldn’t “speak to that” while the review was underway.

 

Biden pledged to end the death penalty while running for president in 2020, saying he would support legislation in this area on the federal level and “incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example.”

 

Amid Garland’s move to temporarily halt executions, anti-death penalty activists have made calls to make the halt permanent, and have asked Biden to fulfill his campaign promises.

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/202107021083294561-white-house-supports-ags-halt-to-federal-executions-amid-pressure-to-end-death-penalty-for-good/

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 12:49 p.m. No.14038550   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Fed Chair Powell Met With Coinbase CEO Just Before Bitcoin's Massive Plunge

 

Earlier today we made the observation that after the brief post-FOMC freakout, stocks have risen for two weeks straight, making new all time highs virtually every day, and all that was necessary for this ramp higher was for Joe Biden to meet with Powell, Yellen and Gensler the morning of Monday, June 26. What happened next is familiar to all.

 

But it's not just stocks where one can find the impact of Powell's not so invisible finger. According to the just released May calendar notes for the Fed chair, on Tuesday, May 11 at 11:15am, Powell met - in person and not by zoom as most of Powell's other meetings - with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (less than a month after the company went public on April 12, along with Republican Paul Ryan.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-chair-powell-met-coinbase-ceo-just-bitcoins-massive-plunge

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 12:54 p.m. No.14038583   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Iron Pentagon: The Nexus of Control, Corruption, and Suppression – How Mass Involuntary Dissentients Are Created.

 

In 1981, Gordon Adams published the ‘The Iron Triangle: The Politics of Defense Contracting.’

 

The article described the iron triangle as a policy-making relationship between congress, the federal bureaucracy, and interest groups working together to consolidate power and expand their political influence.

 

Forty years later, America’s political landscape has become more multifaceted due to the internet, globalization, and financialization. The iron triangle no longer addresses the network intricacies and the implications to society.

 

The Iron Pentagon

 

Updating the iron triangle for the current political landscape expands it into a multi-dimensional pentagon. The Iron Pentagon nodes are the Federal Government, Non-Profits, Federal Reserve and Wall Street, Big Tech, and Mainstream Media. These colluding entities erode personal freedom, personal property, real property, and intellectual property rights that are the four pillars of modern Western society. The Iron Pentagon entraps the populace stripping their agency and transferring their wealth.

 

Federal Government

 

Executive Orders ride roughshod over Congresses Constitutional authority and our civil liberties. President Biden, the usurper, has signed 50 executive orders setting a record pace. For example, Biden binding America to the Paris Climate Accord skipping Congressional approval as a treaty. The Heritage Foundation estimated “an aggregate GDP loss of over $2.5 trillion – all for a few tenths of a degree Celsius in abated warming.” America is sliding into an autocracy.

 

The DOJ, FBI, CIA, and IRS report to the Executive Branch are an unelected shadow government. A modern Praetorian Guard who are covert and act in concert to protect the elite politicians and their partisan supporters. For example, through civil litigation records, the Stasi agencies were aware about Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca foreign bribery scandal as late as 2018. Money funneled to attorneys protected recipients’ identities using client-attorney privilege. The FBI also had Hunter’s laptop from Hell left unclaimed at a computer repair shop in 2019.

 

Consider how the government increases in size and power. Congress uses large and complex Omnibus bills for appropriations, regulations, and law to bypass hearings and debates. The majority party uses lobbyists (influence peddlers) to assist in drafting, and the legislation is available for at least 72 hours before a vote. Titles are ambiguous to obscure the content from the public, i.e., $2 trillion Cares Act (880 pages).

 

The National Security State consists of the CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, the Defense Department, and the corporate military-industrial complex that exercises substantial political and economic power. The Security State conducts domestic mass surveillance while ignoring waves of unwelcomed immigrants swarming over the border.

 

Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has declared a culture war by a Soviet-style military purge using a fictitious claim of white supremacist extremists and requiring Marxist critical race theory indoctrination. The unchecked Security State will eventually be a more significant threat than foreign adversaries.

