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  • Seymour Hersh: ‘Something Else Is Cooking’ In Ukraine

    Seymour Hersh: ‘Something Else Is Cooking’ In Ukraine

    Seymour Hersh: ‘Something Else Is Cooking’ In Ukraine

    Authored by Seymour Hersh, via Scheerpost,

    This story is a follow up to Seymour Hersh’s original report on the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.

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    Last Saturday the Washington Post published an exposé of classified American intelligence documents showing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, working behind the back of the Biden White House, pushed hard earlier this year for an expanded series of missile attacks inside Russia. The documents were part of a large cache of classified materials posted online by an Air Force enlisted man now in custody. A senior official of the Biden administration, asked by the Post for comment on the newly revealed intelligence, said that Zelensky has never violated his pledge never to use American weapons to strike inside Russia. In the view of the White House, Zelensky can do no wrong.

    Zelensky’s desire to take the war to Russia may not be clear to the president and senior foreign policy aides in the White House, but it is to those in the American intelligence community who have found it difficult to get their intelligence and their assessments a hearing in the Oval Office. Meanwhile, the slaughter in the city of Bakhmut continues. It is similar in idiocy, if not in numbers, to the slaughter in Verdun and the Somme during World War I. The men in charge of today’s war—in Moscow, Kiev, and Washington—have shown no interest even in temporary ceasefire talks that could serve as a prelude to something permanent. The talk now is only about the possibilities of a late spring or summer offensive by either party.

    But something else is cooking, as some in the American intelligence community know and have reported in secret, at the instigation of government officials at various levels in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Czechoslovakia, and Latvia. These countries are all allies of Ukraine and declared enemies of Vladimir Putin.

    This group is led by Poland, whose leadership no longer fears the Russian army because its performance in Ukraine has left the glow of its success at Stalingrad during the Second World War in tatters. It has been quietly urging Zelensky to find a way to end the war—even by resigning himself, if necessary—and to allow the process of rebuilding his nation to get under way. Zelensky is not budging, according to intercepts and other data known inside the Central Intelligence Agency, but he is beginning to lose the private support of his neighbors.

    One of the driving forces for the quiet European talks with Zelensky has been the more than five million Ukrainians fleeing from the war who have crossed the country’s borders and have registered with its neighbors under an EU agreement for temporary protection that includes residency rights, access to the labor market, housing, social welfare assistance, and medical care. An assessment published by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports that the estimate excludes roughly 3 million Ukrainian refugees who escaped from the war zone without a visa into any of the 27 European nations that have abolished border control between each other under the Schengen agreement. Ukraine, though not in the EU, now enjoys all the benefits of the Schengen pact. A few nations, exhausted by the 15-month war, have reintroduced some forms of border control, but the regional refugee crisis will not be resolved until there is a formal peace agreement.

    The UNHRC reports that free travel from Ukraine into the Baltic states and EU states in Western Europe “makes it particularly difficult to determine exactly how many Ukrainians have reached the EU in the last few months, and where they are now.” The report says the “vast majority” of the Ukrainian refugees are women and children, and one third of them are under the age of eighteen. Seventy-three per cent of the refugees of working age are women, many with children.

    A February analysis of the European refugee issue by the Council on Foreign Relations found that “tens of billions of dollars” in humanitarian aid were poured into Ukraine’s neighbors during the war’s first year.

    “As the conflict enters its second year with no end in sight,” the report says, “experts worry that host countries are growing fatigued.”

    Weeks ago I learned that the American intelligence community was aware that some officials in Western Europe and the Baltic states want the war between Ukraine and Russia to end. These officials have concluded that it is time for Zelensky to “come around” and seek a settlement. A knowledgeable American official told me that some in the leadership in Hungary and Poland were among those working together to get Ukraine involved in serious talks with Moscow. “Hungary is a big player in this and so are Poland and Germany, and they are working to get Zelensky to come around,” the American official said. The European leaders have made it clear that “Zelensky can keep what he’s got”—a villa in Italy and interests in offshore bank accounts—“if he works up a peace deal even if he’s got to be paid off, if it’s the only way to get a deal.”

    So far, the official said, Zelensky has rejected such advice and ignored offers of large sums of money to ease his retreat to an estate he owns in Italy. There is no support in the Biden Administration for any settlement that involves Zelensky’s departure, and the leadership in France and England “are too beholden” to Biden to contemplate such a scenario. There is a reality that some elements in the American intelligence community can’t ignore, the official said, even if the White House is ignoring it: “Ukraine is running out of money and it is known that the next four or months are critical. And Eastern Europeans are talking about a deal.” The issue for them, the official told me, “is how to get the United States to stop supporting Zelensky,” The White House support goes beyond the needs of the war: “We are paying all of the retirement funds—the 401k’s—for Ukraine.”

    And Zelensky wants more, the official said.

    “Zelensky is telling us that if you want to win the war you’ve got to give me more money and more stuff. He tells us, ‘I’ve got to pay off the generals.’ He’s telling us”—if he is forced out of office—“he’s going to the highest bidder. He’d rather go to Italy than stay and possibly get killed by his own people.” 

    “All of this talk is being reported and is now flying around inside the American intelligence community, but, as usual,” the official said, “it’s not clear to the intelligence community what the president and his foreign policy aides in the White House know of the reality” of the European discussion about finding a way to end the war.

    “We are still training Ukrainians how to fly our F-16s that will be shot down by Russia as soon as they get into the war zone. The mainstream press is dedicated to Biden and the war and Biden is still talking about the Great Satan in Moscow while the Russian economy is doing great. Putin can stay where he is”—in power—“despite his failure to wipe Ukraine off the map as an independent state. And he thought he would win the war with just one airborne division”—a sardonic reference to Russia’s failed effort in the first days of the war to seize a vital airport by parachuting in an attack force.

    “Europe’s problem,” the official said, in terms of getting a quick settlement to the war, “is that the White House wants Zelensky to survive while there are others”—in Russia and in some European capitals—“who say Zelensky has got to go, no matter what,”

    It’s not clear that this understanding has gotten to the Oval Office. I have been told that some of the better intelligence about the war does not reach the president, through no fault of those who prepare the often contrary assessments. Biden is said to rely on briefings and other materials prepared by Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, since the Biden Administration came into office. She has spent much of her career working for Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, whose ties to Biden and agreement with him on matters pertaining to Russia and China go back decades.

    The one saving grace for some in the community, I have been told, has been CIA Director William Burns.

    Burns was ambassador to Russia and deputy secretary of State and is seen as someone “who has come around” in opposition to some of the White House’s foreign policy follies. “He doesn’t want to be a rat on a sinking ship,” the official told me.

