Report from Gonzalo Lira, On the Ground in Kharkov, Ukraine
Russia Ups Their Accusations – Blames Deadly Outbreak of Swine Flu in Ukraine that Killed 364 People on US-Funded Biolabs
The Russian representative on the UN Security Council Vassily Nebenzia has charged that a “US-implemented program” of biological research in Ukraine may have triggered “uncontrolled dangerous infections in Ukraine”, including rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis, measles, polio, and swine flu. “By March 2016, a total of 364 people died of swine flu in Ukraine,” Nebenzia claimed.
“While the US itself shut down military-purpose biological research on its territory due to high risks it posed to American population, the Kiev authorities actually agreed to turn their country into a biological testing site and have their citizens used as potential test subjects”, Nebenzia charged. Materials confiscated by the Russian Defense Ministry “prove that all serious high-risk research in Ukrainian biolabs was directly supervised by US experts who had diplomatic immunity,” Nebenzia claimed.
The US government turned Ukraine into a “site for dangerous biological tests on the doorstep of the European Union,” Nebenzia stated, “a real biological threat to the population of European states that may be posed by uncontrolled spread of biological agents from Ukraine. As we know from our experience with COVID-19, this cannot be stopped. Should this be the case, it will encompass the entire Europe.”
During wartime, Russian claims must be viewed with the same degree of skepticism as those of all other warring parties. Nonetheless, due to the seriousness of the charges, and since its substance has been completely ignored by the mainstream media, Gateway Pundit documents the entire speech by Vassily Nebenzia here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/russia-ups-accusations-blames-deadly-outbreak-swine-flu-ukraine-killed-364-people-us-funded-biolabs/
Thailand to pay $45M over vaccine side-effects
Thailand's National Health Security Office (NHSO) has so far paid 1.509 billion baht ($45.65 million) as compensation to 12,714 people who developed side-effects after they received Covid-19 vaccines.
The NHSO on March 9 reported that from May 19, 2021 to March 8 this year, a total of 15,933 people had filed complaints of negative reactions to Covid-19 vaccines.
The NHSO said 2,328 complaints were rejected after it ruled that the side-effects were not related to the vaccinations.
Of the rejected cases, 875 complainants are appealing against the earlier decision of the NHSO.
It added that 891 cases were pending consideration.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health reported on the morning of March 10 that in the past 24 hours there were 22,984 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, 47 of whom have arrived in Thailand from abroad.
The death toll increased by 74, while 24,161 patients recovered and were allowed to leave hospitals.
The cumulative number of cases in the country stands at 3,111,857, of which 888,422 (28.55 per cent) were recorded this year alone.
The health ministry had reported on the morning of March 9 that another 55,820 people were given their first Covid shot in the last 24 hours, 18,227 their second shot and 88,932 a booster, bringing the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered nationwide to 125,199,011.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/international/thailand-pay-45m-over-vaccine-side-effects
NANCY MOMENTS
Pelosi Refuses to Hand Over Emails and Videos from Jan 6 Claiming “Sovereign Immunity”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not hand over video coverage and emails from Jan 6 per a FOIA request. Pelosi based her decision on “sovereign immunity.” Pelosi and Democrats know if they release the 14,000 hours of footage from security cameras on January 6 it will blow apart their narrative. So she is hiding it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/pelosi-refusing-hand-emails-videos-jan-6-claiming-sovereign-immunity/
Now Pelosi Claims that She Can End Gerrymandering – Through HR1 which Will Also End Free and Fair Elections Forever
Pelosi’s answer to gerrymandering (creating districts favorable to a political party) is to move this to the federal government to oversee. But along with this is what’s in the rest of HR1 – the Democrats’ first bill after stealing the 2020 Election. We’ve reported on this bill a number of times. It would basically end free and fair elections forever. Pelosi knows this.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/now-pelosi-claims-can-end-gerrymandering-hr1-will-also-end-free-fair-elections-forever/
Pelosi Argues Spending Trillions Helps Lower National Debt – ‘Global’ Inflation Is Putin’s Fault
Nancy Pelosi argued on Sunday that spending trillions of US dollars on her pet projects helped lower the national debt. Pelosi also argued that “global” inflation is Putin’s fault.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/dumbest-statement-yet-pelosi-argues-spending-trillions-helps-lower-national-debt-global-inflation-putins-fault/
Sign at Virginia Pediatrics Office to Student Athletes: “COVID Vaccination Affects Your Heart – If You Received Doses of Any COVID Shot” We Will Not Clear You “Without Lab Work”
Jackson River Pediatrics is located in Alleghany County, Virginia.
Recently a patient took a photo of a sign posted at their office in Virginia.
