WORLD NEWS
What Referendum? Sunak Accused of Pursuing New ‘Brexit In Name Only’ Deal with EU
Swift backlash has followed claims senior British officials are considering pushing the United Kingdom back into the European Union’s orbit despite the Brexit vote.
Despite the British people having voted for Brexit all the way back in 2016, Rishi Sunak’s globalist-leaning British government is now considering the possibility of re-entering the European Union’s customs area, reports have claimed.
Harry and Meghan to Receive Kennedy Award for Fighting ‘Structural Racism’ in Royal Family
Harry and Meghan are to receive a human rights award for fighting “structural racism” within the Royal Family from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation.
For their efforts in causing chaos within the monarchy, renegade royals Harry and Meghan are to receive a human rights award, with the pair being credited as fighting “structural racism” within the institution.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
US-funded military research going to China, watchdog finds
In this week’s Waste of the Week, $20 million for U.S.-funded military research is going to institutions in China. Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, joined The National Desk Friday to discuss this topic.
More than 150 Chinese-born scientists who did U.S. taxpayer-funded military research at the fabled Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are now back home working in China, in some cases, helping develop weapons, according to a news release provided by Andrzejewski.
Justice Alito Strongly Denies Accusation of Leaking 2014 Opinion
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak of a religious-freedom decision eight years ago, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged that Alito may have been involved in it.
The media report comes as the Supreme Court continues to investigate the unprecedented leak earlier this year of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade and held that there’s no constitutional right to abortion, thereby returning the regulation of abortion to the states.
The 5–4 opinion in Dobbs, written by Alito, was formally released by the court in June. Alito described the leak as a “grave betrayal.”
Biden Administration Appoints Special Counsel for Trump Probe
The Biden administration on Nov. 18 announced that it’s appointing a special counsel for a probe involving former President Donald Trump, who just launched a 2024 presidential bid.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden appointee who heads the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced the appointment in Washington.
“Based on recent developments, including the former president’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel,” Garland said.
Special Counsel Investigating Trump Is ‘Tool to Attack a Political Enemy’: FBI Veteran
In appointing a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump, the Justice Department (DOJ) has turned its law enforcement apparatus into a “tool to attack a political enemy,” according to FBI veteran Marc Ruskin.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden administration appointee, on Nov. 18 made the announcement in Washington, handing former DOJ prosecutor Jack Smith the task to oversee investigations related to Trump’s handling of classified records and parts of the probe into the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and characterized Garland’s move as a “horrendous abuse of power” and the “latest in the long series of witch hunts.”
The timing of the appointment is significant, Ruskin said, noting how it dovetailed with pledges by House Republicans to investigate President Joe Biden and his administration once the GOP takes the gavel in January.
“Using the legal system in baseless investigations and prosecutions has been a hallmark of the anti-Trump campaign since before 2016,” Ruskin, who served 27 years with the FBI and is a contributor for The Epoch Times, said in an interview.
Report: Colorado Shooting Suspect Allegedly Threatened His Mother with Homemade Bomb in 2021
The 22-year-old suspected of opening fire in Club Q Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was charged with felony menacing in the summer of 2021.
NBC News reports that Saturday night’s shooting suspect was “arrested by sheriff’s deputies last year after a bomb threat was made in a residential area just outside Colorado Springs.”
Former Border Patrol Agent Charged for Hiring Illegal Aliens as Truck Drivers
A former U.S. Border Patrol agent, his wife, and a male accomplice have been charged with unlawfully hiring illegal aliens as drivers for their trucking company and fraudulently obtaining immigration permits, prosecutors said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said in a statement that former Border Patrol agent Ricardo Gonzalez, his wife Natalia Gonzalez, and Alex Lopez were arrested on Nov. 17 and charged for their roles in a conspiracy to hire illegal aliens.
The three accused conspirators, who were responsible for running the day-to-day operations at Gonmor Inc., a Laredo-based commercial trucking company, allegedly prepared fraudulent paperwork allowing the illegal immigrants to obtain an I-94 permit to stay in the United States longer than 30 days.
The paperwork allegedly included a letter from a fake Mexican trucking company stating that the individuals were employed there as truck drivers and requested that they receive an I-94 permit so they could travel into the United States.
Kari Lake Responds to Speculation She May Drop Trump After Midterms
Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake responded to speculation that she could be a conservative star if she pivots away from former President Donald Trump, who had endorsed her.
“If she concedes graciously in the coming days and weeks, then I think there could be a path for her in the future in politics in Arizona,” political consultant Lorna Romero told the Washington Examiner this week, adding that “it still seems like she is mulling over a potential lawsuit over the way Maricopa County handled the election” and if Lake “goes down that route, I think she will forever be branded as a Trump-type candidate.”
“I think her political career in Arizona will be over. At that point, her only path would be to be on a conservative talk show somewhere,” Romero said.
