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75 Replies to “Reader’s Links for April 20th, 2023”

  1. A precision throw (egg hit Macron), Richard Vobes, Weird people, Twitter, and RFKjr

  5. 8:57
    The power of the underdog should not be underestimated, and the power of the favourite should not be overestimated. Here, Turley points out for us a sly operator who puts his money where his mouth is:

    • I have two Fellowes medical-grade air purifiers that clean up the air and kill viruses, including the spike protein. The main filter has a unique coating that kills the smallest of viruses.

      I like them because they also suck in dust which results in less furniture and plant dusting.

      The yellow alert light goes off when I go to the bathroom and the purifier is in the living room.

      At times, it’s the red alert light, often when I open the door of my house. That would be the road dust in the air.

  11. Equity: The Thief of Human Potential – Thomas Sowell
    After School – February 28, 2023
    Full speech link can be found in the description box.

  13. Ukraine appeals to NATO chief for membership and more arms

    […]Zelensky told visiting NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday it was time for the military alliance to offer his country membership and that Kiev needed more weapons to fight Russia.

    […]Zelensky said he believed a NATO Summit in Vilnius in July could become “historic” and that he had been invited to attend.

    […]Stoltenberg said Ukraine’s rightful place was in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    […]On Wednesday, Washington announced $325 million in new military aid

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-chief-stoltenberg-visits-wartime-ukraine-2023-04-20/

    • Hungary, Serbia preparing to build new oil pipeline

      […]

      https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/hungary-serbia-preparing-to-build-new-oil-pipeline/

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      Hungary, Serbia to build pipeline to transport Russian oil deliveries — Hungarian official

      The planned oil pipeline will be laid between Algyo, Hungary, and Novi Sad, Serbia, Peter Szijjarto said

      BUDAPEST, April 20. /TASS/. Hungary and Serbia intend to sign an agreement in June 2023 on the construction of an oil pipeline designed to facilitate deliveries of Russian oil via the Hungarian leg of the Druzhba oil pipeline to Serbian consumers, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday.

      The planned oil pipeline will be laid between Algyo, Hungary, and Novi Sad, Serbia, the minister said. “Talks between MOL [MOL Plc., Hungarian Oil and Gas Public Limited Company – TASS ] and Transnafta [Serbia’s TRANSNAFTA JSC – TASS] under this project are continuing. An agreement to that effect may be signed at the Serbian-Hungarian summit scheduled for June,” Szijjarto noted.

      Russian oil supplies delivered via the Druzhba pipeline have not come under EU sanctions.

      The planned Algyo-Novi Sad pipeline would have a length of 128 km and an estimated construction cost of around 100 mln euro, the minister said earlier. An existing gas pipeline corridor running from Serbia to Hungary could potentially also accommodate the oil pipeline. According to forecasts, construction work on the Hungary-to-Serbia pipeline would last from 18 to 24 months.

      https://tass.com/economy/1607167

    • redacted – Seymour Hersh just EXPOSED the truth, Facebook labeled him ‘false news’

      “You better not share anything about the Nord Stream pipeline on Facebook if you don’t want to be put in Facebook jail.

      Journalist and author Michael Shellenberger [found that]

    • WaPo -APRIL 20 2023 – Ukraine planned attacks on Russian forces in Syria, leaked document shows

      THE DISCORD LEAKS | Last winter, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate put in motion strikes on Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries in Syria, before President Volodymyr Zelensky directed a halt to the operations

      Ukraine’s military intelligence agency developed plans to conduct covert attacks on Russian forces in Syria using secret Kurdish help, according to a leaked top-secret U.S. intelligence document.

      The introduction of a new battlefield — thousands of miles from the war in Ukraine — appeared designed to impose costs and casualties on Russia and its Wagner paramilitary group, which is active in Syria, and possibly force Moscow to redeploy resources from Ukraine.

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky directed a halt to the planning in December, but the leaked document, based on intelligence gathered as of Jan. 23, lays out in detail how the planning progressed and how such a campaign could proceed if Ukraine revived it.

      The document — which in places bears the marking HCS-P, indicating that certain information is derived from human sources — details how officers of the Main Directorate of Intelligence, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s military intelligence service, could plan deniable attacks that would avoid implicating the Ukrainian government itself.

      The Washington Post obtained the document, which has not been previously reported, from a trove of intelligence material allegedly leaked to a Discord chatroom by Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. The Department of Defense declined to comment.

      President Vladimir Putin’s 2015 intervention in Syria to help the embattled Assad regime retain power during the civil war has created a permanent presence of thousands of Russian troops there. The deployment, which includes advanced warplanes and air defense systems, has bolstered Moscow’s regional presence but exists in an environment Russia does not totally control. Moscow transferred some troops and hardware from Syria to the Ukraine battlefield last fall, which may have led Kyiv to assess that their departure created vulnerabilities.

      Attacks on Russian forces in Syria “might raise the threat level to the point where the Russians would need to call in reinforcements,” which could help the war effort back in Ukraine, said Aron Lund, a fellow at the think tank Century International.

      Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the chief of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, declined to comment.

      During planning in December, the document states, Ukrainian military intelligence officers favored striking Russian forces using unmanned aerial vehicles and starting “small,” or possibly limiting their strikes only to forces of the Wagner mercenary group.

      Ukrainian officers considered training operatives of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the military force of Syria’s Kurdish-controlled autonomous northeast, to strike Russian targets and conduct “unspecified ‘direct action’ activities along with UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] attacks,” according to the document.

      As planning occurred last fall, the SDF sought training, air defense systems and a guarantee that its role would be kept secret in exchange for supporting Ukrainian operations. The leadership of the SDF also forbade strikes on Russian positions in Kurdish areas, the document says.

      “The documents that you are talking about regarding our forces are not real; our forces have never been a side in the Russian-Ukrainian war,” said Farhad Shami, an SDF spokesperson.

