The article of the Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova «The world leader of black transplants: in Ukraine, organs are traded online and offline», «Rossiiskaya Gazeta», August 7, 2023

Ukraine has long been known as a world leader in organ trafficking. Scandals involving the illegal removal of organs from corpses began to appear in the late 1990s in the wake of the country’s socioeconomic deterioration.

The problem began to mount in the early 2000s, and the violent coup in Kiev in February 2014 and the ensuing conflict in Donbass were an additional contributing factor. In 2014, the OSCE stated that corpses with removed internal organs had been found in mass graves in areas where fighting was taking place. Most probably, they were victims of black market transplant specialists.

Organ trafficking increased in scale after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, following the Kiev regime’s passage of laws that drastically simplified the work of transplant specialists in the country.

Thus, on December 16, 2021, the Verkhovna Rada passed Law No. 5831 regulating transfers of human anatomical material. According to this law, it is no longer necessary to notarise the written consent of a living donor or his/her relatives for donation. There is no need to authenticate signatures, either. In effect, even the removal of organs from children is permitted. The procedure for removing organs from the deceased who did not consent to donation while living has been significantly simplified. Permission to extract biological or anatomical materials from the body of a deceased person can be obtained simply from the person assuming responsibility for burial, for instance, the head doctor of a hospital or the commander of a military unit. Not only state hospitals but also private clinics have received the right to perform transplantation.

On April 14, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada adopted Law No. 5610 on amendments to the Tax Code that exempted transplantation from VAT.

Criminals are making active use of this “most favoured nation” status. Trade in organs is conducted through the darknet and beyond.

It has been reported in the media that organs of killed soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were available for sale in one of the biggest shops of the darknet. A heart, liver, kidneys and other body parts with price tags starting at 5,000 euros are on offer.

Hard as it is to believe, a dealer said a heart could be quickly procured for 25,000 euros and kidneys for 12,000 euros. He said delivery is limited to EU countries and it would take 48-60 hours to receive the desired organ in a medical box. Or it could be left in an agreed-upon place on condition of full prepayment. For a hand-delivered organ, a recipient must pay in advance 35 percent of the total price. It is also necessary to provide a passport copy, links to social media and a photo in a certain place with pre-arranged information. This is far from a complete list of services offered by the butchers.

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1899824/

DOJ Slapped By Judge In Trump Documents Case

The judge overseeing former President Trump's classified documents case, Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon, rebuked federal prosecutors on Monday while striking down two of their filings.

DOJ special counsel Jack Smith has been directed by the court to unseal two filings and to provide a comprehensive legal rationale for a Washington, D.C. grand jury's involvement in the investigation. Specifically, Cannon, a Trump appointee, has ordered Smith to explain "the legal propriety" of using a DC Grand Jury in a Florida matter.

"The Special Counsel states in conclusory terms that the supplement should be sealed from public view ‘to comport with grand jury secrecy,’ but the motion for leave and the supplement plainly fail to satisfy the burden of establishing a sufficient legal or factual basis to warrant sealing the motion and supplement," the order reads.

"Among other topics as raised in the Motion, the response shall address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district," the order adds.

Canon was responding to the special counsel's motion for a "Garcia" hearing, where Smith's team addressed a potential conflict of interest posed by Stanley Woodward representing defendant Walt Nauta and individuals who could be called to testify in the classified documents case, the Daily Caller reports.

Trump and Nauta are scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 10 for the classified documents case. Smith issued a superseding indictment July 27 with additional charges for Trump and new charges for Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos De Oliveira who allegedly moved boxes around Trump’s Florida estate.

Smith indicted Trump Tuesday for allegedly contesting the 2020 presidential election results and for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The former president pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Washington, D.C. Thursday and accused Smith of “persecution” for his latest charges. -Daily Caller

Separately, a grand jury in Washington DC indicted Trump last week on four counts over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-slapped-judge-trump-documents-case

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.100.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.102.0.pdf

Massive explosion hits Turkish port (VIDEOS)

The blast injured 10 people and destroyed a bank of grain silos

At least 10 people have been injured in an explosion at the port of Derince in Türkiye, the region's governor told local media. The blast was caught on video, and described by witnesses as like a “violent earthquake.”

The explosion occurred in mid-afternoon on Monday, with Derince mayor Zeki Aygün telling local media that it originated at a block of government-owned grain silos and felt “like a violent earthquake.” Kocaeli Governor Seddar Yavuz said that 10 people were injured, with two in serious condition at a nearby hospital.

Security camera footage captured the moment of the blast, which scattered debris across a nearby goods yard. Video shot from further away showed a cloud of smoke and dust rising over the port after the blast.

Situated around 90 kilometers (55 miles) east of Istanbul in the province of Kocaeli, Derince is one of the few seaports in Türkiye wholly operated by the government. Derince is a grain transportation hub, and received regular shipments of grain from Ukraine, until the Black Sea grain deal expired last month.

Yavuz said that the explosion took place as grain was being transferred from a ship to a silo, and could have been caused by "wheat dust compression." According to live data from MarineTraffic.com, a Marshall Islands-flagged transport ship is currently moored next to the silos.