After the Washington Examiner published its story on Twitter, Lake responded: “Never.”
Kari Lake Says She ‘Will Become Governor’ After Attorney General’s Letter
Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake proclaimed on Nov. 19 that she will become governor, after the state attorney general’s office demanded explanations about alleged Election Day problems in the state’s largest county.
“The way they run elections in Maricopa County is worse than in banana republics around this world,” Lake, a Republican rising star, told the Daily Mail.
Lake was responding to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office opening an inquiry (pdf) into polling issues in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and other cities, following ballot-tabulation issues that were confirmed by Maricopa County officials on Nov. 8. Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright demanded that evidence be turned over “on or before Maricopa County submits its official canvass to the Secretary of State.”
As of the morning of Nov. 20, Lake was trailing Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs by about 18,000 votes. Last week, Hobbs declared victory in the race.
Lake, a former anchor for FOX10 in Phoenix, told the Mail that she believes “at the end of the day, this will be turned around.”
“I don’t know what the solution will be but I still believe I will become governor, and we are going to restore honesty to our elections,” she said.
On Nov. 17, Lake said she would continue her fight in the state’s governor’s race after Hobbs declared victory.
Judge Rules on Early Voting in Georgia Senate Runoff
A Georgia judge on Friday ruled that early voting in the state’s U.S. Senate runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican Herschel Walker can take place on the Saturday two days after Thanksgiving.
The state’s election code requires counties to start early voting for runoff elections as soon as possible after a general or primary election and mandates when they can take place.
A lawsuit filed by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger claimed the statute used to identify valid days to hold runoff elections prohibited Saturday early voting for runoff elections immediately after a “public and legal holiday” on a Thursday or Friday—in this case, Thanksgiving.
Warnock and Democratic groups, the defendants in the case, filed a lawsuit (pdf) to challenge Raffensperger’s interpretation of the statute.
The defendants argued the statute doesn’t apply to runoff elections, only primary and general elections. The court agreed with this interpretation of the statute.
“When the Legislature first added the provision regarding advance voting on Saturday after a holiday, it named all three (3) categories of elections, specifically primary elections, (general) elections, and runoff elections,” Judge Thomas A. Cox Jr. wrote in his ruling (pdf).
“The Legislature updated this provision one year later and deleted the words ‘or runoff,’ while leaving only ‘primary or election.’ Within the context of these two very different interpretations of the same statutory language, the Court recognizes that there is an absence of settled law on this specific issue.”
Judge Orders Unsealing of Names of 8 Anonymous Individuals Relating to Jeffrey Epstein
A federal judge on Friday ordered the unsealing of documents featuring the real names of some of the “John Does” relating to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to multiple media outlets.
Judge Loretta Preska ruled on Friday to disclose the identities of a number of previously anonymous individuals in documents filed by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against the convicted pedophile’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell in a defamation case, according to Insider.
Epstein died in jail awaiting trial while Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against Maxwell has generated a trove of documents relating to Epstein, which contain a number of redacted names, some of which Preska ordered unsealed on the premise that public interest outweighs the right to privacy, according to Daily Mail.
Multiple provisions of the Respect for Marriage Act the Senate is expected to approve after Thanksgiving threaten thousands of Christian churches, as well as faith-based social service agencies and businesses, with the loss of their federal tax exemption, according to legal experts interviewed by The Epoch Times.
The threat isn’t directly stated in the proposal but rather is a result of the proposal’s addition of a new limitation on religious practice and expression. The proposal repeals the 1993 Defense of Marriage Act—which defines marriage as between one man and one woman—and instead recognizes unions of any two individuals, consistent with the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
The Senate voted 62–37 on Nov. 16 in favor of cloture, which ended debate on the proposal and cleared the way for a vote on final passage that’s expected to take place the week after Thanksgiving. A dozen Republican senators voted with all 50 Democrats to end debate. The House of Representatives approved the measure in July.
“If a nonprofit is engaged in behavior that is ‘contrary to public policy,’ then the IRS has the discretion to strip that organization of its tax-exempt status,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) senior counsel Greg Baylor told The Epoch Times.
“Our concern is the IRS is going to point to the Respect for Marriage Act and say, ‘These organizations that aren’t recognizing same-sex marriage are acting inconsistently with public policy articulated in the Respect for Marriage Act,’” Baylor said.
Heritage Foundation Vice President for Domestic Policy Roger Severino was even more blunt in his assessment of the proposal, telling The Epoch Times: “This legislation is nothing more than a way to weaponize the federal government against people of faith, and it offers no additional benefits or protections that same-sex couples don’t already have.
“Instead, this bill encourages radical activists to sue religious schools, colleges, and adoption agencies and will empower Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents to revoke the tax-exempt status of faith-based nonprofits. Congress should be protecting our First Amendment rights instead of pushing divisive legislation that nobody needs.”
