Government lies and says there are no suppression orders in response

Petition EN1856 - Suppression Orders protecting Paedophiles must be lifted and investigated.

On 20th October 2015, Senator Heffernan brought to Parliament and Australias attention, official documents presented during the Wood Royal Commission and again during Royal Commission into Ritual and Sexual Abuse within Institutions. These documents include police documents, naming 28 high profile paedophiles, including one former Prime Minister. Investigation into these documents were stopped. The government and Judiciary have been noted suppressing these documents with orders for 90 years, choosing not to investigate as the public would ‘lose faith in the judiciary’. The public have already lost faith in the Government and Judiciary. This is compounded by these suppression orders. We the Australians with integrity and honour stand against these suppression orders and wish to protect our children. We insist these people and institutions be fully investigated, and held to account, including those whom have chosen to cover and suppress any investigations.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN1856

Ministerial response to petition: EN1856 - Ministerial response - Attorney General .pdf

Deaths due to COVID-19:

Associated causes, pre-existing chronic conditions

Pre-existing chronic conditions were reported on death certificates for 1,776 (69.5%) of the 2,556 deaths due to COVID-19

https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia-deaths-registered-31-january-2022

COVID-19 was the 38th leading cause of death. Their median age at death was 86 years.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/latest-release

There were 149,486 deaths that occurred during 2021 and were registered by 28 February 2022.

This is 8,517 deaths (5.7%) more than the 2015-19 average and 7,151 deaths (5.0%) more than in 2020.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release

‘Drug User Liberation Front’ Hands Out Free Meth, Heroin in Vancouver

The Drug User Liberation Front has been aided in their mission to supply free drugs to addicts by a socialist city council member

A group calling themselves the “Drug User Liberation Front” is handing out free, hard drugs on the streets of Vancouver with the help of a city council member. The city has long been an epicenter of Canada’s national struggle with drug abuse and was an early adopter of so-called “safe injection sites”, which are gaining popularity in U.S. cities. Vancouver is now moving to decriminalize the possession of hard drugs, including heroin and meth, despite a massive uptick in drug crime and overdoses in recent years.

The Drug User Liberation Front claims to purchase and test drugs like heroin and meth from “trusted” dark web dealers in an effort to keep tainted doses off the street. After what adoring reports from corporate media outlets have described as a “rigorous testing process”, the group redistributes what they say is a “safe supply” of the still highly lethal drugs on the streets to users for free. The group claims that it is an important harm reduction tactic in a city plagued by drug crime and abuse.

In addition to handing out the drugs on the streets, the group, which is illegal under Canadian law, is managing to supply their packaged and labeled drugs to addicts outside of the city. Just this month, a report stated that The Drug User Liberation Front, also known as DULF, distributed at least 17 grams of various hard to drugs to different “drug user groups” across British Columbia.

Despite the illegality of DULF’s scheme, police have reportedly looked the other way and at times denied they know about the group’s existence. DULF has even had the help of a sitting Vancouver City Council Member, Jean Swanson, of the openly socialist Coalition of Progressive Educators (COPE).

Swanson has even publicly worked with the group to hand out drugs on the streets of Vancouver and says that other members of the city council support offering hard drugs to addicts. These members wouldn’t go as far to be seen doing it publicly, however.

In addition, the Vancouver City Council recently passed a resolution that requested an exemption from federal drug laws. It was also among the first municipalities to adopt needle exchange programs in which IV drug users are given clean needles at local, often taxpayer-funded facilities. More recently has played a pioneering role in so-called “safe injection” and “consumption sites” where drug users can freely use drugs.

The safe injection and consumption sites have become a hot-button political issue in Canada as the spreads around the country. In the US, similar facilities have slowly rolled out over the last year, with New York City opening up the first American safe injection sites this past December. On-site overdoses ensued on the first day of operation.

https://nationalfile.com/drug-user-liberation-front-hands-out-free-meth-heroin-in-vancouver/

Russia says UN is lying

Moscow insists the UN Secretary General hasn’t tried to contact Putin recently, contrary to what Antonio Guterres’ spokesman has claimed

Russia’s foreign ministry has denied that the UN Secretary General has tried to contact Russian President Vladimir Putin, in recent times, contrary to a statement made by Antonio Guterres’ spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.

