'Experts' Move The Goalposts, Declare Herd Immunity Threshold Now 90% Due To Delta

As a growing number of companies carry out the government's bidding by either demanding staff get vaccinated, demanding that customers mask up (even those who have been vaccinated) or both - Chipotle is the latest to order workers to wear masks and "encourage" customers to wear masks while Microsoft joined the growing number of tech firms requiring employees to get vaccinated - an organization of infectious disease experts are attempting to move the goalposts for herd immunity.

Bloomberg reports that delta's spread has pushed the estimate for herd immunity "well over 80% and potentially approaching 90%" according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America, which announced the change during a briefing on Tuesday.

That's a much higher bar than previous estimates of 60% to 70%. But the key here is Dr. Anthony Fauci and other policymakers will likely automatically treat the 90% number as a threshold for vaccination, not immunity - in other words, in their calculations, they exclude the millions of Americans who have been infected with COVID, but haven't consented to vaccination.

Yet, plenty of academics are already jumping on the bandwagon. Richard Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told BBG that "[i]t is becoming clear that this is a very dangerous, way more dangerous virus than the original one."

Earlier today, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio leaked plans to require gyms and restaurants to collect proof of vaccination via a vaccine passport app being utilized by the city. Unfortunately, these passports will disregard tests showing the presence of antibodies in the already infected. Some research has shown that antibodies produced by natural infection are at least as effective as certain vaccines.

The problem with the IDSA's new herd immunity target is that some academics say we've already reached the 80%+ immunity, and that COVID will never be able to threaten the American population like it did last spring, when immunity was virtually zero.

Just take a look at the latest chart of cases vs. deaths. The media has relentlessly touted the fact that cases have eclipsed levels from last summer…even as deaths have barely budged.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/experts-move-goalposts-declare-herd-immunity-threshold-now-90-due-delta

The Gestapo is Back in Berlin: 600 Arrests, 1 Dead, Women and Children Beaten in the Street at Berlin Anti-Lockdown Protest

While a hundred thousand Frenchmen protested against Macron’s vaccine passports on Sunday in Paris, German police violently shut down a protest in Berlin. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture is investigating the use of excessive force.

Over 600 protestors were arrested in Berlin on Sunday, one man died of a heart attack after being interrogated by police.

The far-left Berlin government had banned the anti-lockdown protests in Berlin, despite permitting 80,000 largely unmasked people at a gay pride march the week before. Tens of thousands of freedom-loving citizens showed up on Sunday all the same to exercise their constitutional right to protest.

But the 2,250 riot police officers apparently had orders to crack down on people seeking freedom from Covid lockdowns.

A video showed police apparently punching a sitting young boy of about 10 in the face, after dragging his mother away:

https://youtu.be/3reX7s2r5VM

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https://youtu.be/B0II0wU7qcM

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Nils Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, wrote: „This has just been brought to my attention. Can anyone provide my office with the specifics / witness statements of this incident and whether an official investigation has been launched? Send to: sr-torture@ohchr.org (please not via Twitter-reply/DM).“

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/gestapo-back-berlin-600-arrests-1-dead-women-children-beat-street-berlin-anti-lockdown-protest/

Candace Owens decries ‘predatory cartoons’ pushing kids into ‘gender dysphoria’ after Muppet Babies cross-dressing episode

An episode of US kids’ cartoon ‘Muppet Babies’ has drawn the ire of many on social media, including conservative pundit Candace Owens, after a male character, Gonzo, donned a dress and declared himself to be “Gonzorella”.

In late July, Disney Junior aired its latest episode of ‘Muppet Babies’, a spin-off cartoon featuring toddler versions of the characters in the well-loved ‘Muppet Show’.

However, this episode of the computer-animated series, aimed at children aged three to eight, contained a bit of twist, as eccentric and unpredictable character Gonzo wanted to wear a dress to the royal ball and later called himself “Gonzorella.”

In the episode, loosely based on the Cinderella story, Gonzo is told by Baby Piggy that the boys must go to the ball as knights, so the Fairy RatFather grants him a wish, turning him into a princess with a secret identity.

After the ball, Baby Piggy tells Gonzo that they met an amazing princess, but she ran away. At this point, Gonzo says he was the princess and puts on the dress to prove it.

He tells his fellow muppets that he didn’t want them to be upset with him, so he’d kept his cross-dressing penchant to himself. “Because you all expected me to look a certain way,” he responds when Baby Piggy questions why he’s kept it a secret.

However, cross-dressing in children’s cartoons has been deemed too extreme by some on social media, including outspoken commentator Owens who shared her anger in a tweet on Monday.

Labeling it as “sick and PERVERTED” she claimed, adding she couldn’t believe “they are pushing the trans agenda on children via muppet babies.”

“Everyone should be disturbed by predatory cartoons meant to usher children into gender dysphoria. Bring back manly muppets, anyone?” Owens added.

The conservative pundit was not alone, with many backing her comments on Twitter. “Let kids be kids,” said NFL player Nicholas Williams, warning people to “Be aware of what shows your kids are watching because these networks are trying to indoctrinate and pervert little children’s minds.”

Others were equally wary of the cartoon. “Yep [they] want to get them super young when their brains are in development,” one person tweeted.

Conservative author JD Rucker delivered another warning, telling people to make sure they keep an eye on the trans agenda despite everything else that is going on in the world. “Just because too many parents aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean our kids aren’t,” he wrote.

Several people said cartoons were wonderful when they were young and they didn’t understand why there was such a need to change them.

https://www.rt.com/usa/531003-candace-owens-muppets-trans-cartoon/

Soros-Funded Colorado Sec. of State Moves to Eliminate Signature Verification, ‘Protect’ Dead Voters and Put Gag Order on Poll Workers — Hearing Today at 1 PM!

Soros-Funded Colorado Sec. of State Moves to Eliminate Signature Verification, ‘Protect’ Dead Voters and Put Gag Order on Poll Workers — Hearing Today at 1 PM!

Soros-funded Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, is moving quickly to crack down on free, fair and open elections in the state.

