Section 230 Facially Violates 1st Amendment by Sub-Contracting Censorship

The government has granted the power to censor the entire USA to Twitter, Facebook, and Google, but that power is unconstitutional. Op-ed.

In Kurt Vonnegut’s epic novel Cat’s Cradle, Felix Hoenikker, a character who co-created the atomic bomb in the novel, also created another military weapon called “Ice-Nine.” Ice-Nine is an alternate crystalline structure of water that is solid at room temperature, and acts as a seed crystal upon contact with oridnary water, causing it to “freeze” up and become a solid crystal.

The novel ends when some Ice-Nine accidently falls into the ocean, and causes the entire world’s oceans, rivers and groundwater aquifers to apocalyptically freeze up into one huge solid crystal of Ice-Nine.

Why am I talking about Ice-Nine when writing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? Because Section 230 is the “Ice-Nine” of free speech, and of democracy itself. Big Tech has used Section 230 to begin to “freeze out” certain free speech, and if allowed to continue, will destroy the very core of democracy.

Thus, Section 230 has become the enemy of the United States and of democracy, and it must be destroyed; or it will destroy the 1st Amendment, free speech, and the United States – in that order.

Imagine that you are an average residential consumer of electricity from your utility. Suppose you are politically motivated and send out emails to your friends, family, and your email list containing non-violent unquestionably 1st Amendment-constitutionally-protected speech. How would you feel if a newly created person called the “Human content monitor” of your supposedly neutral electric utility unilaterally decided that you were engaging in “objectionable” activities, and without notice or hearing turned off all power to your apartment? You’d sue the electric company and the government on the basis that the electric company is a quasi-government-empowered entity that is violating your 1st Amendment right to free speech.

Unfortunately, many people don’t have to imagine this scenario. Their supposedly neutral quasi-governmentally- empowered social media companies have “discovered” they were posting “objectionable” tweets against Democrats, and based on that alone ordered a shut-down of their social media service.

One should be able to sue the social media company on the basis that the social media company is a quasi-government-empowered entity that is violating your 1st Amendment. But guess what? The “Good Samaritan” Section 230 of the “Communications Decency Act” (“CDA”) empowers all the left-wing tech companies to quash your platform access merely because they believe “in good faith” that your posts are “otherwise objectionable.”

The supposed “good Samaritan” provision has, in fact, become the incarnation of the Orwellian 1984 Ministry of Truth. The United States Government has unconstitutionally “sub-contracted” the infinite power of total censorship to quasi-governmentally-empowered companies in clear facial violation of the 1st Amendment.

Here is 47 U.S. Code § 230 of the CDA – “Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material,” which states, in full:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/section-230-facially-violates-1st-amendment-sub-contracting-censorship/

Arizona Audit Hit Piece: Leftist Journalists Create Unconfirmed and Sketchy Story About Terminated Auditor

The Daily Mail published a story that included allegations from anonymous women about an unidentified man who made unwanted sexual advances while they were counting ballots at the Arizona Audit.

The Daily Mail then used these anonymous accusers to attack the audit and its procedures. Of course, sexual abuse accusations are always serious. However, it appears that this was just another audit hit piece by the far left media.

One of the “sources” told The Daily Mail, “The comments turned into unwanted touching and other physical advances.” But the article didn’t go into detail about how far the physical contact went.

Randy Pullen told The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson that there was one guy who had a filthy mouth but he was terminated immediately. Police and Arizona Rangers were also armed and patrolling at all times. If a pervert was touching women, he would have been in handcuffs.

The allegations reportedly involved more than one person, but the lion’s share of the complaints centered on one man in particular, Arizona’s Family Investigates said.

There was only one guy who had a filthy mouth according to audit officials.

He has not been named because no criminal charges have been brought against him.

No criminal charges? Then why are you charging him guilty on all accounts?

The women’s identities were also concealed to protect them.

That makes sense. Women typically go to the press when they are sexually harassed instead of the authorities, seems legit.

The women said they wrote letters and brought their complaints to upper management, which they said did nothing. The news station acquired the handwritten complaint letters, which were each a page or longer.

If you have the evidence, then release it and redact the names. It is that simple.

‘I have never received any written complaints of any type of sexual harassment, nor has a complaint like this been brought to my attention,’ the statement said. The closest thing I can think of is I am aware of a single table manager who was cussing a lot, and had apparently told an inappropriate joke. We fired him immediately.’

We have the statement from the audit officials but the activist media still sides with the accusers despite the lack of evidence shown.

Sexual misconduct allegations are becoming the norm when they want to take someone down. Who would have thought they would try it to stop the audit?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/arizona-audit-hit-piece-leftist-journalists-create-unconfirmed-sketchy-story-terminated-auditor/

Wells Unexpectedly Shuts All Existing Personal Lines Of Credit, Hinting US Economy On The Edge

Wells Fargo just announced that it's shutting down all of its existing personal lines of credit - a popular product offered by the retail-focused Wall Street giant - a move that will likely infuriate legions of customers.

The revolving credit lines, which will be shut down in the coming weeks, typically allow users borrow $3K to $100K, were pitched as a way to consolidate higher-interest credit-card debt, pay for home renovations or avoid overdraft fees on checking accounts attached to the loan.

Customers have been given a 60-day notice that their accounts will be shuttered, and remaining balances will require regular minimum payments, according to the statement.

According to CNBC, it's the latest "difficult decision" facing Wells CEO Charlie Scharf, who is being forced to make cutbacks to the banks' business thanks to restrictions imposed by the Federal Reserve years ago as punishment for the bank's criminal scandals like the now-infamous scandal whereby branch managers opened credit lines for customers without permission. a scandal that outraged the public.

"Wells Fargo recently reviewed its product offerings and decided to discontinue offering new Personal and Portfolio line of credit accounts and close all existing accounts," the bank said in the six-page letter. The move would let the bank focus on credit cards and personal loans, it said.

The sudden closures will leave many customers without what may be a critical source of liquidity. What's worse, many will be penalized for the decision, making it more difficult for them to receive credit from a new source. Per CNBC, those whose credit lines are involuntarily closed will still see their FICO scores penalized as if they had elected to close the credit line willingly.

With its latest move, Wells Fargo warned customers that the account closures “may have an impact on your credit score,” according to a Frequently Asked Questions segment of the letter.

Another part of the FAQ asserted that the account closures couldn’t be reviewed or reversed: “We apologize for the inconvenience this Line of Credit closure will cause,” the bank said. “The account closure is final."

