Pentagon to Increase Artillery Ammunition Production by 500% for Ukraine

The US is depleting its military stockpiles by shipping millions of artillery shells to Ukraine

The Pentagon is planning to boost its production of artillery ammunition by 500% over the next two years as the US is depleting its military stockpiles by sending millions of shells to Ukraine, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the US has pledged to send Ukraine over one million 155mm artillery shells. Before the US Army began efforts to increase production, it produced 14,400 155mm shells a month, but under the new plans, the number could reach over 90,000 each month.

According to the Times, an Army report said the plan will involve expanding factories and bringing in new producers in an effort described as “the most aggressive modernization effort in nearly 40 years” of the US military-industrial complex.

The unguided 155mm shells that are fired out of Howitzers include parts produced by several arms manufacturers, including steel bodies made by General Dynamics and explosives mixed by BAE Systems. American Ordnance pours the explosives into the bodies, and several other contractors produce the fuzes that are screwed into the shells.

The US plans to dramatically ramp up ammunition production over the next two years show that the US is expecting to support Ukraine against Russia for years to come, and there is no sign that the fighting will end anytime soon.

What’s not clear is if the policy is sustainable, as US military officials have warned it may be hard to continue arming both the US and Ukraine as the war drags on. Ukrainian forces are estimated to be using about 90,000 rounds of artillery each month, which is more than double what the US and Europe can currently produce.

The US has had to dip into a little-known stockpile of weapons that it keeps in Israel to keep up with Ukraine’s artillery demand. The Pentagon also requested that US forces stationed in South Korea send equipment to Ukraine.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/24/pentagon-to-increase-artillery-ammunition-production-by-500-for-ukraine/

Lawyers Seek To Question Bankman-Fried's Parents About Their Wealth; Goldman, JPM Revealed As FTX Creditors

With the public court of opinion having long ago convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried - even as several notable holdouts such as Bill Ackman and Andrew Ross-Sorkin remain - attention is now turning to his just as "effectively altruistic" parents. According to a court filing by bankrupt FTX, SBF's parent should be forced to answer questions and provide financial documents about their personal wealth and any money they may have gotten from the 30-year-old scammer.

As Bloomberg notes, FTX asked a judge for permission to question under oath Bankman-Fried’s family and a handful of the company’s former top executives as part of a hunt for hidden assets that could be used to repay creditors owed billions of dollars. Or not so hidden: as a reminder in November it was revealed that SBF's disgraced "progressive" parents - Stanford University law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried (who on her bio says she has "written extensively on questions of distributive justice, in the areas of tax policy, property theory and political theory" which apparently means using her son's stolen money to buy herself beachfront mansions) - purchased at least one $16.4 million beachfront "vacation home" in the gated Bahamas community of Old Fort Bay.

The court filing shows "the aggressive approach that FTX advisers are taking to recover any money that Bankman-Fried may have inappropriately handed out." The company was heavily involved in lobbying politicians and regulators and making campaign donations to Democrats and the White House. Federal prosecutors charged Bankman-Fried with fraud for his role in the collapse of FTX, which filed for bankruptcy in November.

Incidentally, when asked by Reuters in November why the couple decided to buy a vacation home in the Bahamas and how it was paid for, a spokesperson for the professors said only that Bankman and Fried had been trying to return the property to FTX. "Since before the bankruptcy proceedings, Mr. Bankman and Ms. Fried have been seeking to return the deed to the company and are awaiting further instructions," the spokesperson said.

They'll now get their chance.

According to the court filing, Joseph Bankman and his wife, Barbara Fried, were actively involved in their son’s company. Joseph Bankman, a law professor at Stanford Law School, offered tax advice to FTX employees and helped recruit the company’s first lawyers, the court filing said, citing media reports. Menawhile, ultra-progressive liberal, Barbara Fried, founded a political action committee that got money from FTX and its top executives, according to the filing.

