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A YouTube channel called Kevin’s Corner that “tries to make sense out of nonsense” released a video on Friday showing how much emotional damage Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden caused black Americans after saying they’re not truly black if they don’t support him.
Psych! Kevin’s fake tears were meant to mock Creepy Joe Biden for the ridiculous “you ain’t black” comment.
Championship offroad racer B.J. Baldwin appeared in an NRA video to tell the story of how he recently had to use deadly force against an armed individual who pointed their firearm at Baldwins’ girlfriend.
The incident took place on April 22 in the parking lot of a Las Vegas, Nevada In-N-Out Burger restaurant.
Baldwin describes hearing his girlfriend Tori whispering in distress while sitting in the parking lot and seeing two men approaching.
“Both of them had their hoods tied up over their faces like they didn’t want to be identified and one of them had a gun and it was pointed directly at Tori and they were walking as fast as they could in her direction. It was clear that her life was in danger,” he explained.
Next, the gunman moved his gun off of Tori and pointed it towards Baldwin, asking, “What’s good?” before aiming for Tori once again.
Baldwin said, “I realized that was my opportunity and I was not going to get another opportunity and I had to act as quickly and as proficiently as I possibly could.”
“He should have never took the gun off of me,” B.J. recounted. “He took two shots at Tori, six shots at me. He didn’t get a single hit on either one of his targets because I got all of my hits; all ten.”
It took nine shots to the chest and one bullet hitting the central nervous system to put down 43-year-old Josef Smith.
“That’s what it took to neutralize the threat and save both of our lives so that we could make it home to our families,” Baldwin stated.
B.J. believes that if he wasn’t armed that night, he and his girlfriend would both be dead.
“Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke are totally comfortable with my girlfriend and I laying face down dead in that parking lot as long as it doesn’t interfere with their gun control agenda,” he noted.
A Mississippi church that defied the state’s lockdown orders and filed a lawsuit challenging the city of Holly Springs’ coronavirus restrictions has been burned down by what appears to be a left-wing arsonist.
“Bet you stay home now you hypokrits,” were the words spraypainted in the parking lot of The First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs.
Investigators say an explosion blew out the front of the church, according to Fox 13.
The church’s pastor Jerry Waldrop filed a lawsuit against the city last month after police broke up their Easter service and gave the church a citation because parishioners were not social distancing.
The lawsuit said parishioners only went inside the building after rain ruined their outdoor service.
As tension over face masks, opening or closing businesses, vaccinations and other divisive topics continues to escalate, we can expect more hostility between Americans.
CNN host Chris Cuomo used a synthetic derivative of hydroxychloroquine in his coronavirus treatment protocol despite mocking President Trump and his supporters for touting the drug as a possible COVID-19 preventative.
On Monday, Cuomo tweeted about a large gathering in Florida, joking that the crowd “can just take some chloroquine.”
No worries. They can just take some chloroquine. https://t.co/n2y4ARy6R8
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) May 19, 2020
Cuomo mentioned the medication again on his Monday broadcast of Cuomo Prime Time, saying President Trump “knows that Hydroxychloroquine is not supported by science. He knows it has been flagged by people in his own administration.”
Why did Pres. Trump’s reveal he is taking hydroxychloroquine?
As a distraction from his lack of a plan or real solutions, warns @chriscuomo: “Don’t take the bait.” https://t.co/9rkCGlK82G pic.twitter.com/O7TbrcTqFX
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) May 19, 2020
As Cuomo joined his fellow mainstream media talking heads in attacking hydroxychloroquine, Cuomo’s own wife accidentally threw him under the bus by revealing he was on a regimen of quinine throughout his time battling COVID-19.
In her blog “The Purist,” Cuomo’s wife Cristina detailed the treatments Chris took while “in quarantine” in his basement.
CNN’s @ChrisCuomo mocked Trump yesterday for using chloroquine as a preventive treatment for Covid-19.
As it turns out, he used a synthetic derivative of chloroquine in his own corona treatment regimen according to his wife’s blog posts.
I present, a very Fredo story. pic.twitter.com/ONmKVqQVY1
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 19, 2020
In the list of items Cuomo took while fighting off the virus was “potentized quinine,” taken “3x daily.”
“On top of this is homeopathy, which works according to the symptom picture. Potentized quinine (OXO); it’s derived from the nontoxic bark of Peruvian-grown quinine plants,” Cristina writes. “It is a natural antibiotic (it’s being used in India with very good results). This is not on the market here; Dr. Lancaster has made this in her lab for 40 years, and I took this for my Lyme. (The medicine Plaquinol, which many doctors are using for COVID-19 is similar to quinine, but it has negative side effects.)”
Plaquinol is literally hydroxychloroquine.
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany slammed Cuomo for the hypocritical decision to use what she called “a less safe” version of hydroxychloroquine.
“Cuomo mocked the president for this and interestingly… and it turns out that Chris Cuomo took a less safe version of it called quinine which the FDA removed from the market in 2006 because of its serious side-effects, including death.”
