Corporations pause marketing campaigns on Twitter after ads appear alongside accounts associated with child porn

Big corporations, including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes, and PBS Kids, stated that they paused online marketing campaigns on Twitter after learning some advertisements appeared next to accounts and tweets associated with child sexual exploitation. Reuters first reported the findings on Wednesday.

Cybersecurity group Ghost Data conducted research to uncover and report child pornography accounts on the social media site. Ghost Data's investigation discovered that more than 30 advertisers appeared alongside Twitter profile pages that had posted links to child pornography.

Walt Disney Co., NBCUniversal, Coca-Cola Co., Forbes, Cole Haan, and a children's hospital were among the companies to have their marketing campaigns inadvertently placed next to the exploitive material.

Reuters found that some of the phrases used in the inappropriate tweets included "rape," "teens," "13+," "young looking nudes," and "trading teen/child" content.

Twitter released an email to advertisers on Wednesday and said it had "discovered that ads were running within Profiles that were involved with publicly selling or soliciting child sexual abuse material."

Over 90% of the platform's revenue is generated from online advertisers.

Reactions from advertisers

David Maddocks, brand president at Cole Haan, told Reuters that the business was "horrified" to learn its ads were appearing near accounts and tweets associated with such content. "Either Twitter is going to fix this, or we'll fix it by any means we can, which includes not buying Twitter ads," he said.

A Walt Disney spokesperson stated that the company would look into the situation and "ensure that the digital platforms on which we advertise, and the media buyers we use, strengthen their efforts to prevent such errors from recurring."

"Twitter needs to fix this problem ASAP, and until they do, we are going to cease any further paid activity on Twitter," said a Forbes spokesperson.

Mazda USA halted advertising with Twitter, and a spokesperson told Reuters, "There is no place for this type of content online."

NBCUniversal also confirmed that it halted ads on the social media platform.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/corporations-pause-marketing-campaigns-on-twitter-after-ads-appear-alongside-accounts-associated-with-child-porn

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Are They Planning on ‘Vaccinating’ the Masses Against Our Will? Why Did The NIH Use a Box Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Vaccinate Study Patients?

A hive of genetically modified mosquitoes effectively vaccinated a human against malaria in a National Institute of Health-funded trial of the insects’ ability to innoculate.

Scientists conducting the study held approximately 200 hungry, gene-altered mosquitoes captive in a box.

Human participants placed their arms over the box of mosquitoes, allowing the blood-thirsty insects to feast on their flesh.

Mosquitoes can easily replace traditional injections, contends Dr. Sean Murphy, a researcher who conducted the study.

“We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” Murphy told NPR.

The mosquitoes transmitted live malaria-inducing Plasmodium parasites to the twenty-six participants of the study, who each received $4.100 to undergo the experiment.

A minimal amount of the fatal disease was transmitted via the mosquitoes’ attack on their arms, not enough to make people sick.

The hundreds of mosquito bites provided enough antibodies to last a few months.

Researchers genetically modified the mosquitoes using genome technology known as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR, a highly advanced pair of molecular scissors, is used to cut DNA.

Participants received three to five “vaccinations” over 30-day intervals.

“Half of the individuals in each vaccine group did not develop detectable P. falciparum infection, and a subset of these individuals was subjected to a second CHMI 6 months later and remained partially protected. These results support further development of genetically attenuated sporozoites as potential malaria vaccines,” researchers maintain.

Confirmation of mosquitoes’ capacity to “vaccinate” is a scientific breakthrough, exclaims Dr. Kirsten Lyke. Lyke was not involved in the mosquito study, but led the phase 1 trial for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. She also was also a co-investigator for Moderna and Novavax COVID jabs.

The research is “a total game changer,” Lyke contends.

One participant of the study, Carolina Reid, claims she enjoyed the experiment with GMO mosquitoes so much that she now wants to participate in as many vaccine trials as she can, The Counter Signal reports.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/planning-vaccinating-masses-will-nih-use-box-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-vaccinate-study-patients/

Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million (2019-2021)

While millions of Americans suffered under his pandemic policies, Fauci's personal profits soared.

Last night, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 financial disclosures from the National Institutes of Health.

The documents contain a wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the Fauci household’s net worth now exceeds $12.6 million – up $5 million from 2019 through 2021.

In January 2022, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall forced open Dr. Anthony Fauci’s unredacted FY2019 and 2020 financial disclosures. The release followed a heated Senate exchange between Fauci and Marshall that concluded with Fauci calling the senator a “moron.”

It was Fauci’s “code red moment” when America’s ‘top doctor’ melted down on national television in the Senate hearing. (When Marshall cited ‘Forbes,’ that was our research on Fauci’s financials published in my then-column at Forbes.)

It’s been a dogfight to open the books on the Fauci finances. For example, our organization has filed four federal lawsuits versus NIH to open the books.

During the ongoing pandemic year of 2021, the Fauci’s household income, perks and benefits, and unrealized investment gains totaled $2,832,876 — including federal income and benefits of $903,497; outside awards and royalties totaling $1,019,205; and $910,174 in investment gains.

Here are the numbers as compiled by our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com, an organization I lead. This analysis uses information we previously unearthed plus the newly released disclosures.

Investment Gains: $910,174

Disclosures show $910,174 in gains within the Fauci stock, bond, and money market portfolio during 2021 – in 2020, the portfolio gained $794,369. The total value of Dr. Fauci’s investment account was $10,271,626 and his wife’s investments totaled another $2,405,887, as of 12/31/2021.

