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"Billionaires Try to Shrink World's Population—Washington Post, 2009.

The New York meeting of billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Eli Broad, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah, Michael Bloomberg, and others was described by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as an informal gathering aimed at encouraging philanthropy. Just a few billionaires getting together for drinks and dinner and a friendly chat about how to promote charitable giving.

There was no agenda, we were told. And no plan for a follow-up meeting.

"Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority," the article said, adding that "this could result in a challenge to some Third World politicians who believe contraception and female education weaken traditional values."

Such a stand wouldn't be surprising. Gates, Buffett, and Turner have been quietly worrying about Malthusian population problems for years. Mr. Gates in February outlined a plan to try to cap the world's population at 8.3 billion people, rather than the projected 9.3 billion at which the population is expected to peak. But some right-leaning blogs have started attacking the billionaires as forming a kind of secret sterilization society or giant ATM to fund abortions. It fed into timehonored fears of the rich using their wealth to reshape mankind in its preferred image. Some are raising the specter of eugenics."

Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks

By Sewell Chan and Eric Neugeboren Texas Tribune

HOUSTON —Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, Texas Republicans on Saturday acted on a raft of resolutions and proposed platform changes to move their party even further to the right. They approved measures declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected” and rebuking Sen. John Cornyn for taking part in bipartisan gun talks. They also voted on a platform that declares homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls for Texas schoolchildren “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.” The actions capped a convention that highlighted how adamantly opposed the party’s most active and vocal members are to compromising with Democrats or moderating on social positions, even as the state has grown more diverse and Republicans’ margins in statewide elections have shrunk slightly in recent years.

Votes on the platform were collected at the end of the party's three-day convention in which party activists moved to add multiple items to the official Texas GOP platform. As the convention closed, two separate sets of ballots —one allowing delegates to choose eight of 15 legislative priorities and another allowing delegates to vote on the 275 platform planks —were gathered. Those will now need to be tallied and certified in Austin, but it is rare for a plank to be rejected, according to party spokesperson James Wesolek.

The convention reinforced the extent to which former President Donald J. Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election continue to resound among the party faithful —even though his claims have repeatedly been debunked, including by many of his own former aides, and rett’s home with bloody baby dolls in hand calling for abortion-ondemand. ***** 49 states order COVID injections for kids under five years old. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is the only one that will not facilitate the distribution for toddlers to be vaccinated. ***** An exuberant Marine Le Pen, who has handily won her northern France

after a week of televised hearings about the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The denunciation of Cornyn represented a remarkable rebuke to a Republican who has served in the Senate since 2002. The hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston filled with boos on Friday as he tried to explain the legislation, which would allow juvenile records to be incorporated into background checks for gun buyers younger than 21 and encourage “red flag” laws that would make it easier to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, along with more funding for school safety and mental health.

Meanwhile, the party platform vote on Saturday by roughly 5,100 convention delegates would argue that those under 21 are “most likely to need to defend themselves” and may need to quickly buy guns “in emergencies such as riots.” It also would say that red flag laws violate the due process rights of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime.

About 9,600 delegates and alternates were eligible to attend; organizers said turnout was a bit more than half that.

The new platform would call for:

*Requiring Texas students “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child,” including teaching that life begins at fertilization and requiring students to listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses.

*Amending the Texas Constitution to remove the Legislature’s power “to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.” *Treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” language that was not included in the 2018 or 2020 party platforms. *Deeming gender identity disorder “a genuine and extremely rare mental health condition,” requiring official documents to adhere to “biological gender,” and allowing civil penalties and monetary compensation to “de-transitioners” who have received gender-affirming surgery, which the platform calls a form of medical malpractice.

*Changing the U.S. Constitution to cement the number of Supreme Court justices at nine and repeal the 16th Amendment of 1913, which created the federal income tax.

*Ensuring “freedom to travel” by opposing Biden’s Clean Energy Plan and “Californiastyle, anti-driver policies,” including efforts to turn traffic lanes over for use by pedestrians, cyclists and mass transit.

*Declaring “all businesses and jobs as essential and a fundamental right,” a response to COVID-19 mandates by Texas cities that required customers to wear masks and limited business hours.

*Abolishing the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, and guaranteeing the right to use alternatives to cash, including cryptocurrencies.

Not every far-right proposal was advanced. The party chair, Matt Rinaldi, ruled that a motion to defend the due process rights of those who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and to “reject the narrative” that the riot was an insurrection was out of order and could not be voted on.

