The New Witch Hunt: Dem Jan 6 Committee Demands Data From 15 Social Media Companies

289 Comments

Share (236)

Tweet

Share to Gab

TelegramTelegram

Clouthub Share

Email

The witch hunt against President Donald Trump and his supporters continues.

The Democrats’ Jan 6th committee is now demanding that 15 social media companies hand over their records.

The Daily Caller reported:

The House committee probing the Jan. 6 riots is demanding over a dozen social media companies hand over extensive records related to the events at the Capitol.

The Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot sent letters dated Aug. 26 to Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit, along with Parler, TikTok, 4chan and seven other social media platforms asking them to provide all documents, data and other information related to the Capitol riot since April 2020.

The committee requested documents concerning “misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation relating to the 2020 election,” efforts to overturn the election, “domestic violent extremists,” and foreign influence. The committee also asked for internal documents and communications on how the social media companies’ algorithms may have contributed to the events at the Capitol.

“The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is examining the facts, circumstances, and causes of the attack and relating to the peaceful transfer of power, in order to identify and evaluate lessons learned and to recommend corrective laws, policies, procedures, rules, or regulations,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chair, said in a statement.

The 15 social media companies are.

-4chan

-8kun

-Facebook

-Gab

-Google

-Parler

-Reddit

-Snapchat

-Telegram

-theDonald.win

-Tik-Tok

-Twitch

-Twitter

-YouTube

-Zello

This comes after even the FBI was forced to admit that there was “scant evidence” that Jan 6th was coordinated.

Reuters reported:

The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.

Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/new-witch-hunt-dem-jan-6-committee-demands-data-15-social-media-companies/

Teen mental health hospitalizations rise by 57% during lockdowns in Victoria – state report

The number of teen hospitalizations for mental health emergencies skyrocketed in the Australian state of Victoria this year as Covid-19 lockdowns kept people indoors and away from others, according to a leaked official report.

The Weekend Australian obtained a secretive 16-page report from the Victorian Agency for Health Information on Saturday – which was marked confidential and to be destroyed if received by an unauthorized person – revealing that the youth mental health crisis is worse than previously thought.

An average of 342 Victorians under the age of 17 were admitted to hospital each week, according to the report, which used data from between April and May of this year. This is a worrying 57% increase from the same time period in 2020.

On average 156 teenagers per week were also admitted to hospital for self-harming or expressing suicidal tendencies, the report claimed – an 88% increase from the year prior.

Perhaps most concerning, cases where teenagers required “resuscitation and emergency treatment” rose by a whopping 162% from the same six week time period in 2019, and an 83% rise from 2020, showing that the problem is getting significantly worse.

https://www.rt.com/news/533335-teen-mental-health-hospitalizations-australia/

2 Dead In Japan After Receiving Moderna Jabs From Contaminated Batches

Just last week, data from a leaked Canadian study revealed that the Moderna jab led to harmful side effects like myocarditis and pericarditis (harmful swelling of the heart) almost 2.5x as often as the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.

The news alarmed millions of Americans who received the Moderna jab, and also rattled Moderna's stock price, putting a damper on what had been a market-leading bull run.

Since then, critics of the jab have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Now, it looks like the time has finally arrived: Two people died after receiving Moderna vaccine shots that were among lots later suspended following the discovery of contaminants, Japan's health ministry said on Saturday.

The contaminated batches were first publicized earlier in the week.

The deaths fit the profile of the typical vaccine-induced myocarditis sufferer: the side effects tend to afflict men in their 20s and 30s, Reuters reports. Their deaths occurred within days of receiving a second dose of the jab.

The men in their 30s died this month within days of receiving their second Moderna doses, the ministry said in a release. Each had a shot from one of three manufacturing lots suspended on Thursday. The causes of death are being investigated.

Japan halted the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide, more than a week after the domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co, received reports of contaminants in some vials.

"At this time, we do not have any evidence that these deaths are caused by the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine," Moderna and Takeda said in a statement on Saturday. "It is important to conduct a formal investigation to determine whether there is any connection."

One public health authority asked the public not to jump to conclusions.

The government has also said no safety or efficacy issues had been identified and the suspension of the three Moderna batches was a precaution. Fumie Sakamoto, the infection control manager at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, cautioned against drawing a connection between the shots and the fatalities reported on Saturday.

"There may only be a temporal relationship between vaccination and death," Sakamoto told Reuters. "There are so many things we still don't know to make any conclusions on these two cases."

According to the Japanese government, both of the men who died had a fever the day after their second dose and died two days after getting the fever. There has been no evidence that their shots contained contaminants, a health ministry official claimed (though they were from the contaminated batches, so the fact that they died suddenly might suggest that something was off).

Then again, their deaths could simply have been caused by rare side effects, not the contaminants found in the vaccines.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/2-dead-japan-after-receiving-moderna-jabs-contaminated-batches

‘Tell them ISIS is hosting Parler’: Amazon pulls plug on jihadist propaganda app run through its servers

Amazon’s cloud service was hosting content for an Urdu-language app relaying ISIS messages and has now shut it down. The app was used by jihadists to brag about the deadly terrorist attack outside the Kabul airport.

