“We Do Not Support Taiwan Independence” – Tony Blinken Gives Green Light to Chicoms to Invade Taiwan

Secretary of State Tony Blinken traveled to China this past weekend to give the green light to the communist regime to invade Taiwan.

The Biden regime is destroying America from within and surrendering our principles and leadership on the international stage at the same time.

As Steve Bannon says, “Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.”

Tony Blinken made this announcement from mainland China, “We do not support Taiwan independence.”

Tony Blinken, “On Taiwan, I reiterated a longstanding US ‘One China’ policy. That policy has not changed. It’s guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, three joint communiques, the six assurances. We do not support Taiwan independence. We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution to cross-state differences.”

This was a quick turnaround from Biden’s promise to use US troops to defend Taiwan from China in September, 2022 and back in May 2022.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/we-do-not-support-taiwan-independence-tony-blinken/

Lindsey Graham Defends FBI, DOJ and the Two-Tiered Justice System – Accuses “Irresponsible” Republicans of Stoking Violence in Opposing Blatant DOJ Lawlessness

Lindsey Graham was shooting his mouth off again this weekend.

The South Carolina warmonger and serial liar claimed Republicans who speak out against the lawless Biden DOJ are stoking violence.

This comes after the Biden DOJ arrested President Trump, the top opposition candidate and leading candidate in the 2024 race, for committing the same “crime” that Joe Biden has been committing since 1974.

Lindsey says it’s “irresponsible” to use perceived violent overtones when speaking about the lawless Biden regime.

Beef Company CEO: “I’ll Shut Down the Company Before We Ship a Single Bag With mRNA-Injected Meat”

This is the same turncoat Republican who threatened to use the 25th Amendment to get rid of Trump but says NOTHING about braindead Democrats John Fetterman, Dianne Feinstein and Joe Biden who cannot complete a coherent sentence without assistance.

The Hill reported:

Some Republican senators are pumping the brakes on attempts by former President Trump and his allies to villainize the FBI and Department of Justice in the wake of a 37-count indictment against the former president.

Trump’s attacks on the FBI are becoming a dividing line in the GOP, just as his claims of widespread election fraud developed into a major fault line within the party in the 2022 midterm election.

Trump has ramped up his rhetoric targeting the Justice Department so aggressively that some lawmakers fear it could provoke violence. As a result, some are urging fellow Republicans to tone down their rhetoric.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said House Republicans who make statements with violent overtones are acting irresponsibly.

“They’re irresponsible to say that. There’s no violent solution to this problem,” Graham said.

Graham tried to talk down Trump allies who are comparing the federal indictment of the former president to an act of war by pointing out that Trump will have fair representation in court.

“We have a legal system. He’ll be represented, there will be appeals, this will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” he said. “There’s a belief on the Republican side that the law doesn’t apply equally to Republicans and Democrats, but that’s no reason to engage in violent activity.”

Graham made his comments to reporters after Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) tweeted: “We have reached a new war phase” and vowed “an eye for an eye.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/lindsey-graham-defends-fbi-doj-two-tiered-justice/

Israel speaks out on Ukraine lionizing Nazi collaborators

Kiev treats as heroes people who wanted Ukraine to have no Jews, Poles and many others, ambassador has pointed out

Israel disagrees with Kiev’s honoring of WWII-era perpetrators of the Holocaust as national heroes, but the dispute should not pose a threat to Israeli support of the Ukrainian government, the country’s envoy there, Ambassador Michael Brodsky, has said.

The senior diplomat addressed the issue on Saturday in an interview with Iton TV, an Israeli Russian-language online outlet. Brodsky said in Israel the perception of historic figures, including Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevich or Andrey Melnik, was very different than that in Ukraine.

“Those people supported the ideology of Nazism. They wanted to see Ukraine without Jews as part of their struggle for independence, as well as without Poles, communists and probably many others,” he mused.

As it fights Russia, Ukraine may yearn for national heroes as its society seeks a national identity, the ambassador reasoned. Israel disagrees that those Holocaust perpetrators deserve the treatment they’re accorded, but there is not much it can do about it, he added.

“There are Bandera streets in different cities of Ukraine, as they are in other nations, for example, in the US,” Brodsky pointed out.

The three individuals named by the Israeli official were senior figures in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The political and militant movement allied itself with Nazi Germany in the hope of riding its military invasion of the USSR to create a monoethnic, independent Ukraine. Berlin did not agree with the plan.

OUN fighters were involved in mass killings and other atrocities. Shukhevich in particular served as an officer in Nachtigall Battalion, a German military unit that had ethnic Ukrainians as its footsoldiers and that played a key role in the massacre of Jews in the city of Lviv in 1941.

“I believe this process cannot realistically be stopped,” Brodsky said of the lionization of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. “And I don’t think we should condition our support of Ukraine, our aid to Ukraine on Ukraine’s stopping renaming its streets and calling [the OUN figures] heroes.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/578284-israel-ukraine-nazi-collaborators/

China Says Xi, Blinken Meeting Was Just A "Courtesy", Castigates US For "Misperceptions"

Update(11:48ET): Initial statements to come out of Monday's meeting between President Xi Jinping and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken were generally positive and upbeat, with an emphasis on healing ties. But more statements were issued in follow-up upon the conclusion of Blinken's two day visit to Beijing.

It seems China wants to let it be known that it will maintain the upper hand while not being too eager to embrace diplomatic détente. According to the latest from Bloomberg:

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was "out of courtesy" in which Xi gave strategic guidelines over the bilateral ties, Chinese state television reports, citing Yang Tao, an official at the Foreign Ministry.

China has blamed deteriorated relations squarely on Washington. China's top diplomat Wang Yi had said it was the result of the United States’ "misperceptions" about China, and stressed that Washington must make a choice "between dialogue and confrontation, and cooperation and conflict."

The Chinese side also said the following according to Bloomberg:

China told Blinken that US should stop saying that China is a threat, end sanctions over China which are "illegal," stop depressing China’s technology development and interfering the Asian nation’s internal affairs.

"The most important achievement made during Blinken’s visit is the two sides agreed to implement agreements made Biden and Xi in their meeting late last year in Bali, Indonesia on establishing a steadier path for bilateral relations, China says," Bloomberg continued.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/xi-blinken-hold-high-stakes-meeting-effort-stabilize-us-china-relations

Scale of Bidens’ Illegal Payment Scandal Triples Overnight

When the emperor wears no clothes, those who praise his regal attire attempt to bury the truth with rags of lies. Joe Biden is the would-be emperor. Those who praise him seek to bury the truth to maintain a false reality. But will they risk standing naked in front of the truth along with the emperor?

GOP-led House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer doesn’t think so. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, the congressman from Kentucky claimed that “$20-30 million in illicit payments [have been] made to the Biden Crime Family.”

If this is true — or even if it is probably true — mainstream media, deep state bureaucrats, and whoever else seeks to cover for Biden at the expense of Donald Trump will sooner or later either have to put down their swords or fall on them.