      The document indicates that Turkey was aware of the planning, stating that Turkish officials “sought to avoid potential blowback” and suggested that Ukraine stage its attacks from Kurdish areas instead of those in the north and northwest held by other rebel groups, some of them backed by Turkey.

      Turkey opposes the SDF, however, and considers its core military element, the People’s Protection Units or YPG, to be a terrorist group. The SDF is the main partner of U.S. troops in Syria, where they often share bases on an ongoing mission to stifle the resurgence of the Islamic State.

      The Turkish Foreign Ministry and embassy in the United States did not return requests for comment.

      While it is not clear how much Ankara knew about Kyiv’s plan, having Ukraine help arm its enemy may not have been intolerable if Turkey thought it might draw a violent response from Moscow, according to a former U.S. official who worked in the region, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due of the sensitive nature of the intelligence.

      “Turkey’s goal in the region is to eliminate the military capability and leadership of the SDF,” the former official said. “If Turkey were to be greeted with such a plan, it would be in their interest to bait the Ukraine-SDF alliance into drawing the wrath of Russia.”

      Moscow probably knows the location of SDF units and would not face great difficulties in striking them, because SDF forces often operate near Russian military bases, the former official said.

      Lund said that Ukraine’s plans represented a “high-risk project for the SDF,” which needs to maintain a good working relationship with Russia. “For the SDF to agree to something like this — it seems like a real gamble,” said Lund, who also works as a Middle East analyst at the Swedish Defense Research Agency.

      In November, according to the leaked document, Ukrainian military intelligence officers identified potential logistical constraints to their ambitions, including “issues with intra-Kurdish border controls and establishing a base of operations.” By Dec. 29, the officers appear to have found out that Zelensky had halted their planning. It is unclear why Zelensky directed the HUR to cease planning operations, but the document assesses that he may have done so for a variety of reasons: U.S. pressure, Ukraine’s limited supply of drones or doubts about whether the attacks could succeed.

      Another factor could have been the “comparative success” of military intelligence operations in Russia, the document states. The HUR has been aggressive in staging sabotage, assassination and destabilizing operations in Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine, according to other documents in the leaked trove. These areas probably offer advantages in logistics, language and other variables.

      Kyiv is unlikely to revive the plans or “impose significant costs on Russia in Syria” without support from the United States and Turkey, the document says. If Ukraine did proceed, attacks could “incur a Russian response targeting U.S. interests in the region if support for an operation is attributed to the United States.”

      The document goes into detail about what a campaign of “notional” covert Ukrainian attacks might look like, ranking them by the likelihood that they would cause Russia to escalate in response. It weighs attacks on well-defended “priority” Russian facilities near Damascus and the Syrian coast, which would be the most dangerous but the most costly for Russia, against strikes on “Russia-affiliated petroleum infrastructure” in central Syria, which is poorly protected by air defense but would only impose “modest costs” on Russia, particularly on the Wagner group.

      The Syrian battlefield “provides deniability options” to Ukraine, the document states, because it could attack Russian positions previously struck by Syrian rebels, launch attacks from rebel or even regime-held areas, and attribute attacks to “front, defunct or active nonstate groups.”

      Ranked highest on the escalation graph is an attack on a “key Russian facility,” which is accompanied by a graphic outlining an attack on Latakia’s Bassel al-Assad Airport, which shares facilities with Hmeimim Air Base, Russia’s main military base in Syria. The graphic is dated to 2018 — the same year that the air base was attacked by a “swarm” of unmanned aerial vehicles — and says “Syrian opposition UAV used in attack.” It shows the departure point and flight path of the UAV from a location in Idlib governorate around 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of the air base and illustrates how it flew over the air base itself. The departure point roughly corresponds to the same place from which Russia alleged the drones had taken off.

      The document also suggests such a facility could be attacked using “USVs,” or uncrewed surface vessels, and an inset map highlights the Russian naval base at Tartus. Ukraine has dispatched one-way uncrewed boat drones with onboard explosives to attack Russian ships in the Black Sea.

      The chart also posits an attack profile on “oil and gas infrastructure,” including a photograph of the “Wagner-associated Jihar gas plant,” which The Post geolocated to gas fields near the town of Palmyra. The image is dated Jan. 5 and suggests the possible munitions, staging area and target types. It suggests the use of “Group 1 or 2 UAVs,” probably a reference to how the U.S. Defense Department ranks the size, weight and speed of its unmanned aerial vehicles from lowest to highest.

      At the lowest end of targets risking Russia’s escalation, the document lists attacks on Wagner positions. A photograph shows parked vehicles and structures at what is identified as a Wagner facility near the Syrian town of Furqlus.

      In lightly defended areas like that, “a determined enemy with a bit of technological know-how could do some damage,” Lund said.

      The leaked assessment acknowledges that attacks like these could “complicate” U.S. coalition operations in eastern Syria if Russia “more aggressively” polices Syrian airspace or moves air defense weapons.

      It mentions a real but previously undisclosed Nov. 27 incident in which a Russian SA-22 air defense system based in eastern Syria fired on a U.S. MQ-9 drone. The drone was not struck by the missile, a U.S. official said.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/20/russia-ukraine-war-syria-attacks/

  15. BREAKING: ‘Fauci Files’ show collusion between Twitter, big pharma to silence Covid dissent, boost vaccines

    The Fauci Files finally dropped on Twitter on Thursday, after a promise from Elon Musk in December. Musk had said “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” which was a rallying cry from many GOP lawmakers in Congress.

    Fauci, notably, said he had no idea what Musk was talking about. He further said he didn’t know how to use Twitter. This turns out to have been untrue, and Paul D. Thacker, former investigator for the US Senate, brought the receipts, straight from the Twitter files.