The sign reads:
“Sports physicals are done primarily to make sure you are not at high risk for sudden cardiac death on the playing field. COVID vaccination affects your risk. In response to worldwide experience and vaccine adverse-event monitoring, we are adopting a more precautionary sports physical sign-off policy:
If you have received doses of any COVID shot, we will not be able to clear you to compete in sports without performing lab work and possibly an echocardiogram to rule out potential heart damage. “
The Jackson River Pediatrics Facebook account is currently offline. They took down their Facebook page after this sign in their office went viral.
PJ Media spoke to the owner of the Facebook photo.
“I know that sometimes we put things like sports physicals off until the last minute,” said the poster, who spoke to PJ Media anonymously. “Part of my intentions of sharing the picture that I took Monday at our pediatrician’s office was to let parents who had their children vaccinated for COVID know that they cannot wait until the last minute for sports physicals,” she said. “I have received backlash from friends and family for not having my children vaccinated for COVID,” she continued. “I believe that my husband and I made the right choice but now I have proof that someone educated far greater than I has evidence that the COVID vaccine can do damage to children’s health.”
The concerned mom thinks people deserve to have all the facts. “I don’t condemn anyone for choosing to vaccinate their children for COVID,” she said. “People need to make the decision that is best for their own situation.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/03/04/did-a-va-pediatrician-post-a-warning-about-the-vax-putting-kids-in-sports-at-risk-of-cardiac-arrest-n1563710
UK denies Julian Assange’s extradition appeal – WikiLeaks
Court denies WikiLeaks co-founder’s petition to appeal extradition to the US, case turned over to Home Office
The UK Supreme Court on Monday rejected Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder faces espionage charges. It is now up to Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorize the extradition.
The Supreme Court has not yet officially released its reasoning in the matter. The decision was announced by WikiLeaks and Assange’s partner Stella Moris on social media.
Assange filed a petition to appeal in December, arguing that US assurances not to hold him in solitary or subject him to psychological torture were unreliable – and citing Amnesty International to that effect. The British High Court granted his petition in January.
On Saturday, Moris tweeted that the Belmarsh prison – where Assange has been held since his arrest in April 2019 – had finally granted permission for their wedding, which was scheduled for March 23. It is now unclear whether that will be allowed to happen.
The Australian-born journalist spent seven years living inside Ecuador’s embassy in London, with the UK authorities denying him permission to leave citing a Swedish investigation into alleged sexual misconduct – which ended up being dropped. The WikiLeaks publisher sought asylum suspecting the Swedish case was a pretext to get him extradited to the US, which Washington confirmed by unsealing an indictment related to his 2010 publication of classified US documents following his 2019 arrest.
For the publication of State Department cables and Pentagon documents pertaining to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US has charged Assange under the Espionage Act, and seeks to imprison him for up to 175 years. The US request for extradition was approved in December 2021, and is based on guarantees he would not be mistreated that the US government has explicitly reserved the right to revoke at any time.
Assange has denied all accusations, with his defenders and supporters pointing out he was not under US jurisdiction, had engaged in journalism that is legal in the US, and that accusations of him conspiring to hack the Pentagon’s computer systems were based on discredited testimony of a convicted Icelandic criminal.
WikiLeaks’ official position on the charges is that they are politically motivated and “represent an unprecedented attack on press freedom and the public’s right to know – seeking to criminalize basic journalistic activity.”
https://www.rt.com/news/551901-assange-extradition-appeal-wikileaks/
Norwegian sports chief resigns over ban on Russians
A member of Norway's Olympic and Paralympic Committee has resigned over the competition ban imposed on Russian and Belarusian athletes
A board member of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports has said he is standing up for his Russian colleagues by resigning following the decision to ban athletes from competition because of the attack on Ukraine.
Former national champion cross-country skier and ski orienteer Oyvind Watterdal does not want to be associated with the move to ban Russians and Belarusians following an appeal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to leaders across sports.
Less than a week after the conflict began, the IOC publicly asked sports to ban athletes from the countries in order to "protect the integrity" of competitions and ensure athlete safety.
Russian athletes were told they could not compete at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games a day before the event started after the International Paralympic Committee changed its mind on allowing them to take part.
https://www.rt.com/sport/551894-ban-russian-athletes-ukraine-olympics-norway/
China Says "No One & No Force" Could Stop It From Taking Taiwan As 13 Jets Breach Taiwan Airspace
With a close eye on Ukraine developments, China issued another warning clearly aimed at Washington as well as its major regional partners like Australia over the weekend which said any nation supporting Taiwan militarily will suffer "the worst consequences".
