US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Contradicts Joe Biden, Says the Covid Pandemic is Not Over

“Surgeon General” Vivek Murthy this week disputed Joe Biden’s declaration that the Covid pandemic is over.

Joe Biden declared the Covid pandemic is over in a sit-down interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday evening.

This was Joe Biden’s first interview with an American outlet in more than 7 months.

“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. It’s – but the pandemic is over,” Biden said to Scott Pelley.

Biden came under fire for his comments from the Covid cultists.

The Covid grifters never want the pandemic to end.

The pandemic is a huge money making opportunity for a select group of elitists and a way for politicians to transfer wealth and power.

Dr. Vivek Murthy contradicted Joe Biden’s declaration during an appearance on MSNBC.

“We’re losing about 400 people a day on average to this virus. We need to get that number lower. We have people who are struggling with long Covid,” Murthy said.

Murthy also pushed the “new, updated vaccine” that has not been tested on humans.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/us-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-contradicts-joe-biden-says-covid-pandemic-not-video/

DOJ Forced To Remove Phony Filing In Trump Mar-A-Lago Case — Apparently Was Submitted By Prison Inmate

The Department of Justice just filed a motion to remove a phony docket entry.

The entry alleged Trump had “acquired ‘millions of un- redacted classified tax returns and other sensitive financial data, bank records and accounts of banking and tax transactions of several million Americans and federal government agencies.”

The Washington Examiner reported:

The Justice Department filed a motion to remove an apparent phony docket entry after media revealed a prison inmate with a history of forging documents apparently tricked court staff.

The document, which was filed on Sept. 12 and remains on the docket as of Monday, appeared to be from the Treasury Department and said the agency had seized sensitive documents related to the Aug. 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago and included a warrant ordering CNN to “preserve leaked tax records.”

“The United States of America herby moves to strike Docket Entry 128 which purports to be a motion by the United States Department of the Treasury to Intervene in the instant matter,” the DOJ’s Monday motion said. “The United States has confirmed the pleading was not submitted by the Department of the Treasury but rather mailed to the Clerk of Court by someone not associated with the Government.”

The docket entry came from a prisoner in a North Carolina jail.

The prisoner has a history of impersonating federal officials in court records.

AP reported:

In the Georgia case, the man alleged that Trump and others had “acquired ‘millions of un- redacted classified tax returns and other sensitive financial data, bank records and accounts of banking and tax transactions of several million’ Americans and federal government agencies,” court documents say.

The judge in that case called his suit “fanatic” and “delusional,” saying there was no way to “discern any cognizable claim” from the incoherent filings.

The man has repeatedly impersonated federal officials in court records and has placed tax liens on judges using his false paperwork, two people familiar with the matter told the AP. Because of his history as a forger, his mail is supposed to be subjected to additional scrutiny from the Bureau of Prisons.

Complete clown show.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/clown-show-doj-forced-remove-phony-filing-trump-mar-lago-case-apparently-submitted-prison-inmate/

Gays Against Groomers Permanently Deplatformed From PayPal and Venmo

Big Tech continues to carry water for their Democrat and communist overlords.

Gays Against Groomers (GAG) announced on Twitter that they were permanently suspended from payment processors Paypal and Venmo.

The companies claim that GAG violating their user agreements, but fail to say what specific part of the agreement the organization violated.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/gays-groomers-permanently-deplatformed-paypal-venmo/

Arizona State Senator Accuses Dept. of Child Safety Is Facilitating Global Sex Trafficking Ring After 550 Children Go Missing

A conservative Republican senator who is convinced that the Arizona Department of Child Safety is facilitating the global sex trafficking of children removed from negligent parents called the police on one of his GOP colleagues, alleging that she threatened his life.

Sen. David Farnsworth, a Republican from Mesa, filed a report with the Arizona Department of Public Safety this week accusing Sen. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix, of threatening him if he didn’t stop investigating the outrageous claim. The news was first reported by Yellow Sheet Report, a high-priced insider newsletter aimed at lobbyists and government officials.

Farnsworth told Yellow Sheet that he has been looking into how DCS “lost” more than 550 children last year, roughly half of whom are categorized as either runaways or otherwise missing. The rest appear to be flagged for paperwork errors.

