Hunter Biden Group Touted Joe Biden In Investment Pitch To Chinese Firm

Joe Biden’s relationship with Colombia’s president is highlighted in an investment proposal that Hunter Biden and a group of business partners made in an investment pitch to a Chinese energy company in 2017.

Hunter Biden and his partners sought a $10 million seed investment from CEFC China Energy, a company whose chairman had close ties to the People’s Liberation Army.

The Biden consortium’s 42-page investment outline from May 15, 2017 features Joe Biden shaking hands with Colombia’s president, and proposes investments in a Colombian oil field and a pipeline from Venezuela.

In 2017, Hunter Biden and a group of business partners seeking a $10 million investment deal with a Chinese energy firm touted Joe Biden’s friendly relations with Colombia’s president in their sales proposal, which suggested a series of oil investments in the South American country, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Hunter Biden and four other businessmen, including his uncle James Biden, highlighted the former vice president’s positive relationship with Juan Manuel Santos in a May 15, 2017 investment outline for CETC China Energy, a Chinese energy conglomerate.

The Biden consortium, which would be called SinoHawk, sought a $10 million seed investment from CETC China Energy, with a goal of eventually securing billions of dollars in investments in the U.S. and around the world.

The report is part of a trove of records held by Tony Bobulinski, a California-based businessman who was part of the consortium with Hunter Biden, James Biden, and two other partners.

Bobulinski has provided the documents to a Senate committee investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings. He said at a press conference last week that the records show that the Bidens “aggressively leveraged” their family name to secure foreign business deals.

Bobulinski also said that he met with Joe and Hunter Biden in early May 2017 to discuss the Chinese deal. Joe Biden has long denied discussing business with his son.

The Bidens’ involvement in the partnership was a key selling point to CEFC China, according to other documents obtained by the DCNF. But the 42-page investment outline is the only document from Bobulinski’s records that explicitly touts Joe Biden contacts with foreign leaders.

The investment outline, which is marked “Sensitive and Confidential,” mapped out prospective investment opportunities for CEFC China Energy in Oman, Romania, Luxembourg and Colombia.

“The relationship between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and Joe Biden has been a strong one throughout the Obama administration,” reads the document.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/27/hunter-biden-joe-biden-china-colombia/

Amazon gets on ‘secretive’ UK government panel on post-Brexit supply rules while benefiting financially from own ‘advice’ – report

Online retail giant Amazon is ensuring a lucrative future in UK government contracts, guiding a “secretive” Cabinet Office panel on making policy on post-Brexit procurement of goods and services, a fair tax advocate has revealed.

The US internet behemoth, whose CEO Jeff Bezos is said to be the richest man in the world, sits on a panel set up by the UK Cabinet Office to make binding decisions on public sector procurement post-Brexit, the Fair Tax Mark’s Paul Monaghan told UK outlet the Mirror on Sunday.

The Cabinet Office refused to supply minutes from two 2020 meetings in which Amazon representatives were present with Lord Agnew, minister for efficiency and transformation, the Mirror claimed in its report. Amazon reps were also said to be present at a pair of 2019 meetings alongside Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden, who has since been appointed culture secretary.

“The manner in which Amazon is embedding itself into national and regional public procurement in the UK has long been cause for concern,” Monaghan explained, adding that the company’s presence on this “secretive” panel tasked with setting government policy going forward is “truly frightening.”

We are close to the point where it will be impossible for anyone else to compete.

Amazon appears to have benefited quite massively from the business advice it has given London, having secured 82 central government contracts over the past five years, worth a total of £225 million ($293.5 million). It runs the central marketplace in which local councils buy supplies via an exclusive deal. And its apparent guiding hand in post-Brexit policy seems to fly in the face of PM Boris Johnson’s pledge to change procurement rules to favor smaller local firms after the UK leaves the EU.

Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, called out the retail giant’s “exploitative business model” and slammed London for “rewarding” its misdeeds with “a seat at the table on an influential Government board advising on public procurement, on top of the multi-million-pound Government contracts it [already] receives.”

The Fair Tax Mark, which rates businesses on the transparency of their tax payments, has previously accused Amazon of dramatically underpaying UK corporate taxes. Last year, Amazon UK Services paid just £14 million ($18.3 million) in taxes on total in-country sales of £10.9 billion ($14.22 billion), part of a pattern of behavior the group has described as “aggressive” tax avoidance by American Big Tech firms.

https://www.rt.com/uk/504595-amazon-brexit-policy-tax-avoidance/

Election Interference: Google Suppresses Breitbart News in Search – Even with Exact Headline

Google, the world’s most powerful technology company, is actively interfering in the coming election by burying links to Breitbart News in its search results.

In July, Breitbart News published data showing that Breitbart’s Google search visibility is down 99 percent compared to the same period in 2016.

RealClearPolitics later published data corroborating this, and showing that the same silent expulsion from Google search results has happened to a variety of other conservative news websites as well.

