U.S. Defense Secretary Visits Georgia, Romania, Ukraine To Coordinate The “Eastern Front”

On October 18th, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin began his three-nation visit by landing in Georgia’s Tbilisi.

Austin also tweeted that he looked forward to meeting with his “counterparts and other senior officials” to reiterate the United States’ commitment to its allies in the region.

He is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and other high officials of the Black Sea nation.

From Georgia, Austin will move on to Ukraine and Romania before ending up in Brussels on October 21 to take part in a two-day NATO summit.

The Biden administration needs to pay more attention to Georgia to head off a potential tilt toward Russia as well as China, said political scientist David Kramer at Florida International University, who is a former senior US diplomat.

“There is growing concern that the government is a little too flexible to Moscow,” he said.

“Part of that is frustration with a lack of progress that they see toward integration with NATO.”

In Ukraine, Austin will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Minister of Defense Andrii Taran to reiterate Washington’s support the Kiev government.

The visit to Kiev will also serve as an opportunity for the US Defense Secretary to outline Ukraine’s defense requirements to meet its Euro-Atlantic needs.

As per the Defense Department, Austin will stress in both Georgia and Ukraine that there is an open door to NATO and encourage the nations to make the changes necessary for them to qualify for membership in the defensive alliance.

Austin is also going to recognize the nations for their support. “In terms of sacrifices, it is important to note that Georgia … was the top, per capita contributor to the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, and suffered many losses from that mission,” the official said.

Austin said “no third country has a veto over NATO’s membership decisions. Ukraine, as you heard me say earlier, has a right to decide its own future foreign policy and we expect that they will be able to do that without any outside interference.”

Officials called Romania a “role-model ally,” and Austin will express America’s appreciation. “Romania … is doing just about everything that we could possibly ask of a NATO ally, so we have the opportunity to recognize that and appreciate that,” the official said.

In Romania, Austin will meet with President Klaus Iohannis and Minister of National Defense Nicolae-Ionel Ciuca.

https://southfront.org/u-s-defense-secretary-visits-georgia-romania-ukraine-to-coordinate-the-eastern-front/

The Jewish Politician and Slave Owner Who Was the Brains of the Confederacy

Judah Benjamin was the largest Jewish slave owner in the South and a key member of Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ government. ‘This is a person who had some very impressive qualities but did sickening, horrible things,’ says biographer James Traub

There have never been any calls to topple statues of Confederate politician Judah Benjamin. But that’s probably because no statues were erected in the first place.

Benjamin occupies a murky place in American Jewish history. He was among the first Jewish U.S. senators, rose to prominence in national affairs and even featured on the Confederate two dollar bill. Yet the rebel government he served in was a proud defender of slavery – as was he.

He owned a Louisiana plantation that made him the largest Jewish owner of slaves, but public opinion in the South blamed him when the Confederate stronghold of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, fell to the Union during the American Civil War. He was also subject to much antisemitic vitriol despite being known as “the brains of the Confederacy.”

These contradictions are explored in a new book by James Traub, “Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy.”

“This is a person who had some very impressive qualities but did sickening, horrible things. He became such a dedicated, impassioned defender of slave society,” Traub says in an interview.

The book is part of the “Jewish Lives” series published by Yale University Press. But unlike many other individuals profiled in the series, Benjamin represents a disquieting and possibly unfamiliar subject.

“We just assume Jews were liberal, progressive [and] must have been profoundly troubled by slavery,” Traub says, citing the Exodus narrative and Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement of the 20th century.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-politician-and-slave-owner-who-was-the-brains-of-the-confederacy-1.10295298

France Central Bank Holds Trials For CBDCs, Initiates Blockchain-Enabled Bond Transactions

KEY POINTS

The Bank of France joined hands with more than 500 firms to test CBDC.

After the discussions at G7 Summit, the testing in France and the UK began.

The introduction of CBDCs is being viewed optimistically by prominent individuals in the private sector.

France's central bank has successfully completed a series of bond transactions on blockchain technology as part of a larger trial to integrate Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) into the traditional monetary system, Financial Times reported.

The Banque de France partnered with Belgium-based financial services provider Euroclear for implementing these transactions. Euroclear’s website did not disclose the actual monetary value of transactions.

