Sunday, May 30th open thread: ‘Toxicity’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
You can subscribe to America’s Watchtower to receive email updates and you can also follow America’s Watchtower on Facebook and Twitter by clicking the links on the right.
Here is System of a Down performing “Toxicity” live in 2005:
When last we left Doctor Fauci here at America’s Watchtower it was April 6th and he was should have been catching heat because it was just learned that while he was part of a group that was funding gain-of-function research on the COVID virus in Wuhan he bypassed proper Federal oversight.
Now today we are learning the stunning revelation that Doctor Fauci actually said this research (making a SARS-like virus more contagious) was so important it was worth the risk of causing a pandemic. Here is more:
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director and medical advisor to Joe Biden, defended controversial “gain-of-function” research in 2012, and said the research was worth the risk of a pandemic.
“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Fauci wrote in an article in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012—which was first reported by The Australian. “Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”
This news coupled with the fact that we know Doctor Fauci bypassed proper oversight leads me to take this to the next level. Perhaps he not only saw a pandemic as a risk worth taking but also an opportunity too good to pass up. Kind of like the Tuskegee Study…
Hunter Biden was paid $1,000,000 a year for sitting on the Board of Directors of Burisma despite having no experience in the energy field for the obvious reason of his father’s position as Vice President. Of course both Hunter and his father deny this was the reason, and also claim there was no wrong-doing–such as influence peddling–by either of them.
So it is either the greatest of ironies or the largest of coincidences that just two months after Joe Biden left office Burisma cut Hunter Biden’s salary in more than half. Here is more:
The Ukrainian energy company that was paying President Biden’s son Hunter $1 million a year cut his monthly compensation in half two months after his father ceased to be vice president.
From May 2014, Burisma Holdings Ltd. was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board, invoices on his abandoned laptop show.
But in an email on March 19, 2017, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi asked Hunter to sign a new director’s agreement and informed him “the only thing that was amended is the compensation rate.”
“We are very much interested in working closely together, and the remuneration is still the highest in the company and higher than the standard director’s monthly fees. I am sure you will find it both fair and reasonable.”
After the email, the amount listed on Hunter’s monthly Burisma invoices was reduced to $41,500, effective from May 2017.
Still a hefty salary and higher than any other Board member–probably as a reward for influence peddled–but oddly just happens to coincide with the fact that Hunter no longer had anybody influential in the White House he could talk to for Burisma. But move along, nothing to see here…
We have seen several examples over the last year of politicians who have implemented strict COVID-19 protocols violating these protocols, evidently membership has its privileges…
There have been others, but the two most prominent members of the aristocracy to lecture the plebeians on wearing a mask only to violate the protocols themselves are Nancy Pelosi and none other than Joe Biden himself. Last year Michigan Governor Whitmer’s husband felt a little heat after trying to use his position to avoid COVID-19 protocols so he could get his boat in the water without waiting in line like everybody else.
This year Governor Whitmer herself decided to get into the act. According to this story she was seen at a restaurant with more than 6 people at her table and without wearing masks and this is a violation of her COVID-19 mandates. Here is more:
Whitmer and a large group of friends, including her appointed chief operations officer, Tricia Foster, visited the Landshark in East Lansing, violating her restaurant orders in the process, according to a photo one of the attendees posted on Facebook.
The group shot of 13 individuals appeared to violate the governor’s restaurant capacity order issued May 15 on “gathering limitations for entertainment establishments, recreational establishments, and food service establishments”:
Consumption of food or beverages is permitted only in a designated dining area where patrons are seated, groups of patrons are separated by at least 6 feet, no more than 6 patrons are seated together (at a table, booth, or group of fixed seats), and groups of patrons do not intermingle
“Now Whitmer has once again completely disregarded her own rules. Whitmer orders rules she and her staff don’t follow themselves while Michiganders and businesses suffer. Whitmer must end her restrictions immediately.”
The picture was eventually scrubbed from Facebook and reposted without the Governor or her aide but the damage was already done and her hypocrisy exposed. It is time for people in this country who live in States that still have the draconian COVID-19 mandates in place to say enough is enough and to start living again whether or not our exalted rulers want us to or not.
Sunday, May 23rd open thread: ‘This is the Day’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
You can subscribe to America’s Watchtower to receive email updates and you can also follow America’s Watchtower on Facebook and Twitter by clicking the links on the right.
Here is The The performing “This is the Day” many, many years ago, enjoy:
In a story that sounds eerily similar to the multitude of stories involving pay to play with the Clinton Foundation we are now learning from this story that ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh made a $100,000 donation to the trust fund of Joe Biden’s grandchildren and then sought a little something something in return. Here is more:
Louis Freeh, who directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, made a $100,000 donation to the trust fund of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s grandchildren in April 2016. In July 2016 and March 2017, Freeh approached Biden’s son Hunter, attempting to do business with Joe Biden, mentioning “some very good and profitable matters” that the former Vice President could “enhance.”