    “Dr. Anthony Fauci did an account takeover for @WHOCOVIDResponse.” This runs contrary to Fauci’s public statements and sworn deposition given on Nov 23, 2022,” Thacker revealed. That first takeover was in March 2021, and a second came in April of that year.

    Others in the Covid White House team working for the Biden administration, Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Andy Slavitt, undertook similar engagements on Twitter, to answer 32 questions about Covid and the Covid response, generating over 4 million impressions.

    […]

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-fauci-files-show-collusion-between-twitter-big-pharma-to-silence-covid-dissent-boost-vaccines
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    TWITTER THREAD –

    1) Twitter Files #FauciPharmaFiles

    Last December,
    @elonmusk
    sent out his viral tweet about Fauci.

    Fauci went on Fox News and said he had “no clue what [Elon] was talking about.”

    https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1649037538663727106

    ============================

  16. CORRUPT Antony Blinken Was Behind Gathering 50+ Members of Intel Community to Lie and Sign Bogus Letter on Hunter Laptop Being Russian Disinformation
    By Joe Hoft Apr. 20, 2023 9:45 am0 Comments

    Current Secretary of State Tony Blinken was reportedly behind the effort to put together a list of government intel leaders to claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. This narrative was another liberal lie.

    According to a report in the New York Post yesterday, it was the current Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, who called an Intel insider to put together a list of Intel leaders who would sign a report stating the lie that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

    The New York Post writes:

    In sworn interview, Morell has admitted it was Joe Biden’s presidential campaign that prompted the infamous letter in which Morell and 50 fellow former intelligence officials falsely claimed that material from Hunter Biden’s laptop published by The Post before the 2020 election was Russian disinformation, sources in the House Judiciary Committee have confirmed.

    Tony Blinken, now secretary of state, was the Biden-campaign foreign-affairs adviser who urgently phoned Morell in October 2020 to suggest the laptop was a Russian plant.

    This doesn’t surprise anyone who is aware of the corrupt US government Intel community.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/reports-showing-that-antony-blinken-was-in-charge-of-getting-over-50-intel-people-to-sign-bogus-letter-on-hunter-laptop/

  18. Akron, Ohio – Marxist BLM terrorists assaulted police officers during a riot in Akron Wednesday night after a grand jury declined on Monday to indict the eight police officers who killed 25-year-old Jayland Walker.

    The Gateway Pundit reported that on June 27th, Walker was shot more than 40 times by police in Akron, Ohio, after refusing to stop for them, initiating a dangerous car chase, and firing at officers from his vehicle.

    Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the cops would not face criminal charges for shooting Walker.

    Yost said the evidence was clear Walker shot first and the police acted in self-defense.

    The facts did not matter to the BLM terrorists, of course. During the riot, they assaulted police by throwing bottles and rocks at them.

    One BLM rioter stormed toward the police screaming “Go ahead, I dare you n****rs, I dare you n****rs, I’ma die about this b***h!”

    “Imma burn this b***h down on my kids!”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/imma-burn-this-bh-down-on-my-kids-marxist-blm-terrorists-assault-police-officers-and-damage-akron-businesses-during-riot-over-jayland-walker-case-video/

  20. EXCLUSIVE: “They’ve Now Gone Fishing Through all My Social Media” – Victim of Child Sex Abuse Kayleigh Kozak Responds to Suppression For Speaking Out Against Katie Hobbs (VIDEO)
    By Jordan Conradson Apr. 20, 2023 9:15 am114 Comments

    Kayleigh Kozak

    Kayleigh Kozak, a survivor of child sexual abuse and a strong voice for policy promoting victims’ rights, was recently disinvited as a keynote speaker at the Arizona Crime Victims Rights Week awards ceremony in response to a tweet slamming Katie Hobbs for vetoing legislation to give more protection to potential victims of pedophilia.

    Kozak, who prompted Kayleigh’s Law in 2021 to give victims lifetime protection from their abusers, was canceled for saying she was “disgusted” by Hobbs’ recent veto and that Hobbs is “prioritizing pedophiles over innocent children.”

    Janae Shamp’s SB1253 would add even more protection for children and stricter notification requirements for convicted sex offenders, requiring them to give annual notice to the school their child attends. However, this new bill added language requiring sex offenders with parental rights to notify their children’s school, regardless of what district it is in. This is important in Arizona, where a child may attend any school regardless of their zip code. Still, Hobbs refused to sign the bill into law, claiming that the state is already doing enough to punish sex offenders.

    The Gateway Pundit recently reported on the vetoed legislation and suppression of Kayleigh Kozak. Kozak released a statement slamming the corrupt government agencies that canceled her.

    When The Gateway Pundit asked for more information on the termination of Kozak’s speech, Jennifer Liewer provided the following statement from Maricopa County Attorney’s Office:

    The Arizona Crime Victims’ Rights Week Awards Ceremony is an annual, non-partisan, statewide event hosted by numerous state and local agencies honoring the work of victim’s rights advocates. The event is organized by a committee of employees who work for the various agencies sponsoring the event. Earlier this year, Ms. Cox contacted Ms. Kozak on behalf of the committee to invite her to speak at the event. After the agencies became aware of several inflammatory social media posts made by Ms. Kozak, including posts that stated the Governor protected pedophiles and encouraged people to use #hobbs4pedos, the agencies determined that it was no longer appropriate for Ms. Kozak to speak at the event, which is hosted and attended by the Governor. Ms. Cox offered to call Ms. Kozak to relay the message because she had been the person to extend the original invite. The County Attorney’s Office has no further comment on the matter.

    As The Gateway Pundit reported, Kozak told us that she received a call from the Division Chief of Victim Services at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Shawn Cox, disinviting her from speaking at the upcoming Arizona Crime Victims Rights Week awards ceremony. Cox allegedly said the State of Arizona and Maricopa County were “concerned,” “anguished,” and “uncomfortable” to have her on stage with officials she has criticized using her First Amendment. In the phone call, Cox specifically cited Kozak’s tweets that were sent following Hobbs’ veto but not her Instagram posts.