Today (Tuesday) at 1:00 PM the Colorado Secretary Of State is holding a virtual hearing which she is required to do by law concerning her permanent rule change.

The hearing today is for voter comment but she is not required to do any follow-up. Jenna is the final authority.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/soros-funded-colorado-sec-state-moves-eliminate-signature-verification-protect-dead-voters-put-gag-order-poll-workers-hearing-today-1-pm/

Eruption of ‘terrorist propaganda’ on Gettr thrills Trump haters – except it’s on Twitter & Facebook, too

The nascent pro-Trump social network Gettr has been inundated by material sympathetic to Islamic State, according to a Politico analysis of its content, which eventually admits Twitter and Facebook are dealing with the same issue.

Wallowing in schadenfreude as it describes the purported IS (formerly ISIS) terrorist organization’s sympathizers who’ve supposedly found a home on the pro-Trump social network that recently sprung up following the ex-president’s exile from Twitter, Politico notes that Gettr’s “‘free speech’ policy” will “purportedly… allow users to fully express themselves without the censorship of tech giants.”

Which sounds great until the “MAGA exodus to fringe social networks that champion unfettered speech” catches the “attention of supporters of Islamic State and other jihadist groups,” the outlet continues, citing “extremism experts.”

IS supposedly had their eyes on Gettr from the platform’s July 1 beginnings, “urging their followers” to begin signing up right away – “in part to take the jihadi fight directly to MAGA nation.”

“If this app reaches the expected success, which is mostly probable, it should be adopted by followers and occupied in order to regain the glory of Twitter, may God prevail,” one purported IS account wrote just five days after Gettr’s launch. The references to Twitter and Facebook go unremarked-upon by Politico, which instead appears to take the rather silly notion of Islamist terrorists expressing reverence for American social media platforms at face value.

Jason Miller, the former Trump spokesperson who founded Gettr, told Politico that IS had merely chosen to target his platform because Trump had reduced it to a shadow of its fearsome former self on the battlefield in Syria.

“The only ISIS members still alive are keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies,” he told the outlet.

Politico seizes the opportunity to note that after “the largest social networks” had similarly vanquished IS – online, rather than in Syria – they began working together with the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), a controversial entity that serves as a centralized clearing-house to track, catalog, and remove terrorist recruiting material, memes, symbols, and other material that surfaces across platforms, allowing social networks to more quickly offload such content.

https://www.rt.com/usa/530956-gettr-trump-politico-hypocrisy/

New York City to Mandate Proof of Vaccination to Enter Indoor Businesses

New York City is going to mandate proof of vaccination for people to enter certain indoor businesses.

The businesses being targeted will include restaurants, entertainment venues and gyms.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce what is essentially a city-wide vaccine passport on Tuesday, according to a report from the New York Post.

The Post reports, “the initiative, to be dubbed the ‘Key to NYC Pass,’ marks a significant escalation of the city’s efforts to curb the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant, and will launch in mid-August and enforcement will begin in September following a public service announcement campaign, administration officials said.”

“The program is modeled after the vaccine passport programs rolled out in France and other European countries, according to de Blasio administration officials,” the report continued.

In order to go out to eat, people in the city will be required to show either the state’ “Excelsior Pass,” the city’s new vaccine pass or Center for Disease Control’s paper vaccine card, officials told The Post.

There will not be an option for people to take a COVID test as a substitute.

The unvaccinated will be allowed to eat outdoors only.

“We’ve got to shake people at this point and say, ‘Come on now.’ We tried voluntary. We could not have been more kind and compassionate. Free testing, everywhere you turn, incentives, friendly, warm embrace. The voluntary phase is over,” de Blasio said on MSNBC last week. “It’s time for mandates, because it’s the only way to protect our people.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/new-york-city-mandate-proof-vaccination-enter-indoor-businesses/

Cuomo refuses to resign, denies allegations in explosive AG report

Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintained Tuesday that he “never touched anyone inappropriately,” pushing back on a bombshell official report that concluded he sexually harassed several women in violation of state and federal law.

Speaking on video without reporters to ask questions, the governor was adamant in his denial, as he has been since the scandal erupted.

“I want you to know directly from me that I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances,” he told New Yorkers.

“That is just not who I am,” he continued. “And that’s not who I have ever been.”

“I welcome the opportunity for a full and fair review before a judge and a jury, because this just did not happen,” he further said.

Cuomo went on to directly respond to the some of the allegations laid out in the independent report commissioned by state Attorney General Letitia James, including those of former staffer Charlotte Bennett, who has said that the governor asked probing questions about her sex life that left her convinced he “wanted to sleep with” her.

He said that he only tried to be supportive of Bennett — a sexual assault survivor — because of a relative’s own experience with sexual assault.

Directly addressing Bennett in the video, Cuomo apologized while stopping short of admitting malice.

“Charlotte, I want you to know that I am truly and deeply sorry,” he said. “I brought my personal experience into the workplace, and I shouldn’t have done that. I was trying to help.”

https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/watch-live-cuomo-responds-to-ag-report-on-sexual-harassment-probe/

Gov. DeSantis fires back after Jen Psaki spreads misinformation about Florida face-mask policy in schools

The office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) fired back at White House press secretary Jen Psaki late Monday after she outright mischaracterized his guidance for face masks inside Florida schools.

During the daily White House press briefing, Psaki made the bold assertion that DeSantis has been prioritizing politics over public health, referring to his refusal to implement a face-mask mandate for Florida schoolchildren.

Specifically, Psaki falsely claimed that DeSantis is not allowing students to wear face masks.

"I will note, as you touched on there, 20% of the cases we're seeing are in Florida. There are steps and precautions that can be taken, including encouraging people to get vaccinated, encouraging people to wear masks, including allowing schools to mandate masks, and allowing kids to wear masks, which is not the current state of play in Florida," Psaki said.

"So, you know, at a certain point, leaders are going to have to choose whether they're going to follow public health guidelines or they're going to follow politics, and we certainly encourage all governors to follow the public health guidelines," she added.

But what is the truth?

Contrary to Psaki's claim, DeSantis is allowing children to wear face masks in schools. However, unlike in many cities and states being led by Democrats, DeSantis said, from the standpoint his office, that any decision about face masks should rest on parents.

