NSA broke its own rules to spy on Americans, new IG report finds

The National Security Agency (NSA) didn’t follow some of its own required procedures meant to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens, a new report by the NSA’s Inspector General revealed Monday.

In its semi-annual report to Congress, the Office of the Inspector General for the NSA found failures in the agency’s procedures under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA).

Section 702 of FISA describes how U.S. intelligence agencies may conduct warrantless surveillance of the communications of suspicious non-citizens on foreign soil. The section also describes how intelligence officials may access the sensitive information and communications of U.S. persons (USPs), if there is probable cause they are working for or in contact with suspicious non-citizens.

The inspector general’s report said evaluation efforts “revealed several issues that, if not addressed, have the potential to impact the effectiveness of the Agency’s internal controls used to protect the civil liberties and privacy rights of USPs.”

The report said investigators found NSA queries for U.S. person “selectors” — the agency’s term or FISA search terms — that did not follow Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)-approved procedures.

“While NSA has implemented both preventative and detective controls, the Agency has not completed the development of a preventative system control that performs pre-query validation to notify analysts of potential

noncompliance with NSA query procedures or policy problems prior to query execution,” the report said.

The report further discovered the NSA did not always document USP selector information on its FISA search tools.

“The lack of consistency limited the ability to fully and accurately search the

module’s contents,” the report said. “Furthermore, data standards were not fully addressed in NSA’s tool, and the tool lacked standard operating procedures that were accessible to analysts with access to the tool.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/nsa-broke-its-own-rules-to-spy-on-americans-new-ig-report-finds/

OIG is hardly credible - DS attack?

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Spent his entire time working for Israel while in office, now he's still kissing their ass - shameful

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Semiannual Report to Congress

1 April to 30 September 2021

https://oig.nsa.gov/Portals/71/Reports/SAR/NSA%20OIG%20SAR%20-%20APR%202021%20-%20SEP%202021%20-%20Unclassified.pdf?ver=IwtrthntGdfEb-EKTOm3gg%3d%3d

Fauci Is SCARED… Now Tries To Cover-Up Wuhan Lab Leak By Claiming Covid Came From ‘An Animal Reservoir’

There is a lot of evidence that the China coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab, but Dr. Fauci just threw an animal reservoir out there for the terminally gullible.

Where’s the evidence?

Well, a CDC study says animal reservoirs can serve as hosts, and trigger new variants.

Fauci grabs on to those studies he thinks bolsters his narrative.

https://en-volve.com/2022/02/03/watch-fauci-is-scared-now-tries-to-cover-up-wuhan-lab-leak-by-claiming-covid-came-from-an-animal-reservoir/

Former BlackRock employee: “Under the cover of Covid they print 65% more money to keep things afloat

https://www.bitchute.com/video/dcm5xTyVZ2hW/

The FDA accepts legal aid from Pfizer and delays releasing licensure pages till May

As the Lynnwood Times reported previously, Federal Judge Mark T. Pittman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate the release of an estimated 451,000 pages of material related to the licensing of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on January 6, 2022.

The FDA must produce “more than 12,000 pages” on or before January 31, 2022. From there, the administration is required to produce “the remaining documents at a rate of 55,000 pages every 30 days, with the first production being due on or before March 1, 2022, until production is complete,” according to the court order.

Most recently, however, the FDA has asked the court to delay making the first round of 55,000 pages public till May 2022. The FDA has also accepted legal aid from Pfizer.

FDA’s push back due to staffing issues

Pushback from the FDA has primarily focused on staffing issues. As Reuters reported on January 7, “The FDA didn’t dispute it had an obligation to make the information public but argued that its short-staffed FOIA office only had the bandwidth to review and release 500 pages a month.”

According to court documents, the FDA originally only “allocated the equivalent of nearly 11 full-time staff to this project.”

Then, to meet the demand of reviewing so many papers, “The FDA […] plans to hire 15 contractors, ‘detail’ 8 agency employees, and assign 5.5 of its normal review staff to the project, for a total of 28.5 reviewers.” It seems a daunting task, then, to have less than 30 workers review 55,000 pages in one month.

As a result, the FDA “insists it must delay its first 55,000-page production until May 1, 2022 – four months after the Court entered its order.”

