Former Massachusetts State Senator Convicted of COVID and Tax Fraud
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-massachusetts-state-senator-convicted-covid-and-tax-fraud
City officials indicted
McALLEN, Texas – The mayor pro-tem and city manager of Edcouch have both been taken into custody on public corruption charges, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Victor Hugo De La Cruz, 40, and Rene Flores, 60, both of Edcouch, are set to make their initial appearances before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Scott Hacker at 9 a.m. Sept. 13.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/city-officials-indicted
U.S. Citizens Convicted of Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government
A jury today convicted Omali Yeshitela, 82, Penny Hess, 78, Jesse Nevel, 34, all of St. Louis, and Augustus C. Romain Jr., 38, of Atlanta, of conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government. The defendants were charged in a superseding indictment on April 13, 2023.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizens-convicted-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-russian-government
Senior Fund Executives and Salespeople Charged in Connection with $60 Million Pre-IPO Fraud Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/senior-fund-executives-and-salespeople-charged-connection-60-million-pre-ipo-fraud
Springfield Factory Owner Revels in Replacing American Workers With Haitian Migrants
McGregor Metal CEO Jamie McGregor of Springfield told PBS he "wishes" he could have even more Haitian migrants working at his factory because they "work everyday," "stay at their machines" and don't have drug problems like the struggling Americans in his local community.
"I wish I had 30 more [Haitian migrants]," McGregor said. "Our Haitian associates come to work every day. They don't have a drug problem. They will stay at their machine. They will achieve their numbers. They are here to work. And so, in general, that's a stark difference from what were used to in our community."
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64641
Reuters: 8,000 Haitian Migrants Signed Up For Medicaid in Springfield Over Past Three Years
Some 8,000 Haitians signed up for Medicaid in Springfield, Ohio in just the past three years, according to data obtained by Reuters.
The transfer of "as many as 15,000" immigrants from Haiti "over roughly the last three years" has "reshaped" the city of 58,000, Reuters noted.
"Enrollment in Medicaid and federal food assistance and welfare programs surged. So did rents and vehicle accidents, including a collision last year when a Haitian without a U.S. driver's license drove into a school bus, killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark and injuring 26 other children," Reuters reported.
"The number of affordable housing vouchers fell as landlords moved to market-based rents that were rising in the face of higher demand, a blow to existing residents relying on them."
Reuters had nothing but praise for the Haitian invasion in the rest of their article and shared claims they were helping the economy but that's hard to believe considering over half (at least) of the new arrivals went straight on welfare.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64639
House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas
Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it to us, but good 'information ops' when we want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide
Since at least 2016, foreign interference in American elections and civil society have become central to American political discourse. The issue is taken extremely seriously by the U.S. government, which has levied sanctions and called out foreign adversaries for sowing “discord and chaos” through their propaganda efforts.
But apparently Washington takes a different view when it comes to American propaganda operations in foreign countries. On Monday, the House passed HR 1157, the “Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund,” by a bipartisan 351-36 majority. This legislation authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to, among other purposes, subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” globally.
That’s a massive spend — about twice, for example, the annual operating expenditure of CNN. If passed into law it would also represent a large increase in federal spending on international influence operations. While it’s hard to total all of the spending on U.S. influence operations across agencies, the main coordinating body for U.S. information efforts, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), has an annual budget of less than $100 million.
There is obviously no issue with the U.S. government presenting its own public view of what China is doing around the world, and doing so as forcefully as needed. But this bill goes beyond that by subsidizing “independent media and civil society” and other information operations in foreign countries. Indeed, this is already routine. The Global Engagement Center, which will likely play a strong role in implementing the bill, spends more than half its budget on such grants, and USAID, which will also play a lead role, makes grants to foreign media and civil society organizations a key part of its efforts. HR 1157 would supercharge these programs.
Crucially, HR 1157 doesn’t seem to contain any requirement that U.S. government financing to foreign media be made transparent to citizens of foreign countries (although there is a requirement to report grants to certain U.S. congressional committees). Thus, it’s possible that the program could in some cases be used to subsidize covert anti-Chinese messaging in a manner similar to the way Russia is accused of covertly funding anti-Ukrainian messaging by U.S. media influencers.