China’s Ministry of National Defense further stated "no one and no force" could ever stop the Chinese military from bringing Taiwan under Beijing's control if it desires. According to Sky News, "The tirade was delivered a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in diplomatic talks with Australia in an attempt to repair international relations." And speaking of Russia's war in Ukraine, and the question of West-led sanctions from Beijing's eyes…
The statement was in reaction to Australia's defense minister Peter Dutton stating his country stands ready to do "whatever we can" to deter Chinese aggression toward Taiwan. It also came in the context of Taiwan just approving an extra $8.6 billion for military spending over the next half decade. Much spending will reportedly focus on beefing up the island's missile defenses.
On Monday 13 Chinese PLA aircraft breached Taiwan's air defense identification zone - something which at this point has long been a weekly - and almost daily - occurrence.
But as Reuters underscores, "Taiwan is currently in a heighten state of alert due to fears China could use Russia's invasion of Ukraine to make a similar military move on the island, though Taipei's government has not reported any unusual Chinese movements."
Taiwan's air force is regularly scrambled in response to such PLA aerial maneuvers near the island. On Monday a Taiwanese Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashed into the sea during what was called a "routine combat training mission".
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-says-no-one-no-force-could-stop-it-taking-taiwan-sends-13-jets-toward-island
West accused of engineering ‘artificial default’ in Russia
Moscow is ready to pay off its debts, but half of the nation’s forex reserves are frozen abroad
Washington and its allies want to push Russia into an “artificial default” by making it impossible to pay off the country’s foreign debts despite having the money to do so, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday.
“The freezing of foreign currency accounts of the Bank of Russia and of the Russian government can be regarded as the desire of a number of foreign countries to engineer an artificial default which has no real economic grounds,” the minister said.
The latest wave of Western sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine targeted Russia’s banking and financial sectors, with nearly half of the country’s foreign currency reserves, worth $300 billion, frozen by foreign central banks.
Russia is due to pay $117 million on two of its dollar-denominated bonds on Wednesday. Siluanov says the country is able to meet its debt obligations and will pay the debt using the national currency – the ruble.
“Claims that Russia cannot fulfil its sovereign debt obligations are untrue,” he said. “We have the necessary funds to service our obligations.”
Last week, international ratings agency Fitch cut Russia’s sovereign debt rating further into junk territory, saying that a default is “imminent.” Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund warned that a Russian debt default is no longer an “improbable event,” stressing that Moscow has a lot of money it can no longer use.
https://www.rt.com/business/551893-west-russia-artificial-default/
Two of China's most populated cities reimplement COVID restrictions as case numbers rise
As Omicron and Delta variant case numbers rise, China is reimposing COVID-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions in parts of the country.
The New York Times reported that two of China’s largest cities, Shenzhen and Shanghai, initiated stringent COVID protocols on Sunday that restrict the movements of city residents.
These lockdowns stand to further exasperate the ongoing disruption of global supply chains.
Shenzhen, a city along the border of the Hong Kong province, is the hub of China’s tech sector and is a magnet for electronics manufacturing. The city is going into a one-week lockdown in which all nonessential workers must stay home and adults must take three PCR COVID tests.
Public transit systems in Shenzhen have been closed, but supermarkets, farmers’ markets, pharmacies, medical institutions, and express delivery services will be allowed to continue operating.
Shanghai halted its intercity bus service but stopped short of ordering a whole-city lockdown.
Shenzhen and Shanghai officials have barred their residents from leaving either city unless it is deemed necessary, and even then, residents must present a negative PCR test to the government.
Both cities are reporting fewer than 100 cases of COVID-19. Shenzhen reported 66 cases, and Shanghai reported 65 cases on Sunday. In some of the infected, symptoms are apparent, which means they have an increased chance of passing the virus to other people.
In February, Shenzhen took steps to limit the spread of COVID from truck drivers. City officials reportedly took measures to prevent truck drivers from bringing infectious diseases into the Chinese mainland from Hong Kong, where there is currently a massive outbreak of the virus.
On Sunday, according to Reuters, Hong Kong health authorities reported 32,430 new cases of COVID-19.
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that the government was taking steps to reach out to the 300,000 people in Hong Kong who are isolated at home.
She said, “With so many people put under isolation or quarantine, the government has been strengthening our capability to support them. However, we’re still catching up.”
Lam said she could not comfortably say whether virus numbers had peaked in this recent outbreak.
ABC News reported that as of Friday, more than 3,000 Hong Kong residents had died in the province’s current wave of COVID.
