CNN Pulls Out Of Russia After Putin Signs "Misinformation" Law
Update (1716ET): This'll teach 'em…
CNN will no longer broadcast in Russia "while we continue to evaluate the situation and our next steps moving forward," according to host Brian Stelter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-ambassador-says-putin-must-stop-madness-after-ukraine-nuclear-plant-seized-russia
Biden Says He “Really Enjoyed Teaching” When He Was a “Professor” at the University of Pennsylvania – Biden Never Taught a Single Class
Joe Biden said he “really enjoyed teaching” when he was a “professor” at the University of Pennsylvania during an interview with podcast host Heather Cox Richardson.
This is one of Joe Biden’s favorite lies.
Biden was never a “professor” or teacher after serving as Vice President in 2017.
Biden was paid $1 million to do nothing, as the Daily Caller noted:
When the Daily Caller asked whether Biden had in fact taught any courses since being hired, UPenn Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen did not list any, saying his work was instead based in Washington.
Biden was paid to give a few speeches (typical career politician/DC grifter) but he never taught a class.
“You make me miss being a professor at Penn,” Biden said in the interview taped February 25 and released on Friday. “When I left the Vice Presidency I had a chance to do a number of things but I took a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in presidential politics and history, so I envy you.”
Clown show.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/biden-says-really-enjoyed-teaching-professor-university-pennsylvania-biden-never-taught-single-class-video/
BBC Pulls All Reporters From Russia After Moscow Criminalizes "Disinformation"
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-criminalizes-disinformation-crackdown-fake-news
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PBS Hosts Neo-Nazi Ukraine Mayor, Blurs Image of ‘Hitler Accomplice’ Behind Him.
The left media's attempts to whitewash Ukrainian Neo-Nazism takes another bizarre turn.
America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has published and promoted an interview with a renowed Neo-Nazi Ukrainian mayor, without disclosing the politician’s allegiances to World War II German leader Adolf Hitler and Ukraine’s own Nazi sympathizer Stepan Bandera.
The interview comes just days after PBS published an article downplaying the links between Neo-Nazi politicians and Ukraine’s current political situation.
On Thursday, March 4th, PBS hosted Mayor Artem Semenikhin of Konotop in the country’s North East.
Semenikhin described the Russian military as “cockroaches” before going on to thank the United States for supplying his people with weapons.
“My weapon is American, and I feel like our occupiers will be pleased that we are killing them with American weapons,” he concluded.
But Semenikhin is scarcely the liberty-minded freedom fighter PBS would have him seem. In 2015 the Jerusalem Post reported:
Two months after local elections were held across Ukraine, residents of the small northern city of Konotop are expressing shock and dismay over the behavior of newly chosen Mayor Artem Semenikhin of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party.
According to reports, Semenikhin drives around in a car bearing the number 14/88, a numerological reference to the phrases “we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” and “Heil Hitler”; replaced the picture of President Petro Poroshenko in his office with a portrait of Ukrainian national leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera; and refused to fly the city’s official flag at the opening meeting of the city council because he objected to the star of David emblazoned on it. The flag also features a Muslim crescent and a cross.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/04/pbs-hosts-neo-nazi-ukraine-mayor-blurs-image-of-hitler-accomplice-behind-him/
SA Police backflips on COVID-19 vaccination mandate for officers
South Australia Police has backflipped on a decision to only allow officers to work if they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after less than four months.
Police who have not received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to return to work from Monday as long as they wear a face mask and undertake a rapid antigen test at the beginning of their shifts.
The police force has announced that the Police Workers Vaccination Direction, which was issued in November last year to require all police workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, will be revoked from 7am on March 7.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/south-australia-police-backflip-on-covid19-vaccination-mandate-for-officers/dec01bff-f02d-48d9-9c70-8e67f1082c5c
Michigan Democrat Gov. Whitmer to veto $2.5B tax cut approved by GOP-led Senate
Bill aims to provide tax relief from 40-year high inflation by dropping the personal tax rate from 4.25% to 3.9%.
Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to veto $2.5 billion in tax breaks approved by the state's GOP-led Senate.
The bill aims to provide tax relief from 40-year high inflation by dropping the personal tax rate from 4.25% to 3.9%, boosting retirement exemptions, and providing a $500 per child tax credit for those under 19.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey called the threatened veto "a slap in the face" to Michiganders struggling to afford groceries as inflation bites into their budget and gas rapidly approaches $4 a gallon, especially when the state has a multi-billion-dollar surplus.
"A sure sign someone has been in government too long is if they’re trying to convince you the bureaucracy cannot afford a $2.5 billion tax cut when it has an $8 billion surplus," he said.
The legislation would boost seniors' tax deduction up to $40,000 for individuals and $80,000 for couples and lower the eligibility age from 67 to 62.
If enacted into law by April 1, 2022, the bill would drop state revenue by $2.87 billion in fiscal 2022-23, $2.52 billion in fiscal 2023-24, then from there the revenue loss would grow along with the economy, according to an Senate Fiscal Agency estimate.
Whitmer has said the tax cut would be unsustainable for her proposed $74 billion budget and would require budget cuts in the future.
Tori Sachs, director of the conservative Michigan Freedom Fund, said Whitmer’s priorities don’t represent taxpayers.
"Whitmer gave a single corporation $1 billion, bought the silence of her former department heads with taxpayer dollars, proposed Oprah-style giveaways to distract from her failed record, and now has the gall to tell families struggling to pay for gas that the state can’t afford to lower their taxes," Sachs said in a statement.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/michigan-senate-approves-25b-tax-cut-whitmer-veto
Verizon Confirms “Intermittent” Outages Impacted Phone Calls Across East Coast
Verizon phone outages affected East Coast customers, the wireless network operator confirmed on Friday.
East Coast Verizon customers reported having problems making or receiving phone calls.
Text and data services were not interrupted.
It is unclear what caused the outages and Verizon said the problem was resolved as of 3 pm ET.
The New York Post reported:
Verizon confirmed “intermittent issues” were affecting its network on Friday after New York residents and other East Coast customers noted they were having trouble making or receiving phone calls.
DownDetector, a site that tracks outages, noted a spike in reports beginning around 1 p.m. ET. An outage map showed the reports seemed concentrated along the East Coast, with many originating in the New York and Boston areas.
A Verizon spokesperson said service was restored as of roughly 3 p.m. ET.
“Earlier this afternoon, an intermittent issue prevented some customers from making or receiving phone calls. Our network teams identified and rectified the issue, and all services have been restored,” a Verizon spokesperson said.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-verizon-confirms-intermittent-outages-impacted-phone-calls-across-east-coast/
‘Get vaccinated and learn to live with it’: Shane Warne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4wuR_Lby8
White House Sending Kamala Harris to Europe to Reassure NATO Allies
The White House is sending Vice President Kamala Harris to Europe next week to reassure NATO allied countries the United States stands with them.
The Vice President will travel to Poland and Romana, two countries bordering Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin has significantly escalated his military invasion in recent weeks.
“Her visit will demonstrate the strength and unity of the NATO Alliance and U.S. support for NATO’s eastern flank allies in the face of Russian aggression,” Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement to reporters about the vice president’s visit.
Her trip will take place March 9-11.
This will be the second trip for Harris to Europe in just weeks, as she was also sent Germany for the Munich Security Conference to demonstrate the strength and support of the United States.
During that trip she met with world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and publicly warned Putin that if he further invaded Ukraine, he would be met with punishing sanctions.
“These are some of the greatest sanctions, if not the strongest, that we’ve ever issued,” the vice president said to reporters during her trip, noting that, “The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence.”
When asked by reporters if the sanctions would deter Putin, she replied, “Absolutely.”
The Russian president chose to escalate his war in Ukraine anyway.
Afterward, President Joe Biden admitted that he never believed sanctions would prevent Putin from escalating the war.
“No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening,” he said. “This is going to take time.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/04/white-house-sending-kamala-harris-to-europe-to-reassure-nato-allies/
NATO: Are we still fucking busted?
Kamala: I can re-assure you that we are
Judge Rules Two FBI Operatives Used to Set-Up Michigan Militia Members in Mock Whitmer Kidnap Case Will Have to Use Their Real Names at Trial
The Governor Whitmer kidnapping case, which we now know was comprised of virtually all FBI agents and informants took another devastating hit in August. Michael Hills, an attorney for Brandon Caserta, one of the six defendants, produced text messages showing an FBI field agent telling an informant to lie, frame an innocent man and delete text messages.
This is why federal prosecutors are refusing to hand over text messages and laptops from FBI informants in the Whitmer kidnapping case. The FBI actually hatched the plot and set up the innocent men in their scheme.
The FBI’s top informant behind the kidnapping scam was later arrested after he beat his wife following a swingers party.
On Friday Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker ruled that two of the several FBI informants must use their real names in the upcoming trial.
The Daily Mail reported:
A judge ruled that two undercover FBI agents who poses as members of a far-right militia snared for plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will have to testify in court using their real names.
Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker said the two agents, who have only been known as ‘Mark’ and ‘Red,’ will have to make their real identities known after the trial begins next week at the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Jonker said it was to ensure militia members Adam Fox, 38, Daniel Harris, 24, Brandon Caserta, 33, and Barry Croft, 46, are given a fair trial for their alleged role in the 2020 plot orchestrated with five other members.
‘Mark’ and ‘Red’ were among the agents who infiltrated the Wolverine Watchmen extremist group in a messy operation that saw some informants kicked off the case and others accused of misbehavior and inciting illegal activities within the militia.
According to court documents, ‘Mark’ had posed as a local resident and was tasked with scouting the governor’s summer home while ‘Red’ was introduced to the group by ‘Mark’ as a demolitions expert who could make bombs for the group.
Prosecutors said Fox, Harris, Caserta and Croft joined the militia’s plot to kidnap Whitmer because of her COVID-19 mandates and argued that the two FBI agents should be allowed to keep their identities hidden as they are involved in other anti-terrorism investigations.
Defense attorneys claimed hat the four men had a right to confront their accusers and know who they are and that keeping their identities a secret would also hinder proper cross examinations.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/judge-rules-two-fbi-operatives-used-set-michigan-militia-members-mock-whitmer-kidnap-case-will-use-real-names-trial/