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So POTUS will not tweet until tomorrow?
Then he will tweet 'the storm is upon us'?
Seems like now or never!
Antifa Militants Accost And Punch Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler At Restaurant
As pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. capital yesterday, a different kind of violence took place on the other side of the country. While out dining in a restaurant Wednesday night, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was confronted and attacked by a mob of Antifa agitators.
BLM-antifa extremists confronted Portland mayor Ted Wheeler while he was dining out last night. Serial-riot arrestee Tracy Molina was part of the mob. Shortly after this video, he was punched. #antifa pic.twitter.com/hcVWJdJKcd
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) January 7, 2021
Wheeler, who has been consistently one of the biggest supporters of BLM and Antifa, felt the brunt of it yesterday night.
https://breaking911.com/antifa-militants-punch-portland-mayor/
Democratic US rep calls out 'white supremacy' of Capitol siege, says rioters 'would have been shot' if they were black
Brand-new U.S. Rep. Cori Bush — a Black Lives Matter proponent who was part of the mob that confronted Mark and Patricia McCloskey outside their St. Louis home over the summer as the couple armed themselves — said the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday "would have been shot" had they been black.
Bush — a Missouri Democrat — told MSNBC "had it been people who look like me, had it been the same amount of people, but had they been black and brown, we wouldn't have made it up those steps. We wouldn't have made it to be able to get into the door and bust windows and go put our feet up on the desks of Congress members. We wouldn't have made it that far. We would have been shot. We would've been tear gassed … rubber bullets. That would've happened before we made it there."
She continued: "We need to call it what it is. It's white supremacy. It was white privilege, and it was the call of our president, and it was encouraged by our Republican colleagues."
Several hundred supporters of President Donald Trump — among tens of thousands who gathered Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to protest the results of the 2020 election — breached police lines, broke into the Capitol building, and rioted, forcing a lockdown and evacuation of elected officials and their staff members.
She also wants GOP legislators expelled who wanted to overturn election
Bush also told MSNBC that Republican lawmakers who disputed the election results "have been the ones trying to steal this election. That's why we are calling for them to be removed. They should not be seated."
Indeed, the Hill reported that her first legislative act is introducing a resolution to investigate and possibly remove them.
"I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences," Bush said, according to the outlet. "They have broken their sacred Oath of Office. I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion."
Questions for law enforcement
Bush in her MSBC interview also questioned the actions of law enforcement during the Capitol rioting.
"It was strange because it was almost like there was this call to not use force," she said. "I'm not used to seeing this where there could be this many people, and there is nothing that looks like it's in place. There are pictures and video of police officers … walking away. I'm even hearing people talking about … that they just stood by."
Bush added that lawmakers at the Capitol have been reassured that "when we are here on these grounds that we are safe … but today was not that day."
http://www.tathasta.com/2021/01/democratic-us-rep-calls-out-white.html
STUDY: Bill Gates DTP Vaccine Killed 10 Times More African Girls Than The Disease Itself
According to a peer reviewed study published in a respected journal by the world’s most authoritative vaccine scientists, Bill Gates DTP vaccine killed 10 times more African girls than the disease itself. The vaccine apparently compromised their immune systems. Although, such study was never performed before 2017, Bill Gates and the Vaccine Alliance GAVI and WHO pushed the vaccines on unsuspecting African babies.
The study (read below) titled, The Introduction of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Oral Polio Vaccine Among Young Infants in an Urban African Community: A Natural Experiment was commissioned by the Danish government and Novo Nordisk Foundation and was conducted by a team of the world’s leading experts on African vaccination led by two most prominent names, Drs. Søren Wengel Mogensen and Peter Aaby.
The DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus.
The DTP vaccine was discontinued in the United States and other western nations in the 1990s following thousands of reports of death and brain damage. Despite widespread vaccination, the United States and other countries are still experiencing large pertussis outbreaks.
