Biden says 'I'm confident' Hunter did nothing wrong, amid federal probe into 'tax affairs'

The response is first time Biden has directly addressed investigation into son's 'tax affairs'

President-elect Biden on Wednesday directly addressed questions about a federal investigation into his son, Hunter Biden, for the first time, saying "I'm confident" that he did nothing wrong.

Hunter Biden in a statement released last week by the transition organization for Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris acknowledged that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware is "investigating my tax affairs." He said that he takes "this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors."

The transition said that Biden is "proud of his son," in a statement released at the same time.

Biden, has been questioned about the investigation into his son in recent days and had either not responded or said "I'm proud of my son."

Wednesday he was questioned again by Fox News' Peter Doocy about if he is confident his son did nothing wrong, to which Biden responded "I'm confident."

Hunter Biden has come under intense scrutiny in the past year over his business dealings. Specifically, the younger Biden was on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while his father as the vice president was overseeing American policy on Ukraine.

That fact became the focus of attacks against the Bidens from Republicans during the impeachment saga, which began when President Trump asked Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelknsky to resurrect an investigation into Burisma and the Bidens, and allegedly withheld aid to the country over the demand.

Hunter Biden's dealings in China, and the potential role his father may have played in them, have also come under scrutiny.

President Trump, in the waning days of his presidency, is considering whether he should request a special counsel to continue the Department of Justice's investigation into the president-elect's son, according to the Associated Press.

That would essentially ensure that any investigation into the younger Biden continues while his father is president. It is unclear at this point whether incoming Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen would appoint such a special counsel if Trump decides to push for one.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-im-confident-hunter-did-nothing-wrong-amid-federal-probe-into-tax-affairs

ICE removes child molester convicted in Washington state to Mexico

TACOMA – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a Mexican national convicted in Washington state of three counts of child molestation, Dec. 8.

Horacio Ornelas-Lomeli, 38, was removed from the U.S. via an ICE Air Operations charter flight and transferred to the custody of Mexican authorities.

“ICE is committed to keeping children in our community safe from dangerous pedophiles like Ornelas-Lomeli,” said ICE’s ERO Seattle Field Office Director Nathalie Asher. “Criminal aliens, particularly those who harm children, should not be released back onto our streets when ICE has the ability to safely detain them throughout their removal proceedings.”

On Aug. 14, 2017, the Tacoma Police Department arrested Horacio Ornelas-Lomeli for child molestation and detained him at the Pierce County Jail. On Aug. 15, 2017, officers from ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) lodged an immigration detainer with the jail. On May 8, 2018, Ornelas-Lomeli was transferred to the Washington Corrections Center and ICE ERO officers again lodged a detainer.

On March 30, 2018, Ornelas-Lomeli was convicted of three counts of child molestation in the second degree, sentenced to 57 months confinement and later remanded to the custody of the Airway Heights Corrections Center to serve his prison term.

On Nov. 9, 2020, Ornelas-Lomeli was released from the Airway Height Corrections Center and transferred to ICE custody.

ICE lodges immigration detainers on individuals like Ornelas-Lomeli who have been arrested on local criminal charges and who are suspected of being removable, so that ICE can take custody of that person when he or she is released from local custody.

“As law enforcement agencies, we owe it to the young victims in these types of cases to do all we can to keep these offenders as far away from them as possible,” continued Asher. “Immigration detainers are simply another tool that helps us do that.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is charged with enforcing federal immigration laws enacted by Congress. Officers with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) are sworn law enforcement officers who carry out the arrest, detention and removal of aliens found to be in the United States unlawfully. ICE allocates the agency’s finite immigration enforcement resources by prioritizing public and national security threats, immigration fugitives and illegal reentrants. However, all of those in violation of immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States.

Aliens processed for removal may receive their legal due process from federal immigration judges in the immigration courts, which are administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). EOIR is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice and is separate from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE. Immigration judges in these courts make decisions based on the merits of each individual case. ICE officers carry out the removal decisions made by the federal immigration judges.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-child-molester-convicted-washington-state-mexico

Smoking gun email from Hunter Biden proves that daddy Joe was in on the China deals

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden (we don’t think he won jack this year in terms of a free and fair election) has been saying for years he ‘doesn’t know anything’ about the international business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden.

