Since Democrats are in meltdown over the fired Inspectors General, remember that Norm Eisen fired IGs for clearly political reasons under Obama.
Eisen went on MSNBC to attack @realDonaldTrump for something he did.
The Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) Gerald Walpin was fired by Eisen after his tough oversight efforts to hold senior officials accountable for excusing a friend/Obama crony who mismanaged charter school funds and was sexually inappropriate towards students.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Senate Finance Committee put out a 62 page report, “The Firing of the Inspector General for the CNCS,” outlined how Obama allies and Eisen were able to remove Walpin without a formal review.
The White House Counsel’s Office withheld information from Congress and misled investigators after Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley questioned the President’s methods and motives for removing Walpin.
There was sizable evidence the removal was motivated by a desire to protect a friend and political ally of the President, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. The Inspector General and CNCS management were clashing over an inquiry into misuse of federal grant funds at a charity run by Johnson, including personal services like car washes and pay for political campaign work. The Inspector General was pushing aggressively to require Johnson to repay the federal grant money that his charity could not account for.
Eisen personally delivered an illegal ultimatum to. He demanded that Walpin resign or be terminated within one hour. At the time he delivered the ultimatum, no notice had been provided to Congress as is legally required by the Inspector General Reform Act.
While undergoing Senate Confirmation hearings, Eisen refused to answer questions from Senator Chuck Grassley about the matter and later lied about his conduct. His lies were so blatant he issued an apology to Senator Grassley.
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NEW: The draft of the WHO Pandemic Agreement has been finalized and will be presented soon to the World Health Assembly.
It includes global pathogen sharing, buildups of “pandemic related health products,” and a “coordinating financial mechanism.”
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Proposals cited in the final document include:
- establishing a pathogen access and benefit sharing system
- taking concrete measures on pandemic prevention, including through a One Health approach
- building geographically diverse research and development capacities
- facilitating the transfer of technology and related knowledge, skills and expertise for the production of pandemic-related health products
- mobilizing a skilled, trained and multidisciplinary national and global health emergency workforce
- setting up a coordinating financial mechanism
- taking concrete measures to strengthen preparedness, readiness and health system functions and resilience; and establishing a global supply chain and logistics network.
The Co-Chair of the working group said: “I am overjoyed by the coming together of countries, from all regions of the world, around a proposal to increase equity and, thereby, protect future generations from the suffering and losses we suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But this monumental effort has been sustained by the shared understanding that viruses do not respect borders, that no one is safe from pandemics until everyone is safe, and that collective health security is an aspiration we deeply believe in and want to strengthen.”
EXC: Foreign governments are funding global misinformation “prebunking” operations to prevent other countries from adopting Trump-style immigration policy.
“In the US, Trump has introduced new border-control measures and announced plans for mass deportations.
Some European leaders are considering following suit. In this context, misinformation may circulate in the near future,” warns the paper.
Researchers encourage giving a “motivational warning”:
“In the current political environment, we'll see the tried and tested strategy. of blaming refugees and migrants for all manner of problems.
Certain politicians want us to be afraid so that we feel like we need their heavy-handed policies.
Don't let them trick you into thinking we need to throw out our shared values of fairness and compassion.”
EXC: Democrat Members of Congress partnered with a Harvard Institute funded by Chinese state-owned enterprises that trains Chinese Communist Party officials.
This partnership is being used to train American activists how to protest Trump with "regime change" tactics.
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The leader of Ash's Nonviolent Action Lab has participated in Zoom training sessions with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, calling on activists to be "strike ready."
The Ash Center’s donors include China Southern Power Grid Corp, wholly owned and operated by the CCP, whose management is “directly appointed by China’s central government.”
Further donations come from New World China Enterprises Project, a Chinese company whose board is composed of virtually all CCP members.