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>>51758 Contacts, Websites, Other Info - now in dough under Links to alt-media

>>47678 Maricopa County Livestream Audit

>>51871 QRB baking - watch for a lag new

>>51899 MP4s for wearethene.ws don't post as graphics new

Notables

are not endorsements

#177

>>52713 Josh Barnett: There's going to be a forensic audit of MI

>>52718 Lin Wood: "I love Q&A. PS Oh no! Did I say Q?

>>52719 Trump kicked of Twitter but Hamas leader still there celebrating the bombing of Tel Aviv

>>52720 Strange 25-ft statue erected Rockefeller Ctr supposed to honor African culture

>>52721 Orange County Pauses Vaccine Digital Verification System

>>52722 Intel Slava on Middle East events

>>52723 Canada: MI Oil Line Shutdown Could Undermine US Ties

>>52724 The Real Threat Of Civil War In France

>>52726 WW3.INFO: Iran is orchestrating events in Middle East

>>52727 Reminder: McInerney image of Hamas in the Capitol Bldg 3-20

>>52728 Windham NH audit news

>>52729 Should Pro V&V work on Dom machines void the AZ election?

>>52730 What's going on with the CIA & FBI? (Bongino Show)

>>52731 Reply to EzraACohen on Iran Nuclear Plant

>>52739, >>52735 Despite fuel shortages, Psaki says Biden may still cancel existing pipelines (mp4)

>>52742 Statement on the Middle East by Donald J. Trump

>>52743 How “Nudging” is damaging our society and why behavioural scientists must be held to account

>>52744 #177

#176

>>52665, >>52690 Planefaggory updates

>>52704 Balfour

>>52703 Don't forget Gas Buddy

>>52696 Whitmer set to make mask mandate permanent

>>52695, >>52697, >>52699 BlackRock gets licence for China wealth management JV with China Construction Bank

>>52694 45 on Windmills in the Vineyards

>>52692, >>52693 120+ retired military flag officers warn US ‘under assault’ by socialists, Marxists, urge Americans to fight back

>>52688, >>52689, >>52691 Iran is primary supporter of Hamas

>>52685, >>52686, >>52687 Gen Mc on Israel, GMax and AZ audit

>>52684 Alphabet Inc. sold by Sergey Brin: $64.58m-May 10

>>52680 Lin Wood with Lindell: Trump wins!

>>52678 Instructions on how to “correct a mistake” aka spoil your ballot.

>>52676 Air pollution from animal agriculture KILLS 12,700 PEOPLE EACH YEAR !

>>52673 “The hackers” have warned that 24 other companies have been attacked like the pipeline

>>52671 MI County GOP Chair and Lawyer Haider Kazim Withdraws From Antrim Co. Voter Fraud Case After Fighting Yesterday To Stop It…

>>52669 Officer Derek Chauvin's attorneys have filed a motion for new trial.

>>52666, >>52668 EU Ombudsman To Probe Gas Projects In Western Balkans To End Fossil Fuels

>>52664, >>52672 Governor Roy Cooper Declares State of Emergency Over Gas Shortage in North Carolina/American Airlines changing routes

>>52663 Tribalism has come to the West

>>52662 Link to debunk of that evil slide show on vaccines for schools

>>52657 heads up, fuggery afoot in reporting

>>52705 #176

#175

>>52576, >>52583, >>52591, >>52605, >>52608, >>52616, >>52619, >>52636 planefaggin GOLD

>>52639 The router story so far:

>>52634 CM: Do not get distracted! Maricopa County audit needs full focus through its completion.

>>52630 @USMC Watch Me

>>52629 Biden picks Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan

>>52628 .@TheRealCVN71 Teamwork.

>>52624 Scavino: TRUST THE PLAN

>>52623 Former GOP officials say either break from Trump or will make a new party

>>52622 Arizona Governor Signs Law Designating Gun Stores As Essential Firms

>>52621 Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson: Liz Cheney Shouldn’t Be Removed, Trump is ‘Dividing’ GOP

>>52610 45th Space Wing has been redesignated as Space Launch Delta 45

>>52609, >>52614 Amazon Inc. sold by Jeff Bezos: $1.71B-May 7,10

>>52598 45 supporting Wilton Simpson

>>52588 Cuomo: “You cannot mandate vaccines because these vaccines are approved under something called an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)

>>52587, >>52589 Dr. Pierre Kory Talks About Human Rights and Big Science/WHO Disinfo

>>52582 White House Explores Jones Act Waiver to Ship Fuel by Tanker

>>52576, >>52577, >>52578, >>52585 See inbound flight(s) but nothing outbound/Israel

>>52575, >>52580 Hamas Fires 130 Rockets On Tel Aviv, Israel Collapses 13-Story Building In Gaza

>>52571, >>52574 Ichor Sciences developed StatBond, which treats uncontrolled bleeding from noncompressible areas of the body

>>52561 The FBI Is Nothing More Than A Democrat Activist Superpac With Legal Authority. And It Must Be Disbanded

>>52647 #175

#174

>>52496, >>52500, >>52512, >>52532 Perfuse Planefaggory

>>52542, >>52543 Gain of function-Can take a non-lethal virus to humans and make it deadly!

