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“As a parent and grandparent, my recommendation to you is to resist and fight to protect your children.” – Dr. Robert Malone
Dr. Robert Malone, an internationally recognized scientist/physician and the inventor of the core mRNA vaccine technology platform, and Dr. Ryan Cole, a Mayo Clinic trained Pathologist who is the CEO and Medical Director of Cole Diagnostics, are fighting to save children from the detrimental effects of the Covid vaccines.
The two medical experts were featured at four sold-out One Washington events. The event organizer is a non-profit organization that is helping equip parents, lawmakers, and activists to counter moves by the state Board of Health to add the Covid vaccine to the required shots for public school children.
Both doctors are tired of seeing young children die or suffer permanent damage from a “vaccine” that “does not work for a virus that is no longer here and most of them have already recovered.” Yet, the courageous medical experts, who have been smeared and maligned by big pharma, left-wing politicians, and media, continue to risk their careers to save children.
Covid Vaccines Are A Great Risk To Children
At the event, Dr. Malone warned parents that before they opt to inject their children with the Covid vaccine, a decision that is “irreversible” and potentially permanently damaging, to listen to the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine. The vaccine is based upon mRNA vaccine technology created by Dr. Malone:
There are three issues parents and grandparents need to understand, explains Dr. Malone:
The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children’s cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins. These proteins can cause permanent damage to children’s critical organs. These types of injuries include:
Damages to their brain and nervous system
Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots
Their reproductive system, and
These vaccines can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system
The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable
You can’t fix the lesions within their brain
You can’t fix heart tissue scarring
You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and
This vaccine can cause reproductive damage that could affect future generations of your family
The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested.
We need at least 5 years of testing and research before we can really understand the risks
Harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later
Ask yourself if you want your child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in human history.
One final point is that the reasons they’re giving you to vaccinate your child are lies.
Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents
It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting COVID, is critical to saving your family if not the world from this disease. They generate broad natural immunity. That is our best recourse to keep this virus from further evolving into a superbug.
In summary: there is no benefit to your children or your family to be vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given the known health risks of the vaccine that, as a parent, you and your children may have to live with for the rest of your lives. If your child is damaged, you can not sue the pharmaceutical companies or government. You are the one who is going to have to take care of your child and deal with it emotionally for the rest of your life.
The risk/benefit analysis isn’t even close.
As a parent and grandparent, my recommendation is to resist and fight to protect your children. That is why I am here. I am trying to save children’s lives; this is the hill I will die on.
Fauci Does Not Want Autoposies Performed
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), did not want autopsies to be done on the bodies of Covid patients.
However, pathologist Ryan Cole said at the event that a nine-year-old had died from the vaccine on his table. “Dead,” Cole said. He added that he does not want to see another child on his table who has died after the vaccine. The pathologist said autopsies are finally being performed.
In the same place where the nine-year-old lived, a healthy 22-year-old wrestler also died after his third shot. It will soon be on Cole’s table so that he can determine the cause of death.
“We were told: do not do autopsies, don’t look, and that is what your government is giving you for data. Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t look, these are not the droids you are looking for, everything is safe and effective, go jab up the children with a shot that does not work for a virus that is no longer here and most of them have already recovered,” said Cole. He added that doctors who ask questions must fear their careers being destroyed.
Dr. Cole echoed the sentiments of his friend and colleague, Dr. Malone; fighting for children’s safety is also a hill he is willing to die on. The doctor stressed that they are fighting for a generation that “should not be harmed for something they do not need.”
The pathologist also stressed that natural immunity is “far better than a vaccine ‘therapy.'” There are 150 studies published on this at Brownstone Institute by their colleague, Dr. Paul Alexander.
Cancer Spreads Like Wildfire
RAIR Foundation USA had previously reported on Dr. Cole, who warned that the Covid vaccines are also responsible for increased cancer cases.
After he spoke out about the risks of the corona vaccines, ‘numerous’ oncologists contacted him. The doctors reported they are “seeing the weirdest cancers, and cancers that we have been able to keep in check and treat, taking off like wildfire – going stage 2, stage 3, stage 4, just like that.”
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Old Joe Biden’s handlers have essentially erased the Southern border, and as a result, illegals are streaming in at a rapid clip. Even the New York Times, a reliable Leftist propaganda organ, admitted last October that “migrants were encountered 1.7 million times in the last 12 months, the highest number of illegal crossings recorded since at least 1960.” A new record could be set in 2022, as the UK’s Daily Mailreported Thursday that “more than 170,000 migrants are waiting on the Mexican-side of the U.S.-Mexico border to cross and claim asylum” once the Biden administration trashes, as it is expected to do, Title 42, a Trump-era provision that allowed illegal migrants to be expelled during the COVID-19 hysteria. And as all this is unfolding, al-Qaeda has published a new online magazine encouraging jihad terrorists to immigrate to the United States and commit massacres here. It looks as if yet another Biden-caused disaster is in the offing.
Those 170,000 migrants, according to the Daily Mail, will be just the beginning: “The U.S. could be just hours away from another wave of mass migration if the Biden administration lifts Title 42.” Who are these people who will stream in? What is their background? Come on, man! Nobody knows, and apparently, no one in the Biden administration cares. They’re coming here, they’ll go on welfare, they’ll vote Democrat, and that’s all that matters. Criminals? Terrorists? Maybe — indeed, probably — but who cares?
Terrorists are watching, too. On Wednesday, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an al-Qaeda group called Hurras Al-Tawheed (that is, Guardians of Monotheism) published an issue of the online magazine “Mujahedeen in the West.” The lead article is an extended defense of the Islamic concept of hijra (moving to a non-Muslim land in order to expand the scope and influence of Islam) and a refutation of claims that this was a duty for Muslims only in the time of Muhammad but not today.
The concept of hijra is based in part on the Qur’an, which tells Muslims, “Whoever emigrates for the sake of Allah will find much refuge and abundance in the earth, and whoever forsakes his home, a refugee for Allah and his messenger, and death overtakes him, his reward is then obligatory upon Allah. Allah is always forgiving, merciful.” (4:100) Muhammad himself, according to Islamic tradition, performed the first hijra when he moved from Mecca, where he was born, to Medina, where he became for the first time a political and military leader as well as a religious one. This is extremely significant in Islamic theology, for the Qur’an holds up Muhammad as the “excellent example” (33:21), to be emulated in every possible respect.
The al-Qaeda magazine argues strongly that Muslims should be immigrating to infidel lands today, even saying, “Woe to the liars, as the angels told the Muslims who remained [that is, didn’t embark on a hijra] and were given hellfire. The angels told the Muslims who did not do hijrah that their destination will be JAHANNAM [hell].”
In another article, the jihadis exhorted “the Lions of Allah:” “Do not waste your time on small lone wolf attacks, go to their embassies, courts, security checkpoints and strike them in their gathering of unbelief.” It praised Muslims who live in “the abode of unbelief” (e.g., the United States) but nevertheless “manage to be guided by Allah and choose to live for the religion of Allah and not the religion of Democracy.” These strong believers “did not submit to the fragile emasculated, pro-feminist, pro-LGBTQTAGHUT+ ‘Islam.’” Taghut is the idolatrous rule of disbelievers.
After that, the magazine really gets down to business, providing aspiring jihadis with detailed bomb-making instructions.
Now, is it possible that any young jihadi will read this magazine and decide to take advantage of Old Joe’s essentially nonexistent Southern border to enter the United States and set off his homemade bomb here? Of course, it is. In August 2021, outgoing Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott warned that the Southern border was “a national security crisis,” with “TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That’s a real threat.” TSDB is the Terrorist Screening Database; Scott meant that suspected jihad terrorists were streaming into the U.S. at record levels. And what was there to stop them?
The al-Qaeda magazine’s last article addresses non-Muslims who are sounding the alarm about the ongoing jihad threat. “We enjoy your distress by our magazines,” it says. “May our words continue to give you restless nights. We see your tweets, and articles. Go ahead! Continue barking and tweeting. While we can enjoy your concern and distress. The majority of disbelievers will not even listen to you. Funny how you try to ‘save’ them.”
Yes, it’s funny, because most Americans at this point have no idea that there is a jihad threat from which they need to be saved. I myself have been calling attention to it for well over twenty years, and for my pains have been called a “rogue academic,” a “bigot,” and far worse, even “antichrist.” The establishment media doesn’t want you to know that there is jihad, or that it threatens Americans, and has done its best to defame and destroy those who have called attention to it. Unfortunately, that will not make the threat go away.
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Journalist Lara Logan: Ukraine's ‘Puppet’ President was 'Selected', 'We are Being Lied to On An Epic Scale'
BY AMY MEK
Logan reports that the United States and its intelligence agencies have been funding and arming the Nazis in Ukraine for a long time.
On Tuesday, Journalist Lara Logan appeared on America’s Voice AM and denounced Ukraine’s ‘puppet’ President Volodymyr Zelensky who was “selected” and called much of the news about Ukraine “misinformation.”
The former Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry, who was the host, explained the current state of Ukraine. Henry said Putin “caused a lot of destruction, don’t want to minimize the fact there are over two million refugees. But this has not gone as well as Vladimir Putin expected.”