It appears that Breitbart News links are being hidden on Google searches even when users search for the exact string of words in an original Breitbart headline. When links to Breitbart stories do appear, it is often below obscure websites that plagiarize Breitbart’s content.

Search ranking is critical for web traffic from Google. The search analytics industry has found that the top three search results on Google drive over 70 percent of clicks.

In a new video, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow reveals in additional detail the depth of Google’s suppression of Breitbart’s reporting.

“Breitbart News is, according to Amazon-owned Alexa.com, one of the top five news publishers in the United States, yet if you search — verbatim — Breitbart headlines in Google, you won’t necessarily get any Breitbart results at all,” Marlow said.

The video goes on to demonstrate Google’s suppression of Breitbart News.

In one example, the viral Breitbart News story, “Maskless Nancy Pelosi Goes to San Francisco Hair Salon Despite Coronavirus Restrictions,” fails to return any links to the site on Google.

Instead, Google displays a list of obscure websites, some of which have plagiarized Breitbart’s article, posting the article and headline in full.

Google only displays one link that might lead users to Breitbart’s story, a link to a post about the article on thedonald.win, an independent online forum set up by exiles from r/the_Donald, the Reddit hub of Trump supporters that was blacklisted by the leftist administrators of Reddit earlier this year.

The same experiment was repeated with various other headlines, which again yield links to obscure websites plagiarizing the articles.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/27/election-interference-google-suppresses-breitbart-news-in-search-even-with-exact-headline/

Keith Raniere’s first sex slave breaks her silence about Nxivm’s ‘monster’

Keith Raniere’s first sex slave broke her silence Tuesday to tell a Brooklyn judge she is still so traumatized by the “monster’’ Nxivm cult leader that she can’t even say his name.

“He screwed with my mind for so long,’’ said the woman, Camila, during victim-impact statements before Raniere’s sentencing in federal court on charges including sex-trafficking and racketeering.

“It is difficult for me to utter his name, so I will only refer to him as ‘he,’” she said of the 60-year-old Svengali, who paraded around as a Gandhi-esque self-help guru but in reality, horrifically abused scores of young women.

“I can still hear his voice in my head — it continues to be a daily struggle.’’

Camila — whose tragic plight at Raniere’s hands became a focus of his 2019 trial, even though she never testified herself — said she is finally speaking up in a bid to have the judge put him away so he couldn’t hurt anyone else. Raniere faces 15 years to life behind bars.

Camila said she met the lecherous leader at age 13 — and “from the start, I could not feel comfortable around him,’’ but others pushed her toward him.

She and her two older sisters were eventually lured from their home in Mexico to join Raniere’s upstate New York cult — and he eventually allegedly impregnated all three siblings, then forced them to have abortions.

Camila, who is now around 30, said she was a 15-year-old virgin when the then-45-year-old Raniere raped her.

“He told me to keep it a secret, and he would ask me to sneak out of the home to meet in a place where we were isolated from everyone,’’ Camila told the court.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/27/keith-ranieres-first-sex-slave-breaks-silence-about-monster/

Black Lives Matter Group Applies to Become Political Party in the UK

A Black Lives Matter group formally applied to become a political party in the United Kingdom on Monday, confirming suspicions that the far-left movement indeed has political aspirations in Britain, despite claims that the movement was non-partisan.

On October 26th, an application was filed with the Electoral Commission for Black Lives Matter to become a fully-fledged political party throughout the entire UK should the commission accept the request. The group will need to file a party constitution, pay £150, and submit any logos before being accepted.

In response to the move, political commentator and former teacher Calvin Robinson — who is himself mixed race and has suffered racist abuse in the past for failing to hold left-wing political positions — told Breitbart London: “There surely can no longer be any doubt, Black Lives Matter is a political movement with a political agenda. Anyone who still protests under that banner must be subscribing to their anti-British principles.”

Former Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney added on social media: “Many of us who said this was their aim were dismissed as extremists, but it was inevitable all along!”

The Black Lives Matter movement saw a resurgence in the UK following the death of George Floyd in America, staging mass protests across the country, with many devolving into violent confrontations with police. The group was also behind a widespread iconoclastic campaign to tear down and deface statues honouring British historical figures.

In June, at the height of the furore and chaos, Brexit Leader Nigel Farage described Black Lives Matter as “a dangerous, Marxist organisation, hell-bent on anarchy, and we need to wake up, get some facts into our heads, and understand what it is we’re fighting.”

They've only gone and registered a political party! https://t.co/BcgTeth1Lf

— Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) October 26, 2020

A spokesman for the Black Lives Matter affiliate in Britain (UKBLM) denied any connection or knowledge of the group that filed to become a political party, telling the Daily Mail: “We has absolutely no connection, affiliations or other and no individual or group has informed or made us aware of their intentions of forming a political party under the name of Black Lives Matter. It is not us.”