>>52541 Citizens Launch Petition To Audit The Vote In Pennsylvania, Citing ‘Alleged Fraud’

>>52538 Vigilante spys

>>52531 Emmanuel Macron facing massive anti-EU protest in Paris – Frexit campaign gains momentum

>>52529 Michigan's deadline arrives but Enbridge vows to keep oil moving/half whit BTFO

>>52528 NY Urgent: Get on the phone NOW Senate sneaking through bill to put all adult vaccine records in NYS database

>>52525, >>52527, >>52533, >>52534 Trump knows. He always knows.

>>52521 Penzone Raises Fears, Anger With COVID-19 “Snitch” Tip Line

>>52520 @SpaceForceDoD With Combat Development Teams being placed at each Delta and Garrison, we’re leveraging Digital Operations

>>52519 U.S. and French troops begin joint military drills with SDF in Japan

>>52518 Your Administration is now overseeing the largest child smuggling operation in the world.

>>52517 Mike Flynn Endorsed Virginia AG Candidate Chuck Smith Requests Recount Following Close Race

>>52514 CM: The router story so far

>>52513 Aung San Suu Kyi likely to appear in court

>>52509, >>52510 What Gates reads comms

>>52508 Soybean Futures Touch $16 in Chicago, Highest Since 2012

>>52506, >>52511 DOE controls the pipelines

>>52505 BLS: Job Openings Increased to Record 8.1 Million in March

>>52502, >>52523 Colonial Pipeline Partially Reopens; EPA Waives Environmental Rule To Boost Fuel Supplies

>>52493 Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Post reporters’ phone records

>>52490, >>52491 “Votes Were Intentionally Switched – The Number is MASSIVE” – President Trump Weighs in on Michigan Election Fraud Case After Monday’s Hearing

>>52488, >>52489 "Gas Run Has Begun" - Fuel Stations Run Dry Amid Hacked Pipeline

>>52546 #174

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>>51920 #166, >>52013 #167, >>52065 #168, >>52146 #169, >>52239 #170, >>52334 #171, >>52415 #172

>>51418 #159, >>51493 #160, >>51572 #161, >>51656 #162, >>51707 #163, >>51808 #164, >>51861 #165

>>50843 #152, >>50922 #153, >>50972 #154, >>51087 #155, >>51158 #156, >>51241 #157, >>51331 #158

>>50186 #145, >>50285 #146, >>50388 #147, >>50488 #148, >>50555 #149, >>50654 #150, >>50729 #151

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Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials

Sophie Cornish 17:16, May 12 2021

The Catholic Church has confirmed it is investigating claims children from a Wellington boys’ home were prostituted out to Church officials.

It is also calling on anyone with personal information on the matter to come forward and speak to them.

The allegations were made at a Royal Commission of Inquiry hearing on Tuesday by Keith Wiffin, a former ward of the state who lived at Epuni Boys’ Home in Lower Hutt in the 1970s.

A victim of sexual abuse at the home when he was 11 Wiffin, now 61, said he never personally experienced the practice himself, but had learnt the Church was investigating the claims.

He said he had also been told the information by a former ward of the state who lived at Epuni around the time he lived there, who had experienced the practice.

He alleged boys were taken from the home in a van on several occasions by a housemaster, Alan Moncrief-Wright, to a Church site, where clergymen would walk around the van looking at the boys, selecting the ones they wanted to sexually abuse. Eleanor Parkes, director of New Zealand’s ECPAT Child Alert organisation, which focuses on addressing the sexual exploitation of children, said the practice, if true, would fit within the United Nations and New Zealand’s definition of child trafficking.

“Trafficking is the reception, recruitment, transport, transfer, concealment, or harbouring of any person for the purposes of exploitation. It does not have to involve crossing international borders at all, and most of the trafficking cases in New Zealand that we know about are domestic,” Parkes said. On Wednesday, the Church confirmed it was investigating the claims and that it had previously provided information to the Commission relating to the alleged events.

Catherine Fyfe, chairperson of Te Rōpū Tautoko, an agency created to coordinate Catholic engagement with the Royal Commission, said the information formed part of the extensive documentation which the agency provided to the Commission.

“Church authorities are aware of an allegation similar to that raised by Mr Keith Wiffin at the Royal Commission this week.

“Church authorities continue to work with survivors to investigate matters associated with the complaint. The Royal Commission will be aware of this from documents the Church has provided,” Fyfe said.

“The agency, bishops and congregational leaders of the Church are urging anyone who might have personal knowledge of the matters raised by Mr Wiffin to contact the Royal Commission or the Church’s National Office for Professional Standards.

“The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand asked to be part of the Royal Commission’s inquiry and will continue to strongly support the inquiry and respond there to any issues that are raised, including Mr Wiffin’s evidence,” Fyfe said.

Moncrief-Wright was convicted and jailed on a number of sexual violation charges against boys, including Wiffin, and has since died. Wiffin has previously given evidence to the Commission on two occasions.