Logan, the former 60 Minutes correspondent, responded,
“I don’t buy it for a second, and I’ll be honest with you. I really think that there’s so much misinformation. We’ve never really seen anything like it. I mean, I’ve been covering wars now for 35 years.” She continued, “And there’s so much more going on in Ukraine that nobody is talking about.”
‘Crimea Wanted to Belong to Russia’
Logan slammed the Ukrainian Nazi group Azov Battalion, which she claims is funded by the United States and NATO. She explained that the Azov Battalion is leaving a trail of death and destruction in eastern Ukraine. “This is why Crimea wanted to belong to Russia.” According to our leaders, only a few troops are involved. That is not true, claims Logan.
Logan pointed out that Ukraine used to be a headquarters for the SS, and revealed more about the Azov-Battalion’s Nazi connections:
I mean, you can find pictures of them online holding up the NATO flag and the swastika. And at the same time, their own emblem contains the black sun of the occult, which was a Nazi SS emblem.”
Logan went on to link the Ukrainian military to the Azov Battalion, stating,
throughout the Ukrainian military you can see that black sun of the occult on their body armor, even on the female soldiers who are paraded in front of the world as being, you know, such an example of Ukraine’s independence and spirit and nobility.”
Logan reports that the United States and its various intelligence agencies have been funding and arming the Nazis in Ukraine for a long time. She explains that the CIA gave Nazis immunity from prosecution after World War II,
The CIA under Allen Dulles actually gave immunity from prosecution to the Nazis of Ukraine from the Nuremberg trials. So there’s a long history of the United States and our intelligence agencies funding and arming Nazis in Ukraine. These are not, like, new neo-Nazi groups that sprung up. These are the actual Nazis.”
Many Suffered in WWII
“What troubles me about the moment that we’re in is that we have such a selective and a narrow reading of history. President Zelenskyy may be Jewish, but he’s not the only one in this who suffered during the second world war, whose ancestors suffered, right?” Logan asked.
“I mean, look at Putin, how many relatives did he lose in the siege of St. Petersburg? People don’t know their history,” she said before noting, “I’m am not defending him. I don’t need to defend Vladimir Putin. My job as a journalist is to try to understand, what is the truth here?”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a ‘Selected’ ‘Puppet’
She continued, “I don’t like being lied to. And we’re being lied to on an epic scale. When we’re told your only choices, you have to be a hundred percent with Zelensky, who’s a puppet who you can find on the internet in black stilettos and leather pants, you know, shirtless, doing a spoof Dancing With The Stars kind of entertainment video that’s a mock of a Ukrainian group that does this kind of satanic, occult type of music video.”
“And I mean, Zelensky was selected, like so many of our leaders. And honestly, with big tech and with election fraud these days, we don’t know how many leaders all around the world have been selected for us and weren’t actually voted in,”
Putin knew exactly what he was doing when he invaded Ukraine, Logan explained. He did not go directly to Kiev. Instead, Russia went to all those Biolabs in the country. So we should not just believe our leaders. After all, they lied about corona.
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“A Queer Prom goes far beyond lighting, music, and dress but rather, it represents a space where members of the LGBTQ+ community can exist in peace, without apology, and without fear.”
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In late February, DePaul University — an ostensibly Catholic institution in Chicago — hosted its first-ever “Queer Prom.” The event, which was sponsored by DePaul’s Student Government Association (SGA), was open to all students, but the stated purpose of the “Queer Prom,” according to the student newspaper, was to create “a safe space for those in the LGBTQ+ community.”
In the world of Catholic colleges and universities, there are two types of institutions: authentic Catholic institutions which stand up for Catholic teaching, and CINO (Catholic in Name Only) institutions, such as DePaul. Sadly, the CINOs outnumber the authentic institutions in the academic world.
As part and parcel of the lack of anything resembling genuine Catholicity at DePaul, it is worth pointing out that The DePaulina — the DePaul University student newspaper — is little more than a mouthpiece for the Left. The site is positively crawling with “gender fluidity,” “non-Binary,” “abortion rights,” and other Left-wing issues.
So it is no surprise that The DePaulina went all-in on the “Queer Prom.” The paper described the “Queer Prom” as an event “in close quarters and glitter on nearly everyone’s eyelids” where “several couples dance against each other as single people form dance circles.” The paper goes on to describe how the participants were seen to “sing out the lyrics to every song while standing intensely close to their friends, strangers, and lovers, smiling behind their masks.”
The article quotes SGA senator Riley Reed — who was one of the event’s main organizers — as saying, “I think the amount of diversity we had in the room [and] the number of people that we had here for an event that’s still during Covid times was really great. Reed added, “I think the most beautiful thing I noticed was how many different types of people were here and how people could just let loose and have fun, especially with a lot of the different laws we’ve seen being passed in Florida and Texas. I think that was just really motivating to see all these amazing queer people coming out and celebrating themselves.”
Like similar “Culture War” issues, the Catholic “Queer Prom” scourge is spreading rapidly. And while the LGBTQ+ lobby would have one think such events are all rainbows and smiley faces, that is not how some students at Catholic educational institutions feel about them.
Nicholas Baker, a student at Saint Louis University, a Catholic institution in Missouri, told Campus Reform that his university would be hosting a similar event, sponsored by a group called Rainbow Alliance. Baker went on to tell Campus Reform, “I’m incredibly disappointed to see these supposedly Catholic institutions bow down to the pressure of our secular society,” adding, “As Catholics and Christians, we are supposed to defend truth and confront sin, not celebrate it.”
Baker accused CINO universities of playing a rousing game of “bait and switch,” saying, “These schools dupe their prospective students and donors into believing they’re Catholic, and then pull the rug out from underneath.”
Baker’s assertion is spot on. When one enrolls in a Catholic university, he has the right to expect that university to actually be Catholic. And the teaching of the Catholic Church on this issue is very clear. While The Paulina and the Rainbow Alliance would have one believe that (1) one can be a practicing Catholic and a practicing homosexual (or bi-sexual, or trans-sexual, or whatever comes next in the ever-growing list of sexual perversions) and (2) that the “strict” moral teaching of the Church is one of hostility and hatred toward homosexuals, the facts say otherwise.
As the Reverend Philip Smith — parochial vicar at Most Blessed Sacrament Church and Corpus Christi University Parish in Toledo, Ohio — illustrates very well in his 5 Myths about the Teaching of the Catholic Church on Homosexuality, while the Catholic Church teaches that all “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,” she also teaches that homosexuals “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity” and that “Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.” The Church also teaches that “Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.” His observations are taken directly from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
For Catholic Universities to defy Church teaching and host events celebrating sexual perversion is a scandal. And while this should be a matter for Catholic bishops to handle, this again illustrates that American bishops are remiss in their duties as shepherds, as they have been in dealing with pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians.
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DHS estimates 25,000 migrants already waiting in Mexican shelters just south of the border.
QUICK FACTS:
U.S. intelligence officials are bracing for the more than 170,000 migrants expected at the Mexico border when COVID-era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are ended,Axios reports.
Title 42—a temporary Trump-era order up for renewal in early April—has been used more than 1 million times to rapidly expel migrants at the southern border without hearing asylum claims.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence estimates roughly 25,000 migrants are already waiting in Mexican shelters just south of the border, waiting for Title 42 to end.
DHS Deputy Secretary John Tien on Wednesday asked employees “to consider stepping forward to support the DHS Volunteer Force,” citing large numbers of migrants at the southwest border, Axios notes.
The department could bring hundreds or thousands of additional personnel from Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, Citizenship and Immigration Services, and medical personnel from the Department of Health and Human Services.
⚡SCOOP @axios@StefWKight@jonathanvswan: • U.S. preps for 170,000+ migrants if COVID rules lift • May mobilize Pentagon air/ground assets + prison buses • Plan to expand soft-sided shelters • Homeland Security seeks internal Volunteer Force https://t.co/Tq6W3YNADZ
Internal discussions have raised alarms that human trafficking networks throughout Mexico and Central America will exploit the situation to “generate a mass migration event,” according to Axios.
Top Biden officials representing multiple agencies have been meeting to discuss a government-wide plan to deal with a potential record-breaking influx of migrants, DHS branding it the “Southwest Border Mass Irregular Migration Contingency Plan.”
DHS puts out call for employees to volunteer at southern border amid 'large numbers' of migrants https://t.co/VysL5dc5qw via @FoxNews
In this Dr. Jane Ruby Show, Dr. Jane talks with UK Nurse and Activist, Kate Shemirani who’s been called Britain’s most dangerous woman and notorious anti-vaxxer, her research led her away from modern allopathic medicine and a search for answers after her own diagnosis of cancer, she became a personal nutrition advisor and now works on UK radio as a leading voice against British tyrannical government; and then Dr. Jane meets with Greta Crawford who escaped the death protocol in a Texas hospital and now leads a rally in Wisconsin; the show ends on a hopeful optimistic note encouraging personal health and mindset to survive and thrive in the aftermath of the covid scam and tyrannical overreach.
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Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016, and 2018 Republican Nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23).
Samir Abbas Kakli has the dubious distinction of being the President of the South Florida Muslim Federation (SoFlo Muslims, SFMF), an umbrella group for South Florida’s many radical Muslim institutions. He has been with the Federation since it began operations in 2017. As the head of the group, Kakli has associations with a number of individuals who are alleged to have actively spread terror and/or bigotry, and at least a couple of these extremists, he is personally connected to. Kakli’s dangerous relationships should be scrutinized and his and his entire organization’s motives called into question.
