Scholars Question Mehmet Oz’s Justification for Maintaining Turkish Citizenship

Jordan Dixon-Hamilton9 May 2022

Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz reportedly maintains his Turkish citizenship to care for his elderly mother, but scholars are questioning the legitimacy of Oz’s reasoning.

Oz’s dual U.S-Turkish citizenship became a focal point of his campaign for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania after he told reporters in March that he would forego specific security clearances provided to U.S. Senators to maintain his Turkish citizenship.

Oz reportedly maintains his Turkish citizenship to care for his mother, who is battling Alzheimer’s disease. “I can love my country and love my mom,” Oz told reporters in March.

However, after facing backlash for his comments about his Turkish citizenship, Oz pledged to revoke it if the voters of Pennsylvania send him to the Senate in November.

“I maintained it to care for my ailing mother, but after several weeks of discussions with my family, I’m committing that before I am sworn in as the next U.S. senator for Pennsylvania I will only be a U.S. citizen,” Oz said in March.

Still, after he pledged to revoke his Turkish citizenship, Oz maintained that he only kept it so he could visit his parents as recently as two weeks ago.

“President Trump was very clear, I’m America First,” Oz said during Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary last month. “I was obliged to serve for two months in the Infirmary in the Turkish military, which I did in order to go visit my parents as I went through my life. I can love my mother, and I can love my country as well.”

In light of Oz’s service in the Turkish military, his endorsement deal with Turkish Airlines, his Turkish real estate portfolio, and his vote in Turkey’s most recent presidential election, scholars are speculating that his mother’s health may not be the true reason he maintains his citizenship in the country.

As American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Michael Rubin pointed out, Oz could still care for his mother without being a citizen of the country. For example, Turkey’s reportedly lax visa process would allow Oz to visit his mother without being a citizen of the country.

As Rubin explained:

Oz could care for his mother regardless of his citizenship status. Until recently, Americans could go to a booth at Turkey’s major international airports and get a Turkish visa for $20. The whole process took less than five minutes, even when there was a line. Oz reportedly has a net worth in excess of $100 million, so the financial strain of getting a visa a few times each year was no deterrent. Today, the process is even easier: U.S. citizens can apply online for an e-visa in advance of their travel and receive their Turkey visa almost instantaneously.

Oz could be considered a foreign agent of Turkey, according to an advocacy group that recently called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Oz for a possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act for his work with Turkish government-backed Turkish Airlines.

(What about all the jews in congress that have dual citizenship, they could be agents for MOS?)

Oz’s Turkish ties have also drawn scrutiny from members of the national security community. Former President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, recently said Oz’s election to the Senate would be “problematic.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/scholars-question-mehmet-ozs-justification-for-maintaining-turkish-citizenship/

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I think Trump backed him for various reasons, they were “supposedly friends”, maybe he did it to expose him without him getting all of HW working against him. Or he knew others would get so outraged they’d run against him, like Kathy Barnette is doing now. She’s spent $150,000 and he and the other guy has spent millions; and she’s catching up to both of them.

Democrats’ Bill to Codify ‘Roe’ and Abortion Omits the Word ‘Woman’

Democrats are defending Roe v. Wade as the foundation of women’s rights, but their bill to codify Roe into law lacks the word “woman,” and only mentions the word “women” in the title.

The move to codify Roe began as an attempt to fulfill a campaign promise by President Joe Biden, who said that he would urge Congress to pass a law to make abortion legal nationwide in the event that a conservative Supreme Court struck down the controversial 1973 precedent that granted a “right” to abortion.

That pledge has become more urgent since last week, when a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito striking down Roe in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case was leaked to the media, triggering alarm among Democrats.

But the 2021 bill to codify Roe, the Women’s Health Protection Act, did far more than that. It also included radical provisions on gender, including the proclamation that biological women who identify as transgender men can also become pregnant:

The terms “woman” and “women” are used in this bill to reflect the identity of the majority of people targeted and affected by restrictions on abortion services, and to address squarely the targeted restrictions on abortion, which are rooted in misogyny. However, access to abortion services is critical to the health of every person capable of becoming pregnant. This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy—cisgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others—who are unjustly harmed by restrictions on abortion services.

In addition, the bill included other radical provisions on “reproductive justice,” calling it a fight against “white supremacy.”

Byron York of the Washington Examiner noted Monday that the 2022 version of the Women’s Health Protection Act had stripped out the radical “roots” of the legislation. However, the new legislation failed to include the word “woman” at all (original emphasis):

The 2021 bill is, in many ways, the bare, exposed id of today’s Democratic Party. It is filled with the kind of language that turns off voters in the vast middle of the electorate — Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And that is why, now that the Supreme Court leak has pushed abortion to the front of the political debate, and with midterm elections on the way, Democrats have removed all that language from the 2021 version of the bill.

That stuff about Reproductive Justice? It’s gone. About BIPOC? It’s gone, too. Nonbinary people? Gone. White supremacy? Nowhere to be found. Now that Democrats know the public will be watching, thanks to the Supreme Court leak, they don’t want people to see what they really think about abortion.