Until the study was published in 2017, the WHO (World Health Organisation) never conducted the kind of vaccinated/unvaccinated (or placebo) study necessary to ascertain if the DTP vaccine actually yields beneficial health outcomes.
Yet, Bill Gates and his Vaccine Alliance GAVI and WHO pushed the untested vaccines on African babies.
The scientists conducting the study were shocked when they found that 50% of children in the African nation of Guinea Bissau die before the age of five.
In that west African nation, half the children were vaccinated with the DTP vaccine at three months and the other half at six months. Dr. Mogenson and his team found that girls vaccinated with the DTP vaccine died at 10 times the rate of unvaccinated kids.
While the vaccinated children were protected from Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis, they were far more susceptible to other deadly diseases than unvaccinated peers. The vaccine apparently compromised their immune systems.
DTP was associated with 5-fold higher mortality than being unvaccinated. No prospective study has shown beneficial survival effects of DTP. Unfortunately, DTP is the most widely used vaccine, and the proportion who receives DTP3 is used globally as an indicator of the performance of national vaccination programs.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78963/study-bill-gates-dtp-vaccine-killed-10-times-more-african-girls-than-the-disease.html
Conservative journalists who've closely covered Antifa violence say leftist militants were not behind Capitol siege
'The people occupying the Capitol building do not look like Antifa people dressed in Trump gear or Trump costumes,' Andy Ngo said
Despite numerous claims on social media that Antifa militants were behind Wednesday's siege on the U.S. Capitol, a pair of conservative journalists who've closely covered the violent leftist group say that is not case.
Andy Ngo — who literally wrote the book on Antifa's lawlessness — told the Washington Examiner that from his vantage point, Antifa militants weren't part of the group that rioted inside the Capitol building.
"The people occupying the Capitol building do not look like Antifa people dressed in Trump gear or Trump costumes," he told the paper in an interview from England.
"I have seen no evidence that they are able to coordinate a mass infiltration on this scale before, so I'm really skeptical that they would have been able to do it here without any of that information leaking out," Ngo added to the Examiner.
Ngo ought to know, too. In addition to penning a book, he's repeatedly infiltrated Antifa as well as Black Lives Matter gatherings to get first-hand reporting about their actions, tendencies, and core values.
And probably most important of all, if anyone out there has a reason to burn Antifa to the ground, it's Ngo. Readers of TheBlaze probably recall that the violent leftists — who claim they're fascism fighters while wantonly practicing fascism at every turn — ganged up on and brutally beat Ngo in a June 2019 incident captured on video.
Check out our brave heroes — their identities concealed with masks and hoods — swarming around Ngo, who's all alone. (Content warning: Language):
They seem nice.
Oh, and Antifa militants regularly threaten Ngo's life. So for him to debunk the claim that Antifa was behind the Capitol siege certainly carries a distinct ring of authenticity.
But at the same time, Ngo isn't letting the mainstream media off the hook. He called them out for repeatedly treating Antifa rioting as a noble act while suddenly becoming interested in the rule of law when supporters of President Donald Trump rioted in the Capitol building.
Why was similar language not applied to the rioters who stormed, destroyed, looted and torched government buildings… https://t.co/iRzkKgzSGM
— Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1610035107.0
The disparate responses to those currently breaking inside the Capitol building versus those who tried to burn down… https://t.co/Q1BYeVY8Yx
— Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1609964016.0
In addition to Ngo, TheBlaze's Elijah Schaffer — who covered the Capitol siege Wednesday and has seen Antifa in action many times — tossed water on the theory that the violent leftists were behind the lawlessness in D.C.
IMPORTANT: I witnessed the start & violent escalation of the Capitol building siege Reports that all the violence… https://t.co/r8s2bmdbsI
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ELIJAH SCHAFFER)1609981111.0
https://www.theblaze.com/news/conservative-journalists-antifa-not-behind-capitol-siege
China Is Waging A Campaign to “Influence” U.S. School Textbooks
The Chinese government-backed China-United States Exchange Foundation has waged a campaign to shape American K-12 schools, including attempts to “influence” textbooks along with funding organizations setting curricula in American schools.
The China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) is founded by the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which has been identified by the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission as the “highest-ranking entity overseeing” China’s United Front.
The effort, according to the government report, aims “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and push Westerners to “take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.”
The National Pulse has highlighted the organization’s efforts to garner “favorable coverage” from Western media outlets and former Congressional representatives and can now reveal a similar approach taken by CUSEF regarding American schools. While CUSEF has made overtures to schools at the university level, many have divested from CUSEF in light of its compromising ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
We can today reveal that American schools at the K-12 level are also not immune from CUSEF’s advances.
Tainted Textbooks.
A 2011 Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filing with the Department of Justice reveals CUSEF’s American lobbyist – BLJ Worldwide – working on behalf of the Chinese government-linked organization to influence American textbooks.
Concerning Tibet, which has been occupied by repressive Chinese Communist Party forces for over 70 years, CUSEF sought to counter this by “introducing” a “strong, factual counter-narrative to defend and promote the actions of China within the Tibet Autonomous Region.”
“By creating a factual account of the Chinese impact on Tibet and producing a report that eliminates the emotion from the situation, we believe we will have a strong platform from which to address critics of China,” the report continued.
To do so, BLJ promised to liaise with “editors and publishers” of American textbooks:
“BLJ had conducted the first stage of a textbook analysis, and will proceed with contacting editors and publishers once the CUSEF sponsored study is published and there is material with which to approach the relevant parties.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/cusef-school-influence-campaign/
Progressives Notch Victory in Biden National Security Council
Progressive groups vying for influence in the incoming Biden administration scored a victory on Wednesday when it was reported the new White House will tap Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) foreign policy adviser for a role on the influential National Security Council.
Biden is reportedly set to tap Sasha Baker, a former Defense Department official in the Obama administration, to serve as the NSC’s director for strategic planning. Baker is Warren’s national security adviser and was named late last year to a list of progressive political insiders recommended for administration jobs by a vast network of left-leaning advocacy groups.
Baker's selection is certain to please far-left elements of the Democratic Party who are pressuring the next White House to hire a range of individuals widely seen as out of the mainstream. The Washington Free Beacon reported in December that a coalition of progressive groups—including the Progressive Change Institute, Common Defense, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and the National Iranian American Council (NIAC)—sent Biden’s transition team a list of more than 100 officials they hope to see in the next administration. The roster included foreign policy hands who have pushed for increased American diplomacy with Iran and a reduced reliance on the traditional U.S.-Israel relationship.
The progressive groups' other selections include Paul Pillar, a former CIA official who has come under fire for accusing Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, a Jewish American, of having dual loyalty to Israel, and Sarah Leah Whitson, who also has been embroiled in controversy over comments viewed as anti-Semitic.
The groups also want to see NIAC cofounder and Quincy Institute official Trita Parsi oversee Middle Eastern affairs on the NSC, a selection that raised eyebrows in many foreign policy circles. Parsi has faced accusations of acting as a lobbyist for the Iranian regime and has used his perch at the Quincy Institute to push for increased diplomacy with Tehran. The Free Beacon reported in December that Parsi could face problems obtaining security clearance given his status as a non-U.S. citizen.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/progressives-notch-victory-in-biden-national-security-council/
Acting Pentagon Chief Miller Says Will Execute ‘Time-Honored’ Peaceful Transfer of Power to Biden
Calls for impeaching incumbent President Donald Trump have followed Wednesday's siege of the US Capitol, as Trump supporters stormed the building. The chaos resulted in at least four people killed.
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said in a statement on Thursday that the Pentagon continues to perform its regular duties and will ensure a peaceful transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden on January 20.
“I strongly condemn these acts of violence against our democracy,” Miller tweeted. “I, and the people I lead in the Department of Defense, continue to perform our duties in accordance with our oath of office, and will execute the time-honored peaceful transition of power to President-elect Biden on January 20.”
On Wednesday afternoon, thousands of Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol building in a bid to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. The protesters attacked Capitol police with metal pipes, chemical irritants, and other weapons, and damaged property before seizing the rotunda and inauguration stage.
"Yesterday’s violence at the Capitol was reprehensible and contrary to the tenets of the United States Constitution. In the midst of this tragedy, I was proud of the professionalism of our Department of Defense personnel.
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) January 7, 2021
Politico reported that Miller authorized thousands more National Guardsmen from at least six US states to help the DC authorities maintain order following the violence at the US Capitol.
The mayhem on Wednesday triggered a backlash from members of the US administration as well as calls for initiating an impeachment procedure against incumbent President Trump, with Democrats accusing him of inciting the violence in DC.
It also sparked anger among Trump's former and current officials, as well as fellow Republicans, who reconsidered their intention to support his challenge of the 2020 election results. Former Attorney General William Barr slammed Trump over what he called a betrayal of his office and supporters”, accusing him of “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress.”
https://sputniknews.com/us/202101071081697706-acting-pentagon-chief-says-will-execute-time-honored-peaceful-transfer-of-power-to-biden/
CDC 'Actively Investigating' Post-Vaccination Stroke Death of Florida OBGYN
A spokesperson for US-based pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer, which developed its COVID-19 vaccine alongside German firm BioNTech, said that "serious adverse events, including deaths that are unrelated to the vaccine, are unfortunately likely to occur at a similar rate as they would in the general population."
Dr. Gregory Michael, a 56-year-old OBGYN at Mountain Sinai Medical Center (MSMC) in Miami Beach, Florida, died on Monday after sustaining a hemorrhagic stroke due to insufficient blood platelets.
Heidi Neckelmann, Michael's wife, mourned her late husband via Facebook earlier this week and alleged the medical professional's death was "due to a strong reaction to the COVID vaccine."
"He was vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine at MSMC on December 18, 3 days later he saw a strong set of petechiae on his feet and hands which made him seek attention at the emergency room at MSMC," the widow wrote in her Tuesday post.
"The [complete blood count] that was done at his arrival showed his platelet count to be 0 (A normal platelet count ranges from 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood.) [He] was admitted in the [intensive care unit] with a diagnosis of acute [Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura] caused by a reaction to the COVID vaccine."
Michael's thrombocytopenia, which occurs when one's immune system mistakenly attacks the body's blood platelets, triggered the fatal stroke that killed him around two weeks after he was admitted to the hospital, according to Neckelmann.
No Present Link Between Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine and OBGYN's Death - CDC, Pfizer
With the novel nature of the coronavirus and related vaccines, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a probe into the 56-year-old's untimely death.
“CDC will evaluate the situation as more information becomes available and provide timely updates on what is known and any necessary actions,” a CDC spokesperson announced in a statement obtained by the Miami Herald. “It’s been a difficult year as each of us grapple with a worldwide pandemic. Use of COVID-19 vaccines is the next step in our efforts to protect Americans and reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The US Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for emergency use in individuals 18 years or older on December 11 and December 18, respectively. As of this article's publication, more than 5.3 million Americans - aged 18 years and up - have received their first dose of a two-part COVID-19 vaccine.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202101071081696500-cdc-actively-investigating-post-vaccination-stroke-death-of-florida-obgyn/
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Indonesia is releasing alleged Bali bombing mastermind Abu Bakar Bashir. Here's what you need to know
Notorious Islamic extremist Abu Bakar Bashir, who has been accused of masterminding the Bali bombings, is set to be released from an Indonesian prison today.
Government spokesperson Rika Aprianti said Bashir would be released "in accordance with the expiration date and the end of his term".
The Bali bombings — executed by the South-East Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah — struck several nightclubs in the district of Kuta in October 2002, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.
At around 11:00pm local time on October 12, bombs went off at the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar, explosions that Australian investigators later concluded was "designed to maximise the number of deaths".
The bomb blast scene in Kuta several days after the bomb blasts.
The attacks left 209 others injured and remain the single largest loss of Australian life from an act of terror.
After being in and out of jail for a range of different terrorism offences, Bashir was given a 15-year jail sentence in 2011 for supporting militant training camps in Indonesia's Aceh province.
But after a number of reductions on that term, he is now ready to walk free.
So, who is Bashir? How are victims of the Bali bombings responding to his release? And could he pose a threat?
Who is Abu Bakar Bashir?
Bashir was once considered to be the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, which was responsible for the Bali bombings.
The 82-year-old has been charged numerous times in Indonesia for terrorism-related offences, including for involvement in bombing the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003, which killed 12 people.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-08/indonesia-alleged-bali-bombing-abu-bakar-bashir-release/13038798
Incitement to Violence? Pelosi Tweet: “Trump Is Deadly to Our Democracy and Our People. He Needs to Go Now”
With the nation on edge following the certification of the Electoral College vote for president Wednesday that millions of Americans believe was stolen from President Trump and the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters that disrupted the joint session of Congress to approve the vote for Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s political account on Twitter (D-CA) followed her call for Trump to be removed from office by the 25th Amendment or impeachment made at a Capitol Hill press conference with an incendiary tweet that calls Trump “deadly to our democracy and our people.”
“Trump is deadly to our democracy and our people. He needs to go now.”
The House is out of session until after January 20 (except for pro forma sessions, next one Monday). If Vice President Pence declines to invoke the 25th Amendment, will Pelosi’s hot rhetoric incite violence this weekend by Democrats who take it to heart her message that President Trump is “deadly to our democracy and our people”?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/incitement-violence-pelosi-tweet-trump-deadly-democracy-people-needs-go-now/
First GOP lawmaker calls for invoking 25th Amendment to remove Trump
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday became the first GOP lawmaker to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
It came a day after a pro-Trump mob stormed and ransacked the U.S. Capitol in a futile bid to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Kinzinger, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran who continues to serve in the Air Force, lay blame for the insurrection at the feet of the president himself, who had urged his supporters to march on the Capitol.
"Here’s the truth. The president caused this. The president is unfit and the president is unwell. And the president now must relinquish control of the executive branch voluntarily or involuntarily," Kinzinger, a centrist Republican and frequent Trump critic, said in a video message posted on Twitter.
It’s with a heavy heart I am calling for the sake of our Democracy that the 25th Amendment be invoked. My statement: pic.twitter.com/yVyQrYcjuD
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) January 7, 2021
Kinzinger noted that during past administrations the 25th Amendment has been invoked when a president has been under anesthesia, passing power temporarily to the vice president, “because even for that moment to have the captain of the ship absent could cause a major catastrophe.”
The Illinois Republican said Trump “abdicated his duty” to protect Americans in Congress, “inflamed passions” that fueled the insurrection, and half-heartedly denounced the violence — what the congressman called a “wink and a nod” to his supporters trashing the Capitol.
“All indications are that the president has become unmoored, not just from his duty, nor even his oath, but from reality itself,” Kinzinger said. “It’s for this reason that I call for the vice president and members of the Cabinet to ensure the next few weeks are safe for the American people and that we have a sane captain the ship.”
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment would allow Vice President Pence and a majority of cabinet members to vote to install Pence as president for the remaining two weeks of Trump’s term. Administration officials have already begun discussing that very possibility.
“Until the president is able to himself. It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment and to end this nightmare,” Kinzinger said.
By Wednesday night, dozens of Democrats had called on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. And all Democrats on the Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Pence pressing him on the issue. But until Thursday morning no Republican lawmakers had joined the effort.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533112-first-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-invoking-25th-amendment-to-remove-trump
https://twitter.com/B_HQ/status/1347286168694611968
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The way yesterday's incident on Capitol Hill is being reported is a disgrace.
You had a few hundred foolish individuals breaking into the Senate.
4 people have died as a result which is the real tragedy.
The idea this amounts to a coup (an attempt to seize power) is ludicrous.