Kakli took over the leadership of the Federation from Nezar Hamze, a long-time operative of the Hamas-linked CAIR. Hamze left his duties at the Federation, in 2021, to focus on the new family he made with the sister of current CAIR representative Aida Mackic, Emina, whom he has two children with. Emina, though, recently removed the “Hamze” she was using for her last name on social media and now goes by her maiden name “Emina Ramic” (Perhaps due to Nezar still being legally wed to his first wife, Jaime?) With all his marital issues, it is ironic (or maybe not) that Hamze is listed as a member of SFMF’s Matrimonial Committee.
SFMF features several divisions, including a Council of Imams. One imam, the spiritual leader of Margate-based Masjid Jamaat Al-Mu'mineen (MJAM), Izhar Khan, in May 2011, was arrested and charged by the FBI with helping to fund the Taliban. According to the indictment, “Izhar… provided… material support and resources… intending that they be used in preparation for and in carrying out… a conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country.” Khan’s MJAM promotes texts labeling Jews and Christians “enemies” and endorsing female genital mutilation, death punishments for gays, and domestic violence against women.
Samir Kakli is not just linked to Izhar Khan via the Muslim Federation. Kakli is a personal friend to Khan. Kakli has posted on social media photos from the wakeboarding trips he took with Khan. During one such excursion, in July 2018, Kakli wrote, “Alhamdulillah, great weekend, great programs, great times with Mufti Abdullah Al-Mahmudi, Mufti Sultan Mohiuddin, Mufti Izhar Khan! May Allah bless you for all you do.” In December 2017, during another outing with Khan and Mohiuddin, Kakli wrote, “Wakeboarding with the Mufti’s in COLD water!! But warm brotherhood prevailed.”
Fellow wakeboarder, Abdullah al-Mahmudi, is an imam at the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Michigan (MCA). This past May, al-Mahmudi spoke at a ‘Rally for Palestine’ held in downtown Ann Arbor, where he called for and event goers chanted and held signs calling for Israel’s destruction. MCA is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), a group that protects the assets of hundreds of radical mosques and has been named by the US government a party to the financing of Hamas. Sultan Mohiuddin is the imam of the Islamic Foundation of South Florida (IFSF), which like Izhar Khan’s MJAM is a member organization of SFMF.
Abdurahman al-Ghani is a former IFSF youth director and ex-Muslim Federation social media director. Al-Ghani has used Facebook to refer to Jews as “the children of Satan,” “demonic” and “the most evil on earth”; the US as the “World's Number One Terrorist Organization”; and gay Muslims as “stone-cold kaffirs outside the fold of Islam.” In February 2012, he encouraged his followers to violently “wipe out the CIA.” In September 2012, he promoted a graphic from deceased al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki with the message, “Allah is preparing us for victory.” And in November 2012, he posted the message, “We love u Hamas. U are the real hero.”
Much like in the case of Izhar Khan, al-Ghani is not merely a former colleague of Samir Kakli. Indeed, Kakli frequently uses social media to re-post al-Ghani’s material and tag al-Ghani in his own posts. This past April, Kakli tagged al-Ghani (ironically, as he is an overt and unabashed antisemite) to a post challenging the definition of antisemitism. In October, Kakli tagged him to a post publicizing a then-upcoming anti-Israel rally. And last month, Kakli tagged al-Ghani to a flyer for the Federation’s March conference, keeping al-Ghani in the loop of Federation happenings.
Regarding the SFMF conference, its main sponsor is Islamic Relief (IR), an organization that has been banned by a number of nations due to its many links to terrorist financing. In fact, the US, Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland all have recently cut funding to IR. Yet, Kakli has used his personal Facebook to advertise IR employment opportunities and IR fundraisers, to which he himself has donated. Kakli, furthermore, has used social media to call for “defunding the police” and to contribute towards anti-Israel violence by promoting a July 2020 Palestinian ‘Day of Rage.’
The South Florida Muslim Federation and its leader, Samir Kakli, both should be called out for their involvement with extremists who propagate the worst iterations of terror and bigotry. America and Americans must not turn a blind eye to the radicals who live amongst them and who pose credible threats to the community. These dangerous entities need to be investigated and, whenever possible, be removed from our nation’s shores.
In order to draw attention to the threat, SFMF poses to our local and national security, the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative is holding a rally to protest the group, on Saturday, March 19th, from 2-4 PM, outside their conference being held at the Heron Bay Marriott in Coral Springs, Florida, at the corner of Coral Ridge Dr. and Heron Bay Blvd. Our featured speaker will be 850 WFTL radio talk show hostess Joyce Kaufman. We urge all freedom-loving patriots to attend and help us make clear, “No Jihad in Our Backyard!”
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
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The Islamic State (ISIS) is back. Five years after Donald Trump entered the Oval Office and quickly brought about the destruction of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is resurgent and wealthy. Could this have anything to do with Old Joe Biden’s misrule? Of course.
To be sure, there are other factors at play as well. An Iraqi security official said Friday that “recent assessments … put the group’s reserves at between $25 million and $50 million.” That could be a conservative estimate: the Wall Street Journal reported in September 2020 that ISIS had “assets ranging into the hundreds of millions of dollars across the Middle East and Central Asia,” according to “officials and government records.”
The Iraqi official said that ISIS got its cash from “opportunistic extortion, looting and kidnap for ransom,” but those are not the only sources of the jihad terror group’s income. WSJ added that ISIS “still extorts local populations in areas it controls or has supporters; receives income from businesses it seized during its rule; and collects payments from human trafficking.” It also controls “a growing share of illicit tobacco markets in Pakistan and Afghanistan.” Nor is even that all: “donors in several Middle Eastern countries work on raising funds,” says the WSJ, in an understated reference to wealthy Muslims around the world who believe that ISIS is a worthy Islamic organization and keep it afloat financially with substantial donations.
On Friday, the group announced that it had chosen a new caliph, the brother of the former ISIS caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a U.S. raid in 2019. The new top dog is Juma Awad al-Badri, a.k.a. Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, succeeding Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, who blew himself up to avoid being captured in a U.S. raid in Syria in February.
They all call themselves al-Quraishi because they claim to be members of the Quraish tribe, the Meccan tribe of Arabia to which Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, belonged. To be a Quraish is a prerequisite of being the caliph, or successor, that is, Muhammad’s successor as political, military, and spiritual leader of the Muslims, and that prerequisite is non-negotiable, leading people such as Juma Awad al-Badri to fabricate a lineage back to the Islamic prophet
Yet although they fancy themselves as seventh-century warriors, these guys are not remotely just fantasists. ISIS has been advancing all over of late. It is active in Mali, where either ISIS or al-Qaeda (both jihad groups are active in Mali) recently attacked an army base, murdering 27 soldiers and injuring 33 more. They have “seized vast swaths of the Malian countryside,” according to Reuters, and have expanded their operations into neighboring countries. In late February in Nigeria, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) slaughtered 25 people. In Mozambique, ISIS is such a formidable presence that South Africa, Rwanda, Botswana, Lesotho, Angola, and Zambia have sent troops to combat it there. None of those countries is anything close to being a military powerhouse, but it’s still noteworthy that forces from six countries have to come together to fight a threat that most people assumed had been decisively defeated several years ago and would fade into the background.
The group has designs not just in Africa, either. Homeland Security Today reported in late February that ISIS had posted a video online urging Muslims in the United States to join “ISIS North America.”
“To those who want to try,” the video said, “to my brothers following in the path of the Khilafa [caliphate] in America I urge you to come join our group. This new group will operate in the United States to surprise the murtad [apostates, ex-Muslims] in their own lands. The name of this group will be named ISIS-NA (Islamic State of Iraq & Sham [the Levant] – North America).”
It’s interesting that the Islamic State would choose now, of all times, to try to expand its organization into the United States. (There have been individuals who have joined ISIS from the U.S. in the past, but no significant organized ISIS group here.) Weakness invites aggression, and we see this all around the world, from Ukraine to Taiwan to North Korea and in the renewed activities of ISIS. With Old Joe Biden in the White House, the Islamic State sees a perfect time to act in the United States. And with the Southern border essentially fictional and our law enforcement and intelligence apparatus devoted to hunting for equally fictional “white supremacists,” it’s easy to see why they think this way.
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Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday during the Celebration of Penance that he will preside over in St Peter's Basilica,the Vatican announced Wednesday.
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, said in a statement: “The same act, on the same day, will be performed in Fatima by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, who is being sent there by the Pope."
The day of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord was chosen for the consecration.
The news was greeted with joy by Catholic leaders in both Ukraine and Russia.
“In 1917, Our Lady of Fatima said that, in order to stop the war and the persecution of the Church, we must pray and consecrate Russia to her Heart and also take Communion on the first five Saturdays of the month,” he said.
Earlier Wednesday, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church and Pope Francis discussed the war in Ukraine. It was the first known contact between the two religious leaders since the conflict began.
The Moscow Patriarchy said in a statement that the two discussed the "humanitarian aspects of the ongoing crisis" and the importance of pursuing peace talks.
They also discussed "what actions the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic churches could take to overcome its consequences," the Russian side said.
In its readout of the conversation, which took place in a video call, the Vatican said the pope told Kirill: "The ones who pay the price of war are the people, the Russian soldiers and the people who are bombarded and die."