At Tuesday’s hearing, he told the Commission of his own experiences going out on excursions in the van, driven by Moncrief-Wright.

The housemaster would take boys to pick up videos and lollies for the Saturday night entertainment and would sometimes take groups of boys to see movies.

He said it wasn’t uncommon for boys to be taken to the homes of staff members and away for weekends.

In March, the Catholic Church formally apologised to survivors of abuse for the first time.

Cardinal John Dew made the apology at a hearing for the Commission, on behalf of the bishops and congregational leaders in New Zealand, stating the church could offer no excuses for the actions of the church that caused harm.

He said the abuse was perpetrated by people, such as priests, brothers and sisters and lay people that victims should have been able to trust and that the systems and culture of the church allowed abuse to occur.

Dew acknowledged the abuse caused pain, hurt and trauma which continued to have an impact on the lives of survivors.

Abuse in faith-based institutions such as churches or religious schools between 1950 and 1999 makes up a large part of the inquiry.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300305591/catholic-church-investigating-claims-children-were-prostituted-to-church-officials

STUNNING TESTIMONY:AZ Elections Witness, Jan Bryant, Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite, NOT Election Workers, Then Delivering Them to Counting Center

Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature.

Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION! Dominion employees John and Bruce did.

Jan’s testimony might explain why Maricopa County officials do not have Admin passwords or access to the Dominion voting machines.

They never had them!

Jan also testified under oath that county staff, not even IT staff were allowed access to the voting machines and that she witnessed Dominon employees with a laptop computer in the counting room.

Jan worked 6 days at MCTEC, has an MBA, and project management background in technology.

Later during questioning by Republican Rep. Mark Finchem, Jan Bryant told the Arizona lawmakers that there were daily election ballot deliveries to MCTEC by Runbeck Election Services. According to witness testimony (transcribed below), these deliveries happened in 2020 from Nov. 3rd to at least the 10th.

Repeated explanations by supervisors at that time was that “Runbeck has high speed scanners”.

According to Jan Bryant, she was told the ballots were scanned offsite by Runbeck and then delivered to the Maricopa County Election Center.

This should disqualify all of Maricopa County results.

Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri6flxaXww&t=23970s

Here is the transcript from Jan Bryant’s testimony…………..

Jan Bryant: …ten days before they quit tabulating they thought they were done. And then more truck loads of ballots would come in. And I’m like, how can you not know how many ballots are still out there.

State House Rep. David L. Cook: Mr. Chairman I’m sorry. WOULD YOU REPEAT THAT. They thought they were done, and then there was WHAT?

Jan Bryant: They thought they were done multiple times. Multiple times the people that were running the rooms thought they were done (counting ballots), or almost done. Or were gonna be done Wednesday morning (Nov. 4th), then Thursday morning (Nov. 5th), then Friday morning. Then it went on the whole next week. And I’m like, I asked the question, You don’t know how many ballots are still left to come in? I don’t know who does, again…process…project management, but zero.

State House Rep. Mark Finchem: On that point Ma’am, I’m tracking with you but, what day did the truck show up?

Jan Bryant: Every day, yeah, every day.

Mark Finchem: OK. Just a minute. I want to make sure we capture this properly. So there were trucks that showed up on the 3rd, and then the 4th, and then the 5th, and how long did that go on. How many days?

Jan Bryant: I wasn’t there the whole last week. My last day was the 10th and they were still coming in. They were coming from a company called Runbeck, that does the high speed scanning and printing of duplications, and I think the military ballots. And now I’m getting out of my comfort level here talking about this. I don’t know what they are doing but those ballots are coming in from a high speed scanning company called Runbeck that…. apparently you haven’t heard of Runbeck.

Mark Finchem: No, I’ve heard of Runbeck Ma’am. What I’m trying to figure out is whether they printed them or if they scanned them. And if they scanned them offsite, to what purpose?

Jan Bryant: I can’t tell you.

Mark Finchem: Wasn’t that your job to scan them? I mean, not your job, but the (MCTEC).

Jan Bryant: No, all the high speed scanning happens at Runbeck. So, those ballots go to Runbeck. As far as I know there were no observers there. I don’t know. I never got called to work at Runbeck. That’s all I can tell you.

Mark Finchem: OK, with all do respect Mr. Cook, now we’ve now opened up a whole new can of worms.

2/2

Jan Bryant: And again I don’t know enough about it to be the witness.

Mark Finchem: No that’s fine. Your observation is useful here. What you telling me is the scanning wasn’t actually done on site at a Maricopa County structure. It was done someplace else.

Jan Bryant: Where they have very high speed scanners.

Mark Finchem: Right now I really don’t care what the speed is. I want to know were they Dominion scanners?

Jan Bryant: No, no, I don’t think it has anything to do with Dominion.

Mark Finchem: I’m trying to understand what was the purpose of scanning them in advance of them being tabulated on the Dominion equipment.

