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Biden previously supported increasing the retirement age from 65 to 67 after bipartisan negotiations in 1983. While at this point pretending that one can somehow stop or deflect the civilization-ending meteor that is the US debt load‚ rising by $30 billion every day on its way to a terminal reserve currency crisis‚ is at best rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic‚ Wednesday the largest caucus of House Republicans called for an increase in the Social Security retirement age up a clash with President Joe Biden over spending on popular entitlement programs. According to Bloomberg‚ the Republican Study Committee‚ which comprises about 80% of House Republicans‚ called for the Social Security eligibility age to be tied to life expectancy in its fiscal 2025 budget proposal. As a reminder‚ the social security pension system was created in 1935 when the average life expectancy was 61 for white males and 65 for white females‚ about 20 years below where it is today. The proposal also suggests reducing benefits for top earners who aren’t near retirement‚ including a phase-out of auxiliary benefits for the highest earners. The proposal sets the stage for an election-year fight with Biden‚ who accused Republicans of going after popular socialist entitlement programs during his State of the Union address. “If anyone here tries to cut Social Security‚ Medicare‚ or raise the retirement age‚ I will stop you‚” Biden said in his March 7 address to Congress. Spoiler alert: he won’t. Amusingly‚ the Republican document notes that Biden previously supported increasing the retirement age from 65 to 67 after bipartisan negotiations in 1983.Our fan-favorite Turbo Force Plus is now 40% off! See for yourself the delicious one-of-a-kind energy boost infowarriors CRAVE! Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.)‚ the caucus’s chairman‚ said the president’s opposition to Social Security policy changes would lead to automatic benefit cuts when the program’s trust fund is set for insolvency in 2033. A phased-in retirement age change was a standard feature of past negotiations‚ he said. “Anytime there’s been any reforms in history – President Clinton‚ President Reagan – had a slow migration of age changes for people that are 18‚ 19 years old‚” Hern told reporters Wednesday. The caucus’s budget proposal is more aggressive than the recent proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas)‚ who advanced a budget resolution earlier this month that called for a bipartisan commission to negotiate Social Security and Medicare solvency but didn’t make specific policy recommendations. The Republican Study Committee‚ meanwhile‚ called for policy changes that would reduce spending on Social Security by $1.5 trillion and Medicare by $1.2 trillion over the next decade. Republicans have said their proposals aren’t truly cuts and wouldn’t affect those at or near retirement. But Biden and congressional Democrats such as Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.)‚ ranking member of the Budget Committee‚ have said they won’t support an increase in the age of eligibility‚ which currently sits at 67 (and can start as early as 62 with penalties). The caucus’s proposal leaves some details out. It calls “modest changes to the primary insurance amount” for those who aren’t near retirement and “earn more than the wealthiest” benefit level. It also proposes “modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy.” And it would “limit and phase out auxiliary benefits for high income earners.” The proposal projects to balance the federal budget by 2031‚ outlining $16.6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade‚ hardly the stuff a society addicted to fringe welfare benefits will be delighted to hear. The proposal calls for Medicare spending reductions by implementing a “premium support model” in which private Medicare Advantage plans would compete with the federal Medicare plan. It proposes moving graduate medical education payments‚ which go to teaching hospitals for their residency programs‚ into a trust fund separate from Medicare. As reported previously‚ Biden’s fiscal 2025 budget proposal‚ released March 11‚ called for an increase in the tax rate to support Medicare on those earning more than $400‚000 a year‚ from 3.8% to 5%. It also broadly called for top earners to pay more to support Social Security‚ but didn’t make specific proposals. White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young told reporters the Biden administration doesn’t like the current structure of the payroll tax — which only applies to the first $168‚600 of an individual’s income. One of the trust funds that supports Social Security is projected for insolvency in 2033‚ the program’s board of trustees said their most recent estimate in March 2023. EXCLUSIVE: Humanity Must Develop A Plan B To Counter The Globalists’ Anti-Human Agenda

The French president reportedly voiced the sentiment at an Elysee Palace dinner. French President Emmanuel Macron believes Ukraine might be defeated on the battlefield in short order‚ the French edition of Politico reported on Wednesday. The outlet’s Playbook section spoke with several members of the president’s party who had attended a working dinner at the Elysee Palace the evening before. While most of the discussion centered on the upcoming European Parliament elections‚ the Ukraine conflict also came up. “Ukraine could fall very quickly‚” one of the outlet’s sources quoted Macron as saying. Macron ramped up his rhetoric about Ukraine a few weeks after a number of French nationals fighting on behalf of Kiev were killed in a Russian missile strike. At a meeting of EU leaders in Paris in late February‚ he refused to rule out the possibility of a NATO intervention in Ukraine.  