121 arrests in operation against migrant smuggling and human trafficking – INTERPOL

Operation Storm Makers busts criminal networks profiting from the movement of vulnerable men, women and children across borders.

LYON, France – An INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting migrant smuggling and human trafficking has triggered 121 arrests across 25 countries, prompting 193 new investigations.

Operation Storm Makers (21 – 25 March 2022) saw authorities carry out enforcement actions against organized crime groups believed to be facilitating the travel of Asian men, women and children across borders for exploitation and/or profit.

In total, authorities rescued 80 human trafficking victims and identified some 3,400 irregular migrants.

Operational coordination units were set up in Hanoi (Vietnam) and Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), helping assess intelligence and facilitating enforcement actions between participating countries.

Smart electronic gates, connected to INTERPOL’s databases, were activated at airports across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to boost passport checks and help detect forged documents.

Globally, some 15 million checks were carried out against INTERPOL’s databases at air, land and sea borders, generating ‘hits’ or alerts for fraudulent travel documents, as well as INTERPOL Notices against individuals wanted on various charges, including murder and fraud.

Organ trafficking, forced labour, sexual exploitation uncovered

In Turkey, police arrested four people, dismantling a suspected international organ trafficking ring. The criminal network, originating in India, is accused of targeting vulnerable Indonesian nationals and facilitating kidney transplants in Turkey. The suspects went as far as staging wedding photos and falsifying documents in order to establish fake family relationships between recipients and donors. With each kidney fetching USD 37,000 on the black market, the organ donor would receive USD 15,000, with the remainder split among members of the network.

Police in Malaysia and Cambodia worked closely on a case involving 15 men and one woman lured to Cambodia on the promise of a lucrative salary to work in a call centre. On arrival, however, they were locked up and forced to work 14-hour days as scammers. Authorities in both countries believe there are more victims of the criminal group and the ongoing investigation is being supported by INTERPOL’s Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants unit.

https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2022/121-arrests-in-operation-against-migrant-smuggling-and-human-trafficking-INTERPOL

GROOMER ALERT: Now They're Trying to Get to Your Kids Through Their Breakfast Cereal

I’m old enough to remember when kids’ breakfast cereal was a fun way to start the morning — especially if you were lucky enough to get a prize with your sugary treat! Remember some of these?

Well, all that’s changed. Now, instead of cool prizes, children are being force-fed woke messages from groomers trying to turn them into deviants.

Kellogg’s teamed up with GLADD to force diversity messages on children at the breakfast table:

“Together With Pride cereal marks the latest chapter in a years long partnership with GLAAD and is the evolution of the much-loved All Together cereal, which previously was only available online,” said Doug VanDeVelde, General Manager of Kellogg U.S. Cereal Category in a press release. “Our delicious new recipe features berry-flavored, rainbow hearts dusted with edible glitter. We can’t wait for fans to try our latest limited run.”

https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2022/05/09/groomer-alert-not-even-your-kids-breakfast-cereal-is-safe-anymore-n1596334

DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring High Schools to Observe ‘Victims of Communism Day’

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that requires “Victims of Communism Day” to be observed annually in public high schools across the state.

The bill, known as HB 395, requires public schools to tell students about genocides, famines, and persecutions under communist regimes, including the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Soviet Union. The bill passed the Florida House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.

“We want to make sure that every year folks in Florida, but particularly our students, will learn about the evils of communism, the dictators that have led communist regimes, and the hundreds of millions of individuals who suffered and continue to suffer under the weight of this discredited ideology,” DeSantis said Monday morning.

The Victims of Communism organization has estimated that communist regimes have caused the deaths of at least 100 million people via political purges, religious persecutions, mass starvation, and other crimes against humanity during the 20th century. Chief among those regimes is the CCP, which is believed to have left around 80 million Chinese people dead.

“Over 100 years have passed since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the formation of the first communist government under Vladimir Lenin, leading to decades of oppression and violence under communist regimes throughout the world,” the bill reads.

The bill also notes that “based on the economic philosophies of Karl Marx, communism has proven incompatible with the ideals of liberty, prosperity, and dignity of human life and has given rise to such infamous totalitarian dictators as Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot.”

It is estimated by some historians that Mao’s regime may have killed upward of 80 million people between 1949 and his death in 1976 via the failures of the Great Leap Forward-triggered mass famine, the Cultural Revolution, various political purges, and other campaigns. Human rights groups and dissidents say that the CCP, which is officially atheist, are continuing Mao’s legacy by persecuting groups including the Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and Christians.

