Robot Dogs Join NYPD

New York City officials will be employing three new high-tech policing robots to fight crime, including a robot dog the FDNY will use for search-and-rescue missions.

The four-legged robot, “Digidog,” will “save lives,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced during a press conference.

The remote-controlled robot, also known as “Spot,” is manufactured by Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics.

The $75,000 robot dog is designed to perform inspections in dangerous areas and monitor construction sites and is touted by Boston Dynamics as a public safety tool.

Spot can also sniff out dangerous gasses and collect structural safety data, the New York Post reports.

The bright yellow gadget was first leased in 2020 by former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the city’s contract for the device was abandoned in April 2021 after it was derided by critics as creepy and an example of dystopian “surveillance.”

The 70-pound Digidog will be deployed to assist law enforcement officials in risky situations like hostage standoffs and bomb threats this summer, Adams told reporters.

“I believe that technology is here; we cannot be afraid of it,” the Democrat lawmaker said. “A few loud people were opposed to it, and we took a step back. That is not how I operate. I operate on looking at what’s best for the city.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/robot-dogs-join-nypd/

Developing: EDNY Announces Arrests of Two New Yorkers for Conspiring to Act as Chinese Agents

At 1pm today, the FBI Washington Field Office in conjuction with the New York FBI and Eastern District of New York will be announcing arrests and charges related to 3 “significant national security matters”.

A statement released today read “This afternoon, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for national security David Newman, US Attorney Breon Peace of the EDNY, Assistant Director in Charge Michael J Driscoll of the FBI NY Field Office and Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg of the FBI Washington Field office will host a press conference to announce arrests and charges in a significant national security matter.”

Reuters reports:

U.S. law enforcement officials have arrested and charged two New York residents with conspiring to act as agents for China’s government and operating an undeclared Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/developing-edny-announces-arrests-of-two-new-yorker-for-conspiring-to-act-as-chinese-agents/

Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access to Private Twitter DMs

Tesla founder says it “blew my mind.”

During an upcoming appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, Elon Musk reveals that the US government had full access to people’s private Twitter DMs.

Musk told Carlson during a segment which is set to air tonight that he was shocked as to the level of penetration the feds had with Twitter.

“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind, I was not aware of that,” said Musk.

“Would that include people’s DMs?” asked Carlson.

“Yes,” responded Musk.

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During an upcoming appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, Elon Musk reveals that the US government had full access to people’s private Twitter DMs.

Musk told Carlson during a segment which is set to air tonight that he was shocked as to the level of penetration the feds had with Twitter.

“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind, I was not aware of that,” said Musk.

“Would that include people’s DMs?” asked Carlson.

“Yes,” responded Musk.

It has long been suspected that individual Twitter employees had full access to private messages, but for branches of the federal government to have enjoyed that same privilege is stunning.

Since his purchase of Twitter last October, Musk has worked with journalists to release batches of files exposing the egregious censorship policies of the previous regime.

Matt Taibbi characterized the cozy relationship between the social media network, NGOs and the US government as the “censorship-industrial complex.”

According to Taibbi, the system worked as “a bureaucracy willing to sacrifice factual truth in service of broader narrative objectives,” acting as an insult to the principles of a free press.

https://summit.news/2023/04/17/elon-musk-says-us-government-had-access-to-private-twitter-dms/

US Unveils Toughest-Ever Car Emissions Rule In Bid to Force Surge In EV Purchases

President Joe Biden further accelerated the nation’s switch to electric vehicles by announcing two proposed federal rule changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants in motor vehicle emissions.

The changes, announced on April 12, would affect virtually all gasoline-powered vehicles on U.S. highways, save consumers an estimated $12,000 in fuel and maintenance costs over the life of a vehicle, and avoid almost 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions through 2055, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The move aims to further the president’s goal of having 50 percent of all new cars and light trucks and 30 percent of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles. Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered zero-emission vehicles.

The EPA estimates that approval of these rules would result in 67 percent of new passenger vehicles and light trucks being EVs by 2032, along with 50 percent of buses, 35 percent of short-haul freight tractors, and 25 percent of long-haul freight tractors.

Critics have claimed that the move, which will increase the price of new cars, was made without consideration of the ability of the nation’s supply chain to meet the demand.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-unveils-toughest-ever-car-emissions-rule-bid-force-surge-ev-purchases

Google CEO admits he doesn't 'fully understand' how his AI works after it taught itself a new language and invented fake data to advance an idea

Google released Bard in March, an artificial intelligence tool touted as ChatGPT's rival. Just weeks into this public experiment, Bard has already defied expectations and ethical boundaries.

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted that there is a degree of impenetrability regarding generative AI chatbots' reasoning.

"There is an aspect of this which we call … a 'black box.' You know, you don't fully understand," said Pichai. "You can't quite tell why it said this or why it got wrong. We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better over time. But that's where the state of the art is."

CBS' Scott Pelley asked, "You don't fully understand how it works and yet you've turned it loose on society?"

"Let me put it this way: I don't think we fully understand how a human mind works either," responded Pichai.

