Steve Bannon Swatted at DC Home for Second Time on Same Night Joe Biden Declares War Against MAGA Republicans

This is the second swatting of Bannon’s home this summer with the first taking place July 8 while he on air at the nearby War Room studio.

The Daily Mail reported an ambulance and firetruck also responded to Bannon’s home Thursday night (excerpt):

The million dollar DC home of former Donald Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon was swatted Thursday for the second time in two months.

Police in the nation’s capital confirmed to DailyMail.com that cops were called to the home…at 7:17 pm local time.

According to the cops, after further investigation it was confirmed that no shots were fired and that there was no active threat. There were no injuries as a result of the swatting.

In addition to the police, fire and ambulances were also dispatched to the residence.

Fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was recently swatted three times at her Georgia home.

Republican nominated Supreme Court justices have been targeted by mobs at their homes for months with Justice Kavanaugh having a gunman show up at his home in June intent on killing the justice and his family.

Meanwhile Joe Biden is inciting attacks on MAGA Republicans with speeches calling them a threat to democracy.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/steve-bannon-swatted-dc-home-second-time/

Disney Airs Sick Satanic Cartoon “Little Demon” Plot Features Demonic Pagan Rituals and a Single Mom knocked up By Satan

Last week, Disney continued down its path to destruction, releasing a new cartoon entitled Little Demon, and it is just as bad as it sounds.

The cartoon takes place 13 years after an unmarried pagan woman is impregnated by Satan (voice played by Danny Devito) and follows her and her daughter (literally the spawn of Satan and referred to as the Antichrist) through everyday life.

The series features demonic witchcraft, pagan rituals, gratuitous blood, gore and nudity, and judging by the trailer (included here, but not recommended) can easily be considered pornographic by definition.

YouTuber Nick Jones points out that, while the cartoon is an “adult comedy,” it will undoubtedly attract the eyes of young viewers. But perhaps even more sinister is how spiritually undiscerning adults are being targeted with the normalization of satanic, demonic and pagan ideas through the use a comedic cartoon, that will further desensitize themselves and their children to this kind of evil.

https://youtu.be/D9OQrNI8OpM

One Million Moms, an organization whose goal is to stop the exploitation of children, writes:

Along with other Disney-associated productions such as Maleficent, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and The Owl House, this new adult cartoon series, Little Demon, is also set in a spiritually demonic realm.

According to Deadline, a Hollywood online news source, “Among other shenanigans, the comedy … shows Laura [the mother] nude with no pixilation. She strips down in the first episode to perform a ritual, while there are multiple instances of nudity throughout the series.”

Series creator Seth Kirschner told reporters, “We are going to keep going for it until we are told no.”

Let us be sure they are told, “No!” quickly!

The Bible tells us clearly in Isaiah 8:19-22 of a spiritual realm that is not of God. It warns us not to participate in witchcraft or consult with mediums but to call on God. Deuteronomy 18:10-11 also warns us to avoid witchcraft in all forms.

One Million Moms has a petition asking Disney to cancel Little Demon, you can sign here.

Disney seems to be dead set on continuing their march into darkness as we previously reported, Disney announced that they created a task force to create more LGBTQ content for children, and recently announced casting a drag queen in a new marvel comic series Ironheart.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/disney-airs-sick-satanic-cartoon-little-demon-plot-features-demonic-pagan-rituals-single-mom-knocked-satan/

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1565672341073498112

Judge Unseals More Detailed Inventory of What FBI Seized From Mar-a-Lago

https://www.scribd.com/document/591069991/gov-uscourts-flsd-618763-39-1-1#from_embed

Watch: WH Press Secretary Declares "If You Disagree With The Majority That Is Extreme Thinking"

https://youtu.be/dButKWnTmG8

Ukraine admits shelling area around nuclear plant

Kiev’s General Staff also says there are no Russian troops inside at the Zaporozhye facility

The Ukrainian military publicly admitted striking the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in an official General Staff briefing on Friday. Previously, Kiev had claimed that Russian forces used the plant as a military base; now it says all troops have relocated due to the visit by IAEA inspectors.

“In the areas of the settlements of Kherson and Energodar, accurate strikes by our troops destroyed three enemy artillery systems, as well as an ammunition depot and up to a company of personnel,” said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the daily briefing.

The military also claimed that, due to the arrival of the IAEA inspection team, the Russian “occupiers removed all military equipment from the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. About 100 units moved to the plant ‘Atom Energomash’ and the rest were dispersed in the nearest settlements.”

Energodar and the Zaporozhye facility have been under Russian control since early March, and functioned without problems until drone and artillery attacks began in July. Kiev has argued that the shelling was a false-flag operation by Moscow to make Ukraine look bad, but also that Russia was using the plant as a base for heavy artillery and equipment.

Moscow has consistently denied the accusations, saying that only lightly armed guards were deployed at the facility to ensure its security. On Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Ukrainian claims that Moscow was using the facility to attack Ukrainian positions “with long-range artillery systems” were “blatant lies.”

“I state with confidence that we do not have heavy weapons at the territory of the nuclear power stations and in adjacent neighborhoods,” Shoigu said at a meeting in Moscow, adding that he hoped the IAEA inspectors would testify to this as well.

Shoigu also said there have been 29 attacks against the Zaporozhye facility since July 18, involving 120 artillery projectiles and 16 kamikaze drones.

The IAEA mission arrived at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on Thursday, led by agency chief Rafael Grossi personally. Grossi said the IAEA planned to have a “continued presence” on the site. As the IAEA team was en route, a group of Ukrainian commandos used boats to land in Energodar and attempted to storm the power plant. Their goal, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, was to use the IAEA inspectors as “human shields.” However, Russian troops destroyed both the initial strike group and its reinforcements.

https://www.rt.com/russia/562082-ukraine-admits-bombing-npp/

Canadian PM responds to schoolgirl-smuggling spy scandal

New reports suggest a Canadian intelligence officer helped several British schoolgirls join Islamic State in Syria

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said his government will “follow up” on recent reports that a Canadian intelligence officer helped traffic British schoolgirls into Syria in 2015, at least one of whom ended up marrying an Islamic State fighter.

Speaking to reporters at a news conference on Wednesday, Trudeau acknowledged that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) must abide by Canadian laws and “strict rules” of conduct, and vowed to ensure that “proper oversight is done as necessary.”