These funds were held in a mix of trust, retirement, and college education accounts. Fauci has an IRA worth $706,219 (up $67,700); a defined benefit brokerage account totaling $2,551,210 (up $147,688); and a revocable trust worth $7,014,197 (up $1,718,299). His wife’s revocable trust is worth $2,269,225 (up $306,406) and an IRA totaling $136,662 (up $16,385).

The disclosures show that he’s invested in fairly broadly targeted mutual funds, with no reported holdings of individual stocks. The Fauci’s deposited an additional net $1,346,304 in savings during this period.

Fauci’s 2021 disclosures show that he continues with an ownership stake in a San Francisco restaurant, Jackson Fillmore, worth between $1,000 and $15,000: but received minimal income from the restaurant.

https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/breaking-faucis-net-worth-soared

"No Evidence" US Involved In Nord Stream Pipeline Attack Because Pentagon Says So

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin has confirmed that the U.S. was not responsible for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion, because the Pentagon told her so.

Yes, really.

Despite accusations flying that the United States could have been involved in the blasts that have reportedly could scupper the pipelines permanently, and without any investigation having taken place, Griffin’s crack journalism has solved the case.

“There is no evidence or indication the US was involved in any way with the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosions,” Griffin tweeted.

“My question at the Pentagon briefing today: Can you rule out that the U.S. was involved? Senior Military Official: ‘Yeah, we were absolutely not involved.’ ”

Well, that’s that then, case closed.

As Chris Menahan notes, the Fox News reporter has been guilty of brazenly amplifying false regime propaganda before.

“Earlier this year, Griffin put out the debunked hoax story that Russia bombed the Babi Yair holocaust memorial in Ukraine.”

The reporting was later debunked after an Israeli journalist visited the site and found it to be completely unscathed.

Griffin also recycled the lie that Russia was using “mobile crematoriums” to “evaporate” war dead, when the supposed video proving it was taken from a 2013 YouTube video.

“When news came out about US biolabs in Ukraine, Griffin also simply repeated Pentagon talking points to dismiss the story as a nothingburger,” writes Menahan.

When Griffin was recently rewarded with a new multiyear contract, she stated that it “has been an honor to provide viewers with trusted reporting from the Pentagon and across the world on issues that are paramount to all of us – the security and safety of our fellow citizens and allies.”

“Trusted reporting.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/no-evidence-us-involved-nord-stream-pipeline-attack-because-pentagon-says-so

Another $1.1BN In Arms Ukraine: "We Will Not Be Deterred," White House Says

On Wednesday President Joe Biden approved $1.1 billion more in military aid for Ukraine, marking the 22nd such installment, and as the US is warning Russia against following through with annexation of four territories which wrapped a 5-day referendum on joining the Russian Federation.

According to the White House Press Secretary, this latest defense package consists of "18 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, as well as munitions for those systems, 150 armored multipurpose vehicles, 150 tactical vehicles to tow weapons, 40 trucks and 80 trailers to transport heavy equipment, two radars for unmanned aerial systems, 20 multi-mission radars as well as secure communication systems and body armor."

The report continues, "Unlike a presidential drawdown authority, which pulls weapons directly from U.S. stockpiles, the latest security assistance package is authorized through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, or USAI, which uses funds appropriated by Congress."

In total this brings US commitment of security assistance to more than $16.2 billion since February, when the Russian invasion began. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in announcing the fresh defense aid, "We will not be deterred from supporting Ukraine."

Meanwhile, the West in general is likely about to hit some significant practical limitations concerning this vow of "not being deterred" - as Dave Des Roches, an associate professor and senior military fellow at the U.S. National Defense University, explained to CNBC:

"I’m greatly concerned. Unless we have new production, which takes months to ramp up, we’re not going to have the ability to supply the Ukrainians," Des Roches told CNBC.

Europe is running low, too. "The military stocks of most [European NATO] member states have been, I wouldn’t say exhausted, but depleted in a high proportion, because we have been providing a lot of capacity to the Ukrainians," Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, said earlier this month.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-11bn-security-aid-ukraine-we-will-not-be-deterred-white-house-says

EU mobile coverage may go down this winter – Reuters

The networks don’t have sufficient resilience to deal with possible blackouts, telecom officials told the news agency

Possible blackouts in the EU during the winter may leave people without a stable mobile connection because the existing backup power reserves are not sufficient, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing a warning it received from four telecom officials.

Telecoms could take measures like optimizing traffic flow or upgrading equipment to more power-efficient variants, but they would likely need government intervention to prevent mobile phone outages, the news agency said.

“We are a bit spoiled maybe in large parts of Europe where electricity is pretty stable and good,” Reuters quoted one of the unnamed executives as saying. “The investments in the energy storage area have maybe been less than in some other countries.”

According to Reuters analysis, Europe has some 500,000 mobile network towers, most of which are equipped with backup batteries that can last around 30 minutes in a blackout.

French electricity distributor Enedis plans for potential power cuts of up to two hours, with suspension of supply rotated between various parts of the country. Paris pledged to ensure that crucial consumers like hospitals and police stations are not impacted, but mobile networks are not on the list, according to Reuters sources.

The French utility told the agency that regular customers would be treated equally. A finance ministry official explained that “it’s not easy to isolate a mobile antenna” from other consumers on the power grid.

