Justice Clarence Thomas Asks the Supreme Court to Reevaluate Big Tech’s Immunity Under Section 230

Justice Clarence Thomas issued a statement on Monday about the denial of certiorari in the Jane Doe v. Facebook case. In his statement, Justice Thomas called for the Supreme Court to “address the proper scope of immunity under §230 in an appropriate case” available to Big Tech.

Justice Thomas narrated that it’s “hard to see” why section 230 is protecting the Big Tech from liability for companies’ “own ‘acts and omissions.’

“It is hard to see why the protection §230(c)(1) grants publishers against being held strictly liable for third parties’ content should protect Facebook from liability for its own “acts and omissions,” Justice Thomas stated.

“Here, the Texas Supreme Court afforded publisher immunity even though Facebook allegedly “knows its system facilitates human traffickers in identifying and cultivating victims,” but has nonetheless “failed to take any reasonable steps to mitigate the use of Facebook by human traffickers” because doing so would cost the company users—and the advertising revenue those users generate,” he said.

“I, therefore, concur in the Court’s denial of certiorari. We should, however, address the proper scope of immunity under §230 in an appropriate case,” he concluded.

Law and Crime reported:

Calls to “repeal Section 230” have become a rallying cry for conservatives who argue, as petitioners did, that §230 “has strayed far from its origins and text,” and that Big Tech needs to be reined in.

The law is a section of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 which shields internet companies acting as intermediaries from liability based on what users post. Under the current version of §230, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are not “publishers,” and are not responsible for defamation or similar claims based on user-created content that violates the law.

The case presented to SCOTUS involved an adult male sexual predator who used Facebook to lure a 15-year-old girl to a meeting. The predator repeatedly raped and beat the girl, then trafficked her for sex. The girl, known in court documents only as “Jane Doe,” escaped and sued Facebook in Texas state court, claiming that Facebook violated the Lone Star State’s anti-sex-trafficking statute and committed various common law offenses.

Doe’s statutory sex-trafficking claim was permitted to go forward, but the Texas Supreme Court dismissed Doe’s common law claims, ruling that they were barred by §230. Justice Thomas agreed that SCOTUS’s refusal to consider the case was correct — but only because of a procedural issue. Thomas was quick to clarify that he believes it is time to reconsider the protections granted by §230; but because the Texas Supreme Court allowed Doe’s sex-trafficking claim to proceed, the court’s ruling was not sufficiently “final” for SCOTUS to review.

Thomas was clear: In a case without this procedural glitch, he would be more than happy to reconsider the rules on how §230 has “confer[red] sweeping immunity on some of the largest companies in the world.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/justice-clarence-thomas-asks-supreme-court-reevaluate-big-techs-immunity-section-230/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/030722zor_1a7d.pdf

Disturbing: Leftist Activist Organizes “Sex Ed Summer Camps” for 8-10 Year Olds In Indiana – Will Teach “Using Condoms on All Insertables” and “Explore Sensations to Discover What Feels Good”

A leftist activist in Indianapolis, Indiana is hosting a “Sex Ed summer camp” that will teach 8 to 10 year old children about woke sex ideology, transgender theory, and how to use condoms, among other disturbing things.

The camp, which is being organized by self-proclaimed children’s “sexuality educator” Ashley Robertson, is being advertised for children in grades 3-5, who can be as young as 7 years old.

In other words, way too young for some adult who’s not their parent to discuss their sexuality with them.

Major hat tip to Choice Media’s Executive Director Tony Kinnett, who exposed Robertson’s event in a long tweet thread:

Robertson, who calls herself Ms. Ashley, is charging $250 for the woke indoctrination session that will cover several inappropriate topics for such young children.

As is always the case with radical leftists, they are playing a game of ‘hide the ball’ when it comes to their insane agenda. In this case, Robertson cleverly weaves benign-sounding topics into the itinerary to mask the true, perverted nature of sexualizing third graders.

However, things get even more disturbing when realizing how radical Robertson, and her views, truly are.

According to her bio on ‘MultiAmory‘ – a leftist progressive podcast – Robertson is a self-proclaimed ‘expert’ on “age-appropriate education about sex and consent for children” who “identifies as a feminine, bi-curious, ethically polyamorous, sexual submissive.”

Not only that, this so-called children’s specialist also has “over a decade of experience in the BDSM scene” and “isn’t shy of perverse topics,” to boot.

In a podcast appearance on MultiAmory, Robertson discussed topics like introducing pornography to kids, polyamorous relationships (non-monogamy), teaching kids to talk to people outside their family (strangers), and “how to discuss kink.”

She even touched on how to discuss these topics with children who have “special needs.”

