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He’s not called China Joe for nothing. This is quite a considerable amount of U.S. tech products delivered to blacklisted Chinese companies. It would be interesting to trace the multinational kickbacks to the Biden administration. March 3 (Reuters) – The Biden administration approved 192 licenses worth over $23 billion to ship U.S. goods and technology to Chinese companies on a U.S. trade blacklist in the first quarter of last year, according to a document released by a U.S. congressional committee on Friday. The 192 licenses granted were out of 242 license applications decided between January and March 2022, a chart...

On March 2, 2023, the people in control of the Joe Biden administration officially announced that government control of internet content was now an officially a part of the national security apparatus. [White House Link] If you have followed the history of how the Fourth Branch of Government has been created, you will immediately recognize the intent of this new framework. The “National Cybersecurity Strategy” aligns with, supports, and works in concert with a total U.S. surveillance system, where definitions of information are then applied to “cybersecurity” and communication vectors. This policy is both a surveillance system and an information...

Former Russian commander Igor Girkin floated a "civil war" as a potential solution to Moscow's struggling invasion of Ukraine in a new Telegram post slamming Kremlin military leadership. Girkin's latest remarks come more than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Although Putin initially hoped for a quick victory over Kyiv, which has a smaller military than Russia, Ukraine responded with a stronger-than-anticipated defense effort that has been bolstered by Western military aid, blunting Putin's forces. After months of combat, and a lack of clear progress on Russia's side, some Russian...

Face masks, once an essential Covid-19 protective measure, are now being worn by criminals to conceal their identities, according to New York police who are urging businesses to unmask customers before letting them in stores. The recommendation is a 180-degree turn from mask-wearing norms at the onset of the pandemic. During peak periods of infection, federal agencies mandated mask-wearing in public places, while many businesses required customers to wear them on the premises. Now, however, some businesses are banning customers from entering the premises with face masks on, saying the policy change is needed to identify thieves. And after numerous...

On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Josef Stalin's death, attitudes to the Soviet Union's wartime leader remain mixed in the nations he once ruled with an iron fist. During three decades of dictatorial rule, Stalin oversaw rapid industrialisation and victory over the Nazis but also the deaths of millions in purges, Gulag labour camps and famine. With Russia embroiled in conflict again in Ukraine, in what the Kremlin says is a fresh existential battle for national survival, memories of the Soviet dictator loom large. "Firstly, thank you for the victory (in World War Two)," said 21-year-old Madina in...

The Washington Secretary of State’s Office says state law doesn’t allow it to verify citizenship receiving a voter’s registration. During recent election cycles, the Washington Department of Licensing, or DOL, received numerous reports of foreign nationals being automatically registered to vote in the state, even in cases where they insisted to DOL they were not legally allowed to vote. Some county election agencies have described it as a “rare” occurrence, but it is currently unknown to what extent this problem occurred. In 2018, the state Legislature passed House Bill 2595, which automatically registers people to vote when they are issued...

Pope Francis says Church ‘cannot try to hide’ abuse while he himself is accused of covering for Fr. Rupnik‘It is very hard to take him seriously or believe he is sincere when he has routinely protected and defended known sexual predators like Fr. Marko Rupnik.’In his March prayer intention for abuse victims, Pope Francis has highlighted how “the Church cannot try to hide the tragedy of abuse of any kind,” in remarks which appeared to ignore his own considerable record of alleged coverup for a number of clerical abusers. “In response to cases of abuse, especially to those committed by...

March 4 (UPI) -- China needs to increase its military budget to "fulfill its responsibility as a major country," a Beijing official said Saturday ahead of the nation's annual National People's Congress. NPC spokesman Wang Chao made the comments as China's national legislature prepared to convene on Sunday and meet through March 13. In his remarks, Wang did not elaborate on the size of the budget he was referring to, which is expected to be unveiled during the first official day of the congress, but emphasized the move is not meant to ratchet up conflict with the United States. The...

Presentation from Dr. Pierre Kory on Ivermectin and Covid that is well worth your time if interested. Talks about IVM and his experience fighting big pharma, the media, and medical establishment about IVM.