Jan Bryant: They were duplicate, duplications. The ballots that wouldn’t read through the tabulation machines. They were ballots that came in from Military and overseas. BUT THERE WERE MORE BALLOTS THAN THAT. So I don’t know where the rest of them were coming from. Because they kept bringing trays of them in. So I don’t know where they were coming from. That’s a question for the county employees to explain to you, where those ballots came from that whole next week. I don’t know where they came from.

Rudy Giuliani: So you were there from Nov. 3rd through the 10th. Seven days later (after election) ballots were still coming in.

Jan Bryant: Yes.

Rudy Giuliani: Were those ballots counted?

Jan Bryant: I watched them go through the tabulation machines. And I watched people working on the adjudication of those ballots.

Rudy Giuliani: And how many ballots.. Jan Bryant: Oh, I don’t know.

Rudy Giuliani: What was the largest number you saw in one day. Just a guess. How many cartons? Jan Bryant (06:58:13): OK, there was….I wasn’t there…there was usually 2 or 3 shifts. I wanna say one day they thought 90,000 was a good number, for a shift. And if they were running multiple shifts a day. It was somewhere between the 3rd and the 10th. (2 more minutes of Rudy numbers questions)

State Senator Sylvia Allen (07:00:09): Ms Bryant, I’m curious, why did the county on the last days you were there, brought in county employees to take part in, being part of the observers?

Jan Bryant: They weren’t observing they were actually adjudicating. So they were doing.. I think they just need all hands on deck. I mean, that was the intent, was to get the work done and finish counting because they kept thinking they were done and.

Senator Allen: I was thinking they were working to make up for the lack of not having Republicans. So were we (Republicans) short of having volunteers to go in and observers in Maricopa.

Jan Bryant: I don’t believe so. There was always at least two of us in the tabulation center and at least one in one of the other rooms like signature verification. What the (county) employees were doing was the adjudication work which also requires two different parties to adjudicate each ballot. So you had to have at least 2 of the 3 parties to do that. So that’s what the county employees were doing at the end. They brought them on just to help with the backlog.

State House Rep. Bret Roberts: You got to a point where they continued to say they didn’t know where these trucks of ballots were coming from.

Jan Bryant: It’s not that they didn’t know. It’s that they didn’t know how many were still coming.

Bret Roberts: I assume at this point in time these were not early ballots in any way shape or form. I’m just kind of curious, did anything stand out to you as far as these new ballots, didn’t know where they were coming from, as far as a physical appearance in any way?

Jan Bryant: No. Everything… they just looked like ballots. Just kept coming. They all came in the same bins…..

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/stunning-testimony-az-elections-witness-testifies-private-company-scanning-ballots-offsite-not-election-workers-delivering-counting-center/

🔴LIVE: Arizona State Legislature Holds Public Hearing on 2020 Election: Jan Bryant's testimony on Dominion and Maricopa County on election day.

Begin at 6:39:30 it goes for 11:15:09 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri6flxaXww&t=23970s

Mass. churches amassed over $82M in small business PPP loans; Roman Catholic dioceses alone collected over $20M

Isabel Contreras Boston University Statehouse Program May 10 2021

BOSTON – Massachusetts churches, including Catholic and Christian religious organizations, received upwards of $82 million in forgivable loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program, according to Small Business Administration data released last month.

The Roman Catholic Dioceses of Worcester, Fall River and Springfield, along with the Archdiocese of Boston, collected over $20 million in PPP loans, distributed among different churches and administrative departments under their jurisdiction. Boston’s Archdiocese, led by Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley received the most within this group, with over $8 million in PPP aid.

Ray Delisle, director of communications for the Diocese of Worcester, said the PPP loans were necessary to keep people employed in the diocese, while continuing to provide services to the community during these hard times.

“The purpose of the program was to keep people’s jobs and if we couldn’t keep them employed, they’d be on unemployment, further pressuring the system for support,” Delisle said. “This allowed us to keep on being able to provide the supports that society relies on us for, and we have to keep those going, especially during a pandemic.”

Paycheck Protection Program loans allowed small businesses across the country to borrow up to $10 million to pay for employee wages, utilities and rent, with the opportunity of loan forgiveness as long as the funds were used for their intended purposes.

Larger churches and dioceses would not normally qualify for this kind of government aid, since there is a 500-employee cap for businesses and organizations to qualify for PPP loans, but through lobbying the Catholic Church convinced the Trump administration to grant them an exemption from this rule last year.

Northeastern University law professor Peter Enrich said he sees no legal issue in providing PPP aid to non-taxable entities like churches, since the program was designed to maintain wages and the money ends up in the hands of workers. However, he said there would be a legal issue if the government had denied churches loans because of their religious affiliations.

“To launch an aid program but then say ‘we’re not going to do that for any religious entity’ would raise very serious concerns about the federal Constitution’s free exercise of religion clause,” he said. “The government can’t discriminate against entities just because they are religious entities.”

'Important considerations to why some' secular organization should not have received aid

American Atheists Massachusetts State Director Zachary Bos said the secular organization does not object to religious institutions receiving PPP funding when needed to support their employees, but that there are important considerations to why some of them should not have received aid.

