[Federalist] With New Documents, The Biden Administration’s Targeting Of A Pro-Life Dad Just Got Crazier.
The private criminal complaint filed by abortion escort Bruce Love and obtained by The Federalist conflicts with the allegations contained in the federal indictment returned against pro-life sidewalk counselor Mark Houck. That fact and an email exchange between Houck’s lawyer and the U.S. attorney’s office raises significant questions about the Biden administration’s decision to charge Houck with purported violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or “FACE Act,” and further calls into question the FBI’s excessive show of force when arresting Houck.
Amid Americans’ growing distrust of the FBI, the agency further damaged its reputation when, not quite two weeks ago, some 15 police vehicles and about 20 law enforcement officers, including many with ballistic shields, long guns, and a battering ram at the ready, descended on Houck’s home. While the FBI disputed the precise number of agents who swarmed Houck’s property and stressed that the officers brandishing the long guns and carrying ballistic shields were not a “SWAT Team” or “SWAT operators,” the FBI’s overwhelming show of force to arrest the father of seven for allegedly violating the FACE Act brought swift condemnation.
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I don't think that the Biden Administration strategy is really to outlast and wear things down over time unless you consider a balaclava masked mugger to be a patient strategist.
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Not a SWAT team but we know they had all the special weapons so...just not the special tactics?
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Austin Mayor Steve Adler appeared to fall asleep at a memorial service Monday
The moment was caught on camera and posted to social media with the photo showing the mayor with his eyes closed and his head to his chest
The memorial service was for Austin police Officer Tony Martin, who died last month in a motorcycle crash on his way home from working a night shift
The photos were shared by Justin Berry, an Austin officer and a former political candidate who twice ran for a legislative office as a state representative
He wrote: 'If you're going to defund and destroy a police department as their mayor then attend a highly respected officer's funeral, perhaps do not continue to disrespect that officer's family, friends, and other officers by falling asleep'
In his apology, Adler neither confirmed nor denied he had fallen asleep
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden conducted a prisoner swap with the socialist regime of Venezuela that materialized on Saturday, releasing two of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s nephews who had been sentenced to 18 years in prison in America for cocaine trafficking in exchange for seven imprisoned American oil workers.
The Biden administration announced the release of the seven American citizens via an official statement published Saturday.
“Today, after years of being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, we are bringing home Jorge Toledo, Tomeu Vadell, Alirio Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano, Jose Pereira, Matthew Heath, and Osman Khan. These individuals will soon be reunited with their families and back in the arms of their loved ones where they belong,” the statement read.
Five of the seven American citizens were executives of the Houston-based Venezuelan Citgo oil company.
The White House statement omitted that these American citizens were released as part of a prisoner swap for Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, whom Venezuelans have commonly referred to as the narcosobrinos (“narco-nephews”) since their arrest and conviction on drug trafficking charges in New York. Flores and Flores de Freitas are the nephews of Cilia Flores, Maduro’s wife and “First Combatant” of the socialist regime — a made-up term to elevate her above “first lady” status.
Both of Maduro’s nephews were arrested in November 2015 by DEA authorities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while allegedly attempting to transport 800 kilograms of cocaine belonging to Colombia’s Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization into the United States. Both were convicted and sentenced to 18 years in a U.S. prison in December 2017.
The Biden administration, which granted clemency to both of Maduro’s nephews, said in the official White House statement that Biden was “grateful for the hard work of dedicated public servants across the U.S. Government who made this possible, and who continue to deliver on my Administration’s unflinching commitment to keep faith with Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained all around the world.”
The Maduro regime celebrated the prisoner swap as a victory, releasing an official statement that refers to the “narco-nephews” as “two young Venezuelans” who were “unjustly arrested” in the United States. The regime claimed that it released the Americans for “humanitarian reasons.” The Maduro regime’s statement also mentions that the swap took place as a result of different conversations between the socialist regime and the Biden administration — directly contradicting Biden’s assertions during the 2020 presidential campaign that Maduro was “afraid” of a Biden victory and his campaign’s promise not to “negotiate with dictators.”
