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Drone Footage: Huge Tents at Obama’s Birthday Party After Promises to ‘Scale Back’ Event

Reports about celebrities arriving at the event in numbers also raised questions about an earlier promise by Obama’s spokesperson that it will be attended only by relatives and close friends due to the raging Delta strain of COVID-19.

The recently-released footage allegedly shot from the drone flying over ex-US President Barack Obama’s residence cast a shadow over a previous statement by his spokesperson that the former POTUS’ 60th birthday party will be “scaled back”. The video showed massive tents installed on the territory of the Martha’s Vineyard estate belonging to the former president, alongside a dance floor and several long tables.

The statement was made earlier this week amid massive public backlash over Obama’s plans to throw a big party as the delta variant of COVID-19 rages in the country and the ex-president’s allies in the Democratic Party are defending the reinstatement of the mask mandate.

“Due to the new spread of the delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends. President Obama is appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people soon,” Obama’s spokesperson said.

The Daily Mail, which originally posted the footage, said several celebrities and politicians were spotted arriving at the birthday party, including rapper Jay-Z, singers Eddie Vedder, John Legend, TV celebrity Chrissy Teigen, former basketball player Dwyane Wade, comedian Stephen Colbert, and Obama’s former Secretary of State John Kerry. This also cast a shadow on the claim that only family and close friends will be attending the event and sparked criticism and accusations of hypocrisy against the former POTUS.

“This is the tent for Obama’s ‘scaled back’ birthday party where only close friends & family were said to attend. Instead, multiple celebrities & politicians were seen. Why is it that the same people telling you to stay home & social distance don’t think those rules apply to them?” conservative commentator Charlie Kirk said via Twitter.

Former US President Barack Obama gesture as he attends the values-based leadership during a plenary session of the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019.

There is no way to tell at the moment how many guests exactly made it to the party and when the tents were installed. Considering the fact that the promise to “scale back the event” came only this week, it is possible that the tents remained from the time, when they were expected to accommodate 500 guests initially invited to the party. The office of the former president and the first lady did not comment on the report and did not respond to the requests regarding the size of the event.

COVID Vax Causes ‘Autoimmune’ Disorder: Ex-Pfizer VP, Toxicologist, Research Scientist

“You’re being lied to.”

QUICK FACTS:
  • Dr. Michael Yeadon is a British, professional research scientist with degrees in biochemistry and toxicology as well as a research-based Ph.D. in respiratory pharmacology.
  • Yeadon worked for more than three decades in the pharmaceutical industry, consulting for 30 start-up technology companies.
  • He’s the former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy and Respiratory research for coronavirus vaccine maker Pfizer Inc.
  • Dr. Yeadon founded and led his own biotech company before selling it for hundreds of millions of dollars.
  • He claims the “authorities are not giving us full information about the risks of these products” and are not treating the public “like adults.”
  • Dr. Yeadon also says he has “serious concerns about the safety of these gene-based vaccines against covid” especially related to “reproductive health, fertility, and pregnancy.”
NO REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY STUDIES:
  • “Our government is urging pregnant women and women of childbearing age to get vaccinated. And they’re telling them they’re safe,” says Dr. Yeadon.
  • “That’s a lie because those studies have simply not been done,” he goes on to say, adding, “Reproductive toxicology has not been undertaken with any of these products.”
  • “Here we are,” Yeadon laments, “dosing potentially hundreds of millions of women of childbearing potential with products which are untested in terms of impact on fertilization and development of the baby.”
  • “That’s bad enough…but it’s much worse than that,” warns Dr. Yeadon.
VACCINE CONCENTRATES IN OVARIES IN RATS:
  • A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request brought to light a report showing the coronavirus vaccine distributes around the bodies of rats, instead of “mostly remain[ing] near the site of injection.”
  • “To my horror,” says Dr. Yeadon, “what we find is the vaccine doesn’t just distribute around the body and then wash out again” but it “concentrates in ovaries of rats. And it concentrates at least twenty-fold over the concentration in other background tissues like muscles.”
  • “My assumption at the moment is that’s what’s happening to every female who’s been given these vaccines. These vaccines are concentrating in her ovaries,” Yeadon goes on to say.
  • “We don’t know what that will do, but it cannot be benign…because the vaccines will then express the coronavirus spike protein and we know that there are unwanted biologies from that spike protein.”
‘VACCINE-INDUCED AUTOIMMUNE ATTACK’ IN HUMAN FEMALE PLACENTA:
  • Yeadon then cites a recent study showing 15 women who were given the Pfizer vaccine “measured antibodies against the placenta”—in addition to antibodies against the spike protein—with a “300% increase” in the “first four days.”
  • “That is a vaccine-induced autoimmune attack on their own placenta,” says Dr. Yeadon.
  • “You can only expect that is happening in every woman of childbearing potential.”
  • “You can’t get pregnant and have a successful pregnancy if this protein is damaged in any way” because the protein is “essential” for “both fertilization and formation and maintenance of the placenta.”
  • “What this vaccine has done is induced an autoimmune response,” claims Dr. Yeadon.
A WARNING:
  • “I’m here to warn you that if you are of childbearing potential or younger…I would strongly recommend you do not accept these vaccines.”
WATCH DR. YEADON’S PRESENTATION:

