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Freedom Reportage: Unbiased and Uncensored NewsSep 23, 2022
Biden Administration is Releasing Horde of Chinese Illegal Aliens Into U.S.
The Biden administration has now begun releasing Chinese illegal aliens into the U.S., according to reports.
Fox News captured Border Patrol releasing Chinese nationals to an NGO in Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday.
“CBP sources say they are being released w NTAs (notices to appear) because there are so many crossing and no more space to house them,” reported Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins.
FOX News captures exclusive video of Chinese nationals being released publicly to an NGO in Brownsville, TX. CBP sources say they are being released w NTAs (notices to appear) because there are so many crossing and no more space to house them
Jenkins over the weekend reported that a group of Chinese nationals were apprehended at the Rio Grande Valley border.
FOX News cameras were rolling as more Chinese nationals illegally cross into the RGV sector this morning… this group of 5 would not say how much they paid to smugglers. The RGV sector seeing a more than 900% increase in Chinese nationals since last year
The region has also seen a 900% spike in Chinese nationals crossing the border.
The CBP Nationwide Encounters report shows a massive spike in Chinese nationals in 2023 compared to the last three previous years.
According to the report, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 5,000 Chinese nationals just between October 1, 2022, and February 28, 2023.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Gloria Chavez claimed CBP apprehended 90 Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. last Thursday, the largest one-day apprehension of Chinese nationals at the border since 2010.
Cartels have reportedly tapped into the Chinese smuggling market and charge them triple what they charge other migrants because they’re coming from an industrialized first world nation.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/biden-administration-is-releasing-horde-of-chinese-illegal-aliens-into-u-s/
US Firms No Longer Safe In Mexico as Mexican Army Seizes US-Owned Marine Terminal
We’ve heard many heartbreaking stories of American tourists venturing into Mexico only to be kidnapped or, worse, killed in crazy cartel drug war battles. It appears these days, no one is safe across the southern border, not even US-owned companies.
Bloomberg reported that Mexican marines and police officers seized US construction firm Vulcan Materials’ port terminal near Playa del Carmen in southern Mexico.
Footage from the seizure showed a long line of police and military units entering the property last Tuesday.
In a statement, Vulcan Materials claimed that Mexican officials did not possess any legal documentation to warrant the seizure of the terminal.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/25/us-firms-no-longer-safe-in-mexico-as-mexican-army-seizes-us-owned-marine-terminal/
Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Flooded With Billion of Dollars in Deposits As Small Bank Run out Of Cash
Over the weekend, amid populist howls of outrage that a bailout of SVB would promote moral hazard (in the end depositors did get bailed out with a full recovery, but other unsecured creditors oddly enough would get nothing, while the common stock is a doughnut), we said that while technically true, the events that toppled SVB and now SBNY as well, are really a subsidy for the big banks.
Many view what’s happening as a question of moral hazard and a bailout of small banks. It’s really a subsidy of big banks: JPM was solidly green in Friday’s rout https://t.co/GAlJJ2iSLI— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 12, 2023Today, one day after many small banks nearly failed amid a surge in deposit outflows, we read that “after the back-to-back collapse of three smaller banks, their biggest US counterparts are seeing a rush of depositors fearful the crisis will spread.”
According to Bloomberg, JPMorgan – or as we now call it JPMega – the largest US bank and about to become much, much bigger, alone received billions of dollars in recent days, and Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. are also seeing higher-than-usual volume.
“The top six banks in the US are and have been too big to fail, the financial crisis over 10 years ago demonstrated that,” Michael Imerman, an assistant professor at the University of California Irvine’s business school, told Bloomberg. “So it’s safer to go with a name with higher degree of certainty.”
Other banks are seeing increased deposit inflows as well. Citizens Financial Group Inc. announced Monday that it “has seen higher than normal interest from prospective new customers over the past few days,” and that it would temporarily extend branch hours to accommodate.
Confirming BBG reporting, the FT writes that “Large US banks are inundated with new depositors as smaller lenders face turmoil“, which of course means that small bank deposits are getting drained.
so… small financial institutions are losing deposits quickly https://t.co/suZVs39Rkm— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 14, 2023According to the FT report, “large US banks are being inundated with requests from customers trying to transfer funds from smaller lenders, as the failure of Silicon Valley Bank results in what executives say is the biggest movement of deposits in more than a decade.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/too-big-to-fail-banks-flooded-with-billion-of-dollars-in-deposits-as-small-bank-run-out-of-cash/
American Capitalism ‘Breaking Down Before Our Eyes,’ US Billionaire Warns
As Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin once observed, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
The bailout package for Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) introduced by US authorities shows that capitalism in America is “breaking down before our eyes,” billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has reportedly stated.
“The US is supposed to be a capitalist economy, and that’s breaking down before our eyes,” Griffin told a major British business journal during an interview on Monday.
The statement came just one day after American regulators promised that all SVB customers — including those who had invested more than the $250,000 limit guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) — will be reimbursed in light of the bank’s collapse.
Warning that there’s “been a loss of financial discipline with the government bailing out depositors in full,” Griffin put the blame on regulators, who he said were “the definition of being asleep at the wheel.”
If the Biden administration had simply let the banks fail and only backstopped federally-insured accounts, it would have been “a great lesson in moral hazard,” according to the billionaire.
Griffin is far from the only influential investor to blast the decision to bail out bankers who decided to bet the farm on the prospect that low interest rates would last for years.
“What effectively happened over the weekend is that [Biden] nationalized the American banking system,” Canadian businessman and Shark Tank host Kevin O’Leary told a mainstream US outlet on Monday.
“It’s no longer a risk, it’s no longer private in any sense. It is now backstopped by the government, ultimately, the taxpayer. So, it doesn’t matter how bad you are as a bank manager.”
O’Leary had previously blasted SVB’s “negligent board of directors” and “idiot management” for the financial fiasco, asking on social media on Sunday, “why should taxpayers bail them out?”
A senior Treasury spokesperson insisted Sunday that average Americans wouldn’t end up footing the bill for the bailout:
“For the banks that were put into receivership, the FDIC will use funds from the Deposit Insurance Fund to ensure that all of its depositors are made whole. … The Deposit Insurance Fund is bearing the risk. … This is not funds from the taxpayer.”
But according to conservative American commentator Liz Wheeler, that’s simply not the case.
“The FDIC bailout IS a bailout,” she wrote on Twitter Monday. “It’s not directly from taxpayers. But FDIC is composed of banks. Those banks will foot the bailout bill. Then they’ll pass that cost to consumers. That’s you.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/american-capitalism-breaking-down-before-our-eyes-us-billionaire-warns/
Inflation Wiping Out Families As Economy Breaks Down, Says Carl Icahn
The average household no longer has any practical wealth, says billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who also said inflation is the worst thing an economy can have.
Responding to the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco, Icahn pointed out the American economy is “breaking down.”
“We’ve been on a spending spree and the rising tide the tide lifts all ships, but a lot of people in our economy are not doing well obviously,” Icahn said on Tuesday. “The net worth of the median household is nothing basically and you you just look at what is going on, I think Powell really has to raise interest rates sooner or later.”
“Inflation is the worst thing an economy can have, and I think people underrate that,” Icahn added. “…You’ve gone out on a binge, you’ve spent the family wealth, and you just keep spending.”
“At the end, you pay the price for it, and that’s what this country has done.”
During another appearance on Fox Business, Icahn warned that the SVB collapse was a sign of things to come.
“When things are good, the rising tide lift all boats. But when things start going down, then you see who’s naked,” he told Fox Business on Monday. “You’re going to see a lot of nakedness.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/inflation-wiping-out-families-as-economy-breaks-down-says-carl-icahn/
Signature Bank Gave Lecture on Gender Pronouns 6 Months Before Collapse
Six months before its collapse, Signature Bank chairman Scott Shay hosted a “know your pronouns” company seminar during which employers were lectured on how to pronounce “gender-neutral pronouns” such as “Ze” and “Hir”.
Maybe they should have been concentrating on more important matters.
Signature Bank was seized by the feds on Sunday after the closure of Silicon Valley Bank prompted nervous customers to withdraw more than $10 billion in deposits, with the bank’s failure representing the third largest in U.S. financial history.
The “Know Your Pronouns” symposium was part of Signature Bank’s “Social Impact” series and also involved Finn Brigham, a Manhattan-based corporate consulate on gender issues who was described as a “genderqueer trans masculine person” during the event.
Referring to former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Shay bragged about how Signature Bank was “the first bank in the United States to have an openly gay man on our board.”
Staff were taught how to properly use the pronouns she, hers, he, his, they, them, ze, and hir by Brigham, who stated, “I don’t know if there’s anyone in the Signature Bank world, but probably you have clients that use ‘they’/’ them’ as pronouns. They’re gender-neutral pronouns on purpose.”
“‘Ze’ is another gender-neutral pronoun,,” he added. “The other part of that would be ‘hir’ — spelled H-I-R.”
Emphasizing its commitment to wokery, Signature Bank promoted “sustainability, diversity, equity, inclusion, community engagement, employee development, employee health and safety, and any other environmental, social, or governance-related initiatives.”
As we highlighted yesterday, Signature Bank wasted millions of dollars creating cringeworthy, woke music videos & TV shows about themselves, prompting critics to ask whether the cash could have been used more wisely elsewhere.
The bank’s commitment to regime narratives was also reinforced when it closed down Donald Trump’s accounts following the incident at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Maybe the lesson should be don’t put your money in woke banks, but given that virtually all of them are the same, that’s a difficult task to accomplish.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/signature-bank-gave-lecture-on-gender-pronouns-6-months-before-collapse/
Cartels Offering American Teens Money Via TikTok to Smuggle Migrants
Southern cartels are reportedly offering money to American teenagers via social media apps to smuggle illegal immigrants across the US border, Fox News claimed on Wednesday, citing various ads.