However, the FDA received Pfizer’s Biologics License Application (BLA) in May of 2021, which, again, included more than 450,000 pages, and was able to review and approve the application by August that same year according to the administration’s approval letter. To accomplish this task, the FDA would have had to examine roughly 112,500 pages a month.

FDA accepts legal aid from Pfizer

On January 21, the FDA accepted Pfizer’s legal aid. The pharmaceutical company persisted its involvement would be necessary to prevent exposing trade secrets and confidential commercial information to the public.

As the court document states, “due to the unprecedented speed with which the Court has ordered FDA to process the records at issue, FDA anticipates that coordination with Pfizer to obtain the company’s views as to which portions of the records are subject to Exemption 4, the Trade Secrets Act (“TSA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1905, or other statutory protections will be a necessary component of the agency’s endeavors to meet the extraordinary exigencies of this case.”

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/81685/the-fda-accepts-legal-aid-from-pfizer-and-delays-releasing-licensure-pages-till.html

Investigation Uncovers George Soros Secretly Funding Effort to Silence Joe Rogan

Globalist billionaire George Soros is secretly funding shadowy left-wing groups behind the latest effort to silence Joe Rogan, according to a new investigation.

The campaign to censor Rogan began when a group of media-described “medical professionals” – who turned out to be leftwing activists posing as medical professionals – launched an “expert” petition in the media demanding that Spotify ban the Joe Rogan Experience podcast from their platform.

It was revealed how most of the people that signed the petition were in fact not real doctors or medical professionals.

The fake petition and its media propagators drummed up enough faux outrage to get several musicians to issue Spotify an ultimatum: ban Joe Rogan or we will leave your platform.

Basedunderground.com reports: Unsurprisingly, Spotify chose its star podcaster, but pledged to do more to “combat misinformation.”

In reporting that the vast majority of “doctors” behind the anti-Rogan letter were not in fact medical doctors, The Dossier found:

“Paradoxically, the disseminators of this petition are guilty of the very misinformation label that they’ve attached to Rogan. In fact, neither of the two reported co authors of the letter — Jessica Rivera and Ben Rein — possess medical degrees. Rivera holds a master’s degree and Rein is a PhD academic who researches psychiatry.”

Rivera is currently the science communication lead with the Pandemic Prevention Institute, a project of the far-left Rockefeller Foundation. She was previously associated with The Atlantic’s COVID-19 Tracking Project, a now defunct endeavor that was funded by Mark Zuckerberg, the Rockefeller Foundation, among other far-left institutions

Rivera, who has accused Joe Rogan of spreading misinformation about mRNA shots, has spread plenty of misinformation about COVID-19 herself, including the pseudoscientific claim that vaccine induced immunity is better than natural immunity.

https://en-volve.com/2022/02/02/investigation-uncovers-george-soros-secretly-funding-effort-to-silence-joe-rogan/

Facebook is deliberately showing much lower view count to videos going against their narrative.

This is from prime minister of Quebec, 129 shares and 85k views. From 16 hours ago.

Facebook is deliberately not showing the real view on videos of opposite narrative to make it look smaller than it actually is. For example here, if we go with a rule of three (and considering how massive the trucker’s movement is right now), the video on the left should have around 9.6 million views considering the number of shares it has. I’ve seen a lot of these (heavily shared videos with minimal views) appear lately on my feed. Are we finally having a real conspiracy?

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/facebook-is-deliberately-showing-much-lower-view-count-to-videos-going-against-their-narrative/

Federal Agency Censors Names of Banks in a Bombshell Study on Wall Street’s Dangerous Derivatives

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is the federal agency created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010. Its role is to provide early warnings to U.S. bank regulators and the public of systemic risks that threaten U.S. financial stability, so that another 2008-style Wall Street crisis can never again devastate the U.S. economy.

The OFR was doing an outstanding job of sounding alarm bells until the Trump administration gutted the agency. The Biden administration has clearly not done enough to restore the integrity of the office.