Back in 2018, the Fed barred Wells Fargo from expanding its balance sheet until the central bank's regulators decide that the bank has fixed its compliance shortcomings exposed by the fake accounts scandal and other abuses of the consumer.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wells-fargo-infuriates-customers-abruptly-shuttering-personal-credit-business

‘It’s Going to Shock the Country” – Steve Bannon DROPS BOMBS on Arizona Audit in First Interview with TGP’s Arizona Reporter Jordan Conradson on The War Room

On Thursday morning The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson joined Steve Bannon in his first interview on The War Room.

Jordan Conradson and OAN’s Christina Bobb are the two top conservative reporters bringing you the facts from the historic Arizona forensic audit. Jordan updated the War Room audience on the latest developments coming out of Arizona.

On Thursday during their lengthy interview, Steve Bannon teased what is about to drop in Arizona.

Steve Bannon: What do you think the timing of this is?… What is your best idea now of timing? Because that’s the domino. Whether it’s a letter of Karen Fann to Maricopa County, whether it’s a subpoena to get more information? Her first salvo in this I think is going to shock the country… I think we’re going to get, I think we may get an actual interim letter from Karen Fann before the final report. I know they’re working on the final report. But I think that’s going to be something that’s a formal process because that’s what they said they were going to do as a report. I think there’s going to be shots fired from the state senate with some pretty definitive numbers saying, “Hey, we’re confused here,” to Maricopa County.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/going-shock-country-steve-bannon-drops-bombs-arizona-audit-first-interview-tgps-arizona-reporter-jordan-conradson-war-room-video/

Chinese Surveillance Firm on Pentagon Blacklist Hires Ex-US Official as Lobbyist

Hikvision, a video surveillance company with ties to the Chinese government, is working with a former U.S. government official, according to records.

Hikvision’s lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs, in June announced the hiring of Peter Kucik, a former sanctions policy advisor in the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The Chinese government founded Hikvision and is its “controlling shareholder,” according to IPVM.

Kucik will help the corporation navigate recent U.S. government actions against China, Axios reported.

In 2019, the Commerce Department curtailed Hikvision’s ability to do business with American companies, according to Axios.

Last summer, the Defense Department added Hikvision to a list of companies “owned or controlled” by the Chinese military.

Hikvision disputes that categorization and says it has never “conducted research and development work for Chinese military applications,” according to Axios.

In June, President Joe Biden prohibited U.S. entities from investing in Hikvision and dozens of other Chinese corporations to address “the threat posed by the military-industrial complex of the People’s Republic of China.”

The company is also allegedly linked to the surveillance of Uyghur mosques and detention camps in Xinjiang, Axios reported.

Hikvision denies this allegation as well, saying it has not committed “any inappropriate actions in Xinjiang.”

The Wall Street Journal reported in May that “Hikvision sold drones and other accessory equipment to the Chinese air force in 2019 and was considered a top-tier supplier to the nation’s military in 2014.”

According to the report, footage from state television showed a Chinese soldier holding a drone-jamming weapon with Hikvision’s logo on it.

Kucik registered himself under the Foreign Agents Registration Act this month as a “strategic consultant and regulatory advisor” for Mercury.

Records state that his role includes “strategic consulting, lobbying, public affairs, and government relations, including outreach to U.S. officials.”

Kucik is not the first U.S. official hired by Mercury, according to Axios.

In June, the company hired former Democratic Connecticut Rep. Toby Moffett. Moffett was one of Biden’s advisers during his 2008 presidential bid.

The company also got former Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer on board, though she distanced herself from the job after facing criticism, Axios reported.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/chinese-surveillance-firm-pentagon-blacklist-hires-ex-us-official-lobbyist/

Lee Camp: America’s impressive history of bioweapons attacks against its own people

Forget China-bashing conspiracy theories, let's look at the fogging of SF, the microbial attack on the NYC subway and other unpleasantries perpetrated by the CIA and US military in our not-so-distant past.

This article was originally published by ScheerPost.

The Biden administration, the mainstream media and pretty much all the politicians in our country continue to throw fuel on the Sinophobia fire initially stoked by former president and current Mar-a-Lago “fungineer” Donald Trump.

(Word to the wise, “Sinophobia” means anti-China hatred, not anti-cinema hatred as I had thought. So I apologize to all the people who posted a movie review for 'Fast And Furious 27' and noticed a response comment from me reading “GODDAMN SINOPHOBE!” Under the circumstances, that was an odd thing to yell.)

During the Trump administration, the Wuhan lab-leak theory was called a ridiculous conspiracy that blossomed out of Trump’s racist brain – which it did. It absolutely did. And he should get some credit for that because anyone can be racist but Trump is a racist inventor. He comes up with new and exciting ways to be racist. So he deserves some credit for his innovation.

Last year, Trump’s racist lab-leak theory was thrown out by both the Democratic establishment and most of the mainstream media. However, now that the crackpot conspiracy can be useful for President Biden’s deranged anti-China rhetoric, all of a sudden the establishment and the media think it’s a wonderful conspiracy.

A recent CNN headline blared: “What the lab-leak theory’s new credibility means for social media!” A CNBC headline screamed: “Biden orders closer review of Covid origins as US intel weighs Wuhan lab-leak theory.” While just a couple weeks ago, Yahoo News quietly reminded us: “There’s still no evidence of a Chinese lab leak.”

But mainly you have to go to independent news sources to get the reality. Here’s Danny Haiphong at Black Agenda Report: “Similar to Russiagate, US intelligence has run with an entirely unsourced narrative, that conveniently pins blame on another country for domestic ills and labels that country a ‘national security’ threat… The lab-leak conspiracy is an effective psychological operation because it is difficult to imagine evidence that could disprove or prove the claim.”

Ah, those are the best kind of racist stories – the ones that can’t be disproven.

But one thing you’ll certainly never hear from the mainstream media is that all of this is stacked on top of a mostly forgotten, yet impressively prodigious, history of the American people provably being used as lab rats by our own government. For example, as reported at Business Insider, “On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city’s fog. The military was testing how a biological weapon attack would affect the 800,000 residents of the city.”

So they, uh, perpetrated a biological attack on American citizens to find out what would happen in the event of a biological attack on American citizens?! Honestly, the mind reels. In one of the largest human experiments in history, our military covered the people of San Francisco with “… two kinds of bacteria, Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii…” (Nowadays you can only find that kind of treatment from Cleveland’s tap water.)

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/528701-bioweapons-attacks-cia-military/

US orders amphibious assault ship into Black Sea after Moscow warns tensions escalating dangerously in waters off coast of Russia

American sailors at the helm of a naval landing vessel have charted course for the Black Sea to take part in wargames alongside other NATO forces, the US Sixth Fleet has announced on Thursday, amid fears of conflict in the region.

According to commanders, the US Naval Ship Yuma, a Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport craft, “began its northbound transit into the Black Sea to operate with our NATO allies and partners.” The twin-hulled catamaran is able to transit a whole company of US Marines and is equipped with both a flight deck and a ramp to allow armored vehicles to rapidly roll into battle.

