Indiana Councilman Charged with Child Seduction

Madison County, INDIANA – Indiana State Police investigators initiated a criminal investigation on August 28th 2020 after receiving information involving an allegation of child seduction. The investigation conducted by Indiana State Police Detective Tony Klettheimer revealed that Steven Sumner, age 52, of Anderson, IN, had allegedly engaged in child seduction with a minor under the age of 16 and also possessed child pornography.

The extensive investigation led to multiple interviews. Investigators with the Indiana State Police Cyber Crimes Division assisted with analyzing seized electronic devices, which led to the discovery of the pornographic evidence.

The Herald Bulletin reported: The probable cause affidavit filed by the Indiana State Police alleges that Sumner performed sex acts on a girl under the age of 16 during the past two years.

The girl reportedly told investigators that Sumner provided her with an alcoholic beverage, touched her inappropriately, performed sex acts on her and tried to get her to touch him in a sexual manner.

Investigators found on Sumner’s cellphone 138 images of females exposing their breasts and genital areas, according to the affidavit.

The girl, who is now 16, told police she was not the person shown in two of the photographs.

The collected evidence was presented to the Madison County Prosecutors Office for review. Following their review of the investigation, an arrest warrant was issued for Sumner. He was arrested after he turned himself in at the Madison County Jail. He is currently being held on bond.

https://breaking911.com/indiana-councilman-charged-with-child-seduction/

Department of Justice Files Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart Inc. for Controlled Substances Act Violations

Complaint Alleges Company Unlawfully Dispensed and Distributed Prescription Opioids

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-nationwide-lawsuit-against-walmart-inc-controlled-substances-act

George Soros Apparatchik Lord Mallach Brown Believes “A Global Economy Needs Global Institutions to Govern It” – They Hate President Trump and Need Him Gone

The battle is clear to see. It’s between good and evil. It’s between the truth and lies. It’s between freedom and slavery.

We know that Lord Mallach Brown oversaw Smartmatic and acknowledged its connections to Dominion voting machines. These two companies are a significant piece behind the massive fraud in this year’s election that took place to steal the election for Joe Biden. If we had a Department of Justice they would already be arrested and in jail.

Shortly after the 2020 election when the Democrats and Soros thought the election was stolen, Soros as a reward, named his mate Lord Malloch Brown the new Chairman of Soros’s Open Society, the group that oversees and funds many of Soros causes, that have destroyed America as we know it.

It’s not surprising Soros is behind this, he assisted Nazis during World War II.

https://youtu.be/kg2CdlT9lGU

Now we know why Soros and the former head of Smartmatic voting machines are such good friends. Lord Mallach Brown penned a piece of work in 2011, where the introduction to the work says:

In The Unfinished Global Revolution, former United Nations deputy secretary general Mark Malloch- Brown diagnoses the central global predicament of the twenty-first century-as we have become more integrated, we have also become less governed. National governments are no longer equipped to address complex global issues, from climate change to poverty, and international organizations have not yet been empowered to step into the breach.In this book, Malloch- Brown wrenches the discussion away from terrorism, nationalism, and Iraq and calls for a new global politics-a bigger league, with greater opportunity for all…

…The Unfinished Global Revolution chronicles how over the past few decades domestic problems- from unemployment to environmental distress– increasingly have international roots. As national politicians lose control to impersonal global forces, they will be forced to become more effective participants in international mechanisms, such as the United Nations, that may offer the only viable solutions. Increasingly, ad hoc arrangements among NGOs, civil society, and the private sector are filling in the gap created by the failures of individual governments.

In the wake of the worldwide economic crisis of 2008, many have been forced to acknowledge that a global economy needs global institutions to govern it. What is true for finance, Malloch- Brown argues, is surely true for public health, poverty, or climate change. In The Unfinished Global Revolution, he calls for us to embrace more powerful international institutions and the values needed to underpin a truly globalist agenda-the rule of law, human rights, and opportunity for all.

This is why Lord Mallach Brown and Soros hate President Trump, because he proves them wrong. He challenges the climate change tale and shows that a strong US economy, where Americans are provided protections from global elites like Soros, is the way to reduce poverty and unemployment. A strong and free US is the key to world peace and prosperity.

The 2020 election is about good versus evil and peace and prosperity versus the global elites and their totalitarian beliefs.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/george-soros-follower-lord-mallach-brown-believes-global-economy-needs-global-institutions-govern-hate-president-trump-need-gone/

Hospital Workers Turn Down COVID Vaccine: "There's Too Much Mistrust"

Less than a week after we reported on widespread resistance among healthcare workers in one Chicago hospital, BeckersHospitalReview.com's Ayla Ellison reports that the virus of vaccine mistrust is spreading…

Many employees at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., have reservations about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and CEO Anita Jenkins is trying to get workers to follow her lead by getting vaccinated, according to CNN.

