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Anonymous claims it hacked 700GB leaked Russian gov’t data

The “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous claimed on Monday to have hacked and leaked more than 700GB of Russian government data. The hackers also claimed they breached the emails and data of Aerogas, a Russian state-backed oil and gas company.

“BREAKING: Over 700GB of Russian government data leaked. This data includes more than 200,000 emails from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,” an Anonymous-linked account Twitter account wrote.

Anonymous published the files on DDoSecrets, according to the U.S. Sun. The website states that the data includes “230,000 emails from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation / Министерство культуры Российской Федерации, which is responsible for state policy regarding art, cinematography, archives, copyright, cultural heritage, and censorship.”

The website also features a warning that states: This dataset was released in the buildup to, in the midst of, or in the aftermath of a cyberwar or hybrid war. Therefore, there is an increased chance of malware, ulterior motives and altered or implanted data, or false flags/fake personas. As a result, we encourage readers, researchers and journalists to take additional care with the data. This is a standard disclaimer that will be added to all datasets in the Cyberwar category, even absent specific suspicions. Any specific concerns will be added and noted below.

The website’s slogan – Veritatem cognoscere ruat cælum et pereat mundus – translated from Latin means, “Know the truth, though the heavens may fall and the world burn.”

The leaks are available for download.

On Tuesday, another Twitter account associated with Anonymous claimed the group has released over 3 million Russian emails since late February.

“#OpRussia: Since declaring ‘cyber war’ on Kremlin’s criminal regime, #Anonymous has released over 3 million Russian emails via #DDoSecrets – over 2.25 million of them from the Russian government. #OpKremlin#FreeUkraine,” Anonymous TV tweeted.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/04/anonymous-claims-it-hacked-700gb-leaked-russian-govt-data/

https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Ministry_of_Culture_of_the_Russian_Federation

Fusion Center Disinformation Portals To Spread Pro-Government News

It appears that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is no longer satisfied with Fox News and Tucker Carlson spreading fear and wants to deliver their own version of fear-induced news.

As NBC New York revealed, DHS has decided that the best way to counter Americans growing disdain over the never-ending war on terror is to open its very first government-approved disinformation portal.

“New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness has unveiled a new disinformation portal designed to help people identify truth-obscuring, manufactured information — from deepfakes to altered videos and text and the groups behind them.”

DHS claims the government has a “higher responsibility” to disseminate news to the public.

“Disinformation can have an insidious impact on the overall threat landscape,” NJOHSP Director Laurie Doran said. “In an age where the public has become increasingly dependent on online forums and social media platforms to stay informed, we all have a higher responsibility to scrutinize the information we’re consuming.”

Oh no, insidious “truth-obscuring, manufactured disinformation,” is now an “overall threat landscape” to Americans. What will the feds do to help us?

“The reality is no one platform or agency has the manpower or means to track and dispel the amount of disinformation being circulated,” added NJOHSP Deputy Director Eric Tysarczyk. “With this portal, we’re now equipping the public with the tools needed to decipher the information for themselves.”

According to the Feds, there is not one platform or government agency that can dispel disinformation, so who do you think officials want to use?

One of biggest perpetrators of disinformation in the business is not a federal agency named the CIA or the FBI.

The feds have decided to let DHS-run fusion centers disseminate government-approved news using their newly created “disinformation portal.”

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/04/fusion-center-disinformation-portals-to-spread-pro-government-news.html

Biden announces $800M in Ukraine aid, including artillery, helicopters

President Biden announced Wednesday that his administration would authorize $800 million in additional security assistance to Ukraine, including artillery, helicopters and armored personnel carriers.

Biden said in a statement that he briefed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the new assistance in a phone call earlier Wednesday.

“The Ukrainian military has used the weapons we are providing to devastating effect. As Russia prepares to intensify its attack in the Donbas region, the United States will continue to provide Ukraine with the capabilities to defend itself,” Biden said.

“This new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine,” he said. “These new capabilities include artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers. I have also approved the transfer of additional helicopters.”

Biden also said that the U.S. would help transfer “significant capabilities” from other allies to Ukraine, without providing specific details on those capabilities.

The formal announcement Wednesday came after new outlets including The Hill reported that Biden was expected to approve an additional $750 million in military assistance for Ukraine to combat Russia’s invasion.

A source told The Hill earlier Wednesday that the assistance package is expected to include Howitzer artillery.

The U.S. has committed $1.7 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began nearly seven weeks ago.