On Tuesday, the spokesman for the foreign ministry in Moscow, Maria Zakharova, published a post in her Telegram channel, citing reports, according to which Dujarric replied in the affirmative when asked if his boss had tried to contact the Russian president following the start of the Kremlin’s military offensive against Ukraine in late February. Zakharova went on to deny that there have been any attempts at communication on the part of Guterres.

“A short comment: no. The UN secretary general has not tried to get in touch with the Russian president,” Zakharova insisted. She added that “no one has made such overtures, either to Russia’s permanent mission to the UN or directly to the foreign ministry.”

Zakharova urged the “representatives of the UN Secretariat to return to reality.”

Last Wednesday, Guterres told reporters that while “at the present moment a global ceasefire in Ukraine doesn’t seem possible,” his office had proposed to Russia to “bring the parties together and to manage” the evacuation of civilians from the areas of Ukraine worst affected by fighting. He added that the UN was waiting for Moscow’s response.

On March 22, the UN secretary general denounced Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine as an “absurd war,” that was putting people there through a “living hell.” He added that “continuing the war in Ukraine is morally unacceptable, politically indefensible, and militarily nonsensical.”

In early April, Guterres called for an independent investigation of the mass killings committed in the town of Bucha. Ukraine accuses Russian forces of committing the atrocities, while Moscow insists the harrowing scenes were staged by Kiev authorities to frame Russia, and possibly force European nations to step up pressure on the Kremlin.

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

https://www.rt.com/russia/554161-russia-denies-un-secretary-general-putin-contact/

Yemen’s ex-president under ‘house arrest’ – media

Former leader living under tight restrictions in Riyadh, officials reportedly said

Yemen’s former president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi has reportedly been confined to house arrest in the Saudi capital of Riyadh following an agreement to remove him from power earlier this month.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal under the condition of anonymity, Saudi and Yemeni officials said Riyadh pressured Hadi to step down before he ultimately handed power to a council of Yemeni factions on April 7, and has more-or-less kept him captive since.

“Hadi is effectively under house arrest at his residence in Riyadh without access to phones,” one Saudi official told the Journal, while another noted that a few Yemeni politicians had been allowed to see him, but only with the government’s permission.

Abdullah al-Alimi – the director of the Yemeni president’s office, who now serves as vice president of the new leadership council – challenged the ‘house arrest’ characterization, but said it would take time to arrange a call with Hadi, suggesting some level of restrictions on his communications.

Some Saudi officials also reportedly threatened to “publicize what they said was evidence of corruption allegedly committed by Mr. Hadi” in order to compel his resignation, the Journal added, but went on to cite another anonymous official who pushed back against this charge.

“Saudi Arabia has not orchestrated the removal of Hadi nor threatened to expose alleged corruption,” they said. “Its role was limited to conveying the desire of the Yemeni factions who participated together in the Yemeni-Yemeni talks to President Hadi.”

Hadi’s resignation followed more than seven years of brutal fighting in Yemen, during which a coalition of states led by Saudi Arabia and heavily supported by the United States, waged a relentless bombing campaign, helping to drive what the UN has deemed the world’s most dire humanitarian crisis. The 76-year-old was elected on a one-man ballot in 2012, but was forced to flee the Yemeni capital in 2015 amid an uprising by Houthi rebels, who have since held onto power.

The warring parties recently agreed to a two-month ceasefire, which coincided with Hadi’s removal from office, with UN officials voicing hopes the truce could bring an end to fighting that has devastated civilian infrastructure across Yemen, including farms, factories, hospitals, schools, roads, bridges and ancient cultural sites. Some 400,000 people have been killed to date, in fighting and airstrikes as well as through deprivation caused by the war.

https://www.rt.com/news/554120-yemen-president-house-arrest/

Lavrov Denies Russia Could Use Nukes In Ukraine

Days ago CIA Director William Burns raised the specter of Russia using nuclear weapons in its war on Ukraine. He said in Thursday remarks at Georgia Tech that the US cannot "take lightly" a scenario of tactical nuclear deployment, particularly if the Kremlin should feel increasing desperation as its goals are being thwarted by Ukraine's military resistance and heavier than expected losses.

"Given the potential desperation of [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they’ve faced so far militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons," Burns said at the time. He added that it would "change the world in a flash."

Naturally the intelligence chief's assessment set off a flurry of doomsday speculation and breathless media commentary suggesting Putin sees this as a real option, despite Burns in the same speech ultimately downplaying the idea.

