President Trump Calls on GOP Congress to Release Biden Crime Family’s Tax Returns

In a clearly illegal act, Democrats in the US House of Representatives released President Trump’s tax returns to the public this week.

But, as we all well know, Democrats are above the law in the United States.

The Democrats fought to obtain President Trump’s taxes for years. This was not because President Trump committed any crime. It was because Democrats wanted to dig through his returns to possibly find something they could use as fodder for their next attack.

The Democrats released Trump’s tax returns and what was expected to be a monumental takedown of the 45th President ended up being another reason to support the man.

Trump’s personal wealth declined after he entered public office. In fact, Trump may be the first prominent politician in history to see his income decline after entering office.

Trump lost $2 billion while serving as president.

On Friday Steve Bannon played a video President Trump released on his tax returns. Trump called on the GOP Congress to release the Biden Crime Family’s tax returns.

Turnabout is fair play.

This was an INCREDIBLE statement by President Trump.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/turnabout-fair-play-president-trump-calls-gop-congress-release-biden-crime-familys-tax-returns-video/

Kari Lake Releases Statement to the Press Following Historic Trial on Maricopa County Election Interference

I’m just going to make a quick statement. I am so incredibly proud of our amazing attorneys and staff that put this amazing case together. Historic case. We proved without a shadow of a doubt that there was malicious intent that caused disruption so great it changed the results of the election. I’m incredibly proud of both Brian Blem and Kurt Olsen, who led up this legal team.

We provided expert testimony. We provided experts. The other side brought in activists to try to save face. They admitted that they’ve known about these ballot problems. They’re ballot problems.

Now they’re trying to say that it’s been going on for three elections. Our elections are a mess in this country. And I am so happy to stand up and say, no longer will we as Americans put up with this. We demand fair, honest, transparent elections, and we will get them. And I pray so hard for this judge.

I think that he really took in all of that information. I think he listened very closely to what happened. And I am fighting for the people of Arizona, but not just for the people of Arizona. I’m fighting for the people of this country and for our future. If we don’t have honest elections where we decide who represents us, then we don’t have a country anymore.

And the defendants, their attorney said it in his closing statement. He said, we choose our rulers. Isn’t that telling? This was a selection, not an election. And we in America choose who represents us, and we will restore honest elections.

And I will never stop fighting. I will never stop up fighting. So thanks.

https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1606087252547088384

Former NATO commander urges long-range weapons for Ukraine

The West should reassess its policies on weapons delivery for Ukraine, retired general Philip Breedlove believes

Ukraine should be able to strike deeper into Russian territory, retired US general Philip Breedlove has said. The former supreme NATO commander for Europe made the remarks in an interview with the Russian-language Voice of America outlet published Thursday.

“I think we should review our rules regarding the types of weapons that we supply to Ukraine, and we should give them more opportunities to inflict deep strikes on the aggressor. With our restrictions, we have actually created a safe haven for the Russian military in its territory,” Breedlove stated.

Kiev has repeatedly demanded long-range weaponry from its Western backers amid the ongoing conflict with Russia. So far, however, the US and others have abstained from providing such weapons, citing fears of an escalation and an all-out war between Russia and NATO.

Breedlove has openly admitted that Ukraine is waging a war on behalf of the West against Russia, urging the lifting of any restrictions on arms use by Kiev.

Ukraine is now fighting Russia on behalf of the entire Western world, and I would say to all our politicians: if you have already limited your actions in order to prevent our armies from fighting Russia, then you must do everything possible to provide help for Ukraine to defeat Russia.

While Moscow has described the ongoing hostilities as a proxy-war with the West, the US and NATO as a whole maintain they are not a party to the conflict.

Amid the ongoing conflict, Breedlove has repeatedly produced war-like remarks in rallying support for Ukraine. Back in July, for instance, the former general encouraged Kiev to strike the Crimean Bridge, which links the peninsula to Russia’s mainland. The bridge was a “legitimate target” for Ukraine to strike, Breedlove claimed, adding that its destruction would be a “huge blow” to Moscow.

The bridge was heavily damaged in a major explosion early in October. Moscow has described the incident as a “terrorist attack,” blaming it on Kiev and its Western backers. While the incident has been widely celebrated in Ukraine by common citizens and top officials alike, Kiev has denied its involvement.