He said he fears the children have been abducted and sold into a global sex trafficking ring, and said he has been holding meetings with DCS, critics of the agency and fellow lawmakers, including Brophy McGee.

Farnsworth acknowledged his beliefs were outlandish, but he said it’s not a conspiracy theory. He told Yellow Sheet that he didn’t believe DCS officials were actively selling children into sexual slavery, but that they are being lax at protecting children from predators who will do so.

While he said he hopes his meetings ultimately prove him wrong, Farnsworth said he is more convinced than ever that Arizona children removed from their parents and put into group homes or foster homes are being sex-trafficked, even though he told Yellow Sheet he has turned up no evidence.

“When I first heard about this, I believed that children from Arizona (DCS) were ending up in sex trafficking. Now, after the research I’ve done, I’m confident of it,” he told Yellow Sheet. “But I can’t prove it.”

Farnsworth also alleged that two former Republican state senators from other states who were killed within days of each other earlier this year were “executed” because they were investigating links between their own states’ child protective agencies and global sex trafficking rings.

There is no evidence that either ex-legislator was murdered for that reason. Linda Collins-Smith, a former senator from Arkansas, was killed by a close friend and former campaign aide. And Jonathan Nichols, a former senator from Oklahoma, died by suicide.

The dispute between Farnsworth and Brophy McGee stems from what she said was a conversation in which she told her colleague that both she and her husband were concerned for her safety after some of Farnsworth’s allies in the child-sex-ring investigation began harrassing her and spreading rumors that she and others are involved in illicit child kidnapping schemes. Brophy McGee told the insider publication that Farnsworth’s compatriots are “unbalanced” and have forced her to have Senate security guards escort her to and from meetings about DCS, but Farnsworth has been unconcerned.

Bur Farnsworth told Yellow Sheet that, while he initially didn’t take Brophy McGee’s comments seriously, he decided to file a complaint with DPS because the “best deterrent to a threat is for more people to be aware of it.”

https://www.azmirror.com/2019/10/04/gop-senator-az-foster-kids-are-being-sold-into-sexual-slavery/

World Economic Forum Hosts Creepy ‘Climate Crisis’ Confab in NYC as Clinton Global Initiative and UN General Assembly Kicks Off Simultaneously Across Town

The World Economic Forum and the Clinton Foundation are hosting summits in New York City this week as the 77th annual United Nations General Assembly convenes.

On Monday, the WEF commenced its “Sustainable Development Impact Meetings” where the organization’s leaders detail a plan to advance its Great Reset agenda and eradicate individual rights and national sovereignty.

The WEF is partnered with major financial and media institutions to execute its “you will own nothing and you will be happy.”

A video that aired at the summit, featuring Al Gore and BlackRock official Pamela Chan, showcases the WEF’s plan to mitigate the so-called “climate crisis.”

“The extreme weather events that the scientists have long connected to the climate crisis are becoming far more frequent and far more destructive,” Gore warns in the 56 minute video. Although, this is mostly untrue.

“Younger generations are demanding a sense of purpose. They want to look at a company and say, ‘I am investing with you all for this reason,” Chan, a WEF Global Leader and Global Shaper, says in the video.

WEF President Klaus and the predator class intend to manufacture an emergency over the changing climate to justify the confiscation of property from individuals and nations

On Tuesday, the WEF is slated to host two panels during the conference featuring corporate media reporters. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle will discuss the “Green Transition” and “the future of work panel.”

CNN Vice President Rachel Smolkin will host the other panel titled, “Tackling Disinformation.”

“Disinformation is not new. Examples of disinformation and so-called fake news campaigns are plentiful,” a teaser of the CNN presentation states. “But with increasing fears about the cost of living — exacerbated by the pandemic and the energy crisis — it is now more critical than ever to tackle disinformation head-on.”

This is rich, coming from a CNN official.

On Wednesday, WEF will feature presentations showcasing “Web3’s Climate Impact,” outlining how digital currency, blockchain technology and the “metaverse” will be impacted by the climate crisis the organization is planning to unleash.

Web3, a term coined by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood in 2014, refers to a “decentralized online ecosystem based on blockchain.”

