At Jerusalem Flag March, chants of ‘Death to Arabs’ and assaults on Palestinians

Still, contentious event ends without major incident as thousands of religious nationalists participate; some attack Palestinians and reporters, sing ‘May your village burn’

Thousands of Israelis took part in the Jerusalem Flag March on Thursday, with the highly controversial annual event again featuring racist chants and scuffles with Palestinian residents as the largely teenage, religious nationalist participants made their way through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter.

But despite several dozen instances of violence and harassment by Jewish participants, and pre-march threats by Gaza terror groups, the rally managed to conclude without a major incident. Two years ago, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Jerusalem to coincide with the march, leading to an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza.

The annual parade to the Western Wall is meant to mark Israel’s reunification of East and West Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, but has gained notoriety over the years as it is often marred by hate speech and violence by far-right Jewish participants toward Palestinians and their property.

The particularly charged aspect of the Flag March is its route through the Damascus Gate and Muslim Quarter, which are overwhelmingly used by Palestinians. Critics say the rally is designed to provoke Palestinians, who are forced by the Israel Police to shutter their shops to allow for the demonstration.

As it did in the past two years, the Biden administration ahead of Thursday urged Israel to reroute the march away from the Muslim Quarter. It was an uphill battle though, given that the more moderate previous government had bucked the request last year, and Netanyahu ultimately followed suit.

Different groups of Flag March participants clashed and beat Palestinian locals and harassed journalists. They also sang racist chants such as “Death to Arabs,” “May your village burn” and “An Arab is a son of a b**ch,” as they danced near the Damascus Gate both before and during the rally on Thursday afternoon.

Among the marchers were over a dozen coalition members, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — a longtime participant in the rally. Thursday was the first time he did so as a cabinet minister, offering an additional stamp of legitimacy to the lightning rod event. Some 3,000 officers of the police, which Ben Gvir oversees, were deployed in and around the Old City to secure the march.

Police said they arrested 10 people even before the formal start of the rally at 4 p.m., including several left-wing activists who temporarily blocked a West Bank highway outside of Jerusalem while attempting to prevent settlers from attending the march. Several other people were detained for provoking Palestinians, police said.

Most of the participants were religious teens, many of whom were bused in from seminaries. Separate routes were designated for men and women to avoid mixed dancing.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-jerusalem-flag-march-chants-of-death-to-arabs-and-assaults-on-palestinians/

The Israeli Survey That Shows the Pfizer Vaccine Hospitalised Hundreds of Times More People Than is Safe – and How it Was Downplayed

Downplaying. That has been a handy weapon against anything that threatened the official Covid narrative. Downplaying sceptical voices, downplaying uncertainties, downplaying contradictory data.

I recently described a typical example of the latter from Denmark. Here is another one, from Israel, which gives us a dual opportunity: first, to look at the rate of significant adverse events after the booster dose, as reported in a Government-initiated survey. Second, to observe the language the anonymous authors used to describe the data. Released long ago but not published in a medical journal (yet?), the summary was written in Hebrew and contained 26 slides. I have tried to offer below a precise translation of the text.

The topic of the survey is called “reported phenomena”, which is not a complete phrase for “reported side-effects”, since, just like in English, an adjective is usually added to indicate the presumed link to a drug or a vaccine.

The authors are aware of under-reporting of side-effects, since they state “it appears that there is under-reporting”, though it is not clear how they infer that from reported data.

The aims of the survey are clearly stated (Figure 1). In brief, it was a random sample from the database of the Ministry of Health, excluding people without a listed phone number (understandable) and those who had had Covid (why?). Participants were vaccinated 21-30 days before a structured phone interview, conducted 2-3 months into the booster campaign.

Slightly over 2,000 people completed the interview, evenly split by sex. I am not sure why the sample size was not much larger, say, 20,000, closer to the vaccine trials. Lack of importance of the topic? Lack of resources in a country that served as a Pfizer laboratory? Downplaying unfavourable rates as imprecise (due to a small sample)?