    On the other hand, I have been told, it’s not clear to those in the CIA who prepare the President’s Daily Brief that Joe Biden is a regular reader of their intelligence summary. The document is usually three pages. Decades ago I was told—by someone who begged me not to write about it at the time—that Ronald Reagan rarely read the PDB until Colin Powell, then in the White House, began reading it to a video recorder. The tape would then be played for the president. It’s unclear who, if anyone, might take the initiative as Biden’s Colin Powell.

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    May 22, 2023 at 05:03PM

  • CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953

    CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953

    CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953, by Wayne Madsen

    The CIA programs spanned some four decades. Starting as a paramilitary operation that provided funding and equipment for such anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR); its affiliates, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), all Nazi Banderists. The CIA also provided support to a relatively anti-Bandera faction of the UHVR, the ZP-UHVR, a foreign-based virtual branch of the CIA and British MI-6 intelligence services. The early CIA operation to destabilize Ukraine, using exile Ukrainian agents in the West who were infiltrated into Soviet Ukraine, was codenamed Project AERODYNAMIC.

    A formerly TOP SECRET CIA document dated July 13, 1953, provides a description of AERODYNAMIC: «The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes. Such groups as the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (UHVR) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN), the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of Liberation (ZPUHVR) in Western Europe and the United States, and other organizations such as the OUN/B will be utilized». The CIA admitted in a 1970 formerly SECRET document that it had been in contact with the ZPUHVR since 1950.

    The OUN-B was the Bandera faction of the OUN and its neo-Nazi sympathizers are today found embedded in the Ukrainian national government in Kiev and in regional and municipal governments throughout the country.

    AERODYNAMIC placed field agents inside Soviet Ukraine who, in turn, established contact with Ukrainian Resistance Movement, particularly SB (intelligence service) agents of the OUN who were already operating inside Ukraine. The CIA arranged for airdrops of communications equipment and other supplies, presumably including arms and ammunition, to the «secret» CIA army in Ukraine. Most of the CIA’s Ukrainian agents received training in West Germany from the US Army’s Foreign Intelligence Political and Psychological (FI-PP) branch. Communications between the CIA agents in Ukraine and their Western handlers were conducted by two-way walkie-talkie (WT), shortwave via international postal channels, and clandestine airborne and overland couriers.

    Agents airdropped into Ukraine carried a kit that contained, among other items, a pen gun with tear gas, an arctic sleeping bag, a camp axe, a trenching tool, a pocket knife, a chocolate wafer, a Minox camera and a 35 mm Leica camera, film, a Soviet toiletry kit, a Soviet cap and jacket, a .22 caliber pistol and bullets, and rubber «contraceptives» for ‘waterproofing film’. Other agents were issued radio sets, hand generators, nickel-cadmium batteries, and homing beacons.

    An affiliated project under AERODYNAMIC was codenamed CAPACHO.

    CIA documents show that AERODYNAMIC continued in operation through the Richard Nixon administration into 1970.

    The program took on more of a psychological warfare operation veneer than a real-life facsimile of a John Le Carré «behind the Iron Curtain» spy novel. The CIA set up a propaganda company in Manhattan that catered to printing and publishing anti-Soviet ZPUHVR literature that would be smuggled into Ukraine. The new battleground would not be swampy retreats near Odessa and cold deserted warehouses in Kiev but at the center of the world of publishing and the broadcast media.

    The CIA front company was Prolog Research and Publishing Associates, Inc., which later became known simply as Prolog. The CIA codename for Prolog was AETENURE. The group published the Ukrainian language «Prolog» magazine. The CIA referred to Prolog as a «non-profit, tax exempt cover company for the ZP/UHVR’s activities». The «legal entity» used by the CIA to fund Prolog remains classified information. However, the SECRET CIA document does state that the funds for Prolog were passed to the New York office «via Denver and Los Angeles and receipts are furnished Prolog showing fund origin to backstop questioning by New York fiscal authorities».

    As for the Munich office of Prolog, the CIA document states that funding for it comes from an account separate from that of Prolog in New York from a cooperating bank, which also remains classified. In 1967, the CIA merged the activities of Prolog Munich and the Munich office of the Ukrainian exiled nationalist «Suchasnist» journal. The Munich office also supported the «Ukrainische Gesellschaft fur Auslandstudien». The CIA documents also indicate that US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents may have interfered with AERODYNAMIC agents in New York. A 1967 CIA directive advised all ZPUHVR agents in the United States to either report their contacts with United Nations mission diplomats and UN employees from the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the FBI or their own CIA project case officer. CIA agents in charge of AERODYNAMIC in New York and Munich were codenamed AECASSOWARY agents. Apparently not all that taken with the brevity of MI-6’s famed agent «007», one CIA agent in Munich was codenamed AECASSOWARY/6 and the senior agent in New York was AECASSOWARY/2.

    AECASSOWARY agents took part in and ran other AERODYNAMIC teams that infiltrated the Vienna World Youth Conference in 1959. The Vienna infiltration operation, where contact with made with young Ukrainians, was codenamed LCOUTBOUND by the CIA.

    In 1968, the CIA ordered Prolog Research and Publishing Associates, Inc. terminated and replaced by Prolog Research Corporation, «a profit-making, commercial enterprise ostensibly serving contracts for unspecified users as private individuals and institutions».

    The shakeup of Prolog was reported by the CIA to have arisen from operation MHDOWEL. There is not much known about MHDOWEL other than it involved the blowing of the CIA cover of a non-profit foundation. The following is from a memo to file, dated January 31, 1969, from CIA assistant general counsel John Greany, «Concerns a meeting of Greaney, counsel Lawrence Houston and Rocca about a ‘confrontation’ with NY FBI office on January 17, 1969. They discussed two individuals whose names were redacted. One was said to be a staff agent of the CIA since 8/28/61 who had been assigned in 1964 to write a monograph, which had been funded by a grant from a foundation whose cover was blown in MHDOWEL (I suspect that is code for US Press). One of the individuals [name redacted] had been requested for use with Project DTPILLAR in November 1953 to Feb. 1955 and later in March 1964 for WUBRINY. When the Domestic Operations Division advised Security that this person would not be used in WUBRINY, Rocca commented that ‘there are some rather ominous allegations against members of the firm of [redacted],’ indicating one member of that firm was a ‘card-carrying member of the Communist Party.’ The memo went on to say that Rocca was investigating the use of the individual in Project DTPILLAR concerning whether that person had mentioned activities in Geneva in March 1966 in connection with Herbert Itkin». Raymond Rocca was the deputy chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Division. Itkin was an undercover agent for the FBI and CIA who allegedly infiltrated the Mafia and was given a new identity in California as «Herbert Atkin» in 1972.

    In 1969, AERODYNAMIC began advancing the cause of the Crimean Tatars. In 1959, owing to Canada’s large Ukrainian population, Canada’s intelligence service began a program similar to AERODYNAMIC codenamed «REDSKIN».