The hospital, a major healthcare provider for the Black community, received 725 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Dec. 15 and expects to receive a second shipment this week. As of Dec. 18, only about 600 of the hospital's 1,900 employees had signed up for the shots, according to Kaiser Health News.

"There is a high level of mistrust and I get it," Ms. Jenkins told Kaiser Health News.

"People are genuinely afraid of the vaccine."

The vaccination numbers, though low, still exceeded expectations, Ms. Jenkins told CNN. An internal hospital survey of about 350 employees in early November showed that 70 percent were not willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine or would not take it immediately after it became available.

Ms. Jenkins received the shot Dec. 15 in hopes of inspiring staff to get vaccinated. She's part of a widespread effort by healthcare experts and community leaders to combat vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans. About 35 percent of Black Americans said they probably or definitely would not get the vaccine if it was determined to be safe by scientists and widely available for free, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study cited by CNN.

Howard University Hospital isn't the only healthcare provider with workers who turned down the vaccine.

At Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas, so many workers declined the COVID-19 vaccine that the hospital offered doses to other medical workers in the region, according to ProPublica.

The hospital received 5,850 doses of the vaccine, and it quickly became clear that not enough people eligible for the vaccine, like staff who work directly with COVID-19 patients, were opting to get it, DHR Health CMO Robert Martinez, MD, told ProPublica.

"You start to see similar numbers across the country, all this mistrust and misinformation," Dr. Martinez said.

After the first day of distribution, DHR reached out to other hospitals and healthcare facilities in the region to offer doses of the vaccine. ProPublica reported that the vaccine ended up going to non-medical personnel as well, including state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. He told ProPublica he was invited to take the vaccine by DHR after officials explained to him that all eligible workers who wanted the vaccine received it.

In short, as we noted previously, nobody wants to be a guinea pig.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hospital-workers-turn-down-covid-vaccine-theres-too-much-mistrust

Dem Rep. Pressley: Incarcerated Should Be ‘Prioritized’ for Coronavirus Vaccine

Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) pushed for the incarcerated to be among the first group of people included in getting the coronavirus vaccine.

Pressley, who received the vaccine the day before her CNN appearance, said she was “going to continue to fight for our most vulnerable” and communities “disproportionally impacted” by the coronavirus, which included health care workers, essential workers and people locked up, to be “prioritized” in the vaccine’s distribution.

“I did have the vaccine administered yesterday in order to maintain the continuity of government, but also because I live with like millions of Americans — two preexisting conditions — and doing my part, both to keep myself safe so that I can continue to do my job to fight for my district and the American people, keeping my family safe, but also stopping the spread of this virus which has raged out of control, which has everything to do with the willful criminality of Donald Trump,” Pressley asserted.

“At the end of the day, I think this is what is in the best interest of our public health,” she later added. “I trust Dr. Kizzy and the vaccine, and that’s why I had it administered. And I want to say thank you to all the scientists and all the researchers, and I’m going to continue to fight for our most vulnerable communities who have been disproportionally impacted by the virus, for our health care workers, for our essential workers, for our incarcerated men and women to be prioritized in the distribution of the vaccine.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/22/dem-rep-pressley-incarcerated-should-be-prioritized-for-coronavirus-vaccine/

CA Secretary of State Alex Padilla to Fill Kamala Harris’ Senate Seat After Illegally Funneling $35 Million to Biden-Linked Firm

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced Kamala Harris’s replacement in the US Senate.

Kamala Harris still has not given a date for her resignation.

Newsom appointed scandal-ridden California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to serve in the US Senate if (God forbid) Harris is sworn into office in January.

“The son of Mexican immigrants — a cook and house cleaner — Alex Padilla worked his way from humble beginnings to the halls of MIT, the Los Angeles City Council and the State Senate, and has become a national defender of voting rights as California’s Secretary of State,” Newsom said in a statement on Tuesday. “Now, he will serve in the halls of our nation’s Capitol as California’s next United States Senator, the first Latino to hold this office.”

“I am honored and humbled by the trust placed in me by Governor Newsom, and I intend to work each and every day to honor that trust and deliver for all Californians,” Padilla said..

Did Alex Padilla illegally purchase his senate seat?

Alex Padilla is a crooked Democrat politician who has been swimming in the California swamp for decades.

Republicans on the House Oversight and House Administration Committees earlier this month demanded an investigation into Alex Padilla over a “highly questionable” taxpayer-funded $35 million no-bid contract his office gave to a firm linked to the Biden campaign.