"While we’ve seen some rhetorical posturing on the part of the Kremlin about moving to higher nuclear alert levels, so far we haven’t seen a lot of practical evidence of the kind of deployments or military dispositions that would reinforce that concern," Burns said.

And of course, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky seized on this, telling CNN's Jake Tapper in a Sunday interview that "We shouldn’t wait for the moment when Russia decides to use nuclear weapons​.​ … We must prepare for that​."

He went on to say in dramatic fashion that "anti-radiation medicine and air raid shelters would be needed" while underscoring that Russia "can use any weapon, I’m convinced of it​.​"

All of this has put pressure on the Kremlin to respond directly to the allegations, at a moment it ratchets up operations in the east to take the Donbas. On Tuesday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was asked in an interview with India Today about the possibility of using nukes, to which he responded that Russia will only use conventional weapons in Ukraine.

According to Bloomberg, despite Lavrov obviously not being responsible for military decision-making, the comments remain "among the most categorical from a senior Russian official on the issue" which clearly deny the charge.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lavrov-categorially-rejects-speculation-russia-could-use-nukes-ukraine

Top Democrat Funneled More Than $200,000 In Campaign Cash To Family Members

Democratic South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn has distributed more than $200,000 in campaign funds to entities controlled by his relatives, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.

Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, has made 15 rental payments to a company controlled by a daughter and son-in-law, and 39 direct payments to another daughter and son-in-law. Clyburn’s grandson also appears to be a salaried employee, and has received twice-monthly payments from the Clyburn campaign since October 2021.

The disbursements were first reported by Fox News.

The Clyburn campaign paid 49 Magnolia Blossom LLC $62,500 in 15 installments from March 2020 to January 2022 for “office rent,” according to FEC filings. 49 Magnolia Blossom LLC was incorporated in 2018, with Clyburn’s son-in-law Walter A. Reed listed as the company’s agent. Walter Reed is married to Clyburn’s daughter Jennifer Clyburn Reed, whom President Joe Biden appointed federal co-chair of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission. In addition to the funds paid to his LLC, the Clyburn campaign paid $650 to Walter Reed personally for “office maintenance lighting” in May 2021, Fox News noted.

Clyburn Reed also received significant payments from the Clyburn campaign. During her father’s successful 2020 re-election campaign, Clyburn Reed was paid $45,000, which the Clyburn campaign described in filings as a “campaign management fee.”

Walter and Jennifer’s son, Walter A.C. Reed, was employed by the Clyburn campaign as well. Walter A.C. Reed, Rep. Clyburn’s grandson, received $37,500 across eleven payments from the campaign since October 2021.

The Clyburn campaign also paid the congressman’s other daughter and son-in-law, Angela and Cecil Hannibal, a combined $90,762 for various activities dating back to 2010.

Overall, Friends of Jim Clyburn has paid Clyburn’s family members and entities they control $236,412 since 2010.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/19/jim-clyburn-pays-family-members-campaign-funds/

I Watched Putin's Entire 4 Hour Q+A With the Russian People - He Even Answered My Question

" … a blogger wanted to know why there are virtually no electric cars in Russia. Putin explained that electric cars actually mostly run on coal, which is what’s used to generate the electricity they run on, and coal is not an environmentally friendly fuel … The blogger … was positively shocked by this bit of non-news. Teslas burn coal, very inefficiently; I hope you already knew this."

Yesterday I spent four hours watching television. This is not something I normally do because I find the entire television medium tedious, boring and a waste of time. Every television program is, from my point of view, a bad idea, because I dislike being programmed. In fact, I don’t even own a TV. When I need to watch something, I do so in a window on the screen of my laptop. But this was a special occasion.

What I watched was Putin’s nearly four-hour annual live Q&A marathon. People all over Russia submitted questions—over 2.3 million of them—by calling in, writing in, texting, recording videos, giving interviews to television crews. A very large team then organized the questions into general themes and prepared the most representative and best-expressed ones to be presented. A fair number of questions were asked live, on screen.

The main reason I watched the whole thing was that I had asked Putin a question, and I wanted to see if he was going to answer it. He did.

What do you do when you don't know what to do?

These marathon Q&A sessions are a very interesting feature of contemporary Russian political life. They give people throughout the country the ability to voice their complaints directly before the president, going over the heads of all the other officials, from regional governors to federal ministers. Over the years it has evolved into a uniquely effective tool to fix things and get things done.