    As international air travel increased, so did the number of visitors to the West from Soviet Ukraine. These travelers were of primary interest to AERODYNAMIC. Travelers were asked by CIA agents to clandestinely carry Prolog materials, all censored by the Soviet government, back to Ukraine for distribution. Later, AERODYNAMIC agents began approaching Ukrainian visitors to eastern European countries, particularly Soviet Ukrainian visitors to Czechoslovakia during the «Prague Spring» of 1968. The Ukrainian CIA agents had the same request to carry back subversive literature to Ukraine.

    AERODYNAMIC continued into the 1980s as operation QRDYNAMIC, which was assigned to the CIA’s Political and Psychological Staff’s Soviet East Europe Covert Action Program. Prolog saw its operations expanded from New York and Munich to London, Paris, and Tokyo. QRDYNAMIC began linking up with operations financed by hedge fund tycoon George Soros, particularly the Helsinki Watch Group’s operatives in Kiev and Moscow. Distribution of underground material expanded from journals and pamphlets to audio cassette tapes, self-inking stamps with anti-Soviet messages, stickers, and T-shirts.

    QRDYNAMIC expanded its operations into China, obviously from the Tokyo office, and Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Soviet Central Asia, the Soviet Pacific Maritime region, and among Ukrainian-Canadians. QRDYNAMIC also paid journalist agents-of-influence for their articles. These journalists were located in Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Israel, and Austria.

    But at the outset of glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s, things began to look bleak for QRDYNAMIC. The high cost of rent in Manhattan had it looking for cheaper quarters in New Jersey.

    Assistant Secretary of State for European/Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, the baked goods-bearing «Maiden of Maidan,» told the US Congress that the United States spent $5 billion to wrest control of Ukraine from the Russian sphere since the collapse of the Soviet Union. With the recent disclosures from the CIA it appears that the price tag to the American tax payers of such foreign shenanigans was much higher.

    via Voltaire Network

    May 22, 2023 at 07:22AM

  • Bombshell Closing Arguments in Signature Verification Trial – DAY THREE

    Bombshell Closing Arguments in Signature Verification Trial – DAY THREE

    WATCH LIVE: Kari Lake’s Attorneys to Cross Examine Maricopa County Elections Director and Give Closing Arguments in Signature Verification Trial – DAY THREE | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

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    Maricopa County ballot affidavit signatures

    Kari Lake is in court today for the third and final day of her trial for her lawsuit contesting the stolen 2022 Midterm.

    Lake is fighting Maricopa County’s failure to verify ballot affidavit signatures before Judge Peter Thompson after the Arizona Supreme Court remanded the claim.

    The Gateway Pundit reported live on days one and two of the trial.

    Damning evidence of at least one Maricopa County signature reviewer simply clicking through signature checks significantly faster than their colleague seated next to them was released before trial and shown to the judge by Lake’s attorneys.

    The Gateway Pundit reported on another video showing the same Maricopa County employee failing to verify signatures and likely approving over 5,600 signatures in about two hours.

    The person in the videos “verified” almost 27,000 signatures alone, which is 10,000 more than the margin of victory. The defense later claimed the individual was fired or removed from his level-one role.

    However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, this individual was seen in his same role on Maricopa County’s cameras from October 17 to November 15. Who knows how many ballots he carelessly approved without comparison in the roughly one month he worked?

    Maricopa County Claims Employee Was Removed After Kurt Olsen Plays BOMBSHELL Video of Signature Reviewer “Verifying” Signatures in LESS THAN 2 Seconds Each – Employee Seen Working Until The End of Signature Review

    Over 274k ballot signatures were approved by Maricopa County signature reviewers in less than 3 seconds each. At least one individual had a 100% acceptance rate.

    While attorneys for Maricopa County, Katie Hobbs, and Adrian Fontes claim the evidence shows they completed signature verification, it is impossible to compare and verify signatures in less than three seconds. Nobody can read and compare signatures or voter registration information so quickly.

    According to trial testimony by Jacqueline Onigkeit, signature reviewers “were told to scroll down and make sure that we verify the present green affidavit with the past history affidavits.” Because of the massive number of rejected signatures, ballots were sent back to level one reviewers by direct supervisors and full-time County employees because they were “overwhelmed.” Onigkeit said they were “pressured” to approve these bad signatures.

    Forensic document analyst Eric Speckin also testified yesterday that one cannot accurately verify signatures in two or three seconds, especially on such a mass scale as Maricopa County’s election.

    The trial yesterday ended in the middle of Maricopa County’s direct examination of Maricopa County Election Director Rey Valenzuela. Lake’s attorneys will cross examine Valenzuela and give closing arguments today.

    via The Gateway Pundit

    May 20, 2023 at 09:06AM

  • FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others

    FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others

    The FBI has misused a powerful digital surveillance tool more than 278,000 times, including against crime victims, Jan. 6 riot suspects, people arrested at protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 and — in one case — 19,000 donors to a congressional candidate, according to a newly unsealed court document.

    FBI officials say they have already fixed the problems, which the agency blamed on a misunderstanding between its employees and Justice Department lawyers about how to properly use a vast database named for the legal statute that created it, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

    But the failures to use the database correctly when collecting information about U.S. citizens and others may make it harder for the agency to marshal support in Congress to renew the law, which is due to expire at the end of this year. It may also create additional head winds for the FBI, which has been under attack for years by former president Donald Trump and his political supporters. House lawmakers aligned with Trump held a hearing this week trying to show that the nation’s premier law enforcement agency is biased against conservatives.

    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees Section 702, has pressured the FBI to address the problems, writing in the April 2022 opinion that was unsealed Friday that if the agency doesn’t perform better, the court will crack down and order its own changes to FBI practices.

    The Section 702 database is a vast trove of electronic communications and other information that can be searched by the National Security Agency and the FBI. The FBI is authorized to search the database only when agents have reason to believe that such a search will produce information relevant to foreign intelligence purposes, or evidence of crimes.

    Built in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the database is seen by U.S. officials as one of the prize jewels of the national security apparatus. Its primary purpose is targeting foreign intelligence or terrorism information. But the sweeping nature of the information in the database has long worried civil rights advocates, who argue that the government has proved it cannot be trusted to use the system carefully.

    The court “is encouraged by the amendments to the FBI’s querying procedures,” Judge Rudolph Contreras of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court wrote in the opinion, which detailed the nearly 300,000 abuses logged between 2020 and early 2021. “Nonetheless, compliance problems with the querying of Section 702 information have proven to be persistent and widespread. If they are not substantially mitigated by these recent measures, it may become necessary to consider other responses, such as substantially limiting the number of FBI personnel with access to unminimized Section 702 information.”Read the opinion by Judge Contreras of Section 702 abuses by the FBI

    While House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has argued that the FBI has mistreated conservatives and applied a liberal bent to its investigations, the examples cited in Contreras’s opinion suggest that the bureau was multifaceted in its failure to live up to the legal standards of the courts and the Justice Department. In a written statement, Jordan said that FBI Director Christopher A. Wray “told us we can sleep well at night because of the FBI’s so-called FISA reforms. But it just keeps getting worse.”