Ethereum, a digital asset, was recently re-engineered into the foundation for a potential global Central Bank Digital Currency and is now the “WEF coin”, investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel reports.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/predator-class-reunion-world-economic-forum-hosts-creepy-climate-crisis-confab-nyc-clinton-global-initiative-un-general-assembly-kicks-off-simultaneously-across-town/

Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 351 into law on September 18, enabling Californians to turn human beings into plant food. What previously would have constituted improper disposal of human remains under the law and qualified as a crime, will soon be a permissible practice for approved and regulated "reduction chamber manufacturers."

Human composting is also legal in Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Vermont.

Accordingly, rather than having a human body entombed or cremated, as of January 1, 2027, a corpse can be broken down into soil, which then can be utilized by the deceased's family or donated to conservation land.

Although different human renderers' methods may vary, one approach is the placement of a corpse "in a vessel surrounded by wood chips, alfalfa, and straw." The body is aerated, enclosed, and then consumed over the course of weeks by bacteria and microbes. Afterwards, the resulting cubic yard of human soil is cured for two to six weeks.

KNTV reported that the price of opting out of a normal burial and having a loved one instead turned into garden material is $7,000.

Cristina Garcia is the Democrat member of the California State Assembly who proposed the bill. She cited "natural organic reduction" as a "more environmentally-friendly … choice for burial," and suggested that composting human beings was one way to tackle so called climate change.

Although composting also releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, Garcia suggested after the bill passed onto the Senate Health Committee in June that "this is an alternative method of final disposition that won't contribute emissions into our atmosphere."

Rather than a traditional tombstone, Garcia, who is leaving office in December after having lost her primary election in June, recommends using a family member's remains to nourish a memorial tree. "I look forward to continuing my legacy to fight for clean air by using my reduced remains to plant a tree."

Recompose, a "full-service funeral home specializing in human composting," will be among the human rendering companies to begin transforming the dead into nutrients next year. The company has supported Garcia's push for legalization.

The company's CEO, Katrina Spade, indicated that in addition to combatting changing weather patterns, this "process would provide Californians an option that offers significant savings in carbon emissions and land usage over conventional burial or cremation."

In 2014, Spade penned a blog entry for the Huffington Post, saying "You might take solace in the fact that when you die, your days of pollution are over." She argued that as conventionally buried bodies break down, they slowly expel emissions, including methane. These emissions, argued Spade, in combination with those involved in the manufacture of coffins and the use of embalming, have a "deleterious" impact on the environment.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/your-days-of-pollution-are-over-california-legalizes-human-composting

FBI ‘Overstates’ Domestic Violent Extremism Threat, Removes Agents From Child Abuse Cases: New Whistleblower

A new whistleblower has alleged the FBI is “manipulating” case files to make it seem like America has a bigger “domestic violent extremism” (DVE) problem than it does, while redirecting resources away from child sexual abuse investigations to prioritize Jan. 6 cases, according to Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

The new whistleblower’s disclosures, Jordan said, indicate that the way the FBI’s field office in Washington, D.C. handles DVE cases related to Jan. 6 “diverge[s]” from established practice in such a way that it “overstates the national DVE threat.”

Instead of records reflecting a number of DVE cases “stemming from a single, black swan incident” in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, it appears on paper as if there has been a rise in DVE threats all around the country.

Jordan raised the allegations with FBI Director Christopher Wray in a letter on Monday, saying whistleblowers have contacted elected officials about “disturbing conduct” at the FBI, including “politicization within the Washington Field Office (WFO).”

This is not the first time Jordan has raised whistleblower allegations with Wray along these lines. In July, the Ohio congressman wrote to Wray about allegations supervisors were pressuring agents to “reclassify cases” as DVE even if they didn’t meet the criteria.

“Since then, new whistleblowers have come forward with concerning information about how the FBI is deliberately manipulating the way case files related to January 6 investigations are maintained in order to create a false and misleading narrative that domestic violent extremism is increasing around the country,” Jordan wrote.

‘Manipulative Casefile Practice’ Creates ‘Illusion’ of Extremism

According to Jordan, the whistleblower alleged “the FBI has not followed regular procedure” with Jan. 6 cases, which should all be officially led by the WFO.

Ordinarily, cases are characterized and labeled by the field office where they originate, with leads “cut,” or sent, to other field offices for specific assistance in that location.

But the whistleblower alleged the WFO has used a “manipulative casefile practice” to create the appearance of a larger number of purported DVE cases by farming out Jan. 6 DVE cases to FBI field offices in other geographic locations.

“The manipulative casefile practice creates false and misleading crime statistics,” the whistleblower alleged, according to Jordan.

“Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from a single, black swan incident at the Capitol, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States.”

https://www.ntd.com/fbi-overstates-domestic-violent-extremism-threat-removes-agents-from-child-abuse-cases-new-whistleblower_843502.html

Hochul declared COVID emergency days after donor tied to $637M rapid-test deal held fundraiser

Political donor Charle Tebele hosted a campaign fundraiser for Gov. Kathy Hochul last November — just four days before she declared a state of emergency that paved the way for his company to receive $637 million in no-bid state contracts.

The stunning revelation — uncovered by the Times Union on Tuesday — has sparked renewed calls for state or federal officials to investigate the alleged pay-to-play scheme involving New Jersey-based distributor Digital Gadget, which was inked just weeks after the Nov. 22 fundraiser.

The state bought 52 million tests from Digital Gadget at roughly twice the price paid by places like California that bought directly from a manufacturer — all while Tebele and family members funneled $300,000 to Hochul’s campaign.

“Kathy Hochul gave a no-bid $600M+ contract to a top campaign supporter after she unilaterally suspended NY’s competitive bidding law. The same day the donor offered to be the middle man for the COVID tests, Hochul agreed to pay twice the price,” her Republican challenger, US Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) of Suffolk County, tweeted Tuesday.

“Where’s the AG, DA, & Comptroller?” he added.

State records show Tebele gave $2,000 to Hochul in May 2021 while she was still lieutenant governor under Andrew Cuomo while he was battling for his political life amid a litany of scandals that led him to resign in August 2021.

He gave $25,000 more on Nov. 9 before holding the Nov. 22 fundraiser where his wife Nancy Tebele – a sales executive at Digital Gadgets, according to her LinkedIn – gave Hochul $18,000 while Charlie Tebele chipped in $5,150 more, public records show.

Right around that time, the couple’s son began working for Hochul’s campaign as an intern before landing a paid gig as a “finance associate” for her campaign in May 2022, according to his LinkedIn.

Hochul declared a state of emergency four days later on Nov. 26, suspending procurement rules that might have blocked or held up the deal with Digital Gadgets, which the Times Union reported began receiving payments the following month.

Charlie Tebele dropped $25,000 more on her campaign in February, and $4,700 in April when he hosted another fundraiser for the governor about two weeks before the state made a final installment on the $637 million deal, according to the paper.

Records show he gave another $7,850 in May, and $20,000 to her running mate, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado on June 20.

Nancy Tebele similarly dumped $94,300 on Hochul, Delgado and ex-Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, who Delgado replaced this spring following her first LG’s federal indictment in relation to alleged campaign finance.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/hochul-declared-covid-emergency-days-after-donor-tied-to-637m-rapid-test-deal-held-fundraiser/

NYC Mayor’s Chief Of Staff Resigns Amid Questions About European Travel

Frank Carone, Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff, announced his upcoming resignation Monday amid questions about whether his recent cruise in France was taxpayer-funded, according to The New York Times.

Carone told administration officials he would resign by the end of the year, according to the NYT, only hours after Adams refused to answer questions about Carone’s recent European travel. Carone spent some time on a Norwegian cruise in Normandy last month as part of the administration’s research into possibly housing migrants on cruise ships.

Carone, who has served as Adams’ chief of staff since January, said he had always intended to serve for only a year in government and plans to move on to Adams’ campaign, according to the NYT.

“See what I go through?” Adams said Monday when asked about taxpayers funding the cruise. “I answered the cruise ship question already. I’m not going back and forth on that. When there’s something to announce more about a cruise ship idea, I’m announcing it. I’m finished with that. Next question.”

In addition to the French cruise, Carone took a trip to Sweden for a meeting about dyslexia, along with trips to Israel and South Korea, and claimed the travel was necessary to discuss policy issues and find business opportunities for the city, according to the NYT.

Carone frequently meets city elites at Casa Cipriani, a private club on the water in Lower Manhattan, though he says he pays for those meals himself, according to the NYT.

Adams and Carone did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/20/nyc-mayor-resigns-questions-europe-travel/

1.26 Million Migrants Apprehended in Texas-Based Border Sectors in 2022

Agents assigned to the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors apprehended nearly 1.26 million migrants so far this fiscal year, federal reports indicate. This represents approximately 65 percent of all apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso Sectors apprehended 1,258,923 migrants during the first 11 months of Fiscal Year 2022, according to the August Southwest Land Border Encounters report. Agents apprehended 1,997,769 in all nine southwest border sectors this year, Breitbart Texas reported.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector reports the highest number of apprehensions with 440,423 migrants taken into custody. The Del Rio Sector (the current monthly leader) came is second with the apprehension of 428,555 migrants. However, Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted this week that his sector has now surpassed the Rio Grande Valley as the busiest sector in the nation for the year.

The El Paso Sector ranks third in year-to-date apprehensions with 258,766 taken into custody. However, in August, the El Paso Sector ranked second for the month with 29,703 arrested migrants.

If the 1.25 million migrants apprehended so far this fiscal year in the Texas-based Border Patrol Sectors were put into a brand new city, it would be the fourth-largest city in the Lone Star State — trailing slightly behind Dallas.

As a result of the massive migrant surge crossing mostly into Texas, Governor Greg Abbott responded by busing migrants to the sanctuary cities of New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Since the busing program began in April, Texas buses carried approximately 11,375 migrants out of Texas to these Democrat-run cities, a spokesperson for Governor Abbott’s office told Breitbart.

This month, El Paso city officials responded similarly to the Texas governor and began busing their own migrants to New York City, Breitbart Texas reported.

The City has chartered 25 buses since August 23 and transported 1,135 to New York City. Mayor Eric Adams called Texas’ transportation of migrants to his city on free, air-conditioned buses “horrific,” Breitbart’s Hannah Bleau reported. It remains to be seen if he will have similar comments directed to the fellow Democrat mayor of El Paso.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/09/20/1-26-million-migrants-apprehended-in-texas-based-border-sectors-in-2022/

NATO not at war with Russia – top official

Arms shipments to Ukraine do not constitute a military conflict with Moscow, a senior bloc official has said

NATO is not waging war against Russia even as it supports Ukraine with large quantities of weapons to help its fight against Moscow, the chair of the NATO Military Committee Robert Bauer said on Tuesday.

During an interview with Estonian public broadcaster ERR, Bauer was asked whether the massive aid packages that Ukraine receives from NATO mean that the alliance is “at least partially” at war with Russia. Bauer, however, dismissed the notion.

“NATO is not at war with Russia. I have to state this very clearly,” he said, but added that this would be the case if Moscow attacked one of the bloc’s own members.

Bauer said the alliance is trying to make that “as clear as possible” to Russia, “that we would defend every inch of our ally’s territory” in such a scenario.

“Then [in case of an attack] there will be a conflict between Russia and NATO. But until then, NATO is not at war with Russia,” he stressed.

In Bauer’s view, while it is up to Kiev to decide how the conflict should end, one of NATO’s principal goals should be to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty. In the short-term, the objective, he argued, should be for the borders to return to what they were on February 24, the date when Moscow began its offensive.

Since the beginning of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, NATO countries have been supplying Ukraine with massive quantities of military hardware as well as financial aid. NATO’s support has been ongoing since 2014, however, with the bloc sending military aid and equipment to prepare it for such a conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in March.

Moscow has repeatedly urged the US and other Western nations to stop “pumping” Ukraine with weapons and other military hardware. Top Russian officials insist that the continuous support of Kiev will only prolong the bloodshed without changing the ultimate outcome of the conflict.

https://www.rt.com/news/563168-nato-not-at-war-russia/

State Department Stops Publishing Military Expenditures, Arms Transfer Report

The report has been published since the 1960s

The State Department announced in August that it will no longer publish World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT) reports, which have been released by the US government since the 1960s.

The WMEATs detail US global military spending, arms transfers, and related data for each country in the world. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) included an amendment that repealed a 1994 provision requiring the State Department to publish a WMEAT each year.

“Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 repealed the 1994 statutory provision that required the Department of State to publish an edition of WMEAT every year. Consistent with this repeal, the Department of State will cease to produce and publish WMEAT,” the State Department said on its website.