Swedish telecom regulator PTS said it was preparing for possible emergencies by buying transportable base stations and fuel stations, when asked about the issue. Germany’s Deutsche Telekom intends to use diesel generators to handle outages, according to the report. The head of the Italian telecom lobby Asstel, Massimo Sarmi, said in an interview with Reuters that his group wanted the government to exclude mobile networks from power rationing.

The EU faces possible blackouts after deciding to decouple its economy from Russian energy supplies in retaliation for Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. Brussels imposed restrictions on trade with Russia amid already surging energy prices in Europe.

https://www.rt.com/news/563716-eu-mobile-networks-blackouts/

Child Flees Alleged Kidnapper, Runs Toward Cops, Who Shoot Her to Death

The subject of an Amber Alert was gunned down as she ran toward police after exiting her alleged kidnapper's vehicle.

San Bernardino, CA — On Monday morning, Anthony John Graziano got into an argument with his estranged wife, Tracy Martinez, 45, and reportedly killed her. After killing the woman, Anthony Graziano allegedly abducted the couple's 15-year-old daughter, Savannah Graziano, and fled the scene. The next day, Savannah and Graziano would both be killed in a shootout with police.

According to the Graziano's neighbors, the couple had been going through a divorce and Anthony had moved out a month or two before killing Martinez on Monday. After Graziano killed Martinez and fled with Savannah, an Amber Alert was issued and a manhunt ensued. Fontana Police Department told local news that Savannah was in the vehicle with her father when he murdered her mother.

On Tuesday, Graziano's vehicle was spotted and a chase unfolded as police exchanged gunfire with Graziano. Throughout the chase, Graziano was "constantly shooting back at the deputies" through the vehicle's rear window before the truck became disabled somehow and ran off the road.

Graziano and police engaged in a firefight on the side of the road with bullets flying back and forth from police cruisers to Graziano's truck. As the firefight continued, Savannah was able to get out of the vehicle and run toward police.

As Savannah ran toward police — who later said they had no idea she was a child — police opened fire and killed the girl. San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus held a press conference on Tuesday, saying that Savannah was dressed in a tactical vest and a helmet.

It is possible and indeed likely that her father told her to put this equipment on and run to the police to save her life. Unfortunately, however, this did not work and when officers saw a person in tactical gear, they shot her.

Savannah exited the vehicle, ran toward deputies and “during the gunfire, goes down,” Dicus said. Savannah was transported to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead.

In the aftermath of the shooting, police began conducting damage control. Officials would state that they were unclear if Savannah was armed when she ran toward the officers, yet only a single firearm, a rifle, was found on the scene — still in the truck with Graziano — who was also killed by police.

Police then began to walk back the narrative that Savannah was kidnapped and claimed that the teen — who watched her father murder her mother — was in cahoots with Graziano and was "a participant in shooting at our deputies." This is despite the fact that she was unarmed when she was killed.

On Wednesday, Dicus released a video on social media claiming — without presenting any evidence to back it up — that Savannah also shot at deputies.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-brutality-cop-watch/child-flees-alleged-kidnapper-runs-toward-cops-who-shoot-her-to-death

Google Claims Censoring Italy Election Winner Meloni’s Speech Was a ‘Mistake’

Google-owned YouTube restored a viral video of a speech from the winner of the Italian election, Giorgia Meloni, claiming it was “mistakenly” removed from the platform.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/09/29/google-claims-censoring-italy-election-winner-melonis-speech-was-a-mistake/

Scripted Reality — Establishment Media Goes All in on Parroting Mussolini Smear

Despite her own political enemies in Italy denouncing such claims as “absolutely fake news”, the establishment media has doubled down on the claim that relatively straightforward Christian conservative leader Giorgia Meloni is in fact a reincarnation of Italy’s fascist wartime leader.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/09/27/watch-scripted-reality-parrot-media-goes-all-in-on-mussolini/

Giorgia Meloni - New Italian Leader Giorgia Meloni’s Speech Against New World Order: “They attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity”

https://youtu.be/4mznVBMhp-k

YouTube Removes Giorgia Meloni’s Viral 2019 Speech

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/09/28/youtube-removes-clip-meloni-speech/

Google Claims Censoring Italy Election Winner Meloni’s Speech Was a ‘Mistake’

Google-owned YouTube restored a viral video of a speech from the winner of the Italian election, Giorgia Meloni, claiming it was “mistakenly” removed from the platform.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/09/29/google-claims-censoring-italy-election-winner-melonis-speech-was-a-mistake/

Meloni says she is loyal to NATO and 'proclaims to be anti-Russia and anti-China'

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/09/27/giorgia-on-our-mind/

Meloni is very pro-Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/italys-meloni-portrays-herself-as-strong-supporter-of-israel-rejects-fascist-past/

Meloni is a creature of the globalist Aspen Institute, a tool of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Carnegie and Ford Foundation, along with such people as Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

https://www.blogo.it/post/94929/aspen-institute-cose

Dear @ZelenskyyUa, you know that you can count on our loyal support for the cause of freedom of Ukrainian people. Stay strong and keep your faith steadfast!

https://twitter.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/1574862655067660295

>>17603780

Try talking about Jewish supremacy on Rumble, you will see it isn't free speech

Inspector General: The IRS Uses Cloud Computing Services Without Adequate Security Controls, Putting Taxpayer Data At Risk

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Cloud Services Were Implemented Without Key Security Controls, Placing Taxpayer Data at Risk (No. 2022-20-052) (Sept. 27, 2022):

To facilitate and guide its cloud security implementation efforts, the IRS developed its Cloud Security Reference Architecture in September 2019 and the Cybersecurity Cloud Operations Framework in November 2019. The IRS issued its updated Cloud Strategy and Cloud Security Internal Revenue Manual in March 2021 and September 2021, respectively.