The Yuma will take part in the colossal ‘Sea Breeze’ exercises along with personnel from 32 separate nations, including Ukraine, the UK, France, Poland, Georgia, Senegal, South Korea, Pakistan, Japan and Morocco, among others.

Moscow has said the drill poses a real risk for potential escalations in military tensions. Last month, its diplomats called on the US to refrain from participating, saying that “the scale and aggressive nature of the ‘Sea Breeze’ exercises in no way helps with the real challenges of ensuring security in the Black Sea region.”

According to the envoys, the NATO drills will “increase the risk of unintentional incidents” and simultaneously “encourage militaristic sentiments in Kiev.” A spokesman for the US Sixth Fleet had previously said that Washington is “proud to partner with Ukraine in co-hosting the multinational maritime exercise.”

BREAKING: #USNSYuma (T-EPF-8) began its northbound transit into the #BlackSea to operate with our @NATO Allies & partners! #PowerForPeacepic.twitter.com/njq2vFCagw

— U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet (@USNavyEurope) July 8, 2021

The war games will run until July 10 and, according to US military chiefs, will see sailors rehearse “multiple warfare areas including amphibious warfare, land maneuver warfare, diving operations, maritime interdiction operations, air defense, special operations integration, anti-submarine warfare, and search and rescue operations.”

The drills have been run in previous years, but the current iteration comes amid significant tensions between NATO and Russia. Two weeks ago, a British warship, the HMS Defender, sparked a diplomatic incident when it crossed the border into waters around the disputed Crimean peninsula.

Russia, which considers the region to be an integral part of its sovereign territory, responded with aerial fly-bys and warning shots from a nearby warship. London refuses to recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea and insists the waters belong to Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/528700-assault-ship-tensions-escalating/

China’s gaming giant Tencent starts scanning nighttime players’ faces to bust curfew-breaking kids

People playing popular mobile games during nighttime in China are now required to prove they are adults. Tencent has started using its face ID system to catch minors violating a government-mandated curfew.

The feature was launched on Tuesday for over 60 games owned by Tencent, the biggest player in the mobile game industry in China. Dubbed “Midnight Patrol,” it will occasionally ask adult players playing at night to verify their identity through a facial scan. The verification database is linked with the central public security system.

The measure enforces a government ban on gaming between 10pm and 8am, which was introduced for minors in 2019, along with other restrictions. The prohibition was meant to curb gaming addiction among children, which, the authorities argue, leads to health problems like short-sightedness and to harmful behavior in kids, like stealing money to top their accounts, and to downward sliding in school grades.

Other rules capped microtransactions, both for single purchase and in total per month, and limited the time minors can spend gaming each day. The government said the instruction was directed both at the gaming industry and at legal guardians.

Some teen gamers did what teens in all countries do about adult rules that they don’t like: they started finding loopholes to get around the ban. One of the tricks is to register an account in an adult’s name and use it. Tencent’s ‘Midnight Patrol’ is aimed against this kind of shenanigan and will eventually expand to other products marketed by the company, it said. Adults kicked out of a game at night due to a false negative scan can simply take another identity verification.

The statement also announced that adults now have an option to lock parental control settings of accounts of kids in their custody, so that any change requires facial recognition. This is supposed to make it harder for underage gamers to swipe their parents’ phones and get more privileges.

Tencent’s gaming division is a dominant player in China, estimated to hold nearly 55% of the market last year, according to Sixth Tone, a Chinese online magazine aimed at Western audiences. Its flagship game ‘Honor of Kings’ has been the highest-grossing mobile game worldwide for two years straight, with domestic players accounting for a great chunk of the base.

https://www.rt.com/news/528681-china-gamers-facial-recognition/

Hungary declares LGBT+ activists will be barred from schools as EU opens inquiry into law restricting promotion of homosexuality

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared on Thursday that his country would bar LGBT+ activists from schools under a new law restricting promotion of homosexuality, despite pressure from the EU to rescind the legislation.

In a post shared on his official Facebook page, Orban responded to the European Commission’s decision to open an inquiry into the country over the legislation that prohibits the promotion of homosexuality within schools.

“The European Parliament and the European Commission want that we let LGBTQ activists and organisations into the kindergartens and schools. Hungary does not want that,” Orban said, standing by the legislation.

Orban has been clear that his government will not be dictated-to by the EU over this matter, stating that “Brussels bureaucrats have no business at all” demanding how Hungary teaches its children.

The comments come after the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told the country it must repeal the law or face action from the European Union. If Hungary continues to reject the EU’s requests, the Commission could open a legal case against Hungary or seek to restrict or freeze European funds designated for the member state.

Hungary has faced international criticism for the law, whose opponents claim it unfairly links pedophilia and LGBT+ issues. On Thursday, human rights groups held a protest outside Hungary’s parliament building, with Amnesty International declaring that the legislation is aiming “to erase LGBTQI people from the public sphere.”

https://www.rt.com/news/528695-hungary-lgbt-activists-homosexuality-law/

Watch: NATO Press Conference Interrupted As Jets Scrambled Over Inbound Russian Fighter 'Alert'

Dramatic video shows the moment a press conference at a NATO airbase in Lithuania was cut short over an emergency alert due to reportedly inbound Russian jets. Lithuania's president Gitanas Nauseda and Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez had been speaking at a high level briefing when the very NATO jets that served as their backdrop had to be scrambled in order to monitor the Russian jets' movements in the area.

The Associated Press described of the unusual interruption: "Nauseda and Sánchez were speaking with two Eurofighter Typhoons behind them at the base in the town of Siauliai when security officials suddenly interrupted the leaders as crews scrambled to get on the fighter jets, live footage from the press conference showed."

After the two leaders were rushed off with a pilot seen in the background jumping into the NATO fighter, staff quickly moved the flags and lecterns out of one plane's path as it prepared to taxi for take-off.

The Lithuanian president was later quoted by a national broadcaster as saying, "Our press conference was interrupted by a real call….You see, everything works great. I can confirm that the fighter jets took off in less than 15 minutes" of receiving the alarm. "Thanks to Pedro (Sánchez), we have really seen how our air policing mission works."

This suggests the possibility that the whole thing could have been a well-timed PR stunt, hyping the capabilities of one of NATO's newest Baltic members (Lithuania along with Estonia and Latvia joined NATO in 2004) in a self-congratulatory moment.

Regardless, the whole thing was very unusual. Sánchez later said during the resumed press conference once the fighters departed the air base: "We have seen a real case of what usually happens that precisely justifies the presence of Spanish troops with the seven Eurofighters in Lithuania."

Lithuania has lately become a central NATO outpost in the Baltics for 'confronting' Russia - the latter which frequently sends patrol jets across the region, especially in order to warn against further NATO encroachment along Russia's western border.