But Ukraine has pleaded for additional weaponry and systems to repel Russian attacks. Before his call with Biden on Wednesday, Zelensky posted a video to Twitter asking for additional air defense systems, combat aircraft, artillery, armored vehicles, and tanks from the U.S. and its allies.

“Freedom must be armed better than tyranny,” he says in the video, which was posted in English and Ukrainian. “Arm Ukraine now to defend freedom.”

The U.S. has stepped up security assistance to Ukraine since the invasion began. Last week, the Biden administration helped facilitate the transfer of a Soviet-era S-300 air defense system from Slovakia to Ukraine by repositioning a U.S. Patriot missile system in Slovakia.

https://thehill.com/news/administration/3266545-biden-announces-800m-in-ukraine-aid-including-artillery-helicopters/

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For spraying chemical weapons?

Wife of detained Ukrainian opposition politician demands his immediate release

She pointed out that Medvedchuk "neither violated Ukrainian laws nor left the country"

The wife of Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, has demanded that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky immediately release her husband, detained by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).

"I, Oksana Marchenko, the wife of Ukrainian parliament member Viktor Medvedchuk, request President Zelensky to take all the necessary measures for the immediate release of my husband Viktor Medvedchuk who is being illegally detained by the SBU," she said in a video address on YouTube on Wednesday.

She pointed out that Medvedchuk "neither violated Ukrainian laws nor left the country".

https://tass.com/world/1437231

FFS the Irony

Zelensky list weapons needed to 'save millions of Ukrainians'

Any attempts by the West to inflict significant damage on Russia's military or its separatist allies in Ukraine will be, Ryabkov said.

"Ukraine destroyed more Russian weapons and military equipment than some armies in Europe currently have," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, in English in a video published on the Defence Ministry's Facebook page, "but Russia still has the capacity to attack."

"The horrific images from Bucha and Mariupol can only be stopped with armed forces, Ukraine needs weapon supplies now. artillery, armored vehicle, air defense systems, and combat aircraft," Zelensky said.

Zelensky then specified what weapons Ukraine needs. "155-millimeters artillery, 152-millimeter artillery shells. "Grad", "Smerch", "Torando" or M142 HIMARS rocket launch systems. Personnel carrying armored vehicles. T-72 or similar tanks from the US or Germany, S-300, "BUK" or the western equivalent air defense systems.

"We must have military aircraft, to free our cities and save millions of Ukrainian and European lives," he added.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-704031

How the U.S. Regime Lies About Its Lying

If the public are voting on the basis of beliefs that were created by lies, then the public are being treated as dupes, not as citizens — they are actually “subjects,” instead of “citizens.” What results from this is inevitably a dictatorship — the U.S. empire.

The U.S. regime (including its ‘news’-media) don’t lie only about what is happening, but also about their lies about what is happening; and, in this, they might exceed even what Hitler’s propaganda-chief Joseph Goebbels managed to achieve during the 1930s and 40s.

For example: on April 6th, NBC ‘News’ bannered “In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn’t rock solid”, and sub-headed: “‘It doesn’t have to be solid intelligence,’ one U.S. official said. ‘It’s more important to get out ahead of them [the Russians], Putin specifically, before they do something.’”

But isn’t that exactly what they, themselves, had done during 2002 and 2003, about “Saddam’s WMD”? So, that headline’s first five words, “In a break with the past,” are clearly a lie, a lie about PRIOR lies about that headline’s closing seven words, “even when the intel isn’t rock solid.” After all: They lied through their teeth in 2002 and 2003 about, as George W. Bush put it in a joint press conference with his poodle dog Tony Blair on 7 September 2002, “We just heard the Prime Minister talk about the new report. I would remind you that when the inspectors first went into Iraq and were denied — finally denied access, a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need [in order for Congress to authorize an invasion of Iraq].” And, even though the IAEA promptly and repeatedly said that that “new report” by them was entirely fictitious and never existed (and all of the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media ignored what the IAEA were repeatedly saying about that matter), the U.S. regime simply continued stating and expanding upon its lie, right up until their 20 March 2003 entirely unprovoked invasion and destruction of that Russia-friendly regime in Iraq and replacement of it by the U.S.-and-allied stooge regimes ever since.