The embarrassing blunder in Amazon’s content policing was publicized by the Washington Post, which reported a discovery by SITE Intelligence Group, a watchdog monitoring terrorist propaganda online. One of their targets was Nida-e-Haqq, an outlet that disseminated messages of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Urdu, a language spoken in many parts of South Asia, including Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Until recently, the content for the Nida-e-Haqq app was hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon and a major player in the market. After the Washington Post reported this fact on Friday, Amazon pulled the plug on it, acknowledging that it violated its terms of service.

“Following an investigation, we have disabled a website that was linked to this app as it was in violation of the AWS Acceptable Use Policy,” Amazon spokesman Casey McGee said.

Some of the recent Nida-e-Haqq posts were related to the Thursday suicide bombing of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, which the Afghanistan-based branch of IS claimed credit for. The attack killed over 170 people, including 13 US Marines guarding the airport during the last days of evacuations.

“It’s just mind-blowing that even after all these years, ISIS could still find a way to exploit a hosting company like Amazon,” SITE Intelligence Group Executive Director Rita Katz said.

The watchdog looked into the propaganda outlet’s source code and found it drew images and text from a password-protected website, which AWS hosted since April, Katz said.

“It is blatantly filled with official ISIS claims, media and logos of ISIS’ media arms, clear as day,” she explained. “This app was clearly created to keep ISIS’ message and content alive and distributed online.”

The news has drawn condemnation of the Silicon Valley giant, especially from conservatives, who brought up Amazon’s January decision to kick out social media network Parler. The service, which caters to conservative users and touts itself as a free speech platform, was widely accused of being unwilling to eradicate hate messages and calls for violence. The ban came on the heels of the January 6 Capitol Hill riot. Parler remained offline for weeks before reemerging on a different hosting service.

The role of private companies in policing online speech has grown dramatically over the past several years, as dominant platforms have been pressured to counter what is deemed misinformation and messaging of malign players.

The debate over what content should be allowed online intensified again this month amid the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Even people working in left-leaning outlets like CNN wondered if it was OK for Taliban leaders to speak their minds on Twitter while former President Donald Trump remains banned. Trump was ousted from all major platforms in the wake of the Capitol riot, as he was accused of goading his supporters into breaking into Congress and preventing the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.

https://www.rt.com/usa/533321-amazon-cloud-isis-propaganda/

Biden and Fauci Discuss Requiring Covid Booster Shots Every 5 Months

Joe Biden on Friday said he and Dr. Fauci discussed requiring Covid booster shots every five months.

The original plan was to offer a booster shot 8 months after the second dose.

We went from 2 doses of Covid shots – to 2 doses and one booster – to 2 doses and a booster shot every 5 months real quick.

“The question raised is should it be shorter than eight months? Should it be as little as five months? That’s being discussed. I spoke with Dr. Fauci this morning about that,” Biden said in the Oval Office with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

The Pfizer CEO gave away the game plan earlier this week during an interview with Fox News.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday said a vaccine-resistant variant will likely emerge.

But don’t worry because the pharma company already has a system in place to release a “variant-specific” jab within 95 days.

A booster every 5 months is going to turn into a shot every 3 months in order to protect against “variants.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/go-biden-fauci-discuss-requiring-covid-booster-shots-every-5-months-video/

Former child star Matthew Mindler, 19, found dead after being reported missing

Child actor Matthew Mindler has been found dead at the age of 19, just three days after the college freshman was reported missing.

Millersville University revealed the devastating news in an announcement to the student body Saturday.

“It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a first-year student at Millersville University. A search had been underway for Matthew since Thursday, after he was reported missing,” it read.

“Matthew was found deceased this morning, Saturday, August 28, in Manor Township near campus. Matthew was transported to the Lancaster County Forensic Center by the coroner for further investigation.”

Officials did not disclose the cause of death or whether foul play is suspected.

A missing adult report was filed after Mindler’s family said he “did not return to his room or return phone calls from his family” Wednesday. He was last seen leaving his dorm room building around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 24, and failed to show up to his classes the following morning.

Mindler co-starred with Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel in 2011’s “My Idiot Brother.” His last role was that of a character named Peter in 2016 TV movie, “Chad: An American Boy,” according to IMDB.

https://pagesix.com/2021/08/28/former-child-star-matthew-mindler-dead-at-19/

Rep. Gosar Demands Answers from State Dept Following National Pulse Afghan Exfiltration Exposé.

Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is demanding answers from the U.S. State Department after a National Pulse exposé revealing the Biden regime cancelled Trump-era plans to found a new bureau specializing in rescuing Americans from crisis zones such as Afghanistan.

On August 18th, we reported:

The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Antony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.

