Today’s News: June 06, 2022

WORLD NEWS

 

Putin Warns Russia Will Strike New Targets If US Gives New Missiles to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 5 warned that Russia would strike new targets if the United States were to supply longer-range missiles to Ukraine.

Giving new weapons to Kyiv only aims to “drag out the armed conflict for as long as possible,” Putin told state-run media, adding that after longer-range missiles are sent to Ukraine, Moscow will draw the “appropriate conclusions” and strike facilities it hasn’t targeted.

“If they are supplied, we will draw appropriate conclusions from this and use our own weapons, of which we have enough, in order to strike at those facilities we are not targeting yet,” the Russian president also said in response to statements issued by the White House about supplying multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to Ukraine, according to a translation.

Several days ago, President Joe Biden confirmed that the United States would send more advanced rocket systems to Ukraine after Kyiv’s request.

A “new package will arm them with new capabilities and advanced weaponry, including HIMARS with battlefield munitions, to defend their territory from Russian advances,” Biden said in a White House statement on June 1.

“We will continue to lead the world in providing historic assistance to support Ukraine’s fight for freedom.” HIMARS refers to High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems produced in the United States that can hit targets up to 300 miles away, depending on the type of rocket.

British Prime Minister Johnson to Face No-Confidence Vote

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote Monday that could oust him from power, as discontent with his rule finally threatens to topple a politician who has often seemed invincible despite many scandals.

If Johnson loses the vote among the 359 Conservative lawmakers, the party will choose a new leader, who will also become prime minister. If he wins, as seems more likely, he can’t face another challenge for a year under current party rules — though a narrow victory would leave him a hobbled leader whose days are likely numbered.

Regardless of the outcome, the fact that enough lawmakers are demanding such a vote represents a watershed moment for Johnson. It is also a sign of deep Conservative divisions, less than three years after Johnson led the party to its biggest election victory in decades.

Bilderberg Elites Meet In Washington, D.C. June 2-5, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. 2 JUNE 2022 – The 68th Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 2 – 5 June 2022 in Washington, D.C., USA. About 120 participants from 21 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on bilderbergmeetings.org.

The key topics for discussion this year are:

1. Geopolitical Realignments
2. NATO Challenges
3. China
4. Indo-Pacific Realignment
5. Sino-US Tech Competition
6. Russia
7. Continuity of Government and the Economy
8. Disruption of the Global Financial System
9. Disinformation
10. Energy Security and Sustainability
11. Post Pandemic Health
12. Fragmentation of Democratic Societies
13. Trade and Deglobalisation
14. Ukraine

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting is an annual conference designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Every year, between 120-140 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, labour, academia and the media are invited to take part in the Meeting. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; approximately a quarter from politics and government and the rest from other fields.

The Bilderberg Meeting is a forum for informal discussions about major issues. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed.

Thanks to the private nature of the Meeting, the participants take part as individuals rather than in any official capacity, and hence are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken and no policy statements are issued.

The War Against the Unvaxxed Will Not Be Forgotten

Fomenting hatred is a tool of tyrants, and over the past two years, political leaders, agency heads, academics, medical professionals and media personalities alike have publicly encouraged hatred and violence and wished painful death upon anyone who didn’t want to be part of the medical experiment that is the COVID jabs

Even now, with everything we know for sure about the jabs, the war against the unvaccinated continues in many areas, and ignorance of basic science still abounds

In recent weeks, we’ve seen the stage being set for another fabricated hate-fest. This time, the gay community is the designated enemy and target

Same-sex relations has been identified as the primary source of a global monkeypox outbreak. Will the gay community be targeted for exclusion, derision and attack in coming weeks and months, as the “monkeypox threat” continues to be hyped?

Fabrications are used to brainwash the public into hating truth-tellers and anyone who points out discrepancies in the narrative. It’s a dangerous path, and we’re still on it

After Setback for WHO, Agency Now Working on Far-Reaching Amendments to the Global Rules

Experts warn of ‘medical tyranny’ from the World Health Organization

Despite a setback at the World Health Organization’s 75th annual meeting in Geneva in late May, the push to further empower the United Nations agency is moving ahead, remaining a major threat to U.S. national sovereignty and self-government, according to leading experts.

Following some minor changes to the International Health Regulations (IHR) approved at the recent WHO meeting, the U.N. health organization and its member governments are working on new, far-reaching amendments to the global rules. Those will be submitted in September.

At the same time, WHO leaders and member governments are also developing a new International Pandemic Treaty. The looming international agreement, which is still being drafted, is expected to hand vast new powers to the WHO if approved.

Both the amendments and the treaty being negotiated are aimed at empowering the WHO to fight global health crises such as pandemics, according to U.S. State Department and WHO officials.

However, American lawmakers at the state and federal levels are pushing back hard. Experts in international law and healthcare told The Epoch Times that the ultimate goal is to impose “medical tyranny” on humanity, not protect health.

“This is just another major totalitarian power grab by the CDC, the WHO, Bill Gates, Big Pharma, the Biowarfare Industry, the People’s Republic of China, and others to impose their medical tyranny upon the human race,” said Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois.

U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

House Dem Wants 1,000 Percent Tax on AR-15

In a bill that could pass through the House of Representatives without any votes from Republican members, Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., seeks to draft a measure levying a 1,000% excise tax on assault weapons.

“What it’s intended to do,” Beyer told Insider, “is provide another creative pathway to actually make some sensible gun control happen. We think that a 1,000% fee on assault weapons is just the kind of restrictive measure that creates enough fiscal impact to qualify for reconciliation.”

NBC News reported that depending on location, AR-15s range in price anywhere from $500 to $2000. But a 1,000% tax on the weapon would mean a final sales price of $5,000 to $20,000.

CDC Sending Vaccines to People Suspected of Monkeypox Exposure

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is distributing vaccines to Americans who are suspected of having been exposed to the monkeypox virus.

“We want to ensure that people with high-risk exposures have rapid access to vaccines and, if they become sick, can receive appropriate treatment. To date, we’ve delivered around 1,200 vaccines … and 100 treatment courses to eight jurisdictions, and we have more to offer states,” said Dr. Raj Panjabi, White House senior director for global health security and biodefense, according to CNN.

One of the first groups to receive the vaccines was made up of health care workers in Massachusetts treating monkeypox patients.

Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the United States had been preparing for a viral infection such as monkeypox for several decades. As such, the government has millions of vaccine doses in the strategic national stockpile.

On June 3, Dawn O’Connell, who heads the Health and Human Services office responsible for the strategic national stockpile, said the country has enough vaccines to deal with the present monkeypox infections.

Currently, the United States has two vaccines to deal with monkeypox. The first is ACAM2000, which is primarily restricted for use in military personnel because of safety risks such as blindness, fetal death, encephalitis, vaccine shedding, myocarditis, and pericarditis at a rate of 5.7 per 1,000 vaccinated, and death.

The second vaccine, Jynneos, was approved for use in 2019 and is produced by a Danish biotech company, Bavarian Nordic. The United States has ordered more than 30 million Jynneos doses since 2010, of which 28 million have expired. The vaccine doses have a three-year shelf life.

The CDC is asking health care providers to be alert for patients with rashes that are consistent with monkeypox.

There were a total of 25 confirmed monkeypox cases across the United States as of June 3. California and New York had the highest number of cases, with five patients each, followed by Florida with three, and Colorado, Illinois, and Utah with two each.

Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington each had one confirmed case, data from the CDC show.

According to the agency, early data suggest that gay and bisexual people make up most of the cases.

“Anyone can get monkeypox, and we are carefully monitoring for monkeypox that may be spreading in any population, including those who are not identifying as men who have sex with men,” Jennifer McQuiston, the CDC’s deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, said during a recent media briefing, according to Reuters.