.@PressSec Blasts the Media for their coverage of Hydroxychloroquine and calls out @ChrisCuomo for criticizing President Trump for taking it while he took a less safe version of the drug. pic.twitter.com/ugR7LbFO9N
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 20, 2020
Perhaps the Cuomos secretly tune in to Infowars programs such as The Alex Jones Show because back in March, Jones told viewers about quinine.
The malaria treatment quinine is a central ingredient in tonic water and hydroxychloroquine is simply an advanced synthetic form of quinine.
“They don’t want you to know that folks. By the way, I don’t own any stocks in Seagrams and Canada Dry,” Jones said.
Cloward-Piven is a political strategy to overload the American public welfare system to the point it creates a crisis and bankrupts the nation, leaving the country no choice but to adopt the socialist/communist agenda.
On this Tuesday transmission of American Countdown with Constitutional lawyer Robert Barnes, we’ll dive into the long list of evidence showing the Obama administration attempted to subvert both the Trump campaign and administration. Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, joins the program to share details surrounding the Deep State coup against President Trump.
Tune in Monday-Thursday from 7-9 PM CST to get the latest insights from @Barnes_Law!
Also tune in at Banned.video or AmericanCountdown.News
US Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) joined the Ron Paul Liberty Report podcast to discuss the PRIME Act and how it could help America avoid meat shortages caused by coronavirus lockdowns.
As a rancher, Massie is familiar with the meat shortages America is experiencing, saying, “There are shortages now, in supermarkets, of food. And restaurants, the few that are open and serving takeout, are having a hard time getting certain kinds of meat.”
Referring to the federal government’s attempts to help farmers and ranchers during the coronavirus pandemic by handing them fat checks, Massie said, “You can send all the bailout money you want to people, you can send all the bailouts you want to farmers, but it doesn’t cause the crops to be harvested or the animals to be processed.”
The congressman also suggested that when customers go to eat at restaurants and find out their meat selection is limited, perhaps then they will begin to wake up.
Government Regulations & Meat Shortages: The PRIME Act To The Rescue!
Watch the whole show with @RepThomasMassie here: https://t.co/Jpjap7PvFf pic.twitter.com/lwrGLEWHtu
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) May 18, 2020
Massie continued to explain how closed food processing plants have created a surplus of animals, but instead of working to get the animals processed for consumers to eat, the Department of Agriculture is helping farmers destroy their animals.
“That’s not putting food on the plates,” he said. “And I’m hoping that will snap people to reality and I’m also hoping it will snap some of my colleagues into supporting a bill that I introduced five years ago called the PRIME Act that deregulates the small processors.”
The PRIME Act allows farmers to sell beef to consumers in a grocery store using a local processor.
As of now, most local processors don’t have a full-time USDA employee on staff, which is a requirement to sell food to a grocery store.
Ironically, smaller processors are much safer than massive, foreign-owned processors.
Congressman Massie also touched on Trump’s battle with state governors, the American introduction of Universal Basic Income, unemployment, foreign policy and much more.
Full Interview:
Registered Nurse Danika Bueno recently uploaded a YouTube video explaining why wearing a face mask for long periods can be harmful to the body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HekAqFOaF4
Bueno begins the video by detailing how patients with respiratory alkalosis are instructed to breathe into a paper bag in order to fix the bloodstream’s PH balance.
Breathing into a paper bag is close to the same thing as wearing a face mask in that it alters the wearer’s PH balance.
Bueno also notes that most masks people are wearing are highly ineffective against viruses.
In fact, she claims those who wear masks frequently are making themselves more prone to infection by making their bodies acidotic and by touching their faces more often than those who don’t wear masks.
Affiliates of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), who receive millions of U.S. tax dollars every year, have partnered with Chinese-government controlled media outlet CGTN on a pro-Beijing documentary.
Titled, “Voices from the Frontline: China’s War on Poverty,” the film failed to reveal its connection to the communist party or producer Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s ties to China’s governmental propaganda arm.
Kuhn was awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal in 2018, calling it “China’s highest award,” and posting an image of him shaking President Xi Jingping’s hand on his website.
Kuhn was also connected to billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein through the Kuhn Foundation, to which Epstein contributed $150,000 in 2017.
In 2018, Epstein’s nonprofit also bankrolled a PBS series Kuhn produced called “Closer to Truth” to the tune of half-a-million dollars.
In addition, CGTN, who is China’s top state broadcasting network, filed with the U.S. as a foreign agent, but that was also left out of the documentary.
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross writes, “PBS affiliate KOCE, known as PBS SoCal, helped produce the film and premiered it Monday. KCET, which merged with KOCE in 2018, will air the show on Saturday. Other PBS affiliates, including in Idaho and Las Vegas, have either already aired the film or plan to do so later this month.”
“The one-hour documentary touts Chinese President Xi Jinping’s initiative to alleviate poverty in China by this year,” Ross continues. “‘In the last forty years, China’s economic development has lifted more than 700 people out of poverty,’ reads the introductory script in the film.”