Bos said the church’s non-taxable status is conditional to their abstinence from political influence and lobbying, but that the church often sways political candidates and policy.

“The issue is some of these religious organizations exist solely because of their refusal to follow the rules,” Bos said. “If they wanted to continue with political advocacy, that would be fine. They just have to pay to play like every other organization has to do. I’m not sure why PPP funds should be subsidizing a tax cheat.”

Bos also said churches with valuable assets were not in as much need as small businesses that had no other way of staying open than to secure PPP loans, and that some of the churches in financial trouble were in that position because of past coverups of child sexual abuse.

“It’s especially morally problematic that Catholic dioceses in many places, including Boston, were paying huge settlements and penalties for child sexual abuse,” Bos said. “That money is going out the door and their coffers are being refilled by taxpayer dollars. I don’t see the economic justification for supporting morally abusive businesses.”

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/2021/05/10/massachusetts-churches-paycheck-protection-program-roman-catholic-dioceses-worcester/4987932001/

>>52763

Other Massachusetts nonprofits received PPP loans including $64M to universities; $175M to other education institutions

Many other Massachusetts nonprofits also received PPP loans, including universities, which amassed over $64 million according to the SBA data. Nonprofit preschools, together with primary and secondary education institutions, received over $175 million in PPP loans. These included schools with religious affiliations.

Religious organizations of other denominations – including synagogues, seminaries and temples – received around $14 million through the program.

Nicolas Duquette is an economist specializing in nonprofit taxation and spending policy at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy. He said churches have some differences from other nonprofits, but they do depend on hired workers and have costs like others do.

“A church differs from, say, a research university in that a lot more of its resources will come from donations or from people volunteering their efforts for service,” Duquette said. “But there are also many programs that run behind the scenes – soup kitchens, support groups, counseling, daycare centers – that do require paid staff and incur costs.”

Duquette said churches are in fact non-taxable entities, but that it is important to highlight that their payroll is still subject to income taxes, just like wages in for-profit businesses.

“For-profits don’t pay taxes on the money they pay their employees either. They only pay taxes on profits left over after they pay their payroll,” he said. “For purposes of economic policy, we really shouldn’t care if people have a religious or secular job, a business or nonprofit job, if the goal of the program is to keep people employed and able to pay their bills.”

Duquette said that the ambiguity of spending activities in churches is an important factor in some people’s skepticism of their use of donations and financial resources.

“Churches come in all shapes and sizes, and we know less about them than we do about other types of charities and nonprofits because they are not required to disclose their finances in the way that any other secular charity, with only a few exceptions, must,” Duquette said.

“Part of the reason why I think some people are concerned with what the church is up to is that we know so little about their activities, so skepticism has no way to check itself.”

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/2021/05/10/massachusetts-churches-paycheck-protection-program-roman-catholic-dioceses-worcester/4987932001/

>>52768

mornin G

>>52770

good morning

howza?

>>52772

guud thanks

g's bumpin outside, no noise

kek

gonna run a quick errand

brb

Insurance Brokers Sell Assets to Win Approval for $35 Billion Merger

Aon, Willis Towers Watson agree to $3.6 billion deal with rival to help address EU’s antitrust concerns.

Aon PLC and Willis Towers Watson PLC on Wednesday agreed to sell a package of assets to a smaller rival in an effort to win antitrust approval for their $35 billion tie-up to create the world’s largest insurance broker.

The $3.57 billion deal with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. comes as Aon and Willis are under pressure to address concerns from the European Union’s executive arm around a combination of the No. 2 and No. 3 brokers.

The EU fears that, left unchecked, their merger would narrow customer choice and give the combined entity too much sway over prices for helping clients purchase financial protection against property and casualty damages, trade tensions and cybercrime.

Together, the companies would have combined revenue of more than $20 billion. That would top Marsh & McLennan Cos.’ total of $17.2 billion last year and dwarf the more than $6 billion generated by Gallagher.

Aon and Willis, both registered in Ireland, are betting that the asset sales to Gallagher would resolve the European Commission’s issues by allowing the rival broker to expand its business helping insurers buy reinsurance or protection against claims and extend its reach geographically.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/insurance-brokers-sell-assets-to-win-approval-for-35-billion-merger-11620828513

Texas Farmer, Wife Blast Biden After Finding 5 Little Migrant Girls Abandoned In Brutal Heat

https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-farmer-wife-blast-biden-after-finding-5-little-migrant-girls-abandoned-in-brutal-heat

>>52782

Notables so far

>>52771, >>52780

>>52782 You will drive nowhere and be happy

>>52779 Senators Introduce Bill Forcing Colleges to Disclose Financial Ties With Beijing

>>52778 Judge orders IRS to reveal if it criminally investigated Clinton Foundation

>>52777 Insurance Brokers Sell Assets to Win Approval for $35 Billion Merger

>>52775 Japan to restart nuclear reactor beyond 40-year limit in June

>>52768 U.S. consumer prices post biggest gain in nearly 12 years as inflation pressures build

>>52767, >>52769 Liz Cheney has been ousted from her GOP leadership post by House Republicans.