Despite citing ignorance on another subject as a rationale for blindly releasing new technology into the wild, Pichai was nevertheless willing to admit, "AI will impact everything."

Google describes Bard on its website as "a creative and helpful collaborator" that "can supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and help you bring your ideas to life—whether you want help planning the perfect birthday party and drafting the invitation, creating a pro & con list for a big decision, or understanding really complex topics simply."

While Pichai and other technologists have highlighted possible benefits of generative AI, Goldman Sachs noted in a March 26 report, "Generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs to automation."

In 2019, then-candidate Joe Biden told coal miners facing unemployment to "learn to code." In a twist of fate, the Goldman Sachs report indicated that coders and technologically savvy white-collar workers face replacement by Bard-like AI models at higher rates than those whose skills were only yesteryear denigrated by the president.

Legal, engineering, financial, sales, forestry, protective service, and education industries all reportedly face over 27% workforce exposure to automation.

In addition to losing hundreds of millions of jobs, truth may also be lost in the corresponding inhuman revolution.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/google-ceo-admits-he-doesnt-know-how-his-own-ai-works

Senator Joe Manchin Admits US is Already at War in Ukraine, Says War is America’s ‘Purpose’

Manchin was accompanied by Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, who has the wearing of Nazi armbands in common with Ukrainian fighters.

West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin admitted that the United States is already at war in Ukraine and claimed that the entire “purpose of America” is to fight wars on behalf of foreign nations in a tweet he posted after returning from a visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“In my lifetime, I have never seen the United States of America in a more just war,” Manchin wrote in a tweet, apparently admitting that the United States is already “in” the war in Ukraine. The tweet included video footage of Manchin paling around with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his recent trip to Ukraine, a trip that included country singer Brad Paisley and fellow uni-party US Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

Manchin went on in the tweet to claim that the entire “purpose” of the United States is to “defend freedom and fight for democracy” in foreign nations, which he goes on to claim is “why we’re supporting Ukraine every step of the way as they defend their country & way of life.”

https://nationalfile.com/senator-joe-manchin-admits-us-is-already-at-war-in-ukraine-says-war-is-americas-purpose/

Tennessee Law Enforcement Boss Makes Crazy Excuse To Say Nashville Shooter’s ‘Journal-Type Rantings’ Are Not A Manifesto

What is the distinction between a manifesto and "journal-type rantings"?

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) director David Rausch is defending law enforcement’s decision not to release the so-called manifesto of transgender Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale. Curiously, Rausch drew an unclear distinction between a “manifesto” and what Rausch calls “journal-type rantings.” Hale killed six civilians at Nashville’s Covenant School, a Christian academy.

“It’s been characterized as a manifesto. I think that’s a mischaracterization, personally,” Rausch said in a recent interview. “The documents that we have, and I have viewed those. One is specifically a plan, and the other is some, uh, journal-type rantings…When you talk about a manifesto you talk about something similar to, like, the Unabomber, like, behind it. Ideological expressions. Uh, none of that has surfaced.”

https://nationalfile.com/tennessee-law-enforcement-boss-makes-crazy-excuse-to-say-nashville-shooters-journal-type-rantings-are-not-a-manifesto/

China Spying: Australian Businessman Allegedly Received Envelopes of Cash for Info Including Nuclear Submarines

Two suspected Chinese spies gave a Sydney businessman envelopes of cash for information about subjects including a government deal with the United States and Britain to build a fleet of Australian nuclear-powered submarines, prosecutors told a court on Monday.

The businessman, Alexander Csergo, was refused bail when he appeared by video link from prison in Sydney´s Downing Center Local Court charged with one count of reckless foreign interference.

The charge, included in laws against covert foreign interference and espionage that angered China when they were legislated in 2018, carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence.

He is accused of accepting money from two suspected Chinese spies he knew by the names Ken and Evelyn in exchange for handwritten reports on Australian defense, economic and national security arrangements since 2021 while he worked in Shanghai, where he owns a communications and technology infrastructure consultancy business.

The subjects included the AUKUS partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to create an Australian submarine fleet powered by U.S. nuclear technology that was announced in September 2021, prosecutor Connor McCraith said.

U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia and Britain announced details of the deal in March, including that Australia would buy secondhand Virginia-class submarines from the United States and build a new AUKUS class of submarines with Britain.

The suspected spies also requested details about Australia´s partnership with the United States, Japan and India known as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, as well as information about lithium and iron ore mining in Australia, the prosecutors alleged.

Csergo has been in custody since Friday, when he was arrested at his home in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bondi. He had been questioned for weeks by police and agents of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation´s main domestic spy agency.

McCraith said Csergo admitted early in the questioning that he suspected Ken and Evylen were spies soon after meeting them but remained in contact with them for two years.

“He clearly has links to the Chinese state and two people he clearly thinks work for the MSS (Ministry of State Security),” McCraith told the court. “He also traveled back to Australia with a shopping list” of requested information, he said.

McCraith said a reasonable person would have alerted Australian authorities immediately after being approached.