Freeh mentioned his hefty donation to the trust after reaching out to Hunter Biden to arrange business with his father, The New York Post reported. The Post published previously undisclosed emails between Freeh and Hunter Biden that the Post acquired by searching a copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“I would be delighted to do future work with you,” Freeh wrote to Hunter Biden in July 2016, three months after he made the donation. “I also spoke to Dad a few weeks ago and would like to explore with him some future work options. I believe that working together on these (and other legal) matters would be of value, fun and rewarding.”
The Biden’s obviously paid close attention to the way the Clinton’s operated over the years and have done a fine impression. We are told that one of the biggest reasons people voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump was because they wanted a return to normalcy and from the looks of it that is exactly what we have gotten. I hope everybody is happy…
We knew it was only a matter of time before we reached 1930’s Germany “show me your papers” types of “reform” in the United States in regards to the COVID-19 scare and now it looks like it will be sooner rather than later. Oregon is now going to require “businesses, employers and faith institutions” to set up what amounts to checkpoints at the entrances in order to check papers. Here is more:
“Businesses, employers and faith institutions now have the option to adjust their masking guidance to allow fully vaccinated individuals to no longer wear a mask in their establishments,” OHA’s website said. “Businesses, employers and faith institutions doing so must have a policy in place to check the vaccination status of all individuals before they enter their establishment. Businesses, employers and faith institutions who do not create such policies will maintain the same masking guidance listed below, regardless of an individual’s vaccination status.”
Notice this not only includes walking into a business such as a store, but also to church and to your place of employment.
You know this will not be a temporary measure implemented during this so-called crisis and this is just the beginning, other States will be following suit and this will spread across this once free nation.
Sieg heil!
In an effort to save the world from global warming John Kerry, who has somehow managed to nudge Al Gore away from being the leading political-climatologist, has announced that the Biden administration will be looking at the possibility of charging a fee on imports from counties which are not considered to be climate conscious. Here is more:
U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry says that Washington is looking into the possibility of introducing a fee on imports from countries that don’t tax heavy polluters, but cautioned that such a move could carry risks “downstream.”
Kerry said President Joe Biden had instructed U.S. officials to examine “play it out: what are the consequences, how do you do the pricing, what is the impact.”
“But he wants to make sure we’ve thoroughly vetted it and thought about it as a matter of policy, particularly because our friends are doing so,” Kerry said.
Okay, forgive me if I am wrong but isn’t charging a country a “fee” or perhaps more accurately, a tax, for imports otherwise known as a tariff? And again, forgive me if I am wrong but weren’t the Democrats opposed to Donald Trump when he proposed putting tariffs on China because it would end up hurting the American people? But now they are considering doing the same despite the “downstream” damage (hurting the American people) and you would have to imagine China would have to be considered one of the climate enemies. Frauds and hypocrites…
Joe Biden was giving a commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy today and at one point he stopped for an applause break but unfortunately there was no applause. Joe Biden then called them “dull” and begged them to clap. Here is the video:
Of course you know what the left would be saying about Donald Trump if he was giving a speech to the military and stopped to complain about not getting applause, they would call him a narcissist and a wannabe dictator. Of course this is not the first time Joe Biden has complained about the lack of a reaction in front of the military. Who can forget the time he called them “dumb bastards” for not clapping?
Joe Biden waiving sanctions against Russian pipeline
For four years we heard that Donald Trump was Putin’s puppet. But while Donald Trump actually put tough sanctions on Russia it is none other than Joe Biden who is waiving sanctions so Russia can complete a gas pipeline. Here is more:
The Biden administration will waive sanctions on the corporate entity and CEO overseeing the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline into Germany, according to two sources briefed on the decision.
The decision indicates the Biden administration is not willing to compromise its relationship with Germany over this pipeline, and it underscores the difficulties President Biden faces in matching actions to rhetoric on a tougher approach to Russia.
The State Department will imminently send its mandatory 90-day report to Congress listing entities involved in Nord Stream 2 that deserve sanctions. Sources familiar with the drafting of the report tell Axios the State Department plans to call for sanctions against a handful of Russian ships.
The State Department will also acknowledge that the corporate entity in charge of the project (Nord Stream 2 AG) and its CEO (Putin crony and former East German intelligence officer Matthias Warnig) are engaged in sanctionable activities.
However, the State Department will waive the applications of those sanctions, citing U.S. national interests.
So let me see if I have this straight, Joe Biden is going to waive the sanctions for this pipeline between Russia and Germany because it is in the United State’s national interests and yet he canceled the Keystone Pipeline because it was not.
Sounds to me like somebody is in Putin’s pocket…
America's Watchtower 