By the end of Calendar Year 2020, the IRS had fully implemented 56 cloud services, 12 of which contained taxpayer data. The IRS deployed these cloud services without fully implemented security controls for protecting the data. … [T]he IRS continued to accelerate cloud adoption without ensuring that important security controls designed to protect taxpayer data were in place in the cloud environment. …

Control weaknesses over cloud computing services can pose a substantial risk to taxpayer records currently residing on these services. The potential harm includes breach and unauthorized access and disclosure of taxpayer information.

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2022/09/inspector-general-the-irs-uses-cloud-computing-services-without-adequate-security-controls-putting-t.html

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2022reports/202220052fr.pdf

Iron Mountain CEO ‘praying for inflation’ because it’s good for business: report

The chief executive of a Boston-based tech firm told investors that he has been “praying for inflation” because it’s good for his business, according to a report.

William Meaney, CEO of data storage and management company Iron Mountain, told Wall Street analysts last week that high prices benefit the company’s margins, which is why he has been “doing my inflation dance praying for inflation,” according to audio of the speech obtained by the news site The Intercept.

Meaney told investors on Sept. 20 that raising prices “obviously covers our increased costs, but … a lot of that flows down to the bottom line.”

“Where we’ve had inflation running at fairly rapid rates … we’re able to price ahead of inflation” — or increase prices beyond the rate at which the Consumer Price Index has risen, Meaney told investors, according to The Intercept.

Meaney acknowledged that what was good for his company may be bad for the general public.

“I wish I didn’t do such a good dance, but that’s more on a personal basis than on a business model,” he said.

The Post has sought comment from Iron Mountain.

Meaney said that other firms are also raising prices to grapple with inflation, too.

“People are seeing what FedEx, UPS, and others are having to do to actually manage their business and pass on that inflation,” he was quoted as saying by The Intercept.

Last week, FedEx said its delivery rates will increase by an average of 6.9% beginning Jan. 2. The week before, FedEx sent stocks tumbling after it revealed disappointing quarterly profits, blaming high costs for labor and fuel in addition to weakening demand.

Last November, UPS hiked its shipping rates by an average of 5.9%.

The Post has sought comment from FedEx and UPS.

Joe Karasin, the head of growth marketing at CircleIt, a Chicago-based software company, told The Post that the comments were off base.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/iron-mountain-ceo-william-meaney-praying-for-inflation/?utm_medium=SocialFlow

Well these images show US ship, helicopter and plane activity days and hours before the first explosion. Right above the pipes. We danes see no activity from Russia on the other hand. And yes we are very used to tracking Russia in our backyards. This smells of US/German agreement

https://twitter.com/michaelrmaron/status/1575092485897920512

Baltic Pipe Project came online same day as nort. 1, 2 "damage"

Crossing borders for secure, affordable and sustainable energy

The Baltic Pipe Project is a strategic gas infrastructure project with the goal of creating a new gas supply corridor in the European market.

The Baltic Pipe Project will allow transport of gas from Norway to the Danish and Polish markets, as well as to end-users in neighbouring countries. At the same time, the Baltic Pipe Project will enable the supply of gas from Poland to the Danish market.

The project is being developed in collaboration between the Danish gas and electricity transmission system operator Energinet and the Polish gas transmission system operator GAZ-SYSTEM.

https://www.baltic-pipe.eu/

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US congress welcomes neo-Nazi Azov Battalion members

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Azov_DC_2809:2

Nazi war criminals became high ranking commanders in NATO after WW2

For decades former Nazis and German war criminals served at the highest echelons of NATO.

Most of them were highly decorated Nazis, who later served in top positions in the Western German army, and were later promoted to serve as Commander and Chief of all NATO forces in Europe.

This was not a unique event, but a very common phenomenon in post WW2 western Europe and especially in Western Germany.

Nazi war criminals and people who supported and helped Hitler to carry out the holocaust and other war crimes, genocides and crimes against Humanity were almost never put on trial for their crimes against the Jews, the Poles, the Greeks, the Russians and the people of Europe, but instead were installed in top positions in NATO, in the western German government, army, industry and western German society at large.

The most famous of them was Adolf Heusinger, chief of the Operationsabteilung from 1940-1944.

He was actually Hitler's chief of staff and helped plan the Nazi’s invasions of Poland, Norway, Denmark, and France. He was promoted to colonel on August 1, 1940 and became chief of the Operationsabteilung in October 1940, making him number three in the Army planning hierarchy.

After the war, this German war criminal, the man who helped Hitler plan and execute his invasion of neighboring countries which directly led to the deaths of millions of people, was not even put on trial, quite contrary he was allowed to take over the newly established West German army, the "Bundeswehr".

In 1961, Heusinger was made the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (essentially he was NATO's chief of staff). He served in that capacity until 1964.

https://www.dispropaganda.com/single-post/2019/04/04/natos-secret-nazi-past

Weapons Firms Install 50 Staff Inside the UK Ministry of Defence

BAE among arms firms paying Ministry of Defence staff’s salaries while winning lucrative contracts

More than 50 paid employees of global arms companies are working inside the UK’s Ministry of Defence, openDemocracy can reveal, sparking questions about conflicts of interest and national security.