Citizen Free Press posted Comer’s Fox interview with the caption, “James Comer expects to uncover $20-30 million in illicit payments made to the Biden Crime Family.” That’s up to triple the amount claimed earlier by the GOP panel.

“If this is all true,” Bartiromo asked Comer, “about a sitting president when he was vice president influence peddling, accepting money from foreign nationals, so that he could turn around and make changes in policy for America, so he could pocket the money, if that’s true, why isn’t he impeached already?”

The short answer is that it has yet to be proven to be true. Comer, Sen. Chuck Grassley and company are working on it. But it’s not as easy as it should be. The FBI, to understate the matter, is not being forthright.

Bartiromo continued, “And if it’s true that the FBI is doing nothing about it, why isn’t Christopher Wray on his heels as well?”

The assertion that “the FBI is doing nothing about it” is demonstrably not true. The FBI has been actively working to stall the House Oversight Committee by refusing to hand over documentary evidence.

Comer responded to Bartiromo’s second question by telling her Wray is not in control of the FBI. “One thing that I’ve learned from dealing with Grassley’s whistleblowers is that this is an organization in disarray,” Comer said. “No one has confidence in leadership at the top. You have bureaucrats, deep state bureaucrats, who are running the show. They’re partisan. They want to get Donald Trump. They don’t care what Joe Biden does because Joe Biden can be controlled.”

I like James Comer. He tells it like it is. That’s rare for a politician.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/scale-bidens-illegal-payment-scandal-triples-overnight/

Limited Maricopa County 2022 Ballot Signature Review Shows Obviously Mismatched Signatures Accepted at Level One – VIEW RECORDS HERE

The Gateway Pundit has obtained access to the long-withheld voter signatures from the 2022 election in Arizona and prior exemplars used for signature verification.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Maricopa County denied Kari Lake’s legal team access to voter signatures from 2022 and prior, claiming this was “in the best interest of the state.” Lake is still undergoing a special action lawsuit against Maricopa County for this evidence.

Maricopa County also denied lawful public records requests from Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers in her capacity as Chairwoman of the Arizona Senate Elections Committee and We The People AZ Alliance to inspect the mail-in ballot signatures.

Maricopa County’s election officials must have forgotten how the law works. The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson was notified when he first went in to inspect ballot affidavit envelopes on May 25 that it was “the first time in living memory” that a member of the media had used the exemption provided in A.R.S. 16-168(F) to inspect and reproduce voter signature records.

Maricopa County recently provided The Gateway Pundit with duplicated voter signature records from the 2022 election and prior through a public records request.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the obedient mainstream media in Maricopa County called for The Gateway Pundit correspondent Jordan Conradson’s indictment over a tweet exposing Maricopa County’s mail-in ballot signature verification. No law was violated, and we paid for the public records from Maricopa County, but they don’t care. See one egregious example of the fake signatures accepted by Maricopa County here:

Conradson found issues with about 10% of the randomly selected 200-300 signatures he was able to review in a period of about three hours on June 9. These signatures take a substantial amount of time for a proper review.

Over 1.3 million mail-in ballots were accepted and counted in Maricopa County’s 2022 Election. Kari Lake’s election was stolen by just over 17,000 votes, and Abe Hamadeh’s election was stolen by 280 votes.

The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday on video footage of Maricopa County officials misleading the court with repeatedly conflicting statements regarding level-one signature verification workers in light of evidence that hundreds of thousands of signatures were approved in seconds each. It is clear that level-one reviewers were not doing a proper job.

Per Maricopa County Elections Director Rey Valenzuela and Maricopa County’s signature verification training materials, current ballot affidavits are compared against “up to three most recent” historical voter signatures “in chronological order.”

This means that user-level (level one) signature reviewers in the 2022 General Election would compare the current affidavit signature to the three most recent signatures on file from that voter, excluding the 2022 General Election affidavit and voter registration changes or updates after the November 2022 election. The signatures used for reference include previously accepted mail-in ballot signatures, voter registration records, and even the sloppy electronic signatures used for check-in at in-person polling centers.

Additionally, once a signature is accepted on a mail-in ballot envelope, it is classified as an exemplar to be used for future reference. Some voters are seen with similar affidavit signatures in consecutive elections that do not look the same as other signatures on their registrations or past affidavits. It appears that the County just needs to cheat consistently.

Ballots stamped “verified and approved” were sent to curing and verified by the voter.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/tgp-exclusive-limited-maricopa-county-2022-ballot-signature/

Families 'disgusted' remains of deceased loved ones might have been sold on black market in Harvard Medical School scandal

Families were "disgusted" to learn that the remains of their deceased loved ones may have been sold on the black market following reports that a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager and six others were arrested for allegedly running an underground human remains trafficking operation.

What's the background?

Last week, seven individuals were charged for allegedly stealing human remains from mortuaries to sell them online.

Cedric Lodge, 55, previously worked as Harvard Medical School's morgue manager from 2018 through 2022. According to the FBI, he stole body parts from cadavers donated to medical research.

Harvard Medical School released a statement last week calling the alleged actions "an abhorrent betrayal."

"We are appalled to learn that something so disturbing could happen on our campus — a community dedicated to healing and serving others," the school said. "The reported incidents are a betrayal of HMS and, most importantly, each of the individuals who altruistically chose to will their bodies to HMS through the Anatomical Gift Program to advance medical education and research."

Jack Porter, a research associate at Harvard, reacted to a letter from the medical school informing him that his late wife's remains may have been stolen and sold.

According to Porter, the dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. George Daley, wrote, "We have been working with information supplied by federal authorities and examining our records, particularly the logs showing when donor remains were sent to be cremated and when Lodge was on campus, to try to determine which donors may have been impacted."

"At this time, we cannot rule out the potential that Raya Porter's remains may have been impacted," the letter stated, according to Porter.

Porter told the Boston Herald, "What bothers me is that there's somebody in some basement somewhere in this country or elsewhere fondling my wife's body parts."

"It could be her brain, her skin, her bones. This is disgusting and this is why there should be a severe punishment," he added.

Porter's wife passed away due to colon cancer in late 2017. Her body was donated to science and placed in the custody of Harvard Medical School.

Porter received his wife's cremated remains in 2019, but now he is unsure whether some of her remains were stolen.

"I believe that they can recover some of these parts," he said. "All of us who are family members believe it's a horrible thing that happened."

When asked what he would say to the alleged criminals, Porter told WBTS-CD, "I would say, you guys are sick. You've got to look at yourself and face your family and friends, and you are going to be ostracized for the rest of your life."

"It's so deviant, I just pity the person. I don't have any anger against them. I just pity them for what they did," he stated.

Paula Peltonovich was informed that her deceased father's remains were stolen and sold on the black market. Now she is demanding that the medical school return her mother's remains.

Peltonovich told the Boston Globe, "We were just disgusted — sick, like we were going to throw up."