Last year, DeSantis told The Epoch Times the CCP—the largest communist party in the world—should be held responsible for how it handled and exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on in the pandemic, Western governments blindly followed the CCP’s “zero-COVID” approach to the virus, he argued.

“The West did a lot of damage to itself by adopting some of these policies, which have proven to not work to stop the spread, but to be very economically destructive,” DeSantis said at the time.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-high-schools-to-observe-victims-of-communism-day_4455034.html

The Minister of Truth clears something up for us.

It’s not conservatives being silenced on social media. Liberals and minorities are the ones being silenced.

https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1522620554011938816

Chechen Fighters Show Their Trophies, Thank Biden

Special forces from the Czech Republic deployed on the Donbass front lines shared several videos showing the shelters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces taken by the joint Russian, LPR forces in the town of Popasnaya in the Luhansk People’s Republic.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov who is actively covering the work of Chechen units in Ukraine provided the following comments to the videos:

“Almost every house and every street here is littered with modern weapons, which the nationalists abandoned at the first threat.

Machine guns, javelins, dry rations and even Bandera food storages are now at our disposal. Thus, the vaunted assistance to the Ukrainian army, provided by the countries of Europe and America, ultimately benefits us.

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I thank Mr. Biden for his firm position on the issue of equipping the Bandera forces. Thanks to his integrity, our fighters are provided with additional food and weapons.”

The military of the Luhansk People’s Republic officially claimed control of the town of Popasnaya and the village of Nizhny on May 9. According to local reports, the mop up operation in Popasnaya was completed two days ago. The Ukrainian military confirmed the loss of Popasnaya on May 8.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrew from their positions in the area of the town. Some clashes were reported in residential areas on the outskirts.

On May 9, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported that high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two control points and a Ukrainian battery of multiple rocket launchers Grad in the area of Popasnaya settlement during the night.

After the Russian-led forces secured the town of Popasnaya, their advance towards a major transport hub in the city of Artemovsk should be expected.

https://southfront.org/chechen-fighters-show-their-trophies-thank-biden/

China: ‘We Have Financial Nuclear Bombs if West Levies Russia-Style Sanctions’

Presently, the US State Department is making noises about punishing China for a number of present, and future, violations of the West’s self-styled lauded “Rules-based International Order.” US officials have warned President Xi Jinping of “what might come his way” should China provide any material support for Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.

On top of this, should China make any moves towards Taiwan which Washington deems to be ‘aggressive’, then it’s certain that the US will enact some level of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Beijing. Just the idea that China could be hit with a similar sanctions package as Russia has the potential to nudge markets and western central banks in the direction of global turmoil.

However, the real question is still open: how will China react should the US and its client states decide to sanction the world’s second-largest economy?

Multiple analysts at Chinese state-linked think tanks and banks have weighed in on the Biden administration’s recent threats to punish the world’s second-largest economy over China’s refusal to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, and amid US charges that it could be helping Moscow evade sanctions, or even quietly resupplying Putin’s military machine (charges which at this point have remained without evidence).

“It is necessary to speed up the construction and external connection of the cross-border yuan clearing system CIPS … [But] the primary choice is to continue to strengthen cooperation with Swift,” Wang Yongli, a former vice-president with the Bank of China and a former board member for Swift, was cited as saying in a fresh South China Morning Post report this week.

However, China is taking note and studying its own preparedness and future options in the wake of the US drastic measure of freezing Russia’s central bank assets overseas.

On this, Yongli underscored to the SCMP that “The huge foreign exchange reserves are hard-won, and they are China’s‘financial nuclear bombs’ with a powerful deterrent effect. It must be used properly rather than arbitrarily, and cannot be easily slashed.”

Officials in Beijing are putting counterparts in Washington on notice – pointing out that “China is no Russia” given China’s immensely larger role in nearly every facet of the global economy. They’ve also said that any potential Taiwan reunification scenario with the mainland would not be like Russia-Ukraine, and yet it’s understood well due to the current crisis and the West’s anti-Russia sanctions constitute a “textbook warning for China”:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/09/china-we-have-financial-nuclear-bombs-if-west-levies-russia-style-sanctions/

Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines I Have Come Across by a Midwestern Doctor

Note: I’ve tried to use very neutral language to describe these events, but this has been a very difficult process for me to watch. I’ve also taken out a lot of the additional emotional details shared with me by these individuals and the trauma they’ve experienced to shorten the piece. Additionally, many of the people I know and have guided through the process have access to options for mitigating these injuries, something most people don’t. I’ve read through various support groups, and in general found their experiences are typically worse than what I am describing here as they are not privileged to have access to ways to mitigate the harm.