One notable aspect of the 2021 bill has made it into the 2022 bill. Even though it is known as the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” the title is the only place in the entire 2022 bill where the word “women” or “woman” appears. Instead, the2022 bill is designed to cover any “person” who is pregnant. It describes its purpose as protecting “a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy,” and it would strike down any effort to “interfere with a person’s ability to terminate a pregnancy [or] to diminish or in any way negatively affect a person’s constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has scheduled a vote on the bill for later this week.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/democrats-bill-to-codify-roe-abortion-omits-the-word-woman/

Anthony Fauci Rails Against the ‘Normalization of Untruths’ in Commencement Speech

Hannah Bleau9 May 2022

Fuck Off Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci (a serial liar), a serial flip flopper in the era of the Chinese coronavirus, railed against the “normalization of untruths” and “so-called news organizations” during his commencement speech at the University of Michigan over the weekend.

“Being in Washington has allowed me to experience first hand the intensity of the divisiveness in our nation,” Fauci told the graduates during the roughly 15-minute speech.

“What troubles me is that differences of opinion or ideology have in certain circumstances been reflected by egregious distortions of reality,” he said.

It is a perplexing claim, given the fact that Fauci himself has altered his positions on a variety of issues — from the efficacy of masks to forced vaccines — over the course of the pandemic. Notably, prior to the pandemic, Fauci once dismissed masks as a “paranoid” tool, and early on in the pandemic, he admitted that drugstore masks are “not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.” Yet, he publicly went on to become a champion of forced masking, violating his own purported beliefs at his own convenience:

He made a similar move recently, refusing to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner due to the risk of contracting the coronavirus, yet he attended a White House Correspondents’ Association garden party over that same weekend.

However, Fauci ignored his own displays of hypocrisy in the speech, insisting that “elements of our society have grown increasingly unfazed by a cacophony of falsehoods and lies that often stand largely unchallenged, ominously leading to an insidious acceptance of what I call the normalization of untruths.”

Fauci also complained about “certain elected officials in positions of power” and “so-called news organizations” during the speech.

Ultimately, Fauci charged graduates with the responsibility to refuse to accept the “normalization of untruths.”

“If you remember nothing else from what I say today, I truly appeal to you, please remember this: It is our collective responsibility not to sink to a tacit acceptance of a normalization of untruths because if we do, we bring danger to ourselves, our families and our communities,” Fauci said.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is among critics who have challenged Fauci’s way of thinking, concluding that the White House medical adviser does not want anyone to question his positions.

“He thinks that his edicts should stand, no court or Constitution should review his edicts, and no individual person should get the choice to make it,” Paul said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/anthony-fauci-rails-against-the-normalization-of-untruths-in-commencement-speech/

Pennsylvania Senate Poll: Dr. Oz Narrowly Leads Three-Way Race

Paul Bois8 May 2022

A recent poll in the Pennsylvania Republican primary for U.S. Senate puts Dr. Mehmet Oz narrowly in the lead for what now looks like a three-way race among the top contenders.

According to the Trafalgar Group poll,Dr. Mehmet Oz holds the top spot, with 24.5 percent of support, while Kathy Barnette trails closely behind him, with 23.2 percent of support. Dave McCormick stands in third with just 21.6 percentof support. Way down in fourth and below double-digits, Jeff Bartos has a meager 7.2 percent of support, while Carla Sands has only 6.5 percent.

Conducted between May 5 – 8 with a 2.99 percent margin of error, the survey questioned 1,080 likely Republican voters. A full 15 percent remain undecided, and should more candidates drop from the race, the numbers for any of the top contenders would likely go up.

Mostly due to his celebrity and the endorsement from former President Donald Trump, Dr. Mehmet Oz has continuously held the top slot, though his grip has been slipping in recent weeks as conservatives question his fealty to issues like abortion and gender indoctrination, not to mention his dual-citizenship with Turkey. As Breitbart News profiled over the weekend, the celebrity doctor was met with more than a fair share of boos during an appearance at a Trump rally over the weekend:

Trump brought his “Save America” rally series to Pennsylvania in support of Oz’s candidacy for U.S. Senate. Along with Trump, Ohio Republican Senate nominee J.D. Vance, Rep. John Joyce (R-PA), Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), Jim Bognet, Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), Dinesh D’Souza, Mike Lindell, and Oz were slated to speak at Friday night’s rally.

However, Oz faced boos from the crowd before he took the stage. According to the rally’s attendees, the crowd booed Oz as his ads played on screen.

“I have yet to meet anyone here who is a firm supporter of Dr. Oz. In fact, there’s a whole section of people that boos every time he appears on screen,” Huffington Post reporter Daniel Marans tweeted.

Meanwhile, Kathy Barnette’s star power has been steadily rising with conservatives and the MAGA Trump base, especially after releasing her powerful video in which she decried abortion by citing her own beginnings as a child conceived in rape when her mother was just age 11.

“I’m the byproduct of rape. My mother was eleven when I was conceived,” she tweeted. “In the world the Left desires, I would never have been born. We need leaders with a steady hand to direct our nation through these difficult discussions.”

Later, during a debate, Barnette hit Dr. Oz over his past statements in favor of abortion, although he has since claimed to have changed his mind in favor of the pro-life cause.

“It was very disturbing when I saw Mehmet Oz running for this particular race, when I’ve seen him on numerous occasions and specifically at the Breakfast Club, saying that my life was nothing more than an acorn with electrical currents,” she said.