Padilla’s office took grant money from a Coronavirus stimulus package and funneled it to the Biden-linked firm to influence the federal election.

“As you know, the use of HAVA funds for voter contact is a violation of the law,” Republican lawmakers wrote. “According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, HAVA grants cannot be used to get out the vote or encourage voting.”

“Secretary Padilla’s decision to fast-track a no-bid contract to a pro-Biden firm raises serious ethical and legal questions and we must have answers immediately,” GOP Rep. Comer said in a statement to Fox News. “It appears taxpayer funds were illegally allocated by Padilla’s office to enable Democrat operatives to contact voters and potentially have access to sensitive voter information.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/ca-secretary-state-alex-padilla-fill-kamala-harris-senate-seat-illegally-funneling-35-million-biden-linked-firm/

Counterfeit Shipment of Fake Apple, Samsung Products Seized by Cincinnati Customs

CINCINNATI— Holiday shopping is wrapping up for the 2020 season, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would like to remind shoppers to exercise caution while looking for last-minute gifts. The adage “you get what you pay for” is good advice when trying to decide if a product is counterfeit, or genuine and worthy of your hard-earned cash.

U.S. consumers spend more than $100 billion every year on intellectual property rights (IPR) infringing goods, falling victim to approximately 20% of all counterfeits illegally sold worldwide.

Cincinnati CBP officers put that statistic in focus Wednesday, when they seized a shipment from Hong Kong that contained multiple boxes of electronic adapters, cables, earbuds, and chargers, all bearing serial numbers and logos of Apple, Fox Comm, or Samsung brands. The total Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the shipment was $49,666.00, had the goods been genuine. All of the items were deemed counterfeit by CBP’s Centers of Excellence and Expertise.

“E-commerce might be convenient for shoppers, but it can be just as convenient for counterfeiters by way of third-party platforms,” said Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie. “Many people may not realize that the creation of counterfeits can involve forced labor, human trafficking, and can fund other criminal activity. Likewise, counterfeit products may be dangerous because of nonexistent quality standards. Our officers work hard 24 hours a day to protect the economy and our citizens from these kinds of transnational criminals who defraud businesses and consumers alike.”

https://breaking911.com/counterfeit-shipment-of-fake-apple-samsung-products-seized-by-cincinnati-customs/

High-Level Biden Staffers Consulted For CCP-Linked Drone Firm Banned By US Govt

Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden counts high-level staffers – Senior Spokesman for Biden Inaugural Committee Matt Hill and Director of State Communication Meira Bernstein – as alumni of the Global Strategy Group: a consulting firm that represents Chinese Communist Party-linked drone company DJI.

In contrast, the Trump administration had moved to blacklist the firm from operating in the U.S. alongside a host of Chinese Communist Party-linked companies.

Since 2017, China-based DJI has been identified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as “selectively targeting government and privately owned entities within these sectors to expand its ability to collect and exploit sensitive U.S. data.” These fears prompted the U.S. Department of Interior to ground its entire fleet of DJI drones, “citing increasing concerns about the national security risk from Chinese manufacturers.”

The Department of Defense and U.S. Army have also followed suit.

Despite these concerns, the Biden campaign felt comfortable hiring two individuals who previously worked for a consulting group that lobbied on behalf of the company: Global Strategy Group.

The firm lists DJI as one of its technology-sector “clients” alongside Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Hill, who served as Biden’s Deputy National Press Secretary, during the campaign and is now a Senior Spokesperson for his Inaugural Committee, worked as an Associate at Global Strategy group from 2016 to 2018. Hill also served as an intern for then-Vice President Biden, describing himself as “help[ing] guide Vice President Joe Biden’s communications strategy.”

Additionally, Director of State Communications during the campaign, Meira Bernstein, was an Associate at Global Strategy Group from 2013 to 2014 before being being promoted to Senior Associate from 2014 to 2015.

Evidently, Hill and Bernstein had no issue affiliating with DJI – a company that routinely complies with data sharing requests from the Chinese Communist Party.

The New York Times reported on a 2016 DJI press briefing in China where company spokesman Zhang Fanxi described how DJI “is complying with requests from the Chinese government to hand over data”:

“In a briefing for Chinese and foreign journalists at DJI’s headquarters in Shenzhen on Wednesday, Zhang Fanxi, a spokesman for the company, said it was still working out how to deal with the data it collects in China. But for now, he said, DJI is complying with requests from the Chinese government to hand over data.”

While the Trump administration and its allies such as Rep. Matt Gaetz have cracked down on the Chinese company, there’s a chance a Biden administration could reverse the progress that has been made.