Instead, Csergo continued to communicate with the male suspected spy, including inviting him to visit Australia, McCraith said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/17/china-spying-australian-businessman-allegedly-received-envelopes-of-cash-for-info-including-nuclear-submarines/

UK Lawmakers and Their Families Targeted in Communist Chinese Intimidation Campaign

British parliamentarians who have been critical of Communist China have claimed that they and their families have been targeted by the regime in Beijing as a part of an intimidation campaign.

A group of Tory MPs have revealed that they and their families have been subject to harassment, intimidation, and tracking by Xi Jinping’s apparatchiks over their criticisms of the Chinese state’s genocidal actions against ethnic minorities in occupied regions such as Tibet and Xinjiang and the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in the former British colony of Hong Kong.

Speaking to The Telegraph newspaper, one unnamed Conservative claimed that her child’s application to a university was put in jeopardy after the school received pressure from Chinese donors, who threatened to pull their funding should the MP’s child be admitted. Another MP also claimed that their child was barred from travelling on a Chinese airline in retaliation for their parent speaking out against Beijing.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former leader of the Conservative Party and the founder of the Interparliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), said that he has reason to believe that the Chinese are actively tracking his and his family’s whereabouts.

The senior Tory MP, who was personally sanctioned by Beijing for declaring genocide in Xinjiang over the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities — which has reportedly included mass sterilisation, forced abortions, organ harvesting, and torture — went on to claim that he has been subject to cyber attacks from China.

“It is clear that if China wants to get to you, they’ll get to you,” Sir Iain said. “I’ve personally been targeted by ‘wolf warriors’ – guys we suspect are set up by the Chinese government to track ‘annoying’ or ‘bad’ people, or those they consider a nuisance.”

Sir Iain told the paper that someone — believed to have been operating “on the outskirts of Hong Kong” had created a fake email in order to impersonate him and write to politicians in Australia and America to try to convince them that he had changed his views on the Chinese Communist Party and that he now saw the murderous regime as a “beacon of goodness and decency.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/17/uk-lawmakers-and-their-families-targeted-in-communist-chinese-intimidation-campaign/

Rep. Gaetz Resolution Would Make Biden Disclose Number of US Troops in Ukraine

Leaked Pentagon documents revealed the US and other NATO members have US special operations forces inside Ukraine

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Monday introduced a resolution that would require President Biden to disclose the number of US troops inside Ukraine and share all documents outlining US military assistance for Kyiv with the House.

If the resolution is passed, it would require President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to share the requested information within 14 days. The introduction comes after one of the documents allegedly leaked by Airman Jack Teixeira confirmed that US special operations forces are in Ukraine.

“The Biden Administration and other allied countries have been misleading the world on the state of the war in Ukraine. There must be total transparency from this administration to the American people when they are gambling war with a nuclear adversary by having special forces operating in Ukraine,” Gaetz said in a statement.

According to the document, 97 NATO special operations soldiers in Ukraine, including 14 Americans. The leak confirmed an October 2022 report from The Intercept that said US special operations forces were deployed to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.

The Intercept report did not say what the American special operators were doing inside Ukraine but said it was part of a broad covert operation that includes CIA personnel who are also on the ground.

The leaked document said there is a total of 29 Defense Department personnel inside Ukraine, including the special operations forces. The total also includes members of the Marine Security Guard Security Augmentation Unit (MSAU), who are typically deployed for embassy security.

The total also includes the defense attaché and members of the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC). The Pentagon said in October 2022 that personnel under the defense attaché and ODC based at the US embassy in Kyiv are conducting “onsite” weapons inspections inside Ukraine.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/04/17/rep-gaetz-resolution-would-make-biden-reveal-number-of-us-troops-in-ukraine/

Citibank executive declares "we have to win this war" because there is such desire to "mobilize private capital" in Ukraine

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo: "We have to be in this today, tomorrow, two years, three years… we're in this for the long run." Including "reconstruction," which will be "a decade in the making." But thankfully, she says, this effort will be a "public-private partnership"

https://pingthread.com/thread/1647811834039136258

TikTok: Chinese “Trojan Horse” Is Run by State Department Officials

Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant, affecting the content that over one billion users see.

While American politicians demand the app be banned on national security grounds, try to force through an internet surveillance act that would turn the country into an Orwellian state, make clueless statements about how TikTok is dangerous because it connects to your Wi-Fi, it is possible that TikTok is already much closer to Washington than it is to Beijing.

State Department-affiliated media

For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations. The company’s head of data public policy for Europe, for example, is Jade Nester. Before being recruited for that influential role, Nester was a senior official in Washington, serving for four years as the State Department’s director of Internet public policy.

Mariola Janik, meanwhile, left a long and fruitful career in the government to work for TikTok. Starting out at the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Janik became a career diplomat in the State Department before moving to the Department of Homeland Security. In September, however, she left the government to immediately take up the position of TikTok’s trust and safety program manager, a job that will inevitably include removing content and reshaping algorithms.