However, he added that intelligence services need to be “flexible and creative in their approaches” to keep Canada and Canadians safe “in a very dangerous world.”

The PM’s response comes after a recent book titled “The Secret History of the Five Eyes” by award-winning investigative journalist Richard Kerbaj, claimed that a Canadian spy had smuggled UK-born Shamima Begum and a couple of her friends into Syria in 2015.

Begum, who was 15 at the time, along with her school friends Kadiza Sultana, 16 and Amira Abase,15, all joined the Islamic State terrorist organization after they arrived in the country and allegedly married IS fighters.

It is believed that Sultana and Abase have since been killed, while Begum made national news as she attempted to return to the UK and regain her British citizenship, which was revoked under a UK Supreme Court ruling in 2019.

According to Kerbaj, the three schoolgirls were trafficked into Syria from Turkey in March 2015 by a man called Mohammed al-Rashed, who had worked as an informant for Canadian intelligence and allegedly smuggled dozens of other British nationals to fight for IS.

The book claims that Rashed told his Canadian handlers that Begum had traveled to Syria four days after she left the UK to join the terrorist organization, while the Metropolitan police launched a desperate search for the girls. Neither Canadian nor British authorities acknowledged that this link was made.

Kerbaj claims CSIS covered up its connection with the Begum case for seven years, saying: “taking refuge in the one thing that protects all intelligence agencies… against potential embarrassment: secrecy.”

UK and Canadian intelligence officials have so far declined to respond to Kerbaj’s claims, citing an inability to comment on operational matters.

https://www.rt.com/news/562058-canada-spy-syria-smuggling/

Serial Child Rapist Cops Get NO JAIL, As Jan. 6 Cop Gets 10 Years for Swinging a Flagpole

In the land of the free, swinging a flagpole at a cop will net you more jail time than repeatedly raping innocent children.

On Thursday, yet another example was made out of a January 6th rioter as Thomas Webster — an NYPD cop and former Marine — was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Webster has received the longest sentence to date of any of the other folks who got duped by Trump into "storming" the Capitol.

Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia told Webster on Thursday, according to the NY Times, “I think you were caught up in a moment, and as you well know, even being caught up in a moment has consequences.”

Webster pleaded guilty to the charge of felony assault as well as resisting or impeding an officer using a dangerous weapon; civil disorder; entering and remaining in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; and engaging in an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.

The judge added an extra 30 months to his sentence because he was wearing body armor.

Video showed Webster swing a flagpole at D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun. Webster also engaged in a physical altercation with Rathbun and attempted to remove his gas mask. Video shows that Rathbun hit Webster's face while trying to push him away and Webster claimed this justified his actions as self-defense.

Clearly the judge did not buy it.

Prosecutors were pushing for the maximum 17-year sentence but were only able to get 10.

While Webster certainly deserves to be held accountable for his actions that day, the length of his time behind bars — compared to cops who have killed innocent people — speaks volumes. One cannot help but think that this is an exceedingly punitive measure to make a political example out of those who entered the Capitol that day.

If we compare it with recent cases of cops who actually caused grave harm to innocent children and received no punishment, it's hard to see that Webster's case was not politically motivated.

In the land of the free, swinging a flagpole at a cop and engaging in a physical altercation outside the Capitol, will net you more jail time than repeatedly raping innocent children.

Brian O. Beck, 47, formerly of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee was suspended without pay in June 2018 after allegations came to light that he repeatedly raped a 14-year-old child beginning in 2016 and lasting for over 20 months. He was subsequently charged with two counts of rape by force or coercion and two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure.

For years, his victim sought justice. Last year, after becoming frustrated, her father spoke out about the lack of trial as his daughter's alleged rapist remained free.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/serial-child-rapist-cops-get-no-jail-as-jan-6-cop-gets-10-years-for-swinging-a-flagpole

Trudeau Calls Canadians Mentally Ill, Blames ‘Anxiety’ Caused by ‘Climate Change’ for Opposition to his Agenda

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blaming “increasing anxiety because of climate change” for anger towards politicians and opposition to his authoritarian agenda. Trudeau made the remarks when asked by a reporter what he thinks is behind a purported “rise in threats that politicians are facing.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has launched some of the world’s most Draconian COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates, claimed that the Canadians who are angered by and opposed to his policies are mentally ill.

Trudeau, a close associate of the World Economic Forum, made the claim during a string of disparaging comments about the Canadian people when asked by a reporter about a claimed “rise in threats” faced by politicians. The reporter didn’t elaborate on said threats or use any examples, though the Trudeau government has increasingly cast itself as the victim of the Canadian people in an effort to skirt criticism.

After pausing and appearing to be emotionally triggered by the question, Trudeau blamed “increasing anxiety because of climate change,” among a number of other factors.

“We’ve been through a lot. As a country [and] as a world over these past years,” Trudeau said, before accusing his political opponents of mental illness.

“Obviously, the pandemic, increasing anxiety because of climate change. Transformations of our economy. A rise in mental health and addiction problems, particularly with the opioid crisis that has been ravaging communities right across the country. It’s a lot of pressure on a lot of people,” Trudeau said, before claiming that “it’s going to take the orders of government” to solve the issues plaguing Canadians and others.

https://nationalfile.com/trudeau-calls-canadians-mentally-ill-blames-anxiety-caused-by-climate-change-for-opposition-to-his-agenda/

Over 1,000 Reports of Adverse Events After COVID-19 Vaccination in Toddlers, Babies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsRKgXI7pg4

Over 1,000 reports of adverse events have been lodged with U.S. authorities following COVID-19 vaccination in children aged 5 and younger.

As of Aug. 21, 998 non-serious reports have been entered into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for children 4 or younger who received a Pfizer vaccine and children 5 or younger who received a Moderna vaccine, Dr. Tom Shimabukuro said on Sept. 1.

Shimabukuro is a researcher with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which runs VAERS with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Most of the adverse event reports have been for outcomes designated non-serious, or events that did not include death, a life-threatening illness, hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization, permanent disability, congenital anomaly, or birth defect.

Of the 1,017 reported events, 19 were designated serious, with 9 for children who received a Moderna vaccine and 10 for children who received a Pfizer vaccine.

Details Omitted

The serious events were not detailed.

“Those details should not have been left out of the information released to ACIP and the public,” Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, told The Epoch Times in an email.

Shimabukuro was presenting the data (pdf) to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the CDC on vaccine guidance.