Unreal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/disturbing-leftist-activist-organizes-sex-ed-summer-camps-8-10-year-olds-indiana-will-teach-using-condoms-insertables-explore-sensations-discover-feels-good/

Child sexual abuse/grooming is a crime

US bans Russian energy imports

A senator earlier warned Americans must pay the ‘price of freedom’ as oil prices threaten to double

US President Joe Biden has announced a ban on Russian oil and gas imports in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine on Tuesday, a move that threatens to send global gas and oil prices even higher than the record-setting costs the commodities are already fetching.

The president called on the nation to use the events as an opportunity to transition to renewable energy, insisting that if “no one has to worry about the price at the gas pump in the future, tyrants like Putin won’t be able to use fossil fuels as weapons against other nations.”

Biden warned oil and gas companies against jacking up prices unnecessarily, declaring that while “Putin’s war against Ukraine is causing gas prices to rise…it’s no excuse to exercise excessive price increases or padding profits or any kind of effort to exploit the situation or American consumers.”

“Russia’s aggression is costing us all, and it’s no time for profiteering or price-gouging,” Biden said, hailing the blanket ban on all imports of Russian oil and gas as “another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine.”

“This is a step we are taking to further inflict pain on Putin,” the president boasted, even while acknowledging “there will be costs as well in the US.”

Americans will have to pay “the price of freedom” in the coming weeks as the sanctions are expected to send energy prices soaring worldwide, Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) told CNN on Tuesday ahead of the sanctions announcement.

The Democratic senator warned that the price of oil could very well double to $300 per barrel, with gas prices more than tripling to $10-$14 per gallon.

The repercussions from the price shock will be felt worldwide, he continued, as costs continue to surge. Acknowledging that “the strength of our sanctions, of the costs we’re imposing on Putin…are more successful and more sustainable when they’re coordinated,” he praised the administration for working together with Europe on the looming import ban instead of pushing ahead unilaterally.

“We have to realize that it’s a global integrated market, it is tough to just turn on the taps and increase production quickly - it’s not like phoning up Amazon,” he explained, cautioning “we are going to see increased gas prices here in the US, in Europe they will see dramatic increases in prices, that’s the cost of standing up for freedom and of standing alongside the Ukrainian people. We need to see the cost and benefit here.”

https://www.rt.com/news/551486-us-ban-oil-gas-russia/

Xi Tells Macron & Scholz China Opposes Russia Sanctions, Warns Crisis "Spinning Out Of Control"

Caught between the West and its growing closeness over the years with Moscow, China is facing a dilemma on Ukraine. On Monday Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized that "The China-Russia relationship is valued for its independence." Wang added: "We are determined [to keep the relationship] free from interference or discord sown by third parties."

On Tuesday President Xi Jinping held a virtual meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, wherein the Chinese leader urged "maximum restraint" in Ukraine to prevent a humanitarian crisis and said China is "pained to see the flames of war reignited in Europe."

Further Xi warned that a spiraling economic war would result in blowback as sanctions over Russia "will deal a blow to the stability of global finance, energy, transportation and supply chain, dragging down the world economy amid the pandemic," according his words, for which immediate stabilizing efforts must be taken by Europe's leaders.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV later said he called for the three countries of France, Germany, and China to support peace talks between Ukraine and Russia - further calling the situation "worrying" and holding the potential of "spinning out of control".

But crucially, at a moment the West is unanimous in standing with Ukraine - along with much of the world in the wake of the invasion which is now 13 days in - China has till now refused to condemn Russia's action. What's more is that Beijing has also not used the term "invasion" and has vocalized its opposition to the far-reaching sanctions being implemented against Russia.

Putin and Xi were last together during the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, where the two affirmed a "no limits" strategic partnership. More recently there have been reports that Xi and Putin may have secretly coordinated the start of the invasion, with The New York Times a week ago alleging that China requested that Russia hold off on launching the war till after the Olympics.

Despite China increasingly coming under pressure globally and now finding itself in an awkward position regarding Ukraine, it appears to have doubled-down on support for Moscow, after echoing arguments condemning NATO expansion as a threat to Russia's "legitimate security concerns."

Lately Chinese national media has even used Putin's own "denazification" of Kiev language to justify the attack. As one report details of state media's commentary:

Many countries have roundly rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s argument that his attack on Ukraine is needed to achieve the "denazification" of that country. But the argument is alive and well in Chinese state-run media.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned in a televised speech a few days ago that the military operation against Ukraine is aimed at protecting the people who have suffered abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years. For this reason, Russia will seek to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine," one article on the state-backed site Wen Wei Po read.

Thus it's now wonder that Xi while opposing the West's sanctions conveyed to his German and French counterparts that they must "play an active role" in settling the Ukraine crisis, but "according to the needs of all parties concerned."