Taken together, the new provisions would represent a shift even further rightward for the Republican Party of Texas, once known as the party of Presidents George Bush and his son George W. Bush. Land Commissioner George P. Bush, a grandson and nephew of the two presidents, was (Continued on page 14)

Trump demands equal time on TV networks to counter Jan. 6 hearings

By John Solomon JustTheNews.com

Kept by congressional Democrats from putting on a defense, former President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that television networks airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings provide him equal time to present his side.

"I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!" Trump said in a midday statement posted on his Truth Social media site, just before the Democrat-led panel began its third, televised hearing on the Capitol riots.

"The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia-type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!)," the 45th president also said.

Democrats holding the Jan. 6 hearings have refused to let House Republicans put their own members on the committee and have openly talked about the hearings being a vehicle to keep Trump from running again.

"The point is that the constitutional purpose is clear, to keep people exactly like Donald Trump and other traitors to the union from holding public office," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told ABC News earlier this year.

Trump's statement appeared to appeal to the Federal Communications Commission's equal time provision that mandates U.S. radio and television broadcast stations provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it if their opponents has gotten it.

Trump called the hearings "a one-sided, highly partisan Witch Hunt, the likes of which has never been seen in Congress before and that he deserved time on national TV to present his side of the case, including election irregularities and Democrat failures to secure Capitol."

He also said: "I am hereby demanding EQUAL TIME to spell out the massive Voter Fraud & Dem Security Breach!"

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A conservative Supreme Court Justice was almost assassinated in the middle of the week last week. Firebombings across the country at prolife centers by Jane’s Revenge cells. A crazy person drives into a Trump merchandise store in New Hampshire. But CNN was non-stop coverage on January 6. ***** Teenagers marched in front of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Bar-

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New Mexico county refuses to certify election results over machine concerns, igniting legal battle AGPaxton successfully prosecutes woman who pleads guilty to26felony counts of voterfraud

ByNatalia Mittelstadt

A New Mexico county has been ordered by the state Supreme Court to certify its primary election results and threatened with legal action by the state attorney general after the county commissioners refused to do so over concerns about Dominion vote-counting machines.

The three Republican members of the Otero County Commission, in their role as the county canvassing board, decided to not certify the June 7 primary results because of their distrust of the Dominion machines, the Associated Press reported. The commissioners also voted last week to recount the ballots by hand, discontinue using the Dominion machines, and remove ballot drop boxes.

“I have huge concerns with these voting machines,” Otero County Commissioner Vickie Marquardt said Monday. "I really do. I just don't think in my heart that they can't be manipulated."

She added, “When I certify stuff that I don’t know is right, I feel like I’m being dishonest -because in my heart I don’t know if it is right.” Otero County Clerk Robyn Holmes, also a Republican, said that she is not legally allowed to hand-count the ballots unless a court orders her to do so.

“The election law does not allow me to handtally these ballots or to even form a board to do it. I just can’t,” Holmes said. “And I’m going to follow the law.” Holmes also said that the Dominion ballotcounting machines are tested by county officials in public view and are independently certified in advance.

Couy Griffin, another commissioner, expressed his distrust of the process, saying, “That’s a source that we don’t have any control or influence over.” New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat, requested on Tuesday that the state Supreme Court order the commission to certify the election.

In a press release regarding the lawsuit, Toulouse Oliver said, “New Mexico’s 2022 primary election was conducted with the highest standards of election administration by dedicated county clerks and civil servants across our state. The post -election canvassing process is a key component of how we maintain our high levels of election integrity in New Mexico, and the Otero County Commission is flaunting that process by appeasing unfounded conspiracy theories and potentially nullifying the votes of every Otero County voter who participated in the primary.” On Wednesday, the court ordered the commission to certify the results by the state certification deadline on Friday. In a tweet, Toulouse Oliver praised the court for “granting my office’s request to compel the Otero County Commission to follow their constitutional duties and duty under the election code to certify the results of the 2022 primary election.” Toulouse Oliver then sent a referral to the state attorney general’s office for a criminal investigation into the commission, citing what she called its dereliction of duty, according to the Alamogordo Daily News. The secretary of state also cited "multiple unlawful actions," including not certifying the primary election and voting to discontinue use of the Dominion machines and the removal of ballot drop boxes, CNN reported.

The commission has scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday regarding a request for approval to certify the election.

A spokesperson for the Democratic attorney general, Hector Balderas, said that the commission “must comply with the rule of law or we will take legal action,” according to the AP.