According to the broadcaster’s assertions, criminals pay adolescents and young people at least $3,000 a ride to pick up a group of migrants approaching the US border. The “quest” is to pass checkpoints in a vehicle loaded with migrants and drop them off at a pre-specified location, from where the immigrants are purportedly taken by a cartel member to hiding places, scattered throughout the border.
As Fox News also reported, children often use their parents’ cars without asking permission and adults sometimes are not aware of the child’s profitable “hobby.” The US Border patrol, distracted by an overwhelming influx of minor migrants, does not immediately react to such breaches, claims the media outlet story.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced on Tuesday that he would deploy 250 National Guard troops to the state’s border with Mexico “to support law enforcement efforts,” adding that there is “no action” foreseen from the federal government.
Earlier, a number of Republican senators visited the Southern border and reported that they had encountered what they described as “human traffickers and cartel members,” taunting them from “the other side of the river.”
The US border patrol has faced a huge wave of illegal immigration following the Biden administration’s relaxing of the former US president’s strict border policies. To date, the amount of people smuggled into the US is said to exceed statistics over the last 15 years, with recent estimates expecting 150,000 migrants to approach the US border on a monthly basis.
Biden has not classified the border situation as a “crisis” despite tense public attention and no official visit to the border has been planned by top administration members. At the same time, Biden has not lifted refuge admissions, standing at 15,000 people per year, although he earlier promised to raise that figure to 62,500.
The surge came amid Biden’s moves to overturn the previous administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. So far, the Biden administration has suspended US-Mexico wall construction, along with the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), and allowed unaccompanied migrant children to enter the country, prompting space and personnel shortages in temporary housing facilities.
The influx of migrants is also believed to be partially triggered by devastating storms that hit Central America in November 2020, along an adverse economic situation due, in part, to the coronavirus pandemic.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://globalreportage524084185.wordpress.com/2023/03/15/cartels-offering-american-teens-money-via-tiktok-to-smuggle-migrants/
American Heart Association Study Shows Link Between Covid Vaccines and Heart Inflammation
New research in pre-print publication at the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation shows a link between free spike antigens produced by the mRNA Covid shots and a form of heart inflammation known as myocarditis.
Harvard Medical School researchers examined 16 adolescents and young adults hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Children’s with post-vaccination myocarditis from January 2021-February 2022. The subjects had “markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein” in their blood, “unbounded by antibodies.”
The medical researchers affiliated with the hospitals, however, did not find free-floating spike antigens in the 45 “healthy, asymptomatic, age-matched vaccinated control subjects,” despite “essentially indistinguishable” antibody profiling and T-cell responses between the groups.
The medical study’s findings isolated the free spike antigens in the young subjects who developed post-shot heart inflammation.
“Immunoprofiling of vaccinated adolescents and young adults revealed that the mRNA vaccine–induced immune responses did not differ between individuals who developed myocarditis and individuals who did not,” the researchers note. “However, free spike antigen was detected in the blood of adolescents and young adults who developed post-mRNA vaccine myocarditis, advancing insight into its potential underlying cause.”
The study establishes further linkage between the mRNA shots and an increased risk of myocarditis in young people by providing a potential biomedical causal mechanism.
In October, Florida’s State Health Officer & Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo, M.D., issued guidance that recommended against mRNA shots being given to healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 40.
“The Florida Department of Health (Department) conducted an analysis through a self-controlled case series, which is a technique originally developed to evaluate vaccine safety,” Ladapo announced by press release.
Rising Consumer Debt & Interest Rates Are A Ticking Time Bomb
Over the last several months, consumer debt has climbed at a steep, steady pace as Americans struggle with rising prices. November was no different, with consumers piling on another $27.9 billion in debt.
With the 7.1% increase in consumer debt in November, Americans now owe a record $4.76 trillion, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
This is a big problem for the Fed as it tries to battle rising prices with interest rate hikes. The inflation that the central bank created is forcing people to go deeper into debt. Meanwhile, the inflation fight is making debt more and more expensive.
The Federal Reserve consumer debt figures include credit card debt, student loans, and auto loans, but do not factor in mortgage debt. When you include mortgages, US consumers are buried under more than $16.5 trillion in debt.
Americans are running up credit card balances at a dizzying pace. In November, revolving credit increased by $16.4 billion. With that 16.9% increase, Americans now owe nearly $1.19 trillion in revolving debt.
To put the increase into perspective, the annual increase in 2019, prior to the pandemic, was 3.6%. It’s pretty clear that with stimulus money long gone, Americans have turned to plastic in order to make ends meet as prices continue to skyrocket.
The rapidly growing levels of credit card debt should raise eyebrows, but as ZeroHedge pointed out in a tweet, the real problem is the double whammy of rising debt and interest rates.
Average credit card interest rates have eclipsed the record high of 17.87%. The average annual percentage rates (APR) currently stand at 19.59%.
NBC News reveals just how much rising interest rates are costing indebted consumers.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2023/01/11/rising-consumer-debt-interest-rates-are-a-ticking-time-bomb/
China reveals plans for military cooperation with Arab states
The Chinese Defense Ministry has signaled its readiness to strengthen military cooperation with the Gulf states in order to promote “world peace.” The statement came weeks after President Xi Jinping attended the first China-Arab States Summit and the China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Saudi Arabia.
When asked by a journalist on Thursday about the “eight joint actions” proposed by Xi at the meetings, Defense Ministry spokesperson Tan Kefei said: “The Chinese military is willing to work with the militaries of Arab countries” to “jointly promote global security initiatives,” among other things.
Deeper ties would contribute positively to “the building of a China-Arab community with a shared future,” he added.
Tan went on to describe the Chinese Army as well as those of Arab nations as “important forces for maintaining world peace and stability.” He noted that Beijing and regional powers have shared military technology and held joint drills in recent years.
According to the ministry’s spokesperson, this “fruitful cooperation” has helped build “strategic mutual trust” between China and Arab countries.
President Xi was on an official visit to Riyadh at the invitation of King Salman from December 7-10.
Speaking at the Chinese-Arab summit, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed that discussions had been held regarding the “creation of a free-trade zone between China and the countries of the Persian Gulf.”
On top of that, the Gulf states and China confirmed plans to jointly work toward solving “problems of food and energy security,” as well as cooperating on supply chains, the crown prince added.
Beijing and Riyadh signed a number of agreements and memorandums of understanding as a result.
The Chinese head of state also held a separate meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/30/china-reveals-plans-for-military-cooperation-with-arab-states/
Ukrainian law firm runs a campaign targeting and hunting ordinary Russians in Western Europe
Germany tell residents to prepare for nuclear emergencies
Residents in Germany must make preparations for nuclear emergencies, the President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Inge Paulini, warned on Wednesday.
In an interview with Funke media group newspapers, Paulini pointed out that “radiation does not stop at the borders,” and claimed that the ongoing military conflict between Moscow and Kiev has “made it clear to the general public that we have to be and remain prepared for a wide variety of nuclear emergencies.”
Russia has repeatedly insisted that it does not intend to use atomic weapons in Ukraine and has referred to its nuclear doctrine which only allows the use of such munitions in a retaliatory fashion or in the case the country is faced with an existential threat from conventional warfare.
Paulini also criticized Germany’s neighbors who have not phased out nuclear energy from their power grid. “On the contrary, many of our neighboring countries are planning new power plants,” she said, warning of the risks of accidents at these facilities, which could affect all of Europe.
Germany in recent years has launched an initiative to wean itself off of nuclear energy, with the country’s Green Party pointing to the potentially catastrophic risks associated with producing it. The nation only has three operational nuclear power plants remaining after MPs voted in November to extend their operations until April 2023 in light of the ongoing energy crisis in Europe.
Meanwhile, vice president of the Bundestag and FDP member Wolfgang Kubicki has blasted the government’s refusal to revise its overall approach to nuclear power plants and has warned of a potential default unless something is done to address the energy crisis.
“We don’t want gas and oil supplies from Russia any more, at the same time our ‘green’ friends are restarting coal-fired power plants, while preventing a reasonable extension of the life of nuclear power plants,” Kubicki said earlier this week.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/30/germany-tell-residents-to-prepare-for-nuclear-emergencies/
Brazilian football icon and football’s first global superstar Pele dies aged 82
The three-time World Cup winner is regarded by many as the greatest player of all time.
The world of football is in mourning after it was confirmed that Brazilian legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, has died aged 82.
Pele’s passing at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Brazil’s largest city follows a prolonged period of ill-health and a battle with colon cancer.
The football icon had a tumor removed from his colon in September last year, and had been visiting the hospital on a regular basis.
Fresh fears for his health emerged when he was readmitted for treatment in November.
Reports followed that Pele had been moved to palliative care due to chemotherapy treatment no longer having the required effect.
Doctors had announced earlier in December that the disease was progressing, prompting major fears surrounding the three-time World Cup winner’s condition.
It was confirmed on Thursday that the football icon had passed away.
Pele is survived by his third wife Marcia Aoki and seven children.
A prolific goalscorer during his playing days, Pele is regarded by many as among the finest footballers – if not the finest – of all time.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/30/brazilian-football-icon-and-footballs-first-global-superstar-pele-dies-aged-82/
War for some, Bentleys for others: As Americans send aid, Ukraine’s corrupt elites are profiting from the conflict
Since the beginning of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, the US, EU, and their allies have provided Kiev with $126 billion worth of aid, a number almost equal to the country’s entire GDP. Moreover, millions of Ukrainians have found refuge in the EU, where they were given housing, food, work permits, and emotional support. The scope is huge, even by Western standards. Considering that the bloc has been funding Kiev while coping with an economic and energy crisis of its own, the assistance is perhaps especially notable.
Kiev bases its endless funding requests on the collapse of its economy, due to the war, and its need to “resist Russian aggression.” But is the aid reaching its intended destination?
While Ukraine has undergone a general mobilization affecting all men under the age of 60, many former and current high-ranking officials, politicians, businessmen, and oligarchs have moved to safety abroad – mainly to the EU.