In a letter dated August 27th, Rep. Gosar wrote to Secretary Blinken:

As Americans and the world-at-large watch in dismay at the frantic scenes coming from Kabul, we are all concerned for the safety of our fellow countrymen. I am equally concerned with the lack of preparation for this contingency. Questions regarding this lack of preparation will be brought to the Department of Defense, however I write today concerned by reports that the State Department terminated a crisis response group in the months leading up to the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Specifically, I am referring to the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) established in October 2020 under the Trump Administration which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas. Reports from The National Pulse indicate that the State Department under your watch terminated this critically important bureau just months before the Afghanistan withdrawal and the need to evacuate thousands of Americans.

Gosar added:

Cancelling the CCR as the Biden Administration was preparing for the Afghanistan withdrawal is baffling and raises serious questions about how prepared the Administration was to complete this final step in Afghanistan. Reports also indicate that the decision to pause the program go back as far as February, which means this decision would have also jeopardized the withdrawal plan committed to under the Trump Administration.

If reports that the CCR has been paused since February and terminated in June are correct, it shows that State was never prepared for this withdrawal, justifying the heartbreaking and concerning reports and videos we are now seeing from Afghanistan.

I am therefore asking for confirmation on whether or not CCR was terminated and if so, on what grounds? A full scope answer of what authorities and justification were given to terminate the CCR, what the State Department felt it had in place to fill the CCR gap, and a determination of any issues for the State Department responding to this contingency would greatly aid in oversight of this withdrawal.

Finally, please also indicate if elimination of the CCR was in response to any Biden Administration wide orders to reevaluate Trump era policies or the product of any lingering resentment towards the former Administration held by career or political employees. Please adhere to all rules and regulation when fulfilling this request.

The letter comes as discredited “fact check” websites such as Politifact panicked over The National Pulse’s reporting, and sought to confuse the matter with a long article quoting unrelated think-tank “experts” who claimed without evidence that the scrapping of the CCR plan did not affect the Afghanistan withdrawal. Notably, Politifact did not attempt to rate the story true or false, as it usually does.

The far-left Media Matters website was also rattled by the revelation, first misattributing the story to Fox News, then baselessly attempting to confuse the OpMed bureau inside the State Department with the new CCR, without speaking to people actively involved in the Trump-era program, as The National Pulse sourced.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/rep-gosar-demands-answers-from-state-dept-following-national-pulse-afghan-exfiltration-expose/

Kraft Heinz to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines for Office Employees

Kraft Heinz Co. said on Friday all U.S. employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to offices in January.

The packaged-food maker’s announcement comes days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine, a certification that public health officials hope will convince unvaccinated Americans that the shot is safe and effective.

The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States and new regulatory guidance has led companies to change their plans on vaccinations and masking.

For now, Kraft’s decision to mandate vaccination applies only to its office population, unless they have obtained a health-related or religious accommodation, the company said.

Kraft also said its offices, including the Aon headquarters in Chicago, would open in September on a voluntary basis to vaccinated employees.

https://www.ntd.com/kraft-heinz-to-mandate-covid-19-vaccines-for-office-employees_667912.html

Pennsylvania House Dems, ADL Accuse Lenny Dykstra Of Antisemitism For Quote Tweeting Someone Named Rothschild

Dykstra was accused of "antisemitism" by PA Rep. Mike Schlossberg

The Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee used their verified account to attack retired baseball star Lenny Dykstra on Friday. A verified Twitter user named David Rothschild accused Dykstra of antisemitism for quote tweeting him and calling him by his name. “This Rothschild guy really really has his patriotic fury out for the January 6 insurrectionists!!! #MuhInsurrection,” Dykstra wrote in a quote tweet.

“Apparently Lenny Dykstra has some thoughts on the Jews,” Rothschild wrote in a quote tweet on another callout from the three-time All Star. Dykstra did not mention anything about Jewish people, he simply quote tweeted a man named “Rothschild” who then turned around and accused him of anti-Semitism. “Dumbass, the Rothschild Family is not Jews in general. Neither is Soros, about whom I’m sure u have zero bad to say. But nice try at playing victim,” Dykstra fired back. The two then continued to go back and forth on Twitter.

PA Rep. Mike Schlossberg, a Democrat, then entered the fray. He too accused Dykstra of antisemitism for “invoking” The Rothschild family. “Hey Lenny, I’m Jewish, and when you invoke the Rothchild’s, you’re not even attempting to hide your antisemitism,” Schlossberg wrote in a tweet. Dykstra then told Schlossberg that he “sucks” and that he looked like a pedophile. “Gosh, you suck!!!! Also, you clearly look a pedo!” Dykstra fired back.

After that, the Pennsylvania House Democratic Campaign Committee used their verified account to attack Dykstra. “The PA HDCC is the political arm of the Pennsylvania House Democratic Caucus, tasked with protecting incumbents, growing the Caucus, training and recruiting,” the group states on their website. “No one messes with our members — especially not a cheating, gambling, steroid using, wash up like you,” wrote the HDCC in a tweet. Too many fastballs to the head — you continue to be an embarrassment to Major League Baseball and the Phillies organization. Back off, loser.”