As for Thursday's strange press conference incident, NATO didn't immediately confirm the identity of the foreign aircraft in the area, but media reports widely reported a Russian incursion in the Baltic area.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-nato-press-conference-interrupted-jets-scrambled-over-inbound-russian-fighter

‘Is she pro-choice now?’ Candace Owens ripped for rejecting Covid-19 vaccine, vowing never to force employees to take it

Conservative commentator Candace Owens has received her latest outpouring of hate and ridicule on Twitter after saying her family members will not get immunized against Covid-19 and her employees would be treated accordingly.

“Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government,” Owens said in a tweet stating the decision. She explained her stance as principled opposition to “fear, bribery, and coercion” by “Big Pharma” and the government.

Not one person in my family will ever touch the Covid-19 vaccine. That is the decision that we have made, unabashedly, as a family. Medical freedom is an individual right that should NEVER be infringed upon and any person who thinks otherwise has no place in our government.

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 7, 2021

She added she would respect her employees if they make the same choice, and pledged never to pressure them into getting immunized.

As an employer— I can assure you that no employee at my company will ever be pressured to put any substance into their body as a condition of their employment. Medical freedom is a corporate policy.

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) July 7, 2021

The White House is seeking to overcome vaccination hesitancy among part of the US public who have not received shots so far. Over 67% of adults in the US have received at least one dose so far, according to CDC figures, but states like Louisiana or Wyoming are lagging far behind vaccination frontrunners like Vermont and Hawaii.

The declaration of non-vaccination by Owens triggered an avalanche of negative comments. The Twitter storm was strong enough to bring Owens’ name into Twitter trends. Some went straight to the core of the issue, wondering why vaccination should be a freedom issue when taking the shot in most cases is the rational choice both personally and from a public-health standpoint.

Getting the vaccine should have never been a freedom issue. Me and most other people just figured that everyone would have the decency to get it because if they didn’t there was the possibility they could cause others pain and death. But unfortunately people like you exist. Sad.

— Peterofworlds (@Peterofworlds) July 7, 2021

What about mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, hepatitis?

— Ira Novaya (@NovayaIra) July 7, 2021

Many others jumped on the opportunity to mockingly suggest that Owens was now “pro-choice” when it comes to the question of abortion. She insisted that her position hadn’t changed and she is “pro medical-choice and anti the murder of infants.”

There were also the expected attempts to shame Owens and others who share her position on the destruction caused by Covid-19. Some people simply didn’t believe that she was telling the truth, accusing her of posturing.

.@RealCandaceO proudly says her entire family refuses to be vaccinated.Families like hers are why families like ours did everything to protect ourselves/others from the virus & still got it.They are why America will never get out of this. #DeltaVarianthttps://t.co/xUxcAtqagy

— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 8, 2021

The nastier feedback predicted that Owens and her family will regret their decision when the virus gets them – or even asked them to waive their right to be treated for Covid-19 in order to be principled to the end. The conservative speaker branded the authors of such remarks “genuinely nuts.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/528710-candace-owens-vaccine-refusal/

Police Say 6 Detained, 7 Suspects Killed in Assassination of Haitian President

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Police say they have arrested four more suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, bringing the total to six detained and seven killed.

National Police Director Léon Charles told Radio Metropole Thursday that police are still looking for more of those responsible for the early Wednesday’s raid in which the president was shot to death and his wife, Martine, critically wounded.

Officials haven’t given any details about the suspects, including their nationalities, nor did they suggest a motive for the attack, which they said was carried out by “a highly trained and heavily armed group,” whose members spoke Spanish or English.

At least two suspects in the killing of Moïse were found and roughed up by civilians in the capital of Port-au-Prince and were then turned over to police.

Journalists saw scores of people gather around the men on Thursday, grabbing the suspects by their shirts and the back of their pants, pushing them and on occasion slapping them. People in the crowd said they had found the two hiding in bushes.

Police arrived shortly afterward to arrest the men, who were sweating heavily and were wearing clothes that seemed to be smeared with mud. Officers placed them in the back of a pickup truck and drove away as the crowd ran after them to the nearby police station.

Once the crowd arrived, some began to chant: “They killed the president! Give them to us. We’re going to burn them!”

The crowd later set fire to several abandoned cars riddled with bullet holes that they apparently believed belonged to the suspects. The cars didn’t have license plates and inside one of them was an empty box of bullets and some water.

https://www.ntd.com/the-latest-police-say-6-detained-in-killing-of-haiti-leader_639726.html

OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma’s Exit Plan Gains Steam With Support From 15 More States

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to reorganize into a new entity that helps combat the U.S. opioid epidemic got a big boost as 15 states that had previously opposed the new business model now support it.

The agreement from multiple state attorneys general, including those who had most aggressively opposed Purdue’s original settlement proposal, was disclosed late Wednesday night in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y. It followed weeks of intense mediations that resulted in changes to Purdue’s original exit plan.

The new settlement terms call for Purdue to make tens of millions of internal documents public, a step several attorneys general, including those for Massachusetts and New York, had demanded as a way to hold the company accountable.

Attorneys general for both states were among those who agreed to the new plan, joining about half the states that had previously approved it.

In a statement Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James said the deal is not perfect but will help deal with the crisis. “We’ll be able to more quickly invest these funds in prevention, education, and treatment programs, and put an end to the delays and legal maneuvering that could possibly continue for years and across multiple continents,” she said.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein noted Thursday that the deal includes about $1.5 billion more than it initially did.

In a statement, members of the Sackler family called the support of more states “an important step toward providing substantial resources for people and communities in need.”

Still, nine states and the District of Columbia did not sign on.

Purdue said in a statement that it will try to build “even greater consensus” for its plan.

Purdue sought bankruptcy protection in 2019 as a way to settle about 3,000 lawsuits it faced from state and local governments and other entities. They claimed the company’s continued marketing of its powerful prescription painkiller contributed to a crisis that has been linked to nearly 500,000 deaths in the United States over the last two decades.

https://www.ntd.com/oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharmas-exit-plan-gains-steam-with-support-from-15-more-states_639685.html

Rules for Thee and Not for Me: Johnson Caught Maskless in Car

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was caught maskless in a car with other passengers despite claiming earlier this week that it was “common sense” and “courtesy” to wear a mask in a confined space with others.

On Monday, Johnson announced that when the end of lockdown comes, all restrictions, including the mask mandate, will end. Johnson, however, claimed that Britons should still voluntarily wear masks in some settings, telling the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon that it was “common sense for people in confined spaces to wear a face mask out of respect and courtesy to others”.

But hours later, Mr Johnson was photographed, in images reported by The Mirror, being driven in his Range Rover without wearing a mask, despite being in the car with three other people.

