National and international media news & headlines compiled by CLG.

Sen. Ron Johnson Claims COVID Was ‘Pre-Planned by Elite Group,’ Citing Event 201 Exercise in Connection With Johns Hopkins Center, WEF, and Gates Foundation –‘We’re up against a very powerful group of people here.’ | 11 Aug 2023 | In an appearance on Fox News’s Mornings With Maria on Friday, member of Senate Homeland Security and ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Ron Johnson (R-WI), dropped a truth bomb regarding the origins and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking with host Maria Bartiromo, Johnson suggested that the pandemic was pre-planned by an “elite group of people” and cited Event 201, a pandemic exercise conducted in late 2019, as evidence. “This is all pre-planned by an elite group of people,” said Johnson. “That’s what I’m talking about. Event 201 that occurred in late 2019, prior to the rest of us knowing about this pandemic. Again, this is very concerning in terms of what has happened, what is happening, and what continues to be planned for our loss of freedom. Again, it needs to be exposed. But unfortunately, there are very few people, even in Congress that are willing to take a look at this. They all pushed the vaccine. They don’t want to be made aware of the fact that the vaccines might have caused injuries, might have caused death. So many people just simply don’t want to admit they were wrong, and they’re going to do everything they can to make sure that they’re not proven wrong,” Johnson added. “But we’re up against a very powerful group of people here, Maria.”

EPA Authorizes Release of 2 Billion More GMO Mosquitoes as Reports of Malaria Surface in States That Already Released Them | 8 Aug 2023 | Genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes created by biotechnology company Oxitec have been released in the U.S. in Florida and Texas. In March 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted Oxitec a two-year extension of its experimental use permit, or EUP, which would allow the biotech company to release additional GE mosquitoes in Florida as well as in four counties in California for the first time. While the EPA extended Oxitec’s EUP both the Florida Department of Agriculture and California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) must approve Oxitec’s testing in order for it to move forward in their states. Locally acquired malaria has been nonexistent in the U.S. for the last 20 years, but five such cases have recently been diagnosed — four in Florida and one in Texas… The Gates Foundation is heavily invested in the GMO (genetically modified organism) mosquito project, investing more than 30 million in Oxitec. Most of it — more than 20 million — is aimed at U.S. regions.

Biden Has Handed Taliban Over $2 Billion in 2 Years, SIGAR Report Finds | 9 Aug 2023 | A report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) notes that the Biden administration has given 2.35 billion to Afghanistan over the past two years, despite the fact that it is now ruled by the Taliban again following the disastrous U.S. withdrawal in 2021. The Washington Free Beacon shared details of the findings Tuesday, noting that the funds could be propping up the Taliban’s terrorist government. The SIGAR report found that approximately 1.7 billion “remained available for possible disbursement” at the time writing. The Beacon notes “it is more than likely that a sizable portion of these funds will end up in the terror group’s coffers.” The Taliban are viewing international aide as a “revenue stream,” according to the report… The findings come after John Sopko, head of SIGAR, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in April that he “cannot assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban,” and accused the Biden administration of blocking his efforts to find out.

Florida Republican introduces impeachment articles against Joe Biden –‘It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,’ Steube said in a statement | 12 Aug 2023 | Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., jumped ahead of his Republican colleagues on Friday and introduced articles of impeachment against President Biden. While several congressional committees are building a multipronged case to remove Biden from office, Steube said it was past time to take action. He filed articles of impeachment against Biden charging that the president had been complicit in his son Hunter’s alleged crimes and had worked to shield him from justice. “It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,” Steube said in a statement. “He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America’s citizens.” Steube filed four articles alleging high crimes and misdemeanors by Biden.

Weiss appointment as Hunter Biden special counsel violates DOJ regulations, experts warn –Weiss, the sitting U.S. Attorney for Delaware, has been pursuing an investigation into Hunter Biden for years. | 12 Aug 2023 | Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to serve as special counsel in the Hunter Biden criminal probe is raising alarm with some legal experts who say it explicitly violates the Justice Department’s regulations requiring such appointments come from outside the agency. That regulation states: “An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-making, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told the Just the News, No Noise television show Friday night he believed it was a mistake for Garland to name the current Delaware U.S. attorney, both because he was from inside the government and had approved an earlier plea deal for Hunter Biden that spared the first son from prison but was rejected by the trial judge and panned by many as too lenient.