When news broke previously that Hunter Biden was being paid the big bucks as a ‘board member’ with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma while daddy Joe was vice president, daddy Joe claimed to know less than nothing about it.

And a year ago, as he began his campaign and news broke that Hunter Biden was a stooge of Communist China, having been enriched by the authoritarian regime’s business billionaires, daddy Joe pleaded ignorance once again.

Well, we know now that, as usual, Daddy Joe Biden was lying, and none other than his son exposed the lie.

In an exclusive, The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reported last week that Hunter Biden emailed the manager of his office in Washington, D.C., in September 2017 asking her to make more keys for his “office mates” including his father and Gongwen Dong, who he described as the “emissary” for the head of a massive Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC.

Ross writes:

“[P]lease have keys made available for new office mates,” Hunter Biden wrote in the email before listing Joe Biden, his stepmother Jill Biden, his uncle Jim Biden and Gongwen Dong, who he identified as the “emissary” for the chairman of the now-bankrupt Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.

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Hunter Biden also requested that a sign be made for his office stating “The Biden Foundation” and “Hudson West (CEFC US).”

Hunter Biden’s financial dealings with the conglomerate in 2017 were the crux of allegations from his former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, who told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in October that Joe Biden was “plainly familiar” with the business dealings of his family in China, which seeks to rival the U.S. in military and economic power in the coming years.

Bobulinski was one of the people who received a highly controversial email in May 2017 that purported to reference Joe Biden as the “big guy” who was set to receive 10 percent of the income from a joint venture deal with Hunter Biden and CEFC.

The revelation in the email about the keys came the same week that Hunter Biden acknowledged that he is under investigation by federal authorities for “tax issues.”

“I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,” he said in a statement. “I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.”

But there’s actually a lot more to Hunter Biden’s probe than ‘tax issues.’

For one, the feds have been investigating him and his family, apparently, since 2018 for corruption including money laundering.

A joint report from two Senate panels also said that investigators uncovered damning business connections to China and Russia, as well as other countries, that will definitely put our nation at risk because Joe Biden and his family are compromised.

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/smoking-gun-email-from-hunter-biden-proves-that-daddy-joe-was-in-on-the-china-deals/

Black Lives Matter Raised $10.6 BILLION Since May

Donations to Black Lives Matter-related causes over the past 7 months rival Amazon's total profits for all of 2019 – which was a record-breaking year for the online retail giant.

Donations to Black Lives Matter-related causes since May were $10.6bn https://t.co/BRm4Q2jne2

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 12, 2020

In other words, BLM has about the equivalent of amazons profit this year (11.5B)

— Hot Topic Richboi (@whiteboycryalot) December 15, 2020

According to the Economist, BLM is planning to start a bank and has already begun giving money to "gay rights groups" (75 percent of black people voted to ban gay marriage in California in 2008 but the figureheads who run the Black Lives Matter organization are two self-described "queer lesbians" who say on their official website their goal is to "foster a queer‐affirming network" with "the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking").

From The Economist, "Six months after mass protests began, what is the future of BLM?":

Start with the great fire-hose of money pointed at BLM groups and sympathisers. The example of Niko Georgiades of Unicorn Riot, a non-profit, left-leaning media firm that posted early footage of protests in Minneapolis, is instructive. Thanks to online donations, within a couple of months his almost-broke outfit went from $8,000 in the bank to nearly $650,000. That's enough to keep operating for another five years, he says joyfully. Ms McKnight saw donations flood in from people in America, Europe, Japan and Brazil. Within a month of the protests, BLM's national network had to scramble to offer a first round of $6.5m in grants—far more than ever before—to city chapters, gay-rights groups and others.

That was just a start. Vastly larger promises and sums followed as employee and corporate donors, as well as rich individuals, joined the gift-giving. Donations to BLM-related causes since May were $10.6bn. Exact sums received will be known when the central body overseeing BLM spending publishes its finances (confusingly it relies on another entity, a "fiscal sponsor", the Tides Foundation, to oversee its books).