Also, I appreciate all the subscribers I’ve received, and I value your time. So, I will do my best to only send notification emails out to you on posts I’ve enough work into that I feel need are worth your time to read.

If you would like to know more about me, or the mission of this substack, please read this introductory post.

Introduction

When the COVID vaccines were being developed, I felt the mRNA ones would be pushed through to open up the mRNA market (as Pharma has a dire need to develop new medications and the potential mRNA market is worth trillions), and necessary safety checks would be skipped to make sure mRNA vaccinations came into use. I was initially worried they would prolong the epidemic (as they would prevent people from developing proper immunity to the virus and encourage mutations of the virus) and I had a fear in the future they could lead to significant neurological, autoimmune, fertility and cancer related issues (for example a concerning letter had been published regarding potential effects on fertility). Once I was able to examine Pfizer’s trial, and observed the high rates of acute reactions they were willing to admit occurred (approximately 4x those of the influenza vaccine), I realized those potential issues were much more probable (especially as members of the trial in private groups reported adverse events that did not appear in the trial report) and I ruffled a lot of feathers as I told colleagues I knew to avoid them.

Succinctly, I (and others) felt there would likely be a significant number of people developing these chronic health issues, but the number would be small enough to sweep it under the rug. When parts of Pfizer’s IND application to the EMA (Europe’s FDA) were leaked there were numerous red flags that jumped out to me. The most notable was Pfizer being allowed to skip performing the normally required animal studies on Fertility, Genotoxicity (cancer potential), and Autoimmunity studies of their drug. I took this as a tacit admission Pfizer knew there would be very concerning results if these studies were conducted, so the best option they had was to never “do” them.

Before the vaccine rollout began, I also noticed that in addition to the full throttle promotion of the vaccine in the media, many outlets stated the vaccine may briefly make you feel awful, but not to worry about it. Given that I have never seen that message provided in the past for any other vaccine, this rang an alarm bell for me, and I had an expectation the vaccine would probably have a chronic side effect profile similar to Gardasil (which was previously regarded by many to the most harmful and unnecessary vaccine on the market).

Nore

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/adverse-reactions-to-covid-vaccines?s=w

Docs Found During Spec Op Reveal Concrete Plans to Strike Russia From Ukrainian Territory: UN Envoy

In his Victory Day speech earlier Monday, President Putin said Russia had preemptively rebuffed a planned NATO-backed Ukrainian attack against the Donbass and Crimea by launching its military operation in February.

Documents discovered by the Russian military in the course of its operations in Ukraine show that concrete plans existed to carry out strikes against Russia from Ukrainian territory, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russian deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, has said.

"I can say that it's obvious now that we are in a proxy war. NATO is waging a proxy war with Russia, not vice versa. this is the reality we are facing," Polyansky said, speaking to Sky News on Monday.

"The documents which we've found, the evidence we received at the beginning of our special military operation, clearly indicate that there were specific plans to strike at Russia from the territory of Ukraine. There were also specific plans to strike at the Donbass," the diplomat said.

https://sputniknews.com/20220509/docs-found-during-spec-op-reveal-concrete-plans-to-strike-russia-from-ukrainian-territory-un-envoy-1095380335.html

Nick Cave's son Jethro Lazenby dies aged 30 two days after prison release - seven years after the singer's other son Arthur died in LSD-fuelled clifftop fall in Brighton

Jethro, who lived in Melbourne, had been suffering from personal issues and was jailed for attacking mother

'With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,' Cave said in statement issued today

Singer first struck by tragedy in July 2015 when other son, Arthur, fell off a cliff, after he had been taking LSD

Nick Cave's son Jethro Lazenby has died aged 30, the musician said today - seven years after the star's 15-year-old son Arthur fell to his death from a cliff in Brighton.

Jethro, who lived in Melbourne, had been released from prison on bail two days before he died, having been jailed for kneeing his mother in the face during a row over cigarettes - leaving her 'bruised and bleeding'.

'With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,' Cave said in a statement this afternoon. 'We would be grateful for family privacy at this time.'

The Australian singer, best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, was first struck by tragedy in July 2015 when Arthur fell 60ft to his death from a cliff in Ovingdean, near Brighton.

The 15-year-old - who was a twin to Earl Cave and described by his family as a 'beautiful, happy, loving boy' - had been taking the hallucinogenic drug LSD, an inquest later heard.

Jethro was born to his Melbourne-based model mother Beau Lazenby in 1991, who was in a relationship with Cave at the time. He himself largely worked as a model, while also taking on a number of acting roles.

He was released on bail from Melbourne Remand Centre on Thursday after a magistrate ordered he undergo substance abuse treatment and avoid contact with her for two years. 'I do say to you that it's entirely in your best interests to participate with all support services that I've set-up for you,' Magistrate Donna Bakos said.

'It's very very important that your path to rehabilitation will be a much more positive one and therefore you will be less of a risk to the community at large and in particular to your mother.'

Jethro's lawyer, Sean Ghattas, said he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that affected his judgement.

According to the BBC, in 2018 Jethro spent time in jail for several violent attacks on his then-girlfriend.

Cave has two other sons, Luke, 30, from his first marriage to Brazilian journalist Viviane Carneiro, and Earl, 21, from his marriage to Susie Bick, who he wed in 1999.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10797887/Nick-Caves-son-Jethro-Lazenby-dies-aged-30.html

Hunter Biden's 'Sugar Brother' Revealed, Paid Off Over $2M of His Taxes and Funds Luxury Lifestyle in LA: Report

A new report says a high-profile Hollywood lawyer paid off Hunter Biden’s tax debt.

The report in the New York Post did not explain why attorney Kevin Morris cleaned up after President Joe Biden’s son.

The report, based on information from “a source familiar with conversations between the two,” said Morris forked over about $2 million to square things with the Internal Revenue Service and is also doling out dollars to support Hunter Biden’s luxury lifestyle in Los Angeles.

The Post report said Morris, who is also advising Hunter Biden about his art sales, has been dubbed Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother,” by Biden’s friends.

Hunter Biden had taken out a loan last year to pay his overdue taxes.

The Post was unable to get to the bottom of its source’s story because a visit to Morris’s house ended with the door slammed in their reporter’s face.

Morris is an entertainment attorney and novelist. He was a founding member of the firm Morris Yorn Barnes Levine in Los Angeles, which represents multiple celebrities, but is no longer with the firm.

Christopher Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney for criminal issues, said Morris is an “attorney and trusted adviser” to Hunter Biden, according to CBS.

In its report, CBS said Morris is “crafting a legal and media strategy for Hunter Biden.”

Hunter Biden’s complex web of financial deals, including his tax issues, has been under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware. Further, Republicans have been laying the groundwork to investigate all of the emerging issues related to Hunter Biden if they gain control of the House this fall.https://nypost.com/2022/05/08/hollywood-lawyer-kevin-morris-paid-off-over-2m-of-hunter-bidens-taxes/

https://www.westernjournal.com/hunter-bidens-sugar-brother-revealed-paid-off-2m-taxes-funds-luxury-lifestyle-la-report/

Victorian Coalition whip Bernie Finn steps down after controversial social media comments on abortion

Mr Finn rankled Coalition colleagues last week after making social media posts stating he is "praying" for abortion to be banned, telling a follower he was not supportive of abortion even in the case of sexual assault.

He made the comments in the wake of the revelation that the United States Supreme Court decision underpinning abortion rights, Roe v Wade, may be overturned.

Privately, some Liberal MPs were furious with Mr Finn, who has a history of inflammatory posts.

In a Tweet, Liberal Member for Brighton James Newbury dubbed Mr Finn's views as "deeply disturbing and dangerous".

Opposition Leader Matthew Guy reportedly provided Mr Finn with an ultimatum of falling in line with the parliamentary team or leaving for the crossbench, according to The Age.

Mr Finn has been a member of Victoria's upper house for the western metropolitan region since 2006, and has held the position of opposition whip since December 2018.

The move comes ahead of a state election due to be held later this year, with the party's preselection process still on the horizon.

Minister for Women Gabrielle Williams said the Opposition needed to decide whether Mr Finn's recent comments reflected the values of the Liberal Party.

"It's time Matthew Guy showed some leadership and dealt with Mr Finn as he promised that he would last year," she said.

Ms Williams said Mr Finn's recent comments on abortion showed an "appalling" lack of respect for women, and that the resignation was a move of self-preservation.

"I think this is an example of Bernie trying to dodge a real outcome. He is trying to preserve as much of his general position as he can," she said.

"This is not Mr Finn's first transgression and it won't be the last."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-09/victorian-mp-bernie-finn-resigns-as-opposition-whip/101051242

Target Launches ‘Gender Affirming’ Products Including Chest Binders And ‘Packing Underwear’

The effort to propagandize the public into becoming gender dysmorphic or believing born in the wrong body continues to ramp up as woke corporations in tandem with the Biden administration push a transhuman agenda.