The ADL’s Philadelphia chapter also accused Dykstra of antisemitism. “Lenny Dykstra’s tirade about the Rothschilds and his obsession with who is and is not Jewish is not only bizarre, it is antisemitism,” the ADL said. “Rothschild conspiracies play on classic antisemitic stereotypes of Jewish greed and secret power.”

Dykstra rejected the accusations. “This DemocRAT loudmouth sissy just threw out a false accusation of anti-Semitism at me because I called out a douchebag last named Rothschild who was cheerleading Biden on Afghanistan,” Dykstra said of Rep. Schlossberg.

https://nationalfile.com/pennsylvania-house-dems-adl-accuse-lenny-dykstra-of-antisemitism-for-quote-tweeting-someone-named-rothschild/

Miami Herald faces backlash for running 'misleading' headline on Florida COVID-19 deaths

The Miami Herald used what many are calling a "misleading" headline on an article about COVID-19 deaths in Florida, which garnered thousands of clicks and shares from detractors of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Miami Herald published an article with the headline: "Florida COVID update: 901 added deaths, largest single-day increase in pandemic history."

The headline caused a stir because the deadliest day for the entire United States during the pandemic was on Jan. 7 with 4,489 new coronavirus deaths, according to Worldometer. However, the headline didn't reveal the entire story about the 901 COVID-19 newly reported deaths in Florida.

The headline was also utilized by critics of DeSantis, the Republican governor who bucked many coronavirus policies and stances embraced by Democrats. The article was shared on Twitter by MSNBC personalities, Lincoln Project employees, and liberals.

Leftists even compared the disingenuous COVID-19 framing to the U.S. service members who died in the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. Other Twitter users weaponized the headline to attack DeSantis.

The article received massive exposure and thousands of "likes" by being shared on social media.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel also used a questionable headline, claiming that there were "901 new deaths," instead of specifically saying "newly reported deaths."

Florida did not encounter 901 COVID-19 deaths in one single day, but over the course of weeks.

"Florida on Thursday reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data," the Miami Herald wrote in its article. "All but two of the newly reported deaths occurred after July 25, with about 78% of those people dying in the past two weeks, according to Herald calculations of data published by the CDC. The majority of deaths happened during Florida's latest surge in COVID-19 cases, fueled by the delta variant."

The day the Miami Herald article was published, there were eight COVID-19 deaths reported in Florida and the 7-day moving average was 53 deaths, according to Worldometer. The most coronavirus deaths in Florida for one day is 242 on Aug. 5, 2020.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/miami-herald-florida-covid-deaths-headline

Three Days Left: U.S. Embassy’s Website Alert Page Down, Gives ‘404 Error’ to Stranded Americans

The website of U.S. embassy in Kabul on Saturday morning gave a “404 Error – Page Not Found” to stranded Americans who are looking for status updates on how to reach the airport to be extracted.

“We are sorry but the page you are looking for does not exists,” the page reads, pointing evacuees to “the homepage or browse some of our recent posts.”

Previously, the website page would give alerts to stranded Americans of whether they should or should not to travel to the airport due to security threats the Taliban were charged with mitigating.

For instance, the page read August 25, “Because of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so.”

Just a few days earlier on August 21, it warned trapped American citizens to “avoid” the Kabul airport because of “security threats outside the gates.”

“Because of potential security threats outside the gates at the Kabul airport,” the embassy advised, “we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a U.S. government representative to do so.”

The down U.S. embassy page comes as President Joe Biden is drawing down the U.S. military at the airport to abide by the Taliban-enforced deadline of August 31, three days from now, eastern standard time.

The U.S. State Department advised Wednesday about 1,500 Americans are stranded behind enemy lines. But a Senate aide told CNN the same day more than 4,000 Americans remain trapped inside the country. The precise number is not known.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/28/three-days-left-u-s-embassys-website-alert-page-down-gives-404-error-to-stranded-americans/

Former Swedish Social Democrat Politician Caught with False Passports in Greece

Abdi Elmi, a former politician belonging to Sweden’s Social Democrats, was arrested in Greece after being caught with passports that were not his own.

The arrest is said to have taken place back in July at an airport in Athens. Greek police stated that the former Social Democrat was travelling with Swedish passports that did not belong to him.

According to a report from the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio, Swedish Border Police believes that such passports are taken to places like Greece in order to help migrants get to Sweden illegally, but Greek police have not commented on whether or not they believe Elmi’s passports were meant to help facilitate illegal migration.

The leftist is said to be free on bail conditions at this time.

Last year, another former member of the Social Democrats was arrested after being accused of helping to smuggle migrants illegally into Sweden.

Syrian migrant Rashad Alasaad was the subject of a Swedish media investigation which found that the 27-year-old charged 2-3,000 euros for passports to help children and adults enter Sweden illegally.

The Swedish journalists who investigated his activities also met with Alasaad on the Greek island of Crete after the Syrian claimed that passport controls were too strict in Athens — where Mr Elmi was recently taken into custody.

Alasaad bragged of smuggling his entire family from Syria to Sweden and later admitted his actions were just about making money, saying: “Let me tell you why I do it. To be honest with you, the main reason is money. I want money.”