The most commonly reported events after receipt of Pfizer’s vaccine were errors in dosing, such as an incorrect dose being administered. Fever, rash, vomiting, fatigue, and diarrhea were also commonly reported. The most commonly reported events after receipt of Moderna’s vaccine were fever, rash, vomiting, and hives.

The number of reports represented 0.06 percent of the doses administered to children aged 5 or younger, who only became eligible for a vaccine in mid-June.

Shimabukuro said the data from VAERS and other systems did not reveal any new safety concerns.

Anybody can make reports to VAERS, but making a false report subjects a person to a criminal charge. Health care professionals are required to report adverse events for the vaccines under emergency use authorization. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are under emergency use authorization for young children.

However, research has found that the number of reports submitted to VAERS is an undercount of the actual number of adverse events.

“Even though not every adverse event reported to VAERS is causally related to vaccination, it is also true that one CDC funded study estimated that less than one percent of vaccine adverse events that occur are reported to VAERS,” Fisher said.

https://www.ntd.com/over-1000-reports-of-adverse-events-after-covid-19-vaccination-in-toddlers-babies_834716.html

NYC storage billboard mocks Prince Andrew’s sex abuse scandal

https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/nyc-storage-billboard-mocks-prince-andrew-sex-abuse-scandal/

Ernest Terrell Blakney allegedly kills ex Nikia Rogers after judge let him walk following child sex guilty plea

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Borowski

A Wisconsin man allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend just days after a judge denied a request from prosecutors to hold him in jail until his sentencing hearing, as he recently pleaded guilty to child sex charges.

Ernest Terrell Blakney, 47, is being accused by prosecutors of killing his ex-girlfriend and setting his Milwaukee home on fire on Aug. 25, according to FOX 6.

Both the Milwaukee police and fire departments went to the home shortly before 4:30 a.m. for a “house fire” call, but discovered a homicide victim, which was later identified as Nikia Rogers, 36.

An autopsy later revealed Rogers died from bullet wounds to her back and head. Her death was ruled a homicide.

Blakney was previously charged with second-degree sexual assault and was accused of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl in 2020. He posted $5,000 cash bail and was released from jail in November 2021, the complaint states.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/02/ernest-terrell-blakney-allegedly-kills/

Joe Biden Tries to Walk Back Dark Speech: ‘I Don’t Consider Any Trump Supporter to Be a Threat’

President Joe Biden tried Friday to walk back his dark political speech from the night before after receiving considerable backlash for trying to portray supporters of former President Donald Trump as radical extremists who threatened the United States.

“I don’t consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country,” Biden replied when asked by reporters at the White House about why he decided to say that Trump and his supporters were a threat to democracy.

The president tried to narrow his definition of exactly who he was talking about when he said “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country” in his speech Thursday night at Independence Hall in Pennsylvania.

“I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence and fails to condemn violence when it’s used, refuse to acknowledge an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which the rule – you count votes,” he said. “That is a threat to democracy. Democracy. And everything we stand for.”

Biden tried to walk back his darker assertions, noting that all Trump supporters did not support everything he did.

“When people voted for Donald Trump and support him now, they weren’t voting for attacking the Capitol, they weren’t voting for overruling an election,” he said. “They were voting for a philosophy that he put forward.”

Biden said he was only talking about people in the country who were violent election deniers.

“So I am not talking about anything other than it is inappropriate and it’s not only happening here but in other parts of the world, where there’s a failure to recognize and condemn violence whenever it’s used for political purposes, failure to condemn the manipulation of electoral outcomes. Failure to acknowledge when elections were won or lost,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/02/joe-biden-tries-to-walk-back-dark-speech-i-dont-consider-any-trump-supporter-to-be-a-threat/

Report: Tony Bobulinski Fears Former FBI Agent Buried Biden Family Chinese Business Bombshell

Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski reportedly fears the recently departed former FBI agent Timothy Thibault buried the information he conveyed to the FBI about his Chinese business dealings with the Biden family.

Bobulinski, who personally met with President Joe Biden in 2017 for an hour to discuss “the Bidens’ family business plans with the Chinese,” is worried Thibault helped “bury information about his dealings with the Biden family that he gave the FBI,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Friday. Thibault was reportedly “running point” on the FBI’s inquiry into Hunter Biden and “allegedly shut down part of the investigation.”

A 2017 email from Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed a business deal between Bobulinski, the Biden family, and high-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party would include ten percent “held by H for the big guy ?” Bobulinski has confirmed “the reference to ‘the big guy’ in the much-publicized May 13, 2017 e-mail was in fact a reference to Joe Biden.

Though Joe Biden and his staff have claimed seven times the president has had no part in the family business, he has been involved in at least 17 instances. Fifty-eight percent of voters believe that Joe Biden has played a role in his family’s business. Sixty percent say Hunter Biden has sold “influence and access” to the president.

Thibault served as an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI’s Washington Field Office and allegedly left the agency while denying allegations leveled against him. The Office of Special Counsel is probing Thibault for a potential Hatch Act violation after he allegedly exhibited political bias on social media. He is also facing whistleblower allegations for mislabeling the Hunter Biden revelations as “verified and verifiable derogatory… disinformation,” according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/02/report-tony-bobulinski-fears-former-fbi-agent-buried-biden-family-chinese-business-bombshell/

Nancy Pelosi Calls Biden’s Angry Speech Railing MAGA Republicans ‘Inspiring and Optimistic’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spun President Biden’s dark and divisive speech, in which he claimed that MAGA Republicans are posing an actual threat to the “very foundations of our Republic,” both “inspiring and optimistic,” as the 82-year-old also accused MAGA Republicans of “orchestrating a sinister campaign.”

Biden delivered a dark and angry speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thursday night, using an ominous red and black background featuring two Marines as a backdrop. The speech centered around Biden’s disdain for the Make America Great Again Movement, blaming MAGA Republicans and former President Donald Trump for divisive tone in the country.

“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” Biden proclaimed.

“And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution,” he said, claiming that they also do not “believe in the rule of law,” despite the fact that it is those on the right who typically defend and support law enforcement.

“They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they’re working right now as I speak in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself,” he claimed, adding that “MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”

“They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fanned the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country,” he railed.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/02/nancy-pelosi-calls-bidens-angry-speech-railing-maga-republicans-inspiring-optimistic/

European Union Meeting Gas Needs by Turning to Communist China, which Has Bought Surplus Supplies from Russia

The European Union has reportedly been meeting its natural gas needs with increased imports from Communist China, which has been purchasing gas in bulk from Russia.