Involuntary Dissent

The government and its affiliates are lawless entities, making the truth treasonous.

Citizens have lost faith in American leadership and governance.

Questioning the elite sociopaths’ and kleptocrats’ philosophies, motives, and actions may make you an involuntary dissentient.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/iron-pentagon-nexus-control-corruption-suppression-mass-involuntary-dissentients-created/

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:02 p.m. No.14038626   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Medical Imaging Companies CEO Found Guilty of Running Massive Health Care Fraud Through the State Workers’ Comp System

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/medical-imaging-companies-ceo-found-guilty-running-massive-health-care-fraud-through

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:07 p.m. No.14038647   🗄️.is 🔗kun

PEDO BUN 2 July 21

 

Former Customs and Border Protection Officer Sentenced on Child Exploitation Charge

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/former-customs-and-border-protection-officer-sentenced-child-exploitation-charge

 

Land O’ Lakes Man Indicted For Enticing A Minor Child To Engage In Sexual Activity, And For Producing And Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Materials

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/land-o-lakes-man-indicted-enticing-minor-child-engage-sexual-activity-and-producing-and

 

Gainesville Man Convicted Of Receipt And Possession Of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/gainesville-man-convicted-receipt-and-possession-child-pornography

 

Springfield Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Producing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/springfield-man-sentenced-30-years-producing-child-pornography

 

Erie Man on Parole for Child Rape Sentenced to 12+ Years in Prison for Bank Robberies

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/erie-man-parole-child-rape-sentenced-12-years-prison-bank-robberies

 

Buffalo Sex Offender Sentenced to 24 Years for Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/buffalo-sex-offender-sentenced-24-years-child-pornography

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:08 p.m. No.14038654   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9125

Former San Francisco Building Inspection Commission President Indicted For Bank Fraud, Obstruction Of Justice, Aggravated Identity Theft

 

Federal Indictment Adds New Charges To Previous Charge That Licensed Civil and Structural Engineer Defrauded Clients

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-san-francisco-building-inspection-commission-president-indicted-bank-fraud

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:16 p.m. No.14038707   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Dutch court approves alleged drug syndicate leader Tse Chi Lop for extradition to Australia

 

A Dutch court has approved an Australian request to hand over the alleged leader of an Asian drug syndicate who has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Key points:

 

The Canadian was arrested at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in January

He is wanted over his connection to Operation Volante, which dismatled a global crime syndicate

The AFP claims Mr Tse's organisation dominates the $90 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade

 

Tse Chi Lop, a Chinese-born Canadian national, was arrested in January at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at the request of Australian police while in transit from Taiwan to Canada.

 

The defence said it would appeal, and the matter will be decided by the Dutch Supreme Court.

 

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims Mr Tse's organisation dominates the $90 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.

 

A final decision on extradition will be made by the Dutch government.

 

Mr Tse has denied wrongdoing and contested his arrest, saying the Australian authorities in effect engineered his expulsion from Taiwan to Canada on a flight with a stopover in the Netherlands so that he could be detained there.

 

The defendant is alleged to have led a drug syndicate that is dominant in the Asia-Pacific crystal methamphetamine trade, which increased fourfold in the five years to 2019, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

a headshot of Tse Chi Lop wearing a collared shirt and short black hair

Australian police believe Mr Tse dominates the $90 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.(

 

Reuters)

 

He is wanted in Australia for his connection to Operation Volante, which dismantled a global crime syndicate operating in five countries.

 

According to the AFP, the operation resulted in the arrest of 27 people for importing and trafficking "substantial quantities" of heroin and methamphetamine into Australia in 2013.

 

Police seized 42 kilograms of drugs and more than $4 million in cash in the operation.

 

Jeremy Douglas, South-East Asia and Pacific representative for the UN drugs agency UNODC, said in 2019 that Tse Chi Lop is in the league of El Chapo or maybe Pablo Escobar referring to Latin America's most notorious drug lords.