His wife Carrie Johnson was beside him wearing a mask, but not covering her nose (the government and NHS recommend masks cover both mouth and nose).

Both the driver and security detail were wearing masks properly, with actor and activist Laurence Fox noting: “The servants of the elite class must wear masks.”

Masks are mandated at least until July 19th in public transport or other taxis and private car hires, but Mr Johnson, in his taxpayer-funded chauffeur-driven car has not broken the law.

However, Johnson’s government recommends wearing masks when ride-sharing and ministers were also told to cover up when in ministerial cars — a point that was raised when former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was caught without a mask in his chauffeur-driven car in October, with a Downing Street spokesman saying at the time: “The advice was that ministers should wear face coverings and they were made available within the cars which ministers use.”

It is not the first time Boris Johnson has been accused of hypocrisy for having appeared to have broken his own lockdown rules.

On January 11th, Prime Minister Johnson had threatened that authorities “may have to do more” — i.e., impose stricter measures — if Britons did not follow coronavirus rules. The day before, Johnson was reported to have cycles seven miles from home at Olympic Park, despite government guidance from the time stipulating that “you should not travel outside your local area” for your one piece of exercise a day.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/07/08/rules-thee-not-me-johnson-caught-maskless-car/

Chief Financial Operative for CDN-Los Zetas Cartel Unmasked

Breitbart Texas obtained exclusive intelligence about the identity of the main figure responsible for the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas’ finances. The relatively obscure individual was arrested in 2015 but managed to obtain his freedom through a questionable court ruling.

Known as “El Contador” or the accountant, Humberto Dominguez Lara is listed in various intelligence briefs as the main financial operative for CDN-Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. U.S. law enforcement sources operating in Mexico revealed to Breitbart Texas that Dominguez Lara was the mastermind behind an intelligence hub gathering data featuring capabilities on par with a police dispatch center.

The CDN-Los Zetas built a database for enforcers to call in identifying information of individuals they stop at roadblocks. Database operators are able to tell if that person is a local, owns property in the area, owes money, purchases contraband, or is a possible rival to be kidnapped for interrogation. The cartel also established a widespread video surveillance operation. The intelligence work is linked to more than 100 forced disappearances along the highway connecting Monterrey with Nuevo Laredo–including a Texas woman and her two children.

The information shared by the law enforcement also revealed that Dominguez plays a key role in advising the cartel’s regional boss, Juan Gerardo “El Huevo” Treviño Chavez, about financial and operational decisions. Dominguez is the key operator who set up the payroll, financed supplies and field tactical gear, and structures funding for the faction’s enforcement wing, Hell’s Troop (Tropa Del Infierno). He also manages stash houses.

According to intelligence briefs, Dominguez is a longtime member of Los Zetas who worked directly under the ultimate leaders Miguel Angel “Z-40” and Omar Trevino “Z-42.” Mexican authorities arrested Dominguez in 2015 alongside a bodyguard during a raid seizing a large amount of cash and weapons. At the time of that arrest, Dominguez oversaw the accounting for Los Zetas in Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and Nuevo Leon.

Despite his highly publicized arrest in 2015, a Mexican federal judge in late 2019 granted an injunction or amparo under suspicious circumstances which allowed Dominguez to regain his freedom.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/07/07/exclusive-chief-financial-operative-for-cdn-los-zetas-unmasked/

2015

==Daughter Of DEA Head Busted As A Drug Lord

The DEA seems to be on a series of unfortunate events recently. Ironically enough, this time a DEA head’s daughter has been busted as a sweet drug kingpin.

The DEA seems to be on a series of unfortunate events recently, with another DEA chief failing again. However, ironically enough, this DEA head’s daughter has been busted as a sweet drug kingpin.

Head of the DEA in Beaumont, Texas, Bill Furay has been a prominent figure in busting drug cartels along the Mexican/American border for over five years. However, this time the newspaper headline for the latest drug arrest was his daughter – irony enough to make a complete embarrassment of the DEA once again.

It does pluck a curiosity to wonder what Furay´s opinion of the war on drugs is now, with his daughter on the receiving end of three drug felony sentences. The man who has been putting people in jail for trafficking drugs is now watching his daughter be put away for the same crime.

Sarah Furay walks along the same path as her father

This kind of situation begs the question – does Bill Furay still support the war on drugs, despite the fact that he is about to watch his daughter get locked up for decades? Furay almost brags about himself being responsible for the incredibly harsh drug laws in Texas, and has spent the larger part of his career putting drug traffickers in prison. But this time Bill Furay isn´t the one putting someone away. He is the father watching his daughter go to jail.

Whether Furay was aware of his daughter´s shenanigans is irrelevant. He is still probably very against the idea of his daughter spending most of her life in jail. This is of course unless he is able to pull some strings in his daughter’s defense. Which would be far less beneficial to the world than to become an advocate for drug law reform.

There is no doubt that he is pondering this question in his mind, having been on the prosecution end for so long. This time, he will be defending on the side of his daughter to protect her from the judicial system that he has worked for so long. The irony is almost hilarious.

https://youtu.be/OaVUxUDRcQA

https://herb.co/news/legalization/dea-heads-daughter-busted-as-a-drug-lord/

Welcome to Zuckerville! Facebook is developing its own city near Silicon Valley HQ complete with 1,700 apartments, a supermarket, hotel and new offices

Facebook is developing its own city right next to its Silicon Valley headquarters - meaning some employees, if they choose to live there, will never have to leave the confines of the social media giant's expanding empire.

Mark Zuckerberg's social network, which has 2.9 billion users, is now planning to build a real life community called Willow Park on a 59-acre site in Menlo Park, California.

Facebook and Signature Development Group are behind the proposed plans for the new city.

The most recent plans, which were updated in May, show the development will be built where a single-use industrial and warehouse complex currently stands.

Facebook already owns several of the existing buildings on the site.

It will feature 1,729 apartments, including about 320 that will be affordable housing and up to 120 units designated for senior housing.

The city will be built between Belle Haven and East Palo Alto, which is a heavily populated Hispanic neighborhood.

The housing units will not be exclusively for Facebook employees.

A number of the non-affordable housing units, however, will likely be taken up by Facebook employees. The company made headlines several years ago when they started offering staff more money if they lived within 10 miles of the campus.

The plans for the new city also feature a supermarket, pharmacy, cafes and restaurants and a 193-room hotel.

The 200,000 square feet of planned retail space will be built around a 1.5-acre town square.

Separate to the town square will be a four-acre public park, a two-acre elevated park similar to New York City's High Line and other public open spaces.

In addition to the housing and retail spaces, Facebook also plans to have 1.25 million square feet of new office, meeting and conference room space for the social media company.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/07/welcome-to-zuckerville-facebook-is.html

$5000 for drinking a coffee outside by yourself. Who’s more pathetic? The people making the laws or the people blindly enforcing them?

