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White House dodges on whether Tulsa ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre survivors should get reparations

The White House declined to support a push for three survivors of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa and other descendants affected by the riots to receive financial reparations, a recommendation made by a state commission into the incident.

For President Joe Biden, what survivors of the Oklahoma massacre endured 100 years ago was “tragic and devastating,” but his focus was on raising awareness about the violence rather than seeking to compensate those adversely affected, according to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

“He also supports a study, as we’ve said before, into reparations, but believes that, first and foremost, the task in front of us is to root out systemic racism where it exists right now,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday on Air Force One en route to Tulsa.

Biden is visiting on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the massacre, the first president to travel to the city to commemorate the devastating riots. 

As many as 300 black Tulsa residents died and another 10,000 were left homeless when white residents destroyed houses and businesses in the city’s historically black and then-thriving Greenwood District, once described as “Black Wall Street.” A 2001 Oklahoma commission recommended that reparations be paid to black residents affected by the massacre after decades of the unrest being omitted from the state’s history.

White House aides equivocated late Monday when asked by reporters when Biden learned of the Tulsa massacre. But on Tuesday, Jean-Pierre boarded the presidential jet better prepared, saying the president had “been long familiar” with the riots.

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Biden To Direct $100 Billion To ‘Disadvantaged’ Businesses To Help Close ‘Racial Wealth Gap’

President Biden on Tuesday will announce new actions meant to help close the ‘racial wealth gap,’ including directing $100 billion in federal contracts to “disadvantaged businesses.”

The announcement is being made to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, described by the Oklahoma Historical Society as “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.”

The President will announce multiple initiatives that, as Axios reports, will “target homeownership and small business ownership” which the administration describes as “two key wealth-creators” for minority communities.

“Today … the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new steps to help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies,” a statement from the White House reads.

Funding Businesses Based On Race

President Biden’s announcement will include wide-ranging efforts to help close the ‘racial wealth gap.’

One such initiative will include “using the federal government’s purchasing power to grow federal contracting with small disadvantaged businesses by 50 percent,” according to the White House website.

This would “translate to an additional $100 billion over five years” being allocated to “helping more Americans realize their entrepreneurial dreams.”

Other initiatives will include:

  • A pair of rules designed to “end discrimination in housing” and “rethink established practices that contribute to or perpetuate inequities.”
  • A $10 billion community revitalization fund meant to target communities “that suffer from the effects of persistent poverty, historic economic disinvestment, and ongoing displacement of longtime residents.”
  • $31 billion in small business programs that “will increase access to capital for small businesses and provide mentoring, networking, and other forms of technical assistance to socially and economically disadvantaged businesses.”
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America Is The Land Of The Free Because Of The Brave

Memorial Day weekend is stacked with activities and filled with celebrations, but it’s also a time to honor those lost fighting for our freedoms. One America’s Camryn Kinsey shares the meaning embedded in Memorial Day.

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On Memorial Day, Parents Pass Down Patriotism at Wall Honoring Fallen Soldiers

Agoritsa Barczak, a mother of three from a Chicago suburb, pointed to pictures of fallen soldiers in Middle East wars and reminded her children that the privileges and freedom they were born in to come at a dear price.

“I remind them every day how lucky they are,” she told The Epoch Times on Memorial Day. “A lot of soldiers fought for this … everything that we consider ourselves lucky to have here.”

Agoritsa and her husband, Drew Barczak, took their kids to see the Wall of Honor, which is dedicated to soldiers killed in action amid Middle East conflicts, at Oswego city hall, just southwest of Chicago. The exhibit, which is updated annually, honors about 7,000 soldiers killed in the Gulf War, Afghanistan War, and Iraq War.

This is the first time the tribute has been displayed outside Oregon since it was created by high schooler Alicia Tallman in 2003.

Drew, a police officer who has seen his share of human tragedies, was moved to tears by a display honoring soldiers missing in action in the Middle East.