 

Mr Tse has denied he is a drug kingpin.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-02/court-approves-tse-chi-lop-extradition/100264964

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-02/court-approves-tse-chi-lop-extradition/100264964

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:22 p.m. No.14038739   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Minneapolis judge orders city to hire more police officers after residents sue over crime rates

 

A Minneapolis judge has ordered local leaders to ramp up the hiring of police officers in response to a lawsuit from residents claiming the city’s crime rate has only risen since the death of George Floyd.

 

Hennepin County Judge Jamie Anderson mandated the city council and Mayor Jacob Frey this week to hire 730 sworn officers by June 30, 2022 after it was discovered that the projected number of police officers hired by that time, 669, would not meet the city’s stipulations for the amount of officers needed based on population.

 

If the 2020 Census shows an uptick in population, more than 730 officers will need to be hired, until the police represent 0.2% of the city’s population.

 

“It is undisputed that: the crime rate in Minneapolis has increased since the killing of Floyd, one or more Petitioners have suffered injuries from that increase in crime,” Anderson wrote in his decision, referencing the residents who brought the lawsuit in August 2020.

 

In the summer of 2020, a group of eight residents banded together for the lawsuit and claimed an “exodus” of officers had led to increased crime in the city.

 

The role of law enforcement in Minneapolis has been a hotly debated topic since Floyd died in police custody in May of 2020. The video of his death revealed former officer Derek Chauvin – who has since been convicted of his murder — holding his knee against Floyd’s neck for nine minutes. The death and shocking video kicked off Black Lives Matter protests demanding police reform or the defunding and abolishment of police departments.

 

In January, the Minneapolis City Council moved to abolish police, with three officials calling for a public safety agency, which would replace traditional law enforcement.

 

“Minneapolis residents are imagining a comprehensive public safety approach that is more effective and more reflective of our values, and they are calling on the city to act,” Councilman Steve Fletcher said of the proposal.

 

A similar proposal put forth by Yes 4 Minneapolis, a coalition of activist groups, has reportedly earned the 20,000 signatures needed to make the ballot in November, which could lead to complications for the city’s police department and the judge’s recent order.

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/528259-minneapolis-judge-police/

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:25 p.m. No.14038751   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Steve Bannon Spied On By NSA/FBI

 

Out­side of this inter­view we can con­firm that Stephen Ban­non was spied by an Ille­gal FISA war­rant from 2016 through Dec 2019. This coin­cides with the bogus charges brought on by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment against We Build The Wall lead­ers, who were also on the ille­gal FISA warrants.

 

populist.press/steve-bannon-spied-on-by-nsa-fbi/

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/steve-bannon-spied-on-by-nsa-fbi/

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:28 p.m. No.14038763   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8784 >>9111 >>9191

Video Evidence Reveals Identity Of Capitol Police Lieutenant Who Shot Ashli Babbitt

 

Newly resurfaced video footage appears to confirm speculation that the man who shot and killed Capitol protester Ashli Babbitt was Capitol Hill Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd, who was NOT assigned to protect Vice President Mike Pence, as reported by mainstream media outlets.

 

The video footage of the black man in the suit has been extensively archived on the internet, and it plainly contradicts mainstream media accounts, citing anonymous intelligence community sources, which claim that a Secret Service member assigned to Mike Pence shot Babbitt.

 

Independent journalist Tayler Hansen stated that Capitol Hill Lt. Michael Leroy Byrd was the one who shot Babbitt on April 13 of this year. No instance of this assertion being challenged is known at this time.

 

 

An eyewitness said that the police officers moved out of the way of the door of the Senate chambers: a window was broken in the Capitol Building, and the woman shot started to climb up, and was shot by a “man in the suit”:

 

As she had both feet in the windowsill, her hands were on the sides of the window, a man inside, not a uniform, he had a suit on, fired one shot, hitting her up in this region somewhere [indicates to neck]. She fell out of the window. The police that were there would not let me assist. I am trained in emergency medical services. They would not let me assist… They pushed me out of the way, and I stood there and I watched this young woman die.