Shortly after the announcement, the administration of Venezuela’s legitimate (yet powerless) president, Juan Guaidó, released a statement clarifying that they had no involvement in the negotiations that led to the release of Maduro’s nephews, but he celebrated the release of the American citizens.
“Any gesture must go in the direction of recovering democratic institutions, defeating the dictatorship, and defending respect for human rights. Any other direction would be detrimental to Venezuela and the entire world. We are and will always be with the Venezuelan people and their inalienable struggle for freedom,” Guaidó’s statement read.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) lambasted the move on Sunday, expressing to CNN that the swap puts Americans in danger worldwide.
“That has now put a price tag on Americans. Every time you do one of these deals — and I wanted those people released as much as anybody — but every time you do this, now others know, ‘I can take Americans, I can hold them until I need something as a bargaining chip,’” Sen. Rubio said. “I think seven innocent American hostages in exchange for two convicted drug dealers, who happened to be the nephews of Maduro, is a huge win for Maduro and, unfortunately, puts Americans all over the world now in danger.”
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele also commented on Biden’s release of the convicted nephews through his Twitter account.
“On this day, my Venezuelan brothers realized that we are just pawns for the global elites. Our causes are used and discarded at convenience, it does not even depend on what we do or not. Our freedom will only come from ourselves,” Bukele posted.
In another tweet, Bukele wrote, “He who spares the wolf sacrifices the sheep.”
Republican lawmakers believe TikTok is being used to steal consumer data and spread Beijing-backed propaganda to influence the upcoming midterms
TikTok's parent company – ByteDance – has lured politically well-connected financial backers in the US after it plowed billions of dollars into the app
‘If you’re curious why Joe Biden and the Democrats have kicked the can on TikTok for so long, just follow the money,' Republican Senator Senator Josh Hawley told DailyMail.com
Among the biggest American investors is venture capital giant Sequoia
Its China arm, which reportedly owns 10% of ByteDance, has donated over $8million to the Democrats since 2020
Private equity company Carlyle Group bought its $150million stake in 2020
Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein has hosted Joe and Jill Biden and his wife at his Nantucket mansion twice: when Joe was Vice President in 2014 and again in 2021
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I am surprised that here is still funny Tik-Tok material that my brother forwards to me from time to time. With the involvement of communist minders and woke Dem financiers, I would think that the entire comedy portion of Tik-Tok would have ground to Amy Schumer levels of insufferable much sooner.
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[Naked Cap.] "After von der Leyen’s silence, Bourla had the opportunity to set the record straight in the European Parliament, but he preferred to slip away. Why all these secrets? What do they have to hide from European citizens?"
After an audit report into the European Commission’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement strategy uncovered serious procedural violations, an assortment of Big Pharma big cheeses were invited to give testimony to a European Parliament hearing. They included Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. His testimony, scheduled for October 10, was supposed to shed light on the furtive contacts he had shared with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during preliminary negotiations for what would eventually become the EU’s biggest vaccine contract ever (at least to date).
NO QUESTIONS ANSWERED
But as Politico reported last Thursday, Bourla has pulled out of attending the hearing, for unspecified reasons. This is the sort of thing big pharma CEOs can do these days without paying a price or even attracting negative media attention — or in this case, any mainstream media attention beyond the Politico article. It is not enough that Bourla’s company enjoys immunity from liability (except for wilful misconduct) for the billions of vaccines it produced; Bourla apparently considers himself immune from having to even defend those vaccines at potentially hostile public hearings.