Remember, the Tides Foundation which is handling BLM's money had convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg on their board.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61955

Amazon Slams Trump Administration As 'Increasingly Corrupt' In Lawsuit Against Pentagon

Amazon claims the Pentagon awarded Microsoft the JEDI contract after political interference

The company accused President Trump of steering the award away

The White House would not allow the Defense Department's inspector general to speak to witnesses

Amazon slammed the Trump administration for creating an “increasingly corrupt environment” after the Pentagon awarded a cloud computing contract to Microsoft.

In a court filing on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said political interference influenced the Pentagon’s decision to award its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to Microsoft. Upholding that decision, the filing stated, is “the product of an increasingly corrupt environment under the Trump administration.”

The project would involve storing and managing sensitive information, including military and defense data.

“The award to Microsoft must be invalidated because it is the product of systematic bias, bad faith, and undue influence exerted by President Trump to steer the award away from Amazon,” the court filing read, according to Reuters.

In March, the Pentagon said it would reconsider its decision to award the $10 billion contract to Microsoft. However, the Department of Defense stood by its decision after conducting a “comprehensive re-evaluation of proposals.”

Department of Defense Inspector General (DoDIG) also claimed it found no evidence of political interference in the awarding process. However, the Inspector General also said that it couldn’t thoroughly investigate whether Trump had any role in the process.

“We could not review this matter fully because of the assertion of a 'presidential communications privilege,' which resulted in several DoD witnesses being instructed by the DoD Office of General Counsel not to answer our questions about potential communications between White House and DoD officials about JEDI,” the report said.

The White House would reportedly allow witnesses to answer the inspector general’s questions, but the responses would have to be reviewed and approved by the administration.

Microsoft’s win of the JEDI contract was an upset. Many saw AWS as the frontrunner during the bidding process. The company, led by Jeff Bezos, had bid tens of millions of dollars lower than its competitor.

Amazon also alleged that Microsoft did not meet the “Price Scenario 6,” which required the company’s online storage to be “highly accessible.”

https://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-slams-trump-administration-increasingly-corrupt-lawsuit-against-pentagon-3102857

Coronavirus Vaccine Side Effects: Some Suffer Bell's Palsy After Inoculation, FDA Reveals

Some COVID-19 vaccine participants suffered from Bell's palsy after receiving a shot

The FDA said there are not enough cases to determine whether the vaccine causes the condition

Symptoms of Bell's palsy typically lasts a few weeks

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended the monitoring of people who receive the coronavirus vaccine after a handful of trial participants developed Bell’s palsy following inoculation.

In a 54-page staff report, the FDA cited four cases of Bell’s palsy among participants of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine trial, in which three invididuals were given the vaccine instead of a placebo.

The report also found that Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine trial also had four Bell’s palsy cases. All four received the vaccine.

The FDA staff said two of the Bell’s palsy cases in the Moderna trial had been “resolved” at the time of the report. There were not enough cases to determine whether the coronavirus vaccine caused Bell’s palsy among participants.

“Currently available information is insufficient to determine a causal relationship with the vaccine,” the FDA wrote.

Bell’s palsy is a condition that causes weakness or paralysis on one side of the face, or both sides, causing the face to droop or become stiff. People suffering from the condition have difficulties smiling or closing the eye on the affected side.

Symptoms also include drooling, eating or drinking difficulties, the inability to smile or frown, muscle twitches in the face, headache, and sensitivity to sound.

https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-vaccine-side-effects-some-suffer-bells-palsy-after-inoculation-fda-3102900

Kenyan National Indicted for Conspiring to Hijack Aircraft on Behalf of the Al Qaeda-Affiliated Terrorist Organization Al Shabaab

Cholo Abdi Abdullah Obtained Pilot Training and Researched How to Hijack Aircraft in Order to Conduct a 9/11-Style Attack at the Direction of al Shabaab

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/kenyan-national-indicted-conspiring-hijack-aircraft-behalf-al-qaeda-affiliated-terrorist

Rand Paul: ‘The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at Wednesday’s U.S. Senate hearing examining irregularities during 2020 presidential election claimed that “fraud happened” and that the election “in many ways was stolen.”

This Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing comes after the Electoral College on Monday voted, making President-elect Joe Biden‘s victory official, and after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and many other top Senate Republicans congratulated the president-elect following Monday’s vote. President Donald Trump refuses to concede the election and continues to claim that the election was stolen from him.

The hearing’s top witness was Chris Krebs, who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and oversaw the United States’ election security for the 2020 presidential election. President Trump controversially fired Krebs because he disagreed with the president on the prevalence of election fraud, even having created a CISA website for the purpose of debunking election disinformation.

“The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen,” the Kentucky Republican claimed. “And the only way it’ll be fixed is by, in the future, reinforcing the laws.”

“But I think [Kreb’s] job was keeping the foreigners out of the election. It was the most secure election based on the security of the internet and technology, but he has never voiced an opinion […] on whether or not dead people voted—I don’t think he examined that,” Paul said toward the end of his speaking time, then questioning if Krebs examined non-citizens’ voting.

Many Republicans, in alleging that widespread election fraud occurred in the 2020 election, have often cited claims that a lot of dead people and non-citizens voted. The over 50 lawsuits challenging the results of the election in certain swing states alleging election fraud have overwhelmingly failed in the courts.

“So to say it was the safest election—sure, I agree with your statement if you’re referring to foreign intervention,” Paul continued. “But if you’re saying it’s the safest election based on no dead people voted, no non-citizens voted, no people broke the absentee [ballot] rules, I think that’s false and I think that’s what’s upset a lot of people on our side is that they’re taking your statement to mean ‘Oh, there were no problems in the elections.'”

“I don’t think you examined any of the problems that we’ve heard here,” he added, “so really you’re just referring to something differently, the way I look at it.”

https://saraacarter.com/rand-paul-the-fraud-happened-the-election-in-many-ways-was-stolen/

Hunter Biden ‘disinformation’ claim causes meltdown at Senate hearing

WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing on irregularities in the 2020 election on Wednesday got heated when GOP Sen. Ron Johnson berated a fellow member for accusing him of spreading “disinformation.”

Johnson (R-Wis.), the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman, exploded at Ranking Member Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) for criticizing his probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and accusing him of “laundering” a foreign influence campaign designed to wound Joe Biden.

“I have to talk about Russian disinformation. The people peddling it are not on my side of the aisle,” Johnson said, accusing Peters of leaking “a false intelligence report” to the media that charged he and veteran Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) were “disseminating Russian disinformation.”

“Fifty people associated with the intelligence community, after our Hunter Biden investigation and the revelations of the Hunter Biden computer said, ‘Oh, this is Russian disinformation,'” Johnson went on, referring to the Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s shadowy overseas business dealings.

“Now we find out it’s a real investigation by the Justice Department,” Johnson said, acknowledging the federal tax probe into Biden’s scandal-scarred son.

“I can’t sit by here and listen to this and say that this is not disinformation, this hearing today. This is getting information. We have to take a look at to restore confidence in our election integrity,” he said.

Peters pushed back, telling Johnson: “You say I’m putting out information. I had nothing to do with this report.”

“You lied repeatedly! You lied repeatedly in the press. That I was spreading Russian disinformation,” Johnson shot back.

“I told you to stop lying and you continued to do it,” the Republican lawmaker went on.

“Mr. Chairman, this is not about airing your grievances,” Peters retorted.

“You talked about Russian disinformation,” Johnson griped.

“Mr. Chairman, you can’t make those allegations and drop it there,” Peters said.

The men were arguing about a July letter from Democratic leaders to FBI director Christopher Wray where they claimed members of Congress were being targeted by a foreign influence campaign to change the outcome of the 2020 election.

According to a Politico report, Democrats argued that Johnson’s Hunter Biden investigation had become a vehicle for “laundering” disinformation.

