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The new immigration bill is a trojan horse for E-Verify and is a threat to all Americans

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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are set to vote this week on new legislation that would greatly increase the federal government's power over private businesses, workers, and US citizens. Unfortunately, much of the GOP majority is supportive of the legislation — the "Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023" (HR 2640) — because it is being marketed as a bill "to secure the border."

Much of the bill contains reasonable provisions such allowing state attorneys general the authority to sue the federal government for refusing to detain illegal aliens. Other provisions include denying asylum and residency to known criminals. In many ways, the bill is an effort to rein in the executive branch's control over immigration policy.

Alarmingly, however, the legislation also contains a provision mandating nationwide use of "E-Verify" which is essentially a federal surveillance program that determines whether or not a person can be legally employed in the United States. Every American would require the federal government's permission to work. So long as the Border Security and Enforcement Act contains these E-Verify provisions, the bill presents a clear and present danger to basic American freedoms and property rights. The expansion of E-Verify would also go a long way in helping the federal government build essential infrastructure that in the future could be used to implement "social credit scores" or restrictions on employment for those who refuse federally mandated vaccines or other mandates.

Arrow Down

'Little chance' China would agree to top-level talks with US - FT

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© AFPChinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu • Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
New Delhi • April 28, 2023
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has been subject to Russia-related sanctions since 2018...

China's newly appointed defense minister is highly unlikely to meet his US counterpart in Singapore next month due to sanctions that Washington has placed on him over his alleged involvement in the transfer of Russian advanced weapons, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

According to the British newspaper, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is seeking to hold talks with Li Shangfu, who assumed his post in March, at the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in June. However, China has reportedly told the US that "there is little chance" of such a meeting taking place.

Diplomatic engagement is said to be impeded by sanctions that the US imposed on the minister back in 2018, when he was serving as the director of the Equipment Development Department. The US State Department claimed Li was involved in the transfer of Su-35 fighter jets and material related to S-400 air-defense systems from Russia to China.

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Ireland visit was to make sure 'Brits don't screw around' - Biden

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© Charlees McQuilan/Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden • St. Muredach's Cathedral • Ballina, Ireland • April 14, 2023
The US president was critical of London's commitment to Irish affairs following his visit last month...

US President Joe Biden said at a Democratic Party event in New York on Wednesday that his four-day visit to Ireland last month was designed to make sure that "the Brits didn't screw around" when it came to London's commitments towards Northern Ireland and its relations with the leadership in Dublin. Biden told reporters at the event:
"I got to go back to Ireland for the, for the, the Irish accords, to make sure they weren't, the Brits didn't screw around and Northern Ireland didn't walk away from their commitments."
His visit to the island, the majority of which was spent in the Republic of Ireland, marked the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement - the 1998 political deal that brought an end to decades of conflict between predominantly Catholic and Protestant factions in Northern Ireland during which thousands of people lost their lives.

Ahead of the trip, Biden told the media that the purpose of the visit was to "keep the peace" in Northern Ireland.

Comment: Regarding Biden: Not seen nor heard would be optimum.


Chess

Türkiye and Syria planning roadmap to rebuild ties - Russia

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Turkey, Syria, Iran and Russia have agreed to develop a roadmap for rebuilding ties between Ankara and Damascus, which deteriorated during the Syrian conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

The announcement was made after talks between the top diplomats from the four countries - Türkiye's Mevlut Cavusoglu, Syria's Faisal Mekdad, Iran's Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Russia's Sergey Lavrov - which concluded in Moscow on Wednesday.

During the negotiations, the foreign ministers "discussed the issues of restoring Syrian-Turkish interstate relations in various aspects in a substantive and frank manner," the ministry said in a statement.

"The participants also agreed to instruct their deputy foreign ministers to prepare a roadmap for advancing relations between Turkey and Syria in coordination with the defense ministries and special services of the four countries," it added.

Dominoes

Joe Biden bribery allegations were brought to DOJ in 2018 — two years before similar claims by whistleblower

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Explosive bribery allegations involving Joe Biden and foreign nationals were brought to the Department of Justice as early as 2018, two years before similar allegations against the president were made by the whistleblower now talking to the House Oversight Committee.

Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had "exercised influence to protect" his son's Ukrainian employer "in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden."

In the email obtained by John Solomon's Just The News, Cummins said that Ukraine's then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wanted to travel to the United States to meet Berman, and could produce two "John Doe" witnesses to corroborate his claims about the Bidens.