Along with politicians, Swedish journalists have also been arrested for helping to illegally smuggle migrants with Swedish journalist Fredrik Önnevall, an employee of public broadcaster SVT, being convicted of human trafficking in 2018.

The young migrant the journalist smuggled into the country was later convicted of knife crimes a year later in 2019.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/08/28/former-swedish-social-democrat-politician-caught-with-false-passports-in-greece/

Biden says new attack on Kabul airport 'highly likely' within next 24-36 hours

US President Joe Biden has released a statement revealing military commanders have informed him that another attack on troops and civilians is likely within the next 24-36 hours.

The president's warning follows a bombing at the Kabul airport, that killed 170 Afghans and 13 US service members. Biden reiterated that the mission to evacuate civilians and allies by August 31 continues and will not be affected by further security measures being taken.

https://www.rt.com/usa/533352-biden-attack-kabul-airport-likely/

American talk show host calls for mass violence against Afghans over terrorist attack that killed US citizens in Kabul

Talk show host Todd Starnes has called for the destruction of an Afghan city for every American killed after an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport killed 12 US citizens.

Starnes’ post, made in the aftermath of two explosions at the Kabul airport on Thursday, seemingly blamed all Afghans for the carnage, which left at least 60 people dead, including 12 American servicemembers and numerous Afghan civilians.

But ethnically-misguided revenge fantasies from American talk show hosts are a dime a dozen, and have been throughout the ‘War on Terror’. The really shocking part of Starnes’ statement was that it was made on Twitter, which would normally send its moderators to swarm all over an opinion expressed by a conservative pundit. Even Twitter’s most free speech-friendly competitors ban incitement to violence, as well as expressions of ethnically- or nationally-based hate. Yet Starnes’ jingoistic tweet remained online, where many fellow tweeters used it as a piñata.

https://www.rt.com/usa/533185-starnes-afghanistan-vengeance-twitter-wtf/

https://www.rt.com/usa/533185-starnes-afghanistan-vengeance-twitter-wtf/

'Who ARE the evacuees?' Tucker slams 'unvetted' Afghan evacuations and claims they are allowing terror cells into the US after pilot says he was not allowed to see his own plane's manifest

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/08/who-are-evacuees-tucker-slams-unvetted.html

Anonymous donor from 'out of town' pays for funerals of ALL 20 Tennessee flash flooding victims who included seven-month old twins and a 16-year-old

Twenty people who died in a Tennessee flood have had their funerals paid for by an anonymous donor from 'out of town', a funeral home manager said.

A man who wished to remain unnamed walked into the the Humphreys County Funeral Home in Waverly on Thursday and paid for the nine funerals being organized there.

Manager William Brown told the Tennessean that the man also went to other funeral homes in the area to pay for the funerals of the other 11 victims.

The donations came as hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed into the community from donors across the state and nation to help families affected by the devastating flood on Saturday.

The flooding took out houses, roads, cellphone towers and telephone lines, with rainfall that more than tripled forecasts and shattered the state record for one-day rainfall.

More than 270 homes were destroyed and 160 took major damage, according to the Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency.

It comes after a Tennessee woman who was livestreaming rising flash-floodwaters drowned shortly after recording the video.

Linda Almond, of Waverly, Tennessee, was on the roof of her home with her son, Tommy, when it collapsed and the pair were swept away by rushing water.

Tommy was rescued by authorities, but Almond did not survive, her family confirmed on Facebook.

Almond's one-minute Facebook live, which has now had more than 20,000 views, includes her final words: 'This is really scary. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness.'

As of Tuesday morning, at least 21 people were killed and 10 others missing as a result of catastrophic floods that came after 17 inches of rain fell over parts of Tennessee in a 24-hour period.

Among those killed were two seven-month-old twins and the ranch foreman for country singer Loretta Lynn.

http://www.domigood.com/2021/08/anonymous-donor-from-out-of-town-pays.html

Former Colorado daycare owner and employee are found guilty of child abuse after hiding 26 toddlers in a basement behind a FALSE WALL

A former daycare worker and her employee were found guilty of child abuse after hiding 26 children behind a 'false wall' in her basement.

Carla Faith, 58, and one of her employees, Christina Swauger, were found guilty by a jury on 26 counts of misdemeanor child abuse.

In November 2019, Authorities found 26 children under the age of three children behind a false wall in the basement of Faith's Play Mountain Place day care in Colorado Springs after parents complained of overcrowding at her home.

She had been operating the daycare with a license for just six kids and, it is believed, when police arrived she hid the kids from view. Officers persevered because they could hear the children inside.

When the police entered the home they found a 'false wall' which led to the basement.

Once they got to the basement, they found the 26 children and two adults.

According to the affidavit, many of the children had soiled or wet diapers and were sweaty and thirsty, gazette.com reported.

'Officers immediately began working with [The Colorado Department of Human Services] to release the children back to their parents,' he said.

Authorities shut down that property and another three that she was operating.

District Attorney Michael Allen celebrated the guilty verdict as he stood with the families of some of the victims in front of the El Paso County Combined Courthouse.

