They were accused of spreading “LGBT propaganda” among the patrons‚ the court said. A Russian court has ordered the arrest of an administrator and an art director of a gay bar in the city of Orenburg on Wednesday. They were charged with violating the ban on LGBTQ “propaganda.”  According to news agency RBC‚ the employees identified by the media as Diana Kamilyanova and Aleksandr Klimov are the first people who have been arrested since Russia formally banned the “international LGBT movement” last year.  The arrest comes after police raided the bar Pose on Monday. In its post on Telegram‚ the court described the administrator and the art director as “persons with non-traditional sexual orientation” and said they will remain behind bars until May 18.  According to the court‚ the administrator has been accused of organizing shows that constitute “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations.” The art director‚ meanwhile‚ was responsible for “the selection of drag performers” and has been accused of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among the bar’s patrons and on the bar’s Telegram channel.” Read more ‘Don’t touch the kids‚’ Putin tells gaysURGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! Both were charged under Article 282.2 of Russia’s Criminal Code‚ which deals with membership in banned organizations. If found guilty‚ they would face up to eight years in prison.  In 2022‚ Russia expanded the existing ban on LGBTQ “propaganda” to minors by outlawing it altogether. Vyacheslav Volodin‚ the speaker of the State Duma – the lower house of Russia’s parliament – said at the time that the ban would shield “our children and the future of the country from the darkness spread by the US and European states.”  President Vladimir Putin insisted last month that the authorities do not have issues with what the members of the LGBTQ community do in their personal lives as long as they “don’t flaunt it” in public.  EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

The Pentagon claims Niger is a key base for counterterrorism operations in sub-Saharan Africa. The Pentagon is desperately seeking to stay in Niger despite the military-led government telling US troops to leave in the wake of accusations from American officials that Niger could be poised to transfer uranium to Iran. Niger was outraged at the allegations and rejected them. “The Pentagon is working with Niger officials‚ seeking a way for U.S. troops to stay in the country — a key base for counterterrorism operations in sub-Saharan Africa — following a weekend directive that they leave‚” The Associated Press reports. Spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the US is seeking “clarification” from Niger officials and is still engaged in lengthy and direct” discussions with the junta leaders. Washington has warned the West African nation against forging deeper ties with ‘rogue’ actors like Russian and Iran.  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said that the Biden administration is “closely monitoring the Russian defense activities” there in order “to assess and mitigate potential risk to U.S. personnel‚ interests and assets.” Wagner Group is one major Russian mercenary outfit which has made deep inroads into the region. Over the weekend‚ Niger’s military-led government which is called the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) declared US flights over Niger territory to be “illegal”. URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! Last year’s coup in the country saw a military-led government come to power‚ which from the start signaled rough and uncertain times ahead for US-Niger relations. A Saturday statement by Nigerien junta spokesman Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said‚ “Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships capable of truly helping them fight against terrorism.” This charge of the US not respecting the West African nation’s sovereignty comes in reaction to recent Western intelligence claims that Niger is engaged in secret talks and deal-making to grant Iran access to its uranium. Singh in a Monday briefing had said‚ “We were troubled on the path that Niger is on.” According to the latest back-and-forth between junta leaders and the Pentagon: “The American bases and civilian personnel cannot stay on Nigerien soil any longer‚” he [Insa Garba Saidou‚ an advisor to Niger’s generals] told The Associated Press.Singh said the U.S. was aware of the March 16 statement “announcing the end of the status of forces agreement between Niger and the United States. We are working through diplomatic channels to seek clarification. These are ongoing discussions and we don’t have more to share at this time.” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said the discussions were prompted by Niger’s “trajectory.”“We are in touch with transition authorities to seek clarification of their comments and discuss additional next steps‚” Patel said. When will Congress learn? Billions $$ burned up trying to buy “democracy” in Africa. https://t.co/e5su1Tuhkl— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 20‚ 2024 American officials are now worried about the major drone base only recently built at a cost of $110 million called Air Base 201‚ which was crucial for Pentagon drone surveillance operations over the region. Likely it will now have to be shuttered. International reports estimate that some 1‚000 or more US troops and contractors remain in the country‚ with most of them manning the airbase. Much of the population looks upon the US as an ‘imperial’ power‚ also given the history of the Western powers in Africa‚ particularly starting in the 19th century and what historians dub “the Scramble for Africa”.  EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