It gets better: the brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, founded an organization that lobbied members of the US Congress from a multimillion dollar property near the US Capitol, according to the filing.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lawyers-seek-question-bankman-frieds-parents-about-their-wealth-goldman-jpm-revealed-ftx

https://www.scribd.com/document/622086408/v0#download&from_embed

Financier who fatally plunged from NYC rooftop bar ID’d as Connecticut dad of 3

The financier who plunged to his death from a Manhattan rooftop bar has been identified as Dale L. Cheney, a dad of three who launched his own Connecticut-based investment firm, police sources confirmed.

Cheney, 46, plummeted from Bar 54 at the Hyatt Centric Times Square New York on West 45th Street near Seventh Avenue, in front of at least two witnesses around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities and the sources said.

He landed on the street below and was pronounced dead, cops said.

The death is being investigated as a suspected suicide, an NYPD spokesperson said.

Cheney founded T-street Capital in 2013 in Darien, Connecticut, about 40 miles northeast of Manhattan, according to public records.

The independent growth equity firm partners with entrepreneurs and management teams through capital investment, strategic acquisitions and other opportunities.

Cheney was also a board member and investor at six different companies in four states, according to his LinkedIn page.

Before starting his own firm, he worked as an investment principal at Citicorp Venture Capital dating back to 2007, and prior to that was at Goldman Sachs for two years beginning in 2005.

He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University, according to the online profile.

Just after the fatal plunge, two people at the rooftop bar told police that the man jumped off the building, sources said. One woman called 911, saying she heard a loud noise.

“We are truly heartbroken at the situation that occurred this evening outside our rooftop bar, and we are keeping the victim’s family and friends in our thoughts and hearts,” Tom Blundell, the general manager of the Hyatt Centric Times Square, said in a statement.

“We are working closely with local authorities. The safety and wellbeing of all our colleagues, hotel guests and Bar 54 guests remains a top priority, and at this time, as a result of this tragic incident, we will keep the door to the bar’s outdoor space locked at all times,” Blundell said through a spokesperson.

This is the second time in less than four months a person plunged from the same hotel bar.

In October, aspiring model Elizabeth Gaglewski, of Queens, fell from Bar 54 before hitting a 27th-floor balcony, the NYPD said. Staff tried to swoop in and stop the 26-year-old woman from falling as she stood on the ledge, sources told The Post in October.

Gaglewski was remembered as “sweet and loving” by family.

“She was just a good person, a sweet and loving, caring kid,” her uncle Tony Smith told The Post last year.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/financier-who-fatally-plunged-from-nyc-rooftop-bar-ided-as-dale-l-cheney/

IBM Cuts 3,900 Jobs, Misses Annual Cash Target

IBM Corp. on Wednesday announced 3,900 layoffs as part of some asset divestments and missed its annual cash target, dampening cheer around beating revenue expectations in the fourth quarter.

Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh told Reuters that the company was still “committed to hiring for client-facing research and development.”

The layoffs—related to the spinoff of its Kyndryl business and a part of AI unit Watson Health—will cause a $300 million charge in the January-March period, IBM said.

Shares of the company fell 2 percent in extended trading, erasing earlier gains on the largely upbeat results. Analysts said news of the job cuts and free cash flow miss was behind the drop.

“It seems as if the market is disappointed by the size of its announced job cuts, which only amounted to 1.5 percent of its workforce,” said Jesse Cohen, senior analyst at Investing.com.

“Investors were hoping for deeper cost-cutting measures.”

From Big Tech to Wall Street banking majors, U.S. companies have been downsizing in earnest and slashing costs to better cope with the global economic downturn.

IBM’s 2022 cash flow was $9.3 billion, below its target of $10 billion, due to higher-than-expected working capital needs.

The company also forecast annual revenue growth in the mid-single digits on constant currency terms, weaker than the 12 percent it reported last year, as pandemic-led demand for digitizing businesses has given way to cautious spending by clients amid rising recession fears.