Proponents of the proposal agreed to an amendment before the cloture vote that they claimed would eliminate the act’s threats to religious freedom. But opponents, led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), rejected the amendment and offered an alternative.
The Wall Street Journal reports that during a funding round that raised $420 million for the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, almost three-quarters of the money went directly to founder and Democrat super donor Sam Bankman-Fried.
The Wall Street Journal reports that in October 2018, FTX raised $420 million from a range of well-known investors in order to improve user experience, increase the firm’s reach, and establish a better relationship with regulators.
NYPD Counterterrorism Force Thwarts Threat to Jewish Community
The New York Police Department (NYPD) stopped a threat to the Jewish community on Saturday in a joint effort with the FBI, the police department said.
“The FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, NYPD Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau investigators, working with their law enforcement partners, uncovered a developing threat to the Jewish community on Friday,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement. “By early Saturday, the NYPD’s exhaustive intelligence-gathering led to the arrest by sharp-eyed MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] police officers of two individuals entering Penn Station.”
A large hunting knife, an illegal Glock 17 firearm, and a 30-round magazine were seized during the event.
The police department didn’t elaborate on the threat.
NYPD stepped up security at sensitive locations throughout New York City after the incident.
The U.S. Army is belittling and putting pressure on soldiers who are seeking religious accommodation to the vaccine mandate, according to service members who have refused to take the jab. Prohibiting off-base travel and promotions are only a small part of the greater push to compel service members like them to get out of the Army, they said.
Such actions come as the Army, like other branches of the military is struggling with recruitment woes; the Army has only met 52 percent of its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goal.
As a member of one of the Army’s most elite military units trained to conduct special operations worldwide, Staff Sergeant Drew Miller (a pseudonym) told The Epoch Times, “Soldiers who continue to object to the COVID-19 vaccine are being punished, not physically, but in a way that’s forcing them out of the Army.”
“Several years of training and funding put into these individuals to become some the Army’s best is currently being wasted,” he said, having served over 10 years in the service. Miller spoke to The Epoch Times using a pseudonym due to fear of reprisals.
“I and many others are simply stuck at [a military installation] doing nothing associated with what we’ve been trained to do,” he added, lamenting that “our job has been basically taken from us.”
On top of that, Miller said, some of the Army’s most elite teams are being broken apart. “And in the process, we’re being hit with every kind of fearmongering, coercion, and bully tactic that you can think of to get us out of the Army,” he added.
Uncounted Votes on Overlooked Memory Card Flips Election in Georgia
An overlooked memory card in Cobb County, Georgia, with uncounted ballots changed the final results of a special election, officials have said.
The county’s Board of Elections and Registration voted to recertify the results of the Nov. 8 Kennesaw City Council special election during a Nov. 18 meeting, according to a statement.
“The recertification was necessary after workers discovered a memory card had not been included in the previous results. The additional ballots resulted in a change in the Kennesaw City Council Post 1 Special Election,” the release said.
Madelyn Orochena was originally declared the winner of the special election. However, when additional ballots were located on the memory card, Lynette Burnette was shown as the winner of the race by 31 votes, officials told local media.
“Unfortunately, once found we did upload it, and it changed the outcome of the Kennesaw City Council race,” Janine Eveler, Cobb County’s director of elections, told local media outlets.
Cobb election officials said that the memory card was located in Kennesaw when workers were preparing for an audit of the election, according to 11Alive. Further details weren’t provided about why the card was overlooked or where it was located.
A recount was conducted on Nov. 20.
Arizona’s ‘Election Integrity Unit’ Demands Answers From Maricopa County Over Election Day Problems
The Arizona Attorney General’s Elections Integrity Unit sent a letter to Maricopa County demanding answers on problems that took place with the election on Nov. 8.
In a letter to Civil Division Chief Thomas Liddy of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright said the AG’s office had “received hundreds of complaints since Election Day,” and the complaints “go beyond pure speculation [and] include first-hand witness accounts that raise concerns regarding Maricopa County’s lawful compliance with Arizona election law.”
According to Maricopa County election officials, at least 60 of 223 voting locations experienced technical problems related to ballot-on-demand (BOD) printers having “non-uniform” printer configuration settings.
These non-uniform settings resulted in some ballots “unable to be read by on-site ballot tabulators.”
County officials estimate the technical problems may have impacted more than 17,000 ballots on Election Day.
Maricopa County’s Election Dysfunction Was More Widespread Than Officials Said, Memo Claims
More Maricopa County voting centers saw tabulator or printer issues than officials had announced, according to a memo by an attorney who observed the election process.
“It seems very clear that the printer/tabulator failures on election day at 62.61% of the vote centers observed by 11 roving attorneys, and the resulting long lines at a majority of all vote centers, led to substantial voter suppression,” the memo said.
“It is certainly safe to assume that many voters refused to wait in such lines, left the vote center, and did not return to vote later,” the memo read. “A survey of the electorate could easily confirm such an assumption.”