“We are operating as non-political, non-partisan, non-violence Black Lives Matter platform. Some content published on this website may have political elements by the nature of a society and state governed under a system of democracy; however we operate in a humanitarian capacity and concern before all else,” the spokesman added.

In the UK, there are many splinter Black Lives Matter groups, and the leadership of UKBLM has remained anonymous, meaning that another faction in the country may be behind the party application without the spokesman who talked to the Daily Mail even being aware.

In June, a self-described black radical protester addressed a “conspiracy about Black Lives Matter UK”, saying: “They are real, they are black, and they are in support of all black life”.

She claimed that “our organisation has been in contact with them”, adding that BLMUK is “facilitating the protests but cannot reveal themselves, because there is a great threat from police interception and right-wing interception.”

Watch: ‘We Need to Burn This Sh*t Down… The West Is Falling!’ Black Lives Matter Protest in London https://t.co/zfg19feMDA

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 2, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/27/black-lives-matter-applies-to-become-political-party-in-the-united-kingdom/

Arrests Made in Conspiracy to Illegally Manufacture Firearms

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arrests-made-conspiracy-illegally-manufacture-firearms

Former Postal Worker Charged for Allegedly Tossing Absentee Ballots in Dumpster

A former United States Postal Service (USPS) worker faces federal charges for allegedly throwing away mail that included over 100 absentee ballots in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

“DeShawn Bojgere, 30, of, Louisville, Kentucky, has been charged with the delay or destruction of mail, a federal crime under 18 United States Code 1703,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Kentucky said in a press release Monday.

The release detailed the alleged crime:

According to the criminal complaint, sometime between October 5 and October 15, 2020, Bojgere discarded a large quantity of mail. The mail, found in a construction dumpster on Galene Drive in Louisville, included approximately 111 general election absentee ballots from the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office being mailed to voters to be filled out.

The dumped mail also included approximately 69 mixed class pieces of flat rate mail, 320 second class pieces of mail, and two national election campaign flyers from a political party in Florida. An analysis of the mail revealed it was from a single route for one scheduled delivery day.

Bojgere admitted that he discarded the mail in the dumpster, the attorney’s office said.

“Bojgere does not appear to have a criminal record in Kentucky, according to a search on the court’s web system, and a possible motive was not listed in the release,” the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

Authorities retained copies of the mail as evidence and it was later put back in the mail stream for delivery to recipients, the release said.

“Especially in these times, Americans depend on the reliability and integrity of those that deliver the U.S. Mail,” United States Attorney Russell Coleman stated, adding, “Conduct by Postal employees that violates that duty will result in swift federal prosecution.”

If convicted, Bojgere faces no more than five years behind bars, a $250,000 fine, and a year of supervised release.

In Wisconsin last month, three trays of mail that included several mailed-in ballots were discovered in a ditch, according to Breitbart News.

“The mail was found ‘near the intersection of highways 96 and CB, near the Appleton International Airport’ and was turned over to the postal service,” the report said.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/27/former-postal-worker-charged-for-allegedly-tossing-absentee-ballots-in-dumpster/

El Chapo Sues Media Outlets for Publishing His California Driver’s License

The infamous drug lord “El Chapo” sued a cartel news focused-blog and several Mexican newspapers for publishing a photo of his California driver’s license in 2013. Univision originally exposed the matter, but it is not named in the recent suit. The document in question revealed that the cartel leader managed to receive a valid ID using a fake name.

While the Univision story and reprints were published in 2013, it wasn’t until September 2020 when California attorney Jeffrey Mendleman filed a lawsuit against Borderland Beat, Blogger.com, Google LLC, and several Mexican newspapers including Reforma and El Manana. Several social media accounts publishing citizen journalism are also named.

In the case filed in the Northern District of California, the lawyer for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman asks that the convicted drug lord be allowed to file the lawsuit under “John Doe” to protect his client from “the risk that defendants publish additional articles based on the litigation disclosing his identity.”

Mendleman claims that on June 23, 2020, Borderland Beat published an unredacted photograph of a driver’s license belonging to John Doe (El Chapo) that showed his license number, date of birth, address, and signature. In the suit, El Chapo is asking for $250,000 in damages. The Mexican newspapers and citizen journalists named in the lawsuit also printed stories about the driver’s license.

What the lawsuit does not mention is that in November 2013, Univision ran a special segment about El Chapo revealing that despite being a wanted drug lord in the U.S., he managed to get a California driver’s license in 1988. The information for Univision’s segment was originally attributed to a file from the DEA. In 2013, Borderland Beat aggregated Univision’s reporting and used the images from the story.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/10/27/el-chapo-sues-media-outlets-for-publishing-his-california-drivers-license/

Jeffrey Epstein reportedly offered beautiful women ‘a date with Prince Andrew’

It’s Jeffrey Epstein: Wingman.

The now-dead pedophile used to approach random beautiful women and try to get them to “date” his powerful friends — including Prince Andrew, according to a report.