“When your country calls, they report for duty, they do what’s expected, and unfortunately, some don’t make it back,” he said. “We definitely want to pass on these experiences, so kids understand that freedom just isn’t free.”

Kim Ekker, a veteran who had served in the military in the 1980s, said she brought her 16-year-old son to the wall to pass on her understanding of the significance of Memorial Day.

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Arizona Sheriff Describes How the Border Has Changed Under Biden

The effort to curb illegal immigration in his Arizona border jurisdiction has deteriorated dramatically since President Joe Biden took office, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels says.

“When President Biden declared the southwest border a nonemergency, it stopped the physical barrier going up, it stopped all infrastructure completion, it stopped the subterraneal technology, it froze that construction on-site,” Dannels said in an interview with The Daily Signal. 

Dannels described “cables out of the ground, trenches, bridges not done, roadways not done.” The wall project is  “environmentally in disarray, it’s physically in disarray,” the border sheriff added.

“And what’s going to happen after our monsoon season, which is in July, it’s going to wipe out most of what’s even been done there,” Dannels said.

After being sworn in Jan. 20, Biden signed an executive order halting construction of President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

“It’s not reasonable to take tax dollars and stop a project we did,” Dannels said. 

“If President Biden doesn’t want to build one more inch of fence or physical barrier or subterraneal technology, lighting, that’s his choice. But you got to fix what you started. You got to finish what you started, or come up with a reasonable conclusion,” he told The Daily Signal.

The number of border crossings is only increasing. 

Approximately 178,622 illegal immigrants were detained along the border in April by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the highest number in over 20 years. 

Dannels said Cochise County residents are concerned about what is happening along the 83 miles of border that his jurisdiction shares with Mexico. 

“Our physical barrier that was being built by President Trump has been halted [at] the southwest border. The infrastructure, all that’s in disarray, [with] cables sticking out of the ground, holes in the fence,” Dannels said, adding: 

That’s just not a good way to reasonably conclude a project under a former administration. And then you look at—which I think is probably the worst—is the messaging here. What message have we sent to those that want to come into our country and harm us, from the cartels to those that promote drugs? … Look at 9/11. That’s a date we should never, ever forget, but unfortunately, time is forgetting that. And that’s sad.

Dannels, first elected Cochise sheriff as a Republican in 2012 and reelected in 2016 and 2020, has served in law enforcement for 36 years. 

That career began in 1984 after a stint in the Army. He rose through the ranks of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office to the position of deputy commander after working specialty assignments and leadership roles. The state’s governor recognized his efforts to improve highway and community safety, according to his official bio. 

Dannels said he has seen firsthand the effects of the crisis at the border. 

Now, “220 people a day are dying of drug overdoses,” the sheriff said, citing a national figure. 

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COVID Vaccines Are ‘Not a Safe Product’: Top Doc with Thousands of NLM Publications, Citations

“There are over 4,000 dead Americans… over 10,000 dead people in Europe that die on days one, two, and three after the vaccine.”

World-renowned Professor of Medicine and board-certified cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough says his refusal to recommend the COVID vaccine to his patients is “[b]ased on safety data.”

Dr. Peter McCullough

Dr. McCullough is a practicing internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine at Texas A & M College of Medicine, Baylor Dallas campus. Having thousands of publications and citations in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) database, McCullough is founder and current president of the Cardiorenal Society of America, editor-in-chief of Cardiorenal Medicine, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, and senior associate editor of the American Journal of Cardiology. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple specialty journals and has served as member or chair of data safety monitoring boards of 24 randomized clinical trials, according to his resume.

His resume also reveals that since the outset of the COVID pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID disaster, publishing “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection,” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine (subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine). He has 40 peer-reviewed publications on the COVID infection.