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/xi-tells-macron-scholz-china-opposes-russia-sanctions-warns-crisis-spinning-out-control

Gold Soars To $2,063, Just One Cent Away From New All Time High

With digital gold acting more like digital lead in recent weeks, as bitcoin and the broader crypto sector trade as high-beta tech stocks perhaps helping tech funds satisfy margin calls, the real gold has no such qualms and after flatlining for much of the past 18 months, has broken out solidly to the upside, and just today spike more than 3%, rising to session high of $2,063.53

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gold-soars-2063-just-one-cent-away-new-all-time-high

UN and China agree on date for visit to probe Uighur abuse allegations

Activists have claimed China is detaining around 1 million Uighurs, the UN human rights chief said

A deal has been reached between the United Nations and China for a visit by High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to the Xinjiang region, where it’s been alleged Uighurs have been arrested, detained, and abused.

Bachelet announced on Tuesday that she has reached a deal with China to visit the Asian nation in May. Her trip will include a visit to the remote Xinjiang area, where activists have alleged that around 1 million Uighurs are being held in mass detention facilities.

“My office has raised a number of such cases with the government and encourage the authorities to take steps to ensure that freedom of expression and opinion are fully respected and protected,” Bachelet said, referring to allegations that activists speaking up on human rights issues have been mistreated. She did not provide specific details of her conversations with Beijing, however.

The announcement of the visit comes ahead of an expected report from Bachelet’s office into the UN’s assessment of the situation in Xinjiang and the treatment of Muslim Uighurs.

An advance team from the UN is set to arrive in China in April to prepare for Bachelet’s visit. It will mark the first visit to China by a UN high commissioner for human rights since 2005.

China has fervently rejected allegations that it has mistreated Uighurs, claiming that the facilities are vocational centers that are designed to combat extremism, stating that all of the people held “graduated” from the camps in late 2019.

https://www.rt.com/news/551474-un-china-xinjiang-uighurs-visit/

COVID lockdowns delayed healthcare. People died as a result, life insurers report

Life insurance companies and industry analysts reported a sharp rise in death claims last year, as would be expected because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What was unexpected is that many of these claims were made for non-COVID-related deaths, which were unusually high in 2021, possibly because many Americans could not access the health care they needed during the lockdowns in 2020 and in their aftermath.

A survey of 20 leading sellers of group life insurance policies to employers led by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute showed a spike in insurance claims in the third quarter of 2021, many of which were for deaths that were not caused by the novel coronavirus. The survey found that incurred claims counts were nearly 40% higher than a pre-pandemic baseline, with nearly a 50-50 split between claims that were directly linked to COVID-19 and those that weren't, the Wall Street Journal reported.

While claims for COVID-19 deaths increased 18.7%, as would be expected during the pandemic, there was also a 19% increase in claims for non-COVID deaths, which was highly unusual and surprising.

The survey results corresponded to what several life insurance companies told industry analysts and investors in earnings calls, according to the Journal.

Companies including Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Primerica Inc., and Reinsurance Group of America Inc. each observed higher non-COVID-19 death claims compared with pre-pandemic baselines.

The companies attributed the excess deaths to delays in medical care associated with the 2020 coronavirus lockdowns, as well as people's continued fear of seeking medical treatment or trouble scheduling appointments due to causes related to the pandemic.

"The losses we are seeing continue to be elevated over 2019 levels due at least in part, we believe, to the pandemic and the existence of either delayed or unavailable health care," Globe Life CFO Frank Svoboda reportedly told investors in February.

He listed heart and circulatory issues, as well as neurological disorders, as causes for many of these deaths. "We anticipate that they'll start to be less impactful over the course of 2022 but we do anticipate that we'll still at least see some elevated levels throughout the year," he said.

Heart, stroke, and cancer were prominent causes of death, according to Hartford financial chief executive Christopher Swift, who said his company had "experienced higher levels of non-COVID excess mortality during the quarter."

Another group life insurance seller, OneAmerica Financial Partners, reported a 140% increase in claims for working-age adults over their pre-pandemic baseline — with one-third of those deaths likely caused by delayed medical care.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/lockdowns-delayed-healthcare-more-people-died-as-a-result-life-insurers-report

Biden requests $2.6 billion from Congress to fund global gender equity programs

President Joe Biden is requesting $2.6 billion to fund gender equity programs across the globe.

The announcement was made on Tuesday, reported The Hill, to commemorate International Women’s Day.

The $2.6 billion will be part of the Biden administration’s 2023 congressional budget request and, if approved, will double the amount requested for gender equity programs last year.

In a prepared statement, Biden said, “On this day and every day, let us recognize that all of us have a better future when women and girls can reach their full potential – and together, let’s renew our efforts to advance dignity, equality, and limitless possibilities for all.”

Biden affirmed that International Women’s Day recognizes the achievements of women and girls and celebrates progress in gender equity. The president also recommitted himself and his administration to work that he says still needs to be done to achieve gender equity.