An unidentified woman listed in Epstein’s notorious black book told Mother Jones magazine that the moneyman made the direct approach when she was at an art fair in Palm Beach, Florida.

“He came up to me and said, ‘Would you like a date with Prince Andrew?’” she recalled. No date was given for the incident, and it was unclear whether Epstein’s direct approach worked.

Another woman in the black book, identified by the pseudonym Julie, told the outlet it was Epstein’s typical technique for finding girls.

“He’d take some rich guy and introduce him to a girl,” she said, claiming that the late pedophile set her up for an “incredibly awkward” meeting with Victoria’s Secret founder Leslie Wexner.

“Wexner was this super-successful guy who didn’t really have any life, and Jeff described him to me as completely socially inept,” Julie told Mother Jones.

“Jeffrey told me, ‘This guy [Wexner] has everything in the world, but he doesn’t have anyone to share it with,’ and Jeffrey knew all the girls in the world,” Julie told the mag.

Mother Jones writer Leland Nally said he spent a year contacting all 1,571 people in the “gargantuan” black book after finding a copy in the “dark corners of the internet” days after 66-year-old Epstein’s suicide in August 2019.

Some in the book told the author it may have actually been accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s list, with many only having connections to her and not Epstein.

His calls led to “a lot of panicked hangups” — saying he “spoke to billionaires, CEOs, bankers, models, celebrities, scientists, a Kennedy, and some of Epstein’s closest friends and confidants.”

He even called a private number at Buckingham Palace, he told the Times of London.

“I called a number I shouldn’t have had,” he told the UK paper of one of 16 numbers he said were listed for the Duke of York in the book.

“When someone replied, I just asked if Prince Andrew was there,” he said, saying he was patched through to a number of people.

“Finally I was asked angrily how I got this number and who I was. Then they hung up on me,” he told the UK Times.

Andrew has been accused in legal filings and TV interviews of having sex with one of Epstein’s accusers three times, claims which the UK royal and Buckingham Palace have vehemently denied.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/27/epstein-reportedly-offered-women-a-date-with-prince-andrew/

Adelsons Got a Lot from Trump for $75 Million — But Media Won’t Tell You What

The news late yesterday was that Sheldon and Miriam Adelson poured $75 million in September into a new super PAC that supports Donald Trump. Way more money than other donors, on either side.

Many news outlets have now reported the outsized sum, which is plainly important to Trump’s flailing campaign. Oddly, none of them is reporting the Adelsons’ number one issue, Israel, or the fact that Miriam Adelson is Israeli, or that the Adelsons are close to Netanyahu, or that our transactional president has done just about everything Israel wants. Nope, the big story is still Russian influence.

AP has a sizeable story on the donation with Sheldon Adelson’s name in the headline, but a neutral characterization:

A major funder of Republican causes, Adelson has donated over $250 million to GOP candidates and super PACs since 2015.

CNN has the Adelsons in their headline, but the donation seems to be about Miriam’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 2018, Trump bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the country’s highest civilian honor — on Miriam Adelson, citing her philanthropic work.

Politico’s report, titled “Adelsons pour $75 million into last-ditch effort to save Trump,” says nothing about Israel but counts up all the Adelsons’ largesse:

The money for Preserve America brought the Adelsons’ giving to Republican candidates and committees to a whopping $176 million for the 2020 election cycle, according to FEC data.

In two reports, NPR also failed to say a word about the Adelsons’ agenda, though it also cited the medal and another angle: “in April of this year [Trump] appointed Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands, to his council of business leaders who would advise him on reopening the country.”

As Trump himself said last month, his foreign policy has been “good for Israel.”

I withdrew from the last administration’s disastrous Iran nuclear deal. So good for Israel. So good that we did that.

His list of pro-Israel actions includes moving the embassy to Jerusalem, defunding the UN refugee agency serving Palestinians, closing down the Palestinian mission in Washington, recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, giving legal validity to Israel’s colonization of the West Bank, lately harsh sanctions and belligerent language aimed at Iran, and on and on. It’s obvious that all these actions are what Adelson wants. He helped found the organization One Jerusalem to stop a Palestinian state, says Palestinians are not a people but are actually “southern Syrians”, and called on the last president to nuke Iran. He has been in attendance at major Trump policy announcements on the issue.

When Trump trashed the Iran deal in 2018, Eli Clifton was blunt about his reasons: “three billionaires paved the way,” including Adelson, Bernard Marcus, and Paul Singer, all Israel supporters. A recent NY Times retrospective on the 2016 campaign was also more frank about Adelson’s interest: “gambling magnate, Republican megadonor and strident voice for Israel.”

But today Adelson is in the headlines, at a crunch time in the presidential campaign, when voters are scrutinizing Trump’s record, and alleged Russian influence is in the news every day– and the media avoid the Israel influence like a hot stove.