The robotic drone stare in the policewomans eyes says it all.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/5000-for-drinking-a-coffee-outside-by-yourself-whos-more-pathetic-the-people-making-the-laws-or-the-people-blindly-enforcing-them/

Surgeon General issues grim warning on Indian Delta variant, saying: 'If you are not vaccinated, you are in trouble,' and claims a future COVID strain could BEAT vaccines

Dr Vivek Murthy said Indian Delta variant poses greatest risk to unvaccinated people

He told CNN: 'This is a serious threat and we're seeing it spread among unvaccinated people'

Murthy urged people to get vaccinated, or mask-up if they haven't had their shot

Surgeon General said shots offer good protection from Delta variant - but also warned a future strain of COVID could end up defeating them

Delta variant now estimated to comprise 20 per cent of new infections in the United States

Early data from the United Kingdom suggests it is more transmissible, but that vaccines have made it far less dangerous

This comes as a DailyMail.com analysis found thousands of unvaccinated Americans could die if half of all those who haven't gotten shots caught the variant

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9744211/Surgeon-General-issues-warning-Delta-variant-not-vaccinated-trouble.html

==How the CIA made Google=

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—

part 1

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e

UPDATE: 6,985 Dead from COVID Vaccine Across the US and 411,911 Adverse Reactions Reported – Now a Top 50 Cause of Death in the Country

There are now 6,985 reported deaths from the COVID-19 vaccinations across the United States this year.

The number of deaths linked to vaccines this year has absolutely skyrocketed. According to the CDC’s own data, in 2021 n the first 3 months, the VAERS website recorded over 1,750 deaths due to vaccines in the US.

That number is now at 6,985.

“The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database contains information on unverified reports of adverse events (illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with US-licensed vaccines. Reports are accepted from anyone and can be submitted electronically at www.vaers.hhs.gov.”

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality

There have been 411,931 adverse reactions reported to the vaccine.

In a recent study of 2017 numbers there were:

** 2,812 accidental fire deaths

** 3,709 accidantal(?) drownings

** 4,968 homicides other than firearms

** 5,611 deaths from Hepatitis

** 5,698 deaths from AIDS

** 6,554 deaths from deliberate poisonings

** 6,946 deaths from accidental suffocations

That would put deaths from COVID-19 Vaccine higher on the list than AIDS, drownings and Hepatitis.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/update-6985-dead-covid-vaccine-across-us-411911-adverse-reactions-reported-now-top-50-cause-death-country/

HHS Secretary Becerra: “It’s Absolutely the Government’s Business” to Know Which Americans Are Not Vaccinated

Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra on Thursday said it’s “absolutely the government’s business” to know which Americans are not vaccinated.

The Biden Administration is using the “Delta” variant to scare Americans into getting vaccinated.

Biden on Tuesday said he will send goons “door-to-door” to harass unvaccinated Americans.

CNN host Brianna Keilar asked Becerra about the “door-to-door” effort to bully and harass Americans into taking an experimental vaccine.

“I wonder if you can answer that criticism: ‘It’s none of the government’s business knowing who has or hasn’t been vaccinated.’ What do you say?” CNN host Brianna Keilar asked.

Becerra said the quiet part out loud: The government owns the American people now after handing out stimulus checks and loans during the forced shut down.

“The federal government has had to spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic, so it is absolutely the government’s business,” Becerra said. “It is the taxpayer’s business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy. And so, it is our business to try to make sure Americans can prosper, Americans can freely associate, and knocking on a door has never been against the law.”

“You don’t have to answer, but we hope you do,” Becerra added.

If that doesn’t send chills up your spine…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/hhs-secretary-becerra-absolutely-governments-business-know-americans-not-vaccinated-video/

DO MORE EVIL: Google turns Android phones into vaccine passports

Android phones can now save and display coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination cards, essentially making them a digital vaccine passport.

Google announced on Wednesday, June 30, that it is updating its Passes API to give developers at healthcare organizations, government agencies and other organizations authorized by public health authorities the ability to create digital versions of tests and vaccination cards that can then be saved directly to the users’ device.

The Passes API is typically used to store things like boarding passes, loyalty cards, gift cards, tickets and more to users’ Google Pay wallets. However, the Google Pay app, in this case, will not be required.

Aptly named COVID Card, it aims to make things more manageable for those who feel that paper proof of vaccination is easily misplaced. Google said that government agencies and certain healthcare organizations will be able to circulate the COVID Cards directly to users’ Google Pay apps.

Those without the Google Pay app will have the option to store the digital version of the COVID Card directly to their device, where it’s accessible from a home screen shortcut. Because Google is not retaining a copy of the card, anyone who needs to store the COVID Card on multiple devices will need to download it individually on each one from the healthcare provider or other organization’s app.

COVID Card supported by “big partners and states”

The COVID Card will show the healthcare provider or organization’s logo and branding at the top, followed by the person’s name, date of birth and other relevant information like the vaccine manufacturer or date of vaccination or test. According to a support document, healthcare providers or organizations could alert users to the ability to download their card via email, text or through a mobile website or app.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/do-more-evil-google-turns-android-phones-into-vaccine-passports/

Former Pfizer exec: Children are 50 times more likely to die from coronavirus vaccine than from the virus itself

Former Pfizer executive Dr. Michael Yeadon told Real America’s Voice in a recent interview that children are 50 times more likely to die from the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine than from the virus itself. His statement came as Pfizer tested its mRNA vaccine on children younger than 12 years old, including 6-month-old babies.

Reuters reported last month that up to 4,500 children under the age of 12 would be enrolled in the study at more than 90 clinical sites in the U.S., Finland, Poland and Spain.

Based on safety, tolerability and the immune response generated by 144 children in a phase I study of the two-dose vaccine, Pfizer said it would test a dose of 10 micrograms in children between 5 and 11 years of age and 3 micrograms for the age group of 6 months to 5 years.

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized for use in children as young as 12 in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. They receive the same dose as adults: 30 micrograms.

As of July 1, over 4.04 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Available data indicated that hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 were uncommon in children.

Yeadon, former vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory at Pfizer, stressed that the vaccines used against COVID-19 have not been sufficiently tested and that they shouldn’t have received emergency use authorization when there are safe and effective medicines available for COVID-19. (Related: Pfizer cut corners, slashed quality standards to produce covid vaccine at “warp speed.”)

Yeadon explained that the mRNA gene technology used in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to trigger the body to create viral spike proteins is a “fundamental problem” that scientists and researchers have known about for years. According to Yeadon, those spike proteins can lead to blood clots and other health problems.

This could help explain the large number of adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Yeadon said roughly 5,000 deaths related to COVID-19 vaccine have been reported in the first half of 2021.

“Normally, there are only about 200 a year for all vaccines combined,” he said.

Hearth inflammation in teenagers and adults linked to mRNA vaccines

Reports of potential link between mRNA vaccines and cases of myocarditis and pericarditis also began to emerge in recent weeks.

In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on June 23 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would add a warning to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines about possible link to myocarditis and pericarditis in teenagers and young adults. (Related: FDA admits covid injections from Pfizer, Moderna cause heart inflammation.)

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-07-covid-vaccine-more-likely-to-kill-children.html

Harris announces $25 million investment in DNC voting rights program

Vice President Harris on Thursday introduced a $25 million expansion of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) “I Will Vote” initiative as Democrats look to combat a wave of voting restrictions that have been pushed this year by Republican-controlled legislatures.

"This campaign is grounded in the firm belief that everyone's vote matters,” Harris said in a speech at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington, D.C.

“Regardless of who you are, where you live, what party you belong to, your vote matters,” the vice president continued.

“Your vote is your power. And so I say, don't let anybody ever take your power from you … especially the power of your voice. We will not let anyone take away our power, and that's why we are all here together today. We're not gonna let that happen.”

The money will go to strengthening the DNC’s efforts with voter registration, voter protection and voter education.

The $25 million investment surpasses the initial $20 million that DNC Chair Jaime Harrison announced in April the DNC would spend as the 2022 midterm races begin to take shape.

Voting rights are a key battlefront for congressional lawmakers, with two voting rights bills — the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — key tenets of Democrats’ legislative agenda.

The For the People Act has been met with stiff GOP opposition in the Senate and it’s unlikely that there will be enough Republican support for the legislation, named after the late Georgia congressman and voting rights champion, which has yet to be introduced this session.

As more and more new restrictive voting procedures have become law in high leverage states such as Georgia and Florida, Democrats have doubled down on their stance that their two bills are the only solution to stopping voter suppression.

At the center of the partisan struggle over new voting bills across the country is former President Trump's baseless claim that November’s presidential election was stolen from him through rampant voter fraud.

Democrats have credited the “big lie” and efforts to suppress minority voters as the catalysts behind the GOP voter bills, though Republicans have maintained that their goal is to increase voter integrity.

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, who spoke briefly before Harris, noted this urgency in mentioning the Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold two of Arizona’s voting laws that the Democratic Party asserted were in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

The 6-3 decision was seen by Democrats and advocates as a blow to the amount of power the VRA has in stopping racially discriminatory voting practices.

“Last week, the Supreme Court set back voting rights by over 50 years,” Harrison said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/562092-harris-to-announce-25-million-investment-in-dnc-voting-rights-program

Judicial Watch: New Documents Show Wuhan Lab Asked NIH Official for Information on Disinfectants; Nine Fauci Agency Grants for EcoHealth Bat Coronavirus Research

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 301 pages of emails and other records from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials in connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, revealing significant collaborations and funding that began in 2014. These new records reveal that NIAID gave nine China-related grants to EcoHealth Alliance to research coronavirus emergence in bats and was the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) top issuer of grants to the Wuhan lab itself.

These records also include an email from the Vice Director of the Wuhan Lab asking an NIH official for help finding disinfectants for decontamination of airtight suits and indoor surfaces.

Additionally, a World Health Day announcement lists “successful activities” of the US-China collaboration that included “detailed surveillance throughout China and in other countries on the emergence of coronaviruses” and NIH’s receipt of influenza samples from China to “assess risks associated with emerging variants for pandemic and zoonotic threat.”

The records further show that, in 2018, Dr. Ping Chen, the NIAID Representative in China, learned of a “type of new flu vaccine using nano-technology from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology” and discovered that the Chinese had blocked all Internet links to reports on the new technology. This led Chen to write an urgent “night note” to US Government officials. The note said, “The intranasal nano-vaccine can target broad-spectrum flu viruses and induces robust immune responses.”

The documents also include a picture of the Wuhan facility building taken by Dr. Chen.

The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records of communications, contracts and agreements with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-00696)). The lawsuit specifically sought records about NIH grants that benefitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The agency is only processing 300 pages records per month, which means it will take until the end of November for the records to be fully reviewed and released under FOIA.

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https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/wuhan-lab-fauci-grants/

3 Scientists Drop Names From Lancet Statement on COVID Origins

Latest letter exposes cracks in scientific coalition on Wuhan lab theory

The Lancet on July 5 published a statement reasserting that there is no "scientifically validated evidence" to suggest COVID-19 escaped from a lab, signed mostly by the same team of scientists who dismissed the lab-leak hypothesis in a February 2020 statement. But the new statement is missing three signatories from the original one, including William Karesh, who has ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Karesh is the executive vice president for health policy at EcoHealth Alliance, the group that was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab with grants from the National Institutes for Health. EcoHealth's president, Peter Daszak, organized the original statement, whose signatories included Karesh, Peter Palese of the Icahn School of Medicine, and Bernard Roizman of the University of Chicago. Those three signatures are all absent from the new statement, though Daszak signed both.

Asked whether he'd changed his mind about the likelihood of a lab leak, Palese replied: "NO COMMENT!" Karesh and Roizman did not respond to inquiries.

The missing signatures reflect the widening cracks in the scientific consensus about COVID-19's origins. Once dismissed as a far-right conspiracy theory, the lab-leak hypothesis became mainstream in May when former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade defended it at length in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Following Wade's piece, Nobel Prize-winning virologist David Baltimore said a lab leak was a serious hypothesis he "wouldn't rule out," while other biologists maintained that the scientific evidence supporting it was very weak.

The debate only grew more intense in June with the publication of Anthony Fauci's emails, which seemed to indicate that he and other government scientists had taken the lab leak seriously behind closed doors. In one correspondence, a team of virologists told Fauci that the genome of the virus was "inconsistent with the expectations of evolutionary theory." In another, Fauci instructed his assistant to read a paper about the Wuhan Institute of Virology's gain-of-function research. "[We'll] try to determine if we have any distant ties to this work abroad," the assistant replied.

The recent Lancet statement responds directly to these developments. "We believe the strongest clue from new, credible, and peer-reviewed evidence in the scientific literature is that the virus evolved in nature," the authors write. "Suggestions of a laboratory-leak source of the pandemic remain without scientifically validated evidence that directly supports it in peer-reviewed scientific journals."

They also write that "it is time to turn down the heat of the rhetoric and turn up the light of scientific inquiry," saying "allegations and conjecture are of no help."