    “They’ve now gone fishing through all my social media and have now started picking out other things that they don’t agree with,” said Kozak.

    Kozak was told on Monday by Shawn Cox, the wife of Arizona Voice for Crime Victims founder Steve Twist, that her tweets caused concern among the leaders who are putting on the event. Cox described the “discomfort” felt by Katie Hobbs and referred to the Arizona Crime Victims Rights Week awards ceremony as “the governor’s event,” according to Kayleigh.

    Regardless of Kozak’s choice of words, she is clearly being unconstitutionally targeted and suppressed by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to protect Katie Hobbs from criticism.

    RINO Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell was previously assigned to prosecute Kozak’s offender after she was sexually abused by her middle school coach. Kayleigh told The Gateway Pundit, “I want to believe she wants the best for me, but clearly, she does not.”

    Kayleigh also told us, “as the prosecutor, she agreed to the plea deal that was six months in jail, and she never disclosed to my parents that he would not be on the DPS sex offender website” or that lifetime probation could be appealed and reduced. She continued, “My parents wanted him to have that public scrutiny, so they were under the impression that he would be on the DPS public registry and that he would never, ever, ever be able to get off his probation, and that’s why they agreed to that, when in reality that is not the case.”

    According to Shouse Law Group, “Level 1 sex offenders will not have their information widely disseminated through the community notification process, and might not even be listed in the publicly available database of sex offenders, online.”

    Kayleigh Kozaks’s name is still being used as a keynote speaker to advertise the event on at least one webpage, claiming she “will share her compelling story behind why she proposed and successfully passed the Lifetime Injunctions statute in AZ, otherwise known as Kayleigh’s Law.”

    TGP correspondent Jordan Conradson spoke to Kayleigh Kozak recently about Katie Hobbs’ veto and the decision by the Governor, the Attorney General, the Maricopa County Attorney, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Juvenile Corrections, and the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission to revoke her First Amendment rights.

    Watch below:

    Conradson: Katie Hobbs vetoed this bill that would increase school notification laws for registered sex offenders who have parental rights. One can only assume that she cares more about protecting pedophiles than children in the schools. Can you tell us more about what happened with this law, and what do you make of this with her veto?

    Kozak: So it does appear that she is prioritizing the protection of pedophiles over innocent children in schools. So, her response had stated that there’s already laws in place for this, but she specifically noted that it was for offenders and they will be notifying within the school district the offender lives. What about the children that live outside those districts? This bill would have narrowed the gaps that currently exist in the law and would have required registered sex offenders with parental rights to notify their children’s school in which they attend, which is not always the district that they live in.

    Conradson: To me, it looks like she’s prioritizing pedophiles over children. What do you think? Can you build more on that?

    Kozak: Absolutely. It does appear that way because she vetoed the bill. So it’s dead now and it doesn’t exist. And if this bill would have been signed into law, we would have been prioritizing protecting innocent children in schools over protecting a pedophile’s identity. Pedophiles are the most protected criminals that exist, and especially here in Arizona, level-one sex offenders are not on the DPS sex offender website so people can’t even access that information. It’s not available. This bill would have made it so schools are fully aware of who and if there is a registered sex offender that is a parent of a child that attends their school.

    Conradson: They’re now saying you know, they told me in a statement that because you used certain language on your separate Instagram posts, that’s why they canceled you from speaking but originally they went after your tweets. What does it tell you now that they’re going after all your social media posts and trying to target you and justify their cancellation of your speech?

    Kozak: Well to me it validates that they have nothing other than a personal vendetta against me. Because I openly stated that I was disgusted in the governor’s decision to veto the bill, they’ve now gone fishing through all my social media and have now started picking out other things that they don’t agree with, that originally, they had never even mentioned because I was originally told that I was disinvited from this event because of my tweet which simply stated that I was disgusted with Governor Hobbs’ veto and decision to prioritize protecting pedophiles over innocent children in schools.

    Conradson: They mentioned that it’s a nonpartisan event. That was seemingly the way of them justifying, we don’t want politics involved. But is is this a political issue in your opinion?

    Kozak: It should not be a political issue, but I absolutely think they’re coming after me and they disinvited me for political reasons.

    What does this mean for the First Amendment free speech especially for a fighter like you, someone who’s fighting for victims rights? What does it mean for your ability to speak on victims rights in Arizona?

    Kozak: I absolutely feel like my first amendment rights have been violated and that I’m being punished for simply stating my opinion and using a few specific words, and they are punishing me and shunning me and ostracizing me for using words like disgusted, prioritizing pedophiles, and new to me today, #Hobbsforpedos that they have now included, because I’m pointing out and, for their words, criticizing the governor and what she has done, they are going to punish me for using words under my First Amendment rights.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/exclusive-theyve-now-gone-fishing-through-all-my-social-media-victim-of-child-sex-abuse-kayleigh-kozak-responds-to-suppression-for-speaking-out-against-katie-hobbs-videlo/

  21. HUGE: Brazil’s Security Chief Resigns Abruptly as January 8th Riot Investigation Closes In on Lula’s Team
    By Paul Serran Apr. 19, 2023 8:00 pm119 Comments

    Lula’s administration is in a state of perpetual trouble. While the Brazilian president travelled around the world – ‘parroting Russian and Chinese talking points’, according to the Biden administration – his government saw a supermajority in the House of Congress form against him, and today lost his most trusted military adviser, chief of his Institutional Security Bureau (GSI).

    Gonçalves Dias resignation is the first step as the truth about the January 8th riots comes to light, and the participation of administration officials in enabling it.

    Reuters reports:

    “The top national security adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva resigned on Wednesday, the presidential palace said, amid a scandal related to the aide’s presence during the storming of government buildings in the capital.