In fact, DeSantis signed an executive order last week to protect "the rights of parents" to make such decisions.

The executive order, in part, directed the Florida Department of Health and Florida Department of Education to ensure that safety protocols in schools neither "violate Floridians' constitutional freedoms" nor "violate parents' right under Florida law to make health care decisions for their minor children."

What was the response?

DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw pushed back in a statement, saying that it is Psaki, in fact, who is playing politics by misrepresenting DeSantis' policy.

"By dismissively ignoring Governor DeSantis' efforts to protect vulnerable Floridians, Psaki is the one playing politics with the pandemic," Pushaw said, Fox News reported.

"The White House should be more concerned about the flip-flopping of the CDC, which is inadvertently promoting vaccine hesitancy with their confusing, contradictory public communications," she added. "Stating that vaccinated people should wear masks and socially distance is implying that the vaccines do not change anything, which is the wrong message for our federal government to be promoting."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/desantis-jen-psaki-misinformation-florida-face-mask-policy

Biden DOJ Orders States Not To Conduct Arizona-Style Forensic Audits Of 2020 Election, Threatens Prison Time

Those who conduct forensic audits are racist, suggests the Biden DOJ, and may be imprisoned for up to a year.

In a document the Biden regime Department of Justice is calling “guidance“, the agency repeats the often-mocked declaration that “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history” and chastises supporters of election integrity for demanding “an unusual second round of examinations” in states with reports of widespread voter fraud. The agency then suggests these audits could violate the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

“There are federal or criminal penalties attached,” the Department of Justice asserts. They claim that those who arrange forensic audits of the 2020 election “can face fines of up to $1,000 and imprisonment of up to one year for each violation.” Then, their intimidating document suggests that these audits represent “intimidation”.

“The Attorney General is authorized to file a civil action seeking preventative relief” against those who organize election audits, the “guidance” explains. “Judicial decisions have established that voter intimidation need not involve physical threats,” the “guidance” continues. (READ MORE: Attorney General Merrick Garland Says Antifa Attacks On Courthouses Aren’t Domestic Terrorism Because They Happen At Night)

Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem, who is now running for Arizona Secretary of State to replace radical left wing Katie Hobbs, recently warned Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland against sending enforcers to the state of Arizona. “I got news for Merrick Garland, there’s this little thing called the Constitution,” said Finchem. “Article I, section IV, the times places and manner of holding election for senators and representatives… it is the legislature that has responsibility for nominating and naming the electors for President.”

Finchem added, “I would advise Merrick Garland and his team of thugs that now occupy the Department of Justice: Tread very lightly. Our attorney general, I spoke with their representative this morning, I’m not going to put him on the hook for anything, but you’re going to walk into a very surprising reception if you try to do anything in this state that interferes with legislative authority in handling our elections. Hard stop.”

After the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors refused to cooperate with the latest round of subpoenas that would allow the Arizona Audit to finally be completed, Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers suggested the officials be arrested and held in solitary confinement. “I vote to arrest. Arrest and put them in solitary,” she continued, further wondering if there were enough “solitary confinement cells available in Arizona,” wrote Rogers. “We are going to need the lot.”

https://nationalfile.com/biden-doj-orders-states-not-to-conduct-arizona-style-forensic-audits-of-2020-election-threatens-prison-time/

Scientific Journal Paper Suggests Making It A ‘Federal Hate Crime’ To Criticize Fauci.

A scientific journal article authored by Professor Peter Hotez, a frequent guest on mainstream media networks, called to “extend federal hate-crime protections” for scientists facing criticism from alleged “far-right extremists,” including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.

Dr. Hotez, who himself has been funded by Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1993, offered the robust defense of scientists including Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak in a recent paper: “Mounting Antiscience Aggression In The United States.”

“There is a troubling new expansion of antiscience aggression in the United States. It’s arising from far-right extremism,” the paper, published in the peer-reviewed Public Library of Science (PLOS) Biology journal, begins.

“A band of ultraconservative members of the US Congress and other public officials with far-right leanings are waging organized and seemingly well-coordinated attacks against prominent US biological scientists. In parallel, conservative news outlets repeatedly and purposefully promote disinformation designed to portray key American scientists as enemies,” it reiterates.

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/paper-calls-for-fauci-criticism-to-be-a-hate-crime/

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https://www.scribd.com/document/518348297/Journal-pbio-3001369#from_embed

Twitter Partners With AP, Reuters to Combat ‘Misinformation’

Twitter announced Monday it will partner with The Associated Press and Reuters news agencies to combat alleged “misinformation,” although it’s not clear how it will be deployed.

The San Francisco-based company, in a blog post, said the partnership with Reuters and AP will expand its “efforts to identify and elevate credible information on Twitter.” That will affect the social media website’s trends section, explore tab, its search function, labels, and more, according to the company.

Twitter’s blog post also said it will “contextualize” emerging conversations and try to anticipate conversations before they even begin.

With the move, Twitter stated that one of its goals is “proactively providing context on topics garnering widespread interest including those that could potentially generate misleading information. Rather than waiting until something goes viral, Twitter will contextualize developing discourse at pace with or in anticipation of the public conversation.”

Twitter’s move to target so-called “misinformation” is sure to draw criticism from some of its users. Conservatives have said that Big Tech and social media firms have unfairly targeted prominent users for posting content that is deemed politically sensitive or highlights a certain candidate or politician in a negative light.

Toward the end of the 2020 election cycle, a bombshell report from the New York Post Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and the content of his laptop was blocked by the social media company, although CEO Jack Dorsey later wrote that it was handled incorrectly. The NY Post, meanwhile, was locked out of its account for several days, leading to calls for censorship.

https://www.ntd.com/twitter-partners-with-ap-reuters-to-combat-misinformation_653811.html

TikTok AI Chief Joins Staff Of Taxpayer-Backed California University.

The director of the artificial intelligence lab run by ByteDance – TikTok’s Chinese Communist Party-linked parent company – is joining the University of California Santa Barbara as a professor.