 

The man suggested that the woman was not shot by DC Police as initially reported, but may have been shot by “internal security.”

 

https://en-volve.com/2021/07/02/breaking-video-evidence-reveals-identity-of-capitol-police-lieutenant-who-shot-ashli-babbitt/

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:37 p.m. No.14038814   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8819

Jewish Power By Paul Eisen - (August 19, 2004)

 

The crime against the Palestinian people is being committed by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons displaying Jewish religious symbols, and with the full support and complicity of the overwhelming mass of organised Jews worldwide. But to name Jews as responsible for this crime seems impossible to do.

 

The future is always open and nothing can ever be ruled out; but, for now, it's hard to see how Israel can be stopped. After over fifty years, it is clear that Israel will only relinquish its eliminationist attitude to Palestinians and Palestinian life when it has to. This need not be through military action but it is hard to see how anything else will do. The conventional wisdom - that if America turned off the tap, Israel would be brought to its knees - is far from proven. First, it's not going to happen. Second, those who believe it may well be underestimating both the cohesiveness of Israeli society and the force of Jewish history which permeates it. Even more unlikely is the military option. The only force on earth which could possibly confront Israel is the American military, and, again, that is not going to happen.

 

Palestinian resistance has been astonishing. After over fifty years of brutal assault by what may well one day be seen as one of the most ruthless and irrational powers of modern times, and with just about every power on earth ranged against them, Palestinians are still with us, still steadfast, still knowing who they are and where they come from. Nonetheless, for the time being effective resistance may be over (though the possibility of organised non-violent resistance can never be ruled out), and, for now, the only strategy open may be no more than one for survival.

 

For us it is so much easier to deny this reality than to accept it, and doubtless the struggle will continue. How fruitful this will be no-one can say. Although the present seems hopeless, survival is still vital and no-one knows when new opportunities may arise. Anyway, to struggle against injustice is always worth doing. But what if the struggle becomes so delusional that it inhibits rather than advances resistance? What if the struggle becomes a way of avoiding rather than confronting reality? Those slogans "End the Occupation!" and "Two States for Two Peoples!" are now joined by a new slogan, "The One-State Solution!" This is every bit as fantastic as its predecessors because, just as there never was going to be an end to the occupation, nor a real Palestinian state, so, for now, there is no possibility of any "one state" other than the state of Israel which now stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and the only "solution" is a final solution and even that cannot be ruled out.

 

"Zionism is not Judaism;

Judaism is not Zionism�."

 

The crime against the Palestinian people is being committed by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons with Jewish religious symbols all over them, and with the full support and complicity of the overwhelming mass of organised Jews worldwide. But to name Jews as responsible for this crime seems impossible to do. The past is just too terrible. All of us know of the hatred and violence to which accusations against Jews have led in the past. Also, if we were to examine critically the role of Jews in this conflict, what would become of us and of our struggle? Would we be labelled anti-Semites and lose much of the support that we have worked so hard to gain?

 

https://www.righteousjews.org/article10.html

 

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Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:39 p.m. No.14038819   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14038814

 

What is a Jew?

 

Israel Shamir, the Russian-born Israeli writer, advocates the right of all people, whatever their ethnicity or religion, to live together in complete equality between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Shamir condemns the behaviour of Israel and of Diaspora Jews and calls for an end to their preferential treatment, but he also proposes an opposition to Judaism itself for which he stands accused of being anti-Jewish - a charge he does not deny but actually embraces.

 

Shamir proposes the existence of a Jewish ideology, or "Jewish paradigm" as he puts it, and proposes that it is the voluntary adherence to this "spirit" which makes a Jew into a Jew. For him, Jewishness is neither race nor ethnicity - there is, for Shamir, no such thing as a Jewish 'tribe' or 'family' - no biological or ethnic body from which there can be no escape. Further, this ideology, based on notions of choseness, exclusivity and even supremacism is, at least when empowered, incompatible with peace, equality and justice in Palestine or anywhere else for that matter.