'It's all on behalf of every single one of these people here today,' he said. 'They deserve justice, and I think that this gives them a sense of justice.'

The family members attended most of the court trial that included police body camera footage of the daycare and 'some pretty heavy testimony,' Deputy DA Andrew Herlihy said.

Following the verdict a parent said the trial was emotional and the families would need time to heal, gazette.com reported.

'It's going to take help, for our kids especially, to move on after the trauma that they've gone through,' Vanessa Nagel said.

During closing arguments, defense attorney Josh Tolini tried to convince the jury the situation was not as bad as it seemed and the children were not continually kept in cramped spaces.

'They were spread out, fed, got naps, and did arts and crafts,' he said. 'They were loved.'

At one point Tolini argued there was evidence the kids were well taken care of because they were happy, prompting a parent walked out of the courtroom, KOAA.com reported.

A jury found Faith guilty of 26 counts of knowing and reckless child abuse without injury, as well as charges for running a child care facility without a license and attempting to influence a public servant.

Swauger, an employee at the daycare, was also convicted by the jury of 26 counts child abuse, one for each child found in the basement.

A no-bond warrant has been issued for another employee of the daycare who did not appear in court, the DA's office said.

When she is arrested, she too will go to trial, gazette.com reported.

The child abuse charges could mean three to twelve months in jail.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/08/former-colorado-daycare-owner-and.html

Clowns are happy

Legal experts welcome sanctions of pro-Trump lawyers, say more needed

Attorneys behind some of the dubious litigation over former President Trump’s 2020 election loss were sanctioned this week by a federal judge, in a move that was welcomed by legal ethics experts.

More disciplinary steps are needed to deter efforts to undermine future U.S. elections, said experts who spoke to The Hill, while adding that the system for holding pro-Trump election lawyers to account was working as it should.

“The wheels of ethical accountability grind slowly but deliberately," said Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer. "Within the span of 10 months, we have seen both state bars and the courts take action against those lawyers who took their propagation of Trump’s conspiratorial fantasies out of the cable news studio and into the courtroom.”

Following President Biden’s win at the ballot box, pro-Trump attorneys filed dozens of lawsuits based on unfounded claims contesting the election’s legitimacy. The litigation persisted even after the attorneys collectively racked up an abysmal record in court, winning only a single minor case while losing some 60 others.

Although some Trump-allied attorneys characterized their actions as hard-fought advocacy, critics say they crossed an ethical red line by deploying politically motivated disinformation to advance Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was stolen from him.

Concerns about holding pro-Trump lawyers accountable for baseless election litigation has grown more pressing in light of fears that the 2024 presidential election could see even more sophisticated efforts to use the courts to subvert the results. Several legal ethics experts said appropriate punishment should include years-long suspension from legal practice and even disbarment.

“Lawyers who file baseless lawsuits for propaganda purposes are engaging in fraud on the public and harming our democratic institutions,” said Barbara McQuade, a federal prosecutor during the Obama administration who is now a law professor at the University of Michigan. “For that reason, strong sanctions are needed to deter lawyers from enabling the weaponization of false information."

A fresh round of punishment came this week when a federal judge in Michigan sanctioned nine pro-Trump attorneys, saying their lawsuit over the former president’s 2020 election defeat amounted to a "historic and profound abuse of the judicial process."

"[T]his case was never about fraud — it was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so," wrote Judge Linda Parker, an Obama appointee to the federal District Court in Detroit.

The sanctions were levied against some of the higher-profile Trump-allied lawyers, including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, whom Parker ordered to pay the legal fees of their opposing parties and referred to state bar authorities for further discipline.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), one of the defendants in the case who asked the court to impose disciplinary action, praised the outcome on Wednesday.

“While the mob on January 6th physically assaulted our democracy, Sidney Powell and other lawyers continued to do so in our courts,” Whitmer said in a statement. “They launched dozens of lawsuits, exploiting the legal system to undermine a free and fair election. The courts rejected all of them.”

“Today’s ruling sends a clear message: Those who seek to overturn an American election and poison the well of American democracy will face consequences,” she added.

Biden defeated Trump in Michigan by around 154,000 votes, or 2.7 percentage points.

Legal ethics experts who spoke to The Hill pointed to Parker’s ruling as a model for others tasked with meting out discipline.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/569840-legal-experts-welcome-sanctions-of-pro-trump-lawyers-say-more-needed

Bennett: Biden loves Israel; I invited him to visit after Delta variant defeated

PM tells reporters he found US president very ‘attentive to our needs’ in ‘wonderful meeting;’ praises his commitment to curb Iran, but warns: ‘there isn’t a lot of time’

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Friday that during his meeting with US President Joe Biden he extended an invitation for him to visit Israel after the pandemic has subsided.

“I invited the president to Israel after we defeat the Delta variant,” Bennett said in a briefing to the Israeli reporters who traveled with him to Washington. Israel has been leading the way in pushing third-shot boosters to overcome the variant that threatened to undo the progress achieved by the vaccination campaign.