Many users of Weibo, a Chinese social media network, blame Hong Kong for the outbreak of COVID-19 in Shenzhen due to the province’s hesitance to implement wide sweeping lockdowns like those seen in mainland China.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/two-of-chinas-most-populated-cities-reimplement-covid-restrictions-as-case-numbers-rise
NATO Chief Says Russia May Use Chemical or Biological Weapons in Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned on March 13 that Russia might use chemical or biological weapons in the fight with Ukraine, which the head of the alliance said would amount to a war crime.
“In recent days, we have heard absurd claims about chemical and biological weapons laboratories,” Stoltenberg said during an interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, adding that he believes the Kremlin is trying to create a false pretext to justify the unjustifiable.
Stoltenberg’s warning came as Russian officials claimed on March 7 that the U.S. military has been involved with the development of chemical or biological weapons in laboratories across Ukraine, a project backed by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
“Now that these false claims have been made, we must remain vigilant because it is possible that Russia itself could plan chemical weapons operations under this fabrication of lies. That would be a war crime,” the NATO head said.
On March 6, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement on Telegram accusing Ukraine of having destroyed pathogens being studied at a lab in Ukraine that the ministry says is funded by the DoD.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki has dismissed these claims as “preposterous,” saying they are exactly “the kind of disinformation operation we’ve seen repeatedly from the Russians over the years in Ukraine and in other countries, which have been debunked.”
“This is all an obvious ploy by Russia to try to justify its further premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine,” Psaki said on March 9. “Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag operation using them.”
The Chinese regime also appeared to repeat Russia’s allegations about the biological laboratories on March 7. A U.S. State Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times that the allegation is “Russian propaganda and total nonsense.”
Meanwhile, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda told the BBC on March 13 that if Russia should use chemical weapons in Ukraine, the move would be a game-changer and NATO would have to think seriously about how to respond.
“Everybody’s hoping that this is not going to happen. But as we say in Poland, using a little bit of an English expression, if [President Vladimir Putin] uses any weapons of mass destruction, then this will be a game-changer in the whole thing,” Duda said, adding that NATO leaders will have “to sit at the table and … really have to think seriously what to do” if the situation escalates to these heights.
https://www.ntd.com/nato-chief-says-russia-may-use-chemical-or-biological-weapons-in-ukraine_751891.html
Apple Supplier Foxconn Halts Operations at Its Shenzhen Sites Due to COVID-19 Lockdown
Foxconn has halted operations in the Chinese business center of Shenzhen after authorities announced a partial lockdown due to a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
In a March 13 statement, a spokesperson for the Taiwan-based Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., said it was suspending production at two campuses in Shenzhen “in compliance with the local government’s new Covid-19 policy.”
Foxconn is the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics, and the company supplies components to a number of companies, including Apple and Samsung.
Its two campuses in Shenzhen are located in Guanlan and Longhua, however, the company does the majority of its production at a plant located in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou.
“Due to our diversified production sites in China, we have adjusted the production line to minimize the potential impact,” Foxconn said.
The company, which is owned by Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou, didn’t state when production at the Shenzhen base would resume. A spokesperson said the bases will remain closed until the local government says they can reopen, and in the meantime, facilities in other cities will be used to support production.
https://www.ntd.com/apple-supplier-foxconn-halts-operations-at-its-shenzhen-sites-due-to-covid-19-lockdown_751951.html
U.S. Average Gas Prices Soar 22% in Two Weeks to Record $4.43 Per Gallon
Up, up and you pay. The average U.S. price for regular-grade gasoline at the pump soared a whopping 79 cents over the past two weeks to hit a record $4.43 per gallon on Sunday.
That exceeds by 32 cents the prior all-time high of $4.11 set in July 2008, AP reports.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday the new price is still some way from the inflation-adjusted record high of about $5.24 per gallon.
The price at the pump is $1.54 higher than it was a year ago, with plenty of consumers pointing directly at President Joe Biden and his policies.
Stickers depicting a smiling Biden with a pointed finger captioned “I did that!” are popping up at gas pumps throughout the country as pockets of working-class Americans continue to feel the economic strain, as Breitbart News reported.
Lundberg forecast gas prices are likely to remain high in the short term as crude oil costs soar amid global supply concerns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Diesel prices have also seen an increase, with the price up $1.18 in recent weeks, averaging $5.20 a gallon.
The White House is desperate to pin the blame for high U.S. gas prices squarely Russian President Vladimir Putin while ignoring the all-around effect of Bidenflation.
The Biden administration has delivered the worst inflation that Americans have seen in 40 years, far outpacing higher wages as more and more critics are noting:
“This is a Putin spike at the gas pump, not one prompted by our sanctions,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed last week.