Kirill, 75, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has made statements defending Moscow's actions in Ukraine and sees the war as a bulwark against a West he considers decadent, particularly over the acceptance of homosexuality.
At his general audience earlier on Wednesday, Francis evoked the specter of a nuclear war, where whoever is left of humanity would have to start all over again on "the day after," and appeared to ask God to stop the aggressor in Ukraine.
Metropolitan (Archbishop) Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church's external affairs office and Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Vatican Council for Christian Unity, also took part in the conversation, both statements said.
On Wednesday evening, the Vatican's number two, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said a Mass for peace in Ukraine in St. Peter's Basilica attended by both the Ukrainian and Russian ambassadors to the Vatican.
Republican senators reacted to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's recent address to Congress. One America's John Hines has more from Capitol Hill.
Mariupol final stages. Russia says goodbye to Globalist system
Biden’s handlers’ new Iran deal allows Russia to cash in on $10,000,000,000 contract to build nuclear sites
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Treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. How is this not treason? But Biden’s handlers have nothing to worry about. The only people in positions to prosecute them are on their side.
“New Iran Agreement Would Let Russia Cash in on $10 Billion Contract To Build Nuclear Sites,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 16, 2022:
Russia’s top state-controlled energy company is set to cash in on a $10 billion contract to build out one of Iran’s most contested nuclear sites as part of concessions granted in the soon-to-be-announced nuclear agreement that will guarantee sanctions on both countries are lifted.
Russian and Iranian documents translated for the Washington Free Beacon show that Rosatom, Russia’s leading energy company, has a $10 billion contract with Iran’s atomic energy organization to expand Tehran’s Bushehr nuclear plant. Russia and the Biden administration confirmed on Tuesday that the new nuclear agreement includes carveouts that will waive sanctions on both countries so that Russia can make good on this contract.
“We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA,” State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed on Tuesday, referring to the original 2015 nuclear accord. Russia’s foreign ministry made a similar statement on Tuesday, saying that “additions were made to the text of the future agreement on JCPOA restoration to ensure that all the JCPOA-related projects, [especially] with Russian participation, as well as Bushehr [nuclear power plant], are protected from negative impact of anti-Russian restrictions” by the United States and European Union….
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(Natural News) However bad the food shortage was expected to be due to Russia’s invasion of its Ukrainian neighbor, they are going to get worse following a decision made by the Kremlin earlier this week.
According to reports, the government of President Vladimir Putin has decided to halt all exports of most agricultural commodities including wheat, rye, barley and corn at least until June 30 in what appears to be Moscow’s pushback on the sanctions imposed on his country by the West.
Interfax, Russia’s newswire agency, reported that the country’s Agriculture Ministry announced the ban, which began March 15 – just as some observers, including One River CIO Eric Peters – are likening the coming global food shortages to the original Holodomor (which, by the way, occurred in Ukraine under Stalin). The Holodomor was a man-made famine instituted by that authoritarian butcher “from 1932 to 1933, peaking in the late spring of 1933,” Britannica.com noted.
The site added: It was part of a broader Soviet famine (1931–34) that also caused mass starvation in the grain-growing regions of Soviet Russia and Kazakhstan. The Ukrainian famine, however, was made deadlier by a series of political decrees and decisions that were aimed mostly or only at Ukraine. In acknowledgment of its scale, the famine of 1932–33 is often called the Holodomor, a term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).
“The Agriculture Ministry, together with the Industry and Trade Ministry, has drafted a government resolution that provides for a temporary ban on the export of basic grain crops from Russia from March 15 to June 30 of the current year inclusive,” the ministry’s press office told Interfax.
There is still some hope that a worst-case scenario can be avoided, but that is becoming more doubtful literally by the day.
According to Douglas Karr, founder of the business blog Martech Zone, a global food shortage means just that – it will be global – so it will be felt in the “land of plenty” as well: America.
Karr reportedly spoke with several U.S. food industry officials who said farmers in the Midwest and South are already having difficulty obtaining enough fertilizer to grow crops ahead of this year’s planting season, which is just around the corner for some parts of the country. He also said that farmers in the “Midwest are switching,” likely a reference to crops that need fewer nutrients because they “can’t get nitrogen nor fertilizer.”
Convo with farm today: – Meat processors booked out a year because stockpiling beef. – Farmers in South can’t get fertilizer for crops now. – Farmers in Midwest are switching, can’t get nitrogen nor fertilizer. Buckle up, folks! The media isn’t even warning you. #economy
There is also this: Even before Russian troops stormed across Ukraine’s border, there were already global food shortages, thanks in large part to the supply chain crisis created (and perpetuated) by months-long lockdowns and factory closures following China’s creation and release of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). In addition to Russia curbing exports, Ukraine’s government has also halted food exports to ensure that its people have enough as Russian forces continue pounding their cities and taking over land used for food production.
All said, the United Nations has warned that prices for food – which were already at record highs – will spike even more, from eight to 20 percent from this point on. Add on skyrocketing oil, gasoline and natural gas prices and you have all the makings of a worldwide catastrophe (and the massive unrest it will spark).
If Russia winds up banning food experts, and especially wheat, for months or longer, the global food shortages will likely lead to a far worse crisis than the one that caused the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, tore Syria apart and spread to North Africa.
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A Christian teacher in Kansas is suing her school board, the superintendent, and the principal after allegedly being suspended for using a student’s wrong transgender pronouns.
Fort Riley Middle School teacher Pamela Ricard claims the suspension violated her First Amendment religious freedom rights.
Ms. Ricard believes that God created human beings as either male or female, that this sex is fixed in each person from the moment of conception, and that it cannot be changed, regardless of an individual person’s feelings, desires, or preferences. Any policy that requires Ms. Ricard to refer to a student by a gendered, nonbinary, or plural pronoun (e.g., he/him, she/her, they/them, zhe/zher, etc.) or salutation (Mr., Miss, Ms.) or other gendered language that is different from the student’s biological sex actively violates Ms. Ricard’s religious beliefs
The lawsuit claims the school board suspended her and issued a written reprimand for failing to follow the school’s policies regarding diversity and inclusion.
On April 7, 2021, Ricard allegedly called one of her students “miss” to gain her attention. Another classmate emailed Ricard after class informing her of the student’s different first name and new he/him pronouns.
The following day, Ricard addressed the student by her last name, avoiding using pronouns entirely. The same classmate who emailed Ricard, frustrated, left a note on her desk calling her “transphobic,” adding, “my pronouns are he/they btw.”
His pronouns are He/Him & if you cant act like an Adult & respect him & his pronouns then prepare yourself to deal with his mother since you cant be a decent human being and respect him. All youre doing right now is showing that youre transphobic & don’t care that youre being visibly transphobic.
Two days after the initial incident, Ricard discussed the issue with school officials, the complaint said. Later that day, the district put Ricard on a three-day paid suspension while school officials investigated any possible violations of school board policy, the complaint alleges.
Once Ricard returned from the suspension, the school reprimanded her for allegedly violating school board policies. The board also ordered Ricard to use the student’s new name and pronouns. Ricard signed the reprimand but handwrote, “I do not agree with this,” the complaint said.
During an August closed board hearing regarding Richard’s employee discipline, the board allegedly denied her request for a “specific accommodation and policy that would allow her to continue to address students by their names but refrain from using preferred pronouns or other gender-specific language, for a student when such pronouns or language were different than the student’s biological sex.”
Although the school suspended her in April, Ricard claims the school had no “formal policy regarding student preferred name and pronoun use at the time shewas suspended and reprimanded.”
One week after her suspension, the school principal sent all teachers training documents on “Diversity Training on Gender Identity and Gender Expression as well as a protocol document regarding the Use of Preferred Names and Pronouns,” according to the complaint. The district then implemented a policy requiring teachers to use their students’ preferred names and pronouns in October.
“No public school teacher should be forced to contradict their core beliefs in order to teach math to middle schoolers,” Ricard told the Washington Post. “I treat all students with respect, but the district has rejected any attempts to find a compromise that respects students without violating my convictions.”
“The school district disciplined Ms. Ricard not for something she said, but for something she couldn’t say,” Ricard’s attorney said.
The case is Ricard v. USD 475 Geary County Schools School Board, No. 5:22-cv-04015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
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(Natural News) Since the end of World War II, the British pound was replaced as the world’s reserve currency with the U.S. dollar, which put Americans at a distinct advantage by making our money the strongest and safest in the world.
But in recent years, there have been emerging threats to King Dollar’s dominance, thanks in large part to insane ‘America last’ domestic and foreign policies adopted and perpetuated by left-wing Democratic regimes.
There was a temporary lull in the push to demolish American economic primacy during the four years of Donald Trump’s administration, but his MAGA platform so upset the global power structure all stops were removed to prevent him from winning reelection.
Now, after installing the mindless Joe Biden, the deep state powers that be who are propping him up have reimplemented their policies aimed at destroying America because our country is the only one standing between liberty and economic enslavement by a select global elite.
The latest sign that their plan is working: Saudi Arabia, long an ally of the U.S. and perpetrator of the American “petrodollar,” has announced it will consider accepting the Chinese yuan as payment for oil sold to Beijing.
