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#20678638 at 2024-04-04 20:17:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25362: EBaKE
Biden regime providing nearly all the weapons used by Israel to commit genocide
Although President Joe Biden claims to be against the mass killing of Gazans, his administration has provided Israel with most of the weapons that are being used in the war there.
According to the Washington Post, the Biden administration has "quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel" since the beginning of the conflict that was spurred by the October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas. Among the shipments were thousands of small arms, small-diameter bombs, precision-guided munitions, bunker busters and other lethal weapons.
However, just two of those sales have been publicly reported: $147.5 million worth of components used for making 155mm shells and $106 million in tank ammunition. The others slipped under the radar because their amounts were below the minimum required for the White House to notify Congress.
Meanwhile, the U.S. just gave the green light for the transfer of a $2.5 billion weapons package for Israel that includes fighter jets and bombs, according to the Washington Post. The 2,000-pound bombs included in the package have been linked to past mass-casualty events in Gaza and can cause damage from up to 1,000 feet away. On top of that, the U.S. gives Israel $3.8 billion in military assistance each year.
Refugees International President Jeremy konyndyk, a former senior official with the White House, stated: "That's an extraordinary number of sales over the course of a pretty short amount of time, which really strongly suggests that the Israeli campaign would not be sustainable without this level of U.S. support."
In fact, the supplies have only slowed down recently because the U.S. can't keep up with Israel's demands. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., said: "Although we've been supporting them with capability, they've not received everything they've asked for. Some of that is because they've asked for stuff that we either don't have the capacity to provide or are not willing to provide, not right now."
He added that this is because the U.S. does not want to compromise its own readiness and not because America has changed its policy toward Israel. In other words, the weapons will continue to flow to Israel, even as the body count of civilians in Gaza piles up.
"There is no change in US policy. The United States continues to provide security assistance to our ally Israel as they defend themselves from Hamas," he said.
Biden is publicly criticizing Israel while continuing to send them lethal weapons
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=284817
#20667755 at 2024-04-02 20:03:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25349: Ain't Nuttin' Gonna Get In Our Way - POTUS T RALLY Edition
Pentagon claims Israeli weapons demands exceed US capacity
President Joe Biden continues to send weapons despite publicly claiming to oppose Israel's mass killing of Gazans
The US military's top general said on 29 March that Washington has not been able to provide all the weapons Israel has requested to prosecute its war on Gaza.
"Although we've been supporting them with capability, they've not received everything they've asked for," said General Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Some of that is because they've asked for stuff that we either don't have the capacity to provide or not willing to provide, not right now," to maintain readiness levels, Brown added, while speaking at an event hosted by the Defense Writers Group.
Brown's spokesperson later clarified on Thursday that his comments were in reference to "a standard practice before providing military aid to any of our allies and partners."
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that the US has "quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel" since the war began on 7 October.
The shipments include thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms, and other lethal aid.
Only two approved military sales to Israel have been reported publicly: $106 million worth of tank ammunition and $147.5 million in components needed to make 155 mm shells.
The other 100 weapons shipments had not been reported previously because their dollar amounts were below the threshold needed to require the White House to notify Congress.
The massive weapons transfers come despite public complaints from the White House that Israel is killing huge numbers of Palestinian civilians, refusing to allow aid into Gaza amid a looming famine, and criticism of Israeli threats to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza.
"That's an extraordinary number of sales over the course of a pretty short amount of time, which really strongly suggests that the Israeli campaign would not be sustainable without this level of U.S. support," said Jeremy konyndyk, a former senior White House official and current president of Refugees International.
Israel's military campaign on Gaza is widely viewed as genocide. Israeli forces have used weapons provided by President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to kill over 31,000 Palestinians, including over 13,000 children while laying waste to large swathes of Gaza's cities and farmland.
https://thecradle.co/articles/pentagon-claims-israeli-weapons-demands-exceed-us-capacity
#10557914 at 2020-09-07 18:43:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13510: Potus: Take Off Your Mask When You Talk To MeEdition
FDA moves on vaccines spark political worries
Public health officials are taking aim at the Food and Drug Administration, warning it should not bow to political pressure and clear a COVID-19 vaccine before one is ready.