Consider the research report that was released by the OFR on July 12 of last year, which we just discovered yesterday. The report is titled: “Counterparty Choice, Bank Interconnectedness, and Systemic Risk.” The researchers, Andrew Ellul and Dasol Kim, examined 18 different over-the-counter (OTC) derivative markets and noted the following:

“Bank interconnectedness through the OTC derivative markets was identified as an important factor that contributed to the severity of the Great Financial Crisis…and remains an area of fragility of systemically important banks on which we have very limited understanding. The trading of OTC derivatives is notoriously concentrated in the largest banks, which are also the ones for which we have data. One important feature is the substantial counterparty risk that banks face, in our context the most important counterparty risk is that faced by banks trading with non-bank entities.”

Exactly who are these “non-bank entities”? According to the researchers, banks are increasingly using non-financial corporations on the other side of their derivative trades.

Let the above two paragraphs sink in for a moment. After giant, federally-insured banks in the U.S. interconnected themselves via trillions of dollars in derivative bets with wobbly foreign investment banks and a dodgy unit of the giant insurer, AIG, and blew themselves up along with the U.S. economy in 2008, these inter-linkages are still going on 14 years later and regulators have “limited understanding” of just how dangerous this daisy chain of risk really is.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/federal-agency-censors-names-of-banks-in-a-bombshell-study-on-wall-streets-dangerous-derivatives/

Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla’s Text Messages with EU Commission President Ursula von de Leyen

EU Ombudsman report

The European Commission’s denial of access to text messages between Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla amounts to ‘maladministration’, the EU Ombudsman found.

The text messages were sent while the EU was securing COVID-19 vaccine contracts, but the Commission claimed they had not “identified” them when asked by a journalist. The New York Times first reported their existence in April 2021.

This resulted in a complaint to Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, who made her verdict clear on Friday (28 January), stressing that the European Commission must “do a more extensive search for the relevant messages.”

“The narrow way in which this public access request was treated meant that no attempt was made to identify if any text messages existed. This falls short of reasonable expectations of transparency and administrative standards in the Commission,” O’Reilly said in a press statement.

Her report found that the search carried out by the Commission was limited to an internal record of documents where such texts would not be stored. Furthermore, it was revealed that the president’s personal office had not been asked about the messages.

She concluded that this amounted to a case of maladministration and fell far short of transparency levels expected under EU law.

Von der Leyen’s cabinet was initially asked to dig out documents fulfilling the Commission’s internal criteria for recording. According to these internal criteria, text messages are not required to be recorded along with other means of communication.

However, this was not enough to satisfy O’Reilly, who urged the Commission to change its practice.

“Not all text messages need to be recorded, but text messages clearly do fall under the EU transparency law, and so relevant text messages should be recorded,” O’Reilly pointed out, adding that it is “not credible to claim otherwise”.

The deadline for the Commission’s response to the Ombudsman is 26 April.

https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/da/press-release/en/151740

https://www.globalresearch.ca/eu-watchdog-accuses-commission-maladministration-texts-pfizer-ceo/5768564

Board of Health Issues First Known U.S. Cease and Desist Order for Cell Tower Due to Ongoing Residential Health Complaints

Residents of a Massachusetts neighborhood have been reporting significant as well as life-threatening health issues ever since a Verizon cell tower was activated near their homes. In October 2021, The Board of Health asked Verizon to remove the tower but the company refused. Yesterday the BOH agreed to send the company a “Cease and Desist” Order.

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/02/board-of-health-issues-first-known-u-s-cease-and-desist-order-for-cell-tower-due-to-ongoing-residential-health-complaints.html

Biden blames ISIS leader for blowing himself up, killing family

President Biden on Thursday blamed the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, for killing members of his family by blowing himself up as U.S. troops closed in on his home in Syria.

“We do know that as our troops approached to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardness, with no regard to the lives of his own families or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up,” Biden said in remarks at the White House.

“Not just at the vest but to blow up that third floor, rather than face justice for the crimes he has committed, taking several members of his family with him just as his predecessor did,” he added.

The president said that the team is still compiling a full report about the raid that occurred overnight Thursday. He thanked the team of troops for carrying out the mission, calling it successful.

“Thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more. Our forces carried out the operation with their signature preparation and precision, and I directed the Department of Defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties,” he said.

Biden said the U.S. military chose a raid over an air strike because al-Qurayshi was with families, a choice Biden said was intended to minimize civilian casualties.

“Knowing that this terrorist had chosen to surround himself with families, including children, we made a choice to pursue a special forces raid at a much greater risk to our own people, rather than targeting him with an air strike,” he said.