While there is no suggestion that Janik is anything other than a model employee, the fact that a U.S. government agent walked into such an influential position at the social media giant should be cause for concern. If, for instance, a high Chinese official was hired to influence what the U.S. public saw in their social media feeds, it would likely be the centerpiece of the TikTok furor currently gripping Washington.

Janik is not the only former security official working on TikTok’s trust and safety team, however. Between 2008 and 2021, Christian Cardona enjoyed a distinguished career at the State Department, serving in Poland, Turkey and Oman, and was in the thick of U.S. interventionism in the Middle East. Between 2012 and 2013, he was an assistant to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul. He later left that role to become the political and military affairs manager for Iran.

In the summer of 2021, he went straight from his top State Department job to become product policy manager for trust and safety at TikTok, a position that, on paper, he appears completely unqualified for. Earlier this year, Cardona left the company.

Another influential individual at TikTok is recruiting coordinator Katrina Villacisneros. Yet before she was choosing whom the company hires, Villacisneros worked at the State Department’s Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. And until 2021, she was part of Army Cyber Command, the U.S. military unit that oversees cyberattacks and information warfare online.

Other TikTok employees with long histories in the U.S. national security state include: Brad Earman, global lead of criminal and civil investigations, who spent 21 years as a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigation and also worked as a program manager for antiterrorism at the State Department; and Ryan Walsh, escalations management lead for trust and safety at TikTok, who, until 2020, was the government’s senior advisor for digital strategy. A central part of Walsh’s State Department job, his own résumé notes, was “advanc[ing] supportive narratives” for the U.S. and NATO online.

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/

Enslavement of African migrants ‘big business’ in Libya thanks to EU funding — UN

An investigation by the United Nations has concluded that money provided by the European Union to state entities in Libya has facilitated crimes against humanity ranging from forced labor and sexual slavery to torture.

Through its financial support of the Libyan Coast Guard and the Libyan Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), the European Union has aided and abetted crimes against humanity, according to a recent UN report.

On March 27, 2023, the United Nations released the findings of a three-year investigation, confirming that “arbitrary detention, murder, rape, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance” has become a “widespread practice” in the once-prosperous nation of Libya, which was plunged into civil war by NATO’s regime change war over a decade ago.

While crimes against humanity were found to be widespread throughout the country, the report homed in on the plight of migrants and blamed the European Union for enabling the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity to enact abuses against Africans seeking asylum in Europe.

The report stated in its introductory section: “The Mission found that crimes against humanity were committed against migrants in places of detention under the actual or nominal control of Libya’s Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration, the Libyan Coast Guard and the Stability Support Apparatus. These entities received technical, logistical and monetary support from the European Union and its member States for, inter alia, the interception and return of migrants.”

In other words, rather than directly intercepting migrants traveling by boat to Europe, the European Union has outsourced the dirty work to the Libyan Coast Guard. Once the coast guard detains the migrants, they are sent back to Libya and transferred to both official and “secret prisons” where they are often exploited for financial gain through forced labor, ransom, or sexual slavery.

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that migrants were enslaved in detention centers of the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration,” the report stated, adding that DCIM and Coast Guard personnel and officials are implicated “at all levels” while high-ranking officials “colluded” with traffickers and smugglers both in the context of detention and interception.

“The Mission also found reasonable grounds to believe that guards demanded and received payment for the release of migrants. Trafficking, enslavement, forced labor, imprisonment, extortion and smuggling generated significant revenue for individuals, groups and State institutions,” the report claims.

In 2017, international media reported the revival of the slave trade in Africa due to continuing fallout of the NATO-backed regime change operation to depose Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. The United Nations has now confirmed that the practice not only persists, but that it has been enabled by the EU.

“The support given by the EU to the Libyan Coast Guard… led to violations of certain human rights,” UN investigator Chaloka Beyani told reporters. “It’s also clear that the DCIM has responsibility for multitudes of crimes against humanity in the detention centers that they run. So the support given to them by the EU has facilitated this. Although we are not saying that the EU and its member states committed these crimes, the point is that the support given has aided and abetted the commission of the crimes.”

According to a 2021 report by the Brookings Institution, the EU has funneled $455 million to the Libyan Coast Guard and other government agencies since 2015.

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/17/enslavement-african-migrants-libya-eu-funding/

Congressional probe uncovers tie between Biden campaign, security letter dismissing Hunter laptop

Republicans now believe the letter that falsely portrayed laptop as disinformation was a consequential interference in the last presidential election

Aided by two Obama-era witnesses, congressional investigators led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan have developed the first evidence that a letter from security experts that falsely dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 election had ties to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

Jordan told Just the News he expects to release a report from the House panel on weaponization of government later this month that lays out out evidence and the players behind the letter, which many Republicans now say was a consequential interference in the last presidential election.

"It was all done with politics, and it looks like there was some some real connections with the Biden campaign," Jordan said during an interview late last week on the John Solomon Reports podcast, declining to be more specific because there are more witness interviews being conducted this week.

For most of the last two years, the letter from 51 national security officials has been portrayed as an organic effort from the intelligence community to raise concerns that the emergence of Hunter Biden's laptop in fall 2020 could be tied to a foreign power. The laptop has since been proven authentic, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has said it did not involve a foreign disinformation campaign.

But before the letter was debunked, it was used to censor stories online in the New York Post, Just the News and other outlets in what has been described by former President Donald Trump, Jordan and many others as an interference in the election that kept voters from understanding influence peddling allegations surrounding the Biden family.

Jordan said his investigators have derived valuable information from transcribed interviews from two former CIA officials from the Obama era: former acting Director Mike Morrell and Nick Shapiro, a former adviser to ex-Director John Brennan.

"It seems to me that one of the key players here was Michael Morell, that he was one kind of coordinating this, working this together," Jordan said. "And then there are a few other folks. We have talked to Nick Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro, I think, was the one kind of coordinating the outreach to the legacy media and how they wanted this story presented."

Morell currently works as a contributor at CBS News. A spokesman for CBS News did not immediately return an email seeking comment from Morell or the network.

Shapiro, who worked as former President Barack Obama's national security spokesman before rising to deputy CIA director under Brennan, did not immediately respond to a request for comment at his consulting firm.

Jordan said the specific ties to the Biden campaign will be divulged in the interim report after additional transcribed interviews are completed.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/moncongressional-probe-uncovers-tie-between-biden-campaign-security

Revolving Door: 327 Crooks Account for a Third of All NYC Shoplifting

When you read about crime in NYC, sometimes you get that feeling that half the city’s residents are criminals and tens of thousands of people routinely break the law. In the case of shoplifting, however, a very small number of cheats are actually to blame for an amazing percentage of the crime—in fact, 327 individuals are responsible for over a third of such thefts and have been arrested an outrageous 6,000 times.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/04/16/revolving-door-327-crooks-account-for-a-third-of-all-nyc-shoplifting-n732115

Pfizer is killing Children for Profit: Europe suffers unprecedented loss of lives among its Children with 760% increase in Excess Deaths since EMA’s Emergency Approval of COVID Vaccine for Kids

It was the summer of 2021 when the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15. The decision was met with unjustified excitement and relief by many parents who had been eagerly waiting for a vaccine for their children.

However, soon after the vaccine rollout for children began, a shocking rise in excess deaths among children was reported across Europe.

And sadly, there has been a 760% increase in excess deaths among children aged 0 to 14 as of week 12, 2023.

COVID-19 vaccines were still in the early stages of development and had not yet completed the full regulatory approval process by the end of 2020.

In order to make the vaccines available as quickly as possible, regulatory agencies such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for the vaccines.

An EUA is a regulatory mechanism that allows the use of a medical product in an emergency situation, such as a pandemic before it has completed the full regulatory approval process.

One of the main reasons why mRNA vaccines had not been used on a large scale in the general population prior to December 2020 was due to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE).

ADE is a phenomenon where a previous infection or vaccination can lead to a more severe form of the disease upon subsequent exposure. In the case of COVID-19, there were concerns that vaccination with an mRNA vaccine could trigger ADE and make the disease worse in people who were vaccinated.

One example of ADE occurred during the development of a vaccine for dengue fever. In clinical trials, the vaccine appeared to provide protection against the virus in people who had not been previously infected. However, in people who had previously been infected with a different strain of the virus, the vaccine appeared to increase the risk of severe disease.

This has been the case in many animal studies, with potential “vaccines” causing lung inflammation or other adverse effects when the animals were later exposed to the virus. This is thought to occur because the vaccine-induced immune response is not effective in neutralizing the virus, and instead causes damage to the lung tissue.

Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease (VAED) has also been observed in some vaccine trials for respiratory viruses, including coronavirus.

For example, in clinical trials for a vaccine for RSV, some infants who were vaccinated experienced an increased risk of hospitalization and more severe respiratory illness when they later contracted the virus.

It is believed that the vaccine-induced immune response did not effectively protect against the virus and instead led to an overreaction of the immune system that worsened the symptoms of the disease.

Respiratory viruses, such as coronaviruses and RSV, were known to cause severe illness in vulnerable populations such as infants and the elderly.

But the alleged SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 is an exception and has little to no effect on children.

https://expose-news.com/2023/04/16/pfizer-kills-european-children-for-profit/

https://expose-news.com/2023/04/16/pfizer-kills-european-children-for-profit/

'Death to Christians!' Holy Land Christians Under Unprecedented Attack in Far-Right Israel

Christians are being viciously persecuted, attacked, spat on and abused in Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right regime and authorities are doing little to nothing to hold their abusers to account, according to Christian leaders in the Holy Land.

Churches are being vandalized, statues of Jesus Christ smashed and Christian grave sites are being desecrated.