Kevin McCarthy Plans to Oust Ilhan Omar From House Committee for ‘Anti-Semitic’ Comments
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Saturday that when he becomes speaker of the House next year he will remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her remarks that many deemed anti-Semitic.
“We watch anti-Semitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched it grow in the halls of Congress,” McCarthy said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas on Saturday.
“I promised you last year that as speaker, she [Omar] will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” he told a cheering audience.
Omar, a Muslim immigrant of Somali descent, has been condemned for her remarks on the U.S.–Israel relationship several times in recent years, including by the leadership of her own party.
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
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Biggest Wage Hikes in 16 Years Expected Next Year Amid Inflation
Employees in the United States are expected to see a 16-year high salary hike next year as companies react to a tight labor market and inflation, according to a recent report by workplace consultant Willis Towers Watson (WTW).
Pay budgets at companies have risen by 4.2 percent in 2022, stated a WTW press release on Nov. 17. In 2023, companies are forecast to raise prices by 4.6 percent, it predicted. The overall 2023 salary increase will be the highest since 2007. The survey saw the participation of 1,550 organizations in the United States. A similar survey conducted earlier this year only predicted a 4.1 percent salary boost next year.
One in seven companies were found to have spent more than originally planned on pay adjustments in the previous 12 months. While 77 percent of firms are concerned about inflationary pressures, 68 percent are worried about tight labor markets.
Among firms looking to change their salary increase budgets, around 17 percent plan to fund the increased budget by raising prices, while 12 percent will reduce staff numbers and resort to company restructures.
Three in four respondents admitted to facing problems in hiring and retaining talent, which is triple that of 2020. Seven in 10 firms took the decision to raise salary budgets after taking into account the tight labor market.
“As inflation continues to rise and the threat of an economic downturn looms, companies are using a range of measures to support their staff during this time,” said Hatti Johansson, research director, Reward Data Intelligence, WTW.
“Organizations should prioritize their actions based on the needs of both employers and employees and pay close attention to market data to inform any changes.”
Delaware, New Jersey Sued for Allowing Lawsuits Against Gun Manufacturers
A firearm trade group has taken Delaware and New Jersey to court, seeking to overturn recently enacted laws that allow governments and individuals to sue gun manufacturers for crimes committed with their products.
The suits were filed separately on Wednesday in federal courts in Delaware and New Jersey. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a nonprofit group advocating for the firearm industry, argued that both states have “unconstitutionally vague” laws designed to hold the manufacturers and sellers of weapons liable for criminal actions that take place after weapons are legally sold.
In June, Delaware Gov. John Carney signed into law Senate Bill 302, which allows the state to sue the members of the firearms industry if the making, selling, and marketing of their products “contributes” to “public nuisance” or the endangerment of “health, safety, peace, comfort, or convenience” of the public.
On top of that, the law allows victims of crimes that involve guns to sue industry members for failing to implement “reasonable procedures, safeguards, and business practices” to prevent straw purchases or theft. It doesn’t specify whether plaintiffs have to prove that such failure was done intentionally to cause harm.
Similarly, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy in July signed Assembly Bill 1765, a measure of the same nature. The bill’s passage led to the creation of a new office dedicated to bringing legal actions against gunmakers and sellers for alleged “public nuisance” caused by third-party criminal actions.
“These laws enacted by the Delaware and New Jersey [sic] flout the will of Congress and undermine the U.S. Constitution,” Lawrence Keane, NSSF’s senior vice president, said in a press release.
Keane points to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a 2005 federal law which—with the intention of making sure Americans have reasonable access to firearms—explicitly gives legal immunity to gun manufacturers and sellers for damages “resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a qualified product by the person or a third party.”
North Carolina Business Owners Request Compensation for Pandemic Closures
North Carolina business owners who were closed during the declared pandemic are taking another swing at getting financial compensation for their financial losses.
The North Carolina Bar and Tavern Association filed a brief on Monday asking the Court of Appeals to reconsider a lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper seeking “compensation for the government’s taking of private property” that a trial judge initially shot down in March.
The brief argues that the private property of members of the association is equivalent to their right to operate their businesses, and that property right was taken by the government when their businesses were closed.
According to the North Carolina Constitution, the brief argues, property seized must be compensated.
“The trial court found that the Appellants’ ability to produce and benefit from their labors through the operation of their businesses was eliminated for 423 days by the Defendant’s Executive Orders,” the brief states. “The trial court erred by dismissing the Appellants’ constitutional claim for the violation of their right to produce and benefit from their labors.”
The brief goes on to state that the Cooper “singled Appellants out for closure despite their bars being indistinguishable in operation and character from bars located in restaurants, hotels, wineries, distilleries, taprooms, brewpubs, breweries, private clubs, and eating establishments.”
“The uncontested facts in this matter show that all other business entities serving alcoholic beverages in the state were allowed by the Defendant’s Executive Orders to operate—except Appellants’ businesses,” the brief states. “The trial court erred by dismissing Appellants’ constitutional claim for violation of their equal protection rights.”