The US environmental regulator has finalized rules that could force a ninefold increase in the market share of electric vehicles. US President Joe Biden’s administration has followed through on its pledge to accelerate the phaseout of cars powered by internal combustion engines‚ unveiling new emissions rules that may force the nation’s auto industry to be dominated by electric vehicles (EVs) in less than a decade. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its new emissions standards for passenger vehicles on Wednesday‚ laying out limits that will start getting tougher in 2027 and ratchet further downward through 2032. The agency said that under one scenario‚ its 2032 standard could be met if 56% of new cars and trucks sold are EVs and 13% are plug-in hybrids. EVs accounted for just 7.6% of new vehicle sales in the US last year‚ meaning the new rules may necessitate a ninefold increase in the segment’s market share. The guidelines are designed to allow automakers to choose the emissions-control technologies they will use to be in compliance‚ EPA administrator Michael Regan said. However‚ the industry has already largely given up on hydrogen fuel cells to power its vehicles‚ so EVs figure to be the primary solution. Read more Global electric car sales slowing – data “With transportation as the largest source of US climate emissions‚ these strongest-ever pollution standards for cars solidify America’s leadership in building a clean transportation future and creating good-paying American jobs – all while advancing President Biden’s historic climate agenda‚” Regan said. He claimed that the new mandates will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 7 billion tons over the next three decades.Winter Sun Plus is NOW 25% off! Boost your natural defenses with this powerful vitamin D3 and K formula! It’s not clear whether the EPA’s estimates include the emissions that will result from increased generation of electricity to charge millions of new EVs. Coal‚ natural gas and other fossil fuels accounted for about 60% of the nation’s power generation last year‚ according to the US Energy Information Administration. And as the EPA has acknowledged‚ studies have shown that the production of EVs and their batteries generates higher emissions than the manufacturing of conventional cars. Critics of the new mandates have argued that Biden is essentially forcing US consumers to buy cars that many don’t want or can’t afford. “The Biden administration is deciding for Americans which kind of cars they are allowed to buy‚ rent and drive‚” said Senator Shelley Moore Capito‚ a West Virginia Republican. She added that the new rules mandate an “unrealistic transition” to EVs and threaten a power grid that is already being weakened by EPA-driven shutdowns of fossil-fueled generators. EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

This is how the Democrats plan to steal the election. Biden and Trump have clinched the nominations of their parties for President. Everybody is gearing up for a battle between them for the election in November. It’s obvious that Biden is “cognitively impaired.” In blunter language‚ “brain-dead”. Partisans of Trump are gearing up for a decisive victory. But what if this battle is a sham? What if Biden’s elite gang of neo-con controllers won’t let Biden lose? How can they stop him from losing? Simple. If it looks like he’s losing‚ the elite forces will create enough fake ballots to ensure victory. Our corrupt courts won’t stop them. They have done this before‚ and they will do it again‚ if they have to.Failla‚ JimmyBest Price: $17.01Buy New $19.68(as of 01:30 UTC – Details) I said the Democrats have done this before. The great Dr. Ron Paul explains one way they did this in 2020. The elite covered up a scandal that could have wrecked Biden’s chances: “Move over Watergate. On or around Oct. 17‚ 2020‚ then-senior Biden campaign official Antony Blinken called up former acting CIA director Mike Morell to ask a favor: he needed high-ranking former US intelligence community officials to lie to the American people to save Biden’s lagging campaign from a massive brewing scandal. The problem was that Joe Biden’s son‚ Hunter‚ had abandoned his laptop at a repair shop and the explosive contents of the computer were leaking out. The details of the Biden family’s apparent corruption and the debauchery of the former vice-president’s son were being reported by the New York Post‚ and with the election less than a month away‚ the Biden campaign needed to kill the story.Winter Sun Plus is NOW 25% off! Boost your natural defenses with this powerful vitamin D3 and K formula! So‚ according to newly-released transcripts of Morell’s testimony before the House judiciary Committee‚ Blinken “triggered” Morell to put together a letter for some 50 senior intelligence officials to sign – using their high-level government titles – to claim that the laptop story “had all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.” In short‚ at the Biden campaign’s direction Morell launched a covert operation against the American people to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election. A letter signed by dozens of the highest-ranking former CIA‚ DIA‚ and NSA officials would surely carry enough weight to bury the Biden laptop story. It worked. Social media outlets prevented any reporting on the laptop from being posted and the mainstream media could easily ignore the story as it was merely “Russian propaganda.” Asked recently by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) why he agreed to draft the false sign-on letter‚ Morell testified that he wanted to “help Vice President Biden … because I wanted him to win the election.” Morell also likely expected to be named by President Biden to head up the CIA when it came time to call in favors. The Democrats and the mainstream media have relentlessly pushed the lie that the ruckus inside the US Capitol on Jan. 6th 2021 was a move by President Trump to overthrow the election results. Hundreds of “trespassers” were arrested and held in solitary confinement without trial to bolster