At Wednesday’s hearing, lawyers for President Trump’s re-election campaign said they had found hundreds of thousands of examples of dead people and non-citizens voting and people casting multiple ballots.

Chris Krebs, the fired director of the Trump administration’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, repeated his claim that the 202 election was the most secure in history.

“We should all be taking a victory lap celebrating a job well done,” he said.

Trump fired the top election official on Nov. 17 after he openly dismissed the president’s allegations of fraud in the election.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/biden-disinformation-claim-causes-meltdown-at-hearing/

Israel Wants To Deploy Joint Missile Systems With ‘Arab Allies’ To Persian Gulf

Israel is now promoting the idea of the cooperation in the field of missile defense with the Gulf monarchies that share its ‘concerns’ about Iran.

“Things can be done, maybe in the future,” But Moshe Patel, who heads the Israeli Missile Defence Organisation that is part of the Defence Ministry, said, when asked whether any of the systems might be offered to Israel’s new partners in the Gulf, or synchronised with comparable systems there.

“From an engineering point of view, of course there is a lot of advantage. That information can be shared, like sensors that can be deployed in both countries because we have the same enemies.”

https://southfront.org/israel-wants-to-deploy-joint-missile-systems-with-arab-allies-to-persian-gulf/

Mexico Revokes Diplomatic Immunity for Foreign Agents

Mexico’s parliament has passed a new law imposing restrictions on foreign intelligence activities in a move the United States has warned will make citizens of both countries “less safe.”

The additional provisions under Mexico’s national security laws, passed with a considerable parliamentary majority on Tuesday, have revoked diplomatic immunity for foreign agents operating in the country, as well as requiring them to share present and future intelligence with Mexican officials.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said in a statement last Friday that the new legislation “would have the effect of making cooperation between our countries more difficult,” only serving to “benefit the violent transnational criminal organizations and other criminals that we are jointly fighting.”

As the foremost entry point for narcotics entering the U.S., Mexico has long proven a key target for U.S. enforcement agencies in their historic war on drugs, with ongoing operations provoking heated debate over questions of national sovereignty.

It was those questions that in October saw Mexico City successfully lobby for the repatriation of General Salvador Cienfuegos, a former defense secretary who’d been detained on narcotics charges in the U.S. for his alleged role as chief of an unholy alliance between Mexico’s armed forces and the infamous H-2 drugs cartel. Facing no such charges in Mexico, he has returned to his home country a free man.

President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador sent proposals for the recent legislation to parliament in early December, after publicly criticising the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s checkered record in Mexico, accusing the agency of coming to the country “as if they owned the place.”

His comments struck an odd tone against previous statements on U.S.-Mexico relations in the arena of law enforcement. As recently as September, he said he was open to extraditing former presidents to the U.S. if it meant they faced prosecution for the endemic culture of graft that has beleaguered successive administrations — despite this falling largely under Mexican jurisdiction, as well as there being no indication that any of Lopez-Obrador’s predecessors are presently facing investigation.

News of the recent legislation also comes during a turbulent time in the U.S. politics, with incumbent Donald Trump mounting repeated, as-yet-unsuccessful challenges against the outcome of the recent presidential election, which in turn have seen Attorney General Barr — who refused to support Trump’s claims of voter fraud — announce on Monday he would be stepping down his post next week.

Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s victory in the polls has reportedly failed to inspire enthusiasm from Lopez-Obrador, who has historically enjoyed relatively warm relations with President Trump.

Meanwhile, Mexico is set to end the year with one of its highest annual homicide records to date — having broken monthly records in the first half of 2020 — due to rates of violence widely attributed to the militarization under former president Felipe Calderon of its enforcement efforts against the country’s notorious drug cartels.