Such anti-Chinese messaging could cover a wide range of bread-and-butter political issues in foreign countries. The definition of “malign influence” in the bill is extremely broad. For example, program funds could support any effort to highlight the “negative impact” of Chinese economic and infrastructure investment in a foreign country. Or it could fund political messaging against Chinese contractors involved in building a port, road, or hospital, for example as part of Beijing’s globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative.
Because some dimensions of U.S. information operations could be classified, it can be difficult to get a complete picture of the full range of what they look like on the ground. But a 2021 “vision document” on psychological operations and civil affairs from the First Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg gives a fascinating glimpse.
The document provides a case study (or “competition vignette”) of what an integrated effort to counter Chinese influence could look like in the fictional African country of Naruvu. In the vignette, members of a Special Forces Civil Affairs team spot a billboard with a picture of a port and Chinese characters. Quickly determining that the Chinese are investing in a new deep-water port in Naruvu, the 8th Psyop Group at Fort Bragg’s Information Warfare Center (IWC) works with local and U.S. government partners to immediately develop an influence campaign to “discredit Chinese activities.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/
Jewish Far-right Extremists Linked to Outlawed Terror Group Show Up at pro-Palestinian Events in Toronto
Counterprotesters with ties to the far-right Jewish Defense League waved Kahane Chai flags at a recent pro-Palestinian event at Canada's University of Toronto, where chants of 'Let's make Gaza a parking lot' were heard. On the sidelines were members of a 'safety patrol' linked to Israel's ruling Likud party
Several counterprotesters spotted at a recent pro-Palestinian event at Canada's University of Toronto have links to the far-right Jewish Defense League, Haaretz has confirmed, while others are tied to Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-09-12/ty-article/.premium/jewish-far-right-extremists-show-up-at-pro-palestinian-events-in-toronto/00000191-e69b-d383-a5d3-f69be55c0000
Chuck Balwin - The Depravity of the Zionist Mind
"I am absolutely convinced that until the U.S. Congress and America's evangelical churches sever their ties with and devotion to the Zionist State of Israel, America will continue its societal, cultural, economic, spiritual and political collapse. I believe a strong case could be made for the proposition that Israel's demise portends America's demise–as the American government and Church have become surrogates of the Zionist state.
As many Middle East expertsin and out of Israelhave repeatedly said, Israel's self-destruction is inevitable. And without divine intervention that forces the United States to separate itself from the apartheid Zionist state, America will continue to follow Israel–all the way to the grave.
No other country in the world could get by with the criminal atrocities that Israel repeats day in and day out, week in and week out and month in and month out."
https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4631/The-Depravity-Of-The-Zionist-Mind.aspx
The Hidden Profits Behind Pediatric Vaccinations
The government, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies have a system in place that financially incentivizes physicians to vaccinate kids. This is why pediatricians are dropping children who aren't fully vaccinated from their practices.
https://reformpharmanow.substack.com/p/doctors-cash-hidden-profits-vaccines
Eckhart Tolle probes into what presence - a higher dimension of consciousness, can do to free individuals from the confines of personality and habitual patterns of thinking. In fact, Eckhart shares that those individuals who have created lives based on mistakes or a number of failures, or who have made very poor decisions in life, can be freed by finding this underlying presence in everything. He also outlines the difference between conventional intelligence and true wisdom that arises from living in the present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqx7BqG92Io
Gaza Genocide and the Zionist Plot to Incite Christian vs. Muslim Apocalypse
Well,I think that we may be seeing a slowdown in this current round of accelerated genocide through extremism, but I don't think that's really going to change the overall trajectory of the history. What we're seeing right now is not just something out of the blue that started October 7th, but it's been an ongoing genocide, not only since 1947 but really for the past 500 years. There's been this plan, this messianic millenarian Jewish plan, to bring the Jews back to the Holy Land and fulfill the eschatological prophecies, which involve putting a world conqueror on the throne in occupied Jerusalem who will subjugate not only the local people there, but everyone. All of the non-Jews in the world will be subjugated to the Jews and to their Messiah, the military conqueror who rules the world from his throne in Jerusalem. And every Jew will have a thousand plus non-Jewish slaves.