ByteDance’s Li Lei will join the taxpayer-funded university as an assistant professor in the computer science department, tweeting on Saturday that the career change is “very exciting.” Li has worked at ByteDance since 2016 following a two-year stint at another Chinese Communist Party-linked tech giant Baidu.

The hire comes amidst evidence revealing that the TikTok parent company employs former Chinese Communist Party officials, including individuals with military ties, to executive roles and even grants party members preferential treatment in hiring processes.

Its founder has also pledged to use ByteDance to “promote socialist core values” and devotion to the Chinese Communist Party in 2018.

The app’s threat to national security and data privacy prompted the Trump administration to attempt to ban the platform from operating in the U.S. – an effort recently quashed by the Biden White House.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/tiktok-ai-director-joins-ucsb-staff/

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Texas Democrat Border County Judge Signs Disaster Declaration for Migrants, COVID

A Texas Democratic county judge issued a disaster declaration due to the “substantial” number of migrants, including those with COVID-19, who are released into his community by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The same politician previously opposed a related disaster declaration by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, claiming the region was not at crisis levels to justify the move.

This week, Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez signed his declaration stating that “U.S. Customs and Border Protection is releasing an alarmingly substantial number of immigrants.” According to the document, the release of the migrants is overwhelming the City of McAllen and local non-governmental organizations which can “no longer adequately feed, house, provide medical attention, or otherwise accommodate” them.

The declaration is set to last seven days, allowing the county government to activate an emergency management plan and thereby access funds allocated for disasters.

According to the declaration, the current COVID-19 pandemic has the region at a hospitalization rate higher than 18, which is considered high. The added strain by the migrant influx places the region at risk and “extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and general well-being” of the community.

Cortez recently invited President Joe Biden to visit the border to see the challenges created by current federal actions. The move comes after the revelation that several COVID-19 positive migrants were released and caused stirs in cities like La Joya and Weslaco–where local officials criticize Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley for their lack of transparency in the episodes.

Cortez opposed a disaster declaration by Governor Abbott in May. Abbott sent hundreds of state troopers to border cities where cartels are focused on human smuggling and trafficking operations.

Cortez says his declaration is different than the governor’s because he addresses asylum-seeking migrants, while Abbott focuses on illegal immigration.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/08/03/texas-democrat-border-county-judge-signs-disaster-declaration/

Is Anyone Angry About Biden’s Inviting An Invasion Of Our Borders?

Did the American people vote to make this country the babysitter for the rest of the world? Did anyone vote to have $60 million allocated per month as reported by “60 Minutes”, for housing and feeding this foreign mob of people? And, their children?

Those illegal migrants, along with another million legal immigrants annually, migrate to our shores “for a better life.” Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? They flee suffering, misery, starvation, brutal dictatorships, drug cartels and hopelessness in their own countries in Central and South America. They ride dinghy’s from Cuba over 90 miles of open ocean to touch down on America soil. Once they land on our soil, they get the royal treatment of food, housing, EBT cards, cars, utilities and more from our tax dollars.

According to www.fairus.org, we taxpayers shell out over $113 billion annually across 15 Federal Agencies in “free stuff” for those legal and illegal migrants.

How long can this invasion of our country go on? Answer: not much longer. We’ve got 540,000 certified homeless Americans who are starving, living in the woods and suffering from endless maladies. We’ve got 80,000 drug overdose deaths annually. We’re a mind-numbing $28 trillion in national debt. We’ve got cities overrun with crime such as Chicago, Minneapolis, NYC, Miami, Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis and LA. We’ve got 330 million people to feed 990 million meals, seven days a week, 365 days a year. How much longer can we maintain our society with that kind of demand? Those migrants go from 5 gallons of water usage per day to 80-100 gallons in our country. They devour our resources at an unprecedented rate of speed.

If we keep this migration onslaught up, we face an added 100 million or even 150 million more people, net gain, in America by 2050.

Here’s the kicker: in 2021, Central America, where all these people are flooding into our country, originate—houses 181 million people. Demographic projections show Central America growing to 223 million within 29 years. That’s 42 million more desperate people that will migrate to America “for a better life” within less than three decades.

Here’s the other kicker: in 2021, South America, where starvation dominates in Venezuela, Columbia and throughout the region, they house 433 million people. By 2050, they expect to overpopulate themselves by jumping to 779 million people. That’s a added 346 million people! (Source: www.cepal.org)

That’s a total of 488 million more people heading to America “for a better life.”

Do you, fellow American, think we can save all of them? Some of them? If you do, how?

Here is what one of my readers said, “I’ve written to you several times in the past, but my feelings concerning immigration laws, should be concerned more for the lives and well-being of Texans/US citizens rather than for illegals and all these children!!

“Someone has given these people the money to travel here AND has helped organize this movement to bring these children here! If you notice, it’s all the media and all our elected officials can talk about! Oh, these poor children!

https://newswithviews.com/is-anyone-angry-about-bidens-inviting-an-invasion-of-our-borders/

Runaway Texas Democrats are bringing in reinforcements to Washington DC for their voting rights pressure campaign as more than 100 state legislators prepares to join the group in the nation's capital

More than 100 state legislators started flying into Washington, D.C. on Monday to join the runaway Texas Democrats in their pressure campaign on the federal government to address voting rights issues across the country.

The 'week of action', they are calling it, attempts to urge senators to forgo their August recess to instead pass the sweeping Democratic voting and election bill shot down by Senate Republicans earlier this year.

'They shouldn't take a recess,' Florida State Democratic Senator Annette Taddeo told CNN the night before her flight from Miami to Washington. 'Democracy comes first. My request is, recess can wait. Democracy can't.'

Taddeo plans to spend three days in D.C. this week to lobby U.S. senators to postpone their recess until the For the People Act is passed. She said the Senate doesn't have time 'to play the long game' when it comes to voting rights.