    The resignation of Marcos Gonçalves Dias, already accepted by the president, follows a report from CNN Brasil that included [CCTV] footage of him walking around the presidential

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/huge-brazils-security-chief-resigns-abruptly-as-january-8th-riot-investigation-closes-in-on-lulas-team/

  22. Lula’s administration is in a state of perpetual trouble. While the Brazilian president travelled around the world – ‘parroting Russian and Chinese talking points’, according to the Biden administration – his government saw a supermajority in the House of Congress form against him, and today lost his most trusted military adviser, chief of his Institutional Security Bureau (GSI).

    Gonçalves Dias resignation is the first step as the truth about the January 8th riots comes to light, and the participation of administration officials in enabling it.

    Reuters reports:

    “The top national security adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva resigned on Wednesday, the presidential palace said, amid a scandal related to the aide’s presence during the storming of government buildings in the capital.

    The resignation of Marcos Gonçalves Dias, already accepted by the president, follows a report from CNN Brasil that included [CCTV] footage of him walking around the presidential

    This is a HUGE story. The Biden gang as we all know is being protected by the corrupt DOJ which has gone to hell in a handbasket. Attorney General Garland is protecting them – now we have proof.

    FOX News reports:

    Attorney Mark D. Lytle penned a letter calling for whistleblower privileges regarding his client, an IRS criminal supervisory agent. The letter read that the agent previously made legally protected disclosures at the IRS and stated that these disclosures “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee.”

    “My goal is to ensure that my client can properly share his lawfully protected disclosures with congressional committees,” Lytle wrote. “Thus, I respectfully request that your committees work with me to facilitate sharing this information with congress legally and with the fully informed advice of counsel.”

    The letter was released and shared on Twitter:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/huge-whistleblower-uncovers-hunter-biden-coverup-and-ag-merrick-garland-in-on-it/

  28. OBAMA SET UP ENERGY EFFICIENCY AID FOR HUNTER/BURISMA
    SULLIVAN AF2 BRIEF EXPOSED BIDEN DOUBLE-DIP CASH GRAB W/USAID

    It wasn’t just Joe’s shale gas assistance Hunter and Burisma got their hooks into.

    Obama’s USAID ponied up American taxpayer dollars for an energy conservation scam, the Municipal Energy Reform Program (MERP,) and Burisma got a big chunk of that too — meaning Joe and Hunter got their kickback share.

    And Obama was right in the thick of it.

    How do I know that? Because Jake Sullivan said so — only he didn’t think he’d be identified as the speaker outing the scam. But now he is. By me — because I was standing next to him. Here’s the link to the crime-ridden April 21st, 2014, Air Force Two background briefing given by Sullivan.

    As I have previously indicated, Hunter Biden surreptitiously signed up to be a highly paid board member of Burisma Holdings three days earlier on April 18th with Joe’s knowledge and guidance.

    https://mmccormick.substack.com/p/obama-set-up-energy-efficiency-aid

  30. Serpentza on people fleeing China to the US

    https://youtu.be/CGNGxUoG6K4

    The people who are fleeing think that things are going to get much worse in China. Their actions say they think the US is going to survive as a free nation.

    • I keep hearing Brad predicting war with China during what’s left of this administration. Distract their populace with wolf warrior noise. They can’t win, but they can cause us lots of pain.

      • I don’t think Xi’s goal is to win, he knows that the entire world is going down the tubes. What he wants is to ensure that no nation will be strong enough to occupy China. He is probably expecting China to recover and gain strength faster then the rest of the world.

    • This video is a year old, things may have changed but how much and in what direction? Xi would have promoted based on loyalty to him, this seems to help him but the Chinese Military promoted from bribes or loyalty to the person doing the promotion.

      The big question is how much control of the lower ranks does the rapidly promoted officers have? When I was promoted to Sergeant I was told to never give an order I didn’t have a reasonable expectation of being obeyed.

    • The continuing saga of economic crisis in China
      ByHindustan Times
      Apr 18, 2023 01:59 PM IST

      This article is authored by Soumya Awasthi and Swayamsiddha Samal.

      The Chinese leadership is in a state of desperation caused by its own economic ambitions. Analysts believed that China would take over the United States (US) in terms of economy. However, the situation seems different from how it did a few years ago. In fact, there were reports in 2022 that China’s Gross Domestic (GDP) Product figures were manipulated. There are broadly two reasons for China’s situation: first, the turbulence in its “Guónèi zhèngzhì” or domestic affairs. Second, the anxiety caused due to desperate shift in the Duìwài zhèngcè’- foreign policies of Beijing. This could be due to failing economic agreements with its allies and the challenges faced by China’s flagship programme, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The following sections examine China’s economic motion and whether it is still moving with the utmost rigour.

      President Xi Jinping is tightening control over his government, making the concept of authoritarianism synonymous with his tenure. China’s annual ‘two sessions’ happened from March 4 till a week this year. Xi Jinping was formally elected president for an unprecedented third term. The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislative body, elected Xi in a ritualistic ceremony where 2,952 members cast votes affirming his appointment, with no opposition whatsoever. Another key highlight of the two sessions was the promotion of Li Qiang and the involuntary retirement of Li Keqiang. Xi loyalist Li Qiang became the nation’s premier in March 2023, taking over Li Keqiang’s position. Li Keqiang still had one year before retirement when he was let go. The internal rivalry between pro-market reformist Li Keqiang and state-supremacist Xi Jinping most likely resulted in Li Qiang getting elected. However, Li Qiang is also a pro-business politician. Whether his policies align with Xi’s vision as China moves towards centralising power struggles to mark its place in global geopolitics is yet to be seen when Xi is going each day towards state supremacy. We will look at a few State-focused policies which have affected China adversely.

      https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/international-affairs/the-continuing-saga-of-economic-crisis-in-china-101681804136412.html

  35. Bill O’Reilly Exposes Why Fox News Paid $787 Million To Settle Case: “It Had Nothing To Do With Prime Time Talent” (VIDEO)
    By ProTrumpNews Staff Apr. 20, 2023 11:15 am233 Comments

    Bill O’Reilly just blew up the mainstream media’s narrative on Fox News’ settlement with Dominion.