He said, “Ensuring that every woman and girl has that chance isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s also a strategic imperative that advances the prosperity, stability, and security of our nation and the world. Yet too often, in too many places, women and girls face obstacles that limit their possibilities and undermine their participation in economic, political, and social life.”

Biden stated that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many existing issues that women face on a regular basis. He suggested that women’s participation in the work force declined, that additional burden was placed upon caregivers, and that gender-based violence increased.

The president’s announcement marks the one-year anniversary of the administration debuting the White House Gender Policy Council.

The White House announced the $2.6 billion over a livestreamed video conference to commemorate International Women’s Day, U.S. News reported.

The conference featured Secretary of State Antony Blinken, acting budget director Shalanda Young, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Samantha Power, and the director of the Gender Policy Council, Jen Klein.

First lady Jill Biden, who was also present, marked International Women’s Day by making a video tribute to women throughout the world “who courageously use their voice, no matter the cost.”

She said, “To our sisters from Ukraine who are fighting to keep their country free and their families alive: We stand with you in solidarity. To our sister in Russia who are protesting and speaking out against the invasion at great personal risk: We see your courage.”

“And to women warriors around the world, those fighting for justice and working for a change: Thank you for building a better future for all of us,” the first lady added.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-requested-2-6-billion-to-fund-global-gender-equity-programs

“Phone Hasn’t Stopped Ringing” – The World’s Ultra Rich Are Panic Buying Doomsday Bunkers

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to place his nuclear forces on heightened alert as the invasion of Ukraine continues for the fifth day has increased demand for custom-made doomsday bunkers for the paranoid rich.

Gary Lynch, the general manager of Texas-based Rising S Co., told The Sun that underground doomsday bunker demand is up more than 1000% since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

“Typically, I’ll sell between two and six shelters a month – and usually winter is a quiet time for us.

“But I sold five units alone on Thursday, and I’ve sold two more already today – there’s no telling how many more [orders] we will get.

“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing, and we’ve been sending out so many quotes,” added Lynch.

Readers may recall hearing about Rising S in the early days of the COVID pandemic and social unrest as underground bunkers were in high demand.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/phone-hasnt-stopped-ringing-the-worlds-ultra-rich-are-panic-buying-doomsday-bunkers/

=Global Food Prices Have Increased by 20% Since Last Year

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its report on worldwide food prices for February and found that prices hit a record high last month. The February FAO Food Price Index reached a new high of 140.7 points, which reflects an increase of 3.9% from January. The index has increased by 20.7% since this time last year and could be further increased by the conflict in Ukraine, as the country is one of the world’s primary exporters of grain.

The FAO said this month’s increases were largely due to price hikes on vegetable oils and dairy products. “The FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index averaged 201.7 points in February, up 15.8 points (8.5 percent) month-on-month and marking a new record high. The continued price strength mostly stemmed from rising palm, soy, and sunflower oil prices,” wrote the FAO in its report.

The FAO also noted that rising crude oil prices are contributing to price hikes in multiple sectors. U.S. gas prices have surged past $4 a gallon on average, nearing a record high of $4.10 that was set in 2008. In California, gas prices have surged past $5 a gallon in multiple cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The FAO report on food prices added that meat and cereal prices had also increased, though not as dramatically as vegetable oils and dairy products. Cereal prices were up 3% over January and 14.8% over this time last year. Grain prices are expected to rise further following the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. “World wheat prices increased by 2.1 percent, largely reflecting new global supply uncertainties amidst disruptions in the Black Sea region that could potentially hinder exports from Ukraine and the Russian Federation, two major wheat exporters. Coarse grain export prices also rose by 4.7 percent,” wrote the FAO.

Meat prices increased by 1.1% from January but are up 15.3% over January 2020. According to the FAO, demand for slaughter ready cattle reached record highs last month while pig meat prices also rose significantly. Sugar prices meanwhile have declined for the third consecutive month, reaching its lowest price point since last July.

The U.S. Department of labor has yet to release its Consumer Price Index report for February, though it is expected this week. U.S. food prices jumped 7% in January and could rise even higher as the war in Ukraine drags on. The U.S. inflation rate was at 7.5% in January, the highest since 1982.

https://nationalfile.com/global-food-prices-increased-20-since-last-year/

Leaked Audio Reveals Former NIH Director Francis Collins Touting Vaccine Mandates, Threatening Unemployment

Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) chief Francis Collins, who was also recently appointed as President Joe Biden’s new science advisor, expressed support for vaccine mandates, emphasizing that people’s employment should be threatened.

Leaked audio obtained by The Daily Wire appeared to shatter Collins’ political neutrality, revealing that he not only had a deeply held conviction about the persuasive power of vaccine mandates but also had a particular dislike for former President Donald Trump. The audio originated from an Institute of Politics event on October 26 of last year, which was hosted by Christianity Today theologian Russell Moore at the University of Chicago. Institute of Politics was founded by David Axelrod, an adviser to former President Barack Obama.

After Moore introduced Collins as a personal friend and member of his book club, the talk segued into a discussion about vaccine mandates, during which the former NIH director said that there was “no question” in his “mind that the mandates are legal” and that people should have their employment threatened.

“The US government does have the authority to mandate vaccinations if there is an outbreak that is threatening people, because it’s not just about you, it’s about the people you’re going to infect,” Collins claimed.

Collin said this even though a bevy of evidence showed at the time that the vaccinated could still be infected with the virus and spread it to others.

“Do [mandates] convince people who otherwise wouldn’t get them?” Collins reportedly asked himself rhetorically before answering, “Oh yeah, especially if it means losing your job.”

Collins recalled how he used intimidation tactics at the NIH to push the hesitant employees, approximately 2,000 out of 46,000, into getting the vaccine, telling them they were “in serious danger of being fired in the next month if they [didn’t] do something about it.”

“Reality [was] sinking in,” Collins said, adding that the sudden compliance showed that “their resistance was not maybe quite that deeply seated.”

Collins even argued that some vaccine-hesitant people secretly wanted to get the shot but feared alienating their circle of friends. “They’re sort of thinking to themselves, you know, maybe I really should do it, but if I do, I lose my credibility with my peeps,” Collins said.

The mandates essentially gave such people an excuse, according to Collins.

“‘Well, my employer made me do it. I didn’t really want to get them.’ They get, you know, bonus points, because they’re now a victim. But they’ve also gotten the mandated vaccine that they kind of wanted anyway,” he said.

After knocking Evangelical Christians for emphasizing personal liberty at the expense of personal responsibility, Collins then revealed his partisan side when he blamed the preponderance of coronavirus deaths on former President Trump, ignoring the deaths under Joe Biden.

“Great harm was done to the people in this nation by a very, very self-involved and misguided president in the previous administration. Hundreds of thousands of people have died who should not have had to do so,” Collins said. “And so there was an effort to try to distract from that dreadful circumstance by finding somebody else to blame.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/07/leaked-audio-reveals-former-nih-director-francis-collins-touting-vaccine-mandates-threatening-unemployment/

‘Global Food Crisis’ Ukraine War Will Have ‘Catastrophic’ Effect on Global Food Supply – Agri Org

The world is heading into a global food crisis thanks to the war in Ukraine, according to the head of one major Agri organisation.

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is going to have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on the world’s supply of food, the head of one of the world’s leading fertiliser companies.

Both Russia and Ukraine account for a significant portion of the global grain supply, with both nations also having significant roles within the supply of fertiliser, as well as its raw materials.

However, with trade grinding to a halt as a result of the latest stage in the ongoing conflict, the head of one major fertiliser company is sounding off alarm bells.

“Half the world’s population gets food as a result of fertilisers… and if that’s removed from the field for some crops, [the yield] will drop by 50%,” Svein Tore Holsether, who heads up agri company Yara International, told the BBC.

“For me, it’s not whether we are moving into a global food crisis – it’s how large the crisis will be,” he went on to say.

Holsether emphasised that there was already significant supply difficulties before the start of the current conflict, with the BBC noting that the increased cost of gas prices was already resulting in a steep rise in the cost of fertiliser.

The Yara International boss also is reported to have pointed out that around a quarter of key nutrients used in food production come from Russia, with sanctions now looking likely to further constrain in supply.

“At the same time we’re doing whatever we can do at the moment to also find additional sources,” he emphasised. “But with such short timelines it’s limited.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/08/global-food-crisis-ukraine-war-will-have-catastrophic-effect-on-global-food-supply-agri-org/

Schweizer: Clintons Set to Profit Off War in Ukraine — ‘Taking Money from Whoever Will Provide It’

With the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) making a comeback to address the many challenges facing the world today, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, highlighted the connections former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Schweizer told Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” that the Clintons have been taking money from “Putin-connected oligarchs” and investment banks. He added they will “be taking money from whoever will provide it now that they are relaunching the Clinton Global Initiative.”

“I think you are exactly right to be cynical, Jesse,” Schweizer said. “I mean, just look at their history with Russia and Ukraine. You know, they’re talking like Winston Churchill right now. But when it came to Vladimir Putin and Clinton world getting paid by Putin-connected oligarchs, they were more like Neville Chamberlain. People forget this. I mean, Bill Clinton got half a million dollars for a 20-minute speech from Renaissance Capital, which was a Putin-linked investment bank. You have the Clinton Foundation taking money from oligarchs that were linked to Vladimir Putin. They were happy to do this even though Putin had just recently invaded neighboring Georgia.”

He continued, “And then you look at, you know, other parts of Clinton world, you look at, you know, her long-time campaign manager John Podesta. He sat on the board of a small energy company called … Joule Energy that took $35 million from a Russian investment fund called Rusnano. It’s … state government-backed. It’s called Putin’s child because it’s close to Vladimir Putin. They were very happy to take that money because it paid well and it greased the skids for them. So, you are right to be cynical, and they’re certainly going to be taking money from whoever will provide it now that they are relaunching the Clinton Global Initiative.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/08/schweizer-clintons-set-to-profit-off-war-in-ukraine-taking-money-from-whoever-will-provide-it/

No Anonymous Sources: Luke Rosiak’s New Book Delivers Extensive Take-Down Of Public Schools

A new book on K-12 schools by Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has 826 footnotes and no anonymous sources, making for a detailed work of objective investigative journalism that, over the course of 18 chapters, threatens to do for numerous areas of the country what his Daily Wire reporting on a rape in Loudoun County, Virginia, did there.

The project was kept under tight wraps for two years, but the resulting 318-page book — Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education — hits shelves on March 8. The research for the book included submitting more than 100 Freedom of Information Act requests.

A new book on K-12 schools by Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has 826 footnotes and no anonymous sources, making for a detailed work of objective investigative journalism that, over the course of 18 chapters, threatens to do for numerous areas of the country what his Daily Wire reporting on a rape in Loudoun County, Virginia, did there.

The project was kept under tight wraps for two years, but the resulting 318-page book — Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education — hits shelves on March 8. The research for the book included submitting more than 100 Freedom of Information Act requests.

Rosiak was also the first journalist to bring the books “Gender Queer” and “Lawn Boy” to light. The books are so profane that the Fairfax County School Board did not allow a mother to read from them at their meeting, citing the fact that children might be present. That led to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe being questioned on the role parents should play in schools, leading to his admission that “I don’t believe parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

In October, Rosiak revealed, in a Daily Wire investigation the length of a book chapter, that Loudoun County Public Schools’ superintendent lied about the rape of a ninth-grade girl at the hands of a skirt-wearing boy; that the prosecutor tried to put the victim’s father in jail while releasing the suspect, resulting in the suspect assaulting a second girl in school; and that the school board passed a transgender policy shortly after that may not have passed if the incident had not been concealed.

Change resulted from this exposure of facts. The school board admitted to falsely telling the state there had been no sexual assaults in the school, and said it would reform its policies. The board member at the center of Chardonnay Antifa resigned.

Polling in the governor’s race immediately began to change, putting Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin — who made the rape and all that it represents a centerpiece of his campaign — over the top in the election the next month. New Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares has begun an investigation into the Loudoun County schools. A court ordered that Loudoun stop requiring students to wear masks, ruling on a lawsuit that cited Rosiak’s reporting six times.

But Rosiak says he examined Loudoun’s schools simply because he lives in the area, and that it was intended to serve as merely a case study. He says similar dynamics are present in many of the 13,000 school districts across the country.

Now the only question is whether Race to the Bottom will trigger the same kind of reckoning elsewhere.

https://www.cracknewz.com/2022/03/no-anonymous-sources-luke-rosiaks-new.html

Klaus Schwab’s WEF Reveals Plans To ‘Re-Engineer’ Humans To ‘Remove Free-Will’ And Turn Humanity Into Bill Gates’ Puppets

People are now “hackable animals,” according to Klaus Schwab’s advisor, who also warned that humans no longer have “free choice” and will be “re-engineered” by Bill Gates.

An official WEF contributor, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, was recorded giving a speech in which he clarifies what Klaus Schwab means when he says “it’s you who are changed.”

Schwab is referring to humanity and the abrupt change that the elites have planned for the rest of us, according to Dr. Harari. “Many tyrants and regimes tried to [hack millions of people in the past], but nobody knew biology well enough,” Harari says at the beginning of the movie.

“And nobody had enough computing power and data to hack millions of people. Neither the Gestapo nor the KGB could do it. But soon, at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people,” he goes on to say, before dropping a chilling threat:

“We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals.”

But, according to Dr. Harari, this fusion of human life and technology will not benefit the average man or woman in terms of improving their own future, but will instead benefit a small group of “elites” who will not only “build digital dictatorships” for themselves but also “gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself.” Because once you’ve hacked something, you’ve usually also figured out how to engineer it.”

If elites succeed in re-engineering humanity, the question of whether our DNA, brain, body, and life data “belong[s] to me, or to some company, or to the government, or, possibly, to the human collective” will have to be resolved.

Bill Gates, of course, is involved.

One of the “driving factors” of this transition, according to Harari, will be cloud technologies, such as IBM’s or Gates’ Microsoft platform.

“Humans are now hackable animals,” says Dr. Harari at another point in the video. “The whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit, and they have free will, and nobody knows what’s happening inside me, so whatever I choose whether in the election or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will, that’s over.”

“Free will, that’s over,” he emphasizes.

“Today we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale,” Harari goes on to say, adding, “Everything is being digitalized. Everything is being monitored.”

“In this time of crisis, you have to follow science,” Dr. Harari argues. “It’s often said that you should never allow a good crisis to go to waste, because a [COVID] crisis is an opportunity to also do good reforms that in normal times people will never agree to. But in a crisis you see we have no chance, so let’s do it.”

Here’s a newsflash for Klaus Schwab and Dr. Harari and the entire WEF: We are onto you. If you think we “non-elites” will lay down and let us this happen, you are very much mistaken.

https://en-volve.com/2022/03/07/klaus-schwabs-wef-reveals-plans-to-re-engineer-humans-to-remove-free-will-and-turn-humanity-into-bill-gates-puppets/

NEW NARRATIVE LOADING

China-backed hackers broke into 6 US state gov’t networks inlikelyspy operation

Chinese government-backed hackers broke into at least six U.S. state government computer systems over the past year in an operation “consistent with espionage,” a new report revealed Tuesday.

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant uncovered evidence showing that Chinese hacking group “APT41” had successfully breached six U.S. state government networks between May 2021 and February 2022 by exploiting vulnerable internet applications. The hackers even returned to two U.S. state governments for a second round of hacking as recent as late February 2022.

Mandiant described APT41 as “a prolific Chinese state-sponsored espionage group known to target organizations in both the public and private sectors and also conducts financially motivated activity for personal gain.”

“The goals of this campaign are currently unknown, though Mandiant has observed evidence of APT41 exfiltrating Personal Identifiable Information (PII),” which is “consistent with an espionage operation,” Mandiant said.

APT41 isn’t a new hacking group and neither are its methods. However, Mandiant identified that APT41 used “significant new capabilities” in its latest attacks against the U.S. state governments.

“APT41 can quickly adapt their initial access techniques by re-compromising an environment through a different vector, or by rapidly operationalizing a fresh vulnerability,” Mandiant said. “The group also demonstrates a willingness to retool and deploy capabilities through new attack vectors as opposed to holding onto them for future use.”

In September 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice charged five Chinese nationals and two Malaysian nationals from the APT41 group for a massive hacking scheme of more than 100 companies. One of the Chinese hackers called himself “very close” to China’s Ministry of State Security, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said at the time.

“APT41 continues to be undeterred by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment in September 2020,” Mandiant said in its report.

The DOJ and FBI had worked with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Verizon, and three other partners in 2020 to “identify and neutralize” the servers, malware, domains, and other hacking tools used by APT41.

In March 2020, cybersecurity company FireEye said it observed APT41 conducting “one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/03/china-backed-hackers-broke-into-6-us-state-govt-networks-in-likely-spy-operation/

Israel DM Urges World to Mobilize Against Iran

Vows Israel will act politically, economically, and militarily even if deal is reached

Israeli officials have at times tried to present themselves as neutral to the ongoing Iran nuclear talks,. but they also regularly step up to angrily condemn diplomacy and issue calls to action.

Monday was Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s turn, as he called for the world to mobilize against Iran, and said Israeli actions against Iran, including military action, would happen whether or not a nuclear deal was reached.

Israeli officials have been saying that for awhile, but it may not be so easy. If Israel indeed attacks Iran unilaterally after a functioning nuclear deal is reached with the P5+1, they’d face a substantial backlash.

Israel has spent decades lobbying against deals with Iran, and agitating for military action. The US has suggested they are on the eve of a deal, and while the Biden Administration has warned Israel against being too hostile to the deal, no one could be surprised at the response so far.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/03/07/israel-dm-urges-world-to-mobilize-against-iran/

UK: minister calls for BDS ban as Western hypocrisy over Israel gets worse

With Britain joining other Western states in imposing sanctions on Russia, a senior Conservative Party minister has denounced the Palestinian-led campaign to impose sanctions on Israel for its human rights abuses and violations of international law, including apartheid. Michael Gove has urged MPs to proscribe the peaceful Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Britain.

Gove describes himself as a "proud Zionist". Last month he was described as "Islamophobic" over his role in the so-called "Trojan horse affair" in schools in the city of Birmingham eight years ago. He launched an attack against BDS during yesterday's parliamentary debate on social inequality. Former Conservative MP Christian Wakeford, who defected to Labour recently, asked a question about the rise in anti-Semitism and if the government will continue to pay for security at Jewish schools and synagogues.

"The government has funded the security at Jewish locations, including synagogues and schools, and this, unfortunately, is vital to ensuring the safety of the Jewish community," said Wakeford, also a vocal opponent of BDS. "Will the Secretary of State commit to the continuation of this funding next year, as well as ensuring that it is adjusted for the increased cost associated with inflation?"