Recent OCCRP investigations have also revealed how one of the country’s leading narcotics networks, the Sinaloa syndicate, is continuing to expand its presence in Europe, as well as ties between the ultraviolent Los Zetas cartel and Mexico’s former consul in Barcelona.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13543-mexico-revokes-diplomatic-immunity-for-foreign-agents

REVEALED: Facebook’s ‘Independent’ Fact-Checkers Are Political Partisans

Based on the completely fictional narrative that the Russians installed Donald Trump in the White House in 2016, the Democratic Party machine, mainstream media and their Big Tech partners in Silicon Valley – colluded to devise a new network of censorship teams whose primary function has been to police the internet and suppress any information which might be damaging to the Democratic establishment or its transnational corporate backers.

In 2020, their strategy seems to have worked, as they managed to bury damning reports about the Biden family corruption which may have deterred millions of voters had the story been reported factually by the DNC-oriented mainstream media.

They call themselves the “Fact-Checkers” and they claim they are neutral and apolitical, only they are not.

However, the real danger is that this aggressive political censorship machine may have already damaged American democracy beyond repair.

Sky News Australia reports….

An outspoken Twitter activist critical of Donald Trump who brags about being on “team” Hillary Clinton is a supposedly independent expert who approves and recommends organisations to become Facebook fact-checkers.

Facebook fact-checkers have extraordinary powers to censor news stories they disagree with, demonetize news organisations and ban news outlets entirely.

The process of becoming a fact-checker is described as “non-partisan” by Facebook but a Sky News Australia investigation has uncovered disturbing evidence of political bias and lack of accountability at the top levels of the certification process.

International Fact-Checking Network certifier and American University School of Communication professor Margot Susca is unashamedly politically biased but she was responsible for issuing 19 recommendations for organisations to become fact-checkers.

This includes the Associated Press, Check Your Fact, Decrypteurs, Lead Stories, Media Wise and The Dispatch.

(….) In 2019, Ms Susca posted a happy snap with failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton where she admitted “I’ve been on Team Hillary since 08 tbh” and said she was disappointed her likability did not resonate with the public in 2016.

“My boyfriend was her nuclear policy fellow for a year when she was in the Senate,” she wrote.

“Says she’s the smartest, wittiest, most likeable person. It just never came through I guess. So f—ing sad.”

Watch this detailed report on Facebook’s allegedly ‘non-partisan” International Fact-Checking Network group:

https://youtu.be/v-scS7FCrs4

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/16/revealed-facebooks-independent-fact-checker-are-political-partisans/

Dr Kory Exposes Gov-Pharma Complex Suppressing Effective COVID Treatments

The following testimony is by Dr. Pierre Kory, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Luke’s Aurora Medical Center, delivering a passionate testimony to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on “Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution, Part II”, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson on Dec 8th.

Dr Kory is telling the government that the low cost drug Ivermectin, widely used as an anti-parasite medicine and is known to have strong anti-viral properties. It is both safe and effective – and most importantly it’s inexpensive and not patented – which is exactly why this and other similar drugs are currently being suppressed by Democratic Party lawmakers, US regulators and corrupt pharmaceutical industry gatekeepers like Dr Anthony Fauci at the National Institute for Health (NIH), as well as similarly corrupted officials at the FDA, the CDC and others.

Watch this stunning testimony by Dr Kory’s and key panel discussion afterward:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/14/dr-kory-exposes-gov-pharma-complex-suppressing-effective-covid-treatments/

'What Kind of Alliance is This?' Erdogan Blasts US Sanctions as Attack on Turkey's Sovereignty

On Monday, the US Treasury slapped sanctions on four Turkish officials and the Presidency of Defence Industries, a federal office responsible for managing Turkey's defence industries. The restrictions are related to Ankara's purchase of the S-400, an advanced Russian-made air defence system.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at Washington over the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) restrictions slapped on his country, suggesting that no other nation except Turkey, a NATO ally, has been subjected to such restrictions.

"What kind of alliance is this? What is this based on?" Erdogan fumed in a televised address from Ankara on Wednesday, calling the restrictions an "open attack against" Turkey's "sovereignty."

"Refusing our conditions for the purchase of their [Patriot] air defence systems, the United States used the sanctions weapon because we purchased them elsewhere," he added.

Warning that sanctions were 'incompatible' with the US-Turkish status as allies, Erdogan announced that Turkey's defence sector would "work two times harder" amid the restrictions, and stressed that Washington 'will not stop' Turkey's efforts.