The central bank released CBDC for government bond transactions which were tested under a system developed by IBM. More than 500 firms have taken part in the testing process that will continue for 10 months.

The testing of CBDCs involved the participants selling the government bonds and security tokens with the help of blockchain-based digital currencies the central bank supplied. The trial involves various organizations, including the public debt office of France and a consortium of firms such as BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC and Société Générale.

Euroclear executive Isabelle Delorme said, “We have together successfully been able to measure the inherent benefits of this technology, concluding that the central bank digital currencies can settle central bank money safely and securely.”

CBDCs on a global scale

France is not the only country working on CBDCs. G-7 members have already discussed ways of adopting and issuing CBDCs.

While the UK conduct its own research into the digital currency, private individuals have formed a Digital Pound Foundation to fast-track the adoption and introduction of the digital currency.

https://www.ibtimes.com/haitian-justice-minister-gang-demands-17-million-kidnapped-missionaries-3319699

OSHA Demands Not To Know Things

Axiom: ‘In order to advance a communist ideological belief system, the rulers must pretend not to know things’.

Individually, in groups, or in the systems they construct, that axiom has always been true.

The Dept of Labor and OSHA standard on adverse Vaccine events:

“OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination”

The Biden administration is forcing you to take the jab in order to work, and simultaneously the Biden administration doesn’t want the employer to tell them about workers who are injured by the jab. Simply more evidence the vaccine mandate is not about your health.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/19/osha-demands-not-to-know-things/

NBA Player Who Suffered Blood Clots After Covid-19 Vaccine Said League Told Him to Stay Quiet

An NBA player who suffered from blood clots after he received the Covid-19 vaccine was told not to discuss his ordeal publicly.

Brandon Goodwin, who developed blood clots after the Covid jab, which ended his season early and compromised his career, revealed that the NBA warned him to stay quiet.

Goodwin, 26, said that shortly after he received the vaccine he fell sick and never fully recovered from it. He said that he began experiencing constant back pain and was extremely tired during games. In his team’s back-to-back games in April against the Philadelphia 76ers, he said that he felt like he couldn’t even run up and down the basketball court.

When his pain began to get worse, he decided to see a doctor and was diagnosed with having blood clots.

All of this occurred within the space of a month,

In a video posted on Twitch, Goodwin stated that he believes his blood clots were linked to the vaccine.

“I was fine until then. I was fine up until I took the vaccine, I was fine. People trying to tell you, ‘No. It’s not the vaccine.’ How do you know? You don’t know. Yes, the vaccine ended my season. One thousand percent.”

He said that the Hawks called him to tell him that his season was over, and was then told by the NBA not to discuss the matter. He said he was not allowed to continue playing because he needed to take blood thinners, when his health improved, he asked to return to play but was denied.

https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/19/nba-player-who-suffered-blood-clots-after-covid-19-vaccine-said-league-told-him-to-stay-quiet/

DOJ making a lo of sweet deals

Justice, Labor Departments Reach Settlements with Facebook Resolving Claims of Discrimination Against U.S. Workers and Potential Regulatory Recruitment Violations

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-labor-departments-reach-settlements-facebook-resolving-claims-discrimination-against

Former Mexican Federal Police Commander Pleads Guilty to Drug-Trafficking Conspiracy

Ivan Reyes Arzate Received Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Bribes from a Mexico-Based Cartel

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-mexican-federal-police-commander-pleads-guilty-drug-trafficking-conspiracy

Libyan National Pleads Guilty to $23 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/libyan-national-pleads-guilty-23-million-covid-19-relief-fraud

San Francisco’s Health Department Closes In-N-Out Burger, Chief Legal Counsel for Burger Chain Defiant: “We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government”

According to The HighWire, In-N-Out Burger’s Chief Legal and Business Officer, Arnie Wensinger, recently announced that the San Francisco Department of Health closed the popular burger chain’s restaurant location for allegedly “not preventing the entry of customers who were not carrying proper vaccination documentation.”

Wensinger revealed how city regulators insisted that restaurant employees actively ‘demand’ that all customers show their vaccination papers before entry into the burger shack:

“After closing our restaurant, local regulators informed us that our restaurant Associates must actively intervene by demanding proof of vaccination and photo identification from every customer…barring entry for any Customers without proper documentation.”