Judge Snubs Special Counsel, Issues Limited Gag Order in Trump Election Case | 11 Aug 2023 | District Judge Tanya Chutkan opposed the request by prosecutors to bar former President Donald Trump from revealing non-sensitive evidence provided to him by the prosecutors ahead of the trial on whether he conspired to illegally obstruct the counting of the 2020 electoral votes. During an Aug. 11 hearing in Washington, she decided to issue a gag order that only forbids the release of information prosecutors label as sensitive. The prosecutors, with the office of special counsel Jack Smith, requested a blanket gag order, citing concerns over safety and intimidation of witnesses.

Prosecutors obtained warrant for Trump’s Twitter account, judge fined company $350,000 for delay –Smith obtained a warrant directing Twitter to produce “data and records” relating to the former president’s account. | 9 Aug 2023 | Federal prosecutors led by Special Counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant in January for materials related to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and a judge fined the social media platform 350,000 for delaying compliance with the warrant, court documents released Wednesday show. The information was revealed in a federal appeals court decision rejecting the social media platform’s claim that a lower court was wrong to hold it in contempt and impose the fine. Smith obtained a warrant directing Twitter, which has since been renamed X, to produce “data and records” relating to the former president’s account on the platform, according to the filing obtained by The Associated Press.

Dem Gov Katie Hobbs requested Twitter censor critics of tweet comparing Trump supporters to Nazis | 10 Aug 2023 | Democratic Arizona Governor [sic] Katie Hobbs requested the social media website formerly known as Twitter to censor critics of her tweet that compared supporters of former President Donald Trump to Nazis. In August 2017, while serving in the Arizona state legislature, Hobbs attacked Trump in a tweet, when she compared the former president’s voter base to neo-Nazis. “[Trump] has made it abundantly clear he’s more interested in pandering to his neo-nazi base than being [president] for all Americans,” Hobbs wrote on her campaign Twitter account. Hobbs was roasted online for the tweet, which did not sit well with her as she advanced in her political career to become Arizona secretary of state. The post had critics online call into question Hobbs’s impartiality when administering the election, and, according to emails obtained by Fox News Digital from conservative political organization Arizona Capitol Oversight, Hobbs tried to get Twitter [now X] to censor the criticism against her.

Accusations of Fraud and Illegal Activity Pile Up Regarding Arizona’s Elections | 9 Aug 2023 | Kari Lake and Abe Hamadeh continue to contest their election losses in the 2022 election for governor and attorney general respectively, producing ongoing new evidence of irregularities and possible wrongdoing in the election. Much of the evidence has taken months to come out, including evidence related to the problematic 2020 presidential election, due to stonewalling by Maricopa County and other government agencies at turning it over. Maricopa County mostly ignored four repeat requests for data and equipment regarding the 2020 election from Jennifer Wright, the Election Integrity Unit civil attorney for the attorney general’s office, who resigned at the end of 2022 and now represents Hamadeh in his election contest. Much of the evidence appears to show violations of the state’s Election Procedures Manual, which are Class 2 misdemeanors. While not all of the alleged violations can be described as fraud, many of them can be characterized as alleged criminal activity. Here is a look back at some of the most serious complaints regarding alleged wrongdoing during Arizona’s 2020 and 2022 elections…

U.S. to place restrictions on unfrozen Iranian funds –In addition to unfreezing billions in Iranian funds, Washington would also release five Iranians currently locked in U.S. prisons. | 12 Aug 2023 | The United States will maintain restrictions on 6 billion in seized Iranian assets set to be released as part of a prisoner swap deal, under which Tehran is expected to release five detained Americans. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby commented on the arrangement on Friday, telling reporters that the U.S. would keep a close watch on where the resources are sent. He stressed that talks are ongoing, however, and “the deal is not done.” “Essentially, the funds can only be accessed for food, medicine, medical equipment that would not have a dual military use,” Kirby said, adding: “There will be a rigorous process of due diligence and standards applied with input from the U.S. Treasury Department.”

Maui ‘wildfires’ deadliest in a century after death toll hits 89 | 13 Aug 2023 | The death toll from the Maui wildfires Directed Energy Weapons-induced fires reached 89 on Saturday, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century – and the total is likely to rise in coming days as search teams with cadaver dogs continue sifting through the ruins of Lahaina. The scale of the damage came into sharper focus, four days after a fast-moving blaze leveled the historic resort town, obliterating buildings and melting cars [while the trees remained standing]. The cost to rebuild Lahaina was estimated at 5.5 billion, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with more than 2,200 structures damaged or destroyed and more than 2,100 acres (850 hectares) burned.

