Armie Hammer’s ex Courtney Vucekovich: He wanted to ‘barbecue and eat’ me

Armie Hammer’s latest ex-gal pal says their romance was like dating a wannabe Hannibal Lecter — as the Hollywood star’s idea of pillow talk was fantasizing about which of her body parts he’d like to roast and devour.

“He said to me he wants to break my rib and barbecue and eat it,” app founder Courtney Vucekovich exclusively told Page Six.

“‘F–k that was weird,’ but you never think about it again,” she said of overlooking the odd behavior at the time. “He says, ‘I want to take a bite out of you.’ If I had a little cut on my hand, he’d like suck it or lick it. That’s about as weird as we got.”

The claims by Vucekovich, known for creating the “on-demand glam” app Flashd, come days after Hammer became the center of a viral cannibal fury when direct messages he allegedly sent describing rape fantasies and cannibalism went viral.

In one, shared by anonymous Instagram account House of Effie, Hammer allegedly asked a partner if he could “cut off one of your toes and keep it with me in my pocket so I always had a piece of you in my possession.”

In another, he allegedly described himself as “100 per cent a cannibal.”

While Vucekovich, who dated Hammer from June to August, couldn’t confirm whether those specific screenshots were legitimate, she said they were no surprise.

https://pagesix.com/2021/01/14/armie-hammers-ex-courtney-vucekovich-he-wanted-to-barbecue-and-eat-me/

Texas AG Ken Paxton Launches Investigation Into Big Tech Monopolies, Demands Info On Deplatforming Of Parler

"Every American should be concerned about this large-scale silencing and the effects it will have on the future of free speech," Paxton said in a statement.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he has issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) to Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Apple following the Big Tech monopolies’ most recent wave of politically motivated crackdowns on President Donald Trump and his supporters.

In a statement released by Paxton’s office, the Texas AG stated that the CIDs issued this week “are asking the companies for their policies and practices regarding content moderation and, more specifically, for information related to Parler, a social media application recently terminated or blocked by Google, Amazon, and Apple.”

“First Amendment rights and transparency must be maintained for a free online community to operate and thrive,” Paxton said in the statement. “However, the seemingly coordinated de-platforming of the President of the United States and several leading voices not only chills free speech, it wholly silences those whose speech and political beliefs do not align with leaders of Big Tech companies.”

The statement went on to reference the purge of President Trump: “For years, these Big Tech companies have silenced voices in the social media sphere and shut down competing companies and platforms. It has only grown worse in recent months. And just last week, this discriminatory action included the unprecedented step of removing and blocking President Donald Trump from online media platforms.”

Paxton added, “Every American should be concerned about this large-scale silencing and the effects it will have on the future of free speech.”

Though Paxton remains hopeful that hopeful that “these companies will set aside partisan politics and cooperate with these CIDs,” it is unclear how effective the request for transparency will be against Big Tech monopolies.

U.S. lawmakers have repeatedly failed to create any substantive policies that check the power of Big Tech to restrict free speech.

Meanwhile, countries such as Poland and Uganda have taken far more effectual action to protect free speech.

This week, Facebook and Twitter were humiliated when Uganda blocked the platforms from ISPs for interfering in local elections, with Twitter calling the move a “violation of basic human rights.”

https://nationalfile.com/texas-ag-ken-paxton-launches-investigation-into-big-tech-monopolies-demands-info-on-deplatforming-of-parler/

One Year Ago, W.H.O. Shared Chinese COVID Propaganda: ‘No Clear Evidence of Human-to-Human Transmission’

Twelve months ago today, the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) reassured the world on the then-new coronavirus outbreak, uncritically repeating a message from the Chinese Communist Party that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” of the virus.

On January 14, 2020, as Coronavirus raged inside China and just one day after the first international case had been reported, the W.H.O. announced to the world that “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan, China.”