More than 120 PCR tests have been conducted across the United States while monitoring the monkeypox infection. According to Panjabi, 67 labs across 46 states have the collective ability to carry out more than 1,000 tests per day.

The CDC is aware of 700 monkeypox cases across the world outside of some parts of Africa. Not a single death has been reported as of yet. The World Health Organization (WHO) isn’t recommending any mass vaccinations against the virus.

Trump Reveals Stance on GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Reelection Bid

Former President Donald Trump endorsed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for another term in Congress.

Trump gave his endorsement of McCarthy on Sunday, saying he is “an outstanding Representative for the people of California, and a strong and fearless Leader of the House Republican Conference.”

In the statement, posted on Truth Social, Trump only endorsed McCarthy for another term in the House of Representatives. It did not appear that he was backing McCarthy to become the next House speaker or another term as the House minority leader.

“In Congress, Kevin is a tireless advocate for the people of Bakersfield and the Central Valley. He is working incredibly hard to Stop Inflation, Deliver Water Solutions, and Hold Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi Accountable for their catastrophic failures and dereliction of duty,” Trump added. “Kevin McCarthy has my Complete and Total Endorsement.”

It’s likely McCarthy would be elected as the next House speaker or minority leader depending on the outcome of the 2022 midterms. Analysts have said Republicans are expected to win the House at the very least, as the party of the president generally loses congressional seats during the midterm elections. Democrats currently have a slim majority in both the House and Senate.

House lawmakers, after they’re sworn in in early January 2023, will hold votes to elect the leadership responsible for leading their respective party’s conference.

Trump’s endorsement came days after McCarthy was apparently booed during a rally held by the former president in Wyoming, which was intended to support GOP candidate Harriet Hageman, who is running against incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo).

House Republicans in May 2021 voted to remove Cheney from her No. 3 spot in the GOP conference before replacing her with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.). The Republican National Committee also censured Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who have both frequently criticized Trump and other Republicans on CNN and other mainstream news outlets, for their participation in the Jan. 6 committee.

The boos were likely in reference to the recent release of a phone call on Jan. 10, 2021, in which McCarthy allegedly said that he was considering telling Trump to resign if the former president was impeached. Trump told the Wall Street Journal in April that he still has a good relationship with McCarthy because he ultimately backed Trump.

“I think it’s all a big compliment, frankly,” Trump told the WSJ. McCarthy and others “realized they were wrong and supported me,” he added.

The California Republican faces several Republican challengers in the newly created 20th Congressional District, which has been ranked by pollsters as solidly Republican. The primary election is slated for Tuesday.

Jan. 6 Committee Adviser: No ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Trump Planned US Capitol Breach

A former top adviser to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach admitted Sunday there was no “smoking gun” that suggested President Donald Trump planned the breach.

Denver Riggleman, a former Republican House representative, had recently been a senior adviser to the panel. He told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that there was no direct evidence that suggested the breach and protests outside the Capitol were premeditated.

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the former lawmaker whether there is a “smoking gun” that “proves that Donald Trump or somebody around him knew that what happened January 6 was not a spontaneous outcry by his supporters, but was a planned attempt to get them to stop counting the electoral votes?”

“That probably [was] going to be very difficult to even find based on the limited authorities of Congress as far as getting data and things like that,” Riggleman ultimately conceded to CNN. However, he claimed later in the interview that the panel will reveal alleged nefarious actions carried out by Trump, although he didn’t make any specific claims.

There are “multiple groups involved,” he alleged. “And I think that’s what’s exciting about the hearings, is, they’re going to be able to put the multiple groups together. Remember, there’s different investigative teams that were looking at different parts of this the whole time.”

Riggleman on Sunday also appeared to declare his support for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), one of the leaders on the House Jan. 6 panel and who has become more and more unpopular among members of her own party amid her outspoken opposition to Trump. Riggleman also told CNN Sunday he is no longer a member of the Republican Party.

Census Bureau Sued Over ‘Intrusive’ Annual Survey Questions

Citizens argue federal law doesn’t allow government to punish people for refusing to answer 100-question American Community Survey

Two U.S. citizens have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Census Bureau, claiming the long, detailed American Community Survey the agency requires millions to complete each year is illegal.

The lawsuit comes as the U.S. Census Bureau comes under fire for significant miscounts in the 2020 census, with population numbers in six states being undercounted, while eight states saw an overcount in population. Republicans say the botched census count unfairly prevented Florida and Texas from each gaining a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump tried to prevent the counting of illegal aliens so they wouldn’t have an effect on the apportionment of political power among the states. The Supreme Court sided with him on Dec. 28, 2020, allowing the Trump administration to attempt to carry out its policy as the deadline for census figures was approaching. But on the day he was inaugurated, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 13986, which reversed the Trump policy.

The 22-page legal complaint (pdf) in the new case, Murphy v. Raimondo, 3:22-cv-5377, was filed on May 24 in Tacoma in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge David G. Estudillo, who was appointed in September of last year by Biden.

The plaintiffs are U.S. citizens Maureen Murphy and John Huddleston. Murphy lives in Gig Harbor, Washington; Huddleston resides in Susanville, California.

The defendants are U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Director of the Bureau of the Census Robert Santos. Both are being sued in their official capacities. The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Bureau also are named as defendants.

Elon Musk Says ‘No One in the Media Cares’ About Exposing Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Clients

The richest person in the world has taken a swipe at the media over allegedly being disinterested in investigating the suspected clients of the alleged sex trafficking ring run by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a series of tweets on June 4, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said it is “remarkable” how the U.S. Department of Justice has not published the list of clients of convicted sex offender Epstein and his co-conspirator Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker. The pair were accused of procuring, trafficking, sexually abusing a vast network of female minors as young as 11.

What is more “remarkable,” Musk said, is that “no one in the media cares” about the Epstein-Maxwell case.

Pennsylvanians Say State on Wrong Path, Many Consider Leaving: Poll

A Pennsylvania-based think tank that works with lawmakers to enact state policies has released results of a statewide poll that it says shows policymakers “a new pathway to prosperity” through the support of the foundation’s 23-point reform agenda.

The right-leaning Commonwealth Foundation released its May poll results on Thursday.

The unelected but powerful, policy pushing foundation said its poll shows most Pennsylvania voters in all parties are united in their dissatisfaction with the direction the state is going—some to the point of wanting to move away.

The poll shows 68 percent say things in Pennsylvania have “pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track” and 42 percent said they had considered moving to another state or personally knew someone who had already moved or thought about moving.

“Families are leaving for better jobs, educational opportunities, and quality of life in other states,” the Commonwealth Foundation said in a statement about the poll.

Asked if Pennsylvania is better, worse or the same for businesses than it was 10-years ago, 53 percent said worse, 33 percent said about the same and 14 percent said better.

The majority, 45 percent, graded Pennsylvania’s K-12 school system at a “C” level. Just 5 percent gave it an “A” but 8 percent graded it an “F.”

Of those polled, 41 percent were Republican, 45 percent Democrat, 14 percent independent, and 48 percent were men while 52 percent were women.

Across parties, the top category of concern voters picked was “Rising prices and inflation,” followed by “The economy and jobs,” and third, “Taxing and spending.” Very few participants picked COVID-19, education, or public safety as a top concern to consider in the November general election.

The majority of those polled agreed the following goals are important:

• Ensuring all K-12 students have access to an excellent education.
• Reducing government spending and regulatory red tape.
• Reforming welfare and protecting the dignity of work.
• Increasing the number of Pennsylvanians in the workforce.
• Restoring public sector workers’ rights.
• Making health care more accessible and affordable.
• Making government more accountable and transparent.

In response to the poll, the Commonwealth Foundation is urging lawmakers to support its 23-point reform agenda, called Better Pennsylvania in 2023.

Biden Evacuated After Security Breach Near Delaware Beach House

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were briefly evacuated from their beach house in Delaware to a secure location on June 4 when a small private plane entered the restricted air space above the property, the White House and the Secret Service said.