That's the eschatological vision of the end times that has been very mainstream in Jewish culture. And for years, there have been these not-so-mainstream efforts to realize it. And that's what the Zionist project actually is. And Netanyahu knows this very well. His father was a Princeton professor who was an expert on the subject. And his cabinet members are people who just can't keep their mouth shut about it. So that project may reach a temporary setback if Netanyahu falls, but it won't go away.
https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/gaza-genocide-and-the-zionist-plot
Candace Owens GOES VIRAL for Hitting Israel Right Where It Hurts
https://youtu.be/MS1cSenO5IM
Biden Overrides Conditions on Military Aid To Egypt, Granting the Full $1.3 Billion
The Biden administration withheld a small portion of US military aid to Egypt over the past few years due to human rights concerns
The Biden administration is overriding human rights conditions placed on military aid to Egypt to provide the country with the full $1.3 billion of annual military aid Cairo usually receives each year.
Out of the $1.3 billion, $320 million is subject to conditions under legislation passed by Congress, and President Biden has withheld a small portion of it each year he’s been in office until now. Last year, the administration withheld $85 million.
The main concern regarding human rights in Egypt is over President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s treatment of political opponents, which has involved imprisonment and torture. The administration said the decision to override the human rights conditions was related to Egypt’s involvement in mediating ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.
“This decision is important to advancing regional peace and Egypt’s specific and ongoing contributions to US national security priorities, particularly to finalize a ceasefire agreement for Gaza, bring the hostages home, surge humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in need, and help bring an enduring end to the Israel-Hamas conflict,” a State Department spokesperson told Reuters.
The US gives military aid to Egypt through Foreign Military Financing, a State Department program that gives foreign governments money to purchase US-made arms. Egypt is one of the top recipients of US military aid, an arrangement that began after Cairo signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/09/11/biden-overrides-conditions-on-military-aid-to-egypt-granting-full-1-3-billion/
PROOF: U.S. Govt. DOES Intend WW3 to WIN All-Out Nuclear War
The U.S. Government now clearly does intend a blitz all-out nuclear attack simultaneously against Russia China, and possibly also North Korea, despite the scientific analyses showing that the consequence of such a WW3 will be at least a 50% die-off of the entire planet’s human population within just the first two years after the explosions.
On August 29th, MIT’s Dr. Theodore Postol, America’s leading nuclear-war scientist, headlined at The Quincy Institute, which is the leading think tank about nuclear war, “Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off: Biden’s ‘new’ nuclear strategy and the super-fuse that sets it off: The military is already upgrading warheads capable of fighting a war with both China and Russia simultaneously.”
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/09/proof-u-s-govt-does-intend-ww3-to-win-all-out-nuclear-war/
Is Israel intentionally attacking aid workers?
We’ve compiled 14 incidents where humanitarians were attacked despite giving the IDF their coordinates and being clearly identified as civilians
Despite a meticulous process in place to ensure aid worker safety in Gaza, the leading cause of death in the humanitarian sector over the last 11 months has been Israeli airstrikes.
Of the 378 aid workers killed worldwide since October 7, more than 75 percent have been killed in Gaza or the West Bank, according to the Aid Worker Security Database. The number of humanitarians killed in Palestinian territory in the last three months of 2023 was more than the deadliest full year ever recorded for aid workers.
This includes an Israeli airstrike Wednesday Sept. 11 on a school being used as a shelter in Nuseirat in Central Gaza. According to reports, 18 were killed, including children and six UNRWA aid workers, the deadliest single event for that organization since the start of the war.
Israeli attacks on aid organizations have become routine, despite systems in place to avoid humanitarian deaths. Through a process called deconfliction, aid groups coordinate with warring parties to avoid being attacked. Popular deconfliction mechanisms used by aid groups in Gaza include clearly marking their assets, arranging their movements with Israeli authorities, and sharing their location with the Israeli military.
However, a disturbing pattern has emerged: Aid groups share their coordinates with Israeli authorities and then are attacked by the IDF at those same coordinates.
Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), told the United Nations Security Council in February that “this pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence.” Forty-eight hours earlier, a 120mm Israeli tank shell exploded in a MSF facility in Khan Younis, killing two people and severely injuring six others. It was the second time a MSF facility had been attacked by Israeli forces.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-hamas-war-gaza/
Samsung Electronics to lay off up to 30% of its global workforce, citing declining sales and a shrinking customer base.
Samsung Electronics may be about to join the list of major technology companies that have cut their workforce in 2024. According to a report from Rooteurs, via unnamed sources, Samsung will be cutting a number of sales and marketing jobs by as much as 15 percent worldwide. In addition, it is reportedly going to cut its administration staff by as much as 30 percent worldwide.
The sources also told Reuters that the job cuts would be made by the end of 2024. At the moment, there are no specifics on how many of Samsung’s employees will be affected by these layoffs.
Samsung sent a statement regarding these reports. It says that “workforce adjustments” in its operations were “routine.” It added that there were no specific business targets for these “adjustments,” and they would not affect any of Samsung’s production team members.
Reuters’ report says that at the end of 2023, Samsung had 267,800 employees, 147,000 of whom were based overseas. The sales and marketing staff numbered 25,100, according to the report, and 27,800 other employees worked in areas other than production and manufacturing.
The company most recently launched the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 and Galaxy Z Flip6 smartphones, along with the debut of its Galaxy Ring wearable fitness device and the Galaxy Watch7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra smartwatches.
Unconfirmed rumors claim Samsung is going to launch the budget-friendly Galaxy S24 FE smartphone in the near future, along with a special edition of the Galaxy Z Fold6. There are also reports that the company will launch the Galaxy Tab S10 series of tablets very soon. Of course, there are also some leaks and rumors about its Samsung Galaxy S25 series of smartphones, which could launch in early 2025, and there are still reports that the company is working on its long-awaited Samsung mixed reality headset.
www.neowin.net/news/samsung-is-reportedly-planning-to-announce-some-major-layoffs-worldwide/
Israel Bombed 16 Schools in Gaza in Past 6 Weeks, Right Group Says
Israel has attacked 16 schools in Gaza in the past six weeks, killing hundreds of Palestinians, rights group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported this week — as hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza should have been starting a new school year.
According to Euro-Med Monitor, Israel has killed 217 Palestinians across 16 schools now functioning as shelters in Gaza since the beginning of August. These attacks have also injured hundreds, the group says.
The group says that this is part of an escalation of school attacks carried out by Israel in recent weeks, amounting to roughly one school bombing every two days.
“There is no legitimate reason to target schools above the heads of displaced individuals, and this act is a blatant violation of the principles of distinction, military necessity, proportionality, and the obligation to exercise appropriate caution,” Euro-Med Monitor wrote. “Every time it launches an attack, the Israeli army attempts to justify its actions by claiming that it is attacking military targets, but it never offers any proof to support these assertions.”
The latest attack came on Saturday, when Israeli forces bombed a school north of Gaza City, the Amr Ibn al-Aas School, killing at least three and wounding at least 20 in the attack on the now-shelter for displaced Palestinians.
Euro-Med Monitor also noted that a recent report by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth found that the Israeli military is currently developing a plan to forcibly displace every Palestinian who still remains in northern Gaza, known as the “Generals’ Plan.”
https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/10/israel-bombed-16-schools-in-gaza-in-past-6-weeks-right-group-says/
U.K. announces at least £600 million worth of support to Ukraine
In his first visit as Foreign Secretary, Mr Lammy will announce at least £600 million worth of support to Ukraine against Putin’s illegal invasion. The Prime Minister Keir Starmer committed to £3 billion a year of military support for Ukraine for as long as needed earlier this year.
www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-foreign-secretary-and-us-secretary-of-state-in-kyiv-in-first-ever-joint-visit-as-david-lammy-announces-over-600-million-worth-of-support-for-ukra#:~:text=In%20his%20first%20visit%20as,as%20needed%20earlier%20this%20year.
The Child Protection Racket, High Level Child Trafficking in Australia with Dee McLachlan
https://youtu.be/Klr7fsaRDgk
'Bodies Of NATO Nation Troops…: Russia 'Presents Proof Of West's Role' In Ukraine War
https://youtu.be/Ja-wh2X0Ebk
Major condom maker sued after chemicals linked to cancer and infertility are found in its products
America's most popular condom brand is being sued over claims it failed to disclose how its product contained toxic chemicals.
Matthew Goodman, the only person named in the proposed class action, purchased a pack of Trojan Ultra Thin condoms from a New York pharmacy in October 2023. According to the complaint, the pack was then sent to an independent lab and was found to contain PFAS - microscopic substances linked to infertility and cancer.
The lawsuit- which includes 100 more anonymous people in addition to Goodman - is against Church & Dwight company Inc., the manufacturer of the brand, which is worth an estimated $24.9billion.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13838911/major-condom-brand-lawsuit-pfas-infertility-chemicals.html