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇳. pic.twitter.com/Fnl5P877VG

— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 14, 2020

The message, delivered without context about the Chinese Communist Party’s reliability on honestly reporting internal matters, was later defended by W.H.O. chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is not a medical doctor, as “in line with our practice of reporting to the world info that countries report to us,” after it became clear that the information was disastrously wrong.

By the W.H.O.’s own account, they had also hosted a press conference the same day where one of their scientists said: “is it certainly possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission.”

The W.H.O. faced criticism and accusations over its allegedly slow response to the Coronavirus in 2020, including claims made in the German press that the U.N. agency deliberately delayed its own declaration of the pandemic at the request of Beijing.

Der Spiegel reported that not only had Chinese dictator Xi Jinping personally asked the head of the W.H.O. to delay reporting on the Chinese coronavirus, but also asked they delay revealing that it could spread from person to person. The W.H.O. denied the claims. Both China and the W.H.O. denied the report.

Regardless, the W.H.O.’s final warnings came months after the body was warned by Taiwan — as early as December, in fact — of a new deadly disease spreading in the region. The Taiwan government told Breitbart in March: “Taiwan did report our concern on the severity of coronavirus last December to the WHO… WHO mostly ignored our messages and never shared information as they do to other countries.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/14/one-year-ago-w-h-o-shared-chinese-covid-propaganda-no-clear-evidence-of-human-to-human-transmission/

Biden Inaugural: National Guard Troops Authorized to Use Lethal Force as D.C. Turns Into Police State

National Guard troops deployed in Washington, D.C. for the Biden inaugural in the wake of the storming of the Capitol last week have been authorized to use lethal force, according to a report by U.S. News that cited a Defense Department official. The D.C. National Guard had issued a statement Wednesday that troops under its command had been authorized to carry weapons.

A reported 20,000 troops are being deployed in the nation’s capital. Checkpoints have been established. Razor wire topped fencing has been erected around the Capitol and Supreme Court, large swaths of official Washington have been blocked to vehicular traffic. Many Metro stations in downtown D.C. are completely closed. The Washington Monument is closed and the National Mall is set to be closed. Airbnb cancelled all reservations in the D.C. area for the period of the inauguration. Hotels are being pressured to do the same. The message to Americans is stay away from D.C.

Excerpt from U.S. News report:

THE 20,000 NATIONAL Guard troops preparing for pro-Trump demonstrations this weekend in the nation’s capital will be armed and permitted to use lethal force, the headquarters overseeing them says, marking a striking escalation in the way authorities there are preparing for repeat violence after last week’s deadly mob.

“On January 12, 2021, National Guardsmen were given authorization to be armed in support of the U.S. Capitol Police to protect the U.S. Capitol and individual members of Congress and their staff,” according to a statement from the D.C. National Guard, which is commanding Guard forces in the city, including units deployed from six other states, to provide security for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.

A defense official confirmed the authorization includes permission for Guard troops to use lethal force.

The request came from federal authorities and was approved by Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy – who oversees D.C. Guard deployments since the District is not a state – indicating it was not a request from the local government.

More from the D.C. Guard statement issued Wednesday:

“Our objectives are to provide support to local authorities. To date, we are being asked to provide security, crowd management, traffic control, parking coordination, and medical and logistical support. The public’s safety is our top priority. Guardsmen are trained in the use of lethal and less-than-lethal force, de-escalation techniques, as well as the use of protective equipment. This is standard for civil disturbance response missions.”

The shutdowns and deployments:

“I can honestly say this is the first time I’ve had to clear a police/national guard checkpoint to get to my office in DC. Security measures are now extensive and span far back from the Capitol.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/biden-inaugural-national-guard-troops-authorized-use-lethal-force-d-c-turns-police-state/

MIT Professor Arrested and Charged with Grant Fraud for Failing to Disclose Work For Chinese Government

One way the Chinese Communist Party influences the US is by infiltrating universities.

Gang Chen, 56, was arrested and charged with grant fraud on Thursday for failing to disclose his work for the Chinese government to the US Department of Energy.