On the Holy Saturday, lsraeli occupation forces assault Christians in Jerusalem city. pic.twitter.com/mflGZJRBQc

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) April 15, 2023

lsraeli colonial settlers verbally abuse two nuns and spit at them in occupied Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/xGoy5oT008

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) April 13, 2023

Israeli settelers spit on Christian nuns. It's a hateful vindictive group. pic.twitter.com/lk7m6js6sc

— (@kelemat7aq) April 15, 2023

As Israeli forces impose "unreasonable restrictions" on access to a traditional Orthodox Easter ritual, Palestinian Christians say their 2,000-year-old community in the Holy Land is coming under increasing attack ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/gBDZdKzzWT

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 15, 2023

From AP, "Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel":

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview that the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government has made life worse for Christians in the birthplace of Christianity.

The influential Vatican-appointed Latin Patriarch, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, told The Associated Press that the region's 2,000-year-old Christian community has come under increasing attack, with the most right-wing government in Israel's history emboldening extremists who have harassed clergy and vandalized religious property at a quickening pace.

The uptick in anti-Christian incidents comes as the Israeli settler movement, galvanized by its allies in government, appears to have seized the moment to expand its enterprise in the contested capital.

"The frequency of these attacks, the aggressions, has become something new," Pizzaballa said during Easter week from his office, tucked in the limestone passageways of the Old City's Christian Quarter. "These people feel they are protected … that the cultural and political atmosphere now can justify, or tolerate, actions against Christians."

[…] Christians say they feel authorities don't protect their sites from targeted attacks. […]

"The right-wing elements are out to Judaize the Old City and the other lands, and we feel nothing is holding them back now," said Father Don Binder, a pastor at St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Jerusalem. "Churches have been the major stumbling block."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63707

40 Officers of China’s National Police Charged in Transnational Repression Schemes Targeting U.S. Residents

Defendants Accused of Creating Fake Social Media Accounts to Harass PRC Dissidents, and Working with Employees of a U.S. Telecommunications Company to Remove Dissidents from Company’s Platform

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/40-officers-china-s-national-police-charged-transnational-repression-schemes-targeting-us

Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government

Defendants Are New York City Residents Who Allegedly Operated the Police Station in Lower Manhattan and Destroyed Evidence When Confronted by the FBI

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government

ERO Boston arrests unlawfully present Chinese national convicted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud

BOSTON — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested an unlawfully present citizen of China on immigration charges in Abington, Massachusetts, on April 4. The man was determined to be amenable to removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

In September 2019, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China entered the United States as a nonimmigrant and failed to comply with the terms of his admission. He was initially encountered by ERO Boston officers while being held in custody in Rhode Island on federal securities fraud charges in October 2019.

“A grant of admission to the U.S. cannot be used as a cover to engage in conspiracies to profit in the millions of dollars through fraudulent financial schemes,” said ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons. “This individual was convicted of participating in a multi-year market manipulation effort involving securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. He has grossly violated the terms of his admission into the country. Financial crimes are not victimless crimes.”

In August 2022, the foreign national pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud with stock traders in China and the U.S. in a wide-ranging market manipulation conspiracy case prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.

On Nov. 30, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts convicted and sentenced the Chinese citizen to time served (three months in prison) and nine months of home detention. He was also ordered to forfeit $7.75 million in illicit proceeds.

The charges grew out of a parallel case that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission described as a stock manipulation scheme that generated more than $35 million of illicit profits on the illegal trading of stock in at least 3,000 U.S.-listed securities.

On Apr. 4, 2023, ERO Boston Fugitive Operations team officers arrested the 40-year-old man in Abington, Massachusetts, and placed him into removal proceedings with the issuance and service of a notice to appear before an immigration judge.

Noncitizens placed into removal proceedings receive their legal due process from federal immigration judges in the immigration courts, which are administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review within the Department of Justice.

EOIR is a separate entity from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case, determining if a noncitizen is subject to a final order of removal or eligible for certain forms of relief from removal. Once a noncitizen is subject to a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge or other lawful means, ICE officers may carry out the removal.

As one of ICE’s three operational directorates, ERO is the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement. ERO’s mission is to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of U.S. communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and its primary areas of focus are interior enforcement operations, management of the agency’s detained and non-detained populations, and repatriation of noncitizens who have received final orders of removal. ERO’s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide, 30 overseas postings, and multiple temporary duty travel assignments along the border.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-boston-arrests-unlawfully-present-chinese-national-convicted-conspiracy-commit

Eight Chinese Government Officials Charged with Directing Employee of a U.S. Telecommunications Company to Remove Chinese Dissidents from Company's Platform

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/eight-chinese-government-officials-charged-directing-employee-us-telecommunications

Disgraced ex-cardinal McCarrick charged in Wisconsin for assaulting boy in 1977

McCarrick was laicized in 2019 after a Vatican investigation concluded that he had sexually abused both children and adults, including young priests and seminarians.

A disgraced former cardinal has been charged in Wisconsin with sexual assault.

Theodore McCarrick, 92, stands accused of assaulting an 18-year-old boy at a lakeside cabin in the south-eastern region of the state in 1977. According to Associated Press, the alleged victim told investigators that McCarrick had been sexually abusing him since he was 11 years old. He also alleged that McCarrick took him to parties where other men sexually assaulted him.

The complaint was lodged on Friday.

McCarrick was once one of the most influential prelates in the United States. Ordained by New York’s Cardinal Spellman in 1958, he reached the heights of his profession by being named Archbishop of Washington in 2000 and a cardinal in 2001. After retiring as archbishop, the then-cardinal maintained his influence as a globe-trotting fundraiser. His ecclesiastical career came to a definitive end only in 2017 after a credible allegation that he had sexually molested a teenage boy was received by the Archdiocese of New York. It was then discovered by the public that rumors of his predatory behaviour had swirled around American Church circles for decades and that settlements had been made to victims.

McCarrick was laicized in 2019 after a Vatican investigation concluded that he had sexually abused both children and adults, including young priests and seminarians.

The alleged victim has not been named. However, James Grein, who was born in 1958, is perhaps the best known of all McCarrick’s alleged victims. He has stated that McCarrick began assaulting him when he was around the age of 11 and continued to maintain a coercive sexual relationship with him well into adulthood.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-disgraced-ex-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-charged-in-wisconsin-for-assaulting-boy-in-1977/

Power goes out during House Judiciary Committee hearing in Manhattan on NYC crime

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1648037520918163456

Anthony Albanese dismisses Peter Dutton's claim of failing to act on child sexual assault warnings

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected claims by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that he failed to act on information provided to him last year that victims of child sexual abuse were being returned to live with their abusers.

Key points:

Anthony Albanese says any allegations of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory should be investigated by police

He says allegations of child sexual abuse "shouldn't be used as a political issue"

Mr Albanese says the Solicitor-General's advice on the Voice to Parliament will be made public

Asked on 7.30 if Mr Dutton's claim was true, Mr Albanese said "no".

Pressed on whether any information was brought to his attention about abused children being returned to live with their abusers, Mr Albanese said: "Not that I'm aware of. That is the first I've heard of it."

Mr Dutton's claims were made at a press conference in Alice Springs last week, where the opposition leader said it was "accepted as normal practice" that young Indigenous abuse victims were returned to live with their abusers.

Mr Dutton said that the prime minister was "made aware of it last year" and should "take responsibility".

Mr Albanese told 7.30: "Peter Dutton makes all sorts of claims. And the tragedy here is that serious issues, like the abuse of children that Peter Dutton or myself or I would hope any member of parliament has a uniform abhorrence of, shouldn't be used as a political issue."

Asked what the basis could be for Mr Dutton's claim, Mr Albanese said: "I have no idea of what it is based upon."

"It's possible that there may well have been a letter somewhere. I don't know what the basis of it is.

"But certainly, he has not raised any specific issue about any claim about any individual circumstance with me."

Responding more broadly to Mr Dutton's claims of the incidence of sexual abuse against children in the Northern Territory, Mr Albanese said: "They should be investigated by the police. If there are circumstances of abuse of children, that's a crime. And it shouldn't be investigated by a politician or by a bureaucrat. Crime should be investigated by the police."

Responding to a question about whether the Solicitor-General's advice on the wording of the referendum question on the Voice to Parliament would be made public, Mr Albanese said "yes".

Asked to confirm how that would happen, he said: "Through the processes that will be determined by the Attorney-General."

He said it was customary for the detail of advice from the Solicitor-General to be reserved for cabinet but that the nature of the advice would be made public.

"The Solicitor-General's view will be made very clear by himself through the Attorney General, which is the appropriate forum for it to take."

Mr Albanese made no commitment on the timing.

"You'll have to be patient."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-17/albanese-dismisses-dutton-claim-child-sexual-assault-warnings/102233520

Pope Francis slams 'insinuations' that his late predecessor John Paul II prowled Rome looking for underage girls to molest after claim was aired by brother of missing teen Emanuela Orlandi

The mystery of Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance 40 years ago persists today

A new scandal erupted last week when her brother insinuated Pope John Paul II - a predecessor of Pope Francis - sought out underage girls to molest

Pope Francis weighed into a decades-old Vatican scandal on Sunday, rejecting insinuations that the late Pope John Paul II sought out underage girls to molest.

The Pontiff's comments were in relation to the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Vatican and failed to return home on June 22, 1983.

Her disappearance 40 years ago - after a music lesson in Rome - is one of Italy's most enduring mysteries, and entered a new chapter on Tuesday when her brother Pietro Orlandi met with Vatican chief prosecutor Alessandro Diddi - who Francis himself has given free rein to get to the bottom of the case.

After speaking to Diddi for more than eight hours, Pietro appeared on a television programme where he played part of an audio recording with the voice of a man Orlandi said was part of an organised crime group that Italian media have for decades speculated may have been involved in his sister's disappearance.

The voice of the alleged gangster says that more than 40 years ago, girls were brought into the Vatican to be molested - and that Pope John Paul would go out looking for underage girls.