Adelson himself is brash about his interest. He says he wished he’d have served in the Israeli army not the American one, he owns a leading Israeli newspaper and funds an organization for free Jewish American tourism to Israel so that young Jews will marry Israelis. He calls Trump all the time, per Alan Dershowitz, and has told Trump, “the biggest thing you did for Israel” was breaking the Iran deal, Trump himself said.

We understand why the media are squeamish about the issue. They don’t want to feed the antisemitic claim that rich Jews control politicians. But in the Adelson case, there’s no trope. He’s not working behind the scenes. He openly loves Israel, is married to an Israeli, and Trump has even acknowledged his influence. Adelson has gotten what he paid for. It’s appalling that there’s been no coverage of this angle. At least AP tried to call Adelson.

And we can only imagine what these Israel supporters are giving Trump in October…

https://www.globalresearch.ca/adelsons-got-lot-trump-75-million-media-wont-tell-you-what/5727752

New Chrome 0-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now

Attention readers, if you are using Google Chrome browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately to the latest version Google released earlier today.

Google released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 today to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild by attackers to hijack targeted computers.

Tracked as CVE-2020-15999, the actively exploited vulnerability is a type of memory-corruption flaw called heap buffer overflow in Freetype, a popular open source software development library for rendering fonts that comes packaged with Chrome.

The vulnerability was discovered and reported by security researcher Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on October 19 and is subject to a seven-day public disclosure deadline due to the flaw being under active exploitation.

Glazunov also immediately reported the zero-day vulnerability to FreeType developers, who then developed an emergency patch to address the issue on October 20 with the release of FreeType 2.10.4.

Without revealing technical details of the vulnerability, the technical lead for Google's Project Zero Ben Hawkes warned on Twitter that while the team has only spotted an exploit targeting Chrome users, it's possible that other projects that use FreeType might also be vulnerable and are advised to deploy the fix included in FreeType version 2.10.4.

https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/chrome-zeroday-attacks.html

China Preparing For Biden Administration, Sanctions US Companies Over Taiwan Support

China will inflict sanctions on US companies including Boeing and Lockheed Martin for providing weapons to Taiwan, a foreign ministry representative announced Monday.

Raytheon also will be a target, continued the spokesman, Zhao Lijian. He provided no details of what punishments might be inflicted or when.

China and Taiwan split through a civil war in 1949 and don't have any diplomatic relations. Beijing claims the democratically led island as a section of the communist mainland's territory and has warned it to attack.

'In order to safeguard national interests, China decided to impose sanctions on the American companies that were involved in arms sales to Taiwan,' Zhao announced at a regular news briefing.

He declared that Beijing would further punish the people who had 'played bad roles' in the weapon agreement.

The US State Department last week

confirmed the possible trade of three defense systems to self-ruled Taiwan, including sensors, missiles, and artillery that could reach a total worth of $1.8billion (£1.38billion).

Taipei embraced the weapons package yet said it was not looking to get into an arms race with Beijing.

The Trump administration has ramped up assistance for Taiwan through arms sales and visits by senior US officials, adding to stresses between Beijing and Washington, already raised by arguments over the South China Sea, Hong Kong, human rights, and trade.

The latest US arms agreement covers sensors, missiles and artillery, and further congressional notifications are expected for drones made by General Atomics and land-based Harpoon anti-ship missiles, made by Boeing, to work

as coastal defense cruise missiles.

The news appears after the Chinese military bragged about its combat abilities and directed live-fire drills in perceived warnings to Taiwan.

Beijing has used progressing pressure on democratically-ruled Taiwan to accept China's sovereignty, including by piloting fighter jets over the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, which usually serves as an unofficial buffer.

A recent report implied that China had used its most advanced hypersonic missile to its southeast borders near Taiwan to 'prepare for a possible invasion' of the island - insists China's state media marked as 'merely speculation'.

China's state broadcaster also announced on Friday that Beijing's army had launched dozens of missiles

throughout a live-fire drill across the South China Sea as the Communist Party flexed its army muscles.

https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1020328-china-preparing-for-biden-administration-sanctions-us-companies-over-taiwan-support?utm_source=c-mid&utm_medium=c-mid-email&utm_term=c-mid-GI&utm_content=9wGP5nbgA3G3p-FOg0pw79UX9zy8Va95xA6k4CtNudco.A

CNN Going BROKE! Losing MILLIONS As They Continue To Chase “ORANGE MAN BAD” Narrative! GET WOKE GO

This morning President Trump said in Allentown PA that he heard AT&T is getting ready to fire CNN’s Jeff Zucker…

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/cnn-going-broke-losing-millions-as-they-continue-to-chase-orange-man-bad-narrative-get-woke-go/

Drug addicts and women with learning difficulties should have compulsory contraception to ‘prevent child abuse’, Dutch experts claim

Advisory group lodged the proposal with the Dutch House of Representatives

Child protection officials would be able to apply for a court order

The order could be sought if the woman had a psychiatric illness, a learning difficulty, a Hepatitis B or C infection, or a history of abusing children

A group of child protection experts has urged the Dutch government to roll out compulsory contraception for women who are addicted to drugs or mentally ill to 'prevent child abuse'.

The Standing Committee for Compulsory Contraception has lodged the proposal with the Dutch House of Representatives which claims the measure would stop children being abused by mothers who are unable to cope with raising them.

The proposal, which could see 'hundreds' of women given a contraceptive implant or injection, would see child protection officials apply for a court order to curb a woman's ability to conceive for a given period of time.

The court order could be sought if the woman had a mental health condition, a diagnosed learning difficulty, a Hepatitis B or C infection, or if she had a history of child abuse, Dutch News reported.

Former juvenile judge Cees de Groot, who submitted the proposal, used an example of a prostitute with a diagnosed psychiatric illness whose clients paid more for a pregnant woman - leading to her wanting a child.

De Groot told AD.nl that 70 per cent of women considered vulnerable already co-operated with voluntary contraception, adding that it was the 30 per cent who didn't who were a cause for concern.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/10/drug-addicts-and-women-with-learning.html

X-Factor semi-finalist Danny Tetley has his sentence for sexually exploiting seven teenage boys CUT after judge rules original term was too severe

X-Factor semi-finalist Danny Tetley, 40, was jailed earlier this year over offences

But the singer has appealed his sentence and has had it cut by judge in court

Tetley, who exploited teenage boys, had punishment slashed from 17 to 14 years

The NSPCC had said he was a 'predator' who had used fame to target victims

An X Factor star jailed for sexually exploiting several teenage boys has had his sentence slashed – shortening the time he will be closely monitored by authorities when he is freed.

Danny Tetley – caged in January for exploiting seven youngsters – used his star status on the show to target some of his victims.

His offending saw a judge brand him a ‘despicable’ creature and led to him being given an extended sentence of 17 years – of which nine will be behind bars.

But MailOnline can reveal Tetley, 40, has won a bid to get his punishment cut, meaning he will be closely monitored on license for just five years when he leaves jail.

An appeal at the High Court presided over by Lady Justice Simler said the sentence was too long for the crimes.

Previously Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC had ruled at Bradford Crown Court he should be watched for eight years in public.

The news will sicken his victims, one of whom said they were unable to trust adults anymore and likened him to paedophile Jimmy Savile.

The Criminal Appeal Office confirmed to MailOnline: 'The full court allowed the appeal and the sentence is now an extended sentence of 14 years, comprising a custodial term of nine years and an extended period of license of five years.'

Extended periods of licenses are put in place by judges to 'protect the public from serious harm'.

Tetley had admitted seven charges of causing sexual exploitation of boys and two counts relating to the distribution of indecent images.

He had coerced them into sending sexual images and videos in exchange for money from October 2018 to August 2019.

The court had heard his celebrity status had ‘now gone, tarnished and destroyed', but the impact of his crimes on his victims had been 'most distressing'.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/10/exclusive-x-factor-semi-finalist-danny.html

Mothers are having their newborn babies taken into care after remote family court hearings from their hospital bed during pandemic, report reveals

Almost half of parents or relatives didn't understand well proceedings by phone

Many parents participating in life-changing hearings by phone rather than video

In some cases mothers told babies would be taken into care from hospital beds

Mothers are having their newborn babies taken into care following virtual family court hearings from their hospital beds, a new report shows.

Around half of parents or relatives involved in remote hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic did not understand exactly what was happening in the proceedings, a study published today by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory found.

Around 88 per cent said they had 'worries and concerns' about the way a case was dealt with, while the majority of professionals believed 'fairness and justice' was delivered on most occasions. The report, commissioned by the President of the Family Division of the High Court, Sir Andrew McFarlane, was undertaken as courts in England and Wales rapidly adapted to using telephone and video hearings following lockdown in March.

In the two-week period between March 23 and April 6, audio hearings across all courts and tribunals increased by over 500 per cent, and video hearings by 340 per cent.

The report said parents were often having to participate in life-changing hearings about their children by phone rather than video link, with many struggling to understand what was going on in the court.

It noted particular concern about hearings in which newborn babies were taken into care shortly after birth. In these cases, the mother would often join by phone from the hospital.

'There is nothing fair about a remote hearing which requires you to remove a newborn baby from its mother,' one judge said. 'Remote hearings do not enable you to show empathy.'

A barrister added: 'I was required to represent a mother who was in hospital having given birth where removal was sought. She had no support and she took part by phone.'

The study, for which 1,100 professionals and 132 family members were contacted, added 'mothers have frequently not been able to have any physical contact with their babies following their removal.'

One barrister said contact had 'generally been virtual' between a mother and child throughout the pandemic, which they dubbed 'inadequate.'

'The children are not able to develop or maintain a bond with their parent on a screen - particularly young babies and toddlers. It can be very confusing for the children,' the lawyer said.