As the Politico article notes, Bourla was expected to face tough questioning over the secret vaccine deals he personally struck with von der Leyen (whose triple-barrelled surname will, for the sake of time, space and convenience, hereupon be abbreviated to VdL). That is presumably something Bourla would rather avoid:
The head of the U.S. pharmaceutical giant, the largest supplier of COVID-19 vaccines to the EU, was scheduled to appear before the panel on October 10. The committee is meeting with key officials involved in the EU’s vaccine procurement process to draw lessons on how to respond to future pandemics. Other pharmaceutical executives have addressed the committee, including the CEO of Moderna and senior officials from AstraZeneca and Sanofi.
While it is true that the European Parliament does not have subpoena powers, Bourla’s backing out at the last minute is not a good look. At the very least, it reinforces the impression that Bourla and his partner in grime, VdL, have something important to hide from EU lawmakers and citizens.
COMMISSION’S BIGGEST PROCUREMENT DEAL EVER
One reason why this is important is that the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines for the entire 27-nation bloc was the European Commission’s biggest and most expensive procurement challenge ever, paid for entirely with public funds. And Pfizer was far and away the biggest provider of those vaccines, accounting for just over half of the 4.6 billion doses (enough for more than 10 doses per EU citizen) procured from global pharmaceutical companies.
As a result of von der Leyen’s furtive communications with Pfizer, the Commission secured its third — and by far, largest — contract with Pfizer BioNTech. That contract, signed in May 2021, allowed for the purchase of 900 million doses of the wild type vaccine and of a vaccine adapted to variants, as well as the option to purchase an additional 900 million doses. As the European Court of Auditors notes, it was "the biggest COVID-19 vaccine contract signed by the Commission and will dominate the EU’s vaccine portfolio until the end of 2023".
Yet serious questions remain about how those vaccines were procured and under what conditions. A recent report by the Court of Auditors into the EU’s vaccine procurement strategy found that VdL had directly participated in preliminary negotiations for the vaccine contract. As Politico notes, "this was a departure from the negotiating procedure followed with other contracts, where a joint negotiating team made up of officials from the Commission and member countries conducted exploratory talks."
Instead, von der Leyen conducted preliminary negotiations on her own, and presented the results to the steering board in April. A planned meeting of scientific advisers, organized to discuss the EU’s vaccine strategy for 2022, never took place. The VdL-headed Commission also refused to provide records of the discussions with Pfizer, either in the form of minutes, names of experts consulted, agreed terms, or other evidence.
"We asked the Commission to provide us with information on the preliminary negotiations for this agreement," the report’s authors write. "However, none was forthcoming."
VdL is also in hot water due to her refusal to disclose the content of her text messages with Bourla, despite repeated requests from MEPs and the EU’s ombudsman Emily O’Reilly. When O’Reilly urged the Commission to undertake a more thorough search for the text messages in question, the Commission played for time before finally declaring that it cannot and does not need to find the text messages.
"Due to their short-lived and ephemeral nature," text messages "in general do not contain important information relating to policies, activities and decisions of the Commission," wrote European Vice Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourová.
What is perhaps most concerning is the glaring disregard the VdL-led Commission appears to hold even for its own basic standards of transparency and accountability. And that is entirely at odds with VdL’s public stance. In her Political Guidelines, VdL states that if "Europeans are to have faith in our Union, its institutions should be open and beyond reproach on ethics, transparency and integrity." Yet when the Court of Auditors asked the Commission for information about the preliminary negotiations, they were snubbed.
"No information was transmitted," the inspectors told the Berliner Morgenpost. Internally, the inspectors are stunned: "This behavior is highly unusual, it has never happened before"....
PRESSURE GROWING
Last week, the Berliner Morgenpost reported that the pressure on VdL is growing and that her rebuff of the EU’s Court of Auditors may have been a step too far. Citing information provided to its editorial team, the newspaper noted that the "EU Parliament’s budgetary control committee is preparing a formal reprimand, the displeasure in Parliament is great, and the first MPs are calling for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to get involved."