The mass flight of Ukrainian elites started even prior to the armed conflict. On February 14, 2022, 37 deputies from the Ukrainian president’s parliamentary faction (Servant of the People) suddenly went missing. Had MPs not been banned from leaving the country the very next day, others would have definitely joined them. Meanwhile, former officials and oligarchs enjoyed more freedom to move around. According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, 20 business jets took off from Kiev’s Boryspol airport on the 14th as well.
Tycoons were at the front of the line. Entrepreneur and MP Vadim Novinsky, businessmen Vasily Khmelnitsky and Vadim Stolar, Vadim Nesterenko, and Andrey Stavnitzer all left the country on charter flights. Millionaire politician Igor Abramovich booked a private flight to Austria for 50 people – taking relatives, business partners, and fellow party members aboard. Oligarchs flew from Kiev to Nice, Munich, Vienna, Cyprus, and other EU destinations. Another group of businessmen took off from Odessa on private planes. The owner of Vostok Bank departed for Israel, while the head of the Transship group flew to Limassol. An ex-governor of the Odessa region, Stalkanat’s Vladimir Nemirovsky, also left the country.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/25/war-for-some-bentleys-for-others-as-americans-send-aid-ukraines-corrupt-elites-are-profiting-from-the-conflict/
Is there a link between Sam Bankman Fried, FTX, ‘Aid to Ukraine’ and the Democratic Party?
The crash of FTX has shaken the crypto market, lost institutional investors billions – and individual customers millions – led to official investigations of FTX in several countries, and made some question whether the Bitcoin sphere might crash and burn outright, and perhaps cause wider problems for the financial system.
Some take the view that FTX was a fraud all along, ever since its launch in April 2019. If that’s the case, it has grave implications for the US Democratic Party and Ukrainian government, as the company’s corrupt activity may have been used to fund both, openly and secretly.
Where’s the money, Zelensky?
On March 14, FTX launched a new online portal for cryptocurrency donations, Aid for Ukraine, in partnership with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. Through this, crypto traders, both large and small, could donate bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which FTX would convert into cash for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to spend on weapons and other war-related expenses.
Very rapidly, the fund claimed to have amassed “over” $60 million in donations. By April 14, it was reported that just over $45.15 million of that sum had been splurged on digital rifle scopes, thermal imagers, monoculars, rations, armor, helmets, military clothing, tactical backpacks, fuel, communication devices, laptops, drones, medical supplies, and a “worldwide anti-war media campaign.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/25/is-there-a-link-between-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-aid-to-ukraine-and-the-democratic-party/
NATO armies drained by Ukraine conflict
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/24/nato-armies-drained-by-ukraine-conflict-media/
US lawmaker calls Zelensky’s speech a ‘North Korea-style act’
Vladimir Zelensky’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night was a “North Korea-style act” in which US lawmakers were expected to stand and clap for the Ukrainian president or be branded as traitors, Representative Matt Gaetz has claimed.
Gaetz (Florida) was among several Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado), who were called out by Newsweek and other media outlets for remaining seated while other lawmakers gave Zelensky multiple standing ovations. GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and others who didn’t attend the Ukrainian leader’s latest appeal for additional aid to fight Russia were also criticized.
“When we say you shouldn’t send endless amounts of money to this place where we’re exacerbating death and conflict, it’s like we’re traitors to the movement because Lauren Boebert and I didn’t stand up in some sort of North Korea-style performance,” Gaetz said on Thursday night in a Fox News interview.
Historian and NBC News contributor Michael Beschloss was among the media figures who condemned those who weren’t sufficiently enthusiastic about Zelensky’s visit to Washington. He demanded to know “exactly why” some members of Congress refused to clap. “I’d like to know why that was for two reasons,” he said on MSNBC. “Number one: You’re a public servant, we’re allowed to know those things. You’re supposed to tell us if you’re serving in Congress what the reason was. Do you love Putin, or are you just opposed to democracy, or is there something else?”
On Thursday, the Senate passed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that included nearly $45 billion in new funding for Ukraine. Congress has now approved about $100 billion for US assistance to Ukraine since Russia launched its military offensive against Kiev in February.
Gaetz speculated that congressional leaders saw Zelensky’s visit to Washington as “air cover” for an “indefensible” spending bill. “I feel no compunction to go out and applaud some foreign leader from a historically corrupt country who is begging for more than the $100 billion that the Congress has already set to send them.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/24/us-lawmaker-calls-zelenskys-speech-a-north-korea-style-act/
The uncomfortable truth about neo-Nazis and white supremacists influence on modern-day Ukraine
Tell me who your heroes are, and I will tell you who you are
One historical figure who has emerged as a hero in post-Maidan Ukraine is Stepan Bandera, a leader and ideologist of the militant wing of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). Today, there are streets named after him, people sing songs in his honor and carry his portrait.
Born in Galicia (at the time part of Austria-Hungary) on January 1, 1909, Stepan Bandera was tried on terrorism charges in Poland on multiple occasions. In 1934, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He served his sentence until 1939, when he was released following the German invasion of Poland.
Bandera spent his younger years building a career in nationalist organizations. In 1928, he joined the Ukrainian Military Organization, and in 1929, he became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists where he quickly gained influence. He was instrumental in the split of the organization into two factions in February 1940. Bandera became the leader of the more radical OUN-B, while more moderate members supported Andriy Melnyk's OUN-M.
Both factions supported Hitler’s Third Reich and collaborated with the Germans during WWII. Bandera personally negotiated the creation of the "Ukrainian Legion" under German command that was finally organized as two units. One, commanded by Roman Shukhevych became known as Nachtigall Battalion, and the other, commanded by Richard Yary, was the Roland Battalion. Both were the subunits under command of the Abwehr (the German military-intelligence service) special operation unit Brandenburgers.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/25/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-nazi-influence-in-modern-day-ukraine/
‘All the real skinheads went to Ukraine’: An American Neo-Nazi outlines the crimes of his Ukrainian ‘colleagues’
The discussion with McLellan shatters many myths and lies that have been circulated about the Maidan coup, the current conflict in Ukraine, and the disturbingly strong influence of nationalist movements within the country.
McLellan, the son of the front man of Neo-Nazi rock band Brutal Attack, got involved with far-right activism while just a teenager, and had numerous run-ins with the law for subversive, racially-charged activities. He and other members of the racist organization American Front were detained by the FBI in May 2012, for preparing terrorist acts against ethnic minorities in Florida.
It was this background that led him to travel to Ukraine in 2014. The American fascist circles he moved in had direct links and regular contact with nationalist groups at the forefront of the Maidan, which at the time were hosting large public events “nearly daily in every Oblast that wasn't seeing war.” As did far-right movements in many other nearby countries, including Finland, Georgia, and Latvia.
It seems the US government approved of the presence of McLellan and others in Ukraine at that time. He says he got caught – it’s not clear by whom or what – teaching Ukrainians DNS poisoning, and the Americans “wanted to sit in and help.”
“They didn't want names or anything, but they wanted to monitor the situation. Without this backing I would've been charged with violation of [the] American neutrality act,” McLellan claims.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/25/all-the-real-skinheads-went-to-ukraine-an-american-neo-nazi-outlines-the-crimes-of-his-ukrainian-colleagues/
Zelensky urges US Congress to ‘invest’ in Kiev’s war effort
‘I was nearly shot for not knowing Ukrainian’: Mariupol residents on the horrors of war and the city’s restoration
In three months of fierce combat, most residential buildings were damaged or destroyed. The statistics have been confirmed by hundreds of frightening pictures of the nearly-ruined city, which were seen by the whole world. Ruined homes, broken roads, and destroyed infrastructure form a recognizable image of present-day Mariupol. And yet, thousands of people still live in the city. How do the locals feel about the war and life there today and has the city managed to recover in six months of ‘peaceful’ life? RT’s correspondent tried to find out.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/24/i-was-nearly-shot-for-not-knowing-ukrainian-mariupol-residents-on-the-horrors-of-war-and-the-citys-restoration/
War of the churches: How Ukraine has become unsafe for millions of Orthodox believers
Ukrainian nationalists and the state persecute parishioners of the country’s largest church
“If you believe in God, I beg you, leave the church, let me bury my son!” a grief-stricken woman screams, kneeling in the snow in front of the priest. He is surrounded by Ukrainian officials and territorial defense fighters who are there to help him seize the church. A woman begs him in Ukrainian to stop. Her son, who went to the front and died in the battles for the city of Bakhmut, prayed in this church, and now the mother wants to bid him goodbye. “You didn’t let me pray in front of the icon yesterday, your men beat me up. I beg you to leave, let me bury Volodya!”
Both the woman and the priest are Orthodox Christians, but decades, and even centuries, of political and ecclesiastical turmoil on the territory of modern Ukraine has created a chasm between believers which has grown wider since Russia’s military offensive began, earlier this year.
In Ukraine, which is considered an Orthodox Christian country, not all believers feel comfortable and safe. This is because of actions of the state.
Freedom Reportage explores why Kiev has forgotten Christianity’s vow of “love thy neighbor,” and why believers are ready to use force against their own.
Historically, the religious situation in Ukraine has always been tense. Every political crisis has led to a split in the church: the very formation of the state, the 2014 Euromaidan, the creation of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2018.
Ukraine has never had a united Orthodox church, and the nationalist-minded part of society has long been seeking one. The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) has for many years been the most active denomination, but has been forced to fend off accusations of “working for Moscow” because of its formal subordination to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Russia’s attack has provoked a round of aggression against the UOC, with accusations of it “working for Russia” and “serving the Kremlin” heard with renewed vigor. Meanwhile, Kiev has made the fight against the UOC political.