At least 18 states have enacted 30 new laws related to voter rights, according to a mid-July tally by progressive policy institute Brennan Center for Justice, which has been tracking state activity since January 1, 2021.

https://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2021/08/runaway-texas-democrats-are-bringing-in.html

National Guard Still Fighting in Middle East Despite Domestic Deployments

A Louisiana National Guard unit is in northeast Syria

Since early 2020, the National Guard has been subject to frequent domestic deployments between the coronavirus pandemic, nationwide protests, and the military occupation of Washington DC in the wake of the January 6th incident at the Capitol building. Despite how busy the reserve force is in the homeland, the National Guard is still being deployed to fight wars in the Middle East.

The Associated Press spoke with members of the Louisiana National Guard who were sent to Syria after being on domestic deployments. The US keeps a small occupation force of about 900 troops in northeast Syria.

On paper, the US military is helping the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fight ISIS, but in reality, the mission is part of the economic strangulation of Syria. On top of crippling economic sanctions that specifically target reconstruction efforts and the energy sector, the region of Syria where US troops are deployed is where most of the country’s oil fields are, keeping the vital resource out of the hands of Damascus.

The National Guard troops in Syria have been at greater risk of attack since President Biden bombed militia targets in Iraq and Syria. On June 28th, shortly after Biden’s airstrikes, the Louisianna National Guard troops in Syria came under rocket fire. “While under fire, the Soldiers of the Louisiana Tiger Brigade displayed decisive decision making while maintaining their professionalism,” Col. Scott Desormeaux, the commander of Louisianna’s 256th Infantry Brigade, said of the June attack.

Desormeaux told AP that before the deployment to Syria, his soldiers were deployed at the outbreak of the pandemic to set up a 2,000-bed hospital at the Memorial Convention Center in New Orleans. After that, Louisianna was hit with six hurricanes and tropical storms. After hurricane season, the unit was deployed to Syria. “It’s probably the most challenging two-year period you can find,” he said.

The frequency of National Guard deployments shows no sign of slowing down. Earlier this year, Gen. Daniel Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, said the reserve force will be used “more, not less” in the coming years. As of June, there were 20,000 National Guard troops deployed across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

The Pentagon’s overreliance on the National Guard for overseas wars has sparked a push to rein in the federal government’s power over the reserve troops. The Defend the Guard Act would prevent a state’s National Guard from being deployed to combat zones unless Congress had declared war. The legislation could give the power to states to block the use of their National Guard and has been introduced to multiple state legislatures.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/08/02/national-guard-still-fighting-in-mid-east-despite-domestic-deployments/

Biden Administration Escalates Airstrikes in Somalia

The US bombed Somalia on Sunday, the third time in less than two weeks

The Biden administration is escalating airstrikes in Somalia after a long pause in the US drone war against al-Shabaab. The US bombed Somalia on Sunday, the third time in less than two weeks and the third official airstrike in the country of Biden’s presidency.

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a press release that the airstrike was conducted near Qeycad, Somalia, on August 1st. The US-backed Somali government said the airstrike “destroyed a large al-Shabaab firing position” that was engaged with members of Danab, a Somali commando force trained by the US.

The press release said AFRICOM’s “initial” assessment found “no civilians were injured or killed given the remote nature of where this engagement occurred.” AFRICOM almost always claims there are no civilian casualties in its airstrikes in Somalia, but the Pentagon is notorious for undercounting civilian deaths. And whenever journalists make it to the scene of a US airstrike in Somalia, they usually find that civilians were killed.

The first airstrike in Somalia under Biden was carried out on July 20th. Before that, the last time AFRICOM reported a strike in the country was on January 19th, President Trump’s last full day in office. Trump significantly escalated the air war in Somalia and dropped a record number of bombs on the country.

During his final months in office, Trump withdrew nearly all of the 700 troops that were stationed in Somalia. But they were redeployed in East Africa, and most of the US drones that bomb Somalia are based in neighboring Djibouti and Kenya, so the air war can continue. Now the head of AFRICOM is pitching the Biden administration on sending troops back to Somalia.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/08/02/biden-administration-escalates-airstrikes-in-somalia/

Testing troops’ readiness, IDF launches drill along Lebanon border

‘Sunbeam’ exercise comes amid rising tensions after Iran blamed for deadly drone attack on oil tanker; military says training will apply lessons learned in recent Gaza war

The Israel Defense Forces will hold an exercise along the northern border starting Monday night, simulating fighting with the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The drill, dubbed “Sunbeam,” aims to test the readiness of soldiers during a potential escalation with the Iran-backed terror group that could last a number of days, the military said.

The IDF added that during the exercise, forces will examine ways of applying lessons learned from the recent military conflict in Gaza with Palestinian terrorists.

Israel and Hamas concluded 11 days of fighting in May during which the terror group launched some 4,300 rockets at Israeli cities and towns, and Israel launched hundreds of retaliatory airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

During May’s fighting, as well as last month, a number of rockets were launched from Lebanon into northern Israel. The military assessed the rockets had been launched by a local Palestinian group, not by Hezbollah.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/testing-troops-readiness-idf-launches-drill-along-lebanon-border/

Dr. Shiva Discovers Existence of the Secretive Long Fuse Report — Exposes Twitter-Government Collusion — As Momentous Discovery as Pentagon Papers

Previously we reported on Dr. Shiva Ayyarurai was able to uncover Twitter’s “partner support portal.”

Dr. Shiva discovered that Twitter built a special portal offered to certain governmental entities so that government officials can flag and delete content they dislike for any reason, as part of what they call their “Twitter Partner Status.”

Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who invented email, ran for US Senate in Massachusetts as a Republican and made allegations of voter fraud on Twitter. These tweets were then deleted by the far-left tech giant. Later it was discovered that they were deleted at the direction of government employees of the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office.

Discovering this, Dr. Ayyadurai filed a federal lawsuit by himself, alleging that his federal civil rights were violated when the government silenced his political speech in order to affect an election.

Legal observers noted back in May that the judge is signaling that Twitter’s days of claiming it is a private company so as to avoid it’s clear oppression of conservative speech, banning scores of conservative journalists, and promotion of liberal views, may be coming to a close end:

This case could spell the end of CDA 230.

CDA 230 is the provision of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that gives internet and social media companies legal immunity from lawsuits due to the content they publish.