>>52766 CE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl

>>52765 Biden delayed his call with Israeli leadership and restarted funding to the Palestinian Authority through the UN

>>52763, >>52764 Mass. churches amassed over $82M in small business PPP loans; Roman Catholic dioceses alone collected over $20M

>>52761, >>52762 STUNNING TESTIMONY:AZ Elections Witness, Jan Bryant, Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite

>>52760 Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials

>>52759 @US_Stratcom A historic milestone for the submarine community

>>52757, >>52758 Stage is being set for new election

>>52756 The Spirit of America

#178

lemme know

IRL

back soon

MEET BERNHARD STEMPFLE - CATHOLIC JESUIT PRIEST WHO WROTE AND EDITED PARTS OF MEIN KAMPF - HITLERS EARLY HANDLER

“Bernhard Stempfle (1882 in Munich – 1 July 1934) was a Roman Catholic priest and journalist.

He helped Adolf Hitler in the writing of Mein Kampf.[1]

He was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives.”

“Multiple authors and eyewitnesses, such as Konrad Heiden[4] and Nazi "apostate" Otto Strasser, report that

not only did Stempfle correct the galley proofs of Mein Kampf, but that he indeed copy-edited certain passages.

Historian and Hitler biographer Alan Bullock likewise discusses this.[5]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Stempfle

Baker has to run across town and drop off papers, back ASAP

>>52789

Baker back, disaster averted, for now

>>52793

wut up?

>>52794

g's tax papers, sitting on desk with an unreadable check written

they call me when sheitz needs done

Global firms leave Myanmar office block with military ties

A number of tenants of a high-end office block in Myanmar that the United Nations said is built on military-owned land have moved out or are reviewing their leases, including McKinsey, Coca-Cola and Reuters, the companies said.

Activist group Justice for Myanmar last month called on commercial tenants of the Sule Square complex of offices and shops in the heart of Myanmar’s commercial hub of Yangon to stop indirectly supporting the army. “Sule Square has big-name tenants that continue to lease office space in the building, indirectly supporting the army,” Justice for Myanmar said in a report in which it identified 18 of the tenants.

Reuters approached all of the companies named in the report. Of the eight that said they had moved or were reviewing office plans, two cited the military link. Others cited various reasons including business prospects and staff safety. Business has collapsed in the Southeast Asian country since a Feb. 1 coup that prompted widespread protests and strikes, during which the army has killed hundreds of civilians and arrested thousands. Opened in 2017 near the historic Sule Pagoda, Sule Square was developed by a local affiliate of Hong Kong listed Shangri-La Asia, which also manages the building and an adjacent hotel. The site was leased from the military, according to a 2019 fact-finding mission established by the United Nations to investigate the army’s economic interests, media and human rights groups. As the basis for its conclusion that the land is owned by the military, the mission in its report cited what it called digital records. One of the authors of the report, human rights consultant Chris Sidoti, said the material had been archived and was not immediately available. On Tuesday, Reuters made a request to the United Nations to get access to the records. Shangri-La, which said in 2017 it had invested $125 million in the development, declined to comment on Reuters’ questions about land ownership.

A spokesman for Myanmar’s junta did not answer calls seeking comment. Reuters could not independently verify details of the land lease deal. Myanmar’s military, which directly ruled for almost 50 years after taking power in a 1962 coup, owns large tracts of land and controls conglomerates that span everything from mining to banking. McKinsey & Company terminated its lease of serviced office space in Sule Square in early 2021, said Melissa Yeo, director of reputation and communications, Southeast Asia, at the consultancy, without elaborating. In an emailed statement, Coca-Cola said it would not be renewing its lease when it ends in mid-June citing “changing business requirements”.

When contacted for comment, a spokesperson for Reuters, which was not one of the companies named in the report, said it is not currently using its Sule Square office and was reviewing its tenancy. The spokesperson did not comment on the building’s possible military ties.

https://www.reuters.com/article/myanmar-politics-office/update-2-global-firms-leave-myanmar-office-block-with-military-ties-idUSL1N2MZ13E

>>52798

yeah

unfortunately you are right

gas over $4 already and climbing here.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/12/rift-breaks-open-between-nancy-pelosi-and-far-left/

Younger Democrats, however, have taken a dimmer view of Israel in recent years.Progressive insurgents to Mrs. Pelosi‘s leadership, most notably those in the self-identified socialist “Squad,” have accused Israel of war crimes.

“We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian residents … Israeli forces are forcing families from their homes during Ramadan and inflicting violence,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said. “It is inhumane and the U.S. must show leadership in safeguarding the human rights of Palestinians.”

By far, the most vocal criticism from the “squad” has come from Ms. Omar and Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Ms. Omar, a practicing Muslim, has lambasted Israel for responding to the violence perpetrated against its citizens during the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

“Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism. Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians. It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid,” said the Minnesota Democrat.

>>52810

metal feels right bout now

>>52811

doggo

kinda slow nao

>>52812

KK

finally slow

White House Agrees To Removes China's Xiaomi From Pentagon Trade Blacklist

In what is being described as a "rare victory" for a Chinese technology giant entangled in a spat with the US government, it appears the Biden Administration has decided to end the persecution of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, which had been targeted by the Trump Administration, along with a host of other Chinese firms, most notably telecoms titan Huawei.

A Joint Status Report released late Tuesday showed the DoD and Xiaomi had agreed to resolve ongoing litigation "without further contest". Xiaomi had sued the US government after the Pentagon placed it on a government blacklist, accusing it of having close ties to the Chinese military, though the Biden administration now believes that vacating that designation "would be appropriate."

“The parties have agreed upon a path forward that would resolve this litigation without the need for contested briefing,” according to the filing. A comprehensive "joint proposal" is expected to be filed before May 20.

A Xiaomi spokeswoman said the company is watching the latest developments closely, without elaborating.

Xiaomi sued the government earlier this year after the Pentagon issued an order designating the firm as having ties to the PLA, Chinese military, which would have led eventually to the firm's forceful de-listing from US exchanges and its expulsion from global equity benchmark indexes. The settlement isn't exactly a surprise: An American judge granted Xiaomi an injunction back in March to prevent "irreparable" harm to the company's business on the expectation that the Trump Administration's move would likely be over turned (the ruling also cited the US government's "deeply flawed" process for including it in the ban, according to US District Judge Rudolph Contreras, who oversaw the case ).

Unsurprisingly, Xiaomi shares surged more than 6% on the news in Hong Kong markets on Wednesday.

But the deal is just another example of how the Biden Administration is trying to walk a tightrope between the Biden family's longstanding business ties to China (which we learned some new details about just the other day) and the antagonistic approach to waging economic war against China pioneered by President Trump, which has proven to be enduringly popular among the American people.

Founded by billionaire entrepreneur Lei Jun more than 10 years ago, Xiaomi was seen as a unlikely target for Trump's scrutiny (the firm enjoyed the financial backing of American chip giant Qualcomm in its early years).

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-agrees-removes-chinas-xiaomi-pentagon-trade-blacklist

Gas Shortage is our own government and industries Fucking We the People…

It is NOT Russians!!! Inverted Totalitarianism in FULL EFFECT.

US government and industry is doing this so Biden can SELL his Trillion dollar Green New Deal…with the added benefit (in their eyes) of keeping Americans from traveling (and spreading Covid).

This is going to get ugly real quick–putting pissed off people waiting hours for gas is a recipe for disaster. People are not going to be able to go to work or visit family…or get groceries. Gas sold out quicker than the toilet paper did last year.

TOTALLY SUCKS THAT 2021 is going to be EVEN SHITTIER than 2020.

For those of you who may not be familiar with the term Inverted Totalitarianismit was coined by a political philosopher in 2003 named Sheldon Wolin. Chris Hedges often explains it by saying it is a "slow motion corporate coup d'etat" where "economics trumps politics." The government represents only the billionaires, special interests and corporationsleaving We the People with no political power. The media is owned by the elite–so it acts to promote only the message government and industry want put out (propaganda).

Here is a paragraph from Shedon Wolin's original 2003 article in which he coined the term "Inverted Totalitarianism":

Representative institutions no longer represent voters. Instead, they have been short-circuited, steadily corrupted by an institutionalized system of bribery that renders them responsive to powerful interest groups whose constituencies are the major corporations and wealthiest Americans. The courts, in turn, when they are not increasingly handmaidens of corporate power, are consistently deferential to the claims of national security. Elections have become heavily subsidized non-events that typically attract at best merely half of an electorate whose information about foreign and domestic politics is filtered through corporate-dominated media. Citizens are manipulated into a nervous state by the media’s reports of rampant crime and terrorist networks, by thinly veiled threats of the Attorney General and by their own fears about unemployment. What is crucially important here is not only the expansion of governmental power but the inevitable discrediting of constitutional limitations and institutional processes that discourages the citizenry and leaves them politically apathetic.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/inverted-totalitarianism/

>>52802, >>52803, >>52805

#178

>>52771, >>52780, >>52788 planefaggin

>>52819 BlackBerry Prevents DarkSide Ransomware — Years Before It Ever Existed

>>52818 Le Pen Denounces Migrant Taxi NGOs as Part of ‘Modern Slavery’

>>52817 Florida Restaurant Owner Says People Started Applying As Soon As Gov. DeSantis Nixed Unemployment Waivers For Job Search

>>52816 Gas Shortage is our own government and industries Fucking We the People…

>>52815 White House Agrees To Removes China's Xiaomi From Pentagon Trade Blacklist

>>52808 FBI RAIDS LORDSBURG, NM POLICE DEPARTMENT

>>52806, >>52807 Merriam-Webster dictionary has changed definition of “anti-vaxxer” to include “people who oppose laws that mandate vaccination”

>>52804 45: I look forward to soon watching [Liz Cheney] as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!