In-N-Out Burger has over 300 locations across the western United States, with the vast majority operating in California. Defiant pushback like this from businesses could create a ripple effect in other parts of the state:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/10/19/san-franciscos-health-department-closes-in-n-out-burger-chief-legal-counsel-for-burger-chain-defiant-we-refuse-to-become-the-vaccination-police-for-any-government/

A Dozen Arrested In Human Trafficking Operation In Tennessee

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – A two-day undercover operation aimed at addressing human trafficking in middle Tennessee, resulted in the arrest of 12 individuals accused of seeking illicit sex from minors.

The operation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Human Trafficking Unit, Murfreesboro Police Department, Tennessee Human Trafficking Task Force and the office of the 16th Judicial District Attorney General.

“HSI is proud to have partnered with our state and local partners in this successful human trafficking operation involving multiple arrests,” said HSI Nashville Special Agent in Charge Jerry C. Templet, Jr. “Using our victim centered approach to these types of investigations, HSI will continue to target and investigate individuals and networks that engage in crimes that target our most vulnerable populations.”

Beginning Oct. 13, authorities placed several decoy advertisements on websites known to be linked to prostitution and commercial sex cases. The focus of the operation was to identify individuals seeking to engage in commercial sex acts with minors.

As a result of the operation, those arrested and booked into the Rutherford County Jail include:

Terrance Deshun Becton, 27, of Mason, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude and simple possession/casual exchange.

Edilberto Nataren-Aguilar, 32, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Colin Patrick Hamilton, 26, of Tullahoma, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Javier Urbina Leija, 31, of Smyrna, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Alasfour Abdullah Hassan, 22, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

John Darrell Schulze, 59, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Garrett Robert Zabloudil, 41, of China Grove, North Carolina, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Edward Pope, 32, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Lucas Javier Diaz-Hernandez, 23, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Francisco Ruiz-Diaz, 29, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

Michael Lee Sovern, 20, of Smithville, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

William DeJesus Morales-Garcia, 46, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, charged with human trafficking for sexual servitude.

https://breaking911.com/a-dozen-arrested-in-human-trafficking-operation-in-tennessee/

Pope Demands Silicon Valley “In the Name of God” Censor “Hate Speech,” “Conspiracy Theories”

Pope Francis thinks empowering giant corporations to silence free speech is Godly.

Pope Francis invoked God in an effort to pressure Silicon Valley giants into censoring more content, including “hate speech” and “conspiracy theories.”

Yes, really.

The Pope made the remarks during a World Meeting of Popular Movements, a shadowy organization created to promote “social justice” and fight racism with the help of religious leaders.

“In the name of God, I ask the technology giants to stop exploiting human weakness, people’s vulnerability, for the sake of profits without caring about the spread of hate speech, grooming, fake news, conspiracy theories, and political manipulation,” he stated.

Pope Francis also invoked the term “post-truth,” which was invented by establishment media organs after they began to lose their monopoly on controlling the narrative following the election of Donald Trump.

The Catholic leader apparently believes it’s Christian and Godly to empower giant corporations to shut down free speech.

This is no surprise given his previous stance on free speech in response to the slaughter of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, when he rhetorically sided with the terrorists who murdered them in cold blood.

As we document in the video below, which Pope Francis would surely love to see banned, the Supreme Pontiff smears his critics as performing “the work of the devil.”

In reality, his every action and position has served to further the anti-Christ globalist beast system for which he is a willing puppet.

No doubt the Pope would respond to such claims by characterizing them as “conspiracy theories” and “hate speech.”

Beginning to see how this works?

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/81015/pope-demands-silicon-valley-in-the-name-of-god-censor-hate-speech-conspiracy.html

Facebook tells Arizona AG it allows messages on human smuggling

Mark Brnovich is now asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate after social media giant’s revelation.

Social media giant Facebook acknowledged to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich it allows a platform for those seeking advice on human smuggling over international borders.

Brnovich is now asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the matter, saying Facebook’s policy “undermines the rule of law.”

The California-based social media company responded July 30 to an inquiry from Brnovich, saying it uses its most stringent policies to crack down, ban and shield others from users who try to use the platform for illegal purposes that include human smuggling.

However, the letter said that the company allows people to share information on how to “enter a country illegally and or request information” on human smuggling.