Immediately after the start of the military operation, the seizure of churches by force began in many regions of Ukraine. In March, armed supporters of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), formed under the previous president, Petro Poroshenko, disrupted a service in the Pokrovsky Church of the Cherkasy region. They started a fight, attacked the priest, and dragged him out of the church. On March 7, the OCU seized the Anno-Zachatievsky Church in the Ivano-Frankovsk region. Opponents of the UOC came to the church, expelled those in attendance , calling them “parishioners of the aggressor” and changed the locks on all the doors.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/25/war-of-the-churches-how-ukraine-has-become-unsafe-for-millions-of-orthodox-believers/
Covid spike in China infected 37 million in one day
The latest internal report from China’s top health authority allegedly claims that the ongoing spike in Coronavirus infections in the country may have seen as many as 37 million people contracting the virus in a single day this week, Bloomberg wrote on Friday.
Citing minutes from a meeting of China’s National Health Commission held on Wednesday as well as persons involved in the discussions, the outlet reported it’s believed that up to 248 million people, or nearly 18% of the country’s total population, have been infected with Covid this month.
The agency also reportedly estimates that more than half of the residents of China’s southwest province of Sichuan and the country’s capital Beijing have been infected since the government lifted its zero-Covid restrictions earlier this month.
No information on covid-related deaths was presented at the meeting, according to Bloomberg’s sources, who claim the board did discuss new and much narrower definitions used to count such fatalities. The agency reportedly acknowledged that deaths will inevitably occur as infections continue to spike and has allegedly sent out a warning to all regions to prepare for a surge in severe cases.
It is not clear, however, how exactly the NHC came up with the estimates reported by Bloomberg, as the agency officially claimed only 3,761 new local Covid-19 cases and zero deaths on Thursday, while putting the total number of infections this week at 14,285 along with seven deaths.
Obtaining accurate estimates has also been more difficult after Chinese National health authorities stopped announcing asymptomatic cases, after mass testing via a vast network of PCR testing booths was abandoned earlier this month, as most people started using rapid antigen tests at home to determine infection status.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/24/covid-spike-in-china-infected-37-million-in-one-day/
Will Argentina’s wild win over France go down as the greatest world cup of all time?
Whether this will go down as the greatest world cup of all time is still up in the air but it will surely go down as the finest World Cup final of all time, the most pulsating, one of the greatest games in history because of how Kylian Mbappé hauled France up off the canvas towards the end of normal time.
It had been billed as Messi v Mbappe, the Argentinian hero opening the scoring from the penalty spot and having a hand in Ángel Di María’s goal for 2-0. But then came Mbappé, shattering the notion that Argentina would close out the win with the minimum of fuss. This Argentina team do not really operate like that. They love to trade in late drama. Think of their wins over Australia and the Netherlands in the knockout rounds.
A part of the story was France’s champion courage, the 2018 winners being revived by a clutch of Didier Deschamps substitutions. That and Mbappé, who was unplayable from the 80th minute. He scored twice in 97 seconds to force extra-time; the first a penalty, the second a sublime side-on volley and there was a point towards the end of regulation time when he appeared hell-bent on making sure that the additional period would not be needed.
Back came Argentina in extra-time, Messi scoring his second for 3-2. But back came France, Mbappé equalising with a second penalty on 118 minutes for his hat-trick and the Golden Boot. He finished the tournament with eight – one more than Messi. He joined Sir Geoff Hurst as a hat-trick scorer in the men’s final.
At this point it is worth delving into the mayhem that gripped at the very end of extra-time.
Neither team were ready to accept that a penalty shootout was inevitable. Not a bit of it. Randal Kolo Muani, on as a substitute for the game of his life, could not stretch to head home a cross byMbappé and will have nightmares about the one-on-one that he failed to convert, the Argentina goalkeeper, Emiliano Martínez, coming out on top.
At the other end the Argentina substitute Lautaro Martínez blew a gilt-edged header and then Mbappé beat two men on yet another explosive burst but not a third. Never has so much been crammed into an extra-time finale.
So to penalties and, after Mbappé and Messi had scored, it was over to Emiliano Martínez and some of his dark arts to make the difference. After he had saved from the substitute Kingsley Coman, Martínez threw the ball away before the next France kick, forcing the 22-year-old Aurélien Tchouaméni to go and fetch it, further heightening his anxiety. Tchouaméni dragged his kick past the post.
Martínez had to be physically restrained by the referee, Szymon Marciniak, from confronting France’s next taker, Kolo Muani. Martínez was booked; Kolo Muani lashed home. But the scene was set for the substitute Gonzalo Montiel to win it – to crown Messi and Argentina.
When Montiel scored, Messi sank to his knees in the centre circle, engulfed by teammates. Argentina’s third World Cup will go down as Messi’s World Cup, just as the second in 1986 had belonged to Maradona. Both men came to transcend their teams and the tournaments, with Messi collecting the Golden Ball here as the competition’s star player. It has long felt as if he has had a celestial scriptwriter at work, guiding him to his destiny. The image of him and the trophy was what so many fans – and not just those from Argentina – had craved.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/18/will-this-go-down-as-the-greatest-world-cup-of-all-time/
The Twitter Files, Explained
Late Friday night, journalist Matt Taibbi released “The Twitter Files,” a batch of emails sent by Twitter executives discussing the company’s decision to stop an October 2020 New York Post story in its online tracks.
In October 2020, three weeks before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, The New York Post published an exclusive, possibly explosive story: Biden’s Secret Emails: Ukrainian exec thanked Hunter Biden for ‘opportunity to meet’ veep dad. The story purported to report the contents of a laptop brought to the tabloid by the owner of a Delaware computer repair shop, who said it had belonged to, and been abandoned by, President Biden’s second son, Hunter Biden. Emails and files found on the laptop revealed how Hunter had peddled influence with Ukranian businessmen, the Post claimed –and also included “a raunchy, 12-minute video” showing Hunter smoking crack and having sex.
After the Post story was published, Twitter barred anyone from tweeting a link to it or sending it via direct message, labeling it “hacked material.” The company also suspended the Post’s account for multiple days, preventing it from tweeting further.
Matt Taibbi kicked off a long thread of more than three dozen tweets, based on internal Twitter documents, that revealed what he described as “a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.”
To Musk, this release clears a dark cloud hanging over Twitter as he works to mold Twitter in his image, cleansing and redirecting both its public perception and internal culture. It is possible that the CEO himself handed the documents to Taibbi, but we do not know for sure. Musk did hype the document dump ahead of and during its publication, but Taibbi cited only “internal sources.”
In the thread, Taibbi shares screenshots from emails showing Twitter execs discussing the Post story and making efforts to block its distribution on the social network. The emails, Taibbi says, show the “extraordinary steps” Twitter took “ to suppress the story.”
Amongst the trove of files includes messages from Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, revealing he was running out of “generic” names to disguise his increasingly regular meetings with federal officials ahead of the 2020 election in the company calendar.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/12/the-twitter-files-explained/
Democrats propose $1.75B abortion travel subsidy to help baby killers violate state laws
Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced legislation this week that would provide a $350 million per year grant program to help pay these costs for women. Total cost for the five-year program would be $1.75 billion, and the money would go to non-profit groups who can help women in states with strict abortion restrictions get to less-restrictive states to terminate their pregnancy.
The two senators said the bill would give women more options after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and left it up to states to regulate abortion as they see fit.
“In overturning Roe and passing one extreme state abortion ban after the next, Republicans have unleashed a full-fledged health care crisis that is jeopardizing women’s health and forcing them to stay pregnant against their will,” said Murray. “This moment calls for bold solutions — and that’s why I’ve proposed creating a new, historic abortion fund and why I’m proud to cosponsor Senator Baldwin’s bill to help get women the abortion care they need.”
Baldwin’s home state of Wisconsin allows abortion up until 20 weeks of pregnancy, but she said women are being “forced to travel out of state just to see a doctor for critical health care, including abortion.”
“By reducing the costs of travel for people seeking reproductive care, more Americans will be able to make the health care decisions that are best for their family, health, and future,” she said.
Under the bill, $350 million per year would be distributed to non-profit groups that can help women seek out an abortion. The money would be awarded by the Treasury Secretary and would be aimed at groups that help people in states with “severely restricted access to abortion” and people who are more likely to have to travel out of state to get an abortion on more favorable terms.
In addition to travel, lodging and meals, the subsidy can also cover childcare costs, translation services and post-procedure care, but not the cost of the procedure itself.
Roe v. Wade was struck down in June in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that ended constitutional protection for abortion rights and returned the matter to the states. Since that ruling, Democrats have pushed for policies aimed at helping women travel to states with less restrictive abortion policies, which could let them obtain abortions later in their pregnancy than allowed in their home state.
The Defense Department reacted similarly, saying they would give service members time off and even fund some of the costs of traveling to another state for an abortion.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/14/democrats-propose-1-75b-abortion-travel-subsidy-to-help-baby-killers-violate-state-laws/
Biden Invites Drag Queen Who Said ‘The Kids are Out to Suck Dick’ To White House Bill Signing Ceremony
Marti G. Cummings, an anti-police activist and self-described “drag artist,” thanked Biden for inviting him to the White House event.
“To be a non-binary drag artist invited to the White House is something I never imagined would happen,” the drag queen said. “Grateful doesn’t begin to express the emotions I feel.”
Cummings has made several eyebrow-raising remarks about children regarding the LGBTQ movement on social media.
“The kids are out to sing and suck d!” Cummings tweeted in March.
Graphic photos on social media show Cummings posing in drag with half naked men, while others show him in drag posing with young children.
A separate Instagram post by Cummings shows him and other drag queens surrounding a child wearing a rainbow flag shirt, bragging that the child “wants to perform with us next year!”
Biden has a history of hobnobbing with drag queens and “transgenders” at the White House
freedomreportage.com/2022/12/14/biden-invites-drag-queen-who-said-the-kids-are-out-to-suck-dick-to-white-house-bill-signing-ceremony/
Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested Hours Before Congressional Testimony, Set For ‘Prompt’ Extradition From the Bahamas
Just hours after refusing to attend a Senate hearing on his role in the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamian Police Force.