13 out of 16 silos at the port were damaged in the blast, provincial authorities said. Emergency services are still working at the scene, and police have launched an investigation into the incident.

https://www.rt.com/news/580952-turkiye-port-grain-explosion/

Erdogan to make renewed Ukraine peace push – RIA

The Turkish leader will reportedly insist on a ceasefire and call for negotiations between Moscow and Kiev

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to offer himself as a mediator in a bid to end the Ukraine conflict, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, citing a source in the Turkish government. The Turkish leader plans to table the proposal during his upcoming face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the agency added.

According to the news agency, Erdogan plans to reiterate “the thesis that there will be no winners in the war, and no losers in the peace process” when he meets Putin. He also intends to call for a ceasefire and the beginning of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.

RIA’s source also noted that the Turkish leader was “the only world leader” who enjoys the “sincere trust” of both Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. He regularly maintains contact with both and “does everything to bring peace to the region.”

Türkiye has emerged as one of the key mediators between Moscow and Kiev, having hosted peace talks between the two sides in March 2022. However, negotiations have since broken down as Ukraine insists Moscow evacuates and relinquishes territories that are part of the Russian Federation before any further talks can be held.

https://www.rt.com/russia/580944-erdogan-putin-ukraine-talks/

Russia Launches Massive Missile and Drone Strike On One of the Last Operational Ukrainian Airbases – Hangar is Struck at Starokonstantinov

The only front in which Ukraine is winning the war is on the MSM headlines.

Since the Ukrainian counteroffensive yields no results other than the mass slaughter of the Ukrainian soldiers and the rapid destruction of the military equipment that western taxpayers paid for, there is nothing else left for the Mainstream Media to do other than focus all their attention on the drone and missile strikes on Russian territory.

Whenever a strike lands, it is hailed as a victory, despite the fact that, disruptive as they may have been, most of them serve no military purpose other than propaganda to feed both the domestic and international public.

Meanwhile, Russian Federation forces continue to fight their war of attrition, using their overwhelming artillery, air and naval forces to meticulously target military forces, equipment and installations, as well as crippling Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure capabilities. Talk about disruptive.

Early Sunday (August 6th), the Russians began a series of massive strikes to a series of deep rear targets in the Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions, where the strikes heavily targeted the Starokonstantinov airbase, one of the largest – still operational – in Ukraine.

According to some Russian sources, nearly a dozen fighter aircraft were destroyed, as well as ammunition for the aircraft, but of course if you read the wishful thinkers of the MSM, they say the attacks hit a bus stop – no kidding.

Russian Telegram channel Военный Осведомитель (Military Informant) reported:

“This is the most massive missile attack on a single air base during the entire war; previously, no airfield has received so much attention and means of destruction. What’s the matter?

Firstly, it is from this air base that Ukrainian Su-24 bombers take off, which are carriers of the British Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

At the moment, these cruise missiles are the most dangerous and long-range missile armament of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which the enemy army does not disdain to hit bridges, ammunition depots and command posts.

Destruction of Storm carriers and their bases is the highest priority task for the RF Armed Forces.”

In Ukraine they are arresting people who film attacks, air defense work or strike sites, so to understand the effect we have to rely on creative ways.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/grounded-russia-launches-massive-missile-drone-strike-one/

NAOMI WOLF: We know from the PFIZER docs that it MURDERS BABIES IN THE WOMB!

https://twitter.com/MaxEvansUMP/status/1688268148263247872

Privacy Storm Brewing As Zoom's Updated Terms Greenlight AI Model Training With User Data

Zoom has added a clause to its Terms-of-Service (TOS) which allows the video conferencing company to use customer-generated content for any purpose they see fit, including to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, with no opt-out.

Zoom's TOS, last revised on July 26th, conceals a concerning caveat. Nestled within section 10.4, for those brave enough to venture, is language that confers upon Zoom a carte blanche right to exploit what it coins as "Service Generated Data" (SGD). This expansive designation encompasses a cornucopia of user-generated information - from innocuous telemetry data to incisive diagnostic insights - all grist for the AI mill.

Section 10.4 also describes the company's use of Customer Content (defined as "data, content, files, documents, or other materials"), not just telemetry data and the like, which it can use "for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof."

The company makes clear that it will be using data for, among other things, fine-tuning AI models and algorithms. The potential consequences are manifold, raising red flags for privacy pundits and sparking debates over the boundaries of user consent.

Zoom's data net is cast even wider with a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license. This legal carte blanche emboldens Zoom to undertake a multitude of actions that span the entire data lifecycle. From reconstituting, republishing, and accessing user content to the deep recesses of data modification, redistribution, and algorithmic processing, the breadth of Zoom's dominion over user-generated data now defies conventional comprehension.

Zoom contends that these data maneuvers are vital to service provision, bolstering software quality, and enhancing the broader Zoom ecosystem. The augmentation of AI capabilities, epitomized by Zoom IQ, has been touted as a beacon of collaboration, promising efficient meeting summaries, task automation, and optimized follow-ups, all enabled by the seamless integration of user data.