Though the idea was quickly rejected by almost all members of the US-led bloc and its secretary-general‚ Macron doubled down‚ declaring there would be “no limits” to French support for Kiev and calling Russia an “adversary.”Meanwhile‚ the French Army’s Chief of Staff Pierre Schill announced that the country’s military was “ready‚”presumably for a war.URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! Moscow has strongly condemned Macron’s remarks and cautioned NATO against taking further hostile moves. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov‚ the deployment of Western soldiers to Ukraine would make direct conflict with Russia “inevitable.” Read more Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – Marianne Marine Le Pen‚ a prominent member of the opposition National Rally party and Macron’s rival in the 2022 election‚ accused the president last week of “hijacking” the Ukraine issue for the sake of domestic electoral politics. Polls have shown that the French support helping Kiev with weapons and money‚ but draw the line at getting involved directly with boots on the ground. Concerns that Kiev might be losing the war appear to be based on several French military assessments leaked earlier this month to the outlet Marianne. One report‚ following Kiev’s summer offensive‚ concluded that Ukraine could not win the conflict by military means. Another described the Battle of Avdeevka as a Ukrainian rout and had the French military “in cold sweat‚” according to Marianne.  A few days later‚ the daily Le Monde claimed that Macron’s talk of possibly sending troops dated all the way back to June 2023‚ when the Ukrainian counteroffensive was just starting. General Schill also told the outlet that Macron’s public statements have been “foremost a political and strategic message” to Russia about France’s “will and commitment‚” rather than an actual escalation. EXCLUSIVE: Humanity Must Develop A Plan B To Counter The Globalists’ Anti-Human Agenda

Declassified documents tabled in the House of Commons on Feb. 28 show the couple had provided confidential scientific information to China and posed a credible security threat to the country. A virologist who had a “clandestine relationship” with Chinese agents and was subsequently fired by the Trudeau government has popped back up in China – where she’s conducting research with Chinese military scientists and other virology researchers‚ including at the Wuhan Institute of Virology‚ where she’s allegedly studying antibodies for coronavirus‚ as well as the deadly Ebola and Niaph viruses‚ the Globe and Mail reports. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng were fired from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg‚ Canada and stripped of their security clearances in July of 2019. Declassified documents tabled in the House of Commons on Feb. 28 show the couple had provided confidential scientific information to China and posed a credible security threat to the country‚ according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.The Globe found that Dr. Qiu’s name appears on four Chinese patent filings since 2020‚ two with the Wuhan Institute of Virology – whose work on bat coronaviruses has placed it at the centre of concerns that it played a role in the spread of COVID-19 – and two with the University of Science and Technology of China‚ or USTC. The patents relate to antibodies against Nipah virus and work related to nanobodies‚ including against coronaviruses. -Globe and Mail Canadian authorities began questioning the pair’s loyalty‚ as well as the potential for coercion or exploitation by a foreign entity‚ according to more than 600 pages of documents reported by The Counter Signal.Winter Sun Plus is NOW 25% off! 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Highlights (via CTVNews.ca): Qiu and Cheng were escorted out of Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory in July 2019 and subsequently fired in January 2021.The pair transferred deadly Ebola and Henipah viruses to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in March 2019.The Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessed that Qiu repeatedly lied about the extent of her work with institutions of the Chinese government and refused to admit involvement in various Chinese programs‚ even when evidence was presented to her.[D]espite being given every opportunity in her interviews to describe her association with Chinese entities‚ “Ms. Qiu continued to make blanket denials‚ feign ignorance or tell outright lies.”A November 2020 Public Health Agency of Canada report on Qiu says investigators “weighed the adverse information and are in agreement with the CSIS assessment.”A Public Health Agency report on Cheng’s activities says he allowed restricted visitors to work in laboratories unescorted and on at least two occasions did not prevent the unauthorized removal of laboratory materials.Cheng was not forthcoming about his activities and collaborations with people from government agencies “of another country‚ namely members of the People’s Republic of China.” Following their firings‚ Qiu returned to China despite it being under a pandemic travel lockdown until January‚ 2023. “It’s very likely that she received quite preferential treatment in China on the basis that she’s proven herself. She’s done a very good job for the government of China‚” said Brendan Walker-Munro‚ senior research fellow at Australia’s University of Queensland Law School. “She’s promoted their interests abroad. She’s returned information that is credibly useful to China and to its ongoing research.” More via the Globe and Mail; Documents reviewed by The Globe show that Dr. Qiu is most closely aligned with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei. In March‚ 2023‚ a document posted by a Chinese pharmaceutical company listed Dr. Qiu as second amongst “major completion personnel” on a project awarded by