This provision in law gives companies like Facebook and Twitter a way to dismiss lawsuits, but it also gives them the ability to act with impunity so that their actions cannot be legally challenged. These companies have, according to their detractors, abused this immunity by suppressing dissident, and specifically conservative, views, viewpoints and journalism.

Because Dr. Ayyadurai did not argue about Twitter’s “Terms of Service,” everything will instead hinge on the degree of interaction between Twitter and the state government of Massachusetts.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/huge-dr-shiva-discovers-existence-secretive-long-fuse-report-exposes-twitter-government-collusion-momentous-discovery-pentagon-papers/

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1. Starting in October 2017, government officials concluded that though the nature of U.S. elections was decentralized – spread across 10,000 jurisdictions and using different kinds of machines (and diverse methods: paper and electronic) – was the best defense to cyberhacking, they needed to eliminate such decentralization because it was a hindrance to their desire to establish and use a centralized infrastructure with nongovernmental entities to “fill the gap” between domestic government agencies who had no power to curtail speech, and federal intelligence agencies who were forbidden from curtailing domestic speech, in order to censor speech by surveilling, blacklisting, and silencing U.S. citizens, domestically, and thus allow government officials to violate the First Amendment without fear of being sued.

1. The Defendants in this case were architects of this infrastructure. The Defendants and their allies co-authored the foundational documents – The Playbooks – at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Defending Digital Democracy, testified to the US Senate Intelligence Committee to lobby for such an infrastructure, and forged relationships with billionaires, in particular Pierre Omidyar, through his Democracy Fund, as well as the Rockefeller Brothers, the Murdoch Family’s Quadrivium, Mark Zuckerberg, and other nongovernmental entities, to fund, design and deploy this centralized infrastructure for censorship of speech. The network diagram in Exhibit A provides a visual illustration of those relationships and the technology infrastructure they created to censor speech. These relationships provided the Defendants special access to channels to use if when and necessary for personal benefit, to not only blacklist and surveil US citizens, but also to silence their domestic speech, which is what they did to Dr. Shiva starting on September 25, 2020.

1. The existence of this infrastructure was discovered during the course of this lawsuit: On October 30, 2020, testimony elicited by this Court, revealed for the first time the existence of a “Trusted Twitter Partnership” between Government and Twitter; on May 19, 2021, Dr. Shiva discovered the “Playbooks” co-authored by the Defendants, which were presented to this Court during the May 20-21, 2021 hearings, that detail the step-by-step process for identifying Influence Operators (IOs), monitoring them and silencing their speech; and, on June 28, 2021, the staggering discovery of The Long Fuse Report, confirmed that this infrastructure had been monitoring Dr. Shiva starting as early as June of 2020. Discovery of The Long Fuse Report is as momentous in US History as discovery of the Pentagon Papers. This lawsuit provides the context to understand it.

1. Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai (“Dr. Shiva”), MIT PhD, the inventor of email, is a scientist, technologist, political activist (see Exhibit B), and educator – an independent thinker -, a minority, who was born as a low-caste “Untouchable” in India’s deplorable caste system, earned four degrees from MIT, a Fulbright Scholar, Westinghouse Science Talents Honors Award recipient, Lemelson-MIT Awards Finalist, nominee for the Presidential National Medal of Technology and Innovation. His life has been about identifying problems and proposing solutions based on a systems science approach – that is neither partisan nor bi-partisan -, is beyond left and right, and is based on objectively understanding the interconnections of the parts of any system. He developed a systems science curriculum, which he originally taught at MIT, that he now teaches to the broad public to educate them on applying a systems approach to any problem. This approach is what Dr. Shiva employs in his videos and social media posts in analyzing a problem or situation.

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Entire NY Democratic congressional delegation now calling for Cuomo's resignation

The entire Democratic congressional delegation of New York has called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after an independent investigation in the state attorney general's office found he had sexually harassed multiple women.

House Democratic Conference Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) issued a statement on Tuesday, saying “the time is right” for Cuomo to resign after an investigation found that he sexually harassed multiple women.

“The office of Attorney General Tish James conducted a complete, thorough and professional investigation of the disturbing allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo,” Jeffries, Meeks and Suozzi said.

“We commend the brave women who came forward and spoke truth to power. The time has come for Governor Andrew Cuomo to do the right thing for the people of New York State and resign,” the congressmen said said.

The statement came shortly after James’ office announced the results of the investigation, which found that Cuomo harassed several women, including people who worked in his office.

The report also found that the governor and his aides retaliated against at least one aide who came forward.

Most of the 19 Congressional Democrats previously called for Cuomo to resign in in March. At the time, Jeffries, Meeks, and Suozzi were the only three New York House Democrats that did not.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.) also called for Cuomo to resign at the time.

Rep. Sean Maloney (D) — who called for Cuomo to resign in March— renewed his call on Tuesday.

“@NewYorkStateAG led a thorough & fair investigation. What I said in March stands. Governor Cuomo must resign,” Maloney said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566141-entire-ny-democratic-congressional-delegation-now-calling-for-cuomos

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/566141-entire-ny-democratic-congressional-delegation-now-calling-for-cuomos

President Trump – Gives Shout-Out to Analyst Seth Keshel – Releases HUGE Statement On Election Irregularities: “Something Must Be Done—IMMEDIATELY!”

Highly respected Army intelligence captain, Seth Keshel, has just released his Report on National Fraud Numbers with respect to the 2020 Presidential Election. I don’t personally know Captain Keshel but these numbers are overwhelming, election changing, and according to Keshel, could be even bigger in that they do not account for cyber-flipping of votes. They show I won the election—By A LOT! Now watch the Democrats coalesce, defame, threaten, investigate, jail people, and do whatever they have to do to keep the truth from surfacing, and let the Biden Administration continue to get away with destroying our Country. The irregularities and outright fraud of this election are an open wound to the United States of America. Something must be done—immediately!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/president-trump-gives-shout-analyst-seth-keshel-releaes-huge-statement-election-irregularities-something-must-done-immediately/

NIH Director Francis Collins: “It May Sound Weird” But Parents Should Wear Masks at Home in Front of Their Unvaccinated Kids

Meanwhile on CNN…

NIH Director Francis Collins on Tuesday said parents should wear masks at home in front of their unvaccinated children.