A senior administration official told reporters earlier that al-Qurayshi died during the operation by detonating a bomb that killed himself and members of his family on the third floor of the residence where it took place.

Officials said that the raid also took out an ISIS lieutenant, who barricaded himself on the second floor of the building and engaged in a firefight with U.S. forces.

The Pentagon called the mission successful on Wednesday and said that there were no American casualties. Thirteen people, including women and children, were reportedly killed, though a senior administration official disputed public reports about casualties, saying a family and children were evacuated safely from the dwelling where the raid occurred.

Biden, in his remarks, noted that al-Qurayshi took over as the global leader of ISIS in 2019 after a U.S. counterterrorism operation killed the group's former leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/592643-biden-blames-isis-leader-for-blowing-himself-up-killing-family

PREMEDITATED MASS MURDER, We're GOING To Get Them! Pt2: Worse Crime Against Humanity Ever Committed!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/fIGO4ErHld1i/

Ex-US envoy Friedman: In Rivlin meeting, Trump criticized Netanyahu, praised Abbas

In new book, former ambassador says comment ‘knocked everyone off their chairs’; says his own inflammatory remarks on Obama, J Street were simply a tactical error

During a 2017 meeting with then-president Reuven Rivlin, Donald Trump criticized then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his unwillingness to seek peace while Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “desperate” for a deal, former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman said in his new book, according to a copy obtained by The Guardian.

In “Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East,” a memoir set to be published next week, the former American envoy said the comments stunned him and “knocked everyone off their chairs.”

“Although the meeting was private and off the record, we all envisioned a headline tomorrow that Trump had praised Abbas and criticized Netanyahu – the worst possible dynamic for the president’s popularity or for the prospects of the peace process,” Friedman wrote. “Fortunately, and incredibly, the event wasn’t leaked.”

The book also describes how during Trump’s next meeting with Netanyahu, Friedman showed a “two-minute collection of Abbas’s speeches that I thought was worth watching.”

According to the Guardian, the tape contained “two minutes of Abbas honoring terrorists, extolling violence, and vowing never to accept anything less than Israel’s total defeat.”

Friedman wrote that after the tape concluded, “the [US] president said, ‘Wow, is that the same guy I met in Washington last month? He seemed like such a sweet, peaceful guy.’ The tape had clearly made an impact.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-us-envoy-friedman-in-rivlin-meeting-trump-criticized-netanyahu-praised-abbas/

Marc Elias Makes Millions Off Democratic Gerrymandering Efforts

Lawyer is involved in efforts to redraw congressional districts in New York, Maryland

Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has long decried the evils of gerrymandering. Now, he's getting rich off it.

Democratic and progressive groups paid Elias's firm more than $1 million in the most recent quarter, according to Federal Election Commission records released this week. One of Elias's biggest clients, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is leading efforts to redraw congressional districts in New York and Maryland. With polls indicating Democratic losses in November, the controversial gerrymander scheme is seen as the party's best hope of maintaining majority control of Congress.

The effort opens both parties up to allegations of hypocrisy. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.), the chairman of the DCCC who worked with Elias to redraw New York’s maps, accused Republicans last year of using gerrymandering to win control of the House. Elias has repeatedly accused Republicans of partisan gerrymandering. He recently sued to block North Carolina and Ohio from adopting maps he claimed are unfair to Democrats.

Elias Law Group has raked in millions of dollars since Elias launched it in August. The DCCC paid the firm $424,048 in December, according to campaign filings. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee paid the firm $492,560. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) Senate Majority PAC paid Elias Law Group another $162,797.

The firm received another $40,000 collectively from Priorities USA Action, the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC, George Soros’s Democracy PAC, and former attorney general Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee. The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump PAC founded by former Republican operatives, paid Elias Law Group $45,288.

Of all of Elias’s legal maneuverings, his work with the DCCC could have the most political impact in November. Elias and Maloney have pushed for changes to congressional districts that could help Democrats pick up as many as seven seats. FiveThirtyEight said New York's maps were "heavily biased" in favor of Democrats and, if approved by the state legislature, could single-handedly protect the party’s House majority in November.