Nationwide, the highest average price for regular-grade gas is in the San Francisco Bay Area, at $5.79 per gallon. The lowest average is in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $3.80 per gallon, AP outlines.
According to the survey, the average price of diesel also spiked, up $1.18 over two weeks, to $5.20 a gallon. Diesel costs $2.11 more than it did one year ago.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/14/u-s-average-gas-prices-soar-22-in-two-weeks-to-record-4-43/
Chinese Embassy responds to claims Moscow asked for military assistance
The Chinese Embassy in the US says it is unaware of any request for military assistance from Russia amid the conflict in Ukraine
The Chinese Embassy in the US says it has no information about Russia’s alleged request to China for military assistance, noting that Beijing’s focus is on bringing tensions down in Ukraine.
Citing unnamed US officials, the Financial Times reported on Sunday that Moscow asked China “for equipment and other kinds of unspecified military assistance” to support its offensive in Ukraine. The report added that the White House was concerned “Beijing may undermine western efforts to help Ukrainian forces defend their country” if it chooses to grant the alleged request.
The allegations were also picked up by the New York Times, CNN, and other Western publications. CNN reported, for instance, that Russia had requested “drones” from China, while the NYT said that its sources declined to discuss the “kind of military weapons or aid” Moscow was allegedly seeking, citing the need to keep the process of intelligence-gathering secret.
Upon being asked about the reports, Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Reuters later on Sunday that he “had never heard of that [request],” and said China’s priority was “to prevent the tense situation from escalating or even getting out of control.”
Beijing has adopted a neutral stance in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine – calling for an end to the war, but refusing to join the West in condemning Moscow.
Shortly after Russia launched its offensive in Ukraine, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing opposed “the use of sanctions to solve problems, and even more so opposes unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/551831-chinese-embassy-moscow-assistance-reports/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171001114956/https://twitter.com/WhiteHelmetsEXP/status/885556066855124995
https://web.archive.org/web/20190513203619/https://twitter.com/WhiteHelmetsEXP/status/885528234758213632
Jewish Settler Opens Fire at Girl School in Bethlehem, Terrorizes Children
An armed Jewish settler opened fire on Sunday at a girl school in the village of Tuqu in the occupied West Bank province of Bethlehem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Bassam Jabr, an official of the Bethlehem Education Directorate, told WAFA that an illegal Jewish settler who was armed with a rifle got off a bus loaded with settlers and opened gunfire towards the school, spreading fear among the schoolchildren. Jabr said that in the aftermath of the attack, hundreds of students were evacuated to a safe haven and therefore classes were canceled.
Violence and vandalism by Israeli settlers are commonplace in the occupied West Bank and are never prosecuted by the occupation authorities.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/jewish-settler-opens-fire-at-girl-school-in-bethlehem-terrorizes-children/
Naomi Wolf Confirms Big Pharma Was Adding Varying Amounts of Active Ingredient to Batches of COVID Vaccine
Former Clinton adviser and COVID Vaccine critic Naomi Wolf joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Monday morning. Naomi shared her latest bombshell from her investigation into the Pfizer vaccine documents released by the US government on their COVID vaccine testing. Naomi’s team of investigators, doctors and attorneys identified several US government documents that confirm that Pfizer was adding varying amounts of active ingredient to their experimental COVID vaccines. According to the data, the range of dangerous active ingredient went from 3μg, to 10μg, to 30μg, to 100μg depending on the batch they happened to inject you with.
As Naomi mentioned, this ties in directly with the website “How Bad Is My Batch” that was created so you could track how many adverse reaction incidents were linked to the vaccine batch you were given.
Now there is proof via AMA documents that they are distributing different doses of the active ingredient in the COVID vaccines based on batch number.
What the hell?
https://howbadismybatch.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/big-naomi-wolf-confirms-big-pharma-adding-varying-amounts-active-ingredient-batches-covid-vaccine-video/
“No One Person Should Have Unilateral Authority to Make Decisions For Millions of Americans” – Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Fire Fauci as NIAID Director
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday introduced an amendment to strip Dr. Fauci, an unelected bureaucrat, of his position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Fox News reported.
“We’ve learned a lot over the past two years, but one lesson in particular is that no one person should be deemed ‘dictator-in-chief,’” Rand Paul said in a statement. “No one person should have unilateral authority to make decisions for millions of Americans.”
Fox News reported:
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Monday introduced an amendment that would eliminate Dr. Anthony Fauci’s position as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and decentralize it, so that no one person can act as “dictator-in-chief” in the name of public health, the senator said.
Paul’s amendment would reorganize NIAID by breaking it down into three separate national research institutes, all with their own director, including the National Institute of Allergic Diseases, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Immunologic Diseases.