The Crimean Bridge blast, as well as other saboteur attacks on Russian soil, attributed to Ukrainians, ultimately triggered a massive bombing campaign against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Moscow maintains the goal of the campaign is to damage Kiev’s warfighting capabilities.

https://www.rt.com/russia/568817-nato-commander-ukraine-strikes/

https://www.rt.com/russia/568817-nato-commander-ukraine-strikes/

Arizona Gov Forced To Dismantle $80 Million Cargo-Container Wall He Just Built

Under the duress of a federal lawsuit, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has agreed to dismantle two long sections of border wall the state built out of stacked shipping containers capped by concertina wire.

Agreeing to an aggressive border-obliteration deadline, Arizona will yank all the containers away by Jan. 4, and without damaging natural resources as it does.

The announcement comes as the Supreme Court evaluates the legality of the Trump-era Title 42, which lets agents block asylum claims at the border, purportedly to limit the spread of contagious diseases amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally set to expire Dec 21 under a court order, any eventual removal of the policy is expected to spark a major influx of migrants.

Earlier this month, the U.S Interior and Agriculture departments filed suit to stop the construction of the makeshift wall, seeking "a declaration that Arizona's use and occupancy of lands owned by the United States without the required permits or other authorization constitutes unlawful trespasses."

The container wall is at the southern fringe of U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation lands and easements. The wall was also challenged by environmentalists. Started in August, the project had filled about a third of the length of border that was planned.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizona-gov-will-dismantle-80-million-cargo-container-wall-he-just-built

The EU Plans To Impose Direct Carbon Taxes On Individuals

Would you like to pay a carbon tax every time that you turn your heater on? What about every time that you fill up your vehicle with gasoline? Incredibly, this will soon be what life is like in Europe. When I first heard that the EU plans to impose direct carbon taxes on individuals, I thought that it must be just another false Internet rumor. But it isn’t a false rumor. News sources in Europe are reporting on it, and you can find information about this plan on the official website of the European Parliament. I don’t know why the corporate media in the United States is not talking about this, because this is an enormous story.

As I write this article, I am still in shock. This is actually happening, and if this plan is successfully implemented in Europe it will be just a matter of time before a similar plan is pushed through in the United States. The following comes from a Dutch article that has been translated into English…

Last night, after long negotiations, the bullet went through the church: residents of the European Union must pay for the greenhouse gases they emit. This means that every time you refuel and if the heating is switched on, you have to pay because of the harmful substances that are released as a result.

Of course they are starting small in an attempt to minimize opposition.

Once this plan goes into effect, the cost of a liter of gasoline will only go up by about 10 cents…

The new scheme will entail higher prices at the pump: up to 10.5 cents for a litre of petrol and 12 cents for diesel, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research.

But as we have seen so many other times, once people become accustomed to new taxes rates tend to go up significantly.

According to one prominent member of the European Parliament, the new direct carbon taxes on individuals are part of “the largest climate legislation package in the EU ever”…

“I am pleased that a balanced agreement has been reached on the largest climate legislation package in the EU ever,” says Esther de Lange (CDA) MEP. She was one of the negotiators and responsible for the coordination of the Green Deal and chief negotiator on the Social Climate Fund.

We are being told that there is broad support for this climate legislation package across the political spectrum.

Europe is scheduled to reduce carbon emissions dramatically by the year 2030, and this new legislation will be a central pillar of that effort…

The measures are part of a package of climate laws. Before 2030, CO2 emissions must be reduced by 55 percent. European industry, which already partly has to do this, will have to deal with higher emission costs, and companies from outside Europe will pay for their emissions at the border. The money raised with this can be spent on climate plans.

If you do not like this new legislation, now is the time to make your voice heard.

Personally, I pledge to make efforts to increase my carbon emissions in protest to this plan.

In fact, I am thinking about firing up my wood stove even now.

The good news, if you want to call it that, is that the new carbon taxes are not scheduled to be implemented until 2027.

So there is still time for the EU to reverse course.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/the-eu-plans-to-impose-direct-carbon-taxes-on-individuals/

Bolsonaro Signs Order to Sideline Corrupt Supreme Court

Brazilian President Bolsonaro has signed the order to elevate the Superior Military Court STM over the corrupt left-wing Supreme Court, in a move that many believe may pave the way for a military intervention before Jan. 1, when corrupt Communist convict Lula da Silva is scheduled to take office as President.

“In the last 72 hours, there has been much chatter and speculation on social media about Jair Bolsonaro having already placed Brazil under the Armed Force’s tutelage”, Rio Times reports. “It is also rumored that the country’s Superior Military Court STM has already responded positively to the complaints against the controversial Supreme Court.”