Beijing’s decision to up its purchases of Russian liquid natural gas since the beginning of the year has seemingly paid off, with the communist nation’s surplus LNG being shipped to the energy-strapped European Union at a premium.

According to a report from the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post in July, the Chinese state bought 2.35 million tonnes of liquid natural gas during the first half of the year from Russia for approximately $2.16 billion, an increase of 28.7 per cent over last year and the value of which has increased by 182 per cent.

At the same time, imports from all other major LNG suppliers to China have fallen, meaning that Russia has become the Asian nation’s second-largest source of the energy source, overtaking the United States and Indonesia.

With the supply of Russian gas to Europe hitting a 40-year low, the bloc has been willing to pay the premium on the open market to shore up its supplies, as there are concerns that Russia could further cut the taps in the winter months to put the squeeze on Europe, which has heavily sanctioned Moscow over the war in Ukraine.

Consequently the European Union’s imports from the international market have jumped by 60 per cent in the first six months of the year over 2021, totalling some 53 million tonnes.

The result has been a boon for Beijing, with one recent trade from the Chinese JOVO group of an LNG cargo ship to a European buyer netting up to $100 million in profits. The Chinese state-owned energy company Sinopec, alone, has reportedly sold 45 shiploads of LNG, totalling some 3.15 million tonnes on the open market. According to estimates from FT, China has resold some 4 million tonnes on the international market this year, approximately equivalent to seven per cent of the EU’s imports in the six months leading up to July.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/09/02/european-union-meeting-gas-needs-by-turning-to-communist-china-which-has-bought-surplus-supplies-from-russia/

India Declines to Commit to US-Proposed Price Cap on Russian Oil

US Deputy Secretary of Treasury Wally Adeyemo held wide-ranging talks with Indian officials, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on August 26, trying to persuade India to join the move. The discussion on the price cap is likely to continue next week during the visit of India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s to the US.

India has not committed to the US’ proposal of capping Russian oil prices during the recent visit of US Deputy Secretary of Treasury Wally Adeyemo, three government officials in Delhi told Sputnik.

Last Friday, Adeyemo claimed that Delhi showed “great interest” in capping oil prices, a step Washington has been pushing for in a bid to curb Russia’s export revenues in response to Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine.

“US sought our words on the proposal of oil capping. Why should we say anything about this? It is up to them to sort out [certain] issues before making any conclusion,” one official told Sputnik, indicating that energy trade dominated the recent discussions between the two strategic partners.

The official added that talks also included the issue of a consensus among OPEC countries and some other geopolitical issues, such as the ongoing talks on the revival of the 2015 Iran deal.

“Will Gulf countries agree on price capping [given that] the step will negatively impact the business interests of OPEC? Will the US remove sanctions on Iranian oil exports? And top among them is [the question of] how Russia [will] react to the proposal,” the official underlined.

Another government official approached by Sputnik said that India will continue to prioritize its national interests, which the Modi government has repeatedly underscored in response to western criticism of a massive jump in India’s purchases of Russian oil.

India imports 85 percent of its oil, and “discounted” Russian oil has helped Delhi provide relief to 1.3 billion people from double-digit inflation. India also needs lower oil imports bill to control its ballooning trade deficit.

“It is their words, not ours. We can’t guide anyone to speak in a particular manner,” a third official, who was involved in the delegation-level talk with the US, told Sputnik, indicating discussions about the price cap were held, but it was Washington who was behind the initiative.

Arindam Bagchi, an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, replied to Sputnik on Thursday, saying that the discussion with the US was held on issues such as “G20 priorities, climate finance, terror financing, energy security, energy trade, and issues related to the IMF.”

On Friday, G7 finance ministers agreed to introduce price capping for international purchases of Russian oil.

The ministers also said that the G7 will develop “targeted mitigation mechanisms” to ensure that vulnerable countries will still have access to energy markets, including “from Russia.”

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the G7’s plans for a price cap “will substantially destabilize” oil markets. He said that Russia will supply oil to those countries that operate according to market conditions.

https://alethonews.com/2022/09/02/india-declines-to-commit-to-us-proposed-price-cap-on-russian-oil/

Wisconsin man charged with election fraud, identity theft

Wisconsin man charged with election fraud after attempting to expose vulnerabilities in election system

Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man Thursday with election fraud and identity theft after he acknowledged that he fraudulently requested absentee ballots in what he says was an effort to expose vulnerabilities in the state's election system.

The state Department of Justice charged 68-year-old Harry Wait with two misdemeanor counts of election fraud and two felony counts of identity theft. He would face up to 13 years behind bars if convicted on all four counts.

Wait told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he wasn't surprised he was charged.

"You got to expect to pay some costs sometimes when you are trying to work for the public good," he said. "You can't always stay in the safe zone."

The charges mark another bizarre chapter in a seemingly endless fight over election administration in Wisconsin, a key battleground state as the 2024 presidential election approaches.

The battle began after Joe Biden won the state in 2020, defeating former President Donald Trump by nearly 21,000 votes. Trump has refused to accept the loss, insisting the election was marred by fraud. Multiple reviews and court decisions have upheld Biden’s victory, but Trump’s supporters have spent the months since promoting his baseless claims that Biden somehow stole the election.

Wait publicly acknowledged in July that he visited the state's MyVote Wisconsin website and ordered absentee ballots in the name of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Racine Mayor Cory Mason and several other people by entering their personal information. He said he asked that the ballots be delivered to his home.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-man-charged-election-fraud-identity-theft

Ivermectin: The Truth

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Hunter Biden set up dinner for client at Chinese Embassy in DC after Joe’s luncheon: emails

First son Hunter Biden helped to arrange a dinner at the Chinese Embassy in Washington for a client of his now-defunct investment company — by working with a top Beijing diplomatic official he met at a January 2011 luncheon hosted by his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to correspondence obtained by The Post and Fox News Digital.

Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his former business associate at Rosemont Seneca Partners, assisted Marvin Lang — the managing director of Guardian Realty in Maryland — in setting up the dinner with Deng Hongbo, the embassy’s deputy chief of mission, on April 28, 2011.

The dinner was later publicized on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/ce/ceus/eng/sgxw/sghds/t819437.htm

Schwerin also helped to arrange for Ted Kaufman, a longtime adviser to Joe Biden who was appointed to fill his Senate seat after he was sworn in as vice president in 2009, to deliver the keynote address at the event and paid him $10,000 for the privilege.

The idea for the dinner arose in emails exchanged by Schwerin, Lang and Hunter Biden in December 2010.

Lang, a major Democratic donor, contacted the then-vice president’s son to thank him for a lunch meeting and to say he was “excited” to establish a “long relationship” with Rosemont.

On Jan. 12, 2011, following an exchange of messages among the three, Hunter Biden emailed Schwerin to say: “Marvin wants to know where we are in on finding space for the dinner — Chinese embassy is his #1 choice.”​

Seven days later, Schwerin contacted Lang and cc’d Hunter Biden in an email to notify him that Hunter Biden had had a lunch with the “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy and the contact would be “helpful” in setting up the dinner for Guardian Realty, which describes itself as a “fully integrated real estate investment company” on its website.

“[I] just talked to Hunter and he said he sat with the number three official at the Embassy today at lunch and has contact information to follow up after the [Chinese] President has left the US,” Schwerin wrote in the message.

“Hunter’s said his contact will be helpful, but the Minister won’t be able to focus on this until after the delegation has left at the end of the week. Sounds like this is the right contact though,” he added.

A little more than a week later, on Jan. 28, 2011, Zhou Jingxing, the deputy director at the Chinese Embassy, responded to an email from Hunter Biden about his contacts with “Minister Yang.”

The reference, Fox News reported, is to Yang Jiechi, a member of the Chinese Communist Party since 1971 who served as foreign minister from 2007 to 2013.

“Minister Yang asked me to follow up with you directly. You will be receiving a formal request from Guardian’s Chairman, Marvin Lang, shortly but I wanted to put forward some dates that work on their end: May 5, 12, or 19,” Hunter Biden wrote​ to Zhou​. “We look forward to working with you and thank you for your help and consideration.”

Zhou said he would “check with the Embassy logistics to see if the dining room is available on your proposed dates.”​

https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/hunter-biden-set-up-dinner-for-client-at-chinese-embassy-in-dc-after-joes-luncheon-emails/

http://www.china.org.cn/world/2011-01/20/content_21780631.htm

Google to bans apps containing “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus”

The Android app store, Google Play, has introduced sweeping new rules that ban apps containing what the tech giant deems to be “misleading health claims that contradict existing medical consensus, or can cause harm to users.”

The new rules are part of a Google Play “health misinformation” policy that came into force on August 31. Some of the examples of in-app content that’s banned under this new policy include “misleading claims about vaccines, such as that vaccines can alter one’s DNA,” “advocacy of harmful, unapproved treatments,” and “advocacy of other harmful health practices, such as conversion therapy.”

Google’s new policy comes at a time when the medical consensus has changed multiple times over the last few years. In 2020 Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said that Pfizer’s reported 90% COVID-19 vaccine efficacy rate was “extraordinary.” In 2021, Fauci said the vaccine will “protect you against the surging of the delta variant.” But this year, former White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx admitted that she “knew” COVID vaccines would not prevent infection.

Despite this constant flip flopping, Big Tech platforms have still heavily censored users that dare to contradict whatever the current medical consensus is. Facebook banned users for suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective and YouTube banned anything that goes against the World Health Organization (WHO). Even after the consensus changed and some of the censorship rules were quietly dropped, most of the censored posts and channels weren’t reinstated.

The new health misinformation rules add to Google Play’s extensive set of existing misinformation rules which prohibit apps containing “election misinformation” and “misleading” content. Google Play has already removed thousands of apps under these existing rules.

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-bans-misleading-health-claims/

How Dick Cheney Created Anthony Fauci

America's biodefence strategy has finally backfired

Few people in America today are as powerful and polarising as Anthony Fauci. For the Left, Fauci is a consummate cool-headed scientist, emblematic of the essential role of government. On the Right, he is a Deep State operative who destroyed the lives of countless people to serve a hidden agenda, all while mysteriously taking home a bigger paycheck than any other of the country’s two million federal employees (including their collective boss, the President).

The reality is that both narratives fundamentally misunderstand the position Fauci occupies in American government. Far from being a public health expert, Fauci sits at the very top of America’s biodefence infrastructure. And contrary to the notion that he is a Deep State string-puller of the Democratic party, it was George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who not only put Fauci there but created the very framework that the immunologist-physician commands.

This in part accounts for the otherwise inexplicable fact that Fauci, loathed by President Trump, was never fired by the notoriously vengeful politician who galvanised his brand with the phrase “You’re fired!”. But Fauci’s untouchability raises an even more perplexing question: Why did the media beatify him as the country’s beneficent, infallible Covid saviour rather than look into the reality of his position and the source of his nearly limitless authority?

To understand the rise of Fauci, and his legacy as he retires this year, we must return to the first months of the 2000s, when a hawkish new administration was settling into power. While George W. Bush had come to Washington touting a new brand of “compassionate conservatism”, Cheney came carrying decades of Defense Department experience, including a term as Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush during Operation Desert Storm.

Bush’s interest in biodefence and pandemic preparedness is frequently traced back to a 2004 book, The Great Influenza. The reality, however, is that the administration came to power with biological weapons and infectious disease very much top of mind, with Cheney seeking to address the gaping hole in America’s national security left by the country’s lack of a coherent biodefence strategy.

But if biodefence wasn’t already a priority for the Bush White House, that swiftly changed a week to the day after the 9/11 attacks, a mere eight months into Bush’s first term, when the United States suffered the most serious biological weapons attack in its history. On September 18, 2001, a number of national media outlets, including CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, the New York Post and the National Enquirer, received a series of letters containing a dry white powder. Three weeks later, a second round of letters was sent to the offices of senators Tom Daschle, then the Senate Majority leader, and Patrick Leahy, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Twenty-two people were infected with anthrax, five of whom died. Already in a state of unprecedented military alert, the United States was sent into near-chaos by the anthrax attacks, which, by essentially weaponising the postal system with one of the world’s most lethal pathogens, engendered a sense that the country was under attack by an unseen enemy with unfathomable capabilities.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-dick-cheney-created-anthony-fauci/5792048

Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World

Defense Department-sponsored “Warrior Games” featured liberal comedian Jon Stewart awarding a member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Disney World. The Pentagon refused to tell The Grayzone whether US taxpayers funded the foreign competitors’ travel.

This August, during the Department of Defense’s annual Warrior Games at Disney World in Orlando, Florida this August 19-28, liberal comedian Jon Stewart awarded a Ukrainian military veteran named Ihor Halushka the “Heart of the Team” award for “inspiring his team” with his “personal example.”

Halushka happens to have been a member of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which has been armed by the US and integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard. The award-winning ultra-nationalist wore a sleeve over his left arm as he accepted the prize, presumably to cover up his tattoo of the Nazi Sonnenrad, or Black Sun.

Jon Stewart delivers opening remarks at the DoD Warrior Games

During the closing ceremony, Stewart awarded the Azov Battalion’s Halushka with the “Heart of the Team” award. The announcer proclaimed that Ihor “inspires his team with his personal example and his unique sense of humor. Sgt. First Class Ihor Halushka embodies the spirit and determination that is the heart of Team Ukraine.”

Stewart triumphantly bellowed “Ihor!” as the Nazi was presented with his trophy.

Reached by phone, Warrior Games communication director Travis Claytor would not tell The Grayzone who covered the travel expenses of Team Ukraine and other foreign competitors. Claytor merely stated that the Department of Defense is “not responsible” for their costs. However, he noted that “the relationship with each team is different.” Ukraine and Canada are the only foreign teams participating in this year’s competition.

While promising this reporter a more complete response by email, Claytor has so far failed to deliver.

A video on the DoD Warrior Games YouTube channel entitled “Family Night at Magic Kingdom” shows some members of Team Ukraine enjoying a night out at the world-famous theme park.

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https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/31/jon-stewart-pentagon-ukrainian-nazi-disney/

Document dump in Biden-Tech collusion suit reveals 'massive, sprawling' censorship: plaintiffs

Justice Department fights demand for Anthony Fauci testimony, including "nature and content" of phone conversations with Mark Zuckerberg. Several White House staff among 50-plus federal officials tied to misinformation removal efforts.

Even as President Biden warns the nation of the "extremist threat to our democracy" from Republicans in this fall's elections, new evidence suggests a much wider campaign by his administration to sic Big Tech on critics than previously thought, going so far as removing a parody of Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci.

The First Amendment lawsuit by Republican attorneys general and a civil liberties group against Biden, Fauci and several other high-level officials has revealed a "massive, sprawling federal 'Censorship Enterprise'" related to COVID-19 and elections, the plaintiffs said in a 711-page "joint statement on discovery disputes."

"If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased" by what the defendants have already turned over, New Civil Liberties Alliance lawyer Jenin Younes said.

The Justice Department cited its 15,000-page document production to oppose the "anything but reasonably tailored" discovery requests by Missouri's Eric Schmitt, Louisiana's Jeff Landry and NCLA, which DOJ called "grossly disproportionate" to this stage of litigation. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, Google's YouTube and LinkedIn provided information separately.

The "defendants' position" left out the elephant in the room: the likelihood of even greater harm to Democratic prospects if sensitive communications including Fauci and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre are required to be divulged before the midterms. Schmitt is the GOP nominee for retiring Sen. Roy Blunt's seat.

The plaintiffs are keen to compel Fauci to discuss the "nature and content" of his oral conversations with Zuckerberg, who gave the long-serving public health bureaucrat his personal cell phone number in March 2020.

They also want all Fauci communication with social media platforms related to the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration and its authors, who are represented by NCLA, as well as Trump coronavirus task force member Scott Atlas, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak and China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.

DOJ has "steadfastly refused" to respond to White House-directed requests despite discovery revealing "a glimpse into the involvement of several senior White House officials in communications with social-media platforms about censorship," the plaintiffs said, naming Andy Slavitt, Rob Flaherty, Courtney Rowe, Clark Humphrey, Dana Remus, Aisha Shah and Benjamin Wakana.

They also want the court to force defendants to identify officials and agencies "whom they know of outside their own agencies" who have had similar conversations, and compel "complete responses" from the Department of Health and Human Services and Fauci "in his capacity" as National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/white-house-ordered-fauci-parody-takedown-dozen-agencies-involved-big-tech

Another Partisan Hack Just Lost His Job at CNN

John Harwood says he's looking forward to 'figuring out what's next'

CNN's new leadership continues to purge the network's ranks of partisan hacks. White House correspondent John Harwood on Friday became the third partisan hack sent packing in as many weeks. The obnoxious journalist said he's looking forward to "figuring out what's next," suggesting this wasn't a planned departure.

Harwood's much-deserved ousting comes after the network cut ties with senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and senior media correspondent Brian Stelter—two of the most shameless partisan hacks in the history of American journalism. Harwood is no slouch in that department, either.

Since joining CNN in 2020, Harwood has made a name for himself by defending "brilliant public servant" Anthony Fauci, suggesting concerns about soaring inflation were "largely a charade," and loyally defending President Joe Biden against any and all forms of criticism.

Before that, the former NBC correspondent was best known for checking in with Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in 2015 for suggestions about what questions to ask Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush. Days later, Harwood emailed several Clinton aides to complain that his fellow journalists were "burning so much interview time with [the] person most likely to be next president on her emails."

Harwood followed up months later to tell Podesta that former president Barack Obama should feel "vindication at this demonstration of his years-long point about the opposition party veering off the rails," adding, "I certainly am feeling that way with respect to how I questioned [Donald] Trump at our debate."

Like most journalists, Harwood became increasingly radicalized during the Trump administration, frequently ranting about how Republicans "would smack their moms in the face" to please the president and comparing the GOP to the "old Confederacy." He rarely missed an opportunity to praise a Democrat for making a scene in public. For example, when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) wore a "Tax the Rich" dress to the Met gala in 2021, he praised her "talent" for being "able to articulate" her "strong belief system."

CNN's ratings have declined dramatically since Biden took office in 2021, and the network has been plagued by scandal since host Chris Cuomo was fired for colluding with his brother, disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.), to smear victims of sexual harassment. CNN president Jeff Zucker was forced out several months later for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a senior executive. Several months after that, the network pulled the plug on its $300 million premier streaming service, CNN+, after just 23 days in operation. Sad!

https://freebeacon.com/media/another-partisan-hack-just-lost-his-job-at-cnn/

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/09/02/48-empty-folders-marked-classified-or-top-secret-found-at-mar-a-largo-n1626517

Biden seeks $47B for Ukraine, COVID-19, monkeypox, disasters

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency dollars that would go toward the war in Ukraine, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states.

The request, which comes as lawmakers are preparing to return to Washington and fund the government, includes $13.7 billion related to Ukraine, including money for equipment, intelligence support and direct budgetary support. Shalanda Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said that more than three-fourths of the $40 billion approved by Congress earlier this year has already been disbursed or committed.

“We have rallied the world to support the people of Ukraine as they defend their democracy and we cannot allow that support to Ukraine to run dry,” Young said in a blog post.

The White House request will play into congressional budget negotiations in the coming weeks as financing for federal agencies is set to run out Sept. 30. Both parties will be seeking to avoid a government shutdown in the weeks before the midterm elections, but they will have to work out differences over issues like the COVID-19 aid, which has been a sticking point for many months as the White House has said more money is needed for vaccines and testing and Republicans have pointed to the trillions that have already been approved and money that is still unspent.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-covid-health-government-and-politics-d595f46db6a300b31a8ae8e11d3da3f8?taid=631232baa2fab90001a11148

Medical Technology Company President Convicted in $77 Million COVID-19 and Allergy Testing Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/medical-technology-company-president-convicted-77-million-covid-19-and-allergy-testing-scheme

Bayer to Pay $40 Million to Resolve the Alleged Use of Kickbacks and False Statements Relating to Three Drugs

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bayer-pay-40-million-resolve-alleged-use-kickbacks-and-false-statements-relating-three-drugs

Vaccines are taking an average of 5 months to kill people

TheCDC has been hiding the Social Security Administration death master file. I got it from a whistleblower.This shows deaths are taking 5 months from the jab to happen. This is why it's hard to see.

Executive Summary

We’ve always assumed the vaccine kills you quickly (in the first two weeks) because that’s when people notice the association and report it to VAERS. This is still true; it does kill some people quickly.

However, thanks to an HHS whistleblower, we can now clearly see that most of the deaths from the vaccine are happening an average of 5 months from the last dose. That is for the second dose; it may be getting shorter the more shots you get but there are arguments both ways (since there can be survivor bias).

But this explains why the life insurance companies got off-the-charts all-cause mortality peaks for people under 60 in Q3 and Q4 rather than right after the shots rolled out.

The five month delay is also consistent with death reports where people are developing new aggressive cancers that are killing them over a 4 to 6 month period.

The 5 month death delay was also confirmed using only European data. That analysis was posted Aug 11, but I learned about it after I wrote this post.

So when you hear of a death from stroke, cardiac arrest, heart attack, cancer, and suicide that is happening around 5 months after vaccination, it could very well be a vaccine-related death.

The data from the Social Security Administration death master file (ages 18 to 55)

I got this chart from a whistleblower who works for HHS. This is data you are not supposed to see. The mortality increase (60% at peak) is huge. That sort of increase can only be caused by something novel that affected massive numbers of people.

There is only one possibility that fits that: the COVID vaccine.

Steve Kirsch

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/this-one-graph-tells-you-everything

5 Times The Anti-Trump FBI’s ‘Trust Us’ Promise Fell Apart

1. Devin Nunes’ Memo Exposing FISA Abuse

On February 2, 2018, the House Intelligence Committee, then-chaired by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, released a four-page memo detailing abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the FBI.

Before the memo’s release, the FBI publicly opposed the move, claiming in a public statement that the bureau had “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.” Justice Department officials likewise opposed releasing the memo, warning that “doing so would be ‘extraordinarily reckless.’”

The then-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, also sought to scuttle the release of the memo — or at least preempt the detailed revelations of FISA abuse — by calling the memo a “conspiracy theory” in an op-ed for The Washington Post. In it, Schiff condemned the release, saying the memo was “designed to suggest that ‘a cabal of senior officials within the FBI and the Justice Department were so tainted by bias against President Trump that they irredeemably poisoned the investigation.’”

Nancy Pelosi, who is now speaker of the House, likewise attacked Nunes, demanding in a letter to then-House Speaker Paul Ryan that Nunes be removed as Intelligence Committee chairman. Nunes “disgraced” the committee with his “dishonest” handling of the committee’s review of the Russia collusion problem, Pelosi wrote. Nunes’ committee, Pelosi claimed, had become a “charade” and a “coverup campaign … to hide the truth about the Trump-Russia scandal.”

In response to the Nunes memo, former FBI Director James Comey told the country the memo was “dishonest and misleading.” Comey further claimed it “wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan also attacked Nunes, calling his exposure of the FISA abuse “appalling” and an abuse of his chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.

Of course, years later, Nunes was proven correct, as the inspector general’s report confirmed, establishing that the Republican House Intelligence chair had, if anything, understated the FISA abuse.

For all the assurances the DOJ, FBI, their former leaders, and top politicians provided the American public, they were either lying or wrong — or both because there was “a cabal of senior officials within the FBI and the Justice Department … so tainted by bias against President Trump that they irredeemably poisoned the investigation.”

1. Surveillance Warrants Are Hard to Get

In addition to wrongly condemning Nunes’ memo, government officials attempted to calm concerns over the FISA surveillance by assuring the public that the process of obtaining a surveillance warrant was “rigorous” and that to obtain surveillance of American citizens, a court must find “probable cause” that warrants the wiretap.

Adm. Michael Rogers, then a commander of United States Cyber Command, testified about the FISA process during a March 2017 congressional hearing. In response to a question posed to eliminate “confusion in the public” about the collection of personal data, Rogers confirmed that the National Security Agency “would need a court order based on probable cause to conduct electronic surveillance on a U.S. person inside the United States.”

During the same hearing, the then-recently fired former FBI Director Comey expanded on the surveillance process. “There is a statutory framework in the United States under which courts grant permission for electronic surveillance either in a criminal case or the national security case based on the showing of probable cause,” Comey testified before Congress. “It is a rigorous, rigorous process, involving all three branches of government,” the former FBI director stressed, noting it must go through an application process and then to a judge who must approve the order.

The IG report on FISA abuse proved the promised rigor didn’t exist. And the later conviction of Kevin Clinesmith for “falsifying a document that was the basis for a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign official Carter Page,” punctuated that reality. The facts revealed in the IG report further established that Americans’ faith in the FISA Court to serve as a check on the government was misplaced, with the judges serving as but a rubberstamp of the DOJ’s surveillance applications. So much for those assurances.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/02/5-times-the-anti-trump-fbis-trust-us-promise-fell-apart/

Ex-DoD Analyst: Spike in US Military Sex Abuse Triggered by Lowered Recruiting Standards

Reported sexual assaults across US military branches mounted by 13% last year, allegedly driven by significant increases in army and the navy recruitment, the Associated Press wrote on September 1.