“I’ve been a physician for over 33 years,” Paul wrote in a piece Monday for Fox News Digital. “In all my years studying and practicing medicine, I had never encountered someone with the gall to proclaim himself ‘the science’ and portray anyone opposing him as ‘attacking science.’ That is, until Dr. Fauci became the COVID dictator-in-chief.”
“The biggest lesson we have learned over the last two years is that no one person should have this much unchecked power,” he wrote. “And my amendment, which will get a vote this week, will finally force accountability and fire Dr. Fauci.”
Fauci lied and people died.
Dr. Fauci flip-flopped and lied for over a year to the American public about the seriousness of the China Virus and his background funding the Chinese virology lab and the origins of the virus.
Dr. Fauci also lied to the American public about the success of the safe drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in treating the virus.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died when HCQ and Ivermectin was available but banned by Fauci and the CDC from COVID patients.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/no-one-person-unilateral-authority-make-decisions-millions-americans-rand-paul-introduces-amendment-fire-fauci-niaid-director/
US air defense troops deploying to DC
Members of an air defense artillery unit belonging to the Ohio National Guard are deploying to Washington D.C. this week.
The Ohio National Guard announced on Monday that 30 members of the Headquarters Battery of the 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (174th ADA) would deploy to the U.S. capital in support of Operation Noble Eagle. The unit will hold a send-off ceremony at the Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church in Reynoldsburg, Ohio on Tuesday afternoon.
The Ohio National Guard noted this deployment is part of planned operations and is “not in response to the current events in Ukraine.”
Operation Noble Eagle is a joint U.S. and Canadian military homeland security operation designed to protect military installations and critical infrastructure. The operation has been ongoing since Sept. 12, 2001, and began as part of the initial response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to the National Guard Bureau, Operation Noble Eagle initially saw Air National Guard, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy fighters flying combat patrols over major U.S. cities and various pieces of critical infrastructure, including power plants, bridges, airports, and port facilities around the country. Such pieces of critical infrastructure were covered on a continuous basis for several months before the defense presence was gradually scaled down.
“The Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) in the [National Capital Region], consisting of sensors, alert fighters, and ground-based air defense weapons systems, was established shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, at the direction of the Secretary of Defense,” the Ohio National Gaurd said. “Originally staffed by active-duty forces, the NCR mission has been manned by Air and Army National Guard members since 2003. The mission stands today as a prime example of the National Guard fulfilling its ‘Defense of the Homeland’ mission.”
The Ohio National Guard said the 174th ADA will serve as a task force headquarters unit and “will provide command and supervisory oversight support to the homeland defense mission, which includes the use of radar, ground-based air defense systems, and communications equipment to protect the National Capital Region (NCR).”
The 174th ADA has previously deployed to the NCR, including in support of Task Force Buckeye in 2019 and 2020, in support of Task Force Guthrie Grays in 2017 and 2018, Task Force Luzon in 2012 and 2013 and Task Force Phoenix in 2008 and 2009.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/03/us-air-defense-troops-deploying-to-dc/
Classified US Intelligence Chat Rooms a 'Dumpster Fire' of Hate Speech, Says Ex-NSA Contractor
An internal U.S. intelligence messaging system became a "dumpster fire" of hate speech during the Trump administration, a veteran National Security Agency contractor says. And it's "ongoing," another Defense Department contractor tells SpyTalk.
Dan Gilmore, who was in charge of overseeing internal chat rooms for the Intelink system for over a decade starting in 2011, says that by late 2020 the system was afire with incendiary hate-filled commentary, especially on "eChirp," the intelligence community's clone of Twitter.
"I was the admin of this application and after a couple years, it became a dumpster fire," Gilmore, a 30-year veteran of Navy and NSA cryptologic systems, wrote Thursday in an extraordinary public post on his own website. "Professionalism was thrown out the window, and flame wars became routine."
NSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Hate speech was running rampant on our applications," wrote Gilmore, whose identity and credentials have been vouched for by another Pentagon contractor. "I'm not being hyperbolic. Racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamaphobic [sic], and misogynistic speech was being posted in many of our applications."
Even more startling, Gilmore alleges, "there were many employees at CIA, DIA, NSA, and other IC agencies that openly stated that the January 6th terrorist attack on our Capitol was justified."
Gilmore says that "more than a few government employees at many different IC agencies" grew "concerned about the content that Intelink was allowing to be hosted."
IC is shorthand for the Intelligence Community, composed of 18 organizations, including two independent agencies, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
"Again and again, he writes, "I was contacted via instant messaging, emails and phone calls, asking what was being done to stomp the hate speech," Gilmore writes. He would respond that policies for the chat rooms were set by high level ODNI officials "waaay above my pay grade," not him.