In October, IBM flagged softness in new bookings in Western Europe while peer Accenture Plc. noted weakness in its consulting business. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. in November cut its 2022 forecast due to a pullback in contracts.

IBM’s software and consulting business growth slowed down sequentially in the fourth quarter, but cloud spending was a bright spot, with deal signings doubling in 2022 for setting up services with partners such as Amazon. com’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure.

Its hybrid cloud revenue rose 2 percent in the quarter ended Dec. 31.

Total revenue was flat at $16.69 billion in the period, compared with analysts’ estimates of $16.40 billion, according to Refinitiv.

For 2022, IBM recorded revenue growth of 5.5 percent, its highest in a decade.

https://www.ntd.com/ibm-cuts-3900-jobs-misses-annual-cash-target_897350.html

Epstein-tied Influence Group Brokers Relationships Between GOP Congressmen, CCP

The Humpty Dumpty Institute is closely partnered with the CCP-PLA's Taihe Institute, the Chinese version of the CFR.

National File can exclusively report, as the result of a continued journalistic investigation, that an Epstein-funded influence group directly partnered with the global arm of Communist China’s military is brokering relationships between GOP Congressmen, CCP elites, and CCP-aligned politicians all over the world.

The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI), an influence operation that’s been funded by dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark, is working in direct partnership with Communist China’s Taihe Institute, the “think tank” arm of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which functions like Xi Jinping’s version of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Tasked with spreading Chinese Communism and Chinese dominance around the globe, the Taihe Institute boasts of operating “research centers” within the United States and Germany, effectively planting military outposts in the Western World.

Among other things, HDI leadership has worked with the Taihe Institute and the CCP’s governing class to advance Communist China’s Belt and Road Initiative for economic dominance.

Massive “cross-pollination” exists between HDI and the Taihe Institute, with numerous high-ranking members “rolling over” from one organization to the other.

Much like other globalist influence operations, such as the World Economic Forum, HDI has apparently “captured” multiple members of Congress, boasting a bipartisan “Congressional Advisory Board” that includes numerous of Kevin McCarthy’s speaker vote henchmen.

Among them, Rep. Don Bacon, a former Air Force Brigadier General and Nebraska GOP’er who threatened to vote for a Democrat for Speaker of the House if conservatives didn’t cede ground to McCarthy, and surrender to Nancy Pelosi’s House Rules.

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-epstein-tied-influence-group-brokers-relationships-between-gop-congressmen-ccp/

Former Teachers Union President Charged With Embezzling $400,000

The former president of a Virginia teachers union was arrested and charged with embezzlement from the organization on Monday, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

Ingrid Gant, former president of the Arlington Education Association (AEA), was arrested after police conducted a six-month audit that showed she embezzled $410,782.10 from the union, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Gant was charged with four counts of embezzlement and allegedly used debit cards for unauthorized purchases and gave herself multiple bonuses.

“AEA is pursuing all legal channels to recoup any lost funds and hold those responsible accountable,” the union told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Under its new leadership, AEA has already implemented stronger financial controls and transparent reporting practices to ensure sound operation. As a result of these changes, AEA is in a better position to ensure that every Arlington student has access to a quality public school, regardless of where they live, their family income, or the color of their skin.”

Gant was fired from the union in March 2022 after she failed to provide tax returns and financial reports to board members, according to WRIC News.

Before being fired, Grant addressed a letter to the superintendent of Arlington Public Schools regarding the spread of COVID-19, the New York Post reported. Grant called indoor lunch at school a “super-spreader” and said as Omicron cases increase, teachers will be making the “ultimate sacrifice.”

After an Arlington parent shared a copy-edited version of the letter, it went viral on Twitter in June 2021, according to the New York Post. The parent who shared the letter noted that the president made 20 grammar mistakes.

In January, a former teachers union treasurer in Pennsylvania was charged with embezzling more than $400,000 over the past eight years, according to the Reading Eagle. Detectives determined that the treasurer was withdrawing money from the union’s bank accounts and putting the money in her own.