Screenshot from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) website on June 1, 2021

On May 19, Dr. McCullough discussed the American people’s hesitancy toward getting vaccinated in light of the vaccine’s lethality during an interview with author John Leake in Dallas, Texas.

“The tension that Americans are feeling right now—as they’re trying to keep their jobs and go to work—is they know they can die of the vaccine. That’s the problem,” said McCullough.

“If the vaccine was like water—and you just got it, no side effects—who wouldn’t take it?”

Screenshot from Banned.Video taken June 1, 2021

McCullough was questioning why government leaders are pushing for a “needle in every arm” (here, here), even for COVID-recovered patients. And he balked at the fact that children under 18 in North Carolina no longer require parental consent to receive the vaccine.

“There are over 4,000 dead Americans,” emphasized Dr. McCullough, adding, “There [are] over 10,000 dead people in Europe that die on days one, two, and three after the vaccine.”

“Why are we pushing this in a way where people’s jobs and their education and their livelihood decide on a decision that’s potentially fatal?” He asked.

Citing blood clots, strokes, and immediate death, Dr. McCullough bases his refusal to vaccinate his patients on the data.

“Based on the safety data now, I can no longer recommend it. I can’t recommend it. It’s past all the thresholds to being a safe product. It’s not a safe product. None of them are,” he stated.

McCullough noted that the vaccines are not only deadly but are also now defunct because they only target the original COVID spike protein, which is now “extinct.” “Patients are getting vaccinated to something that doesn’t even exist anymore. That Wuhan spike protein is gone,” said Dr. McCullough, warning that mass vaccination might now counterproductively lead to the production of “superbugs.”

Watch the interview clip:

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Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.

Also read: “100 Times More Vaccine Injuries Occur Than Are Reported: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services“; “First Man To Receive Pfizer’s COVID Vax Dies“

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Parents ‘furious’ at NYC private school over graphic sex ed videos shown to 1st graders

Parents of children at an elite private school in New York City are speaking out against videos on masturbation and gender identity being shown to their first-graders.

According to the New York Post, parents of first-grade students at Dalton School, which costs $55,000 a year, were outraged when they learned that “health and wellness” educator Justine Ang Fonte — who had previously led an explicit “porn literacy” workshop at another prestigious prep school in the city — had shown 6 year olds a cartoon video in which “touching themselves” for pleasure was explained. 

“Hey, how come sometimes my penis gets big sometimes and points in the air?” a boy in the cartoon inquires, which then prompts an explanation about erections. 

The boy nods his head and says that he touches his penis “because it feels good.”

A young girl in the cartoon video subsequently adds: “Sometimes, when I’m in my bath or when Mom puts me to bed, I like to touch my vulva too.”

The children were also reportedly taught lessons about giving “consent,” which included giving permission before their relative can hug them.

The health education lessons also included topics on “gender identity,” a nebulous phrase used by transgender activists to describe an internal feeling about their gender apart from their biological sex. 

Mothers who spoke with the New York Post about their disgust did so anonymously for fear of social repercussions. 

“Kids have no less than five classes on gender identity — this is pure indoctrination,” one Dalton mother told the NY Post. 

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Israeli scientists extend lives of mice by 23%, say same may be possible for humans

A new study in which scientists extended the lifespan of laboratory mice by 23% through a special protein may pave the way for humans to celebrate 120th birthdays, its authors said.

Israeli scientists have boosted the supply of SIRT6 protein – which “controls the rate of healthy aging,”but usually declines in the system with age – in 250 mice and achieved some incredible results. The life expectancy of their test subjects not only increased by 23%, but they were also more youthful and less susceptible to cancer compared to ordinary mice, a peer-reviewed paper, recently published in the Nature Communications journal, has revealed.

“The changes we saw in mice may be translatable to humans, and if so that would be exciting,” Prof. Haim Cohen of Bar-Ilan University, who spearheaded the research, told the Times of Israel newspaper.

