Russia Claims it Eliminated Former Blackwater Mercs and Azov Fighters in Ukraine

Russian news site Lenta claims Russia has eliminated mercenaries fighting for US Private Military Company (PMC) Academi (former Blackwater) and “Kraken” irregulars attached to the far-right Azov Regiment in the Kherson offensive (Gateway Pundit reported). If true, this may explain why the Ukrainian counteroffensive seems to have stalled.

The strikes were announced by Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, Lenta reported:

“Russian aviation and artillery hit three Ukrainian control points in Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions, as well as in the city of Seversk, DPR. In addition, the point of control and coordination of Primorye missile strikes in the Nikolaev region and the bases of foreign mercenaries of the American PMC and Kraken fighters in the region of Kramatorsk and Nikolevka were eliminated.

As a result, as noted, 47 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 127 districts were hit. An ammunition depot of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also laid out in the Kharkov region – it contained more than 7.5 thousand shells for Western artillery systems. The Ministry of Defense reported that the ammunition depot of the 128th brigade near the village of Dolinka in the Zaporozhye region has also been liquidated.

Earlier it also became known that the Russian military liquidated more than 50 fighters of the Kraken battalion near Kharkov. According to Konashenkov, on Saturday, September 17, during a special operation, more than ten units of special equipment were also destroyed by high-precision strikes of the Aerospace Forces. In addition, two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit – the 92nd mechanized and the 81st airmobile.”

Video shared by Russian “60 Minutes” seemed to show American-speaking mercs operating in the Kherson Offensive.

Gateway Pundit has reached out to Academi for comment.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/russia-claims-eliminated-former-blackwater-mercs-azov-fighters-ukraine/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/russia-claims-eliminated-former-blackwater-mercs-azov-fighters-ukraine/

Biden finally admitted tonight he's "not just talking about Trump" when he says "MAGA Republicans" are a threat to the country.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1573135820684394496

China’s Friend in the White House, Joe Biden, Cancelled Trump’s Program to Prevent Chinese Spying

China’s friend in the White House, Joe Biden, cancelled Trump’s program to prevent Chinese spying.

Guest post by Lawrence Sellin

Fox News recently reported that five months after a federal jury convicted him, a judge has thrown out three of the four convictions against a University of Kansas researcher, Feng Tao, who carried out work for Fuzhou University in China while he was employed at the University of Kansas and received research funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Tao was convicted as part of the Department of Justice’s “China Initiative” started in 2018 by President Donald Trump to protect U.S. national security from Chinese spying on U.S. intellectual property and in academia.

The Biden regime cancelled the program.

Yet the Feng Tao case is far from an isolated incident.

Chinese scientists working in the U.S., even those who have become U.S. citizens or permanent residents, routinely receive funding from the Chinese government and collaborate with scientists in Communist China, including scientists from the People’s Liberation Army, all while receiving U.S. taxpayer-funded research grants from the National Institutes of Health and other federal government agencies.

The following is one of likely hundreds if not thousands of Chinese scientists working in the U.S. and collaborating with China, although it does not imply that there was criminal activity.

Shibo Jiang obtained his MS and MD degrees from the First and Fourth Medical University of the People’s Liberation Army.

Between 1997 and 2016, when Shibo Jiang worked in the U.S. and was a Principal Investigator on U.S. research grants amounting to more than $17 million, the vast majority coming from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he also received support from the Chinese government and actively collaborated with Chinese research institutions including those of the People’s Liberation Army.

This is one such research project.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/chinas-friend-white-house-joe-biden-canceled-trumps-program-prevent-chinese-spying/

Pfizer Won’t Share COVID Vaccines With Independent Researchers.

Why?

Pharmaceutical giants including Pfizer and Moderna are refusing to share data and technology from their COVID-19 vaccines with researchers studying alternative treatments for the virus.

The conflict for researchers who are not affiliated with major pharmaceutical companies that manufactured a COVID-19 vaccine is a result of Pfizer and Moderna owning the patents for the current vaccines. Researchers, therefore, have to receive the companies’ permissions to use the vaccines for research into products like nasal or pan-coronavirus vaccines.

Pfizer and Moderna are refusing to share the data, however. Though the decision to withhold COVID-19 vaccine data and information from researchers is legal, it complicates the ability for progress to be made.

Yale University virologist and immunologist Akiko Iwasaki designed a study of nasal vaccines against COVID-19, which she believes would confer better protection against infection and transmission than shots alone. The most accurate version of the study would have been conducted on subjects that have already received ay initial vaccine series, as this would reflect real-world scenarios.

Despite asking Pfizer about the possibility of obtaining some vaccine to use in her study of nasal treatments, she has not received any from the company.

“In order for us to develop a better vaccine, we need a comparator. For that reason, everyone who’s doing research in this area is in the same boat, we don’t have access to do a comparison,” Iwasaki said.

Iwasaki addressed the issue at the White House’s summit on the future of COVID-19 vaccines, and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins said at the time that he “would not have thought of that” posing a problem with her research.Separately, California Institute of Technology professor Pamela Bjorkman said her lab has had difficulties obtaining COVID-19 vaccines in order to research ae treatment candidate that could provide protection against a variety of Covid-19 variants.

“Whatever policy prevents using such vials does a great disservice to global efforts to develop new and improved vaccines,” Bjorkman said.

When asked if Pfizer has provided any vaccines for research purposes, spokesperson Sharon Castillo said, “We are not accepting or reviewing applications for possible clinical research that studies the Covid-19 vaccine.” Another Pfizer spokesperson said the company has its own “extensive studies” of the vaccine underway, and will continue to share information from those studies as it becomes available.

Moderna refused to respond to a press query.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/23/pfizer-refuses-to-share-covid-vaccines-with-researchers/

Cannibal Mark Latunski admits to eating man named Kevin Bacon

Now he’s sinking his teeth into rotting in prison.