The script continues to claim, “To President Xi Jinping, ending poverty is his most important task.”
This is a perfect example of why President Trump has been calling for the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which hands tax money to PBS and NPR.
Now that the gag order has been lifted, Roger Stone does an interview with Latinos for Trump talking about the entire judicial process he went through.
In this exclusive Infowars report, world leaders express their desire to implement a New World Order.
Over the past few decades, Infowars.com and Alex Jones have been at the forefront of warning the planet about the globalist agenda.
At the beginning of the video, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot admits she appoints police leaders who promise to “pledge allegiance to the New World Order.”
After Lightfoot’s usage of the term “New World Order” went viral online this week, establishment media quickly moved to downplay her quote.
Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson reports, “Facebook and Associated Press ‘fact checkers’ claim it’s false that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she supported the ‘New World Order,’ saying the video is ‘edited,’ despite the fact that it’s not edited.”
What Facebook has to say about Chicago Mayors NWO video.
“Fact checkers must be signatories of the International Fact Checking Network and follow their Code of Principles” 👉👀 pic.twitter.com/o9eqvmhHtN
— TruthHammer⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@TruthHammer888) May 14, 2020
By claiming the footage was “edited,” AP is suggesting the video is manipulated or doctored, but in reality, it was an unedited segment of a larger interview.
AP also claims people online are saying Lightfoot was “planning a global coup,” but there is no proof of anyone suggesting this and they are simply using the narrative as a strawman argument.
In addition to Lightfoot, top globalist Henry Kissinger, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and many others are seen promoting the New World Order.
Thanks to coronavirus, The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is prohibiting the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other groups from placing American flags on the graves of fallen U.S. veterans.
The longtime Memorial Day tradition is meant to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to our country.
Due to fears surrounding coronavirus, the VA has banned any public events whatsoever from taking place at military cemeteries.
Two national military cemeteries in Long Island, N.Y. host over half a million graves alone.
Those two cemeteries are located in Suffolk County, which is in County Executive Steve Bellone’s district.
Bellone told Fox 7, “If we can’t figure out a way to make sure we are placing flags at their graves to honor them, then something is seriously wrong.”
“What we’re asking the VA to do is, rather than have a blanket policy across the country, allow the national cemeteries at the local level, to make this determination in conjunction with the local health department,” he continued. “We will take the responsibility to say that this flag placement plan meets the state and national guidelines but give us that opportunity to do it, allow us to honor our fallen heroes.”
“We just commemorated VE Day, this is the generation that lived through the adversity of the great depression, they won World War Two. What is it going to say about our generation if we can’t figure out a way to honor the greatest generation by placing flags at their graves on Memorial Day?” asked Bellone.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke out against the decision, writing on Twitter, “Let them honor the veterans who gave all. Flag of United States.”
Let them honor the veterans who gave all. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/u745LuMoon
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) May 14, 2020
Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper just happened to perform a disappearing act in the middle of a CNN interview after host John Berman asked if he considers leaking classified information a problem.
Discussing a recently released list of Obama administration officials involved in the unmasking of General Michael Flynn, Berman asked Clapper if one of the individuals leaking classified info to The Washington Post was a problem.
“Uh, absolutely it is,” a seemingly surprised Clapper responded.
“And, if anyone did leak the content of these conversations, with or without the name, that would be a problem, yes?” Berman reiterated, but Clapper’s feed suspiciously lost connection.
James Clapper is FINALLY asked a tough question by CNN.
Watch what happens right after.
Seriously, wait for it…pic.twitter.com/cdjm5tVkC6
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) May 14, 2020
Later on, CNN was able to get Clapper back on the program and Berman once again brought up the leaking of classified information to The Washington Post‘s David Ignatius.
“David Ignatius put out this famous column on January 12th where he mentioned the phone call between Michael Flynn, the December 29th phone call. Did you leak that information?” he asked Clapper.
The former DNI simply answered, “I did not.”
Once Clapper was back, he was asked whether he leaked the Flynn call to David Ignatius. He says: “No, I did not.” pic.twitter.com/mAww8wsp9U
— TV News HQ (@TVNewsHQ) May 14, 2020
These videos are just a sample of the many accurate predictions and warnings Alex Jones has delivered to listeners over the past few years.
This is why they call him The Oracle of Austin.
Did you listen then? More importantly, will you listen now?
Dr. Group & Alex Jones break down the dangers of 5G in this detailed interview that aired May 4, 2018
Brian Wilson presents a video compilation of Alex Jones predicting the rise of the new world order and the downfall of humankind unless people across the world turn their hearts, minds, and souls back to God.
Alex Jones predicted the coronavirus over 20 years ago.
Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com,
During President Trump’s impeachment, former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified to Congress that she knew little beyond an initial briefing and “press reports” about Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and was dogged by a corruption investigation.
“It just wasn’t a big deal,” she declared under oath on Oct. 11, 2019.