The Bidens stayed in the secure place, a local fire station, for just over 30 minutes before returning to the Rehoboth Beach home.

“There was no threat to the president or his family,” a White House official stated.

“Shortly before 1 p.m. today, a privately owned aircraft entered the restricted airspace over Rehoboth Delaware after mistakenly entering a secured area,” the Secret Service said in a statement. “The aircraft was immediately escorted out of the restricted airspace. Preliminary investigation reveals the pilot was not on the proper radio channel, was not following the NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen) that had been filed, and was not following published flight guidance. The United States Secret Service will be interviewing the pilot.”

CBS reporter Bo Erickson shared more details in a string of Twitter posts.

According to Erickson, the private plane was flying over the area around the Bidens’ beach house at 12:45 p.m. local time. The Secret Service then contacted Rehoboth Beach Fire Chief Chuck Snyder and requested to bring the Bidens to the fire station.

The Biden motorcade arrived at the fire station at 12:52 p.m. and left at 1:29 p.m.

“At 12:52 p.m, I saw @POTUS motorcade race into the Rehoboth Fire Station. I saw President Biden through the window of an SUV. Right before the motorcade, I saw 2 military jets flying low over the beach town. The press pool is not with the motorcade,” he wrote. “Motorcade just left the fire station at 1:29 p.m.”

Gun Rights Groups Sue Over Washington State’s High-Capacity Magazine Ban

Several gun rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Washington state’s new ban on sales of so-called high-capacity ammunition magazines for rifles and handguns, which the law prohibiting their distribution defines as ones that hold more than 10 rounds.

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and others filed their complaint on June 3 (pdf), claiming the ban is unconstitutional and naming a number of Washington state officials as defendants, including Bob Ferguson, the state’s Attorney General.

“The State of Washington has criminalized one of the most common and important means by which its citizens can exercise their fundamental right of self-defense,” the groups wrote in the complaint.

Asylum Seekers Overwhelm Shelters in Portland, Maine

Facing an impending humanitarian crisis, Portland Family Shelters Director Mike Guthrie has a simple message to anyone who will listen, “We need help!”

Guthrie, a hands-on, frontline worker in the effort to feed, clothes, and house a continuous flow of foreign nationals arriving in Portland by airplane or bus from the U.S. southern border, told The Epoch Times, “Our family shelter facilities, our warming room, and even area hotel space is at capacity. We have maxed out our community resources.

“The time is coming when I’m going to have to look a dad in the face and tell him and his family that I don’t know where they’re going to sleep tonight.”

The Portland Family Shelter is a complex of four rented buildings in various states of renovation located in the heart of downtown.

Some of the structures are gradually being converted into small apartments where up to four families will share a single kitchen and bathroom.

All four buildings are overflowing their present capacity.

“The intake is greater and faster than we can process,” Guthrie said.

Leaders of House’s Jan. 6 Panel Decry Biden Administration’s Decision Not to Charge Former Trump Aides

Leaders of the House of Representatives’ panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol on June 3 decried the Department of Justice’s reported decision not to indict Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, two former aides of ex-President Donald Trump.

At the same time, the panel praised the department’s indictment of Peter Navarro, another former aide.

“While today’s indictment of Peter Navarro was the correct decision by the Justice Department, we find the decision to reward Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino for their continued attack on the rule of law puzzling,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the panel, and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), chairwoman of the panel, said in a joint statement.

“Mr. Meadows and Mr. Scavino unquestionably have relevant knowledge about President Trump’s role in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the events of January 6th. We hope the Department provides greater clarity on this matter.”

Spanish Court Orders Mike Pompeo To Testify On CIA Plot To Kill Or Kidnap Assange

In a surprising development surrounding WikiLeaks and the fate of Julian Assange, who is still in London’s Belmarsh prison awaiting awaiting a decision from UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on extradition to the US, a Spanish court has summoned former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify on whether the CIA planned to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Pompeo was head of the agency during the time period that a bombshell Yahoo News investigative report last year revealed that the CIA allegedly plotted to kidnap or even kill Assange, following Washington outrage that WikiLeaks made public a batch of documents exposing the agency’s ultra-secretive hacking tools known as Vault 7.

New York Rep. Chris Jacobs Won’t Seek Reelection After Splitting from Republicans on Gun Control

A New York Republican representative who once promised to protect the Second Amendment rights of his constituents has announced that he will not seek reelection after changing his stance on gun control following a spate of mass shootings.

In announcing his decision, Rep. Chris Jacobs, whose 27th New York congressional district is near the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, said his split from the Republican Party on gun control made any reelection bid difficult.

“The last thing we need is an incredibly negative, half-truth-filled media attack, funded by millions of dollars in special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun violence and gun control,” he said.

Conservatives and Republicans were taken off guard by Jacobs’s new stance, criticizing the move as they fight against the Democrats’ new push for gun control laws in the wake of mass shootings.

California: No. 1 in Gun Control, No. 1 in ‘Active Shooter Incidents’

An FBI report on ‘Active Shooter Incidents’ in 2021 shows that California was the number one state for such incidents, with six incidents total.

California is also number one for gun law strength, the Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety noted.

According to the FBI, there were 61 “active shooter incidents” across the country in 2021 and 12 of the incidents met the definition of a “mass killing.”

California led the nation with six “active shooter incidents.”

California has universal background checks, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, gun registration requirements, a “good cause” requirement for concealed carry permit issuance, a ban on carrying a gun on a college campus for self-defense, a ban on K-12 teachers being armed on campus for classroom defense, a background check requirement for ammunition purchases, and a limit on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can purchase in a given month, among other controls.

Additionally, ammunition purchases are only allowed if made through a state-approved vendor.

California Race for House Seat Vacated by Rep. Nunes Reflects Stark Contrast in Ideologies

Two candidates vying in a special general election to fill the California U.S. House seat vacated by former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) couldn’t be more different.

Connie Conway is a staunch America First, pro-Trump Republican while Lourin Hubbard, her Democratic opponent, is a proud progressive activist with a socialist agenda.

Nunes held California’s 22nd Congressional District seat from 2013 until January this year when he resigned to take the helm of former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, TRUTH Social.

The winner of the special runoff election will finish the remainder of the congressional term ending Jan. 3, 2023. Both Conway and Hubbard will also face other candidates running in the June 7 primary election for the term of two years following Jan. 3.

In California’s jungle primary system, only the top two vote-getters—regardless of political affiliation will advance to the Nov. 8 general election for the next term.

National Group Emboldens Pastors to Seek Public Office, Spur Civil Service Guided by Bible

Pastor Jack Hilligoss never thought of himself as a political kind of guy.

He was happy leading HighPoint Church in sleepy Lake Wales, a 20-square-mile patch of sunshine in the geographic center of the Florida peninsula. Dotted with old orange groves, it’s home to about 16,000 residents and exudes small-town values centered on faith, family, and freedom.

But a few years ago, agitators from outside the community began showing up at public meetings and events. They used words like “justice” and “equity” and sowed confusion, contentiousness, and division among neighbors, Hilligoss said. He first challenged the rants of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ activists from the pulpit in his church.

Then, emboldened by training from a national group that urges pastors to get politically involved, he realized he had to take action outside the doors of his church to try to bring unity to his town.

So Hilligoss launched a mayoral campaign against two other contenders. In May, his son swore him in as his city’s top elected official.

That’s precisely the kind of victory Liberty Pastors seeks to celebrate. Since 2016, the loosely affiliated network has trained more than 1,000 pastors, instructing them on biblical reasons for getting involved in government, and encouraging them to take that message to their flocks. The group also admonishes pastors to approach every area of life with guidance from the Bible.