Google News heavily skewed in favor of left-leaning media outlets—both in the news articles featured on its homepage and in the search results for specific topics—in five of the days leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, according to an AllSides study Google criticized as “deeply flawed” in comments to The Daily Signal. “Imbalanced or heavily biased news search results can have a negative impact on our democracy and elections,” Julie Mastrine, director of marketing and media bias ratings at AllSides, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “When people cannot access the full range of views on political...

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, can already feel the atmospheric buzz reserved for former President Donald Trump taking the podium Saturday and delivering a speech that could reflect the tone of Trump's presidency on Day 1, should he capture a third consecutive Republican National Committee nomination and then defeat the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential election. "People give [Trump] a lot of advice on how he should be less himself. And I think, at this moment in our nation's history, with all the garbage that's pushed on our kids and...

Hungary is seriously affected by the war in Ukraine, the Western countries are not seeking peace, and EU leadership is following American interests, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a Swiss weekly. “There are some who want to force Hungary into the war, and they are not picky about the means with which to achieve that goal,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Swiss weekly Weltwoche – according to a summary published on his website –, stressing that “Hungary’s leadership is strong enough to keep the war away from our country.” “Ukraine is our neighbor where Hungarians live as well. They are...

During an appearance last year on the morning show, “Fox and Friends,” a former chief executive of Home Depot described a rise in shoplifting in dire terms. “Today, this thing is an epidemic,” he said. “It’s spreading faster than COVID.” The executive joined a long list of industry leaders, from Walmart to Walgreens, encouraging police and prosecutors to crack down on theft. Retailers say they’ll be forced to raise prices or shutter affected stores without help to address a growing threat — organized bands of shoplifters ransacking stores with the intent to resell the looted merchandise. This article was published...

Russell Brand and MSNBC’s John Heilemann were among the guests on Bill Maher’s show last night, and the discussion got heated after Brand dropped some reality checks on Heilemann.This video comes with a language warning if you’ve got little ones around:https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1632029160242544641

A New Jersey community is outraged after anti-gun violence advocate Najee Seabrooks was fatally shot by police during a mental health crisis on Friday (March 3). The tragic incident unfolded around 12:30 p.m. at Seabrooks’ Paterson complex, where police say he was barricaded inside his apartment unit. Authorities said their Emergency Response Team responded to an attempt to negotiate with the beloved father, who was considered an “emotionally disturbed person,” according to NorthJersey.com. However, after a five-hour standoff, they claim that Seabrooks let them into his home and charged at officers with a knife. Mason Maher, president of the Paterson...

Federal judge says wrongful death lawsuit against Kyle Rittenhouse can proceed A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of one of the men Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed in the Kenosha riots will proceed, a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Wednesday. Anthony Huber was one of the two men Rittenhouse killed in August 2020 during the riots following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by police.

Three years ago, I declared that COVID-19 almost certainly came from the Chinese Wuhan lab. Now, the world is finally admitting the truth. The cover-up of COVID-19's origins is one of the greatest scandals in the history of the world. Millions of people all over the planet have died from the China Virus. The cost of the outbreak and the lying about its origins is incalculable, some say in excess of $50 trillion.

A West Side barber who made the run-off in Chicago's 24th Ward looking to unseat Ald. Monique Scott has pitched himself to voters as mentor to local youth interested in a career in cosmetology. Creative Scott, owner of Creative Salon, 3946 W 16th St, told Block Club Chicago that he also runs a "young barbers program for kids and teens ages 5-15 out of his salon, which helps youth learn the history and business of barbering.” The 50 year-old aldermanic candidate from Lawndale, who slipped into the April 8 run-off election with 14.83 percent of the vote, claimed to be...

VIDEOFake arrests have become very popular among the Performance Art Left. Among the most prominent of these fake arrest performers are Greta Thunberg and AOC. They make fake arrests seem to be so much fun that Greta Thunberg even performed an encore of her fake arrest in Germany with another fake arrest recently in Norway. Of course, she would never dare to stage a protest in the world's greatest polluter, China. They don't do fake arrests there. Instead they would execute the dreaded REAL arrest followed by a long term as a slave laborer at starvation rations in a prison...