Sampling ensured three equal-size age groups, which means that the age distribution of the sample did not necessarily match the age distribution of the vaccinated population. Although age-specific rates were sometimes presented, a weighted rate for the entire population was not.

Two to three months later, a follow up interview was conducted with 45 of 59 women who reported changes in menstruation after the booster. We’ll return to this part later.

Survey results are influenced not only by reporting accuracy but also by the response rate, which can be defined in more than one way. It was around 50% by one definition.

To estimate a range for the rate of selected side-effects, I will make two opposite assumptions about non-participants, which favour the vaccine. The first one is extreme.

No side-effects would have been reported by non-participants, so any observed frequency should be divided by 2. You may also view this ‘correction’ as accounting for coincidental events.

Unobserved rates in non-participants would have been identical, so any observed frequency is correct.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/17/the-israeli-survey-that-showed-pfizer-vaccine-side-effects-hospitalised-people-hundreds-of-times-more-often-than-is-safe-and-how-it-was-downplayed/

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/17/the-israeli-survey-that-showed-pfizer-vaccine-side-effects-hospitalised-people-hundreds-of-times-more-often-than-is-safe-and-how-it-was-downplayed/

Hunter Biden's Shady Business Partners Called To Testify in His Arkansas Child Support Case

Witness list includes convicted fraudster Devin Archer, who sat on Burisma board of directors with Hunter

The mother of Hunter Biden's four-year-old daughter plans to call his shady business partners and the art dealer who sold his paintings to testify in the Biden Arkansas child support dispute if it goes to trial, according to court records filed on Wednesday.

Several of Biden's business associates appear on the list of witnesses whom Lunden Alexis Roberts plans to have appear in court, including convicted fraudster Devon Archer, who notably served with Hunter Biden on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Also on the list of witnesses are close confidant Eric Schwerin, financial adviser Edward Prewitt, and New York City art gallery owner Georges Bergès.

The court filing indicates that Roberts's legal team has its sights trained on Biden's controversial business dealings. If the case goes to trial, public testimony from Biden's associates could shed new light on his financial activities, which are actively being probed by Republican lawmakers. The witness list includes several individuals whom the House Oversight Committee has sought to question as part of its investigation into potential influence-peddling by the Biden family.

Biden is asking the court to reduce his child support payments, saying he can no longer afford the $20,000-per-month settlement to which he agreed shortly after his father announced his presidential run in 2020. The case could go to trial this summer if the parties can't reach an agreement.

Biden's lawyers on Wednesday disclosed the list of the potential witnesses as part of an unredacted court filing. Roberts initially submitted the list to Biden's legal team last month.

The witness list also includes Biden's former business partner Jeff Cooper; John Robinson "Rob" Walker, who worked with Biden on a joint venture linked to Chinese energy group CEFC; and Devon Archer's wife, Krista Archer.

Devon Archer, who was convicted last year of defrauding a Native American tribe out of millions, was a longtime business partner of Biden who served with him on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Schwerin, whom Biden once described as a "close confidant and counsel," helped run Rosemont Seneca Partners, an investment advisory firm cofounded by Biden. Schwerin has reportedly cooperated with House Oversight Committee investigators.

Prewitt was a financial adviser for several of Biden's companies and has also faced questions from House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R., Ky.). Bergès, an art dealer who was once sentenced to jail time for making terrorist threats, handles the sales of Biden's high-priced paintings to undisclosed buyers.

Also named on the list is Hollywood agent Gabrielle "Gaby" Morgerman, the wife of Biden's celebrity lawyer and friend Kevin Morris, who has reportedly provided financial support and a car to Biden.

Roberts's legal team has questioned Biden's claims of financial struggles, arguing that the first son has retained "some of the most expensive attorneys on planet Earth," including D.C. superlawyer Abbe Lowell.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/hunter-bidens-shady-business-partners-called-to-testify-in-his-arkansas-child-support-case/

Supreme Court rules in favor of Google and Twitter, but doesn't rule on protections from lawsuits

The justices unanimously rejected a lawsuit that alleged that the corporations allowed their platforms to be used to aid an attack at a Turkish nightclub.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold the companies liable for terrorist attacks Thursday, but avoided ruling on their broad protection from lawsuits.

The justices unanimously rejected a lawsuit that alleged that the corporations allowed their platforms to be used to aid an attack at a Turkish nightclub in 2017 where 39 people were killed.

Another lawsuit having to do with an American college student being killed in Paris in an Islamic State terrorist attack in 2015, accused Google of not doing enough to stop its platform from being used by extremist groups to radicalize and recruit people.

That lawsuit was returned to the lower court, according to the Associated Press.

“We therefore decline to address the application of Section 230 to a complaint that appears to state little, if any, plausible claim for relief,” the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.

Section 230 is part of a 1996 law that is intended to provide a legal shield for these types of tech companies from liability for the social media posts of others.

Regarding the Paris attack, the family of the victim is determined to sue Google for YouTube videos they said helped attract IS recruits and radicalize them. According to them, Google is responsible since they own YouTube.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the majority of the claims were protected by Section 230, the internet immunity law.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/supreme-court-rules-favor-google-and-twitter-doesnt-rule-protections-lawsuits

Biowarfare Through the Food Supply

Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and Beth Ellikidis, vice president of agriculture and environment at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), argue for the genetic engineering of food. Both are connected to Bill Gates and other Great Resetters that are pushing to replace all natural foods with patentable, genetically modified foods

BIO, the world’s largest GMO trade organization, represents more than 1,000 pesticide, pharmaceutical and biotech companies in more than 30 countries. BIO claims genetic engineering is the solution to heal, fuel and feed the world, and to that end, it lobbies 15 different policy areas, including food, agriculture, and health care policy.

In 2004, BIO launched BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH), a nonprofit organization that “develops and manages programs across the for-profit and non-profit sectors to accelerate research and development for poverty-related diseases.” BVGH was launched with a $1 million start-up grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spun off a nonprofit subsidiary to the foundation called the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI), which develops biotechnologies to address health problems in poor countries.

BIO is partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and the DOD specifically funds and provides technology transfers for the diseases that Gates MRI and BVGH are focused on: malaria, tuberculosis and Ebola.

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In an April 17, 2023, opinion piece in STAT News,1 Dr. Peter Lurie and Beth Ellikidis argue for the genetic engineering of food, claiming “newer technologies can make highly targeted changes at the base-pair level — one specific rung on the DNA ladder — enhancing precision and reducing the likelihood of ‘off-target effects’ in which the base pairs are unintentionally added to or deleted from the genome.”

While targeted genetic engineering is indeed possible, and modern technology lowers the likelihood of unintentional additions or deletions, this precision does not guarantee there won’t be adverse effects. One of the reasons for this is because many genes are multifunctional and can have multiple downstream effects.2,3

By altering a single gene, you can inadvertently affect the expression of hundreds of others. What’s more, the multifunctionality of genes is rarely intuitive. So, while it may seem convenient to genetically engineer cows without horns to prevent injury to other cows and farmhands, as suggested by Lurie and Ellikidis, there’s no telling what that tweak might do to internal organs or biological pathways.

In turn, there’s no guarantee that cascading effects will not alter the nutrition of the meat or dairy that comes from that cow. Maybe it’ll be fine, maybe it won’t. The problem is that, oftentimes with genetically engineered foods, safety testing is minimal or absent.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/biowarfare-through-food-supply/5819510

Over $38M in Pandemic Relief Aid Sent to Dead People

A new study by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) claims that at least $38 million in pandemic relief loans were sent to dead recipients through the use of incorrect Social Security numbers.

As reported by Just The News, the fraudulent loans in question were made through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) as well as the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Michael Horowitz, the chairman of PRAC, first testified before the U.S. House in February that PRAC had identified at least 69,000 suspicious Social Security Numbers (SSNs), which had been used to obtain $5.4 billion in relief funds. Another 175,000 suspicious SSNs were used in applications, but ultimately never received any money.

“Using data available from DNP’s matching process and date of death information, the PRAC’s data scientists found that 3,222 of the 15,307 deceased individuals’ SSNs were used on COVID-19 EIDL/PPP applications across three analytic scenarios,” PRAC says in its latest report.

The fraud ranged from applications being submitted after the death of the SSN’s owner, to instances where applications were submitted while the owner was still alive, but only approved after their death. PRAC determined that the $38 million in fraudulent payments were distributed to 305 different SSNs, out of 3,222 SSNs overall.

“The work of the PACE makes clear why sustained data analytics capability, beyond the PRAC’s sunset and the COVID-19 pandemic, would be a gamechanger for the oversight community,” said Horowitz in his own statement. “Retaining an anti-fraud analytics center will ensure the federal government has the resources it needs to conduct effective oversight of all federal expenditures.”

https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/18/over-38m-in-pandemic-relief-aid-sent-to-dead-people/

Former Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office Deputy Indicted for Enticement of a Minor and Penalties for Registered Sex Offenders

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdla/pr/former-ascension-parish-sheriffs-office-deputy-indicted-enticement-minor-and-penalties

44 Individuals Indicted by Federal Grand Jury for Roles in a Multimillion-Dollar Fraudulent Scheme to Obtain COVID-19 Relief Funds

https://www.justice.gov/usao-pr/pr/44-individuals-indicted-federal-grand-jury-roles-multimillion-dollar-fraudulent-scheme

Father of Deputy Israeli Minister Under Investigation for Sexually Abusing Yeshiva Students

Following a Haaretz investigation, Israeli police have opened a case against Rabbi Efraim Tessler, the former head of the Damesek Eliezer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, on suspicion of sexually assaulting students there

Israeli police are investigating Rabbi Efraim Tessler, father of Deputy Culture Minister Yaakov Tessler and former head of a Jerusalem yeshiva, on suspicion of rape and sexual offenses against students.

The investigation follows a January Haaretz report detailing the sexual abuse suffered by high school-aged students at Damesek Eliezer Yeshiva of the Vishnitz Hasidic community.

Yaakov Tessler, the deputy minister and the rabbi's son, has not been summoned for questioning or as a witness by the police, even though he was involved in the agreement to exchange 100,000 shekels for a victim's silence.

Police are unsure of how to proceed regarding the deputy minister, and told Haaretz that the Jerusalem District of the State Prosecutor’s Office is now weighing the issue. The prosecution said it is unfamiliar with the matter.

Efraim Tessler was questioned last week on suspicion of sexual offenses against his students, including one known as Aryeh (a pseudonym), who filed a detailed criminal report with the police. Tessler denied the accusations, and was conditionally released after several hours of questioning.

The police have also not gathered testimony from other central figures in the case, including a rabbi from the south who was involved in the hush money agreement and others whom Aryeh had told about the abuse years earlier.

A police official said that the investigation is ongoing, despite a lack of cooperation from a number of figures involved in the case. This was the second time that police have questioned Efraim Tessler on the matter; he had been investigated in 2017 on suspicion of committing indecent acts against four of his students, but the case was closed due to lack of evidence.

In February, Aryeh told police about how Tessler, the head of his yeshiva, had sexually abused him for a year and a half, from age 14 to 16. Aryeh, who is now in his late 20s, described how from 2009 through 2012, when he was a student at the yeshiva, his father paid Tessler for private lessons. These lessons quickly evolved into severe sexual assault a number of times a year during that period, most of the time in Tessler’s office.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-05-18/ty-article/.premium/father-of-deputy-israeli-minister-under-investigation-for-sexually-abusing-students/00000188-2f2e-d914-af8c-af3f58030000

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https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1659280195419791361

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