the false narrative that a conspiracy to steal the election was taking place. It turns out that there really was a conspiracy to steal the election‚ but it was opposite of what was reported. Just as the Steele Dossier was a Democratic Party covert action to plant the lie that the Russians were pulling strings for Trump‚ the “Russian disinformation campaign” letter was a lie to deflect scrutiny of the Biden family’s possible corruption in the final days of the campaign. Did the Biden campaign’s disinformation campaign help rig the election in his favor? Polls suggest that Biden would not have been elected had the American electorate been informed about what was on Hunter Biden’s laptop. So yes‚ they cheated in the election. The Democrats and the mainstream media are still at it‚ however. Now they are trying to kill the story of how they killed the story of the Biden laptop. This is a scandal that would once upon a time have ended in resignation‚ impeachment‚ and/or plenty of jail time. If they successfully bury this story‚ I hate to say it but there is no more rule of law in what has become the American banana republic.” See here. But the main way the lection can be rigged is by fraudulent “voting.” It’s much easier to do this with digital scanning of votes than with old-fashioned ballot boxes. Dr. Naomi Wolf explains how electronic voting machines make it easier to steal elections: “People could steal elections in this ‘analog’ technology of paper and locked ballot boxes‚ of course‚ by destroying or hiding votes‚ or by bribing voters‚ a la Tammany Hall‚ or by other forms of wrongdoing‚ so security and chain of custody‚ as well as anti-corruption scrutiny‚ were always needed in guaranteeing accurate election counts. But there was no reason‚ with analog physical processing of votes‚ to query the tradition of the secret ballot. Before the digital scanning of votes‚ you could not hack a wooden ballot box; and you could not set an algorithm to misread a pile of paper ballots. So‚ at the end of the day‚ one way or another‚ you were counting physical documents. Those days are gone‚ obviously‚ and in many districts there are digital systems reading ballots.” See here. This isn’t the first time the Left has stolen an election. It happened in the 2020 presidential election too. Ron Unz offers his usual cogent analysis: “There does seem to be considerable circumstantial evidence of widespread ballot fraud by Democratic Party forces‚ hardly surprising given the apocalyptic manner in which so many of their leaders had characterized the threat of a Trump reelection. After all‚ if they sincerely believed that a Trump victory would be catastrophic for America why would they not use every possible means‚ fair and foul alike‚ to save our country from that dire fate? In particular‚ several of the major swing-states contain large cities—Detroit‚ Milwaukee‚ Philadelphia‚ and Atlanta—that are both totally controlled by the Democratic Party and also notoriously corrupt‚ and various eye-witnesses have suggested that the huge anti-Trump margins they provided may have been heavily ‘padded’ to ensure the candidate’s defeat.” See here. In a program aired right after Biden’s pitiful State of the Union speech‚ the great Tucker Carlson pointed out that Biden’s “Justice” Department has already confessed that it plans to rig the election. It will do this by banning voter ID laws as “racist.” This permits an unlimited number of fake votes: “If Joe Biden is so good at politics‚ why is he losing to Donald Trump‚ who the rest of us were assured was a retarded racist who no normal person would vote for? But now Joe Biden is getting stomped by Donald Trump‚ but he’s also at the same time good at politics? Right. Again‚ they can’t win‚ but they’re not giving up. So what does that tell you? Well‚ they’re going to steal the election. We know they’re going to steal the election because they’re now saying so out loud. Here is the Attorney General of the United States‚ the chief law enforcement officer of this country in Selma‚ Alabama‚ just the other day. [Now Carlson quotes the Attorney General‚ Merrick Garland:] “The right to vote is still under attack‚ and that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. That is why one of the first things I did when I came into office was to double the size of the voting section of the Civil Rights Division. That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory‚ burdensome‚ and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot‚ including those related to mail-in voting‚ the use of drop boxes and voter ID requirements. That is why we are working to block the adoption of discriminatory redistricting plans that dilute the vote of Black voters and other voters of color. [Carlson then comments on Garland:] “Did you catch that? Of course‚ you’re a racist. That’s always the takeaway. But consider the details of what the Attorney General of the United States just said. Mail-in balloting‚ drop boxes‚ voter ID requirements. The chief law enforcement officer of the United States Government is telling you that it’s immoral‚ in fact racist‚ in fact illegal to ask people for their IDs when they vote to verify they are who they say they are. What is that? Well‚ no one ever talks about this‚ but the justification for it is that somehow people of color‚ Black people‚ don’t have state-issued IDs. Somehow they’re living in a country where you can do virtually nothing without proving your identity with a government-issued ID without government-issued IDs. They can’t fly on planes‚ they can’t have checking accounts‚ they can’t have any interaction with the government‚ state‚ local‚ or federal. They can’t stay in hotels. They can’t have credit cards. Because someone without a state-issued ID can’t do any of those things. But what’s so interesting is these same people‚ very much including the Attorney General and the administration he serves‚ is working to eliminate cash‚ to make this