ECONOMY & BUSINESS 

Restaurants Adding Inflation Fees Amid Razor-Thin Margins

As restaurants across the country feel the squeeze from rising inflation, a tight labor market, and minimum-wage increases on an industry with notoriously thin margins, owners are passing along the pain in the form of various fees tacked onto the tab, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Fees for a “noncash adjustment,” “fuel surcharge,” or “kitchen appreciation” have been showing up on more bills lately. Industry analysts say this wave of surcharges is mostly being driven by restaurants trying to cope with the impact of rising inflation and a tight labor market on their bottom lines. In addition, Mastercard and Visa in April raised transaction fees for many merchants. -WSJ

According to point-of-sale software developer Lightspeed, fee revenue has nearly doubled from April 2021 to April 2022, based on a sample of 6,000 restaurants on their platform. Restaurants adding service fees increased by 36.4% over the same period.

ADA Shakedown Lawsuits Are on the Rise

Before Roozbeh Farahanipour became chair of the West Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, his restaurant was sued because the bathroom was non-compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

“It lacked guard rails and the bag hook was too high on the bathroom door,” he said.

Farahanipour settled with the law firm that filed the complaint for $11,000.

“That was really hard on me because we did not have that money and I had to borrow the money,” he said. “I did not know the legal system or how to even answer the lawsuit when it was served.”

Farahanipour, whose country of origin is Iran, was sued again by the same law firm at a second restaurant he opened in 2021. He paid $17,000 to settle the claim

“Immigrants are the best target because they are more scared,” Farahanipour told The Epoch Times. “They don’t know the law. They are not comfortable with the language and many other issues.”

Farahanipour is not alone in having been sued twice for allegedly violating the ADA.

Thousands of small business owners in California have been targeted, according to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón and San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin who together sued the law firm, Potter Handy, alleging it was shaking down small businesses using serial ADA filings in violation of procedural reforms under the Unruh Civil Rights Act.

“Each year, Potter Handy files thousands of boilerplate ADA/Unruh lawsuits on behalf of a few repeat plaintiffs against California small businesses with little regard to whether those businesses actually violate the ADA,” the complaint states. “These lawsuits are financially onerous, in large part because the Unruh Act (but not its federal counterpart) allows Potter Handy to demand damages of at least $4,000 per alleged violation.”

The Potter Handy law firm did not respond to requests for comment and Greg Risling, assistant chief of media relations in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office declined to comment.

The complaint was filed last month in San Francisco County Superior Court.

California is not the only state grappling with serial litigants filing ADA lawsuits against small businesses.

“We’re seeing these all across the country,” said Karen Harned, an attorney and executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)’s Small Business Legal Center in Washington, D.C. “A woman who owned a hotel in Minnesota was sued in February for not having a disability-accessible pool. Who’s going swimming outdoors in Minnesota in February?”

In New York, the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce reports some twenty small businesses have been sued in lower Manhattan in just the last two years.

Elon Musk Has ‘Super Bad Feeling’ About Economy, Calls to Cut 10 Percent of Tesla Staff

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an internal company email viewed and reported on by Reuters that he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy and that the electric car giant needed to slash employment by around 10 percent.

The email, which was reportedly titled “pause all hiring worldwide,” was sent on June 2 to Tesla’s top managers.

The Epoch Times has reached out to Tesla to verify the authenticity of the email but received no response by publication.

The message comes after Musk took the work-from-home phenomenon into his crosshairs, telling Tesla executives to get back to the office for a full 40-hour workweek or face the prospect of dismissal.

Musk’s Thursday email expressing reservations about the economy also comes amid signs of cooling in economies around the world, as soaring inflation is driving central banks to course correct away from pandemic-era easy money policies.

The Federal Reserve has laid out a case for hiking interest rates by 50 basis points at each of its next two meetings in June and July, though there’s less clarity on the path of policy normalization after that.

ECB officials, too, have made a case for ending asset purchases and embarking on a path of raising interest rates. Christine Lagarde, head of the ECB, recently suggested that quarter-point hikes in July and then September were likely.

The rapid central bank shift towards policy tightening has driven speculation about the likelihood that the economy might tip into a recession.

“Some officials want the Fed to continue with 50 [basis point] hikes to ensure inflation is brought under control, but this risks moving policy deeply into restrictive territory and heightening the chances of a recession,” ING analysts wrote in a recent note.

“Others argue that there is already evidence of the growth outlook weakening and inflation pressures tentatively softening, which could justify a pause in September,” they added.

Elon Musk Has ‘Super Bad Feeling’ About Economy, Calls to Cut 10 Percent of Tesla Staff

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an internal company email viewed and reported on by Reuters that he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy and that the electric car giant needed to slash employment by around 10 percent.

The email, which was reportedly titled “pause all hiring worldwide,” was sent on June 2 to Tesla’s top managers.

The Epoch Times has reached out to Tesla to verify the authenticity of the email but received no response by publication.

The message comes after Musk took the work-from-home phenomenon into his crosshairs, telling Tesla executives to get back to the office for a full 40-hour workweek or face the prospect of dismissal.

Musk’s Thursday email expressing reservations about the economy also comes amid signs of cooling in economies around the world, as soaring inflation is driving central banks to course correct away from pandemic-era easy money policies.

The Federal Reserve has laid out a case for hiking interest rates by 50 basis points at each of its next two meetings in June and July, though there’s less clarity on the path of policy normalization after that.

ECB officials, too, have made a case for ending asset purchases and embarking on a path of raising interest rates. Christine Lagarde, head of the ECB, recently suggested that quarter-point hikes in July and then September were likely.

The rapid central bank shift towards policy tightening has driven speculation about the likelihood that the economy might tip into a recession.

“Some officials want the Fed to continue with 50 [basis point] hikes to ensure inflation is brought under control, but this risks moving policy deeply into restrictive territory and heightening the chances of a recession,” ING analysts wrote in a recent note.

“Others argue that there is already evidence of the growth outlook weakening and inflation pressures tentatively softening, which could justify a pause in September,” they added.

DeSantis Signs Nearly $110 Billion ‘Freedom First Budget’

Gov Ron DeSantis on June 2 signed what he called the “Freedom First” budget totaling almost $110 billion for fiscal year 2022-2023, to blunt the impact for Floridians of a “Biden-induced recession.”

“Our commitment to freedom has paid off,” he said at a press conference at The Villages. “Our responsible fiscal policies have put the state in a strong position to make the record investments needed to support growth and opportunity in spite of the reckless fiscal and monetary policies of the Biden administration.”

DeSantis said the budget was trimmed $3.1 billion with the power of the “line-item veto,” and that his veto power was used “very robustly” to put Florida in a better position, should that recession hit. Some of the cuts that were made by the governor’s veto included $20 million for two new aircraft for other state officials to use, $20 million for a new Moffitt Cancer Center and $350 million for a Lake Okeechobee water treatment project.

DeSantis criticized President Joe Biden’s economic and energy policies, linking them to the nation’s record inflation numbers.

“We are meeting our obligations, funding key priorities and protecting the state budget against a ‘Biden-induced recession,’” DeSantis said.

The governor credited strong fiscal policies that have spurred growth and opportunities for Floridians.

The budget DeSantis signed was a 10.4 percent increase over the current budget and will go into effect July 1. DeSantis said the budget benefited from an unexpected surplus in tax revenue from a state economy on the rebound thanks in part to the governor’s refusal to lock down businesses and schools.

“We kept Florida open, protected people’s rights and saved jobs,” he said. “Florida had outpaced the nation on all economic indicators.”

The state benefited from the increase in tax revenue that boosted the state’s surplus to $20 billion that was reported in May and projections indicate that the 2022-2023 year will begin with a $16 billion surplus, DeSantis announced.

Two billion of that surplus is going to help rescue the property insurance industry that the governor signed into law last month.

Als0, $10 million to re-instate the Florida State Guard and $2.15 million to create an elections law enforcement unit to investigate voter fraud.