Gove replied that "everything" will be done to ensure that funding continues. He then proceeded to denounce the BDS campaign. "One of the things we can all do across this House in order to tackle the evil of anti-Semitism is stand against the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign," said Gove. He thus conflated the non-violent campaign to end Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestine and contempt for international law with racism towards Jews. This is a common tactic adopted by Zionists.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220308-uk-minister-calls-for-bds-ban-as-western-hypocrisy-over-israel-gets-worse/

Dr. Shiva Provides Additional Compelling Analysis that 200,000 Ballots in 2020 Election in Maricopa Needed Signatures to be “Cured” But They Were Ignored

Dr. Shiva performed another analysis of ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona. In this study, Dr. Shiva confirms his prior study’s results with a larger sample that provides 99% confidence that over 200,000 ballots in this one county in Arizona had signatures that needed to be ‘cured’ but were not.

In late February, Dr. Shiva Ayyaduriai released the results of his study of the ballots counted in the 2020 Election in Maricopa County, Arizona. His results were shocking. He identified that Maricopa County likely had more than 200,000 ballots with signature issues that needed to be ‘cured’ but only 25,000 ‘cured’ ballots were reported in the 2020 Election results.

In today’s discussion, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, provides findings from the Election Systems Integrity Institute’s recent audit of signatures on 1,911,918 early voting mail ballots in Maricopa County’s 2020 General Election.

The key points from this study are as follows:

• At minimum, 215,856 early voting mail ballots (EVBs) should have been cured in Maricopa versus the ~25,000 cured by the County in the 2020 General Election.

• This updated Extended Study (“the Study”) along with the Pilot Study are the first to calculate signature mismatch rates of EVBs for Experts – Forensic Document Examiners (FDEs), Trained Novices (non-FDEs), and in a Two-Step Review process using non-FDEs and FDEs.

• One constraint of this Study is not having access to the signature files from the County.

• Given the nearly 10x difference in EVBs to be cured between this Study and the County’s actually number cured, if the County were to provide their signature files, an update to this Study can be performed.

• Maricopa County Election Dept. states it has a “rigorous signature verification process.”

• Of the 1,911,918 EVB signatures verified, the County reported only 25,000 were flagged as signature mismatches requiring review – “curing;” and after curing, the County concluded only 587 of the 25,000 (2.3%) to be “Bad Signatures.”

• This Extended Study confirms the findings of the earlier Pilot Study and concludes that the process used for signature verification in Maricopa is a flawed signature verification process.

Dr. Shiva discussed these results in a presentation last night on Rumble – see below:

https://rumble.com/vwrw2p-dr.-shiva-live-this-scientific-study-finds-how-deeply-flawed-election-signa.html

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/breaking-dr-shiva-provides-additional-compelling-analysis-200000-ballots-2020-election-maricopa-needed-signatures-cured-ignored/

MORE LIES. Biden Bans Russian Oil Then Says His Policies Have Not Held Back US Energy Production

Who writes this stuff?

Joe Biden announced on Tuesday his administration is banning Russian oil purchases.

Joe Biden Says Banning Russian Oil Will Cause Prices to Increase:

Joe Biden: The decision today is not without cost here at home… With this action, it’s going to go up further.

Two minutes later Joe Biden said his policies have not caused prices to rise.

Joe Biden: It’s simply not true my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.

He really thinks we’re stupid. Earlier today US gas prices hit a new all-time record! It didn’t happen overnight.

On his first day in office, Joe Biden killed off 42,100 jobs by ending construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The project would have delivered 830,000 barrels of crude to the US every day.

Biden then postponed new federal leasing of oil and gas resources for at least a year. Biden’s policies did nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and merely offer a leg-up to political rivals such as Russia.

The lunatics running the Democrat Party have destroyed the American energy sector and now all of us are suffering.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/lies-biden-bans-russian-oil-says-policies-not-held-back-us-energy-production-video/

“That Issue Hasn’t Come Up” – Democrat Hakeem Jeffries When Asked How House Dems Plan to Deal with Soaring Gas Prices

Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY) on Tuesday was asked how House Democrats plan to deal with soaring gas prices.

Biden on Tuesday announced the US will ban Russian oil imports.

Gas prices will spike again after Biden’s announcement.

A reporter asked Jeffries what his caucus plans to do about soaring gas prices and he had no answer.

“What is the thinking within your caucus about how to deal with that issue [high gas prices]?” a reporter asked Jeffries.

“That issue hasn’t come up,” Jeffries said.

This is the Democrat party in a nutshell.

Democrats don’t care about the average American suffering because of Joe Biden’s energy policies

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/issue-hasnt-come-democrat-hakeem-jeffries-asked-house-dems-plan-deal-soaring-gas-prices-video/