"With the introduction of these new capabilities in Zoom IQ, an incredible generative AI assistant, teams can further enhance their productivity for everyday tasks, freeing up more time for creative work and expanding collaboration," said Zoom chief product officer, Smita Hashim. "There is no one-size-fits-all approach to large language models, and with Zoom's federated approach to AI, we are able to bring powerful capabilities to our customers and users through Zoom's own models as well as our partners' models."

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/privacy-storm-brewing-zooms-updated-terms-greenlight-ai-model-training-user-data

Goldman Head Of Commodity Research Jeff Currie Leaving Bank After Nearly 30 Years

It has been a tough year for Goldman's commodity team, which after a stellar 2021 and 2022, has seen its "supercycle" call crash and burn in a year where copper plunged, metals tumbled and oil dropped as low as the mid-60s. And with the bonus basket accruals for the full year looking rather dismal, the exodus - which started in March when the bank's closely followed commodity strategist Damien Courvalin quit to go to Balyasny as a chief commodities strategist - culminated earlier today when we learned that Goldman's iconic head of commodity strategy, Jeff Currie, whose mostly bullish pronouncements made him one of the bank's most visible talking heads, is leaving Goldman Sachs after three decades with the bank.

As Bloomberg notes, Currie - who had been the face of the Wall Street titan’s commodities research for nearly 30 years, "commanded attention in that market with a willingness to stick his neck out on calls, with mixed success."

Currie rose to fame after correctly predicting the China-driven boom of the 2000s and that decade’s surge in oil prices. He has had less luck repeating the feat after outlining reasons for another supercycle that could last a decade. Rather than a sustained increase, prices have gyrated.

“We have never been this wrong for this long without seeing evidence to change our views,” the 56-year-old told Bloomberg Television in June shortly before trimming his oil-price forecast (which still sees oil rising just shy of $100 by year-end).

As Bloomberg adds, over his 27 years at Goldman, Currie's standing in the market grew into a recognizable brand. The commodities unit leveraged that to drum up more business.

“He’s a little bit of a mad scientist,” said longtime Goldman colleague Colleen Foster, describing him as creative, eccentric and inventive. “There’s never a time I couldn’t get a meeting with a CEO, an oil minister or a hedge fund founder, if Jeff Currie was with me.”

After Currie caught the market’s attention with his correct call on oil’s surge to triple digits in the 2000s, his Goldman team infamously doubled down in May 2008. That was despite signs of trouble that spiraled into the financial crisis, sending oil crashing more than 75% in less than six months to below $35 a barrel. Still, he correctly predicted that oil would reach about $85 by the end of 2009, which it did.

He also had his bearish moments, such as in 2015, when he predicted oil would likely stay low for the next 15 years (less than a decade later it soared near record highs after the outbreak of the Ukraine war).

No matter his track record though, Currie’s fundamentally-driven and well-justified views were always closely followed in the market — including by company executives whose fortunes ride the ups and downs of commodity prices.His predictions sometimes fueled frustration, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lourenco Goncalves recalled in 2019.

“I have been critical of the Goldman Sachs commodity desk for years,” Goncalves said at the time. But after realizing they were finally in agreement on iron ore, “I was ready to give love to Jeff Currie. The first time in probably 10 years that the Goldman Sachs forecast for iron ore pretty much matched mine.”

An avid skier, Currie taught courses at the University of Chicago before joining Goldman in 1996. He and another top Goldman commodities executive were among a group that financed an effort to produce a 2010 documentary on the British rock band The Kinks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-head-commodity-research-jeff-currie-leaving-bank-after-nearly-30-years

Daimler Truck CFO Jochen Goetz Dies in ‘Tragic Accident’

FRANKFURT—Daimler Truck’s Chief Financial Officer Jochen Goetz has died in a “tragic accident,” the company said on Sunday.

Mr. Goetz, 52, died on Saturday, a statement said, without giving details of the accident.

Mr. Goetz spent his entire professional career, spanning more than 36 years, in the Daimler Group, and was largely responsible for the successful spin-off of Daimler Truck Holding from what is now the Mercedes-Benz Group in December 2021.

“He played a key role in shaping today’s Daimler Truck company and, as CFO, consistently worked to ensure that the company is now more economically successful than ever before,” Chief Executive Martin Daum said.

The company statement said Mr. Goetz had been distinguished by “his high level of professionalism as well as his positive, hands-on manner.”

Joe Kaeser, supervisory board head and former Siemens veteran, said of Mr. Goetz: “Just a few days ago, he convincingly and confidently presented the successful financial development of ‘his company’ to the supervisory board.”

Daimler Truck achieved a second quarter record adjusted return on sales of 10.3 percent for its industrial business, the company said last Tuesday, even as it faced rising monthly costs from inflation.

Mr. Goetz, who had held his current position since July, 2021, leaves a wife and two children.

https://www.ntd.com/daimler-truck-cfo-jochen-goetz-dies-in-tragic-accident_935093.html

Facebook Files: FBI Lied About Extensive Meetings with Zuckerberg’s Platform About Hunter Biden ‘Laptop from Hell’

The FBI lied about the extent of its communications with Facebook regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, newly disclosed communications from the tech company reveal. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) says that the FBI’s claim it only met with Facebook once about Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” are “completely false.”

This is the latest installment in Rep. Jim Jordan’s “Facebook Files,” a series of internal communications from the social networking platform obtained through a subpoena by the House Judiciary Committee, which Jordan chairs.

In a sworn deposition in the Missouri v. Biden case, FBI special agent Elvis Chan, who is the main conduit between the bureau and big tech companies, claimed that apart from one instance, he was not aware of any meetings between Facebook and the FBI regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story.

In the same deposition, he also claimed that he had “no internal knowledge” of the FBI’s investigation regarding the troubled Biden son’s laptop.

The Facebook files reveal both claims to be false. An internal Facebook communication reveals that Chan had more than one meeting with Facebook regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Moreover, it reveals that, contrary to his claims of having no knowledge about the investigation, Chan confidently told the tech company — a day after the story broke and had been censored by the platform — that there was no evidence of any foreign connection “there was no current evidence to suggest any foreign connection…of the leaks.”

When Facebook initially asked the FBI if the Hunter Biden laptop story was real, Laura Dehmlow, currently Section Chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force, said “no comment.” At that point, the FBI was fully aware that the laptop was real, according to Rep. Jordan.

“The laptop was real, and the FBI knew it,” said Rep. Jordan on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The FBI had the laptop since December 2019.”

“Is there any wonder why the Biden DOJ has so far stonewalled the Committee’s efforts to interview Agent Chan?”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/08/07/facebook-files-fbi-lied-about-extensive-meetings-with-zuckerbergs-platform-about-hunter-biden-laptop-from-hell/

Green Madness: Leftist Scottish Govt Cut Down 16 Million Trees to Put up Wind Farms

The leftist government of Scotland has admitted to felling nearly 16 million trees on public land in order to make way for supposedly ‘green energy’ wind turbines.

The Rural Affairs Secretary for the leftist-separatist locally-devolved government of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), Mairi Gougeon, has admitted that some 15.7 million trees were cut down since the year 2000, or around 1,700 per day, in order to clear room for the construction of wind turbines.

In a letter last month to Scottish Tory Member of the Scottish Parliament, Liam Kerr, reported on Sunday by the Telegraph, Gougeon said that approximately 7,858 hectares of trees have been felled over the past two decades. With an average of around 2,000 trees per hectare, “this gives an estimated total of 15.7 million trees which have been felled in order to facilitate windfarm development.”

“Where woodland is removed in association with development, developers will generally be expected to provide compensatory planting in order to avoid a net loss of woodland.”

Gougeon claimed that many of the trees would have been “replanted on-site” and that the majority were expected to be cut down for commercial uses, regardless. Forestry and Land Scotland went on to claim that it has planted some 500 million trees during the same time period.

However, responding to the letter, Mr Kerr said: “Most people will be astonished to see the number of trees cut down to make way for wind farms,” adding that the government “must be alive” to the “significant costs” of the installation of massive wind turbines.

“I’ve been contacted many times by rural communities all over the country questioning the location of these developments, sharing legitimate concerns not just about the visual impact but also damage to wildlife and business. Now we learn there’s significant damage when it comes to trees.”

In addition to the need to cut down millions of trees, and the negative impacts on native bird and bat populations, wind turbines have also been criticised for their need for rare earth minerals in order to generate electricity. To create usable energy, high-powered magnets are made from rare earth minerals such as neodymium and dysprosium, which are almost exclusively mined in Communist China.

The mining process for such minerals can often have catastrophic consequences for local people, with villagers in the Chinese town of Dalahai previously recounting that their teeth began to fall out, they began suffering from skin and respiratory conditions, cancer rates shot up, and children were born with soft bones after a neodymium mine was opened up nearby.

Nevertheless, the Scottish government has vowed to continue its “green energy” push, with a Forestry and Land Scotland spokesman saying: “Renewable energy generated from wind farms is a key element in Scotland’s response to the climate emergency and the shift towards net zero and the infrastructure on land that we manage generates enough power for 600,000 homes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/07/green-madness-leftist-scottish-govt-cut-down-16-million-trees-to-put-up-wind-farms/

Alberta court rules that covid actions pushed by minister of health were INVALID and illegal

Canadian Judge B.E. Romaine has ruled that the cabinet and government committees of Alberta broke the law when they made final decisions about orders during the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "pandemic."

The cabinet and committees were supposed to relent to whatever decisions would be made by Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) Dr. Deena Hinshaw in accordance with the Public Health Act, but instead acted of their own accord.

"The Public Health Act requires that decisions with respect to public health orders must be made by the CMOH, or her statutorily authorized delegate," the decision reads.

"The final decisions implemented by the impugned orders in this case were made by the cabinet of the government of Alberta or by committees of cabinet. While the CMOH made recommendations and implemented the decisions of the cabinet and committees through the impugned orders, she deferred the final decision making to cabinet."

The decision goes on to clarify that while Hinshaw herself was personally maligned during the scamdemic and long afterwards for being "the symbol of the restrictions," it was not, in fact, she who was "the final decision-maker," Romaine wrote.