A cannibal from Michigan pleaded guilty to killing and eating part of a man named Kevin Bacon after meeting him on a dating app three years ago, according to a report Friday.

Mark Latunski copped Thursday to murdering and mutilating the 25-year-old hairdresser, whom he lured to his home in Bennington Township in December 2019, according to Mlive.com

Latunski, 53, admitted to stabbing Bacon in the back, then removing parts of his body before taking them to the kitchen and chowing down on them, according to the outlet.

Latunski reportedly told cops he cut off Bacon’s testicles and ate them after meeting him on Grindr, a hookup app for gay, bisexual and trans men.

He faces a possible life sentence.

After the hard-to-stomach killing, Bacon’s corpse was found hanging from the rafters of Latunski’s basement with rope tied around his ankles, his throat slit and body parts removed, according to the outlet.

Latunski, of Swartz Creek, had previously pleaded not guilty with an insanity defense — and the dramatic reversal came less than a month before his trial was scheduled to begin on Oct. 18.

The guilty plea came against the recommendation of Latunski’s attorney, Mary Chartier, who has said he has a history of mental illness, the outlet reported.

Investigators later found his car in a Dollar General store parking lot, then tracked him to Latunski’s house on Dec. 28, 2019.

A court hearing on Oct. 18 will determine whether Latunski is convicted of first- or second-degree murder, or manslaughter.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/23/cannibal-mark-latunski-admits-eating-man-named-kevin-bacon/

https://nypost.com/2022/09/23/cannibal-mark-latunski-admits-eating-man-named-kevin-bacon/

Satanic group gets school district to drop rule banning clothes with satanic, cultic references. Satanic group's leader exults that school officials 'caved.'

A satanic group convinced a southeastern Pennsylvania school district to drop its dress code rule banning clothing with satanic or cultic references, PhillyVoice reported.

What are the details?

The Garnet Valley School District in Delaware County got rid of the rule at the beginning of the school year after Satanic Delco waged a months-long campaign, the outlet said.

The group posted on Instagram about its victory earlier this month:

Satanic Delco noted in its post that prior to dropping the ban, Garnet Valley "didn’t want to change the policy because they feared the backlash and bad press they would receive for caving to a group of Satanists. I’m happy to report that they have in fact caved."

The group added that "Garnet Valley students are now free to express their Satanism on equal footing, alongside their fellow students of every other religion" and ended the post with a hearty "HAIL SATAN!" exclamation in all capital letters.

Philly Voice said the school district did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Satanic Delco also noted in the post that last year it "succeeded in forcing a change to the discriminatory dress code in the Rose Tree Media School District. As documented in the original news report, the next target for such a change was the Garnet Valley school district."

PhillyVoice said Satanic Delco doesn't actually worship the devil or believe Satan exists.

"We believe that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition," the group says on its website. "As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse."

How are folks reacting?

PhillyVoice commenters overall seemed supportive of Satanic Delco's efforts:

"Can't have it both ways," one commenter wrote. "Satanism is a religion, too, can't just have Christians bringing their religion into public schools. If you do not want Satanists in school you can't have any religion in school. Now bring on the Wiccans and Pagans!"

"Darn that pesky First Amendment!" another commenter exclaimed.

"Teachers used to beat the Hell out of kids. Now they have to let them wear the Mark of the Devil. Progress!" another commenter noted.

Here's a news report about the group getting the Rose Tree Media School District — also in Delaware County — to alter its dress code:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/satanic-group-penn-school-district

German Health Ministry Published Inflated COVID Hospitalisation Numbers in ‘Fact Booster’ Campaign

The German health ministry has issued a correction after it published inflated numbers on COVID-19 hospitalisations as part of its “fact booster” awareness campaign.

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health has issued a correction after it published an inflated percentage in relation to the number of COVID-19 cases that result in hospitalisations.

The ministry has said that the “misleading” information was published due to an “editorial error”, a particularly embarrassing admission considering the body’s minister, Karl Lauterbach, has recently been challenged on his citation of COVID death statistics in the context of justifying ongoing German lockdown rules.

According to a report by Der Spiegel, the German Ministry of Health took out a number of advertisements in newspapers and online as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of COVID-19.

However, one advertisement published both physically and online as part of this “Fact Booster” awareness campaign reportedly claimed that around 10 per cent of COVID cases result in hospitalisation, a statistic that the ministry has since admitted is incorrect.

Instead, the German federal body claims, the advertisement should have said that up to 10 per cent of cases can result in hospitalisation.

What’s more, the ministry reportedly admitted that the numbers right now are “significantly lower”, with the body saying that the real figure for hospitalisations is somewhere between four and five per cent of cases.

Der Spiegel reports that the Federal Ministry for Health has now corrected the campaign.

While embarrassing enough on its own, the apparent error by the body is made only worse by the fact that the German health minister, Karl Lauterbach, has recently been accused of making misleading claims in relation to national COVID statistics to justify his own draconian lockdown regime.

With the country being one of the few remaining nations in Europe to still have various measures — including the likes of mask mandates — in place, the left-wing politician has seemingly been keen to justify his actions, arguing on social media that the country would be “sitting like a rabbit in front of a snake” without them.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/09/23/german-health-ministry-published-inflated-covid-hospitalisation-numbers-in-fact-booster-campaign/

CDC Expects Omicron COVID-19 Boosters for Children by Mid-October

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expects COVID-19 vaccine boosters targeting circulating variants of the virus to be available for children aged 5-11 years by mid-October.

The CDC said in a document released on Tuesday that it expects to make a recommendation in early- to mid-October on the use of the new bivalent vaccines in the group, if they are authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The vaccines, which target both the original version and the currently circulating variants of the virus, were rolled out for people 12 years or older earlier this month.

The CDC said it expects Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent vaccine to be available for children aged 5–11 years, and Moderna’s vaccine for those aged 6–17 years, pending FDA authorization.