They include nine staffers on long-term secondment from the UK’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, some of whom have been embedded inside the department for years.

Last year, the company made more than £4.1bn in sales from the MoD, boasting about its “strong and long-standing relationships” with the UK government. Almost all of this money was spent through contracts that were awarded without competitive tender.

The government would not say whether the secondment scheme represented a conflict of interest.

Campaigners today called on the government to come clean about lobbyists and business officials working in Westminster. The finding comes after it emerged that Liz Truss’s top aide, Mark Fullbrook, is being paid via his own lobbying firm.

Dr Michael Ofori-Mensah, head of research at Transparency International Defence and Security, said:

“Seconding industry insiders for senior Whitehall roles can provide invaluable insight, but also carries major conflict of interest risks.

“Government should do more to mitigate the risks of captured policy and procurement by establishing a comprehensive register of lobbyists and strengthening oversight of the revolving door between the public and private sector.”

Records obtained by openDemocracy show that at least four BAE officials have been based for over three years in Defence Equipment and Support, the arms-length government body that purchases military goods and services from companies like BAE.

A further six MoD staff are on secondment from Qinetiq, a huge defence technology company, while Rolls-Royce and Babcock have supplied at least two staffers each.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/weapons-firms-install-50-staff-inside-uk-ministry-defence/5794904

Tracking the Flow of Stolen Syrian Oil Into Iraq

While the US role in looting Syria’s resources is well-documented, less is known about the complicity of Iraq's Kurdistan region in its transportation and distribution

Although the porous Iraqi-Syrian border stretches for over 600 kilometers, about half of it – in practice – is not subject to the authority of either state. Over the years, this lack of comprehensive border control has given rise to a number of security threats to both nations, not least the persistent presence of ISIS elements in border regions.

From the Iraqi side, there has been a pro-active approach in countering this low-level terrorism with the establishment of two defensive lines by the Joint Operations Command, in addition to concrete barriers and watchtowers.

Smuggling from Syria into Iraqi border towns is another salient feature of current border activities, and one which presents both a threat and an opportunity for the US-led international coalition whose forces operate on both sides of the border.

The US loots and smuggles Syria’s oil

Under the guise of this international coalition, the US army controls the borders between Iraq and Syria, specifically at the Fishkhabour-Semalka crossing, the illegal Al-Waleed crossing between Iraqi Kurdistan and US-occupied Syrian territory, and the Al-Mahmoudiyah crossing. All of these border crossings have become notorious for the illicit smuggling of Syrian crude oil into northern Iraq, with direct involvement from US military forces.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/tracking-flow-stolen-syrian-oil-into-iraq/5794839

Lev Tahor members break out of Mexican shelter, escape in waiting vehicle

Group of around 20 overpower private guards and flee government migrant facility; extremist cult members reportedly entered waiting truck and drove toward Guatemalan border

About 20 members of an extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect overpowered guards and escaped a government shelter in southern Mexico where they had been held since one of their leaders was arrested last Friday on organized crime and human trafficking allegations.

Mostly made up of children wearing long, flowing robes, members of the Lev Tahor sect pushed their way out of the complex Wednesday night, climbing over one guard from a private security company who had fallen to the ground. The federal government’s shelter for children and families in Huixtla usually receives migrants detained by immigration officials.

They climbed aboard a waiting truck outside and headed toward Mexico’s border with Guatemala. Local police, the National Guard, and Mexico’s immigration agency said they did not pursue them.

On Friday, authorities arrested Menachem Endel Alter of Jerusalem, a leader of the Lev Tahor sect on allegations of organized crime and human trafficking in Tapachula near the Guatemalan border. Members of the sect said a second leader was also arrested, but authorities did not confirm it.

Lev Tahor has had legal problems elsewhere.

Last November, two leaders of the group were convicted of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes in New York. They allegedly kidnapped two children from their mother to return a 14-year-old girl to an illegal sexual relationship with an adult male. The sect is known to have members in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, and Israel.

The sect was founded by Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans in Jerusalem in the 1980s. The group fled to Canada and then to Guatemala in 2014, after coming under intense scrutiny by Canadian authorities for alleged child abuse and child marriage. Helbrans drowned in Mexico under mysterious circumstances in 2017 and his son took over the group.

An opposition group, Lev Tahor Survivors, has put the cult’s membership at between 300 to 350 people.

Lev Tahor’s moves, machinations, and plans are all murky. Several dozen members of the group were moving around the Balkans earlier this year. Some members of the anti-Zionist group applied for political asylum in Iran in 2018. Documents presented at a US federal court in 2019 showed that leaders of the cult swore allegiance to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The group has been described as a cult and as the “Jewish Taliban,” because women and girls older than 3 are required to dress in long black robes covering their entire body, including their faces, in most cases. The men spend most of their days in prayer and studying specific portions of the Torah. The group adheres to an extreme, idiosyncratic reading of kosher dietary laws.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/lev-tahor-members-break-out-of-mexican-shelter-escape-in-waiting-vehicle/

Democrats scrap plan to vote on stock trading ban before elections

House Democrats have scrapped a tentative plan to move this month on legislation barring lawmakers from trading stocks — a vote sought by some Democrats heading into the midterm elections.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday that there was not enough time for lawmakers to study the details of the proposal, which had been introduced just two days earlier, before the House leaves Washington Friday for the long midterm recess.