Orlandi then said in his own words on the show: 'They tell me Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II's surname) used to go out in the evenings with two Polish monsignors and it certainly was not to bless houses'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11980675/Pope-Francis-slams-insinuations-John-Paul-II-prowled-Rome-looking-underage-girls.html

“That’s Why I Walked Away from the Plantation of the Democratic Party!” Witness Buries House Democrat for Mocking Hearing On Violent Crime in NYC – Torches Alvin Bragg For Freeing Her Son’s Evil Killers

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing in New York City today on Marxist Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lawless, pro-criminal policies.

Here are the witnesses testifying at the hearing:

Jose Alba, former Manhattan bodega clerk

Madeline Brame, Chairwoman of the Victims Rights Reform Council and mother of a homicide victim

Jennifer Harrison, Founder of Victims Rights NY

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Paul DiGiacomo, President of the New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association

Robert F. Holden, New York City Council (D-District 30)

Barry Borgen, father of a victim of anti-Semetic hate crime

Jim Kessler, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President for Policy of Third Way

Rebecca Fischer, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence

Democrats on the committee refused to address NYC’s skyrocketing crime rate and instead whined about Republicans playing games.

They also falsely accused GOPers of working on behalf of President Donald Trump.''

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/thats-why-i-walked-away-from-the-plantation-of-the-democratic-party-witness-buries-house-democrat-for-mocking-hearing-on-violent-crime-in-nyc-torches-alvin-bragg-for-freeing-her-sons-evil/

A photo of a “Chinese police car” in Melbourne’s southeast has sparked outrage on social media.

The photo, uploaded to Reddit on Sunday, showed a dark Nissan sedan with Chinese characters for “police” stencilled on the bonnet and “special police” along the side, and a Chinese police badge on the front door.

“Why is there a marked Chinese police car in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne?” user MediocreStream wrote along with the photo.

Reddit users quickly pointed out that the car was not actually affiliated with the Chinese government and that the markings were just decoration.

“Chinese students think it’s funny,” one wrote. “Source: I’m from over there. Also: It’s not funny. China is literally known to kidnap dissidents that aren’t even Chinese citizens anymore from overseas.”

It comes after a bombshell investigation last year revealed China was secretly running illegal “police stations” overseas, including at least one in Sydney, in order to harass and spy on its citizens living on foreign soil.

While the cars may not be officially affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, many online said they still served a purpose.

“It’s passed off as cosplay but is used to intimidate local Chinese communities as an extension of CCP power,” one Reddit user wrote.

But another said, “Believe it or not, it’s just some young and stupid Chinese students showing off their stupidity. CCP intimidating programs usually involve threatening parents/children/relatives in China, not by showing some police cars. Source: I am Chinese Australian.”

A Victoria Police spokeswoman said she was unable to comment without more information about the time, date and location of the photo, and which station it was reported to.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/fake-chinese-police-car-spotted-in-melbourne/news-story/3dfa47208ce655fd0205dc8e96842388

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1647767262743625729

The Military-Industrial Stock-Buyback Complex

Why is the US military ceding ground to China? As a new DOD report shows, big defense contractors are middlemen whose main purpose is stock buybacks and dividends.

Before I get to that, I have a few announcements. First, there’s some good BIG-related news. Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke is demanding an investigation into Booz Allen’s Recreation.gov contract and the consulting giant’s control over national parks. As you may recall, I broke the story about Recreation.gov late last year, and the Wall Street Journal did a follow-up on it last week. There’s also a class action complaint against Booz Allen. So yay.

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On the eve of Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, America was woefully unprepared for a conflict that everyone thought would come. Most strategists knew the nation that could produce more with its industrial base would probably win, and yet even so, the American business world was oblivious. 85% of U.S. factory machinery dated from the 1920s or earlier, and some predated the Civil War.

And the deeper one looked the worse the situation seemed. The next war would be fought at the cutting edge of technology, which is to say, with airplanes. And an air force required the technological marvel of aluminum, which you could only get from the longest-lasting industrial monopoly in U.S. history, the Aluminum Company of America, or Alcoa. Aluminum, light and strong, was also immensely energy-intensive to create, and Alcoa organized production of 100% of it.

The President of Alcoa, Arthur Davis, a hoarder of talent, tools, and inputs like bauxite, wasn’t worried. He had promised there would be no shortage, that Alcoa, modern and sophisticated as it was, could fulfill all military and civilian demand, and then some. Yet even before the entry of America into the war, Davis was proven wrong. Aerospace firms just couldn’t get their hands on enough of the wonder metal.

After America joined the fight, the shortage got worse. “Prime Minister Churchill said of the Royal Air Force that never in history did so many owe so much to so few,” wrote investigative journalist I. F. Stone. “It might be said of us that never did a people do so little with so much,” he added. Politicians were furious at Alcoa, as were military leaders. FDR demanded 50,000 airplanes a year, and the U.S. delivered that, and more. But to do so, the national security apparatus, which has always lurked in the background of monopoly power questions, had to help break Alcoa’s power, through a mammoth antitrust suit, as well as industrial strategy in the form of subsidies to nascent rivals.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-military-industrial-stock-buyback

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