Commissioner Griffin, co-founder of Cowboys for Trump --and who is scheduled for sentencing on Friday for illegally entering the U.S. Capitol grounds during the riot on Jan. 6., has argued that he led others in prayer at the Capitol, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced his office’s latest election integrity prosecution in Victoria County. Monica Mendez of Port Lavaca pleaded guilty to 26 felony counts of voter fraud, including three counts of illegal voting, eight counts of election fraud, seven counts of assisting a voter to submit a ballot by mail, and eight counts of unlawful possession of a mail ballot. Mendez ran a vote-harvesting operation on behalf of a subsidized housing corporation in order to influence the outcome of a utility board election.

After Mendez entered a guilty plea on all 26 counts and confirmed in court that all counts could be proven beyond

Griffin told CNN on Thursday that it was not his intention to certify the election results.

"I'm not planning to move off my position," he said. "Why have a commission if we just get overridden by the court system?"

He said he is "not trying to overturn an election. We want transparency."

"The more they try to fight us and shut us down, the more of a skeptic I will become,” Griffin said.

The commissioners didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday evening.

Dominion Voting Systems said in a statement Wednesday that the commissioners' actions were "yet another example of how lies about Dominion have damaged our company and diminished the public's faith in elections," according to CBS News.

The decision by the commissioners not to certify the election results comes after the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a report earlier this month that detailed nine vulnerabilities in Dominion's Democracy Suite ImageCast X voting system, which is a voting machine, not a tabulation machine.

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district, has taken the stage in HéninBeaumont, calling the seats won tonight “by far the most numerous in the history of our political family” asestimates are giving her National Rally party 89 seats, more than 11 times the eight it won in 2017.She says her party has helped make Macron a “minority president.” ***** Mayra Flores, who won Texas District 34 and flipped the 100-year Democrat stronghold seat for US Congress says that she believed South Texas has always been conservative.

“We’re all about faith and family and hard work, but the Democrat party took us for granted and they feel entitled for our votes making the same promises over and over,” said Flores. “I, honestly, had enough. I was fed up.” ***** Yesterday was the Juneteenth anniversary of the emancipation of U.S. slaves, former state Rep. Vernon Jones, a conservative Democratturned-Republican running for Congress in Georgia, called out Democrats for their historical support of slavery, while recognizing the role of Republicans who “I’m reminded that Juneteenth was brought about because of what Democrats did to black people, enslaving black people, when it was Republicans that freed the black people,” he added.

He continued by calling out the false narrative surrounding Democrat and Republican roles concerning slavery typically promoted on Juneteenth.

“And so, ironically, when they teach about Juneteenth, we don’t hear anything about [how] the Democrats were the ones who wanted slavery, and they tried to protect and secure and keep slavery,” he said. “But it was Republicans who got out, fought, [and] died to free the slaves,” he added.

Arguing that liberals “don’t want —especially black people —to know that,” Jones called for youth to be educated about the truth behind political support for and opposition to slavery. ***** Cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. has hired legal and financial advisers to help work out a solution for its investors and lenders, after suffering heavy losses from abroad market

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(Continued from page 13) vinced voters that he was the truer Trump loyalist.

defeated handily in May in his runoff race against Attorney General Ken Paxton, an archconservative who sued to challenge the 2020 election outcome and conParty platforms are mission statements rather than legal doctrines and, in Texas, they have long reflected the opinions of the most activist wings of the parties. Republican elected officials are not bound to adhere to the platform, and party activists at times have expressed frustration that some parts of their platform and legislative priorities have not become law, despite complete Republican control of the state Legislature. a reasonable doubt, District Judge Eli Garza sentenced Mendez to five years’ deferred adjudication probation.

The case was investigated and prosecuted by Attorney General Paxton’s Election Integrity team in cooperation with the Victoria County District Attorney’s Office.

selloffin digital assets, the firm’s founders said on Friday. “We have always been believers in crypto and we still are,” Kyle Davies, Three Arrows’s cofounder, said in an interview. “We are committed to working things out and finding an equitable solution for all our constituents.” ***** A 99-year-old British woman sat in public with a sign that read, “Un-jabbed and Unafraid.” When asked, she responded that she had never had a flu injection and never had the flu.

“People don’t stop and think. They’re just like a lot of sheep,” she said. ***** California Governor Gavin Newsom joined Truth Social and said he was doing so to call out “Republican lies.” ***** 10,000 cattle died in Kansas and severe heat is being blamed. ***** Cartoon Network tweeted a message saying, “At The Creek, you are free to be who you are” with a cartoon of “Craig of the Creek” children dressed in drag and obvious gay messaging. ***** resident Joe Biden fell off his bicycle over the weekend which led to a mass amount of memes which mostly referred to the economy and “Build Back Better.” ***** China warned the United States on Saturday against advancing the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022, a bill that was introduced on Friday to overhaul U.S. policy toward Taiwan, which includes providing enhanced military assistance.