Collins conceded that it “may sound weird” that people should wear masks in their homes, but he advised it anyway.

“Parents of unvaccinated kids should be thoughtful about this and the recommendation is to wear masks [at home] as well,” Collins said. “I know that’s uncomfortable. I know it seems weird but it is the best way to protect your kids.”

This kind of lunacy wasn’t even advised before Covid vaccines were available.

Children have virtually zero risk of dying of Covid-19.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/nih-director-francis-collins-may-sound-weird-parents-wear-masks-home-front-unvaccinated-kids-video/

Hillary Clinton's old campaign law firm uses China excuse to avoid Carter Page lawsuit

Perkins Coie's claim of "stateless" entity wins at federal appeals court level. Is Supreme Court next?

The Perkins Coie law firm that helped Hillary Clinton's campaign fund the now-debunked Steele dossier is using a China excuse to avoid being sued for defamation by former Trump adviser Carter Page. And so far, it is working.

"Three Perkins Coie partners are 'stateless' U.S. citizens domiciled in China," the lawyers representing the firm and the Democratic National Committee argued in an appellate brief earlier this year. "That statelessness is imputed to Perkins Coie and forecloses the existence of complete diversity of citizenship in this case."

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In a little noticed ruling in late June, the 7th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago accepted the Washington D.C.-based firm's claim that it was a "stateless" entity that can't be sued in federal court.

"In response to our concerns regarding subject matter jurisdiction, Perkins Coie submitted affidavits from three individual partners who are U.S. citizens domiciled in China: Yun (Louise) Lu, Scott Palmer, and James M. Zimmerman," the court noted.

"We adhere to this same reasoning and conclude that Perkins Coie (as a named defendant) takes on the stateless status of its individual partners Lu, Palmer, and Zimmerman," it added. "This attribution of statelessness destroys complete diversity and deprived the district court of the power to hear this case.

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The appellate judges acknowledged the legal theory of federal court immunity for "stateless" entities was novel and based on laws created before the rise of multinational corporations and it may be ripe for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"We acknowledge that in today's global business environment, where multinational entities exist in every facet of commerce, this result may strike some as impractical," the judges noted. "But keep in mind that when Congress enacted the Judiciary Act of 1789, and in the subsequent decades when the Supreme Court decided many of its significant diversity jurisdiction cases, most of today's business forms did not exist."

"The Supreme Court has not explicitly answered this question. But the Court has held both that a stateless citizen cannot be sued in diversity (see Newman-Green, 490 U.S. at 828–29) and that the citizenship of a partnership is based on the citizenship of each individual partner," the judges added.

Page told Just the News that he would continue to fight in the courts because he believes the Clinton-funded dossier amounted to improper foreign interference in the U.S. election. Steele is a British citizen and former MI6 operative.

"Reminiscent of the rigorous years of work by leaders on Capitol Hill and DOJ's Inspector General who originally uncovered the wrongdoing behind the Steele Dossier, this has remained a long road toward resolving perhaps the worst election interference and intelligence scandals in U.S. history," Page said.

"I greatly appreciate this latest rigorous analysis by one of the most respected federal appellate courts in America, as they cogently highlighted these serious unresolved questions of law," he added. "I will continue doing everything in my power to eventually achieve justice in this important matter."

Marc Elias, a partner for Perkins Coie, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.All three of the firm's partners cited in the brief either moved to China or joined the firm in 2018, long after the Steele dossier at the center of the lawsuit had been created and leaked to the media.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/tuehillary-clintons-old-campaign-law-firm-uses-china

No Criminal Consequences – New York AG and State Investigators Find Governor Cuomo Sexually Harassed Current and Former Female Employees and Violated State and Federal Harassment Laws

Perverted, creepy, sick, narcissistic, ego-maniacal New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is laughing hysterically right now as the dual-justice system of New York politics is on full display. Infuriating does not scratch the surface.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James specifically said at the beginning of her remarks releasing the investigative findings of a 5 month investigation: “The independent investigation has concluded, and Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law.”

Moments later one of the investigators, the former federal prosecutor from Manhattan, Joon Kim, said: “We find that the governor, on numerous occasions, engaged in conduct that constitutes unlawful sex based harassment,” as outlined in the extensive investigation [168-page report pdf HERE].

During their press briefing, the investigators Ann Clark and Joon Kim outlined the evidence provided by 11 sexual harassment victims and the 5 month investigation which corroborated those accusations, including the interviews of 179 witnesses. Yet, despite their words, neither the State Attorney General nor the U.S. Attorneys’ general, will bring any criminal charges against Governor Cuomo.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, said at the conclusion of their press conference:

…”The document is now public, and the matter is civil in nature and does not have any criminal consequences.”

Mainstream media writ large, and CNN specifically, is forced by overwhelming evidence to play the game of optical sadness, visible victim support, pearl-clutching outrage, and solemn face displaying; while simultaneously deflecting, dismissing and downplaying the severity of the issues because, well, after all, this is a major player on the leftist team….

….And despite the overwhelming evidence, the professionally manipulative system of dual-justice never stops protecting their own. So, move along now.

As the New York AG said at the conclusion of her statement:

…”We were tasked with the responsibility of engaging in an investigation, and we have concluded our investigation, and our work is done!”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/03/no-criminal-consequences-new-york-ag-and-state-investigators-find-governor-cuomo-sexually-harassed-current-and-former-female-employees-and-violated-state-and-federal-harassment-laws/

"I'm Going to Rape You Like I Rape My Daughter": George Soros's Right-Hand Man Howard Rubin Accused Of Sexually Abusing Six Women

Wall Street financier Howard Rubin, billionaire George Soros's former money manager and right-hand man, is being sued by six women for "beating and assaulting them during kinky BDSM sessions at his Manhattan apartment's sex dungeon."

From The Daily Mail, "George Soros' right-hand man Howard Rubin, 66, is sued by six women who accuse him of 'beating and assaulting them during kinky BDSM sessions at his Manhattan apartment's sex dungeon' ":

Howard Rubin, a former money manager for George Soros, is being accused by six women of beating them during sadomasochistic sex sessions at a specially constructed 'sex dungeon' in his Manhattan apartment.

Rubin, 66, a married, notorious Wall Street trader who is blamed for incurring $377million of losses at Merrill Lynch in 1987, is accused of paying women up to $5,000 in order to take part in BDSM sex.

Now several of the women who took part in the kinky sex sessions are suing the financier, claiming he abused them; ignoring safe words, going beyond the BDSM boundaries and agreements they set before sex, and physically hurt them.

The first accusations were made in November 2017, but a total of six women are now suing Rubin in a civil trial, scheduled for November, for $18 million.

Lurid details set out by the New York Post say that one woman was so badly beaten her plastic surgeon was not willing to operate on her after her right breast implant flipped.

Another woman said she and Rubin had sex against her will claiming that while bound in his chamber he told her: 'I'm going to rape you like I rape my daughter' before forcing her to have intercourse.

[…] One former colleague who worked with Rubin at Soros Fund Management told the Post 'I thought he was a nice guy. He was a nebbishy Jewish guy and totally normal. I was surprised to hear about him having that apartment [with a sex dungeon].'

"[The women] didn't expect to actually be beaten," their attorney told the New York Post.

The Daily Mail has pictures of his alleged victims, all of which appear to be blue-eyed blondes.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62429

IMF Officially Approves $650 Bn New Reserves For Member Countries

The IMF board of governors on Monday greenlit a $650 billion increase in cash reserves for member nations, the last step in an initiative to boost liquidity for the most vulnerable countries.

The move increases by 456 billion the stock of Special Drawing Rights (SDR), the International Monetary Fund's currency, giving countries more funds to draw on as they struggle to recover from economic hit from Covid-19.

"This is a historic decision – the largest SDR allocation in the history of the IMF and a shot in the arm for the global economy at a time of unprecedented crisis," IMF head Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement.

"It will particularly help our most vulnerable countries struggling to cope with the impact of the Covid-19 crisis," she said.

The program, which was approved by the IMF's executive board in mid-July, will be implemented on August 23.

Newly-issued SDRs which are based on a basket of major currencies will be allocated to member countries in proportion to their quota in the Washington-based institution.

Emerging and developing nations are to receive around $275 billion, the IMF said.

https://www.ibtimes.com/imf-officially-approves-650-bn-new-reserves-member-countries-3265058

Former CEO Of Comprehensive Pain Specialists Resolves Civil Lawsuit With United States

Agreement Includes Lifetime Ban from Participating in Federal Programs

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-ceo-comprehensive-pain-specialists-resolves-civil-lawsuit-united-states

Leader of Transnational Money-Laundering Network Pleads Guilty to Aiding Drug-Trafficking Organizations, While Co-Conspirator is Sentenced

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-money-laundering-network-pleads-guilty-aiding-drug-trafficking

Peoria Man Sentenced to 240 Months for Attempted Enticement of a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdil/pr/peoria-man-sentenced-240-months-attempted-enticement-minor

Minton Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdia/pr/minton-man-sentenced-prison-distributing-child-pornography

Dozens of men who thought they arranged to have sex with children arrested in Ohio during online predator sting

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A multi-agency investigation in Northeast Ohio resulted in the arrests of dozens of suspected sex predators.

The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office, Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Force and other state or local law enforcement agencies took part in the weekend-long operation targeting online sexual predators.

According to the task force, the 20 men who were taken into custody over the weekend believed that they arranged to have sex with boys or girls. They were arrested after travelling to where they thought they were meeting the child.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/08/03/dozens-men-who-thought-they-arranged-have-sex-with-children-arrested-ohio-during-online-predator-sting/

https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/08/03/dozens-men-who-thought-they-arranged-have-sex-with-children-arrested-ohio-during-online-predator-sting/

Polk sheriff: Disney employees, nurse and California man among 17 arrested in undercover child predator sting

Over a dozen arrests were made after suspects thought they were on their way to meet young teenagers to have sex, but it turned out they were communicating with undercover detectives across several agencies in central Florida. Among those arrested were three Walt Disney World employees, a registered nurse, and a married man visiting from California, officials say.

The six-day operation targeted those who use the internet to prey on children, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. In total, 17 suspects face 49 felonies and two misdemeanors.

"These are nasty, nasty people," described Sheriff Grady Judd. "We can’t even use the words that they used. We obviously can’t show the pictures and video clips that they sent to what they thought were 13-year-old little girls and little boys."

All but one lived in central Florida. A man, identified as 33-year-old Jarrod Justice, was visiting from Los Angeles, detectives said.

"He showed up on vacation but he only needed to buy a one-way ticket because he’s not flying back to Los Angeles anytime soon," Sheriff Judd said. "He’s married. Mrs. Justice did you hear that? His last name is Justice. That’s what we’re going to get. Justice for Justice."

Three suspects worked for Disney: two custodians at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park and a lifeguard at the Animal Kingdom Lodge hotel. The lifeguard was identified as 26-year-old Kenneth Javier Aquino of Orlando.

"He left his girlfriend who was 7 months pregnant with his child in order to have sex with a 13-year-old," Judd said during Tuesday's press conference.

The two custodians were identified as 34-year-old Jonathan McGrew of Kissimmee and 29-year-old Savannah Lawrence of Kissimmee, who are in a relationship together, the sheriff said, adding that they thought they could have a threesome with a 13-year-old girl.

"[Jonathan] said to the child, ‘We want to enjoy this opportunity, we don’t want to rush. Even at the conclusion maybe we can cuddle a little bit,'" Judd explained. "Are you kidding me? That’s how you talk to 13-year-old children? ‘Our fantasy is to play stepdad, stepdaughter, stepmom; teacher, student; maybe even shoplifter where we do a strip search.’ He gave all of these details before the two of them show up."

The agency worked with the police departments in Auburndale, Orlando, and Winter Haven, along with the Orange County Sheriff's Office during the investigation.

https://www.fox13news.com/news/polk-detectives-17-arrested-during-undercover-child-predator-sting