Erdogan was incorrect in suggesting that CAATSA had never been deployed against any nation except Turkey. In 2018, the US government used the law to target a Chinese defence procurement office and its director for "engaging in significant transactions" with Russia over its transfer of Su-35 fighter jets and S-400-related equipment to the People's Republic. US officials have also threatened to use CAATSA against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, and against India amid that country's plans to buy S-400s. Washington has not followed through on the latter two threats.

Sanctions Spat

The Turkish president's remarks follow Monday's announcement by the Treasury that four Turkish officials and the Presidency of Defence Industries had been sanctioned, with restrictions including a "prohibition on granting specific US export licenses and authorizations for any goods or technology transferred" to the government agency.

Later, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement saying that Turkey remains "a valued Ally and an important regional security partner," and should "resolve the S-400 problem immediately" if it wants the sanctions lifted.

On Tuesday, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar announced that the sanctions had "shaken all the values" of the Turkish-US alliance, saying the restrictions "will not only damage the spirit of the alliance," but "undermine trust among allies."

Earlier, Ankara dismissed the US justification for the sanctions - that the S-400 poses a threat to US and NATO aircraft and defence system, saying the claim was not based in reality. Turkey, Ankara said, had repeatedly proposed the creation of a technical working group with NATO's participation to look into the matter, but the proposal fell on deaf ears.

Turkey and Russia penned a $2.5 billion contract on the delivery of Russia's S-400 air defence system in late 2017, with Moscow offering Ankara a generous credit agreement for the purchase. The move eventually led the US to boot the country out of the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet programme, setting back production schedules as the US defence giant scrambled to find other suppliers for the roughly 1,000 parts being produced by Turkish defence industries at the time. Turkey has since indicated that it would be turning elsewhere for its fighter jets.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202012161081479461-erdogan-blasts-us-sanctions-as-hostile-stance-against-turkeys-sovereignty/

Biden Press Pool Member Tests Positive For COVID

President-elect Joe Biden isn't even in office yet, and one member of his press pool has already been sent into quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, stoking worries about Biden potentially being infected.

The press pool member wasn't in close contact with Biden, though that person traveled with Biden on Tuesday.

Here's the full statement from the Biden campaign:

"Today, a member of the press pool who traveled with the President-elect yesterday received a positive PCR test for Covid-19. We initiated contact tracing protocols immediately, and this person was not ever in close contact as defined by the CDC with the President¬ elect. He also adhered to masking and social distancing guidelines at all times during the trip.

"Out of an abundance of caution, one member of our traveling communications team who was in close contact with this individual will self¬ quarantine for 7 days and other members of the traveling press pool who were in close contact with this individual are not on pool duty today and will not be until they clear the window for being infectious. No other member of the President-elect's staff has been assessed to be at risk for exposure or transmission of the virus."

So, how much longer until the MSM starts complaining about the Biden campaign's blatant disregard for reporters' safety?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-press-pool-member-tests-positive-covid

40 sex-abuse survivors launch $40M lawsuit against Pornhub for profiting from illegal vids

'Victims and survivors deserve justice, and Pornhub and MindGeek (Pornhub’s parent company) must be held accountable—both financially and legally—for the full scope and magnitude of its crimes'

Since the New York Times published their bombshell report by Nicholas Kristof on the orgy of rape and sexual abuse featured daily on Pornhub, the bad news continues to pour in for Mindgeek. U.S. senators are putting forward bipartisan legislation; a Canadian parliamentary committee is calling on top executives to testify; and Pornhub deleted over 10 million videos—up to 60% of the site’s content—in a panicked scramble to avoid accountability. The strategy does not appear to be working.

Today, Pornhub got hit again when the news broke that forty survivors of abuse and sex trafficking are filing lawsuits against the site for facilitating their online exploitation. In January, survivors of a porn production company called Girls Do Porn won $12.7 million from the company, with the men who ran Girls Do Porn are still facing federal sex trafficking charges. The civil suit detailed the threats, manipulation, grooming, and deceit utilized by the pornographers to accumulate the material. The victims were at times even “trapped in hotel rooms.”