After all, Biden, his family members, and campaign staffers are all notoriously soft on China.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/biden-staffers-dji-drones/

PPP Loans Can Now Be Used To Fix Riot Damage, Pay For Defense Against Looters

We previously discussed the billions of dollars worth of pork in the combined $2.3 trillion government spending/covid-19 relief package. As it turns out, there is another way this stimulus is a Krugman's Keynesian's wet dream: according to the NYT the grants loans can be used to fix damage from riots which now are such a daily fixture of American life, Congress had to insert a provision. Here is the NYT explaining what changed, only instead of "public disturbances" please use the proper word: riots.

According to outlines of the bill circulating among congressional officials on Monday, hotels and food-service businesses would be eligible for bigger loans this time, up to 3.5 times their average monthly payroll. Other borrowers would again be limited to 2.5 times their payroll.

Publicly traded companies would be ineligible for the new loans, eliminating a provision that provoked a public outcry as deep-pocketed restaurant chains, software companies and drug makers, among others, collected taxpayer-funded loans.

The new bill would also expand the list of expenses that a loan could be used to pay, which previously were limited mostly to payroll, rent and utilities. Businesses could now use the money to buy supplies from their vendors, buy protective equipment for their staff or fix property damage “due to public disturbances,” according to a House Small Business Committee summary…

Which, contrary to what the NYT would like its gullible readers to believe, is of course is a reference to the wanton rioting, destruction and looting that spread across the US during the summer and fall, and then mysteriously disappeared just before the elections, as Jeff Gundlach pointed out recently.

Incidentally, this also means that as the entire world descends into the final circle of the Keynesian inferno, the government is now implicitly subsidizing rioting and looting.

And with that, it's time to add another caption to the Keynesian "idiot of shame" summary:

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/ppp-loans-can-now-be-used-fix-riot-damagem-pay-defense-against-looters

Nanoplastics Alter Intestinal Microbiome and Threaten Human Health

We live in a world invaded by plastic. Its role as a chemically stable, versatile and multi-purpose fostered its massive use, which has finally translated into our current situation of planetary pollution. Moreover, when plastic degrades it breaks into smaller micro and nanoparticles, becoming present in the water we drink, the air we breathe and almost everything we touch. That is how nanoplastics penetrate the organism and produce side effects.

A revised study led by the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), the CREAF and the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at the University of Aviero, Portugal, and published in the journal Science Bulletin, verifies that the nanoplastics affect the composition and diversity of our intestinal microbiome and that this can cause damage to our health. This effect can be seen in both vertebrates and invertebrates, and has been proved in situations in which the exposure is widespread and prolonged. Additionally, with alteration of the gut microbiome come alterations in the immune, endocrine and nervous system and therefore, although not enough is known about the specific physiological mechanisms, the study alerts that stress to the gut microbiome could alter the health of humans.

The health effects of being exposed to nanoplastics was traditionally evaluated in aquatic animals such as molluscs, crustaceans and fish. Recent in vitro analyzes, using cell cultures of fish and mammals, has allowed scientists to analyze the changes in gene expression associated with the presence of nanoplastics from a toxicological viewpoint. The majority of neurological, endocrine and immunological tracts in these vertebrates are very similar to those of humans, and therefore authors warn that some of the effects observed in these models could also be applied to humans. Understanding and analyzing the process through which these plastic fragments penetrate the organism and harm it is fundamental, as is determining precisely the amount and typology of nanoplastics polluting the environment. For this reason, researchers highlight not only the need to further study the specific mechanisms and effects on human cell models, but also unify analysis methodologies in order to conduct correct measurements of the quantity of nanoplastics present in different ecosystems.

Mariana Teles, researcher at the UAB, in collaboration with other researchers such as Josep Peñuelas, CSIC lecturer at the CREAF, comments that “this article does not aim to raise the alarm, but it does seek to warn about the fact that plastic can be found in almost everything surrounding us, it does not disintegrate and we are constantly exposed to it. At the moment, we can only speculate on the long-term effects this can have on human health, although we already have evidence in several studies describing hormonal and immune alterations in fish exposed to nanoplastics, and which could be applied to humans.”

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/12/nanoplastics-alter-intestinal-microbiome-and-threaten-human-health.html

Majority believe nonessential government should shut down during COVID business closures

Most voters think noncritical government services should face same restrictions as businesses deemed nonessential.

A majority of voters believe that nonessential government services should face the same closures as do local businesses during COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen.

When asked, 55% of voters agreed that "when local businesses are required to close during lockdowns … all non-essential government agencies [should] be closed as well." Just 24% disagreed.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/majority-voters-believe-non-essential-government-should-shut-down-during