Statement from the Attorney General of The Bahamas Sen. Ryan Pinder KC on the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried
On 12 December 2022, the Office of the Attorney General of The Bahamas is announcing the arrest by The Royal Bahamas Police Force of Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”), former CEO of FTX. SBF’s arrest followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition.As a result of the notification received and the material provided therewith, it was deemed appropriate for the Attorney General to seek SBF’s arrest and hold him in custody pursuant to our nation’s Extradition Act.At such time as a formal request for extradition is made, The Bahamas intends to process it promptly, pursuant to Bahamian law and its treaty obligations with the United States.Responding to SBF’s arrest, Prime Minister Davis stated, “The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law. While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, The Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere.”Official Statement below:
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams unveiled Sam Bankman Fried’s indictment, revealing the disgraced Democrat mega donor was charged with eight crimes, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
“It’s fair to say that […] this is one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” Williams said.
“For every day of the past month, the dedicated prosecutors of this office and our partners from the FBI, SEC, and CFTC have been working around the clock to figure out what happened and to begin the process of seeking justice,” Williams said.
Williams said that FTX had been misappropriating funds as far back as 2019.
“FTX operated behind a veneer of legitimacy,” said SEC Director of Enforcement Gurbir Grewal. “That veneer wasn’t just thin, it was illegitimate.”
Bankman-Fried is being charged with not only allegedly defrauding customers of FTX, but also lenders who gave money to Alameda Research and those who invested in his exchange. He is also being charged with violations of campaign finance law. Williams said that stolen customer funds were used by Bankman-Fried to donate to political candidates and pursue influence.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/14/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-hours-before-congressional-testimony-set-for-prompt-extradition-from-the-bahamas/
U.S. Government Has Been Planning to ‘Lockdown and Wait for a Vaccine’ Since 2007
More and more evidence is coming to light that the ‘lockdown and wait for a vaccine’ strategy unleashed in 2020 was being cooked up inside the U.S. Government for decades before COVID-19 appeared and gave too many people an excuse to put the dreadful plan into action.
Recently the role of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) in producing key lockdown guidance for America in March 2020 came to light.
Now, a pandemic plan from 2007 produced by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and currently hosted on the CISA website has emerged.
The plan contains the original list of pandemic ‘essential businesses’ that was used by CISA in 2020 to lock down America. The 2007 plan (which was itself based on a Department of Homeland Security planfrom the previous year) clearly states the intention to ban large gatherings “indefinitely”, close schools and non-essential businesses, institute work-from-home, and quarantine exposed and not just sick individuals. The aim is simple and clear: to slow the spread to wait for a vaccine.
During a pandemic, the goal will be to slow the virus’ transmission; delaying the spread of the virus will provide more time for vaccine development while reducing the stress on an already burdened healthcare system.Here’s the relevant section of the 2007 NIAC plan in full.
2006 and 2007 were turning points in U.S. biodefence planning. Prior to 2006, such planning had been focused on biological attacks, but then major mission creep set in and the new draconian ideas were applied wholesale to general pandemic planning. This controversial switch in focus so riled leading U.S. disease expert D.A. Henderson, who had been involved with the project up to that point, that he issued his famous riposte objecting in the strongest terms to the new ideas.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/14/u-s-government-has-been-planning-to-lockdown-and-wait-for-a-vaccine-since-2007/
Ari Emanuel: Blacks Must Reject The Division and Unite With Jews Against Whitey
Ari Emanuel: The Kanye West show must not distract us from the corrosive virus taking root
By Ari Emanuel | Dec 09, 2022 at 5:00 am
Kanye West is not the big problem. Of course, praising Hitler is vile. And it’s easy to condemn – and get distracted. And what the cartoonish Kanye clown show distracts us from is what’s going on under the big top — how the virus of antisemitism and hate and division is spreading and attacking the foundations of our culture.
In the last year, we’ve seen how antisemitic conspiracies from the far right about Jewish control of politics, finance and Hollywood have become mainstreamed. Dave Chappelle’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue was funny, but the problem with dancing on the line of antisemitic tropes is that he was doing it for an audience that no longer has a shared understanding of how dangerous they are. No doubt many thought it was funny. No doubt that it gave others permission to repeat their own versions of the tropes going forward. Every time someone like Kanye goes too far, the antisemitic Overton window gets shifted. And bit by bit, the line of what’s acceptable to say moves.
It was not until Kanye praised Hitler that the official Twitter account from the Republican House Judiciary Committee took down the tweet reading, simply: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” The tweet had been up since Oct. 6. […]
For today. It’s up to all of us to stop regarding silence as an acceptable option — not just for cartoonish praising of Hitler, but for more insidious, wink-wink, dog-whistle forms of hate directed at any group. At his postgame news conference on Nov. 30, LeBron James spoke out about the double-standard on being asked to speak out. He asked reporters why he’d been repeatedly pressed about the controversy over Kyrie Irving (about which, in fact, LeBron did speak out), but hadn’t been asked a single question about the 1957 photo, published last month in The Washington Post, showing Jerry Jones in a group of teens confronting Black students at a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
James is absolutely right. We should all speak out — about the hateful racism that’s unfolding in the photo, about Kyrie, about West, about Trump, and about the normalization of white supremacy, antisemitism and racism.
Translation: “Jews and Blacks should get together and get whitey.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/12/ari-emanuel-blacks-must-reject-the-division-and-unite-with-jews-against-whitey/
‘My Pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci’: Elon Musk to Release Twitter Files on COVID and Dr. Fauci
Musk dropped a bomb Sunday hinting he’ll release Twitter files related to White House Coronavirus Response Team leader Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID pandemic.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted.
Musk followed up with a meme mocking Fauci continually advising Joe Biden to keep locking people down to fight the COVID pandemic.
When asked if he was about to release Twitter Files on COVID and the “suppression of what has turned out to be factual information,” Musk responded, “Oh it is coming bigtime.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/12/12/my-pronouns-are-prosecute-fauci-elon-musk-to-release-twitter-files-on-covid-and-dr-fauci/
Balenciaga Fans Destroy Thousands of Dollars of Designer Clothes In Protest Amid BDSM Pedophile Photoshoot
Former Balenciaga fans filmed themselves burning and shredding up designer clothes from the fashion brand over its BDSM pedophile photoshoot scandal.
YouTuber Omi In a Hellcat declared Balenciaga was dead to him before burning all the shoes and clothes he bought from the Spain-based brand.
“Cancelled. And if you wear this bullsh*t, don’t come around my kids ever again,” he stated as he kicked his shoes into a pile.
“I’m not giving this sh*t away. I’m burning everything, because if you wear this, you represent pedophilia, and I don’t f*ck with it.”
“I’m the biggest Balenciaga fan. But these gotta go. Cancelled,” he added before burning apparel valued at thousands of dollars in his backyard grill.
Another Balenciaga patron, Chloe Hennessey from East London, filmed herself cutting up her luxury £600 hoodie, and a t-shirt and sunglasses worth £1,700 total.
Hennessey learned of the scandal after posting a video of herself on social media wearing her Balenciaga glasses.
“I actually love Balenciaga. They used to be my favorite brand,” she said. “I had been home with my son as he’s been sick, so I didn’t know what was going on, when I posted the video. I was really confused about people calling me a pedophile.”
“After I started investigation my whole TikTok was flooded with videos about what happened. I felt sick to my stomach.”
That’s when she decided to destroy her Balenciaga gear.
“People have asked why I didn’t just donate my stuff, but if I did someone else would be wearing it and promoting them,” she explained.
“Obviously I’m not rich, so it was annoying to have to get rid of all of it, but taking a stand is so much more important in my opinion.”
A TikTok user with 65,000 followers recorded herself tearing up her black leather bag, which she said cost $1,500.
“This is basically my everyday bag. It’s not going to be anymore,” she said before cutting the strap with scissors.
Other users across TikTok are also filming themselves destroying Belanciaga merchandise.
A street artist also vandalized a Balenciaga store’s shop windows in Central London with clean stenciled text that reads “PEDOPHILIA.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/01/balenciaga-fans-destroy-thousands-of-dollars-of-designer-clothes-in-protest-amid-bdsm-pedophile-photoshoot/
Retired Navy SEAL Chris Beck, who came out as trans, announces detransition: ‘destroyed my life’
A retired Navy SEAL who became famous nearly 10 years ago after coming out as transgender announced he is detransitioning and called on Americans to “wake up” about how transgender health services are hurting children.
“Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it,” Chris Beck, formerly known as Kristin Beck, told conservative influencer Robby Starbuck in an interview published earlier this month. “Everything that happened to me for the last ten years destroyed my life. I destroyed my life. I’m not a victim. I did this to myself, but I had help.”
“I take full responsibility,” he continued. “I went on CNN and everything else, and that’s why I’m here right now, I’m trying to correct that.”
Beck gained notoriety in 2013 when he spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper about transitioning to a woman.
“I was used … I was very naive, I was in a really bad way, and I got taken advantage of. I got propagandized. I got used badly by a lot of people who had knowledge way beyond me. They knew what they were doing. I didn’t,” he said during the interview.
Beck served in the US Navy for 20 years, including on SEAL Team Six. He was deployed 13 times and received more than 50 medals and ribbons for his service.
Beck said he’s speaking out about transgenderism to protect children in the current political climate, where there are gender clinics “over all of America.”
“There are thousands of gender clinics being put up over all of America,” he said. “As soon as [kids] go in and say, ‘I’m a tomboy or this makes me feel comfortable’ and then a psychologist says, ‘oh, you’re transgender’. And then the next day you’re on hormones – the same hormones they are using for medical castration for pedophiles. Now they are giving this to healthy 13-year-olds.”
“Does this seem right,” he asked. “This is why I am trying to tell America to wake up.”
Beck said that when he began transitioning, it took just an hour-long meeting at Veterans Affairs to be offered hormones.
“I walked into a psychologist’s office [and] in one day I have a letter in my hand saying I was transgender. I was authorized for hormones. I was authorized all this other stuff,” Beck said.
“I had so much going wrong in my system when I started taking those,” he added. “Some of that was paid for by the VA, and I’m sorry to the American people that I did that.”