On the one hand, it is rather sad that people in Russia sometimes need to get the president involved if they want a pothole fixed, but on the other, it shows some promise as a tool of direct democracy. In comparison, “the right of the people… to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” guaranteed by the first amendment to the US constitution, isn’t particularly useful unless the complaint is accompanied by a check for a large amount. In the US, only the lobbyists and the political campaign donors are granted an audience.

This year’s innovation was that all 85 regional governors and all cabinet ministers were required to be present in their offices throughout the broadcast, ready to be videoconferenced into the national broadcast at a moment’s notice. But they didn’t get to just sit quietly picking their noses; the production’s hundreds of staffers and volunteers directly reached out to them with the questions they were receiving from people in their regions or on subjects pertinent to their positions.

Nor is their involvement going to be limited to the few hours of the show; later, they will receive all of the questions they need to address. They will also get to meet with Putin face to face and on camera, and he will hand each of them a green folder with action items they will be required to work on and report results. “I presume that all of this will get done,” said Putin. He didn’t say “it better!” but I am sure he meant it.

https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/i-watched-putins-entire-4-hour-qa-russian-people-he-even-answered-my-question/ri23749

U.S. congressional delegation to push Ukraine war agenda in Poland, Germany, India, Nepal, UAE

A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers, including four senators and a member of the House of Representatives, will travel to Poland, India, Germany, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates to garner support for Ukraine.

“This strong congressional delegation will have the opportunity to meet with U.S. military leadership and troops in Poland in order to learn how the U.S. can continue to support Ukraine and our NATO allies against Russia’s unprovoked and unwarranted war,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement, according to The Hill.

“In addition, the delegation will meet with a number of key foreign leaders in Poland, UAE, India, Nepal, and Germany to strengthen ties during this period of heightened global tension,” the congressmen said.

Other senators making the trip with Kelly are Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ed Markey (D-MA), along with Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), the lone House member.

https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/u-s-congressional-delegation-to-push-ukraine-war-agenda-in-poland-germany-india-nepal-uae/

How Zionism Is Fuelling a Religious War Over al-Aqsa Mosque

The ongoing attempts to take over Muslim holy places, whether in Jerusalem, Hebron, or in Nablus, continue apace, as does valiant Palestinian resistance to them

The Israeli Jewish colonial fundamentalist group “The Returning to the Mount,” which advocates the construction of a “Third Jewish temple” in al-Haram al-Sharif, the third holiest place in Islam, and is associated with the racist Kach group, announced this week that it plans to sacrifice animals as part of the Jewish Passover rituals on Friday in al-Haram.

In response, Hamas declared that it will not allow such rituals to take place and will prevent them “at any cost”. The Palestinian Authority and the Jordanian government also condemned the plans. Last February, the group, pretending to be Muslims, entered al-Haram al-Sharif and prayed there.

In view of the announcement of the animal sacrifices, the Jordanian-appointed director of the mosque issued a decision banning Muslim worshippers from remaining in isolation in the mosque, a common devotional practice for Muslim worshippers during Ramadan, until the last 10 days of Ramadan, that is, after the end of the passover.

Still, Palestinian worshippers insisted on remaining in the mosque last night to prevent the extremist group from entering al-Haram and were attacked this morning by Israeli security who injured more than one hundred worshippers.

A religious prohibition

After the 1967 conquest of East Jerusalem by the Israelis, Israel‘s then defence minister, Moshe Dayan, decided to allow the Palestinian-turned-Jordanian Waqf (religious endowment), which always administered al-Haram al-Sharif, or what Jews call “The Temple Mount,” to continue to administer it.

Israel’s Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis, along with hundreds of other rabbis, issued a Halachic ruling that it was forbidden for Jews to enter the area, let alone pray there, as that would be in violation of Jewish religious law, or Halacha, on account of the “impurity” of all Jews after the destruction of the Second Temple.

Even the fundamentalist rabbis, disciples of the zealot Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, many of whose followers became religious settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem after 1967, agreed with the religious prohibition.

Nonetheless, some of the extreme non-religious Zionist groups, especially those associated with the pre-state terrorist group Lehi, argued that the rabbis were wrong and that Jews should build a synagogue there. In 1969, an Australian Christian fundamentalist set fire to al-Aqsa Mosque and was arrested by the Israelis, alleged to be mentally ill, and deported years later.

It would be Shlomo Goren, the rabbi of the Israeli army, however, who in 1973 would become Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi and who would weigh in more heavily on the matter. Goren argued that Jews could visit and pray in the areas of the ancient temple that had been expanded at the end of the Second Temple period, and that this would not be in violation of Halacha.

