Triple Vaxxed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Infected with Covid… AGAIN

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday tested positive for Covid-19 again.

Trudeau visited the United States last week and just met with Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom and others.

Mr. Trudeau attended the Summit for the Americas in Los Angeles and took a “family photo” with Joe Biden and other political leaders.

PM Trudeau said he’s feeling okay because he’s triple vaxxed and encouraged others to get vaccinated.

Makes sense.

“I’ve tested positive for COVID-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay, but that’s because I got my shots. So, if you haven’t, get vaccinated – and if you can, get boosted. Let’s protect our healthcare system, each other, and ourselves.” Trudeau said on Monday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/just-triple-vaxxed-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-infected-covid/

Japan On Verge Of Systemic Collapse With "Dramatic, Unpredictable Non-Linearities" In Financial Markets, DB Warns

Less than a week ago, we wrote that "As Yen Crash Accelerates, It Puts Catastrophic End Of MMT Experiment In The Spotlight" a less than cheerful assessment echoed this morning by Bloomberg, which writes that "Japan Starting to Crack as Yen Tumbles With Stocks and Bonds" noting that despite the yen crashing to a 24-year low (for the same reasons we have repeated again and again, namely you can't keep your 10Y yield at 0.25% and avoid a currency collapse in a scorching inflationary environment), Tokyo stocks were down the most since March.

But there was another major development, and one which suggests that days of fiat, and MMT are numbered: with Japanese yields surging, the Bank of Japan today bought more than 1.5 trillion yen of government bonds to defend its yield curve control target as the 10Y JGB rose above 0.25%, the upper end of the BOJ's YCC corridor.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japan-verge-systemic-collapse-dramatic-unpredictable-non-linearities-financial-markets-bank

Obama Treasury Secretary Blames 'Insurrection'-Deniers For Inflation, Warns US At "Risk Of Recession" In The Next Year

Former Obama administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted the United States will enter an economic recession and suggested the possibility of yet higher gas prices than the country is currently seeing.

“I think the optimists were wrong a year ago in saying we have no inflation and I think they are wrong now if anyone is highly confident that we are going to avoid recession,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, adding that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s predictions are “too optimistic.”

A combination of high inflation and low unemployment is “always followed within two years by recession,” Summer said, adding,

“I think there is certainly a risk of recession in the next year and I think given where we have gotten to, it is more likely than not that we will have a recession in the next two years.”

Finally, Summers has found a new culprit behind America’s inflation crisis: Republicans who downplay the severity of the January 2021 US Capitol riot.

“I think the banana Republicans who are saying that what happened on January 6 was nothing or OK are undermining the basic credibility of our country’s institutions,” Summers said on Sunday in a CNN interview.

“And that, in turn, feeds through for inflation. Because if you can’t trust the country’s government, why should you trust its money?”

In an exchange with CNBC last week, Yellen said, “I don’t think we’re going to have a recession” in response to a question about stripper-turned-rapper Cardi B’s recent Twitter post that asked, “When y’all think they going to announce that we going into a recession.”

“Don’t look to me to announce it,” Yellen said, adding,

“We have a very strong economy. I know people are very upset—and rightfully so—about inflation. But there’s nothing to suggest inflation if a recession is in the works.”

With gas prices officially hitting an average of $5 per gallon across the United States, the Department of Labor confirmed that inflation rose 8.6 percent year-over-year for May—a number not seen in four decades. That’s a 0.3 percent increase from April, which saw a year-over-year increase of 8.3 percent.

The Biden administration and Democrats have struggled to deal with the price jump, blaming it on supply chain issues and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as President Joe Biden recently signed a $40 billion deal in new aid to Kyiv. Biden and other Democrats have suggested that Americans mitigate the cost of fuel by purchasing electric vehicles, which may be cost-prohibitive or impractical for many.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-treasury-secretary-blames-insurrection-deniers-inflation-warns-us-risk-recession

EU became US state – lawmaker

Mislav Kolakusic argued that the bloc’s foreign and defense policy has made it a US vassal

Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic has lashed out at the EU’s foreign and defense policies, arguing that the bloc has become subservient to Washington. Kolakusic is an outspoken critic of the West’s anti-Russia sanctions and of Covid-19 restrictions.

Speaking in front of the EU Parliament last week, Kolakusic told his fellow parliamentarians that “EU foreign, defense, and security policy today can be described in just one sentence.”

“The European Union became the 51st federal state of the United States, but without the right to vote.”

Kolakusic has repeatedly criticized the EU’s policy toward Russia since the start of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine in February. That policy has seen Europe cut vital imports of Russian fossil fuels while hiking defense spending and imposing multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia, essentially shouldering the costs of Washington’s opposition to the Kremlin.

EU 🇪🇺 foreign, defense and security policy today can be described in a single sentence. The European Union 🇪🇺 became the 51st federal state of the United States 🇺🇸 but without the right to vote. pic.twitter.com/dqnrM2f1i6

— Mislav Kolakusic MEP 🇭🇷🇪🇺 (@mislavkolakusic) June 8, 2022

“It is an incredible lie and hypocrisy that the sanctions against Russia and a ban on imports of Russian oil and gas are sanctions against Russia. The sanctions are directed at 500 million citizens of the European Union and millions of citizens of the rest of Europe,” he claimed in May.

We should ban the import of oil and gas from the United States, which has been in more military conflicts than any other country in Europe and perhaps the world in recent decades

Kolakusic has also called world leaders in Europe and beyond “sociopaths and psychopaths” over their Covid-19 restrictions and called Canada a “quasi-liberal … dictatorship of the worst kind” to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s face. Kolakusic has also condemned the bloc’s green energy policies, saying, “Declaring carbon dioxide and fossil fuels as enemies of the citizens of the European Union is complete madness,” and would reduce Europeans to traveling by bicycle, as the Chinese did “thirty years ago.”

Kolakusic’s arguments against the apparent domination of Europe have been made since the end of World War II. French President Charles de Gaulle railed against Europe’s membership of NATO, referring to the alliance as “a machine to disguise the stranglehold of America over Europe” and withdrawing France from NATO’s integrated command in 1966 in the name of reestablishing France’s “full exercise of sovereignty.”

More recently, current French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken of the need for Europe to strive for “strategic autonomy” and questioned the usefulness of the NATO alliance. However, in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine, Macron has publicly come out and called the US-led military bloc “indispensable,” and backed the EU’s sanctions on Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused European leaders of committing economic “suicide” by embargoing Russian fuel imports, arguing that they are acting against their interests “under pressure from their American overlord.”

https://www.rt.com/news/557092-europe-becomes-us-state/

Libya Loses 1.1 Million Bpd As It Shuts Down Nearly All Its Oil Fields

Libya is losing oil production at the rate of 1.1 million barrels daily, the country’s oil minister Mohammed Aoun has said, adding that almost all of the country’s oil fields were shut down.