The proposed map would put Democrats in control of around 80 percent of the state’s House seats, far higher than the 62 percent vote share Democrats received in House races in the Empire State in 2020. Maloney has defended the gerrymandered maps, saying that Republicans are using the tactic to pick up seats in red states. "I believe in bringing a gun to a gunfight," he told Politico.

Elias and the DCCC are behind a similar effort in Maryland. Prior to the DCCC and Elias joining forces with Maryland Democrats to push for the gerrymander in court, state-level Democrats jettisoned their pledge for a transparent redistricting process and crafted their maps almost entirely behind closed doors and with no public input.

This is not the first instance of Democrats doing the type of gerrymandering they decry. Holder, who formed the National Democratic Redistricting Committee to fight gerrymandering, waged an effort to draw up Pennsylvania’s electoral maps to protect Democratic seats. Holder’s group, which is heavily funded by foreign billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, paid Elias’s firm $10,000 in recent months, according to FEC filings.

Elias, whom liberals tout as a champion of election integrity, has a history of defending questionable political tactics. In Nevada, Elias Law Group defended an ad from an advocacy group aligned with Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC that wildly inflated Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto's (D., Nev.) accomplishments.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/marc-elias-makes-millions-off-democratic-gerrymandering-efforts/

Freedom Convoy Demonised – CIA-colour revolutions celebrated

Since the 22nd of January, despite receiving no mainstream media coverage whatsoever, thousands of Canadian truck drivers and their supporters embarked on a Freedom Convoy throughout the world’s second-largest country, a mass-protest in response to the Canadian government’s decision to widen their already authoritarian Covid measures by mandating that truck drivers re-entering Canada from the United States, the world’s largest land-border and a vital component of the Canadian economy, have to be fully vaccinated – vaccine passports being a key step towards the Digital ID system as envisaged by Klaus Schwab’s concept of the fourth industrial revolution, with the World Economic Forum chairman previously highlighting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as one of the group’s ‘young global leaders’ during a 2017 conference.

With the Freedom Convoy converging on the Canadian capital Ottawa on Saturday however, the week-long media silence on the protest disappeared only to be quickly replaced by widespread mainstream media condemnation, with the use of likely agent provocateurs leading to the protest being widely lambasted, in lockstep, as ‘far-right’ and ‘fascist’ by corporate-owned outlets – the irony of the Convoy being against the very fascist concept of the fusion of state and corporate power via the use of vaccine mandates being lost it would seem.

This condemnation by the mainstream media of a genuine working-class protest against public officials working on behalf of corporate interests however, lies in stark contrast to their recent response to CIA-engineered regime change operations, masquerading as ‘human rights protests’ and which involved the use of genuine extremists, receiving the full support of the corporate media whilst doing so.

Less than three weeks prior to the Freedom Convoy setting off on its initial journey, protests against rising fuel prices in Kazakhstan rapidly escalated into extreme violence, resulting in the deaths of 18 Kazakh security services members in the space of four days, including two who were decapitated , and leading to the Moscow-led CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) being deployed into the central Asian nation at the request of Nur-Sultan in order to quell what was a clear attempt at a colour revolution in line with a May 2020 policy document published by Neoconservative think tank , the RAND Corporation – which outlined regime-change in Kazakhstan as a means to destabilise neighbouring Russia in turn.

This attempt at regime change in Kazakhstan, countered by the CSTO in less than two weeks and who subsequently withdrew from Kazakhstan afterwards, came amidst a time of increased tensions between Russia and the West, with Moscow being accused of planning an ‘imminent’ invasion of neighbouring Ukraine since the end of November – with Kiev itself subjected to the 2014 Euromaidan colour revolution, launched by the CIA and MI6 in response to then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s November 2013 decision to suspend an EU trade deal in favour of pursuing closer ties with the Kremlin, and like the colour revolution attempt in Kazakhstan, also involved the use of extremist elements such as the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, who would go on to wage war on the pro-Russian breakaway Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in the East of the Country.

https://southfront.org/freedom-convoy-demonised-cia-colour-revolutions-celebrated/

NFL star slams Congress for trading stocks while players are banned from betting on games

Detroit Lions' Tyrell Crosby says lawmakers essentially can manipulate a stock

Normally he protects quarterbacks. But Detroit Lions offensive tackle Tyrell Crosby is straying into politics and causing a stir by questioning why members of Congress are allowed to trade stock when they can influence financial policy.