"When you see the difference in the increase of reports of sexual abuse in the army and navy, relative to the air force and the marines, the first correlation is the quality of recruits that have been accepted into the branches of the military over the past decade or more," explained retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the Department of Defense.

Speaking to Associated Press on conditions of anonymity, military officials have recently revealed that nearly 36,000 service members said that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact in a survey. This constitutes a considerable increase over the roughly 20,000 who complained about alleged abuses in a similar survey in 2018.

The latest overall increase in sexual misconduct is largely fueled by a nearly 26% jump in reports involving army soldiers, according to the media outlet. It's the largest increase for the branch since 2013, when such reports soared by 51%.

At the same time, the US Navy has seen a 9% spike in reports, while that of the US Air Force and Marine Corps amounting to slightly more and slightly less than 2%, respectively.

Kwiatkowski pointed out that virtually all military branches of the US Armed Forces have continually lowered recruiting standards over time. However, none have done it more radically than the US Army, she remarked.

Accordingly, the military now includes extensive waivers for English language mastery, high school degrees, medical conditions, and – what's even more disturbing – criminal records, according to the former Pentagon analyst.

"A poorly-educated, English-language-challenged recruit, who may have issues with authority, is difficult train – especially when it comes to the sometimes ambiguous and culturally sensitive area of sexual harassment and sexual violence," explained Kwiatkowski. "Further, the quality of those in the military tasked to demonstrate good behavior and train others in this area may themselves be prone to abuse, and/or tolerating it. If both the trainers and the trainees are predisposed to a culture that disrespects women and men, organizational culture will be slow to change."

According to AP, the increase in reports describing sexual misconduct is particularly troublesome for the US Army which is already struggling to meet its recruiting goals. The recent revelations may prompt concerns over safety and well-being of US recruits, the media warned.

"Frankly, any person who is thinking about entering the US military must understand that the system is not going to take care of you in this regard – there are known risks, and protecting yourself in this area, including have a conscious plan for dealing immediately with sexual assault or harassment whenever you see it or experience it, needs to be job number one for everyone," Kwiatkowski highlighted.

https://sputniknews.com/20220902/ex-dod-analyst-spike-in-us-military-sex-abuse-triggered-by-lowered-recruiting-standards-1100323946.html

REPORTER: "How much coordination is there between the administration and social media companies.

KJP: "I don't have anything to share with you on that. I'm not gonna comment on that."

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1565785532688375810

U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China

Chip designer Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Wednesday that U.S. officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms' ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia's business in the country.

The announcement signals a major escalation of the U.S. crackdown on China's technological capabilities as tensions bubble over the fate of Taiwan, where chips for Nvidia and almost every other major chip firm are manufactured.

Nvidia shares fell 6.6% after hours. The company said the ban, which affects its A100 and H100 chips designed to speed up machine learning tasks, could interfere with completion of developing the H100, the flagship chip it announced this year.

Shares of rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) fell 3.7% after hours. An AMD spokesman told Reuters it had received new license requirements that will stop its MI250 artificial intelligence chips from being exported to China but it believes its MI100 chips will not be affected. AMD said it does not believe the new rules will have a material impact on its business.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/83388/us-officials-order-nvidia-to-halt-sales-of-top-ai-chips-to.html

Symbolism overload

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare fast-tracks bill to amend constitution and delay elections

The Solomon Islands opposition has accused Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of trying to "bulldoze" his contentious bill to delay next year's elections through parliament.

Key points:

Mr Sogavare wants to amend the constitution to extend parliament until after the Pacific Games

The opposition says the move is anti-democratic and risks creating more instability in the country

Australia says the timing of elections is an internal matter for Solomon Islands

Mr Sogavare wants to amend the country's constitution to extend parliament until after it hosts the Pacific Games in November 2023, arguing that Solomon Islands cannot afford to hold both major events in the same year.

But the move has angered the opposition, which says the move is profoundly anti-democratic and risks stoking fresh instability in the Pacific Island country.

Now Mr Sogavare has announced the constitutional amendment will be debated in parliament next week, effectively allowing him to dodge a parliamentary committee hearing where opposition MPs and civil society groups could weigh in on the bill.

Opposition Leader Matthew Wale responded angrily to the manoeuvre, calling it an "abuse of process".

"Obviously the Prime Minister is not interested in parliamentary practice or good governance, but he wants to shortcut the process," he said.

"It sets a bad precedent for the future. No prime minister or government should see it necessary to shortcut or undermine parliamentary process, especially on a matter of gravity."

Prominent opposition MP Peter Kenilorea Jr also criticised the move, calling it "a massive blow to participatory democracy in our nation" and a "sad day for democracy".

In a statement, the Prime Minister's Office rejected Mr Wale's comments, saying the bill had been "on notice" for four weeks during which the the Bills and Legislation Committee (BLC) could have reviewed it.

"It is the BLC that has NOT carried out its mandate and now trying to blame the Government, because the Government has exposed the failure of the BLC," the statement said.

"It is a sad day indeed for our democracy when a Parliamentary Standing Committee such as the BLC is not functioning."

'We are very suspicious'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-02/solomon-islands-election-delay-bid-manasseh-sogavare/101401662

Bill Barr Trashes Trump: “It’s Unprecedented for a President to Take All This Classified Information and Put Them in a Country Club”

Former Attorney General Bill Barr trashed Trump during a segment on Fox News.

Barr defended Biden’s jackbooted thugs who raided Trump’s Florida home and bashed the former president for storing White House documents at Mar-a-Lago.

“I think for them to taken things to the current point they probably have pretty good evidence.. People say this was unprecedented, well it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a county club,” Bill Barr said.

Trump didn’t put classified documents in a “country club.”

A former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch weighed in:

Barr knows bashing Trump is a good way to peddle his new book.

Barr knows Trump had constitutional power to declassify anything he wanted.

And statutory power to keep personal copies in his Secret Service-guarded office.

(Why did Barr let BLM destroy our country for 6 months?)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/bill-barr-trashes-trump-unprecedented-president-take-classified-information-put-country-club-video/