Wolf in sheep's clothing
Joe Biden: Constitution Gives Right to ‘Abort a Child’ — ‘Mainstream’ Religions Agree with Roe v. Wade
President Joe Biden further reacted to a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, criticizing the “radical” argument against a constitutional right to abortion.
“The idea that we’re gonna make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court I think goes way overboard,” Biden said.
The president spoke to reporters about the draft opinion as he left Washington, DC, for a trip to Alabama to visit a Lockheed Martin manufacturing facility.
During his remarks, Biden falsely claimed that all mainstream religions believe the beginning of human life is open to interpretation.
“Look, think what Roe says. Roe says what all basic mainstream religions have historically concluded — that the right — that the existence of a human life and being is a question. Is it at the moment of conception? Is it six months? Is it six weeks?”
The president failed to mention that the Catholic Church, of which he claims to be a member, teaches that life begins at the moment of conception.
Biden commented on the issue of abortion after a draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to the media.
He appeared deeply concerned by the leaked opinion, arguing the Supreme Court was threatening to make a “radical decision” if they did choose to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“If this decision holds, it’s really quite a radical decision… it basically says all the decisions related to your private life — who you marry, whether or not you decide to conceive a child or not… what does this do?” he asked.
He also warned that the constitutional right to gay marriage would be endangered as well as other Supreme Court cases involving the right to privacy.
“It’s a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence,” he said.
Biden said he supported a congressional effort to codify Roe v. Wade into law but declined to say whether or not he supported breaking the Senate filibuster rules to ensure its passage.
“I’m not prepared to make those decisions now,” he said.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/03/joe-biden-constitution-gives-rights-abort-child-mainstream-religions-agree-roe-v-wade/
Epic meltdown
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1521575153372733449
BIDEN: “Before Russia attacked, we made sure Russia had javelins and other weapons to strengthen the defenses so Ukraine was ready for whatever happened.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1521571565103685636
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1521567285407883265
Senate Majority Leader Schumer on leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade:
"This is a dark and disturbing day for America…It is hard not to feel angry, troubled, and deeply disturbed about what overturning Roe would do to women across America."
PayPal Blocks Multiple Alternative Media Figures Critical Of US Empire Narratives
In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against official US empire narratives. These include journalist and speaker Caleb Maupin, and Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod of MintPress News.
Just the other day MintPress published an excellent article by MacLeod titled “An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm” documenting the many ways skepticism of the US government’s version of events in this war is being suppressed by Silicon Valley megacorporations, including financial censorship via the demonetization of YouTube videos that don’t regurgitate the imperial line on Ukraine.
Today, both MintPress and MacLeod have been banned from using the payment service that many online content creators have come to rely on to help crowdfund their work.
MintPress News happens to have published critical journalism about PayPal itself in the past, like the articles it published in 2018 by Whitney Webb documenting the way shady PayPal-linked billionaires Peter Thiel and Pierre Omidyar have advanced the interests of the US empire and facilitated imperial narrative control, or this one from 2016 on how the company blocks Palestinians from opening accounts while showing no such bias against illegal Israeli settlers.
I asked MintPress News Executive Director Mnar Adley for comment on PayPal’s move. Here is her response in full:
“Paypal banning myself and MintPress is blatant censorship of dissenting journalists & outlets. For the past decade MintPress has been unapologetically working as a watchdog journalism outlet to expose the profiteers of the permanent war state from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Sudan to Apartheid Israel’s occupation of Palestine and Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen to regime change operations in Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela where US weapons have flooded these nations to plunge them into devastating civil wars.
“In the era of a declining US empire, censorship has become the last resort of an unpopular regime and its forever wars to make the truth disappear and critical thinking all but dead. With the war in Ukraine raging on, we’ve entered war time and Big Tech giants, including Paypal, are working hand in hand with the New Cold War architects themselves to sanction dissenting journalists. If you read the board of any of these tech giants from Google, Twitter, Facebook and Paypal, they read like a rogues’ gallery of war mongers and their agenda is clear: To control the free flow of information and target the bank accounts of anyone who dares question the official narrative of the Pentagon or State Department.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82486/paypal-blocks-multiple-alternative-media-figures-critical-of-us-empire.html