As regards specifically U.S. ‘intelligence’-involvement in that lying-for-the-regime in order to get the U.S.-and-allied invasion-destruction of Iraq, the lying CNN emblazoned the lying Washington Post’s lying Bob Woodward’s lying George Tenet’s (Director of the CIA, no less) lying to allege that the CIA’s ‘intelligence’ is what “was very important in his [Bush’s] decision making” about whether or not to attack Iraq. CNN’s headline on 19 April 2004 was “Woodward: Tenet told Bush WMD case a ‘slam dunk’.” But, then, after three more years had passed, the lying Reuters news agency headlined “Ex-CIA chief says ‘slam dunk’ Iraq quote misused” and opened: “A former U.S. spy chief accused President George W. Bush’s administration of ruining his reputation by misusing a ‘slam dunk’ comment he made during a White House meeting ahead of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.”

https://southfront.org/how-the-u-s-regime-lies-about-its-lying/

UK Gov. quietly published data confirming the Fully Vaccinated accounted for 92% of all Covid-19 Deaths in March

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1066759/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-13.pdf

Secret plan to flood America with millions of “economic migrants” exposed as Biden regime declares war on American citizens

The Biden regime’s plan to completely wreck America, begun in earnest under Barack Obama, is moving forward, as evidenced by the discovery of a secret plan being implemented by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

According to Breitbart News, at the behest of Obama’s people who are really running Biden’s White House, Mayorkas has directed his agency to ensure that ‘economic’ migrants are provided with every opportunity to stay illegally in America after Title 42 is lifted in early May, regardless of the massive harm he will cause American citizens.

Mayorkas’ plans were laid out in a February strategy document that was leaked to Breitbart Texas this week. The strategy is called, “DHS Southwest Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan,” and on page 16 of the document it says:

A. Secretary’s Intent.

1 ) Purpose: The purpose of this plan is to describe a proactive approach that humanely prevents and responds to surges in irregular migration across the U.S. [southern border]. This will be done while ensuring that migrants can apply for any form of relief or protection [emphasis added] for which they may be eligible, including asylum, withholding of removal, and protection from removal under the regulations implementing United States obligations under the Convention Against Torture.

To guarantee the maximum U.S. taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens, the DHS chief is calling for minimal detention and deportation, though federal law generally denies entry of foreign workers and economic migrants to the country. His play is providing ‘authority’ for border agents to ensure as many illegal migrants as possible can be ‘legally’ allowed to stay:

Current pathways to removal [deportations] will be limited. Component use of broadscale release mechanisms (i.e., Own Recognizance (OR) with issuance of a Notice to Appear (NTA), or parole and Alternatives to Detention (ATD) with administrative tools are necessary to ensure humane and efficient treatment of migrants.

What about “humane” treatment of American citizens?

According to Breitbart News, the parole side-door “is a very limited authority that Congress has given for exceptional situations” including a sick airline passenger, Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge, told the outlet last year. It “is very narrowly written [for small numbers of people], but the administration has blown right past the limitations,” he said, noting that the Obama-Biden-Harris regime simply doesn’t care about U.S. law because they know that no one is going to hold them responsible.

“In February, up to 165,000 migrants arrived at the border, and Mayorkas admitted 74,000 under various legal claims. Very few of the arrivals were detained, and few prior arrivals were deported, despite the federal law,” Breitbart News reported, adding:

The Cuban-born Mayorkas is a pro-migration zealot who argued in 2013 that Americans’ homeland “always has been, and forever will remain a nation of immigrants.” Only about one-third of Americans accept the “nation of immigrants” narrative, according to a survey by a pro-migration group.

So his plan ignores the reasonable and rational economic concerns of roughly at least 100 million citizens of the United States.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2022/04/13/secret-plan-to-flood-america-with-millions-of-economic-migrants-exposed-as-biden-regime-declares-war-on-american-citizens/

https://www.scribd.com/document/568069079/Southwest-Border-Mass-Irregular-Migration-Contingency-Plan-Feb-2022#download

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Delivers Remarks Outlining “The future of our international order,” and need to “decarbonize our economies”

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivered a remarkable speech today outlining “the future of the international order,” in the aftermath of the global pandemic and the current conflict in Ukraine. Within the speech Yellen outlines the priorities of the United States according to the current administration and the international financial mechanisms that she controls.

The speech is quite jaw-dropping when you consider the nature of her position and the fact that she is an unelected bureaucrat within government.

As you read the speech {Transcript Here} keep in mind she is not the President of the United States, or the commissioner of the New World Order, yet she presents herself as authorized to control the geopolitical constructs of the Biden administration. The hubris is astounding.

Secretary Yellen: outlines the goals and objectives of the international order, predicts a concerning global famine, warns against the cleaving of financial mechanisms for international trade as an outcome of the Ukraine conflict, threatens any nation who does not support the western political alliance and outlines the need for decarbonization of the global economy.