But newly unearthed State Department memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show Yovanovitch’s embassy in Kiev, including the ambassador herself, was engaged in several discussions and meetings about Burisma as the gas firm scrambled during the 2016 election and transition to settle a long-running corruption investigation and polish its image before President Trump took office.
Yovanovitch, for instance, was specifically warned in an email by her top deputy in September 2016 — three years before her testimony — that Burisma had hired an American firm with deep Democratic connections called Blue Star Strategies to “rehabilitate the reputation” of the Ukrainian gas firm and that it had placed “Hunter Biden on its board,” the memos show.
She also met directly with a representative for Burisma in her embassy office, less than 45 days before Trump took office, a contact she did not mention during her impeachment deposition.
The discussions about Burisma inside Yovanovitch’s embassy were so extensive, in fact, that they filled more than 160 pages of emails, memos and correspondence in fall 2016 alone, according to the State Department records obtained under FOIA by the conservative group Citizens United.
The contacts included a detailed private letter hand-delivered to Yovanovitch by one of Burisma’s lawyers in September 2016, a briefing later that month from her staff on Burisma’s issues, and a meeting scheduled between the ambassador and a Burisma representative shortly before Christmas 2016 as the Obama administration was preparing to leave office.
Yovanovitch, who recently retired from State, did not respond Tuesday to a message sent to her private email seeking comment. Her lawyer during the impeachment proceedings, Lawrence S. Robbins, also did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
State officials declined comment.
David Bossie, a former congressional investigator and current outside adviser to Trump who runs Citizen United, said the documents his group obtained raise questions about Yovanovitch’s testimony last fall and what else Congress may not know about the embassy’s involvement with the Hunter Biden-connected Burisma firm.
“These new records clearly don’t support Ambassador Yovanovitch’s testimony under oath during [Rep. Adam] Schiff’s sham impeachment. Her sworn testimony must be investigated and scrutinized just like in the case of General [Michael] Flynn,” he said. “You can’t have two sets of rules.”
The impeachment hearings last fall, which focused on efforts by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Guiliani to find evidence inside Ukraine on the Bidens and Burisma and to remove Yovanovitch from her job as U.S. ambassador, included testimony from Yovanovitch herself.
During that deposition in October 2019 she made no mention of direct contact with Burisma representatives and instead suggested her knowledge about the company and its legal travails was limited mostly to a briefing she received in preparation for Senate confirmation as ambassador in summer 2016 and subsequent news media reports.
Hunter Biden’s work for one of Ukraine’s largest energy companies, which generated more than $3 million in payments to his American firm over two years, stirred controversy in both Ukraine and the United States because his father oversaw U.S. policy for Ukraine while Burisma was long a focus of a criminal corruption probe in Ukraine. State Department officials have said they believed the relationship created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
“What do you know about the investigation of Burisma?” Yovanovitch was asked at one point during her October testimony.
“Not very much. And, again, that happened before I arrived,” she testified. “… Burisma wasn’t a big issue in the fall of 2018 — 2016 when I arrived.”
“Were you aware at that time of Hunter Biden’s role with Burisma?” she was asked at another point.
“Yes. As I mentioned, I became aware during the Q&A in the prep for my testimony,” she answered.
Yovanovitch said she believed she learned from press reports that Burisma’s criminal case had been dormant by the time she arrived in Kiev in late summer 2016.
“I’m trying to understand your testimony, because earlier in the day you said that, based on press reports, your understanding was that it was dormant. You may have had additional information it was dormant, or you don’t know?” Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., inquired at one point.
“Yes. And all I can tell you is it was a long time ago and it just wasn’t a big issue,” she said.
“So I just want to understand your position. Obviously, you knew that Burisma was dormant, based on press reports. That was what you stated earlier,” Zeldin pressed.
“Uh-huh,” she answered.
“But you’re saying that you may have had other information, but you don’t recall that now?” the lawmaker followed.
“I may have had other information, but I don’t recall how I had that impression …” she answered.
During a nationally televised impeachment hearing a month later in the House, Yovanovitch doubled down on her testimony that Burisma and Hunter Biden weren’t on her radar when she took over as ambassador. “It was not a focus of what I was doing in that six-month period,” she testified anew.
But the memos show Yovanovitch was informed that the criminal cases were actively being settled in fall 2016 and that Burisma and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky were trying to repair the company’s reputation with the U.S. Embassy.
For instance, a briefing memo prepared for Yovanovitch’s 30-minute meeting Dec. 8, 2016 inside the U.S. Embassy with Burisma representative Karen Tramontano noted that Tramantano worked for the lobbying and strategy firm Blue Star Strategies.
“An Atlantic Council member and Washington veteran, Tramontano informally represents Mykola Zlochevsky, the Burisma CEO, who has long been the target of law enforcement proceedings in Ukraine,” the memo stated.
The memo added that “his [Zlochevsky’s] official US representatives sent a letter in September (attached) asking that the embassy reconsider its position on him.”