“After consultation with human rights experts, we developed this policy to ensure we were prohibiting content relating to the business of human smuggling but not interfering with people’s ability to exercise their right to seek asylum, which is recognized in international law,” the statement said. “Allowing people to seek and share information related to smuggling can also help minimize the likelihood of them being exploited by human traffickers.”

In an Oct. 14 letter to Garland, Brnovich said the federal government is responsible for investigating this admission.

“Facebook’s policy of allowing posts promoting human smuggling and illegal entry into the United States to regularly reach its billions of users seriously undermines the rule of law,” Brnovich wrote.

In August, 17,000 people illegally crossed into the Yuma sector of Arizona from Mexico; 2,300% more than the same month in 2020.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/facebook-tells-arizona-ag-it-allows-messages-human-smuggling

Mumbai sex racket: Two minors among 4 rescued; 4 including minor’s father arrested

While one minor girl hails from Mumbai and reached the hotel with her father, the other is from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. Both the girls are from poor families.

The Social Service Branch (SS Branch) of the Crime Branch of Mumbai Police rescued four women, including two minors aged 15 and 16 years, from a sex racket. The SS Branch also arrested four persons, including the father of one of the minors, for pimping the women.

Officials of the SS Branch had received specific information that one of the accused, Rahul Thakur Verma, 29, supplies minor girls for prostitution. He used social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp to contact customers.

Acting on the information, the SS Branch used a decoy customer to contact Rahul. As a part of the deal, Rahul asked for Rs 20,000 as advance and a few lakh rupees as full payment for the deal.

The decoy customer and Rahul met the women at a hotel in Goregaon (w) on October 16 around 2:20 pm. One of the minor girls arrived with her mother while the other came with her father.

Once the accused accepted the money from the decoy customer, the officials nabbed Rahul and his aides and rescued the women. The other arrested accused were identified as Jeetendra Gautam, 31, and his wife who police refused to name. The fourth accused is the father of one of the minor girls. The role of the second minor girl’s mother is under scrutiny.

While one minor girl hails from Mumbai and reached the hotel with her father, the other is from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. Both the girls are from poor families.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-sex-racket-arrested-father-police-7579616/

Democrats Pushing Transgenderism In Schools Are Fully Responsible For Bathroom Sexual Assaults

Democrats and school administrators are tossing aside student safety to instead focus on normalizing their crazed gender ideology.

It’s a phone call every parent dreads receiving. Earlier this year, Virginia father Scott Smith was notified his 15-year-old daughter had been sexually assaulted. While that news was horrific, little did Smith know this would just be the start of a nightmarish series of events in which he would end up being cast as the villain. He can thank Democrats for enabling the whole outrageous affair.

The saga began back on May 28 at Loudoun County’s Stone Bridge High School, the sheriff’s office confirmed, where Smith was summoned by school officials. Smith told The Daily Wire he learned his daughter had allegedly been assaulted in a girls’ restroom by a boy wearing a skirt. (According to some reports, the boy identifies as “gender-fluid.”) Smith said school officials told him they intended to handle the incident in-house, instead of through the police and courts. After Smith became understandably upset at this callous and wholly improper decision not to involve law enforcement, he says school officials calls the police on him.

Fortunately, Smith was not arrested that day, but the story did not end there. A month later, he attended a Loudoun County School Board meeting to protest a proposed policy that would, among other things, allow students to access whatever restroom or locker room corresponds with their self-identified sex.

Concerned parents argued the policy would take privacy and safety from girls. LCPS Superintendent Scott Ziegler responded, “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.” Smith couldn’t believe his ears.

Later, a conversation between a left-leaning parent and Smith grew heated when the other parent implied Smith was lying about his daughter. This time, police did arrest him and video of the incident went viral. Overnight, Smith became the poster boy of supposedly dangerous parents. The National School Boards Association even specifically pointed to him in the now-infamous letter to the Biden administration, arguing that distraught parents ought to be seen as “domestic terrorists.”

The full truth about what had happened to Smith’s daughter did not become public until this past week: The sexual assault committed against her was no anomaly. Not only that, it was the direct result of policies promoted and advanced by Democrats who are willing to sacrifice the bodies, minds, and souls of innocent children to protect leftist gender ideology from criticism.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/19/democrats-pushing-transgenderism-in-schools-are-fully-responsible-for-bathroom-sexual-assaults/

1000s Of California Parents Join In Statewide Walkout Against Vaccine Mandate For Students

Thousands of California parents, students, and teachers on Monday participated in a statewide walkout to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all students in both public and private schools.