Biden Admin Rolls Out ‘Easier’ Process for Student Loan Borrowers to Discharge Debt in Bankruptcy
The Department of Justice on Nov. 17 announced a new process that it says will make it easier for individuals struggling with their student loan debt to discharge it in bankruptcy.
“The new process will help ensure consistent treatment of the discharge of federal student loans, reduce the burden on borrowers of pursuing such proceedings and make it easier to identify cases where discharge is appropriate,” the DOJ said in a press release.
Currently, individuals who wish to discharge their student loan debt face a tough process in which they must demonstrate that they will suffer “undue hardship” unless the debt is discharged. As part of the undue hardship analysis, courts will evaluate the borrower’s past, present, and future financial circumstances to see if they qualify for relief.
The process is much more complicated and costly when compared to other types of consumer debt like credit card and medical bills, which are automatically wiped away in normal bankruptcy proceedings.
Under the new process, Department of Education data and a new “borrower-completed attestation form” will be used to help assist the government in assessing the borrower’s request to discharge their debt.
The DOJ noted that while the bankruptcy judge ultimately makes the final decision as to whether or not to grant a discharge, the new process provides clear standards to DOJ attorneys for recommending student debt discharges without the need for “unnecessarily burdensome and time-consuming investigations.”
It added that the new process will also help borrowers who are unsure if they are entitled to relief through bankruptcy to more easily identify if they meet the criteria for a discharge.
Disney boots CEO, brings back Bob Iger to lead company
Disney ousted chief executive Bob Chapek on Sunday and announced that it had brought back former CEO Bob Iger to once again take the reins.
The change, a dramatic turn of events for one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, was effective immediately, Disney said in a statement.
Globalization of the United States economy has had a crippling impact on American towns as free trade makes it easier for companies to move production and jobs overseas, a report from the U.S. International Trade Commission details.
The report, which assembled union representatives, economists, and others to discuss the impact of decades-long U.S. free trade policy, was requested by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and conducted in March and April of this year.
SURVEILLANCE STATE
White House To Expand Already Massive Spy Operations On U.S. Citizens
The Biden administration is about to sign a contract with Dataminr – a licensing deal for the company’s product that is used in the monitoring of social media.
This is revealed in documents published by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) which will buy 30 licenses to deploy Dataminr’s First Alert V2, designed for the public sector and the scouring of 200,000 online sources and data mining, then compiling real-time news alerts for the White House, and other clients.
Dataminr is a popular tool used by news desks and others that want to monitor the internet and it’s easy to see why it would be useful to the government. Portions of the press show an unfavorable attitude towards Dataminr because it was used by police in many cities, including New York and Los Angeles, to monitor the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and riots.
US Defense Department’s non-civilian employees already use Dataminr’s services thanks to a 2021 contract signed with the Air Force.
DISA said in June it had no plans to directly or in another way “involve” Twitter as a subcontractor. In August, this agency that handles the White House communications said it needed a contract (with Dataminr) of its own because civilians it employs cannot utilize mass surveillance of social media through that Air Force deal.
New York-based Dataminr, which is also known for its work as one of Twitter’s official partners and bills itself as an AI company, has been awarded the contract but the details, such as its duration and the overall cost of licensing have not been announced.
Meanwhile, it is speculated that Dataminr was chosen by the US administration precisely for its association with Twitter, as DISA spelled it out in the document explaining the choice of the vendor by saying it must be a certified Twitter partner.
There are 15 firms to which Twitter has granted this certified status, and the value that adds to their operations is up to five years of Twitter’s historical data and early access to the social platform’s products. DISA now wants Dataminr to provide “event detection” thanks to big data scraped from Twitter.
Nevertheless, both Twitter and Dataminr maintain that the latter is not breaking any Twitter policies. Twitter specifically claims that its developer policy prevents third parties like Dataminr from carrying out surveillance or tracking, alerting, and monitoring events deemed as sensitive – and that this is not happening in this case – while Dataminr said it does not “target, monitor or profile” people on social media, Insider reported.
Twitter also maintains that its API Policy team reviews all Dataminr government users for approval and decides “which version of First Alert they will receive based on the risk of the end user, the use case, and the product.”