Social workers also condemned a lack of contact as 'horrendous', describing how one baby removed at four months old had no contact with its mother for six months.

In another case, a barrister said: '[The] mother posed no risk to the child and the [local authority] was incredibly slow to even think about facilitating in-person contact, relying on the lack of resources.

'The judge was sympathetic to the lack of resources issue and told me that she could not make facilities available that simply weren't available.

'I accept that, but this child was under one year old and had not seen its mother for five months.'

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/10/mothers-are-having-their-newborn-babies.html

30 Police Officers Injured By Anti-Police Rioters In Democrat-Controlled Philadelphia

Violent anti-police rioters attacked law enforcement officials in Philadelphia on Monday night, injuring 30 officers in response to police killing a man that approached them with a knife earlier in the day.

The rioters were “throwing rocks and bricks at police” while others were engaged in “looting or vandalizing businesses,” NBC Philadelphia reported. “At least 30 police officers were hurt, police said. One was hospitalized, a 56-year-old sergeant who was struck by a pickup truck at 52nd and Walnut streets early Tuesday. Her leg was broken, among other injuries, police said.”

Journalist Andy Ngo, an expert in tracking far-left extremist groups, tweeted out a video from the violent riots, claiming that it was a Black Lives Matter riot.

“At the Philadelphia BLM riot, a cop got hit or run over by a speeding vehicle,” Ngo wrote.

NBC Philadelphia reported yesterday afternoon on the incident that led to the riots. Police were called to neighborhood over reports of a man with a weapon. The man, 27-year-old Walter Wallace, was holding a knife when police arrived.

The report stated:

One video posted on Instagram shows Wallace walking toward the officers while a woman, who a witness identified as Wallace’s mother, tries to stop him. Two armed police officers back away from Wallace and tell him at least twice to “put the knife down” though it’s unclear from the video whether or not Wallace is holding a knife.

As Wallace continues to approach the officers, the camera briefly points downward and the sounds of several gunshots are heard as the police open fire. The camera then rises again, showing Wallace motionless on the ground as his mother runs toward him, screaming hysterically.

Maurice Holloway, a witness, told NBC10 he helped officers place Wallace in the police car that rushed him to the hospital.

“My prayers are with the family and friends of Walter Wallace,” Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement. “I have watched the video of this tragic incident and it presents difficult questions that must be answered. I spoke tonight with Mr. Wallace’s family, and will continue to reach out to hear their concerns first-hand, and to answer their questions to the extent that I am able. The Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Unit of PPD will conduct a full investigation. I look forward to a speedy and transparent resolution for the sake of Mr. Wallace, his family, the officers, and for Philadelphia.”

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw added, “I have directed the Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Unit to begin its investigation. I recognize that the video of the incident raises many questions. Residents have my assurance that those questions will be fully addressed by the investigation. While at the scene this evening, I heard and felt the anger of the community. Everyone involved will forever be impacted. I will be leaning on what the investigation gleans to answer the many unanswered questions that exist. I also plan to join the Mayor in meeting with members of the community and members of Mr. Wallace’s family to hear their concerns as soon as it can be scheduled.”

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/10/30-police-officers-injured-by-anti.html

Leaked papers appear to show UK ran secret training & PR op for Syrian militants costing millions, despite knowing the risks

A swath of what appear to be secret Foreign & Commonwealth Office documents outline a multimillion-pound British effort to train rebel fighters in Syria via private companies, knowing but brushing off the risk of jihadist hijack.

The documents released by the hacktivist collective Anonymous appear to expose a variety of covert actions undertaken by the UK government against the Syrian state over many years.

The overriding objective behind them all, the papers suggest, was to destabilise the government of Bashar Assad, convince Syrians, Western citizens, foreign governments, and international bodies that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was a legitimate alternative, and flood media the world over with pro-opposition propaganda.

The dimensions of the assorted information warfare operations implied in the papers, some of which have been detailed by Grayzone Project, were vast. In a representative example, “social enterprise” firm ARK, founded by veteran Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) operative Alistair Harris, “rebranded” the Syrian Military Council, “softening the Free Syrian Army’s image” in order to “distinguish it from extremist armed opposition groups and establish the image of a functioning, inclusive, disciplined and professional military body.”

Training ‘credible and effective’ militants

At least one cog in this cloak and dagger connivance was overtly militant in nature. From August 2016, a consortium of private contractors ran a programme for the FCO, through which “training, equipment, and other forms of support” was provided to the FSA’s ‘Southern Front’ coalition, to “foster a negotiated political transition, support moderate structures and groups in opposition held areas of Syria, counter violent extremism and prevent the establishment of a terrorist safe-haven.”