The officials say they are unnerved over the pressure cranked up by the president, and worry it will contribute to distrust in the public health system that could actually lead people to not feel confident about a vaccine.
They also worry the FDA will be rushed in its work to boost President Trump's reelection chances.
"I think Trump is setting up a no-win scenario on vaccines. The rush to distribute before completing trials means that even if the vaccine is effective, we won't have proof, people will be reluctant to take it, and its perception will be tainted," said Jeremy konyndyk, former head of USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance under President Obama and current senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.
"Rushing it to the public before it is proven is a remarkably damaging move. But the motive here is clearly politics, not public health," said konyndyk.
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn recently mentioned the possibility of ending clinical trials early if the benefits outweigh the risks.
"It is up to the [vaccine developer] to apply for authorization or approval, and we make an adjudication of their application," Hahn said in an interview with the Financial Times. "If they do that before the end of phase three, we may find that appropriate. We may find that inappropriate, we will make a determination."
Trump administration officials have said they hope the FDA will approve a safe and effective vaccine by the end of the year.
Administration health officials have taken pains to reassure the public that health agencies are independent from political persuasion, especially when it comes to a potential coronavirus vaccine.
"The FDA has been very explicit that they are going to make a decision based on the data as it comes in. These trials have these independent data and safety monitoring boards that intermittently look at the data," Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a CNN interview.
"Data has always been the thing that has driven me and my colleagues here at the NIH as well as the FDA. The FDA and the CDC they're data-driven organizations. So I think that people can feel confident that when these data come in they'll be examined appropriately and a decision made," Fauci said.
But critics say they're worried about various signals.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/515210-fda-moves-on-vaccines-spark-political-worries
#5886765 at 2019-03-25 20:40:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7531: And It's Only Monday Edition
Pentagon fails to deliver US strategy on Yemen
The Donald Trump administration has missed another congressional deadline to lay out the US strategy in Yemen, Al-Monitor has learned.
The US strategy in the four-year conflict has never been publicly articulated even as the Barack Obama and Trump administrations provided refueling and intelligence support. A reporting requirement was set out in last year's defense authorization bill, which called on the Pentagon to detail specific US diplomatic and national security objectives and the costs of American involvement, including the controversial refueling mission terminated in November.
"The Department of Defense is working with Congress to provide the report," Pentagon spokesperson Rebecca Rebarich told Al-Monitor.
The failure to respond on time is likely to frustrate lawmakers in the wake of another legislative rebuke to US involvement. Last week, the Senate voted to curtail US war powers in Yemen, a move that would cut off American intelligence support to the Saudi-led coalition. After the United States stopped refueling coalition aircraft in November, the Pentagon has focused on providing intelligence support to the Saudi-led coalition and assisting with no-strike lists. A senior Pentagon official had pledged to deliver the strategy report at the beginning of March after failing to meet a Feb. 1 deadline mandated by law.
In recent months, the Trump administration has disregarded several certification requirements from Congress. In February, the State Department refused to say whether the Saudi-led force had reduced civilian casualties in the Yemeni conflict. And the White House failed to respond to lawmakers' query about whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The administration's failure to check the king-in-waiting's war in Yemen and Riyadh's increasingly ambitious foreign policy has led Congress and experts to call for the White House to re-evaluate ties with Saudi Arabia.
"We know who this guy is, we know what he's capable of, and treating him like he's an ally or a reliable partner is totally untenable," said Jeremy konyndyk, a former US Agency for International Development director during the Obama administration.
In the absence of a formal declaration of strategy, US policy on Yemen remains unclear.
State Department officials - including special representative for Iran Brian Hook - have focused on Iranian support for the Houthis while showcasing weapons seized in Yemen that were allegedly smuggled into the country by Iran. Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis instead called for the United States to step up the pressure on Islamist groups and press for the UN-led effort to end the war.