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith and author of “An American Revival: Why American Christianity Is Failing & How to Fix It.”

Tech Platform Criticizes Apple’s New iPhone ‘Surveillance’ of User ‘Private Content’

WhatsApp head says Apple’s new child safety tool “introduces something very concerning into the world.”

QUICK FACTS:
  • Apple’s new technology will proactively search for illegal photos of child sexual abuse.
  • The system will “scan photos on US users’ iPhones before they are uploaded to iCloud, which will launch as part of the next version of iOS,” according to Financial Times.
  • U.S., U.K., and E.U. officials are praising Apple’s decision.
  • WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal are being urged to emulate Apple’s move, as well as Google with its Android operating system.
  • However, concerns are being raised “by the security and privacy community that Apple has set a dangerous precedent that could be exploited by repressive regimes or overzealous law enforcement,” notes Financial Times.
  • RT reports NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has already called Apple’s plan an assault on privacy.
WHAT APPLE SAID:
  • Apple released an internal memo saying, “We know some people have misunderstandings, and more than a few are worried about the implications, but we will continue to explain and detail the features so people understand what we’ve built.”
CRITICISM FROM WHATSAPP CEO:
  • Will Cathcart—Chief Executive Officer at Whatsapp Inc.—says Apple’s new tech “introduces something very concerning into the world.”
  • “This is an Apple-built and operated surveillance system that could very easily be used to scan private content for anything they or a government decides it wants to control.”
  • “It’s troubling to see them act without engaging experts,” Cathcart goes on to say. “We will not adopt it at WhatsApp.”
CRITICISM FROM DIGITAL RIGHTS GROUPS:
  • India McKinney and Erica Portnoy of digital rights group the ‘Electronic Frontier Foundation’ said in a blog post, “To say that we are disappointed by Apple’s plans is an understatement.”
  • “Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the US and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.”
CRITICISM FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION:
  • Surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology, Jennifer Granick said, “However altruistic its motives, Apple has built an infrastructure that could be subverted for widespread surveillance of the conversations and information we keep on our phones.”
CRITICISM FROM ‘OPEN PRIVACY’:
  • Cryptography researcher and executive director of Canadian NGO Open Privacy Sarah Jamie said, “I hate going all slippery-slope but I look at the slope, and governments around the world are covering it in oil, and Apple just pushed its customers over the edge.”
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Vax Manufacturers Make Combined $18.6 Billion So Far in 2021

Coronavirus vaccine sales projected to earn drug companies $60 billion by year’s end.