Beck said he has been off of hormones for about seven years now.
“This is a billion-dollar industry between psychologists, between surgeries, between hormones, between chemicals, between follow-up treatments,” he continued. “There are thousands of gender clinics popping up all over our country. And each of those gender clinics is going to be pulling in probably over $50 million.”
This episode is also available as an article: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/12/retired-navy-seal-chris-beck-who-came-out-as-trans-announces-detransition-destroyed-my-life/
BlackRock: Prepare For Recession “Unlike Any Other”… And What Worked Before “Won’t Work Now”
The world’s largest investment manager has gone all in – and says a global recession is right around the corner. What’s more, the financial tricks deployed by Central Banks in the past ‘won’t work this time.’
According to BlackRock, the global economy has entered a phase of elevated volatility, and that a recession is imminent due to central banks aggressively boosting borrowing costs to tame inflation. Their actions, according to a team of BlackRock strategists, will ignite more market turbulence than ever before.
“Recession is foretold as central banks race to try to tame inflation. It’s the opposite of past recessions,” the team wrote In their 2023 Global Outlook (embedded below), which says that the global economy has already exited a four-decade period of stable growth and inflation, and has now entered a period of heightened instability.
And when things get bad, “Central bankers won’t ride to the rescue when growth slows in this new regime, contrary to what investors have come to expect. Equity valuations don’t yet reflect the damage ahead.”
“What worked in the past won’t work now,” said the strategists. “The old playbook of simply ‘buying the dip’ doesn’t apply in this regime of sharper trade-offs and greater macro volatility. We don’t see a return to conditions that will sustain a joint bull market in stocks and bonds of the kind we experienced in the prior decade.”
So what can actually tame inflation? A deep recession, according to the report.
This episode is also available: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/12/12/blackrock-prepare-for-recession-unlike-any-other-and-what-worked-before-wont-work-now/
After Years of “Stimulus” Come Surging Debt and Falling Wages
That’s not exactly great news, as so many indicators point to a recession—and the worsening job situation that comes with it—on the horizon. Many Americans may soon find themselves with more debt and higher interest rates, all while real wages are falling.
Earlier this month, Bankrate.com reported that the average credit card interest rate has climbed to 19.04 percent. That’s a thirty-year high and the highest rate since 1991, when the rate hit 19.00 percent. That can mean real financial trouble for ordinary households, but it’s what we should expect in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s policy shift to finally allow interest rates to drift upward this year after more than a decade of quantitative easing and ultralow interest rates. Over the past year, the Fed has increased the target federal funds rate from 0.25 percent to 4.00 percent. NBC reports on how this affects credit card debt:
Increasing the federal funds rate cranks up what’s known as the prime rate. That’s the interest rate banks charge their most creditworthy customers. Currently, it is 7%. The final annual percentage rate for a credit card is determined by the prime rate plus a bank’s margin for lending to a given customer.
The new average is a substantial increase from the 16.3% average rate for credit cards at the beginning of the year. According to Bankrate, if you carry a $5,000 balance on a credit card—which is the current national average—making just the minimum payment each month at that rate would cost $5,517 in interest over 185 months, or about 15 years. At today’s 19.04% rate, you would pay $6,546.
The Fed also reported that “the strength in credit card demand and access coincided with the record growth in credit card balances over the past year.” In its third-quarter report on household debt, the Fed further noted, “Credit card balances saw a $38 billion increase since the second quarter, a 15% year-over-year increase” and “the largest in more than 20 years.”
Consumers apparently expect to be spending more with credit cards in the near future as well, as many are applying for even more consumer credit. According to a new report released by the New York Federal Reserve on Monday, Americans are pursuing less mortgage and auto debt, but continue to turn to credit cards:
The application rate for credit cards remained robust during 2022, reaching 27.1% in October 2022, above its October 2021 level of 26.5% and its pre-pandemic reading of 26.3% in February 2020. The average application rate for credit cards for 2022 overall was 26.7%, 3.6 percentage points higher than the average rate for 2021.
Should we be worried about this? Fed economists would tell you no. They assume that Americans have a huge savings stockpile that they can use to pay down debt or to avoid default. Yet this casual attitude toward mounting debt appears less and less warranted every day. With the job market softening, real wages falling, and interest rates rising, increasing debt can’t so easily be waved off.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/11/27/after-years-of-stimulus-come-surging-debt-and-falling-wages/
Kanye Warned About ‘Protecting Kids’ From Subliminal Messages in Media
As we previously highlighted, despite news outlets declaring the issue to be a “conspiracy theory,” the fashion label was forced to apologize for a fashion shoot which sexualized kids.
Images to promote Balenciaga’s Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2023 collection showed young girls holding plush bear bags adorned with bondage gear.
The bears are seen wearing padlocks, fishnets, leather harnesses, as well as ankle and wrist restraints.
Another photo court showed documents concerning Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition, a 2002 Supreme Court case. The case struck down a portion of the Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) of 1996, ruling that “virtual” child pornography is protected speech.
After Balenciaga claimed they were taking legal action against the photographer responsible for the shoot, Gabriele Galimberti said that Balenciaga was to blame for including the offensive items in the set up, and that he was a scapegoat.
Twitter users highlighted a previous warning by Kanye West that the media was putting subliminal messages into content to harm kids.
“Protecting your kids from the indoctrination of the media, the thousands and thousands of images that are fed to children by the age of 6 or 7,” said Kanye during a public event.
“And within those images, there are images mixed in that we don’t know about as parents that are purposely mixed in to lower the kid’s superpower and esteem so that they can be more susceptible to consumption and feel that they need to consume and become part of the robotic numeric system that controls so much of the media,” he added.
Echoing sentiments expressed by Candace Owens this week, Kanye is also reportedly planning to launch a campaign calling on celebrities to choose a side and disassociate with companies that are embroiled with the targeting and abuse of children.
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/11/27/kanye-warned-about-protecting-kids-from-subliminal-messages-in-media/
Balenciaga Ads Show Young Kids Holding Sex Bondage Teddy Bears With Child Porn Court Papers In Background
Trump Downplays “Quick And Uneventful” Meeting With Kanye
Posting to Truth Social Friday, Trump said West had made arrangements to meet with him last week before showing up at his Mar-a-Lago resort “unexpectedly.”
“This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump stated the day after Thanksgiving.
“Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.”
In a statement to Breitbart discussing the meeting, Trump’s campaign stated, “Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”
The two guests Ye brought with him were reportedly political strategist Karen Giorno and controversial leader of the America First movement Nick Fuentes.
Earlier this week, the rapper now known as “Ye” tweeted he was at Trump’s West Palm Beach resort, and that he asked the former president to be his running mate.
“First time at Mar-a-Lago Rain and traffic,” Ye tweeted. “Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting,” he wrote, adding, “And I had on jeans Yikes.”
“What you guys think his response was when I asked him to be my running mate in 2024?” he asked, despite Trump’s big announcement earlier this month declaring he would again be seeking the presidency.
Meanwhile, Ye’s announcement he would again run for president in 2024 was much less ceremonious, with him mentioning it in an offhanded comment during a live recording inside one of his clothing factories.
In an update posted to Twitter Thursday, Ye speaking beside his newly enlisted campaign worker former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannapolous claimed Trump behaved in a “would-be mob-esque” manner when explaining why he didn’t free the January 6 protesters, before going on to claim the former president issued an insult towards his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
“Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes,” claimed Ye.
Kanye then described Trump as unhinged as he allegedly “screamed” at the rapper his presidential bid would not succeed.
“When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose, I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history? Telling Ye that I’m going to lose?”
“I’m like, ‘Hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’”
Back in 2018, Trump invited the rapper, who admits he “loves Trump,” to meet with him in the White House’s Oval Office, where Ye famously wore the president’s trademark Make America Great Again ball cap.
It’s apparent Trump is unamused by Ye’s recent stunt, but is the rapper really serious about mounting another presidential bid, especially against a showstopper political force like Trump?
This episode is also available as a blog post: freedomreportage.com/2022/11/27/trump-downplays-quick-and-uneventful-meeting-with-kanye/
Global Rate Hikes Risk Setting Off a Global Debt Bomb
Raising interest rates is a necessary but insufficient measure to combat inflation.
To reduce inflation to 2 percent, central banks must significantly reduce their balance sheets, which has not yet occurred in local currency, and governments must reduce spending, which is highly unlikely.
The most challenging obstacle is also the accumulation of debt.
The so-called expansionary policies have not been an instrument for reducing debt, but rather for increasing it. In the second quarter of 2022, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the global debt-to-GDP ratio will approach 350 percent of GDP. IIF anticipates that the global debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 352 percent by the end of 2022.
Global issuances of high-yield debt have slowed but remain elevated. According to the IMF, the total issuance of European and American high-yield bonds reached a record high of $1,6 trillion in 2021, as businesses and investors capitalized on still low interest rates and high liquidity. According to the IMF, high-yield bond issuances in the United States and Europe will reach $700 billion in 2022, similar to 2008 levels. All of the risky debt accumulated over the past few years will need to be refinanced between 2023 and 2025, requiring the refinancing of over $10 trillion of the riskiest debt at much higher interest rates and with less liquidity.
Moody’s estimates that United States corporate debt maturities will total $785 billion in 2023 and $800 billion in 2024. This increases the maturities of the Federal government. The United States has $31 trillion in outstanding debt with a five-year average maturity, resulting in $5 trillion in refinancing needs during fiscal 2023 and a $2 trillion budget deficit. Knowing that the federal debt of the United States will be refinanced increases the risk of crowding out and liquidity stress on the debt market.
According to The Economist, the cumulative interest bill for the United States between 2023 and 2027 should be less than 3 percent of GDP, which appears manageable. However, as a result of the current path of rate hikes, this number has increased, which exacerbates an already unsustainable fiscal problem.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/11/27/global-rate-hikes-risk-setting-off-a-global-debt-bomb/
Trump Praised Nick Fuentes During Group Meeting With Ye at Mar-a-Lago: ‘I Really Like This Guy. He Gets Me’
Former President Donald Trump was reportedly smitten with conservative firebrand Nick Fuentes after Kanye “Ye” West brought him along for a group meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night.