One of the core staples of the past 40 years, and an anchor propping up the dollar’s reserve status, was a global financial system based on the petrodollar – this was a world in which oil producers would sell their product to the US (and the rest of the world) for dollars, which they would then recycle the proceeds in dollar-denominated assets and while investing in dollar-denominated markets, explicitly prop up the USD as the world reserve currency, and in the process backstop the standing of the US as the world’s undisputed financial superpower.
Those days are coming to an end.
And it appears as though the catalyst for the USD’s reserve currency demise is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
According to The Wall Street Journal, “Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global petroleum market and mark another shift by the world’s top crude exporter toward Asia.”
Talks with China regarding pricing Saudi oil in yuan contracts have taken place in an on-again, off-again fashion for about six years, but they dramatically increased this year as the Kingdom grew increasingly frustrated with U.S. security commitments to help defend the Saudis going back decades, according to the sources.
These China-Saudi talks, again, are being influenced directly by the policies of the current Biden regime, the WSJ noted.
“The Saudis are angry over the U.S.’s lack of support for their intervention in the Yemen civil war, and over the Biden administration’s attempt to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear program,” the paper said, adding: “Saudi officials have said they were shocked by the precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.”
“China buys more than 25% of the oil that Saudi Arabia exports. If priced in yuan, those sales would boost the standing of China’s currency,” the report continued.
None of this is by accident. The people who operate the deep state are not dumb; they know what they’re doing. They know certain policies embolden and empower our country — like those Trump adopted — and they know which policies will push our allies into other economic spheres of influence and thus weaken our country (which they believe we deserve, for some insane reason).
So this move to alienate the Saudis and hasten the rise of China’s currency at risk to the USD is purposeful. And it comes as other elements of the plan are being put in place thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, per Zero Hedge:
Russia starving the western world of much-needed resources, sending commodity prices ever higher, while its silent partner China quietly picks up the pieces and takes advantage of Russia’s isolation to approach all those other “non-western” former petrodollar clients to offer them a new product, the yuan, which Beijing is now actively and aggressively pushing to dethrone the dollar as a global reserve currency.
This crash is inevitable, by the way; electing Trump to another four-year term won’t do anything but delay it — that is if our country’s economy has not collapsed already by 2024.
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Recently resurfaced reports and admissions of high-profile U.S. officials confirm that the U.S. government has funded research on deadly pathogens in Ukrainian biological laboratories. Combined with other political and military factors that were largely influenced by the United States, this most likely contributed to the Russian rationale for invading Ukraine.
As reported by The New American last week, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a hearing that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” that the U.S. government is “concerned” would fall under Russian control.
As noted in the report, “The extent of U.S. involvement with Ukrainian labs that allegedly worked on biological weapons development is unclear, and it seems likely the U.S. government is not being fully transparent about it.”
For example, the U.S. embassy in Ukraine deleted all of its bio-lab documents from the official website, according to a News Punch report.
A resurfaced official report from 2011 from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories of the National Institute of Health (NIH) stated,
The collaboration [between the United States and Ukraine] focuses on preventing the spread of technologies, pathogens, and knowledge that can be used in the development of biological weapons. [Emphasis added.]
How would Russia view such developments on its border? Dr. Robert Malone, who has vast experience in working with the U.S. defense community, posted on his Substack,
If one looks at the situation from a Russian geopolitical-realpolitik frame of reference, the gradual development of a NATO-aligned state along the Russian border, replete with US-sponsored “Biolabs” that were (at best) working with biothreat agents (toxins, pathogens) collected from the Ukrainian region (and heavens knows where else), represented a legitimate threat to Russian national security.
Malone added that based on his professional experience, he finds it probable that the United States was indeed involved in the development of bioweapons in these labs, even though the U.S. government denies it.
Speaking with Peter Navarro of The War Room on Wednesday, Dr. Malone said that it was “highly unlikely” that the sole purpose of the labs was to collect and archive dangerous pathogens. In agreement with Russian military intelligence, he would definitely view these labs as a “potential threat,” which is “consistent with the whole pattern of increasing assimilation of Ukraine as a client state [of NATO].”
Asked why the United States “puts our [bio]labs” in places such as China and Ukraine, Malone alleged that the U.S. federal government, specifically the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institute of Allergies and Infection Diseases (NIAID), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency(DRTA) of the DODare offshoring risk and legal liability, and trying to circumvent congressional oversight concerning activities related to bioweapons development.
In his Substack post, Malone argued that the Russian position on asking Ukraine to give up its NATO aspiration and becoming a neutral country may be a “valid point.”
“If you believe the recent statements by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov (as reported by The Epoch Times), if Ukraine gives up NATO alliance/US Client state aspirations, then there is a deal to be made to end the ‘war,’” he wrote.
However, becoming a neutral demilitarized state seems not to be the desire of the Ukrainian establishment, as appears from the “hyperbole and propaganda” pushed by President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration, as noted by Malone.
On Wednesday, Zelensky pleaded with the U.S. Congress and President Biden to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which is viewed by many as a move that would bring the United States into war with Russia.
Malone further points out that the Biden administration — with the apparent support of the U.S. Congress — has transferred $13.6 billion “to support what appears to me to be a lost cause in Ukraine.”
On Tuesday, President Biden signed a $1.5 trillion spending bill that will shore up federal funding for the rest of the fiscal year, which is also doling out cash for Ukraine.
Announcing additional military aid to Ukraine the next day, Biden said, “The American people are answering President Zelenskyy’s call for more help, more weapons for Ukraine to defend itself, more tools to fight Russian aggression. And that’s what we’re doing.”
The president hinted that more aid will be provided, since “This could be a long and difficult battle.”
Malone alleges that the Washington, D.C., “Uniparty,” together with the administration, has “reappropriated and transferred COVID-19 funds” for “foreign adventures in Ukraine.” To replenish the Covid funds, the U.S. government will request — and almost certainly receive — up to $100 billion for future “pandemic preparedness.”
As reported by The New American, the strategy is based on four pillars: protecting against, and treating Americans for, Covid, preparing for new Covid variants, preventing economic shutdowns, and leading the effort to “vaccinate the world.” The plan is full of provisions that will likely bear no positive results, such as developing a vaccine to protect against all current and future strains of Covid; vaccinating young children; adding antivirals, masks, and testing kits to the Strategic National Stockpile; buying more Covid tests; combating COVID “disinformation and misinformation,” and many other measures.
While recognizing Russian President Vladimir Putin as “an aggressive militaristic opportunist,” Malone concludes that the current situation in Ukraine “is largely of our (Team USA) own making due to ill-advised efforts to turn an economically distressed former USSR territory with petroleum assets (see ‘Burisma’) into a USA/NATO client state.”
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Due to state laws in several states banning abortions either after a heartbeat is detected or after a certain number of weeks of pregnancy, Citigroup has taken the step of covering travel expenses for employees who go out of state for abortions. The bank announced Tuesday that the new policy is “in response to changes in reproductive healthcare laws in certain states in the US.”
Citigroup — the third-largest banking institution in the United States — made its announcement in a public filing ahead of its annual shareholders' meeting in April. And while the filing does not specifically mention abortion, it states that the policy of covering travel expenses was put in place to “facilitate access to adequate resources.”
And while Citigroup may have conspicuously left any direct mention of abortion out of the filing, the use of euphemism is hard to miss. By stating that the bank is covering employees' travel expenses to “facilitate access to adequate resources” “in response to changes in reproductive healthcare laws in certain states in the US,” Citigroup could not have been more clear if the filing has said, “We want to be known as the abortion bank.”
Citi will cover transportation and lodging for employees who need to leave states such as Texas for abortions, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Citigroup — which is considered a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board and is commonly cited as being “too big to fail” — was part of the U.S. government’s 2008 bailout of financial institutions. Since then, Citigroup has been no stranger to controversy. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Citigroup was — as of 2008, when the U.S. government bailed it out — the 16th-largest political campaign contributor in the United States. In 2014, of the 57 Democrats supporting the 2015 spending bill, 34 had received campaign cash from Citigroup’s PAC at some point since 2010. The line between Citigroup and the government is blurry indeed. And the line between Citigroup and the establishment is so faint it can scarcely be seen at times. The government bailed Citigroup out and Citigroup began buying the government off. Nice arrangement, if you can get it.
Buried in a filing released Tuesday night, the bank disclosed it will now cover travel costs for employees seeking an abortion after several states including Texas implemented or proposed a near-total ban on the procedure. The New York-based bank will pay expenses, such as airfare and lodging, that employees may incur if forced to leave a state for an abortion.
Of course, the idea that anyone could be “forced to leave a state for an abortion” is ridiculous. No one is ever “forced” to get an abortion, much less leave a state to do so. Abortion is — by its very nature — an elective surgery designed to kill an unborn human person.
The backlash from Texas Republicans who see the new Citigroup policy for what is was immediate.
Matt Rinaldi — who serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Texas — said, “Citigroup’s decision to finance the murder of unborn children with a heartbeat is appalling, but not surprising, considering its past adoption of far-left causes.” He added a call for Republicans to avoid entrusting their finances with Citibank and other companies that are hostile to them and their values.
And Texas land commissioner running for the Republican nomination for attorney general, George P. Bush (yes, of those Bushes) said, “The ‘travel benefits’ offered by Citigroup is nothing more than a PR stunt by a ‘woke’ company to support a culture of death,” adding, “Texas is a pro-life state, and if elected Attorney General, I will hold actors who attempt to find loopholes in our laws accountable.”