If humans receive an equivalent protein boost their average life expectancy could reach almost 120 years, he said. In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN estimated the average life expectancy was 72.6 years.

Cohen’s lab is currently looking for ways to safely increase the levels of SIRT6 protein in people. The mice were genetically modified, but humans would require drugs to achieve the same effect.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce warns worker shortage getting worse

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a new plan to address the ‘crisis’ shortage of workers that is says it holding back economic recovery from the pandemic.

The Chamber on Tuesday unveiled its ‘America Works’ program to mobilize government and industry resources to boost the number of qualified job seekers across the country.

‘This is Operation Warp Speed for jobs,’ Suzanne Clark, the Chamber’s president and CEO, told Axios. ‘As we stand on the cusp of what could be a great American resurgence, a worker shortage is holding back job creators across the country.’ 

The Chamber says that there are now just 1.4 workers available for each new opening, down from 4 in 2012, as a huge wave of Millennials was hitting the workforce, and half the 2.8 average over the past 20 years.  

The Chamber says that there are now just 1.4 workers available for each new opening
In May, the Chamber surveyed state and local chambers of commerce leaders about workforce challenges in their area, with 90% citing lack of workers as the main challenge

The worker shortage is perplexing because some 8 million fewer Americans are still out of work after their jobs were eliminated in the pandemic, suggesting that many may have dropped out of the workforce.

Republicans have blamed federal supplements to unemployment benefits as overly lavish, saying workers have little incentive to seek work. 

Most Republican governors are now rejecting the extra $300 monthly federal supplement to state unemployment aid. 

Others blame mass workforce dislocation from the pandemic, pointing out that many Americans moved or sought to switch industries during the chaos.

According to the Chamber, the worker shortage is most dire in the government sector, including public education, with just 0.16 workers available per opening.

Private schools and health services are also hard-hit, with a worker availability ratio of just 0.88, while professional and business services also have fewer workers available than there are jobs, according to the Chamber.

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Rand Paul Has Won Every Single Round Against Fauci

Time has proven Rand Paul had his thumb on the pulse of the science of the virus, and understood the unintended consequences of government interventions better than public health officials.

With most sporting events canceled for much of the past year, audiences have tuned into a new kind of sparring to fill the void: political debates. And two opponents have quickly risen to the top of their weight classes—Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

The two have paired off for numerous rounds in a feud that’s representative of the one the rest of the country has been having—how should the government respond to the coronavirus.

In each of these exchanges, the mainstream media and many on the left have rushed to condemn Rand for his views and back Fauci’s various stances. But with hindsight on our side, we can now look back on these debates and determine which of their perspectives history has proven correct.

Here’s a look back at some of their most memorable moments in the ring.

Last summer, Rand Paul outraged the left by simply stating that classrooms should remain open to public school students.

“There’s a great deal of evidence that’s actually good—good evidence—that kids aren’t transmitting this—it’s rare—and that kids are staying healthy, and that yes we can open our schools,” he said in a committee hearing.

Fauci vehemently disagreed, alleging that children could spread the disease as easily as adults and advocating federal regulations around reopening schools.

But a mere six months later, Fauci was singing Rand’s tune—walking back his earlier comments.

“If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not very big at all,” Fauci stated. “Not like one would have suspected.”

Well, Rand Paul suspected.

To be clear, the science didn’t change over those six months. The politics did. Data always showed it was relatively safe to send kids to school.

In March, the two doctors duked it out again, this time over the question of whether or not Americans should continue to wear masks post-vaccination.

“You’re telling everyone to wear a mask,” Paul said. “If we’re not spreading the infection, isn’t it just theater? You have the vaccine and you’re wearing two masks, isn’t that theater?”

“Here we go again with the theater,” Fauci responded.

Yet the official narrative on masking post-vaccines changed only a couple days later as politicians realized their security theater was discouraging Americans from taking the vaccine.

In a video, Fauci all but admitted his mask mandates were for show stating, “I didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals.

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