QUICK FACTS:
  • The four main Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers—Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca—”have sold a combined $18.6 billion worth of the shots in the first half of 2021,” according to a report from Axios.
  • And “sales are expected to reach a combined $60 billion by the end of the year.”
  • Axios notes that the U.S. market accounts for 41% of vaccine sales even though the U.S. only represents less than 5% of the world population.
  • “Vaccine makers have sent more vaccines and charged higher prices to wealthy countries, including the U.S.,” notes Axios.
From Axios.com
PFIZER & MODERNA ON TOP:
  • Pfizer and Moderna together have accumulated more than 90% of global coronavirus vaccine revenues.
  • Pfizer itself accounts for 60% of global sales.
  • More than half of Moderna’s two-dose vaccine—funded in full by the federal government—sales are in the U.S.
  • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) co-owns the Moderna mRNA COVID vaccine patent, endorses the same vaccine.
  • NIH Director Francis Collins had earlier denied that the vaccine would be a “money-maker.”
NIH Co-Owns Moderna mRNA Vaccine Patent, Promotes Moderna Vaccines
JOHNSON & JOHNSON AT THE BOTTOM:
  • Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine “hasn’t sold nearly as much due to safety concerns,” reports Axios, “but the company still expects $2.5 billion of global sales this year based on its advanced purchasing agreements.”
  • The Wall Street Journal reported Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, and Oxford University were teaming up with outside scientists to consider “re-engineering” their vaccines due to serious blood clotting associated with their shots.
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was planning to add a warning to the J&J vaccine because it increases the risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, also according to WSJ.
Blood Clots Caused by Vax Make J&J, AstraZeneca Consider Re-Engineering Their Jabs
FDA to Warn J&J Covid Vax Raises Risk of Rare Neurological Condition: Wall Street Journal, New York Times

WATCH: Rand Paul Warns About the Rise of Authoritarianism in U.S.

“This idiot would have us not flying for three months.”

Israel’s ‘Continued Rise’ of COVID Cases Despite ‘Above World Average’ Vax Rate

Israeli ministry figures confirmed 3,843 coronavirus cases on Thursday alone, even though “over 5.8 million have received at least one vaccine dose,” reports the Times of Israel.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Israel’s Health Ministry on Friday reported almost 4,000 new coronavirus cases were recorded on Thursday, according to The Times of Israel.
  • This was the “fourth day in a row that new cases have passed 3,000.”
  • CNN calls the “new wave of infections” a “spike.”
  • Amid the “continued rise in cases,” notes the Times of Israel, Israel’s ministers have “approved significantly expanding restrictions on gatherings under the Green Pass system.”
  • However, over 60% of Israel’s population have received the Covid-19 gene-based vaccine.
  • About 5.8 million out of Israel’s 9.3 million citizenry have received at least one vaccine dose.
  • The Johns Hopkins online Coronavirus Resource Center indicates that Israel has an “Above World Average” vaccination rate, ranking 16th out of 162 world nations on the list.
Screenshot from the Johns Hopkins website taken August 6, 2021
Screenshot from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website taken August 6, 2021

DeSantis to Biden: ‘I am standing in your way’ (Video)

Trump’s Lawsuit Against Big Tech Censorship Includes Stories From 65K Americans Revealing How They Were Censored

The lawsuit former President Donald Trump filed against Big Tech Censorship contains the stories of 65,000 Americans who were censored, a report says.

President Trump filed late July his amended complaints along with the 65,000 stories compiled by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) on Americans who were censured by Big Tech, Faithwire reported.

The AFPI asked the public to submit stories of their experiences of censorship from Google, Twitter, and Facebook through a website called “Take On Big Tech.”

“(In late July), Amended Complaints were filed in the Big Tech lawsuits against Facebook, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, Inc., Jack Dorsey, Google LLC, and Sundar Pichai. Since the initial filing on July 7, 2021, nearly 65,000 American people have submitted their stories of censorship through AFPI’s (AFPI) Constitutional Litigation Partnership (CLP) at TakeOnBigTech.com,” the AFPI divulged.

Some of those who submitted stories included celebrities such as author Dr. Noemi Wolf, who was former President Bill Clinton’s adviser, and conservative radio broadcaster Wayne Allyn Root. Both celebrities were said to be banned by Twitter – Root in February and Wolf in June.

“The Amended Complaints include additional censorship experiences and incorporates additional class representatives, including Dr. Naomi Wolf and Wayne Allyn Root,” Faithwire quoted from AFPI.

According to the AFPI, Big Tech is one of the threats to the country’s founding principles and one of the distortions to the “American way of life” alongside Big Government and Big Media.