The Fairfax County Police Department did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/26/former-teachers-union-president-embezzling/

UK ‘Safer Schools’ Police Officer Hussain Chehab Admits to Child Sex Abuse Offences

Hussain Chehab, a London police officer who was posted to a school in the city, has pleaded guilty to a number of child sex abuse offences, reports have claimed.

Hussain Chehab, who is a serving officer within London’s Metropolitan Police, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15, three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, as well as to having sexual communication with a child during a sitting of Wood Green crown court on Tuesday.

It is the second instance of a high-profile case of a London police officer pleading guilty to sexual offences hitting the papers this month, with another officer admitting that he raped a number of women over many years while serving with the force.

According to a report by The Guardian, Chehab was serving as a “safer schools” officer in a borough of London when alarm bells were first raised by the family of one 16-year-old girl, who reportedly believed that the officer had been in a sexual relationship with the teenager since she was 15.

After seizing Chehab’s devices, police investigators are said to have found a number of indecent images on them, as well as messages between the officer and a 14-year-old girl, who are said to have been engaged in a sexual conversation.

The girl is said to have later provided the police with evidence that Chehab had entered into a sexual relationship with her when she was just 14 years old.

There is reportedly no evidence linking Chehab’s offending to his time serving as a “safer schools” officer in the London school.

Speaking on the case, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described it as being “ghastly” while apologising to Chehab’s victims.

“They shouldn’t be facing that at the hands of a police officer,” the commissioner reportedly said.

It is far from the first apology that senior officials from the London police force have had to give.

Chehab’s guilty plea represents the second high-profile case to hit the papers this month alone involving a police officer for the force being convicted of sexual offences.

The first of these major cases in January came when officer David ‘Bastard Dave’ Carrick, pleaded guilty to two dozen rapes which are said to have taken place between 2003 and 2020.

Carrick, an armed officer who served within the Met’s diplomatic protection command, has now pleaded guilty to 49 separate offences, with it being alleged that he kept some of his victims locked in a small cupboard for an extended period of time without food.

The force also became embroiled in scandal l;last year after another officer, Wayne Couzens, was convicted for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a 33-year-old woman.

Couzens had falsely arrested the woman under the pretences of her breaking lockdown restrictions, before driving her far outside of London, where raped and murdered her.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/26/uk-safer-schools-police-officer-cop-hussain-chehab-admits-to-child-sex-abuse-offences/

Israel raid in Jenin kills nine Palestinians in 'massacre'

Heavily armed Israeli soldiers storm refugee camp and leave at least 16 wounded

At least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed in an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot dead nine people, while a further 20 were wounded. At least four of those were in a critical condition, it added.

Later in the evening, the ministry said another Palestinian, Youssef Yehya Abdel-Kareem, was killed in al-Ram town, near Jerusalem, in confrontations that erupted after Israeli forces suppressed a march against the killings in Jenin.

Heavily armed soldiers entered the camp on Thursday morning, reportedly in a commercial truck, and opened fire on residents attempting to block their entry.

Several other army vehicles, including bulldozers, then entered the area and targeted a building used as a meeting place for residents.

Anas Huwaisheh, a Palestinian correspondent at a local channel in Jenin, told Middle East Eye the scenes reminded him of 2002, when the Jenin camp was invaded during the Second Intifada.

"The sounds of bullets and gunfights were intense, and clouds of smoke covered the sky. The Israeli occupation cut off the electricity, the internet and the cell phone network during the storming. This shows that it was planned," Huwaisheh said.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-raid-jenin-killed-wound-several-others

FBI Director Christopher Wray Summons Bureau’s Jet To D.C.-Area Airport To Dodge Traffic: Whistleblower

When FBI Director Christopher Wray wants to use the bureau’s $60 million Gulfstream G550, he typically summons it to nearby Reagan National Airport instead of being driven 30 miles to the regional airport where it’s kept, a whistleblower told The Daily Wire, describing a costly habit paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

Records obtained by The Daily Wire show the jet has made the roughly 15-minute flight between its base at Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia and Washington, D.C., area airports 140 times since 2020. The whistleblower and currently suspended FBI agent, who spoke to The Daily Wire, said the local trips are made to save Wray and possibly other bureau bigwigs from the 45-minute drive to and from Manassas on either end of their flights.

“The FBI jet is being used, I believe, in a grossly mismanaged way,” FBI agent Kyle Seraphin, who was suspended from the bureau last year, told The Daily Wire. “Chris Wray has a jet fly from Manassas, Virginia, to Reagan National Airport, because he doesn’t want to sit in traffic.”

Security detail agents inside the bureau told Seraphin that the Gulfstream jet has been picking up Wray, who moves around D.C. in a motorcade of three black Chevrolet Suburbans, from Reagan National for years, possibly since Congressional members confirmed him as bureau director in 2017.

Of the 140 trips between Manassas and larger regional airports, 124 were to or from Reagan National, the closest major airport to the bureau’s Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters. Nine were either to or from Dulles International Airport, some 26 miles from downtown Washington, and five flights involved Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Two other flights landed in specific locations in the nation’s capital.

“[Wray] does it simply because he doesn’t want to be inconvenienced by traffic on I-66,” Seraphin said.

Flight records obtained by The Daily Wire covered the period from April 2020 to the present and showed the trip from Manassas to Reagan National can take as little as six minutes. While the FBI declined to say how much the bureau spends on the short flights, The Daily Wire spoke to an aviation expert, who requested anonymity due to the nature of the story, about operational costs for a Gulfstream G550 in an effort to estimate how much it costs taxpayers to spare Wray from being driven back and forth.

The private sector cost to fly the jet ranges between $7,000 to $11,000 per hour, including fuel, landing fees, and other costs, the source said. Gulfstream G550 jet fuel tanks hold about 6,000 gallons and the aircraft burns roughly 500 gallons per hour, the source said, adding most fuel is burned at takeoff and landing. The shorter the flight, the less cost-effective, the aviation expert said.

A 15-minute flight of that duration by a Gulfstream 550 burns 223 gallons of fuel, the source estimated, noting flights of a half-hour or less can burn up to 70% more fuel on a per-hour basis than longer ones. Jet fuel prices fluctuate wildly, dipping as low as 61 cents per gallon in April 2020 and reaching $4.12 in June 2022. At the current market price of about $3.50 per gallon, the cost of fuel to fly from Manassas to Reagan works out to $780.

But there are substantial other costs. General aviation services at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are handled by Signature Flight Support company, which told The Daily Wire that average landing fees vary per aircraft. However, representatives said those registered in a waiver program designed for government officials average around $2,500 per landing. How much the bureau spends on landing fees at Reagan National and surrounding D.C. airports, or if it must pay both when picking up and dropping off Wray or other officials was not immediately known.

The source cautioned that there are other costs and variables involved that cannot be estimated based on available information.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2023/01/fbi-director-christopher-wray-summons.html

Meet the Biden Energy Official Who Fought To Shield China From US Solar Tariffs

Before scoring coveted role in Biden's Energy Department, Jigar Shah represented China's largest solar companies

When China's largest solar companies faced costly U.S. tariffs, they turned to industry veteran Jigar Shah to lobby on their behalf. Now, President Joe Biden is handing that same man hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to invest in green energy companies, prompting concern that the money could benefit Beijing.

Shah in late 2011 partnered with three Chinese solar giants to form the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, a nonprofit that mounted an aggressive campaign to kill U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels. As the group's president, Shah said evidence that his Chinese clients accepted illegal subsidies from Beijing was merely part of an "anti-China crusade." He also argued that American consumers could not afford solar panels without cheap Chinese goods, stressing the need for the two nations to "work together to solve our planet's energy and environmental crisis."

Years later, China could again stand to benefit from Shah's work. Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in March 2021 tapped Shah to run the department's Loan Programs Office, which is expected to flood the China-dominated green energy industry with billions of taxpayer dollars in the coming months. Shah's leading role in distributing that money—and the Biden administration's history of supporting Beijing-backed companies—have China hawks concerned that Biden's push to usher in a "clean energy economy" will ultimately benefit America's top adversary.

Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, for example, highlighted one loan application Shah's office is considering from Lithium Americas. The Canadian company—which plans to mine tens of thousands of tons of lithium from a site in northern Nevada—counts a Chinese mineral giant with ties to the Chinese Communist Party as its largest shareholder, the Washington Free Beacon reported in September. Still, at an industry conference three months later, Lithium Americas expressed confidence that it will secure a loan from Shah's office to fund the mine, according to a conference attendee. For Pompeo, that possibility is a troubling one.

"It should concern all Americans that a Biden administration political appointee at the Department of Energy once had deep ties to CCP-backed firms," Pompeo told the Free Beacon. "It's no secret that the CCP wants to control America's domestic rare earth mineral supply, and now the Biden administration might just give it to them along with American tax dollars. This is a serious threat to our national security."

An Energy Department spokesperson said Shah is "working to deliver on President Biden’s goal to build clean energy technologies at commercial scale in the United States, restore supply chains, and strengthen domestic manufacturing." The spokesperson did not return detailed questions on Shah’s time as Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy president.

As Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy president, Shah minimized the group's work with Chinese solar companies. The coalition's website, which is no longer live, claimed that the group represented "the largest companies in the U.S. solar industry" and worked to protect "the affordability of solar energy and the American workforce." As part of that domestic-focused messaging, Shah's group opted to name the U.S. subsidiaries of its three Chinese partners on its online member list, rather than naming the companies' Chinese parents.

https://freebeacon.com/energy/meet-the-biden-energy-official-who-fought-to-shield-china-from-us-solar-tariffs/

‘Israel is an apartheid state,’ but keep the U.S. aid flowing — Rothkopf

The "demise" of the two state solution has made it untenable not to talk about Israeli apartheid, even inside the Washington establishment.

The use of the word apartheid to describe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians keeps growing. David Rothkopf, the former editor of Foreign Policy, baldly states that Israel is an apartheid state in a piece published by Haaretz last weekend.

“Americans once boasted that our ally Israel was the Middle East’s only democracy. Now it is an apartheid state with a government actively working to roll back basic democratic rights and protections. American values like tolerance and the celebration of diversity are ones the current Israeli government rejects…”

Rothkopf has described Israel as an apartheid state for two years. This time it’s deep in an appeal in Israel’s leading newspaper to “Bibi,” as Rothkopf calls Netanyahu, to avoid a rupture with the U.S. If the rightwing government goes further in its crackdowns on civil rights and Palestinian subjects, Rothkopf warns, it could “have direct, immediate, negative consequences for the U.S.-Israel relationship including the provision of aid.”

So Israel is an apartheid state, thereby committing a crime against humanity, but we should keep giving it aid– because the U.S. has a “strong working relationship” with Israel. This is the marvel of the Israel lobby. Israel’s American supporters have such an exceptional view of the importance of the Jewish state that they think the ordinary rules of human rights just don’t apply.

Rothkopf is an establishment figure in foreign policy: a former undersecretary of Commerce and scholar at Carnegie Institute for International Peace, he once attacked the “theory” of the Israel lobby and apologized for Israeli apartheid.

Though Rothkopf must also be considered a progressive influence in official circles. Years ago, he told his college roommate Michael Oren that Zionism is “exactly the wrong” response to modern history; and in using the word “apartheid”, Rothkopf is taking the courageous side of a fierce battle-line inside Washington. The New York Times avoids the term apartheid. Ted Deutch won his new job as head of the American Jewish Committee when as a Congressman in September 2021 he smeared Rashida Tlaib on the House floor for daring to accuse Israel of apartheid. “I say to my colleague who just besmirched our ally…that’s antisemitism.”

Tlaib’s crime was holding up the Human Rights Watch report of 2021 accusing Israel of apartheid. Just last week the man who oversaw that report, Ken Roth, explained at Americans for Peace Now (video here) that Human Rights Watch held out against the “apartheid” designation for years, using the excuse of the peace process.

Note Roth’s visceral description of apartheid, and of the “demise” of the two state solution.

It was the utter demise of the peace process that is part of what I think has led the human rights community to say that this kind of radical, oppressive discrimination that we see in the West Bank– where you have these well-developed settlements for Israelis living under civil law with all the rights of being an Israeli citizen, and right next door in Area C of the West Bank, you have Palestinians who can’t even add a bedroom into their home without it being demolished and who have to travel on special roads and go through checkpoints– it has all the elements of the oppressive discrimination that constitute apartheid. And the only reason I think people didn’t call it that until now, or until recently, is because of the peace process defense. People say, Well, yeah, it’s bad. But don’t worry, there’s the peace process. And when we have peace, it’ll be better.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/01/israel-is-an-apartheid-state-but-keep-the-u-s-aid-flowing-rothkopf/

It was all a Lie: How the Establishment tricked the World into a Deadly Experiment that killed Millions through Midazolam Poisoning & COVID Vaccination

The world was thrown into chaos when a new virus, Covid-19, was declared a pandemic by the government. Fear propaganda was broadcasted non-stop on television and radio, all paid for by the government and they used the pandemic as an excuse to pass laws that restricted civil liberties and bribed the public with furlough payments to not go to work.

As the pandemic progressed, the government’s true motives were revealed, as they were found to be putting vulnerable individuals into end-of-life care and administering a drug called midazolam to kill them, while lying to the public by claiming that their deaths were due to the virus.

The consequences of vaccination were also revealed as it was not actually a vaccine, but an experimental gene therapy that had never been used on humans before.

Tragically, as things began to settle, the true consequences of the Covid-19 injection roll-out were realised.

The fully vaccinated accounted for over 9 in every 10 deaths associated with the virus, and mortality rates per 100,000 were lowest among the unvaccinated and highest among the vaccinated in every age group.

Two years after the initial roll-out, 20 million deaths had been recorded in the “Five Eyes” countries and 26 other countries in Europe, resulting in 2 million excess deaths. This was a huge increase on deaths recorded throughout the pandemic prior to the vaccine roll-out.

In Europe, there was a huge increase in excess deaths among children aged 0 to 14-, as soon as the vaccine was approved for children by the EMA. The very “vaccine” that was supposed to protect them had the opposite effect, and many parents were left devastated after falling for the coercive lies which resulted in the loss of their children’s lives.

Meanwhile, in the USA, half a million deaths among children and young adults were recorded following the Covid-19 injection roll-out, resulting in 120,000 excess deaths. This highlights the severe impact that the vaccine had on the young and healthy and the devastating loss of life caused by the vaccine.

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https://expose-news.com/2023/01/26/you-were-tricked-into-an-experiment-killed-millions-midazolam-c19-vaccination/

CNN Drops a Huge Bombshell in Biden Classified Documents Scandal

Since the news broke that classified documents had been discovered in both Joe Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center and at his home, the White House and Biden have made repeated statements about their “full cooperation” with the Justice Department and National Archives. It was a blatant effort to differentiate this case from the one involving Trump’s possession of classified documents.

And it was all a lie.

According to a new report from CNN, of all places, Biden wasn’t originally willing to consent to have the Justice Department search his home and only agreed to it after Justice Department indicated it would seek a warrant if necessary.

“Biden’s team stresses that it was cooperative in the lead-up to Friday’s search and even expressed an eagerness for the search to happen as expeditiously as possible to move the investigation along – and to try to put the matter behind them,” CNN reports. “For its part, the Justice Department had decided it would conduct the latest search – and any subsequent searches – after Biden’s team handled earlier searches themselves. Federal investigators also were prepared to seek a warrant if they did not get consent to search the Wilmington property, according to multiple sources.”