The State Department said that the report it published in 2021 was the “final edition” of the WMEAT. The 2021 WMEAT covered an 11-year period from 2009 through 2019 and found that the US was by far the world’s largest arms dealer. During that period, about “79 percent of world arms trade by value appears to have been supplied by the United States.”

The discontinuation of the WMEAT reports, which reduces the US government’s transparency, comes as the US is shipping billions of dollars worth of arms into Ukraine with virtually no oversight. Since Russia invaded on February 24, the US has pledged $15.1 billion in weapons for Kyiv.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/09/19/state-department-stops-publishing-military-expenditures-arms-transfer-report/

FBI report of a Chinese agent working at Twitter sparks calls for government action

Chinese rights activists overseas have told RFA that they are concerned but unsurprised at recent allegations that an agent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was working at Twitter, saying such infiltration is part of Beijing’s global influence operation.

The FBI informed Twitter of at least one Chinese agent among its employees, according to U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, while hacker and whistleblower Peiter Zatko said the company’s lax security sparked fears that personal data on Chinese users was being collected by authorities in China.

Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, made the allegations during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, detailing internal clashes between some who sought advertising revenue from China, and others who were concerned about doing business inside China amid rising geopolitical tensions.

“This was a big internal conundrum,” Zatko told the hearing, adding that Twitter appeared reluctant to turn away from China.

“In a nutshell, if we were already in bed, it would be problematic if we lost that revenue stream,” he said.

Zatko said the FBI had told the company that China’s secret service, the Ministry of State Security, had an agent on the payroll.

A Twitter spokesperson said Twitter’s hiring process was independent of foreign influence, and that access to personal data was subject to stringent controls, adding that Zatko’s allegations were “riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies.”

France-based commentator Wang Longmeng said the CCP has long targeted Western social media platforms to wage its overseas influence campaigns, and that some of the company’s regional executives have close ties to the CCP, including Kathy Chen.

WhistleblowersChen’s 2016 appointment as Twitter’s managing director for Greater China raised concerns in particular, as it emerged she had served as a software engineer in the People’s Liberation Army’s strategic missile force.

“Kathy Chen, who had a military background, joined [the company], then Fei-fei Li became an independent director,” Wang said. “The CCP’s infiltration of Western media is one of its key strategies.”

“It’s not surprising that the whistleblower revealed there are Chinese agents at Twitter, because there have been suspensions and deleted accounts, and yet Twitter still allows CCP diplomats to spread rumors and lies,” he said.China bans Twitter, Facebook and other U.S. social media firms, but government agencies and diplomats use the platforms to reach an international audience

Rights activist Zhou Fengsuo, a former student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen protests and the chairman of Humanitarian China, said the U.S. government hasn’t responded adequately to the problem.

“Zoom closed our Zoom account for commemorating the June 4 [Tiananmen massacre], and the Zoom employee who was later indicted was part of China’s state security police,” Zhou told RFA.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/09/fbi-report-of-a-chinese-agent-working-at-twitter-sparks-calls-for-government-action/

France and Iran Presidents meet amid nuclear talks' stalemate

French President, Emmanuel Macron, held face-to-face talks with his Iranian counterpart, President Ebrahim Raisi, on Tuesday, with the French leader saying he hoped to be able to "discuss all subjects".

The meeting is Raisi's first head-to-head with a major Western leader since he was elected last year.

It comes amid a complete stalemate to revive the 2015 nuclear talks and, as protests grow in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who fell into a coma and died after her arrest in Tehran last week by the morality police for "unsuitable attire".

France said, on Monday, that there would not be a better offer for Iran to revive a nuclear deal with world powers and it was up to Tehran to make a decision now. EU Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, who coordinates the talks, said he saw little chance of progress at the United Nations General Assembly.

Months of indirect talks between Iran and the United States have foundered over several issues, including Tehran's insistence the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) close an investigation into uranium traces found at three undeclared sites before the pact is revived, and a US guarantee that Washington would not walk out of any nuclear agreement again.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220920-france-and-iran-presidents-meet-amid-nuclear-talks-stalemate/

Air Canada Orders 30 Electric Planes for Passengers: What Could Go Wrong?

Electric vehicles in the green world of insanity are now making their way to passenger planes, God Help Us All.

