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  • Lawmakers Demand Biden Declassify COVID Origins Investigations

    By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
    Lawmakers are demanding that President Joe Biden declassify documents related to the origins of COVID-19, in particular federal investigations into the matter.
    The Senate passed a bill by unanimous consent that would require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify documents related to COVID’s origins. Republicans have a majority in the House, giving the legislation a chance, but whether Biden would sign it is in doubt.
    White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked directly about the bill at a press briefing, but she wouldn’t answer, saying she would not “get ahead of the President.”
    “It shouldn’t take an act of Congress to force the administration to help uncover the truth around one of the most important public health questions of our time,” U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy Rodgers, R-Wash., Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith, R-VA., Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chair Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said in a joint statement.
    Related: FBI Confirms COVID-19 Likely Came From Wuhan Lab
    The call for transparency comes after news broke that the White House and key lawmakers received classified briefings saying that the Department of Energy concluded that COVID-19 likely originated in the Wuhan virology lab. That news only fueled the calls for more information.
    “Biden officials are dragging their feet and have not done it,” the aforementioned Republican lawmakers said in a statement. “That is unacceptable. The American people deserve full transparency regarding what our government knows about how this pandemic started, how taxpayer dollars may have been spent on risky research, and if labs performing such research are upholding the highest standards of safety. We will not stop our investigation until the truth is revealed.”
    After the Energy Department’s briefing, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the FBI also publicly confirmed the same findings.
    “[FBI] Director Wray confirmed that the Bureau has assessed that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China,” the agency said in a statement.
    House Republicans have also vowed to investigate whether American taxpayer dollars may have played a role since the lab has received federal funding.
    Related: Wuhan Backlash Erupts After Stunning Biden Administration Admission
    The renewed controversy over COVID origins come after Republicans and some in the media were mocked during the pandemic for asserting the virus could have come from the Wuhan lab, as The Center Square previously reported.
    In 2020, the Associated Press called the idea a “myth.” The same year, The New York Times called it a “conspiracy theory,” and The Washington Post called it a “fringe theory.”
    Social media companies like Facebook were taking down posts in 2021 that claimed COVID-19 was man-made.
    “For nearly three years, anyone asking whether COVID-19 originated as a lab leak outbreak was silenced and branded as a conspiracy theorist,” U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said. “Now these prudent skeptics stand vindicated. The Biden administration must immediately declassify all intelligence reports pertaining to the origins of COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The American people deserve to know the truth.”
    Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
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  • Site of Future Safety Training Center in Atlanta Under Lockdown After Fire

    Site of Future Safety Training Center in Atlanta Under Lockdown After Fire

    Image: @BillyHeathFOX5/Twitter
     
    In December 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported on five Antifa members who were arrested and held on terrorism charges after protesting outside of a $90 Million police training center near Atlanta, Georgia.
    During the arrests, police recovered bombs, flares, gasoline, and weapons.
    Additionally, the protesters torched at least two vehicles during their protests at the training center site.
    Protests have been ongoing since June 2021 when the training center was announced with opponents camping out in surrounding trees.  Protesters have dubbed the center “Cop City.”
    In January, TGP reported that a far-left protestor from Stop Cop City ATL, was killed and a Georgia State Patrol trooper was wounded during a confrontation near the facility.
    Sunday evening, smoke and flames erupted in the area and the site was put on lockdown.

    CONSTRUCTION SITE BURNS: Huge plumes of smoke and massive police response after @defendATLforest / #StopCopCity protesters face off with police at the site of Atlanta’s future Public Safety Training Facility. I’m told Molotov cocktails were thrown. Construction equipment is on… https://t.co/6dIyrPff6T pic.twitter.com/0F9qj8dgFn
    — Billy Heath III (@BillyHeathFOX5) March 5, 2023

    Fox 5 Atlanta reports:
    The site of Atlanta’s future Public Safety Training Facility infamously called ‘Cop City’ by protestors is now on lockdown as smoke and flames were put out, and the area was secured. FOX 5 saw SWAT reporting to the scene as night fell.
    Just before 8 p.m., a FOX 5 reporter on the ground said she heard something that resembled the sound of fireworks or gunshots, but has not yet had that detail confirmed by officials.
    There was a massive police presence along Key Road in southeast Atlanta early Sunday evening as FOX 5 was told protestors were actively clashing with officers. Officials said at least one construction vehicle was set on fire.
    We have since been told the protest has been contained and many of the protestors have scattered into the woods.
    A Georgia State Trooper told FOX 5 photographer Billy Heath that rocks, sticks and even a Molotov cocktail were thrown at police.