The new memos aren’t the first to raise questions about Yovanovitch’s testimony. Last November, Fox News challenged another portion of her testimony denying she had contact with a Democratic House staffer after the network said it obtained emails showing Yovanovitch did in fact have the contact on her private email, and not her official State email.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has been trying to subpoena documents about Blue Star Strategies and its work for Burisma for weeks but has been blocked by opposition from Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, whose friend serves on the Burisma board. Johnson and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are now seeking to interview witnesses who previously served at the embassy.
The memos show that both Blue Star Strategies and the Atlantic Council, a nonprofit policy organization, played a role in fall 2016 pressing the U.S. embassy in Kiev to change its position on Burisma and Zlochevsky, whom the embassy viewed as corrupt. Zlochevsky has long denied any wrongdoing.
For instance, after the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department foreign funding arm, was told by the embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission George Kent not to accept a $7,500 donation for Burisma for a clean energy event in Ukraine in late summer 2016, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine named John Herbst working for the Atlantic Council reached out.
Herbst asked to meet with Yovanovitch in September 2016 and secured a private dinner date instead with Kent in Ukraine, the memos show. “I will factor into our conversation the Zlochevsky Affair,” Herbst wrote to Kent as he prepared for their dinner.
Kent, long a critic of Burisma, is one of the witnesses Johnson and Grassley are seeking to interview. He went out of his way to mention the Burisma-Hunter Biden connection during one of his pre-dinner email exchanges with Herbst in which he decried alleged “payoffs” to Ukrainian officials “to do nothing” about the Burisma investigation.
“I have no doubt such arrangements were made, apart from Mr. Zlochevsky (who also put Hunter Biden on the board of his Burisma Energy company),” Kent wrote.
One of the maneuvers Blue Star planned was to take the new Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko, who held the fate of Burisma in his hands, to the United States for an event with the Atlantic Council, a move that would have created positive press for Lutsenko in both countries, the memos state.
Kent discouraged doing so and eventually sent a memo to Yovanovitch alerting her that “Lutsenko now likely not to go to DC with Blue Star.”
She followed up with a request to be briefed. “Thanks George. At some point appreciate discussing in more detail some of the folks referenced,” the ambassador wrote in a Sept. 4, 2016 email.
Within a few days, Yovanovitch received a direct letter from one of Burisma’s American lawyers, John Buretta of the Cravath, Swaine and Moore law firm in New York, alerting her that Lutsenko’s office was dropping a long-running corruption investigation of Burisma without filing charges based on a Ukrainian court ruling favorable to Zlochevsky.
Buretta’s letter to Yovanovitch said the allegations against Zlochevsky were “baseless,” and the lawyer asked the U.S. embassy to drop its long-running narrative that Burisma was somehow corrupt.
“We respectfully request that Your Excellency take into consideration these objective facts when considering the narrative promoted by some, and no doubt to be repeated again, in disregard of the facts and the law and the decisions by courts,” Buretta wrote the ambassador.
Yovanovitch immediately forwarded the letter to Kent. “What is this about?” she emailed.
Kent, the memos show, then arranged a special briefing for Yovanovitch later in September to get up to speed. The planned subject of the briefing, the memos show, was “Zlochevsky, Burisma, Cravath and image rehab campaigns.”
One of the topics for the briefing, Kent wrote colleagues on Sept. 16, 2016, was “Zlochevsky/Burisma – asset recovery and past crimes of the Yanu regime as they intersect U.S. corporate/individual interest,” an apparent reference to Hunter Biden’s role with the company.
In a separate email to Yovanovitch, Kent was more explicit about the Biden connection. “This is further to the Blue Star effort to rehabilitate the reputation of their non-client in the US, former ministry of ecologies Zlochevsky, who clearly has retained the services of a blue chip law firm (Cravath) and his energy company Burisma, which in turn has Hunter Biden on its board,” Kent emailed the ambassador.
By November 2016, with Trump now the president-elect, Burisma’s American emissaries were in full motion to get a second corruption case against Burisma — this one involving tax evasion — settled in Ukraine. They succeeded by early January, just days before Trump took office.
The American legal team for Burisma also wanted to improve relations between the gas firm, where Hunter Biden worked, and the U.S. embassy and USAID, the foreign aid arm, the memos show.
The Dec. 8, 2016 briefing memo prepared for Yovanovitch detailed the lobbying efforts by Blue Star.
“USAID spoke to Blue Star Strategies representative Sally Painter by phone and indicated that we would be open to discussing other forms of cooperation between USAID and Burisma, and agreed to meet with Burisma Government and Public Affairs representative Vadim Pozharskyi,” the memo to Yovanovitch explained. “In the November meeting, Pozharskyi briefed USAID on Burisma and the gas sector more broadly but did not propose specific ideas for cooperation.”
U.S. officials directly familiar with the Dec. 8, 2016 meeting confirmed it took place and that Yovanovich attended, but did not know whether the ambassador read the briefing memo beforehand.