Newsom, a Democrat, earlier this month announced the vaccine mandate for schoolchildren in grades 7 through 12 once the vaccines have received full approval by the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), making California the first state to implement such requirements.

So far, the FDA has only granted emergency authorization for anyone aged 12 to 15. Newsom’s latest vaccine requirement is expected to take effect in January 2022 or the start of the 2022 school year.

Crowds of Californians opposed to the measures swarmed the steps of the California Capitol, carrying signs that read “My body, my choice,” and “My children won’t be a science experiment to make you feel safe.”

Many parents statewide pulled their children from school to participate in the rallies, in hopes their absences from class would send a message to state officials.

One Sacramento mother, Kendall Ramer, 32, told the Associated Press that she pulled her two children out of elementary school to attend a rally, adding that she and her husband plan to shift to homeschooling once Newsom’s vaccine mandate comes into effect.

“Everybody should be able to make their own choice for what’s good for them,” she said.

Los Angeles Unified School District employee Hovik Saponghian told SkyFOX that schoolchildren shouldn’t be forced to “take something without all the data.”

“I’m here protesting the mandate because we don’t believe that we should take it religiously, ethically or morally,” said Saponghian.

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) parent Rima Mkhitran told the news outlet that she was participating in the rally because “we want our children and our teachers to have a choice.”

“As a parent, I think I have the right with other parents to stand up for our children,” she said.

“I don’t want to get the vaccine for my child because they are too young. There are no studies showing the long-term effects. We should wait for a couple of years,” added LAUSD parent Nara Vardaresyan.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/1000s-california-parents-join-statewide-walkout-against-vaccine-mandate-students

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/1000s-california-parents-join-statewide-walkout-against-vaccine-mandate-students

United States v. Maxwell

Letter — Document #358

District Court, S.D. New York

Docket Number: 1:20-cr-00330

Date Filed: October 18th, 2021

Uploaded: October 18th, 2021

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612/gov.uscourts.nysd.539612.358.0.pdf

SA public servant Ian Schapel took advantage of children's poverty to exploit them sexually, court hears

A retired senior public servant of 45 years preyed on the economic disadvantage of young children in the Philippines, forcing them to perform sex acts for him online — or starve — an Adelaide court has heard.

Key points:

Ian Schapel arranged to engage in sexual activity with children online

His lawyer said he was lonely and isolated

The court heard police had wanted to seize his house as it was "an instrument of the offending"

Ian Ralph Schapel – who was a senior HR manager with the South Australian Department of Premier and Cabinet — has pleaded guilty to 50 offences, including 41 counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child outside of Australia, using a carriage service to access child exploitation material and possessing child exploitation material.

The 67-year-old engaged in 74 occasions of sexual activity with at least 13 children in the Philippines over platforms including Skype and WhatsApp.

The female victims were aged between three and nine years old.

Schapel also had more than 52,000 images and videos of child exploitation material in his possession.

Commonwealth prosecutor Krista Breckweg said Schapel took advantage of families in the Philippines and paid a "paltry" amount of $30 on average for a live recording.

"He preyed on the economic vulnerability of the facilitators and the children, acknowledging that the communication was usually initiated by the adult women who contacted him asking for money to buy food or medicine," Ms Breckweg told the court.

"The chat logs that accompanied established that the offender was directing the facilitators as to what he wanted the children do.

"The offender chose the Philippines where he could easily and readily access young girls for sex given their dire economic circumstances and the absence of efficient law enforcement aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse."

She said if the facilitator – or parent – of the child victim did not meet his requests, he would threaten them including saying "you starve now".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-19/public-servant-sexually-exploited-children-overseas-court-hears/100550242

Fully Vaccinated DHS Chief Mayorkas Tests Positive For Covid – Days After Attending Event with Joe Biden

Fully vaccinated DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.

Mayorkas had to cancel a planned trip to Colombia because of his Covid infection.

“Secretary Mayorkas tested positive this morning for the COVID-19 virus after taking a test as part of routine pre-travel protocols. Secretary Mayorkas is experiencing only mild congestion; he is fully vaccinated and will isolate and work at home per CDC protocols and medical advice. Contact tracing is underway,” Espinosa said in a statement.