     

    Hey look!
    More Leftist #DomesticTerrorism
    cc: @FBI @DHSgov
    Maybe take a few agents off the #ThoughtPolice task force & do your damn jobshttps://t.co/CDXpB1UqR8
    — Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) March 6, 2023

    Maybe get some J6 assets to respond to real domestic terrorism https://t.co/WJd5I3WMF1
    — Rob O’Donnell (@odonnell_r) March 6, 2023

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  • “It Means Genocide Continues” – Racist, Godless Democrat Lawmaker Sick of “White Christians” Adopting Native American Babies

    “It Means Genocide Continues” – Racist, Godless Democrat Lawmaker Sick of “White Christians” Adopting Native American Babies

    Minnesota Democrat lawmaker Heather Keeler came under fire after she posted racist, godless attacks on “white Christians” on her Facebook page.
    Keeler wrote: “I’m sick of white Christians adopting our babies and rejoicing… It’s a really sad day when that happens. It means the genocide continues… White saviors are the worst.”

    The alleged post has since been deleted.
    No doubt, this same woman would vote to abort these babies but is disgusted when they are put in caring homes.
    What a sick, empty woman.
    FOX News reported:
    A Minnesota Democrat in the state legislature is facing criticism after allegedly posting online that White Christians who adopt Native American children are contributing to “genocide.”
    “I’m sick of white Christians adopting our babies and rejoicing,” Minnesota State Rep. Heather Keeler posted on her personal Facebook page recently, according to Alpha News.
    “It’s a really sad day when that happens. It means the genocide continues.
    “If you care about our babies, advocate against the genocide,” the post continued. “Help the actual issues impacting indigenous parents, stop stealing our babies and changing their names under the impression you are helping. White saviors are the worst!”
    The Minnesota GOP Chairman David Hann condemned Keeler’s sickening remarks calling it a “racist rant”.

    Attacks on Minnesotans’ race or religion have no place in our discourse. We condemn @RepKeeler’s hateful and extremist rhetoric. Dems @GovTimWalz @peggyflanagan @melissahortman @kenmartin73 need to denounce this hateful speech immediately. Here’s Chairman Hann’s full statement: pic.twitter.com/SH2iKBggZR
    — Republican Party of Minnesota (@mngop) March 1, 2023

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  • REPORT: State Attorney General Pushing “Ministry of Truth” Bill Which Targets Conservatives – Opposing Election Fraud and Vaccine Mandates Could Become Crimes

    REPORT: State Attorney General Pushing “Ministry of Truth” Bill Which Targets Conservatives – Opposing Election Fraud and Vaccine Mandates Could Become Crimes