"If as an NFL player we aren't allowed to bet on games (which I fully agree with), why are government officials allowed to buy stocks/stock options?" Crosby tweeted last month.

He explained on Wednesday's "Just the News" TV show with editor-in-chief John Solomon and cohost Amanda Head his thoughts behind that tweet, after which he started advocating online for reforming trading laws.

"I was just in bed having random thoughts," and after seeing an ad for sports betting, the 26-year-old said, "It just hit me."

"As an NFL player, I'm not allowed to bet on any NFL games. I can't do any of that stuff," he said.

"But then you've got people in Congress, and they're able to trade stocks," despite being able to implement policies that can "drastically affect" the market, Crosby said. "They can essentially manipulate a stock."

Crosby is excited for the Super Bowl and said he predicts it will be a "really good game."

"Joe Burrow has been playing lights out lately, Ja'Marr Chase is a stud. He's just a straight-up stud," Crosby said, adding, that Matthew Stafford is "literally the man. So I'm rooting for Stafford just because I had the privilege of blocking for him."

Stafford was the Lions' primary starter from 2009 to 2020, before he was traded to the Rams. Chase described Stafford as "laser-focused" and said, "whatever he's about to do, it's about to be great."

Turning to Tom Brady's retirement after 22 seasons with the NFL, Crosby said he was surprised, but understands.

"I was shocked that he decided to retire. It makes sense. I mean, with his age and everything he's accomplished," he said, describing Brady as "one of the best football players to ever play."

COVID presented NFL players with unique challenges, specifically with the risk of infecting teammates.

"I love having my family come to games, I love having my friends there," Crosby said, but during COVID, games often did not have an audience.

"It was hard to just live your normal life knowing like if you test positive, you're affecting your whole team," Crosby said. "It was a lot of stress."

Solomon then asked the NFL player for his thoughts on paying college athletes.

https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/detroit-lions-tyrell-crosby-criticizes-congress-they-can-essentially-manipulate

UK Government plans to remove Human Rights in the UK “for the greater good” and will apply reforms to the Unvaccinated

Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill Of Rights

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1040409/human-rights-reform-consultation.pdf

In December they produced a document – a consultation to reform the Human Rights Act 1998. I am all for reform, if it is done for the right reasons and in the right way, but there are some worrying parts of the document which I will go through below. All emphasis is my own.

By ‘The Naked Emperor’

On page 35 it discusses “a ‘rights culture’ that displaces personal responsibility and the public interest”. It says –

“the international human rights framework recognises that not all rights are absolute and that an individual’s rights may need to be balanced, either against the rights of others or against the wider public interest. Many of the rights in the Convention are ‘qualified’, recognising explicitly the need to respect the rights of others and the broader needs of society”.

I’m sure we all agree that we should respect other people’s rights and consider the broader needs of society. However, these considerations should not trump an individual’s rights which should remain fundamental in a free society. Any talk of changing laws or removing individual’s rights for the greater good, public interest or the needs of society, has never resulted in good outcomes.

The document continues –

“The idea that rights come alongside duties and responsibilities is steeped in the UK tradition of liberty, but is also reflected in the qualifications in the Convention and is explicit in Article 29 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights (‘Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible’). The increasing reliance on human rights claims over the years has, however, led to a culture of rights decoupled from our responsibilities as citizens, and a displacement of due consideration of the wider public interest”.

It goes on to describe examples of prisoners using human rights laws to challenge decisions when they “themselves showed a flagrant disregard for the rights of other”.

We’re not in the school playground but obviously the childhood lesson hasn’t been learnt – two wrongs don’t make a right! So, if someone is to show disregard to the rights of others, they are not allowed to have human rights themselves?

For each case it describes, it mentions the mediocre (in the scheme of things) legal fees that the government has to pay, even when the claimant loses the case. The government has just written off £4.3 billion in Covid loans to fraudsters so I’m sure they have a spare few million to ensure everybody’s (whether they are criminals or not) human rights are adhered to.