After Yovanovitch met with Blue Star’s Tramantano, word surfaced in Ukraine that Zlochevsky had settled the second case against Burisma with a fine, and the Ukrainian news media was up in arms, critical that the owner and his company with Hunter Biden on its board had escaped more serious penalty.
One headline forwarded by email to the ambassador read, “Activists cry foul as courts, prosecutors clear Zlochevsky.”
“Lots of accusations/innuendo,” a State official wrote Yovanovitch and Kent on Dec. 29, 2016, forwarding another news article that alleged Burisma may have dumped natural gas into the market as a political payoff for getting off in the criminal case.
“Mentions Biden’s son and Kwasniewski are on board of Burisma, which allegedly had a subsidiary dump natural gas recently as a way to pay bribes” to Ukrainian officials, the State official wrote Yovanovitch.
A few hours later on that same day, the embassy’s deputy economic counselor followed up with Yovanovitch about the payoff allegations. “The dumping part is true,” the official wrote.
By early January 2017, as Vice President Joe Biden prepared to make a final visit to Ukraine before leaving office, officials around Yovanovitch worried the Burisma scandal might taint the visit. They forwarded news articles to the ambassador, some which were critical of the Bidens.
A Jan. 7, 2017 email from a State official to Yovanovitch, for instance, provided a summary of recent news reports about the impending Biden visit. “Ukrainian political scientists speculate on the purpose of the visit,” the email told Yovanovitch.
One of the speculations quoted in the memo was that Biden “has a business interest” in Ukraine because his son worked for Burisma. “Perhaps the behind the scenes part of the visit can be attributed to the fact that the Ukranian authorities guaranteed some business positions to the former Vice President and his family,” the memo quoted one Ukrainian figure as saying.
Kent had long feared the Bidens had created the appearance of a conflict of interest with the Burisma relationship and testified during impeachment he tried to warn the vice president about his concerns in 2015 but got rebuffed. As the media speculation about Biden’s last visit got more intense and nasty, Kent lamented to colleagues in a Jan. 17, 2017 email that copied Yovanovitch: “Burisma – gift that keeps on giving.”
For the Atlantic Council and Herbst, Kent’s line was prophetically, and literally, true.
On Jan. 13, 2017, Herbst emailed Kent that the Atlantic Council had just accepted a donation from Burisma.
“I wanted you to know before it becomes public that the Atlantic Council decided to accept support for its program from Burisma,” Herbst wrote.
“We looked at the matter closely and weighed it over for a month. Information provided by the Cravath lawyer for Burisma in the London case was an important factor, although some uneasiness remains.”
Footage shows Fresno, California City Council President Miguel Arias assaulting multiple individuals protesting the city’s “stay-at-home” order.
The group Frontline America showed up outside Arias’ apartment on Tuesday to ask if he had a comment for businesses he’s destroying with unconstitutional decrees.
At the beginning of the following video, Arias is seen shoving activist Ben Bergquam, a frequent Infowars guest, and smacking a phone out of another man’s hands.
A scuffle between Fresno City Council President Miguel Arias and conservative activist Ben Bergquam was caught on camera earlier today.
Police officers are now being placed outside the homes of other councilmembers as a precaution.(Video: James H.) pic.twitter.com/KipQmCymIq
— FOX26 News (@KMPHFOX26) May 13, 2020
“Get out of my house. My kids are here, you don’t come to my house,” Arias said as he shoved the two men at the top of a flight of stairs.
However, the men were clearly standing several feet from the city councilman’s door.
Following the incident, police were called and Arias falsely claimed the protesters tried to gain entry to his house.
Next, Fresno PD announced they cited Arias with 3 counts of assault on behalf of three of Frontline America demonstrators.
“Police say after reviewing the evidence and consulting with the city attorneys office- they facilitated citizen’s arrest citations on behalf of three victims,” a Twitter post reads.
BREAKING: Fresno City Councilmember @MiguelArias_D3 has been cited for 3 counts of assault. Police say after reviewing the evidence and consulting with the city attorneys office- they facilitated citizen’s arrest citations on behalf of three victims.
— Sontaya Rose (@SontayaRose) May 13, 2020
All members of the Fresno City Council had officers sent to their homes and some of the council spoke out about the confrontation on social media.
“I can’t even begin to express the outrage I feel regarding this incident,” Councilmember Garry Bredefeld wrote on Facebook. “This is completely unacceptable and should never happen. While we can have disagreements politically and express different points of view, it completely crosses the line of safety, decency, and respect of personal and family boundaries. If any crimes were committed by these individuals, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This disturbing and outrageous incident must never, ever happen again!”
Another councilmember, Luis Chavez, said, “As a councilmember that has been publicly threatened before, I take these threats very seriously and that’s why I have a concealed carry weapons permit. I will not tolerate anyone threatening me or my family.”
Arias told the Fresno Bee, “They went from making a political statement to physically threatening the safety of my own family, and that was not going to be tolerated.”