But Berman never responded to the email.

Snakes in Suits

Comer Report finds the Bidens pocketed $1M from 'corrupt' Romanian oligarch just as VP Joe lectured country on ethics

Rep. James Comer
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The House Oversight Committee revealed Wednesday that more than $1 million flowed from a corrupt Romanian businessman to the Biden family while then-Vice President Joe Biden paid lip service to clean up corruption in the Eastern European nation.

"While Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policy, in reality, he was a walking billboard for his son and family to collect money," committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said at a morning press conference.

Comer, flanked by other committee members, vowed that the panel would get to the bottom of President Biden's involvement in the Romanian income and ventures in nations such as China, Russia, and Ukraine with more subpoenas for bank and other records.

"We've never seen a presidential family receive these sums of money from adversaries around the world — we're just talking about a couple of countries today," Comer said.

Gold Seal

The smell of goose cooking

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"Joe Biden could go to jail and The New York Times wouldn't tell anybody he was no longer president." — Peter A. Golden
Reality has become so elastic in America now that it stretches to a cosmic event horizon deep in the Twilight Zone where everything is magically transformed into its opposite. Note The New York Times report on Thursday saying that the House Oversight Committee showed "no proof" in its disclosures of the Biden Family's international money laundering and racketeering operations.

In fact, the committee outlined a shit-ton of documentation in the form of bank records detailing exactly how gobs of money from foreign lands were washed and rinsed through a dozen shell companies and disbursed to everyone in the immediate Biden family down to the president's grandchildren. The committee's preliminary report was precise as to the money's exact origins, its journey through the laundering apparatus, and the owners of the bank accounts it landed in. Thus: No evidence of wrongdoing.

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Nazi Germany's defeat... but a pause for fascism as NATO's proxy war in Ukraine demonstrates

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This week marked the 78th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945. While the evil Third Reich was vanquished, a deeper monster had not been slain. Nazi Germany was only one version of Western imperialist fascism, a force that reemerged postwar in full strength in the form of the United States of America and its various Western clients.

It is not hyperbole to describe Washington and its Western satellites as the Fourth Reich.

The ad hoc wartime alliance between the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and other Western allies would promptly give way to the Cold War, even as the ashes of the most destructive war in history were still smoldering. It is staggering to contemplate the deviousness here.

This reconfiguring of Western militarism explains why the United Nations established in 1945 was immediately made a mockery of by the U.S.-led Western powers and the NATO axis formed in 1949 with countless foreign wars of aggression, from the Korean War (1950s) right up to the present war in Ukraine.

The origins of the Cold War in 1945 and of today's confrontation in Ukraine can be traced to the secret relations between the Americans and British and the Nazi Reich at World War Two's end.

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As Donetsk civilians live in constant fear of Ukrainian shelling, a reporter on the ground details the terror

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© Sputnil / Taisija VoroncovaThe photo shows a destroyed passenger bus that got hit by Ukrainian forces, as Russia's military operation in Ukraine continues, in Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic, Russia
Documenting Kiev's attacks on residential areas is becoming a horrible, tragic routine.

Heavy Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on April 28 killed nine civilians - including an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother - and injured at least 16 more. The victims were burned alive when the minibus they were in was hit by a shell.


Comment: Will any Western media ever report the truth about war crimes that are committed by the Western governments in Ukraine?
No, Russia didn't invade Ukraine, Russia tried to protect people from the monstrous nazis in Ukraine supported and financed by their Western bosses.
The normal people in the USA and in the West must know the truth, not the propaganda and lies their governments tells them

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Bad Guys

Italy announces intention to leave China's Belt and Road pact following US pressure

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
© BLOOMBERGFILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The Italian leader told the Russian pranksters that Brussels was responsible for inaction over the migration crisis and spoke of increasing fatigue towards the war in Ukraine.
Italy has signaled to the United States (US) that it intends to pull out of a controversial investment pact with China before the end of the year.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reassured US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during a meeting in Rome last week that while a final decision hasn't been taken, her government is favoring an exit from its role in China's massive Belt and Road Initiative, according to people present at the talks.

Italy signed onto the infrastructure initiative in 2019 when Giuseppe Conte was premier, becoming the only Group of Seven country to become part of the deal.

Participation will automatically renew in 2024 unless Rome actively exits the agreement.

Comment: As former Italian official recently outlined in an interview: Europe can't afford to 'decouple' from China