He argued that there was evidence that Jews had built a permanent prayer site on the “Mount” until the 16thcentury, a claim that historians contest.

In his zeal to allow Jews access to the Muslim shrines, Goren correctly claimed that the Western Wall had not been a Jewish prayer site until the 17th century and even then on account of Ottoman restrictions on Jewish worship elsewhere in al-Haram al-Sharif area.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-zionism-fuelling-religious-war-over-al-aqsa-mosque/5777873

The US Military Is Training Third World Coup Leaders Again

Americans should be experiencing an uneasy sense of déjà vu. In the last two years, U.S.-trained officers have overthrown West African governments at least four times. There are indications that other graduates have undermined civilian governments in other portions of the continent. But U.S. military officials have been less than informative. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) can’t explain why there has been a surge in coups. Indeed, AFRICOM insists that it doesn’t even know how often they’ve happened. That position reflects convenient ignorance, at best.

Maj. Gen. Andrew M. Rohling, the commander of US Army Southern European Task Force, Africa, insists that the Pentagon’s objective is to "showcase a way, the American way, that we train and build leaders not only in their tactical tasks, but in the ethos of the United States Army." But as analyst Nick Turse, a fellow at The Nation Institute, observes, those values have been lacking in Africa, especially in West Africa, "where U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia. The four most recent coups by US trainees have occurred in Burkina Faso (2022), Guinea (2021) and twice in Mali (2020 and 2021)."

The latest cases of officers who had received US military training going on to stage an epidemic of coups in Africa is reminiscent of the long, odious history of the School of the Americas (SOA). The US Army established that training center in 1946 at Fort Benning, Georgia. The curriculum emphasized the most up-to-date military tactics, especially in counterinsurgency warfare. But that was not the sole mission of the school. In addition to core military training, the goal supposedly was to educate officers from allied countries in Latin America about the importance of democratic values and civilian control of the military. During the next 54 years, the SOA trained more than 63,000 soldiers from 21 countries,

It is not certain whether US officials were sincere about promoting a commitment to democracy, or whether that stated objective was merely cynical propaganda. In any case, the results were appallingly bad. A December 2000 ABC News story by investigative reporter Barbara Starr noted that "The list of graduates from the School of the Americas is a who’s who of Latin American despots. Students have included Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri of Argentina, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia."

https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2022/04/18/the-us-military-is-training-third-world-coup-leaders-again/

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Gantz threatens Gaza if rockets continue, vows Temple Mount status quo protected

Defense minister says benefits for Palestinians could be rolled back if Hamas harms stability; Gaza terror groups holding ‘urgent’ meeting after overnight airstrikes on Strip

Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that steps Israel has taken to boost its economy are being threatened by terror groups ramping up incitement and launching rockets attacks.

There have been violent clashes between Palestinians and police in recent days at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which sits atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel has accused terror groups of inciting the clashes over what it says are false claims that the long-standing policy of not allowing Jews to pray in the area has been changed.

“As I have also told leaders from countries in the region, we are maintaining the status quo on the Temple Mount, and we will not allow terrorists or provocateurs to harm the holy places,” Gantz said during a tour of a Border Police base in the West Bank.

Many Jews head to the Western Wall and the Old City during the current weeklong Passover holiday. Non-Muslims can only visit the Temple Mount during certain hours and are officially barred from praying at the site, which is considered the holiest in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam.

However, recent reports have shown that police sometimes turn a blind eye to such prayers taking place.

In a statement released by his office, Gantz mentioned a rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel on Monday evening. “Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces struck Gaza following [rocket] fire into Israeli territory, for which Hamas leaders are responsible,” he said.

“The IDF is ready with a wide range of means and targets, to ensure that peace and stability will continue,” Gantz warned.

“If the incitement and [rocket] fire continue, the terror organizations will be severely harmed, as will the residents of Gaza, who are currently benefiting from the moves we have taken to develop the economy,” Gantz added.

Israel recently okayed increasing the number of Palestinians who can enter Israel for work to the highest quota since a blockade was imposed on the coastal enclave more than 15 years ago.

“These are moves we are planning to expand if stability is maintained, or we can roll them back, if the leaders of Hamas choose to hurt them,” Gantz added.

On Monday, before the rocket attack, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group dismissed apparent threats to end such measures.