“People have to look at it,” Hoyer told reporters gathered in his office in the Capitol.

“It’s an important issue,” he continued, and leaders want the extra time “to make sure that if and when we do something, we do it right.”

The announcement is a departure from comments made by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) earlier in the month, when she indicated the negotiations were going well “and we believe we have a product that we can bring to the floor this month.”

It’s also certain to anger those Democrats who were pressing to vote on a reform proposal — one that’s popular among voters — before November’s elections. Some supporters of the legislation said this week that the true reason the vote was punted was that Democratic leaders simply don’t support the concept of banning lawmakers from owning and trading stocks.

Pelosi and Hoyer have been among those prominent opponents, noting that federal law already prohibits insider trading and warning that a special ban for members of Congress might dissuade talented people from running for office.

Yet the proposal has gained enormous momentum in the current Congress following revelations that scores of lawmakers have violated existing laws designed to eliminate conflicts of interest between legislators and the investments they pursue.

Even if no laws are violated, supporters of the ban say, the current system can create the damaging perception lawmakers are trading on information not available to the general public or crafting legislation to boost their own finances.

That pressure from within the caucus forced Pelosi to have a change of heart earlier in the year, when she directed Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), chair of the House Administration Committee, to draft a stock ban proposal based on “where the support is in our caucus.”

After months of negotiations, Lofgren released that proposal on Tuesday night. The wide-ranging legislation prohibits stock trades not only by members of Congress, but also their spouses and dependent children, senior congressional aids, the president, the vice president and high-ranking members of the judicial branch, including Supreme Court justices.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3667251-democrats-scrap-plan-to-vote-on-stock-trading-ban-before-elections/

WATCH: Ventura County Nuclear Preparedness Video PSA is an Absolute Dumpster Fire of Stupidity

https://youtu.be/PfDSO8IzLzo

Judicial Watch Sues California Sec of State for Causing YouTube to Censor Key Election Integrity Video Just Before 2020 Election

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State of the State of California for having YouTube censor a Judicial Watch election integrity video (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, in her official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of California (No. 2:22-cv-6894)).

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court Central District of California Western Division. It states that the California Office of Elections Cybersecurity (OEC), which Secretary of State Shirley Weber oversees, caused YouTube to remove Judicial Watch’s election integrity video on September 25, 2020. The lawsuit alleges that the California official and her office violated Judicial Watch’s First Amendment and other civil rights.

On September 22, 2020, Judicial Watch posted on its YouTube channel a video titled “ELECTION INTEGRITY CRISIS Dirty Voter Rolls, Ballot Harvesting & Mail-in-Voting Risks!” The 26-minute video featured Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discussing the vote-by-mail processes, changes to states’ election procedures, ballot collection (sometimes referred to as “ballot harvesting”), and states’ failures to clean up their voter rolls, among other topics.

The complaint states that Fitton’s comments were informed by successful lawsuits brought by Judicial Watch against Los Angeles County and Weber in 2017 to compel the county and State to comply with the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) voter list maintenance requirements. For instance, in June 2019, Judicial Watch was informed that Los Angeles County had sent notices to 1.6 million inactive voters on its voter rolls after a settlement agreement had been reached. Prior to the California settlement agreement, Judicial Watch estimated that national census data and voter-roll information showed that there were 3.5 million more names on various county voter rolls nationwide than there were citizens of voting age.

Records show the Office of Elections Cybersecurity communicated with YouTube and/or Google to have Judicial Watch’s video taken down. On September 24, 2020, OEC Social Media Coordinator Akilah Jones emailed “civics-outreach@google.com” and copied four YouTube employees with the subject line, “REPORT VIDEO: ELECTION INTEGRITY CRISIS Dirty Voter Rolls, Ballot Harvesting & Mail-in-Voting Risks!” In the email, Jones wrote:

Hi YouTube Reporting Team,

I am reporting the following video because it misleads community members about elections or other civic processes and misrepresents the safety and security of mail-in ballots. Thank you for your time and attention on this matter.

All the best, Akilah.

At or about 11:16 a.m. (ET) on September 25, 2020, YouTube and/or Google representative Andrea Holtermann replied to Jones:

Hi Akilah,

Thanks for reaching out. We will look into this and get back to you as soon as we can.

Later that same day, Judicial Watch noticed that the video had been taken down.

On September 27, 2020, YouTube and/or Google’s Holtermann confirmed to Jones that Judicial Watch’s video had been removed:

Hi Akilah,

Circling back on this. Thank you for raising this content to our attention, this has been removed from the platform for violating our policies. Please do not hesitate to reach out if there are any other questions or concerns you may have.

Judicial Watch’s complaint establishes that the actions of Weber and OEC violated Judicial Watch’s First and Fourteen Amendment rights, as well as civil rights violations under the California constitution.

“Smoking gun documents show California government officials, who were being advised by the Biden campaign PR operation, caused YouTube to censor a key Judicial Watch video just before the 2020 election,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This egregious government censorship and election interference violated Judicial Watch’s civil rights, and our lawsuit seeks to stop and expose the growing corruption of leftist government officials colluding with Big Tech allies to attack the free speech rights of Americans.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-sues-ca-secstate/

As AG, Cortez Masto Left Thousands of Rape Kits Untested. Laxalt Helped Clear the Backlog—And Arrests Followed.

Nevada's former top cops now facing off for crucial Senate seat

With Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto as Nevada's attorney general, thousands of rape kits sat untested. When Adam Laxalt took over the role, the Republican Senate hopeful secured millions of dollars to clear the backlog, leading to more than a dozen arrests.

In October 2014—the tail end of Cortez Masto's eight-year term as Nevada's top cop— a national nonprofit found that just 16 percent of the 5,231 rape kits collected in Las Vegas from 2004 to 2013 were examined, leaving nearly 4,400 untested. Statewide, the number of untested kits reached 7,500, prompting Laxalt to pledge during his 2018 campaign to "clear up the backlog." Within months of taking the attorney general's office in 2015, Laxalt secured $3.7 million to do just that, and by November 2018, nearly 7,400 untested kits had been sent to labs for testing.

In some cases, the testing of those kits led to high-profile arrests. In November 2020, for example, police arrested a 49-year-old Las Vegas man for a sexual assault that a woman reported in 2012, Cortez Masto's fifth year as attorney general. The kit stemming from the assault, however, went untested until 2018, when Laxalt held the office. The kit's eventual examination revealed a DNA match with the alleged assailant, who had prior arrests for battery and domestic violence. Another backlogged rape kit tested in 2016 linked a suspect to a 1997 rape and murder.

Now, Laxalt and Cortez Masto are squaring off for a coveted Senate seat that could determine control of the upper chamber come 2023. Cortez Masto has leaned on her tenure as attorney general in that race—her campaign site says the Democrat "kept our communities safe" and "made it her mission to stand up for vulnerable women and girls." Cortez Masto's inaction on Nevada's substantial rape kit backlog, however, could give Laxalt an opening as the political opponents directly compare their records at the helm of the same office.

"By doing nothing about the thousands of untested sexual assault kits, Masto neglected victims and allowed violent criminals and killers to prey on more people," Laxalt told the Washington Free Beacon. "Fixing this egregious failure was one of my top priorities as AG, and we moved heaven and earth to process those kits quickly and get justice for the victims. I cleaned up her mess before, and I’m ready to do it again in the U.S. Senate."

Cortez Masto, whose campaign did not return a request for comment, faced criticism over the kit backlog during her first Senate run in 2016. At the time, a Senate Leadership Fund ad noted that during Cortez Masto's time as attorney general, "thousands of rape kits were never sent for DNA analysis." Even Cortez Masto's media allies confirmed the charge—a 2016 PolitiFact article said it's "hard to find any evidence that [Cortez Masto] took on the specific problem of the state's rape kit backlog while in office from 2006 to 2014," whereas Laxalt "was able to secure roughly $3.7 million in grants and redirected settlement funds to pay for funding the backlog about a year after taking office."

Beyond her passiveness on Nevada's rape kit backlog, Cortez Masto accepted an array of lavish gifts as attorney general, including a $750 luxury handbag and complimentary tickets to award shows and sporting events. Laxalt, meanwhile, declined to take political gifts as Nevada's top law enforcement officer, saying, "If I want to go to a boxing event, I'll either pay for it myself or not go." Cortez Masto's net worth has also skyrocketed since she was sworn in as senator in 2017—while USA Today called Cortez Masto's finances "relatively modest" during her 2016 campaign, she is now worth as much as $7.5 million, according to her most recent federal financial disclosure. Still, Cortez Masto says she ran for office to "serve and give back."

Cortez Masto and Laxalt are set to square off in November after both candidates advanced from their June primaries. Cortez Masto, who is often identified as the "most vulnerable U.S. senator in America" in her joint fundraising pleas, trails Laxalt by 1 point, according to a Thursday poll from liberal think tank Data for Progress.

https://freebeacon.com/elections/as-ag-cortez-masto-left-thousands-of-rape-kits-untested-laxalt-helped-clear-the-backlog-and-arrests-followed/

Former NSA Employee Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-nsa-employee-arrested-espionage-related-charges

Four Individuals Plead Guilty in Multimillion-Dollar Scheme to Defraud U.S. Department of Education Federal Financial Aid Programs

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-individuals-plead-guilty-multimillion-dollar-scheme-defraud-us-department-education

Russian Oligarch Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska and Associates Indicted for Sanctions Evasion and Obstruction of Justice

U.S. Citizen Arrested for Her Role in Facilitating Illicit Travel by Deripaska’s Girlfriend and in Real Estate Transactions

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian-oligarch-oleg-vladimirovich-deripaska-and-associates-indicted-sanctions-evasion-and

Former Missouri Health Care Charity Executives Plead Guilty to Multimillion-Dollar Bribery and Embezzlement Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-missouri-health-care-charity-executives-plead-guilty-multimillion-dollar-bribery-and

Major in the United States Army and a Maryland Doctor Facing Federal Indictment for Allegedly Providing Confidential Health Information to a Purported Russian Representative to Assist Russia Related to the Conflict In Ukraine

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/major-united-states-army-and-maryland-doctor-facing-federal-indictment-allegedly

Multiple U.S. Postal Service Employees And Others Arrested For $1.3 Million Fraud And Identity Theft Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/multiple-us-postal-service-employees-and-others-arrested-13-million-fraud-and-identity

US Military Base Schools Indoctrinating Children in Left-Wing Ideology: Report

U.S. troops serving overseas may find that government schools are indoctrinating their children and teaching them to keep secrets from their parents. According to a report from the Claremont Institute, classes from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) teach children radical activism, gender ideology, and hiding gender questions from families.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-military-base-schools-indoctrinating-children-in-left-wing-ideology-report_4757932.html?src_src=News&src_cmp=breaking-2022-09-28-2&

‘Zuckbucks 2.0’: Democrat Operatives Are Helping Milwaukee Rig Its 2022 Elections

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit challenging the city of Milwaukee’s “Milwaukee Votes 2022” initiative, after an exclusive report by Empower Wisconsin revealed that Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson asked a Democratic Party operative for help spinning the city’s privately funded get-out-the-vote campaign, which some critics label “Zuckbucks 2.0.”