a cashless society. Have you been to a stadium event recently? No cash accepted. You have to have a credit card. In order to get a credit card you need a state-issued ID‚ and somehow that’s not racist. But it is racist to ask people to prove their identity when they choose the next President of the United States. That doesn’t make any sense at all. That’s a lie. It’s an easily provable lie‚ and anyone telling that lie is advocating for mass voter fraud‚ which the Attorney General is. There’s no other way to read it. So you should know that. You live in a country where the Attorney General is abetting‚ in fact calling for voter fraud‚ and that’s the only chance they have to get their guy re-elected.” See here. Because of absentee ballots‚ the voting can be spread out over a long period of time. This makes voting fraud much easier. Mollie Hemingway has done a lot of research on this topic: “In the 2020 presidential election‚ for the first time ever‚ partisan groups were allowed—on a widespread basis—to cross the bright red line separating government officials who administer elections from political operatives who work to win them. It is important to understand how this happened in order to prevent it in the future. Months after the election‚ Time magazine published a triumphant story of how the election was won by “a well-funded cabal of powerful people‚ ranging across industries and ideologies‚ working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions‚ change rules and laws‚ steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”  Written by Molly Ball‚ a journalist with close ties to Democratic leaders‚ it told a cheerful story of a “conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes‚” the “result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.” A major part of this “conspiracy” to “save the 2020 election” was to use COVID as a pretext to maximize absentee and early voting. This effort was enormously successful. Nearly half of voters ended up voting by mail‚ and another quarter voted early. It was‚ Ball wrote‚ “practically a revolution in how people vote.” Another major part was to raise an army of progressive activists to administer the election at the ground level. Here‚ one billionaire in particular took a leading role: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg’s help to Democrats is well known when it comes to censoring their political opponents in the name of preventing “misinformation.” Less well known is the fact that he directly funded liberal groups running partisan get-out-the-vote operations. In fact‚ he helped those groups infiltrate election offices in key swing states by doling out large grants to crucial districts. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative‚ an organization led by Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla‚ gave more than $400 million to nonprofit groups involved in “securing” the 2020 election. Most of those funds—colloquially called “Zuckerbucks”—were funneled through the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)‚ a voter outreach organization founded by Tiana Epps-Johnson‚ Whitney May‚ and Donny Bridges. All three had previously worked on activism relating to election rules for the New Organizing Institute‚ once described by The Washington Post as “the Democratic Party’s Hogwarts for digital wizardry.” Flush with $350 million in Zuckerbucks‚ the CTCL proceeded to disburse large grants to election officials and local governments across the country. These disbursements were billed publicly as “COVID-19 response grants‚” ostensibly to help municipalities acquire protective gear for poll workers or otherwise help protect election officials and volunteers against the virus. In practice‚ relatively little money was spent for this. Here‚ as in other cases‚ COVID simply provided cover. According to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA)‚ Georgia received more than $31 million in Zuckerbucks‚ one of the highest amounts in the country. The three Georgia counties that received the most money spent only 1.3 percent of it on personal protective equipment. The rest was spent on salaries‚ laptops‚ vehicle rentals‚ attorney fees for public records requests‚ mail-in balloting‚ and other measures that allowed elections offices to hire activists to work the election. Not all Georgia counties received CTCL funding. And of those that did‚ Trump-voting counties received an average of $1.91 per registered voter‚ compared to $7.13 per registered voter in Biden-voting counties. The FGA looked at this funding another way‚ too. Trump won Georgia by more than five points in 2016. He lost it by three-tenths of a point in 2020. On average‚ as a share of the two-party vote‚ most counties moved Democratic by less than one percentage point in that time. Counties that didn’t receive Zuckerbucks showed hardly any movement‚ but counties that did moved an average of 2.3 percentage points Democratic. In counties that did not receive Zuckerbucks‚ “roughly half saw an increase in Democrat votes that offset the increase in Republican votes‚ while roughly half saw the opposite trend.” In counties that did receive Zuckerbucks‚ by contrast‚ three quarters “saw a significant uptick in Democrat votes that offset any upward change in Republican votes‚” including highly populated Fulton‚ Gwinnett‚ Cobb‚ and DeKalb counties. Of all the 2020 battleground states‚ it is probably in Wisconsin where the most has been brought to light about how Zuckerbucks worked. CTCL distributed $6.3 million to the Wisconsin cities of Racine‚ Green Bay‚ Madison‚ Milwaukee‚ and Kenosha—purportedly to ensure that voting could take place “in accordance with prevailing [anti-COVID] public health requirements.” Wisconsin law says voting is a right‚ but that “voting by absentee ballot must be carefully regulated to prevent the potential for fraud or abuse; to prevent overzealous solicitation of absent electors who may prefer not