The Republican primary for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat will take place on May 17.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/08/pennsylvania-senate-poll-dr-oz-narrowly-leads-three-way-race/

5 Radical Facts About Incoming White House Press Secretary Karine

Jean-Pierre

Karine Jean-Pierre was named the new White House press secretary on Thursday, taking over from Jen Psaki, who is departing for MSNBC on May 13.

Jean-Pierre’s appointment was hailed as “historic,” since she will be the first black woman and “out” LGBTQ person to serve in the role. However, there are several facts about Jean-Pierre’s record of radical politics that might prove to be more important than her skin color or her sexual preference. Here are five facts:

1. Jean-Pierre worked for radical organization MoveOn.org. MoveOn.org, launched in the late 1990s to oppose the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, pushed, ironically, for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, abandoning its former principles. The group also infamously accused General David Petraeus, then commanding U.S. forces during the Iraq War, of betraying the country. Jean-Pierre worked for MoveOn.org from 2016 until the 2020 presidential campaign.

1. Jean–Pierre has a history of anti-Israel radicalism. In 2019, Jean-Pierre applauded Democratic presidential candidates for boycotting the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington, DC, a prominent pro-Israel gathering. “You cannot call yourself a progressive while continuing to associate yourself with an organization like AIPAC that has often been the antithesis of what it means to be progressive,” Jean-Pierre wrote.

1. Jean-Pierre once said that no one who has been merely accused of sexual misconduct should seek public office. Jean-Pierre told Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union in 2017 that even if there was no corroborating evidence, and nothing had been proven against the accused, the mere existence of the accusation should be disqualifying. Ironically, she went on to work for Biden, even after he had been credibly accused of sexual misconduct by former aide Tara Reade.

1. Jean-Pierre is married to CNN anchor and correspondent Suzanne Malveaux. Jean-Pierre is only the latest example in a pattern of high-level personal ties and romantic links between Democrats and the media, as documented by Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow in his 2021 blockbuster Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. CNN will continue to be, in effect, the Biden administration’s communications shop.

1. Jean-Pierre stoked racial divisions and fears when Donald Trump took office. She told Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time, “I think the thing to understand is that, if you are not white, male, straight, you are — you fear a — Donald Trump’s presidency because there is no place for you in a Donald Trump’s presidency.” She later claimed that Trump wanted to put a “whites only” sign on the Statue of Liberty, and claimed Trump had been a lifelong racist, despite evidence to the contrary.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/05/five-radical-facts-about-incoming-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre/

Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘If You’re Not White, Male, Straight, or Wealthy There Is a Target on Your Back’

President Joe Biden’s new press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a history of calling out America’s racism throughout her career in politics and activism.

“I just think that America has a really big problem with race. And it’s very real and we have yet to deal with it,” he said in a PBS interview with Bonnie Erbé in 2019.

After former President Donald Trump won in 2016, Jean-Pierre wrote her memoirs and spoke about the problems of racism in America during her book tour.

“I always say, if you’re not white, male, straight, or wealthy you’re under attack, I mean there is a target on your back,” she said.

Before working for Biden. Jean-Pierre embraced the more activist side of politics by taking a job at Moveon.org after a history of working with some of America’s most famous Democrats.

She worked for scandal-ridden political figures such as Sen. John Edward and Rep. Anthony Weiner as well as Democrat champions like President Barack Obama. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Jean-Pierre was raised in New York City and is currently living in the Washington, DC, area in a domestic partnership with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux.

But she said she still experienced racism despite working in America’s most liberal cities.

“I think when you are a person of color when you are a black woman, you experience it every day,” she said after Erbé asked her about experiencing racial prejudice in America. “It’s as simple as walking into a store and people look at you and wonder do you belong in the store.”

“It happens every, every day,” she added.

She said she did not want to blame Trump for racism, noting it had existed in the country for a long time, but said Americans appeared more comfortable about being openly racist.

“What he has done is he has made it blatantly, people are just overt about it in a way that we have never seen before,” she said.

She spoke of Republicans running for office after Trump who she said were openly racist.

“We saw candidates in this last election, who were proud to be white supremacist, white nationalist, talking about purging, and we need a white power, white America,” she said.

“I mean this is what we were hearing from some of the candidates and they were in the Republican Party.”

She noted the Republican Party denounced those candidates but indicated that it was Trump who made them more comfortable.

“We saw them across the country and we had never seen that before or hadn’t seen it in a very long time,” she said, comparing it to the “Jim Crow era” of the past.

During a book event with MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid, Jean-Pierre urged an old white male asking about how to get involved to join Moveon.org and “become an ally” for minorities.

She asked him to read the book “How to Be an Anti-Racist,” by Ibram X. Kendi a book that argues the existence of “systemic racism” in America and demands people to do more about it than not just “not be racist.”

“We need more people like you who look like you to really get into it with us,” Jean-Pierre said to the man.

She thanked him for coming to her book event, noting it was evident that he wanted to get involved.

“I think there is a question of how to get more people to come in who are not a person of color, right? Who’s not a woman right?” she asked.

She called out the current political climate and “all these horrible ‘isms” that Trump had appealed to during the 2016 election.