    AG Bob Ferguson
    Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is pushing the state legislature to adopt legislation that would set up a commission on “domestic terrorism.” According to a report, this could lead to conservative individuals being criminally charged for expressing their views.
    KTTH’s Jason Rantz described this legislation, known as HB 1333, as the “most dangerous” in Washington state’s history in his report Wednesday. He says Washington state is setting up a 1984-style Ministry of Truth.
    As Gateway Pundit readers know, the Biden regime attempted to create one at the federal level last year, before backing off three weeks later after vociferous public criticism.
    According to the Center Square, HB 1333 would create a so-called Domestic Violent Extremism Commission (DVE) in the Attorney General’s office. The 13 members on the commission are asked to recommend legislative “solutions to combat disinformation and misinformation, address early signs of radicalization, and develop a public health-style response.”
    In addition, while the commission in HB1333 is charged with finding avenues to treat DVE as a public health problem, only one member is required to be an expert on public health, according to the Blaze.
    The legislation also requests the commission look into “current legal tools, both civil and criminal, and making recommendations for potential new legislation and regulations to address violent domestic extremism.”
    HB 1333 came as a result of the Ferguson’s 2022 “Domestic Terrorism” study. That study warned that “effective State intervention to address these threats has the potential to implicate speech or association that may be protected by the First Amendment, or the individual right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment.”
    Among the study’s recommendations was the creation a commission to explore not only data collection, but possibly adding a definition of DVE to state statue.
    AG Ferguson includes speech in his description of DVE:
    “Various forms of extremist and political violence like threats, coercion, and intimidation, online disinformation, extremist recruitment and government infiltration efforts, and the general spread of extreme white supremacism and anti-government ideologies.“
    In a PBS interview back in January, AG Ferguson claimed HB 1333 was needed because the federal definition of terrorism is “too narrow for the great threat that we see with the increase of radicalization, for example.”
    The basic idea, he explained, was to utilize “community intervention” to “take preemptive measures to stop actual domestic terrorist acts.” Such extremists could be forced to undergo counseling, for example.
    Rantz explains in his report that the commission and the AG’s office are singularly focused on white conservatives and HB 1333 was crafted by far-left groups.
    The AG’s office makes it clear that they’re primarily interested in targeting white people. Indeed, his office rejected the term “domestic terrorist” because it was too “triggering” to minority communities. And it came from an AG Office report after it tasked a group of stakeholders to explore violent domestic extremism.
    The stakeholder group did not include a single conservative or even moderate political group. Instead, it included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Council on Islamic Relations, and Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. Unsurprisingly, the group focused on white conservatives, which they labeled extremists, while arguing systemic bigotry within police departments attracts extremists.
    The group’s partisan, left-wing recommendations were used to craft HB 1333.
    Groups and individuals opposing critical race theory, mask and vaccine mandates, election fraud, and grooming could be seen by the commission and AG Ferguson as “anti-government” fascism and engendering white supremacy. Indeed, Rantz notes during a recent House Committee presentation on Washington state “extremism,” a woman from the far-left Anti Defamation League claimed without evidence white supremacists have a “common cause” with these groups and individuals. She also absurdly claimed white nationalists use protests around these issues to recruit new members.
    While this legislation is blatantly unconstitutional, Ferguson is almost certainly hoping the liberal Washington Supreme Court will uphold HB 1333 anyway. The Supreme Court could be controlled by leftists by the time the bill gets in front of them.
    God help us all should this occur.

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  • J6 Political Prisoners at DC Gulag Leak Heart-Breaking Video from Inside Jail Praying and Singing National Anthem – VIDEO

    J6 Political Prisoners at DC Gulag Leak Heart-Breaking Video from Inside Jail Praying and Singing National Anthem – VIDEO

    The January 6th political prisoners have been held in prison now for over 700 days for their actions on what now appears to be a federal operation at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
    As more video is released it becomes clearer by the day that the assault on the US Capitol was a coordinated, planned and designed attack on the American public with the full support of the Democrat Party and national media.
    J6 BOMBSHELL: DOJ VIDEO Shows Capitol Police Holding Open “Upper West Terrace Doors” On Jan 6… Over 250 Individuals Allowed to Walk Into Capitol by Police Then Later Arrested and Abused

    There is now evidence that it was the Capitol Police who started the violence against unsuspecting protesters that day.
    CONFIRMED: As We Suspected All Along, New Video Proves Capitol Police on January 6 Started Firing on the Innocent Crowd Without Warning and Against the Law, Injuring Numerous Individuals (SHOCKING VIDEO)

    Now there is heart-breaking video that was leaked from inside the DC Gulag showing political prisoners praying and singing the National Anthem. Many of these men have now been in jail for over 770 days without trial.
    This is a national disgrace.
    Where are the courageous men and women to stand up against this tyranny?
    Thank you Midnight Rider for posting this.

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  • Fake News: Liberal Daily Beast Forced to Correct Claim That CPAC Speaker Wants “Transgender Community Eradicated” But Continues to Call Remarks “Genocidal”

    Fake News: Liberal Daily Beast Forced to Correct Claim That CPAC Speaker Wants “Transgender Community Eradicated” But Continues to Call Remarks “Genocidal”

    At CPAC on Saturday, writer Michael Knowles shared concerns about how transgenderism is shaping public life and dialogue.
    In his speech, Knowles said, “There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing. If transgenderism is true, if men really can become women, then it’s true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is, if men really can’t become women, as they cannot, then it’s false for everybody too. And if it’s false, then we should not indulge it. Especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people.”
    “If it is false, then for the good of society and especially for the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. The whole, preposterous ideology at every level.”
    But that is not how the screaming headline from the liberal Daily Beast covered his remarks. Their headline read, “Michael Knowles Says Transgender Community Must Be ‘Eradicated’ at CPAC-This is Genocidal.”

