It begins, now we bailout all the poorly run Dem cities

https://nypost.com/2021/01/14/biden-team-commits-to-policy-that-gives-ny-2b-for-covid-relief/

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has committed to a policy change that will give New York about $2 billion to reimburse state and city governments for COVID-19 expenses, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Thursday.

Schumer (D-NY) will soon be the Senate’s powerful majority leader and had pushed for the boost in funds as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio cite budget woes caused by the coronavirus.

Schumer directly lobbied Biden and his incoming team, his office said.

Schumer said in a statement that “President-elect Biden is laser-focused on America’s economic recovery, and this recovery begins with tackling the costs states and local governments have incurred in managing the pandemic.”

https://www.ntd.com/chinese-vegetables-dyed-green_552770.html

Another form of food tampering has emerged in Chinese markets. Green onions were found to have been dyed a blueish green color in order to improve their appearance and attract shoppers.

https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-large-bitcoin-payments-to-rightwing-activists-a-month-before-capitol-riot-linked-to-foreign-account-181954668.html

WASHINGTON — On Dec. 8, someone made a simultaneous transfer of 28.15 bitcoins — worth more than $500,000 at the time — to 22 different virtual wallets, most of them belonging to prominent right-wing organizations and personalities.

Now cryptocurrency researchers believe they have identified who made the transfer, and suspect it was intended to bolster those far-right causes. U.S. law enforcement is investigating whether the donations were linked to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

While the motivation is difficult to prove, the transfer came just a month before the violent riot in the Capitol, which took place after President Trump invited supporters to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” and “take back our country.”

Right-wing figures and websites, including VDARE, the Daily Stormer and Nick Fuentes, received generous donations from a bitcoin account linked to a French cryptocurrency exchange, according to research done by software company Chainalysis, which maintains a repository of information about public cryptocurrency exchanges and whose tools aid in government, law enforcement and private sector investigations. Chainalysis investigated the donations after Yahoo News shared the data points about the transaction.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212894.shtml

At the very last moment of the Trump administration, officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and some diplomats in his Department of State have found that they were unwelcome abroad, whether in Taiwan or Europe, so they have lost their only remaining capability to make trouble for the incoming Biden administration, said Chinese experts.

The US state department said on Tuesday US time that it had cancelled all of its travel for the final eight days of the outgoing administration, including US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft’s planned trip to the island of Taiwan. The trip, which Taiwan’s secessionist authority had placed great hopes upon, has been rearranged into a videoconference between Craft and Tsai Ing-wen, the regional leader of the island.

Craft, unsurprisingly, has tried to provoke China over the island and tried to encourage secessionists by raising the old topic of encouraging Taiwan to join the World Health Assembly without China’s permission, according to the South China Morning Post.

If Craft were to visit the island, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would definitely have a physical response.

A Beijing-based military expert who is familiar with the matter and requested anonymity said the PLA Navy and Air Force have multiple plans for “unprecedented military operations” to respond to such provocation. But fortunately, not every US politician is crazy, or they would be shocked by the PLA’s response and the strategic situation in the region would be profoundly changed again. “The PLA will prove that there is no airspace of Taiwan, only airspace of China.”

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Well it does seem like the Chineese threatend to shoot down Pompeo or Craft (any senior dept person) if they visit Taiwan