“The enemy’s threats to stop facilitations for Gaza cannot make us remain silent about what is happening in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank,” Ziad Nakhala said in a brief statement.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-threatens-gaza-if-rockets-continue-vows-temple-mount-status-quo-protected/

Netherlands sends heavy weapons to Ukraine — Prime Minister

On February 24, the Russian president said that in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics, he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation in Ukraine.

The Netherlands already sends armored vehicles to Ukraine and considers sending additional heavy weapons, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte tweeted Tuesday after the phone call with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

"In a call with [Zelensky], [Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren] and I expressed our support as Russia begins a renewed offensive. The Netherlands will be sending heavier materiel to Ukraine, including armored vehicles. Along with allies, we are looking into supplying additional heavy materiel."

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address on February 24 that in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics, he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, noting that the operation was aimed at the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine. In response, the West imposed wide-scale sanctions against Russia.

https://tass.com/world/1439789

Bribe Payments Flow from Illinois Dem’s Campaign Account

Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman (Ill.) paid another $24,500 in donor funds to a political rival she bribed to keep out of her primary race.

Newman's disbursements to Palestinian activist and terrorist sympathizer Iymen Chehade came over a three-month period, from January to March 2022, the Democrat's latest campaign finance disclosure shows. Newman has paid Chehade nearly $80,000 since the pair settled a breach of contract lawsuit in late June, which stemmed from an employment agreement Newman signed promising Chehade a six-figure job in her office in exchange for his commitment not to run against her.

After the Washington Free Beacon reported on those payments, fellow Illinois Democrat Sean Casten—who is running against Newman in the state's Sixth Congressional District—called on Newman to release the details of her settlement with Chehade. But the ongoing scandal does more than jeopardize Newman's political standing in the race. Federal law prohibits a candidate from promising employment "for the purpose of procuring political support," and the House Office of Congressional Ethics says it has "substantial reason to believe" Newman did just that.

"Public service is a trust, and our entire democracy is jeopardized when voters have reason to believe that any elected officials are placing our personal self-interest above the public good," Casten said in a statement. "It has been over five months since the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics unanimously voted to further the investigation into Marie Newman. Five months of silence is unacceptable. It is time for her to level with the public."

Newman's campaign claims its payments to Chehade stem merely from his role as its "director of foreign policy and research." Less than a year ago, however, the campaign publicly disparaged Chehade, calling him "disrespectful," "very hard to get along with," and "ill-suited for a senior role in a congressional office."

Under federal campaign finance rules, Newman must pay Chehade for "bona fide services" at a rate that does not exceed "fair market value." Newman's arrangement with the activist may not fit that description. When the Chicago Sun-Times asked Newman to provide examples of Chehade's work, the outlet received just 21 pages of foreign policy briefings, meaning Chehade earned thousands of dollars per page. Chehade is also running his own congressional campaign in a nearby Illinois district, casting doubt on his ability to work significant hours for Newman. Despite those limitations, Chehade is by far the Newman campaign's highest-paid staffer.

In addition to Chehade's work for the Newman campaign, the activist serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago. In 2015, Chehade helped facilitate a panel that brought Rasmea Odeh to campus. A convicted terrorist, Odeh was sentenced to life in prison for her role in a 1969 Jerusalem bombing that killed two college students. In a now-deleted tweet, Chehade praised her as "extraordinary."

Newman and Casten are set to square off at the polls in late June. Casten holds a significant financial advantage—he has $2 million on hand to Newman's $500,000.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/illinois-dem-pays-another-25k-in-donor-funds-to-political-rival-she-bribed/

Abramovich Owned Stake in Company that Won U.S. Gov’t Contracts

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has hit headlines since Russia invaded Ukraine. Billions of his assets have been frozen by a court in Jersey. French authorities have seized a US$120 million mansion he owns on the Riviera coast. And the fate of his U.K. Premier League football club, Chelsea, has been front-page news around the world.

But the Russian billionaire’s investment in an American pharmaceutical company that received funding from both the U.S. and Russian governments has garnered far less attention.

From 2011 until at least the end of 2021, Abramovich was an important stakeholder in Cleveland BioLabs, Inc. and its successor, Statera Biopharma, Inc. Based in Buffalo, New York, the companies have spent years developing Entolimod, an anti-cancer drug that can be used to fight the effects of radiation exposure.

“It would be a stockpiling agent,” Michael Handley, Statera’s CEO, told the pharmaceutical trade publication Endpoints News in December 2021. “So governments, including the U.S. government and around the world, would order it and stockpile it in case of God forbid, a nuclear reactor meltdown or even worse, nuclear warfare.”

Public records show that in its early years, Cleveland lobbied hard for U.S. government contracts, employing six different firms to press its case in Washington, D.C. between 2008 and 2013. Since 2010, the company has spent more than $400,000 on lobbying, according to analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a nonprofit group of journalists and data scientists.

“They were actually pretty aggressive on the lobbying front, on par with the major players,” a lobbyist who worked for one of the six firms Cleveland hired told OCCRP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

That lobbying soon paid off. In September 2010, Cleveland was awarded a nearly $5.4 million research contract by the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

Abramovich invested in Cleveland the following year, though it’s unclear exactly how much. In a later regulatory filing the company said he had provided $10.5 million, with the right to increase his investment up to $30 million.

A representative of Cleveland’s successor company, Statera, confirmed Abramovich was an investor as of the end of last year, but would not give any more details. The oligarch’s London-based spokesperson wouldn’t comment either.

Cleveland won another $9.8 million contract from the Defense Department’s Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program in 2015, receiving a total of $15.8 million from the U.S. government that year. In a March 2020 regulatory filing, the company said U.S. state contracts accounted for 81.2 percent of revenues that year, and 64.5 percent in 2019.

Meanwhile, public documents show that more than $60 million has flowed into Cleveland from the Russian government, Abramovich, and other private Russian investors.

In 2013, two of its subsidiaries won more than $9 million in contracts with Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade to develop Entolimod and another cancer drug.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16214-abramovich-owned-stake-in-company-that-won-u-s-gov-t-contracts

No wonder Israel protected him

UK Gov. report admits 19.2 million people in England have not had a single dose of a Covid-19 Vaccine, and another 12 million have refused a 2nd or 3rd Dose

For months the British public have been deceived with tales that there are just 5 million people in the United Kingdom who have refused to take up the offer of a Covid-19 vaccine. But this is a complete fabrication that has no doubt been used to make those who have refused the jab feel as if they are part of a minority.

Because an official UK Government report proves that in England alone there are at least 19.2 million people who have not had a single dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, 21.8 million people who have not had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, and 31 million who have not had 3 doses of a Covid-19 Vaccine, meaning nearly half of England’s population has become wise to the propaganda and lies spouted by the Government and mainstream media over the past two years.

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/18/19milllion-unvaccinated-31million-not-boosted-england/

House Intelligence Committee Members Were Briefed on Las Vegas Multiple Shooter and Antifa and ISIS Information

"The FBI was closely monitoring Antifa operative engagements with Islamic State and Al Qaeda…"

United States congressmen on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence received information at a Capitol Hill briefing on multiple shooters carrying out the Las Vegas mass shooting attack on October 1, 2017, with Antifa and ISIS involvement. National File recently published the report prepared for recently-deceased former Trump National Security Council (NSC) official Rich Higgins, which states that Stephen Paddock was executed by terrorists involved in the attack.

Joshua Merritt, whose research helped to produce the Higgins report, told NATIONAL FILE: “That report was briefed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) yet they never acted on it. I helped gather some of the info on that report as well as some other work.” Merritt said that “The briefing was at the House chambers.” At the time, Rep. Devin Nunes was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee before the Republicans surrendered control of the House in the 2018 midterms. “They hid our report from the public,” Merritt said.

Bombshell evidence prepared for a recently-deceased Trump National Security Council (NSC) official explicitly reports on multiple shooters carrying out the Las Vegas terrorist shooting of October 1, 2017. The report states that Stephen Paddock did not actually commit suicide but was executed by others, pointing to Antifa and ISIS involvement and FBI foreknowledge of the attack. The report also provides evidence that an ANTIFA group claimed responsibility for the shooting with the message: “One of our comrades from our Las Vegas branch has made these fascist Trump supporting dogs pay.” The following report was prepared for Rich Higgins, who served in the National Security Council strategic planning office in 2017. Higgins died of complications at a hospital at around 3 AM on February 23, 2022. The more than 50-page report is entitled “All Source Assessment: Attack on the Route 91 Country Music Festival October 1, 2017 Mandalay Bay Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada” and was prepared for Higgins shortly after he left the National Security Council.

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-house-intelligence-committee-members-were-briefed-on-las-vegas-multiple-shooter-and-antifa-and-isis-information/