Delegating Hinshaw's ultimate decision-making authority to the cabinet stands in direct violation of Section 29 of the Public Health Act. Had the plandemic-related orders been "validly enacted by the CMOH," then it would have been a different story and the rulings would have been constitutional.

Canadian politicians broke the law with covid mandates

According to plaintiffs in the case, their Charter rights were infringed upon by the public health orders during the pandemic. These rights include the right to freely gather, which was overridden by the Alberta government's restrictions on indoor gatherings, quarantine requirements, business closures, and mask mandates.

All of this was filed as part of a suit in 2020, and is just now being ruled upon by the Canadian court system.

"While they may have infringed certain of the applicants' rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11 and the Alberta Bill of Rights, RSA 2000, c A-14, these limitations were amply and demonstrably justified as reasonable limits in a free and democratic society pursuant to Section 1 of the Charter and that they were enacted pursuant to a valid legislative purpose," the judge found.

Romaine concluded that at all moments when the impugned orders were in force, there was "a pressing and substantial legislative objective." She further highlighted that the Public Health Act's definition of a public health emergency does include "an epidemic or pandemic disease … that poses a significant risk to the public health."

In one section of the judge's 90-page decision, she stated that removing the mask mandate in Alberta schools was a decision made by politicians rather than the CMOH, which is a violation of the law.

"In conclusion, I declare that the impugned orders were ultra vires of the Public Health Act because they were based on an interpretation of the Public Health Act that gave final decision-making authority over public health orders to elected officials," the judge wrote, "ultra vires" being a Latin term for "beyond the powers" or "exceed the scope."

Lorian Hardcastle, an associate professor on the faculty at Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, commented that she would not be at all surprised if the current Alberta government revisited the Public Health Act to shift some powers awa

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/08/alberta-court-rules-that-covid-actions.html

https://www.jccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-07-31-DECISION-Ingram-v-Alberta-Chief-Medical-Officer-of-Health-FILED-July-31-20238.pdf?mc_cid=15345efd14&mc_eid=4160c9b7a0

Top Democrat says judicial overhaul should not affect US military aid to Israel

Visiting Jerusalem, House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says his party continues to stand behind ironclad commitment to provide for Israel’s security

House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says in Jerusalem that the US must not let the fate of the judicial reform affect military support for Israel.

Speaking to Israeli journalists, the Democrat speaks of “the need to make sure that we maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge, that it will still be with us regardless of where Israel lands in terms of the judicial reform effort.”

He also indicates that both countries share similar challenges regarding their democracies.

“The ties that bind us together in the context of democracy are powerful ones,” says Jeffries. “It is important during a time at which both of our countries are facing concerns that the fabric of our democracies are being undermined, that we both emerge from this period of time with democracy strengthened, not weakened.”

He adds that the protests are “a sign of a vibrant democracy.”

Jeffries also says there is no danger of his party turning away from Israel.

“The Democratic Party in the House of Representatives will continue to stand with Israel in lifting up the special relationship between our two countries and in support of Israel’s right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people and as a Jewish democratic state. Period. Full stop.

The Brooklyn lawmaker also says that his party will “continue to stand

behind that ironclad commitment to provide for Israel’s safety and security.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-august-7-2023/

Survivor: Sex trafficker took all girls to Planned Parenthood

'No one ever asked me anything anytime I ever went to a clinic'

According to at least three studies, Planned Parenthood is one of the most common clinical settings to which sex traffickers bring their victims. Traffickers take the women and girls they abuse to Planned Parenthood because, according to the survivors, Planned Parenthood does not ask questions.

Research published in 2014 by the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy found that survivors of human trafficking have “had significant contact with clinical treatment facilities, most commonly Planned Parenthood clinics.” Another study from 2017, “Identifying Health Experiences of Domestically Sex-Trafficked Women in the USA: A Qualitative Study in Rikers Island Jail,” found that “[e]mergency departments, Planned Parenthoods, and jails were common care sites.” And “Sex Trafficking Victims at Their Junction with the Healthcare Setting—A Mixed-Methods Inquiry,” published in 2019, found that the “most commonly visited community healthcare clinic is Planned Parenthood….”

In “The Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking and Their Implications for Identifying Victims in Healthcare Facilities,” researchers found that almost a third (29.6%) of human sex trafficking survivors had visited a Planned Parenthood affiliate. Former senior advisor for trafficking in persons for the U.S. Department of State, Laura J. Lederer explained, “Since pimps and traffickers generally exercise nearly complete control of their victims, these points of contact with healthcare represent rare opportunities for victim identification and intervention.”

Researchers behind “Sex Trafficking Victims at Their Junction with the Healthcare Setting—A Mixed-Methods Inquiry,” published in the Journal of Human Trafficking said that the majority of women who participated in the study visited two types of traditional healthcare settings while being trafficked — emergency departments (76.2%) and community clinics (71.4%). “Among those who used community clinics, all but one visited a Planned Parenthood clinic,” states the study (emphasis added). Those surveyed said that Planned Parenthood was the facility of choice because it was “familiar and helpful” and primarily because it offered “free-of-charge services.” In other words, sex traffickers take their victims to Planned Parenthood because it is “free” and “helpful.”

These “rare opportunities” to intervene and save women and girls from their abusers and traffickers appear to be largely ignored by Planned Parenthood as trafficking survivors themselves have alluded to.

No questions asked

Laura, who said she was so “young” she needed “a waiver” to be examined, spoke about her time “on the street” saying, “I went to hospitals, urgent care clinics, women’s health clinics, and private doctors. No one ever asked me anything anytime I ever went to a clinic. … I was on birth control during the 10 years I was on the streets — mostly Depo-Provera shots which I got at Planned Parenthood and other neighborhood clinics. I got the morning-after bill from them…” (emphasis added)

https://www.wnd.com/2023/08/survivor-sex-trafficker-took-girls-planned-parenthood/

House chairman accuses FBI of lying about social media contacts involving Hunter Biden laptop

Jim Jordan publishes documents he says contradicts testimony of FBI agent Elvis Chan.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan released new evidence Monday that he said shows the FBI lied about meeting with Big Tech companies before the 2020 election to discuss Hunter Biden's laptop, a story that social media companies were censoring at the time.

The "FBI LIED ABOUT MEETING WITH BIG TECH REGARDING NY POST’S HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY," Jordan wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Jordan published documents showing the FBI's comments on the Hunter Biden story when it first broke and how FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan testified about his meetings with Facebook representatives.

Chan and Foreign Influence Task Force Section Chief Laura Dehmlow met with Facebook on Oct. 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published its story on the Hunter Biden laptop. Dehmlow met with both Twitter and Facebook that day.

At this time, the FBI had the laptop in its possession and knew that it was real, Jordan said.

Documents published by Jordan show that when a Twitter representative asked whether the story was real, an FBI agent said "yes," but an FBI lawyer jumped in, cutting him off with, "No further comment."

Dehmlow then said the FBI held emergency deliberations on how to respond to the question going forward. When the Facebook meeting was held later in the day, the FBI simply said, "No comment," when asked whether the Hunter Biden story was factual.

Twitter and Facebook then censored the story.

In November 2022, Chan testified in a censorship lawsuit brought by the states of Missouri and Louisiana against the Biden administration that he was "confident" he was not part of any meetings with Big Tech, other than the one with Facebook on Oct. 14, 2020.

However, Jordan published an internal Facebook document showing that Chan had a "follow up" call with the social media platform on Oct. 15, 2020, one day after the initial meeting.

Additionally, Chan testified that he had "no internal knowledge" of his agency's investigation of Hunter Biden's laptop.

However, a Facebook employee who is a former FBI agent wrote on Oct. 15 that "Chan advised that he was up to speed on the current state of the matter within the FBI," according to messages published by Jordan.

"Our investigation remains ongoing and we will continue to update the public with our findings as we prepare and consider legislation to fight the censorship-industrial complex and protect the First Amendment," Jordan pledged.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-lied-about-meeting-big-tech-about-hunter-biden-laptop-story-jim

==Judge orders Catherine Herridge to reveal sources for stories on FBI, Chinese American scientist

The scientist has already deposed 18 current and former government employees but she has been unable to confirm the sources for the story.

A federal judge ordered CBS News senior correspondent Catherine Herridge to reveal her sources for a series of stories about the FBI's investigation of a Chinese American scientist back when she worked for Fox News.

The order last week from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington D.C. comes after scientist Yanping Chen filed a lawsuit against the FBI, claiming that the agency violated the privacy act by improperly leaking information about her.

While working at Fox News in 2017, Herridge used a confidential source or sources to obtain material about the federal counterintelligence probe of Chen.

The Fox series focused on Chen, who was associated with China's People's Liberation Army and is president of the taxpayer-funded University of Management and Technology in Rosslyn, Va. Chen's husband, J. Davidson Frame, is dean of the university. The FBI raided the school twice in 2012, but even after the raids, it still received more than $6 million from the Defense Department.

As part of her case against the FBI, Chen subpoenaed Herridge and Fox in an attempt to reveal the source(s) for the articles. Both Fox and Herridige fought the move by arguing that the judge should quash the subpoenas because the press is protected under the First Amendment.

"The Court recognizes both the vital importance of a free press and the critical role that confidential sources play in the work of investigative journalists like Herridge," Cooper, an Obama appointee, wrote in his ruling. "… Chen’s need for the requested evidence overcomes Herridge’s qualified First Amendment privilege in this case."

The judge limited Chen's deposition subpoena to only include non-privileged matters related to the Privacy Act claim, but Chen's document subpoena was deferred.

Chen has already deposed 18 current and former government employees, including four FBI employees, and obtained 22 government declarations, but she has been unable to confirm the sources for the Fox story, according to court documents.

The ruling is raising concerns about protections for the press.

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Director Gabe Rottman told CNN: "While the Privacy Act provides essential protections for the public, using it to breach reporter-source confidentiality poses significant risks to a free press."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/judge-orders-catherine-herridge-reveal-sources-stories-fbi-chinese-american

Pharma-funded Australian drug regulator grants full approval to Pfizer for its harmful covid injection

On 13 July, Australia’s drug regulator quietly granted full approval for Pfizer’s Comirnaty “vaccine.” This is the same product that currently has 81,361 reported adverse events, with 443 deaths.

Why would the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (“TGA”) give full approval to a drug that has a bad safety profile? Is it because the TGA receives nearly all its funding from the companies that it is supposed to regulate?

Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (“TGA”), has quietly granted full registration to the Pfizer Comirnaty covid vaccine.

There was no media release, and the page associated with the product has not been updated since September 2022.

However, the TGA’s website page titled ‘Covid-19 vaccines regulatory status’, last updated on 27 July 2023, clearly states that full registration was granted on 13 July 2023.

This is the same product that currently has 81, 361 reported adverse events in DAEN (Australia’s VAERS or Yellow Card database). 443 of these entries are reported deaths, one of whom is Amy Sedgewick, who died at 23 years old after suffering a “catastrophic reaction” to her Pfizer vaccinations.

It should surprise no one that the Pfizer Comirnaty product has received full registration, despite: high rates of infection, hospitalisations and excess deaths after the vaccine rollout; independent peer-reviewed analysis of Pfizer’s own trial data determining the product to have one of the most appalling safety profiles of any drug in pharmaceutical history; and pharmacovigilance data indicating the same.

After all, an investigation by Australian science journalist Maryanne Demasi for the British Medical Journal found that the TGA receives more industry funding than any other regulator in the world, at 96%. More than nine out of every ten applications for new drugs are approved by the regulator.

https://expose-news.com/2023/08/07/australian-regulator-grants-full-approval-to-pfizer/

https://www.tga.gov.au/products/covid-19/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccines-regulatory-status

Report: Ghislaine Maxwell Receiving "Benefits" in Prison After "Adopting Late Father's Jewish Faith"

Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is being "rewarded with better food and more time off work" after she "adopted her late father's Jewish faith behind bars" with the help of Chabad-Lubavitch, The Sun reports.

From The Sun, "PRAYER PERKS Ghislaine Maxwell receives prison 'benefits' after adopting late father’s Jewish faith":

GHISLAINE Maxwell has adopted her late father's Jewish faith behind bars — and has been rewarded with better food and more time off work.

Maxwell — who helped financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teen girls — registered her religion on arrival at jail.

She gets kosher food, which is costlier, access to a Rabbi and is excused work for 25 hours from sundown on Fridays to observe the Sabbath.

She can also take a break from prison chores on Jewish holidays.

Maxwell, 61, is also ­eligible for the associated wine or grape juice and breaking of bread.

The details were revealed by journalist Silja J.A. Talvi, who looks into conditions at jails.

Talvi told The Sun on Sunday Maxwell was contacted in jail by a civil rights prisoner organisation called Reaching Out, based in New York.

It specifically helps Jewish prisoners and informed Ghislaine through another inmate they would be there for her.

[…] A spokesman for Reaching Out said: "Maxwell is in touch with our organisation.

"We have and will continue to address her needs."

According to Reaching Out's website, they're a part of Chabad-Lubavitch and they believe that imprisonment is not "a legitimate form of Jewish penalization" (i.e. Jews should be exempt from prison).

"Imprisonment was never accepted by Torah as a legitimate form of penalization," Reaching Out says on their page titled, "Torah View on Jewish Prisoners."

"The Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches that simply and clearly, there is no source in Torah for jail as punishment."

Is this why Chabad-Lubavitch was the driving force behind Trump/Kushner's "criminal justice reform" and lobbied for President Trump to pardon a host of Chabad-connected fraudsters?

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63899

Ron DeSantis Declares Joe Biden Legitimate Winner of 2020 Election Securing 81 Million Votes – Asserts Trump Lost: “Of Course He Lost… Joe Biden is the President”

Governor Ron DeSantis has publicly declared that President Joe Biden legitimately secured his 81 million votes in the 2020 election and that Donald Trump lost.

The Florida governor made these remarks in an exclusive interview with NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns.

During the interview, Burns asked DeSantis to give a clear ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer regarding whether Trump had lost the 2020 Presidential Election.

“Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on January 20 every four years is the winner,” DeSantis answered.

While he acknowledged the result of the fraudulent election, DeSantis voiced concerns over the election’s management, citing COVID-19 related changes to voting rules, mail-in ballots, and the censorship of the Hunter Biden story by the FBI in collaboration with tech companies.

“When they changed the rules for COVID, I think that was wrong. I think some of those changes were unconstitutional. When they do mass mail ballots, I think that’s wrong. I think ballot harvesting is wrong. I think the Zuckerbucks were wrong. I think the fact that the FBI was working with Facebook and these other tech companies to censor the Hunter Biden story was wrong. And so I don’t think it was the perfect election,” said DeSantis.

DeSantis pointed blame towards President Donald Trump for some of these issues, citing the CARES Act, which funded mail-in ballots across the country and was signed by Trump.

“Why did we have all those mail votes? Because Trump turned the government over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, they embraced lockdowns,” DeSantis said.

In regard to Hunter Biden censorship, DeSantis accused the Trump administration agencies of colluding with Big Tech companies. DeSantis said these agencies worked together to suppress a story involving Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election.