Mayorkas was with Joe Biden on Saturday at the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service.

Joe and Jill Biden stood next to Mayorkas during the service at the US Capitol this weekend.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/fully-vaccinated-dhs-chief-mayorkas-tests-positive-covid-days-attending-event-joe-biden/

US Supreme Court declines to stop mandated COVID-19 vaccines for Maine health workers - AP

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1450556759823818767

Credit Suisse Resolves Fraudulent Mozambique Loan Case in $547 Million Coordinated Global Resolution

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/credit-suisse-resolves-fraudulent-mozambique-loan-case-547-million-coordinated-global

Wuhan Lab Announces New Network Which Only Hires Chinese Communist Party Members.

The Fauci-funded foreign lab is expanding, and some entities are explicitly hiring Chinese Communist Party members.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology – now widely believed to be responsible for the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – is launching a new network of seven more laboratories, with some facilities exclusively hiring members of the Chinese Communist Party, The National Pulse can reveal.

Several posts on the website of the lab reveal job openings for one of the new facilities: the Jiangxia Laboratory. Wuhan and its experiments have been funded and supported by leading U.S. institutions such as Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

“Jiangxia Laboratory is one of the first seven Hubei laboratories in Hubei Province, led by the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” the lab explains, adding its purpose is to “condense the superior forces in the field of prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and biosafety inside and outside the province, create a new generation of detection reagents and equipment, and develop and stock antiviral vaccines and drugs.”

A May 17th post for a “Management” position in the laboratory lists the first qualification as being a “member of the Communist Party of China, aged 35 and below, in good health.”

“Those who have more than 1 year of public affairs management and party affairs work experience are preferred,” the application instructions add.

Among the duties for the job are the management of Chinese Communist Party affairs, such as “the daily work of laboratory party building, including formulating work systems, responsible for party branch construction and daily management of party members, writing and reporting various materials, and responsible for laboratory culture construction.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/wuhan-lab-launches-new-lab-for-ccp-members/

Yellen Backs Down on IRS Snooping on Americans’ Bank Accounts

Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has relented in response to backlash over a controversial proposal by Democrats that would have allowed the IRS to gain information from any American bank account with more than $600 of activity in a year.

The measure initially came to light as a part of Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. Trying to head off concerns from moderates, Democratic leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers have desperately marketed the bill as being completely paid for with no substantial effect on the deficit or national debt.

One proposal to achieve that end was the IRS measure. Despite immediate backlash, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Yellen adamantly defended the planned IRS overhaul.

Yellen, the former Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve who took control of the Treasury in January, said the measure is designed to target wealthy Americans who hide income from the IRS. Because of the measure, Yellen said the IRS will be able to collect more taxes from the wealthy and close the “tax gap.”

“We have a tax gap that over the next decade is estimated at $7 trillion, namely a shortfall in the amount that IRS is collecting due to a failure of individuals to report the income that they have earned,” Yellen said.

Now, Yellen has somewhat changed course, supporting a raise in the reporting threshold from $600 to $10,000.

While still supporting the broad goal of closing the so-called “tax gap,” she relented on key aspects of the program.

“Under the current system, American workers pay virtually all their tax bills while many top earners avoid paying billions in the taxes they owe by exploiting the system,” she said. “At the core of the problem is a discrepancy in the ways types of income are reported to the IRS: opaque income sources frequently avoid scrutiny while wages and federal benefits are typically subject to nearly full compliance.”

“This two-tiered tax system is unfair and deprives the country of resources to fund core priorities.”

However, responding to concerns that the program would target middle class and low-income Americans, Yellen announced several changes to the original measure.

Foremost, the reporting threshold will be raised to $10,000, addressing a key concern from critics who considered $600 to be too low to merit IRS snooping.

Yellen also announced an “exemption” from the measure “for wage earners like teachers and firefighters.” It is not yet clear whether this exemption will extend to other middle class wage earners in the private sector.

Yellen applauded these new proposals for “protecting American workers.”

https://www.ntd.com/yellen-backs-down-on-irs-snooping-on-americans-bank-accounts_690627.html

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Was not planned either then I post this

>>14815777 also not planned

The boss is here