The Official Gazette of Brazil published a ruling that “The Ministry of Defense is approved to be the agency that interprets the Constitution in Brazil.”

This means, the Ministry of Defense will officially exercise the function of interpreting the Constitution. This privilege usually belongs to the Supreme Court. The new ruling “harbors explosive force in light of the show-down between Jair Bolsonaro and the Brazilian Supreme Court in the decisive battle for power in the country”, Rio Times writes.

“President Bolsonaro is playing chess”, Brazilian Conservative leader Samia Sittel-Faraj told Gateway Pundit. “Our Supreme Court changed the constitution so the left wing can take power. Justice (Luís Roberto) Barroso changed the interpretation of Article 142” which authorizes the armed forces, under the command of the president, to perform a ‘military intervention’.

“But now, Bolsonaro has turned over the interpretation of the constitution to the Ministry of Defense. This is a clear sign that Bolsonaro will act. If he would be handing over to Nine Fingers (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) , why would he do that?”

President Bolsonaro had always insisted he would act within the law and the constitution, says Sittel-Faraj.

“This is the sequence of the chess moves”, she said:

1) On Dec. 19 all congress members were officially certified, meaning that they have the right to assume their seats in the parlament.

A large number of conservatives were elected, one of the the indicators Lula’s victory was fraudulent.

2) Bolsonaro signed the decree handing over responsibility to interpret the constitution to the Minister of Defence, sidelining the leftists Supreme Court.

3) As of yesterday, the parliament is on holiday, but the Supreme Court judges are so worried that they did not take the break.

A spy was uncovered within the Bolsonaro staff who was giving information to Chief Justice Alexander de Moraes.

“Moraes is now blind and very worried”, Sittel-Faraj said. “He should be, because if the President gives the order now, Moraes will go to jail.” If Bolsonaro would have acted before certification on Dec. 19, perahps the elected representatives would not have supported him, she noted. “But now, they have the right to take their seats.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/breaking-christmas-counter-coup-bolsonaro-signs-order-sideline-corrupt-supreme-court/

Former Santa Monica Mayor Dies in Small Plane Crash on Beach

A former mayor of Santa Monica, California, died after a small plane crash-landed and flipped upside down on a beach in the coastal California community, authorities said.

Rex Minter was a passenger in the single-engine Cessna that took off from Santa Monica Airport about 3 p.m. Thursday en route to Malibu. The pilot was taken to a hospital.

The City of Santa Monica and current Mayor Gleam Davis separately confirmed Minter’s death.

According to a flight recording, the pilot reported engine trouble and tried to return to the airport but then decided to make an emergency landing, KCBS-TV reported.

In a recording played on KTTV-TV, air traffic control warns the pilot that “landing on the beach will be at your own risk.”

“I wish I had another choice,” the pilot replied.

Video showed the plane descending for a beach landing but hitting the water at the shoreline and flipping over south of the Santa Monica Pier.

Firefighters removed two people from the plane, one of them in cardiac arrest, authorities said.

Minter was elected to the Santa Monica City Council in 1955 and served as mayor between 1963 and 1967, later serving as city attorney for Arcadia and as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, a statement on the city’s website said.

Davis said in a tweet that she had relayed the city’s condolences to Minter’s family.

https://www.ntd.com/former-santa-monica-mayor-dies-in-small-plane-crash-on-beach_890524.html

Blood Pressure Drug Recalled Due to Cancer-Causing Chemical: FDA Announcement

A drug manufacturer announced this week it is recalling lots of blood pressure medication Quinapril after a cancer-causing impurity was discovered, according to an announcement carried by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. said that it is voluntarily recalling four lots of Quinapril tablets due to the presence of nitrosamine, which was observed in recent testing that found levels above the acceptable daily intake level set by regulators. The company noted that it stopped marketing Quinapril tablets in September 2022.

According to the announcement, the firm has not received any reports of illnesses connected to the impurity issue. The impurity was found in 20 mg and 40 mg tablets of the drug shipped across the United States. Affected lot numbers are G102929, G100533, G100534, and G203071, and they have expiration dates of April 2023, December 2022, and March 2024.

“Nitrosamines are common in water and foods, including cured and grilled meats, dairy products, and vegetables. Everyone is exposed to some level of nitrosamines. These impurities may increase the risk of cancer if people are exposed to them above acceptable levels over long periods of time,” the recall announcement said.