    According to Bill O’Reilly, the reason Fox News settled was that Rupert Murdoch did not want to testify in the trial.

    O’Reilly said it had nothing to do with the prime-time talent.

    Watch (partial transcript below):

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/bill-oreilly-exposes-why-fox-news-paid-787-million-to-settle-case-it-had-nothing-to-do-with-prime-time-talent-video/

  36. Freedom
    Fox News Shows True Colors – Outspoken Conservative Dan Bongino is OUT Only Days After Their Cowardly Settlement With Dominion
    By Patty McMurray Apr. 20, 2023 12:59 pm36 Comments

    Conservative TV host and Donald Trump supporter Dan Bongino has parted ways with Fox News after failed contract negotiations.
    100 Percent Fed Up reports – Bongino, who hosted the Saturday night show Unfiltered with Dan Bongino and Fox Nation’s Canceled in the USA, announced his departure from the network on his podcast Thursday.

    Folks, regretfully, last week was my last show on Fox News on the Fox News Channel,” said Bongino. “It’s tough. It’s tough to say that. You know, I’ve been there doing hits and working there for ten years… so the show ending was tough. And I want you to know it’s not some big conspiracy. I promise you. There’s no acrimony. This wasn’t some WWE brawl that happened. We just couldn’t come to terms on an extension.”

    “You’re going to read a thousand left-wing articles about some nonsense, and I’m guaranteeing you on my reputation, it is all made up. It’s a simple contract thing, and that’s it. It is no more complicated than that.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/fox-news-shows-true-colorsoutspoken-conservative-dan-bongino-is-out-only-days-after-their-cowardly-settlement-with-dominion/

  37. Office of Special Counsel Finds Biden Admin Official Violated Federal Law – “Was So Obviously Concerning”
    By ProTrumpNews Staff Apr. 20, 2023 12:30 pm65 Comments

    Do members of the Biden administration think they are above the law?

    The US Office of Special Counsel found Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act.

    The Hatch Act prohibits people in executive agencies from using their official authority to influence an election.

    In September of 2022, Secretary Becerra expressed his support for Senator Alex Padilla’s reelection – this came while he was speaking in his official capacity.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/office-of-special-counsel-finds-biden-admin-official-violated-federal-law-was-so-obviously-concerning/

  40. What Happened To: Doomed Train 32N in East Palestine, Ohio?!

    Train 32N derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Uncover the journey behind the Norfolk Southern disaster, vinyl chloride spill, and ecological impact through the NTSB report, and found footage.

    • Memory-holed.
      If it were Mideast Palestine, it would get wall-to-wall coverage. Jacinda Ardern and Greta would make a pilgrimage. Rags on heads, demanding accountability.

  41. PARAGUAY – Brazilian Hackers Linked to Lula Under Investigation in Paraguay Election Rigging Scheme

    South American elections are under siege…

    Brazilian hackers linked to the country’s left-wing President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula), are under investigation in the neighboring nation of Paraguay where they had traveled in what authorities say is an attempt to rig the upcoming Paraguayan Presidential Election by hacking into its computer servers, much in the same way that Brazil’s recent election is alleged to have been rigged and stolen.

    According to emerging reports and government statements, 20 hackers linked to Lula and the left-wing Brazilian Workers’ Party illegally entered Paraguay “with the aim of interfering in the April 30 elections.” It is on April 30th that the South American nation will go to the polls for a presidential election, which is expected to be a close competition between the right-wing Colorado Party and the left-wing Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA).

    The PLRA candidate, Efrain Alegre, is not just being supported by Lula and a wide swath of Latin American leftists, but by the World Economic Forum, as Klaus Schwab has expressed his support for the campaign. Based on the current information, Alegre’s campaign appears close to the election theft scheme.

    Despite being a sparsely populated landlocked nation, Parguay plays a pivotal role in geopolitics and has long been a hotbed for government and NGO-backed drug trafficking, with the nation’s vast jungles serving as a cover for massive trafficking and drug production operations.

    “URGENT: The Public Ministry of Paraguay is investigating the illegal stay of 20 Brazilian hackers who entered the country illegally with the aim of interfering in the April 30 elections,” reported Brazilian journalist Oswaldo Eustáquio, who currently lives in Paraguay, having fled political persecution from the left-wing Lula government in his native Brazill.

    “[The] Digital criminals are directly linked to Lula’s team in 2022,” Eustáquio explained.

    “The hackers are staying in the same building” as the son of PLRA candidate, Efrain Alegre, Eustáquio reported in a Twitter thread, adding that Alegre’s wife is also connected and that Alegre is indeed supported by Brazil’s Lula, the beneficiary of Brazil’s 100% electronic election, which is believed to have been hacked and rigged in one of the most brazen cases of election fraud in world history.

    In addition to their connections to Lula and the Brazilian Worker’s Party and their apparently deep ties to left-wing Paraguyan Efrain Alegre, the hackers have been waging an election attack campaign throughout the current Paraguayan election cycle.

    “Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay already make a direct connection between the hackers and the Workers’ Party of Brazil,” Eustáquio reported, before explaining in another tweet that “The National Republican Association which controls the Colorado Party…received an intelligence report revealing that there had already been hacker attacks during the party’s internal meetings, that is, there had already been international interference.”

    Perhaps proving his complicity and intimate knowledge of the election hacking operation, left-wing Paraguayan candidate Efrain Alegre was caught in a WhatsApp chat after news of the plot broke, “guaranteeing” that there will be no proper investigation into the plot.