He continued, saying, “I escorted them down the stairs and they’re claiming I assaulted them, but I stand behind my actions,” and noted that some of the group members are “known Second Amendment activists,” which he called a threat.
Showing the proper way to deal with aggravated constituents, Fresno Mayor Lee Brand said, “A group of 20-25 people protesting the city’s shelter in place orders came to my house this evening. When they arrived, I went out to answer their questions and we had a peaceful discussion on my sidewalk.”
“After 10 minutes, they left and I went back inside. I’m willing to talk with anybody who wants to have a civil conversation about the best way to keep our city safe and healthy,” he concluded.
One of the men who was assaulted spoke with Fox 26 News about the incident:
LIVE: @MarieEdinger is speaking with a man who was involved in the incident between Fresno City Council President Miguel Arias and conservative activist Ben Bergquam earlier today.https://t.co/8REy99yzhP https://t.co/eyqIUQxRgU
— FOX26 News (@KMPHFOX26) May 13, 2020
Frontline America posted a video providing more context:
This incident comes just days after a Fresno police officer assaulted a woman demonstrating in support of a restaurant that reopened for Mother’s Day.
Video taken outside a Fresno, California restaurant called Waffle Shop on Sunday shows a confrontation between police and patrons who were showing support for the business.
Opening in defiance of the state’s “stay-at-home” order for Mother’s Day, Waffle Shop did restrict the number of guests allowed inside the building at one time and had customers lined up outside to wait for seats.
Despite attempting to please the state, a pair of “city officials” wearing masks and carrying clipboards approached the front door and were told to wait in line like everybody else.
The city workers were likely there to cite the restaurant for “violating lockdown orders” and customers told them to leave, adding, “We pay your paychecks. Remember that!”
A Fresno police officer arrived and tried to lead the city officials, called Code Enforcememnt by a patron, into the establishment.
Telling the crowd to “make way,” the officer approached the group gathered in front and was told, “They don’t have to let you in. Do you have a warrant?”
The officer then directed his attention to the woman behind the camera, threating to arrest her for “interfering,” before once again trying to enter the building.
Seconds later the cop used his shoulder to ram into a woman standing near the entrance, causing the crowd to erupt in anger.
Next, the officer grabbed a man’s wrist after he expressed outrage at the assault he just witnessed and the cop pointed his tazer at the individual before handcuffing him.
Ironically, the man who was arrested was wearing hospital scrubs.
The man’s wife can be heard telling the officer, “He served four tours in Vietnam,” as he was placed into a police cruiser.
The Fresno Police Department poste footage of the officer’s bodycam to their YouTube account and it seems to verify that the officer used his shoulder to intentionally bump into the woman.
Fresno Police Chief Andy Hall told the New York Daily News the officer “was acting lawfully while assisting code enforcement” after reviewing the video.
“The individual in this case did obstruct the officer in his duties. The officer’s detention of this individual allowed for code enforcement (officials) to complete their duties. As a result, the individual was only detained and was released without any further charges being filed,” he continued.
“I am asking the public to always respect the authority of a police officer,” Hall requested. “The men and women of the Fresno Police Department risk their lives every day for this community and will continue to do so during and after this crisis.”
The Fresno Bee reports Waffle Shop owner Ammar Ibrahim was fined $5,000 for opening his restaurant on Sunday.
Hollywood star Kevin James released a short film last week poking fun at the overly sensitive environment created by the coronavirus pandemic.
The “King of Queens” actor’s video, titled, “Out of Touch,” begins with James and another man running away from police and barking dogs.
Soon, the man running with James is caught by law enforcement and a flashlight shines on James’ face while someone screams from a helicopter, “Freeze! Put your hands on your head.”
Next, the words “Six Hours Earlier” appear on the screen and the manhunt is explained.
The two men are seen greeting each other at a park and shaking hands when a masked individual phones the police, saying, “I’ve got a couple of handshakers in front of me.”
At this point, two women approach with their phones in-hand to film the handshake and Kevin James tells his friend, “Run.”
The short comedy is intended to make fun of Americans who are too eager to tattle on their neighbors for minor infractions of recently introduced coronavirus orders.
These nosey narcs have been dubbed “Karens” by internet culture.
During testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci stated he is “cautiously optimistic” that a COVID-19 vaccine candidate will get an efficacy signal, but said, “there’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective.”
Fauci: “No Guarantee” Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Effective
…meanwhile Newsom wants to wait for a vaccine to reopen. pic.twitter.com/JJ2GvFGljP
— Alex Marlow (@AlexMarlow) May 12, 2020
“There’s no guarantee that the vaccine is actually going to be effective,” Fauci told the senators after being asked about the rapid development of a coronavirus vaccine.
“You can have everything you think that’s in place and you don’t induce the kind of immune response that turns out to be protective and durably protective,” he continued. “So one of the big unknowns is, will it be effective? Given the way the body responds to viruses of this type, I’m cautiously optimistic that we will with one of the candidates get an efficacy signal.”