Biden’s allies in the media have been repeating the claim that Biden was “fully cooperating” with the Justice Department and insisting that Donald Trump was guilty of obstructing even though he had been negotiating with the Justice Department when Merrick Garland approved a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/01/25/cnn-drops-a-huge-bombshell-in-biden-classified-documents-scandal-n1665097

Successful takedown of drug trafficking network in Italy and Albania

Eurojust and Europol have supported judicial and law enforcement authorities in Italy and Albania in dismantling a network of drug traffickers. During a joint action day which saw the involvement of some 350 officers in the field, 30 suspects were arrested and 31 locations were searched. Five rifles, one gun and six vehicles have been seized during the operation. The action day was steered in real-time from Eurojust’s coordination centre. Europol provided operational support on-the-spot by deploying its specialists both to Italy and Albania.

The criminal groups were allegedly responsible for the large-scale trafficking of cocaine, cannabis and heroin mainly from Albania to Italy. Today’s operation is part of a longer-term investigation carried out jointly by the Italian and Albanian authorities, which has already led to the arrest of 62 persons and the seizure of assets worth approximately EUR 1 million (in Italy), as well as to the seizure of huge quantities of drugs.

The case was opened at Eurojust and Europol in 2019. Eurojust organised two coordination meetings in which representatives of the involved authorities came together to discuss the case, exchange information and agree on further steps. The Agency also supported the authorities by setting up and funding a joint investigation team (JIT). Over the course of the investigation, Europol provided in-depth analytical support and expertise, mapping out the different high-profile targets and their criminal activities. The investigation was supported by the Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans – IPA 2019 project, which – for the first time – was able to financially support operational activities.

The following authorities took part in the investigation:

Italy: Public Prosecutor’s Office of Bergamo, Central Investigation Service on Organised Crime of the Guardia di Finanza, Economic-Financial Police of Brescia of the Guardia di Finanza, Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services, Italian International Police Cooperation Service

Albania: Special Prosecution Office Against Corruption and Organised Crime (SPAK), Albanian State Police - International Cooperation Office of Tirana

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/successful-takedown-of-drug-trafficking-network-in-italy-and-albania

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Creep tries to abduct boy from NYC synagogue — thwarted by mom

A creep tried to abduct a 9-year-old boy from a Brooklyn synagogue Wednesday — but was thwarted when the kid’s mom showed up and saw him trying to carry her son away, police said.

The boy was attending a bris for a family member at the Hesed Le Avraham Synagogue on East 7th Street in Gravesend shortly after 9 a.m. when a man who had been praying inside approached him, cops and the congregation’s rabbi said.

The stranger asked the child to go outside with him — and when the kid refused, he picked him up by the shoulders and tried to carry him out through the front door, according to police.

The mother spotted the creep carrying her son and jumped in — asking the boy if he knew the man from the synagogue, cops said.

When he told her no, she ripped her son from the man’s arms, police said.

The suspect then ran off — hiding in a nearby yeshiva, according to law enforcement sources.

Cops had K9s out in Brooklyn hunting for the man, who possibly suffers from a type of mental illness, according to the sources.

Yossi Mayer, 42, was taken into custody about an hour later and subsequently charged with kidnapping, endangering the welfare of a child, and harassment.

Speaking to The Post by phone Wednesday, Rabbi Lankry, who leads the congregation, worried that law enforcement was jumping to conclusions about Mayer.

“There’s a very big concern [in the community] that we may be coming to conclusions too fast…and therefore compromising a person’s life,”said Lankry, who did not witness the incident but was “in the vicinity.”

“And at the same time, if he really is someone that had ill intentions, it should be public knowledge.”

Lankry, who does not know Mayer or the victim personally, cautioned against immediate judgment of the situation.

“We have to give [Mayer] a chance to talk,” he urged. “Innocent until proven guilty is something we should all live by.”

https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/man-tries-to-abduct-kid-from-nyc-synagogue/

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