    UPDATE: This story, which originally reported that the Brazilian hackers had been “arrested,” has been updated to reflect new information received by National File, indicating that the Brazilian hackers in Paraguay are under investigation, but have yet to be arrested.

    “So far we have not found a legal element to go further, such as raiding the places or eventually informing the Public Ministry about the violation of our Penal Code for the arrest, apprehension, or imputation [of the 20 Brazilian hackers operating in Paraguayan territory],”
    says Baldomero Jorgge Benitez, the Deputy Commander of Paraguay’s National Police.

    https://nationalfile.com/brazilian-hackers-linked-to-lula-arrested-in-paraguay-election-rigging-scheme/

  42. Biden Pushes Plan for Good Credit Borrowers to Subsidize High Risk Mortgages
    By Joe Hoft Apr. 20, 2023 6:50 pm1 Comment

    Communism is in full force in the Biden Administration.

    The Washington Times reported yesterday on the Biden gang’s efforts to force borrowers with good credit scores to cover a portion of poor credit borrowers’ loans.

    Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon encounter a costly surprise: a new federal rule forcing them to pay higher mortgage rates and fees to subsidize people with riskier credit ratings who are also in the market to buy houses.

    The fee changes will go into effect May 1 as part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s push for affordable housing, and they will affect mortgages originating at private banks across the country. The federally backed home mortgage companies Fannie Mae

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/biden-pushes-plan-for-good-credit-borrowers-to-subsidize-high-risk-mortgages/

  43. Charges against Alec Baldwin dropped in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting, his attorneys say
    Prosecutors had blamed the Oscar-nominated actor for the death of Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the Western movie “Rust.”

    By Diana Dasrath, Gisele Lamarre and David K. Li
    Charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western movie “Rust,” his lawyers said Thursday.

    The announcement came 2 ½ months after New Mexico prosecutors filed involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin.

    We are pleased with the decision to dismiss the case against Alec Baldwin and we encourage a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic accident,” Baldwin’s lawyers Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro said in a joint statement.

    The office of New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies declined to comment Thursday.

    The charges against Baldwin’s co-defendant, “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, are still in play, her lawyers said Thursday.

    “The new special prosecutor team has taken a very diligent and thorough approach to the entire investigation, which we welcome and have always welcomed,” attorneys Jason Bowles and Todd Bullion said in a statement.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charges-alec-baldwin-dropped-fatal-rust-shooting-attorneys-say-rcna80722

  44. LILLEY: Major gold heist at Pearson, movie plot turns reality in GTA
    At this point, investigators don’t know who stole the gold

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    It’s the kind of stuff movies are made of — a robbery from a supposedly secure facility, a huge amount of gold now missing and a mystery about who is behind it.

    Except this isn’t the script of a movie, it’s something that happened at Canada’s biggest airport this week.

    Peel Regional Police have enlisted the help of the RCMP following a massive gold heist at Pearson airport. Earlier this week, someone made off with 3,600 pounds of gold being moved through the airport. Pearson is often used to move gold mined in Ontario to customers around the world.

    At current spot prices for gold, that would put value of the heist at more than $100 million.

    While that sounds like a lot of gold, and it is definitely worth a lot, it could have been smuggled out of the airport in something as simple as a heavy-duty pickup truck.

    According to sources, police believe the heist was done locally and are looking at organized crime elements in the region.

    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftorontosun.com%2Fopinion%2Fcolumnists%2Fmajor-gold-heist-at-pearson-movie-plot-turns-reality-in-gta

  47. Senators Introduce Bill to Create Digital Identity for All Americans
    By Joe Hoft Apr. 20, 2023 9:00 pm224 Comments

    Senators introduce bill to create digital identity for all Americans

    Guest post by Leo Hohmann

    U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema, an independent of Arizona, and Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, have introduced Senate Bill 884, also known as “the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2023.”

    The bill was introduced March 21 and ordered to proceed out of committee on March 29 without amendments and with a favorable recommendation.

    Read: Dr. Peter McCullough On “The Holy Grail Of COVID-19 Vaccine Detoxification”

    The bill’s text states:

    “The lack of an easy, affordable, reliable, and secure way for organizations, businesses, and government agencies to identify whether an individual is who they claim to be online creates an attack vector that is widely exploited by adversaries in cyberspace and precludes many high-value transactions from being available online. Incidents of identity theft and identity fraud continue to rise in the United States, where more than 293,000,000 people were impacted by data breaches in 2021.”

    The bill calls for the formation of a public-private partnership to bring this digital ID system into being.

    “The public and private sectors should collaborate to deliver solutions that promote confidence, privacy, choice, equity, accessibility, and innovation. The private sector drives much of the innovation around digital identity in the United States and has an important role to play in delivering digital identity solutions.”

    The bill references the bipartisan Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, which has called for the federal government to “create an interagency task force directed to find secure, user-friendly, privacy-centric ways in which agencies can serve as 1 authoritative source to validate identity attributes in the broader identity market. This action would enable Government agencies and the private sector to drive significant risk out of new account openings and other high-risk, high-value online services, and it would help all citizens more easily and securely engage in transactions online.”

    The above section of the bill is extremely vague and left wide open for bureaucrats and technocrats to require a digital ID to perform any function considered “high-risk, high-value online services,” up to and including logging onto the internet.

    Globalists with ties to the United Nations and World Economic Forum have for several years advocated a digital ID requirement as a way of removing so-called “disinformation” from the internet. Once everyone has a digital ID, it becomes easy to restrict everyday human movement and activity based on one’s social credit score, like in China, which Klaus Schwab has stated is the model for many other nations. If your score dips below a certain point, you are now a “high risk” individual, and your digital ID would simply be flagged. The government, working in collusion with Big Tech in their ongoing public-private partnership, simply block you from logging onto the internet. You can no longer have a bank account, get a driver’s license, receive healthcare, obtain a passport, or any of those other “high risk” privileges.