The drug is an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor that is used to treat hypertension and lower blood pressure. Lupin’s announcement said that patients taking the drug are advised to keep taking the drug and speak with their healthcare provider about an alternative treatment.

“Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. is notifying its wholesalers, distributors, drug chains, mail order pharmacies and supermarkets by phone and through recall notification and is arranging for the return of all the recalled product lots,” the recall notice stated, adding: “Wholesalers, distributors and retailers that have Quinapril Tablets USP, 20mg, and 40mg that are being recalled should discontinue distribution of the recalled product lots immediately.”

Several weeks ago, another drug company, Aurobindo Pharma USA, announced it would voluntarily recall two lots of blood pressure medication due to the same impurity.

The New Jersey-based firm initiated the recall of quinapril and hydrochlorothiazide in 20 milligram and 12.5 milligram tablets due to the presence of the chemical, which is associated with a higher risk of cancer. Like Lupin, Aurobindo said it did not receive any reports of adverse incidents associated with the medication.

https://www.ntd.com/blood-pressure-drug-recalled-due-to-cancer-causing-chemical-fda-announcement_890579.html

Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Ukraine War Will Only End If Putin Is ‘Taken Out’

The hawkish senator says the US should give Ukraine Gray Eagle drones to 'kill tons of Russians'

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has repeated a call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be assassinated, saying that the only way the war in Ukraine could end is if Russia “breaks” and someone “takes Putin out.”

“How does this war end? When Russia breaks, and they take Putin out. Anything short of that, the war’s gonna continue,” Graham said on the Fox News program America Reports on Wednesday.

Graham said the US is “in it to win it, and the only way you’re gonna win it is to break the Russian military and have somebody in Russia take Putin out to give the Russian people a new lease on life.”

The hawkish senator made similar comments back in March when he asked if there was a “Brutus” in Russia who could kill Putin. In his comments on Wednesday, Graham also said the Biden administration should send Ukraine the advanced and long-range weapons that Kyiv has been asking for.

When asked to what extent the US should continue to support Ukraine in the war, Graham replied, “completely, all in without equivocation.” He said the US needs to provide Ukraine with longer-range weapons to help “dislodge” Russia from areas of eastern Ukraine, including Crimea.

He said if Ukraine had larger drones, such as Reapers and Gray Eagles, Ukraine would “kill tons of Russians without losing any Ukrainians in the endeavor.” Ukraine has asked for Gray Eagle drones, which can fly for about 30 hours and are capable of carrying powerful Hellfire Missiles, but the Biden administration has held off from sending them so far.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/12/22/sen-lindsey-graham-says-ukraine-war-will-only-end-if-putin-is-taken-out/

Democrat Rep secures $1M for children's mental health asylum implicated in child rape case

In the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, there is $1 million earmarked for KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania nonprofit

Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Susan Wild is set to secure in the pending $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill roughly $1 million that will be directed to a children's mental health asylum she defended in a molestation case in 2005.

The funding bill passed in the Senate on Thursday and is expected to pass in the House on Friday to avert a partial government shutdown at midnight.

The $1 million earmarked for KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania nonprofit Wild represented in a lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed by a former patient who was raped by a counselor, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Wild, an attorney, defended KidsPeace and has been on record saying that the nonprofit did not "crystal ball" to prevent the counselor's "malfeasance." However, the counselor had been charged years earlier in the suffocation death of a 12-year-old patient.

In a letter, Wild selected KidsPeace out of multiple applications submitted to her office for congressional spending.

During WIld's 2022 election, a Republican PAC attacked her actions in an ad, stating that "Wild is pushing for a million dollars in taxpayer money for the hospital, the same hospital that paid her."

Wild responded to that ad saying "Oh shut up. I represented a medical organization in connection with its claim against its own insurance company that was refusing to pay the claim. I had nothing to do with the underlying claim."

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/finance/democrat-rep-secures-1-million-childrens-mental-health-asylum-implicated

Israeli Mossad spymaster Rafi Eitan reveals his exploits - review

Mossad operative Rafi Eitan’s wild exploits and constantly changing views make pigeonholing him impossible.

The late Rafi Eitan was – as the title Capturing Eichmann: The Memoir of a Mossad Spymaster suggests – an intelligence operative, a maverick with a finger in many pies.