 

No-one wants to oppose any Jews simply for being Jews, or even for what they believe, but only because of what they do. The problem is that since, according to Shamir, what Jews believe and even do is precisely what makes them into Jews, so opposition to Jewishness as an ideology surely comes dangerously close to opposition to Jews simply for being Jews. But for Shamir, Jews are Jews because they choose to be Jews. Someone may be born of Jews and raised as a Jew but they can if they wish reject their Jewish upbringing and become a non-Jew. And many have done just that including such famous escapees as Karl Marx, St. Paul, Leon Trotsky (and Shamir himself), etc. Opposition to Jews is not, therefore, like opposition to Blacks or to Asians or to other common racist attitudes since the object of the opposition is perfectly able to relinquish the ideology in question.

 

Shamir has never in any way called for any harm to be done to Jews or anyone else, nor for Jews or anyone else to be discriminated against in any way. Adherence to this Jewish ideology is, for Shamir, regrettable, but not, in itself, a matter for active opposition. Nor does this mean that Shamir is opposed to any individual Jew just because he or she is a Jew. What Shamir actively opposes is not "Jews" but "Jewry". Analogous to say, the Catholic Church, Jewry consists of those organised Jews and their leaders who actively promote corrosive Jewish interests and values, particularly now in the oppression of the Palestinians.

 

One doesn't have to be in complete agreement with Shamir to understand what he is talking about. Why should Jews not have a "spirit"; after all, such a concept has been discussed with regard to other nations?

 

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Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:43 p.m. No.14038845   🗄️.is 🔗kun

42 USC 17337: United States-Israel energy cooperation Text contains those laws in effect on July 1, 2021

 

From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 152-ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITYSUBCHAPTER VIII-INTERNATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAMSPart A-Assistance To Promote Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies in Foreign Countries

 

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=%28title:42%20section:17337%20edition:prelim%29

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:47 p.m. No.14038866   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sudden Shift in COVID-19 Lab Leak Narrative ‘Mysterious’: Evolutionary Biologist

 

The sudden shift in narrative over the possibility that COVID-19 could have emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, is mysterious and contingent to “just how corrupt our system has become,” according to evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein.

 

Weinstein, biologist and co-host of the DarkHorse Podcast, has since last year explored the possibility that COVID-19 could have emerged from a laboratory. He told Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program (episode premiering on Sat. July 3) that the fact that the hypothesis is now receiving widespread recognition from the international community is “completely mysterious.”

 

“My channel was very early on this topic, and it was quite clear to many of us, starting with the tremendous coincidence of this virus having emerged first in Wuhan, where there is a biosafety level four lab studying these very viruses and enhancing them,” said Weinstein. “It was quite clear that there was at least a viable hypothesis that needed to be discussed.

 

Weinstein, a visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, said that before the narrative surrounding the COVID-19 lab leak theory gained traction, those who did discuss it were stigmatized, demonized and “portrayed as everything from racist to reactionary.”

 

“All we were doing was following the evidence,” Weinstein continued. “The change in that story was, I have to say, completely mysterious.”

 

While the theory that the virus was the result of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was labeled a “conspiracy theory” last year, it has recently gained traction as a growing number of scientists and officials have lent credence to the hypothesis.

 

COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

 

A January State Department fact sheet raised questions about whether the outbreak could have been the result of a lab accident at WIV. It said the United States has “reason to believe” that several WIV researchers became sick with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses in autumn 2019. The department also said the lab had been conducting secret military experiments on animals since at least 2017, and that it has a history of conducting gain-of-function research on viruses. Such research involves modifying viruses to have new or enhanced capabilities.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/sudden-shift-in-covid-19-lab-leak-narrative-mysterious-evolutionary-biologist_3884058.html

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:49 p.m. No.14038878   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9042

Venezuela To Chop Off Six Zeros From Bolivar In 3rd Currency Redenomination In 13 Years

 

Prior attempts of the Venezuelan government to get a handle on several years of hyperinflation included the dramatic and unprecedented recent step of issuing 1 million bolívar bills. The high denomination bill issued in March of course did literally nothing to solve the underlying problems which started in earnest in 2016 under a collapsing system, but it only made ordinary Venezuelans' lives harder.

 

For example a single 1 million bolívar note would not currently be enough to buy a single cup of coffee, as a million bolivars is worth just over $0.32 US. The vast majority of working class people still need cash for daily transactions, including for public transit or local grocery and goods stores.

 

And now the next iteration of an attempted "solution" to the ongoing crisis is a fresh currency redenomination, which will mark no less than the third one in 13 years.

 

This time it will simply involve chopping off a lot of zeros to make things practically easier for cash transactions, as Bloomberg reports, "Venezuela is preparing once again to eliminate zeros from the national currency, in order to simplify daily transactions that hardly fit on a calculator or that require swiping the card several times to complete a purchase."

 

Starting in August the central bank will cut six zeros from the bolivar, thus a single dollar would cost 3.2 bolivars instead of the current whopping 3,219,000.

 

The central bank move to delete a bunch of zeros is beginning to appear a semi-regular intervention given that stemming back to 2008 a total of eight zeros have been progressively removed.

 

The former president of retailers' group Consecomercio Felipe Capozzolo had this to say of the anticipated move: "Not only has it become difficult to make payments because the amounts are too high, but printing such numbers is becoming difficult for the label makers," according to Caracas Chronicles.

 

How many bolivars needed to buy one dollar?…

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/venezuela-chop-six-zeros-bolivar-3rd-currency-redenomination-13-years

Anonymous ID: 561e3e July 2, 2021, 1:58 p.m. No.14038943   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8963 >>9206

Metro undercover operation targets pimps on Las Vegas Strip

 

Crime on the Las Vegas Strip has gone up as Southern Nevada tries to recover from the pandemic.

 

Metro Police say they want to show just what they’re doing to address the issue. They gave the I-Team exclusive access to an undercover operation targeting sex trafficking, specifically by arresting pimps who were forcing women to sell sex.

 

While visitors enjoyed the Strip on Memorial Day weekend, a team at Metro headquarters prepared to address a dark underbelly of the glitz and glam.

 

“There are a lot of criminals, and there is a lot of nefarious activity going down on the Strip,” Metro Lt. William Matchko said. “We have a mission … welcome everybody to I think what is gonna be the largest actual human trafficking operation we’ve ever done.”

 

The lieutenant heads the Vice Section.

 

“We’re here tonight because Memorial Day weekend attracts a great deal of traffickers to the valley.”

 

Arrest reports obtained by the I-Team point to a rise in violent and prostitution-related crimes on Las Vegas Boulevard.

 

“Sex traffickers seize that opportunity to come in and sell people,” Matchko told the I-Team.

 

He says busy weekends with holidays or special events attract pimps bringing in prostitutes across state lines, especially from California.

 

Metro teamed up with federal agencies to target the pimps. Police worked both in uniform and undercover.

 

“I’ll just be walking through the casino floor and wait for pimps to come up and approach me,” explained one undercover officer.

 

Another posed as a prostitute.

 

“They usually start out by complimenting us, telling us, asking us what we’re doing out there, and they go on to just tell us how we can do better and how they can help us,” she said.

 

But what she described is a broken promise.

 

“They go after children; they go after vulnerable women,” she said. “They’re just extremely violent people. They enslave them.”

 

In 2020, Metro identified 128 adult victims of sex trafficking, meaning they were forced or coerced to sell sex. The department also identified 123 victims under the age of 18.

 

In one eight-year study of child sex trafficking in Las Vegas, 922 child victims were identified.

 

https://www.8newsnow.com/i-team/i-team-metro-undercover-operation-targets-pimps-on-las-vegas-strip/