    We have already seen how the government worked hand in glove with Big Tech and corporate America to silence dissidents on vaccines, vaccine passports, masking and lockdowns during the pandemic. In Canada, the government worked with banks to freeze the bank accounts of protesting truckers. The whole Covid experience was a dry run for the coming mark of the beast system where you won’t be able to buy or sell without proof of submission to the beast system. Digital IDs, in tandem with the coming digital money, will be weaponized into a global enforcement system the likes of which the world has never seen.

    These intrusive, invasive attempts to digitize humanity and reduce us to a QR code always come with the same sweet-sounding selling points. It will make our lives easier, more convenient, more safe and secure. We will even have more “privacy” Senator Sinema assures us!

    Sinema, it’s important to note, was present at the 2022 Bilderberg meeting and at the 2023 World Economic Forum meeting at Davos. She’s quickly becoming one of the darlings of the global technocracy movement, said Patrick Wood, editor in chief of Technocracy.news and a resident of Arizona.

    “She is emerging as one of the most dangerous women in America,” Wood told me.

    The head of the proposed new task force charged with creating the digital ID, according to Senate Bill 884, would be appointed by the president.

    The Senate bill states that the task force will “establish and coordinate a government-wide effort to develop secure methods […] to improve access and enhance security between physical and digital identity credentials, particularly by promoting the development of digital versions of existing physical identity credentials, including driver’s licenses, e-Passports, social security credentials, and birth certificates.”

    This is right in line with globalist World Economic Forum kingpin Klaus Schwab’s pronouncement in his book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, that the human existence is evolving to the point where there will be “a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities.”

    And our politicians, both liberal and conservative, will be on board with this. It’s the “innovative” thing to do, and after all, and they’re just trying to protect us, right?

    When first introduced in 2022, Arizona Senator Sinema said, “We’re supporting innovation and enhancing privacy by improving digital verification to combat identity theft, fraud, and cybercrime.”

    Senator Lummis added:

    “Technology has the potential to dramatically improve the security and privacy of identity credentials, and enable easier access to the financial system. It doesn’t make sense that Americans have to constantly overshare sensitive identity information with government agencies and businesses, which are honeypots all too often targeted by hackers and identity thieves. I’m proud to work with my friend and colleague Sen. Sinema to introduce the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2022 to work toward digital identity standards that protect our privacy and give Americans more control over their identity.”

    Other senators have also called for the creation of a national digital ID system.

    Winepress News reported that Congressman Barry Loudermilk, a conservative Georgia Republican, said in 2021 while pushing for similar legislation:

    “COVID-19 changed a lot of the way Americans live, work, and provide for our families, and we have become even more reliant on digital commerce platforms. But with more Americans adapting to a ‘new normal’ in the way we go about purchasing life necessities, this also means more Americans’ personally identifiable information [PII] is at risk of being stolen.”

    If this bill passes, you can bet Biden will sign it. Such a bill would require, no matter how gradually, the system’s obedient subjects to show their digital papers in order to perform ever more functions in society until they end up as digitally marked slaves to their elitist masters. They will have handed over ownership of their very identity to the beast system.

    Never comply. Never submit. Stay awake. Stay free.

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  48. A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises
    money printing
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    TAGS Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyU.S. History

    10 HOURS AGOBrendan Brown
    The original vicious circle starts with inflationary interventions in an up-to-then well-anchored monetary regime. Consequent asset inflation spawns a banking crisis. That leads to the installation of anticrisis safety structures (one illustration is a novel or enhanced lender of last resort). Alongside a possible monetary regime shift, these damage the money’s anchoring system. A great asset inflation emerges and leads on to an eruption of another banking crisis, devastating in comparison with the first.

    An array of additional safety structures is put in place which makes the now-bad money worse than before. After a long and variable lag, a long and violent monetary storm means the safety structures fail, a banking crisis again erupts but this time milder than the previous.

    Then a further tinkering with the safety structures causes money to deteriorate even more in quality. Another shift in monetary regime coincidentally does much additional damage. Consequently, in time, a new crisis erupts much worse than the last one.

    The safety engineers do more work, causing yet more damage to the mechanisms essential to sound money. But now the safety structures are so pervasive and strong across the banking industry that there is widespread belief that bank crisis eruptions will be smaller or, more likely, totally repressed.

    Subsequent events demonstrate those beliefs to be hollow. There is a new round of safety structure elaboration leading to further monetary deterioration. Regime officials declare the end of bank crises.

    The cumulative economic cost of this vaunted triumph over bank crisis is an advance of monopoly capitalism and monetary statism that throttles the essential dynamism of free market capitalism. Malinvestment becomes cumulatively larger. Living standards in general suffer. The severely ailing money which subsists is beyond any cure except the most radical.

    Let’s fit the above abstract series of vicious bad money–bank crisis cycles to the most recent 130-year history of US money. At the start there were the inflationary interventions by US administrations in the two penultimate decades of the international gold standard, overpowering for sustained periods the “checks and balances” of that regime.

    Murray Rothbard highlights these interventions in his US monetary history book—the first intervention under the “Billion Dollar Congress” of 1889–91 and the second from 1902–7 under Secretary Leslie Shaw who aimed to create a virtual central bank within the Treasury by deploying the huge cash balances of the federal government. The results were the Panic of 1893 and then the epic crash of 1907 followed by a recession.

    These financial system convulsions and the related economic slumps were decisive events behind the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. Its advocates promised that an elastic currency, a state-run clearing house, and a monopoly of note issuance would mean the end of episodic banking crises.

    The true source of these crises, however, were the preceding episodes of monetary inflation, and the scope for this crisis just got a lot worse. The international gold

    https://mises.org/wire/pyrrhic-end-130-years-vicious-bad-money-and-banking-crises