Air Canada announced last week that they have ordered 30 plug-in planes from Swedish Electric Aircraft startup company, Heart Aerospace.

The electric planes are expected to have an operation range of just 124 to 248 miles per charge. What could go wrong?

According to Air Canada, the company will be acquiring 30, ES-30 electric-hybrid regional aircraft, which will have the capacity for up to 30 passengers to travel between 124 and 248 miles, the company stated in a press released last Thursday.

“The revolutionary regional aircraft, expected to enter service in 2028, will generate zero emissions flying on battery power and yield significant operational savings and benefits,” Air Canada said. “Under the agreement, Air Canada has also acquired a US$5 million equity stake in Heart Aerospace.” Of course, the claim of “zero emissions” from electric vehicles is a myth when emissions related to the production of batteries are taken into account.

Michael Rousseau, President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Canada, said, “Air Canada has taken a leadership position in the industry to address climate change.”

“The introduction into our fleet of the ES-30 electric regional aircraft from Heart Aerospace will be a step forward to our goal of net zero emissions by 2050,” Rousseau insisted. “Already, Air Canada is supporting the development of new technologies, such as sustainable aviation fuels and carbon capture, to address climate change.”

They claim it will only take 30 to 50 minutes to charge each plane. However when it’s storming, I’m supposed to unplug all of my electric devices, this makes my butt pucker, you?

Anders Forslund, founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace, noted that “Air Canada is a strategically important partner for Heart Aerospace.”

“The company has one of the world’s largest networks operated by regional turboprops, and it is also a progressive, future leaning company especially in the green transmission,” Forslund said. “With the ES-30 we can start cutting emissions from air travel well before the end of this decade.”

Heart Aerospace states that its mission is to “create the world’s greenest, most affordable, and most accessible form of transport,” and hopes to see electric air travel become “the new normal for regional flights.”

https://thedcpatriot.com/air-canada-orders-30-electric-planes-for-passengers-what-could-go-wrong/

Justice Department charges 47 people in $250 million COVID scheme involving child food program

The allegations may be the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme discovered so far.

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced federal criminal charges against 47 people over their alleged involvement in a $250 million COVID-19 fraud scheme involving a federally-funded child nutrition program.

The allegations against Feeding our Future, a Minnesota-based nutrition program, may be the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme discovered so far, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the defendants "went to great lengths to exploit a program designed to feed underserved children in Minnesota amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, fraudulently diverting millions of dollars designated for the program for their own personal gain,"

The dozens of defendants face charges of conspiracy, money laundering, wire fraud and bribery.

Feeding Our Future employees allegedly recruited individuals and groups to create more than 250 Federal Child Nutrition Program locations throughout Minnesota. They then falsely claimed to be serving thousands of meals to children by submitting fraudulent meal count sheets and food invoices, prosecutors said.

"These defendants exploited a program designed to provide nutritious food to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they prioritized their own greed, stealing more than a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funds to purchase luxury cars, houses, jewelry, and coastal resort property abroad," U.S. District Attorney Andrew Lunger said.

Federal authorities have estimated that up to $100 billion allocated for COVID relief has been lost to fraud.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/justice-department-charges-47-people-250-million-covid-scheme-involving

King Abdullah blasts Israel: Christianity in Jerusalem is under fire

"Undermining Jerusalem's legal and historical status quo triggers global tensions and deepens religious divides," said King Abdullah.

Christianity is under attack in Jerusalem, Jordan's King Abdullah warned as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday morning prior to his meeting with Prime Minister Yair Lapid.

"The rights of Churches in Jerusalem are threatened," said Abdullah, who as the head of the Hashemite Kingdom is also considered to be the custodian of Muslim and Christian holy sites in the city.

"Christianity in the holy city is under fire this can not continue," King Abdullah said.

"As custodians of Jerusalem's Muslim and Christian holy sites, we are committed to protecting the historical and legal status quo and to their safety and future.

"We are committed to defending the rights, the precious heritage and the historic identity of the Christian people of our region," King Abdullah stated.

https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-717652

32 arrests in series of actions against the Italian mafia in Spain

This operation was enabled by the deployment of some 500 law enforcement officers on the ground, including special intervention teams, canine units, helicopters and drones.

This sting follows a complex investigation initiated by the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) who worked on this case together with the Italian Carabinieri (Arma dei Carabinieri) and Financial Corps (Guardia di Finanza), with the support of Europol and Eurojust.

This operation has resulted in:

32 arrests;

40 house searches in Ibiza, Barcelona, Malaga and Tenerife;

The dismantlement of an indoor cannabis plantation (600 plants);

Seizures includes approximately EUR 300 000 in cash, 18 kilos of amphetamine, 4.5 kilos of cocaine, firearms and ammunition.

The investigation uncovered the existence in the Balearic Islands in Spain of an organised crime group linked to the ‘Ndrangheta syndicate. The criminal gang is believed to have played an active role in cocaine and cannabis trafficking in between Spain and Italy, using vehicles equipped with hidden compartments and speedboats to transport the drugs.

The members of this criminal organisation would routinely use violence, including torture, to further their criminal goals. Some of the arrestees are linked to a number of murders in Italy. The investigation also uncovered the illegal possession of firearms by some members of this gang. The criminal profits were reinvested into real estate in Spain to hide their illegal origin, polluting the legal economy.

Europol supported this investigation by providing tailored expertise and extensive analysis support and facilitating the exchange of information through its secure channels. The exploitation of the critical intelligence carried out by Europol was crucial for the case development.

During the live phase of the operation, a Europol mobile office was deployed to Spain to facilitate the real-time exchange of information and crosschecks of the data gathered in the course of the action against Europol’s databases.

The case was opened at Eurojust by the Italian authorities in April 2022. The Agency hosted two coordination meetings to facilitate judicial cooperation and provided support for the coordinated investigative efforts, including the organisation of an action day in Spain.

This investigation was supported by the EU-funded Project ISF4@ON, an Italian-led initiative to tackle mafia-type organised crime groups active in Europe.

Headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands, Europol supports the 27 EU Member States in their fight against terrorism, cybercrime, and other serious and organised crime forms. Europol also works with many non-EU partner states and international organisations. From its various threat assessments to its intelligence-gathering and operational activities, Europol has the tools and resources it needs to do its part in making Europe safer.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/32-arrests-in-series-of-actions-against-italian-mafia-in-spain

Former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Inspector General Convicted of Falsifying Financial Disclosure Forms

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-department-housing-and-urban-development-assistant-inspector-general-convicted

Former Disaster Relief Consultant And Retired NYPD Inspector Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Commit Federal Program Fraud In Connection With New York City’s Hurricane Sandy Recovery Efforts

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-disaster-relief-consultant-and-retired-nypd-inspector-pleads-guilty-conspiring

Former South Georgia pastor, tax preparer sentenced to federal prison for COVID-19 relief fraud

Defendant lied to SBA, used funds to buy Mercedes-Benz

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/former-south-georgia-pastor-tax-preparer-sentenced-federal-prison-covid-19-relief-fraud

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Former Central Coast mayor and homelessness advocate Laurie Maher awaits verdict in child sex abuse trial

A New South Wales court has heard a former well-known mayor, Order of Australia recipient and homelessness advocate used his "clear power" over vulnerable boys to sexually assault them in the 1970s and '80s.

Key points:

Laurie Maher, 84, is fighting multiple child sex offences dating back four decades

He is on trial for the alleged sexual abuse of four boys at a juvenile justice facility near Gosford

The jury will begin its deliberations on Wednesday

Former Central Coast mayor Laurence "Laurie" Maher, 84, is on trial in the Sydney District Court for the alleged sexual abuse of four boys while he was superintendent of the Mount Penang Training School, a juvenile justice facility, near Gosford.

He has pleaded not guilty to eight charges including several counts of buggery, sexual assault and indecent assault.

Over the three-week trial, the four alleged victims described various accounts of abuse involving oral and anal sex that took place at various "isolated" locations at the facility.

In summing up the Crown's case in the District Court on Tuesday, prosecutor Mark Hay said Mr Maher chose the most vulnerable boys and used his "clear power" as superintendent to either threaten or reward them.

Mr Hay described the four alleged victims as "troubled youths" who "did not fit into the mould and went on to lives of trouble".

He later argued all four were at Penang, all at different times and all "had troubled experiences" with the superintendent.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-20/former-gosford-mayor-trial-historical-sexual-assault-mt-penang/101345230