>>52801 Younger Democrats, however, have taken a dimmer view of Israel in recent years

>>52800 Government warning to gas hoarders: Don't put gasoline in plastic bags

>>52797 Global firms leave Myanmar office block with military ties

>>52791 Dip-Buyers Disappear As Bonds, Stock Bloodbath Escalates

>>52790, >>52792 @DeptofDefense Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready.

>>52787 Swiss aim to re-open economy, donate AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots

>>52786 For the Keks! Moments ago, Representative Anon from Kek's 17th Congressional District, nominates Marjorie Taylor Greene for the position of Conference Chair

>>52785 Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show Next Year After 19 Seasons

>>52784 MEET BERNHARD STEMPFLE - CATHOLIC JESUIT PRIEST WHO WROTE AND EDITED PARTS OF MEIN KAMPF

>>52782 You will drive nowhere and be happy

>>52779 Senators Introduce Bill Forcing Colleges to Disclose Financial Ties With Beijing

>>52778 Judge orders IRS to reveal if it criminally investigated Clinton Foundation

>>52777 Insurance Brokers Sell Assets to Win Approval for $35 Billion Merger

>>52775 Japan to restart nuclear reactor beyond 40-year limit in June

>>52768 U.S. consumer prices post biggest gain in nearly 12 years as inflation pressures build

>>52767, >>52769 Liz Cheney has been ousted from her GOP leadership post by House Republicans.

>>52766 CE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl

>>52765 Biden delayed his call with Israeli leadership and restarted funding to the Palestinian Authority through the UN

>>52763, >>52764 Mass. churches amassed over $82M in small business PPP loans; Roman Catholic dioceses alone collected over $20M

>>52761, >>52762 STUNNING TESTIMONY:AZ Elections Witness, Jan Bryant, Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite

>>52760 Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials

>>52759 @US_Stratcom A historic milestone for the submarine community

>>52757, >>52758 Stage is being set for new election

>>52756 The Spirit of America

#178

lemme know

#178

>>52771, >>52780, >>52788, >>52802, >>52803, >>52805, >>52822 planefaggin

>>52819 BlackBerry Prevents DarkSide Ransomware — Years Before It Ever Existed

>>52818 Le Pen Denounces Migrant Taxi NGOs as Part of ‘Modern Slavery’

>>52817 Florida Restaurant Owner Says People Started Applying As Soon As Gov. DeSantis Nixed Unemployment Waivers For Job Search

>>52816 Gas Shortage is our own government and industries Fucking We the People…

>>52815 White House Agrees To Removes China's Xiaomi From Pentagon Trade Blacklist

>>52808 FBI RAIDS LORDSBURG, NM POLICE DEPARTMENT

>>52806, >>52807 Merriam-Webster dictionary has changed definition of “anti-vaxxer” to include “people who oppose laws that mandate vaccination”

>>52804 45: I look forward to soon watching [Liz Cheney] as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!

>>52801 Younger Democrats, however, have taken a dimmer view of Israel in recent years

>>52800 Government warning to gas hoarders: Don't put gasoline in plastic bags

>>52797 Global firms leave Myanmar office block with military ties

>>52791 Dip-Buyers Disappear As Bonds, Stock Bloodbath Escalates

>>52790, >>52792 @DeptofDefense Stay ready, so you don’t have to get ready.

>>52787 Swiss aim to re-open economy, donate AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots

>>52786 For the Keks! Moments ago, Representative Anon from Kek's 17th Congressional District, nominates Marjorie Taylor Greene for the position of Conference Chair

>>52785 Ellen DeGeneres to End Talk Show Next Year After 19 Seasons

>>52784 MEET BERNHARD STEMPFLE - CATHOLIC JESUIT PRIEST WHO WROTE AND EDITED PARTS OF MEIN KAMPF

>>52782 You will drive nowhere and be happy

>>52779 Senators Introduce Bill Forcing Colleges to Disclose Financial Ties With Beijing

>>52778 Judge orders IRS to reveal if it criminally investigated Clinton Foundation

>>52777 Insurance Brokers Sell Assets to Win Approval for $35 Billion Merger

>>52775 Japan to restart nuclear reactor beyond 40-year limit in June

>>52768 U.S. consumer prices post biggest gain in nearly 12 years as inflation pressures build

>>52767, >>52769 Liz Cheney has been ousted from her GOP leadership post by House Republicans.

>>52766 CE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl

>>52765 Biden delayed his call with Israeli leadership and restarted funding to the Palestinian Authority through the UN

>>52763, >>52764 Mass. churches amassed over $82M in small business PPP loans; Roman Catholic dioceses alone collected over $20M

>>52761, >>52762 STUNNING TESTIMONY:AZ Elections Witness, Jan Bryant, Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite

>>52760 Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials

>>52759 @US_Stratcom A historic milestone for the submarine community

>>52757, >>52758 Stage is being set for new election

>>52756 The Spirit of America

#178

wutcha think G

>>52824

on it

tyvm

Freshness

>>52821

>>52821

>>52821