    In June 2020, the FBI searched for digital data and communications of 133 people arrested “in connection with civil unrest and protests between approximately May 30, and June 18, 2020,” a time when demonstrations erupted across the country over Floyd’s death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer.

    That search was done, officials said, to see if there was counterterrorism information about those individuals. When questioned about the searches later, FBI officials said it was reasonable for agents to think the searches would return foreign intelligence. The parts of the court papers describing that effort have significant redactions, making it unclear why the FBI developed its theory. The filing also doesn’t make clear how many of the individuals whose information was sought from the database were arrested while protesting police conduct, how many might have been counterprotesters or what, if anything, was done with the information gathered.

    Around that same time, an FBI analyst conducted 656 queries of FISA information, apparently because the bureau was considering whether to use people as informants and wanted to check for any derogatory information, the court filing says. The FBI did not have any reason to believe that agents would find such information, officials said.

    Officials also found a long pattern between 2016 and 2020 in which the FBI conducted FISA searches about “individuals listed in police homicide reports, including victims, next-of-kin, witnesses, and suspects,” according to the court opinion. The Justice Department found that these searches violated the rules “because there was no reasonable basis to expect they would return foreign intelligence or evidence of crime.” The FBI, however, argued “that querying FISA information using identifiers of the victims — simply because they were homicide victims — was reasonably likely to retrieve evidence of crime.”

    After the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, an FBI employee ran batches of inquiries that amounted to 23,132 separate queries of presumed Americans “to find evidence of possible foreign influence, although the analyst conducting the queries had no indications of foreign influence related to the query term used,” Contreras found. There, too, Justice Department officials concluded that there was no specific factual basis to think the searches would turn up foreign intelligence information or evidence of a crime. The court opinion also noted that “no raw Section 702 information was accessed as a result of these queries.”

    In a different incident, an FBI analyst “conducted a batch query for over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign” because the analyst said the campaign was “a target of foreign influence,” the opinion said. But Justice Department officials found in an audit that “only eight identifiers used in the query” — often a name, phone number or an email address — “had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities” to comply with FISA standards. It’s not clear what, if anything, was done with the information collected.

    Officials said the candidate in question did not ultimately win a seat in Congress, and the incident was distinct from an instance in which Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) said FISA surveillance wrongly targeted him.Facial recognition software used to identify Lafayette Square protester accused of assault

    Officials said lawmakers who were briefed months ago about the problems have been pushing authorities to make them public. The delay in doing so was due to discussions of redactions in a separate part of the opinion, which described a novel application of surveillance techniques, said the officials, who like others interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters. The details of that part of the opinion are redacted in a way that makes it difficult to determine the technique, target and purpose of that surveillance.

    Senior law enforcement officials said Friday that the problems in the report do not represent the FBI’s current practices. The problems were discovered largely because of Justice Department audits, they said, and have been remedied.

    “We’re not trying to hide from this stuff, but this type of noncompliance is unacceptable,” a senior FBI official said.

    “There was confusion historically about what the query standard was,” said another senior law enforcement official.

    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a longtime critic of what he says is dangerous overreach by U.S. intelligence officials, decried what he called the “shocking abuses of FISA Section 702.” He said that the abuses have been going on for years and that officials are still withholding key details from the public.

    “There is important, secret information about how the government has interpreted Section 702 that Congress and the American people need to see before the law is renewed,” Wyden said in a written statement.

    The FBI has rolled out a host of changes to how agents and analysts use the Section 702 database. While a previous version of the system automatically included it in a list of areas that agents could search for information, agents and analysts must now specifically seek and choose to search Section 702 information. FBI users of the database are also required to write, in their own words, why they think their search will return foreign intelligence information or evidence of a crime, and an attorney must approve any “batch” searches involving large numbers of people.

    In recent months, authorities have touted that the number of Section 702 searches that involve U.S. residents or companies has dropped dramatically — more than 90 percent from last year. Officials said Friday that the decline happened largely because the Justice Department audit found significant compliance failures by the FBI.

    The problems identified by the court and the Justice Department are separate from criticism lodged against the FBI in 2019 by the Justice Department’s inspector general, and again this week by special counsel John Durham, over the bureau’s use of a different kind of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order, which specifically targeted a former Trump adviser in 2016 and 2017 based on faulty and incomplete FBI applications.

    In 2021, a follow-up report by Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz found “widespread” failures by the FBI to follow one of the key rules of FISA surveillance, indicating that the problems went far beyond the agency’s investigation of the former Trump adviser, Carter Page.

    That earlier criticism has led some Republicans to suggest that the FBI cannot be trusted with these surveillance powers — criticism that may intensify with the new findings of misuse.

  • Durham Report Reveals FBI Shut Down Four Criminal Investigations into the Clintons

    Durham Report Reveals FBI Shut Down Four Criminal Investigations into the Clintons

    Durham Report Reveals FBI Shut Down Four Criminal Investigations into the Clintons

    Special Counsel John Durham’s highly-anticipated report on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 revealed that top leaders at the Bureau shut down four criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton.

    In 2014, the FBI investigated a “well-placed” confidential source’s claims that an unnamed foreign government intended to “contribute to Hillary Clinton’s anticipated presidential campaign, as a way to gain influence with Clinton should she win the presidency,” the report said.

     

    The field office investigating these claims “almost immediately” sought a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, but it remained “in limbo” for approximately four months, primarily due to Clinton’s then-expected presidential campaign.

     

    As stated in Durham’s report:

    According to another agent, the application lingered because “everyone was ‘super more careful’” and “scared with the big name [Clinton]” involved. 321 “[T]hey were pretty “tippy-toeing’ around HRC because there was a chance she would be the next President.”

    Durham’s report also revealed that three separate FBI field offices in Washington, DC; Little Rock, Arkansas; and New York City, New York, opened investigations into “possibly criminal activity involving the Clinton Foundation” less than one year before the November 2016 presidential election.

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    May 19, 2023 at 07:01AM

  • “They Will Crush You – If You Try to Expose the Truth” – FBI Whistleblower Garrett O’Boyle Ends Hearing with Chilling Warning on FBI Tyranny and Abuse

    “They Will Crush You – If You Try to Expose the Truth” – FBI Whistleblower Garrett O’Boyle Ends Hearing with Chilling Warning on FBI Tyranny and Abuse

    May 18, 2023 at 05:23PM    “They Will Crush You – If You Try to Expose the Truth” – FBI Whistleblower Garrett O’Boyle Ends Hearing with Chilling Warning on FBI Tyranny and Abuse (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

    The House Weaponization Committee held a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill. Three government whistleblowers from the FBI testified before Congress on Thursday morning.

    On Wednesday Chris Wray’s FBI revoked the security clearances of three agents who espoused questioned the aggressive tactics by the FBI in targeting Trump supporters , conservatives, and pro-Life Americans, according to a letter the FBI sent the subcommittee on Wednesday.

    FBI agents Marcus Allen, Garrett O’Boyle, and Steve Friend had already been suspended for questioning the agency’s handling of the January 6 case and stating their beliefs that the FBI has been weaponized against conservatives.

    Democrats on the Committee ran interference for the FBI. The Democrat members were openly hostile to the witnesses and attacking them continuously.

    At the end of the Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) asked witness and FBI whistleblower Garrett O’Boyle if he would advise his colleagues to come forward. Agent O’Boyle offered this dire assessment.

    Garrett O’Boyle: I would tell them first to pray about it long and hard. And I would tell them I could take it to Congress for them, or I could put them in touch with Congress, but I would advise them not to do it… The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong.

    The FBi took O’Boyle’s income and his security clearance after he spoke out about the FBI targeting parents at school board meetings.

    The FBi needs to make a choice. They can be the FBI or the Stasi. But they can’t be both.

    Via Texas Lindsey.

    via The Gateway Pundit

  • Recap: Fiery Moments from Day 1 of Kari Lake Election Court Battle

    Recap: Fiery Moments from Day 1 of Kari Lake Election Court Battle

    Recap: Fiery Moments from Day 1 of Kari Lake Election Court Battle

    Day one of the Kari Lake election challenge investigating potential violations of the signature verification process in Maricopa County was off to a fiery start Wednesday, as Lake’s defense presented evidence most ballots were approved without review.

    The courtroom showdown comes as Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson agreed to hear Lake’s arguments on the signature verification process this week after the Arizona Supreme Court sent the case back to lower courts in March.

    Check out highlights from Wednesday’s hearing below:

    Lake’s attorney Kurt Olsen argued it was not physically possible for 11 workers to have approved 170K signatures on ballots unless they were skipping steps.

    “This isn’t a question of not doing it well enough, Maricopa County simply isn’t doing signature verification,” Olsen later added.

    A whistleblower called to the stand as a witness who worked on election day testified she was sent home early during vote tallies despite ballots still needing to be cured.

    She added before being asked to leave she and other election workers were “catching signatures” that did not match.

    She further added some ballots she’d sent for re-review were sent back because review managers were bombarded with ballots.

    She added she and other workers felt pressured to approve ballots when they were sent back for re-review after having been rejected, saying, “We felt uncomfortable about approving what we had already rejected. We’d already went through them.”

    The whistleblower added that after normal level 1 signature verifiers were sent home early, the signature review process was continued at the County Recorder’s Office, where there were no observers.

    The court also saw damning surveillance footage from inside a ballot counting facility which showed election workers simply approving ballots without scrolling down on their computer monitor to actually verify signatures.

    The witness was subsequently asked about the video, to which she responded, “The person on the right was doing it correctly and the person on the left was not… there’s no possible way to click through that and be able to verify from the past history in order to verify that signature.”

    Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer defended the signature verification process.

    During the hearing, Richer tweeted a comment stating, “This moron doesn’t understand that we can do signature verification from any computer in our office.” He subsequently deleted the tweet which suggested that signature verification may have taken place without proper observer oversight.

    The admission in the deleted tweet was caught by Lake’s team.

    In a stunning admission by Maricopa County’s defense attorney, he admitted the employee seen in the video was fired, however there was no indication his workload was re-processed, meaning several ballots had no signature verification whatsoever.

    Witness Shelby Busch said she verified the video shown was authentic and showed what it was purported to show.

    Another whistleblower testified he was concerned about why there were only three level 2 signature verifiers, when there had been 40 level 1 workers.

    He also added he’d also been sent back ballots he’d rejected for re-review.

    Watch full segments from inside the courtroom below:

    Start below video at 59:18:

    Stay tuned tomorrow for updates from Day 2 of the two-day legal showdown.

    via Infowars

    May 18, 2023 at 07:21AM

  • World’s Top Expert To EU Parliament: Coronavirus Is A Bioweapon & Greatest Crime Against Humanity In World History

    World’s Top Expert To EU Parliament: Coronavirus Is A Bioweapon & Greatest Crime Against Humanity In World History

    The following excerpted presentation is a Banned.Video exclusive of a presentation given by Dr. David E. Martin to the European Union Parliament on May 3, 2023. [Visit Dr Martin’s website at PresecuteNow.io]

    Please also see the PDF of Dr. Martin’s presentation below the transcript.

    TRANSCRIPT:

    It is is a particularly interesting location for me to be sitting today, given that over a decade ago, I sat in this very chair right here in the European Union Parliament. And at that time I warned the world of what was coming during that conversation that was hosted at the time by the Green and EFA and a number of the other parties of the European Union’s various representations, we were having a conversation on whether Europe should adopt the United States policy of allowing for the patents on biologically derived materials. And at the time, I urged this body and I urged people around the world that the weaponization of nature against humanity had dire consequences.

    Tragically, I sit here today with that unfortunate line that I don’t like to say, which I told you so, but the fact of the matter is, we’re here not for a reprisal on past decisions. We’re here to actually once again, come to the face of the human condition and ask the question, who do we want to be? What do we want humanity to look like? And rather than seeing this as an exercise in futility, which is very easy from time to time when you’re in the position I’m in, I actually see this not as an exercise in futility. I see this as one of the greatest opportunities that faces us because we now have a public conversation, which is now front and center in people’s minds. When this was an esoteric conversation about biological patents, nobody cared. But when that conversation came home, then it became something people can care about.

    So I’m actually quite grateful for this opportunity. I thank the members of Parliament for hosting this. I thank all of the translators who I apologize in advance, I will use terminology that is probably very difficult to translate. So my apologies, and I’d also like to acknowledge the fact that many of you are aware of my involvement with this in large part due to the amazing work of my wonderful wife, Kim Martin, who encouraged me at the very early days of this pandemic to get in front of the camera and talk about all the information that I had been sharing among very small groups around the world. And it was in fact her encouragement that put me in a place where many of you have heard what I have to say. Ironically, the world that I came from that used to be very popular, my CNBC and Bloomberg presentations, which were televised on mainstream media around the world, was an audience that I lost.

    I can confidently say Covid diminished my fame, but I can also confidently say that I’d rather stand among the people with whom I’m standing today than any of the folks that were part of that previous world. So this is a much better place to be. My role today is to set the stage for this conversation in a historical context, because this did not come in the last three years. This did not come in the last five or six years. This actually is an ongoing question that probably began here in Europe in the early stages of the mid 1900’s. But certainly by 1913, 1914, this conversation started right here in Central Europe. The pandemic that we alleged to have happen in the last few years did not happen overnight. In fact, the very specific pandemic using coronavirus began in a very different time.

    Most of you don’t know that Coronavirus as a model of a pathogen was isolated in 1965. Coronavirus was identified in 1965 as one of the first infectious replicatable viral models that could be used to modify a series of other experiences of human condition. It was isolated once upon a time associated with the common cold. But what’s particularly interesting about its isolation in 1965 was that it was immediately identified as a pathogen that could be used and modified for a whole host of reasons. And you heard me correctly, that was 1965. And by the way, these slides are public domain. You’re welcome to look at every single reference. Every comment that I made is based on published material, so do make sure that you look at those references. But in 1966, the very first COV Coronavirus model was used as a transatlantic biological experiment in human manipulation. And you heard the date —– 1966.

    I hope you’re getting the point of what I’m saying. This is not an overnight thing. This is actually something that’s been long in the making. 

    A year before I was born, we had the first trans-Atlantic coronavirus data sharing experiment between the United States and the United Kingdom. And in 1967, the year I was born, we did the first human trials on inoculating people with modified coronavirus. Isn’t that amazing? 56 years ago, the overnight success of a pathogen that’s been 56 years in engineering, and I want that to chill with all of you. Where were we when we actually allowed in violation of biological and chemical weapons treaties? Where were we as a human civilization when we thought it was an acceptable thing to do to take a pathogen for the United States and infect the world with it? Where was that conversation and what should have been that conversation in 1967? That conversation wasn’t had?

     Ironically, the common cold was turned into a chimera in the 1970s, and in 1975, 1976 and 1977, we started figuring out how to modify coronavirus by putting it into different animals, pigs and dogs. And not surprisingly, by the time we got to 1990, we found out that coronavirus as a infectious agent was an industrial problem for two primary industries. The industries of dogs and pigs, dog breeders and pigs found that coronavirus created gastrointestinal problems, and that became the basis for Pfizer’s first spike protein vaccine patent filed —- are you ready for this? In 1990, did you hear what I just said? 1990, operation warp speed. I’m sorry. Where’s the warp and the speed? Pfizer 1990. The very first spike protein vaccine for Coronavirus.

    Isn’t that fascinating? Isn’t it fascinating that we were, we were told that well, the spike protein is a new thing. We just found out that that’s the problem. No, as a matter of fact, we didn’t just find out it was not just now. Now the problem, we found that out in 1990 and filed the first patents on vaccines in 1990 for the spike protein of Coronavirus. And who would’ve thought Pfizer? Clearly the innocent organization that does nothing but promote human health. Clearly Pfizer, the organization that has not bought the votes in this chamber in every chamber of every government around the world, not that Pfizer, certainly they wouldn’t have had anything to do with this, but oh yes, they did. And in 1990, they found out that there was a problem with vaccines. They didn’t work.

    You know why they didn’t work? It turns out that coronavirus is a very malleable model. It transforms and it changes and it mutates over time. As a matter of fact, every publication on vaccines for coronavirus from 1990 until 2018, every single publication concluded that Coronavirus escapes the vaccine impulse because it modifies and mutates too quickly for vaccines to be effective. And since 1990 to 2018, that is the published science ladies and gentlemen that’s following the science, following the science is their own indictment of their own programs that said, it doesn’t work. And there are thousands of publications to that effect, not a few hundred and not paid for by pharmaceutical companies. These are publications that are independent scientific research that shows unequivocally including efforts of the chimera modifications made by Ralph Baric the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. All of them show vaccines do not work on coronavirus. That’s the science. And that science has never been disputed. But then we had an interesting development in 2002, and this date is most important because in 2002, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill patented, and I quote an infectious replication defective clone of coronavirus. Listen to those words. Infectious replication, defective. What does that phrase actually mean? For those of you not familiar with language, let me unpack it for you. Infectious replication defective means a weapon.

    It means something meant to target an individual but not have collateral damage to other individuals. That’s what infectious replication defective means. And that patent was filed in 2002 on work funded by NAIDS and Anthony Fauci from 1999 to 2002. And that work patented at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill mysteriously preceded SARS 1.0 by a year. Dave, are you suggesting that SARS 1.0 wasn’t from a wet market in Wuhan? Are you suggesting it might have come from a laboratory in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill? No, I’m not suggesting it. I’m telling you that’s the facts. We engineered SARS. SARS is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. The naturally occurring phenomenon is called the common cold. It’s called influenza-like illness. It’s called gastroenteritis. That’s the naturally occurring coronavirus. SARS is the research developed by humans weaponizing a life system model to actually attack human beings. And they patented it in 2002.

    And in 2003, giant surprise, the CDC filed the patent on coronavirus isolated from humans in violation once again of biological and chemical weapons treaties and laws that we have in the United States. And I’m very, very precise on this. The United States likes to talk about its rights and everything else and the rule of law and all the nonsense that we like to talk about, but we don’t ratify treaties about, I don’t know, defending humans. We conspicuously avoid that, we actually have a great track record of advocating for human rights and then denying them when it comes to actually being part of the international community, which is a slightly problematic thing. But let’s get something very clear. When the CDC in April of 2003 filed the patent on SARS Coronavirus isolated from humans, what did they do? They downloaded a sequence from China and filed a patent on it in the United States.

    Any of you familiar with biological and chemical weapons treaties knows that’s a violation. That’s a crime. That’s not an innocent, oops, that’s a crime,  and the United States Patent Office went as far as to reject that patent application on two occasions until the CDC decided to bribe the patent office to override the patent examiner to ultimately issue the patent in 2007 on SARS Coronavirus. But let’s not let that get away from us because it turns out that the RTPCR, which was the test that we allegedly were going to use to identify the risks associated with coronavirus, was actually identified as a bioterrorism threat by me in the European Union sponsored events in 2002 and 2003, 20 years ago. That happened here in Brussels and across Europe. In 2005 this particular pathogen was specifically labeled as a bioterrorism and bio weapon platform technology described as such.

    That’s not my terminology that I’m applying to it. It was actually described as a bioweapons platform technology in 2005. And from 2005 onwards, it was actually a bio warfare enabling agent. It’s official classification from 2005 forward. I don’t know if that sounds like public health to you, does it? Biological warfare enabling technology that feels like not public health, that feels like not medicine, that feels like a weapon designed to take out humanity? That’s what it feels like. And it feels like that because that’s exactly what it is. We have been lured into believing that EcoHealth Alliance and DARPA and all of these organizations are what we should be pointing to. But we’ve been specifically requested to ignore the facts that over 10 billion dollars have been funneled through black operations through the check of Anthony Fauci and a side-by-side ledger where NAIAD has a balance sheet.

    And next to it is a biodefense balance sheet equivalent dollar for dollar matching that no one in the media talks about. And it’s been going on since 2005. Our gain of function moratorium, the moratorium that was supposed to freeze any efforts to do gain of function research. Conveniently in the fall of 2014, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill received a letter from NAIAD saying that while the gain of function moratorium on coronavirus in vivo should be suspended because their grants had already been funded, they received an exemption. Did you hear what I just said? A biological weapons lab facility at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill received an exemption from the gain of function moratorium so that by 2016 we could publish the journal article that said SARS Coronavirus is poised for human emergence in 2016. And what you might ask Dave, was the coronavirus poised for human emergence.

    It was WIV 1, Wuhan Institute of Virology virus one poised for human emergence in 2016 at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, such that by the time we get to 2017 and 2018, the following phrase entered into common parlance among the community, there is going to be an accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen. The operative word, obviously in that phrase, the word release, does that sound like leak? Does that sound like a bat and a pangolin went into a bar in the Wuhan market and hung out and had sex and, and lo and behold, we got SARS COV too. No. Accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen was the terminology used. And four times in April of 2019, 7 months before the allegation of patient number one, four patent applications of Moderna were modified to include the term accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen as the justification for making a vaccine for a thing that did not exist. Keep going.

    If you have not done so, please make sure that you make reference in every investigation to the premeditation nature of this. Because it was in September of 2019 that the world was informed that we were going to have an accident or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen so that by September, 2020, there would be a worldwide acceptance of a universal vaccine template. That’s their words right in front of you on the screen. The intent was to get the world to accept a universal vaccine template, and the intent was to use coronavirus to get there. And the last slide. This isn’t advancing, so if I could have somebody to do it. Let’s, let’s read this because we have to read this into the record Everywhere I go, until an infectious disease crisis is very real present and at the emergency threshold that is often largely ignored to sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, he said, we need to increase the public understanding for the need for medical countermeasures such as a pan influenza or pan coronavirus vaccine.

    A key driver is the media and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process. Sounds like public health sounds like the best of humanity. No. Ladies and gentlemen, this was premeditated domestic terrorism stated at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, published in front of them. This is an, this is an act of biological and chemical warfare perpetrated on the human race. And it was admitted to in writing that this was a financial heist and a financial fraud. Investors will follow if they see profit at the end of the process. Let me conclude by making five very brief recommendations. The last slide, nature was hijacked. This whole story started in 1965 when we decided to hijack a natural model and decide to start manipulating it.

    Science was hijacked when the only questions that could be asked were questions authorized under the patent protection of the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and their equivalent organizations around the world. We didn’t have independent science, we had hijacked science, and unfortunately, there was no moral oversight in violation of all of the codes that we stand for. There was no independent, financially disinterested independent review board ever impaneled around coronavirus. Not once, not once, not since 1965. We do not have a single independent IRB ever empaneled around coronavirus. So morality was suspended for medical countermeasures and ultimately humanity was lost because we decided to allow it to happen. Our job today is to say, no more gain of function research period. No more weaponization of nature period. And most importantly, no more corporate patronage of science for their own self-interest unless they assume 100% product liability for every injury and every death that they maintain. Thank you very much.

    COURTESY OF CHILDRENSHEALTHDEFENSE.ORG

    The last three years took us all by surprise. We were separated from each other, isolated and afraid. Now that that it seems to be coming to an end, we want to unite and combine all that we have learned from all over the world to start healing and make sure that this never happens again. We are organizing an International Covid Summit in the European Parliament in Brussels on May 3, 2023. This event is aimed to comprehensively and objectively look at important details surrounding covid-19 and the pandemic. We are planning to bring world renowned and highly revered professionals from all around the globe to Brussels in order to discuss the scientific, social, medical. and legal statistics and findings of the last three years. By taking an in-depth other, isolated and afraid. Now that that it seems to be coming to an end, we want to unite and combine all that we have learned from all over the world to start healing and make sure that this never happens again. We are organizing an International Covid Summit in the European Parliament in Brussels on May 3, 2023. This event is aimed to comprehensively and objectively look at important details look at this important information, these professionals can give comprehensive and positive strategies and suggestions to help us all move forward from this pandemic constructively, proactively and productively.

    AGENDA

    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS, ROOM PHS1A2

    8:30 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
    9:00 – 9:10 WELCOMING REMARKS FROM MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MR. CRISTIAN TERHEȘ, European Conservatives and Reformists – ROMANIA MR. IVAN VILIBOR SINČIĆ, Non-attached Member of the European Parliament – CROATIA

    9:10 – 9:15 WELCOME ADDRESS FROM THE ICS ORGANIZATIONAL TEAM DR. STEPHEN MALTHOUSE, MODERATOR – CANADA
    9:15 – 10:30 COVID – 19: THE WHOLE TRUTH FROM THE BEGINNING

    DR. DAVID MARTIN – USA, the gathering storm – the cost of silenced questions NICK HUDSON – SOUTH AFRICA, mandates and lockdowns without data or science
    PROFESSOR CIRO ISIDORO – ITALY, Covid-19: a novel disease that resembles an old disease
    PROFESSOR GIOVANNI MELEDANDRI – ITALY, interdisciplinary insights from the Sars-Cov-2 and Covid-19
    DR. ANDREA STRAMEZZI – ITALY, early responses: boots on the ground in Italy

    10:30 – 11:30 EFFECTS OF MANDATES, EARLY TREATMENT AND MEDIA DR. LOUIS FOUCHE – FRANCE, effects of mandates – masks and lockdowns PROFESSOR DIDIER RAOULT – FRANCE, early treatment: hydroxychloroquine and the IHU PROFESSOR PHILIPPE BROUQUI – FRANCE, early treatment: hydroxychloroquine and the IHU
    DR. PIERRE KORY – USA, ivermectin and suppression of early treatment JASON CHRISTOFF – CANADA, media over medicine: the power of media
    11:30 – 12:00 THE COVID – 19 VACCINE: TRIAL DATA AND THE EFFICACY
    DR. BYRAM BRIDLE – CANADA, the Covid-19 Vaccine Trials
    DR. HARVEY RISCH – USA, the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines

    12:00 – 12:15 DISCUSSION SESSION WITH MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MRS. FRANCESCA DONATO, Non-attached Member of the European Parliament – ITALY
    MR. MISLAV KOLAKUŠIĆ, Non-attached Member of the European Parliament – CROATIA
    MRS. CHRISTINE ANDERSON, Identity and Democracy – GERMANY

    12:15 – 13:00 LUNCH AND NETWORKING
    13:00 – 13:35 THE COVID – 19 VACCINE: EFFECTS ON REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM PROFESSOR GIUSEPPE TRITTO – ITALY, effects of vaccine on male fertility DR. NATALIA PREGO – SPAIN, effects of vaccine on female fertility PROFESSOR GIOVANNI FRAJESE-ITALY, Human reproduction and mRNA vaccines. Missing studies

    13:35 – 14:05 THEN THEY CAME FOR THE CHILDREN

    DR. KIRK MILHOAN – USA, effects of Covid-19 virus in children DR. ALEJANDRO DIAZ VILLALOBO – MEXICO, effects of Covid-19 vaccine in children
    EMMANUELLE DARLES – FRANCE, effects of mandates on children

    14:05 – 14:40 THE COVID – 19 VACCINE: TRIAL DATA, INJURIES AND SIDE EFFECTS
    14:50 – 15:30 STATISTICS FOR ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY AND VAERS
    VINCENT PAVAN – FRANCE, statistics for all-cause mortality in France PROFESSOR THEO SCHETTERS – NETHERLANDS, statistics for all-cause mortality in Netherlands
    PROFESSOR HERVE SELIGMANN- GERMANY, statistics for all-cause mortality in Europe
    DR. JESSICA ROSE – CANADA, vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS)
    15:30 – 17:00 LEGALITIES AND FREEDOMS SURROUNDING THE PANDEMIC

    MARIA GUTSCHI – CANADA, what they did not tell us: approval process of the vaccines
    DAVID WISEMAN – UK, what they did not tell us: approval process of the vaccines
    EVA VLAARDINGERBROEK- NETHERLANDS, effects on land, food, energy and travel PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN PERRONNE – FRANCE, medical suppressions DR. AMIN UMLIL -FRANCE, medical freedom
    RENATE HOLZEISEN – ITALY, the legalities surrounding the pandemic
    DR. MERYL NASS – USA, W.H.O., I.H.R. – treaty and the pandemic accord
    DR. KATARINA LINDLEY – CROATIA, W.H.O., I.H.R. – treaty and the pandemic accord

    17:00 – 17:15 THE BIG PICTURE AND MOVING FORWARD

    DR. ROBERT MALONE – USA

    17:15 – 18:00 CONCLUSIONS FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MR. IVAN VILIBOR SINČIĆ, Non-attached Member of the European Parliament – CROATIA
    MRS. FRANCESCA DONATO, Non-attached Member of the European Parliament – ITALY
    MR. MISLAV KOLAKUŠIĆ, Non-attached Member of the European Parliament – CROATIA
    MRS. CHRISTINE ANDERSON, Identity and Democracy – GERMANY
    MR. CRISTIAN TERHEȘ, European Conservatives and Reformists – ROMANIA

  • Tax-Payer Funded $1.1 Billion U.S. Patriot Missile System in Ukraine “Likely Damaged” After Massive Russian Attack

    Tax-Payer Funded $1.1 Billion U.S. Patriot Missile System in Ukraine “Likely Damaged” After Massive Russian Attack

    Tax-Payer Funded $1.1 Billion U.S. Patriot Missile System in Ukraine “Likely Damaged” After Massive Russian Attack (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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    Patriot missile systems at Schwesing military airport, Germany (Source: Getty Images)

    Russia claimed it destroyed a US-made Patriot missile defense system worth about $1.1 billion during a massive overnight missile attack on Kyiv Monday night, CNN reported.

    Recall, on December 21, as part of President Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House, the Biden regime announced $1.85 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $1 billion – the Patriot missile battery.

    The Patriot missile battery is a unique system designed to intercept incoming missiles and was delivered just last month to Ukraine by the US and its NATO allies.

    Russia bombarded Ukraine with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, an air-launched ballistic missile that’s 10 times the speed of sound.

    It claimed it had obliterated the air defense system. The Russian Defense Ministry said through Telegram that “a high-precision strike by the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system in the city of Kyiv hit a US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.”

    However, US officials refuted the claim and told CNN that it was likely damaged but not destroyed.

    CNN reported:

    A US-made Patriot air defense system was likely damaged, but not destroyed, as the result of a Russian missile barrage in and around Kyiv early Tuesday morning local time, a US official tells CNN.

    The US is still assessing to what degree the system was damaged, the official said. That will determine whether the system needs to be pulled back entirely or simply repaired on the spot by Ukrainians forces.

    A US National Security Council spokesperson referred CNN to the Ukrainian government for comment.

    Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that they successfully intercepted all six hypersonic missiles fired by the Russians, but the Ukrainian military declined to comment on the Russians’ claim that a Patriot system was hit. “We cannot comment on this. We’ll stay out of commenting on Russian sources,” said the Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, Yurii Ihnat.

    Ukraine currently has two Patriot air defense systems in country, one donated by the US and the other donated jointly by Germany and the Netherlands. It is unclear which of those systems was potentially damaged, but taking one out of commission – even for a short period – could affect Ukraine’s ability to defend Kyiv amid intensifying Russian missile attacks.

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    via The Gateway Pundit

    May 17, 2023 at 07:22AM

  • ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee As Calls For AI Regulation Build

    ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee As Calls For AI Regulation Build

    May 16, 2023 at 05:13PM. Watch Live: ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee As Calls For AI Regulation Build

    Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday morning as lawmakers prepare regulations for new artificial intelligence tools released for consumers.

    “Artificial intelligence urgently needs rules and safeguards to address its immense promise and pitfalls,” Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, wrote in a statement.

    “This hearing begins our Subcommittee’s work in overseeing and illuminating AI’s advanced algorithms and powerful technology. I look forward to working with my colleagues as we explore sensible standards and principles to help us navigate this uncharted territory,” Blumenthal said. 

    “Artificial intelligence will be transformative in ways we can’t even imagine, with implications for Americans’ elections, jobs, and security,” Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who also chairs the Senate panel on privacy and technology, said. He added:

    “This hearing marks a critical first step towards understanding what Congress should do.”

    Besides Altman, the hearing will include testimony from:

    • Gary Marcus, Professor Emeritus at New York University; and
    • Christina Montgomery, Vice President and Chief Privacy and Trust Officer at IBM.

    The surging popularity of AI tools like ChatGPT, which allow users to generate responses via text or images, has received calls from the “Godfather of AI,” Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio and others about the existential risk AI systems pose to the economy and humans.

    In recent weeks, the Biden administration unveiled a series of measures to tackle the increased use of AI technology. The Department of Commerce has initiated a process to gather feedback on potential regulations.

    There is no question that AI will be transformative in many ways for companies that integrate this technology into their systems. One long-term effect it might cause is a massive layoff wave this decade. Goldman’s latest report (available to pro subscribers in the usual place) indicates up to 300 million jobs are at risk across the Western world.

    And BCA Research’s latest report on AI has an ominous outlook about the technology:

    “The safety risks around AI are huge, and we think there is a more than 50/50 chance AI will wipe out all of humanity by the middle of the century.” 

    The next step for lawmakers on Capitol Hill is some form of regulation of AI. However, those next steps need to be clarified.

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    via Zerohedge