Libya’s largest field, El Sharara, was shut down last month along with El Feel, with reports saying that it was groups affiliated with the eastern parliament that shut down oil production, among them the Libyan National Army of Halifa Khaftar.

According to Aoun, however, “it appears that the closure instructions were issued by an official body, the Petroleum Facilities Guard in the closure areas.”

Libya is currently in the throes of yet another flare-up of violence as two politicians vie for the post of Prime Minister: interim PM Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and eastern-affiliated Fathi Bashaga. According to reports, the groups shutting down fields and export terminals are affiliated with the Bashaga camp.

Bashaga has been sworn in as the new prime minister of the country, but Dbeibah has refused to step down.

According to the oil minister, the only functioning fields right now in Libya are Hamada and the Mellitah complex, with the Wafa field producing from time to time.

This means that Libya is producing almost no oil, putting further strain on an already undersupplied oil market. The North African country was already producing about 600,000 bpd in May due to the large field and export terminal closures, and now, based on Aoun’s comments, its output rate is close to about 100,000 bpd.The impact of such outages on international prices could have been significant were it not for the fact that outages in Libya are frequent and the latest news from China, which is mass-testing citizens in a Beijing district after an outbreak of Covid. The latter sparked concern about China’s demand prospect in case it decides to impose more lockdowns to stem the spread of the virus.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Libya-Loses-11-Million-Bpd-As-It-Shuts-Down-Nearly-All-Its-Oil-Fields.html

FBI Warns It Won't Tolerate "Violence" Amid Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling

The FBI warned Friday that it will not “tolerate violence, destruction, interference with government functions, or trespassing on government property” after an armed man was arrested earlier this week near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home.

On Wednesday, officials arrested 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske near Kavanaugh’s Maryland home and said he allegedly wanted to kill the justice after a leaked draft opinion suggested the Supreme Court would soon overturn Roe v. Wade.

In a joint statement issued by U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves and Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office Steven D’Antuono, they said the agencies are “committed to protecting the First Amendment rights of all Americans to express their views peacefully during demonstrations that take place on a regular basis in the nation’s capital, including at the Supreme Court.”

Their statement did not make any specific mention of the incident at Kavanaugh’s home, and it did not make any reference to the Supreme Court’s pending decision on Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that argued that a woman has a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.

“We also have a responsibility to ensure public safety and the orderly conduct of government business. We will not tolerate violence, destruction, interference with government functions, or trespassing on government property,” the statement added. “We are committed to working closely with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to stop any individuals who intend to commit violence or criminal activity under the guise of carrying out a demonstration.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-warns-it-wont-tolerate-violence-amid-supreme-courts-abortion-ruling

Rabobank: Western Leadership Has Successfully Turned Our Economies Into Emerging Markets

It was a tough call for me whether to go with the above title of the Daily today, or for ‘These are not serious people, and I refuse to take them seriously’.

Friday’s shocking US inflation came in well above expectations at 1.0% m-o-m / 8.6% y-o-y headline, and 0.6% m-o-m / 6.0% y-o-y core. That’s the highest y-o-y headline CPI since December 1981, even further back in time than the first ‘Top Gun’ movie. Indeed, in Tom Cruise terms, it’s back to his second-ever movie, ‘Taps’.

Over the past decade, US CPI averaged 1.6% y-o-y. Over the past 12 months, it was 6.9%. Food, energy, and services inflation is rampant, and while goods inflation is edging lower and inventories need to be cleared, there is still an implied manufacturing shock coming from the input side with a lag. Indeed, core inflation has only seen one monthly print lower than 0.5% (6% annualized) since October last year, the trend in energy is not going to stop, and neither will that in Owners’ Equivalent Rent given soaring mortgage rates force more people to rent.

There is now some talk of so-called “core-core” inflation excluding food and energy, and airfares, rents, vehicles, hotels, and health insurance, which shows inflation is ebbing. Logically, if we take out everything going up then inflation is zero. Likewise, the Fed and the White House told us there was no inflation; was going to be no inflation; if there was any inflation it was mild; and once it got high, that it would be transitory. These are not serious people, and I refuse to take them seriously.

Yet the Michigan consumer survey collapsing to a lower level than during the Global Financial Crisis should be, with 1-year ahead inflation seen at 5.4% and 5- to 10-year inflation up to 3.3%. Given it is estimated US households need over $430 more a month just to stand still vs. inflation, this is not a surprise. Indeed, what Philip Marey had already flagged the Financial Times’ today makes clear is now the widespread view: ‘US set for recession next year, economists predict’. Yet we were repeatedly told by the Fed, the White House, and many in markets that a US recession was not a risk. Likewise, RaboResearch flagged the energy-shock risks for Europe weeks ago, which the ECB still does not recognize. Even Australia is now seeing market calls for a 15% drop in house prices ahead, which is hardly GDP positive for an asset-addled economy.

In short, we can ignore ‘stagflation’ and can proceed to a new word shared by an incisive reader: “Incession” – inflation and recession. I repeat that we aren’t used to that concept in developed markets by any name, but emerging markets know the phenomenon all too well. Congratulations to the Western leadership of the past four decades, who have successfully turned our economies into something closer to emerging markets!

Markets are obviously far from happy. US 2-year yields leaped from 2.81% to 3.14% Friday, the kind of spike few see in a career. 5-years jumped from 3.07% to 3.31%. 10-years rose less, from 3.04% to 3.16%, so 2s-10s is close to inversion again, and 5s-10s already is. 30-years, despite wild swings, only rose 3bp at the close to 3.19%, so 5s-30s is also inverted and 2s-30s is close to it.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-western-leadership-has-successfully-turned-our-economies-emerging-markets

Israel raises Istanbul threat level to highest level, tells nationals to leave now

Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau has raised its alert level for Istanbul to the highest possible level, calling on any Israelis in the city to leave immediately or risk their lives.

The announcement comes hours after Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced the travel warning at a faction meeting, saying there was a “real and immediate” threat of an Iranian kidnap/murder plot targeting Israelis, and calling on Israelis to avoid any unnecessary travel to Istanbul or Turkey in general.

“Two weeks ago a travel warning to Turkey was raised, after defense officials raised fears of Iranian attempts to harm Israeli targets around the world, especially in Turkey,” reads a position paper from the National Security Council backing the decision.

The move means Turkey now has an alert rating of 4, putting it on par with Iran, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso and other dangerous corners of the globe.

The National Security Council says it raised the alert “given the continued threat and Iranian intentions to hurt Israelis in Turkey, especially Istanbul, cranking up a notch.”

The announcement also raises the warning level for the rest of Turkey to level 3, meaning Israelis should avoid non essential travel.

