Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 11:58 a.m. No.18811865   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2067 >>2349

Republican Oversight Committee Wants Answers From John Kerry About His Secret Talks With China

 

You probably knew that John Kerry is a sort of climate czar for Joe Biden, but did you know that he has been engaged in secretive talks with China?

 

Do you want to know what he has been discussing with them? So do Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.

 

The Biden administration already looks a bit too chummy with China. This just adds to that perception.

 

PJ Media reports:

 

GOP Oversight Committee Wants Answers About John Kerry’s Secret Talks With China

 

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is looking more closely at talks regarding Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s climate negotiations with China.

 

Kerry is engaging in negotiations without having been confirmed by the Senate. While this isn’t illegal, it seems as if a lot of responsibility is being given to someone who’s engaging in international negotiations and setting policy on climate.

 

“For the past two years, the Biden Administration has withheld information on John Kerry’s role within the Administration despite the committee’s many requests,” Comer told Fox News Digital in a statement. “He was not confirmed by the Senate. He is not held accountable by the American people. He is skirting congressional oversight and that is unacceptable.”

 

What is John Kerry negotiating? No one outside the White House is sure.

 

“His reported upcoming negotiations with the Chinese on climate topics, an action which he has done on numerous occasions, is inappropriate and potentially undermines U.S. interests and domestic energy security,” he continued. “Mr. Kerry’s continued engagement in shady negotiations will be met with intense scrutiny by the committee.”

 

More from FOX News:

 

The top Republican lawmaker added that the panel sent letter last week to Secretary of State Antony Blinken related to Kerry’s role as special envoy at the State Department. Comer said he expects “nothing less than full cooperation” from the agency.

 

Comer announced in February that the Oversight Committee would open a probe into Kerry’s secretive negotiations with Chinese climate diplomats.

 

Republicans should make John Kerry appear before Congress and answer questions on live TV.

 

Don’t you want to know what this is all about?

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/republican-oversight-committee-wants-answers-from-john-kerry-about-his-secret-talks-with-china/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 11:59 a.m. No.18811873   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2067 >>2349

FBI Seizes Couple’s Life-Savings Without Charging Them of Crime – Here’s How It’s Completely Legal

 

A couple whose safety deposit box was seized by the FBI two years ago as the bureau conducted a money laundering investigation into the owners of the storage company has not and might not ever receive their life savings back.

 

The FBI has allegedly used loopholes in order to legally line its pockets through civil asset forfeiture.

 

The owners of a Los Angeles-area company called U.S. Private Vaults Inc. were raided by the bureau after it was discovered they had been allowing drug dealers to launder money through the business, The Los Angeles Times reported.

 

They accepted a plea bargain that would see them not charged with any crimes but did allow the FBI to take $86 million in cash from various deposit boxes stored at their business. The Times reported millions of dollars more in jewelry and other items were also taken.

 

Some of the boxes had been used to further illegal activities.

 

Others were rented by ordinary people who used them to safely store precious items or money.

 

Linda Martin and Reggie Wilder, a married couple, were among those who said they did nothing wrong, other than choose the wrong business to store the $40,200 they hoped to use to purchase a home.

 

They were given a notice their money had been taken and offered no explanation as to why or if it would ever be returned.

 

That was two years ago.

 

The nest egg was seized by the FBI in March of 2021 a legal group is suing the bureau on their behalf.

 

The Institute for Justice has filed a class action lawsuit in the hopes in get get money back on behalf of numerous people who through no fault of their own lost valuables and cash to civil forfeiture.

 

The FBI has presumably taken the money and will use it for its own benefit.

 

But not if Institute for Justice attorney Bob Belden can help.

 

“The government shouldn’t get to take your property if it can’t tell you what you did wrong,” Belden said in a news release. “Using civil forfeiture, the government decides for itself whether to take and try to keep property, even when it doesn’t suspect the owners of any crime.”