Yellen expresses all of these powers from the position of a U.S. Treasury Secretary, the equivalent of a government financial minister. Speech highlights with emphasis mine:

(Transcript) – […] “Russia’s horrific conduct has violated international law, including core tenets of the UN Charter—challenging countries to demonstrate where they stand with respect to the international order that has been built since World War II. Therefore, when I speak about a changed global outlook, I’m not just talking about growth forecasts. I’m also referring to our conception of international cooperation going forward.

I will focus my remarks today on the significance of international cooperation in this current environment and for our future.

[…] With Attorney General Garland, I convened a novel taskforce of law enforcement and finance ministry leaders from G7 and partner countries to advance our efforts. […] Rest assured, until Putin ends his heinous war of choice, the Biden Administration will work with our partners to push Russia further towards economic, financial, and strategic isolation.

[…] When Russia made the decision to invade Ukraine, it predestined an exit from the global financial system. Russian leaders knew that we would impose severe sanctions. […] We are now seeing higher commodity prices that have added to global inflationary pressures and are posing threats to energy and food security, trade flows, and external balances across many countries.

[…] The ultimate outcome for the global economy of course depends on the path of the war. Russia could end this unnecessary war and the near-term impact could be contained.

[…] While many countries have taken a unified stand against Russia’s actions and many companies have quickly and voluntarily severed business relationships with Russia, some countries and companies have not. Let me now say a few words to those countries who are currently sitting on the fence, perhaps seeing an opportunity to gain by preserving their relationship with Russia and backfilling the void left by others. Such motivations are short-sighted. The future of our international order, both for peaceful security and economic prosperity, is at stake.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/13/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-delivers-remarks-outlining-the-future-of-our-international-order-and-need-to-decarbonize-our-economies/

>>16069013

They grabbed him to try and exchange for the French US UK and German General's the Russian's caught

Leading Australian cardiologist SLAMS push for mRNA vaccines

Eminent Sydney cardiologist Dr Ross Walker says in a bombshell interview that it was the wrong call to preference mRNA vaccines, citing a rise in heart-related complications and side effects in his practice

A leading Australian cardiologist has criticised the government's decision to push 'experimental' mRNA vaccines as the conversation about side effects gathers mainstream momentum.

Speaking with Tony Jones on 3AW yesterday, eminent Sydney cardiologist Dr Ross Walker said that he has seen in his own practice 'a lot of people who are getting the RNA vaccines, getting problems'.

“We have better alternatives (than mRNA vaccines) … Have AstraZeneca. Have Novavax. I think it's been the wrong decision to push the RNA vaccines. It was the wrong decision, I believe, by the Government to stop producing AstraZeneca in Australia. But now we have AstraZeneca and Novavax – they're the ones I'd be going for, for the fourth shot if people need them,” he said.

Walker is part of a growing number of health experts concerned about the impact of vaccine side effects and specifically its impact on the heart. His comments on 3AW sit in contrast to the government's official recommendations.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) released a statement in July last year recommending Pfizer as the preferred vaccine for those aged 16 to under 60 years while it currently recommends Novavax to be used as a booster shot only in cases 'where an mRNA vaccine is not suitable'.

The on-air conversation between the pair stemmed from an earlier segment on Channel 9's Sunday Footy Show, where Jones was joined by a panel of sports commentators in a discussion about Brownlow medallist Ollie Wines who was taken to hospital suffering symptoms including heart palpitations, nausea and dizziness.

While doctors officially ruled out both a vaccine link and Myocarditis in Wines' case, Dr Walker provided a different insight into what he believes is occurring.

"What they're doing (club doctors) is they're doing ECHOs on people and seeing that the heart is still pumping fine … I'm not saying that's the case, I'm saying people will get sub-acute Myocarditis where the heart is still pumping well, but when you look for it there is indication of underlying heart damage, but just not bad enough to show the heart pumping poorly," he said.

"I'm sure what happened to Ollie is, they probably did an ultrasound on his heart and it was completely normal, so they then ruled it out and said there's nothing wrong with your heart, but it doesn't have to be to that level, that's very rare, that's four per million to get the full-blown Myocarditis.