Iranian officials have vowed to exact revenge on Israel for the assassination of a senior Revolutionary Guard officer it blames on the Jewish state.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-raises-istanbul-threat-level-to-highest-level-tells-nationals-to-leave-now/

Israel raises Istanbul threat level to highest level, tells nationals to leave now

Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau has raised its alert level for Istanbul to the highest possible level, calling on any Israelis in the city to leave immediately or risk their lives.

The announcement comes hours after Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced the travel warning at a faction meeting, saying there was a “real and immediate” threat of an Iranian kidnap/murder plot targeting Israelis, and calling on Israelis to avoid any unnecessary travel to Istanbul or Turkey in general.

“Two weeks ago a travel warning to Turkey was raised, after defense officials raised fears of Iranian attempts to harm Israeli targets around the world, especially in Turkey,” reads a position paper from the National Security Council backing the decision.

The move means Turkey now has an alert rating of 4, putting it on par with Iran, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso and other dangerous corners of the globe.

The National Security Council says it raised the alert “given the continued threat and Iranian intentions to hurt Israelis in Turkey, especially Istanbul, cranking up a notch.”

The announcement also raises the warning level for the rest of Turkey to level 3, meaning Israelis should avoid non essential travel.

Iranian officials have vowed to exact revenge on Israel for the assassination of a senior Revolutionary Guard officer it blames on the Jewish state.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-raises-istanbul-threat-level-to-highest-level-tells-nationals-to-leave-now/

Former Trump Campaign Manager Withdraws From House Jan. 6 Hearing

The former manager of Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign abruptly withdrew from appearing before a House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

William Stepien, who managed the campaign, was subpoenaed by the panel and was in Washington prepared to appear, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, said as the hearing started on June 13.

“Mr. Stepien’s attorney is here with us today and he has advised us that Mr. Stepien’s wife went into labor this morning,” Thompson said. “Mr. Stepien unexpectedly had to travel to be with his wife and we wish him the best.”

“It’s proper for him to be with his wife as they welcome his child,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said later.

The panel had said that Stepien experienced a “family emergency” and that his lawyer, Dan Marino, would “appear and make a statement on the record.”

In lieu of in-person testimony, the panel showed clips of Stepien’s deposition, which was recorded earlier this year.

The panel was conducting a hearing that it said would give Americans a summary of its findings, following its first hearing in months on June 9.

The initial moments of the hearing saw the panel play footage of depositions of Stepien, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, and others who were at the White House on election night in 2020.

On Trump’s press conference on early Nov. 5, 2020—in which Trump said he won the election as votes continued being counted—Stepien was seen saying that he had advised Trump to give a different type of statement.

“My advice was to say that votes were still being counted, it’s too early to tell, too early to call the race, but we’re proud of the race we ran and we think we’re in a good position, and we’ll have more to say about this on the next day, or the next day—whenever we had something to say,” Stepien said in his deposition.

Stepien also said he told Trump that the vote-counting would be a process and that early returns would be positive but that ones counted later might not be.

The only other witness slated to testify in-person on Monday was Chris Stirewalt, a former political editor at Fox News who is now employed by NewsNation.

Stirewalt defended the network’s early call of Arizona for Joe Biden, which was made on election night.

“It was really controversial to our competitors that we beat so badly by making the correct call first,” Stirewalt said.

The margin in Arizona was under 11,000 votes, out of over 3.2 million cast, and votes were counted for days after Fox called the race. According to one analysis, thousands of votes were wrongly counted.

Stirewalt also said that Biden won the 2020 election.

The panel’s next hearing is scheduled for June 15.

https://www.ntd.com/former-trump-campaign-manager-withdraws-from-house-jan-6-hearing_793377.html

DuPont concealed decades-long chemical pollution linked to kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, and ulcerative colitis

he story began in 1951, when DuPont started purchasing PFOA (which the company refers to as C8) from 3M for use in the manufacturing of Teflon. 3M invented PFOA just four years earlier; it was used to keep coatings like Teflon from clumping during production. Though PFOA was not classified by the government as a hazardous substance, 3M sent DuPont recommendations on how to dispose of it. It was to be incinerated or sent to chemical-waste facilities. DuPont’s own instructions specified that it was not to be flushed into surface water or sewers. But over the decades that followed, DuPont pumped hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA powder through the outfall pipes of the Parkersburg facility into the Ohio River. The company dumped 7,100 tons of PFOA-laced sludge into ‘‘digestion ponds’’: open, unlined pits on the Washington Works property, from which the chemical could seep straight into the ground. PFOA entered the local water table, which supplied drinking water to the communities of Parkersburg, Vienna, Little Hocking and Lubeck — more than 100,000 people in all.

Bilott learned from the documents that 3M and DuPont had been conducting secret medical studies on PFOA for more than four decades. In 1961, DuPont researchers found that the chemical could increase the size of the liver in rats and rabbits. A year later, they replicated these results in studies with dogs. PFOA’s peculiar chemical structure made it uncannily resistant to degradation. It also bound to plasma proteins in the blood, circulating through each organ in the body. In the 1970s, DuPont discovered that there were high concentrations of PFOA in the blood of factory workers at Washington Works. They did not tell the E.P.A. at the time. In 1981, 3M — which continued to serve as the supplier of PFOA to DuPont and other corporations — found that ingestion of the substance caused birth defects in rats. After 3M shared this information, DuPont tested the children of pregnant employees in their Teflon division. Of seven births, two had eye defects. DuPont did not make this information public.

In 1984, DuPont became aware that dust vented from factory chimneys settled well beyond the property line and, more disturbing, that PFOA was present in the local water supply. DuPont declined to disclose this finding. In 1991, DuPont scientists determined an internal safety limit for PFOA concentration in drinking water: one part per billion. The same year, DuPont found that water in one local district contained PFOA levels at three times that figure. Despite internal debate, it declined to make the information public.

(In a statement, DuPont claimed that it did volunteer health information about PFOA to the E.P.A. during those decades. When asked for evidence, it forwarded two letters written to West Virginian government agencies from 1982 and 1992, both of which cited internal studies that called into question links between PFOA exposure and human health problems.)

By the ’90s, Bilott discovered, DuPont understood that PFOA caused cancerous testicular, pancreatic and liver tumors in lab animals. One laboratory study suggested possible DNA damage from PFOA exposure, and a study of workers linked exposure with prostate cancer. DuPont at last hastened to develop an alternative to PFOA. An interoffice memo sent in 1993 announced that ‘‘for the first time, we have a viable candidate’’ that appeared to be less toxic and stayed in the body for a much shorter duration of time. Discussions were held at DuPont’s corporate headquarters to discuss switching to the new compound. DuPont decided against it. The risk was too great: Products manufactured with PFOA were an important part of DuPont’s business, worth $1 billion in annual profit.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82741/dupont-concealed-decadeslong-chemical-pollution-linked-to-kidney-cancer-testicular-cancer-thyroid.html

California House Passes 'Infanticide' Bill Legalizing the Death of Newborns 7 Days or More After Birth

The California State Assembly on Thursday passed what pro-life advocates have called a radical measure that they've dubbed "The Infanticide Bill."

The bill, known as AB 2223, was passed by a vote of 48-21 in the Democrat-controlled Assembly. It now goes to the state Senate.

The measure is promoted by the state's "Future of Abortion Council," a coalition of 40 pro-abortion groups whose goal is "to Protect, Strengthen and Expand Abortion Services in California." The abortion council is currently advocating for nine different abortion expansion bills.

As CBN News reported, AB 2223 was opposed by pro-life groups who say new language added to the proposed legislation would shield a mother from civil and criminal charges for any "actions or omissions" related to her pregnancy, "including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death." Although definitions of "perinatal death" vary, all of them include the death of newborns seven days or more after birth.

Certain media fact-checkers over the past few months said the pro-life advocates' claims were false or misinterpreted. However, the National Catholic Register noted that the state's Assembly Appropriations Committee acceded to some pro-life demands and amended language in the bill on May 19.

"Today, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks' A.B. 2223, which came to be known as the 'infanticide bill,' was amended in the Assembly Appropriations Committee to confirm that a woman will not be investigated or charged for experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, or 'perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero,'" the California Catholic Conference reported in a statement released last week.

"This change definitely closes the door on potential unintended consequences of permitting infant deaths due to abuse, neglect or abandonment, alleviating the concerns that the CCC brought to the author's attention," the statement said.

Kathleen Domingo, the executive director of the California Catholic Conference told the Register that the Assembly Judiciary Committee's analysis of the bill, dated April 5, "agreed that the terminology 'perinatal death' was unclear and could lead to 'undesirable conclusions.'"

https://www.charismanews.com/us/89316-california-house-passes-infanticide-bill-legalizing-the-death-of-newborns-7-days-or-more-after-birth

US tries to hide its activities in post-Soviet space - Russian Foreign Ministry

Zakharova stressed that the numerous explanations that the United States is collecting biomaterial and monitoring the epidemiological situation "only reinforce and strengthen the fears of the Russian Federation in the context of compliance with the BTWC, including the facts revealed in Ukraine"

The United States is trying to justify its unseemly military biological activities in the post-Soviet space with fake news, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said in an interview with TASS.

The diplomat drew attention to the "Fact Sheet on WMD Threat Reduction Efforts with Ukraine, Russia and Other Former Soviet Union Countries" published on June 9 on the website of the US Department of Defense, which contains statements about the allegedly peaceful nature of US activities in the biological sphere on post-Soviet space.

"We consider this material to be fake news and part of an information campaign launched by Washington to justify the United States' military biological activities in the post-Soviet space in order to divert international attention away from their true non-transparent and unseemly nature, which contradicts Washington's international obligations, including those under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)," Zakharova stressed.

"For obvious reasons, the United States prefers to remain silent about ongoing work in the post-Soviet space and does not provide information as part of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). Assertions that the activity of the Pentagon and related structures is focused exclusively on health issues, are not true. Obviously, health care does not require the participation of the US military," she said.

Zakharova stressed that the numerous explanations that the United States is collecting biomaterial and monitoring the epidemiological situation "only reinforce and strengthen the fears of the Russian Federation in the context of compliance with the BTWC, including the facts revealed in Ukraine".

https://tass.com/russia/1464063

Same drugs used to chemically castrate pedophiles now being handed out to children to make them “trans”

Many people are unaware of this, but the pharmaceutical cocktails that “doctors” are now prescribing to children in order to turn them “transgender” are the same ones that the criminal justice system punishes pedophiles with in order to chemically castrate them.

Lupron (leuprolide acetate), a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, is one of the drugs of choice for “trans” kids to make them become their “real selves.” We are told that the puberty blocker is safe and effective for this off-label use because it is supposedly “temporary.”

The Mayo Clinic says Lupron helps transgender and “gender-diverse” children to achieve their trans goals, calling it a “big step.” What the Minnesota-based health care provider does not say, however, is that pedophiles have been getting Lupron forever – and the effects are permanent.

“In those identified as male at birth, GnRH analogs decrease the growth of facial and body hair, prevent voice deepening, and limit the growth of genitalia,” the Mayo Clinic adds.

“In those identified as female at birth, treatment limits or stops breast development and stops menstruation” (Related: Thousands of children have died from taking Lupron).

NBC News says evidence that Lupron kills children is a “viral fake news story”

In some cases, Lupron is also prescribed to prostate cancer patients to treat “tumors that feed on sex hormones.” Typically, however, the drug is used to stop sex offenders who are at serious risk of reoffending from having a sex drive, in essence.

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-06-12-same-drugs-chemically-castrate-pedophiles-children-trans.html

There’s a run on Chinese banks and it’s being ignored by the world

In the anatomy of an economic crisis, a bank run is the point of no return.

Bank runs occur when people scramble to withdraw cash from banks in fear of collapse. In the worst cases, banks’ liquid cash reserves are exhausted, not everyone gets their money and the bank defaults.

It’s a grim scenario which, fortunately, has occurred rarely in history.

The most significant bank runs in the United States took place during the 1930’s Great Depression. More recently, there were runs on numerous U.S. banks during the Financial Crisis in 2008.

In Asia, bank runs have also been rare. A run on Japanese banks in 1927 led to the collapse of dozens of institutions across the country. There was a banking crisis in Myanmar in 2003 which the country has never really fully recovered from.

But perhaps since the Great Depression, none has been as significant compared to what is seemingly unfolding in China right now.

The Chinese bank run of 2022

In recent years it has become clear the Chinese people are losing faith in their financial institutions. There’s been anger over harsh COVID lockdowns in Shanghai recently, while the collapse of China Evergrande saw rare public demonstrations as residents faced the prospect of losing their life savings used as deposits for housing.

Multiple sources contacted by Asia Markets, have confirmed deposits at the following six banks have been frozen since mid-April.

Yuzhou Xinminsheng Village Bank (located in Xuchang City, Henan Province)

Zhecheng Huanghuai Bank (City of Shangqui, Henan Province)

Shangcai Huimin Rural Bank (Zhumadian City, Henan Province)

New Oriental Village Bank (City of Kaifeng, Henan Province)

Huaihe River Village Bank (Bengbu City, Anhui Province)

Yixian County Village Bank (Huangshan City, Anhui Province)

It’s understood the banks with branches across the Henan and Anhui Provinces successively issued announcements in April, stating they would suspend online banking and mobile banking services due to a system upgrade.

At the same time, clients reported their electronic deposits in online accounts, mobile apps and third-party platforms could not be withdrawn.

This led to depositors rushing to local bank branches, only to be told they were unable to withdraw funds.