The governor thanked the legislature for what they accomplished in the budget in light of what is happening on a federal level.

“There’s a fella by the name of Brandon that people talk about that we have to contend with,” DeSantis quipped. “He immediately waged war against American energy production–you see high gas prices in the United States–that’s a big reason why [we have] the most sustained inflation this country has seen in over 40 years.”

DeSantis said the country would have been better off when Biden took office if he “did nothing [rather] than what he has done so far.”

The Great Robo-placement? Workplace Robot Orders Jump 40% In First Quarter

As we come out of the Covid-19 pandemic – which was more like a controlled demolition of small businesses, followed by a mismanaged, taxpayer-funded cocaine binge that dropped vicious inflation on our laps – more and more industries are turning to robots as they struggle to hire enough workers to fill mounting orders.

According to the Wall Street Journal, orders for workplace robots increased by 40% during the first quarter of 2022 vs the same period in 2021, a according to the Association for Advancing Automation – the robotics industry’s trade groups.

The explosive growth follows a 22% increase y/y in 2021 after years of stagnant growth, according to the group.

CDC: Current Monkeypox Cases Suggest Community Transmission

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will be initiating an emergency response to monitor and investigate monkeypox after recent cases suggest that the disease may be spreading through person-to-person community transmission.

“Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel history to an area with endemic monkeypox suggests person-to-person community spread,” wrote the authors of the CDC report.

Community transmission means the person infected has not been to places known as infection hotspots or been in contact with any other cases, indicating that the authorities would be unable to trace the source of the infection.

A recent U.S. study has also suggested community transmission of monkeypox, after emerging cases were identified to be of different households, with no contact, nor did they travel to endemic areas in West and Central Africa.

“CDC has initiated an emergency response to monitor and investigate cases,” the CDC wrote on Twitter on June 3.

FBI Has ‘Secure’ Workspace in Law Firm That Represents Democrats: Document

The FBI has a workspace in the same law firm that employed the lawyer who took sketchy claims about Donald Trump and Russia to the bureau in 2016, the firm revealed in a new document.

The workspace, known as a “secure work environment,” within Perkins Coie’s office in Washington was cleared by the FBI on March 26, 2012, and has been “in continuous operation since then,” Michael Bopp, an attorney representing Perkins Coie, told members of Congress in a May 25 letter that was reviewed by The Epoch Times.

What’s more, Michael Sussmann, the lawyer who took the claims against Trump to the FBI’s nearby headquarters ahead of the 2016 election, had access to the workspace through July 2021, according to the missive.

The workspace was created in 2011 and includes a General Services Administration-approved security container and a key locker, both of which were paid for by Perkins Coie. It also features a secure telephone, a fax machine, and a security token card, each of which is owned by the bureau.

The workspace is maintained by Perkins Coie and periodically inspected by the FBI to ensure the space “is operating in accordance with the requisite standards,” according to the letter.

“The Democrat Party’s law firm … has this co-located workspace that they operate in concert with the FBI. Why in the world would that be the case?” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said on Fox News, which first reported on the letter sent to Gaetz and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

The FBI indicated that the workspace is lawful and that it’s meant to shield classified documents from the bulk of workers at Perkins Coie and other companies that have similar spaces.

“The FBI complies with the law and security policies and works with the Department of Justice to serve classified, Court-authorized legal process [sic] necessary to support national security investigations,” an FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.

“In certain instances, the FBI coordinates with non-government, third-party entities, such as law firms, that represent service providers which receive these classified Court orders. This includes providing access to private attorneys which represent the service providers in satisfaction of their legal rights. As part of this, the FBI ensures that any storage of classified orders meets stringent security protocols required for such documents.”

Gaetz said he consulted with former federal prosecutors, who informed him they had never heard of a similar relationship.

“Our concern is that politically motivated dirt was being converted into politically motivated investigations,” he said.

The lawmakers want the facility shut down.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 

Telegram Hands Over Personal User Data to German Authorities

Operators of the messenger app Telegram transferred personal information of its users to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), deviating from the company’s earlier claims of shielding such data from governments.

The personal data is related to users who were suspects of terrorism and child abuse crimes, according to Spiegel. In the case of other crimes, it is still difficult for German authorities to get data from Telegram.

The move comes across as a softening of the company’s stance on private data. German investigators, for a long time, have never received any positive responses from Telegram whenever they requested the company to reveal the identities of people behind online criminal content.

The data handover runs counter to Telegram’s claim on its official website that “to this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.”

According to the company, cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the world that are controlled by several legal entities across various jurisdictions.

Moreover, decryption keys are split into multiple parts and never stored in the same place as the data they are supposed to protect. As a result, only if several court orders from different jurisdictions appear will Telegram be forced to give up data.

“Thanks to this structure, we can ensure that no single government or block of like-minded countries can intrude on people’s privacy and freedom of expression,” the company claims.

However, its recent German handover dents this narrative, raising the possibility that Telegram can be forced by other governments as well to submit private data.

PROPAGANDA

The ADL Murder Report That Cried ‘White Supremacist’

In May 2021, two members of the Family Values, a white supremacist prison gang, allegedly killed a member of the rival Southwest Honkeys prison gang over a longstanding beef. Three months later, a New Jersey man who had vandalized synagogues and distributed neo-Nazi pamphlets strangled his wife.

On the surface, the crimes would appear to have little more in common than their brutality. But the Anti-Defamation League includes these murders by white men of other whites in its tally of right-wing and white supremacist murders in its report, “Murder & Extremism in the United States in 2021.”

“In 2021, white supremacists were responsible for more murders than any other type of extremist; in many years, they comprised an outright majority of the extremist murders that year,” the report said. “Indeed, over the past 10 years, white supremacists have committed 244 (55 percent) of the 443 killings that the ADL (COE) has documented.”

The ADL also claims that other “right-wing extremists” were responsible for another 20 percent of extremist killings during the 10-year-period (2012-21)–including those it describes as “anti-government” and “incel/manosphere” (typically, involuntary celibates or misogynists).

HEALTH

The War Against the Unvaxxed Will Not Be Forgotten

Fomenting hatred is a tool of tyrants, and over the past two years, political leaders, agency heads, academics, medical professionals and media personalities alike have publicly encouraged hatred and violence and wished painful death upon anyone who didn’t want to be part of the medical experiment that is the COVID jabs

Even now, with everything we know for sure about the jabs, the war against the unvaccinated continues in many areas, and ignorance of basic science still abounds

In recent weeks, we’ve seen the stage being set for another fabricated hate-fest. This time, the gay community is the designated enemy and target

Same-sex relations has been identified as the primary source of a global monkeypox outbreak. Will the gay community be targeted for exclusion, derision and attack in coming weeks and months, as the “monkeypox threat” continues to be hyped?

Fabrications are used to brainwash the public into hating truth-tellers and anyone who points out discrepancies in the narrative. It’s a dangerous path, and we’re still on it

100% of Oat Products Tested Positive for Glyphosate

This text was beforehand printed February 19, 2019, and has been up to date with new data.

Oat-based meals, reminiscent of oatmeal, cereals and bread, are thought-about by many to be a wholesome dietary addition, however when you eat such meals know that you simply are most likely getting herbicide residues together with them.

In testing accomplished by Associates of the Earth (FOE), 100% of oat cereal samples examined optimistic for residues of glyphosate, the lively ingredient in Roundup herbicide.1 Whereas there are a number of causes to rethink the well being worth of oats, together with their lectin content material, the rampant use of glyphosate on this crop as a desiccant simply prior to reap, and the next glyphosate contamination, is worthy of consideration.

All Oat Cereals Examined Contained Glyphosate

FOE, seeking to uncover what number of pesticides and herbicides residues are in generally eaten meals, examined store-brand cereal, beans and produce from the highest 4 meals retailers within the U.S.: Walmart, Kroger, Costco and Albertsons/Safeway.