“I look back at the Hunter Biden censorship, which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election, and yet those were Donald Trump’s own agencies that were colluding with Big Tech. I would never allow that to happen. I would fire those people immediately,” said DeSantis in an interview with Maria Bartiromo.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/ron-desantis-declares-joe-biden-legitimate-winner-2020/

New Mexico issues health warning after fire in plastics facility

The fire started outside of the plant but it quickly spread and required more responders, officials said.

The New Mexico city of Albuquerque issued a health warning after a major fire broke out in a nearby plastics facility, spreading hazardous pollutants.

The blaze was "contained" Sunday evening and there is no more significant smoke, but firefighters are still on the scene monitoring hot spots, the county's environmental health agency said.

The Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Program issued a health alert Sunday over the fire. "Plastics are burning and the smoke contains hazardous air pollutants," officials said.

The fire started outside of the plant but it quickly spread and required more responders, officials said at a news conference.

Albuquerque Fire Rescue Lt. Jason Fejer said Sunday that fully extinguishing the inferno could potentially take days. Two acres of wildland had been burned as of Sunday.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/new-mexico-issues-health-warning-after-fire-plastics-facility

Global investigation leads to child sex abuse operation that charged 19 men, removed 13 Australian children from harm

The murder of two FBI agents in the United States during a child sexual abuse investigation has led to charges against 19 men and 13 children being removed from harm in Australia.

Key points:

FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were gunned down in Florida in February 2021

Most of the Australian members of an online abuse-sharing network had a "high degree" of IT knowledge

A NSW man was sentenced for possessing an estimated five terabytes of child abuse material

Australian Federal Police (APF) has revealed details of the joint FBI operation targeting child abuse material on the dark web.

The investigation dates back to February 2021 when FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were gunned down as they served a search warrant on a paedophile computer programmer who was distributing child sexual abuse material in Florida.

The programmer, David Lee Huber, was thought to have watched the agents through a doorbell camera before shooting them through the unopened door and then killing himself.

Three other agents were injured in the shooting.

A spokesperson for the AFP said the investigation, known as Operation Bakis, had its origin in those murders.

The FBI passed on details of the Australian members within the peer-to-peer network allegedly sharing child abuse material on the dark web.

"Two Australian offenders have been sentenced with others remaining before the courts," the AFP said in a statement.

Most of the Australian offenders were employed in occupations that required a "high degree" of knowledge about information and communications technology.

"Members used software to anonymously share files, chat on message boards and access websites within the network,'' the statement said.

"Network members were able to search for and distribute images and videos of child abuse material and allegedly used encryption and other methods to avoid law enforcement detection."

The alleged offenders were aged between 32 and 81.

Men arrested, children rescued in three states

The spokesperson said it would be alleged some Australian children had been directly abused and others relocated as a precautionary measure.

Children were removed from harm in the ACT, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-07/qld-afp-fbi-agents-murdered-child-sexual-abuse-investigation/102698672

James Paterson urges Albanese government to address cybersecurity risk of foreign-made solar panels against Australia's energy grid

James Paterson said the installation of foreign-made solar panels is increasing the risk of targeted attacks against Australia's electricity grid, which could lead to widespread blackouts and "completely destabilise" the nation's energy supply.

Labor must act to assess the risks involved with using foreign-made solar technology to ensure Australia's power grid is fully protected against targeted cyber attacks, the shadow minister for home affairs and cyber security has said.

Speaking to Sky News Australia's Peta Credlin on Monday, James Paterson said that 58 per cent of internet connected solar inverters installed in Australia came from companies headquartered in China.

"This includes company's like Huawei who we have banned from our 5G network, and who are subject to China’s intelligence laws, which means they can be compelled to assist the work of Chinese Intelligence agencies at anytime," he said.

Mr Paterson pointed to the latest research from The Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, which showed Beijing now dominated up to 76 per cent of global market supply of solar inverters.

He warned the technology, which converts solar energy to electricity, could be weaponised by hackers and urged the government to invest in cybersecurity spending to safeguard the grid.

"The inverters themselves could be disabled through cyber vulnerabilities which would take out power to your own home or residence or business," he said.

“But…if enough of them are connected to the grid, and the Labor Party is rushing them into the grid right now, they could be used to destabilise our entire electricity grid and put it out of power, completely destabilising our whole country or whole regions of our country.

“Now the Labor Party is aware of this risk, they’ve talked about this risk but they’ve done absolutely nothing to deal with it and they’re planning to put in 82 per cent renewables by 2030 and that will exacerbate it."

Mr Paterson said the nation's solar infrastructure wasn't the only renewable technology susceptible to cyber attacks.

“A modern electric vehicle is a computer on wheels, it’s also an internet connected device, many are made in China, some of them by Chinese owned companies," Mr Paterson said.

“They have their own cyber security vulnerabilities, their own ability to store and collect data on its drivers and its ability to be remotely controlled and influenced.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/james-paterson-urges-albanese-government-to-address-cybersecurity-risk-of-foreignmade-solar-panels-against-australias-energy-grid/news-story/575b9f128f924cbe7f28b44457253124