Working on this account until a few days before his death in 2019, this posthumous publication relates many fascinating episodes in his life: how he killed two German Templars who wanted to return to their farms in British-controlled Palestine after World War II; suggested to David Ben-Gurion about the stuffing of ballot boxes with fake votes during the 1955 election; and worked with SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, who had released Benito Mussolini from captivity in 1943 and supported the fascist Arrow Cross in Hungary. He comments that in the course of his work, he had “no hesitation about employing Nazis to ensure the security of Israel.”

Eitan’s odyssey is a mirror image of the history of the state.

His father fought in Trotsky’s Red Army, while he himself was a member of the Palmah, operating against Fawzi al-Qawuqji and participating in the Battle of Malikiya during the War of Independence. Eitan was involved in the arrests of Aharon Cohen, Kurt Sitte and Israel Beer, all accused of being engaged in Soviet espionage. He believed that the Americans were fighting “a futile war” in Vietnam and attempted to explore contacts with the Chinese leadership through the good offices of Morris Cohen, a one-time consultant to Mao’s intelligence services and representative of British companies in China. He came to know Markus Wolf, the partly Jewish head of the Stasi in Communist East Germany, and regarded president Jimmy Carter’s unwillingness to intervene in Iran to stop the ascent of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamists as “one of the most serious and tragic mistakes since World War II.”

His own political path took him from the Left to the Right to the Pensioners’ Party when he unexpectedly became a minister in Ehud Olmert’s government in old age.

His business activities included a vegetable drying factory, the export of tropical fish, and raising black goats and plump turkeys. He was one of the entrepreneurs whom Fidel Castro invited to Cuba after the fall of the USSR. His expertise in cultivating and exporting fruit helped to stabilize Cuba economically during the 1990s. Eitan comments in this book on “the extraordinary enthusiasm of Cuban youth… which reminded me very much of our youth after 1948.” He also had dinner with Castro, whom he describes as “a dominant presence, excellent memory and tireless curiosity.”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-725578

Texas 2020 election audit find 'serious issues’ in Harris County, 'phantom voters' in Dallas County

The audit was conducted by the Texas Secretary of State office.

The Texas Secretary of State office has released the final part of its 2020 general election audit for Collin, Dallas, Harris and Tarrant counties, with the most serious issues reportedly occurring in Harris, the state’s most populous county.

The report released Monday states Texas voters overall can have a "very high level of confidence in the accuracy of the outcome of Texas elections" when state election code and local procedures are followed.

However, the audit found Dallas County had two large problems including "phantom voters," according to the Epoch Times.

Secretary of State John Scott ordered the full forensic audit last year amid concerns about voter fraud. It was designed to represent the two largest Democrat-controlled and GOP-controlled counties, Dallas and Harris and Collin and Tarrant, respectively, according to the report.

In Harris County, the problems were severe enough that the Secretary of State’s office notified the county of the audit’s preliminary findings ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, the 359-page report also shows.

The audit included machines and software, security, voter registration, provisional voting, mail-in voting, chain of custody and records management, the Epoch Times also reports.

In Harris County, the audit showed "very serious issues in the handling of electronic media."

At least 14 mobile ballot boxes did not have proper chain of custody records for 184,999 ballots.

In addition, the county failed to provide documentation for the creation of 17 mobile ballot boxes connected to 124,630 cast vote records. And tally audit logs for over two dozen early-polling places and eight Election Day polling locations did not match the electronic records, also according to the Epoch Times.

Another issue involved the storage of voting records. The audit counted 534 boxes warehoused but was unable to confirm whether this was all of the records.

Dallas County's two biggest issues were related to problems with electronic poll books and losing experienced staff members.

The county's electronic equipment created at least 188 "phantom voters," according to the report. And it misplaced 318 provisional votes that were discovered in February 2021. In addition, 21 mail-in ballots were credited to voters, but their sealed, unopened ballots were discovered during the audit.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/texas-2020-election-audit-find-serious-issues-harris-county-phantom

Zelensky handed the congressmen a Ukrainian flag with the signatures of the AFU soldiers, which he allegedly brought from the war-torn town of Artemovsk (also know as Bakhmut). The flag was handed to Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi who ignored the SS symbols drawn on it. Another interesting detail is that the flag with Nazi symbols waved in their hands during Hanukkah.

https://southfront.org/zelinskys-failures-in-washington/

MP is suspended from Parliament a week after “vaccine harms speech” but he has not been silenced

After his tremendous speech in Parliament last Tuesday, Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen was asked to provide a list of references that he relied on to write his “vaccine harms debate speech.” He has uploaded a resource list on his website HERE. “This is the same list that was sent to journalists and so-called ‘fact checking’ websites,” Mr. Bridgen said.