Lahaina Was Destroyed by a Directed Energy Weapon By Edward Hendrie | 12 Aug 2023 | There were some strange things about the alleged wildfire at Lahaina, Hawaii… The wildfire would only make sense if a forest of trees surrounded the city of Lahaina. That is the first problem with the story. There is no forest near the town. Indeed, the satellite photo below shows that the tallest trees near the city belong to the Maui Kuaia Estate Cacao Farm. Cacao trees are pretty small ranging in height between 13 and 26 feet. But those trees are across a highway several hundred yards from the nearest building. What about the trees within the city itself? There are lots of trees in the town. But when we look at the photos of the city after the alleged fire, we find that the trees in the town are mainly intact. Strangely, buildings that have been destroyed allegedly by fire are surrounded by trees untouched by flames. Something else is going on here. That something else is directed energy. The buildings were destroyed by directed energy weapons. Directed energy weapons use microwaves. They cause molecular destruction of materials that absorb them; wood remains unfazed because wood absorbs very little microwave radiation. It is similar to how you can put a paper plate in a microwave oven without concern that it will catch fire. But if you put aluminum foil into that same microwave oven, it will quickly begin to spark and burst into flames. [The motive? BlackRock can then swoop in and gobble up the property while we’re forced to live in 15-minute cities. –LRP]

Maui DEW Firestorm Levels Lahaina – Video Proof By James Grundvig | 11 Aug 2023 | The Maui fire investigators and local government will soon label the firestorm that nuked Lahaina but left its green trees standing in place but wilted, either as arson or climate change… Beyond natural wildfire or ground-level arson fires, there is a third and far more likely sore for the firestorm: Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs)… What I saw in 2017 and what I see today in Maui are one and the same events. Only microwave technology as in DEW–whether military lasers or HAARP–can explain how the structures not only burned down, but melted kitchen appliances, bathtubs, metal alloy wheel rims, and far more…  From 2017 article: “The wildfires weren’t wild at all. The houses cooked from the inside out. They often burned from the top of the roofs, incinerating the walls, floors, and appliances, and cladding down to the foundation. Yet, 90 percent of the trees on the properties remained standing with leaves on the branches–not burnt, merely dried out. It was as if a neutron bomb had detonated burning everything manmade, but leaving the greenery alone.”

FBI kills Trump supporter Craig Robertson, a 300-pound, 75-year-old ‘teddy bear’ Air Force veteran who needed cane to walk and took care of blind son –Trump supporter killed in FBI raid was a ‘teddy bear’ who cared for blind son but the ‘type to sleep with gun under his pillow’ – neighbor | 10 Aug 2023 | Neighbors described the man shot in an FBI raid on his home in Utah after he made threats to assassinate Joe Biden as a “decent guy” who cared for his blind son but was the “type to sleep with a gun under his pillow.” Craig Robertson, 75, allegedly pointed a gun at law enforcement during the incident Wednesday which led to what locals described as a “hail of bullets” at the home in Provo. Robertson was then dragged out of the house and bled out on the sidewalk outside his home covered under a sheet, according to local reports. “I just can’t believe that this man warranted that kind of response,” Travis Clark, who lived on the same street as Robertson, told the Deseret News. Others were shocked by the huge police response to the home of the 300-pound Air Force veteran turned carpenter, who walked around with a cane as he was barely mobile, according to people who knew him.

75-Year-Old Utah Man Who Posted Biden Threats Killed By FBI Agents During Raid | 9 Aug 2023 | A Utah man who posted threats to Joe Biden was shot and killed during an FBI raid [by FBI agents] Wednesday morning. Craig Robertson, 75, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning, according to the FBI in Salt Lake City. According to reports, Robertson was facing three counts after posting threats to Joe Biden: Interstate threats, threats against the president, and influencing, impeding and retaliating against federal law enforcement officers by threat. Robertson allegedly threatened to kill Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and officials prosecuting Trump in a series of social media posts.

Man forced to ditch $115K Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’ –Bala said he was initially motivated to buy an environmentally friendly vehicle as owning one is ‘responsible citizenship’ | 10 Aug 2023 | A Canadian man is calling electric vehicles the “biggest scam of modern times” after his frustrating experience with an electric truck. Dalbir Bala, who lives in the Winnipeg area, bought a Ford F150 Lightning EV in January for 115,000, plus tax. But Bala was quickly hit with the reality of owning and operating an EV soon after the purchase. The vehicle compelled him to install two charges — one at work and one at home — for 10,000. To accommodate the charger, he had to upgrade his home’s electric panel for 6,000. In all, Bala spent more than 130,000 — plus tax. Not long after the purchase, Bala got into a minor accident which, he said, required “light assembly” on the front bumper. Bala took the vehicle to the body shop and did not get it back for six months…