“Racism, bigotry, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny that existed way before Trump got here, and that is something we just have to continue to remember,” Jean-Pierre said. “He touched on something that was there, that was very painful and gave it a whole new life in a very public way.”

She urged everyone at the event to get involved with the 2020 election, warning that if Trump was re-elected it would be the end of the country.

“This is a five-alarm right here. If we don’t do this now and today and the next 12 months, that’s it,” Jean-Pierre said. “I really do believe that’s it.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/karine-jean-pierre-if-youre-not-white-male-straight-or-wealthy-there-is-a-target-on-your-back/

BLM Co-Founder Admits She Used Group’s $6 Million Property to Host Personal Parties

Hannah Bleau9 May 2022

Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors admitted this week that she used the group’s $6 million property to host personal parties, igniting further suspicions of BLM leaders misusing funds for personal gain.

Cullors made the admission in an interview with the AP, in which she denied overt wrongdoing when it came to the mountain of funds the group received after the George Floyd protests in 2020. While she admitted that the group was ill-prepared to handle the wave of funds, leaders ultimately purchased a $6 million compound in Los Angles, which has continued to spark criticism:

Recent disclosures that the foundation had paid $6 million for a Los Angeles compound in 2020 unleashed a torrent of criticism and social media chatter. The property in Studio City — including a home with six bedrooms and bathrooms, a swimming pool, a soundstage and office space — is meant to be both a meeting venue and a campus for Black artists.

Some criticism came from BLM supporters like Justin Hansford, director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University. He said the property purchase could be weaponized by movement opponents, leading possible donors to shy away from Black-led social justice organizations: “That’s the thing that you don’t want to get out of hand.”

“We really wanted to make sure that the global network foundation had an asset that wasn’t just financial resources,” (this is the most insane statement I’ve ever heard to justify theft) Cullors told the AP, defending the purchase. “And we understood that not many black-led organizations have property. They don’t own their property.”

However, while denying any general financial malfeasance, Cullors admitted to using the 6-bedroom home twice for personal use, acknowledging that it “probably wasn’t the best idea.”

One of those events took place in January 2021, where she apparently sought “refuge at the property amid threats on her life.” However, at that time, she chose to host an inauguration party celebrating the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, along with roughly 15 people, “including BLM Los Angeles chapter members and other prominent movement supporters,” according to the AP.

Two months later, Cullors threw her son a birthday party at the BLM property, but she told the outlet “she intended to pay a rental fee to the foundation.”

“I look back at that and think, that probably wasn’t the best idea,” she said.

However, she maintained that, as a whole, she did not misuse BLM funds.

“The idea that (the foundation) received millions of dollars and then I hid those dollars in my bank account is absolutely false,” she told the outlet

“That’s a false narrative. It’s impacted me personally and professionally, that people would accuse me of stealing from black people,” she added.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/09/blm-co-founder-admits-she-used-groups-6-million-property-host-personal-parties/

(Undertaker, Cript Keeper) Lightfoot: $500,000 in Funding for Abortions for Non-Chicagoans Is ‘a Down Payment’

Ian Hanchett9 May 2022

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On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said that the $500,000 the city is allocating for people seeking abortions in Chicago from neighboring states “is simply a down payment” and “a start, and not an ending.”

Lightfoot said, “$500,000 is simply a down payment to help our frontline providers get over this immediate hurdle. But they tell us they’ve already seen an exponential increase in the amount of calls to helplines from out of state, just from what’s happened in Texas. And over the last week, there’s a lot of panic and fear, because too many women believe that Roe has already been overturned and that their right to access to reproductive care has already been extinguished. And if you look around Chicago, we’ve got a number of states that have the so-called trigger laws that would ban abortion upon the reversal of Roe. So, we’ve seen a substantial increase already, and we’re expecting, frankly, an explosion of new cases from women in Wisconsin, Missouri, potentially Michigan, Indiana. I think the list is long, and Chicago is going to be an oasis in the midwest and we’ve got to be ready. So, this is a start, and not an ending.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/05/09/lightfoot-500000-in-funding-for-abortions-for-non-chicagoans-is-a-down-payment/

10 May, 2022 12:04

NATO state labels Russia ‘supporter of terrorism’

Lithuania has called for the world to investigate Russia’s actions in Ukraine

Lithuania’s parliament, the Seimas, unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday accusing Russia of genocide and terrorism in Ukraine.

The “large-scale armed aggression” launched by Russia against Ukraine on February 24 amounts to “genocide of the Ukrainian people,” the document said.

“The Russian Federation, whose military forces deliberately and systematically bomb civilian targets, is a state that supports and practices terrorism.”

The Seimas called on the international community to set up a special tribunal to investigate the behavior of Russian troops in Ukraine. The vote on the resolution took place shortly after Elena Kondratyuk, the deputy speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, addressed Lithuanian MPs.

Kiev, Western governments, and human rights groups have accused Russian troops of committing war crimes in Bucha and other cities in Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied that its forces were killing civilians and argued that Ukraine and the West are waging a disinformation campaign.

Russia, in turn, has accused Kiev of shelling residential areas in Donbass and executing prisoners, which Ukraine has also denied. Both countries have accused each other of genocide.