to participate in an election.” Wisconsin law also says that elections are to be run by clerks or other government officials. But the five cities that received Zuckerbucks outsourced much of their election operation to private liberal groups‚ in one case so extensively that a sidelined government official quit in frustration. This was by design. Cities that received grants were not allowed to use the money to fund outside help unless CTCL specifically approved their plans in writing. CTCL kept tight control of how money was spent‚ and it had an abundance of “partners” to help with anything the cities needed. Some government officials were willing to do whatever CTCL recommended. “As far as I’m concerned I am taking all of my cues from CTCL and work with those you recommend‚” Celestine Jeffreys‚ the chief of staff to Democratic Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich‚ wrote in an email. CTCL not only had plenty of recommendations‚ but made available a “network of current and former election administrators and election experts” to scale up “your vote by mail processes” and “ensure forms‚ envelopes‚ and other materials are understood and completed correctly by voters.” Power the Polls‚ a liberal group recruiting poll workers‚ promised to help with ballot curing. The liberal Mikva Challenge worked to recruit high school-age poll workers. And the left-wing Brennan Center offered help with “election integrity‚” including “post-election audits” and “cybersecurity.” The Center for Civic Design‚ an election administration policy organization that frequently partners with groups such as liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund‚ designed absentee ballots and voting instructions‚ often working directly with an election commission to design envelopes and create advertising and targeting campaigns. The Elections Group‚ also linked to the Democracy Fund‚ provided technical assistance in handling drop boxes and conducted voter outreach. The communications director for the Center for Secure and Modern Elections‚ an organization that advocates sweeping changes to the elections process‚ ran a conference call to help Green Bay develop Spanish-language radio ads and geofencing to target voters in a predefined area. Digital Response‚ a nonprofit launched in 2020‚ offered to “bring voters an updated elections website‚” “run a website health check‚” “set up communications channels‚” “bring poll worker application and management online‚” “track and respond to polling location wait times‚” “set up voter support and email response tools‚” “bring vote-by-mail applications online‚” “process incoming [vote-by-mail] applications‚” and help with “ballot curing process tooling and voter notification.” The National Vote at Home Institute was presented as a “technical assistance partner” that could “support outreach around absentee voting‚” provide and oversee voting machines‚ consult on methods to cure absentee ballots‚ and even assume the duty of curing ballots. A few weeks after the five Wisconsin cities received their grants‚ CTCL emailed Claire Woodall-Vogg‚ the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission‚ to offer “an experienced elections staffer that could potentially embed with your staff in Milwaukee in a matter of days.” The staffer leading Wisconsin’s portion of the National Vote at Home Institute was an out-of-state Democratic activist named Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein. As soon as he met with Woodall-Vogg‚ he asked for contacts in other cities and at the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Spitzer-Rubenstein would eventually take over much of Green Bay’s election planning from the official charged with running the election‚ Green Bay Clerk Kris Teske. This made Teske so unhappy that she took Family and Medical Leave prior to the election and quit shortly thereafter. Emails from Spitzer-Rubenstein show the extent to which he was managing the election process. To one government official he wrote‚ “By Monday‚ I’ll have our edits on the absentee voting instructions. We’re pushing Quickbase to get their system up and running and I’ll keep you updated. I’ll revise the planning tool to accurately reflect the process. I’ll create a flowchart for the vote-by-mail processing that we will be able to share with both inspectors and also observers.” Once early voting started‚ Woodall-Vogg would provide Spitzer-Rubenstein with daily updates on the numbers of absentee ballots returned and still outstanding in each ward­­—prized information for a political operative. Amazingly‚ Spitzer-Rubenstein even asked for direct access to the Milwaukee Election Commission’s voter database: “Would you or someone else on your team be able to do a screen-share so we can see the process for an export?” he wrote. “Do you know if WisVote has an [application programming interface] or anything similar so that it can connect with other software apps? That would be the holy grail.” Even for Woodall-Vogg‚ that was too much. “While I completely understand and appreciate the assistance that is trying to be provided‚” she replied‚ “I am definitely not comfortable having a non-staff member involved in the function of our voter database‚ much less recording it.” When these emails were released in 2021‚ they stunned Wisconsin observers. “What exactly was the National Vote at Home Institute doing with its daily reports? Was it making sure that people were actually voting from home by going door-to-door to collect ballots from voters who had not yet turned theirs in? Was this data sharing a condition of the CTCL grant? And who was really running Milwaukee’s election?” asked Dan O’Donnell‚ whose election analysis appeared at Wisconsin’s conservative MacIver Institute. Kris Teske‚ the sidelined Green Bay city clerk—in whose office Wisconsin law actually places the responsibility to conduct elections—had of course seen what was happening early on. “I just don’t know where the Clerk’s Office fits in anymore‚” she wrote in early July. By August‚ she was worried about legal exposure: “I don’t understand how people who don’t have the knowledge of the process can tell us how to manage the election‚” she wrote on August 28.Schweizer‚ PeterBest Price: $3.51Buy New $11.26(as of 12:00 UTC – Details) Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich simply handed over Teske’s authority to agents from outside groups and gave them leadership roles in collecting absentee ballots‚ fixing ballots that would otherwise be voided for failure to follow the law‚ and even supervising the counting of ballots. “The grant mentors would like to meet with you to discuss‚ further‚ the ballot curing process. Please let them know when you’re available‚” Genrich’s chief of staff told Teske. Spitzer-Rubenstein explained that the National Vote at Home Institute had done the same for other cities in Wisconsin. “We have a process map that we’ve worked out with Milwaukee for their process. We can also adapt the letter we’re sending out with rejected absentee ballots along with a call script alerting voters. (We can also get people to make the calls‚ too‚ so you don’t need to worry about it.)” Other emails show that Spitzer-Rubenstein had keys to the central counting facility and access to all the machines before election night. His name was on contracts with the hotel hosting the ballot counting. Sandy Juno‚ who was clerk of Brown County‚ where Green Bay is located‚ later testified about the problems in a legislative hearing. “He was advising them on things. He was touching the ballots. He had access to see how the votes were counted‚” Juno said of Spitzer-Rubenstein. Others testified that he was giving orders to poll workers and seemed to be the person running the election night count operation. “I would really like to think that when we talk about security of elections‚ we’re talking about more than just the security of the internet‚” Juno said. “You know‚ it has to be security of the physical location‚ where you’re not giving a third party keys to where you have your election equipment.” Juno noted that there were irregularities in the counting‚ too‚ with no consistency between the various tables. Some had absentee ballots face-up‚ so anyone could see how they were marked. Poll workers were seen reviewing ballots not just to see that they’d been appropriately checked by the clerk‚ but “reviewing how they were marked.” And poll workers fixing ballots used the same color pens as the ones ballots had been filled out in‚ contrary to established procedures designed to make sure observers could differentiate between voters’ marks and poll workers’ marks. The plan by Democratic strategists to bring activist groups into election offices worked in part because no legislature had ever imagined that a nonprofit could take over so many election offices so easily. “If it can happen to Green Bay‚ Wisconsin‚ sweet little old Green Bay‚ Wisconsin‚ these people can coordinate any place‚” said Janel Brandtjen‚ a state representative in Wisconsin. She was right. What happened in Green Bay happened in Democrat-run cities and counties across the country. Four hundred million Zuckerbucks were distributed with strings attached. Officials were required to work with “partner organizations” to massively expand mail-in voting and staff their election operations with partisan activists. The plan was genius. And because no one ever imagined that the election system could be privatized in this way‚ there were no laws to prevent it. Such laws should now be a priority.” See here. Let’s do everything we can to publicize the steal. That way‚ we have a chance to prevent it. EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

Interest rate hikes threaten the Democrat's green energy bubble. Following two years of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve‚ and just one day before the central bank’s meeting on Wednesday‚ Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse‚ both climate alarmist Democrats‚ wrote a letter to Fed Chair Jerome Powell calling for an immediate halt to the interest rate hiking cycle to avert further collapse of the renewable infrastructure space.  In the letter‚ first obtained by Bloomberg‚ the senators warned that interest rate hikes have “completely tanked major renewable infrastructure projects across the country.”  They said the tightening cycle had diminished the nation’s ability to create green jobs and lower electricity costs that are critical to President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.  “The Fed’s interest rates have stalled progress and hampered the country’s ability to combat the climate crisis‚” the letter said struggling clean energy needs NIRP to survive? https://t.co/ZHNdmkJxswURGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today!— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 19‚ 2024 This comes as some of the most ambitious renewable power projects (including wind and solar) have been shelved‚ electric car sales slump‚ and clean energy stocks tank.  The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF‚ heavily invested in solar‚ wind‚ and hydrogen stocks‚ including SolarEdge‚ First Solar‚ Sunrun‚ Orsted‚ and Plug Power‚ has crashed 52% since peaking in January 2021. Graph Interest rate hikes threaten the Democrat’s green energy bubble. The bad news for them is that higher rates for longer rates will cause more pain.  EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

The expat was targeted by activists over her social media posts about the election. London real estate brokerage Egre has fired one of its agents after complaints from a Ukrainian activist‚ who argued that she should be punished for voting for Russian President Vladimir Putin.  The three-day election in Russia saw Putin win 87% of the vote‚ according to the official tally published on Monday. Russians living abroad were also able to cast their ballots at embassies and consulates‚ including in the UK. The queue outside the embassy in London drew the attention of one Nazar Smyk‚ who lives in the UK and describes himself as a buyer of equipment for the Ukrainian military. “Not all Russians are oppositionists‚” Smyk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. “There are also c**ts such as Yulia Vorobyova. She openly votes for Putin while living in London. Do you know what happens to supporters of war?” A follow-up post showed what Smyk claimed to be screenshots of Vorobyova’s Instagram‚ in which she purportedly said she was on the way to cast her vote at the embassy despite the pouring rain.Survival Shield X-3 is BACK at the Infowars Store! Get 40% OFF on the next evolution in activated nascent iodine HERE Read more Russian ballerina performance canceled in Seoul “When Western media think we (Russian people) don’t vote for Putin. Well‚ we do!” one of the captions from the screenshots said. “Mission accomplished‚” another read.  Smyk then posted the address of her employer‚ with a call to “show Yulia what she needs to be responsible for.” When Vorobyova made her account private‚ Smyk called her a “dumb c**t” and said it was too late. “We will f**k you and the company you work for‚” he added.  On Tuesday‚ Smyk posted a letter he received from Egre‚ revealing that Vorobyova had been dismissed.  “It has recently come to our attention that one of our consultant agents‚ Yulia‚ has posted a pro-war message on social media‚” the company said. “Yulia is no longer associated with our company.” Юлія нахуй вилетіла з компанії 🙂ТРО Лондон працює 🚬🚬🚬 pic.twitter.com/pzfiiaxwvq— Nazar Smyk (@nazar_london) March 19‚ 2024 Smyk also said he had spoken with Egre’s owner and that “in order to show its pro-European position‚ the company will donate funds for the humanitarian needs of Ukrainians through the British-Ukrainian fund‚” as well as vetting any new hires – presumably to ensure they aren’t Russians with unapproved political beliefs.  After Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022‚ the US and its allies moved to ban Russian officials‚ plants‚ animals‚ artists‚ and even certain letters of the alphabet‚ all in an effort to show their support for the government in Kiev. EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

Commercial real-estate is in dire straights. At the start of the week‚ a lawyer specializing in advisory services for lenders and servicers of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) in the United States told us that the office segment of the commercial real estate market has been surprisingly quiet in the first quarter‚ despite the countless news headlines about towers being dumped on the market for hefty discounts.  The reason for this recent calm in the CRE space might be explained in a note by Vinay Viswanathan of Goldman Sachs on Tuesday. Image Viswanathan explained that the total amount of outstanding commercial mortgages set to mature by year-end has exploded from $658 billion at the start of last year to $929 billion in mid-March.  ChartSurvival Shield X-3 is BACK at the Infowars Store! Get 40% OFF on the next evolution in activated nascent iodine HERE He said this high amount of debt that has been extended and modified rather than refinanced “helped mitigate a default wave and a sharp pick-up in losses on CRE loan portfolios.” He noted the main driver of this has been the “willingness of lenders and borrowers to modify and extend maturing loans rather than refinancing or forcing a foreclosure.” In other words‚ the can was simply kicked down the road until after the presidential elections.  Meanwhile‚ the stresses are building for the office segment as tower loans that have fully paid off at maturity sink below 60%. However‚ the maturity payoff rate for loans backed by other property types has been near a decade high.  Chart Extend and pretend: About 47% of the non-bank CMBS loan maturities in 2023 were pushed into 2024 Chart The analyst asked how long will the game of musical chairs last:  “While extensions and modifications are not unusual phenomena in the CRE market‚ particularly during times of rising financial distress and tight lending conditions‚ the low likelihood that funding costs revert to pre-COVID levels begs the question: how long can this trend continue?”  Viswanathan expects “the wave of modifications to persist in the near term as refinancing stays uneconomical for most commercial real estate borrowers‚ while foreclosures remain an unappealing proposition for lenders in an illiquid property market.”  Given that swaps traders and economists at Goldman forecast fewer Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts for the full year and put the odds of a June rate cut around 50%‚ the higher-for-longer theme suggests risks are undoubtedly surging across the CRE space for 2025. Chart Viswanathan believes “the risk of a negative feedback loop of distressed sales and lower property prices is largely contained to the office sector.” EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

French ground army chief of staff General Pierre Schill said in an op-ed that his forces are ready to respond to “the toughest engagements” and said the country could engage a division of 20‚000 troops within 30 days. Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergey Naryshkin said on Tuesday that thousands of French troops are being prepared for deployment in the Odessa region of Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to put around 2‚000 troops in Odessa would only serve as a “human tripwire force” and would be “the equivalent of NATO‚ like a dog‚ urinating on Odessa‚ marking it as NATO’s territory‚” Mark Sleboda‚ an international relations and security expert‚ told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Wednesday. He added that in this analogy‚ France is like “a poodle.” On Tuesday‚ French ground army chief of staff General Pierre Schill said in an op-ed that his forces are ready to respond to “the toughest engagements” and said the country could engage a division of 20‚000 troops within 30 days. “He’s wrong. The French army is most certainly not ready for this‚” Sleboda said‚ commenting on the general’s assertion. “If they were engaged in a high-intensity conflict such as the Kiev regime is engaged in‚ firing many less artillery shells than Russia‚ then France would have enough artillery shells for four days of conflict with Russia. Four days‚” Sleboda explained. By comparison‚ Russia has more than 600‚000 troops deployed in the special operation zone‚ according to both Russian and Western analyses. “There is a likelihood that the French believe that Russia will not fire on these French troops‚ [because] they are under uniform‚ out of fear of striking a NATO member‚ even though of course‚ NATO’s Article Five would not apply‚” Sleboda explained.Introducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being. Sleboda added that he believes Macron thinks that if French troops are killed by Russia‚ then that will create more support for the conflict domestically and “help politically mobilize” other European countries to join the fight. “I think if Macron sent his troops to Odessa‚ obviously not a force that could be able to engage Russia in a slugfest on the battlefield‚ but as kind of a human tripwire force. It would be the equivalent of NATO‚ like a dog‚ urinating on Odessa‚ marking it as NATO’s territory‚” Sleboda said. “Of course‚ with NATO troops officially in uniform dying in Ukraine‚ that would take us to a whole other level‚” he warned. Sleboda predicted that there will be a “very big information warfare game‚ the targets of which will be the French people‚” and other NATO member states‚ noting that Finland‚ the Czech Republic‚ the Baltics and Canada “have all already suggested that they might” join the French. Co-host Wilmer Leon asked if Macron could seriously believe a “behind whopping isn’t on the horizon‚” Sleboda responded by describing NATO’s “salami-slicing tactics” of incrementalism. “We now have NATO leaders openly admitting‚ ‘yeah‚ we’ve got troops all over Ukraine. They’ve been heavily involved in all operations of combat‚’”he said‚ citing a Spanish newspaper. “Russia has still not taken any retaliatory actions against NATO outside of Ukraine‚ outside of the parameters of the proxy war. So‚ I think this is one more escalation they believe they can get through [using] incrementalism.” EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has claimed Russia is making a mistake if it believes Berlin will waver in its support for Kiev. Germany will not let Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly alter Ukraine’s borders or impose the terms of peace‚ Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed. Speaking to lawmakers in Berlin on Wednesday‚ Scholz insisted Germany “will not accept a dictated peace at the expense of Ukraine.”  “Law is stronger than violence‚” the chancellor said‚ claiming that Putin had sought to violate that principle with the launch of Russia’s military operation against Ukraine in February 2022. “We will not let him get away with this‚” he added.  Scholz insisted that Germany’s backing of Ukraine will not decrease‚ and that expecting otherwise would be a “miscalculation.” He reiterated his criticism of Putin’s reelection last weekend for a fifth term as president‚ saying it showed that “Russia is not strong.”Winter Sun Plus is NOW 25% off! Boost your natural defenses with this powerful vitamin D3 and K formula! However‚ as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell acknowledged in an interview on Wednesday‚ European allies will be hard-pressed to fill the funding gap if Kiev’s biggest backer‚ Washington‚ reduces its support. US President Joe Biden’s administration ran out of funding for Ukraine in January and has struggled to secure congressional approval for over $60 billion in additional military and financial aid.  Read more EU’s Borrell warns of Ukraine funding vacuum if US stops spending Scholz made his comments ahead of an EU summit scheduled to begin on Thursday in Brussels. Major topics of discussion will include efforts to ramp up aid to Ukraine‚ as well as the bloc’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. Russian forces have made battlefield gains in recent weeks‚ and US defense chief Lloyd Austin warned on Tuesday that Ukraine’s very survival will be at risk if the West fails to provide more weapons to Kiev. Even as he lobbies allies for more Ukraine aid‚ Scholz has resisted political pressure to provide Kiev with long-range Taurus missiles‚ saying that such an escalation could draw Germany into a direct conflict with Russia. Speaking at the Bundestag on Wednesday‚ he told lawmakers that debate within Germany over the Taurus issue is “nothing short of ridiculous.” He added that the controversy isn’t well understood outside of Germany‚ describing it as “embarrassing for us as a country.” EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation

Hours after The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a bill allowing Texas to arrest and deport illegal immigrants‚ The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the law. Alex Jones broke down the battle to secure the U.S. Mexican border on his Wednesday show‚ a battle which intensified as federal judiciaries and the state of Texas struggle over the illegal alien deportation bill. “If the Supreme Court hears an emergency motion‚ a lower appeals court can briefly override it until the Supreme Court has a full hearing‚” Jones said. “And so there’s some checks and balances in there‚ but this is very very rare and I would expect the Supreme Court to override it imminently.” Don’t miss: EXCLUSIVE: Reporters Expose Nationwide Illegal Immigrant Child Trafficking Operation URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today!