By late May, images emerged on Chinese social media of demonstrations at the front of numerous bank branches. Asia Markets has verified these images with local contacts.

https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-banks-run/

Uvalde covers up records on top cop Pete Arredondo who led the bungled police response to the school shooter as city tries to wriggle out of divulging information requested by DailyMail.com and others under Texas sunshine laws

Lawyers hired by the City of Uvalde, Texas, have written a letter to state attorney general Ken Paxton trying to wriggle out of divulging information to the public

In a letter penned Wednesday, law firm Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech said the City received 148 requests for information from May 25 through June 7

The city claims it has no obligation to comply with any of the requests, citing 52 excuses that it claims makes the information 'excepted' from disclosure

Among the information the city is trying to hide are records on Pete Arredondo, the school district police chief who bungled the response to the mass shooting

Arredondo was in charge of the police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month that led to 21 deaths

The City of Uvalde is trying to cover up records on the top cop who led the bungled police response to the active shooter situation at an elementary school last month.

Lawyers hired by the Texas city last week wrote to state attorney general Ken Paxton trying to wriggle out of divulging information requested by DailyMail.com and others under the state's sunshine laws.

In the letter, attorneys at Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal & Zech revealed 148 requests for information had been made to the City from May 25, 2022 through June 7, 2022 by media organizations and individuals.

The city claims it has no obligation to give up any information to any of the requests, listing 52 excuses in the letter that it says lets it off the hook from requirements under the Texas Public Information Act.

Among the information Uvalde local government is trying to hide are any records on Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief who was in charge of the police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month that led to 21 deaths.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10905145/City-Uvalde-trying-cover-records-police-chief-bungled-response.html

Business Cards of German and Canadian Government Officials Found in Abandoned Azov Battalion Headquarters in Mariupol

Left amidst the ruins of the Azov battalion’s headquarters in Mariupol were the business cards from the German embassy. One was of an attaché named Michael Faul, a Canadian colonel named Colonel Brian Irwin and the French Embassy staff member in Kyiv, First Secretary Christophe Boursin.

MICHAEL FAUL: According to the following information, Faul now works in the UK: “Michael Faul works at German Embassy London and Consulate General Edinburgh, which is a Federal company with an estimated 766 employees.” So he has been relocated or has always been working there, probably for MI6, the UK Secret Service. Last Update: 3/10/2022 5:43 PM (move March 3 to UK), EMAIL: m***@london.diplo.de.

The third business card found was of the assistant first secretary at the Embassy of France in Kyiv, Ukraine, Christophe Boursin. There are no pictures of him, but he may still be in Kyiv.

Along with the business cards found in Azov Battalion headquarters were Nazi insignia, making clear the Battalion’s admiration for Adolf Hitler and the original German Nazis.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/08/business-cards-of-german-and-canadian-government-officials-found-in-abandoned-azov-battalion-headquarters-in-mariupol/

New Bill to Boost Missile Defense for Israel & Arab Partners, Citing Alleged Iran Threat

Lawmakers with the bipartisan Abraham Accords Caucus have introduced a bill in the House and Senate that will require the Pentagon to coordinate missile defense upgrades for Israel and several newfound Arab allies, pointing to potential “attacks from Iran.”

Unveiled on Thursday, the Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defenses (DEFEND) Act would instruct the secretary of defense to “develop an acquisition approach” to improve anti-air weapons for a number of Middle Eastern states, among them Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council.

The legislation will aim to “implement an integrated and missile defense capability to protect the people, infrastructure and territory of such countries from cruise and ballistic missiles, manned and unmanned aerial systems and rocket attacks from Iran and groups linked to Iran.”

If passed, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will be required to submit a report to Congress within 180 days on the current defense capabilities of the states in question and how they could be improved.

Announced by Republican Senator Joni Ernst, the bill marks the first piece of legislation brought by the Abraham Accords Caucus, a bipartisan bloc within the House and Senate created to “build on the success” of a series of agreements struck between Israel and Arab nations starting in 2020. The senator claimed the law would help to contain Iranian proxy groups, which she said were targeting innocent civilians and “pose a persistent threat to our homeland.”

Though Ernst acknowledged most Americans are fed up with decades of armed intervention in the Middle East, she argued that “radical Islamic terror” continues to menace the United States, saying terrorism “can only be deterred and denied if American allies and partners in the Middle East step up and take on the threat posed by Iran.”

According to Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen, the bill has the endorsement of several pro-Israel groups and hawkish think tanks, including the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, CUFI Action, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), the American Jewish Congress, the Atlantic Council and the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA).

In backing the legislation, the neoconservative-leaning FDD said Washington should “continue to initiate, develop and enhance military to military relationships between the US, Israel and other US allies and partners in the region” as an “extension” of the Abraham Accords.

Kicked off with a US-brokered normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in 2020, the Accords have since been joined by Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and Sudan, each agreeing to establish diplomatic and economic ties with Tel Aviv after decades of enmity.

Though the new bill is largely concerned with Iran, some countries slated to receive increased US military assistance have been accused of backing jihadist militant groups in the past, chief among them Saudi Arabia. Few of the 10 states named in the law could qualify as democracies, moreover, putting it at odds with President Joe Biden’s frequent lip service to the importance of ‘democratic values.’

https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-bill-boost-missile-defense-israel-arab-partners-citing-alleged-iran-threat/5783189

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is the new name for vaccine deaths in the medical establishment’s play-pretend reality

In an attempt to explain away the rash of deaths occurring in otherwise healthy-seeming adults who got “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the medical establishment has coined a new term called “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome,” or SADS, that it is pretending appeared out of nowhere with no explanation.

Much like Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), which was also made up out of thin air to explain away infant deaths caused by vaccines, SADS is being called a “mystery” condition that could strike anyone at any time for no apparent reason.

People under the age of 40 are now being told to go to their doctors immediately to have their hearts checked, as they might have a hidden case of SADS. The condition could be fatal, we are told, and is an “umbrella term to describe unexpected deaths in young people,” according to The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Anyone of any age, even if they seem healthy, could be at risk, we are told. But no differentiation is being made between people who took the jabs and people who left their natural immune systems alone, which is the real kicker in all this.

Australia opens country’s first SADS registry to track wave of cases

They will never admit to it, but the sudden rise in SADS directly coincides with the unleashing of Operation Warp Speed, which has turned hundreds of millions of Americans into deadly spike protein factories. These spike proteins are ripping apart their cardiovascular systems and leaving them prone to early death.

If a person knows others within his own family who have died unexpectedly, or who himself suffers fainting or seizure during exercise, this could be a sign of SADS, Australian media outlets are claiming.

https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=254773

Three Navy commanders relieved of duty in the past week

The ousters include the head of the Navy's boot camp and training base.