"It's just unthinkable. There's no words," she added.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/families-disgusted-remains-of-deceased-loved-ones-might-have-been-sold-on-black-market-in-harvard-medical-school-scandal

LAWSUIT: NC House Speaker Tim Moore Coerced State Employees Into Group Sex, Suit Claims

North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore used his position to advance a deviant sexual relationship with a state employee, according to a lawsuit filed in Wake County.

Speaker Tim Moore is at the center of the scandal primarily because of the allegation that he had an affair with an at-will state employee named Jamie Lassiter.

The plaintiff, Scott Lassiter, filed the lawsuit under a North Carolina law known as ‘Alienation of Affection,” a law typically on the books in more conservative, Christian states in the south that has fallen out of favor in many places.

In North Carolina, plaintiffs such as Scott Lassiter can recover both economic and non-economic damages from someone like Tim Moore if he is found to have interfered with a loving marriage.

If it bears out that Liles Lassiter was in fact coerced into participating in group sex with Tim Moore, who used his power to make that happen, the damages owed to Scott Lassiter could be significant.

Economic damages may also be awarded to compensate for monetary losses related to the interference with the marriage, and may include loss of earnings or earning capacity or other financial harms suffered as a result of the alienation.

The ‘Alienation of Affection’ claim further raises the stakes for Speaker Moore, who is in the middle of budget negotiations.

Sources inside the Beltway tell National File that Moore won’t last much longer as Speaker of the House.

Jamie Lassiter believes she got preferential treatment because of the sex and was concerned the Speaker would take it out on her and her organization, the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, if she ended the affair, according to the lawsuit.

“At the time Defendant Tim Moore began pursuing a sexual relationship with Mrs. Lassiter, Defendant Tim Moore was aware that Plaintiff and Mrs. Lassiter were happily married to each other and living together,” the suit reads.

The lawsuit alleges N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore used his position to begin and maintain a sexual relationship with Lassiter, a state employee.

The lawsuit was electronically filed Sunday night in Wake County Superior Court.

According to the complaint, Moore has had an extramarital affair with the executive director of the N.C. Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, Jamie Liles Lassiter, since 2019.

The lawsuit was filed by Lassiter’s husband, Scott Lassiter.

Raleigh insiders are beginning to ask whether Speaker Moore has been trading sex for preferential treatment. And if he has been trading sex for preferential treatment, how long has he been doing so?

The Daily Haymaker called Tim Moore a “wife stealer.”

https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-lawsuit-nc-house-speaker-tim-moore-coerced-state-employees-into-group-sex-suit-claims/

Federal Judge Grants Biden’s DOJ Request on Trump Gag Order

The leading 2024 candidate for President of the United States is having his speech stifled by left-wing judges and left-wing prosecutors.

Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart granted Joe Biden’s DOJ request to place a gag order on President Trump. Judge Reinhart issued the ruling on June 19th. In 2021, Joe Biden issued a proclamation declaring June 19th a federal holiday, closing all federal buildings, including post offices. The fact that Democrats are working on a federal holiday shows their urgency to jail Trump before the election.

Reinhart’s order states that 45th President and leading 2024 candidate Donald Trump cannot share exculpatory evidence on social media without the Court’s prior approval.

The Stalin-like order reads, “All non-classified discovery produced by the United States to the Defendants in preparation for, or in connection with, any stage of this case (collectively, “the Discovery Materials”) are subject to this protective order (“the Order”) and may be used by the Defendants and Defense Counsel (defined as counsel of record in this case) solely in connection with the defense of this case, and for no other purpose, and in connection with no other proceeding, without further order of this Court.”

The order then specifically mentions Trump’s social media, stating that “The Discovery Materials, along with any information derived therefrom, shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform, without prior notice to and consent of the United States or approval of the Court. 7. Use of Discovery Material in Court.”

Judge Reinhart issued this order on June 19th, a federal holiday, meaning Judge Reinhart and his staff either received holiday pay or worked for free to issue Monday’s ruling.

Biden’s federal courts issuing rulings on June 19th while American citizens cannot access essential federal government services on June 19th, such as mail via the USPS, is yet another example of the Democrats’ embrace of ‘rules for thee, but not for me.’

Joe Biden has successfully silenced his top political opponent on a federal holiday that he declared two years earlier.

https://nationalfile.com/federal-judge-grants-bidens-doj-request-on-trump-gag-order/

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Military Members Kicked Out for Refusing COVID Vaccine Seek to Have Their Discharges Upgraded

Service members who received general discharges when separated from the military for their refusal to obey the vaccine mandate say their transition to civilian life has been hampered because they were not given honorable discharges.

The majority of service members kicked out over their refusal to get vaccinated received general discharges. With a general discharge, service members lose all educational benefits, reemployment rights, and civil service retirement credit.

Hayden Robichaux, donor relations coordinator for the Mighty Oaks Foundation, is one such service member. He had to build a career in the Marine Corps. He spent his initial two years serving as the military equivalent of a firefighter. But life as a Marine was interrupted by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s announcement of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in August 2021, he told The Epoch Times.

Robichaux refused the vaccine and sought religious exemption.

“But it seemed like everybody who sought religious exemption was denied,” he said. Months later, a leaked June 2021 memo by the Pentagon watchdog revealed the department may have been violating standards in its process of denying religious exemption requests for the COVID-19 vaccine.

In addition to his religious conviction against the vaccine, he took objection to the fact that the only vaccines offered to service members at the time were labeled as authorized for emergency use, rather than having full FDA approval. This argument stems from the wording of the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate, which covers “COVID-19 vaccines that receive full licensure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in accordance with FDA-approved labeling and guidance.” Robichaux and others believe that this means the mandate did not apply to any vaccines issued under emergency use authorization (EUA), such as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

They argue that the military mainly offered service members EUA Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, rather than the FDA-approved Cominarty vaccine, and thus could not compel personnel to take them. They also argued that a Pentagon policy that says the Cominarty and EUA Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are interchangeable was illegal.

“With each denial,” Robichaux said, “I kept putting in appeals and each was denied; they were brushed off.” As he continued to refuse the vaccine, he said his leadership became “pissed.” In October 2021, he was given 10 days to get the jab. He soon faced the threat of Article 15, a form of nonjudicial punishment that can be imposed by a commander, that would “put a stain” on his career.

“Because of this,” he said, “I almost changed my mind, telling them that I was going to get it.” Members of his immediate family have collectively served in the military for over 80 years since the Vietnam War. “And I wanted to continue the legacy that we have under our name,” he said.

In the end, Robichaux maintained his religious objection to the vaccine and did not take it. Not only did he receive an Article 15, but he was also denied a promotion to corporal. While he admits he may have disobeyed the command to take the vaccine, he said, “I don’t believe it was a lawful command, as I should have never been forced to take an EUA product.”

Robichaux was discharged from the Marine Corps in February 2022. “My commanding officer recommended me for an honorable discharge, but once it went up the chain of command, it came back as a general discharge,” he said. His discharge was characterized as being connected to the commission of a serious offense. Domestic battery, murder, rape, terrorism, and drug use are considered typical commissions of a serious offense.