“America is under threat from ideologies that are eroding our founding principles. The American way of life, including federalism, free speech, and the rule of law, is being undermined and distorted by Big Government, Big Tech, and Big Media,” AFPI said in Rumble on July 12.

AFPI launched last April the “Constitutional Litigation Partnership,” which is a litigation center that partners with legal organizations and law firms to fight the “egregious overreach of Big Tech, Big Media, and Big Government” as a means of protecting and defending the constitutional freedoms of Americans. Trump was present during the launching.

In line with the lawsuit, AFPI President and CEO Brooke Rollins said that they will “take on Goliath” in order to “seek justice” and the “rule of law” for the American people.

“Our Constitution is being trampled as we speak, and we are going to stand up for the American people. Our arsenal becomes even stronger with the addition of the Constitutional Litigation Partnership. We will work tirelessly to return government’s power to the people. We will take on Goliath, no matter what form he may take–whether that be Big Tech, Big Media, or Big Government, we will always seek justice and allegiance to the rule of law,” Rollins said in a statement.

Last July, Trump announced during a press conference held at his New Jersey National Golf Club that he is filing a class-action lawsuit against Big Tech companies for their violations against American’s “freedom of speech.”

“I stand before you this morning to announce a very important and beautiful, I think, development for our freedom and our freedom of speech, and that goes to all Americans. Today, in conjunction with the AFPI, I am filing as the lead class representative a major class-action lawsuit against the Big Tech giants, including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, as well as their CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey,” Trump revealed.

Trump also highlighted the lawsuit during his speech in the Conservative Political Action Conference 2021 held in Dallas, Texas the following week where he stressed that he is “not backing down” in his fight to take America back.

“We are taking Mark Zookerbucks, Jack Dorsey, and the other Silicon Valley billionaires to federal court, and we will keep on fighting until we have stopped this assault on our liberties and until we have restored the sacred right to freedom of speech for every single American,” Trump stated.

China Has Enough Stolen Data for ‘Dossier’ on Every American: Former National Security Adviser

Former U.S. national security official warns Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stealing data to compile a “dossier” on every American adult.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Matthew Pottinger—fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Trump deputy national security adviser—spoke during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing this week.
  • The hearing had to do with Bejing’s threats to U.S. national security.
  • Pottinger said the CCP has stolen Americans’ personal through cyber theft and hacking.
  • China has now stolen enough sensitive data to compile “dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world.”
  • This includes information “sufficient to build a dossier on every single American adult and on many of our children too.”
  • These Americans “are fair game under Beijing’s rules of political warfare,” said Pottinger, including “using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer.”
WHAT ELSE POTTINGER SAID:
  • “Many Americans were slow to realize it, but Beijing’s enmity for the United States began decades ago.”
  • “Newer to the party’s arsenal is the exploitation of U.S. social media platforms,” said Pottinger. “Over the past few years, Beijing has flooded U.S. platforms with overt and covert propaganda, amplified by proxies and bots.”
WHAT POTTINGER SUGGESTS WASHINGTON SHOULD DO:
  • Pottinger advises the U.S. to “stop funding technologies in China that are used to advance their surveillance state and their military.”
  • He also suggests Congress should “look at revising the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) to include more robust reporting requirements, steeper penalties for non-compliance, and a publicly-accessible database of FARA registrants updated frequently.”
  • But Pottinger also believes the U.S. ought to “expose and confront” China’s “information warfare over U.S. social media platforms.”
  • Social media companies should take a “leading role in exposing and tamping down shadowy influence operations.”
  • The U.S. should also partner with Silicon Valley tech giants in order “to make it easier for the Chinese people to safely access and exchange news, opinions, history, films, and satire with their fellow citizens and people outside China’s so-called Great Firewall.”
WATCH THE HEARING:
BACKGROUND:
  • Pottinger’s remarks come as Apple announced it would begin scanning all iPhones “for images of child sexual abuse.”
  • Apple’s new software feature will scan iOS devices for images of child abuse as part of an “important mission” at the company, VP of Software Sebastian Marineau-Mes wrote in an internal memo, according to The Verge.
  • The memo acknowledges that the new protections have some people “worried about the implications” but that the company will “maintain Apple’s deep commitment to user privacy.”
  • Breitbart reported how Alec Muffett—noted encryption expert and former Facebook security staffer—points out that while Apple’s move might be well-intentioned, Apple should be thinking about one important question: “What will China want them to block?”
  • Muffett told Forbes: “How such a feature might be repurposed in an illiberal state [like China] is fairly easy to visualize. Apple is performing proactive surveillance on client-purchased devices in order to defend their own interests but in the name of child protection.”