Bennett was emphatic about how well his meeting with Biden had gone.

“It was a wonderful meeting, especially the one-on-one,” he said. “It was mostly a working meeting. There was a feeling that we’ve known each other for a long time. I found a leader who loves Israel, who knows exactly what he wants, and is attentive to our needs.”

The premier said that even after the blast in Kabul forced the cancellation of the meeting originally scheduled for Thursday, Biden had been adamant about making sure it still happened and rescheduling it for the next day.

“I am truly grateful to the president and his entire staff for their determination to carry out the meeting,” Bennett said, praising the Biden administration for its “attentiveness and focus at the height of a complex American incident.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-biden-loves-israel-invited-to-visit-after-delta-variant-defeated/

Supporters rally to reinstate Marine officer fired for viral video rebuking brass on Afghanistan

Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller demanded answers from senior military leaders, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.

The veterans' community has rallied around a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who was relieved of command after posting to social media a rebuke of senior officers for how they handled Afghanistan.

Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller on Thursday posted a video he recorded in the aftermath of the deadly Kabul airport bombing that killed 11 Marines, one Army Green Beret, and one Navy corpsman, along with scores of Afghans. In the video, Scheller wore his service uniform while issuing an extraordinary public challenge to his chain of command. Scheller calmly addressed the camera in what became a viral video that got him booted out of the Marine Corps on Friday.

While some veterans remarked privately that Scheller had set a bad example to younger service members, others hailed him as a courageous leader who had the courage to speak up.

Supporters quickly organized a grass roots campaign to reinstate Scheller. One man whose social media account identifies him as retired from Marine Force Recon, a special operations unit, asked people to take action on Scheller's behalf, asking that he be reinstated.

"Here's the public affairs office for the United States Marine Corps," wrote Anthony Slate on LinkedIn. "I suggest we the people contact the Marine Corps and let them know how we feel on the matter!!!!!" Slate posted contact numbers for Headquarters Marine Corps, along with social media contact information.

Scheller reported Friday on social media that he has been inundated with messages offering support for his decision to speak out — a post that brought thousands of comments, shares, and "likes" in addition to the more than 30,000 shares of his original video.

In that viral video, the longtime Infantry officer addressed top military leaders.

"I want to say this very strongly," Scheller said. "I have been fighting for 17 years. I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders: I demand accountability."

He named Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David H. Berger, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley.

"I'm not saying we need to be in Afghanistan forever, but I am saying, did any of you throw your rank on the table and say, 'Hey, it's a bad idea to evacuate Bagram Airfield, a strategic airbase, before we evacuate everyone'?" Scheller said. "Did anyone do that? And when you didn't think to do that, did anyone raise their hand and say, "We completely messed this up'?"

After the video went viral, Scheller on Friday posted an update on his personal Facebook page.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/supporters-rally-reinstate-marine-corps-officer-fired-demanding-accountability

Granholm Chartered Military Jet to Ukraine as US Struggled To Evacuate Americans From Afghanistan

Trump administration officials faced allegations of wasteful spending for use of expensive military charters

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm earlier this week chartered a military jet to attend a diplomatic summit in Ukraine as the Pentagon struggled to evacuate Americans and allies from Afghanistan with limited time and operational resources, sources told the Washington Free Beacon.

Granholm's military flight took place amid the United States' frantic effort to airlift tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan ahead of the Taliban's Aug. 31 deadline and as the Department of Defense was forced to call in civilian airlines to bolster its strained evacuation fleet.

The secretary's use of a military jet—and particularly the flight's timing—may raise questions for the Biden White House, which is responsible for approving such flights. Trump administration officials faced allegations of wasteful spending for their use of expensive military charters for trips that did not have national security urgency.

Tom Price, who served as health and human services secretary under former president Donald Trump, was forced to resign in 2017 after revelations that he took numerous overseas military flights and other private air travel, running up a $500,000 travel tab. Trump's former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt resigned in 2018 amid multiple controversies, including questions over his use of military flights that cost the government over $58,000. Former Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin was also scrutinized for taking military flights for unnecessary purposes.

"As President Biden recently said we are in a ‘winter of peril,' so it’s disconcerting to see administration officials essentially taking joy rides on military aircraft. It's the definition of fraud, waste, and abuse," said Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Public Integrity Project.

The White House confirmed to the Free Beacon that Granholm used a military flight and defended it as "standard protocol" because Granholm was attending the event as a dignitary representative of the president.

Others questioned the justification. "Standard operating procedure does not apply during a national security crisis, these moments require judgment," one former Trump administration official told the Free Beacon. "The fact that the White House chose to send a cabinet member overseas on a non-mission essential visit, unnecessarily diverting State Department and DOD resources is ludicrous, not to mention an abuse of taxpayer dollars."

The official added that the flight military charters "require refueling and the support of personnel at military bases such as Ramstein Air Base, which is currently being used to transport and house thousands of people fleeing Afghanistan."

The Department of Energy declined to comment on the justification for the flight and how much it cost.