Michelle Bachelet, the UN’s top human rights official, condemned Russia’s actions in Ukraine in April. Her spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, however, told reporters the same month that the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had not documented crimes in Ukraine that could be qualified as genocide.

https://www.rt.com/russia/555241-lithuania-resolution-russia-genocide/

10 May, 2022 13:27

Civilians killed in Donetsk shelling – officials

The Donbass republic said Ukrainian forces have been striking residential areas

More civilians have been killed and hurt in Donetsk after two straight days of shelling by Ukraine, officials from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Tuesday.

Two people were killed and five wounded, including a child, in the city’s northern Kievsky district, DPR officials said. They added that four people were also injured during shelling of the Kirovsky district in the western part of Donetsk.

Videos from the scene show missile parts lying on the ground.

“People were screaming, and some were hurt. I immediately went outside to administer first aid and to look whether there was any damage,” a local woman told RT.

“I saw munitions [on the ground], and a little bit farther I saw huge fires – the stores were burning … The same thing happened yesterday – more shelling.”

Officials reported that the city was struck several times on Monday, when residents were celebrating the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The fatalities included a 16-year-old, they said.

Ukraine has previously denied targeting civilians and has repeatedly accused Russia of shelling residential areas in Kiev and elsewhere. Moscow, however, insists that it only hits military targets.

https://www.rt.com/news/555247-donetsk-shelling-missiles-report/

10 May, 2022 00:11

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US prioritizes arming Ukraine over Covid aid

White House urges Congress to pass both, but weapons for Ukraine are deemed more urgent

Democrats will make a separate $10 billion coronavirus funding proposal so thatnearly $40 billion in weapons and other aid to Ukrainecan be approved more quickly ahead of a “critical” deadline, US President Joe Biden said on Monday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi originally had funding for Covid-19 treatments, tests, and vaccinestacked onto a $33 billion proposal for supplemental aid to Ukraine. Republicans, who fully backed funding Ukraine but had a problem with how the Covid funding proposal would affect border policy, had threatened to block it in the Senate.

In a statement on Monday, Biden said he would accept splitting the bill if that would get the Ukraine funds – which have since grown by another $6.8 billion – approved faster.

“We cannot afford delay in this vital war effort. Hence, I am prepared to accept that these two measures move separately, so that the Ukrainian aid bill can get to my desk right away,” Biden said.

“This aid has been critical to Ukraine’s success on the battlefield. We cannot allow our shipments of assistance to stop while we await further Congressional action. We are approximately ten days from hitting this critical deadline,” he added.

Biden did say helping Americans combat the virus was “equally vital” as helping Ukraine, as “more Americans will die needlessly” without timely funding. The US will also miss out on new treatments and “next-generation vaccines under development,” as well as falling behind on “our effort to help lower-income countries get [Covid] vaccines into arms,” the president added.

Democrats wanted to use the Covid funding to get rid of Title 42, a policy that allowed the US to turn away or deport migrants caught crossing the border illegally, on account of the pandemic. Republicans objected.

They did not object to spending more money on Ukraine, however, reportedly agreeingto tack on $3.4 billion in food aid and another $3.4 billion for the US military to replace the equipment Biden sent to Ukrainefrom the Pentagon stockpiles, according to Roll Call. The Ukraine bill is still being finalized, and could appear in the House as early as Tuesday.

Earlier on Monday, Biden signed the ‘Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act Of 2022’, a WWII-era scheme to funnel weapons and other equipment to the government in Kiev, approved by Congress at the end of April. The signing was scheduled for the day Russia celebrates victory in WWII over Nazi Germany – which Biden completely ignored, choosing instead to bring up the 1950 founding of the precursor to the EU, and praise the “Allied nations’ defeat of the scourge of fascism in Europe” on May 8 – the date on which the Nazis surrendered to the US and UK troops on the continent, but not to the Soviets.

https://www.rt.com/news/555220-ukraine-congress-covid-relief/

10 May, 2022 13:07

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German firm meets key demand on Russian gas payment

VNG will transfer euro payments to a new account with Russia’s Gazprombank

Germany’s third-largest gas importer, VNG, has agreed to Moscow’s new ruble-based gas payment scheme and opened the necessary accounts with Russia’s Gazprombank to transfer payments, the company said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Monday.

“We will pay the invoice amount, which will continue to be denominated in euros, into the accounts at Gazprombank in accordance with the planned procedure, so that timely payment to our supplier is ensured on our part,” the statement read.

The company added that it expects the conversion into rubles to not cause any difficulties, noting that “the opening of the account went completely smoothly.”

Russia’s new ruble-based gas payment mechanism was introduced on March 31 amid Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine and the resulting Western sanctions. The news puzzled Russian gas buyers, who feared they would be expected to pay for the commodity in rubles. However, it was later clarified that buyers will be able to pay in their currency of choice, but must first set up an account in Russia’s Gazprombank so their payments can be converted into rubles before reaching the gas provider, Gazprom. The measure applies to buyers from ‘unfriendly states’ which placed sanctions on Russia.

European gas buyers are still concerned about the new payment scheme, fearing it could breach the sanctions, but at the same time, many are not eager to cut off Russian gas imports. Several Russian gas buyers have recently signaled that they might be able to comply with Moscow’s requirements. At the end of April, Uniper, a major German importer of Russian gas, said it would be possible to pay for future supplies without breaching sanctions. According to a Bloomberg report, four European countries have already made gas payments to Russia using Moscow’s new ruble-based mechanism, while at least 10 countries have set up ruble accounts in Gazprombank, through which they plan to make payments due at the end of May.

VNG said it is taking all necessary measures to comply with the sanctions law, but also to ensure gas supplies to Germany.

https://www.rt.com/business/555242-germany-vng-russian-ruble-gas/

>>16247465

Can someone put Doctor Death in jail for causing mass extinction by this asshole NOW?

>>16247419

Anyone dems choose or nominate are the ugliest people on earth, how can they not see it?

>>16247422

They will always choose death and genocide

>>16247311

I agree Barnette is not bought, she knows the corruption. I wish I lived there to vote for her.

>>16247251

Its kinda funny how desperate they are, they think taking a video down is gonna prevent people from waking up. Google is losing their disinfo war. The more they do this, the more people question why

Trump cannot be taken down, God chose him, and God is greater than Google and all other social media companies, mega corporations etc

NCSWIC

Thank God Kristi Noem is being exposed

https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1524019946346496000?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

>>16247631

From the article:

On paper, Democrats are an endangered species in the Mount Rushmore State. Not a single labeled Democrat holds a state office. Republicans control the state Senate 32-3 and the state House 62-8. Sounds like a conservative paradise, right? Well, as it relates to abortion and guns, like most other red states, the politics reflects the political orientation of the majority of the people. Other issues? Democrats as may as well hold a super-majority, particularly in the Senate. They just run as Republicans.

In that vein, it was shocking to read how Governor Kristi Noem has declared war, not on the RINOs who legislate like Democrats, but on the few House Republicans who actually want to make the state distinct from a blue state. Last week, the Argus Leader reported that Noem is taking a “hands on” role in training candidates to run for legislature, including those challenging the few conservative incumbents.

Not seen as vulnerable in her primary, Noem says she's still not taking her party's nomination for governor for granted. But she is managing to find time to involve herself in some battleground legislative contests. She's offered candidate school seminars to up-and-coming politicians, making endorsements and even going as far as publicly chastising Republican incumbents she doesn't see eye to eye with politically.

Last month, for instance, Noem joined District 4 House candidate Stephanie Sauder on a radio program where she openly accused Rep. Fred Deutsch, R-Florence, of being a poor legislator doing damage to South Dakota's way of life.

According to the Argus Leader, the governor is also working with Sen. Lee Schoenbeck, the president pro tempore, “to unseat far-right members of the party seeking re-election.”

Here is a list of targeted races based on a paper circulated by Schoenbeck referenced in the Argus Leader:

The highlighted members are the establishment picks not deemed “far right.”

But what does “far right” mean? People who oppose men in female sports, chemical castration of minors, corporations violating human rights and mandating dangerous shots, but support reduced taxes? The aforementioned issues have essentially been the dividing lines between the governor and some of the House conservatives over the past two years. These members were pushing for a half-percent reduction in the sales tax, but were stymied by the governor. Then they tried to eliminate the sales tax on food and institute a gas tax holiday, something done even in some blue states. Yet the governor evidently opposes it enough to primary them out of office.

Conservatives in the state and nationwide clashed with Governor Noem last year when she opposed the bill barring men in female sports.

“All of the people on her target list are true Christian conservatives, and those are the people she wants gone,” said Rep. Rhonda Milstead, the lead sponsor of HB 1217, the female sports bill, in an interview with TheBlaze.

Milstead also accuses the GOP establishment of targeting the most conservative members with new districting maps. “Our redistricting was awful because it put the people they want out in districts where they will have a hard time, or they placed solidly conservative people against each other in the same district,” charged the freshman, who represents the greater Sioux Falls area. Milstead claims the map was drawn with the intent of placing several other conservatives into her district.

Fred Deutsch of Watertown was placed into a new district because he was viewed as more repugnant to the GOP establishment than Joe Biden and the Democrats. His crime was the sponsoring of a bill banning chemical castration for minors, a bill that easily passed in numerous other red states. Yet this year, South Dakota failed to pass a single meaningful bill on any important issue, from transgenderism and illegal immigration to medical freedom and COVID fascism.

In an interview on KXLG in Watertown on April 21, Kristi Noem, who hails from that part of the state, lambasted Deutsch and others for being a drag on the state and sloppy legislators who don’t read bills and understand the consequences of good governance. “We need people who are thoughtful,” said Noem in a common refrain we hear from establishment Republicans…

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-why-is-governor-kristi-noem-attacking-the-small-group-of-conservative-south-dakota-legislators

A new business lobby backed by Republican heavyweights is looking to build clout with GOP leaders amid high-profile splits between the party's policymakers and key segments of corporate America, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is positioning itself as an alternative to groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The new group's backers complain the Chamber has lurched left from its onetime post at the vanguard of a Republican-aligned political apparatus.

The chairman of the AmFree chamber, as it's known internally, is Terry Branstad — the former Republican governor of Iowa and President Trump's ambassador to China.

Its CEO is Gentry Collins, a former political director of the Republican National Committee.