 

Belden added, “Then, the FBI sends copy-and-paste forfeiture notices that fail to tell owners anything about why it is trying to take their property. That’s not only wrong; it’s unconstitutional.”

 

Martin explained in the release that the bureau had put her through a major headache.

 

“The FBI took my savings nearly two years ago but has never told me why,” she said. “It’s been a confusing and frustrating process from the day my money was taken. No one should have to go through this.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/fbi-seizes-couples-life-savings-without-charging-crime-completely-legal/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, noon No.18811880   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1889 >>1912 >>2067 >>2349

US Heading Toward Power Grid 'Reliability Crisis,' Energy Commissioner Warns

 

There were approximately 10,000 energy projects in April designed to produce more than 2,000 gigawatts (GW) of collective power waiting for permits from federal and state agencies to connect to electric grids across the United States.

 

The problem is, that is nearly twice the collective electricity output of the 1,250 GW now being produced by all the nation’s power plants, most of which were built to generate power using fossil fuels.

 

Therefore, two bottlenecks are looming—more power is trying to squeeze into an inadequate grid and coal-fired plants are being retired faster than new plants using renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are being built to replace them.

 

“The United States is heading for a reliability crisis,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark Christie warned on May 4 in a hearing before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.

 

“I do not use the term ‘crisis’ for melodrama, but because it is an accurate description of what we are facing,” Christie said. “I think anyone would regard an increasing threat of system-wide, extensive power outages as a crisis.”

 

Committee chair Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and ranking Republican Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) agreed, with both identifying the same culprit in an “impending, but avoidable, reliability crisis” that confronts the nation’s electricity grid.

 

The “premature fossil retirements” amid increasing demand for power are a result of President Joe Biden’s green energy initiatives in 2021’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that incentivize investments in renewable energy.

 

The incentives have proven effective in inducing investor interest—maybe too successful with projects being proposed and approved sooner than expected and faster than the grid’s transmission capacity is expanding.

 

The Biden administration is “trying to force a dramatic increase in electrical demand” through the BIL and IRA, Manchin said, which will foster disruptions in transmission as old plants are retired and new ones come online.

 

“We do have to address climate change but this transition is happening too fast,” he said, noting he and House Republicans have filed bills that address transmission. “I hope we can sit down and negotiate in good faith and put politics aside.”

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-heading-toward-power-grid-reliability-crisis-energy-commissioner-warns

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:01 p.m. No.18811883   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2067 >>2349

Stephen Miller: Biden Crime Family Financial Scandal Is “Biggest Foreign Corruption Scandal in American History” that Now Reaches All the Way to the Oval Office

 

Former Trump Adviser Stephen Miller joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.

 

During their discussion, Stephen Miller discussed the tranche of emails obtained by America First Legal recently.

 

Miller believes the Biden DOJ will indict Hunter on some low-level crime in order to shield Hunter and Joe Biden from further discovery. Stephen Miller says House Republicans will have to pursue AG Merrick Garland’s impeachment in order to compel discovery.

 

And finally, Miller said this is the single biggest foreign corruption scandal in American history that now reaches all the way to the Oval Office.

 

Stephen Miller: We’ve now received since we filed that FOIA and since we filed a lawsuit to compel document production, we’ve now received three tranches of emails that have been stunning. Whether it’s been showing the vice president’s use of personal email, which is of course, forbidden, but also showing extensive, continuous collaboration and communication between the (then) Vice President’s government office and Hunter Biden and his advisors. You cannot tell where Hunter Biden’s consulting firm ends and where Joe Biden’s office begins. They communicated and coordinated press statements, on official foreign travel and foreign visits.

 

You had Hunter Biden meeting with and talking with Tony Blinken before major foreign trips abroad. And you have to ask yourselves, what were they talking about? What were they discussing? What is Hunter Biden discussing with Joe Biden’s advisers? And that’s something that’s going to have to be determined if the House is able to get these individuals under oath in a deposition to ask those questions. But clearly, these conversations were not about the weather. They were not about childcare, they were not about vacation plans… This is about enriching the Biden family using the power of the state…

 

…You combine that with the shocking revelations that James Comer has put forward about the web of LLCs that has apparently been used to get around US tax law, Hello, IRS! And that has been used quite clearly to enrich the Biden family. 10% for the big guy! You combine the money-making scheme with what we have uncovered in these emails and you can read them all yourself@aflegal.org. We’ve put them all out there. And what you may have is the single biggest foreign corruption scandal in American history that now reaches all the way to the Oval Office…

 

…There’s a very real chance that Hunter Biden will be indicted on very low level, insignificant charges as a distraction play both to shield Hunter and to also, more importantly, to shield Joe Biden from accountability. Don’t put that past DOJ. As to the second point, they’re going to have to, in my view, pursue impeachment against the Attorney General of the United States if he does not fully cooperate and comply. And the context of that impeachment will give you enormous powers to bring people in for depositions and to compel discovery and the courts will give the House enormous discretion to compel discovery.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/stephen-miller-biden-crime-family-financial-scandal-is-biggest-foreign-corruption-scandal-in-american-history-that-now-reaches-all-the-way-to-the-oval-office-video/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:02 p.m. No.18811888   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1897 >>1914 >>1919 >>1979 >>1991 >>2067 >>2155 >>2349

Cannabis Use Causes Almost a Third of Schizophrenia Cases in Young Men: Study

 

A new study suggests that young men with cannabis addiction are more subject to the risk of developing schizophrenia.

 

The study, led by Danish researchers and published in the Psychological Medicine journal, found a strong link between schizophrenia and cannabis use disorder through analyzing health records of over 6 million people over 50 years. Experts estimate that nearly a third of schizophrenia cases in 21- to 30-year-old males were triggered by cannabis use disorder.

 

According to a 2021 National Institutes of Health survey, about 16.3 million Americans are estimated to have cannabis use disorder, also known as marijuana addiction.

 

The Danish study estimated that 30 percent of schizophrenia cases among men aged 21 to 30, and 15 percent of cases in 16- to 49-year-olds, could have been prevented by curbing cannabis addiction.

 

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness where people appear to lose touch with reality. Symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, slurred speech, trouble with thinking, and lack of motivation.

 

Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said, “The entanglement of substance use disorders and mental illnesses is a major public health issue, requiring urgent action and support for people who need it,”

 

“As access to potent cannabis products continues to expand, it is crucial that we also expand prevention, screening, and treatment for people who may experience mental illnesses associated with cannabis use.

 

As many countries and U.S. states have legalized cannabis in recent years, experts are warning that serious psychotic conditions could also increase.

 

“Increases in the legalisation of cannabis over the past few decades have made it one of the most frequently-used psychoactive substances in the world, while also decreasing the public’s perception of its harm,” said Dr. Carsten Hjorthøj, lead author of the study at the University of Copenhagen.

 

“This study adds to our growing understanding that cannabis use is not harmless, and that risks are not fixed at one point in time.”

 

The authors of the study have called for more research to understand why young men appeared more vulnerable to schizophrenia from heavy cannabis use compared with women.

 

https://www.ntd.com/cannabis-use-causes-almost-a-third-of-schizophrenia-cases-in-young-men-study_917763.html

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:04 p.m. No.18811899   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1964 >>2067 >>2349

Texas GOP Rep. Says Americans Should Carry Guns To Stop Active Shooters, Following Mall Shooting

 

Republican Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas said on Saturday that Americans should carry firearms to protect themselves from active shooters following a mass shooting at a Texas mall.

 

The shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, left nine people dead, including the shooter, while seven others were taken to area hospitals. A police officer on the scene engaged and stopped the shooter, local law enforcement said.

 

“I really think law-abiding citizens should carry. Particularly when… training is not required because, as you said constitutional carry, but getting some training isn’t a bad idea to know the laws and also know how to defend yourself and others properly and within the confines of the law,” Fallon, who represents a congressional district near the location of the shooting, told Fox News host Lawrence Jones. “Unfortunately, there are some places that are gun-free zones where they tell law abiding citizens, you better not bring your firearm.”

 

“But of course, criminals, by definition, are outlaws, they are outside the law and act outside the law,” Fallon continued. “So… the maximum way to be safe is to arm yourself and know how to use a firearm and support law enforcement.”

 

Armed citizens stopped six active shooters in 2021, according to an FBI report. A Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) study noted that 34.4% of active shooters were stopped by armed citizens.

 

Alex Coker, a police officer and firearms instructor, supported Fallon’s call for citizens to get training and carry firearms.

 

“You have a right to… bear arms, that’s our Second Amendment, a constitutional right to… protect yourself,” Coker told Jones. “But you’ve got to have a way to mark yourself because when you pull that gun out as a concerned patriot, you know, concealed patriot, what have you just become? You’ve just became a man with a gun. You have to have a way to identify yourself, to mark yourself… as a good guy with a gun versus a bad guy with a gun.”

 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/07/texas-gop-rep-says-americans-should-carry-guns-to-stop-active-shooters-following-mall-shooting/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:05 p.m. No.18811902   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2067 >>2349 >>2357

Zelensky Meets with BlackRock Vice Chairman as Globalists Salivate over Lucrative Reconstruction Contracts

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met management representatives from the globalist investment firm BlackRock in Kyiv this week to discuss the formation of a massive fund for the reconstruction of the war-torn country.

 

In a meeting with Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the sit down will send a “strong signal of strengthening the investment climate.”

 

“The details of the creation of an investment fund to restore Ukraine’s economy were discussed at a meeting with the management of the largest asset management company in the world, BlackRock. The main goal of the fund’s creation is to attract private and public capital for implementing large-scale business projects in Ukraine,” the president wrote on Telegram.

 

“It is important not only for our people, our society, but also for business, entrepreneurs abroad. Today is a historic moment because, since the very first days of independence, we have not had such huge investment cases in Ukraine. We are proud that we can initiate such a process,” Zelensky added.

 

BlackRock, the infamous investment firm backing the controversial ESG (Environmental Social Governance) scheme often likened to the Chinese Communist Party’s social credit score, said that the company has agreed to provide support for Ukraine’s Development Fund.

 

“It is a historic moment if not the greatest opportunity to unite the private and public sectors at a time when technological innovation can become a catalyst for further development,” Philipp Hildebrand said.

 

Globalist onlookers have for some time been champing at the bit to take advantage of the potentially lucrative opportunities to rebuild Ukraine following over a year of Russian assaults on the country, with European leaders, in particular, seeing a possible solution to the economic woes of their own countries by scooping up reconstruction contracts from Kyiv.

 

Speaking from Davos at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in January, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the looming business boon of reconstructing the country, saying that German businesses should expect the benefits of a “Ukrainian economic miracle”.

 

The left-wing Chancellor said that he envisioned German firms being at the forefront of a “Marshall Plan for the long-term reconstruction of Ukraine”.

 

“Private-sector capital will play a key role here. I know that many companies in Germany and beyond are very aware of the opportunities that a Ukrainian economic miracle could offer to them,” Scholz added.

 

More recently, last month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has come under criticism from her populist base for her strident support of the Zelensky government, held a bilateral conference in Rome attended by scores of Italian and Ukrainian businesses. At the meeting, Meloni went on to call for the European Union to fast-track the admission of Ukraine.

 

For his part, Zelesnky has long stressed the business opportunities awaiting allies at the conclusion of the war, with the president claiming back in September that the estimated cost of rebuilding the country had already climbed above one trillion dollars.

 

Zelensky, who has long been in contact with BlackRock and other potential investors, said at the time that: “the general project of Ukrainian reconstruction will be the largest economic project in Europe of our time. The largest for several generations.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/07/zelensky-meets-with-blackrock-vice-chairman-as-globalists-salivate-over-lucrative-reconstruction-contracts/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:18 p.m. No.18811945   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1949 >>2067 >>2349

Biden setting stage for pardoning Hunter as he frames potential DOJ charges as 'political witch hunt': Devine

 

Biden denied that a potential Hunter indictment would have any impact on his presidency

 

President Biden is setting the stage for pardoning his son Hunter as his Department of Justice weighs a potential indictment stemming from a years-long federal investigation, Fox News contributor Miranda Devine warned.

 

Devine's comments come after Biden finally addressed the possibility of his son facing charges during a rare sit-down interview where he dismissed the chance that it would have any impact on his tenure in office.

 

"That mythology of Joe Biden that's been around for more than four decades, which is that he's a lovely family man… moderate Democrat, lunch pail Joe, working class Joe, the poorest man in Congress, and a wonderful family man full of empathy because of the tragedies in his own life. That's what he's playing on," Devine said during "Fox & Friends Weekend" Sunday.

 

"I think the end game is that he's setting up… framing this sympathy card so that when it comes time, perhaps in his lame duck period, that he will pardon Hunter and Americans will forgive him because they will say, well, Hunter was a drug addict and Joe just loves his family, and he's been through enough tragedy in his life," she continued. "Leave him alone."

 

"My son has done nothing wrong," Biden said during the sit-down interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle that aired at 10 p.m. Friday.

 

"I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him," he continued.

 

But Devine was quick to argue Biden's response was premeditated, and part of a broader Biden strategy to frame the probe as a "political witch hunt."

 

"It's obviously rehearsed, and the plan for Joe Biden is to just remove himself entirely from the influence peddling operation that he was involved in with his son Hunter and his brother Jim, pretend that it has nothing to do with him, and that Hunter is just being persecuted in a political witch hunt," Devine said.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-setting-stage-pardoning-hunter-he-frames-potential-doj-charges-political-witch-hunt-devine

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:21 p.m. No.18811958   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2067 >>2349

Disney+ Greenlights German Original About Pregnant Teen Who Falls In Love With The Devil

 

Disney+ has unveiled a German original about a teenager who falls in love with the devil from the team behind Netflix’s How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast).

 

Pauline follows the eponymous protagonist, an 18-year-old who accidentally becomes pregnant – from a one-night stand. With school stress, the climate crisis and the downfall of society weighing heavily on her mind, something she doesn’t need at all right now is catching feelings, especially not for her one-night stand Lukas, who, as it turns out, is the devil himself.

 

Pauline is penned by Sebastian Colley and EPs are Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann, who combined on 2019’s How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) for Netflix. Arabella Bartsch, Alma Buddecke and Facundo Scalerandi are directors.

 

“For a long time, the series has been and still remains a project very close to our hearts,” said Käßbohrer and Murmann.

 

“We’re thrilled that Disney+ loves this coming-of-age story as much as we do and that we’ve now been able to begin filming with such an amazing cast and crew.”

 

Show stars a diverse cast of up-and-coming young actors including Sira-Anna Faal (Berlin Nobody) as Pauline, Ludger Bökelmann as Lukas and Lukas von Horbatschewsky (Druck).

 

Disney+ is preparing to launch its first ever German original, Sam – A Saxon, which comes from Deutschland 83 co-creator Jörg Winger.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/04/disney-greenlights-german-original-about-pregnant-teen-who-falls-in-love-with-the-devil-how-to-sell-drugs-online-fast-netflix-1235318430/amp/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:33 p.m. No.18811986   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1993 >>2020 >>2066 >>2067 >>2349

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer to the DOJ: “Do Not Indict Hunter Biden Before Wednesday”

 

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) joined Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.

 

During the interview, Rep. Comer announced that he will hold a press conference on Wednesday with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

 

Comer said he will disclose specific Biden family bank records in a press conference on Wednesday which could indicate alleged bribery from foreign adversaries.

 

“Senator Grassley and I received a tip on a whistleblower. Senator Grassley was the lead in this. We reviewed documents from the legally protected whistleblower, a highly credible whistleblower that would implicate Joe Biden in a pay-per-play scheme in trying to set up a deal to receive funds [for him] and his family in exchange for foreign policy decisions,” Comer told Bartiromo.

 

“Now that fits a pattern Maria, of what we’ve seen with these bank records. And on Wednesday we’re going to present to the American people all the information that we’ve received thus far pertaining to bank records. We’re going to disclose many of the different LLCs, many of the different transactions that all these different biden family members have gotten from our adversaries around the world.”

 

“Now, we don’t believe this was just a coincidence, that all these biden family members were receiving money from this web of LLCs into their personal bank account. We believe this was done in exchange for something that then vice president Biden and now President Biden would have done. So this whistleblower is going to provide some very crucial information to our investigation, and we’ve given the FBI until May 10th to produce this document,” Comer added.

 

Recall, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sent letters Wednesday to the FBI, calling on the bureau to produce an unclassified record of an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.

 

According to a whistleblower, this record details an alleged arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions.

 

Rep. Comer sent a message to the DOJ during the interview, not to indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday.

 

“My message to the Department of Justice is very loud and clear,” said Comer. “Do not indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday when you had the opportunity to see the evidence that the House Oversight Committee will produce with respect to the web of LLCs, with respect to the number of adversarial countries that this family influence peddled in. This is not just about the President’s son. This is about the entire Biden family, including the president of the United States.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/house-oversight-committee-chairman-rep-james-comer-to-the-doj-do-not-indict-hunter-biden-before-wednesday-video/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 12:36 p.m. No.18811997   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2067 >>2349

Amid rising threat, US arms shipments to Taiwan lag as Biden prioritizes Ukraine

 

"There's a $19 billion backlog," said Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on China.

 

Even as a China emboldened by the U.S. flight from Afghanistan escalates its threats toward Taiwan, the vulnerable island democracy finds itself lacking promised U.S. weapons vital to its defense against potential invasion from the mainland, according to lawmakers and security experts — with some blaming backlogged arms shipments on the Biden administration's prioritization of Ukraine.

 

"I was in Taiwan a couple of months ago and probably my biggest takeaway was that we need to actually deliver the weapons that they've purchased that have been approved but are backlogged right now," said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), chairman of the new House Select Committee on China, said in an interview on "Winning the New Cold War: A Plan For Countering China," a new special report hosted by John Solomon and sponsored by Heritage Action for America. "There's a $19 billion backlog."

 

In a December letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley blamed the backlog on the administration's misplaced prioritization of supplying Ukraine.

 

Citing his "concern about reports that U.S. arms transfers to Ukraine are impeding our ability to prevent a war in Asia by supplying Taiwan with the weapons it needs to deter a Chinese invasion," Hawley wrote: "We should be clear: Taiwan is more important for U.S. national interests than Ukraine. Seizing Taiwan is Beijing’s next step toward dominating the Indo-Pacific region. If Beijing succeeds, it would have dire ramifications for Americans' national security, as well as our economic security and freedom of action. We must not let this happen. Averting the real and growing threat from China requires us to expedite delivery to Taiwan of the weapons it needs to defend itself — provided Taiwan commits to an asymmetric defense, significantly increases its own defense spending, and pursues necessary defense reforms."

 

Gallagher views the invasion of Ukraine itself as a failure of U.S. deterrence and fears the Biden administration will only repeat its failure unless it can expedite arms shipments to Taiwan

 

"I think one of the clear lessons of the war in Ukraine is that only hard power deters," Gallagher said. "The vague threat of sanctions or mean tweets coming out of the State Department doesn't give us a chance at deterrence. Only hard power deters.