    Knowles demanded a retraction from the outlet for the incorrect description of his remarks.

    I never said that and demand a retraction. @thedailybeast pic.twitter.com/RvPCikgHgG
    — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) March 4, 2023
    The Daily Beast edited their headline to, “Michael Knowles Says Transgenderism Must Be ‘Eradicated’ at CPAC”, but the outlet did not remove the “This is Genocidal” caption from the headline.

    Knowles respond to the title correction.

    I’m pleased to see that @thedailybeast‘s lawyers scrambled to make them stealth-edit their defamatory headline about me. Unfortunately, this tweak does not constitute a retraction of the article, which remains libelous. https://t.co/TLkCne3sp2 pic.twitter.com/kvL61u11eZ
    — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) March 4, 2023

    Liberals tried in vain to continue attacking the remarks, but Knowles adroitly pointed out their linguistic hypocrisy.

    You can’t “eradicate transgenderism” without violence against trans siblings. People don’t simply cease to exist. https://t.co/1ODSz8j3TL
    — Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (@RevJacquiLewis) March 5, 2023

    Are you calling for a genocide of the poor? https://t.co/yN41olWlKp
    — Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) March 5, 2023

    What Michael Knowles actually called for was the eradication of transgenderism from *public life.*
    Strong words, but most of us are sick of media and woke corps shoving trannies and pronouns down our throats.
    The left is dubbing it a call for genocide. Fake news strikes again! pic.twitter.com/6nJP7HTaor
    — Ben Kew (@ben_kew) March 5, 2023

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  • Californians Literally Breathing in Mexican Sewage – And Study Claims That Isn’t All

    Californians Literally Breathing in Mexican Sewage – And Study Claims That Isn’t All

    Ahh the California beach. Roaring surf. Golden sunsets. And the sweet smell of Mexican sewage.
    That’s the reality taking place along south Imperial Beach, according to a study from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego.
    Raw sewage that meanders its way along the Tijuana River in Mexico flows into the Pacific Ocean and has for years. There’s a lot of it.
    According to the website InterestingEngineering,13 billion gallons of sewage-polluted waters have flowed out of the river into the Pacific Ocean since December.
    “This input of contaminated water has caused chronic coastal water pollution in Imperial Beach for decades. New research shows that sewage-polluted coastal waters transfer to the atmosphere in sea spray aerosol formed by breaking waves and bursting bubbles,” Scripps said in a release.
    “Sea spray aerosol contains bacteria, viruses, and chemical compounds from the seawater,” the Scripps release continued.
    “This research demonstrates that coastal communities are exposed to coastal water pollution even without entering polluted waters,” study lead author Matthew Pendergraft said.
    “More research is necessary to determine the level of risk posed to the public by aerosolized coastal water pollution. These findings provide further justification for prioritizing cleaning up coastal waters,” he said.
    The research shows pollution’s impact is wider than anyone thought, according to one researcher.
    “We’ve shown that up to three-quarters of the bacteria that you breathe in at Imperial Beach are coming from aerosolization of raw sewage in the surf zone,” lead researcher Kim Prather said.
    “Coastal water pollution has been traditionally considered just a waterborne problem. People worry about swimming and surfing in it but not about breathing it in, even though the aerosols can travel long distances and expose many more people than those just at the beach or in the water,” Prather said.
    Having determined that ocean spray contains bacteria and chemicals that came from the Tijuana River, the next step for the research is to determine what pathogens are a danger to anyone breathing the ocean air.
    “The bottom line is we don’t know what sort of the effect is yet of inhaling this sort of cocktail that comes out of the ocean. We want to understand. We are doing further work. We’re really ramping up to understand the conditions that lead to this aerosolization,” Prather said, according to KNSD.
    “This is not just a problem in Imperial Beach, it goes all up and down the West Coast,” Prather said.
    Prather said researchers will swab lifeguards, surfers and others to determine how much respiratory exposure they have suffered, according to the Los Angeles Times.
    “The bottom line is we don’t know what the effect is yet of inhaling this cocktail that comes out of the ocean,. This is tip of the iceberg,” she said.
    Robert Knight, a professor of pediatrics, computer science and engineering at UC San Diego said, “It was a complete shock to find how much of microbes in the air were traceable back to sewage. We had no idea that effect would be so strong.”
    “Now that we know this is a real phenomenon, we need to find out what are the impacts to human health,” he said.
    This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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  • Jill Biden Calls Suggestion for Joe Biden to Take Competency Test “Ridiculous”

    Jill Biden Calls Suggestion for Joe Biden to Take Competency Test “Ridiculous”

    Recently, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and 2024 Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley suggested testing older politicians for mental proficiency.
    On Sunday, First Lady Jill Biden, chief caretaker to the politician that needs a mental proficiency test above all others, said the suggestion was “ridiculous.’’
    On Sunday’s CNN State of the Union, Jill said she and ​her husband would “never even discuss something like that.
    The New York Post reports:
    “Ridiculous,” Jill Biden responded when asked about Haley’s idea in a snippet of an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” 
    Jill Biden — whose full interview will air at ​9 p.m. Monday — pointed to the president’s surprise trip last month to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion as proof of the commander-in-chief’s stamina.
    “How many 30-year-olds could travel to Poland, get on the train? Go nine more hours, go to Ukraine, meet with President  Zelensky?” she said. “So, look at the man. Look what he’s doing. Look what he continues to do each and every day.”​
    Joe Biden’s doddering unintelligible gaffes are so common that the rest of the world is laughing at us.
    Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi devolved into tears as she struggled to contain her laughter while sharing a montage of some of Biden’s cringeworthy moments.
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  • Democrat Hakeem Jeffries Absurdly Claims Biden “Reduced the Flow of Illegal Border Crossings” (VIDEO)

    Democrat Hakeem Jeffries Absurdly Claims Biden “Reduced the Flow of Illegal Border Crossings” (VIDEO)

    Democrats lie about everything.
    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday absurdly claimed Joe Biden “reduced the flow of illegal border crossings.”
    This is the leader of the Democrat party.
    “What I have seen is that some of the steps that President Biden and the administration have taken over the last few months has certainly reduced the flow of illegal border crossings,” Jeffries said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
    This is a brazen lie.
    For nearly 2 years straight border crossings have exceeded 150,000 a month.
    More than 5 million illegal aliens have crossed over the US border since Joe Biden was sworn into office in January 2021.
    VIDEO:

    Hakeem Jeffries claims that “some of the steps that President Biden and the administration have taken over the last few months have certainly reduced the flow of illegal border crossings.”
    pic.twitter.com/lnj9M3I2iw
    — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 5, 2023

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  • Actor Idris Elba Slams Woke Backlash for Recent ‘Black Actor’ Comment

    Actor Idris Elba Slams Woke Backlash for Recent ‘Black Actor’ Comment

    Image: @IdrisElba/Instagram
     
    British actor Idris Elba is facing backlash from competitors in the woke-Olympics after an interview with Esquire UK where he explains that he describes himself as an actor, not a “black actor.”

     

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    A post shared by Esquire UK (@ukesquire)

    In the Esquire interview, the Luther actor explains,  “As humans, we are obsessed with race. And that obsession can really hinder people’s aspirations, hinder people’s growth.”
    “Racism should be a topic for discussion, sure. Racism is very real. But from my perspective, it’s only as powerful as you allow it to be,” he continued. “I stopped describing myself as a Black actor when I realized it put me in a box. We’ve got to grow. We’ve got to. Our skin is no more than that: It’s just skin. Rant over.”
    Cue the outrage from those who want everything to be seen through a racially motivated lens.
    After the backlash, speaking with The Guardian, he shares that social media is a “conflict incubator” and having opinions in today’s social media environment can be challenging. “n this day and age, it’s really difficult to have an opinion if you’re in the public eye because it gets overly scrutinized, taken out of context, thrown into some sort of bullshit, zeitgeisty social media argument.”
    “Me saying I don’t like to call myself a Black actor is my prerogative. That’s me, not you. So for you to turn around and say to me, I’m ‘denying my Blackness’. On what grounds? Did you hear that? Where am I denying it? And what for? It’s just stupid. Whatever.”
    Alba took to Twitter to address the woke mob.

    There isn’t a soul on this earth that can question whether I consider myself a BLACK MAN or not. Being an ‘actor’ is a profession, like being an ‘architect’ ,they are not defined by race. However, If YOU define your work by your race, that is your Perogative. Ah lie?
    — Idris Elba (@idriselba) February 11, 2023

     
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