The February 2020 statement, which did not disclose its authors' ties to the Wuhan lab, contained several allegations of its own. "We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin," the statement read. "Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus."

https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/3-scientists-drop-names-from-lancet-statement-on-covid-origins/

AG Brnovich: Biden is ‘the biggest health crisis facing our country today’

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich called President Biden “the biggest health crisis facing our country today.” Brnovich would rather see Biden address the public health crisis at the border than start knocking doors to ask if they’re vaccinated. The Arizona AG appeared on Hannity Thursday to explain why.

“I keep emphasizing to folks that the biggest health crisis facing our country today is the Biden administration, because we may have three vaccines for COVID, but there is no cure for stupid,” Brnovich told host Sean Hannity. “And what the Biden demonstration is doing is just plain dumb, Sean.”

Meanwhile, thousands of migrants are crossing the border, and some would rather die trying. Texas officials even found some bodies that tested positive for COVID-19. Not the mention those that survive the journey.

“You know that there are millions of people illegally crossing our southern border, a small percentage of them have been adequately vaccinated,” Brnovich said. “They are packed into detention centers, we see record number — it’s going to be a catastrophe, not only a public health crisis.”

Now, the Biden administration wants to overturn Title 42. It’s a public health order preventing migrants from entering the country and further spreading the COVID-19 virus.

“So which is it, Joe Biden?” Brnovich asked. “Do we have a public health crisis where we are going to lock down our economy, or alternatively, we’re going to go ahead and let people in and gut Title 42 which is designed to protect the public health?”

https://saraacarter.com/ag-brnovich-biden-is-the-biggest-health-crisis-facing-our-country-today/

A Country That Has Lost Its Way: U.S. Government and Corporations Combine to Strip Citizens of Their Rights

The Biden Administration is calling on Americans to spy on friends, neighbors and family and reporting any “extremist” views to the authorities.

The American people have increasingly become aware that government surveillance and corporate censorship have combined to keep people ignorant and controlled. What is taking place has generated some dark humor. A friend of mine, also a former CIA officer, wrote to me recently and said tongue-in-cheek that he retains a lot of respect for the Agency because it is the only major government national security entity that does not read our mail and emails. Those jobs are the responsibility of the NSA and FBI. I responded that I would imagine that CIA does in fact read quite a lot of mail where it operates overseas but it is probably done the old-fashioned way by recruiting an underpaid mail clerk as an agent.

The whole issue of the government spying illegally on its own citizens has again made the news with the claims by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that NSA has been spying on him, presumably because he has connections that the government regards either as subversive or, in the new reckoning, as “extremists” who are potential “domestic terrorists.” Given the reasonable assumption that anyone who voted for Donald Trump might well fall under those categories, that means that something like half the U.S. population could be under suspicion.

Mass electronic surveillance of literally trillions of phone calls and messages worldwide without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment restrictions on searches without probable cause or a proper warrant issued by a judge has been the regular NSA authorized procedure at least since 9/11 and there is no reason to assume that it is no longer the practice. It basically is initiated by the agency involved (normally NSA or FBI) going to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court or to some other appropriate judge to get a warrant on an individual where there is some probable cause. Probable cause can consist of “someone searching the web for suspicious stuff.” The Court then gives its approval, which it does in the case of FISA 99% of the time. When that individual is then surveilled, the names of his or her contacts are also added to the investigation. And it goes on from there, expanding and growing until it includes thousands of phone numbers and email addresses, individuals who are overwhelmingly innocent of any wrongdoing.

So, it is safe to assume that many of us are right at this moment eligible for being monitored electronically by the federal government. If one combines that with the Biden Administration’s June 1st announcement of a war on “domestic terrorism,” which it clearly considers to be a function of “white supremacists,” it is easy to see where all that is going. Biden pulled no punches, describing the threat from “white supremacy” as the “most lethal threat to the homeland today,” so that would mean that the government is doing all in its power to stamp it out, whatever it takes and whatever that means.

Surveilling ordinary Americans for what they might be thinking, which is what this comes down to, would be a George Orwellian 1984 tale for our times, updated from when Winston Smith was doing mandatory daily exercises in front of his television set. He slacked off a bit and the TV instantly admonished him. He then wondered whether it was possible that he and all the other residents of Airstrip One (once called Britain) are surveilled all the time. He concluded that they were.

Surgeon who operated on young Italian vaccine victim: ‘You have never seen anything like this’

The surgeon who operated on an Italian girl, Camilla Canepa, who died at the age of 18 from the effects of the vaccine, said he has never seen anything like this. “It’s not normal,” he added.

Published: June 27, 2021, 1:09 pm

Camilla Canepa was operated on by Gianluigi Zona, director of the neurosurgical and neuro-traumatological clinic of the San Martino hospital: “I had never seen a brain that was affected by such an extensive and severe thrombosis.”

The neurosurgeon on duty in San Martino that night was Alessandro d’Andrea, who also called the chief physician to his side at the operating table. “We decided to have a decompression craniotomy, in which the skull is opened to relieve internal pressure.”

Zona recounted the experience: “All venous sinuses were blocked with thrombi, a scenario I have never seen in my many years in this profession. Think of the venous sinus as the river in the middle of a valley where several streams converge. If a dam is built in the middle of the watercourse, the river swells and the tributaries can no longer drain at this point, so that the pressure rises upstream.

“I’m neither a virologist, nor an epidemiologist, nor a coroner, but given the image I saw in the girl’s head, it is clear that we are dealing with something that is not normal.”

The parents of the 18-year-old who died, told the media: “She had no disease.” Last week, the prosecutor of Genoa, which coordinates the ongoing investigations, will instruct the Pavia coroner to perform the autopsy on the body of Camilla Canepa, the eighteen year old who died after the vaccine. The girl allegedly suffered from chronic platelet deficiency, a “familial autoimmune thrombocytopenia”. This is what investigators have learned from the first reports of the doctors.

But the girl’s family, assisted by the lawyer Angelo Paone, is firm on this point. “Camilla had no disease,” explained their lawyer. Supporting their claim, are two different CT scans. She had undergone the two scans, and was discharged after the first one that had not shown the situation of the thrombosis in progress, but immediately transferred to the hospital after the second showing that her health had been compromised.

The girl arrived in the emergency room in the Lavagna hospital on June 3, just a week after the AstraZeneca shot. She had complained of severe headaches.

Canepa, who was from the town of Sestri Levante in Liguria, was given the jab during a vaccination “open day” for youths over 18. The AstraZeneca jab has been approved for all over-18s, but in Italy it is only recommended for over-60s due to links to several cases of blood clots in younger people.

Camilla’s case has raised concerns among young people previously keen to get vaccinated to obtain the Green Pass or vaccine passport enabling them to travel and attend mass events.

https://tapnewswire.com/2021/07/surgeon-who-operated-on-young-italian-vaccine-victim-you-have-never-seen-anything-like-this/

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