The Pfizer vaccine is already authorized as a booster dose for children over 12 years of age, while Moderna’s bivalent vaccine is authorized for adults.

The CDC expects pre-orders for the Pfizer shot to begin for the age group next week. The Moderna vaccine will have the same formulation for children and adults and will not require a separate pre-order period, the CDC said.

The United States government has ordered more than 170 million updated vaccine booster shots for this fall, and said on Tuesday it had sent out over 25 million doses.

https://www.ntd.com/us-cdc-expects-omicron-covid-boosters-for-kids-by-mid-october_844678.html

'Historic levels of fraud': US government admits scam artists stole $45.6 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits, feds say dead people exploited

A federal watchdog estimates that fraudsters stole $45.6 billion in unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The historic level of fraud is triple the amount that the U.S. government previously estimated. Some of the scam artists exploited dead people to file illegitimate unemployment claims, while others were fraud schemes carried out by street gangs.

In June 2021, the inspector general for the U.S. Labor Department "identified more than $16 billion in potentially fraudulent unemployment insurance (UI) pandemic benefits paid in four specific high-risk areas" since March 2020. On Thursday, the inspector general for the Department of Labor revealed that an additional $29.6 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits were paid during the pandemic.

The inspector general listed the high-risk areas as multistate claims, suspicious emails, federal prisoners, and deceased persons. Of the $45.6 billion in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, nearly $29 billion was from multistate claims, over $16 billion from suspicious emails, $267 million stolen by federal prisoners, and nearly $140 million taken by people posing as dead people.

"We determined 205,766 Social Security numbers of deceased persons were used to file claims for UI pandemic benefits," the report stated.

More than 1.7 million Social Security numbers were associated with suspicious email accounts that were suspected of stealing $16.2 billion in unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

In the five months after March 2020, over 57 million people filed claims with the unemployment insurance program.

"As the DOL-OIG reported, states struggled to handle the substantial increase in the volume of UI claims and to determine that benefits were paid to the right person in the correct amount," said the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General.

From March 2020 until July 2021, U.S. federal and state governments paid out roughly $794 billion in unemployment benefits, according to the Department of Labor.

The DOL-OIG stated that it is focusing on "large-scale identity theft schemes involving multiple victims and organized criminal groups, including street gangs."

In one case, 11 members of a gang were charged with allegedly obtaining $4.3 million in fraudulent unemployment benefits. The gang members are suspected of using the identification of "more than 800 victims to submit nearly 1,000 claims for UI benefits."

Investigations by the DOL-OIG resulted in more than 1,000 people being charged with unemployment insurance fraud since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"This milestone of 1,000 individuals being charged with crimes involving UI fraud and the identification of $45.6 billion in potentially fraudulent UI payments highlights the magnitude of this problem," inspector general Larry D. Turner said in a statement released on Thursday. "Hundreds of billions in pandemic funds attracted fraudsters seeking to exploit the UI program—resulting in historic levels of fraud and other improper payments."

Since the pandemic began, there have only been 400 convictions of unemployment insurance fraud.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/unemployment-insurance-benefits-fraud-covid

Republican Co-Chair Of Dr. Oz Campaign Spotted Attending ‘Big-Dollar’ Fundraiser For Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate: Report

Jeff Bartos, who co-chairs the Senate campaign for Pennsylvania Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, was seen on Wednesday at a fundraiser for Pennsylvania Democratic Attorney General and gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro, according to Politico.

Politico reported that Sheryl Bartos, the wife of Jeff Bartos, was a co-host for the “big-dollar Philadelphia fundraiser.” Jeff Bartos unsuccessfully ran for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor in 2018 and lost to Oz in the 2022 race for the Republican Senate nomination.

Politico said that the Bartos and Shapiro families, both of which are Jewish, have been longtime friends, and a subsequent report noted that Jeff Bartos was spotted at the fundraiser. A person familiar with Bartos’ thinking told the outlet that “he was proud to support his wife and was there at her request to accompany her.”

Oz, who is running against Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, was among the most polarizing candidates for the Republican Senate nomination. Roughly 48% of voters maintained a “somewhat or strongly unfavorable opinion” of the candidate during the primary contest, according to a poll from Emerson College. Oz raised eyebrows last year following an interview in which he claimed to be “pro-life” with the exception of rape, incest, and “health for the mother.”

State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, is likewise controversial. Though he appears to be more popular with conservatives, he has faced accusations of denying the 2020 election results.

A recent survey from Morning Call and Muhlenberg College found that Oz trails Fetterman by 5%, while Shapiro leads Mastriano by 11%. In another poll from CBS News and YouGov, Fetterman was supported by 52% of respondents, while Oz was backed by 47%. Voters also indicated a higher degree of favorability for the former candidate — 56% of Fetterman supporters said they are pulling the lever for him “mainly because” they like him, while only 15% of Oz voters said the same about their preferred candidate.

Democrats are hoping that Fetterman will add to a majority in the evenly divided Senate. However, Fetterman suffered a stroke days before the commonwealth’s primary election and has since stumbled and lost his train of thought during speeches at multiple campaign events. Roughly 41% of voters believe that Fetterman is not in “good enough health” to serve in office.

Meanwhile, the Fetterman campaign has repeatedly criticized Oz for his longtime residence in New Jersey. Only 33% of voters believe that Oz has been in Pennsylvania “long enough to understand the state’s issues.” While 71% of poll respondents said that they would have preferred “someone different” to headline the Republican ticket, 51% said the same about the Democratic ticket.

Due to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Keystone State — which has a Republican-led legislature — is likely to debate legislation related to abortion after the midterms. Mastriano is the author of the state’s heartbeat bill, which regulates abortion such that the procedure is not permitted to occur “after fetal heartbeat is detected” rather than the current limit of 24 weeks gestation.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/09/republican-co-chair-of-dr-oz-campaign.html

REVEALED: Rochester children's hospital offers gender transition services for 8-year-olds

"If folks are at the very beginning of this process, if they're just starting to think about gender, if you have an 8-year-old who's sort of beginning to express these give us a call."