Last summer, however, his inadvertent entanglement in the case of an ODNI contractor who had been a target of repeated hate speech due to race and gender identity got them fired, he recounts. Gimore's crime was sharing information outside Intelink, his boss told him. Gilmore explained that the complainant had copied him on emails to a top IC official without his assent–to no avail.
But he had, he admits, tried to moderate the behavior of the worst hate-speech offenders.
"I wanted to tell everyone that there is a cancer within the government and when I tried to weed it out, I got fired," Gilmore wrote. "It was just easier for government management to get rid of me rather than to deal with the underlying issue."
Another NSA contractor told SpyTalk that the hate speech started in 2016 after Trump's election and is "ongoing." Trump's followers in the agency get away with professional indiscretions, some of them serious, while others get dismissed for minor infractions, this person said on condition of anonymity.
"We literally had folks get their clearances burned for time card discrepancies while pro-MAGA types might have multiple DUIs, foreign contacts, and (in one case) vehicular homicide," the source said. "They were kept working while others were let go."
Extremist groups have made inroads in U.S. military and police units, experts say. Intelligence sources have told SpyTalk over the past several months that pro-Trump fervor is centered in special operations and hostage rescue units.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/13/classified-us-intelligence-chat-rooms-dumpster-fire-of-hate-speech-says-ex-nsa-contractor.html
Russia’s operation in Ukraine proceeds according to plan — Kremlin spokesman
The operation will be completed on time and in full, Dmitry Peskov noted
Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is proceeding in accordance with the original plan and will be completed on time and in full, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
"Russia has a sufficient potential for conducting the special military operation in Ukraine. The operation is proceeding in accordance with the original plan and will be completed on time and in full," Peskov stressed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 launched a special military operation in Ukraine following a request for assistance from the leaders of the Donbass republics. He said Moscow had no plans for an occupation of Ukrainian territories. The sole purpose is the country’s demilitarization and denazification. The Defense Ministry has repeatedly said the Russian army avoids attacking cities, its main targets being military infrastructure. The civilian population is not at risk.
https://tass.com/politics/1421801
Zelensky Thanks Zuckerberg For Fighting 'Side by Side' With Ukraine in Info War
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday expressed his gratitude to Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook and Instagram censoring Russian news outlets, allowing calls for violence against Russians and helping his government spread endless disinformation.
"War is not only a military opposition on UA land. It is also a fierce battle in the informational space," Zelensky said Sunday on Twitter. "I want to thank @Meta and other platforms that have an active position that help and stand side by side with the Ukrainians."
Last month, Facebook changed their rules to allow users to praise the "neo-nazi" Azov Battalion and this week they changed their rules further to allow calls for violence against Russians.
Facebook blocks RT and Sputnik in the EU but allows the Ukrainian military to announce plans to commit war crimes.
Facebook has helped Zelensky himself spread endless disinformation to try and con NATO into World War III. Most recently, they helped Zelensky spread the lie that Russians attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with tanks and it was leaking radiation and could lead to a nuclear holocaust wiping out all of Europe (if NATO doesn't immediately get involved in the war and start WW3).
They also helped Zelensky spread the lie that Russians attacked the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and were trying to trigger a meltdown.
With Mark Zuckerberg's full backing, Zelensky used Facebook to lie about Snake Island and spread the fake news that Russia attacked a Holocaust memorial "to erase our history."
Whereas Facebook said in the past they would censor content that may cause harm or lead to violence, they now boost Israeli-funded "neo-nazi" groups in Ukraine and spread Zelensky's lies and disinformation to millions in an effort to start WW3.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62952
Deportations Plunge Under Biden
Deportation rates have fallen dramatically under President Joe Biden, with the administration deporting far fewer illegal aliens in 2021 than under President Donald Trump.
In the roughly one-year period between October 2020 and September 2021, the DHS deported just 59,011 illegal immigrants, according to newly released data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
That’s down 68 percent from 2020, when the federal government deported over 185,000 illegal aliens under Trump-era immigration rules.
In comparison to Trump’s 2019 deportation rates, the drop is even more pronounced: that year, the DHS deported over 250,000 illegal aliens.
The significant drop comes as Border Patrol agents along the southern border find themselves inundated with unprecedented levels of illegal immigration.
“There can be no doubt, the ICE removal report shows that President Biden’s immigration executive orders have all but abolished ICE,” Preston Huennekens, government relations manager at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told The Epoch Times in an email. “Biden’s policies have eviscerated ICE’s ability to do its job, endangering American citizens and prioritizing radical politics over the rule of law.”
