Dad Arrested Over Address Error Found Dead in Jail Cell — His Heart Missing

Chatham County, GA — Lee Michael Creely, 34, was a good man, a father of two sons, and excited to have saved enough to move into his new home with his partner, Jessica Hodges, and their children. However, because Creely forgot to immediately tell his probation officer that he upgraded from a trailer into a new home, Creely would spend his last days alive dying in Chatham County lockup.

In August, Creely and his family finally saved up enough money to move out of their mobile home and into a new home so their sons, aged 12 and 7, could have their own rooms. Likely due to the fact that they were so excited to have upgraded their home, Creely forgot to tell his probation officer that he moved, setting off a chain of events that would lead to his untimely death.

To be clear, Creely shouldn’t have even been on probation. He was convicted of having a substance deemed illegal by the state, otherwise known as drug possession. There were no victims for the “crime” to which Creely found himself pleading guilty. Nevertheless, after his probation officer noticed Creely moved and didn’t notify him, Creely was arrested on Sept. 3.

Three days after his arrest, Creely — a young father of two — would be found dead in his jail cell. The cause of death was unknown.

Creely’s family is now going after the jail and demanding answers. One massive answer they are demanding to know is the location of his heart. Literally, his heart. According to the family’s attorney, an independent autopsy revealed that Creely’s heart was missing from his body after he died in jail. What’s more, the coroner refuses to explain what happened to it, according to the family.

According to a report in the Daily Beast:

Five deputies were fired in connection with Creely’s mysterious death inside the detention center, and one of them, Terence Jackson, was charged with one felony count of falsifying documents.

The Chatham County sheriff said Jackson claimed in a jail record that he made rounds to check on inmates 10 times, but that surveillance revealed he never left his desk.

The Chatham County sheriff’s office did not return messages by press time, nor did the agency’s private health care company, CorrectHealth LLC.

“It’s miserable. It’s hard to get any kind of closure from this, to start the healing process,” Hodges told The Daily Beast. “Nothing has made sense.” She said their children, Dawson, 7, and Landon, 12, don’t understand what’s happened, and she has no information from authorities or any way of explaining how their father died.

“Lee was a really easygoing person. Everybody loved him. He wasn’t confrontational at all. I just don’t understand why they would treat somebody like this,” Hodges said.

According to the lawsuit, Creely was on medication to manage his withdrawal from heroin and benzodiazepines but 48 hours prior to his death, no one so much as checked on Creely in his cell, much less gave him his medication.

After Creely’s story began to receive coverage in Reuters and other places, Nelly Miles, GBI’s director of the office of public affairs, released a statement claiming Creely died from fentanyl intoxication and that his heart was cut up and a portion of it retained for further examination. Creely’s family says they never received this information and only learned of it from the media.

As of the writing of this article, they have yet to receive an official reason for Creely’ death.

“How heartless must you be as an investigator or a government official here that you won’t tell this family what happened,” said Will Claiborne, an attorney for Hodges and the Creely family.

https://youtu.be/It9v9B99F4E

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dad-arrested-over-address-error-found-dead-in-jail-cell-his-heart-missing/

GoFundMe bans travel fundraisers for 'potentially violent political events'

Actions have consequences

GoFundMe will no longe permit people to crowdfund travel expenses that may be used for "potentially violent political events," according to a Tuesday report from CNN Business.

The move comes on the heels of violent rioters storming the U.S. Capitol last week, which led to the deaths of at least five people, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.

At the time of this reporting, a GoFundMe page to benefit the family of Officer Sicknick has received more than $602,000 in donations.

What are the details?

In a statement to CNN Business, a spokesperson for the popular crowdfunding website cited the U.S. Capitol riots as the reason for the new guideline.

"Due to the violence, GoFundMe has removed numerous fundraisers intended to raise money for travel expenses," the spokesperson said. The company will also continue to "remove fundraisers that attempt to spread misinformation about the election, promote conspiracy theories, and contribute to or participate in attacks on U.S. democracy."

A spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that that's not all: A spokesperson added, "GoFundMe will remove fundraisers for travel expenses to a future political event where there's risk of violence by the attendees."

BuzzFeed News reports that since November, the crowdfunding company has detected and removed approximately 1,400 election-related fundraising campaigns that "violated their terms of service."

"Many of these campaigns were related to 'Stop the Steal' rallies, spreading conspiracy theories about election fraud, promoting violence, or trying to raise money for legal fees for people who stormed the Capitol," according to the outlet. "As a result of its new policy, the platform has removed 40 campaigns that were created solely to help fund people's travel to DC for upcoming rallies."

On Monday, the Associated Press announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning of plans of mass armed protests to take place in the days leading up to — and including — Inauguration Day.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/gofundme-bans-political-travel-fundraisers-due-to-deadly-capitol-riot

Italian Government On Verge Of Collapse Amid Battle Over EU COVID Relief

Under the leadership of Premier Giuseppe Conte, Italy's government has enjoyed a degree of stability unseen in decades, as the technocratic former law professor - initially brought in to lead a government formed by two anti-establishment parties, the anti-migrant League and left-wing populist Five Star Movement - Conte has already survived the collapse of his original coalition. When League leader Matteo Salvini withdrew from the ruling coalition back in 2019, Conte managed to stave off another election by recruiting new allies from the opposition.

Since then, Conte has led Italy through two COVID-19 lockdowns, and as the country lumbers forward, with much of its economy still paralyzed, the PM has his work cut out for him if he wants to get the country's debt burden under control without resorting to punishing austerity measures (which, at this point, would probably spark a full-tilt revolution in the streets of Italy's largest cities).

But as Italy staggers out of another COVID-19-induced-lockdown, the ruling coalition is once again at the point of fracture. After Salvini quit the ruling coalition back in the summer of 2019, Conte struck a deal with Matteo Renzi, the former prime minister, who later broke off from the Democrats and formed his own centrist group.

Well, now that Italy has finally received the €196 billion-euro ($240 billion) windfall from the European Union COVID bailout package, parliament must vote on how to spend the money. But since nothing is ever easy in Italy's politically fragmented government, disagreements over spending priorities are prompting Matteo Renzi, a junior partner in the coalition, to consider abandoning the government, and thrusting it into chaos just as the relief package is being finalized.

According to Bloomberg, Italian President Sergio Mattarella (in Italy, the president plays a caretaker role) has extracted promises from Renzi that the political infighting won't impact the relief package.

The latest government plan uses EU money to earmark €223 billion euros for investment and other projects to boost the Italian economy, which was already weak even before the pandemic, according to a draft seen by Bloomberg.

Spending on infrastructure including railways, highways, ports and logistics totals €32 billion, while investment to make Italy’s economy greener totals €69 billion. Health spending, meanwhile, has been raised to €19.7 billion in what Bloomberg described as a concession to Renzi. But Renzi and his lawmakers have demanded Conte share more power with his coalition partners, while speeding up public works projects (and giving up control of the secret services).

COVID has already heaped on more debt, and although the EU money will undoubtedly hel

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italian-government-verge-collapse-amid-battle-over-eu-covid-relief

‘It’s preposterous that anyone is unaware of our duty’: London police chief vows to step up enforcement of Covid-19 rules

The head of London’s police force vows officers will act “much more quickly” against people who fail to comply with the recent Covid-19 restrictions.

“Sadly, a small minority of people continue to flagrantly ignore the rules – for example, by holding house parties, meeting in basements to gamble, or breaking into railway arches for unlicensed raves,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick wrote in an op-ed for The Times.

It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus. We have been clear that those who breach Covid-19 legislation are increasingly likely to face fines.

Dick warned that “those who break the rules or refuse to comply where they should without good reason will find officers moving much more quickly to enforcement action.”

She noted that, although the capital’s police force remains “in remarkably good shape,” there is an increasing personnel shortage, as “larger numbers of officers self-isolate due to the use of contact tracing.”

London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared “a major incident” across the city on January 8, after the number of Covid-19 cases exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.

“The stark reality is that we will run out of beds for patients in the next couple of weeks unless the spread of the virus slows down drastically,” the mayor said.

A new lockdown was imposed in England and Scotland just days after New Year’s Eve and only a matter of weeks after the authorities launched a nationwide immunization campaign using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. People can be fined up to £6,400 ($8,670) for breaking Covid-19 restrictions in England.

A few dozen maskless protesters gathered for an anti-lockdown march in London over the weekend. The rally was dispersed by police, and 12 people were arrested.

https://www.rt.com/uk/512227-london-police-covid19-rules/

Aaron Mostofsky, son of Brooklyn judge, arrested for role in Capitol riot

The son of a prominent Brooklyn judge who was part of the mob that stormed the US Capitol building last week has been arrested, a law enforcement source told The Post.

Aaron Mostofsky was busted Tuesday at his brother’s house in Brooklyn by federal agents on multiple charges, including theft of government property for allegedly stealing a police riot shield and bulletproof vest, the source said.

Mostofsky, who is the son of Shlomo Mostofsky, a Supreme Court judge and a prominent figure in the Orthodox Jewish community, was photographed with both items.

Video circulating on Twitter following Mostofsky’s arrest shows FBI agents swarming the home and carting out what appeared to be the fur pelts and walking stick he had on him during the insurrection.

The source told The Post Mostofsky will appear in Brooklyn federal court on the charges Tuesday afternoon.

After the photos emerged, Mostofsky told The Post that he felt “we were cheated” in the election.

“I don’t think 75 million people voted for Trump — I think it was close to 85 million,” he said. “I think certain states that have been red for a long time turned blue and were stolen, like New York.”

https://nypost.com/2021/01/12/aaron-mostofsky-son-of-brooklyn-judge-spotted-at-capitol-riot-is-arrested/

Sheldon Adelson, billionaire Trump backer and Las Vegas Sands CEO, dead at 87

Adelson entered the casino business in 1989

Sheldon Adelson, the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has died following a battle with cancer. He was 87.

Adelson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2019 and recently stepped away from the company to resume his treatment, the company said on Jan. 7.

"Mr. Adelson was the first employee of Las Vegas Sands – "Team Member Number One" he liked to say. Today, more than 50,000 Sands team members have Dr. Adelson and the entire Adelson family in their thoughts and prayers and are grateful to have had their lives touched by a true force of nature," according to a statement from Las Vegas Sands.

Adelson has been a longtime donor to the Republican Party, giving more than $430 million to conservatives during the 2020 campaign. He was an early and longtime supporter of President Trump during his initial run for the White House.

"Laura and I mourn the passing of a friend," former President George W. Bush said in a statement. "He was an American patriot and a strong supporter of Israel. Sheldon was a generous benefactor of charitable causes, especially medical research and Jewish heritage education. He will be missed by many - none more than his beloved family."

Adelson, who is survived by his wife Dr. Miriam Adelson and five children, had a net worth of $35.6 billion as of Jan. 11, according to Forbes.

A funeral will be held in Israel, the birthplace of Miriam Adelson, with plans for a memorial service held in Las Vegas to be announced at a later date, according to the company.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/sheldon-adelson-las-vegas-sands-obituary

Yelp debuts new feature allowing users to report businesses’ mask & social distancing violations. Snitch Nation, here we come!

Yelp is giving users another way to scold local businesses from a place of moral superiority, launching a feedback feature to reflect how well a business is enforcing social distancing, face coverings, and other Covid-19 rules.

The user-generated review site debuted the new feature on Tuesday, along with a mockup of how listings will look going forward. Under “Covid-19 updates,” in addition to informing users whether a business offers delivery or sit-down dining, user evaluations based on how well the establishment adheres to social distancing and mask regulations will appear.

It’s not clear whether businesses will have the option of contesting bad marks, a major threat to establishments already hanging by an economic thread due to pandemic-related shutdowns, but the app claims it has safeguards in place to protect businesses from malicious review-spamming, having “implemented advanced technology to mitigate potential misuse of the feature.”

Multiple logged-in users must agree on whether social distancing and mask-wearing are being enforced for such evaluations to appear on a business’ page, and responses are supposedly evaluated on a daily basis, with those older than 28 days excluded. Green checkmarks indicate a majority of visitors observed pandemic rules, while orange question-marks mean customers have complained.

Pandemic-related feedback won’t be limited to restaurants, according to Yelp - bars and clubs, “retail and beauty businesses,” and “businesses in the automotive, professional and local services sectors” will all be outfitted with the new metrics. While the app acknowledged only a few hundred businesses are currently carrying the feature, it is encouraging users to start dropping a dime on their local social distancing violators, offering two ways to give feedback on a business’ page.

Yelp is also offering businesses a chance to get ahead of local busybodies by advertising their rule-obeying credibility right on their page. A bar or restaurant can boast it checks staff for Covid-19 symptoms or uses contactless or disposable menus, as well as advertise the varieties of seating - indoor, outdoor, heated, private - available.

Yelp recently debuted a ‘kill switch’ that paused the addition of new reviews for businesses ensnared in social-justice controversies. However, the label - “Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert” - implies guilt on the part of the affected restaurant, rather than the “innocent until proven guilty” approach that previously reigned with Yelp’s “Public Attention Alert.” Similarly, while the company claims to have removed over 4,000 reviews that focused negatively on a business’ obedience to Covid-19 rules, the new feature opens the door to a flood of negative feedback regarding those same rules, and there’s no reason to believe keyboard vigilantes are above flooding a restaurant with negative pandemic obedience ratings now that Yelp has given them the green light.

Public confrontations over coronavirus regulations have become commonplace, with impassioned mask-wearers screaming at their barefaced counterparts and vice versa. Some have taken upon themselves the responsibility to enforce Covid-19 rules, turning themselves into meme fodder.

https://www.rt.com/usa/512286-yelp-report-social-distancing-violations/

WaPo’s Robinson: Trump Supporters ‘Need to Be Deprogrammed’

Tuesday, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson referred to President Donald Trump’s supporters as “members of a cult” that he says need to be “reprogrammed.”

Robinson, on “Morning Joe,” asked New York Times writer and 1619 Project” creator Nikole Hannah-Jones how to start and complete the “process” of deprogramming the Trump supporters.

“[T]he difference between the white citizens’ councils and the Klan back in the days of Jim Crow, and you know, Klan was lower-income, white citizens’ councils were the Josh Hawleys and Ted Cruzes of their day. But so, here’s the situation, though. … There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans who somehow need to be deprogrammed. It’s as if they are members of a cult, the Trumpist cult, and they have to be deprogrammed. Do you have any idea how we start that process, much less complete it?” Robinson asked.

“I don’t. I’m a journalist. I don’t know how we can stop people,” Hannah-Jones replied. “I know we can look to history, though. What ultimately breaks that power structure in the South is enforcement, right? There has to be consequences. And then once you get those consequences, I think people have to take a second look at their actions. And they have to be much more afraid to do the types of kind of violence that we saw last week.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/12/wapos-robinson-trump-supporters-need-to-be-deprogrammed/

250,000 Small British Businesses Expected to Be Destroyed by Coronavirus Lockdowns This Year

The coronavirus lockdowns implemented by the British government will force at least a quarter of a million small businesses to shut down for good if they are not bailed out by the taxpayer, business leaders have predicted.

Over the next year, at least 250,000 are expected to go under, according to a survey conducted by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

The number of firms saying that they are on the brink of collapse is the highest since the beginning of the economic crisis caused by the Chinese coronavirus and the ensuing draconian restrictions foisted upon the public.

The figures do not represent the number of businesses which are hoping to avoid collapse by freezing their operations, laying off staff, or taking on significant debt in order to stay afloat.

Of those surveyed, 23 per cent of small businesses have reduced the number of employees in the last quarter, alone, representing a ten per cent rise over the beginning of last year.

Some 14 per cent of small businesses reported that they will be forced to slash the number of people they employ over the next three months.

The number of small firms predicting that they will see their profitability decline over the next quarter has also reached an all-time high, with 58 per cent fearing profits will go down.

Who Benefits? Amazon Booms as Lockdown Crushes Small Business in Britain https://t.co/E7rg66jJWB

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 10, 2020

The national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, Mike Cherry, said: “The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions. As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.

“A record number say they plan to close over the next 12 months, and they were saying that even before news of the latest lockdown came through.”

“There are meaningful lifelines for retail, leisure and hospitality businesses, which are very welcome as far as they go. But this Government needs to realise that the small business community is much bigger than these three sectors,” Cherry added.

“This Government can stem losses and protect the businesses of the future, but only if it acts now,” the FSB chairman concluded.

UK Facing Massive Tax Hikes Following COVID Spending Spree, Warns Think Tank, As Unemployment Rises https://t.co/mVzCnM3Zlf

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 13, 2020

The dire warnings from small business come as the latest national lockdown imposed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to plunge millions of workers back into furlough schemes.

Coming almost entirely at taxpayer expense, the furlough programme has already cost the UK Treasury over £46 billion and is expected to only grow higher.

The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) predicted that the closing of schools could result in five to six million people being forced into taking the government handouts to survive, up from three million at the end of the year.

In an interview with Breitbart London in October, a British businesswoman said that she “100 per cent” blamed the government for her business collapsing, saying that the lockdown “killed” her business and made her lose “everything I have”.

“It’s killing the economy, it’s killing people, stopping people being able to visit people in hospitals, in care homes, it’s damaging every aspect of life,” she decried.

British Business Facing ‘Hammer Blow’ from Boris’s Lockdown, Warns Former Tory Leader https://t.co/UOFgKL0g89

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 23, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/12/more-than-250000-small-businesses-expecteddestroyed-coronavirus-lockdowns-this-year/

Democrat Reps. Sánchez, Castro Push Legislation to Prevent ‘Even a Bench’ from Being Named After Trump

House Representatives Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA) and Joaquin Castro (D-TX) are working to ensure that President Donald Trump is never memorialized in any official manner.

“I am working on a bill that would mean that nothing — not even a bench, no airport, no highway, no school, nothing — ever bear the name of this traitor,” California congresswoman Linda Sánchez told People magazine on Monday. After describing her experience during the January 6 Capitol riots, she explained that she wanted to hold people accountable, “[starting] with the President because he invited people to the Capitol, and he incited them.”

Sánchez has also thrown her support behind a second impeachment: “Given that those around Trump have never stood up to him, I have a hard time believing that they will meet this moment with the, with the appropriate response,” she said. “So we have also, I have also, signed on to articles of impeachment to try to remove him.”

Beyond labeling Trump a “traitor,” Sánchez also implied he was guilty of sedition: “I don’t think that he deserves any of the benefits that are conferred on prior presidents,” she said. “I don’t believe that a seditious occupant of the White House should have ever have anything named after him.”

Texas Democrat congressman Joaquin Castro offered similar sentiments on January 8, in a two-part tweet. “In addition to supporting the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump,” Castro wrote, “I am also preparing legislation that would prohibit any federal building or property from being named after President Donald J. Trump.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/11/reps-sanchez-castro-push-legislation-prevent-named-trump/

From ‘Dangerous Fantasy’ to Reality in Seven Years: EU Reveals ‘Uniformed Service’

Less than seven years after British Eurosceptics were laughed at for expressing concerns about a coming European Union army, the bloc has revealed the official uniform of its new ‘standing corps’, as the first of 10,000 recruits prepare to deploy to the field.

Frontex, the European Union’s combined border force and coastguard, revealed the new uniform in a social media post on Monday, showing off the navy uniform complete with EU-flag identification patches and military side cap. The force said: “For the first time, the European Union has its own uniformed service – the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps.”

Previously, officers seconded to Frontex from national forces denoted their new role by wearing an armband with a symbol of the European political project — a ring of gold stars on blue — on their right arm.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/12/from-dangerous-fantasy-to-reality-in-seven-years-eu-reveals-uniformed-service/

Lockdown Forever: Annual Coronavirus Vaccinations ‘Highly Likely’ Warns UK Health Secretary

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted on Sunday that it is “highly likely” that coronavirus vaccines will need to be administered every year alongside normal flu shots.

As the British government looks to introduce more draconian lockdown measures, the Health Secretary predicted vaccinations will need to be administered for the “foreseeable future”, amidst concerns that the inoculations against the Chinese virus may wear off.

“I think it’s highly likely that there will be a dual-vaccination programme for the foreseeable, this is the medium-term, of flu and Covid,” Hancock told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

“Flu vaccination rates are at their highest level ever. Over 80 per cent of the over-65s have been vaccinated for flu this year. That’s the biggest increase, a jump on last year when it was around 70 per cent,” he said.

“That’s very good news. It’s good news for two reasons. Firstly, to protect people against flu and secondly because it shows the vast, vast majority of over-65s are up for getting vaccinated,” the Health Secretary concluded.

Some leading experts have warned that even if the majority of Brits do take the coronavirus jab, it is unlikely that life will return to normality in the coming year.

Delingpole: Matt Hancock’s Medical Industrial Complex Will Destroy the UK Economy https://t.co/jQFGszD4NQ

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 25, 2020

The chairman of the UK government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, Professor Peter Horby said that social distancing measures may need to be kept in effect until the end of the year, adding that he does not believe the vaccine will “return us to normal”.

“There will still be a large number of people being infected, and although the absolute risks of someone under the age of 80 dying or ending up in hospital are low, with a large number of infections that still translates into a lot of people and so we’re going to have to manage the virus, with social distancing measures as well as vaccination for the coming months,” Prof Horby said.

Professor Horby agreed with Mr Hancock’s assessment that coronavirus vaccinations may need to be readministered, at least “every few years”, in order to be effective in fighting off mutations of the virus, which he predicted “will not go away”.

“We’re going to have to live with it but that may change significantly. It may well become more of an endemic virus, that’s with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths, but is not causing the huge disruption that we’re seeing now,” he said.

Lockdown Could Last Nearly Three Months, Despite Boris Suggesting End in Six Weeks https://t.co/SuUliBkXFb

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 6, 2021

Last week, Mr Hancock lashed out at the public for not abiding by the lockdown restrictions, claiming that success against fighting the rising cases in the country will be “down to people’s behaviour”.

The Health Secretary went on to call for everyone in Britain to act “as if they have the virus”.

On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that approximately two million people have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

“We’re at about 2.4 million jabs all in across the whole of the UK,” Johnson said.

Mr Johnson went on to warn, however, that it is a “perilous moment” for the UK in its fight against the Chinese virus, claiming that some NHS facilities are even experiencing shortages of oxygen.

“The worst thing now for us is to allow success in rolling out a vaccine programme to breed any kind of complacency about the state of the pandemic,” the Prime Minister warned.

UK Govt Mulls Ban on Britons Leaving the House More than Once Per Week: Report https://t.co/wLOEf3he1U

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 11, 2021

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/11/lockdown-forever-annual-coronavirus-vaccinations-highly-likely-warns-uk-health-secretary/

Tony Blair Advising British Govt on Vaccinations, Pushes for ‘COVID Passes’

The former leader of the Labour Party and ex-prime minister, Tony Blair, has reportedly been advising UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock on the country’s vaccination response.

Thirteen years after leaving government, Mr Blair has made a “comeback” of sorts on the back of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

The Sunday Times reported that the globalist left-wing former Labour leader has been providing ‘strategic advice’ to the nominally Conservative government on the vaccination regime.

Blair has also reportedly given advice to the head of the NHS Test and Trace system, Baroness Harding, as well as Steve Bates, a vaccine task force member who used to serve as an adviser to the Labour Party.

Mr Hancock did not deny that he has been advised by Blair, saying: “I talk to all sorts of people and we take ideas from lots of sources.”

Writing in the Evening Standard on Monday, Mr Blair said that a “vaccination acceleration is paramount” while pushing for the introduction of a “Covid Pass”.

Blair said that the requirement for a Covid Pass should “at least” be required “in order to travel and probably for everything from attending an O2 concert to the FA Cup final”.

“This crisis isn’t ending soon, and the economic and health damage of prolonged lockdown is frightening,” he wrote, claiming that it may take up to two or three years to beat the virus.

Mr Blair first came out in favour of so-called ‘Health Passports‘ in December, as a means to return to normality.

“I know all the objections, but it will happen. It’s the only way the world will function and for lockdowns to no longer be the sole course of action,” he said last month.

Earlier this month, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage surprisingly called for the government to task Mr Blair with leading the vaccination push, saying: “We are in a national crisis and a government of all the talents, including Blair, makes sense. He seems to have a grip on this far more than the cabinet.”

Tony Blair Calls for a ‘Radical Acceleration’ of Vaccinations, Introduction of ‘Health Passports’ https://t.co/qOEAhBZb3k

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 25, 2020

Since the outset of the coronavirus crisis, Mr Blair has used his globalist bona fides to get involved in the response, repurposing his think tank, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, to focus on the global virus response.

In May, Blair’s think tank pronounced that it had teams “embedded in governments around the world“, calling for “dramatically increased technological surveillance” as they claimed it is “a price worth paying”.

Speaking to The Times about a possible political comeback, a friend of the former Labour leader said: “Tony believes deeply, as do many of the people around him, that he left office at the peak of his powers. He got better at governing as time went on. Ten years later, he is definitely animated by a burning feeling that the British governance is inadequate. He feels that he has the drive and ideas to change that.”

The friend went on to say that after a decade spent accumulating money in the private sector, there is “no shortage of that now and wants to re-establish his reputation”.

The former prime minister denied that he was attempting to make a political comeback, saying: “The only comeback I am interested in is for our country to return to as near normal as quickly as possible so people can live their lives safely and our economy can get back on track.”

Tony Blair: 'Our Teams Are Embedded in Governments Around the World' https://t.co/IlnE1mvxhq

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 10, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/12/tony-blair-advising-british-govt-coronavirus-pushes-covid-passes/

Parler CEO John Matze says his life has been threatened in the wake of tech titans suspending his app and admits he 'does not know when it will resume service' - while pundits warn Twitter is in 'dire straits' after dumping Trump

Parler's CEO has said that he has been receiving death threats since his social media platform was thrust into the spotlight when rivals shut down accounts owned by Donald Trump and his allies.

John Matze, who launched the app in August 2018 as an alternative to Twitter, said that he was being destroyed by the tech giants.

'People are threatening my life,' he said. 'I can't go home tonight.

'So this is really a lot, you know. This is not just our civil liberties. [Big Tech] can shut down a billion-dollar company, half-a-billion dollar company overnight.'

Apple, Google and Amazon banned Parler from their app stores on Friday due to a failure to moderate 'egregious content' posted by users related to the violent siege last week.

http://www.womensystems.com/2021/01/parler-ceo-john-matze-says-his-life-has.html

Honduran President Took Millions from Cartel Lords Like El Chapo, Say U.S. Feds

Honduras’s current president reportedly received millions of dollars from drug traffickers like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, according to U.S. authorities. The politician also stands accused of embezzling millions in foreign aid from the United States.

The explosive revelations surfaced last week in a U.S. court filing as part of the trial of Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez. President Juan Orlando Hernandez and his brother, Tony Hernandez, allegedly received millions from drug traffickers–including $1 million from El Chapo in 2013–in exchange for official protection. The allegations also mention some top leaders within the Honduran military who are listed as unnamed parties in the case.

While the case against Ramirez dates back to 2015, days ago, federal prosecutors filed a motion noting that CC-4 or co-conspirator #4 (Juan Orlando Hernandez) and his brother wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.”

Allegations mentioned by other parties in the case illustrate widespread corruption within the National Party in Honduras, which Hernandez served as its leader for a time. Hernandez is also accused of embezzling millions in foreign aid through corrupt NGOs.

In response to the allegations, the President’s Office in Honduras issued a statement on social media calling the case “opportunistic” and baseless. The statement claimed that Hernandez is internationally recognized for fighting the war on drugs.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/01/11/honduran-president-took-millions-from-cartel-lords-like-el-chapo-say-u-s-feds/

Democrats Are Drafting Legislation to Criminalize Trump Rallies — Classify Them as “Domestic Terrorism”

We are up against demons.

Democrats in both the US House and Senate are drafting legislation to classify “Make America Great Again” rallies as “domestic terrorist activity.”

They are literally criminalizing their opposition.

And they are trampling the Constitutional right to freely assemble!

These are the same Democrats that supported Black Lives Matter — the violent group that caused $2 billion in destruction this in 2020.

http://www.madnesshub.com/2021/01/democrats-are-drafting-legislation-to.html

PayPal becomes the first third-party payment platform with 100% foreign ownership in China

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/paypal-becomes-the-first-third-party-payment-platform-with-100-foreign-ownership-in-china/

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi absent from Monday’s session, had a substitute

Nancy, Nancy, where art thou Nancy?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was nowhere to be found during Monday’s session on Capitol Hill which sparked a string of comments online questioning her whereabouts.

The Madam Speaker’s disappearance from the house went virtually unnoticed and was unreported by media outlets.

“She’s too drunk and appointed a substitute,” James Kowalski commented on Facebook.

Kate Soda posted a meme showing a party with full-on confetti in celebration of Pelosi’s truancy.

Pam Perkins wrote:

“Well, I’m disappointed! She just had someone take her place today! I was ready for her to be gone for good!”

U.S. representative Debbie Dingell filled in for Pelosi.

https://www.intellihub.com/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-absent-from-mondays-session-had-a-substitute/

White House counsel Pat Cipollone and then AG Bill Barr both warned Donald Trump not to issue a self-pardon and told him he'd be sued 'like O.J.' over riots if he did

President Donald Trump has been warned that he faces potential civil liability over the Capitol riots – an event that has reshaped the pardon landscape with questions about whether Trump might pardon himself, Rudy Giuliani – or those who carried out the riots during the electoral count.

There have been reports for weeks about a potential flood of pardons in Trump's final days in office. Trump has long spoke publicly and privately about a potential self-pardon – a potential act that gained new currency after the leak of Trump's call to the top election official in Georgia.

That call featured Trump asking Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to 'find' 11,780 votes.

Now, on top of his existing legal woes, Trump is being advised he faces potential legal exposure over the Capitol riots, ABC News reports.

'Think O.J.,' an advisor reportedly told him, referencing how O.J. Simpson faced a civil trial for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson even after being acquitted of murder.

CNN reported that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and former Attorney Gen. Bill Barr have repeatedly advised Trump not to pardon himself.

In Barr's case, it came before his resignation in December after publicly splitting with Trump on the president's repeated claims of election fraud that stoked up his supporters before last week's rally.

The Constitution is silent on self-pardon, so it Trump were to take such an action, it would be up to the Justice Department under President-elect Joe Biden to determine whether to challenge such a move by bringing charges anyway.

There have already been reports that Cipollone has been considering resigning amid a flood of other resignations, and that Trump only released a video acknowledging a transition – but still failing to congratulate Joe Biden – under pressure and following warnings about his own potential exposure.

One issue is whether Trump himself could be charged with inciting rioters who stormed the Capitol, after Trump urged them to 'fight.' Trump could push back in court on First Amendment grounds. He is facing impeachment on a single article of 'incitement of insurrection,' but that is a political process that doesn't need to meet any burdens of existing case law on incitement.

Scholars are split on the efficacy of a self-pardon. Trump also has considered pardons for family members – several of whom also spoke at the 'stop the steal' rally that immediately preceded the storming of the Capitol.

Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and Kimberly Guilfoyle all spoke at the event.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer throughout his series of claims of massive election fraud that have been rejected by courts and states who all certified the vote for Joe Biden, has also been mentioned in multiple reports about a final batch of Trump pardons.

Giuliani faces his own exposure from last week's events. He urged fired up Trump supporters to engage in 'trial by combat' shortly before they broke windows and streamed into the Capitol, placing lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence at risk.

The U.S. attorney in D.C. has kept alive the possibility of probing people besides rioters themselves for incitement.

'The situation in DC has raised issues within the White House even on the pardons,' one source told CNN.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2021/01/white-house-counsel-pat-cipollone-and.html

German police shut down DarkMarket - 'the world's largest darknet marketplace' - run by ‘Australian who used it to sell drugs and stolen credit card data’

German authorities say they have taken down the 'world's largest' darknet marketplace and arrested an Australian who allegedly used it to sell drugs, stolen credit card data and other illegal goods.

Police in Oldenburg shut down the DarkMarket site and turned off its server on Monday after arresting the alleged operator at the weekend, a statement said today.

The marketplace offered 'all kinds of drugs' as well as 'counterfeit money, stolen and fake credit card data, anonymous SIM cards, malware and much more,' it is alleged.

Calling it 'the suspected world's largest illegal marketplace on the darknet', German prosecutors said the website was brought down by a months-long international investigation involving the FBI and other foreign law enforcement.

At the time of its closure, DarkMarket had nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 vendors.

A total of at least 320,000 transactions were carried out via the marketplace, with more than 4,650 Bitcoin and 12,800 Monero - two of the most common cryptocurrencies - changing hands, prosecutors said.

At current exchange rates, that represented turnover valued at €140million (£125million).

A 34-year-old Australian national believed to be the DarkMarket operator was arrested near the German-Danish border, just as more than 20 servers it used in Moldova and Ukraine were seized.

http://www.domigood.com/2021/01/german-police-shut-down-darkmarket.html

Millions of WhatsApp users ABANDON the app and switch to rivals Telegram or Signal ahead of privacy policy update that will force them to share their personal data with Facebook

Millions of WhatsApp users have taken the drastic step of abandoning the app ahead of a privacy policy update that will force them to share their data with Facebook.

The update, which will be released on February 8, affects WhatsApp users in all countries outside of Europe and the UK, where there are strict data protection laws.

Users in these regions will be required to give their consent for Facebook to access their data, including their phone numbers and information about how they interact with others, in order to continue using the app.

The requirement will apply regardless of whether or not the WhatsApp user has a Facebook account.

The news has led many people to jump ship to rival apps, according to data from Sensor Tower.

When the privacy policy changes were announced on January 7, Telegram picked up nearly 1.7 million downloads and Signal gained 1.2 million downloads, while WhatsApp, which usually dominates, gained just 1.3 million downloads.

WhatsApp installations also fell approximately 13 per cent to 10.3 million downloads in the first seven days of January, compared to the seven days prior.

WhatsApp first alerted users to the new privacy policy changes in a notification last week.

The privacy policy explains: 'As part of the Facebook Companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, the other Facebook Companies.

'We may use the information we receive from them, and they may use the information we share with them, to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customise, support, and market our Services and their offerings, including the Facebook Company Products.'

Essentially, this means Facebook will now be able to access account information including your phone number, information on how you interact with other users, and logs of how often and how long you use WhatsApp.

Other data that could be shared with Facebook includes your IP address, browser details, language and time zone.

WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014, and has shared data with its parent company since 2016.

Whatsapp offered a one-time opt-out for data sharing in 2016, but now users are being forced to agree to the privacy policy to continue using the app.

Many angry WhatsApp users have taken to Twitter to announce their departure from the app, in light of the new privacy policy.

One said: 'I've just deleted Whats App and Instagram from my phone because their new terms and conditions freak me out.'

Another wrote: 'I deleted my WhatsApp last week. I definitely lost some contacts, and that sucks, but I've come to see FB as a criminal enterprise; I can't afford to give them access to my data.'

And one added: 'Deleted my WhatsApp today. I've been using Signal for a while and think it's brilliant. hope y'all will join me over there!'

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/01/millions-of-whatsapp-users-abandon-app.html

Madonna 'visits FIVE countries in just three weeks' as she jet sets around the globe despite strict travel restrictions amid coronavirus pandemic

Madonna has reportedly visited five countries in just three weeks clocking up a massive 11,707 air miles, despite Covid travel bans.

The Queen of Pop is said to have flown from Los Angeles to London then to Malawi and Kenya in east Africa as part of a lavish winter trip.

The singer, 62, has been accompanied on the getaway by her boyfriend, American backing dancer Ahlamalik Williams, 26.

She was also joined for much of the trip by five of her children.

On Christmas Eve, she, Williams and her four adopted children - David Banda, 15, Mercy James, 14, and twins Estere and Stella, both eight - flew from LA to London.

There they collected Madonna's eldest son Rocco, 20, her only child from her marriage to British director Guy Ritchie, who joined the group on their visit to Africa.

On December 28, the group flew to Malawi, where she adopted the children, via a stopover in Egypt.

It is believed the singer's personal photographer, Ricardo Gomes, was also flown out to capture the holiday.

They spent a week in Malawi where they met with President Lazarus Chakwera, mixed with locals and visited a hospital which Madonna founded.

On Wednesday they flew to Kenya to go on safari.

Yesterday, she shared a video of herself and Williams with the Pokot tribe of western Kenya.

Sources close to Madonna told The Sun the family have all been taking regular coronavirus tests.

The singer, who is worth £630million, is believed to have travelled by private jet.

http://www.madnesshub.com/2021/01/madonna-visits-five-countries-in-just.html

Aid Groups Sound the Alarm Over Houthi Terror Designation

The designation will hamper aid deliveries to Houthi-controlled areas where 70% of Yemen's food-insecure population lives

Since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the Trump administration’s intention to designate Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization on Sunday, aid organizations have been warning of the grave consequences the move will have on Yemen’s food-insecure population.

The US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen has left Yemen’s civilian population almost completely reliant on aid. According to UN numbers, around 80 percent of Yemenis rely on aid, and 13.5 million people face acute food insecurity.

The terror designation will hamper the efforts of international charities that deliver food to Houthi-controlled areas, where 70 percent of Yemen’s population lives and malnutrition is the most widespread.

Aid agencies fear their work in north Yemen will now be criminalized since the Houthis are the authority they have to deal with and make transactions with. US terror designations open up sanctions on any individuals or entities that do business with those Washington brands as terrorists.

Pompeo said exemptions would be made for humanitarian goods. But any additional roadblocks for aid agencies will cause more suffering in Yemen since the situation is so dire. “Even with exemptions, the operation will be compromised,” said Janti Soeripto, the president of Save the Children, according to AP News.

Lawmakers in Congress from both sides of the aisle are pushing back on the designation. According to Foreign Policy, congressional staffers snapped at the Trump administration’s State Department during a phone call on Monday morning.

Both Republican and Democratic staffers were angered by the fact that the Trump administration did not consult with Congress over the designation. “You need to stop f**king lying to Congress,” one staffer said, according to sources speaking to Foreign Policy.

The designation is set to take effect on January 19th, President Trump’s last day in office and one day before Joe Biden’s inauguration. Aid agencies and members of Congress are urging the Biden administration to reverse the move as quickly as possible.

While the UN has not officially declared a famine in Yemen, mass starvation in the country has been ongoing for years. In 2018, Save the Children published a report that said as many as 85,000 children under the age of five died of starvation in Yemen between April 2015 and October 2018.

Since 2015, the US-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has regularly targeted civilian infrastructure, including farms, fishing boats, market places, schools, hospitals, water treatment facilities, and civilian homes. Despite this pattern of indiscriminate bombing, the US continues to arm and support the coalition.

Before the Saudis intervened in Yemen, the Houthis were an intelligence-sharing partner with the US in the fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. A report from The Wall Street Journal in January 2015 (the Saudi intervention started in March 2015) explained how the US was cooperating with the Houthis.

The report reads: “The US has formed ties with Houthi rebels who seized control of Yemen’s capital, White House officials and rebel commanders said, in the clearest indication of a shift in the US approach there as it seeks to maintain its fight against a key branch of al Qaeda.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/11/aid-groups-sound-the-alarm-over-houthi-terror-designation/

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Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett to Resign Before Inauguration

Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett will resign from her post prior to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony next week, according to an announcement.

The Air Force will host a retirement ceremony for Barrett, its fourth female secretary, Thursday at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., the service said in an AF.mil post Tuesday.

The Senate confirmed Barrett to be the 25th Air Force secretary in October 2019, following the departure of Heather Wilson.

President Donald Trump announced via Twitter in May 2019 that Barrett was his pick after Wilson had vacated the job weeks earlier to take a university position in Texas. Barrett had previously been nominated for the job in 2003 but was never confirmed, according to a report from Defense News.

Barrett is the first service secretary to announce her departure. Dr. Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, is also expected to step down.

Defense News reported in December that the Biden administration is weighing keeping Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy in his position for at least another year. However, it is unclear whether that is still on the table in the wake of a delayed National Guard response to insurrectionists storming the Capitol last week; the Army secretary plays a major role in authorizing Guardsmen in the District of Columbia since it has no governor.

Service secretaries have typically resigned or offered to leave when a new administration comes in, but there have been exceptions.

Michael Donley, the 22nd Air Force secretary, was nominated by President George W. Bush in June 2008 and confirmed months later. President Barack Obama reappointed him to the position in 2009.

Robert O. Work, the deputy secretary of defense under the Obama administration, attended his retirement ceremony even as he agreed to stay on in an acting capacity under the Trump administration, according to Defense News' Aaron Mehta.

The service noted that Thursday's ceremony will also honor Roper, Air Force Undersecretary Shon J. Manasco, Comptroller John P. Roth, General Counsel Thomas E. Ayres, and Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Energy John W. Henderson.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/12/air-force-secretary-barbara-barrett-resign-inauguration.html

Top health official: 17% of new serious COVID cases got first vaccine shot

Israel sees record-high infections, with nearly 10,000 on Monday; number of active cases tops 75,000; 52 more people have died since Tuesday morning

Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of the Health Ministry’s public health department, says nearly one-fifth of recent serious coronavirus cases in Israel have received the first dose of the vaccine.

“17% of the new serious cases today are after the first dose,” she tells reporters.

Alroy-Preis also expresses alarm at the sky-high infection rates, which yesterday climbed to nearly 10,000 new cases.

She says Israel will likely have to extend its nationwide lockdown.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-january-12-2021/

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