Like many other traffickers and perpetrators of sexual exploitation, Girls Do Porn uploaded videos of the victims to Pornhub, which has consistently (and deceitfully) claimed to have a stringent verification process for videos. Pornhub promptly monetized the videos and raked in profits from the victims—and refused to take the videos down, even after the victims were awarded millions in a civil lawsuit against Girls Do Porn. Forty victims have filed suit on December 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, represented by the Holm Law Group PC and The O’Brien Law Firm, APLC.

According to Benjamin Bull, general counsel for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), this is a hugely important step. “It’s very significant in that it continues to publicly reveal the outlaw nature of Pornhub,” he told LifeSiteNews. “They are pretending to be a responsible online operator when in fact they are the leading exploiter of women in the world. This is a zeitgeist moment, similar to the Harvey Weinstein story breaking and changing the cultural view. Exploiting women is unacceptable and perpetrators will be punished. They have been outed as a predator.”

Bull noted that Pornhub will be fighting this case tooth and nail. “The key will be getting past a motion to dismiss, which I’d say is 50/50,” he told LifeSiteNews. “Pornhub will attempt to buy their way out of the lawsuit rather than allow wide discovery into their business model.” After all, the stakes are incredibly high for Pornhub. If the lawsuits succeed, says Bull, “they will be required to change their business model in the same way the tobacco industry had to change their business practices. There will be strong constraints on uploading exploitative videos, warning labels, and a flood of additional lawsuits.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/40-sex-abuse-survivors-launch-40m-lawsuit-against-pornhub-for-profiting-from-illegal-vids?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Pigs

On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs, referred to as GalSafe pigs, which may be used for food or human therapeutics. This is the first IGA in an animal that the FDA has approved for both human food consumption and as a source for potential therapeutic uses. The IGA in GalSafe pigs is intended to eliminate alpha-gal sugar on the surface of the pigs’ cells. People with Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) may have mild to severe allergic reactions to alpha-gal sugar found in red meat (e.g., beef, pork, and lamb).

“Today’s first ever approval of an animal biotechnology product for both food and as a potential source for biomedical use represents a tremendous milestone for scientific innovation,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. “As part of our public health mission, the FDA strongly supports advancing innovative animal biotechnology products that are safe for animals, safe for people, and achieve their intended results. Today’s action underscores the success of the FDA in modernizing our scientific processes to optimize a risk-based approach that advances cutting-edge innovations in which consumers can have confidence.”

GalSafe pigs may potentially provide a source of porcine-based materials to produce human medical products that are free of detectable alpha-gal sugar. For example, GalSafe pigs could potentially be used as a source of medical products, such as the blood-thinning drug heparin, free of detectable alpha-gal sugar. Tissues and organs from GalSafe pigs could potentially address the issue of immune rejection in patients receiving xenotransplants, as alpha-gal sugar is believed to be a cause of rejection in patients.

As part of its review, the FDA evaluated the safety of the IGA for the animals and people eating meat from them, as well as the product developer’s intention to market the IGA for its ability to eliminate alpha-gal sugar on pigs’ cells. The FDA determined that food from GalSafe pigs is safe for the general population to eat. The FDA’s review also focused on ensuring the effectiveness of the IGA through the evaluation of data demonstrating that there is no detectable level of alpha-gal sugar across multiple generations of GalSafe pigs.

“The FDA is committed to continuing its close work with developers to facilitate safe advancements of animal biotechnology. Our Veterinary Innovation Program focuses on providing greater certainty in the regulatory process, encouraging development and research of innovative public health products, as well as supporting an efficient and predictable pathway to the approval of IGAs in animals,” said Steven M. Solomon, D.V.M., M.P.H., director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. “The developer of GalSafe pigs participated in this program, proving the impact of this important FDA initiative. We look forward to continued work with other developers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of additional innovative animal biotechnology products.”

https://breaking911.com/fda-approves-genetically-engineered-pigs/