Altogether, 132 samples of home model samples have been examined, from greater than 30 U.S. shops in 15 states. Residues of glyphosate and pesticides — neonicotinoids and organophosphates — have been discovered, with glyphosate being detected in 100% of oat cereal and pinto bean samples examined.

Oat-Based mostly Meals Marketed to Youngsters Comprise Glyphosate

EWG additionally commissioned impartial laboratory exams to find out how a lot glyphosate is lurking within the U.S. meals provide. Forty-three out of 45 meals merchandise made with conventionally grown oats examined optimistic for glyphosate, 31 of which had glyphosate ranges larger than EWG scientists consider could be protecting of youngsters’s well being.2

Examples of meals with detectable ranges of glyphosate embody Quaker Dinosaur Eggs immediate oatmeal, Cheerios cereal, Nature Valley granola bars, Quaker metal lower oats and Again to Nature Traditional Granola. Additional, out of 16 natural oat meals examined, 5 contained glyphosate, though at ranges under EWG’s well being benchmark of 160 ppb.

Observe-up testing of one other 28 samples of oat-based cereal and different oat-based meals marketed to youngsters discovered glyphosate in all of the samples examined, with 26 of them coming in above EWG’s well being benchmark of 160 ppb.

Glyphosate was detected in Basic Mills’ Cheerios and a bunch of Quaker model merchandise reminiscent of immediate oatmeal, breakfast cereal and snack bars. The best glyphosate stage — 2,837 ppb — was present in Quaker Oatmeal Squares breakfast cereal. Based on EWG:3

Can Ginseng Help Curb Diabetes?

Ginseng has a long history of medicinal use, including in China, where it was used to cure Xiaoke disease — now known to be diabetes — during the Song Dynasty circa 1078 A.D.

Ginseng’s antidiabetic properties include regulation of insulin secretion and glucose uptake along with protection against oxidative stress and anti-inflammatory properties

American ginseng led to significantly reduced HbA1c levels, fasting blood glucose and systolic blood pressure in adults with Type 2 diabetes

Ginseng also up-regulates the expression of glucose transporters, which enhances glucose uptake, while suppressing oxidative stress and modulating inflammation to help prevent the development of insulin resistance

While herbs can provide supportive care, changes to diet and lifestyle are essential for Type 2 diabetes management and can even lead to the reversal of the condition

AHA Renders Itself Obsolete With Long-Refuted Dietary Advice

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), saturated fats such as butter and coconut oil should be avoided to cut your risk of heart disease

Replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats such as margarine and vegetable oil might cut heart disease risk by as much as 30%, about the same as statins, the AHA claims

The AHA bases its outmoded conclusions on four studies dating back to the 1960s — studies shown to have problematic performance biases

GSK Measles Vaccine Gets U.S. FDA Approval

British drugmaker GSK said on Monday its vaccine, Priorix, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the prevention of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in those aged one year and above.

The vaccine can be given as two doses, and may also be administered as a second shot to individuals who were previously vaccinated with a first dose of another MMR-containing vaccine, GSK said.

Child vaccination rates in the United States fell during the COVID-19 pandemic as many children skipped doctor appointments and states eased vaccine requirements during remote learning, according to a government study released last month.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

An Alarmed Solar Industry Says a US Trade Probe of China Will Totally Fry It; Then Why Is the Business Sunny Side Up?

Publicly, big solar developers and many climate change activists are sounding the alarm about an ongoing probe of trade abuses by Chinese manufacturers.

Abigail Ross Hopper, CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, last month described the U.S. Department of Commerce investigation as “the most serious crisis we have faced in our collective history.”

Heather Zichal, a former White House energy adviser under President Barack Obama, said the examination of China’s trade practices “drives a stake through the heart of planned solar proj

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The New York Times reported last month that the “solar industry is ‘frozen’ as Biden administration investigates China” over allegations solar producers there are offshoring work to avoid tariffs.

But CEOs of some of the biggest solar players in the U.S. tell a different story to investors and followers, according to a RealClearInvestigations review of earnings call transcripts and solar project plans.

Amazon last month announced 37 new solar projects around the world, including in the U.S., while power plant developer Seaboard Solar announced it is working on multiple projects in New York state. A $75 million project is moving ahead in Minnesota, while two plants by Dominion Energy are starting construction in Virginia this year.

Kirk Crews, CFO of NextEra Energy, which trumpets itself as the world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy, told Bloomberg that if the investigation found that China circumvented tariffs by offshoring, “it would be unwinding a decade of trade practice.”

But Crews told analysts in an April investor call that despite the federal investigation, “we remain comfortable with our current development expectations for wind, solar and storage.”

Several other major solar producers also have announced they are moving ahead on projects this year, including Duke Energy and SOLV Energy.

“Even with trade cases, solar demand has continued to grow—Solar jobs are still expanding,” said Tim Brightbill, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer for domestic solar producers whose complaint last year also alleged China was avoiding tariffs.

The disconnect between public and private words and deeds illustrates a solar industry that presents itself as on a progressive mission to save the planet actually behaving more like a traditional big business. It is managing expectations in the political and business arenas through messaging geared to those separate audiences. Behind the words is a highly competitive business focused on keeping costs low—even if that means sourcing cheaper materials from Chinese companies, some of which are accused of relying on highly polluting coal power, using slave labor, or violating trade agreements.

The Commerce Department launched its probe in response to a petition filed in February by a U.S. competitor to Chinese producers, Auxin Solar, a small California-based solar parts maker, which alleged that China was avoiding tariffs by routing its production through four Southeast Asian countries.

Auxin alleges that manufacturers in those four countries—Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia—are Chinese enterprises that use the factories for panel assembly, the last step before shipment and installation. Plants in those countries “use affiliated Chinese input suppliers and a fully integrated Chinese supply chain to circumvent the existing [tariffs],” according to Auxin’s complaint.

COVID RELATED NEWS

Menstrual Irregularities, Uterus Shedding Cases Spike After COVID Vaccine Rollout: Peer-Reviewed Study

‘What we’ve seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg’: Dr. Northrup

The first of three peer-reviewed research studies on women who suffered menstrual irregularities or a decidual cast around the time COVID vaccines were rolled out begins to shed light on the sudden spike of this historically rare gynecological abnormality.

A decidual cast is when the inside lining of the uterus (endometrium) is shed intact, the entire lining is shed in one piece.

“What a decidual cast is is the sloughing off of the entire inside of the uterus all at once, generally preceded by several days of intense cramping as the uterus contracts. So what is passed is a ‘cast’ of the inside of the uterus,” Dr. Christiane Northrup, a co-author of the study, told The Epoch Times.

Over the past 109 years, decidual cast shedding (DCS) had less than 40 reported cases in the medical literature. The event had been so rare that there are only case studies and population prevalence data doesn’t exist, according to the research.

In the later 7.5 months of 2021, participants of MyCycleStory.com reported 292 cases out of 6,049 women who participated in the survey.

One of the authors of the study, Dr. James Thorp, is an extensively published 68-year-old physician MD board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as maternal-fetal medicine, who has been practicing obstetrics for over 42 years.

How to Prevent and Treat COVID Jab Injuries

The introduction of the experimental COVID jabs has opened the eyes of many to the fact that there are fundamental flaws with the vaccine program — not just with the mRNA shots, which have never existed before, but also with conventional vaccines

Toxins in food, water and air; vaccines, mRNA shots, electromagnetic field exposures and more, are making children sicker than any generation before them

When trying to prevent and/or treat a COVID jab injury, there are five toxic components that need to be addressed: spike protein toxicity, PEG, inflammation from the nanolipid, graphene oxide and nanotoxicity

A key tool in Dr. Michelle Perro’s treatment arsenal is spike protein-binding therapies like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine

Other helpful remedies include fibrinolytic enzymes like lumbrokinase, NAC, pine needle tea, curcumin, zeolite and symptom-specific homeopathics

Veterans Affairs Denies Life-Saving Lung Transplant to Unvaccinated Veteran

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denied a life-saving lung transplant to U.S. Army veteran because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.