“The Republican Party of Wisconsin is deeply concerned that cities like Milwaukee are working with Democrat operatives and partisan third party groups to get out the vote in a manner designed to tip the scales for Democrats,” Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin said in a press release. “Government’s role in elections must be to ensure fairness and transparency, not to benefit one party at the expense of another, and we will aggressively fight to ensure that election laws are followed.”

In text and emails obtained by state Rep. Janel Brandtjen’s public records request, Johnson and his aide Jeff Fleming ask left-wing operative and political consultant Sachin Chheda for how to respond to questions regarding “Milwaukee Votes 2022,” a door-to-door canvassing get-out-the-vote campaign “funded by the private sector.” Chheda has an extensive history of working for Democratic political campaigns, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.

“Getting multiple media requests on where the $$$ is coming from for canvassing and outreach. Do you have an answer?” Fleming texted Chheda on Sept. 12.

“Private donors and foundations,” Chheda responded, before adding that Fleming could also direct reporters’ questions to Melissa Baldauff, another Democratic Party activist (and former communications director for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers) who is the spokeswoman for Milwaukee Votes 2022, per the records.

But Chheda then changed his mind, texting Fleming, “Actually hold on. Can we just sit tight for an hour and then get back to folks?” Fleming’s response was not included in the requested records.

A couple of days later, Chheda texted Johnson himself and asked if there was any update on “whether you got these questions at the art museum?”

Johnson responded:

Hey, Sachin. Yes they did ask about Milwaukee Votes 2022. I said that it is:

– nonpartisan

– an initiative that we spoke about going back to May

– encourages all voters to be engaged regardless of party

– Isn’t much different than the activity we see before elections

–Just turn on your television and you’ll see private dollars expended to encourage voters.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/29/zuckbucks-2-0-democrat-operatives-are-helping-milwaukee-rig-its-2022-elections/

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/29/zuckbucks-2-0-democrat-operatives-are-helping-milwaukee-rig-its-2022-elections/

Court Orders FBI to Produce the Information It Possesses Related to Seth Rich’s Laptop within 14 Days

Earlier today US District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas ordered the FBI to “produce the information it possesses related to Seth Rich’s laptop.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/court-orders-fbi-produce-information-possesses-related-seth-richs-laptop-within-14-days/

Michigan Election Worker Charged for Inserting Thumb Drive into Voting Machine During August Primary

The Kent County Sheriff’s Office announced charges against an election worker for inserting a thumb drive into the voting machines during the August primary election.

68-year-old James Donald Holkeboer was a township election worker at Gaines Township Precinct 8 on Aug. 18. He was charged with two felonies.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/michigan-election-worker-charged-inserting-thumb-drive-voting-machine-august-primary-video/

Facebook Announces Hiring Freeze, Warns Of "Team Restructuring", Stocks Slumps

As advertising revenue growth stalls, Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, told employees that it plans to implement a hiring freeze and restructure employee teams in the latest effort to trim costs, reported Bloomberg.

A person in attendance during a company Q&A session said CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the hiring freeze as this is the latest evidence advertising revenue growth for the social media giant is slowing. There's also the concern about waning activity among users.

"For the first 18 years of the company, we basically grew quickly basically every year, and then more recently our revenue has been flat to slightly down for the first time," Zuckerberg told staff Thursday.

"I had hoped the economy would have more clearly stabilized by now, but from what we're seeing it doesn't yet seem like it has, so we want to plan somewhat conservatively," he added.

Last week, Meta began quietly cutting staff by reorganizing departments while giving 'reorganized' employees the ability to apply for other roles within the company, according to WSJ.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebook-parent-meta-announces-hiring-freeze

Senate Passes Stopgap Bill to Avert Government Shutdown – Funding Bill Includes $12.3 Billion for Ukraine

The US Senate on Thursday passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown.

The bill, which has to clear both chambers and head to Biden’s desk for a signature before midnight Friday, will fund the government through December 16.

The funding bill also includes $12.3 billion for Ukraine.

Because why not?

Reuters reported:

In addition to money for federal agencies, the funding bill includes $12.3 billion in new money to help Ukraine turn back Russia’s invasion. The aid includes both military and economic assistance.

The bill also authorizes Biden to direct the drawdown of up to $3.7 billion for the transfer to Ukraine of excess weapons from U.S. stocks.

Amid reports of Russian forces threatening the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and Russian President Vladimir Putin hinting he might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, the legislation would appropriate $35 million “to prepare for and respond to potential nuclear and radiological incidents in Ukraine,” according to a bill summary.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/just-senate-passes-stopgap-bill-avert-government-shutdown-funding-bill-includes-12-3-billion-ukraine/