"But I'm saying I see a lot of people with cardiac symptoms, chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness but when you look at their heart there's not much to find, and so I'm just saying this is a presumed diagnosis without having good clinical evidence that it is full-blown Myocarditis, because it isn't."

https://www.rebelnews.com/leading_australian_cardiologist_slams_push_for_mrna_vaccines

Six U.S. Companies Ordered to Pay $1.83 Billion in Restitution for Aluminum Conspiracy

A U.S. court ordered Monday that six California-based companies pay US$1.83 billion in restitution for defrauding the country of $1.8 billion in customs duties that stemmed from disguised aluminum imports.

Between 2011 and 2014, two aluminium companies and four warehouse companies conspired to import huge quantities of aluminum into the United States from China but disguise them as shipping pallets in order to avoid paying the proper customs duties.

Authorities estimate that together they smuggled in a total of 2.2 million “pallets” worth of spot-welded aluminum during this period.

What links the six companies together is that they all have ties to China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd.—one of Asia’s largest manufacturers of aluminum extrusions—and its former president, Chinese billionaire Zhongtian Liu.

Extrusion is the process by which a material is rammed through a die with great force; it thus comes out the other side in the same shape as the die’s edge. The deformation is akin to toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube.

Aluminum is a highly-valued metal, which is why the countervailing duties on it are 374.15% when shipped into the U.S. from China in its raw material form, according to the 2019 indictment against the defendants.

Countervailing duties, also known as anti-subsidy duties, are customs fees levied against the exporter of a certain commodity in order to protect the importing country’s domestic producers.

Finished aluminum products, however, are not subject to the same duties, which is why the conspirators in China spot-welded huge quantities of the metal into 2.2 million pallets for shipping.

Investigators determined that China Zhongwang Holdings and Liu lied to U.S. Customs when they said that there was a market for aluminum pallets in the United States.

However, no such customers existed and none of the 2.2 million pallets were ever sold.

Once imported through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the pallets were instead stockpiled inside of the four warehouse companies, all of which were purchased at Liu’s direction, according to the U.S Department of Justice.

The role of the other two companies, Perfectus Aluminum Inc. and its subsidiary, was to oversee the shipments and coordinate with the warehouses for proper storage.

The next step in the scheme was to falsify the sale of the aluminum to independent third parties in order to fraudulently inflate China Zhongwang Holding’s value.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16193-six-u-s-companies-ordered-to-pay-1-83-billion-in-restitution-for-aluminum-conspiracy

Air and Marine Operations, U.S. Coast Guard, Joint Interagency Task Force – South, and International Partners Seize 1.3 Tons of Cocaine in Eastern Pacific

WASHINGTON D.C. — An Air and Marine Operations (AMO) National Air Security Operations MQ-9 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) crewed by AMO personnel and U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) members worked with Joint Interagency Task Force — South and international partners to seize 2,646 pounds of cocaine and detain three people in the Eastern Pacific on March 17. This counterdrug collaboration between AMO, federal, and international law enforcement partners resulted in a narcotics seizure that denied transnational criminal organizations an estimated $30million U.S. dollars wholesale value.

The UAS team detected a go-fast vessel suspected of involvement in the transportation of narcotics through the Eastern Pacific transit zone. The team notified partner nation law enforcement forces and guided them to the location of the suspect vessel. International partners seized 2,646 pounds of cocaine on board the vessel and apprehended three Columbian nationals. ​

AMO operates the MQ-9 UAS to increase domain awareness in the land and maritime environments. The UAS platforms are remotely piloted, high-endurance assets that can be equipped with radar and camera sensors. The MQ-9 serves a vital role in various mission sets including low profile aerial surveillance, land border security, maritime surface detection and monitoring, and national disaster relief efforts.

During fiscal year (FY) 2021, AMO UAS crews reported 72,836 detections of cross-border and maritime traffic suspected of illegal activity. Additionally, missions conducted by AMO UAS crews in FY 2021 led to the seizure of 9,541 pounds of marijuana and 9,773 pounds of cocaine. National Air Security Operations MQ-9 UAS capabilities are vital in partnership with United States Southern Command operations, contributing to the command’s support of increased law enforcement efforts in narcotics trafficking transit zones. This partnership bolsters support to U.S. and international law enforcement by sharing information and intelligence to help expand targets.AMO safeguards our Nation by anticipating and confronting security threats through our aviation and maritime law enforcement expertise, innovative capabilities, and partnerships at the border and beyond. With approximately 1,800 federal agents and mission support personnel, 240 aircraft and 300 marine vessels operating throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands, AMO serves as the nation’s experts in airborne and maritime law enforcement.

In FY 2021, AMO enforcement actions resulted in 1,119 arrests and 122,035 apprehensions of undocumented individuals as well as the seizure or disruption of 324,772 pounds of cocaine, 779,725 pounds of marijuana, 18,548 pounds of methamphetamine, 900 weapons and $73.3 million.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/air-and-marine-operations-us-coast-guard-joint-interagency-task-0

In major reversal, government will administer COVID vaccine to children between 5- 15

United Nations has been paid US $78 million for shipment of Pfizer shots

The federal government will offer COVID-19 vaccines to children under 15, state governors revealed Monday after a meeting with President López Obrador.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/covid-vaccination-children-under-15/

To Secure The Border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Should Shut It Down

Amid the churn of recent headlines about inflation and the war in Ukraine, you might have missed what’s happening right now on the southwest border — not the ongoing border crisis, but something very much related to it. For the past few days, commercial traffic between the United States and Mexico has ground to a halt.

On Monday, Mexican truckers blocked north and southbound lanes on the Mexico side of the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in Pharr, Texas. They did it to protest Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision last week to order state troopers to inspect all northbound commercial trucks, something usually done by federal authorities. The state inspections immediately caused massive delays at ports of entry all along the border, triggering a second protest by truckers waiting to cross into El Paso on Monday afternoon, with trucks blocking both northbound and southbound lanes in Juarez.

This is no small thing. The volume of international traffic in question is massive. At the port of entry in Laredo, Texas, about 20,000 commercial trucks cross the border every day. Hundreds of billions of dollars in trade flow over the Texas-Mexico border every year. The entire system is a well-oiled machine. Throwing a wrench into it, even a minor one, could create a different sort of crisis at the border. But it might be worth it.

The backstory here is that Abbott issued those inspection orders last week in response to the Biden administration’s plans to cancel Title 42, the public health order invoked by then-President Trump at the onset of the pandemic. For the past two years, Title 42 has enabled federal authorities to expel illegal immigrants quickly amid an historic surge in illegal immigration. It’s not too much to say that Title 42 is the last remaining tool the federal government has to control record-high levels of illegal immigration.

Every other policy the Trump administration implemented to secure the border has been rescinded or neutered by Biden, and on May 23, Title 42 will be gone too. As my colleague Jordan Boyd has explained in some detail, the border will then be effectively open to almost anyone. Instead of arresting 150,000 or 200,000 illegal immigrants a month, federal authorities will be dealing with a half-million migrants or more each month, possibly as many as 18,000 a day.

Those are numbers far beyond the federal government’s ability to detain or even process. The only choice federal officials will have in that situation is to immediately release migrants they catch crossing illegally, or not detain them in the first place, rendering the border effectively lawless.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/13/to-secure-the-border-texas-gov-greg-abbott-should-shut-it-down/

Federal Judge Denies Hillary Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussmann’s Motion to Dismiss Durham Case – Trial Begins May 16

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s motion to dismiss Durham’s case was denied by a federal judge on Wednesday.

Sussmann was indicted last September for lying to the FBI.

According to the indictment, Sussmann falsely told James Baker he wasn’t doing work “for any client” when he asked for a meeting with the FBI where he presented bogus evidence the Trump Tower was secretly communicating with Kremlin-tied Alfa Bank.

The attorneys for Michael Sussmann in February requested the courts dismiss Durham’s case against him.

Sussmann’s lawyers absurdly argued that his false statement to the feds is protected under the First Amendment and made no impact on the FBI’s probe.

Durham blasted Sussmann in a new filing last month and revealed Hillary’s lawyer actually alleged Trump and his associates were using Russian-made phones in the vicinity of the White House.

US District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, agreed with John Durham and denied Sussmann’s motion to dismiss.

“Specifically, Sussmann allegedly told Baker that he was not attending the meeting on behalf of any client when, in fact, he had assembled and was conveying the information on behalf of two specific clients: (1) a technology-industry executive named Rodney Joffe and (2) the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign,” Cooper wrote in a 6-page opinion.

“The FBI opened an investigation based on the information Sussmann provided, but ultimately determined that there was insufficient evidence to support the existence of a communication channel between the Trump campaign and the Russian bank. Sussmann has pled not guilty to the charge and denies lying to the FBI,” the judge added.

“The court will deny the motion,” Cooper wrote.

Trial begins May 16.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/federal-judge-denies-hillary-clinton-lawyer-michael-sussmanns-motion-dismiss-durham-case-trial-begins-next-month/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/federal-judge-denies-hillary-clinton-lawyer-michael-sussmanns-motion-dismiss-durham-case-trial-begins-next-month/

Adrenochrome is flowing again