James Jooyandeh’s requests for both a referral for the transplant and a religious exemption from the vaccine were recently denied by the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in Wisconsin where Jooyandeh has been treated for the past several years.

Jooyandeh, a former tank commander for the U.S. military, suffers from advanced stages of pulmonary fibrosis.

“Unfortunately, we are unable to offer lung transplant as a treatment option for you due to your unwillingness to receive recommended routine health maintenance, including your vaccinations, which is an absolute contraindication to lung transplantation at our center,” wrote Jooyandeh’s primary care physician Dr. Samir Sultan, a transplant pulmonologist with the VA hospital in Wisconsin, and Dr. James Maloney, chief of surgical services at the Veterans Hospital.

In an exclusive interview with The EpochTimes, Jooyandeh and wife Deborah told The Epoch Times they are both against the COVID-19 vaccine because fetal cell lines were used in the development and testing of the vaccine and because of the vaccine’s potential health risks.

“One of the side effects that was just released was interstitial lung disease and that’s what we have,” Deborah Jooyandeh told The Epoch Times, “so why would he take a vaccine that causes what’s killing him.”

Jooyandeh said he is also feeling “slighted” by the very administration he for so long served. Following a 13-year tour in the U.S. Army, Jooyaneh served eight years in the National Guard and five years in the Army Reserve.

Now 52, as a civilian he worked as a merchandiser for Nestle and does not have the means to afford a lung transplant out of pocket. His only choice is to use his VA benefits.

In order to do that, a VA doctor must write a referral to a facility since VA hospitals do not perform transplants themselves. The VA mostly refers veterans in need of transplants to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Tennessee.

Vanderbilt does not require the COVID-19 vaccine for transplant patients, but Sultan, as records show, still refused to make the referral.

Both he and Maloney acknowledged in their letter that Jooyandeh “is significantly impaired due to his lung condition,” but refused to reconsider their decision.

They also refused to consider Jooyandeh’s request for a religious exemption.

What remains unclear is what VA policy Sultan and Maloney are following in refusing to give Jooyandeh a referral for his much needed lung transplant.

In a letter preceding their denial of Jooyandeh’s request for a referral, John Rohrer, director of the Transplant and Surgical Service Department of Veterans Affairs in Wisconsin stated in a letter that he had confirmed from the hospital’s “coordinator” that the COVID-19 vaccine is required “per current Lung Transplant program guidelines.”

However a spokesman for the VA was unable to provide The Epoch Times with the VA’s policy on referring veterans who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 for a transplant.

Rohrer also did not respond to inquiries by The Epoch Times asking him to clarify what guidelines he was referring to.

Sultan and Maloney, who adid not respond to inquiries from The Epoch Times, cited the recommendations of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) as a basis for their decision.

In March, The Epoch Times reported that Pfizer is one of UNOS corporate sponsors. Private hospitals who have denied unvaccinated patients transplants have too cited UNOS policies for their position. In response, UNOS issued a statement to The Epoch Times emphasizing their recommendations are not mandates and hospitals are free to make their own decisions regarding transplants for unvaccinated patients.

Last month, the Liberty Counsel sent the VA a formal request for an emergency referral on behalf of Jooyandeh, but according to Deborah Catalano, senior counsel for the civil rights organization, the VA has yet to respond to her April 15 request.

“We are talking about a man who served his country and probably saved lives and now the very administration he served under is willing to let him die,” she told The Epoch Times.

Jooyandeh’s lung condition may stem from his military service. While he admitted he smoked, Jooyandeh also was part of an Army unit tasked with burning spent ammo and other munitions in an open pit.

Jooyandeh, who has no other comorbidities, told The Epoch Times he believes Sultan is operating on his own personal beliefs and has “blacklisted him to a point where no one else will override him.”

Pentagon’s Vaccine Mandate Challenged in Class-Action Lawsuit

About 20 years ago, attorney and former Marine Corps Capt. Dale Saran defended service members involved in a fight against the Pentagon’s mandatory anthrax vaccination program. While Saran lost the case in military court, the case eventually made its way to a federal court, which issued a permanent injunction in 2004, bringing the mandatory anthrax vaccination program to an end.

Now he’s come to the legal defense of troops in their fight against the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

On May 23, Saran filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate issued by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Aug. 24, 2021, is unconstitutional and therefore unlawful.

He told The Epoch Times the lawsuit was filed “more pointedly against the Federal Drug Administration’s [FDA] choice to illegally ignore the Public Health Service Act,” specifically 42 U.S.C. § 262 governing the regulation of biologics—which includes viruses or vaccines “applicable to the prevention, treatment, or cure of a disease or condition of human beings.”

“The heart of the claim is that these are not vaccines,” Saran told The Epoch Times. “They don’t have any live virus in them; the only thing that makes them even remotely related to a vaccine is the route of administration—a shot through a needle.”

Without the presence of a live virus, the COVID-19 vaccines are nothing more than “gene therapies”—whether they are licensed or not, Saran said. “And a therapy, even a life-saving therapy, cannot be mandated under U.S. constitutional law, at least as it stands right now.”

FDA Flags Heart Inflammation Risk Over Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine

Staff with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday flagged the risk of heart inflammation following the administration of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, although they concluded the shot reduces the risk of mild-to-severe COVID-19.

In the company’s nearly 30,000 patient trial, conducted between December 2020 and September 2021, there were four cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation also associated with mRNA vaccines, detected within 20 days post-vaccination. One patient in the trial reported myocarditis after receiving a placebo.

“These events raise the concern for a causal association with this vaccine, similar to the association documented with mRNA COVID19 vaccines,” FDA staff wrote in briefing documents that were released on Friday.

They continued: “Data from passive surveillance during post-authorization use in other countries also indicate a higher than expected rate of myocarditis and pericarditis (mainly pericarditis) associated with the vaccine. However, interpretation of these passive surveillance data is not straightforward, and further evaluation is needed to inform the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis associated with this vaccine, and their outcomes, as additional data emerge over time.”

The agency said it has asked Novavax to flag the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, another type of inflammation of the heart, as an identified risk in its documentation. Data from Novavax’s trial was acquired before the Omicron and Delta variants spread across the world.

“Based on the efficacy estimate in the clinical trial of this vaccine,” the FDA staff wrote, “it is more likely than not that the vaccine will provide some meaningful level of protection against COVID-19 due to Omicron, in particular against more severe disease.”

The Epoch Times has contacted Novavax for comment following the FDA’s publication of the documents.

In a statement to Reuters, Novavax said that its vaccine will drive vaccination rates among people who have been hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The company has developed a protein-based vaccine rather than an mRNA-based vaccine like those made by Pfizer or Moderna, or an adenovirus-based vaccine such as the ones made by Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca.

“Despite the wide availability of authorized or approved vaccines, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is not well controlled in the U.S. … there remains a desire for vaccines that have been developed using well-understood technology platforms,” the company said. SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is another name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Novavax’s study enrolled about 30,000 adults in the United States and Mexico, finding its vaccine had an efficacy of about 90.4 percent.

A committee of the FDA’s experts is scheduled to speak and vote on the authorization of the vaccine for adults on June 7, according to the agency’s website.

“The meeting presentations will be heard, viewed, captioned, and recorded through an online teleconferencing platform. The committee will meet in open session to discuss an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request by Novavax for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older,” it reads.

Novavax’s shares dropped about 20.06 percent as 

Studies Link Incurable Prion Disease With COVID-19 Vaccin

Studies on COVID-19 vaccines have suggested links between Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—an incurable and fatal prion disease—and getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

A recent French pre-print on CJD and COVID-19 vaccination has suggested that the COVID-19 vaccine may have contributed to the emergence of a new type of sporadic CJD disease that is a lot more aggressive and rapid in disease progression as compared to the traditional CJD.