the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association for study related to an anti-Ebola virus therapeutic antibody. Most of the other completion personnel were associated with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. USTC was founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and initially established to build up Chinese scientific expertise useful to the military‚ which at the time was pursuing technology to build satellites‚ intercontinental ballistic missiles and atomic bombs. The university has continued to maintain close military ties. The document says Dr. Qiu works for USTC. Jin Tengchuan‚ the principal investigator at the Laboratory of Structural Immunology at USTC‚ lists her as a co-inventor on a patent. Mr. Jin did not respond to requests for comment. A person who answered the phone at USTC told The Globe‚ “I don’t have any information about this teacher.” In 2012‚ USTC signed a strategic co-operation agreement with the Army Engineering University of the People’s Liberation Army‚ designed to strengthen research on cutting-edge technology useful for communications‚ weaponry and other national-defence priorities. Dr. Qiu is also listed as a 2019 doctoral supervisor for students studying virology at Hebei Medical University. “Well‚ that makes me wonder what circumstances she was under when she emigrated to Canada. Why did she come?” asked Earl Brown‚ a professor emeritus of biochemistry‚ microbiology and immunology at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of medicine who has worked extensively in China in the past. “People leave for more freedom from China‚ or to make more money. But China keeps tabs on most people so I am not sure if she came over to infiltrate or whether she came and the infiltration happened later through contact with China.” It may be impossible to answer that question. Three former colleagues at the National Microbiolgy Lab have indicated that Dr. Qiu and her husband were diligent and pleasant to deal with‚ but largely kept to themselves outside of work. They say Dr. Qiu was a brilliant scientist with a strong work ethic‚ although her English was weak. The Globe is not identifying the three who did not want to be named. Dr. Qiu is a medical doctor from Tianjin‚ China‚ who came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996. She started at the University of Manitoba‚ but began working at the national lab as a research scientist in 2006‚ working her way up to become head of the vaccine development and antiviral therapies section in the National Microbiology Laboratory’s special pathogens program. She was also part of the team that helped develop ZMapp‚ a treatment for the deadly Ebola virus‚ which killed more than 11‚000 people in West Africa between 2014 and 2016. “My sense is this was part of a larger strategy by China to get access to our innovation system‚” said Filippa Lentzos‚ an associate professor of science and international security at King’s College London. “It was a way for them to to find out what was going on in Canada’s premier lab.” Initially trained as a medical doctor‚ Dr. Qiu graduated in 1985 from Hebei University in the coastal city of Tianjin‚ which lies southeast of Beijing. Dr. Qiu went on to obtain her master of science degree in immunology at Tianjin Medical University in 1990. Her career at Canada’s top infectious disease lab in Winnipeg began in 2003‚ only four years after Ottawa opened this biosafety level 4 facility at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health. Over time‚ she built up a reputation for academic collaboration‚ particularly with China. It was welcomed by management who felt her work was helping build a name internationally for the National Microbiology Lab. By the time Canadian officials intervened in 2018 and began investigating‚ documents show‚ Dr. Qiu was running 44 separate projects at the Winnipeg lab‚ an uncommonly large workload. Her work with former colleague and microbiologist Gary Kobinger vaulted Dr. Qiu into the international spotlight. The pair developed a treatment for Ebola‚ one that in its first human application led to the full recovery of 27 patients with the infection during a 2014 outbreak in Liberia. Mr. Kobinger’s career continued to soar and he is now director of the Galveston National Laboratory‚ a renowned biosafety level 4 facility in Texas. In 2022‚ he told The Globe that it was “heartbreaking” to see what had happened to his colleague. He declined to speak for this article. “She had lost a lot of weight with all the stress. She was so convinced that this was all a misunderstanding … and she would go back to her job‚” he said in 2022. “ Her career has been destroyed with all this. She was one of the top female Canadian scientists of virology and Canada has lost that.” Over a period of 13 months‚ though‚ the Chinese-Canadian microbiologist and her biologist husband’s lives were turned upside down. She went from being feted at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall with a Governor-General’s Award in May‚ 2018‚ to being locked out of the Winnipeg lab in July‚ 2019 – the high-security facility where she had made her name as a scientist in Canada. By January‚ 2021‚ she and Mr. Cheng were fired. Last month‚ after being pressed into explaining what happened‚ the Canadian government finally disclosed the reasons for this extraordinary dismissal: CSIS found the pair had lied about and hid their co-operation with China from Ottawa. A big question remains following their departure: Why would Dr. Qiu risk her career‚ including the stature associated with developing an Ebola treatment‚ for China? A big question remains following their departure: Why would Dr. Qiu risk her career‚ including the stature associated with developing an Ebola treatment‚ for China? EXCLUSIVE: Humanity Must Develop A Plan B To Counter The Globalists’ Anti-Human Agenda