Day: August 26, 2022

U.S. commits $7,000,000,000 more to the Taliban despite severe human rights abuses

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/us-commits-7000000000-more-to-the-taliban-despite-severe-human-rights-abuses;

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It isn’t enough that Joe Biden left behind $7 billion (at least) worth of sophisticated military equipment that the Taliban quickly seized. It wasn’t enough, either, that he left Americans to die violent deaths in Afghanistan. Now the Biden administration is discussing giving the Taliban $7 billion more. Biden claims that any money donated to Afghanistan for relief will be kept out of the Taliban’s hands or used by the Taliban in a humanitarian fashion.

As it celebrates its windfall, the Taliban mocks America. Last year, Taliban members dressed up as US troops, as the NY Post reported:

After a humiliating swift takeover of Afghanistan amid President Biden’s botched troop withdrawal, Taliban leaders and fighters are now rubbing it in America’s face — showing off their new uniforms and gear taken from US special forces stockpiles provided to the Afghan army.

The Taliban are becoming wealthier and more powerful thanks to their chief benefactor, Joe Biden.

“Report: Biden Admin to Discuss Gifting Taliban Afghan’s Billions,” by John Hayward, Breitbart, August 22, 2022:

The Biden administration is proceeding with talks to unfreeze the $7 billion in Afghanistan’s assets held by the U.S. Federal Reserve, Reuters reported on Monday, despite the Taliban failing to meet human rights commitments and harboring al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul.

Reuters on Monday quoted “three sources with knowledge of the situation” who said the administration is prepared to overlook a great deal of misbehavior by the Taliban because of Afghanistan’s growing humanitarian crisis.

The United Nations and U.S. Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) both warned this month that nearly half of the Afghan population will experience “extreme levels of hunger” in the coming winter, with millions facing “near-famine conditions.”

SIGAR also warned about the Taliban’s growing “repression of women and girls,” a clear violation of promises the Islamist regime made to the United Nations after President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal one year ago brought the Taliban back to power.

The contrast between SIGAR’s warnings captures the dilemma facing the civilized world, as the Taliban refuses to hear Western demands or implement needed reforms until America unfreezes the funds it holds, while humanitarian groups warn they cannot deliver aid to sick and starving Afghans while the national economy lies in ruins.

On the other hand, unfreezing Afghanistan’s assets would put billions of dollars at the disposal of a violent extremist regime that was just caught giving aid and comfort to al-Qaeda leadership and would effectively reward the Taliban for taking the people of Afghanistan hostage.

The American people will not look kindly on handing $7 billion over to the Taliban after a failed 20-year, $5 trillion effort to turn Afghanistan into a democracy, especially since much of the Taliban leadership is currently under U.S. sanctions or wanted by the FBI on terrorism charges….

Scientists discover that all covid vaccines “without exception” contain mysterious metallic toxins

Image: Scientists discover that all covid vaccines “without exception” contain mysterious metallic toxins

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-25-covid-vaccines-without-exception-mysterious-metallic-toxins.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) Independent researchers from Germany have found that Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” contain an array of hidden, toxic components – most of them metallic – that are not labeled as ingredients.

“Without exception,” the group says, every sample tested from Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), and AstraZeneca contained the following metallic elements:

• Alkali metals: cesium (Cs), potassium (K)
• Alkaline earth metals: calcium (Ca), barium (Ba)
• Transition metals; cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), chromium (Cr), titanium (Ti)
• Rare earth metals: cerium (Ce), gadolinium (Gd)
• Mining group/metal: aluminum (Al)
• Carbon group: silicon (Si) (partly support material/slide)
• Oxygen group: sulfur (S)

Using modern medical and physical measuring techniques, the researchers determined that all of these metallic substances “are visible under the dark-field microscope as distinctive and complex structures of different sizes, can only partially be explained as a result of crystallization or decomposition processes, [and] cannot be explained as contamination from the manufacturing process.”

These findings build upon the work of others who have made similar discoveries, one of them being the Health Ranger – be sure to check out his report showing that the clots created by Fauci Flu shots are not blood clots, but rather metallic clots.

Blood from fully vaccinated people shows “marked changes,” researchers find

Dr. Janci Lindsay, Ph.D., a toxicologist who was not involved in the study but who has performed similar work, says there is, indeed, a pattern of discovery to suggest that covid injections are not what the government claims they are.

“The number and consistency of the allegations of contamination alone, coupled with the eerie silence from global safety and regulatory bodies, is troublesome and perplexing in terms of ‘transparency’ and continued allegations by these bodies that the genetic vaccines are ‘safe,'” Lindsay is quoted as saying.

Those involved with the Germany study, which is still preliminary, say they have submitted the findings to both government and media entities in the hope that someone will address it. So far, no one is willing.

Another thing the researchers discovered that is worthy of note pertains to the blood of the fully vaccinated, which they say showed “marked changes.” Adverse events associated with these changes were also found to be a factor of “the stability of the envelope of lipid nanoparticles,” these being the fat-soluble membranes carried as “cargo” by messenger RNA (mRNA).

“Using a small sample of live blood analyses from both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, we have determined that artificial intelligence (AI) can distinguish with 100% reliability between the blood of the vaccinated and the unvaccinated,” the study explains.

“This indicates that the COVID-19 vaccines can affect long-term changes in the composition of the blood of the person vaccinated without that person being aware of these changes.”

At best, Chinese Virus shots are widely contaminated unintentionally. At worst – and this option seems more likely – the shots were designed to implant metallic substances inside people’s bodies that purposely self-assemble into deadly clots.

“We have established that the COVID-19 vaccines consistently contain, in addition to contaminants, substances the purpose of which we are unable to determine,” the study further explains.

In the comment section, someone pointed out that vaccinated people with altered, metallic blood can no longer safely donate blood – which is something to keep in mind for those who need a transfusion.

“As with all vaccines and all drugs, ‘the full quantitative composition’ of all Covid-19 ‘vaccines’ is a trade secret, protected from disclosure due to commercial sensitivities,” pointed out another.

“Pfizer’s own raw composition table, 3.2.P.1-1, released for my FOI request, suggests likely 6 redacted manufacturing ingredients.”

The latest news about Chinese Virus injections can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.

Sources for this article include:

TheEpochTimes.com

NaturalNews.com

WHISTLEBLOWER: FBI Officials Instructed Agents Not to Investigate Hunter Biden’s Laptop Before 2020 Election

BY MATT MARGOLIS

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/08/25/whistleblower-fbi-officials-instructed-agents-not-investigate-hunter-bidens-laptop-before-2020-election-n1624091;

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According to Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), a whistleblower claims that FBI officials told investigators not to look into Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 presidential election, saying they’re “not going to change the outcome of the election again.”

“These new allegations provide even more evidence of FBI corruption and renew calls for you to take immediate steps to investigate the FBI’s actions regarding the laptop,” the senator wrote in a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday that detailed the whistleblower’s claims.

This bombshell comes on the heels of the FBI coming under scrutiny in the wake of the unprecedented raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Memos revealed that the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to launch the criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Johnson said that “individuals with knowledge of the FBI’s apparent corruption” revealed to his office that FBI brass deliberately obstructed the investigation into President Biden’s son.

“After the FBI obtained the Hunter Biden laptop from the Wilmington, Delaware, computer shop, these whistleblowers stated that local FBI leadership told employees, ‘you will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop’ and that the FBI is ‘not going to change the outcome of the election again,’” Johnson wrote.

According to the whistleblowers, the FBI did not begin reviewing the contents of the younger Biden’s laptop until after the 2020 election, which Johnson says might have been a year after the FBI got it in December 2019.

Johnson called on Inspector General Horowitz to investigate.

“While I understand your hesitation to investigate a matter that may be related to an ongoing investigation, it is clear to me based on numerous credible whistleblower disclosures that the FBI cannot be trusted with the handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Johnson wrote.

Facebook Briefly Censors House GOP Members Critical of Biden’s Student Loan Plan

BY LINCOLN BROWN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2022/08/25/facebook-briefly-censors-house-gop-members-critical-of-bidens-student-loan-plan-n1624146;

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I recently found an ad on the back of one of the few actual hard-copy magazines I read. It was from Facebook, and it read, “Facebook is taking action to keep its platform safe. We have 40,000 people working on safety and security. That’s more than the size of the FBI.”

Photo by Lincoln Brown

That number may be more than the FBI, but it will be less than half that of the IRS. I don’t know about you, but I certainly sleep better at night knowing that Zuckerberg’s security team is making sure that what we see is carefully curated for our own good, including posts like this one from House Republicans that simply stated: “If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period.”

Those words were posted on the House Judiciary GOP page on Wednesday. Not only were people unable to share it, but Facebook censored the post stating: “Your post goes against our Community Standards so only you can see it.” At least one person claimed to have gone directly to FB jail for trying to share the post. As of Thursday morning, the post was back up on the page, probably because enough people, particularly members of the House Judiciary GOP, complained.

Some people blamed the FB algorithm for the mistake, and that is probably a safe bet. But you can read, re-read, and even diagram the sentence: “If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period.” and you won’t find anything inflammatory, revolutionary, or violent about it. Yes, the post is critical of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, but it is not urging armed insurrection, massive civil disobedience, or even a boycott. If anything, it is pretty vanilla. Biden’s name isn’t even mentioned.

So what triggered the algorithm? An algorithm does not exercise judgment. It does what it is programmed to do, and in the case of the web, an algorithm looks for certain indicators and then executes an action based on those indicators. That is a very basic explanation based on my experience writing content websites for a private business.

So what is the algorithm programmed to see? That of course is up to the person who wrote it. Since there is nothing ostensibly triggering (if you will excuse the term) in the post, is it possible that the algorithm is set to flag anything from Republicans or conservatives for review? And if that is the case, did a member of Zuck’s Army with the requisite man-bun, a bio full of pronouns, and a hefty student loan tab decide to censor the post as a matter of principle, figuring they could get away with it? If so, how many things are never seen simply because no one ever challenges the powers that be?

Granted, Facebook is well on its way to the same graveyard as Myspace, thanks to TikTok and other apps. I once read a comment that Facebook was simply a place where “the olds share conspiracy theories.” That isn’t quite true or fair. There are plenty of other useless and banal things on Facebook besides conspiracy theories. But the people who are writing these algorithms are the ones who benefit from left-wing policies, and the ones who will control the channels of speech.

They are the people at Yale Law School who created so much chaos, including threats that led a panel discussion on finding common ground on free speech to be canceled and the panelists escorted from the room. They are people like Kristen Gonzalez, the winner of the primary for New York’s Senate District 59 who according to the Daily Caller said, “I know we’re saving the speeches for a little later, but today we really prove that socialism wins and we are not going anywhere… We are not going anywhere and we will not stop until we see a socialist slate across this city.”

These are the people who believe that freedom means they have the right to do what they want to do, while you have the right to shut up and condone and pay for it. And if you object, you may be suspended from social media. Or even subjected to the Yale Treatment.

‘Unconstitutional Flim-Flammery’: Biden’s Student Loan Giveaway

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/25/bidens-student-loan-giveaway-is-unconstitutional-flimflammery-n1624082;

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Ben Domenech calls it “unconstitutional flimflammery.” Sounds about right. The proper authority to forgive student loan debt is the same authority that authorized the program in the first place: the United States Congress. But Biden — like the last four presidents — is ignoring Congress because it’s too damn slow, and besides, they talk too much.

This is true, but that doesn’t make it any more constitutional. “The president proposes; Congress disposes” is the old adage from my high school civics class. Biden is doing a lot of disposing of student loan debt with a fig leaf for justification.

NPR:

The memo says The HEROES Act, first enacted after the September 11 attacks, gives the Education Secretary the power to grant relief from student loan requirements during specific periods, think: wartime or a national emergency.

As such, the memo argues, “in present circumstances, this authority could be used to effectuate a program of categorical debt cancellation directed at addressing the financial harms caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

“The financial harms caused by the COVID-19 pandemic” have been addressed with five separate moratoriums on repayment. Those owing student loans haven’t had to make a payment since March of 2020. It’s already cost taxpayers $105 billion in interest payments and now Biden wants to pile on another $300 billion — a transfer of debt from college grads, who tend to be richer, to middle-class taxpayers who either didn’t go to college or went and have already paid off any loans they took out.

The White House “Fact Sheet” speaks of the horror and hardship students are experiencing. It talks of the “significant burden” of student loan debt, how some borrowers are in default, and that the share of debt falls disproportionally on black students.

But this debt burden was not mandatory. It was optional. And racking up $100,000 in student debt was an option these former students willingly accepted.

So now, the biggest beneficiaries of the loan forgiveness program are going to be those who don’t need it.

Reason:

“The idea that taxpayers—including college grads who paid back what they borrowed—should have to finance a $10,000 giveaway to Americans earning more than six figures is absurd on its face,” wrote Reason‘s Eric Boehm. “Well-paid professionals do not need welfare, and it makes little sense to blow another $300 billion hole in the federal budget to provide it to them.”

Biden’s student debt cancellation policy is regressive, which means it disproportionately benefits people who least need welfare. According to a recent analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget model, under Biden’s debt forgiveness plan “about 70 percent of debt relief accrues to borrowers in the top 60 percent of the income distribution.”

Biden is forgiving loans that were given out by a flawed system that’s in desperate need of reform. Ordinarily, intelligent, logical leaders would fix the system before forgiving $300 billion in debt. That’s the sensible course of action for Biden to take. Otherwise, in a decade, we’ll be right back where we started — maybe sooner, considering that college tuition is expected to skyrocket thanks to the loan forgiveness program.

Unfortunately, that’s just too hard and would take far too long. Yes, it’s that damn Constitution again! Biden needs a quick fix to create grateful college graduate voters to help him and his party avoid the harsh judgment of voters in November.

Most economists say that Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will increase inflation. Larry Summers, Bill Clinton’s former economic advisor, who has been dead-on right about inflation since the Biden administration began its spending spree, is once again warning of rising prices.

Biden isn’t home free with this loan forgiveness plan yet. There are going to be a lot of court challenges from students, lenders, and a few others. But none of these challenges is likely to stop the program for very long.

“Unconstitutional flimflammery.” indeed.

Biden Tries Again to Legalize Illegal Aliens Without Congressional Approval

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/25/biden-tries-again-to-legalize-illegal-aliens-without-congressional-authorization-n1624119;

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The Department of Homeland Security has finalized a rule that would grant legal status to 600,000 children of illegal aliens. The new directive would formalize the rule adapted in 2012 during the Obama administration and transform it into federal regulation. It would prevent deportations and grant work permits to those who came to the United States as children.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has been in legal limbo ever since a Texas judge ruled that the program was illegal in the early months of the Biden administration. The new rule going into effect October 31 would codify most of the eligibility rules: applicants must prove they arrived in the U.S. by age 16 and before June 2007, studied in a U.S. school or served in the military, and lack any serious criminal record.

The Texas case is likely to end up in the Supreme Court, where justices already ruled against Donald Trump’s bid to end the program, largely because of a technicality. But this case is based on far narrower Constitutional grounds; only Congress can declare large swaths of illegal aliens as legal. And that argument has a good chance of winning in the high court as it’s currently constituted.

CBS News:

Congress has long been unable to reach any kind of immigration deal that would garner enough bipartisan support to pass the Senate. Last year, the Senate parliamentarian rejected multiple efforts by Democrats to include immigration changes in their party-line social spending bill. And Republican leaders have expressed little interest in Democrats’ attempts at overhauling immigration policy.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who has long pushed for a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, was quick to applaud the Department of Homeland Security’s issuing the rule. He noted that it provides “some stability to DACA recipients and make[s] it more difficult for a future administration to rescind DACA, which is a lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”

The rule would only apply to DACA renewal requests as the government is blocked from approving any new applications. But the radical immigration advocates want Biden to go long and go big.

Politico:

But some immigrant advocates expressed frustration that the Biden administration did not go further in its final rule, opting to keep the same criteria from when the program was created in 2012.

“This final DACA rule fails to strengthen the program by not expanding it to include the majority of undocumented immigrant youth who are graduating from high school this year and not eligible for the program because of arbitrary cut-off dates,” said Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, deputy director of federal advocacy for United We Dream.

“While Congress must pass permanent protections for all, President Biden cannot hide behind the courts or Congress. He can take bold action now,” she added.

The rule is still going to face challenges in court, so Biden isn’t hiding very well. He can’t. Congress has the authority to end this argument. But even those Republicans — like Donald Trump — who support DACA in one form or another realize what a loaded political issue it is and will never risk voting for it.

Most people agree that young children should not suffer from their parent’s immigration crimes. But a blanket amnesty would be uncalled for and would be hard to do anyway.