The AmFree Chamber will provide an avenue for American businesses looking to influence Republicans, who appear poised to retake congressional majorities next year.

What's happening: The new chamber's formation comes as corporate America grapples with increasing pressure to engage on issues such as voting rights, racial justice and abortion — and the potential political fallout from doing so.

"I hope to make the case to our policymakers at all levels that we must move away from the trend towards socialism and back to a pro-business, pro-growth posture," Branstad told business leaders during a conference call last Thursday, which Axios also attended.

In a memo pitching the group to potential members, a copy of which was obtained by Axios, the AmFree Chamber offers "tools for American businesses to maintain access to the marketplace in the face of 'woke capital' and 'cancel-culture' threats," among other benefits.

The big picture: A high-profile split last year between the U.S. Chamber and congressional Republicans — including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the potential next Speaker — provides a lane for a group that can effectively wield influence among GOP leaders, say sources close to the project.

"The void that is filled is [the AmFree Chamber] isn’t dead to Hill Republicans who will likely control the floor of both House and Senate" next year, one Republican lobbyist told Axios.

A senior House leadership aide told Axios the U.S. Chamber has "become more interested in electing so-called pro-business Democrats who vote for their party’s decidedly anti-business, woke agenda."

"It’s no surprise Governor Branstad and others have recognized this and are stepping in to fill this void," the aide said.

What they're saying: "[W]e warmly welcome anyone who joins our agenda, advocating for businesses and their workers. We need the pro-business voices to be heard loud and clear," a U.S. Chamber spokesperson told Axios.

The group "has worked with our network of state and local chambers across the country to secure important legislation, benefiting businesses of all sizes and our country as a whole," the spokesperson said, citing its work on trade, inflation, infrastructure and "the threat of government overreach."

"To find viable solutions, we need to collaborate and work with all stakeholders."

Between the lines: Multiple sources close to the new Branstad group used the term "woke" to describe the U.S. Chamber, a social-justice buzzword that's been relegated largely to the domain of conservative critics.

One source pointed to the group's engagement on ESG, or environmental, social and corporate governance business practices, and positions on tech sector regulation at odds with Republican critics of the industry.

Another brought up its preservation of scaffolding on its Lafayette Square headquarters covered by graffiti and artwork during 2020's Black Lives Matter protests.

While candidates still regularly tout the endorsements from the chamber and its state affiliates, it's become a political epithet in some high-profile Republican primary contests.

How we got here: The last time a Democratic president faced his first midterm election, the Chamber was a Republican-aligned powerhouse.

At this point in the 2010 cycle, it had reported more than $30 million in independent political spending, according to OpenSecrets data.

So far this cycle, it's reported a little more than $200,000, though the group says that's largely due to a shift toward political tactics such as digital ads that don't require reports to the Federal Election Commission.

It's also spending huge sums on its Washington lobbying operation and has maintained a steady pace of contributions to federal political candidates.

It's some of those past contributions — to Democrats in competitive races last cycle — that helped drive a wedge between the group and key Republican leaders such as McCarthy.

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/10/gop-anti-woke-chamber-lobby

https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1523989695692222464?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

The Narrative is not going to workgiven so mamy people know the media lies constantly. They will try but after Russia, Russia, Russia they have been exposed and Durham is putting a stake in the heart of the vampire media

https://twitter.com/bhweingarten/status/1524020993408307200?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1524020227176079361?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

Good for Hawley, but too many Congress people are owned by Disney

https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1524013754333159424?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

Open Secrets how many Congress invested in Disney

How much Disney gave to congress pacs

How much Disney spent in lobbying in 2020

Good for Hawley, but too many Congress people are owned by Disney

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/walt-disney-co/recipients?id=D000000128

https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1524010792160534530?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1524010516334710784?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

The GOP Pawned Social Conservatism For The Economy And Got Neither

There’s a myth in Indianapolis Republican circles that goes something like this: back in the good old days, the Indiana GOP was made up of high-minded, moderate statesmen from metro Indianapolis like Richard Lugar and Bill Hudnut. Then a bunch of troglodytes from rural Indiana like Mike Pence took over and wrecked the party and state with extreme social conservative policies that are bad for business.

In terms of actual legislation enacted, Indiana is one of the least socially conservative red states. But the economic results have also been underwhelming to poor for the state and its people. The Indianapolis GOP elites and their truce both effectively disenfranchised and impoverished the state’s Republican voters, while the left, which never agreed to any part of a truce, made significant advances on its own social policy agenda in the state.

What Were the Results of the Truce?

I was a big Daniels supporter, and with the exception of a couple of policy points agreed with almost everything he did. I remain a great admirer of his. The idea of the truce, of trading social priorities for fiscal discipline and economic growth sounded reasonable on paper. But did it work?

Fiscally, it did. Indiana went from a budget deficit to a massive surplus and a AAA credit rating. It is one of the nation’s fiscally strongest states.

Economically, it was a complete failure. While the state has added population and jobs slightly faster than some other surrounding Rust Belt states, it has been a demographic and economic laggard. Much of the state is shrinking. Its job growth has trailed the nation.

Personal incomes fell from an already low level relative to the nation, making Hoosiers poorer. Wage growth has been nearly the lowest in the nation. Talent was not attracted to the state. In fact, during the 2010s Indiana suffered its worst decade in history for college degree attainment in terms of its performance versus the nation.