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Manufactured Dystopia — Globalists Won’t Stop Hacking Humans
Digital identity, digital twins, programmable central bank digital currency, a social credit system, human augmentation and the Internet of Bodies (IoB). These are all part of the dystopian future being rolled out by the globalist cabal as the “solutions” to the world’s problems
According to transhumanist propaganda, everyone will benefit from human augmentation. In reality, transhumanism is a eugenics program, differing in name only
The post-human society envisioned by transhumanists will have no use for billions of people. Since a vast number of jobs will be eliminated and replaced by robots and artificial intelligence, the transhumanist plan requires depopulation
A global totalitarian regime will not accept the responsibility to feed, house and provide universal basic income and health care to billions of people who aren’t useful. The logical solution is to exterminate the nonproductive and transform the rest into obedient cyborgs imprisoned within the IoB 5G ecosystem
The depopulation requirement of the transhumanist utopia may be why nations refuse to address the extraordinary lethality of the COVID jabs
HEALTH
Case Study Reveals How Cognitive Decline Can Be Reversed
A case report of 100 patients diagnosed with cognitive decline using the ReCODE protocol showed both subjective and objective improvements in all participants
The ReCODE protocol, which involves identifying the drivers of cognitive decline (such as pathogens, toxins and metabolic changes), then targeting those in a personalized program that includes dietary and lifestyle changes, allows your brain to create and maintain synapses again, thereby treating the root of the problem
A hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s is that proteins are aggregated and are typically misfolded
By inducing ketosis, improving insulin sensitivity and supporting the mitochondria, you can often regain the ability to refold or proteolyze misfolded proteins
Electromagnetic field exposures, such as that from cellphones and Wi-Fi, may play an important role in Alzheimer’s, as it triggers high amounts of oxidative stress and damage to proteins and DNA
6 Recipes for Brain Fog, Memory Loss, and Dementia
A guide (pdf) published by the Memory and Aging Center of the Weill Institute for Neuroscience at the University of California San Francisco says that short-term recall and the formation of new memories are some of the functions impacted during the early stage of dementia.
Dementia is a general term for impairment of memory or cognitive skills and daily functioning, such as communicating, walking, and navigating.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, an insufficient blood supply to the brain results in degeneration and forgetfulness. Cerebral fluid stasis, chronic inflammation, and amyloidosis can deteriorate brain functions and one’s ability to remember.
Dr. Wu Kuo-Pin recommends the following recipes to relieve the above symptoms.
Excess Sleep Can Increase Stroke Risk by 85%
Compared with sleeping seven to eight hours a night, those who slept for nine hours or more had a 23% greater risk of stroke
Those who took long midday naps of more than 90 minutes also had a greater stroke risk — by 25% — than those who napped for 30 minutes or less
The greatest risk occurred among those who both slept for nine hours or more at night and napped for more than 90 minutes; this combination increased stroke risk by 85%
Sleeping for less than seven or more than eight hours per night is associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, a leading risk factor for stroke
COVID RELATED NEWS
Ivermectin has been hailed as a “wonder drug” and, according to the UNESCO World Science Report, a critical component of “one of the most triumphant public health campaigns ever waged in the developing world.”
However, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and affiliated health authorities have vociferously recommended against ivermectin as a potential treatment for the virus.
Though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ivermectin for human use in treating conditions caused by parasites, it has also insisted that ivermectin “has not been shown to be safe or effective” when it comes to treating COVID-19.
In a social media message that has gone viral, the FDA labeled it as a drug for horses and not fit for human consumption: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.”
22 States Urge Biden Administration to Repeal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
A total of 22 states are calling on the Biden administration to rescind its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, in light of how vaccines provide little to no protection against infection and the growing awareness of side effects from the shots.
The mandate (IFR) was announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) at the behest of Biden in the fall of 2021. The stated goal was to lower the number of infections and to prevent prospective patients from being afraid of unvaccinated workers.
Evidence available at the time and evidence that has emerged since “demonstrates that full vaccination doesn’t prevent infection or transmission,” the 22 attorneys general, led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, told CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks LaSure and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra in a Nov. 17 letter.
FDA Says Telling People Not to Take Ivermectin for COVID-19 Was Just a Recommendation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) telling people to “stop” taking ivermectin for COVID-19 was informal and just a recommendation, government lawyers argued during a recent hearing.
“The cited statements were not directives. They were not mandatory. They were recommendations. They said what parties should do. They said, for example, why you should not take ivermectin to treat COVID-19. They did not say you may not do it, you must not do it. They did not say it’s prohibited or it’s unlawful. They also did not say that doctors may not prescribe ivermectin,” Isaac Belfer, one of the lawyers, told the court during the Nov. 1 hearing in federal court in Texas.
“They use informal language, that is true,” he also said, adding that, “it’s conversational but not mandatory.”
The hearing was held in a case brought by three doctors who say the FDA illegally interfered with their ability to prescribe medicine to their patients when it issued statements on ivermectin, an anti-parasitic that has shown positive results in some trials against COVID-19.
Ivermectin is approved by the FDA but not for COVID-19. Drugs are commonly used for non-approved purposes in the United States; the practice is known as off-label treatment.
The FDA created a webpage in 2021 titled “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19” and later posted a link to the page on Twitter while writing: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” A second post stated: “Hold your horses, y’all. Ivermectin may be trending, but it still isn’t authorized or approved to treat COVID-19.”
In a separate page, the FDA said: “Q: Should I take ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19? A: No.”