Bush’s warning that he will “hold actors who attempt to find loopholes in our laws accountable” may not be a hollow threat. The Texas law allows citizens to sue anyone who aids another in obtaining an abortion. And Bloomberg cited Columbia University law professor Carol Sanger as saying that the bank will be opening itself and its human resources employees up to “aiding and abetting” liability under the Texas law. She said the bank may be gambling it won’t get sued “because nobody has been sued yet” under the statute’s enabling provision.
While other financial institutions (and other major employers) in Texas are likely watching Citigroup’s policy closely to see how it pans out for them, most other large employers in Texas are sitting tight. In fact, as Bloomberg reported, most are staying mum:
Indeed, banks operating in Texas were mostly quiet on Citi’s move. JPMorgan Chase & Co. didn’t have an immediate comment. Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley all didn’t respond to requests seeking comment. Some of the state’s biggest employers — American Airlines Group Inc., Southwest Airlines Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., Halliburton Co., AT&T Inc. and Toyota Motor Corp. — didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
One exception to that rule of silence is Wells Fargo. A spokesperson for the bank simply said, “We do not have a travel benefit for abortion services at this time,” indicating a desire to leave that door open for the future.
But some companies known for their liberal stances have taken the Citigroup approach on this and other “Culture War” issues. As Bloomberg reported:
Some CEOs have tried to openly navigate the culture wars as they strive to retain talent. Match Group Inc. CEO Shar Dubey, whose Dallas-based company owns some of the biggest dating apps, said last year she was creating a fund to help cover the costs for employees and dependents who need to seek care outside the state. Lyft Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. pledged to pay legal fees for drivers sued under the Texas law.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in September the company would offer assistance to employees who wanted to leave Texas in response to the anti-abortion law. On March 12, dozens of companies including Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Dow Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, took out an ad in the Dallas Morning News urging the state to scrap Abbott’s order on transgender kids.
As this unfolds, one thing is certain: The companies that are coming out in favor of these and other liberal policies and practices are unashamedly drawing a line in the sand and then boldly crossing it to declare their position. As this unfolds and the Supreme Court hands down a decision that is expected to return the abortion issue to the states, America is going to be segmented by Abortion States and Life States. It will be interesting to watch these “woke” companies try not to become broke companies if the residents of the Life States don’t want to work for them or do business with them.
Rep. Chip Roy slams Dems on Judiciary Committee, saying they don’t want to talk about skyrocketing murder rates, fentanyl deaths, or deaths resulting from COVID lockdowns or "radical environmental" policies because those are "not helpful to the agenda."
IT'S ON: Rep. Chip Roy Urges House Republicans to Impeach DHS Sec. Mayorkas
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is urging his colleagues in the House to bring impeachment proceedings against Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas was confirmed by the Senate just over a year ago, with six “Republican” senators voting in his favor (including opportunistic squish Mitt Romney), and he immediately got busy undoing President Trump’s excellent work securing the U.S. border with Mexico. Predictably, straight-up millions of illegal aliens have stormed into the country since then, and Mayorkas is pushing to remove the few safeguards and policies still in place that impede the flow. Not only that, but the Biden administration has also been transporting thousands of these invaders throughout the country’s interior and providing them with additional extremely expensive services at taxpayer expense.
Mayorkas previously worked in the Obama administration as Homeland Security deputy secretary and director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (an agency within the department). Most Republicans declined to approve his confirmation because a 2015 Inspector General report found that he had “intervened to help foreign investors in the EB-5 visa program who were connected to top Democrats” while he was heading up the immigration agency, according to Fox News.
In a letter sent to House Republicans on Wednesday, March 16, Roy declares “the border of the United States is more dangerous, broken, and insecure than ever. It demands our immediate attention and collective call for the impeachment of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas.”
Hear! Hear!
Enough is enough.
Rep. Chip Roy is calling on every single House Republican to join the fight to IMPEACH @SecMayorkas for refusing to secure the Southern border.
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) March 16, 2022
The letter also says:
The U.S. Senate confirmed Secretary Mayorkas just over one year ago & he subsequently took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and to “well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office.” Yet, following the orders of President Biden or acting on his own – he has embarked on the purposeful abandonment of the laws of the United States and the successful policies of the previous administration to secure our borders and protect our people.
His actions have resulted in the death and endangerment of Americans, damage to property and communities across the border, loss of operational control of our border to dangerous cartels imprisoning thousands of migrants sold into human trafficking, and the fueling of deadly drug poisonings of thousands of Americans.
It is most certainly a “high crime or misdemeanor” for a public officer to purposefully endanger Americans while willfully ignoring one’s oath to enforce our laws. Impeaching Secretary Mayorkas is our duty. We should call for it now – despite Democrat control of the House – and make the case for immediate border security better than any speeches we can give or bills we can introduce.
The Epoch Times says it has exclusively obtained documents attached to the letter that makes the case for impeaching Mayorkas. According to Epoch Times, some of the impeachable offenses include:
“Secretary Mayorkas has not only failed to maintain operational control of the border, defined in law as the ‘prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband,’ but his actions have also actively facilitated the loss of it—he is an accomplice to the violation of our laws and our national sovereignty.”
Roy also argued that Mayorkas “has willfully, actively, and unnecessarily put Americans in danger” by “empowering criminal drug cartels, impairing the health of Americans with communicable diseases and lethal drugs, damaging U.S. economic health and wasting the hard-earned money of taxpayers, allowing illegal migrants to destroy private property, [and] placing American citizens at imminent risk of physical harm.
The document also points out that Mayorkas’s “refusal to faithfully execute the laws has drawn hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants to the border each month—creating a completely avoidable border crisis.”
It is always exhilarating to read or hear words that are sane, righteous, and true. What the Biden administration has done to this country through its reprehensible immigration policies — not to mention the damage, abuse, and deaths of countless desperate foreigners who enter the globalist migration pipeline — is criminal on a scale seldom seen. (Evil is a more accurate word, but impeachment is our remedy for crimes; it is not ours to administer the penalty for evil.)
Any reasonable person can see the veracity of Roy’s argument. With elections coming up and Democrats at risk of losing their seats, it’s not too hard to imagine some of them agreeing. If not, the Mayorkas impeachment and removal must be accomplished in 2023, once all the new Republican reps and senators are sworn in. Wouldn’t it be wild if the very same arguments were then used to remove the traitorous President and Vice President whose policies Mayorkas is enacting? Then we wouldn’t have to wait until 2025 to swear a Republican into the White House and begin saving what’s left of America.
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
March 7, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a roundtable discussion about COVID treatment, early treatment suppression, vaccine risks, the collateral damage from school closures and lockdowns, and more
March 8, 2022, the Florida Department of Health updated its guidance, formally recommending against COVID vaccination for healthy children, 5 to 17. Florida is the first state to go against CDC vaccine recommendations
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo stressed that, as we move forward, we must insist on holding decision-makers accountable for their harmful public health decisions. “Their choices, that they made for everyone, were the wrong choices that led to, basically, no appreciable benefit,” Ladapo said
According to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the most egregious mistakes made was to ignore the fact that there’s a thousand-fold difference in risk between the lowest and highest risk groups. Children are at virtually no risk of dying from COVID, yet children have been forced to bear the burden of disease prevention. “Almost from the very beginning of the pandemic, we adopted policies that seem like they were tailor-made to harm children,” he said
According to Dr. Sunetra Gupta, what we’ve seen over the past two years is an “inversion of the schedule of uncertainty.” Doubt was cast on things that were certain, while certainty was claimed for things we had no clue about. Decision-makers chose to do the very things we knew, for certain, would cause harm. They inverted the precautionary principle to minimize harm and chose to maximize harm instead
March 7, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted a roundtable discussion1 about COVID treatment, early treatment suppression, vaccine risks, the collateral damage from school closures and lockdowns, and how to end the COVID theatre once and for all. Panelists included physicians, scientists and academics from around the U.S., including:
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a former National Institutes of Health-funded researcher
Dr. Robert Malone, a molecular virologist, bioethicist, vaccine researcher, and co-developer of the mRNA vaccine platform
Dr. Tracy Hoeg, Ph.D., an epidemiologist
Dr. Jill Ackerman, a family physician
Dr. Christopher D’Adamo, Ph.D., an epidemiologist, and integrative medicine specialist
Dr. Shveta Raju, an internist
Dr. Harvey Risch, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology trained in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Ph.D., professor of health policy at Stanford, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for focused protection of the most vulnerable2
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., former professor of medicine at Harvard University, now senior scientific director of the Brownstone Institute, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in vaccine safety evaluation, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration
Dr. Joseph Fraiman, a rural emergency physician and clinical scientist, specializing in harm-benefit analysis
Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Ph.D., Oxford University professor, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious disease, co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration
We Must Hold Decision Makers to Account
As noted by Ladapo, one of the things we must remember and remain intent upon as we move forward is to hold people accountable for their public health decisions. Two years after the “two weeks to slow the spread,” we have ample evidence proving the decision-makers “didn’t know what they were talking about,” Ladapo says.
They abused their power, they manipulated data, they lied, and they now want us all to forget what they said and did. We cannot let them get away with it. Many errors were made, and those responsible must be held to account.
“Their choices, that they made for everyone, were the wrong choices that led to, basically, no appreciable benefit,” Ladapo says. “We cannot let them forget. We have to hold them accountable. We have to let the country, the world, know what the truth is — because it’s the right thing to do, and because it can happen again if we don’t.”
Thousand-Fold Difference in Risk Was Ignored
Bhattacharya was one of the first to investigate the prevalence of COVID-19 in 2020, and he found that by April, the infection was already too prevalent for lockdowns to have any possibility of stopping the spread.
He points out that one of the most egregious mistakes made was to ignore the fact that there’s a thousand-fold difference in risk between the lowest and highest risk groups. Children and teens are at virtually no risk of dying from COVID. Overall, the risk of COVID is primarily relegated to the very old and those with multiple comorbidities.
Bhattacharya has called the COVID-19 lockdowns the “biggest public health mistake ever made,”3 stressing that the harms caused have been “absolutely catastrophically devastating,” especially for children and the working class, worldwide.4
In some areas of the world, children have not been in school for two years, and the ramifications of that will likely reverberate for decades. Public health has also been negatively impacted by lockdowns and other measures — measures which Bhattacharya states were based on fear, not fact.
Stunning Denials of Science
Kulldorff, in his opening remarks, points out what he believes is one of the most stunning parts of this pandemic, and that is the denial of the basic science of natural immunity. Even doctors and hospitals that “should know better have demanded vaccine mandates for people who have already had COVID,” he says.
Perhaps even worse, hospitals have fired staff who have had COVID and have natural immunity, simply because they did not want to get the experimental jab. Those with natural immunity are not just less likely to get COVID again, they’re also far less likely to spread it to others. This makes them among the most valuable staff members a hospital can have, yet they were routinely discarded.
“That goes against basic principles of public health,” Kulldorff says. “And to have a director of the CDC who questions natural immunity, which we have now, is sort of like having a director of NASA who questions whether the earth is flat or round. It’s just mindboggling that we’ve come into a situation like that.”
Fraiman, whose clinical research expertise includes risk-benefit analysis, also expresses disbelief and frustration over the scientific censorship we’ve seen in the last two years. He points out that many of his colleagues are simply too afraid of getting fired to speak the truth.
DeSantis, similarly, highlights how incredibly difficult it has been to publish and find research that contradicted the official narrative, and even when available, the mainstream media would refuse to acknowledge it, whereas they would endlessly publicize speculation and statements of opinion that had no basis in fact or science, but supported — however flimsily — the official narrative.
I would add that so-called fact-checkers have even gone so far as to “fact check” scientific peer-reviewed publications,5,6,7 labeling them as “misinformation” or outright “false,” resulting in their being censored on social media!
That’s an astounding development. It does not bode well for science when noncredentialed individuals with zero experience in the topic at hand are given the authority to decide the “truthfulness” or accuracy of scientists’ work.
The Inversion of the Precautionary Principle
Gupta, who has some 30 years of expertise in mathematical modeling of infectious disease, points out that what we’ve seen over the past two years is an “inversion of the schedule of uncertainty.” In short, doubt was cast on things that were rather certain — so-called “unknowns were not unknown,” Gupta says — while certainty was claimed for things we had no clue about.
“The powers that be told us the measures and restrictions would work, but we didn’t know they would work,” she says. Moreover, we didn’t know what their purpose actually was. “It was a rather incoherent set of goals,” she says. One thing we knew for certain was that lockdowns and other restrictions “would have enormous cost,” she says.
“That was the one thing we were certain about, yet that’s what we went ahead and did. We inverted the precautionary principle of trying to minimize harm, by doing the one thing we knew would cause harm.”
I would add that the scale of that harm was never calculated or addressed at any point along the way. It’s as though it didn’t matter how great the harm was, as long as there was the appearance that we were doing everything in our power to prevent COVID.
Plausibility Versus Science
Risch brings up a similar point, saying we’ve seen a lot of misdirection. What’s been conveyed to the public have been things that are plausible, but not scientific. “There’s a big difference between things that seem plausible and things that are scientific,” he says.
For example, lockdowns are a plausible countermeasure, but they’re not based in science. In fact, all the science we have, shows them to be harmful, with little or no benefit whatsoever. “The same has been true for medications,” Rish says.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration put out warnings saying that hydroxychloroquine should not be used in outpatients, even though they had no data on outpatient use of the drug. They only had data on in-hospital use, and the two situations are not comparable.
Early COVID symptoms are completely different from symptoms of later-stage, severe infection and the two stages require completely different treatments. Hydroxychloroquine only works well when used very early. It’s not useful in the later stages, and frontline doctors were well aware of this.
No Justification for Mandating Vaccines for Children
Malone — speaking on behalf of the International Alliance of Physicians and Medical Scientists,8 which currently has some 17,000 members — stressed that, in terms of COVID policies, the Alliance has “made a series of very clear, unambiguous statements.”
“There is no justification for mandating vaccines for children. Full stop,” he says. “We’re of the strong opinion that if there is risk there must be choice. This is fundamental bioethics 101.”
As noted in the second Physicians Declaration9 by dated October 29, 2021, children’s clinical risk from SARS-CoV-2 infection is negligible, and long-term safety of the shots cannot be determined prior to the enactment of mandatory vaccination policies. Not only are children at high risk for severe adverse events, but having healthy, unvaccinated children in the population is crucial to achieving herd immunity. Malone continues:
“No. 2, as far as we’re concerned, there is no medical emergency now, and there is therefore no justification for the declaration of medical emergency and the suspension of rights ...”
The Alliance also condemns “the hunting of physicians and the restriction of physicians’ ability to prescribe and treat with early treatment.” With regard to vaccines, Malone also highlights the fact that while a Pfizer/BioNTech COVID injection has been approved by the FDA, that product is not available.
So, there is NO FDA-approved COVID “vaccine” on the market in the U.S. The only products available in the U.S., for children and adults alike, are emergency use authorization (EUA) products, for which liability is waived.
Now, in order for the COVID injections to qualify for EUA, there could not be any other treatments available, which appears to have been the driving factor behind the suppression of early treatment with repurposed drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
Mask Mandates Have Not Had Any Benefit
Speaking to the issue of mask mandates, Hoeg has published several studies, looking at the effects of universal mask-wearing. One of them assessed compliance and outcomes in the Wisconsin school system. On average, 92% of children complied with the mask-wearing, and only seven students out of 7,000 caught COVID during the 2021 school year.
This was used by the media to proclaim that masks work. The problem is, there was no control group, and the low infection rate could have been due to anything. Hoeg points out we have studies from Scandinavia, where masks were not worn, and they too had extremely low infection rates among children.
Again and again, we’ve seen that children just aren’t susceptible to COVID, especially not severe infection. So, low incidence really says nothing about the effectiveness of masks.
DeSantis also notes that neighboring schools — one that had a mask mandate and another that did not — had no discernible difference in infection rates, which he believes is rather compelling evidence that mask mandates have no benefit. What’s more, of the two largest randomized controlled trials, both showed that masks do not prevent the spread of infection.
According to Hoeg, we’ve inverted the precautionary principle with respect to mask-wearing as well. Without any high-quality evidence of benefit, we’ve chosen to mask children even though we know there are harms. They interfere with communication, impede learning, hinder breathing, promote bacterial infections and more.
The Collateral Damage Has Been Immense
As noted by Fraiman, any time you consider a public health measure, you have to conduct a thorough risk-benefit analysis. Who may benefit and to what degree? What are the harms, who will be harmed the most, what’s the extent of the collateral damage? Do the benefits outweigh all of the risks?
In the case of school closures, “the collateral damage has been immense,” Fraiman says. Physical and mental health has been impacted. According to Fraiman, there’s been a doubling of obesity and diabetes, for example, during the pandemic. There’s been a dramatic increase in anxiety, depression, and stress.
Recent statistics show a shocking spike in fentanyl overdose deaths among high school-aged adolescents in the U.S. during 2020 and 2021. The following graph, from a December 24, 2021, preprint article10 posted on medRxiv and tweeted11 out by Dr. John B., a scientist, illustrates the situation better than words.
According to the authors:12
“Adolescent overdose mortality saw a sharp increase between 2019 and 2020, from 2.35 per 100,000 to 4.58 per 100,000, representing a 94.3% increase, the largest percent increase of any 5-year age group ...
Trends were driven by fatalities involving IMFs [illicitly-manufactured-fentanyls], which nearly tripled from 2019 to 2020, and represented 76.6% of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021 ... Our results should also be understood in the context of rising rates of adolescent mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“I think it’s quite clear that the collateral damage outweighed any benefit that was there,” Fraiman says. “So, I think we need to take a more systems-level approach before embarking on this kind of policy the next time.”
Was Harming Children Intentional?
Bhattacharya adds, “Almost from the very beginning of the pandemic, we adopted policies that seem like they were tailor-made to harm children.” Lower-income children were disproportionally harmed by lockdowns and school closures. “The effect on these kids has been catastrophic,” he says.
He cites a study that calculated that, as a result of the school closures during the spring of 2020, children in the U.S. will lose 5.5 million life years. Lost learning literally ripples through the child’s entire lifetime. They lead less healthy and shorter lives and are more likely to be steeped in poverty.