Hospitals across the country have created gender clinics to facilitate gender transition for both minors and adults. While many have been exposed, many more are operating the same kinds of clinics, giving children puberty blockers to stunt their natural development, and pushing harmful cross-sex hormones and surgeries on minors.

One of these is Golisano Children's Hospital in Rochester, New York, which offers a promotional video for gender transition, featuring a mother who transitioned her child, as well as providers who claim that trans children know they are in the wrong body for "their whole lives."

The hospital notes that it "has services available to aid families, youth, and young adults who identify as transgender, gender fluid, or have other questions or concerns about their gender." The hospital site states that "Children are first aware of their own gender at around age 2, and transgender children may insist that they are of the opposite gender and desire toys and clothing that are typically assigned to the opposite gender."

Golisano admits that normal life transitions, such as puberty, or leaving home for college, can trigger feelings of "dysphoria" and not belonging, but instead of noting that it is perfectly normal to feel anxious and confused around transitions, they say it's perfectly normal to feel suddenly like your body is not your own and you need drugs and surgeries to ease your anxiety at growing up.

"It is not unusual for older adolescents and young adults to express these thoughts or feelings for the first time," the hospital notes. "The onset of puberty can be particularly difficult for those whose sense of self does not match their developing body, or they may have been grappling with these feelings for years without being able to express them. We often see young adults as they start college or undergo other transitions since this may be the first time they have had access to medical care for transition."

The video encourgages parents to transition their children as early as 8-years-old, though the video has recently been made private on their site.

"When he started female puberty, it just didn't fit who he was," said Brae Adams, identified as the mother and a pastor at Open Arms Metro Community Church, speaking in glowing terms about Golisano and her child's transition. "He didn't want to wear the things that girls wear, he didn't want to wear. The underwear that girls wear."

Adams is no longer a lay pastor at Open Arms, but Facebook posts show that Adams was the pastor there in 2018, where she delivered sermons about her experiences with coming out. She is now at the United Congregational Church of Rochester, where her bio states that she has had a lifelong interest in LGBTQ+ issues.

"While a sophomore at Mississippi State University," her bio reads, "and working as an intern for the Women and Gender Studies department, she helped design and implement the school’s first Gay Straight Alliance to combat the increased risk of vandalism of their dorm rooms, assaults and discrimination that LGBT folks were experiencing at the time on campus. This began her lifelong interest in issues of equality and non-discrimination."

Dr. Katherine Greenberg jumps in on the promotional video to explain "gender dysphoria," saying that it "is the experience that people have where the sex they were assigned at birth, their sort of biological sex is different from their sense of self or their gender identity." She is also a professor who instructs medical students how to hide information on adolescent health from their parents. Greenberg has also spoken out against Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill.

Greenberg, who lists her pronouns as "she/her/hers" is listed in the video as the director of gender health services at Golisano. Her specialties are in "adolescent reproductive health" and she "directs the GCH program serving transgender and gender diverse youth." She is also the "Vice Chair for Inclusive Culture in the Department of Pediatrics, and interim Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine and Dentistry."

Her primary areas of research are "adolescent sexual and reproductive health, supporting transgender and gender diverse youth, and inclusive climate in academic medicine."

https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-rochester-childrens-hospital-offers-gender-transition-services-for-8-year-olds

FDA Uses Transhumanist Slogans to Push New COVID Boosters

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advertising the new COVID-19 booster as an “antibody update” to “recharge your immunity” — as if your immune system were a battery that needs recharging or a software system that requires gene therapy “updates.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now advertising the new COVID-19 booster as an “antibody update” to “recharge your immunity” — as if your immune system were a battery that needs recharging, or your immunity a software system that requires gene therapy “updates.” This is transhumanist lingo that has no bearing on real-world biology or physiology and proves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is on board with the transhumanist ideas of technocracy pushed by the globalist cabal.

According to a risk-benefit analysis looking at the impact of booster mandates for university students, between 22,000 and 30,000 previously uninfected adults (aged 18 to 29) must be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent one COVID-19 hospitalization.

For each hospitalization prevented, the jab will cause 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to three booster-associated myocarditis cases in males.

A small observational study led by neurology researchers at the National Institutes of Health found “a variety of neuropathic symptoms” occurring within three to four weeks of COVID-19 injection.

Naturopath Henry Ealy and two Oregon state senators, Kim Thatcher and Dennis Linthicum, are trying to compel the state court in Oregon to order the impaneling of a special grand jury to investigate criminal data fraud by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Just when you thought the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) couldn’t possibly get any worse, they prove you wrong.

Here are two recent COVID-19 booster campaign messages tweeted out by the FDA:

“It’s time to install that update! #UpdateYourAntibodies with a new #COVID19 booster.”

“Don’t be shocked! You can now #RechargeYourImmunity with an updated #COVID19 booster.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-transhumanist-covid-booster-cola/?utm_source=salsa

Author tells how Dick Cheney elevated Fauci to top of US biodefense research apparatus post-9/11

It's a mistake to think of Dr. Anthony Fauci as "a great public health expert," says journalist Ashley Rindsberg, who argues the NIAID director is correctly understood as "a biodefense national security official at the very top of that command structure."

Fearing the development of bioweapons by U.S. enemies in the wake of 9/11, then-Vice President Dick Cheney paved the way for Dr. Anthony Fauci's little known rise in 2004 to the top of the nation's biodefense research apparatus, relates journalist Ashley Rindsberg in a new article at "UnHerd.com.

"In the aftermath of 9/11, and even slightly before 9/11, when the Bush administration came to power, Dick Cheney was especially looking to create a biodefense strategy," Rindsberg said on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

"And Cheney was very concerned about this," Rindsberg continued. "Bush was more concerned on the natural outbreak pandemic front, but Cheney was really thinking about how about the potential of enemies of the United States weaponizing biology, weaponizing viruses."