Fauci also touched on the possibility of an “enhancement effect” where the vaccine induces a suboptimal response and a person who is exposed experiences an enhanced pathogenesis of the disease.
Despite these possibilities, Fauci remains “cautiously optimistic” a vaccine with an efficacy percentage high enough to induce a herd immunity will be found.
On this Tuesday transmission of American Countdown, constitutional attorney Robert Barnes will provide insight into the latest remarks from Bill Gates, who claims a COVID-19 vaccine is the planet’s final solution. Viewers will also get the latest updates on the nationally followed Ahmaud Arbery shooting.
Tune in Monday-Thursday from 7-9 PM to get the latest analysis by @Barnes_Law!
Also tune in at infowars.com/show or AmericanCountdown.News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Dallas, Bexar and Travis counties and to the mayors of San Antonio and Austin on Tuesday, warning their “local public health orders that exceed the county’s and city’s lawful authority and that are likely to confuse residents.”
The letter to Austin and Travis County added, “We hope you will act quickly to correct mistakes like these to avoid further confusion and litigation challenging the county’s and city’s unconstitutional restrictions.”
Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt are accused of violating Texans’ religious liberties, restricting essential services, and encouraging an “Orwellian” contact-tracing program.
KXAN reports Attorney General Paxton is concerned about the following issues:
Places of Worship: The letter states the local order attempts to restrict essential services, including those provided by houses of worship
Contact-tracing: The letter alleges the city’s order encourages restaurants to keep track of customers that dine-in the restaurant. The letter acknowledges that the order only recommends keeping a tally of names, but it “forces restaurants into submission by threatening to release the names of the restaurants that don’t comply.” The letter goes on calling the city’s order “Orwellian” and “raises privacy concerns.”
Masks: The letter states neither the County nor the city can impose civil or criminal penalties for not wearing a mask in public.
Shelter-in-Place: The letter alleges Gov. Abbott’s executive order does not include a mandatory shelter-in-place, but the city/county order does. The state’s order only requires Texans to minimize social gatherings and in-person contact outside of the same household.
Criminal Offenses: The letter states the local health order attempts to impose a criminal penalty for violations. Gov. Abbott modified the state’s order on May 7 eliminating the penalty of confinement for violating state/local orders.
A similar letter sent to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins echoes the letter sent to Travis county regarding places of worship, masks and shelter-in-place laws.
Paxton’s letter to Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and Mayor Ron Nirenberg again warned: “local public health orders that exceed the county’s and city’s lawful authority.”
In addition to the previously listed issues, Paxton stated Bexar county’s order contradicts the governor’s order by imposing criminal penalties for violations.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler said he doesn’t believe his order goes against Governor Abbott’s, claiming, “Up to this point, we have avoided the naked politicization of the virus crisis. I will not follow the AG down that road. The City’s Order complements, incorporates, and does not conflict with the Governor’s Order. We will continue working to keep our community safe to the fullest extent allowed by law.”
– READ THE TRAVIS COUNTY/AUSTIN LETTER HERE
“Liberal” authoritarians launch a full-scale attack against the American people during the COVID-19 plandemic.
Twitter Version:
Respect My Authority! pic.twitter.com/yePlsU7fDX
— Darrin McBreen (@MediaRival) May 8, 2020
A family practice physician from Newport Beach, California named Dr. Jeff Barke was recently filmed speaking out against the state’s COVID-19 regulations.
Attending a Riverside, California demonstration calling for the Golden State to allow businesses to reopen, Dr. Barke said he was representing thousands of physicians around the country who are being silenced for opposing the mainstream narrative surrounding coronavirus safety measures.
“What if the experts are wrong?” Dr. Barke asked to begin his speech. “What if quarantining the healthy doesn’t actually save lives? What if wearing a mask in public is not effective?”
“My name is Dr. Jeff Barke and I’m here representing thousands of physicians across the country whose voices are being silenced because we don’t agree with the mainstream media and the experts who are telling us what to do,” he continued. “Never in the history of this great republic have we quarantined the healthy. Never in the history of this great republic did we tell churchgoers that it’s illegal for you to exercise your First Amendment right of freedom of religion yet at the same time it’s essential to keep pot dispensaries open.”
Dr. Barke also pointed out the hypocrisy of the state declaring churches non-essential, but claiming abortions are essential as well as not allowing citizens to purchase firearms while freeing violent criminals from jail.
“As we see the statistics come in, we’re realizing that the fatality rate of this virus is in the ballpark of a bad seasonal influenza,” he stated. “What we’re also knowing is that just like other respiratory viral illnesses in the past, we get over this virus by achieving herd immunity. We can never achieve herd immunity by keeping the herd quarantined.”
Calling for the state to open its economy back up, Dr. Barke declared, “It’s time we protect the vulnerable and most at risk, but we allow the young and healthy to open the doors and get back to work!”
Dr. Barke joins thousands of other physicians, including a pair of doctors from Bakersfield, California who went viral online for speaking out against California’s stay-at-home order.
Watch the censored “Bakersfield Doctors” video below: