Biden’s cancer charity raked in millions but spent NOTHING on medical research, tax filings show

A cancer charity created by presumed president-elect Joe Biden failed to allocate a single dollar for medical research, according to media reports, with most of the group’s cash going towards generous salaries.

Federal tax filings reveal that the Biden Cancer Initiative, founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill, did not distribute grants during its first two years of operations, the New York Post reported. The charity, created after Biden’s oldest son, Beau, died from brain cancer in 2015, states that its mission is to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care.”

The Daily Mail confirmed the curious budgetary decisions after also reviewing the organization’s tax paperwork.

According to the Post, Biden’s charity raised $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, spending $3,070,301 on salaries in those two years. Gregory Simon, a former Pfizer executive and healthcare lobbyist who was tapped to serve as the organization’s president, took home $429,850 in the 2018 fiscal year, nearly doubling his salary from the year before. Like Biden, Simon was a member of the Obama administration, spearheading the White House’s cancer task force.

Travel expenses also ballooned between 2017 and 2018, despite the organization never having made a financial contribution towards cancer research. The group had previously claimed its main focus was making cancer treatment more affordable and accessible, as opposed to raising funds to find a cure.

After only two years, the charity “paused” its operations when Biden and his wife stepped down for Joe Biden’s presidential run.

The Biden Cancer Initiative halted its activities in July 2019, after Joe Biden stepped down to focus on his presidential candidacy. Although technically still active, it has gone into deep hibernation, with Simon acknowledging in a 2019 interview that, without Biden’s participation, it has become “increasingly difficult to get the traction we needed to complete our mission.”

The NY Post’s story caught the eye of US President Donald Trump, who retweeted it without comment.

Trump has previously described the Biden family as a “criminal enterprise,” and said the former vice president’s alleged involvement in shady deals with foreign companies show Biden is a “corrupt” politician. The Post ran a series of stories suggesting Biden may have been linked to a questionable business arrangement with a Chinese firm, based on emails and messages purportedly taken from a hard drive that once belonged to his son Hunter. Hunter’s former business partner later confirmed that the emails were genuine and the former vice president was intimately involved in the scheme. Biden dismissed the Post’s reporting as an attempt to “smear” his son.

https://www.rt.com/usa/506762-biden-cancer-research-salaries-trump/

‘Monster’ Cop Receives Unprecedented Life Sentence for Horrifying Acts of Child Sexual Battery

Citrus County, FL — As the Free Thought Project reports on a regular basis, police officers are caught preying on society’s most vulnerable on a weekly basis. Most of the time, even when they are found guilty of utterly revolting crimes against children, they receive only wrist slaps and avoid a just punishment. One law enforcement officer in Florida described by many as a monster, however, just made the exception to the rule and has been sentenced to life in prison for his crimes against children.

Kenneth Slanker, 41, worked as a corrections officer at the Coleman Correctional Complex in Sumter County when he was accused of horrifying sexual battery against a child under the age of 10.

The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Victim’s Unit began their investigation into Slanker in 2019 over allegations that he began abusing a girl when she was just 5. He was quickly arrested and went to trial earlier this year.

Before a warrant was even issued for his arrest, Slanker turned himself into authorities. The crimes were so horrifying that even Slanker referred to himself as a monster.

During a recorded police interview, Slanker admitted to abusing the girl “between 20 and 25 times,” calling himself “a monster,” but denied it happening for 10 years.

“I didn’t want any of it … it’s just like something takes over; your body starts shaking … I really don’t know how to explain it,” Slanker told Conley before his arrest. “I’m sorry, and it’s not her fault. … I just want to make sure she doesn’t have to testify … I’m not going to fight it.”

This month, he was sentenced to life in prison for multiple charges of child sexual battery and the girl did actually testify.

During the brief one day trial in February, the girl, now 16, testified to Slanker first abusing her when she was 5 years old, and showing her pornography when she was 8.

“(Slanker) is a monster,” Assistant State Attorney Shannon Schlarf said in opening statements at the trial. “That’s not actually my words, that’s the defendant’s. … He claimed he was a monster because he did this.”

The girl said Slanker’s abuse became a norm in her life she couldn’t escape from.

“I didn’t want to go through any of that but I didn’t have a choice,” she said. “It was very secretive, he made sure he had a way around it.”

She told the court that this monster would threaten her when she didn’t agree to his demands, or if she was thinking of telling someone.

“I didn’t have a way out of it,” she said.

Because Slanker had access to the girl any time he wanted, she had no way of telling anyone as she was scared of what he would do. However, she suffered a sports injury and went through surgeries starting in November 2018, and it kept Slanker from abusing her, and allowed her to tell relatives a few months later, she testified.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/monster-cop-sentenced-to-life-prison-battery/

New Defense Chief Puts DoD On Notice: "All Wars Must End"

Trump's new Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller sent a late Friday memo to the entire Department of Defense workforce signaling what the administration will be up to in Trump's last weeks in office — a likely major US troop reduction, especially from the Middle East.

"We are not a people of perpetual war - it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought," Miller said in the memo, and emphasized that "All wars must end."

"As we prepare for the future, we remain committed to finishing the war that Al Qaida brought to our shores in 2001. This war isn't over," Miller wrote, in reference to the 19-year old war in Afghanistan.

"We are on the verge of defeating Al Qaida and its associates, but we must avoid our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish. Indeed, this fight has been long, our sacrifices have been enormous, and many are weary of war - I'm one of them," he added.

The new Defense Secretary noted that "this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role."

And then in the most direct reference to a potential large-scale troop draw down, he wrote:

"Ending wars requires compromise and partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it's time to come home."

The rhetoric from the Pentagon chief sounds much like that of Trump on the campaign trail in 2016 where he repeatedly vowed to end the 'forever wars'.

Comes after departed Syria envoy Jim Jeffrey's end zone-dance interview about duping President Trump in service of an open-ended "stalemate" in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, noted anti-stalemater Trump still has 68 days left in office. https://t.co/F89xLkSP2B

— Sam Heller (@AbuJamajem) November 14, 2020

With weeks to go until the presumed transition to a Biden administration on January 20, it appears that the latest spate of firings and resignations among top Pentagon leadership is paving the way for a dramatic new policy - the kind of changes Trump promised early in his presidency.

Over the past years especially in the case of Syria, the president was met with fierce military and intelligence community pushback every time he tried to bring to the troops home. Will he be the president that finally withdrew all troops from Afghanistan and Syria, or possibly even Iraq?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-defense-chief-puts-dod-notice-all-wars-must-end

‘No yo-yo shutdowns’: Germany should be ready for 4-5 MONTHS of strict anti-coronavirus measures, says economy minister

Strict anti-coronavirus measures will not be lifted in Germany anytime soon, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier has said, arguing that repeatedly imposing and lifting restrictions only worsens the epidemic and the economy.

The recently imposed measures, dubbed “lockdown light” by German media, will not end soon, Altmaier told Bild, pointing to the soaring number of new daily cases.

We’re not out of the woods yet… We cannot afford a yo-yo shutdown with the economy constantly opening and closing.

Lifting restrictions prematurely is harmful not only for the country’s economy, but for the epidemic situation as well, Altmaier argued. He cited the experience of other nations, which were quick to lift most of the anti-Covid measures but were badly hit by a second wave of the pandemic afterwards.

“If we don’t want days with 50,000 new infections, as was the case in France a few weeks ago, we must see through this and not constantly speculate about which measures can be relaxed again,” he said.

All countries that lifted their restrictions too early have so far paid a high price in terms of human lives lost.

German authorities rolled out the month-long “lockdown light” in early November, primarily targeting social life and heavily restricting the ability of the country’s residents to interact with each other in person. Pubs, theaters, gyms, as well as other public venues have been shut down, while restaurants have been allowed to operate for takeout only.

While the restrictions are already in place for two weeks, the number of new daily cases registered in Germany continues to grow. On Friday, the country set a new grim record, reporting some 23,542 new coronavirus patients, according to the German federal agency responsible for tackling infectious diseases, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

https://www.rt.com/news/506781-germany-lasting-coronavirus-lockdown/

Judge hits Gavin Newsom with massive legal loss, rules he overstepped authority on mail-in ballots

But the judge's ruling had broader implications

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A California judge ruled late Friday that Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, overstepped his legal authority when he mandated that every legal California voter receive a mail-in ballot for the general election.

The ruling does not impact the 2020 election.

What's the background?

Newsom issued an executive order in June declaring that "all Californians who are registered (and otherwise eligible) to vote in the November 3, 2020 General Election shall receive vote-by-mail ballots."

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The executive action was taken as part of the California Emergency Services Act, or CESA, which gives Newsom special powers during a public emergency — in this case the novel coronavirus pandemic. Newsom signed an executive order that mandated all registered voters receive vote-by-mail ballots and allowed counties to reduce precincts on Election Day if they provide in-person voting centers for at least three days prior as a way to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

What did the judge say?

According to Sutter County Judge Sarah Heckman, the executive order overstepped Newsom's legal authority because he does not have the power to amend existing law.

"Executive Order N-67-20 issued by the Governor on June 3, 2020 is void as an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power and shall be of no further force or effect," Heckman's ruling said. "The California Emergency Services Act (CA Government Code §8550 et seq.) does not authorize or empower the Governor of the State of California to amend statutory law or make new statutory law, which is exclusively a legislative function not delegated to the Governor under the CESA."

The ruling came after two California Assembly members — James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, both Republicans — sued, arguing Newsom's order went beyond the governor's legal authority because he amended existing state law, which falls under the authority of the California State Assembly.

But Heckman did not stop there.

According to KCRA, Newsom's lawyers argued the entire issue was moot because the California Assembly later passed a similar law. But Heckman disagreed, saying the issue was not just about Newsom's actions on mail-in ballots but whether he has the power "to exercise legislative powers by unilaterally amending, altering, or changing existing statutory law or making new statutory law."

In fact, Heckman ruled definitively that the California Emergency Services Act "does not give the Governor the power or authority to amend statutory law or create new statutory law even during a state of emergency."

Finally, Heckman said Newsom's order violated the legal doctrine of separation of powers.

"The doctrine of separation of powers prohibits any of the three branches of government exercising the complete power constitutionally vested in another or exercising power in a way which undermines the authority and independence of another," Heckman wrote.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-rules-gavin-newsom-overstepped-authority-mail-in-ballot-mandate

Biden Advisors To Start Meeting With Vaccine-Makers In Latest Hint Of Collusion

Not long ago, senior Trump Administration officials, including DHHS head Alex Azar, confirmed that Joe Biden and his team were briefed on the results of the Pfizer Phase 3 vaccine trial before the Trump Administration, a brazen gesture of disrespect toward a sitting president.

Now, in the latest indication that the Pfizer vaccine news was a coordinated rollout intended to delay the results until after the Nov. 3 vote, Ron Klain, the man picked by Joe Biden to serve as his chief of staff, just let it slip during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Biden and his team would be meeting with Pfizer and the other vaccine makers this week.

Although there's little they can actually do right now to help Americans weather the storm (indeed, as Goldman explained earlier, unless we can physically change the temperature, there's not much anybody can do), Biden's advisors are set to start meeting with Pfizer and other drug makers this coming week.

The Biden team certainly doesn't feel it's too early to start planning, and it's likely the meeting is simply about strategy. Still, with all the tensions surrounding the election and its results, it's perhaps not the best optics. Especially since these meetings started taking place even before the election.

"We’re going to have meetings between our top scientific advisers and the officials of these drug companies, not just Pfizer but there are other promising vaccines as well. We’re going to start those consultations this week," Klain said.

At the same time, Klain acknowledged that despite all the tough talk from the administration-in-waiting, there's really not much Biden can do right now to tackle the virus, since he has no formal power.

Biden Chief of Staff @RonaldKlain says the president-elect is unable to contact Dr. Fauci until the election is certified.

"Biden's going to become president in the midst of an ongoing crisis. … Our experts need to talk to those people as soon as possible so nothing drops."

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 15, 2020

Klain also acknowledged that the media frenzy spurred by Trump's tweets Sunday morning about the election is just more noise.

Watch the full interview with Klain below:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-advisors-start-meeting-vaccine-makers-latest-hint-collusion

Dozens arrested, including Jeremy Corbyn's brother, as UK anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Liverpool & Bristol

Thousands of UK anti-lockdown protesters marched on city centers in Liverpool and Bristol, defying warnings that they could be fined for violating Covid-19 restrictions, and clashes with police led to dozens of arrests.

Police said 14 people were arrested in Bristol alone, and at least 25 more in Liverpool, where a massive crowd gathered outside George's Hall.

Videos shot at the march in Bristol showed police arresting and leading or carrying away protesters, including one man who appeared to be dressed in an animal costume. As they marched, maskless demonstrators chanted, “We are the people, we are the power, we are the 99 percent.”

UK lockdown protestors pressure police to choose their side. pic.twitter.com/4QNgjLQyFg

— Name cannot be blank (@Demo2020cracy) November 14, 2020

Among those arrested on Saturday was former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's 73-year-old brother, Piers Corbyn, who was due to be the main speaker at the Bristol protest.

Shocking scenes as scuffles and clashes erupt - police fight with protesters at anti-lockdown protest in Bristol, UK #Antilockdown#lockdown2uk#lockdown@StandUpX2pic.twitter.com/lmjXOJoXBq

— Urban Pictures (@Urban_Pictures) November 14, 2020

A message posted on Piers Corbyn's Twitter account on Saturday evening indicated that he was still in police custody but remained defiant, as “it will take more than a few bullies to stop him.”

Anti lockdown protests in Liverpool today #Antilockdown#protests#liverpool#lockdown#Novemberpic.twitter.com/QUYKYhGnww

— GarientOfficial (@GarientOfficial) November 14, 2020

The latest unrest over the UK's toughened Covid-19 restrictions follows clashes between protesters and police last week in Liverpool and Manchester. The demonstrations have continued despite Home Secretary Priti Patel banning protests throughout a second-stage lockdown that runs through December 2. Britons are banned from meeting with more than one other person in outdoor public places.

https://www.rt.com/uk/506754-liverpool-bristol-lockdown-clashes/

South Australian plane passengers land into SURPRISE QUARANTINE as Perth rolls out new snap Covid-19 restrictions

Less than 48 hours after lifting seven-month-long hard border controls, Western Australia has imposed new restrictions on travelers from South Australia over a coronavirus cluster, catching some of them mid-flight, literally.

Western Australia opened its border on Saturday after Victoria recorded its 15th consecutive day without new coronavirus cases or deaths. While the state’s hard border closure lasted about seven months, the opportunity window for family reunions proved to be quite narrow – at least for some South Australia residents.

Less than two days after the border closures were lifted, the WA government imposed new restrictions on passengers arriving at Perth Airport from South Australia. The unluckiest passengers were hit by the decision while on their flights and, on arrival, were offered an option to fly back on Monday. Those who were only boarding planes in Adelaide were ‘luckier’: they were simply advised to disembark and go home.

All new arriving passengers will now be subject to a mandatory test for Covid-19 either immediately or within 24 hours of arrival, as well as being forced into 14-days quarantine “in a suitable premise.”

Those traveling from SA by car will face the same testing and quarantine rules. The restrictions will be also retroactively applied to even those lucky South Australians who managed to get into the state before the decision was announced. They will be tested and required to be in quarantine until the results come through.

“We understand these changes will cause frustration for many people, but these steps are being taken on the best health advice to protect everyone,” WA’s chief health officer Andrew Robertson said in a statement. “The State Government thanks all arrivals for their patience and understanding.”

The drastic move, set to disrupt a lot of long-awaited family reunions, was prompted by the detection of a new coronavirus cluster in Adelaide. Four individuals, including one working at one of the city's “quarantine hotels” and a Correctional Services employee, tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. While several family members of the infected have already shown symptoms, the SA's health authorities reckon more cases should be expected.

“Which is why I am absolutely warning South Australians: this is a wake-up call – if you have respiratory symptoms, you've got to get tested,” SA's chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier said.

https://www.rt.com/news/506779-australia-coronavirus-cluster-quarantine/

In 2020, Central Bankers Everywhere Are Being Exposed

In the race to pretend to debase, Europe’s central bank has pulled ahead of America’s. The ECB’s balance of digitally-printed bank reserves is rising fast while the Federal Reserve’s reserves plateaued months ago. For the first time in its history, the Europeans claim “excess liquidity” (their term) in excess of €3.3 trillion and steadily rising.

In years long past, this “flood” would’ve unleashed howls of protest spoken primarily in the German language, the damning label “Weimar” thrown loosely around in even mainstream channels. Nowadays, barely a peep.

One big reason why is the constant and real flood of instead deflationary signals proliferating and rising. Where inflation - or at the very least early signs of inflation - are supposed to be, there remain only the opposite despite the ECB on the winning side of QE pacing.

Not just current measurements of consumer prices, either. Those are actually falling, by the way, with negative CPI’s (and HICP’s, as they do over there) growing more negative in October (-0.3% y/y; -0.5% in Germany). Even stripping away volatile (down as well as up) food and energy prices in Europe, the Euro Area’s “core” inflation rate was the same +0.2% year-over-year last month as it had been the month before (September).

Both months at record lows, in other words.

In the bond market, the bund market, actually, yields on federal German securities have been steadily sinking since late August. The 10-year constant maturity rate had gotten as “high” as -0.39% on the 31st but is now (as of this writing) back down to -0.64%, within sight of its own record lows.

What’s interesting about that trend in bunds (along with the same in schätzes and bobls) is that it has been near exactly mirrored by the exchange rate in the dollar, a plateau in US Treasury TIPS (American inflation expectations), interest rate swap spreads, and most of all global oil prices. Not strictly European doubts.

More interesting still, while practically every other market had turned deflationary (or, against the prior reflation direction) right at the end of August or in the first few days of September, the one which hadn’t was nominal US Treasury yields. These had been rising modestly.

This is not something you’d expect, anything other than the shortest run deviations between the US government market and its German counterpart. For years, the two have almost uniformly traded in near-lockstep fashion. Though at different levels, day-to-day changes on any given day along with the overall direction and behavior, these had been a pretty dependable constant throughout many years of these QE-follies.

Neither German nor American government bond investors have believed much in whatever either of their central banks have been selling (by buying assets). Certainly not to the point of an inflationary future both the ECB and the Fed have been, at times like these, absolutely desperate to paint.

There was, however, one multi-month period when, like the past few months, nominal UST yields rose while their German equivalent fell. It was the middle of 2018.

Insanely enough, most people might remember this period as the best economic boom of our lifetimes. The United States like Europe, each’s set of central bankers had claimed both had been thick in the throes of only the best of times.

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https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/11/06/in_2020_central_bankers_everywhere_are_being_exposed_583171.html

"The Great Reset" Already Happened

Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there's nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize.

The global elites' techno-fantasy of a completely centralized future, The Great Reset, is addressed as a future project. Too bad it already happened in 2008-09. The lackeys and toadies tasked with spewing the PR are 12 years too late, and so are the critics listening to the PR with foreboding.

Simply put, events outran our understanding of them. The future already manifested while we were trying to cram the present arrangement into an obsolete conceptual framework.

In broad-brush, the post-World War II era ended around 1970. The legitimate prosperity of 1946-1970 was based on cheap oil controlled by the U.S. and the hegemony of the U.S. dollar. Everything else was merely decoration.

The Original Sin to hard-money advocates was America's abandonment of the gold standard in 1971, but this was the only way to maintain hegemony. Maintaining the reserve currency is tricky, as the nation issuing the reserve currency has to supply the global economy with enough of the currency to grease commerce and stock central bank reserves around the world.

As the global economy expanded, the only way the U.S. could send enough dollars overseas was to run trade deficits, which in a gold standard meant the gold reserves would go to zero as trading partners holding dollars would exchange the currency for gold.

So the choice was: give up the reserve currency and the hegemony of the U.S. dollar by jacking up the dollar's value so high that imports would collapse, or accept that hegemony was no longer compatible with the gold standard. It wasn't a difficult decision: who would give up global hegemony, and for what?

Many other dynamics changed around the same time: social, cultural, political. These charts reflect the end of the postwar era and the ushering in of a new era.

Again in broad-brush, the key economic dynamic was the decline of labor's share of the economy in favor of capital. Those who had only their labor to sell lost purchasing power, while those who could borrow or access capital benefited enormously. The charts below tell the story: labor's share of the national income has stairstepped lower for 50 years (since 1970) while the super-wealthy's share has outpaced everyone else 15-fold.

The dominance of financial capital is visible in the third chart, as private-sector financial assets are now 6 times the nation's GDP, double the percentage of the postwar era.

This capital-friendly era was rocket-boosted by financialization in the 1980s, technology in the 1990s and globalization in the early 21st century. You can see each advance of capital's top tierthe top 0.1%in the chart below: the top 0.1% first pulled away in the 1980s financialization, stutter-stepped in the early 1990s and then exploded higher as technology fueled capital's leverage and exposure to the gains reaped by computers and the Internet.

Alas, these extremes are not stable or sustainable, and so each wave ends in a devastating crash. The income of the top 0.1% took a hit as the dotcom bubble burst, but then China's entry into the WTO saved the day as rampant globalization and additional extremes of financial leverage and fraud boosted their fortunes in the 2000s.

The dual extremes of financialization and globalization created the 2008 bubble, and its collapse almost took down the entire global capital house of cards. Central banks, ultimately financed by the Fed to the tune of $29 trillion, twice the size of America's entire GDP, instituted The Great Reset under the usual guise of "emergency measures" which then became permanent policies.

The Great Reset led to the hyper-centralization of control over the global economy's money as central banks coordinated unprecedented money-printing and financial repression, which includes zero-interest rate policies (ZIRP), as the debt-bubble would pop if rates aren't nailed down to zero.

All the PR being spewed about The Great Reset is the final frantic flailing of a system that's drowning in its own excesses. The 50-year long era of the few enriching themselves as the expense of the many has ended, for the same reason eras of extreme exploitation always end–the elites got too greedy and overshot the economy's ability to sustain their rapidly expanding share of the income and wealth.

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-great-reset-already-happened.html

China builds more 5G stations than rest of world combined, while those lagging behind back off from its technology

Beijing boasts that it’s installed around 700,000 5G base stations across the country – more than it had planned to have by year’s end, beating other major powers in the development of the superfast mobile networks.

The figure was announced by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) vice-minister Liu Liehong earlier this week. While the official did not provide data from other countries, he noted that his country has managed to build twice the number of 5G installations than the rest of the world.

The network is currently connecting more than 180 million devices in China. With growing customer interest in the technology, the country is set to further accelerate 5G development and boost investment in this strategic sphere. It was earlier reported that three of the largest Chinese state-run telecom companies may quadruple their 5G spending this year, to reach 180 billion yuan ($25 billion). Industry players are reportedly expecting that China’s investment in 5G will exceed 800 billion yuan ($121 billion) in the 2021-to-2025 period.

Most European countries are far behind the Asian power when it comes to the development of the next-generation networks. According to the latest analysis from the European Round Table for industry (ERT), more than half of EU member states have not yet launched 5G for commercial use.

The ERT data shows that South Korea is ahead the rest in terms of the number of 5G stations per capita, followed by Switzerland and China. The European Union as whole has the least number of 5G stations per citizen, while the US and the UK also lag behind China. However, by the total amount of installations providing access to the ultra-fast networks, China still seems to be outperforming its peers.

Washington has for long been pushing and even offering money to its allies to avoid using Chinese technologies and to ditch Huawei, one of the world’s leading suppliers of 5G equipment. While a number of countries are still standing their ground, others, such as the UK and Sweden, have already caved in to US pressure.

https://www.rt.com/business/506778-china-builds-more-5g-stations/

Fauci: Social Distancing, Masks Still Necessary After Getting Coronavirus Vaccine

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it will still be necessary to social distance, wear masks after a coronavirus vaccine becomes available.

Jake Tapper said, “Once somebody has been immunized … Once the process is complete, does that mean they can take off their mask, don’t have to social distance, and go about their lives as before?”

Fauci said, “I would recommend that is not the case. I would recommend you have an added area of protection. Obviously, with 90 plus percent effective vaccine, you could feel much more confident, but I would recommend to people to not abandon all public health measures just because you’ve been vaccinated.”

He added, “Even though for the general population, it might be 90 to 95% effective, you don’t necessarily know for you how effective it is. So when I get vaccinated, which I hope to when it becomes my turn to get vaccinated, I’m not going to abandon completely public health measures. I could feel more relaxed and essentially not having the stringency we have right now.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/15/fauci-social-distancing-masks-still-necessary-after-getting-coronavirus-vaccine/

Fauci: Coronavirus Task Force Should Begin Meeting with Biden’s Transition Team

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it would be good if President Donald Trump would clear top health experts to work with Joe Biden’s transition team on the coronavirus pandemic.

Anchor Jake Tapper asked, “President Trump’s administration is refusing to acknowledge reality and being blocking the transition process with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and as well as relating to fighting the pandemic. how problematic is it for the fight against the coronavirus if the NIH and your agency and other government experts are not able to begin communicating with President-Elect Biden’s team?”

Fauci said, “As you know, I’ve been through multiple transitions, having served for 36 years. The time period measured from weeks to several months is real important in a smooth handing over of the information as well. It’s like passing a baton in a race. You don’t want to stop and then give it to somebody. You want to essentially keep going, and that is what transition is, so it certainly would make things more smoothly if we could do that.”

Tapper said, “Just as a public health measure, you think it would be a good idea if your team would be able to work with the Biden/Harris transition team right now, just in terms of what is best for the public health of the American people?”

Fauci said, “Of course, Jake, that is obvious. Of course, it would be better if we could start working with them.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/15/fauci-coronavirus-task-force-should-begin-meeting-with-bidens-transition-team/

Adam Schiff: Trump Is Interfering with ‘Peaceful Transfer of Power’

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who hyped false allegations of “Russia collusion,” has penned an op-ed in the USA Today accusing President Donald Trump of impeding the “peaceful transfer of power.”

In 2016 and 2017, the outgoing Obama administration used intelligence and law enforcement to undermine the incoming Trump administration with false allegations about collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Schiff insisted in March 2017 that there was “more than circumstantial” evidence of collusion. Ultimately, however, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found that there was, in fact, no evidence that any American colluded with Russia.

Schiff also defended the FBI, claiming it had done nothing wrong in seeking secret FISA warrants against Trump campaign aide Carter Page. That assertion, too, was later disproven by the Department of Justice Inspector General’s investigation.

In his Sunday op-ed in the USA Today, Schiff took issue with Trump’s reaction to the election results, even criticizing his visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day:

President Donald Trump went to Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, Veterans Day, to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. For any other American president, this simple act of remembrance would serve to reinforce the bond between the American people and the millions of our fellow citizens who have taken up arms in the nation’s defense over the past two and a half centuries.

But Trump’s pantomime of patriotic fealty at Arlington was belied by his refusal to honor the most sacred obligation of any president — a commitment to an orderly, peaceful transfer of power from one chief executive to the next.

The results of this election are clear: Trump lost, Biden won, and no amount of misinformation spread by the president will change that. It isn’t even close. Biden won with likely more than 300 Electoral College votes and a margin of more than 5 million popular votes.

Schiff also led the effort to impeach and remove Trump from office in 2019 and 2020, conducting most of his investigation behind closed doors. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.

Trump has repeatedly said that he would leave office if he had lost the election. He is currently challenging the results.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/11/15/adam-schiff-trump-is-interfering-with-peaceful-transfer-of-power/

‘Fear Is the Currency of Control’: Anti-Lockdown Protests Erupt Across the UK

Police squared off with hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Bristol and Liverpool as resentment spreads throughout the country against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s draconian coronavirus restrictions.

On Saturday, mass demonstrations organised by the anti-lockdown group Stand Up X were held across the country in response to the decision to place England under a second national lockdown by the Conservative Party government.

Police in Bristol said that they arrested 14 protesters and police in Liverpool arrested a further 16.

“We recognise the right to freedom of expression but protests aren’t currently allowed,” Bristol Police wrote on social media, adding: “COVID-19 is deadly and the restrictions are in place to prevent its spread. We continue to urge people to go home.”

Ominously, the police force went on to warn that “CCTV and specialist evidence gatherers are recording the protest” — meaning that more arrests and fines are likely to be inflicted upon those who gathered. Penalties for breaching the restrictions start with a £200 fine, but those found to have organised mass gatherings are subject to a £10,000 fine.

In Liverpool, police said: “Unfortunately a small number of selfish and irresponsible individuals have chosen to gather in the city centre today, putting their families, the public and our staff at risk from this global pandemic. We have so far, made 16 arrests for public order and breach of coronavirus regulations.”

The authorities have tended to be less robust in their condemnation of Black Lives Matter protests in recent months, however.

Another protester is being removed by police. This is the second person I’ve witnessed police removing at today’s protest pic.twitter.com/gVpwtMe1u9

— Estel Farell-Roig (@EstelFR1) November 14, 2020

One Bristol protester named Xara told the local news outlet Bristol Live: “The rules to people who are enlightened don’t matter. We don’t care and we will not be slaves to the system. End of.”

“To stop local businesses is an absolute disgrace. It’s abominable. And we are not having it. We are all standing together to say this is crap and we think it’s a pantomime,” Xara said.

“We will not put anyone’s lives or health safety at risk, ever. People who have underlying health issues or people who are ill, obviously we would never go near them. But people who are healthy, we can do our thing,” she concluded.

Exclusive Video: Watch Cops Storm, Forcibly Shut Down Peaceful Anti-Lockdown Protest in London https://t.co/KHEbyz6vvB

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 27, 2020

Last Sunday, hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters took to the streets of Manchester, marching under the banner of ‘Rise Up Manchester’.

The protest followed a rebellion at the University of Manchester by students, who tore down “prison-like” metal fences that the university’s managers had erected around dormitories in order to enforce social distancing rules.

“I don’t understand why they need to put up fences to keep us safe from the virus. It makes us feel like they don’t trust us, it feels like they’re locking us in our rooms,” one student said.

Earlier this month, hundreds took to the streets of London to protest against the lockdown. Police were quick to shut down the demonstration, however, and spent the next few hours chasing the rebellious Londoners through the streets of the capital.

Police were seen threatening journalists and even a Santa Claus impersonator with arrest for being present at the event. Ultimately, 190 were arrested for breaching the COVID-19 restrictions and the organiser of the protest is facing a £10,000 fine.

WATCH: Police Shut Down Lockdown Protest in London, Threaten Santa, Journalists With Arrest https://t.co/H8okg5qyz1

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 7, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/15/fear-is-the-currency-of-control-anti-lockdown-protests-staged-in-bristol-and-liverpool/

Greek Government Admits Losing Track of over 32,000 Illegal Migrants

Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis has stated that the Greek government has totally lost track of at least 32,000 bogus asylum seekers in the country.

Minister Mitarakis stated that around 32,574 migrants who had been rejected for asylum were missing and admitted it was very possible that many of them may have left Greece for other European Union member-states.

He added that the Turkish government has refused to take back any migrants since March 10th of this year, citing the Wuhan virus as the reason for rejecting the return of illegal border crossers, newspaper Kathimerini reports.

“This is something we have pointed out many times in the European institutions because this is not a bilateral agreement but an EU agreement with Turkey,” he said.

Sweden: Thousands of 2015 Crisis Migrants Have Allegedly Disappeared https://t.co/UjtZLZ0le2

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 7, 2020

Greece is not the only country in the European Union to lose track of asylum seekers in recent years. In Sweden, thousands of migrants who came at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015 have also been reported as having disappeared.

Of the 163,000 migrants who came to the Scandinavian country that year, around 24,000 are either missing or living in the country without residency permits, according to a report released in October.

Other countries have also reported similar cases, such as Canada, which lost track of 34,700 migrants earlier this year, according to the Office of the Auditor-General of Canada, who reported in July that most of the migrants there were failed asylum seekers as well.

Salvini Questions How Many Terrorists Have Come Through Lampedusa After Nice Church Attack https://t.co/TGQ7ZdwqDj

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 1, 2020

The trend of illegal migrants going missing has become a major issue in the European Union in the wake of the Nice terrorist attack late last month, which involved an illegal migrant who had gone missing from an Italian migrant centre and had went on to murder three people in a Nice church.

Berlin Christmas market killer Anis Amri was also a failed asylum seeker.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/15/greek-government-admits-losing-track-of-over-32000-illegal-migrants/

Eurocrats Hail Departure of Dominic Cummings as Potential ‘U-Turn’ in Brexit Talks

European Union politicians praised the departure of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings, claiming that the move signifies a “U-turn” in the ongoing Brexit negotiations.

MEPs in Brussels pointed to the departure of one of the key figures in the Vote Leave campaign of 2016 as well as the possibility of anti-Brexit Joe Biden taking control of the American presidency as signs that Prime Minister Johnson will wilt.

Manfred Weber MEP, the leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament and a close ally to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, said per The Times: “We can see this as a quite chaotic situation where we don’t have any idea what is really the line.”

“I think it’s now time for leadership, having all the developments in America in mind, where London has understood it will be not so easy for Boris Johnson to achieve an easy trade deal. Now it’s time to take responsibility and come to a common understanding.”

Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts said that the departure of Mr Cummings is “probably the sign that Johnson has begun his U-turn and will in the end accept EU conditions”.

Arch-europhile Guy Verhofstadt wrote on social media: “Unelected bureaucrats. Unrealistic ideologues… There’s so much irony to the Cummings story. But one thing’s for sure… the legacy called Brexit is damage that unfortunately will not be undone for years.”

Gone: Vote Leave Boss Cummings Walks Out of Downing Street Carrying Cardboard Box https://t.co/tQ8IsDBqAO

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 13, 2020

The giddy exhortations from the European side of the Brexit talks mirror concerns raised by Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who wrote on Friday: “It is well documented that I have never liked Dominic Cummings but he has backed Brexit” but “Seeing him leave Number 10 carrying a cardboard box tells me a Brexit sell-out is close.”

The official spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied that the move represented a shift in Downing Street’s negotiating position, saying it “is simply false”.

“The government position in relation to the future trade agreement negotiations is unchanged — we want to reach a deal but it has to fully respect the sovereignty of Britain,” the spokesman claimed.

“Time is in very short supply. The transition period will end on December 31. There is no doubt about that whatsoever,” he said, adding: “We would like to get a deal but it has to be one which respects the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.”

Short break from intense 🇺 negotiations in London.

Went looking for level playing fields… pic.twitter.com/2X4jbygorI

— Michel Barnier (@MichelBarnier) November 12, 2020

While the United Kingdom officially left the European Union in January of this year, it has remained bound by EU rules and regulations as a non-voting member during the Brexit “transition” period, which is supposed to conclude at the end of the year.

The Prime Minister has vowed to leave the EU without a deal should the two sides fail to come to an agreement that would be acceptable to the British public.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/15/eurocrats-hail-departure-of-dominic-cummings-as-potential-u-turn-in-brexit-talks/

John Durham Dropping His Investigations into Spygate, “Worried About Blowback From Joe Biden”

It appears the appointment of John Durham was another head fake.

US Attorney General Bill Barr appointed US Attorney from Connecticut John Durham to investigate the origins of Spygate in May of 2019.

So far only one FBI lawyer has been charged with making a false statement in Durham’s investigation.

Former FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith plead guilty in August to one charge of making false statements 18 USC 1001 a(3) “makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.”

38-year-old Clinemsith altered an email from CIA investigators used to request a FISA warrant and renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo reported in September that Durham would NOT release his Spygate report before the 2020 election.

According to Bartiromo, a debate has begun within the Department of Justice as the timing of John Durham’s criminal investigation conclusion. Sources said it is now too close to the election and could be viewed as politically motivated.

Now this…

According to The Federalist, “John Durham isn’t doing anything” and he is “dropping his investigations.”

“He’s worried about blowback from Biden.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/report-john-durham-dropping-investigations-spygate-worried-blowback-joe-biden/

It’s time for Trump to declassify EVERYTHING

Ex-CIA Director John Brennan wants Donald Trump out of office before his term is up. Brennan is worried that Trump might declassify everything he has on their illegal spying operations, unloading all damning Intel about the corruption within Washington, the CIA, the FBI and the other alphabet agencies.

Trump could demand that his executive cabinet members declassify all the evidence on Brennan, Peter Strzok, James Comey, Carter Page, and the rest of the Obama’s administration’s illegal surveillance operations that spied on Trump’s campaign and probed into the lives of countless American patriots who were targeted as enemies.

Will Trump drop major bombshells on the intelligence community in the coming months?

If everything is declassified, corruption would be exposed across the agencies, leading to an institutional collapse that would devastate the American government. The Intel dump would expose illegal activities by both Republicans and Democrats, unwinding decades of corruption that have engulfed well-intentioned politicians for years.

It’s hard to imagine Trump’s closest cabinet members wanting to reveal such devious machinations. Most of his closest cabinet members would refuse to support such a massive release of confidential corruption and would rather protect the D.C. swamp. However, because Trump is unconventional, he could do the unthinkable. He could subvert the moles in his administration and deliver unredacted Intel on the most nefarious crimes committed by enemies of the republic. This is one of the rare chances for Americans to learn about systemic crimes and corruption within the intelligence community — an opportunity to break the chains of a government that never served them in the first place.

Trump could unravel the greatest intergovernmental crimes in recent US history

If Trump was truly a great President, he would inform the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, to set up a full intelligence briefing on the following documents (unredacted). This list is courtesy of The Conservative Tree House:

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/its-time-for-trump-to-declassify-everything/

Text Messages Being Censored

I had a private message in Facebook censored the other day. Now text messages?!

h/t Conservative Engineer

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/text-messages-being-censored/

Miami Herald: After 3-day recount, incumbent Democrat loses FL State Senate seat to Latinas for Trump co-founder Ileana Garcia by 34 votes

After 3-day recount, incumbent Democrat loses Senate seat to

Ileana Garcia by 34 votes

After three long days of a painstaking recount, early

results on Thursday showed Latinas for Trump co-founder

Ileana Garcia leading Democratic incumbent José Javier

Rodríguez in the race for Senate District 37 by a mere 34

votes.

Rodríguez’s loss is a stunning blow to Senate Democrats,

who went into the election cycle hoping to flip three seats

to reach parity in the chamber and ended up losing one seat,

a balance that will make it tougher for them to influence

the GOP’s legislative agenda in the near future.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article247132821.html

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/miami-herald-after-3-day-recount-incumbent-democrat-loses-fl-state-senate-seat-to-latinas-for-trump-co-founder-ileana-garcia-by-34-votes/

Joy Behar Claims Trump Is ‘So Evil’ That He Wants Biden To Inherit Spreading COVID

Joy Behar took her Trump derangement syndrome to a whole new level this week when she claimed that the president is “so evil” that he is happy that coronavirus cases are on the rise, because Joe Biden will allegedly have to deal with them as president.

Behar Says Trump Is ‘So Evil’

“It occurs to me that Trump is so evil, at this point, I really think he’s evil,” Behar said on Thursday. “I think he absolutely relishes the idea that things are getting worse and it’s going to be in Biden’s lap. I really think he likes that, that’s how sick he is.”

This came after Behar had dismissed any chance of Trump supporters wearing masks or socially distancing.

“Trump voters have drunk the Kool-Aid, they’re not gonna listen. I mean, they went to those rallies without masks,” she said. “As far as people wearing masks, they’re not gonna do it.”

The radically liberal Behar added that Trump could just ask his supporters to wear masks to combat COVID-19, but she doesn’t think he’ll do that.

“He’s afraid of the country the being locked down and him being locked up,” she said.

RELATED: Joy Behar Celebrates Biden’s Alleged Victory – Claims It Brings Back ‘Truth, Justice, And The American Way’

IS A NATIONAL LOCKDOWN NEEDED? The co-hosts weigh in after Dr. Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, said a nationwide lockdown could help bring the pandemic under control in the United States and even revive the economy. https://t.co/0OTDEYyXOE pic.twitter.com/liNqy4fCWG

— The View (@TheView) November 12, 2020

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/joy-behar-claims-trump-is-so-evil-that-he-wants-biden-to-inherit-spreading-covid/?utm_campaign=TPI11142020SatBR&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1d09840caddec138a6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trials showed ‘severe’ side effects, ‘fever and aches’

The company claims its shot is ‘90% effective’ and will be available to the public soon, but serious questions about the vaccine's safety remain

Mere days after Pfizer announced its new “90% effective” coronavirus vaccine, reports have emerged about “severe” side effects volunteers for the vaccine trial experienced, including fevers and headaches.

According to the British Daily Mail, Carrie, one of the 43,538 participants in Pfizer’s vaccine trial, “said she suffered a headache, fever and aches all over her body, comparable to the flu jab, with the first one. But after the second these became ‘more severe.’”

The Pfizer vaccine will be administered in two doses three weeks apart.

Glenn Deshields, another participant, “said he suffered side effects not dissimilar to a ‘severe hangover.’” The man from Texas said he believes “he received the vaccine because when he had an antibody test with doctors it came back positive.”

“Bryan, 42, an engineer from Georgia, believes he was one of the individuals that did not receive the vaccine,” but a placebo. “He felt no immune response to the jabs, he said, and after having two shots he contracted [COVID-19] after his daughter caught it last month.”

A placebo is a shot not containing the vaccine, given to half of the participants in the trial to show if the vaccine actually works.

Stanley Wang from Los Angeles also thought he received a placebo, saying “he went for his first injection on August 31 and did not experience any pain from the jab nor coronavirus symptoms.”

Wang added that side effects experienced by other participants “included fever and migraines, and another complained of having a reaction ‘similar to having a hangover.’” It is unclear whether Wang was merely referring to the Daily Mail report, or to his own conversations with participants in the trial.

Pfizer didn’t mention any of the side effects experienced by participants in the vaccine trial.

The New York Times emphasized on Monday, “The data released by Pfizer … was delivered in a news release, not a peer-reviewed medical journal. It is not conclusive evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective, and the initial finding of more than 90 percent efficacy could change as the trial goes on.”

In fact, Pfizer’s press release mentioned 43,538 participants enrolled in the study, with only “94 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in trial participants.” This means that only 0.2 percent of participants were tested positive for the coronavirus.

As only 94 participants were tested positive, it also appears difficult to generalize the vaccine is “more than 90% effective,” since some people might have been exposed to the virus more frequently, or for a longer time.

Pfizer’s press release did not explain if participants were wearing masks, practicing so-called social distancing, or staying at home, for the most part.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-trials-showed-severe-side-effects-fever-and-aches

Hillary Attorney Marc Elias Was Behind Not One, But Two Actions Messing In Georgia’s Election

Yesterday we reported on how American Patriot and Attorney, Lin Wood, was suing the State of Georgia for implementing an agreement with the Democrats in Georgia that the signers had no legal right to enter into.

The agreement, backed and likely created by Hillary Attorney Marc Elias, is not legitimate. Today we note that Hillary’s Elias worked on another action with the Democrats Georgia as well.

Yesterday we reported on Lin Wood’s action to have the agreement between the State of Georgia and the Democrats signed before the election disqualified due to the signers representing the state not having the legal right to sign the agreement. Lin Wood maintains that this agreement, resulting from a Democrat complaint, violates the Constitution in that only the legislature can alter state election law.

But this was not the only action Hillary’s Elias took in Georgia.

We found another election law complaint, this one filed by Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit, the “New Georgia Project,” (NGP) filed on May 8, 2020. (See full agreement here or here.) Marc Elias of Perkins Coie is behind this agreement as well and has signed it.

This second case reveals that Stacey Abrams is working with Hillary Clinton’s lawyer Marc Elias, in Georgia, to make sure the Democrats win the election using absentee ballots.

If this case was addressed and signed, this may be another agreement in the state of Georgia where the Democrats took action against the state and Executive Branch members like the Secretary of State signed an agreement which they didn’t have the right to sign to address the complaint.

IF this complaint was also settled, which we cannot confirm at this time, then Lin Wood may need to file a complaint against it, like he did concerning the March 6 agreement.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-hillary-attorney-marc-elias-behind-not-one-two-actions-messing-georgias-election/