The leader of the Navy’s Recruit Training Command is out of the job, the latest in a string of firings in June. The Navy announced on Saturday, June 11 that Capt. Jeffry Sandin was relieved of his duty by Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture, head of Naval Service Training Command.

Capt. Kertreck Brooks, the chief of staff for the overarching Naval Service Training Command was named as the new interim head of the Recruit Training Command. The Navy did not get into specifics, but said that the NSTC lost confidence in Sandin.

The Navy’s Recruit Training Command base in Great Lakes, IL, is the basic training center for the service. It originally opened in 1911 and has been the sole recruit training base since 1994. The base just held its latest boot camp graduation ceremony on Friday, June 10, with 417 new sailors graduating into the service. Brooks was the special guest at the ceremony.

The replacement of Sandin is the Navy’s third high-profile removal from a post in the past week. On Friday, Cmdr. Devine Johnson was relieved of command of the destroyer Bulkeley by the commodore of Destroyer Squadron 2. Johnson had taken over the ship in August 2021 after serving as the executive officer. Capt. William Harkin, Destroyer Squadron 2’s deputy commander, took over the Bulkeley in the interim. Command Master Chief Earl Sanders was also relieved alongside Johnson. Loss of confidence in their leadership was cited as the reason. The term can have many meanings, from a literal one to shorthand for major screw ups by those in command. The Navy did not disclose further details on the situation.

And on Wednesday, June 8, the Navy relieved the commander of Electronics Attack Squadron 137, which is part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group. Cmdr. Matthew McCormick had led “The Rooks” since September 2021; the squadron operates EA-18G Growlers. Again the Navy cited a loss of confidence. USNI News reports that it was in part for inappropriate behavior that is still being investigated.

This past week’s firings come as the Navy is dealing with staffing, equipment and morale challenges. Desertions are up, with double the number of sailors deserting in 2021 over 2020. Barracks repairs at Naval Air Station Key West in Florida left sailors having to find their own expensive off-base housing. The USS George Washington saw nearly a dozen deaths in the last year, with at least one being a suicide; three other cases are being investigated as potential suicides.

The Navy is also trying to streamline its operating costs, in part by possibly getting rid of nine Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships it is set to decommission. There have also been serious accidents; of the five aviation crashes in the last two weeks, two involved Navy vehicles and one was fatal.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/three-navy-commanders-relieved-of-duty-in-the-past-week/

Global Food Crisis: Ukraine Is Demanding Weapons in Exchange for Resuming Wheat Exports

The so-called “deadlock” over resolving the global food crisis is just as artificially manufactured as its origins since Kiev has now officially declared that it won’t resume wheat exports by sea to the Global South unless it receives anti-ship missiles first.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar officially demanded weapons in exchange for resuming wheat exports by sea in what amounts to the blatant blackmailing of the Global South in the midst of the artificially manufactured food crisis.

He said that “Effective security guarantees are required for maritime shipments to resume. These guarantees must be provided through the supply of appropriate weapons to Ukraine to protect its coasts from maritime threats and the involvement of the navies of third countries in protecting the relevant part of the Black Sea.” This comprehensively debunks the US-led Western Mainstream Media’s (MSM) fake news that Russia is the one that’s supposedly holding the Global South hostage by allegedly blockading Ukrainian ports.

The background context is that Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya already explained the artificially manufactured origins of the global food crisis late last month. In short, he blamed it on the economic consequences caused by the West’s response to COVID (particularly with respect to spiking inflation and influencing food demand); Ukraine’s mining of its own ports; and the anti-Russian sanctions.

President Putin later reiterated these causes in a TV interview that he gave a little over a week later on the same day that he met with Macky Sall, the Chairman of the African Union. His guest extended credence to the Kremlin’s explanation by declaring that “Anti-Russia sanctions have made this situation worse and now we do not have access to grain from Russia, primarily to wheat.”

All the while and in spite of the artificially manufactured origins of the food crisis that lie entirely beyond Russia’s control, Moscow has been doing its utmost to encourage Kiev to at the very least resume its wheat exports to the Global South. To that end, it proposed four potential corridors: the Azov Sea; the Black Sea; overland through Belarus en route to Baltic ports; and across Western Europe. Suffice to say, Kiev has flat-out refused to employ any of these means, though it’s also worth noting that Nebenzya mentioned in his speech late last month that Russia has “reasonable suspicions” to believe that Kiev is exporting wheat to those Western European countries that already have copious reserves of this commodity in exchange for arms exactly as happened with the Central Powers near the end of WWI.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-food-crisis-ukraine-is-demanding-weapons-in-exchange-for-resuming-wheat-exports/5782895

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Michigan Senate Majority Leader, Mike Shirkey caught on camera telling the truth about Jan 6th.

“It was ALL staged, Mitch McConnell wanted it to be “a mess” so he could secure a Trump impeachment conviction for Pelosi and Schumer”

https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1536113409166651393

US president confirms deployment of troops in Yemen

Biden’s letter to Congress reaffirms continued US support for the Saudi-led coalition

In a letter addressed to Congress earlier this week, President Joe Biden confirmed that the US has deployed troops to Yemen with the aim of battling extremist groups and continuing military support for the Saudi-led coalition.

“A number of American military personnel are deployed in Yemen,” the US president said, “to conduct operations against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and ISIS, as well as providing military advice and information to the Saudi-led coalition.”

According to Biden’s letter, the US military will continue to work “closely” with “partner regional forces” in their operations against Ansarallah.

The letter adds that the US military presence in Yemen is “to protect US interests by providing air and missile defense capabilities and support the operation of United States military aircraft,” but stressed that the US role in the country is “non-combatant” and is for “defensive purposes.”

Although the US president previously vowed to end offensive support for the Saudi-led coalition amid growing criticism in Congress of Washington’s role in the brutal war on Yemen, the letter confirms the White House’s continued support for Saudi Arabia and its allies.

Since the start of the war, Washington has provided direct military, intelligence, and logistical support to the Saudi-led coalition.

According to a report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the state and defense departments have both turned a blind eye to the coalitions killing of civilians in Yemen.

In particular, the report highlights that the deadliest attacks by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen were carried out by using combat jets and munitions supplied and maintained by US companies, with the approval of the State Department and the Pentagon.

According to the UN, the war in Yemen has killed at least 233,000 people directly and indirectly due to an increase in the prevalence of diseases as a result of attacks on health facilities and the widespread shortage of food.

Before entering office, Biden promised to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition, but after his election, the US president reneged on his promises and continued with the same Trump-era policies that have enabled the brutal attacks on the people of Yemen.

https://thecradle.co/Article/news/11676

Lord Rothschild Accused of Working as Soviet Spy

Jan. 6 Hearing Liz Cheney Says “2000 Mules” Was Debunked — Bill Barr Laughs at Movie During Questioning — Wireless Services CEO Sets Barr Straight

The sham Jan. 6 Committee public show trials continued on Monday in Washington DC.

The committee was put in place to discredit and smear President Donald J. Trump and his supporters.

In her remarks earlier today activist Liz Cheney stated, without any proof or evidence, that the movie “2000 Mules” was debunked.

Via Midnight Rider.

The committee also used Bill Barr and his opinion on the movie as evidence that there was no ballot trafficking in the 2020 election.

Bill Barr was shooting his mouth off without any facts — just his opinion.

Barr was captured on video stating, “The election was not stolen by fraud. And I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the ‘2000 Mules’ movie.”

Barr talks about the cell phone evidence. Apparently, Bill Barr was not informed about the traffickers. Most of the traffickers were working night hours when the rest of the public was asleep.

There is much more voter fraud evidence from the 2020 election emerging.

Patriot Joe Brandis, who has been investigating Michigan voter fraud since the 2020 election with Michigan Citizens for Election Integrity and his team continues to discover more and more footage of ballot traffickers dumping multiple ballots into the Detroit drop boxes in the runup of the 2020 election.

In a previous report, wireless services CEO destroyed ignorant attacks by fake fact-checkers on the facts presented in “2000 Mules.”

The Gateway Pundit spoke to Volta Wireless founder David Sinclair.

Volta Wireless provides software and services to stop network operators from tracking your location, identity, communications, internet activity, and more.

Volta Wireless protects users from being geo-tracked by the government, wireless companies, or the tech giants.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/jan-6-hearing-liz-cheney-says-2000-mules-debunked-bill-barr-laughs-movie-questioning-wireless-services-ceo-sets-barr-straight-video/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/jan-6-hearing-liz-cheney-says-2000-mules-debunked-bill-barr-laughs-movie-questioning-wireless-services-ceo-sets-barr-straight-video/

Busted! Homeland Security Secretary Lied To Senate About Disinfo Board!

Thanks to the diligent work of Sens. Grassley and Hawley – and a whistleblower from within the Department of Homeland Security – we now know that DHS’s work on the “Disinformation Governance Board” began back in September, 2021, not this spring as DHS Secretary Mayorkas testified.

Also we know from leaked documents that the focus was not on “foreign adversaries” but was to focus on “conspiracy theories about the validity and security of elections” and “disinformation related to the origins and effects of COVID-19 vaccines or the efficacy of masks.”

Also: smoking-gun proof that DHS senior officials sought high-level meetings with Twitter to push censorship of Americans! Will more senators show interest in these lies and attacks on the First Amendment?

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/06/busted-homeland-security-secretary-lied-to-senate-about-disinfo-board.html

Visiting EU president tells ToI: We’ll pressure Putin for as long as it takes

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe sees Jerusalem as a valuable ally on defense, energy, food security, says Von der Leyen; Iran deal ready but ‘political decisions needed’

In February 2015, as Russia-backed separatists waged war in eastern Ukraine, America seemed eager for a fight.

Then-vice president Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin “continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past.”

Former US Air Force general Philip Breedlove, then NATO’s top commander, told journalists that military support for Ukraine should be part of the package of Western pressure on Russia. “There is a large tool bag that we can use,” he said.

But among Europe’s major powers, the tone was different.

At that month’s annual security conference in Munich, Germany’s then-defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed Berlin’s view that military support was counterproductive. As The New York Times paraphrased her comments at the time, “Germany sees Ukraine and Russia as a chance to prove that in the 21st century, developed nations should solve disputes at the negotiating table, not with weapons.” Russia, she noted, could match any Western help with “an almost infinite supply of weapons it could send in to Ukraine.”

That was the view of the Merkel government, of Francois Hollande’s France, of much of Europe.

No longer.

“For the first time in history, the EU is financing deliveries of weapons – we have so far allocated two billion euros to cover the needs of the Ukrainian defense forces,” von der Leyen, now president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, told The Times of Israel in an interview by email ahead of her visit to Israel, which begins Monday.

The visit is about many things, some of them standard fare for such trips. Von der Leyen will be meeting Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, and so on.

But the heart of the trip is, ultimately, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the profound reorientation sparked by that aggression, including Europe’s sudden need to expand its defense capabilities, energy supply and food security.

The change in tone and outlook that has come over von der Leyen since Putin’s February invasion is, like her, representative of Europe as a whole.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-russian-threat-looming-european-union-chief-looks-to-israel-for-solutions/

GOP Rep. Jordan says Jan 6 committee altered evidence, 'lied to the American people'

House Republicans are betting that Americans will see the panel's presentation "for what it is, a partisan political."

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says members of the Democrat-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot altered evidence in the form of a text exchange between him and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Calling the entire primetime presentation of the committee Thursday "choreographed," Jordan, an Ohio lawmaker, said he does not trust what the panel is presenting and wants to "see all the depositions."

"When you think about what this committee has done, never in the history of this country, in the history of the House of Representatives, has a minority leader not been able to put on a select committee that individuals he or she has selected," said Jordan, adding that Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) has also sent a preservation letter to the committee requesting that all information be kept for review.

"We also know that this committee has altered evidence and lied to the American people about it, so much so that they had to issue a statement which says, we regret the error, which is government-speak for, we got caught lying," also said Jordan, who has not complied with the committee's subpoena to testify.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/jim-jordan-says-january-6-committee-altered-evidence-lied-american

UK Health Agency Reports Over 99% Of Monkeypox Patients Are Gay Men

Monkeypox is being spread almost entirely by men who "identify as gay, bisexual" or "men who have sex with men," according to a survey from UK health authorities.

"A high proportion of England cases were known to be London residents (81%, 224 of 276 with reported home address), the UK Health Security Agency reported in a briefing on Friday. "Where gender information was available, 311 (99% of 314) confirmed cases were male, with 3 confirmed female cases. The median age of confirmed cases in the UK was 38 years old (interquartile range 32 to 44)."

"One hundred and fifty-two cases participated in more detailed questionnaires, implemented from 26 May 2022, and used retrospectively. In this data, 151 of the 152 men interviewed identified as gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM), or reported same sex contact, and the remaining individual declined to disclose this information. Recent foreign travel, within 21 days prior to symptom onset, was reported by 75 cases (22%), with 59 of these reporting travel within Europe."

As I reported last week, the first monkeypox patient to go public was an HIV+ homosexual man from London who said he believes he got the virus from one of "around ten" recent gay sex partners.

Though most of the world was put on lockdown over covid with tens of millions of people losing their jobs, public health authorities have made it abundantly clear that asking gay men to stop having sex with dozens of strangers to stop the spread of monkeypox is untenable.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63145

Spanish Police Seize Tonnes of Drugs, Arrest Officers Accused of Corruption

Authorities said that in two unrelated operations, Spanish police recovered the largest amount of synthetic cathinones ever found in Europe and arrested 61 suspected members of a gang that bribed officers to turn a blind eye to drug deliveries to Europe.

The cases show how much corruption has infiltrated society having in mind that private companies, police and customs officials were allegedly involved in those crimes.

In one case, the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) seized 3.2 tonnes of cathinones, with a market worth of up to 61 million euros (US$65.45 million), the police said in a statement.

The inquiry into the matter began earlier this year, after reliable evidence was discovered during an unrelated search in France, hinting that some port facilities in Barcelona may have been utilized for drug hiding.

The investigation found that three companies, involving custom specialists, imported huge amounts of the psychoactive material, then fabricated customs reports to avoid any possible inspection control, according to the statement.

In another operation, supported by the EU law enforcement agency Europol and the Economic Crime Center, the Guardia Civil and the Spanish National Police (Policia Nacional) have dismantled a drugs trafficking network that allegedly relied on corrupt law enforcement and customs officers to ship hundreds of millions of euros worth of cocaine and hashish into Western Europe.

A total of 61 people were detained for their involvement in this criminal activity, including five Civil Guard members, one National Police officer, and one customs officer, who were identified owing to Europol and Eurojust coordination, Europol said in a statement.

“These arrests follow an 18-month long investigation into two criminal gangs, known as ‘Clan de Tanger’ and ‘Clan del Sur’, who are believed to have smuggled over 16 tonnes of cocaine and 150 tonnes of hashish via the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain for further distribution across Europe,” read the statement.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16426-spanish-police-seize-tonnes-of-drugs-arrest-officers-accused-of-corruption

HSI-led investigation leads to 25-year prison sentence for sexual exploitation of children by US Navy service member

NORFOLK, Va. – An investigation led by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C. field office landed a Norfolk sailor in federal prison for 25 years followed by a lifetime of supervised release for sexually abusing a child.

According to the HSI investigation, Travis James Muckelroy, 27, used a social media platform to develop online relationships with children. On various occasions in April and September of 2021, Muckelroy instructed a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl to send him nude photographs or recordings of themselves engaging in sexual acts.

Muckelroy made these requests even after one of the girls informed him that she was the victim of rape. In addition to these young girls, Muckelroy used the same social media platform to communicate with at least three other suspected minors.

“Mr. Muckelroy’s actions were beyond reprehensible, and the barbarity of his crimes is reflected in the severity of his sentence” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Brenda Nevano of HSI’s Washington, D.C. field office. “HSI Washington, D.C., will continue to work tirelessly to hold accountable anyone who attempts to bring harm to the citizens we have sworn to protect.”

At the time of his arrest, Muckelroy was an active-duty sailor assigned to the U.S.S Gerald R. Ford docked at U.S. Naval Station, Norfolk. Muckelroy had been serving as an aviation ordinance airman; he enlisted in the Navy in 2019.

HSI Washington, D.C., led the investigation with significant participation from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Norfolk field office.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

Anyone with information regarding the sexual exploitation of children is encouraged to provide their tips to law enforcement – HSI has a nationwide tip line to report crime by calling 1-866-DHS-2-ICE.

HSI is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for investigating transnational crime and threats, specifically those criminal organizations that exploit the global infrastructure through which international trade, travel, and finance move. HSI’s workforce of over 10,400 employees consists of more than 7,100 special agents assigned to 220 cities throughout the United States, and 80 overseas locations in 53 countries. HSI’s international presence represents DHS’s largest investigative law enforcement presence abroad and one of the largest international footprints in U.S. law enforcement.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-led-investigation-leads-25-year-prison-sentence-sexual-exploitation-children-us

Biden To World: Russia, Oil Sheiks, And China Control The U.S. Economy

On Friday, after news broke that inflation again accelerated to reach a 40-year high of 8.6 percent, President Joe Biden turned America’s financial crisis into a national security one by telling the world that foreign leaders have near-total control over the U.S. economy.

Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released May’s price report, which in addition to reporting an 8.6 percent annual inflationary rate showed a full 1 percent increase last month, President Biden began the spin: “Today’s report underscores why I have made fighting inflation my top economic priority. While it is good to see critical ‘core’ inflation moderating, it is not coming down as sharply and as quickly as we must see. Putin’s price hike hit hard in May here and around the world: high gas prices at the pump, energy, and food prices accounted for around half of the monthly price increases.”

The president’s entire pitch struck a chord conflicting with reality. “Biden hasn’t made inflation his top economic priority,” noted Katie Pavlich soon after. “For months, his administration denied inflation was happening, saying it wouldn’t be an issue, before calling it temporary and transitory last summer.” And the skyrocketing inflation began before Russia’s January 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The public has long known that Biden suffers from an acute case of blameuitis. But the president’s continued claims that Putin holds responsibility for our country’s accelerating inflationary rates, when coupled with Biden’s other actions and inactions, is not merely tone deaf, it is dangerous. While finger-pointing has long been a mainstay for politicians, the Biden administration’s messaging goes beyond shifting blame to conceding that foreign leaders can control the U.S. economy in Joe Biden’s America.

President Biden’s reported plans to meet with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a trip to the region next month confirm this. Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest oil producer behind the United States, serves as the “unofficial head of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),” and the planned visit seems certain to push for more oil production from OPEC countries.

Goes Begging on His Knees to Country He Spurned

The announcement of President Biden’s intent to meet with bin Salman represents a course change so sharp that it will be seen as the United States’ complete subservience to the country Biden promised to make “the pariah that they are” shortly before his election.

In the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, “Biden promised to take a hard line on Saudi Arabia, saying he would rip up the ‘dangerous blank check’ that Trump had written for the Saudis.” During a 2019 presidential debate, Biden added that there is “very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.”

After his election, Biden “released a U.S. intelligence report that concluded that Prince Mohammed had approved the plan to capture or kill [journalist Jamal Khashoggi], who had been an outspoken critic of the young Saudi ruler.” The Biden administration then continued its efforts to distance itself from Saudi Arabia then, with then-Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying “the Biden administration will ‘recalibrate’ how it treats the kingdom.”

The Biden administration also moved to isolate bin Salman, with Psaki calling his father, King Salman, President Biden’s “counterpart.” This pronouncement, notwithstanding the fact that bin Salman has been considered the “de facto ruler” of Saudi Arabia for some time, seemed to declare the Biden administration unwilling to work with the Saudi leader.

Just more than a year later, however, with Putin’s troops poised to invade Ukraine, the Biden administration is abruptly changing course, and Saudi Arabia has certainly noticed. The president’s staff tried unsuccessfully to arrange a call between Biden and bin Salman “as the U.S. was working to build international support for Ukraine and contain a surge in oil prices.”

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/13/biden-to-world-russia-oil-sheiks-and-china-control-the-u-s-economy/

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Mike Pompeo: We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole