Trump Says Biden Has Turned US Into ‘Third-World Nation’
Joe Biden has damaged America’s reputation on the world stage, according to his Republican rival Donald Trump Trump tore into Biden during their first presidential debate on Thursday, accusing the US president of wrecking the economy, […]
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British PM Warns Teens Will Lose Access To Banks If They Refuse National Service
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently issued a warning to UK teenagers who refuse to take part in mandatory national service. Sunak, who has suggested that teens could have their driving licenses removed is also saying […]
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Central European Leaders Discuss Creating New Faction in the European Parliament
Several Central European leaders are reportedly in talks over forming a new political group in the European Parliament.
Several independent EU sources have confirmed to Népszava that Hungary’s governing Fidesz, former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’ ANO movement, and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s SMER party could all join forces in the new grouping.
The parties would create a prominent Visegrád-dominated faction that would sit separately from other socially conservative groups including the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID).
Fidesz, which does not belong to any political group, the Czech ANO, which has left the liberals, and the Slovak Smer, which has been sidelined by the socialists, want to create a bloc of mainly Central and Eastern European MPs, opposed to the political mainstream, on the basis of the Visegrád countries. One source claims that the idea for the group came from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by Jarosław Kaczynski, which currently is part of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is also expected to join the group. Originally, Fidesz was expected to join the ECR but was reportedly blocked by Italy’s governing Brothers of Italy (FdI) led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The 20 Polish PiS MEPs are reportedly divided over the group’s line, with some worried that Meloni has made a deal with the Christian Democrats and is straying from the ECR’s political path. On Wednesday, the group’s inaugural meeting was postponed twice and could take place sometime next week.
The hopeful founders are also understood to be inviting Janez Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic Party, whose MEPs currently sit in the EP’s largest party group, the center-right European People’s Party, to join the group. After one of them was elected vice-chairman of the group last week, there is little chance of them actually defecting, however.
Sources say there could be enough reserves among the European Parliament independents to join the new formation. To form a party group, 23 MEPs from seven member states are needed.
According to a source, the right-wing Identity and Democracy (ID) group and Poland’s PiS want to change the unofficial deadline for forming the groups from July 4 to July 8, the day after the French general election. While the result will not affect the European Parliament’s size, it could change the momentum of the political battles in the Chamber.
Report Finds More Chinese Military-Aged Men are Crossing the Southern Border Than Ever Before
An alarming number of Chinese military-aged men have entered the United States illegally since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. In March alone, the number of Chinese migrants surged by 8,500 percent compared to March 2021.
A private social network run by a self-identified Chinese government agent provides resources for illegal immigrants to enter the United States and evade border authorities, as uncovered by a Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) investigation.
The network is known as the “American Self-Guided Tour Channel” and it is a Chinese-language Telegram group with over 8,000 members. The channel serves both as a discussion forum for Chinese migration into the U.S. and as a hub for providing documents and information on specific routes into the country.
(Related: Number of Chinese nationals crossing U.S.-Mexico border SOARS as Biden announces ineffective crackdown plan.)
Documents in the channel identify gaps in the U.S. border wall, instruct Chinese nationals on how to answer questions from Border Patrol agents, and provide scripts for requesting asylum. The channel is overseen by an individual who promotes Chinese Communist Party propaganda, bans users who dissent from the Party line, and identifies himself as a Chinese police officer.
Despite the Biden administration’s claims of taking decisive action to secure the border through the use of executive powers, these measures seem to be more about creating a perception of action, especially as illegal immigration remains a top concern for Americans.
Mainstream media outlets have described Biden’s actions against immigration as allowing the president to suspend asylum claims between ports of entry when there are an average of 2,500 crossings a day over seven days. This threshold has reportedly been met in the past week. But even these same outlets have admitted that this threshold has already been met at least once, the number of border crossers has increased by about 25 percent since Biden’s action to “suspend entry” and Border Patrol is still being forced to release those crossing illegally into the United States.
Biden’s executive action limiting migrants who can claim asylum went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, June 5. This still amounts to over a million illegal crossings per year, not including those entering through legal points or those brought in through a migrant sponsorship program.
Additionally, parts of the Biden administration’s new rule that haven’t been extensively reported include protections from deportation for “undocumented” spouses of U.S. citizens and inadequate background checks for unaccompanied migrant juveniles.
Chinese migrants “disillusioned” about China
The huge spike in Chinese people making the journey across the Darien Gap, the mountainous and densely forested region between Panama and Colombia – now so popular it is known in Mandarin as “zouxian,” or walking the line – has been driven by China’s Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns, increasingly rigid rule and the recent flatlining of China’s economy.
“There has been a downturn in the Chinese economy. People have become unemployed, and there’s discontentment about the government’s tight policies,” said Min Zhou, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
More than 37,000 Chinese citizens were arrested for illegally crossing the southern border in 2023, nearly 10 times the total in 2022 and more than double that of the entire previous decade.
“The Chinese migrants are particularly vulnerable,” says Giuseppe Loprete, head of mission in Panama for the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, which provides information for migrants to cross the Darien Gap safely. “They are seen as more wealthy, and so they can be targeted. The language problem also means that if something happens, it’s more difficult for them to access medical attention.”
According to Zhou, this wave of undocumented Chinese migrants differs from the migration wave of the 1980s and 1990s.
“They are now coming from all over the country. They are skilled. Some are college graduates,” Zhou warned.
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French Catholic Teacher Asked Schoolgirls to Pose Nude ‘For Palestine’
Martin G., a teacher at a private Catholic high school in the Drôme region, is under investigation for “attempted corruption of minors” for asking his schoolgirls to pose nude “against the war in Palestine.”
The 45-year-old Martin G., a substitute teacher of literature, “allegedly suggested that pupils pose naked against the war in Palestine and post the photo on their networks,” Valence public prosecutor Laurent de Caigny told the press.
The matter was referred to the public prosecutor’s office by the school management. Marc G. had already been fired on May 17 following several complaints from parents, according to French news outlet La Depeche.
Contacted by Libération, Marc G. described himself as a “fervent Catholic, comedian and pacifist,” and said he wanted to “encourage reflection on Pentecost.”
Just over a month later, on the morning of Monday, June 24, the teacher was summoned to the offices of the Crest Gendarmerie Company to be placed in police custody. He was released in the evening, pending further investigations. A psychiatric examination has also been requested.
Lawsuit on Behalf of Vaccine-injured Seeks to Strike Down ‘Unconstitutional’ PREP Act
A lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to strike down the PREP Act — the federal law that granted legal immunity to companies such as Pfizer and Moderna for injuries caused by their COVID-19 vaccines and other COVID-19 countermeasures.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, alleges the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act violates the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs how federal agencies develop and issue regulations.
Plaintiffs in the suit include the nonprofit Moms for America and individual plaintiffs who were injured by a COVID-19 vaccine, or whose loved one suffered injury or death from a COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the complaint, “This case is about the government’s failure to resolve conflicts involving Americans killed or grievously harmed while receiving healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Defendants are the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and President Joe Biden.
“As even The New York Times has recently acknowledged,” Jeff Childers, attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Defender, “too many Americans have been injured by the COVID vaccines and other rushed treatments, and now have no recourse, no help and no support. They can’t sue anybody, thanks to PREP.”
“PREP was poorly conceived, badly executed, and gave far too much power to unelected bureaucrats and executive agencies,” he added.
Childers wrote on Substack today that the PREP Act should “be crushed and burned to a cinder in the incinerator of history’s worst ideas.”
The lawsuit asks the court to declare the PREP Act unconstitutional and to declare that the HHS secretary’s actions in implementing the act violate the Administrative Procedure Act.
The suit also asks the court to declare that the plaintiffs can sue companies like Pfizer and Moderna in federal and state courts. It also seeks compensation for attorney fees.
COVID revealed how bad PREP Act is for Americans
In 2005, Congress passed the PREP Act in a defense appropriations bill after then-President George W. Bush gave a “passionate speech about the nation’s lack of preparation for biowarfare and pandemics,” Childers told The Defender.
The PREP Act authorizes the HHS secretary to declare that “a disease or other health condition or other threat to health constitutes a public health emergency.” It also grants a “covered person” immunity from legal liability for all claims for loss relating to the administration or use of “countermeasures,” such as drugs, biological products, medical devices and vaccines.
“Before COVID,” Childers said, “it was barely used.”
Kim Mack Rosenberg, general counsel for Children’s Health Defense, told The Defender the COVID-19 pandemic has “shined a bright light” on the PREP Act.
“I think it is safe to say,” she said, “most Americans had no idea that as COVID vaccines were developed and rolled out at ‘warp speed’ — and in many instances mandated or taken by individuals based on fear-mongering — and as medications such as remdesivir were forced on many patients, that if they were harmed or died as a result of these interventions they would be essentially left with no remedy.”
The PREP Act set up the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) court where those injured by COVID-19 countermeasures can bring their claims.
Injuries related to vaccines that are not considered countermeasures to a public health emergency are handled by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and its court, according to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Childers called the CICP court an “unconstitutional shadow court” in which “a secret bureaucracy denies 99% of claims and awards the ‘lucky few’ with pennies on the dollar.”
As of June 1, CICP had received 13,773 claims and issued decisions for only 3,363 of those claims. The program denied 3,271 of the claims.
Thirteen of the claims awarded were for injuries suffered from a COVID-19 vaccine. Less than $10,000 was awarded for each of the claims, with the total payout for all 13 claims amounting to less than $50,000.
“In other words,” he said, “PREP cuts normal Constitutional courts out of the process, replacing them with a poor, unconstitutional substitute.”
PREP has already done “massive damage,” Childers said, “by turning normal commercial incentives inside-out and deleting due process.”
He added, “We must get help to millions of people discarded by the system, and prevent this disaster from ever happening again.”
The Florida lawsuit calls out CICP’s “breathtakingly short” one-year statute of limitations for:
“Injuries caused by unknown, unknowable, and non-existent vaccine products and technologies. Even to receive program compensation, the Act requires causation to be proved based on established science for those same novel products and technologies. Most medical studies take years to conduct, be drafted, be peer-reviewed, and to be published. It is irrational to believe that a person taking a covered countermeasure could possibly have access to published medical/scientific studies within the one-year statute of limitation.”
Lawsuit is 1 of 3 suits challenging PREP Act
Childers’ lawsuit is one of three active cases challenging the PREP Act, according to attorney Ray Floreswho on May 31 filed a separate lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), which oversaw the development and distribution of the drug under Operation Warp Speed.
In addition to the suits filed by Childers and Flores, attorney Aaron Siri in October 2023 sued HHSand other government agencies on behalf of React19 — an advocacy group whose 36,000-plus members were injured by the COVID-19 vaccines — and eight vaccine-injured individuals.
Flores told The Defender, “The PREP Act and the Department of Defense’s Operation Warp Speed are indeed acts of war on our own — hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, violations of the Nuremberg Code, and essentially no monetary recourse for their experimenting on humanity at large.”
Flores added, “I applaud Mr. Siri and Mr. Childers for raising awareness with the public, with the courts, on Capitol Hill and in the press.”
When the Defender reached out to HHS for comment on the lawsuit, an HHS spokesperson who chose to remain anonymous said the agency cannot comment on ongoing litigation.
The Defender reached out to the White House for comment on the suit but did not receive a response by deadline.