CJD is a rare disease caused by an abnormal protein in the brain called a prion.

Prions naturally occur in the brain and are usually harmless, but when they become diseased or misfolded, they will affect nearby prions to also become misshapen, leading to deterioration of brain tissue and death.

The disease is incurable as once one prion becomes infected, it will continue to propagate to other prions with no treatment capable of stopping its progress.

The majority of people with CJD have sporadic CJD; they become infected for no apparent reason. However, small subsets of people are diagnosed due to inheritance.

Sporadic CJD, though occurring at random, has been linked to consumption of meat that has been infected with diseased prions, such as affecting individuals that ingest beef from a cow that has been infected.

Though the Omicron variant of COVID-19 does not carry a prion region in its spike protein, the first Wuhan COVID-19 variant has a prion region on its spike protein. A U.S. study indicates that the prion area is able to interact with human cells.

Therefore, when the Wuhan variant’s spike protein gene information was made into a vaccine as part of the mRNA and adenovirus vaccines, the prion region was also incorporated.

As part of the natural cellular process, once the mRNA is incorporated into the cells, the cell will turn the mRNA instructions into a COVID-19 spike protein, tricking the cells into believing that it has been infected so that they create an immunological memory against a component of the virus.

However, the biological process of translating mRNA information into proteins is not perfect and immune to mistakes.

A U.S. study has speculated that a misfolded spike protein could in turn create a misfolded prion region that may be able to interact with healthy prions to cause damage, leading to CJD disease.

A peer-reviewed study in Turkey (pdf) and the French preprint have identified sudden CJD cases appearing after getting the Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca vaccines, suggesting links between getting vaccinated and being infected.

The French study found an onset of symptoms within 11.38 days of being vaccinated while the case study in Turkey has found symptoms appearing 1 day after vaccination.

Previous studies of CJD in cannibal groups have indicated that CJD can remain dormant after infection for around 10 years or more. However, authors of the French study have found that the CJD cases observed after being vaccinated by COVID-19 are a lot more rapid in onset.

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Washington Post Admits Claims in Article About YouTubers Were Inaccurate

The Washington Post has admitted that it did not reach out to the subject of an article before publication, despite initially claiming that it did.

Columnist Taylor Lorenz wrote that she asked a YouTube personality with the moniker ThatUmbrellaGuy for comment before the publication of her piece, which claimed that the person and similar accounts had hauled in large amounts of money by taking advantage of the lack of coverage in many outlets of the trial involving Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

But Lorenz’s statement was false, the Post acknowledged in an editor’s note.

Further, the Post admitted it stealthily edited the story to remove the false claim without initially noting to readers what had happened.

“The first published version of this story stated incorrectly that Internet influencers Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy had been contacted for comment before publication. In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram,” the paper said in an editor’s note appended to the article.

“After the story was published, The Post continued to seek comment from Mazeika via social media and queried ThatUmbrellaGuy for the first time. During that process, The Post removed the incorrect statement from the story but did not note its removal, a violation of our corrections policy. The story has been updated to note that Mazeika declined to comment for this story and ThatUmbrellaGuy could not be reached for comment,” it added.

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Former Judge Killed in ‘Targeted’ Attack Against Judicial System, Officials Say

A retired judge was shot and killed at his home in Wisconsin on Friday in what has been described by officials as a “targeted” attack against the judicial system.

John Roemer, a former circuit judge in Juneau County, is believed to be the victim of the murder that happened in New Lisbon at around 6:30 a.m. on June 3, according to reports. The 68-year-old man was found in a residence that a neighbor and public records said belonged to a retired county judge.

A second person, identified as a 56-year-old male and the alleged suspect, was discovered in the basement of the home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said during a news conference on Friday, also noting that a firearm was recovered from the scene.

Upon recovering the man, law enforcement started life-saving measures and the individual has been transported to a medical facility in critical condition.

Kaul, who refused to name the victim or the suspect, said the shooter had selected targets who were “part of the judicial system” and had other planned victims. The attorney general did not identify them.

“This incident appears to be a targeted act … and the suspect appears to have had other targets as well. It appears to be related to the judicial system,” Kaul said.

“At this point, we are not aware of any evidence indicating that there is any active danger to other individuals. Those who may have been other targets have been notified,” he said, adding that if the investigation finds additional threats against other individuals, authorities will notify those people.

Kaul stressed that officials are currently “limited in what information we can provide,” citing the ongoing investigation.

Wisconsin Judge’s Alleged Killer Identified, Reportedly Had a Hit List

Officials identified the alleged suspect who killed a Wisconsin judge last week and said the killer had apparently had Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on his hit list.

Douglas K. Uhde was identified by the Wisconsin Department of Justice as the alleged assassin. He’s hospitalized in critical condition, according to Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul in a statement released on Saturday.

The suspect is accused of entering the home of 68-year-old retired Judge John Roemer at around 6:30 a.m. Friday and killed him, officials said.

“Uhde was located in the basement with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Law enforcement began life-saving measures,” the Department of Justice release said, “and Uhde was transported to a medical facility and remains in critical condition. A firearm was recovered at the scene.”

The state’s Justice Department indicated that the shooting appeared to be a “targeted act” against Roemer. A report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, citing records, said Uhde was sentenced by Roemer in 2005 to six years in prison on a burglary charge.

Uhde has an extensive criminal and prison record dating back at least two decades. He was released from his last prison stint in April 2020.

Zach Pohl, Whitmer’s deputy chief of staff, told Politico that the governor’s office was told by officials that her name appeared “on the Wisconsin gunman’s list.” Pohl added, “Governor Whitmer has demonstrated repeatedly that she is tough, and she will not be bullied or intimidated from doing her job and working across the aisle to get things done for the people of Michigan.”

Alleged law enforcement sources told The Associated Press that several other prominent officials, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers also appeared on the list. The Epoch Times has contacted McConnell’s office for comment.

State law enforcement officials have not issued any public statements on reports of the alleged hit list.

However, Kaul said in a news conference on Friday that “the suspect appears to have had other targets as well. It appears to be related to the judicial system.” At the time, Kaul did not name Uhde as the suspect or any of the officials on his hit list.

Roemer, 68, was a “very loving, very encouraging man with a wonderful sense of humor who will be dearly missed” by the community, said Chip Wilke, pastor at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mauston, where Roemer was president of the congregation and evangelism chairman. “He was in my office several mornings a week.”

The judge retired from the bench in 2017. He was first elected in 2004 and was reelected in 2010 and 2016. Roemer previously had served as an assistant district attorney for Juneau County and an assistant state public defender. He also worked in private practice and served as a lieutenant colonel for the U.S. Army Reserves.

The state Department of Justice said in the release that there is currently no threat to the public.

New Institutes of Health Study Suggests ‘Long COVID’ May Not Exist

People who report symptoms of a medical condition known as “long COVID,” particularly women, may actually be suffering from depression and anxiety, a new study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggests.

Researchers based their findings on 309 participants enrolled within a 100-mile radius of Bethesda, Maryland. Of the total sample, 180 people had a previous COVID-19 infection with mild to moderate symptoms that did not require hospitalization; the study also enrolled 122 control participants who never had the illness.

It found that participants from the COVID-19 group reported more physical symptoms associated with long-haul COVID-19 (PASC) than those in the control group. These symptoms included fatigue, difficulty concentrating, headache, memory impairment, insomnia, chest discomfort, and anxiety.

The NIH conducted the study between June 30, 2020, and July 2021. The study’s findings appear in the May 24 “Annals of Internal Medicine.”

Researchers administered individual surveys to screen for mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression. A total score of 3 or higher was the recommended cutoff on each measure to warrant further evaluation.