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.

9/11 Families Tell Biden to Stay Away from Their Memorial Events

Families of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks do not want President Joe Biden to use this year’s events as a photo op unless he keeps his promise to pull back the curtain hiding Saudi Arabia’s possible role in the tragedy.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, as well as the downing of United Airlines Flight 93, which was en route to add to the devastation. A memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, commemorates the passengers who battled hijackers aboard the plane, which crashed, killing all aboard.

The group that includes about 1,800 people — including first responders, survivors and family members of victims — says Biden is not welcome at this year’s remembrance ceremonies unless he finally declassifies government files they think could show the extent to which Saudi Arabian leaders either knew of or countenanced the attacks.

When seeking support for his presidential bid, Biden indicated he would help them get the information they have been seeking, but has turned a deaf ear to them after gaining the White House, the group said.

“I intend to be a President for all Americans, and will hear all of their voices,” read an October 2020 letter from the then-presidential candidate. “The 9/11 Families are right to seek full truth and accountability. … I will direct my Attorney General to personally examine the merits of all cases where the invocation of privilege is recommended, and to err on the side of disclosure in cases where, as here, the events in question occurred two decades or longer ago.”

But he has not come through, the group says.

“We cannot in good faith, and with veneration to those lost, sick, and injured, welcome the president to our hallowed grounds until he fulfills his commitment,” the family members, first responders and survivors said in a statement, according to NBC News.

“Since the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission in 2004 much investigative evidence has been uncovered implicating Saudi government officials in supporting the attacks,” they added.

“Through multiple administrations, the Department of Justice and the FBI have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the American people from learning the full truth about the 9/11 attacks,” the statement said, noting that the FBI investigated the Saudi links in a report completed in 2016 that it wants to be made public.

“Twenty years later, there is simply no reason — unmerited claims of ‘national security’ or otherwise — to keep this information secret,” the group wrote in its statement.

“But if President Biden reneges on his commitment and sides with the Saudi government, we would be compelled to publicly stand in objection to any participation by his administration in any memorial ceremony of 9/11.”

Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce, died at the Twin Towers, said those wanting the truth are “collectively are at our wits’ end with our own government.”

“We are frustrated, tired and saddened with the fact that the U.S. government for 20 years has chosen to keep information about the death of our loved ones behind lock and key,” said Eagleson, the national co-chair for the group 9/11 Community United.

“We had great hope that President Biden, who campaigned on bringing truth and trust back to the Oval Office, would value the lives and sacrifices of America’s citizens over diplomatic relations with a country accused of mass murder.”

“They stand up and utter words, ‘never forget,’ but the administration, behind a cloak of secrecy, continues to stab us in the back,” Eagleson said, according to The Hill.

“It’s a sad truth to know that the United States government values foreign interests more than its own citizens,” he added.

The 9/11 Commission report said the Saudis were not part of the planning for the attack, but that Saudi money supported those who launched it.

Eagleson said the group finds it hard to believe the Saudis were totally in the dark about what was being planed.

He has pointed to the 2017 sworn testimony of former FBI Special Agent Stephen Moore, who was involved in the FBI’s investigation of the 9/11 tragedy.

“Based on evidence we gathered during the course of our investigation, I concluded that diplomatic and intelligence personnel of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support to the two 9/11 hijackers and facilitated the 9/11 plot. My colleagues in our investigation shared that conclusion,” Moore said in an affidavit.

“The declassification of our own government’s investigation into the murderous 9/11 attacks is long overdue. For 20 years, the 9/11 community has demanded answers from the federal government, but our demands have largely fallen on deaf ears,” said Terry Strada, whose husband died in the terror attacks, according to the Boston Herald.

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