The section concludes –

“Whilst human rights are universal, a Bill of Rights could require the courts to give greater consideration to the behaviour of claimants and the wider public interest when interpreting and balancing qualified rights. More broadly, our proposals can also set out more clearly the extent to which the behaviour of claimants is a factor that the courts take into account when deciding what sort of remedy, if any, is appropriate. This will ensure that claimants’ responsibilities, and the rights of others, form a part of the process of making a claim based on the violation of a human right”.

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/02/03/uk-government-to-remove-human-rights-for-the-greater-good/

Canada, US, UK Impose Sanctions Against Myanmar Top Officials

One year after the military coup, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom applied sanctions against several senior Myanmar officials for undermining democracy and violating human rights.

The country’s attorney general Dr. Thida Oo, was targeted because she heads the office that has crafted the regime’s politically motivated charges against Aung San Suu Kyi and other pro-democracy leaders.

Sanctions were also applied against the country’s Chair of the Anti-Corruption Commission U Tin Oo. Canada and the U.S. imposed sanctions on Tun Tun Oo, Myanmar’s Chief Justice, while the U.K. opted to target U Thein Soe, the head of the country's election commission.

Myanmar’s deadly 2021 military coup came after the military-endorsed USDP party contested the landslide victory of the NLD under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi at the general election in November 2020.

Gen Min Aung Hlaing, now de facto leader, has since been seen as responsible for conducting mass killings, sexual violence, and arbitrary arrests. The newly applied sanctions prohibit the targeted individuals from accessing funds, goods, and services from the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

According to the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, more than 11,700 people have been detained arbitrarily for voicing opposition against the military via peaceful protest or through online activity.

“One year after the military seized power, the people of Myanmar – who have paid a high cost in both lives and freedoms lost – continue to advocate relentlessly for their democracy,” said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.

According to a press statement from the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, more than 1,500 people have been killed by the regime. The documented cases include journalists, lawyers, health practitioners, political opposition members, as well as peaceful protestors and children.

“We continue to stand in solidarity with the people of Myanmar and support their tenacity, resilience and efforts to restore democracy and defend human rights in their country,” said Mélanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The new wave of Canadian and British sanctions apply only to senior members of Myanmar. American sanctions according to the U.S. Treasury will go beyond senior members, targeting private business entities and individuals known to provide financial support and military equipment to the current regime.

With abuses in power and the rule of law still prevalent, the stricter measures hope to see a shift towards positive outcomes.

So far the West has imposed sanctions against dozens of Myanmar officials who rose to power after the coup as well as businesspeople and companies seen as supporting the military regime.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15897-canada-us-uk-impose-sanctions-against-myanmar-top-officials

Needs digging

“Unselect Committee” Member Raskin and Wife Violated Law Regarding Stock Trades – Blame It on Their Deceased Son

The Raskins have been in politics and controversy for a long time. Now the Democrat family is caught hiding stock transactions which is against the law. Their excuse is sickening.

Rep. Jamie Raskin is a nasty Democrat Representative in the US House. He and his family have been involved in shady actions and now have been caught in some more.

Raskin’s father was college professor Marcus Raskin who was indicted for conspiracy to resist the Vietnam war effort.

…he was indicted for conspiracy to obstruct the Vietnam War effort by encouraging young men to resist the draft. He coauthored a call to resist illegitimate authority and stood trial along with doctor Benjamin Spock and others who advocated the burning of draft cards, break-ins at draft boards and other unlawful actions to obstruct the war effort. Many young people did what was advocated and were punished for their unlawful acts.

It appears that Rep. Raskin and his wife are following in his liberal father’s footsteps. Business Insider is reporting that the Raskins didn’t report financial transactions according to the law.

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland violated a federal conflict-of-interest law by failing to properly disclose stock shares his wife received for advising a Colorado-based financial technology trust company.

The congressman likewise disclosed information about the sale of Reserve Trust stock eight months after Sarah Bloom Raskin dumped the stock in late 2020 for $1.5 million, an Insider analysis of federal records indicates.

This violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act‘s disclosure provisions, which exist to promote transparency and defend against financial conflicts, comes at a time of significant national attention for the Raskins.

Jamie Raskin, who acknowledged he was late filing the portion of the disclosure about the sale and said it happened because of his son’s death, is a prominent congressman who led the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Sarah Bloom Raskin is President Joe Biden’s nominee to fill the position of the government’s most powerful banking regulator and faced a key Senate panel on Thursday.