Behind the scenes: A source familiar with the dinner conversation told Axios that Trump “seemed very taken” with Fuentes, impressed that the 24-year-old was able to rattle off statistics and recall speeches dating back to his 2016 campaign.
– Paraphrasing the conversation, the source said Fuentes told the president he preferred him to be “authentic,” and that Trump seemed scripted and unlike himself during his recent 2024 campaign announcement speech.
– Trump responded, “You like it better when I just speak off the cuff,” the source said. Fuentes replied that he did, calling Trump an “amazing” president when he was unrestrained. “There was a lot of fawning back and forth,” the source added.
Fuentes told Trump that he represented a side of Trump’s base that was disappointed with his newly cautious approach, especially with what some far-right activists view as a lack of support for those charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
– Trump didn’t disagree with Fuentes, but said he has advisers who want him to read off teleprompters and be more “presidential.”Notably, Trump referred to himself as a politician, which he has been loathe to do in the past.
– Fuentes also told Trump that he would crush potential 2024 Republican rivals in a primary, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump asked for Fuentes’ opinion on other candidates as well.
Trump at one point turned to Ye and said, “I really like this guy. He gets me,” according to the source.
– “To be honest, I don’t believe the president knew who the hell [Fuentes] was,” the source added.
Trump asked if Fuentes was on social media such as Truth Social, the former president’s alternative to Twitter.
– Fuentes told Trump that he was on Truth Social but had been banned from the social media platform Gettr because Trump adviser Jason Miller, the CEO of the company, wasn’t a fan of his.
– Trump asked whether it was because Fuentes was on the “fringe” of his supporter base, the source said. Fuentes acknowledged that he was, saying he’s “one of those people who got banned from everything.”
Driving the news: Ye, whose Twitter account was recently restored after being restricted for anti-Semitic comments, posted a video on Thursday night titled “Mar-a-Lago debrief.”
Ye claims in the video that Trump was “really impressed” with Fuentes because “unlike so many of the lawyers and so many people that he was left with on his 2020 campaign, he’s actually a loyalist.”
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/11/27/trump-praised-nick-fuentes-during-group-meeting-with-ye-at-mar-a-lago-i-really-like-this-guy-he-gets-me/
Joe Biden Says It May Take Several Days For Democrat Votes To Be Double-Counted
WASHINGTON, DC — As the date of next week’s midterm elections approaches, President Joe Biden used his Wednesday night address to warn everyone that the results may not immediately be known because it may take several days for enough Democrat votes to be harvested and double-counted.
“Despite the fact that third-world countries around the globe are capable of tallying their votes on the same day as their elections, it’s simply not realistic to expect that from the world’s most technologically advanced nation,” Biden shouted with an unnecessary amount of anger to the assembled crowd made up entirely of White House staffers and the media. “Folks, we’ve got to take our time, find out how far behind we are, and wait for the unmarked vans carrying bags full of ballots to arrive in the middle of the night. Then we gotta find out how many times we have to count each ballot. Tomato soup.”
As First Lady Jill Biden and Secret Service agents quickly grabbed the President and pulled him away from the podium, White House spokesperson Holly Caust provided the media with a backtracking statement. “What the President was actually trying to say is that we will make sure our democratic process plays out in its entirety without anyone’s right to vote being suppressed. There’s simply no time limit on counting votes, even if various state laws clearly state otherwise.”
At publishing time, Democrat operatives across the country were continuing to stock up on snacks and making sure the voting machines at polling stations were successfully connected to the internet in preparation for next week’s marathon vote-manufacturing sessions.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://freedomreportage.com/2022/11/06/joe-biden-says-it-may-take-several-days-for-democrat-votes-to-be-double-counted/
Joe Biden Admits Republicans May Impeach Him if They ‘Win Back House and Senate’
A number of conservative US lawmakers have repeatedly signaled their readiness to bring articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden if Republicans win back a majority in the House of Representatives in the November 8th midterms.
US President Joe Biden seems to have acknowledged that Republicans possibly taking over Congress in next week’s midterm elections may lead to him being impeached.
In an address to his supporters in San Diego, Biden said that he was “already being told if they [GOP members] win back the House and Senate, they’re gonna [sic] impeach” him.
“I don’t know what the hell they’re gonna impeach me for. I’m not joking. Recently they said ‘we should stop talking about that ’til we win’,” he added.
This followed No. 3 House Republican Elise Stefanik telling US media earlier this month that GOP lawmakers could decide to impeach the 46th president next year after probing his family’s foreign consulting businesses and his “illegal” request that OPEC+ delay oil production cuts until after the midterm elections.
The chair of the House Republican Conference argued that “when there’s an egregious abuse of power and high crimes and misdemeanors, that means anything is on the table.” Stefanik insisted that the White House’s request related to OPEC+ was a “very egregious, inappropriate and illegal action by the president.”
“I am very concerned about it, but it doesn’t surprise me. The Democrats are absolutely desperate. It is illegal and it will be taken into consideration,” Stefanik asserted.
The remarks were preceded by House Republican Bob Good stressing that he had “consistently said President Biden should be impeached for intentionally opening our border and making Americans less safe.” According to him, “Congress has a duty to hold the President accountable for this and any other failures of his Constitutional responsibilities, so a new Republican majority must be prepared to aggressively conduct oversight on day one.”
A recent YouGov survey revealed that at least 27% of US “adult citizens” expect a Republican-led Congress would impeach Biden — a view that is shared by roughly equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, 32% and 29%, respectively.
Last year saw an array of GOP lawmakers accuse Biden of “high crimes and misdemeanors” and blame him for a spate of his policy failings, including the US’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the migrant crisis plaguing the US southern border with Mexico.
Nearly Half of Voters Believe ‘Secret Cabal’ Controls U.S. Government
Almost half of U.S. voters believe the federal government is controlled by a “secret cabal,” according to a new poll.
The Benenson Strategy Group, headed by Obama campaign pollster Joel Benenson, surveyed 1,000 Americans between Oct. 27-30 to see how much they were influenced by “QAnon” conspiracy theories.
“We wanted to test QAnon’s language that the world is controlled by a secret cabal,” Benenson told Axios. “Given that the U.S. is the world’s strongest democracy, we wanted to see how far the appeal of language like that might reach.”
The result: 44% of respondents believed the U.S. government is “controlled by a secret cabal.”
The respondents broken down by political affiliation: 66% of Democrats, 55% of Republicans, 54% of independents.
The majority of Republican respondents, 53%, believe the government is controlled by a secret cabal, while only 37% of Democrats believe that notion.
Interestingly, the same poll found “59% of voters agree that the U.S. is a strong democracy.”
Though the survey is framed as a measure of how Americans are influenced by “QAnon,” the fact many Americans believe a “secret cabal” pulls the strings of government isn’t all that surprising given public remarks by top globalists like World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab.
Schwab bragged during a 2017 conference that WEF acolytes “penetrate the cabinets” of world governments to push their Great Reset agenda and other related initiatives.
“And I have to say, when I mention our names, like [former German Chancellor] Mrs. Merkel, even [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and so on, they all have been young global leaders of the World Economic Forum,” Schwab said.
“So we penetrate the cabinets,” Schwab admitted. “So yesterday, I was at the reception for [Canadian] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and I would know that half of this cabinet or even more than half of this cabinet are our actually young global leaders of the world.”
Since Democrats control all three branches of government, it stands to reason the 44% of voters believe they are controlled by this secret cabal, a revelation that does not bode well for them with the midterms only days away.
ADL Orders Global Advertiser Boycott to Destroy Elon Musk’s Twitter For Not Censoring Kanye West and Kyrie Irving
The Anti-Defamation League, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in America, ordered a global advertiser boycott of Elon Musk’s Twitter on Friday for not doing enough to censor Kanye “Ye” West and other critics of their power.
The ADL released a statement on Twitter Calling on Advertisers to Pause Their Spend on Twitter:
“Today, we are joining dozens of other groups to ask advertisers to pause Twitter spending because we are profoundly concerned about antisemitism and hate on the platform. Here’s why we’re asking advertisers to #StopHateForProfit and #StopToxicTwitter“
This past Tuesday, Twitter’s new owner elonmusk met with representatives from U.S civil society organizations, including Greenblatt and Yael Eisenstat. Following that meeting, Musk pledged that “Twitter will continue to combat hate & harassment,” including antisemitism. Since that meeting, Musk permitted Kanye West to start posting again. From Ye’s “Death Con 3” tweet to Kyrie Irving promoting an antisemitic film, we’ve seen celebrities use Twitter to disseminate antisemitic conspiracy theories and hate to tens of millions of followers.
ADL CEO Greenblatt put out a statement on Wednesday through his global boycotting pressure operation “Stop Hate For Profit”:
Kanye Leaks Texts from His Jewish Trainer Threatening to have him Forcibly Institutionalized unless he Apologized to Jewish People
Kanye West on Thursday returned to Twitter and shared scandalous texts purportedly from his Jewish trainer Harley Pasternak telling him to “please apologize to my people” or else he’ll have him “institutionalized again where they medicate the crap out of you, and you go back to Zombieland forever.”
West said during his now-censored interview on Drink Champs last month that Pasternak first put out the narrative that he was crazy when he was hospitalized for exhaustion in 2016.
“They put the ‘crazy’ narrative out there, my Jewish trainer, Harley Pasternak, who’s Lizzo’s trainer, put it out when I went to the hospital, put it in the press,” Ye said. “I got a bunch of friends that went to the hospital — it didn’t go to the press.”
“I would do anything, anything, if you could please apologize to my people,” Pasternak allegedly told Ye in a text that Ye shared on Thursday.