Since leaving the Marine Corps, he said, “I’ve only met one person that received an honorable discharge.” This, he said, is concerning when one considers the thousands of service members who were separated from the military. One day, Robichaux would like to have his discharge upgraded.

https://www.ntd.com/military-members-kicked-out-for-refusing-covid-vaccine-seek-to-have-their-discharges-upgraded_926183.html

Vaccine Scientist Peter Hotez Responds to Joe Rogan’s Call to Debate RFK Jr.

A vaccine scientist who was challenged by podcaster Joe Rogan to debate 2024 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to the demands and claimed that scientists “don’t typically do debates.”

“In science, we don’t typically do debates,” Dr. Peter Hotez said in an MSNBC interview over the past weekend, responding to Rogan’s request. “What we do is we write scientific papers … one doesn’t typically debate science. Maybe the one-off discussion of evolution versus creationism and that sort of thing, but that’s not what we do in science.”

And he went a step further, saying: “Anti-vaccine disinformation … is now a lethal force in the United States. I offered to go on Joe Rogan but not to turn it into the Jerry Springer show with having RFK, Jr. on.”

Hotez also spoke with an individual, Alex Rosen, during an interaction that went viral, telling Rosen that it’s “harassment” when he asked him about the debate. While Hotez mostly remained silent, Rosen asked questions about whether he believes in “vaccine injuries.”

And on Sunday, Hotez told his Twitter followers that he “was stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFKJr,” coming about 24 hours after his initial posts were made.

The incident started when Hotez posted a Vice article that was published late last week that criticized Rogan and Kennedy, who has long been a critic of childhood vaccines. Rogan had spoken to Kennedy in a wide-ranging interview on his podcast in which the presidential candidate touched on vaccine injuries.

In response, Rogan called for Hotez to debate Kennedy on his podcast, offering him $100,000 to a charity of his choice. Hotez, a vaccine proponent who has been a frequent guest on MSNBC and CNN during the COVID-19 pandemic, responded by asking for Rogan and Spotify, which hosts his show, to donate $50 million to various causes before he deleted the Twitter post.

His initial response was, “Joe, you have my cell, my email, I’m always willing to speak with you.”

But Rogan wasn’t pleased. “This is a non answer. I challenged you publicly because you publicly quote tweeted and agreed with that [expletive] Vice article,” he wrote in response. “If you’re really serious about what you stand for, you now have a massive opportunity for a debate that will reach the largest audience a discussion like this has ever had. If you think someone else is better qualified, suggest that person.”

“Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is ‘misinformation’ I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit,” he added.

Billionaire Bill Ackman also pledged another $150,000 if Hotez agreed to the debate, leading other public figures to make similar pledges for the debate. Reports indicate that at least $2.6 million has been pledged for a public debate between Kennedy and Hotez.

“I am not part of the gang of three, but I strongly believe that an open long-form debate on vaccines with you and @RobertKennedyJr moderated by @joerogan would enable the public to better understand these issues,” Ackman, a well-known investor, wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday.

“If you are truly interested in saving lives, you need to further the public’s understanding of the truth about vaccines,” Ackman also wrote, adding: “This is a debate that you cannot walk away from. It will be watched by millions. I write from the perspective of three jabs and my fully vaccinated children.”

Hotez—a professor of pediatrics and virology at the Baylor College of Medicine—had frequently criticized what he described as misinformation surrounding COVID-19 vaccines and the virus over the past several years. He has also made numerous appearances on MSNBC, NBC News, CNN, and other major broadcasters.

https://www.ntd.com/vaccine-scientist-peter-hotez-responds-to-joe-rogans-call-to-debate-rfk-jr_926226.html

Uganda: Jihadists Burn Christian Students Alive, Hack Them with Machetes in School Attack

A gruesome terrorist attack on a boarding school housing secondary (high school) students left at least 42 dead in Kasese district, southwest Uganda, this weekend, 37 of them students, and many of them “burnt beyond recognition.”

The Ugandan government immediately blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamic State affiliate, for the attack, which occurred on Friday night local time. Eyewitnesses said they heard shouts of “Allahu akbar!” as the terrorists hacked girl students to death and burned the boys alive. Neither the ADF nor the greater Islamic State organization has taken responsibility for the attack, however, and some senior officials have begun speculating publicly that outside forces attempting to seize ownership of the school used the jihadists to create a situation where the current owners, an NGO reportedly under Canadian control, would lose legitimacy as administrators.

Kasese is located on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the ADF is believed to be headquartered. The governments of the DRC and Uganda launched a joint military operation, “Operation Shujaa,” in late 2021 and extended it last year specifically targeting the ADF, which seeks to overthrow both governments and establish a jihadist “caliphate.” The operation allowed 1,700 Ugandan forces to enter DRC in concert with local soldiers and target ADF hideouts. The DRC government also approved the presence of an American “anti-terrorism” contingent in the country in 2021, shortly after the United States designated the ADF a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

The incident, according to local news reports, began late on Friday at the Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe when an unknown number of attackers swarmed the male and female dormitories. Eyewitnesses said the girls opened the door to the terrorists and were subsequently hacked to death with machetes. The boys did not, so the terrorists burned them alive inside the building.

“The boys’ dormitory had been locked; so, these terrorists couldn’t enter, so they threw in a [petrol] bomb,” Janet Museveni, the first lady and education minister of Uganda, said in a statement this weekend. “The girls on the other hand opened the door and tried to run out and this evil group got them and killed them with pangas [machetes]. They did not shoot. With the girls, they killed them with pangas. The 17 children who were burnt in the dormitory are not easily recognisable.”

Eyewitnesses near the school told the BBC in a report published Sunday that the children were “singing gospel songs” shortly before the terrorists attacked, as they do every night before bed. Uganda’s population is overwhelmingly Christian.

“The boys’ dormitory had been locked – they had either refused to open it to the rebels or they were locked inside by them. The militants poured fuel on the building and set it alight,” the BBC documented, according to locals. “They were talking in Swahili – the lingua franca in the region – and afterwards began shouting ‘Allahu Akbar.'”

Speaking to Uganda’s NTV broadcaster, one of the survivors, Julius Isingoma, explained that he hid in a corner while his dormitory burned down and managed to avoid deadly smoke inhalation by staying close to the ground. When the fire concluded, the terrorists toured the remains of the dormitory, ensuring all the boys were dead. Isingoma said he smeared his classmates’ blood on himself and played dead, attributing his survival to the move.

“They came from outside to see what has fallen down, they said, ‘ok,’ they touched everyone,” Isingoma narrated, “I got the blood smeared [on] my head and [more] blood to end it in my ears, they go to the arm to put it in this side.”

Isingoma described a croaking sensation in his chest “like a frog” as the jihadis, satisfied that he was dead, moved away. He told NTV he now hopes to join the Ugandan military to avenge the attack.

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2023/06/19/uganda-jihadists-burn-christian-students-alive-hack-them-machetes-school-attack/

U.N. Unveils ‘Automated Fact-Checking Tool’ to Counter Disinformation with Big-Tech, Soros-Funded Orgs

The United Nations has unveiled an “automated” fact-checking service to counter so-called disinformation and hate speech on the internet in a project partnered with Big-Tech and Soros-funded organisations.

In response to what they brand as “online information pollution”, which they claim is a “global challenge”, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched its iVerify platform to counter alleged disinformation and hate speech online.

The global body’s “automated fact-checking tool”, was developed in partnership with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), Facebook and Google-funded fact checker Meedan, the Meta-owned CrowdTangle, and the Soros-funded International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).

The U.N. Development Programme said that “misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech threaten peace and security, disproportionately affecting those who are already vulnerable.”

It described the iVerify programme as an “automated fact-checking tool that can be used to identify false information and prevent and mitigate its spread.” The system will be provided by the UN to “national actors”, who will be given assistance in identifying, monitoring, and responding to “threats to information integrity.”

“The support package includes digital tools, capacity building modules, partnership opportunities, and communication and outreach strategies amongst others,” the U.N. body said.

The automated fact-checking tool could have imminent impact on the world, with the platform being actively used in Sierra Leone ahead of the country’s general elections on June 24th.

The U.N. said that the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and the Independent Radio Network (IRN) will use the tool “to strengthen national capacity to proactively identify and respond to misinformation, disinformation and hate speech.”

Through “leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence”, the automated system will flag “potentially false or harmful content” to be reviewed by a team of fact checkers, who will be funded in part by the governments of Canada, Ireland, Iceland and the European Union.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/19/un-unveils-automated-fact-checking-tool-to-counter-disinformation-and-hate-speech/

U.S. to rejoin UNESCO to counter China’s growing influence in the international agency

After a five-year absence, the United States has confirmed its intention to rejoin the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to counter communist China’s growing influence over the international body.

The U.S. cut its funding to UNESCO in 2011 during the administration of former President Barack Obama in solidarity with Israel and in opposition to the Palestinian National Authority becoming a full member of the organization. The move was further escalated in 2017 under former President Donald Trump when the U.S. formally withdrew from UNESCO, citing perceived “pro-Palestinian bias” within the agency.

This new decision to return to the organization comes as U.S. officials in the administration of President Joe Biden recognize the importance of the organization in Washington’s ongoing rivalry with communist China. The Department of State officially communicated its desire to return to UNESCO in a letter sent to the body on June 8.

Undersecretary of State for Management John Bass emphasized in a statement the importance of American engagement with UNESCO, stating that it would fill a critical gap in the global leadership capacity of the country.

“If we’re really serious about the digital-age competition with China, we can’t afford to be absent any longer from one of the key fora in which standards around education for science and technology are set,” he said, arguing that the absence undercuts Washington’s ability “to be as effective in promoting our vision of a free world.”

This move follows the U.S.’s return to the UN Human Rights Council in 2021 after a three-year hiatus. The U.S. rejoined the council due to concerns over China’s increasing influence within that global body as well, and the need to counter it effectively.

Blinken urged Congress to prepare $150M to counter China in UNESCO

To facilitate America’s return to UNESCO, scheduled for some time in July, Seceretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Congress to allocate around $150 million to provide the organization with funding.

Blinken emphasized that the absence of the U.S. from UNESCO has allowed China to shape regulations in the agency, especially regarding artificial intelligence, highlighting the need for American participation in these discussions.

Blinken further pointed out that China currently holds the distinction as the largest contributor to UNESCO, granting it considerable influence over the organization’s decisions while the U.S. remains absent from the table. By rejoining and immediately disbursing $150 million for UNESCO’s use, the U.S. seeks to actively shape these regulations and maintain a competitive edge against China in the global technological landscape.

The U.S. has identified China as its primary global adversary due to its rapid advancements in emerging technologies. The allocation of $150 million to UNESCO ensures that the U.S. remains at the forefront of global discussions and has a say in developing critical standards and regulations. By re-engaging with UNESCO, the U.S. intends to counterbalance Chinese influence and actively shape the future of artificial intelligence and other essential fields.

http://www.womensystems.com/2023/06/us-to-rejoin-unesco-to-counter-chinas.html

Official Says Biden’s CBP One Program Benefits Drug Cartels

Frontline employees being pulled from normal inspection duties are reducing the number of labor hours dedicated to finding hidden narcotics, according to a source within Customs and Border Protection. Hundreds of hours daily are spent processing more than one thousand migrants using the CBP One application to schedule appointments to secure their release into the United States.

In May 2023, CBP announced the agency would increase the daily number of appointments for migrants wishing to claim asylum to 1,000 per day and that appointments would be prioritized through an algorithm for those who have the longest wait times using the application. In the announcement, the DHS officials said the latter change would “Cut out smugglers who are preying on noncitizens by prioritizing appointments for those who have been waiting the longest. A percentage of daily available appointments will be allocated to the earliest registered CBP One™ profiles, so noncitizens who have been trying to obtain appointments for the longest time will be prioritized.”

Despite the claims that the new “lawful pathway” program would cut out smuggling activities by the cartels, the source, who is not authorized to speak to the media, says the impacts are to the contrary. “Any way you look at it, the border is a dangerous place,” the source stated. “The cartels don’t just profit off of the migrants, they survive and thrive by smuggling narcotics.”

“One worry is by redirecting personnel from inspections to asylum processing we are missing the deadliest drug we have seen in modern times, fentanyl,” the source told Breitbart Texas.

After another increase in available appointments announced in May, some 1,250 migrants began to use the CBP One application daily to schedule appointments to have their asylum claims processed at several southwest border ports of entry. Those ports are located in California, Arizona, and Texas. Some of the designated ports of entry are the busiest in the nation. One is the busiest on a more global scale. At the San Ysidro border crossing near the heart of downtown San Diego, more than 70,000 vehicles enter the country each day. In addition, 20,000 pedestrians are inspected for admission each day at the busiest port of entry in the Western Hemisphere.

At the smaller ports of entry, fewer migrants are allowed appointments. However, due to reduced staffing, the effects on the inspection process just as significant. Several times per day, groups of migrants appear for processing in Eagle Pass, Texas, and are released into the United States. Less than one hundred are processed at this port of entry daily. That port of entry may be forced to receive additional migrants due to a recent cancellation of the program in Laredo, Texas. The pause in the processing of CBP One appointments in Laredo is due to reports of migrants being extorted by authorities in Mexico.

The source tells Breitbart, each day 1,250 migrants from a variety of countries, including Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Mexico, and others across Central America require hours of administrative processing that is converting some frontline CBP Officers into asylum petition clerks.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/06/18/exclusive-official-says-bidens-cbp-one-program-benefits-drug-cartels/

Dodgers suffer the worst loss in 125 years after mocking God!

The Bible in Galatians says “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” It appears the Los Angeles Dodgers got to witness that Bible verse firsthand.

Just one day after the Dodgers hosted the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence which is a group that dresses up in drag as nuns and has been known to perform stripteases on crosses, the Dodgers have suffered their worst shut-out loss in history. The Dodgers lost in their home stadium 15-0 to the San Francisco Giants.

According to Fox Sports, It was the Giants’ largest margin of victory over their NL West rival since a 19-3 victory on Sept. 14, 2013. It also matches the worst home shutout loss in Dodgers history, which came in 1898 against Pittsburgh when the team was based in Brooklyn.

https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/06/dodgers-suffer-the-worst-loss-in-125-years-after-mocking-god/

Army’s top enlisted leader defends LGBTQ social media post; suggests criticism is ‘harassment’

The Army’s top enlisted leader actively engaged in a two-day battle on Twitter over public criticism of the 82nd Airborne’s post promoting Pride Month and LGBTQ+ service members.

Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston, who is the Army’s top enlisted leader and is responsible for handling discipline and morale issues in the Army, pushed back against criticism of the 82nd Airborne’s Pride Month post on social media, arguing with Twitter users last Friday and Saturday who expressed displeasure with the current state of the military.

“As we wrap up the observance celebration of #Juneteenth we switch gears in honoring all those who partake in #PrideMonth,” the 82nd Airborne, also known as the All American Division, tweeted Friday. “Join us later this month as we come all together for the Respect, Service and Dignity as the Division MEO team hosts the Pride Month Observance Event.”

The 82nd Airborne’s post also encouraged Army families to read “Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child” and “LGBTQ: The Survival Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Teens.”

Multiple Twitter users commented on the 82nd Airborne’s post, questioning the Army’s priorities, labeling the Army’s push of the LGBTQ agenda a “disgrace” and slamming the military for going “woke” rather than “winning wars.”

“Thanks for sharing this opportunity,” Grinston said in response to the comments. “The comment section is a good time to refresh ourselves with discriminatory harassment: A form of harassment that is unwelcome conduct based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity), national origin, or sexual orientation.”

Over the two-day period, Grinston engaged in back-and-forth arguments with multiple Twitter users, the Daily Caller first reported. In response to comments about the Army struggling to retain soldiers, Grinston tweeted an article stating that the Army hit its retention goal four months early. In response to concerns about the Army focusing on political agendas instead of focusing on training to win wars, Grinston said, “The 82nd gives their paratroopers more live fire opportunities than almost any other organization. Stay based in fact.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/06/armys-top-enlisted-leader-defends-lgbtq-social-media-post-suggests-criticism-is-harassment/

Man, 71, charged with setting massive Yosemite park fire initially blamed on climate change

A 71-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly starting a devastating massive forest fire in Yosemite National Park that was previously thought to have been caused by climate change.

Edward Fredrick Wackerman of Mariposa, Calif., was busted Friday on suspicion of arson for allegedly igniting the Oak Fire, which destroyed 127 homes, caused thousands of people to evacuate and ravaged nearly 20,000 acres of vegetation in July 2022.

The suspect is facing charges of suspicion of aggravated arson, arson that causes great bodily injury and arson causing damage or destruction of inhabited structures, the California Department of Forestry said.

It isn’t clear how Wackerman may have started the blaze or what finally led to his arrest. Mariposa County District Attorney Walter Wall said a Tuesday press conference on the case is planned.

“Ed Wackerman is facing several felony charges, including aggravated arson. These charges carry serious legal consequences and the District Attorney is committed to ensuring a fair trial and upholding justice,” Wall said in a statement posted online.

“Currently, the investigation is under review by our office. Due to the sensitive nature of the case and the rights of the defendant, we cannot disclose anything other than what has been released in the Cal Fire press release,” he added.

At the height of the massive blaze, about 6,000 people living in the nearby mountain communities were ordered by officials to flee their homes.

While no one was killed in the ginormous inferno, the fire injured three firefighters, scorched 30 square miles of land and destroyed 127 homes and 66 outbuildings.

At the time, smoke from the fire drifted more than 200 miles, reaching Lake Tahoe, parts of Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/alleged-arsonist-busted-in-yosemite-natl-park-blaze-intially-attributed-to-climate-change/

Israel settler smashes stained-glass windows of Christian site

An Israeli settler smashed the stained-glass windows of the room believed by Christians to have hosted the Last Supper in Jerusalem, known as the Cenacle.

The Israeli suspect, whose name has not been made public, threw the stones directly towards the building's windows on Thursday, smashing them. He was detained by a security guard and taken for questioning.

According to Haaretz, he was brought before a Magistrate's Court judge the following day, and denied that he had thrown the stones despite being present on site. However, a police officer presented evidence of the crime refuting the claim.

Despite the documentation proving the Israeli suspect's crime, he was released after being banned from Jerusalem's Old City for 30 days.

The punishment issued to the Israeli settlers and soldiers is far more lenient than those handed down to Palestinians, including minors convicted of throwing stones. Even if no harm or damage is caused, Palestinians face penalties of up to 20 years in prison.

Since Israel's new government, the most right-wing in the country's history, came to power, attacks against Christians in Jerusalem have reportedly become more violent and common.

Earlier this year, Israeli occupation forces attacked Christian Palestinians during Holy Saturday commemorations. This comes amidst Israeli government-imposed restrictions on visits by Christians to Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulchre.

Israeli settlers also stormed the Church of the Flagellation in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem and tried to set it on fire.

Church leaders have repeatedly urged the Israeli occupation authorities to put an end to the "hate crimes", but nothing has yet happened.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230619-israel-settler-smashes-stained-glass-windows-of-christian-site/

Virgin Media is DOWN leaving users across the UK unable to access their emails

According to Down Detector, the problems started at about 06:45 BST

Users have reported being unable to access their emails

Virgin Media has crashed this morning, leaving users across the UK unable to access their emails.

According to Down Detector, the problems started at about 06:45 BST, and are affecting customers across the UK.

While the reason for the outage remains unclear, of those who experienced issues, 83 per cent said they were having problems with their emails.

Meanwhile, 11 per cent said they had problems with landline internet, while seven per cent were experiencing a total blackout.

A Virgin Media spokesperson said: 'We're aware of an issue that is affecting our Virgin Media email service for customers.

Our teams are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible, and we apologise for the inconvenience caused.'

So far, more than 1,300 issues have been logged on Down Detector, while many users have taken to Twitter to voice their complaints.

'What's going on with email? Can't send or receive on any devices or seem to log into email via the web page either?' one user wrote.

Another added: 'What's going on with emails. Can't seem to be receiving or sending any.

'Changed password and everything but won't now connect. Been like it since last night. Seriously.'

And one vented: 'I can't access my virgin media email account. Need it urgently for work and personal matters. Is the system down ? If so, when will it be back online?'

MailOnline has contacted Virgin Media for further comment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12210481/Virgin-Media-leaving-users-UK-unable-access-emails.html

Report: Netanyahu says IDF training for possible fight with Arab Israelis in wartime

Prime minister said to tell lawmakers on Knesset committee that 10 divisions of soldiers are being prepared to counter threat of fifth column; IDF declines to comment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly informed lawmakers that the IDF is training to deploy masses of soldiers to counter a possible fifth column of Arab Israelis fighting inside the country in the event of a multi-front war with enemy states.

Netanyahu revealed the preparations during a recent closed-door meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Kan public broadcaster reported on Sunday.

The prime minister reportedly told lawmakers that 10 divisions of soldiers are training for such a possibility.

A military spokesperson declined to comment on the report when asked by The Times of Israel, although they referred to a previous article on drills aimed at securing the nation’s highways against civilian rioters during a war.

According to the unsourced report, the subject did not come up during Netanyahu’s presentation at the meeting but was raised during questions from lawmakers.

“The IDF is preparing for that,” Netanyahu responded according to the report. “There are 10 military divisions training for that. True, that is not enough, but they are preparing for such a day.”

Last week, Netanyahu attended a Knesset defense committee meeting and in his public remarks declared that Israel would not see itself bound by any agreement that Washington might reach with Iran over its nuclear program. Israel believes that a conflict with Iran over its nuclear program could also lead to a multi-front war with the Islamic Republic’s proxies in the region.

The discussion over facing internal violence from the Arab Israeli community during wartime has gained prominence in recent years. During May 2021, massive riots broke out in many Arab towns and mixed Israeli cities, home to large numbers of both Arabs and Jews, during an 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

In June 2022, the previous government announced the formation of a National Guard that would be activated in emergencies, citing lessons learned from the unrest the previous year.

The plan never developed, but current National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has been pushing for a volunteer National Guard that would be controlled by his ministry. In May, ministers voted in favor of forming such a guard, which would potentially be under Ben Gvir’s control.

A series of former senior police commanders have warned against the plan, including former police chief Moshe Karadi, who said Ben Gvir could use the force to launch a “coup.” Civil rights groups as well as opposition politicians have similarly expressed extreme concern over the proposal to bring such a force under the direct control of a government minister, arguing that it could politicize policing and undermine the principle of equality in law enforcement.

Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai also cautioned in a letter to Ben Gvir that separating the new force from the police will severely harm public security and cause chaos in law enforcement, warning of “disastrous consequences.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-netanyahu-says-idf-training-for-possible-fight-with-arab-israelis-in-wartime/

CAUGHT: Top Education Publisher Deletes ‘Woke’ Evidence After Release of Heritage Foundation Report

After Heritage Foundation scholar Jonathan Butcher began looking into the racially and sexually charged practices of publishing and education behemoth Pearson, links and videos started to disappear from the corporation’s website and YouTube channel.

Butcher’s new report for Heritage, released Wednesday, shows that the largest education corporation on the planet has made a considerable commitment to pushing critical race theory in everything it produces. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)

The report by Butcher, who is Heritage’s Will Skillman senior research fellow in education policy, points out that Pearson’s editorial guidelines have made “antiracism,” “colorism,” “colonial discourse,” “genderism,” and “intersectionality” a facet of every action taken by Pearson and its staff and every piece of curriculum Pearson publishes.

After Butcher and Fox News reporter Kassy Dillon began to ask questions, London-based Pearson took its editorial standards offline.

Pearson’s curriculum is no small collection of books, either. Pearson currently runs one of the largest virtual charter school networks in the United States. It is one of the biggest sellers of textbooks and classroom materials for every grade level in American public and private schools.

Pearson isn’t only a behemoth to K-12 students. The massive corporation oversees the company that operates USA Hire, which Butcher describes as “a website operated by the [U.S.] Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Applicants for positions in the federal government use this website to submit their application materials … ”

Teacher licensing also flows largely through Pearson. A teacher assessment program called edTPA, which determines whether an individual qualifies for a teaching license, is required by over 600 universities in over 40 states.

Every participant in edTPA is required to send dozens of essays describing his character as a potential teacher to Pearson, which holds unilateral authority on an applicant’s passing or failing.

Pearson’s commitment to “embed anti-racism” in everything its organization does affects far more than a few classroom students. These policies govern who gets hired in 40 different federal agencies and which teacher-education students get to graduate from their universities.

This racially segregationist hiring focus is best portrayed in a video that Pearson deleted from its website. In a video titled “A History of Protest Movements,” several speakers explain that American society is a fortress of systemic racism that keeps black Americans from doing as well as other groups. Education (and therefore Pearson) is needed to remedy this, the speakers say.

“Education is such a force for equity and change, yet systemic racism is holding back black and other ethnically diverse people in a vicious cycle,” LaWanda Stone, Pearson’s corporate affairs director, says in the video.

The video also includes claims that President Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as vice president was a “form” or an “act” of protest.

Although Pearson set the video to “private” on its YouTube channel after Fox’s Dillon began asking questions, The Daily Signal was able to save the video’s original discussion before it was taken down:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/14/caught-top-education-publisher-deletes-woke-evidence-after-heritage-foundation-report/

Gunfire between Israelis, Palestinians leaves multiple dead in West Bank

At least 91 more were injured during the Israeli raid.

At least five people were reportedly killed and at least 91 more wounded in a raid on the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers on Monday,

The Associated Press reported the raid was the bloodiest in several years and resulted in the death of five Palestinians, with a dozen more in critical condition. Multiple Israeli troops are also said to have been injured.

The fight lasted for almost 10 hours. Israeli choppers launched rare airstrikes to assist a 7-soldier evacuation after a roadside explosive deployed by Palestinian militants disabled 5 armored cars and left Israeli troops stuck, according to Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, who called the situation "very unusual and dramatic."

The Times of Israel quoted a joint statement between Border Police and Israeli Defense Forces, who said "During the activity, a massive exchange of fire took place between the forces and armed gunmen in the area. Large numbers of explosive devices were hurled at the forces. The forces responded with live fire."

Palestinian Authority President's spokesman Nabil Abu called the events a "massacre" despite it being initiated by Palsetine militants.

https://justthenews.com/world/gunfire-between-israelis-palestinians-leaves-multiple-dead-jenin

Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids

Joe Biden and John Kerry have been pillars of the Washington establishment for more than 30 years. Biden is one of the most popular politicians in our nation’s capital.

His demeanor, sense of humor, and even his friendly gaffes have allowed him to form close relationships with both Democrats and Republicans. His public image is built around his “Lunch Bucket Joe” persona. As he reminds the American people on regular occasions, he has little wealth to show for his career, despite having reached the vice presidency.

One of his closest political allies in Washington is former senator and former Secretary of State John Kerry. “Lunch Bucket Joe” he ain’t; Kerry is more patrician than earthy. But the two men became close while serving for several decades together in the US Senate. The two “often talked on matters of foreign policy,” says Jules Witcover in his Biden biography.

So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue.

But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.

What Hunter Biden, the son of America’s vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state), were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital. The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.

Hunter Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, had gone through a series of jobs since graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, including the hedge-fund business.

By the summer of 2009, the 39-year-old Hunter joined forces with the son of another powerful figure in American politics, Chris Heinz. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania had tragically died in a 1991 airplane crash when Chris was 18. Chris, his brothers, and his mother inherited a large chunk of the family’s vast ketchup fortune, including a network of investment funds and a Pennsylvania estate, among other properties. In May 1995, his mother, Teresa, married Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. That same year, Chris graduated from Yale, and then went on to get his MBA from Harvard Business School.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/

Judge Worked for Same British Government Departments That Have Pursued Assange

The High Court judge who rejected Julian Assange’s appeal to stop his extradition to the U.S., is the U.K. government’s former top lawyer, reports Mark Curtis.

Swift was entrusted to act for the Defence and Home Secretaries in at least nine legal cases

His ‘favourite clients were the security and intelligence agencies’ while representing the government

Jonathan Swift, the High Court judge who has rejected Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to the U.S., has a long history of working for the government departments that are now persecuting the WikiLeaks founder.

Swift, who ruled against Assange on June 6, was formerly the government’s favourite barrister.

He worked as ‘First Treasury Counsel’ – the government’s top lawyer – from 2006 to 2014, a position in which he advised and represented the government in major litigation.

Swift acted for the Defence and Home Secretaries in at least nine cases, Declassified has found. He also acted for the Cabinet Office, Justice Secretary and the Treasury, during his time as First Treasury Counsel.

Swift also represented the Foreign Office in at least two legal cases, in 2011 and 2015.

While barristers are independent, those who regularly represent the government in the highest profile cases have to be “cleared” to do so, including via security vetting, Declassified understands.

When he stepped down as First Treasury Counsel in March 2014, the attorney general’s office “expressed their appreciation for Jonathan’s valuable support, advice and advocacy during his period as FTC.”

It was reported in 2013 that Swift had been paid nearly a million pounds – £975,075 – over the previous three years for representing the government.

Swift now presides over Assange’s extradition case being fought by the Home Office for whom he previously worked.

As with previous judges who have ruled against Assange, the case raises serious concerns about institutional conflicts of interests at the heart of the U.K. legal system.

‘Favourite Clients’

Swift was appointed a deputy high court judge in 2016 and a full judge in August 2018. A June 2018 interview with Swift in a legal publication noted that his “favourite clients were the security and intelligence agencies” referring to his time as First Treasury Counsel.

“They take preparation and evidence-gathering seriously: a real commitment to getting things right,” he was quoted as saying.

The interview also mentioned Swift was undertaking work for “foreign governments” although Declassified has not been able to establish which governments these were.

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/18/judge-worked-for-same-british-government-departments-that-have-pursued-assange/

By 2030 you will not eat meat and you will be allowed only three items of new clothing a year, report says

A report published in 2019 and re-emphasised in 2023 recommends that by 2030 we will not be permitted to eat meat or dairy products, we will be limited to three items of new clothing per year and one aeroplane flight every three years. It will start in countries that “consume the most.”

Published in 2019, ‘The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World’ report sets out targets for cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as consistent with the 2015 Paris Agreement ambitions. What this report aims to do is quantify and then suggest ways for city “leaders” to reduce consumption-based emissions. In other words, reduce what you and I consume be it food, clothes or travel etc.

The place to start, a press release stated, is with those who consume the most and “consumption-based emissions must be cut by at least 50% by 2030.”

The report outlines six sectors where the world’s cities can take “rapid action to address consumption-based emissions”: food, construction, clothing, vehicles, aviation, and electronics.

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The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World was co-created and co-delivered by C40, Arup and the University of Leeds with funding from Arup, University of Leeds and Citi Foundation. It claims to be an analysis and not a plan but the tone of the report, from the outset, reads like a plan. The foreword stated:

“The report demonstrates that mayors have an even bigger role and opportunity to help avert climate emergency than previously thought … While the analysis addresses big global questions, its purpose is to inspire practical action … average consumption-based emissions in C40 cities must halve within the next 10 years. In our wealthiest and highest consuming cities that means a reduction of two thirds or more by 2030.” – Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40

“It is now clear that action to reduce consumption will be necessary as part of the global effort to mitigate climate change … The actions set out in the report are challenging and they will be confronting for many, but we think they are necessary … City Mayors can set a vision and convene actors to bring about the changes we describe … The work reported here forces a focus on what a sustainable urban future might look like and helps us to consider what policies, regulations, incentives and behavioural changes will be necessary to transition to a zero-carbon world.” – Gregory Hodkinson, Former Chairman of Arup

The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World, 2019

C40 is a global network of mayors representing one-quarter of the global economy. It includes almost 100 cities plus 1,143 cities and local governments that have joined C40’s ‘Cities Race to Zero’. The cities that sign up for the ‘Cities Race to Zero’ commit, among others, to keeping global heating below the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement.

https://expose-news.com/2023/06/18/by-2030-you-will-be-allowed-only-three/

Burisma execs set up bank account for Hunter Biden that was shut down for money laundering violations: report

Emails taken off of Hunter Biden's laptop reveal that he provided Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, with his passport and multiple bank statements to open up an account with Satabank in 2016.

Hunter Biden had executives at Burisma set up a bank account for him at a bank that later closed because of a money laundering investigation.

Emails taken off of Hunter Biden's laptop reveal that he provided Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, with his passport and multiple bank statements to open up an account with Satabank in 2016. The bank went under due to money laundering investigations in 2018.

In order to set up the account, Hunter needed to provide a "certified declaration of source wealth," have it notarized, and then sent it to an auction house in Malta, Ukraine.

The auctioneer, Pierre Pillow, was also charged with money laundering accusations back in 2020. Burisma’s' owner, Mykola Zolchevensky, rented Pillow's apartment in Malta back in 2014.

Contents of the email from Hunter's laptop show that he had to provide passport copies, bank reference letters, and utility bills to the bank in order to open the account. These all went through the Burisma executives.

When Satabank was liquidated by the Maltese government in 2018, it owed over $81 million to its investors and creditors.

Senator Ron Johnson, who has led a four year investigation into the Biden family, told the Daily Mail, "No one should find this latest revelation surprising."

"The Bidens knew exactly the type of people they needed to deal with - alleged money launderers like Patrick Ho, Mykola Zlochevsky, and now, allegedly, Mr. Pillow. The question now is what did the FBI know, when did they know it, and what did they do about it?" Johnson continued.

The link to the bank comes weeks after FBI informants have revealed more alleged corruption coming from the Biden family. Two banks were subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as a result of the reports.

The same informant claimed the Biden family's wealth had been cycled through a network of banks that would take "10 years" to untangle.

Recently, when President Biden was asked about a related matter by a reporter, he snapped back and said, "Why would you ask such a dumb question?"

https://thepostmillennial.com/burisma-execs-set-up-bank-account-for-hunter-biden-that-was-shut-down-for-money-laundering-violations-report