Raskin uses his son’s untimely death as his reason for breaking the law. Democrats really have no shame. His wife is being pushed by Joe Biden to join the Fed, clearly a conflict of interest. How could Ms. Raskin ever be objective and independent in actions involving the US economy with her spouse pushing far-left America destroying policies in Congress?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/unselect-committee-member-raskin-wife-biden-fed-pick-violated-law-regarding-stock-trades-blame-deceased-son/

==One of Australia's worst paedophiles drugged kids as young as FIVE at 'sex parties' and boasted that he assaulted a child in hospital - all using a sick method to snare his victims

Grant Harden, 31, pleaded guilty to 179 child sex abuse charges in July last year

The former soccer coach, from Sydney, was arrested in a AFP operation in 2020

His crimes were revealed for the first time in a sentencing hearing on Thursday

Harden drugged children with sleeping tablets then sexually abused them

He made videos of the abuse and shared it with other paedophiles on Snapchat

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10471467/Paedophile-Grant-Harden-drugged-young-kids-sex-parties-faces-sentencing-child-sex-abuse.html

Scott Morrison to ban religious schools from expelling LGBTIQ kids as he slams Christian school's contract - provoking backlash from 'betrayed' church leaders

Prime Minister faced backlash from Christian groups after Thursday radio show

Scott Morrison denounced Citipointe Christian College's anti-LGBTIQ+ contract

Christian groups said he has 'betrayed' them and promises in new religious bill

Mr Morrison promised amendments to protects LGBTIQ students in the future

Scott Morrison denounced a Christian college's anti-LGBTIQ 'contract' and vowed to ban schools from expelling queer students.

Citipointe Christian College demanded parents sign a contract that denounced homosexuality and promised students would conform to gender roles.

The Brisbane school threatened to expel students whose parents didn't sign, or who identified as gay or transgender.

Mr Morrison in response to widespread outrage said his government's controversial religious discrimination bill would be amended to prevent student discrimination.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10471203/Scott-Morrison-ban-religious-schools-expelling-LGBTIQ-students.html

Teaching Self-Sufficiency to Our Kids Via Gardening

Being a conscientious dad, I have always believed that education and experience are the best assets to leave our kids. Of course, I do not mean just regular, institutional education. I mean, teaching self-sufficiency to our children. Public school tends not to do that.

And I believe part of that education revolves around teaching our children how to grow at least some of their own food.

I feel educating ourselves and having experiences using that knowledge is the best way to ensure a better future.

What do you mean when you refer to education?

When I speak about education broadly, I mean ethics, financial education, principles, and history as it truly is. (Not the “official” version.) Also, the role of the fiat currency and the reasons for its imposition to every government in the world. Our children need to know these things. It is crucial to teach the importance of adding value to our products and associating these to the customers’ needs with proper market research. (FYI: There is an entire degree to learn about this.)

Most of the information to teach these things to our children is freely available. I’ve read more since the beginning of the pandemic than I had to read for half of my career! Establishing the difference between valuable and not-so-valuable information and segregating it is the key.

Below are my suggestions on what I believe to be essential learning for our children to begin to grasp what it means to be self-sufficient.

On stockpiling and food production

Building a pantry is a need and can be done on a budget. For those with fair weather, home canning is a great option. (You can check out our free QUICKSTART Guide to on canning to learn more here.) A hot and humid tropical climate is not suitable for home canning though, unless one takes extreme measures. Digging a root cellar to store things at a decent temperature would be a necessity for canned goods here in Venezuela. However, that would be a payload of work.

Growing a garden from zero to a fully productive state is hard initially and could have a few setbacks. It could take several months to achieve success, even years if the weather is challenging. Getting there without any chemicals could be much more complicated. Therefore, your pantry should be able to last until you start harvesting.

Although I support organic gardening, I recommend researching good chemical fertilizers as well. These can make growing vegetable/fruits gardens much easier. Once the first crops are a reality, one can start enriching the soil with natural agents. But that first batch is quite essential, and it should not be something we put in jeopardy.

Do your children know how to can and the proper steps to do so safely? Do they know how to safely store the food they’ve worked for? These are all things you may know, but do your kids? Just food for thought…

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2022/02/teaching-self-sufficiency-to-our-kids-via-gardening.html

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