As a result of this, Cheney and Bush funded a huge infrastructure with a vertically integrated power structure and placed Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at its pinnacle.

"This is kind of the thing that people have really missed about Fauci," Rindsberg said. "We've all come to think of him as a great public health expert — the top public health official in America. He is not that. He's definitely not that.

"He is in fact, a biodefense national security official at the very top of that command structure. And this is something we all should have known about two, three years ago and not just today."

Fauci is the highest paid employee in the federal government, outearning senators, the president, and Supreme Court justices.

"His salary roughly doubled that of his own (nominal) boss, until recently, NIH director Francis Collins," Rindsberg wrote in an article at UnHerd.com titled "How Dick Cheney created Anthony Fauci." "Fauci's giant pay packet can be traced back to 2004, the year after NIAID was made the country's top biodefence authority agency."

It was then that Fauci became more than just another director of a public health agency.

"This salary jump was only a by-product of the radical restructuring of America's biodefence apparatus," Rindsberg wrote. "The much more significant outcome was that Fauci was essentially placed at the top of a new chain of command over which he gained nearly total decision-making ability. He went from being the director of one the NIH's constituent 27 institutes to being the only one who really mattered."

Rindsberg was also critical of the mainstream media and said one of the main problems with it is that many major outlets chose to write from a single narrative and base their writings off of the narrative.

"A lot of this has to do with the media's allegiance and alliances with forces and elements in government," Rindsberg concluded. "They take the government message — part of the government not the whole government — and certain parties of government and drive it home at all cost, no matter what."

https://justthenews.com/government/thursjournalist-explains-how-dick-cheney-paved-way-dr-fauci-and-his-power

San Francisco passes controversial surveillance plan

In a 7-4 vote on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed to test Mayor London Breed's controversial plan to overhaul the city's surveillance practices, which will allow police to access private security cameras in real time.

Supervisors Catherine Stefani, Aaron Peskin, Gordon Mar, Matt Dorsey, Myrna Melgar, Rafael Mandelman and Ahsha Safaí voted to approve the trial run, while Connie Chan, Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen and Shamann Walton voted in dissent.

“I know the thought process is, ‘Just trust us, just trust the police department.’ But the reality is people have been violating civil liberties since my ancestors were brought here from an entirely, completely different continent,” Walton — the board president and District 10 representative — said.

Under the new policy, police can access up to 24 hours of live video of outdoor footage from private surveillance cameras owned by individuals or businesses without a warrant as long as the camera's owner allows it. Police must meet one of three outlined criteria to use their newfound power: they must be responding to a life-threatening emergency, deciding how to deploy officers in response to a large public event or conducting a criminal investigation that was approved in writing by a captain or higher-ranking police official.

The trial will last 15 months. If supervisors wish to extend or revise the policy, they must take a second vote.

Breed first proposed an overhaul of the city's surveillance practices late last year as a way to crack down on retail theft, rioting, looting and drug-dealing. The plan initially received blowback from Peskin and others, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Bar Association of San Francisco, who feared the policy would be abused by police. Peskin, along with other members of the Board of Supervisors, introduced a competing proposal that, along with Breed's, would have appeared on the June 7 primary ballot.

In March, however, Breed and Peskin both pulled their proposals and sought to reach a compromise. In May, they announced agreement on an updated plan, which contains new safeguards including rules for how long the cameras can be used, data retention and regular reporting requirements.

The new policy is supported by San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who replaced former DA Chesa Boudin after he was recalled in a special election in June. Shortly after Jenkins took office, she wrote a letter to Peskin —the chairman of the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee — informing him that she would back the new surveillance practices.

"I believe this policy can help address the existence of open-air drug markets fueling the sale of the deadly drug fentanyl," Jenkins wrote. "Drug dealers are destroying people's lives and wreaking havoc on neighborhoods like the Tenderloin. Mass organized retail theft, like we saw in Union Square last year, or targeted neighborhood efforts like we've seen in Chinatown is another area where the proposed policy can help."

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/san-francisco-passes-surveillance-plan-17457342.php

World banking explained in less than 2 minutes

CIA launches a podcast, hoping to ‘demystify’ the agency and boost recruitment

There is no shortage of podcasts out there exploring the mechanics of espionage, celebrating fictionalized spies and detailing the real-world exploits of the country’s premiere intelligence agency. But only one, as of today, is officially unclassified.

The CIA launched ‘The Langley Files’ podcast on Thursday, attempting to step out from its own shadows to share stories from the agency’s 75-year history — and provide a little insight into what it takes to work there.

The goal of the podcast, according to a CIA spokesperson, is to provide a bit more transparency into an agency premised on secrecy.

‘“The Langley Files’ is a major milestone for CIA as the agency marks its 75th anniversary,” said CIA press secretary Susan Miller. “It is the latest in CIA’s ongoing efforts to be as open as possible with the public, sharing what we can about our mission, people, and history.”

And in telling stories on the history of the CIA — featuring senior CIA officials, agency historians and CIA museum experts as guests — the agency hopes to attract new interest from a young generation of potential recruits.

“We want to reach a wider and more diverse audience than ever before, so that people who might not have thought of joining CIA — or might not have known that there could be a place for their talents here — consider CIA in their career plans,” a CIA spokesperson said.

“The podcast supports the agency’s efforts to connect with talent from all backgrounds and walks of life,” the spokesperson continued. “To be successful in its national security mission, CIA needs to build the diverse, skilled workforce of tomorrow, and we hope ‘The Langley Files’ can serve as a way to reach those candidates.”

The podcast will be hosted by two agency officers, exploring new topics with special guests in each episode.

Its first guest is CIA Director Bill Burns.