Under its clandestine auspices, up to 600 belligerents were trained every year the operation ran, an indeterminate total – the endeavour was dubbed MAO B-FOR (Moderate Armed Opposition Border Force Capability Project), and forecast to cost the FCO £15,767,599.

https://www.rt.com/uk/504673-leaks-uk-pr-syria/

Fifteen YouTube creators just filed a federal lawsuit against YouTube & Google

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/fifteen-youtube-creators-just-filed-a-federal-lawsuit-against-youtube/

Fauci says early COVID vaccines will prevent symptoms, not block disease — and may be only 50% to 60% effective

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that early COVID-19 vaccines will likely only prevent symptoms — not stop transmission.

He also pointed out that such vaccines may only be 50% or 60% effective.

What are the details?

According to a report from Yahoo! Finance, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cautioned that early vaccines are simply aimed at preventing or reducing symptoms of coronavirus infection.

Fauci made the remarks during Monday's Yahoo! Finance's All Markets Summit.

"If the vaccine allows you to prevent initial infection, that would be great," he said in remarks. "[But] the primary endpoint [is] to prevent clinically recognizable disease."

At the time of this reporting, four biotechnology companies are nearing their end of clinical trials as they furiously work to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 — AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Pfizer, which is partnered with BioNTech.

"The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick, and if you prevent them from getting sick, you will ultimately prevent them from getting seriously ill," Fauci said. "If the vaccine also allows you to prevent initial infection, that would be great. [But] what I would settle for, and all of my colleagues would settle for, is the primary endpoint to prevent clinically recognizable disease."

What else?

Earlier this week, Fauci said that a COVID-19 vaccine may be ready as early as November, but will take months to roll out to the American public.

In remarks on BBC One's "The Andrew Marr Show," Fauci said, "I think we will know whether a vaccine is safe and effective by the end of November, the beginning of December."

"The question is, once you have a safe and effective vaccine, or more than one, how can you get it to the people who need it as soon as possible," he added.

He also explained that the country could begin to "approach some form of normality."

"I think when we get a vaccine, and we start getting people vaccinated, over a period of several months into 2021, we will begin to approach some form of normality, depending upon how many people, what proportion of the people, take the vaccine," Fauci added.

"That should be combined with some degree of public health measures," he continued. "I don't think that a vaccine alone right off will get us back to normality."

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/10/fauci-says-early-covid-vaccines-will.html

The US is still in an 'elongated first wave' of the pandemic, Dr Fauci says after daily coronavirus cases hit record-highs over the weekend

The U.S. is still in its first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, top infectious disease physician Dr Anthony Fauci believes.

'I look at it more as an elongated - and an exacerbation of - the original first wave,' said Dr Fauci of the current state of the pandemic in the U.S. during at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit.

Nationwide, the number of new coronavirus cases confirmed on each Friday and Saturday exceeded 80,000 - breaking the July record of 75,723 cases in a day, according to tracking from Johns Hopkins University.

But Dr Fauci thinks the surges we are seeing now are not a yet a second wave, but a back-end result of the U.S.'s failure to ever drive daily infections down to a sufficiently low baseline to prevent resurgences.

'We started to see a peak that brought us up to around 70,000 per day,' in July, he said.

'Now as we're getting into the cold weather, we came back up again to the worst that we've ever had, which was over 80,000 per day.'

On Friday, the US recorded a record 83,757 new coronavirus cases.

That figure was down only slightly on Saturday, to 83,718, according to Johns Hopkins's data.

Many health experts have warned that these new highs are just the beginning of the dreaded second wave of the pandemic.

European health authorities are fairly convinced that they are seeing that second wave.

In the UK, for example, daily coronavirus cases never exceeded about 5,500 in the spring, and fell as low as 63 in the whole country in early July.

Now, a cases are spiking exponentially. Last week, the nation saw its all-time high of nearly 27,000 infections in a single day.

But, crucially, the UK had months over the summer when the baseline number of daily infections was consistently in the hundreds, not the thousands or tens of thousands.

To Dr Fauci's mind, the US would have hit its 'low baseline' if it had managed to get down to 10,000 or fewer infections a day over the summer.

Daily case numbers bottomed out around 20,000, however.

On Friday, the US recorded a record 83,757 new coronavirus cases.

That figure was down only slightly on Saturday, to 83,718, according to Johns Hopkins's data.

Many health experts have warned that these new highs are just the beginning of the dreaded second wave of the pandemic.

European health authorities are fairly convinced that they are seeing that second wave.

In the UK, for example, daily coronavirus cases never exceeded about 5,500 in the spring, and fell as low as 63 in the whole country in early July.

Now, a cases are spiking exponentially. Last week, the nation saw its all-time high of nearly 27,000 infections in a single day.

But, crucially, the UK had months over the summer when the baseline number of daily infections was consistently in the hundreds, not the thousands or tens of thousands.

To Dr Fauci's mind, the US would have hit its 'low baseline' if it had managed to get down to 10,000 or fewer infections a day over the summer.

Daily case numbers bottomed out around 20,000, however.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2020/10/the-us-is-still-in-elongated-first-wave.html