The lack of transparency in the multi-billion dollar contracts has long been an issue in the EU Parliament, in part because it helps to fuel anti-vaccine sentiment, says the newspaper: "Von der Leyen’s blockade is fuelling all sorts of speculation among critics, including [allegations of] a preference for the US company Pfizer."
At the very least, the Committee on Budgetary Control will chastise the Commission and insist that all information relevant to the audit must always be shared with the Court of Auditors, says Monika Hohlmeier (CSU), who chairs the Committee. The spokesman for the Greens in the EU Parliament, Rasmus Andresen, is calling for total transparency:
"The Pfizer deal needs to be explained. This is about billions that have been paid out of public coffers. We all have a right to know how the deals with the vaccine manufacturers came about."
The Berliner Morgenpost article that compiled all of these statements was published on September 27. That was two days before Bourla chickened out of giving testimony to the EU parliament. In other words, the displeasure in Parliament is, if anything, likely to have grown since then. The pressure on VdL could rise even higher in the months to come as economic conditions in the EU sharply deteriorate, largely as a result of the backfiring economic sanctions her Commission imposed on the bloc’s biggest energy provider, Russia.
It is not as if VdL was even a popular choice of European Commission President. As a standalone candidate, she needed to secure 374 votes to be elected. As Euro News noted at the time, anything less than 400 votes would be seen as "disappointing". She was only able to muster 383. More damning still, only one in three Germans believed their former defense minister would make a good commission president.
Hand picked as a compromise candidate by Macron and Merkel after weeks of backroom deal-making and power plays, VdL arrived in Brussels already under a cloud of scandal. In what was clearly a portent of things to come, she was already accused of erasing all of the files on her mobile phone which could have been used as evidence in an inquiry into the improper awarding of government contracts during her time as Defense Minister. Months later, it was discovered that she had wiped a second phone.
But alas, not everyone is dissatisfied with VdL’s performance at the helm of the EU’s executive branch. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which holds substantial stock in both Pfizer and BioNTech, has been so impressed with her accomplishments in the role so far that in September it awarded her its Global Goalkeepers Award. Bill Gates himself gave the presentation speech, in which he lauded VdL’s management not only of the pandemic but also the war in Ukraine (no, seriously): [gag me]
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So the Fox Founding Family has a fever for which there is no cure other than more cowbell. Hopefully the fundraiser will go as well as King Belshazzar's shindig did in Daniel 5 - not that I am rooting against them.
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I believe the Saudis are voting Republican this year.
Understandable the way Brandon cozies up to the Mad Mullahs.
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#8 Be careful what you wish for, Super Hose... I think the Persians took control from Belshizzy. Is ValJar on the guest list?
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[CNSNews] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... gave an address on Sunday to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., in which he declared that "no one ever doubts that I mean what I say."
Biden made the remark in the context of his discussing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—whom he had nominated—taking her place on the Supreme Court.
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Just so typical. This Obama-Harris-Biden Administration will crush fossil fuel-related activities but go beg KSA and Venezuela for oil. Yep, it makes sense to me.
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Question : If any business, group was ____ White (TV, Caucus, Assoc., Fund, Magazine etc, etc, etc. it would be labeled a hate group, Racist and demands that it be halted.
Why then are Black only/focused organizations, Media groups, Magazines, Ad's etc etc that only allow Blacks as their leaders and members not also?
Or is this just another DOUBLE STANDARD allowed by
LSD's?
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I believe Joe says incoherent stuff like his teleprompter is dictating a script created by stirring a helping of Spaghetti-O's randomly. I think we have all come to know that Joe means every nonsensical, sometimes treasonous and always inappropriate utterance.
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So you would say, the Philadelphia speech was an experiment, or was he In The Flesh?
"Are there any MAGARs in the theater tonight?....put them up against the wall."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Naked Cap.] "After von der Leyen’s silence, Bourla had the opportunity to set the record straight in the European Parliament, but he preferred to slip away. Why all these secrets? What do they have to hide from European citizens?" 
...46th president of the U.S. S 
