Dr. Peter McCullough - URGENT WARNING About Poisonous Jabs - "An Agonizing Situation"
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Salt Lake City mayor and city council adopt joint resolution that declares racism a public health crisis
Salt Lake City's mayor and the seven members of its city council have adopted a joint resolution that declares racism a public health crisis.
The resolution states that "in our capacity as a local municipal authority we declare racism as a moral and public health crisis in our city, state, and nation and reaffirm our commitment to the principles of the Utah Compact on Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion."
Mayor Erin Mendenhall was elected in November 2019 and has served as the city's mayor since January 2020.
"This is an important declaration for us to make as a City. Not only are we publicly acknowledging the existence of a grave inequity that many in our community have known and experienced for so long, we are also committing ourselves to the creation of policies and ordinances that are anti-racist," the mayor said, according to a press release.
"There is no doubt of the crisis. Our society is burdened with bigotry and all the hatred that comes with it," Council Chair Amy Fowler said. "Indeed, it is a moral imperative to combat racism, discrimination, and inequities in all their forms."
Fierce debate continues to rage in the U.S. over issues such as whether the nation is infected by systemic racism and whether concepts related to critical race theory should be included in education.
The resolution states that "this nation and the states and municipalities within have been designed to systematically disadvantage underrepresented racial and ethnic groups thereby creating health disparities that have persisted even after the Civil Rights Movement following the abolition of slavery."
It notes that "Salt Lake City remains committed to the work that it will take now and into the future to dismantle our racist legacies so that all feel welcome and safe in Salt Lake City."
The resolution declares that "we commit to look internally, externally, and encourage all who reside, work, and own businesses in our city to commit to the work necessary to dismantle racist legacies and equitably work to repair our communities."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/salt-lake-city-mayor-and-city-council-adopt-joint-resolution-that-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis
‘Is That A Hard Question?’: Agriculture Secretary Dodges When Lindsey Graham Asks Whether Southern Border Is Secure
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appeared reluctant to answer Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s repeated questions about border security.
Graham pressed Vilsack several times during a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, asking about the record number of apprehensions in recent months and how President Joe Biden’s policies were impacting the flow of illegal immigration.
“Is the southern border secure?” Graham cut straight to the chase after thanking Vilsack for coming.
“I think it’s fair to say, Senator, that there are ways in which we can improve —” Vilsack replied, but Graham quickly cut him off.
“That’s not the question,” he said, asking again, “Is it secured? If you can’t figure this out, is that a hard question?”
“It can be a hard question,” Vilsack protested.
“It’s not today,” Graham persisted, arguing that there were already record numbers flooding the border and asking whether legalizing immigrants without first securing the border would only exacerbate the problem. “Will it be a run on the border?”
“I don’t believe so,” Vilsack answered.
“You don’t believe so? You don’t believe that if we give legal status to hundreds of thousands of people without first securing the border there won’t be a rush on the border,” Graham pushed back.
Vilsack argued that many of those who would be legalized were migrant workers who had already been in the country for some length of time.
“Do you understand pull factors?” Graham asked.
“I understand the nature of this workforce,” Vilsack replied.
“Do you understand that if you give legal status to one person without first securing the border, you’re going to have a run on the border ten times worse tha we have — you don’t believe that?” Graham tried a different tack.
“I don’t believe so. The reason I don’t is because I think the primary —” Vilsack tried to push back, but Graham interrupted.
“I just think that’s ludicrous. I’ve been involved in every immigration bill there has been and we always secured the border first because of this very reason. You don’t give amnesty and hope people won’t keep coming. You secure the border, then you provide legal status. We’re doing it ass backwards,” he said.
Graham went on to argue that there needed to be hearings about what was going on at the border before there were any further hearings on granting legal status to anyone.
He wrapped up his line of questioning by asking whether Vilsack believed that the Biden administration’s wholesale approach to overturning former President Donald Trump’s border policies was impacting the record numbers at the border.
“That’s a complicated issue,” Vilsack said again, prompting Graham to respond, “No, it’s not, it’s really simple.”
https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/21/tom-vilsack-lindsey-graham-southern-border-secure/
US Charges British Art Restorer for Role in Antiquities Trafficking Ring
A British national was extradited to the United States on Tuesday and charged for his role in the decades-long smuggling operation of Subhash Kapoor, a New York art dealer who specialized in looted antiquities from Central and Southeast Asia.
Neil Perry Smith, 58, was charged in New York for possessing and restoring 22 stolen artifacts, valued at over US$32 million, concealing their illicit origin so that Kapoor could sell them in his now-closed Manhattan gallery, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said.
New York Authorities had long pursued Kapoor, and have slowly been repatriating some of the more than 2,500 looted artifacts they confiscated when they shut down his Manhattan dealership.
As an art restorer, Smith was an essential part of Kapoor’s operation according to the Manhattan DA.
“Smith’s restorations helped Kapoor mislead potential buyers about the origin and condition of looted antiquities so that Kapoor could, in turn, capitalize on this veneer of legitimacy by dramatically increasing values,” the statement said.
“Without restorers to disguise stolen relics, there would be no laundered items for antiquities traffickers to sell,” Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance added.
Among the items Smith restored was an 11th century Khmer “Naga Buddha” statue, which had been shattered into 50 pieces. Kapoor ultimately sold it for $1.2 million.
The existence of restorers such as Smith, or the Brooklyn-based Richard Salmon, who has also been indicted for his work with Kapoor, offered encouragement to smugglers to destroy or deface priceless historical artifacts so that they could be moved more easily across borders.
While Smith, Salmon and another member of Kapoor’s operation are being tried in the United States, Kapoor has been languishing in a jail cell in Chennai, India, since his 2012 arrest.
The illegal antiquities trade is a multi-billion dollar global industry, according to a 2018 report by Standard Charter Bank. Its beneficiaries are not just high society art aficionados like Kapoor and his Manhattan clients, but often the trade is a major funding source for criminal and militant groups on the supply side.
“You cannot look at it separately from combating trafficking in drugs and weapons. We know that the same groups are engaged, because it generates big money,” said Catherine de Bolle, Executive Director of Europol after a major crackdown on the illegal antiquities trade in May, 2020.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14880-us-charges-british-art-restorer-for-role-in-antiquities-trafficking-ring