He has since been suspended from attending Parliament. But this hasn’t stopped him from speaking out. This week he has given interviews with Irreverend and, a few days later, James Delingpole. In this article, we refer to the first interview. You can watch Mr. Bridgen’s interview with Delingpole HERE.

Propaganda Media Coverage

Mr. Bridgen’s speech is on both Parliament TV and YouTube. And, despite Mr. Bridgen sending them a press pack, corporate media have gaslighted it except for an article the next day in the Express and Scottish Daily Express.

Of course, Full Fact has written a blog. “Yellow Card reporting rate estimates shouldn’t be applied to Covid-19 vaccines,” they wrote. Why? Because “it is estimated that only 10% of serious reactions and between 2 and 4% of non-serious reactions are reported,” Full Fact said without so much as a hint of recognising the irony in their reasoning.

Another argument Full Fact attempted to make was that absolute risk reduction and relative risk reduction are two different things – a point Mr. Bridgen had already highlighted in his speech. On another point, simply because Full Fact’s bloggers weren’t able to replicate statistics Mr. Bridgen used from a study regarding children under 5, the blogger determines Mr. Bridgen’s statistics can’t be true.

The final point Full Fact made beggars belief. The conscientious bloggers overlooked the part in Mr. Bridgen’s speech regarding the conflicts of interest and corruption in the UK’s regulatory bodies and boldly argued Mr. Briggen must be wrong because “mRNA Covid-19 vaccines have been approved as safe and effective.” You couldn’t make it up!

Mr. Bridgen is Suspended

A week to the day after Mr. Bridgen courageously gave his speech calling for the suspension of Covid injections, he was given a 5-day suspension from Parliament and could be in danger of losing almost a month’s pay.

The reasons given for the suspension were:

two days for failing to declare that he received a paid trip to Ghana in eight emails to ministers; and

three days for writing to the Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone asking if she had been lobbying to receive a peerage.

Express UK reported that there had been concerns that he could have had his suspension doubled to 10 days after an appeal which would have triggered a recall vote in his constituency but his suspension remains at five days.

As the news of Mr. Bridgen’s suspension was breaking, Darren McCaffrey of GB News reported that Mr. Bridgen’s suspension was in no way related to his speaking out against vaccine harms because it dates back to a couple of months ago. Mr. Bridgen had filed an appeal and it was his appeal that was denied on Tuesday.

However, we cannot ignore that Mr. Bridgen was suspended from Parliament and is also the one who publicly called out the safety of the Covid injections in no uncertain terms. Mr. Bridgen may have been found guilty of breaking the rules, but is he the only one?

There have been 11 MPs suspended from Parliament since the beginning of 2020, each being given between one and five days suspension. Installed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is not one of them. Whatever Mr. Bridgen’s trip to Ghana was worth it’s nowhere near the amount of £2.1m per year income tax Sunak’s wife avoided paying. This tax avoidance was also happening when Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer and was responsible for raising revenue through taxation or borrowing and for controlling public spending.

https://expose-news.com/2022/12/22/mp-is-suspended-from-parliament/

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1606040874554572800

HSI Panama, Costa Rica investigation results in 19 arrests, 77 rescues linked to human smuggling

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Panama, in coordination with the local Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU), in addition to HSI Operation Expanded Impact Costa Rica and the Government of Costa Rica, executed 20 arrest warrants and 23 search warrants that resulted in the arrest of 19 individuals, the seizure of several vehicles, and the rescue of 77 migrants, Dec. 13. The individuals rescued were from various countries enroute to the United States, including nationals from Colombia, Ecuador, India, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. The arrests included six employees of the migration service for Panama.

“HSI will continue to coordinate with Panamanian law enforcement and judicial authorities to identify and monitor the smuggling of immigrants through Panama, while helping bring perpetrators of associated crimes to justice,” said Patrick McElwain, Assistant Director of HSI International Operations. “Our Panama TCIU will continue to exploit investigative leads across Panama and surrounding countries to ensure criminal organizations are detected, disrupted, and swiftly dismantled.”

In November 2020, the HSI Panama TCIU received information from the Panama National Police (PNP) that a checkpoint located on the Panamerican Highway in Santa Maria, Divisa, Herrera, Panama, had stopped and arrested two Panamanian citizens attempting to smuggle three Cuban nationals. Subsequent interviews and questioning led to the identification of Eliani Muñoz Alcuria, who was later discovered to be a main coordinator for smuggling Cuban nationals through the Tocumen International Airport (PTY).

HSI Panama TCIU initiated an investigation and discovered this transnational criminal organization (TCO) of Cuban smuggling was highly complex. The TCO, which operates in Panama, managed to get clients to enter the country without meeting passport or visa requirements. The organization utilized various individuals and businesses to smuggle migrants to the province of Chiriquí and then transport individuals through other Central American countries with the ultimate intent of reaching the U.S.

Special agents were able to identify individuals and locations associated with the TCO – a Panamanian national known as Juan Manuel Nieto Marin was identified as another primary organizer. The organization relied heavily on Nieto Marin, a former Panamanian immigration official who worked at the PTY, for the mobilization and the stashing of irregular migrants.

HSI’s TCIUs enhance foreign partner countries’ ability to investigate and prosecute people involved in transnational criminal activities that threaten the region’s stability and national security and who pose continuing threats to the United States. TCIUs identify targets, collect evidence, share intelligence, and facilitate prosecution in the United States and foreign countries. In fiscal year (FY) 2022, HSI TCIUs conducted more than 3,800 criminal arrests, rescued 175 victims, and seized approximately $57 million in currency and criminally derived assets. TCIUs also seized more than 349,000 pounds of narcotics and precursor chemicals. HSI’s TCIUs facilitate information exchange and rapid bilateral investigation of various programmatic areas to include weapons trafficking and counter-proliferation, money laundering and bulk cash smuggling, human smuggling and trafficking, narcotics trafficking, intellectual property rights violations, and other customs fraud, child exploitation, and cyber-crimes within HSI’s investigative purview.

HSI is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), responsible for investigating transnational crime and threats, specifically those criminal organizations that exploit the global infrastructure through which international trade, travel, and finance move. HSI’s workforce of over 10,400 employees consists of more than 6,800 special agents assigned to 225 cities throughout the United States, and 93 overseas locations in 56 countries. HSI’s international presence represents DHS’s largest investigative law enforcement presence abroad and one of the largest international footprints in U.S. law enforcement.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-panama-costa-rica-investigation-results-19-arrests-77-rescues-linked-human

Meta to pay $1 billion settlement in Cambridge Analytica data access class action case

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $US725 million (about $1 billion) to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information.

Key points:

Revelations emerged in 2018 that Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica to access data of 87 million users

The company obtained information from users through a researcher who was allowed to harvest data

Meta did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement

The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a US court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook allowed the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to access the data of as many as 87 million users.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs called the proposed settlement the largest to ever be achieved in a US data privacy class action, and the most that Meta has ever paid to resolve a class action lawsuit.

"This historic settlement will provide meaningful relief to the class in this complex and novel privacy case," the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs, Derek Loeser and Lesley Weaver, said in a joint statement.

Meta did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, which is subject to the approval of a federal judge in San Francisco.

The company said in a statement that settling was "in the best interest of our community and shareholders."

"Over the last three years we revamped our approach to privacy and implemented a comprehensive privacy program," Meta said.

Cambridge Analytica, now defunct, worked for Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign in 2016, and gained access to the personal information from millions of Facebook accounts for the purposes of voter profiling and targeting.

The company obtained that information without users' consent from a researcher who had been allowed by Facebook to deploy an app on its social media network that harvested data from millions of its users.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-23/meta-class-action-cambridge-analytica-1-billion/101807030

Is this a funding mechanism?

Former president Donald Trump was ‘central cause’ of Capitol riots according to scathing January 6 committee report

Donald Trump was found to have engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the 2020 election, according to a long-awaited report released by lawmakers in the United States.

The congressional panel investigating January 6 has found former president Donald Trump was the “central cause” of the attack on the United States Capitol.

Concluding an 18-month probe into the riots, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has finally published its final report on the event.

The report was a searing indictment of the former president’s role in the attack and accused him of staging a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the legitimate result of the 2020 election in his favour.

https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/former-president-donald-trump-was-central-cause-of-capitol-riots-according-to-scathing-january-6-committee-report/news-story/b84a91008ecbba130a33a83f79e00518

Former WA treasurer Troy Buswell admits breaching bail conditions while on trial for ex-wife's assault

Former WA treasurer, and one-time Liberal leader, Troy Buswell, has pleaded guilty to breaching protective bail conditions by "intimidating" his ex-wife midway through his trial on charges of assaulting her.