“I’m going to help you one of a couple ways,” he continued. “First, you and I sit down and have an loving and open conversation, but you don’t use cuss words, and everything that is discussed is based in fact, and not some crazy stuff that dumb friend of yours told you, or you saw in a tweet.”
“Second option, I have you institutionalized again where they medicate the crap out of you and you go back to Zombieland forever. Play date with the kids just won’t be the same."
“What should be obvious by now is that I was raised to stand for my truth regardless of the consequences,” Mr. West said. “So I will say this again. I was mentally misdiagnosed and nearly drugged out of my mind to make me a manageable well behaved celebrity.”
“I was told that if I expose the truth of the bad business practices everything is gonna be taken from me,” he said. “Including my black children.”
“And everyone has bore [witness] to the public Emmett Tilling of Kanye. But GOD has put something on my heart not to backdown.”
“This shows Harley admitting to knowing the truth of our origin but then later dismissing the facts within the same text chain[.] Mind you[,] This is how a Hollywood trainer speaks to a far more influential black celebrity when we get out of line.”
Kanye West “I’m Starting to Think Anti-Semitic Means N—-r”
Kanye “Ye” West on Friday tweeted that he’s starting to think that labeling black people “anti-Semitic” is just code for calling them the n-word.
In perhaps the first case ever of Twitter censoring a black person for using the n-word, Ye’s tweet was deleted for “violat[ing] the Twitter Rules.”
The tweet is archived here.
I don’t remember Vijaya Gadde ever censoring a black person for using the n-word but I guess Ye’s tweet was too much for Twitter’s new chief censor, Yoel Roth.
The user he quoted, DAYLYT30, also had his tweet deleted for violating Twitter’s rules.
Ye also shared a clip from an interview with rapper Charleston White saying Ye is being whipped again and again like a slave for “standing up.”
Ye on Thursday shared scandalous texts purportedly from his Jewish trainer Harley Pasternak telling him to “please apologize to my people” or else he’ll have him “institutionalized again where they medicate the crap out of you, and you go back to Zombieland forever.”
What should be obvious by now is that I was raised to stand for my truth regardless of the consequences,” Ye said. “So I will say this again[.] I was mentally misdiagnosed and nearly drugged out of my mind to make me a manageable well behaved celebrity.”
“I was told that if I expose the truth of the bad business practices everything is gonna be taken from me,” he said. “Including my black children.”
“And everyone has bore [witness] to the public Emmett Tilling of Ye. But GOD has put something on my heart not to backdown.”
Kyrie Irving suspended after being forced to pay $500,000 to the ADL and will now have to be re-educated by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt
The Anti-Defamation League and the Brooklyn Nets put out a statement on Wednesday announcing that Kyrie Irving has agreed to be re-educated by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and pay $500,000 towards “causes and organizations that work to eradicate hate and intolerance.”
The $500,000 tax, which they’re calling a “donation,” is being matched by the Brooklyn Nets to bring the ADL’s total haul to $1 million.
Greenblatt described the shakedown as an “opportunity” for Irving to “learn and do better.”
Kyrie Irving explained that one evening he was searching for the Hebrew word “Yahweh” on Amazon, and the online retailer’s algorithm suggested ““Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” which he then shared a screenshot of on his social media account.
A few days after he was forced to pony up half a million dollars to the the ADL, Kyrie Irving was suspended indefinitely by the Brooklyn Nets because he refused to utter the exact words that they demanded him to repeat.
Many users on social media have compare Kyrie Irving to Kunta Kinte, the stubborn slave character in Alex Haley’s award-winning mini-series Roots, who refused to renounce and reject his history despite being mercilessly tortured and whipped in front of all the other slaves.
Kyrie later issued a statement saying “I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone’s religious beliefs. The “Anti-Semitic” label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions.”
But that still didn’t satisfy his detractors they wanted him to grovel and beg for forgiveness.
All evidence indicate that the establishment has had it in for Irving ever since he famously refused to take a Covid-19 vaccine during the height of the pandemic, which led the Nets to sideline him during the 2021 season in compliance with New York City vaccine edicts.
Irving is being subjected to the exact same type of “cancel culture” persecution by the leftist mob to which Alex Jones and Kanye West have been subjected.
Kyrie Irving forced to pay $500,000 to the ADL and will have to be re-educated by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt after sharing a screenshot of an Amazon documentary
The Anti-Defamation League and the Brooklyn Nets put out a statement on Wednesday announcing that Kyrie Irving has agreed to be re-educated by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and pay $500,000 towards “causes and organizations that work to eradicate hate and intolerance.”
The $500,000 tax, which they’re calling a “donation,” is being matched by the Brooklyn Nets to bring the ADL’s total haul to $1 million.
Greenblatt described the shakedown as an “opportunity” for Irving to “learn and do better.”
Kyrie Irving explained that one evening he was searching for the Hebrew word “Yahweh” on Amazon, and the online retailer's algorithm suggested ““Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” which he then shared a screenshot of on his social media account.
The 208 minute long documentary that got Kyrie in trouble with the ADL for sharing is still being sold on Amazon. As far as we know the ADL hasn't made any public request that Amazon take it down and the NBA has been unwilling to direct any criticism whatsoever towards the sellers of “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” nor have they indicated that they plan to discuss the matter with Amazon executives.
Kyrie didn't produce nor write “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”, he has absolutely any connections with the producers of the documentary an amateur filmmaker named Ronald Dalton. His only crime was sharing the screenshoot of a movie Jeff Bezos and Amazon is profiting from, yet not any criticism towards Bezos?
It is truly remarkable how a member of one of the most socioeconomically disenfranchised group in America can be forced to pay half a million dollars in fine to one of the most successful group for sharing the screenshot of a documentary.
One of the unintended consequences of all the controversy the NBA, the media and the Nets has stirred by persecuting and tormenting Kyrie Irving, is that millions of people have gone on Amazon and watched “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” and it has gone from an obscure documentary with couple thousand views to one of the best selling documentaries in multiple categories. The audiobook version of “Hebrews to Negroes” is now the top-selling title in Amazon’s “Christian Living” category. Streisand effect in full effect.
NBA Star Kyrie Irving Says He Lost $100 Million, 4-Year Extension for Refusing Covid Vaccine
Refusing to comply with the NBA’s Covid vaccine mandate cost over $100 million and a four-year contract extension, Brooklyn Nets’ point guard Kyrie Irving explained Monday.
“I gave up four years, $100-and-something million deciding to be unvaccinated and that was the decision,” Irving told reporters during the Nets’ media day, adding he had to come to terms with the gravity of his decision.
“[Get this] contract, get vaccinated or be unvaccinated and there’s a level of uncertainty of your future, whether you’re going to be in this league, whether you’re going to be on this team, so I had to deal with that real-life circumstance of losing my job for this decision.”
Irving was sidelined by his team during home games throughout the 2021 season after famously refusing to adhere to New York City’s experimental mRNA jab mandate.
As a result, his contract has remained up in the air, and he says he feels he’s being given “an ultimatum” between getting the jab and being able to play.
“We were supposed to have all that figured out before training camp last year,” he told reporters. “And it just didn’t happen because of the status of me being vaccinated, unvaccinated. So, I understood their point and I just had to live with it. It was a tough pill to swallow, honestly.”
“On a serious note, I felt like I was forced with an ultimatum of whether or not I had a contract or not, whether or not I could be on the team or be around the team, whether or not I was vaccinated. So, tough conversations again that were had,” he said.
In a statement to ESPN, Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks disputed Irving’s view, saying, “There’s no ultimatum being given here… Again, it goes back to you want people who are reliable, people who are here, and accountable. All of us: staff, players, coaches, you name it. It’s not giving somebody an ultimatum to get a vaccine. That’s a completely personal choice. I stand by Kyrie. I think if he wants, he’s made that choice. That’s his prerogative completely.”
Irving added his unpopular decision “came to be a stigma within my career,” but that he wasn’t simply intending to be a sacrificial lamb for the anti-Covid vaccine movement; he just wanted to stand for something bigger than himself.
Democrat Pro-Abortion Witness Suggests Black People Better Off Aborted Than Being Born
The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations panel heard from Renee Bracey Sherman, the founder and executive director of abortion ‘storytelling group’ We Testify.
As such, GOP representatives were faced with another child like person up on the stand, speaking in a cringe inducing passive aggressive tone and clearly unable to control her emotions.
Bracey Sherman had even used a sharpie to scrawl the pronouns “SHE/HER” on the name plate provided to her by the house.
She told the panel that when she was 19 years old and pregnant she considered throwing herself down the stairs and drank “an unsafe amount of alcohol,” in the hope off achieving a miscarriage, which she admitted she counts as a “successful abortion”.
“That was when it [abortion] was legal in every state. Now, it is not [not true] and I know some will try the methods that I did,” she asserted.
“And I want them to know that there are safe methods to self-managing their abortions according to the World Health Organization,” the witness added, going on to promote ‘self managed’ abortions by taking pills.
At one point Bracey Sherman claimed that immigrant children once born are ripped from their families and caged, while ‘trans children’ are “turned into political fodder,” and ‘black and brown children’ live in fear of the police. She further claimed that all these issues are “not separate from abortion,” and should be taken into account by women when considering whether to go ahead with their pregnancy.
The clear insinuation here is that it might be better for some minority children not to be born alive.
Insane.
Bracey Sherman also claimed that she owes her life to an abortion because her mother had one before she was born because she “wasn’t in a relationship that was right for her.”
“I share that to exercise my right to free speech because there are organizations and legislators who want to make what I just said a crime,” Bracey Sherman concluded, further claiming “Everyone loves someone who has abortions.”
Democrats keep calling people as witnesses who sound and look like they are on the verge of a nervous breakdown to spew their cult like ideology. They refuse to define what a woman is, they claim denying men can get pregnant is ‘transphobic’ and that disagreeing with them incites violence.
Elsewhere during the hearing, a Democratic Rep. suggested that while discussing abortion the word ‘abortion’ shouldn’t be used, because it has “been weaponised” and has negative connotations.
Incredible.