In some areas of the world, schools have been closed for nearly two years. As noted by Bhattacharya, we’ve “robbed an entire generation of their birthright.” Mask mandates have made the impact on children even worse.
He points out that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the only public health agency in the world that still recommends masking toddlers, “with literally not a single study showing it has any consequence on the spread of the disease.”
“The only reason they continue to mask [toddlers] is because [the toddlers] are powerless,” he says. “We’ve adopted this idea that children are the central problem; children are the ones who should bear all the burden of infection control.
In fact, that’s not true. It has revealed the values we have as a society, and it’s not a pretty picture. None of this has actually worked to protect the vulnerable. Still, 80% of the deaths are in people over 65. What have these restrictions on children bought? Not very much, if at all. And it’s caused tremendous harm that we’re going to have to address for years to come.”
Florida Recommends Against COVID Shots for Healthy Children
In late February 2022, Ladapo and DeSantis also updated the state’s policy on masks, formally discouraging mask-wearing.13 Toward the end of the roundtable, Ladapo announced the Florida Department of Health would also formally recommend against COVID shots for healthy children, aged 5 to 17,14 as they “may not benefit from receiving the currently available COVID-19 vaccines.”
During the roundtable, risks such ass myocarditis were also discussed. Florida is the first state to go against the CDC’s vaccine recommendations. In a statement published with the new guideline, March 8, 2022,15 Ladapo said:
“Based on currently available data, the risks of administering COVID-19 vaccination among healthy children may outweigh the benefits. These decisions should be made on an individual basis, and never mandated.”
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Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was briefly hailed (by some) as a consensus nominee that even some Republicans could support.
I’m starting to think that Republican support will be much harder to get than Biden had hoped.
Completing the trifecta of disturbing aspects of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s radical record is her repeated embracing of champions of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in lectures and speeches and her belief that “microaggressions” are real.
If confirmed, Jackson won’t alter the court’s ideological balance, but that’s no reason for Republicans not to stand up for American values and vote “nay” on her confirmation.
According to the Daily Wire, “A review of a handful of Jackson’s lectures and speeches from the past seven years shows that the nominee has a strong appreciation for leading proponents of CRT, a progressive idea that holds in part: ‘racism is endemic to, rather than a deviation from, American norms,’ legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term, wrote in 1989. While Jackson has avoided openly championing CRT, she has complimented its advocates and suggested that the progressive theory informs her legal analysis.”
On at least two occasions, Jackson gave speeches in which she insisted “microaggressions … are real.”
Microaggressions are a made-up thing that liberals use to claim people are racist when they are not.
In January 2020, Jackson gave a lecture to the University of Michigan Law School, during which she praised Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect of the “1619 Project,” which is based on critical race theory, and falsely claims that the “true founding” of America took place in 1619 when the first slave ship arrived at the American colonies.
I’m sorry, but there is no way anyone who thinks this way belongs on the Supreme Court. Of course, Joe Biden and the Democrats think CRT is A-OK, but most people don’t like the idea of their kids being taught divisive racial rhetoric or that America is inherently racist.
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President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson posted an image of ice cream truck the company used to promote abortion rights at South by Southwest (SXSW)—an annual festival of film, media, music performances, and conferences that takes place in Austin Texas.
On the second day of the festival, March 12, 2022, Johnson posted the image on Twitter, saying, “Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for abortion rights!”
“Catch us around SXSW and stop by to grab some free Bans Off swag, condoms, and education on the cold-hearted policies of the Texas legislature,” she wrote.
The truck is reminiscent of one that someone might see driving around neighborhoods playing an enticing children’s tune in order for them to beg their parents to buy them an ice cream treat.
Bright white with popping pink graphics, the ice cream truck flies an American flag attached to its driver’s side, and passenger’s side mirrors contain logos referencing both abortion and women’s rights.
One logo calls out Texas politicians, saying, “Ice cream as cold as TX politicians,” which is a reference to the state’s controversial “heartbeat ban” that went into law in September 2021. At the end of 2021, the Supreme Court upheld the Texas law that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is usually before most women even know they are pregnant. New data released in February estimates that the new ban is saving 100 lives a day.
Other logos in the shapes of candy read, “Don’t Tread on Me,” “My Choice,” “Don’t Mess With Texas Women,” and “My Body.” A large image of ice cream comes next to a condom and a pregnancy test asking people to “join the fight to defend abortion access” while encouraging people to text a number.
The menu that would normally display images of ice cream treats was replaced with images of condom wrappers made to look like ice cream bars. “Ribbed, Glow in the Dark, Sponge (made to look like Sponge Bob SquarePants), Bubblegum, Studded, and Spidey (depicting an image of Spider-Man) were all names listed as the flavor of condoms.
With hashtag #BansOffOurBodies, a campaign started to fight back against reproductive healthcare, the truck drove around SXSW as Johnson and Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas’ president Ken Lambert handed out ice cream, Bans Off Our Bodies swag, and condoms.
An image posted by Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas on Twitter shows a young child handing out Planned Parenthood swag to supporters.
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As Trump and former VP part ways, Pence eyes POTUS.
QUICK FACTS:
President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out asking former Vice President Mike Pence to be his running mate should he run for a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican nomination,The Washington Examinerreports.
“I don’t think the people would accept it,” Trump told The Examiner Tuesday evening during a telephone interview from Mar-a-Lago, his private club and political headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump pointed to disagreement between himself and Pence rising in the aftermath of the 2020 election, suggesting their differences are too stark to overcome, The Examiner notes.
Trump claims the election was stolen and wanted Pence to overturn the results during the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College win.
But Trump did characterize Pence as a “really fine person,” even though he signaled their relationship might be irrevocably broken.
“Mike and I had a great relationship except for the very important factor that took place at the end. We had a very good relationship,” Trump said. “I haven’t spoken to him in a long time.”
#EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President @Mike_Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican nomination.https://t.co/Sm8vIlLp13
Pence is considering a 2024 bid, The Examiner reports.
He’s also signaled he wouldn’t automatically stand aside if Trump were to run, accelerating efforts to establish his independence from President Trump.
Pence recently told a gathering of conservative lawyers Trump is flat “wrong” to claim the vice president is constitutionally empowered to throw out the results of a presidential election.
He also took aim at Trump’s remarks toward Russian President Vladimir Putin during remarks to party financiers gathered for a Republican National Committee donor retreat, saying, “There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin.” Trump had previously referred to Putin as “smart,” “savvy,” and “a genius” in certain contexts while insisting that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine never would have happened on his watch.
“We cannot win by fighting yesterday’s battles or by relitigating the past,” said Pence.
Trump was recently the overwhelming favorite for the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential election, garnering 59% of the vote in a straw poll conducted at a Conservative Political Action Conference‘s meeting in Orlando, Florida, even beating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 31 points.
Pence was among the 1 percenters, along with Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Tim Scott of South Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Pence argues the Constitution granted him no authority to overturn the Electoral College results.
“Mike thought he was going to be a human conveyor belt, that no matter how fraudulent the votes, you have to send them up to the Old Crow,” Trump said, using his nickname for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, The Examiner notes.
“But that turned out to be wrong. Because now, as you know, they are feverishly working to try and get it so that the vice president cannot do what Mike said he couldn’t do,” Trump said, referring to proposals to overhaul the Electoral Count Act. “Obviously, they were either lying, misrepresenting, or they didn’t know.”
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The swarm of illegal Muslim migrants into Europe has not decelerated with the Ukraine war. Just the opposite. The phenomenon of Muslim migrants flowing in from France to Britain via the English Channel has been ongoing. Now the world faces a new migrant crisis from Ukraine, and it is being exploited by Muslim migrants.
It isn’t only in France. It’sthe entire EUthat is at risk, as Syrian, Iraqi, and Afghan Muslim migrants are passing themselves off as international students in Ukraine in order to enter the EU.
Earlier this month, another report from a French newspaper revealed that thousands of Iraqi refugees, Syrians, Kurds, or Africans, almost exclusively men, are described as trying to enter Poland.
One needs to remember that when dealing with immigration that compatibility between immigrants and the country to which they are immigrating is critical. Immigration is a two-way street. Immigrants must respect the rule of law of their new country.
“Euro MP Claims African Migrants Exploiting Ukraine War to Enter EU”, by Peter Caddle, Breitbart, March 13, 2022:
African migrants, along with a host of other nationalities, are exploiting the war in Ukraine to enter France, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has claimed.
Nicolas Bay MEP has claimed that African migrants are using refugee channels aimed at helping those fleeing the war in Ukraine to enter France.
Ultimately, the politician believes around one-third of migrants using the route are not from Ukrainian, a figure suggested in a recent article published in Le Figaro but hotly disputed by official sources.
According to Le Monde, a number of French right-wing populists have denounced the alleged use of refugee routes by non-Ukrainian economic migrants, with Bay, the vice-president of presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s party Reconquêt (Reconquest) perhaps being the most prominent.
“[T]oday a third of the refugees who pass through Ukraine who do not come from Ukraine, but… come from sub-Saharan Africa in particular… [they] use this new migratory route to come to Europe,” the publication reports the French MEP as saying.
Bay also emphasised that France has an obligation to help Ukrainian refugees, saying that those coming from the country are “part of our civilisation”.
“There are those who come for economic reasons, who weigh down our public accounts and our social accounts, and the Ukrainians towards whom we have a duty of European solidarity, of course,” he said…..
