I had a great time discussing my long form report on Venezuela, Iran, and the currency of global oil. This is Part 1 - Part 2 will be out Thursday. Check it out!
Trump is Reshaping the Globe with Oil
From Venezuela in January, Iran in March, and Cuba up next, the Trump administration is scrambling geopolitics in an unprecedented way.
What happens when China loses access to 20 percent of its oil imports? Or when Cuba loses all of it? President Trump is moving lightning fast to isolate America's Communist rival and topple enemies, and Restoration News Senior Editor Jeff Reynolds is laying out the battleplan today on Restoration Spotlight.
A leftist group with well-documented ties to genocidal terror groups like Hamas is endorsing numerous candidates across nearly half of the United States this midterm election year, and that should severely concern all of us.
The Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR) might have an innocuous-sounding name, but its ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and support for jihad over many years have earned it the title of a foreign terrorist organization from at least two states—Texas and Florida—as well as a federal judge. It really shouldn’t be allowed to operate freely in the U.S., let alone campaign for elected U.S. representatives.
But Republicans concerned about the increasing risk and incidence of Islamic terror in our country can use CAIR’s list of endorsements the opposite way the jihad-loving group wants by ensuring we don’t vote for any of their favored candidates.
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Jessica Berg is soliciting signatures from her colleagues and others in defense of controversial Superintendent Aaron Spence who has been summoned to testify before Congress about "Attacks on Parental Rights, Inappropriate Content, and Legal Abuses in America's Schools."
Berg used her LCPS email account to lobby Congress in support of Spence. She created a letter and is soliciting signatures from LCPS employees and community members in support of so-called "inclusive policies" created under Aaron Spence. A Google Form created by Berg shows that it was "created inside of Loudoun County Public Schools" and the letter itself was created by Berg's work account.
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The photos, the source said, reveal the awakening back then of people from all segments of society, including many deeply embedded in the Communist Party system: https://t.co/avOImr4rEw
They are a testament that “Chinese people have guts,” the individual said. “They are different from the Chinese Communist Party, and they know right from wrong.”
And no matter how the CCP tries to “exert power and hide the truth,” the person said, there’s a limit to what coercion can achieve.
“It can make threats and inflict pain on people and their loved ones, but people have a soul, and that it can never kill,” the source said.
The present “darkness” is temporary, and at the end of it, there will be light, the source said.
@StateDept, yesterday: On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square. Chinese students, workers, and other civilians who lost their lives had gathered to exercise their natural rights and demand democratic reforms and accountability for corruption. We remember their lives and honor their legacy. No amount of censorship can erase the past. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.
Story by @EvaSailEast. [2/2]
For 37 years, over 2,000 images taken by a Chinese state media photographer were hidden in a metal box, surviving brutal purges—until now.
These raw, powerful photos show the courage of the students, the scale of the protests, and the horror of what the Chinese Communist Party did.
Now, The @EpochTimes is making the photos public for the first time. [1/2]
Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre
On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.
Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.
The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.
In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.
Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.
To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.
Until we realize the significance of the maliciousness and relentlessness of China’s regime, we will not defend ourselves. Our government treats incidents as if they were isolated, but they are in reality parts of a decades-long effort to take down our country.
"My Ex Bought Abortion Drugs Online, Poisoned Me, And Aborted Our Baby. Now I’m Speaking Out"
Shocking piece here from the Daily Wire. Restoration News has documented multiple cases of coerced, unwanted abortions forced on an unsuspecting mother by a significant other or family member who made the "choice" for her.
We produced the research that shows mifepristone, the abortion pill, carries safety risks 22x higher than the FDA or the drug maker acknowledge. This puts every woman who considers the abortion pill at risk of serious complications. It puts their very lives in jeopardy.
This is just another example of how lax regulations on the abortion pill can be exploited by people with evil intentions.
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I set a goal to record a workout every day in May. Some days that was only the daily farm work, but most times it involved lifting. I set records for total monthly volume lifted along with reps. @hevyapp kept me on track and gave me a solid plan to follow.
It is said thatThe CCP's strategic oil reserves have been exhausted, relying onThe falsified oil reserves have been exposed! For more than a year, due to the interruption of oil supplies from Venezuela and Iran to China, China's oil reserves have been depleted. However, on paper, China still has 1.2 billion tons of oil reserves.
The strategic oil reserves, which appeared to be full of millions of tons, were actually found to be filled with sewage and sludge when the United States forced them to use them. When the Beijing authorities sent people to take stock of their assets, they discovered a huge, undeniable gap between the actual inventory and the reported figures.
From May 25 to 27, Chinese Premier Li Qiang made an emergency trip to Zhoushan and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, personally conducting a surprise inspection of the Zhoushan National Oil Reserve Base. The inspection revealed that most of the oil storage facilities were empty or filled with water to falsify data; in reality, the oil reserves had been depleted.
Leaked Documents Exposed, Confirming My Previous Reporting below!
Iran International @IranIntl_En just obtained a set of documents indicating that a Chinese company worked with firms in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to help Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) acquire chemicals needed for the production of ballistic missiles.
The documents were obtained by the hacker group Prana and provided to Iran International. They suggest that Chinese entities were not merely involved in supplying materials but may also have helped Iran circumvent U.S. sanctions through a multinational corporate network to complete these transactions.
According to the documents, the central company in this network is Haokun Energy. For years, the company has acted as an intermediary, helping the IRGC sell oil to Chinese refineries. Four years ago, Haokun Energy was sanctioned by the United States for allegedly financing the IRGC’s Quds Force.
Haokun Energy reportedly entered into an agreement with a company called Golden Globe Demir Celik, or GDCP, involving the supply of chemical products for what were described as “special equipment.”
Notably, Haokun Energy allegedly stated that the activities were being carried out through confidential channels in coordination with Chinese customs authorities and requested that the Iranian side prevent any information leaks.
According to the documents, GDCP was responsible not only for procuring raw materials used in ballistic missile fuel production but also for selling oil on behalf of the IRGC.
In other words, the network allegedly helped the IRGC sell oil while simultaneously using part of the proceeds to purchase missile-fuel materials, including sodium perchlorate, from China.
As an intermediary, Haokun Energy reportedly sought to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it owed the IRGC by facilitating the sale of weapons-related materials, missile-fuel ingredients, and other goods. Sources familiar with the matter said the company still owes the IRGC more than $1 billion in oil revenues.
The documents also mention a deadly explosion at Iran’s Shahid Rajaee Port in April last year, which may have been linked to a shipment of sodium perchlorate. Sodium perchlorate is a key ingredient in solid rocket fuel.
In fact, reports about China shipping sodium perchlorate to Iran have surfaced repeatedly over the past year. On May 12, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also accused the Chinese Communist Party of helping the IRGC obtain components for ballistic missiles.
A link to the original report is available in the comments section.
The government has been writing checks to empty buildings. And nobody was supposed to find out.
No guns, no masks—just shell corporations, recycled names, empty buildings, and a government that never bothered to check whether a million-dollar daycare had any children in it.
Independent investigative journalist Walter Curt has been following the Medicaid fraud trail across multiple states, and what he's found is staggering: Ghost corporations billing hundreds of millions to taxpayers while Democrats in power look the other way.
He joins Restoration Spotlight host Hayden Ludwig to blow the lid off the biggest theft you've never heard of.
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The real reason that Medicaid fraud and government waste more broadly has become so bad is simple.
No one was looking. No one was watching where your tax dollars were going, they didn’t care.
The Trump administration is simply the first one to check.