Ahead of Pride month, Target is launching a line of “gender-affirming” products including “compression tops” and “chest binders, undergarments that conceal breasts, and “packing underwear” that conceal male genitals.

The superstore has partnered with TomboyX and Humankind — “two queer owned, female-female founded brands — to create these much-needed lines,” Bustle reports.

https://www.bustle.com/style/target-tomboyx-humankind-pride-collab

Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz: Liberals Censored on Social Media More Often Than Conservatives

Joe Biden’s new Minister of Truth, Nina Jankowicz, has been caught telling another whopper: claiming that leftists and “marginalized communities” are censored more often than conservatives on social media.

Jankowicz is the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Disinformation Governance Board,” a new body that has been widely mocked as the government’s attempt to create a “Ministry of Truth” in the United States.

In a livestream, Jankowicz, who has previously called on Facebook to censor Breitbart News, described concerns about anti-conservative bias in Silicon Valley as a myth.

“There’s already this idea, this allegation that there is anti-conservative bias on the platforms, even though there has been study after study proving, in fact, that often it’s liberal voices that are being silenced, particularly minority voices on social media,” said Jankowicz in the clip, which was shared widely on social media.

“How did Homeland Security find one of the top 10 most ridiculous people in the country to run their new Ministry of Truth?” asked journalist Glenn Greenwald. “Was this some sort of trolling exercise?”

The mountain of evidence that Big Tech suppresses conservatives is so large, that only someone deeply embedded in the groupthink of leftist “disinformation research” could ignore it.

In October last year, the Wall Street Journal published research showing that Facebook’s changes to its algorithm in the wake of the 2016 election suppressed traffic to Breitbart News by 20 percent, the Washington Times by 18 percent, Western Journal by 16 percent, and the Epoch Times by 11 percent.

In 2018, Breitbart News published exclusive material from inside Google showing that, contrary to the congressional testimony of its CEO, the tech giant regularly made manual interventions in political search results, often in response to complaints from liberal journalists. The interventions resulted in liberal sources being elevated in YouTube’s search results for many political topics.

As the 2020 election drew closer, Google engaged in outright election interference, cutting the visibility of Breitbart News links in search results by 99 percent compared to the runup to 2016.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/05/09/minister-of-truth-nina-jankowicz-liberals-censored-on-social-media-more-often-than-conservatives/

THE NAKED COMMUNIST: 45 COMMUNIST GOALS

On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional

Record. The list was derived from researcher Cleon Skousen’s book “The Naked Communist.” These principles are well

worth revisiting today in order to gain insights into the thinking and strategies of much of our so-called liberal elite:

1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. [Note: These encapsulate the Kennan Doctrine, which

advocated for the "containment" of communism. Establishment figures supporting the amoral containment policy at least

implicitly worked with the communists in scaring the wits out of the American people concerning atomic war. President Ronald

Reagan undid the doctrine when he took an aggressive stand against the Evil Empire by backing freedom fighters from around the

world that were struggling against the left-wing communist jackboot. As a result, the Soviet Union and its satellites imploded, a

considerable and unexpected setback to the international communist edifice.]

1. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of "moral strength." [Note: The nuclear freeze

advocates supported a freeze on American nuclear development only. Rarely were Soviet nukes or those of other nations

mentioned in their self-righteous tirades. The same advocates now call for reducing American military might, claiming that there is

something immoral about America preserving its military pre-eminence in the world.]

1. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for

war. [Note: Today, there are calls to end the embargo on the slave island of Cuba, there were complaints about the embargo

against Iraq, and the U.S., not Saddam Hussein, was blamed for the suffering of the Iraqi people. Would they have advocated for

free trade with Hitler and his National Socialist regime?]

1. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

2. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. [Note: Such aid and trade over decades contributed

greatly to the left-wing communist liquidation of over 100 million people worldwide, according to the well-documented "Black

Book of Communism." This aid and trade marks a shameful chapter in American history. Without the aid and trade, the left-wing

international communist behemoth would have imploded on its own rot a lot sooner and umpteen millions would have been saved

from poverty, misery, starvation and death.]

1. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N. [Note: Not only did President Jimmy Carter fulfill this

goal but he also betrayed America’s allies in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Iran, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere.]

1. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free

elections under supervision of the U.N.

1. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

2. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

https://originalrebel.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/45-Communist-Goals.pdf

Baker is gatekeeping and putting useless shit in notes