Major US bank tells abortion-seeking employees it will cover the cost of their travel

One of America's largest banking corporations is reportedly shelling out cash to help employees circumvent state abortion laws.

As a growing number of Republican-controlled states pass new measures to defend unborn lives, Citigroup announced to its shareholders recently that it is starting to cover the travel costs for abortion-seeking employees, Bloomberg News reported.

"In response to changes in reproductive health-care laws in certain states in the U.S., beginning in 2022 we provide travel benefits to facilitate access to adequate resources," the bank wrote in a filing to be shared during an April 26 shareholder meeting.

Bloomberg reported that the policy will cover all travel-related expenses, including airfare and lodging, for employees who need to travel to a different state to undergo an abortion procedure.

The move aims to counteract abortion bans passed in states like Texas, where a new law prohibiting the procedure after fetal cardiac activity is detected — typically six weeks gestation — has been implemented and upheld. Under the law, state residents are empowered to sue doctors, clinic workers, or anyone who performs an abortion or "aids abets" a woman's attempts to terminate a pregnancy.

Just this week, Idaho's state legislature passed its own abortion ban modeled after the Texas law. It now awaits Republican Gov. Brad Little's signature, which he is expected to provide. Several other states, as well, have either advanced abortion restricting measures in recent years or are now working on legislation.

Citigroup reportedly employs more than 8,500 people in Texas and more than 200,000 people in the U.S.

The banking giant has now joined several other companies, such as dating app conglomerate Match Group Inc. and rideshare firms Lyft and Uber, in using corporate money to combat the Texas law.

Match Group announced last year that it was creating a fund for Texas-based employees that would "help cover the additional costs incurred" of traveling out-of-state for an abortion, Axios reported. Lyft and Uber have both said they would cover the legal fees for drivers sued under the Texas law.

Perhaps it's company policies such as these that have kept Texas' law from preventing as many abortions as first estimated. Studies produced this year have shown that the law resulted in abortions falling by about 10% in the state since its passage.

Pro-life advocates were quick to point out that any decrease in abortions is something to be celebrated, but the tenacity with which abortion supporters seek to aid pregnancy terminations was noted. Undoubtedly, many pro-life advocates hope that the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court later this year will unlock new possibilities for the movement.

http://www.womensystems.com/2022/03/major-us-bank-tells-abortion-seeking.html

Leaked docs show FBI funded Ukrainian neo-Nazi “Azov Battalion” that orchestrated Charlottesville chaos to stoke racial division, destabilize West

Newly leaked documents appear to indicate that the FBI actually used taxpayer dollars to fund a Ukrainian National Guard unit whose members are linked to neo-Nazi ideology and have ties to the riot in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, just a few months after then-President Donald Trump’s term had begun.

The documents identify the “Azov Battalion” as the recipient of those funds, as well as reveal a great deal of coordination between neo-Nazi groups based in the U.S. and the Ukrainian National Guard unit.

According to the documents, the funds were diverted to these various organizations in an attempt to destabilize the West, and the U.S. in particular, during Trump’s presidency by inflaming racial tensions, which continued throughout his term and culminated in the “Floyd’s Rebellion” riots throughout 2020, En-Volve.com reported last week.

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Leaked docs show FBI funded Ukrainian neo-Nazi “Azov Battalion” that orchestrated Charlottesville chaos to stoke racial division, destabilize West

Newly leaked documents appear to indicate that the FBI actually used taxpayer dollars to fund a Ukrainian National Guard unit whose members are linked to neo-Nazi ideology and have ties to the riot in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017, just a few months after then-President Donald Trump’s term had begun.

The documents identify the “Azov Battalion” as the recipient of those funds, as well as reveal a great deal of coordination between neo-Nazi groups based in the U.S. and the Ukrainian National Guard unit.

According to the documents, the funds were diverted to these various organizations in an attempt to destabilize the West, and the U.S. in particular, during Trump’s presidency by inflaming racial tensions, which continued throughout his term and culminated in the “Floyd’s Rebellion” riots throughout 2020, En-Volve.com reported last week.

According to Jacobin Magazine, which linked to a criminal complaint filed by FBI Special Agent Scott Bierwirth in October 2018 (.pdf file here), a 2018 bureau affidavit states that the Azov Battalion “is believe to have participated in training and radicalizing United States-based white supremacy organizations,” to include members of the Rise Above Movement (RAM), some of whom were prosecuted for planned assaults on counterprotesters at events like the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

Added DailyVeracity.com: “While the US government focuses on jailing and sanctioning right-wing dissidents in the US using the help of tech companies, uncovered documents reveal the US indirectly sent taxpayer dollars to neo-nazi groups and Charlottesville rioters abroad. This means that funding of the Azov Battalion specifically designed for countering Russian influence within Ukraine, indirectly helped train one of the most prominent groups prosecuted after the 2017 Charlottesville rally.”

The Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University in California, which tracks the RAM organization, also noted:

RAM was hosted by Olena Semenyaka, head of the National Corps, the political wing of the Azov Battalion, a unit of the Ukrainian National Guard with neo-Nazi and white supremacist affiliations. Semenyaka later stated that Rundo and his compatriots “came to learn our ways” and “showed interest in learning how to create youth forces in the ways Azov has.” During their visit, the RAM members joined the Azov Battalion for sparring at the Reconquista Club, a mixed martial arts (MMA) club affiliated with the group. Rundo entered an MMA competition for white supremacists from across Europe, supposedly the first American to take part in the history of the event. While in Kiev, Rundo also got a tattoo of the Viking warrior logo of White Rex, a clothing label founded by Russian MMA fighter and Azov Battalion associate Denis Nikitin.

There is also documentation online of Ukrainian military action featuring soldiers and fighters adorned with neo-Nazi insignia.

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-03-16-leaked-docs-fbi-funded-neonazi-azov-battalion-charlottesville-chaos.html

At Least 200K Mismatched Signatures: Study of 2020 Maricopa County Ballot Envelopes Points to Flawed System

Shiva Ayyadurai, the founder of the Election Systems Integrity Institute, has released a study concluding that the Maricopa County, Arizona, mail-in ballot signature verification process is deeply flawed.

The study, released last week, found that the county allowed approximately 200,000 ballot envelopes with mismatched signatures to be forwarded for counting without further review.

Ayyadurai, a systems engineer with multiple degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testified last fall before the Arizona Senate regarding the findings of the Maricopa County 2020 general election audit.

One of his most noteworthy statements was that his team determined there were 34,448 duplicate ballot envelopes from 17,126 unique voters.

Maricopa County officials rejected the finding at the time and released a report in January stating that the reason for the duplicate envelopes was that those ballots had gone through the curing process, where the ballot was returned to the voter to correct a lack of signature or another deficiency.

However, using the most conservative standards, ESII calculated that many more should have been returned.

Researchers reported that11.3percent of the approximately 1.9 million mail-in ballots should have gone through the curing process, rather than the 1.31 percent that did.

That translates to more than 215,000 needing to be cured versus the “upwards of 25,000” identified by Maricopa County.

“I found it fascinating that they didn’t give us an exact number. They just said up to 25,000,” Ayyadurai told The Western Journal, noting the county called it a “rigorous signature verification process.”

“So the bottom line is this, that if you’re doing curing, that means for every cured envelope, there should be the verified and approved [one]. That’s what they’re saying,” he added.

“Which means you should know exactly how many were cured. Why did you say, ‘Upward of 25,000’? Because we found out exactly 17,126 were duplicate images, that means we definitively know how many were cured. Why isn’t the county saying exactly how many were cured?”

Maricopa County said it rejected only 587 ballots of those that went through the curing process. In other words, just 0.03 percent of the mail-in ballots cast were not allowed to be counted.

Ayyadurai said it’s noteworthy the county has not tried to explain the difference between the 25,000 and 17,126 figures.

“I think the crickets is what’s interesting. There’s absolute silence from the county,” he said.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/03/at-least-200k-mismatched-signatures.html

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At the beginning of Lia Thomas competing in the NCAA women’s 500Y Freestyle, a member of the audience screams “CHEATER”.

Thomas then goes on to take the lead the entire competition.

West wages information war against Russia, uses information terrorism — Lavrov

The top diplomat noted that the global information field was dominated by the American and British media and the Anglo-Saxon world in general

The West is waging an information war against Russia, it includes elements of information terrorism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday in an interview with the RT TV channel.

"Substitution of notions often takes place. When something happens, like mass protests, demonstrations that they [the West] don’t like, they immediately call it domestic terrorism. It’s a war. It’s a war which involves methods of information terrorism. There is no doubt about this," he said.

According to Lavrov, the global information field is dominated by the American and British media and the Anglo-Saxon world in general. Russia occupies a modest place here, the foreign minister said. "It’s another matter what the quality of those information outlets is," he added.

"We understood long ago that there is no such thing as an independent Western media. In the United States, only Fox News is trying to present some alternative point of view. But when you watch other channels, when you read social networks and Internet platforms, when acting president was blocked, you realize that this censorship continues on a large scale," Lavrov stressed.

Speaking of TikTok and other similar platforms, Lavrov noted that Washington is essentially appealing to children because these platforms are used by very young boys and girls. "I believe this is an attempt to brainwash them for the rest of their lives, and this is indecent and not fair. If you want information competition, if you want competition among media outlets, then there must be some rules," the foreign minister pointed out.

https://tass.com/politics/1424157

Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Records of Communication Between Special Counsel John Durham and Attorney General Merrick Garland

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records of communication between Special Counsel John Durham and Attorney General Merrick Garland (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:22-cv-00734)).

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 23, 2021, FOIA request for:

1. All records of communication, including emails and text messages, between Special Counsel John Durham and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

1. All budget records related to the operations of the office of Special Counsel John Durham.

Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley raised concerns last year about whether the Justice Department was in potential conflict with the Durham investigation because a senior Justice official, Susan Hennessey, had previously made statements attacking the Durham Investigation. The senators said, in December 2021, that Hennessey “expressed a clear partisan bias against the Special Counsel’s investigation,” referring to one of her tweets: “Durham has made abundantly clear that in a year and a half, he hasn’t come up with anything. I guess this kind of partisan silliness has become characteristic of Barr’s legacy, but unclear to me why Durham would want to go along with it.”

Durham’s investigation began in May 2019, and he was officially designated as Special Counsel in October 2020.

“It shouldn’t take a federal lawsuit to get answers to simple requests for information about Garland’s communications with Durham and basic budget documents about the Durham Special Counsel operation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/doj-communications-john-durham-merrick-garland/

Attorney presents evidence to Congress that COVID-19 vaccines are one of the greatest frauds in history

First and foremost, herein is notice regarding critical evidence related to COVID-19, potential governmental corruption, and the safety of our military and citizens. We would like to thank Make Americans Free Again for their assistance in ensuring this document is provided to every congressperson, governor, state attorney general, and as many other elected officials as possible throughout the nation. By putting this document in the hands of every previously mentioned elected official we are demanding they look at the facts and take a stand. We need accountability and redress of grievance NOW!

This document includes a substantial amount of evidence. While we believe it should be analyzed in its entirety, we have included overview documents that provide bullet-point information on critical items for easy reference (see the Table of Contents).

Second, this document helps arm ‘We The People’ with the ability to argue facts at school board meetings, town councils and any forum are giving the ability to speak at. Take this document, print it out, make copies and distribute it to as many people as you can. We will put EVERY elected official and person involved in Covid-19 on notice!

https://renz-law.com/special-notice-regarding-evidentiary-findings-related-to-the-official-renz-law-covid-19-investigation/

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https://renz-law.com/special-notice-regarding-evidentiary-findings-related-to-the-official-renz-law-covid-19-investigation/

Leader of Guatemalan Drug Trafficking Organization and Guatemalan Politician Indicted for International Cocaine Trafficking

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-guatemalan-drug-trafficking-organization-and-guatemalan-politician-indicted

Surreños 13 Gang Member Arrested in the Mountains

OCOTILLO, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested a gang member Tuesday morning in the Jacumba Wilderness region.

At approximately 7 a.m., agents encountered an undocumented individual who illegally entered the United States, three miles north of the U.S./Mexico border. The individual was arrested and transported to the El Centro Sector Processing Center to be further medically evaluated and processed accordingly.

Record checks revealed this individual is a documented member of a street gang known as the Surreños (Sur-13). This individual has extensive criminal and immigration history that includes numerous felony and misdemeanor convictions as well as multiple re-entries after deportation. This individual was previously ordered to be removed from the U.S by an Immigration judge.

U.S. Border Patrol will process the individual accordingly.

For all news, information, and updates related to the El Centro Border Patrol Sector, follow us on Facebook Twitter and Instagram. Visit www.cbp.gov to view additional news releases and other information pertaining to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/surre-os-13-gang-member-arrested-mountains

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R):

"What did we just find out yesterday from the New York Times? Yes. It is Joe Biden's laptop. And yes, Adam Schiff lied to us one more time. Why is he still chair of the Intelligence Committee?…In a new Congress, he will not be."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1504890961062776836

Russia Allegedly Presents More Evidence of US Biolab Research in Ukraine at UN Security Council Meeting

The Russian Ambassador to the UN Security Council Vassily Nebenzia 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 during his speech last week. Nebenzia added, “By March 2016, a total of 364 people died of swine flu in Ukraine.”

“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.

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 documented the entire speech by Vassily Nebenzia in an earlier post.

On Friday the Russian ambassador presented more evidence against the United States at the UN Security Council.

Nebenzia accused the US of funding “components for biological weapons created in the territory of Ukraine.”

Citing the P781 project that was studied, the Russians alleged that the US was experimenting with the “transmission to humans of diseases through bats…6 families of viruses were identified including Coronaviruses…”

The Russians made a similar accusation last week.

The US responded, “This is malarkey, there are no biological weapons programs in Ukraine, this is a dark conspiracy theory.”

So why did they try to hide the “research facilities from the public? Why did they fear Russians getting ahold of their “facilities” if there’s nothing to hide?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-accusations-russia-allegedly-presents-evidence-us-biolab-research-ukraine-un-security-council-meeting-video/