The share of high school grads going to college is in decline. Indiana has become a haven for low-wage employers. It is adding mostly jobs for workers with less than a high school diploma in a nation where most job growth has been among the college educated. Many of the state’s communities continued to physically decay. And social pathologies like opioid addiction exploded.

Indiana’s conservative voters traded away their social priorities, and in return simply put further behind economically and socially. Again, for them the truce was a double failure.

I don’t claim the truce caused bad economic results, or even that Republican leadership is the primary source. I think structural forces beyond the control of the state’s leaders were more decisive. But the truce certainly didn’t make a positive contribution to the economy.

Social Policy Does Not Determine Economic Growth or Talent Attraction

Indiana holds important lessons for both conservatives and liberals. For conservatives, it shows that the low taxes/low regulation/libertarianish economic policy approach does not always create growth and prosperity. For both liberals and conservatives, it shows that social policy has far less impact on talent attraction and economic growth than they commonly believe.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/09/indiana-republicans-pawned-social-conservatism-for-economic-growth-and-got-neither/

Kathy Barnette

@Kathy4Truth

Too many on our side are worrying about being politically correct while the Left is spray painting churches, intimidating Supreme Court Justices and issuing “calls to arms”.

We are fighting for the soul of our nation here. Time to wake up, people!

https://twitter.com/Kathy4Truth/status/1524009689406652416?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

Why Today’s Left Is Willing To Admit Abortion Kills A Child And Still Support It

BY: ELLE REYNOLDS MAY 10, 2022

If self-gratification is our highest good, then any act (up to and including the murder of a child) becomes good if done in its pursuit.

Any sinful culture — as all are between Eden and glory — might allow or excuse the killing of an innocent child.But the times such an act has been celebrated have historically been tied to religious rituals in which a child was sacrificed to a supposed deity. In our post-religious culture, that sacrifice is laid on the idol of self.

That self-obsession and self-worship help explain why the arguments for abortion have shifted from “safe, legal, and rare” to open fetishizing the deaths of babies.

“I’m killing the babies!” an activist in front of the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City screamed while wearing a one-piece swimsuit with dolls stuffed inside.

“Kill those f-cking babies,” one demonstrator screamed at the Supreme Court last week.

“I am pro-abortion. PRO. ABORTION. if I don’t want to be pregnant? vacuum that sh-t out of me like a dental assistant with my saliva,” one particularly crude Twitter user remarked.

How We Got Here

Mankind has been committing the sin of selfishness for millennia. Indeed, it was elevating his desires and conceit above the commands of God that separated man from his perfect communion with God in Eden. He has continued to practice selfishness and greed ever since.

It’s why civilizations have gone to war, overthrown governments, raped conquered provinces, abused the vulnerable, robbed, murdered, lied, and cheated. Selfishness is nothing new, and neither is abortion, which was practiced by the ancient Egyptians (and surely even earlier).

A Terminally Selfish Culture

Selfishness isn’t unique to our moment, but it does manifest today in a particularly straightforward way. If we believe the highest telos of our existence is self-discovery, our lives cease to serve any higher purpose than ourselves.

It makes sense, then, that our culture would glorify abortion because, by that paradigm, killing an inconvenient baby is a means to self-empowerment. If eugenicist abortionists pushed to kill off babies for the “good” of society a century ago, now they purport to do so for the “good” of the individual woman.

It’s why abortion activists can, in complete seriousness, advocate for the murder of a full-term child. It doesn’t matter to them that the baby is a living being — if he or she conflicts with a woman’s self-love, that baby doesn’t deserve to live. It’s perfectly consistent with our culture’s increasingly popular perception of having children as a fulfillment of their parents’ wants instead of a responsibility to cherish that requires sacrifice and self-denial.

That’s not to say people in previous times have been any less selfish; the fallen status of man is not measured in degrees. But the traits our culture chooses to elevate are linked to our celebration of abortion in especially obvious ways.

If self-gratification is our highest good, then any act (up to and including the murder of a child) becomes good if done in its pursuit. If we are our own arbiters of truth, then moral reality ceases to become an inhibition, and life itself ceases to become an inherent good. If limiting the licentious indulgence of our own desires is “oppression” and therefore the greatest sin, then the anti-abortion crowd becomes the bad guys.

Until we confront the self-idolatry of our culture, many people will truly believe abortion is not just a “necessary evil” but a self-empowering good. Merely convincing them that abortion takes the precious life of a baby does nothing to shatter that paradigm, if they value their own imagined “empowerment” more than that life. The message their mania requires is that something true, good, and infinitely worthy could exist that is greater than themselves.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/10/why-todays-left-is-willing-to-admit-abortion-kills-a-child-and-still-support-it/

Makes me wonder who Pompeo is lobbying for? Probably Israel

https://twitter.com/KevinRobertsTX/status/1522668874143043585?s=20&t=3OW2-yGgGQcu5s9B96KjMg

>>16247854

True that, excellent simple explanation

>>16247831

Hes the only world leader thats willing to lay the truth of leaders and what they plan and gain is (also Trump)

>>16247775

Thats not extreme its normal

>>16247725

They are awakening, our influence is WW, God’s got this