 

https://justthenews.com/world/asia/wkdex-national-security-advisor-says-ccp-using-us-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-scare

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 1:28 p.m. No.18812179   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2349

Ex-Russian space boss questions US Moon landing

 

Dmitry Rogozin says that while many in Roscosmos defended Washington’s version of events, no one could produce irrefutable proof

 

The former head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, has expressed doubt that the US Apollo 11 mission really landed on the Moon in 1969, saying he has yet to see conclusive proof.

 

In a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Rogozin said he began his personal quest for the truth “about ten years ago” when he was still working in the Russian government, and that he grew skeptical about whether the Americans had actually set foot on the Moon when he compared how exhausted Soviet cosmonauts looked upon returning from their flights, and how seemingly unaffected the Apollo 11 crew was by contrast.

 

Rogozin said he sent requests for evidence to Roscosmos at the time. All he received in response was a book featuring Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov’s account of how he talked to the American astronauts and how they told him they had been on the Moon.

 

The former official wrote that he continued with his efforts when he was appointed head of Roscosmos in 2018. However, according to Rogozin, no evidence was presented to him. Instead, several unnamed academics angrily criticized him for undermining the “sacred cooperation with NASA,” he claimed.

 

The former Roscosmos chief also said he had “received an angry phone call from a top-ranking official” who supposedly accused him of complicating international relations.

 

Rogozin concluded by saying he still cannot believe that the US was able to pull off the feat, but is now unable to, despite the incredible progress in technology since the late 1960s.

 

What he claims to have found out, however, was that Washington has “its people in [the Russian] establishment.”

 

Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to the Moon, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin going down in history as the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.

 

The flight was preceded by the unmanned Soviet Luna 2 program, which blazed the trail for Moon exploration.

 

Last April, President Vladimir Putin pledged to resume Russia’s lunar program.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/575937-roscosmos-rogozin-us-moon-landing-proof/

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 3:06 p.m. No.18812491   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2505

I want to make something clear. If something happens to me, all roads lead to Joe Biden.

Joe Biden and DNC political machine threats, bullying and intimidation over the last three years will not work.

I am not suicidal. I should not be under investigation nor am I a foreign agent. I am a private citizen. I was a former staffer of Joe Biden’s that has chosen to step forward to tell the truth. The tactics using intimidation and bullying to silence me and suppress me using DOJ and FBI and social media will not work. Leave me alone. I will testify under oath in Congress if asked to do so and tell what happened and what I know. The Biden corruption must end. Period Thank you @RepMTG

and @mattgaetz

for inviting me to testify and caring about the truth!

 

https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra/status/1655297203857154048

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 3:13 p.m. No.18812519   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Mayhem Unfolds In Oakland As Soros-Backed DA Fails To Enforce Law And Order

 

The Oakland Police Department is investigating a violent and chaotic "sideshow" that ended up with a mob torching a car and someone plowing another vehicle into it.

 

A video posted on Twitter shows the scary scene unfolding late Friday night near the intersection of Oak Street and 10th near the Oakland Museum of California.

 

In a series of tweets, journalist Michael Shellenberger said the proliferation of dangerous sideshows results from "a progressive D.A. who has stopped enforcing many laws."

 

Shellenberger said police are powerless to stop "criminal sideshows because @MayorShengThao & DA Pamela Price refuse to prosecute "nonviolent crimes"".

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mayhem-unfolds-oakland-soros-backed-da-fails-enforce-law-and-order

Anonymous ID: a232f6 May 7, 2023, 3:18 p.m. No.18812535   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2609

House Oversight Chair Comer says he will outline on Wednesday a massive racketeering and money laundering conspiracy involving at least 9 Biden family members who deposited millions in Chinese & other foreign funds thru maze of shell companies, cut-outs & pass-throughs

 

https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1655218038927503362