Granholm on Monday flew to Ukraine to attend the Crimea Platform Summit, a conference to support Crimea's independence from Russia.

Also on Monday, the Pentagon instituted an emergency program called the "Civil Reserve Air Fleet," which ordered civilian airlines, including American Airlines and Delta Airlines, to provide planes to help the evacuation efforts from Afghanistan. The program was last used during the early days of the Iraq war.

"It's a program that was designed in the wake of the Berlin airlift after World War II to use commercial aircraft to augment our airlift capacity," said President Biden.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/granholm-chartered-military-jet-to-ukraine-as-us-struggled-to-evacuate-americans-from-afghanistan/

Eric Clapton New COVID Protest Song On Vaccines, 'This Has Gotta Stop'

Eric Clapton is putting his anti-vaccine sentiments into song – the guy just released a ditty that's all about resisting COVID vaccines and restrictions … and it's surreal.

The legendary rocker and guitarist debuted his new track, "This Has Gotta Stop," Friday … which at first feels like a social justice-like protest song – based on the lyrics and visuals. But, when you read between the lines and read up on EC's recent COVID remarks … it's clear what he's talking about.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/08/28/eric-clapton-covid-vaccine-song-this-has-gotta-stop/

Pentagon Spox John Kirby Runs Away From a Question About ISIS Prisoners Being Released by the Taliban

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Saturday bolted from the lectern after Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson confronted him on the Taliban’s alliance with ISIS.

The Biden regime has insisted the Taliban and other terrorist factions in the region such as ISIS, are separate entities.

Biden is actually working with the Taliban, sharing intel with the Taliban and even gave them a (kill) list of Americans and Afghan allies in Kabul.

We know the Taliban has an alliance with ISIS and the Pentagon on Saturday admitted there is “commingling and marbling” between the Taliban and other terrorist networks.

Kirby on Friday said thousands of ISIS prisoners were released after Biden’s withdrawal from Bagram Air Base.

In July, US troops abandoned Bagram Air Base, a strategic military base in Afghanistan, in the dead of the night.

Afghanis looted the abandoned base and thousands of terrorists were released from the two prisons next to Bagram.

Instead of moving the terrorists to Gitmo, Biden allowed them to be released by the Taliban.

Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson confronted John Kirby: “ISIS prisoners were released from jail by the Taliban. Is that evidence that the Taliban and ISIS might be in…”

Kirby bolted and refused to answer the question.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/pentagon-spox-john-kirby-runs-away-question-isis-prisoners-released-taliban-video/

China supply issues could cause empty shelves across Australia by Christmas

Huge problems in China could lead to a miserable festive season for many Aussies, who are being urged to “get in early” if they want to save Christmas.

In the classic Christmas song ‘Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer’, Santa Claus can’t fly his sleigh to deliver toys because of poor visibility due to bad weather, specifically, fog. Only with the help of the bright red nose of Rudolph, one of his reindeer, can Santa overcome his logistic issue and deliver toys to the good boys and girls of the world.

With Christmas now less than four months away, Australia is facing its own logistic issues. Indeed, there is a very real chance this festive season will look less like a happy Yuletide tale and more like The Grinch.

When the pandemic first forced shut the doors of China’s factories in January last year, the world began to feel the impact practically immediately. All of a sudden the stream of various products, parts and materials from the Asian country in some cases simply evaporated, as arguably the world’s most draconian lockdown choked off tightly wound supply chains.

Here in Australia this was best illustrated by the sizeable quantity of empty shelves of some large retailers such as Kmart, as supply issues began to significantly impact the availability of goods to consumers.

Across practically every industry from construction to automotive, hairdressers to furniture retailers, supply chain issues have begun to impact businesses and the flow of goods to households.

For example, where once you could order a new couch from one of the nation’s large furniture retailers and have it in under a month, customers are now often facing extremely long waits that at times stretch into the territory of: “You’ll get it eventually.”

A 12-MONTH WAIT FOR STOCK

Now, as a result of multiple outbreaks of the Delta Covid-19 strain in China and elsewhere throughout the manufacturing hubs of the world, these issues have actually significantly worsened since the initial supply chain shocks of March and April last year.

When combined with the enormous level of Western government stimulus driving the highest level of demand for manufactured goods in history, there is little hope that the current supply chain issues can be resolved by the start of the 2022 Lunar New Year (February).

As lead in times for products continues to grow, Aussie retailers are increasingly being forced to order stock eight to 12 months in advance.

CHRISTMAS SHOP NOW

In a recent interview, Super Retail Group chief executive Anthony Heraghty said: “But even if you are buying it eight to 12 months out, the chances of it arriving on time is zero,” he told Fairfax. “If it’s not in the shed or on the shelf today, for Christmas this year I think the chances of it being (in stock) come that peak time is incredibly remote.”

Mr Heraghty went on to say that consumers should certainly consider “getting in early” and doing their Christmas shopping now, with delays expected to stretch well into next year and potentially even into 2023.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/china-supply-issues-could-cause-empty-shelves-across-australia-by-christmas/news-story/7fdf30eacaefffc171e58650b13e899e