Those actions interfered with the doctors’ practice of medicine, violating the laws including the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the lawsuit alleges.
It asked the court to rule the actions unlawful and bar the FDA from directing or opining as to whether ivermectin should be used to treat COVID-19.
Jared Kelson, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, told the court during the hearing that that informal claim “doesn’t explain the language they actually used: ‘Stop it. Stop it with the ivermectin.’”
The FDA’s actions “clearly convey that this is not an acceptable way to treat these patients,” he argued.
Plaintiffs in the case include Dr. Paul Marik, who began utilizing ivermectin in his COVID-19 treatment protocol in 2020 while he was chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and director of the intensive care unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
After the FDA’s statements, Marik was told to remove the protocol from the school’s servers while Sentara issued a memorandum to hospitals telling them to stop using ivermectin against COVID-19, with a citation to the FDA.
Marik was forced to resign from his positions because he couldn’t prescribe ivermectin due to the FDA’s statements, the suit alleges.
The government has moved to dismiss the complaint, asserting plaintiffs lack standing because the injuries cannot be traced back to the FDA.
The COVID Jabs’ Mechanisms of Injury
In “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations: The Role of G-quadruplexes, Exosomes and MicroRNAs,” Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., and Drs. Peter McCullough, Greg Nigh and Anthony Kyriakopoulos explain how the COVID shots suppress your innate immune function, and how they may cause neurological diseases
Their landmark paper was the source of major controversy in that the prominent journal in which it was published receive much negative feedback and the editor of the journal was forced to resign although the paper has not been retracted at this time
G4s are genome-wide targets of transcriptional regulation. The “G” stands for guanine. G4 is DNA sequence of four guanines, which plays an important role in diseases such as cancers and neurological disorders. The COVID jab spike protein produces far more G-quadruplexes (G4) than the virus. The G4 causes prion protein to misfold, which can result in prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Alzheimer’s
Two specific microRNA have been found in people who got the jab, and these microRNA’s interfere with Type 1 interferon response, which is a key part of your immune system. When Type 1 interferon is suppressed, you become more prone to infection and chronic disease
The COVID jab produces high levels of immunoglobulin (IgG) antibodies, which are associated with autoimmune disease. It does not produce mucosal antibodies
Antibodies against the spike protein may be responsible for cases in which patients developed highly aggressive prion disease after their second jab
Vaccinating After Recovering From COVID-19
With each COVID-19 infection there is exposure to the Spike protein on the surface of the virus. This protein causes a world of trouble including damaging blood vessels and causing blood clots.
When the virus infects the nose, with nasal washes and gargles and other treatments in the McCullough Protocol©, the degree of viral invasion in the body should be negligible.
When a COVID-19 vaccine is given, however, the genetic code for the Spike protein is installed throughout the body and then it is produced for at least a month or longer, giving a heavy and prolonged exposure to this deadly protein. The highest risk patients for complications after vaccination are those who already had untreated COVID-19 illness and then went on to take unnecessary COVID-19 vaccines.
The US FDA and the vaccine companies excluded COVID-19 recovered patients from clinical trials because they knew there could be no theoretical benefit and that they would cause harm. When the FDA and CDC advised Americans that naturally immune patients should undergo vaccination violating the exclusions of the clinical trials—we knew the program was off the rails.
Multiple studies have shown complication rates are markedly increased for the naturally immune who vaccinate.[i] Take my favorite college football commentator Herb Kirkstreit who contracted COVID-19 in December of 2020 and later commented: “Been 5 months since I tested positive for Covid. Still can’t taste or smell.”[ii] Then in the Spring of 2021 he takes a COVID-19 vaccine stating, “I just wanted to get vaccinated and feel the freedom.” Presumably he takes a booster six months later in the fall of 2021. Then early in 2022 Kirkstreit announces he cannot attend the NFL draft because he has a blood clots that have shot to the lungs.[iii] More cancellations occur because of this persistent problem. He wasn’t exactly “feeling the freedom” at that point.
Long COVID Contributing to Disabilities by the Millions: Report
From early 2021, stories have emerged of people experiencing post-COVID-19 symptoms that were so debilitating, they impacted their ability to work and live a normal life.
Rebecca Meyer spoke on CNN in January 2021 about her 11-month struggle with long COVID symptoms, having contracted symptoms from an infection.
Prior to infection, she was a healthy woman with no underlying health conditions. However, 11 months into the sickness, Meyer maintained that she was still “very much in the symptom-management phase of [her] sickness.”
Her bedroom looked like a pharmacy, owing to the many medications she had tried.
Speaking about her health, Meyer’s voice cracked with emotion; she needs a feeding tube due to gastroenteritis from her post-COVID symptoms, and is very much out of her four children’s lives. At the time, she reported that she had been reliant on her boyfriend, who lost his job during the pandemic, to take care of her and the children.