Just days before leaving office in December, Mattis made a whirlwind round of calls to the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to help clinch a cease-fire deal in Stockholm to stave off famine. Since then, the Pentagon has continued to insist that the counterterrorism fight against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State is the top US priority in the conflict.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/03/pentagon-fail-deliver-us-strategy-yemen.html
#2291112 at 2018-07-26 03:30:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2887 IMAGINE if we Hadn't Been Manipulated by MKUltra Faggotry Edition
https://www.dailywire.com/news/33587/breaking-obama-knowingly-funded-designated-al-ryan-saavedra
BREAKING: Obama Knowingly Funded Designated Al-Qaeda Affiliate
A new report released on Wednesday revealed that the Obama administration knowingly provided an Islamic terrorist-financing organization with hundreds of thousands of dollars despite the fact that the group had been designated as a terrorist-financing organization for a decade by the U.S. government.
Obama officials approved the release of well over $100,000 even after they were informed that the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) was affiliated with Osama bin Laden and Maktab al-Khidamat (MK), which eventually became al-Qaeda.
ISRA, also referred to as the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), received a $200,000 taxpayer-funded grant from the Obama administration, which released at least $115,000 to the terrorist-financing organization. National Review reports:
According to the U.S. Treasury, in 1997 ISRA established formal cooperation with MK. By 2000, ISRA had raised $5 million for bin Laden's group. The Treasury Department notes that ISRA officials even sought to help "relocate [bin Laden] to secure safe harbor for him." It further reports that ISRA raised funds in 2003 in Western Europe specifically earmarked for Hamas suicide bombings.
The 2004 designation included all of ISRA's branches, including a U.S. office called the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA-USA). Eventually it became known that this American branch had illegally transferred over $1.2 million to Iraqi insurgents and other terror groups, including, reportedly, the Afghan terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
National Review notes that in July 2014 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) approved $723,405 of U.S. taxpayer funds to go to World Vision Inc., and that out of that money, "$200,000 was to be directed to a sub-grantee: ISRA."
World Vision had informed the USAID in 2014 that ISRA was on the designated terrorist organization list and subsequently had to wait for an assessment from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) before they could receive the money.
OFAC confirmed in January 2015 that ISRA was a designated terrorist organization and rejected World Vision from obtaining "a license to engage in transactions with [ISRA]." National Review adds:
Despite OFAC's ruling, in February, World Vision wrote to OFAC and Obama-administration official Jeremy konyndyk (who then served as director of USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance) to apply to OFAC for a new license from USAID to pay ISRA "monies owed for work performed." According to Larry Meserve, USAID's mission director for Sudan, World Vision argued that if they did not pay ISRA, "their whole program will be jeopardized."…
…Then, incredibly, on May 7, 2015 - after "close collaboration and consultations with the Department of State" - OFAC issued a license to a World Vision affiliate, World Vision International, authorizing "a one-time transfer of approximately $125,000 to ISRA," of which "$115,000 was for services performed under the sub-award with USAID" and $10,000 was "for an unrelated funding arrangement between Irish Aid and World Vision."
While the Trump administration has focused on destroying Islamic terrorism, those groups thrived under the Obama administration.
"[In 2014], when the U.S. first began its campaign against the terror group, ISIS had a presence in seven countries," The Hill reported in 2016. "That figure rose to 13 in 2015, and today the White House document shows that ISIS is operating in 18 countries."
The Obama administration also killed a massive investigation into Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic terrorist group, allowing them to "become one of the biggest transnational organized crime groups in the world," veteran DEA supervisory agent Jack Kelly told Politico.
Obama tried to downplay his failure to contain terrorism by claiming that under his administration, "the number of terrorist incidents [had] not substantially increased."
Left-leaning Politifact rated Obama's statement as "mostly false."
Read More: Barack Obama Donald Trump Islamic State (ISIS) Radical Islamic Terror Terrorism Trump Administration
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#69292 at 2022-10-26 14:11:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #198: Late Night End Bend Edition
Administrator Samantha Power Congratulates Usaid's Jeremy konyndyk on Appointment as President of Refugees International
Statement by Administrator Samantha Power
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
After rejoining USAID in January 2021, Jeremy konyndyk began leading our Agency's COVID-19 Program and Operations Strategy Task Force when it was stood up in March of that year. Over the past year and a half, he brilliantly and nimbly led the Task Force through a time of intense grief and loss, and was an instrumental force in U.S. efforts to vaccinate the world.
https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/oct-26-2022-administrator-samantha-power-congratulates-usaids-jeremy-konyndyk
https://qresear.ch/?q=konyndyk