“In our democracy, where trust in institutions is in such short supply,” Burns said on the podcast’s first episode, “it’s important to try to explain ourselves as best we can, and to demystify a little bit of what we do.”

Burns and the podcast’s hosts had some fun at the expense of Hollywood’s depictions of spies, noting their work “doesn’t always involve fast cars and solo heroics.”

“I should start by saying that I love spy movies,” Burns said. “But one big misconception that a lot of those really entertaining movies feed is that intelligence in real life is just a glamorous world of solo operators in the world of James Bond and Jason Bourne and Jack Ryan. A world of heroic individuals who drive fast cars and defuse bombs and solve world crises all on their own every day.”

“The truth is that intelligence is very much a team sport,” he added.

Burns described the agency’s warnings over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine among its greatest recent successes, as well as the intelligence operation that led to the successful strike against al-Qaida’s co-founder, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

But new challenges, driven by great power competition with China, are driving the agency to adapt its mission set and recruitment strategies, Burns said.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/09/cia-launches-a-podcast-hoping-to-demystify-the-agency-and-boost-recruitment/

Blinken Says US Will Continue to Support Ukraine Despite Putin’s Nuclear Warning

Blinken also criticized the referendums that will be held in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday signaled that there will be no change to the US policy of supporting Ukraine despite warnings from Russia that they could use nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory.

Speaking to the UN Security Council, Blinken said it was up to Putin to end the war and that the US would continue supporting Ukraine. “Because if Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends,” he said.

“That’s why we will continue to support Ukraine as it defends itself, and strengthen its hand to achieve a diplomatic solution on just terms at a negotiating table,” Blinken added.

Throughout the war, the Biden administration has said that it was arming Ukraine to help Kyiv gain a stronger hand in negotiations, but the US has shown no interest in pursuing a diplomatic solution. Blinken has only spoken with his Russian counterpart one time since Russia invaded on February 24, and the conversation was focused on a potential prisoner swap.

Blinken also criticized Moscow for the referendums on joining Russia that will be held in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine. “Russia’s effort to annex more Ukrainian territory is another dangerous escalation, as well as a repudiation of diplomacy,” he said.

Addressing Russia’s nuclear warnings, Blinken said the Security Council should “send a clear message that these reckless nuclear threats must stop immediately.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also addressed the Security Council and made clear that Moscow views the US and its allies as a party to the conflict. “What’s particularly cynical is the position of states that are pumping Ukraine full of weapons and training their soldiers,” he said.

Lavrov said Ukraine’s Western backers want “to wear down and weaken Russia.” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has previously said that one of Washington’s goals in the war is to see a “weakened” Russia. “That policy means the direct involvement of the West in the conflict,” Lavrov said.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/09/22/blinken-says-us-will-continue-to-support-ukraine-despite-putins-nuclear-warning/

New bombshell film exposes Israel lobby role in UK Labour Party

https://youtu.be/elp18OvnNV0

Chinese state media claims U.S. NSA infiltrated country’s telecommunications networks

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) gained access to China’s telecommunications network after hacking a university, state media alleged.

As part of the NSA’s hack on a government funded university , the NSA infiltrated Chinese telecommunications operators so that the U.S. could “control the country’s infrastructure,” the Global Times claimed.

For several years, China has accused the U.S. of cyberattacks but has not been specific. However, in the last few weeks, Beijing has been more vocal in attributing specific attacks to the U.S.

A U.S. intelligence agency gained access to China’s telecommunications network after hacking a university, Chinese state media claimed Thursday.

The U.S. National Security Agency used phishing — a hacking technique where a malicious link is included in an email — to gain access to the government funded Northwestern Polytechnical University, the Global Times alleged, citing an unnamed source.

American hackers stole “core technology data including key network equipment configuration, network management data, and core operational data,” and other files, according to the Global Times.

As part of the NSA’s hack, the agency infiltrated Chinese telecommunications operators so that the U.S. could “control the country’s infrastructure,” the Global Times alleged.

The NSA was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC. The hack has not been verified by CNBC.

The Global Times, citing its unnamed source, reported that more details about the attack on Northwestern Polytechnical University will be released soon.

For several years, China has accused the U.S. of cyberattacks but has not been specific. However, in the last few weeks, Beijing has been more vocal in attributing particular attacks to the U.S., in a ramping up of tensions between the two nations in the cyber sphere.

Conversely, Washington and American cybersecurity firms, have attributed specific attacks to China over the past few years.

The alleged attack on the Northwestern Polytechnical University was first disclosed by China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center earlier this month. The agency also accused the U.S. of engaging in “tens of thousands” of cyberattacks on Chinese targets.

For its part, the U.S. has accused China of massive hacking operations. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray said in February that China’s cyberattacks have become “more brazen, more damaging, than ever before.”

Wray accused China of trying to steal U.S. information and technology.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/22/us-nsa-hacked-chinas-telecommunications-networks-state-media-claims.html

Another Kiddie Sex Change Butcher Shop Found in Vegas

Everyone’s talking about the horror show going on at Vanderbilt Hospital in Tennessee, that’s been chemically sterilizing and surgically butchering kids sometimes apparently without parental permission. In a shocking Tucker Carlson segment the hospital was practically bragging how each kiddie sex change brought in an average of 40k. But the truth is these butcher shops are all over this country now, and in the case of Las Vegas…they’re even proud of it.

Just so you completely understand how they’re permanently disfiguring these kids, go on Google and image search “gender affirming bottom surgery” to see what they’re doing to the adults. These children will never have children of their own, will face a lifetime of infection and incontinence, and be left with a non-functioning sex organ that looks like it belongs on the demon from Hellraiser.

The clinic also specializing in HIV care, which the radical leftist Governor in corruption-controlled Nevada “legalized” giving to someone even if it’s done on purpose and in vengeance. Gotta love the screwed up priorities of the Left, amirite? If you’re unfamiliar with Nevada corruption, let’s just say thanks to a completely illegal primary election that corrupt officials naturally refuse to investigate or acknowledge…citizens are being given the “choice” between two scumbags everyone hates for Governor. We get to either re-elect the fascist tyrant that forced vaccines, lockdowns, and mandates on us…or the corrupt Sheriff that poorly covered up the shooting deaths of 58 for the FBI during the Las Vegas shooting. We have no recourse, everything is corrupt here, they’re literally cutting up kids and no elected official in the entire state from either party is saying a damn thing about it….but I’m sure We the People will.

https://thedcpatriot.com/another-kiddie-sex-change-butcher-shop-found-in-vegas/

Moscow to regard strikes at Donbass, liberated territories as attack on Russia — Kremlin

Dmitry Peskov explained that "immediately after the decision to join Russia the Constitution of Russia will come into force in relation to these territories"

Russia will regard Ukraine’s attempts to retake Donbass and other territories as attacks on its lands, if the referendums held there produce positive results, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Friday.

"It goes without saying," he said, when asked if in case of a positive outcome of the referendums all of Kiev’s attempts to retake these territories would be regarded as attacks on Russia.

Peskov explained that "immediately [after the decision to join Russia] the Constitution of Russia will come into force in relation to these territories."

"Everything is very clear on this score," he said. "If there is an act of accession to Russia, then, accordingly, the relevant provisions of our Constitution will take effect," he summed up.

https://tass.com/politics/1512201

Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal COVID-19 Vaccine Studies Used by HHS were Conducted in China

Judicial Watch announced today that it received 115 pages of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing previously redacted locations of COVID-19 vaccine testing facilities in Shanghai, China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had claimed the name and location of the testing facilities were protected by the confidential commercial information exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The records were obtained through a September 2021 FOIA lawsuit filed after the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease failed to respond to a June 7, 2021, FOIA request for all biodistribution studies and data for the COVID-19 vaccines (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:21-cv-02418)).

The newly unredacted documents reveal the following Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine studies’ locations:

A document with the filename, “ s_r_IND 19736 0 105 2.6.5 pharmkintabulated-summary” identifies all in vitro metabolic stability studies of ALC-0315 and ALC-0159 (synthetic lipids in the vaccines) were conducted at Medicilon Preclinical Research LLC, a testing facility located in Shanghai, China. Studies within this record indicate work was done in August 2020.

A document with the filename, “s_r_IND 19736-0-253 Section 2.6.5 pharmkintabulated-summary” identifies that all in vitro metabolic stability studies of ALC-0315 and ALC-0159 were conducted at Medicilon Preclinical Research LLC, a testing facility located in Shanghai, China. Studies within this record indicate work was done in August 2020.

Additionally, Study 18350 was conducted at a Charles River testing facility in Tranent, UK

A document with the filename, “s_pharmkin-tabulated-summary.pdf” notes that all in vitro metabolic stability studies of ALC-0315 and ALC-0159 were conducted at Medicilon Preclinical Research LLC, a testing facility located in “Shanghai, China.” Studies within this record indicate work was done in August 2020.

The document adds that Study 18350 was conducted at a Charles River testing facility in Tranent, UK.

A document titled “FINAL REPORT” with the filename, “s_r_185350.pdf” and the logo, “Charles River” lists the TESTING FACILITY as “Charles River Laboratories Edinburgh Ltd. Elphinstone Research Centre Tranent, East Lothian EH33 2NE, UK” Studies within this record indicate the work was conducted in July 2020.

“The Biden administration’s stonewalling and shell games about the COVID vaccines further undermine public confidence in these controversial drugs,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Americans are now going to want to know why did the Biden operation try to hide COVID vaccine ties to China!”

This is part of Judicial Watch’s ongoing investigation into the US Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In July 2022, National Institutes of Health (NIH) records revealed an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. The Fauci agency was also concerned about EcoHealth Alliance’s lack of compliance with reporting rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/covid-vaccine-studies-conducted-in-china/

Docs

https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/JW-v-HHS-Pfizer-Records-August-2022-02418.pdf

Belgium Permanently Shuts Down Nuclear Reactor Amid Power Crunch

The Belgian government is shutting down a major nuclear power plant amid a record power crunch and skyrocketing energy costs to "appease" Green parties who oppose nuclear power.

From The Brussels Times, "Doel 3: Shutdown confirmed for Friday despite politicians' pleas":

Despite calls from members of the Federal Government to postpone the dismantling of the Doel 3 nuclear reactor, both the operator Engie and the reactor's director have confirmed that it will be permanently shut down on Friday.

In 2003, the Federal Government passed a law that nuclear reactors would have to stop producing electricity 40 years after their installation.

This was in part an agreement to appease the Green parties in government who have been noteworthy for their long-standing opposition to nuclear power.

This is especially funny because elites are now coming around to the fact nuclear power has the lowest emissions of any power source and is nearly carbon neutral.

While Europeans are being told to suffer high energy prices and the collapse of their industries to fight Russia and "climate change," Russians' gas is so cheap that people are burning it 24/7 on livestreams just for laughs.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63353

As dementia progresses, patients lose more of their filter and tend to blurt out the truth.

Biden: “She was 12, I was 30.”

https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1573368515591127040

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/09/kaag-brands-baudet-extremist-after-spy-college-tirade-derails-budget-debate/

Special Master Raymond Dearie Asks For Outside Help Reviewing Classified Documents… and Trump Has to Pick Up the $500 Per Hour Tab

Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master chosen by Judge Aileen Cannon to oversee the ‘classified’ documents seized by the FBI during its raid on Mar-a-Lago, has asked for outside help in reviewing the records.

Judge Dearie tapped Judge James Orenstein, a former magistrate with top secret clearance, to help review the more than 11,000 document seized by the FBI in August.

And President Trump has to pick up the $500 per hour tab.