“I was an active mom of four. And now I don’t get out of bed. I don’t eat. I don’t spend time with my children like I need to. This can happen to you,” she said.
Despite being more than two years into the pandemic, there has been little progress on our understanding of long COVID symptoms, and patients affected by it have remained largely neglected. Meanwhile, the debilitating conditions that many long COVID patients are suffering from have persisted, and a new group of disabled individuals has been established.
CANCEL CULTURE
Facebook will remove the option for users to share their religious views, political views, and sexual preferences in their profile, a change that will go into effect at the start of December.
Currently, users are able to add information about their political and religious beliefs, as well as their sexual orientation in their “about” tab on Facebook, but the social network is bringing that to an end.
Twitter Reactivates Trump’s Account Following Poll of 15 Million Users
Former President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter will be reactivated following a poll of the social media platform’s users on the matter, Twitter’s owner Elon Musk announced on Nov. 19.
“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk said in a post linking to the polling decision, using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people, the voice of God.”
The poll was open for 24 hours.
With more than 15 million votes tallied, the poll indicated that 51.8 percent of users wanted Trump to be allowed to post on Twitter, while a minority 48.2 percent wanted the former president to remain banned.
Trump Responds to Question on If He Will Rejoin Twitter
Hours before Twitter owner Elon Musk reinstated former President Donald Trump’s account nearly two years after it was suspended, Trump suggested Saturday that he has no interest in rejoining—even as his account had more than 80 million followers as of Sunday morning.
“I don’t see any reason for it,” the former president said via video when asked whether he planned to return to Twitter on Saturday, according to the Reuters news agency. Previously, Trump stated that he would not return to Twitter and praised his Truth Social.
Trump told a crowd Saturday that he would stick with his new platform Truth Social, the app developed by his Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) startup, which he claimed had better user engagement than Twitter and was doing “phenomenally well.” The Epoch Times has contacted Trump’s team for comment.
CBS News Resumes Posting on Twitter Amid ‘Uncertainty’ Over Elon Musk
CBS News is back on Twitter after saying it halted activity on the platform due to “security concerns” due to the “uncertainty about Twitter” after Elon Musk’s takeover.
“After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation,” the news company wrote on Sunday morning.
About two days before that, on Nov. 18, CBS had said that “in light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform.”
Some local CBS affiliates such KPIX 5 in Dallas posted a similar message around the same time on Nov. 18.
CBS’s various accounts stopped posting on Twitter late on Friday. It came after Musk, who recently purchased the company for $44 billion, reportedly gave an ultimatum to work “extremely hardcore” or accept a severance package and leave the firm.
The Paramount Global-owned company’s statement announcing that it was resuming activity drew a response from Musk himself. He responded with an emoji of a face with a hand over its mouth.
Affirmative Action Perpetuates Racism: Author Vivek Ramaswamy
America is suffering from a national identity crisis, where most people feel like victims
Vivek Ramaswamy, author of the 2021 bestselling book, “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam,” and its sequel, “Nation of Victims,” said the country is suffering from a national identity crisis that has left a void for victimhood to fill and that national policies that have tried to address grievances are the true cause of systemic racism.
Affirmative action “is the single greatest form of institutionalized racism in the United States today, anti-white, anti-Asian racism, but which then creates a backlash wave of new anti-black racism that we otherwise would not have had, but for the grievance that affirmative action creates amongst the people who were penalized by it,” Ramaswamy said during a recent interview with Epoch TV American Thought Leaders program. “The affirmative action is the systemic racism that is still here in America today, and I’m sorry to say it, will then create the new kind of racist, anti-black racism that we had spent so many decades moving on from.”
Ramaswamy thinks the Supreme Court should rule to strike down affirmative action in the college admission case they heard in late October because the policy does not work, and worse it creates distrust in the system.
“It’s also a disservice to even the qualified members of those minority groups who do get those positions because of merit, because no one can tell the difference,” said Ramaswamy. This policy also perpetuates racism toward non-black, Hispanic, and native people, particularly during the admission process at elite schools said, Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy said the current admission process is not based on merit and discriminates against whites and Asians.
GOOD NEWS
Texas Police Officer Helps Deliver Baby After Hearing Screams From Woman in Labor Outside Station
A Texas police officer rushed to the aid of a woman in labor and helped deliver a baby boy after hearing her screaming from her car outside the police station.
Fort Worth Police Officer Rafael Salazar was in a virtual meeting inside Northwest Police Station on Nov. 4 when he heard a woman’s cries for help.
“He went outside and observed a black vehicle with the doors open,” Fort Worth Police Department wrote on Facebook. “When he approached the vehicle, he observed an adult female in active labor.”
In the car was the expectant mom, Leah Reeves with her partner, who had pulled over at the police station on their way to the hospital.
Reeves told NBC DFW: “Wow, this was really intense. It’s just so painful. ”
At that point, the baby had already started to come out and Reeves was definitely in active labor.
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