Key points:

Buswell was on trial for assaulting his ex-wife at the time of the breach

Bail conditions prohibited him from intimidating her or discussing the trial

He has been handed a three-month suspended jail term for the offence

Buswell phoned Melissa Hankinson on August 20, 2021 when she was in the middle of being cross examined by Buswell's lawyers at his trial on six domestic violence charges.

The 56-year-old later pleaded guilty to half the assault charges and was given a suspended jail term of more than eight months, while the remaining three counts were dropped.

The Perth Magistrates Court was told on Friday that under bail conditions in place at the time, Buswell was allowed to contact Ms Hankinson but was not to intimidate or abuse her, or discuss the trial.

However Buswell made a series of phone calls to her and her 12-year-old daughter.

While he remained silent in the initial calls, he ended up having an almost three-hour conversation with Ms Hankinson, most of which she recorded.

Ms Hankinson left 'shaken' by call

Police prosecutor, Guy Murphy, said the two discussed family, their relationship and ultimately the trial, with Buswell making comments to Ms Hankinson — a police officer — such as "if you lose, that's bad news for you because you'll be unemployed".

"If I win, you'll lose, because you'll lose your job."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-23/former-wa-treasurer-troy-buswell-breach-bail-assault-trial/101801432

The Other Lab in Wuhan: The German-Chinese “Laboratory for Virus Research”

The “lab-leak” theory is enjoying a strong revival at the moment, thanks in part to Elon Musk having obliquely endorsed it in a Tweet while clearly point the finger at Anthony Fauci: “As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people.”

This despite the fact that an article in Science appeared to have already put the theory to rest over a year ago by showing that the initial cluster of Covid-19 cases in Wuhan was located on the opposite (left) bank of the Yangtze River from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is commonly supposed to be the pandemic’s epicenter according to the “lab-leak” theory.

But unbeknownst to most observers, there was in fact another infectious diseases lab in Wuhan, the German-Chinese Joint Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, and it is located on the same side of the river in the cluster.

The below map from the Science article makes the distance of the cluster from the two campuses of the Wuhan Institute of Virology clear – although the article itself coyly refrains from referring to the Institute.

Instead, the article shows that even if many of the earliest known cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan did not have any “epidemiologic link” to the famous Huanan wet market, the great majority of them were clustered in the vicinity of the market. This suggests – as per the quasi-official account – that the epidemic started in the market by way of animal-to-human (zoonotic) transmission and then spread to the surrounding area via “community transmission.”

Ergo, the “lab-leak” theory is dead.

Except that there is also an infectious diseases lab in the area of the cluster: the aforementioned German-Chinese Joint Laboratory of Infection and Immunity at Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College. The laboratory is a joint project of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College and the University Hospital of Essen in Germany. Prof. Ulf Dittmar, chair of the virology department in Essen, has also referred to the joint laboratory as the “Essen-Wuhan Laboratory for Virus Research.”

(See interview here [in German]. It should be noted that in the cited interview, conducted in January 2020, Dittmar downplays the dangerousness of the novel Coronavirus and warns against “hysterical” reactions.)

Helpfully, the map from the Science article also indicates the locations of the Chinese host institutions of the joint laboratory: the Union and Tongji hospitals. Per the legend, they are indicated by crosses 5 and 6: right next to the home location of what the article identifies as “cluster 1,” an elderly husband and wife who represent “the earliest known case cluster and the only cluster admitted by 26 December. They had no known connection to Huanan Market.” (Red dots on the map indicate cases with a known connection to the market; blue dots those that have no known connection.) The Tongji Hospital is the closest to “cluster 1.”

Astonishingly, in early September 2019, only three months before the allegedly initial outbreak of Covid-19 just a stone’s throw from Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, then German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit to none other than…Tongji Hospital in Wuhan. The hospital is also known as the German-Chinese Friendship Hospital.

A photo of Chancellor Merkel being welcomed by nurses at the hospital reception can be seen here. The accompanying article in the German newspaper Die Süddeutsche Zeitung notes another highly intriguing fact: the Essen University Hospital is not the only German teaching hospital with which Tongji has a “close partnership.”

It also has a partnership with the Charité Hospital in Berlin of Germany’s “state virologist” Christian Drosten! Drosten is the chair of the virology department at the Charité.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-other-lab-in-wuhan/