Since Biden took office, he has taken a far more laissez-faire approach to border security than Trump did.
Biden halted construction on Trump’s border wall almost immediately after taking office, leaving construction materials that had already been paid for by the federal government sitting unused along the border. At the same time, he reduced the number of border agents, leaving the remaining agents struggling to stop the unprecedented inflow of illegal immigrants into the country.
Biden also overturned Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required that those seeking asylum in the United States remain in Mexico until their asylum applications were approved.
Critics say the record levels of illegal immigration are a result of the Biden administration’s relaxed enforcement measures.
Estimates of how many illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden took office vary, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection data show that about 2 million people illegally crossed the border in 2021, a nearly fourfold increase from illegal crossings a year earlier.
In a March 11 press release, DHS defended itself from charges of failing to enforce immigration law, saying that it has focused on deporting dangerous felons and other criminals who pose a risk to society.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/deportations-plunge-under-biden_4332331.html
Freight Carriers Agree to Pay $6.85 Million to Resolve Allegations of Knowingly Presenting False Claims to the Department of Defense
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/freight-carriers-agree-pay-685-million-resolve-allegations-knowingly-presenting-false-claims
Researcher Tells Durham He Saw Holes In The Alfa Bank Hoax Before Democrats Shopped It To The FBI
A Georgia Tech researcher says he tried to politely throw cold water on a key part of the Russia collusion hoax before the Alfa Bank lie was eventually shopped to the media and government agencies, according to a newly obtained document. This new detail was one of several revealed in a document drafted by George Tech’s Manos Antonakakis—the man branded “Researcher-1” in Special Counsel John Durham’s indictment of Michael Sussmann on one count of lying to FBI General Counsel James Baker.
As I explained previously, “that indictment alleged that when Sussmann met with Baker on September 19, 2016, to provide the FBI attorney with data and ‘white papers’ that purported to establish a secret communication channel between the Trump organization and the Russia-connected Alfa Bank, Sussmann falsely claimed he was not acting on behalf of a client, when in reality Sussmann was working both for the Clinton campaign and an unnamed ‘U.S. technology industry executive’ since confirmed to be Rodney Joffe.”
After the Sussmann indictment dropped, Antonakakis emailed his private lawyers and an attorney and higher-ups at Georgia Tech a document entitled “fallacies” that purported to identify several portions of the indictment he claimed are false or misleading. Last week, The Federalist reported on several details contained in an abbreviated version of the “fallacies” document obtained from Georgia Tech pursuant to a Right-to-Know request.
On Thursday, The Federalist received a more complete version of the summary drafted by Antonakakis two days after news broke of Sussmann’s indictment. That version included Antonakakis’s synopsis of what he told Durham’s team about the Alfa Bank hoax.
“This part has been taken out of context,” Antonakakis wrote of the indictment’s excerpt from an email he had sent to Joffe after reviewing a draft white paper laying out the Alfa Bank-Trump theory. That excerpt to Joffe read: “A DNS expert would poke several holes to this hypothesis (primarily around visibility, about which very smartly you do not talk about). That being said, I do not think even the top security (non-DNS) researcher can refute your statements. Nice!”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/14/exclusive-researcher-tells-durham-he-saw-holes-in-the-alfa-bank-hoax-before-democrats-shopped-it-to-the-fbi/
Anyone who opposes the World Economic Forum's (WEF) "Great Reset" program will be sent to Chinese-style "reeducation camps," according to a pledge by the WEF.
Those who oppose Klaus Schwab's "Great Reset" should be imprisoned in communist China-style "reeducation camps" until they no longer embrace freedom, nationalism, and the right to bear arms, according to Wang Guan, a WEF young global leader.
Wang is currently a chief political journalist for a Chinese state-run media outlet in the United States that broadcasts Chinese propaganda.
https://en-volve.com/2022/03/13/world-economic-forum-vows-to-put-you-in-to-china-style-reeducation-camps-if-you-oppose-the-great-reset/
DEVELOPING: Fox News Journalist Injured Outside of Kiev While Reporting on Ukraine-Russia Conflict
An unidentified Fox News journalist posted just outside of Kiev was injured on Monday while covering the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Fox News anchor John Roberts delivered the news, however no details were immediately disclosed.
“Very few details but teams on the ground are working as hard as they can to try gather more information,’ Robert said.
“A reminder that this is in a war zone, that information changes very quickly, and we are working as hard as possible to get the best information that we possibly can and to get all of the details on what has happened. The safety of our Fox team is of the utmost importance and our highest priority,” he added.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/developing-fox-news-journalist-injured-outside-kiev-reporting-ukraine-russia-conflict/