Rand Paul: Bill Gates is Largest funder of trying to find these Viruses in Remote Caves and Bring them to Big Cities

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was on with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures earlier today.

Senator Paul went off on Bill Gates and his controversial funding of bat coronavirus.

Senator Rand Paul: Bill Gates has been over there recently. Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities. So what happened in China is they went eight to 10 hours south of Wuhan, two to 300ft deep into a cave, found viruses, and took them back to a city of 15 million. There are many, many scientists who think that Bill Gates is wrong in funding this.

Bill Gates and Tony Fauci sure caused a lot of suffering and death with their pet experiments!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/rand-paul-bill-gates-is-largest-funder-trying/

Maria Bartiromo on Biden Family Crimes: “Of course, It Is the Biggest Political Scandal Any of Us Have Ever Seen”

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.

The Republican representatives gave updates on the ongoing investigations into the Biden Crime Family.

At one point, Maria Bartiromo pointed out the obvious, “Of course, it is the biggest political scandal any of us have ever seen.”

Republicans continue to discover more concrete evidence of the multi-million dollar Biden family bribery scandal with foreign governments including Ukraine and China.

Rep. Biggs added that more evidence is coming. The Ukrainian oligarch who recorded Hunter Biden and Joe Biden discussing their illicit business dealings also has MORE EVIDENCE to produce according to Biggs.

The two US lawmakers also pointed out Chris Wray’s role in hiding evidence from Congress on the Biden family’s illegal activity.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/maria-bartiromo-biden-family-crimes-course-it-is/

Scotland's ex-leader Nicola Sturgeon says she has done nothing wrong after arrest over party finance probe

Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has reiterated that she had done nothing wrong following her arrest by police last week.

Key points:

Scotland's former first minister said she is "certain" that she has done nothing wrong

Ms Sturgeon told reporters she intends to be back in parliament early next week for questions

She was arrested over a police probe into the fate of funds for her pro-independence Scottish National Party

The police are investigating what happened to more than 600,000 pounds ($1.2 million) in funding raised by Scottish independence campaigners in 2017 that was supposed to have been ring-fenced, but may have been used for other purposes.

Speaking to journalists outside her home near Glasgow, Scotland, Ms Sturgeon said she would be attending parliament early next week and repeated that she had done nothing wrong.

"I can't say very much, so what I will say is reiterate the statement issued last Sunday. I am certain that I have done nothing wrong," she said.

Ms Sturgeon, her husband Peter Murrell, the party's former chief executive, and its former treasurer have all been arrested and then released without charge, while the investigation continues.

She was questioned for more than seven hours last Sunday after voluntarily attending an interview.

"I know I am a public figure — I accept what comes with that. But I'm also a human being that is entitled to a bit of privacy," she told reporters at her home after returning there for the first time since her arrest.

Ms Sturgeon said no conditions had been placed on her arrest.

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf has said he would not suspend his predecessor after her arrest.

Asked by journalists if "Nicola Sturgeon [would] have suspended Nicola Sturgeon?" the 52-year-old repeated she had "done nothing wrong".

"It's for others to comment as they see fit. But that's my position and I'm entitled to take it," she added.

Ms Sturgeon's arrest marks a dramatic fall from grace for a politician who served as leader of Scotland's semi-autonomous government for more than eight years until she announced she was stepping down earlier this year.

Britain's main opposition Labour Party believes that the scandal will help them gain seats in Scotland, which is likely to be a key battleground at the next United Kingdom-wide election expected to be held next year.

Large gains for Labour in Scotland could be key to the party's hopes of winning a majority and returning to power in Westminster for the first time since 2010.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-19/nicola-sturgeon-arrest-comments-scotland-financing-/102494610

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Biden’s Deputies Hide Mass Fraud in H-1B Middle-Class Outsourcing Visa

Indian-born CEOs are closing their firms and fleeing back to India to escape charges of fraud in the annual lotteries for visas to import H-1B foreign contract workers, says a lawyer for many Indian-owned subcontractors and visa workers.

“So yes, they are getting prosecuted, they are getting investigated, and that’s the reason why some of them are packing their bags and closing their companies,” said Rahul Reddy, an immigration lawyer in Texas.

Reddy made his comments during an online question-and-answer session with Indian graduates who are worried about the federal investigations into the H-1B fraud in the annual lottery for 85,000 new H-1B work permits. The work permits are used to import lower-wage migrants to take the jobs needed by U.S. college graduates.

Many Indian graduates in India cooperate with the fraud because the H-1B visas put them on a long, indentured-service path to U.S. jobs, green cards, and citizenship.

But many other Indian graduates from U.S. colleges oppose the lottery fraud because it hinders their three legal chances to convert their “Optional Practical Training” (OPT) work permits into an H-1B visa with its valuable path to U.S. citizenship.

“This is the most important point,” one Indian graduate told Breitbart News. “Graduates here are working on STEM OPT [work permits] … they’re in their final or penultimate attempt [to win the H-1B lottery], and they’re employed to a legitimate employer … They are the ones who are affected,” said the graduate, who described himself as “Manohar from the Midwest.”

“I know people around me who are doing this,” Manohar said, adding:

Since they’re on their last year of the STEM OPT, they applied to the legitimate employer where they are employed and submitted another five, six applications through a consultancy [labor broker] … So they got a [fake] job offer [which is needed to apply for the lottery] which they know is bogus and everyone knows it is bogus.

“At least 500 of us on a subreddit group have been reporting these cases [to the government] … They said they’re investigating them, but there has been no update whatsoever,” he added.

The Facebook video shows Reddy reading questions from his online audience:

“Have any employees been charged for colluding so far? What penalty are they looking at?” Yes, there are a lot of companies that are under criminal investigation right now. We get a lot of contact from people who are getting criminally investigated, and employers getting investigated. Some of the employers are running away to India. Some of the employers are just closing the entire business. Some of the employers are not filing their H-1B’s even though got them in the lottery. So all different things are going on.

And it’s spreading around a lot of prosecution of these employers. Were employers prosecuted for [fraudulent] filing in 2021? Yes, they did …. Two years ago, people, let’s say for example, you’re a very nice guy, you only applied for one lottery [visa], and this other guy who applied for 10 lotteries, he got five or four selected. He was beating his chest and saying “I got my lottery.”

But now, when the prosecution happens, when the revocation [of fraudulent visas] happens, they don’t announce the information though. But yes, we do get the consultations. We do get the information. Unfortunately, we can’t put them on the video. We can only put nice people on video because the bad people, they don’t want to come on the video, and we don’t want them [on video]… If a client is consulting us and filed for 17 [duplicate H-1B visas] and he got selected four or five times, we don’t want to put that guy in there [on video].

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/18/bidens-deputies-hide-mass-fraud-in-h-1b-outsourcing-program/

IRONY: Maryland Governor Claims That Keeping Sexually Explicit Books From Children is ‘Castrating’ Them

Maryland’s Democrat governor has claimed that keeping sexually explicit books out of schools and children’s sections of libraries is “castrating” them.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore defended allowing children to access explicit materials in an interview with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on MSNBC over the weekend.

The interesting choice of word comes as Democrats have made it a top campaign issue to be able to mutilate and sterilize children in the name of “transgender” equality.

“I continue hearing people making the argument that we’re doing it because we want to we want to prevent our students from having discomfort or guilt,” Moore said. “Because we don’t want our students to be able to really wrestle with these really difficult things in times when they are maturing as individuals and difficult historical points. But the thing I realized and I wanted to speak out about is that’s actually not true. It’s a guise.”

“It’s not about making kids feel uncomfortable. It’s about telling other kids that they shouldn’t understand their own power,” Moore continued. “It’s castrating them.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/irony-maryland-governor-claims-that-keeping-sexually-explicit/

China Withholds Cremation Data From Late 2022 After Ditching "Zero Covid" Policy

China has halted the release of national data on how many cremations too place at the end of 2022, a figure which would allow the world to see the true impact on the wave of Covid-19 infections which were sweeping the country during that period.

China's Ministry of Civil Affairs omitted the data from its quarterly report - a figure which was consistently included for the fourth quarter going back at least 10 years, the South China Morning Post reported Thursday.

According to experts, China's official data on deaths following the end of Beijing's "zero covid" policy has been significantly underestimated despite claiming to have scored a "major and decisive victory" over the virus.

Before 2020, fourth-quarter cremation data was typically released in the first two months of the following year, along with other civil affairs data such as social welfare and marriage registrations.

Though the time lag for data releases has increased slightly since 2020, when the country was first hit by Covid-19, the most recent release came after a longer-than-average delay of six months after the end of the quarter.

Several provincial-level regions also scrapped the release of cremation services data for the fourth quarter of last year.

On June 9, the same day the national numbers were released, Chongqing’s civil affairs bureau published a notice that said it would suspend the release of civil affairs data indefinitely following an instruction from the Ministry of Civil Affairs. -SCMP

The bureau also said that 2023 data would be temporarily withheld, and would be "synchronised with the new provisions on data publication in the newly approved ‘Statistical Survey System for Civil Affairs’ by the National Bureau of Statistics."

An analysis by SCMP reveals that over a dozen provincial-level regions broke from tradition and dropped cremation figures from public releases.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/china-suddenly-halts-cremation-data-late-2022-following-covid-wave

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/china-suddenly-halts-cremation-data-late-2022-following-covid-wave

Taliban, China discuss banking cooperation

Although Beijing does not have formal diplomatic ties with the Taliban government, China is among the few countries that have maintained a diplomatic presence in Kabul since the Taliban took back the country following the US’ disastrous withdrawal in 2021

The Taliban’s governor of the Afghan central bank Hidayatullah Badri met with Chinese envoy Wang Yu this week to discuss banking ties and business, the bank’s spokesperson informed Reuters on 16 June.

“In this meeting, economy, banking relations, business and some related topics were discussed,” said Badri.

Although Beijing does not have formal diplomatic ties with the Taliban government, China is among the few countries that have maintained a diplomatic presence in Kabul since the Taliban took back the country following the US’ disastrous withdrawal in 2021.

Following the withdrawal, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Italian news outlet La Repubblica that China would be its principal partner in rebuilding Afghanistan after a 20-year US occupation.

China is also interested in bringing the West Asian nation to join Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

US sanctions and banking restrictions have dealt heavy damage to Afghanistan’s banking system, which has been cut off from the global financial system. These policies have served as the primary cause of the country’s ongoing economic crisis.

Afghanistan’s central bank has been unable to supply adequate liquidity to banks due to its inability to print money and the illegal freeze of nearly $10 billion in foreign reserves, $7 billion of which are held at the Federal Bank of New York.

China has recently shown an economic interest in its neighbor, and is seeking investment opportunities in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) – particularly in mining.

In April, the Taliban said that a Chinese firm was interested in investing $10 billion in lithium extraction as part of a project that would allegedly employ over 120,000 Afghans.

“Afghans are looking forward to exploiting their lithium and other mining deposits for their benefit,” Shahabuddin Delawar, the Taliban’s minister for mining, said.

At the start of the year, the Taliban signed an oil extraction deal with Chinese firms Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co. (CAPEIC).

https://thecradle.co/article-view/26102/taliban-china-discuss-banking-cooperation

As Blinken Floats "Israel Status" Plan For Ukraine, US Drifts Into Next Forever War

David Sachs has asked the unsettling question, Is Ukraine about to become a Forever War?

At the moment that not only is the West risking escalation by continually testing Russia's red lines, which could even enter the nuclear arena by supplying main battle tanks and soon F-16 jets, Zelensky continues demanding an invitation to NATO, even threatening to sit out the upcoming major NATO summit in Vilnius in July.

While NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and other officials have said Ukraine will not become a full member anytime soon, but have hinted that it would be likely only after the war is concluded, certain security guarantees are currently on the table, but which will only ensure a drawn out, massive Washington commitment.

For example, the Biden administration has been talking up the possibility of giving Ukraine "Israel status" - which would involve a commitment of permanent and rotating weapons shipments and foreign aid, akin to what Washington has long done for the Jewish state.

Sachs commented on the "Israel status" possibility as follows:

This consists of long-term security guarantees (which run for ten-year intervals in Israel’s case) including weapons, ammunition, and money "not subject to the fate of the current counteroffensive or the electoral calendar."

In other words, America won’t reassess support even if the counteroffensive fails. Indeed, support won’t cease even if voters want to make a change in the next election. Some observers may see here a classic bait and switch.

This would obviously mean continued American involvement and escalation of its role on the losing side.

Washington enjoyed widespread public support (and importantly the support of its allies) for its policies so long as Ukraine could be presented as "winning"…

"Last year, after Ukraine retook land around Kharkiv and Kherson, the American people were assured that the Ukrainians would complete the job in the spring and summer of 2023," observed Sachs. "This new Ukrainian counteroffensive would roll back Russian territorial gains, perhaps even threaten the Russian hold on Crimea, and thereby drive Moscow to the negotiating table and end the war. Many Americans supported the $100+ billion in appropriations for Ukraine on this basis."

But, he continued, "The implicit promise was that this was a one-time expense, not the baseline for an annual appropriation in a new Forever War."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-floats-israel-status-plan-ukraine-us-drifts-next-forever-war

FBI Groomed Developmentally Challenged 16-Year-Old To Become A Terrorist, Then Arrested Him

Earlier this month, the FBI announced the arrest of 18-year-old Mateo Ventura of Wakefield, Massachusetts, over allegations that he provided financial support to ISIS. According to the DOJ's press release, Ventura was indicted for "knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization."

Yet, according to the government's own criminal complaint, Ventura never gave a dime to any terrorist groups, while the only "terrorist" he actually had any contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him when he was 16-years-old and convinced him to produce gift cards with small amounts of cash on them. The FBI agent told Ventura not to tell anyone about their 'intimate online relationship,' including his family, according to The Intercept.

Contrary to the sensational narrative fed to the news media of terrorist financing in the U.S., the charging documents show that Ventura gave an undercover FBI agent gift cards for pitifully small amounts of cash, sometimes in $25 increments. In his initial bid to travel to the Islamic State, the teenager balked — making up an excuse, by the FBI’s own account, to explain why he did not want to go. When another opportunity to travel abroad arose, Ventura balked again, staying home on the evening of his supposed flight instead of traveling to the airport. By the time the investigation was winding down, he appeared ready to turn in his purported ISIS contact — an FBI agent — to the FBI. -The Intercept

Whats more, Ventura's father, Paul, told the outlet that his son suffered from childhood developmental issues which were so bad that he was forced to leave school due to constant bullying from other students.

"He was born prematurely, he had brain development issues. I had the school do a neurosurgery evaluation on him and they said his brain was underdeveloped," said Ventura. "He was suffering endless bullying at school with other kids taking food off his plate, tripping him in the hallway, humiliating him, laughing at him."

In short, instead of an actual terrorist - or terrorist adjacent, Ventura's case is yet another example of the FBI grooming a mentally unfit young man to commit a crime that would not have other wise occurred.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-groomed-developmentally-challenged-16-year-old-become-terrorist-then-arrested-him

https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&context=ilj

Houston rap legend Big Pokey dead at 45 after collapsing on stage

Legendary Houston rapper Big Pokey died after suddenly collapsing on stage while performing at a bar in the city of Beaumont on Saturday night. He was 45.

Dramatic footage from the night of the concert shows Big Pokey gasping into the microphone mid-lyric while rapping at the Pour 09 Bar.

He then falls on his back as shocked audience members looked on.

Paramedics rushed to the stage and performed CPR before the rapper was taken to a nearby hospital just after midnight.

Authorities confirmed he died soon after the incident.

His cause of death has not yet been released.

Big Pokey — real name Milton Powell — was locally renowned as a foundational member of the Houston rap scene with the group Screw up Click.

The artist gained prominence for his 1999 debut solo album, “The Hardest Pit in the Litter.”

He released numerous albums and collaborations over the years, most recently his 2021 album “Sensei.”

https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/houston-rap-legend-big-pokey-dies-at-45-after-collapsing-on-stage/