“The undersigned has determined that the efficient administration of the Special Master’s duties requires the assistance of the Honorable James Orenstein,” Dearie’s proposed plan for the document review said, according to Politico. The order said Orenstein “has experience with complex case management, privilege review, warrant procedures, and other matters that may arise in the course of the Special Master’s duties.”

Judge Dearie on Thursday also asked President Trump’s lawyers to prove the FBI planted evidence during its raid of Mar-a-Lago in August.

Judge Dearie gave Trump’s legal team a September 30 deadline to submit a declaration.

Politico reported:

U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Dearie, a New York City-based jurist named by a federal judge in Florida to act as a so-called special master in the review of more than 11,000 documents the FBI confiscated, proposed on Thursday that former Magistrate Judge James Orenstein help with the process.

Orenstein spent 16 years as a federal magistrate in the same Brooklyn courthouse where Dearie sits. Orenstein drew attention several years ago for his role in what was semi-sarcastically dubbed “the magistrates’ revolt” — rulings from a smattering of federal magistrate judges across the country questioning government tactics in warrant applications seeking electronic data.

In 2016, Orenstein issued a controversial ruling rejecting prosecutors’ arguments that a two-century-old federal law gave the government the right to command Apple to assist in unlocking an iPhone used by an alleged drug dealer. The judge’s pro-privacy stance in that matter may have led the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to appoint him to a list of approved friends of the court who provide their perspective on surveillance requests.

While the seven-page proposal the special master issued on Thursday bears Dearie’s name and a form of electronic signature, metadata attached to the document indicates that Orenstein — who retired from the court in 2020 — was involved in drafting it. Dearie’s chambers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Orenstein helped prepare the proposal to involve him in the case.

Judge Dearie’s deadline comes one day after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Biden’s corrupt DOJ.

The Justice Department late Tuesday evening told the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that former President Trump failed to show he declassified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

The DOJ’s filing in the 11th Circuit Court was in response to Trump’s lawyers and sought to resume its review of the 100 ‘classified’ documents seized by the FBI in August.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/special-master-raymond-dearie-asks-outside-help-reviewing-classified-documents-trump-pick-500-per-hour-tab/

Poland to hand out radiation tablets in schools – media

Warsaw appears to be concerned about the threat of a nuclear incident in Ukraine

Polish teachers have been asked to hand out iodine anti-radiation pills to students in case of emergency. Local officials say they are preparing for a potential nuclear incident, adding though that such a scenario is rather unlikely.

Marek Plesniar, the head of the National Association of Educational Management Staff (OSKKO), told newspaper Rzeczpospolita on Friday that teachers have been instructed that, in case of an emergency, they would have to hand out potassium iodide pills, which help to prevent radiation poisoning.

He added that some were told they would have to distribute the pills within six hours following an alert.

Warsaw City Hall spokesman Jakub Leduchowski told the paper that authorities are making preparations for a possible nuclear threat. He stated, however, that at present “the risk of a radiation event is minimal.”

Poland and Ukraine share a border. The Polish Interior Ministry said on Monday that potassium iodide pills were sent to regional fire departments after “media reports of fighting near the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant” in southern Ukraine.

Russian troops seized Europe’s largest nuclear power plant shortly after Moscow launched a military operation in late February. Moscow and Kiev have since accused each other of shelling the facility, which continues to operate with local staff.

Officials in the city of Energodar, which is close to the plant, said on Tuesday that its cooling system was damaged in the shelling.

The Russian-held parts of the Zaporozhye Region are among the territories that are holding a five-day referendum on joining Russia, which began on Friday. Ukraine and the West consider the vote illegal and said they will not recognize the result.

https://www.rt.com/news/563404-poland-anti-nuclear-pills/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

The payoff - Blood money

$190 million in bonuses given to federal executives and upper management in 2021

Bonuses for federal executives and upper management cost more than $190 million last year. The Treasury Board called it a credit to the “world class public service.”

“Canada has a world class public service with employees committed to providing the highest level of service to Canadians,” Treasury Board President Mona Fortier wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons. “In fact Canada’s public service is regularly recognized globally for its quality and effectiveness.”

According to Blacklock's Reporter, bonuses called “performance pay” totaled $190,725,106 last year. A total of 16,069 executives and managers received bonuses. “Incentive plans that reward executives for the delivery of expected results are common among Canadian private and public sector organizations including within Canada’s federal public service,” wrote President Fortier.

The Inquiry did not detail payments to individuals. However, in four federal agencies, every single executive received a bonus.

The 100% group included managers at the Office of the Governor General’s Secretary, the Communications Security Establishment, Economic Development for Québec, Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario and Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre. Costs for the 100% totaled $5.5 million.

At 23 other federal agencies 95% of executives or more qualified for a bonus. The 95% group included the departments of heritage, finance, fisheries, foreign affairs, Indigenous services, infrastructure, justice, public safety, public works and transport. “Executives in the core public administration are eligible for performance pay when they meet the commitments outlined in their annual performance agreements,” wrote President Fortier.

The smallest bonus payout was a total $24,210 to managers at the Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee. The biggest payout was $17.9 million to a total 295 executives, the equivalent of 96% of upper management, at the Department of Justice.

Access To Information records from Crown agencies have identified bonus payments as routine regardless of results. Executives at the Canadian Tourism Commission paid themselves bonuses equal to $32,652 each in 2020 though tourism was in lockdown and nine percent of Commission staff were laid off.

The CBC last year paid 1,033 staff a total $15.4 million in bonuses at the same time the Crown broadcaster reported declining ad revenues and layoffs of 11 staff in its Radio Canada International division. “The Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges of covering it put immense pressure on CBC’s workforce, operations, finances and systems,” said an April 20, 2021 cabinet briefing note Funding Support For The CBC.

https://www.westernstandard.news/news/190-million-in-bonuses-given-to-federal-executives-and-upper-management-in-2021/article_999e84fe-3b60-11ed-ba91-2b254e9ab2dc.html