Since 2013, Chen’s research at MIT has been funded by more than $19 million in US grants.

The Justice Department announced the charges on Thursday and according to charging documents, Chen is a naturalized citizen who was born in China.

From at least 2017 to 2019 when Chen was serving in several advisory roles for the PRC [People’s Republic of China] and PRC entities, Chen applied for and obtained a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant in order to fund a portion of his research at MIT. In doing so, it is alleged that Chen failed to disclose information about his ongoing affiliations with the PRC as required by DOE.

Chen also allegedly failed to disclose to the IRS in his 2018 tax return that he maintained a bank account in the PRC with more than $10,000 in 2018.

Chen was charged with wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report (FBAR) and making a false statement in a tax return.

Via the US Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts:

According to charging documents, Chen is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China. He is a professor and researcher at MIT where he serves as Director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and Director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC). Since approximately 2013, Chen’s research at MIT has been funded by more than $19 million in grants awarded by various U.S. federal agencies.

Since 2012, Chen has allegedly held various appointments with the PRC designed to promote the PRC’s technological and scientific development by providing advice and expertise – sometimes directly to PRC government officials – and often in exchange for financial compensation. This includes acting as an “overseas expert” for the PRC government at the request of the PRC Consulate Office in New York and serving as a member of at least two PRC Talent Programs. Since 2013, Chen allegedly received approximately $29 million of foreign funding, including $19 million from the PRC’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).

It is further alleged that Chen’s efforts to promote the PRC’s scientific and economic development were partially detailed in a February 2016 email that Chen sent himself using his MIT e-mail account. The email read:

1. promote Chinese collaboration

1. China places innovation (scientific) as key and core not fashion [sic], but because

we must do it, from historic trend as well from our stage

1. our economy is no. 2, but from technology (structure of economy) and humanresources, we are far from no. 2

1. we are paying big price in environment, not sustainable, as well as from labor cost

1. environment protection and development in same place, environment even higher, clean energy if higher cost, reduce steel, cement. We must count on technology, cannot grow as past

1. communist 18th convention, scientific innovation placed at core. We realize not just independent innovation; but also internationalize to plan for and facilitate. Closed door innovation does not work; innovation as driving force

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/mit-professor-arrested-charged-grant-fraud-failing-disclose-work-chinese-government/

Mexican Mayor Tied to a Tree During Altercation With Town Residents

The mayor later attempted to downplay the momentarily embarrassing incident, insisting that he was not, actually, tied down.

A mayor of Frontera Comapala, a town in Mexico, was briefly detained by local residents who were none too thrilled by the sorry state of the water system in the area.

According to the Daily Mail, the incident occurred on Monday as the mayor, Oscar Ramirez, was presenting a "series of public projects" that had been previously promised to the locals.

At that time, representatives of some 11 communes that comprise the city confronted Ramirez, and photos emerged online showing him tied to a tree during the encounter.

Comuneros del municipio de Frontera Comalapa en #Chiapas, amarraron al edil Óscar Ramírez Aguilar, por entregar una obra de mala calidad. @lopezdoriga pic.twitter.com/DCy9pTXOIV

— Darinel Zacarias (@Darinelzacarias) January 12, 2021

"He promised us that it would be a decent work for the people of Comalapa, but it was all a sham because the water system does not work well”, a resident said, quoted by the newspaper. "It is a long-standing problem that must be dealt with properly and that must be a priority in this [term], because he came to see us at our houses with that promise and now he does not want to comply".

Ramirez reportedly sought to downplay the incident, insisting that he was not, actually, restrained with rope against the trunk of a tree.

"The meeting was with eleven representatives of neighborhoods of the municipal seat of Comalapa to agree on details of a high-impact work, the introduction of drinking water", he suggested instead.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202101141081769825-mexican-mayor-tied-to-a-tree-during-altercation-with-town-residents/

Dead Capitol Police Officer Suffered Medical Condition, No Evidence of Getting Hit By Fire Extinguisher

Reality Invades The Media Narrative

The U.S. Capitol police officer who died following the Jan. 6 Capitol invasion is believed to have suffered from a pre-existing medical condition that contributed to his death. This fact complicates the mainstream media’s narrative, which seeks to pin the officer’s death on supposedly violent pro-Trump protesters. The media is trying to forge resentment against Trump and conservative activists in the eyes of Middle America, using the fallen officer as a cause celebre. But even the officer’s family is pleading with the public not to politicize his death as narrative-busting details emerge.

Brian Sicknick was reportedly “injured” during the Capitol protest and media and activists ran with the story that he had been struck by a fire extinguisher by the Trump protesters. But Propublica reported that Sicknick told his brother he was merely pepper-sprayed. Where did the fire extinguisher story come from? ProPublica also noted Sicknick’s blood clot and stroke and use of a ventilator, according to Western Journal.

“He texted me last night and said, ‘I got pepper-sprayed twice,’ and he was in good shape. Apparently he collapsed in the Capitol and they resuscitated him using CPR,” the officer’s brother Ken Sicknick told ProPublica.

ABC reported that sources said Sicknick died from “medical condition” complications while being unable to retrieve video of anyone hitting him with a fire extinguisher, as noted by Western Journal.

“Many details regarding Wednesday’s events and the direct causes of Brian’s injuries remain unknown and our family asks the public and the press to respect our wishes in not making Brian’s passing a political issue. Please honor Brian’s life and service and respect our privacy while we move forward in doing the same. Brian is a hero and that is what we would like people to remember. Thank you,” stated the Sicknick family statement.

The U.S. military is currently guarding the U.S. Capitol ahead of Joe Biden’s disputed inauguration to the presidency on January 20. The mainstream media is pushing the narrative that Trump supporters are domestic terrorists, and of course the FBI and members of the political class including Lindsey Graham are vowing to prosecute the patriotic protesters.

Mainstream media pushed sickening disinformation during the course of the Capitol riot. For instance, a Huffington Post reporter named Matt Fuller falsely claimed that Trump supporters were firing gunshots into the U.S. Senate chamber, despite the fact that this was not true. “They’re shooting into the chamber,” Fuller tweeted. That tweet, now deleted, went viral. Did it incite tensions? In reality, Capitol Police shot and killed Ashli Babbit, a protester and Air Force veteran who did not fire at the cops.

https://nationalfile.com/dead-capitol-police-officer-suffered-medical-condition-no-evidence-of-getting-hit-by-fire-extinguisher/

Evidence of Election Fraud & Foreign Election Interference

The fake news keeps telling you there's no evidence of voter fraud or foreign election interference & social media BANS anyone who says there is. Here are 5 reports proving otherwise. I will be updating this post regularly as more information is made available so please bookmark it.

The latest analysis reveals the following illegal votes found by swing state compared to the alleged margin of "victory" for Biden:

Arizona: 254,722 illegal votes/10,457 margin of victory

Georgia: 601,130/11,779

Michigan: 446,803/154,818

Nevada: 220,008/33,596

Pennsylvania: 991,467/81,660

Wisconsin: 553,872/20,682

As you can see, this isn't a handful of illegal votes. In these 6 states alone, they found over 2.5 MILLION illegal votes ABOVE the margin of victory of 300,000. Analysts are compiling the same information for OTHER states - like Minnesota & California - where many believe the results have been rigged for years. There are 28 states using voting machines, hooked to the internet, capable of manipulating results. Ask yourself why the courts, election officials & Congress don't want YOU to see this well-documented evidence of widespread election fraud.

https://www.tierneyrealnewsnetwork.com/post/evidence-of-election-fraud-foreign-election-interference?postId=6000613c5d98360018539efc

Are We All ‘Domestic Terrorists’?

Joe Biden has the people who took over the Capitol on Jan. 6 figured out. In just two days, he had them pegged for “a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites, and it’s not enough.” Not enough? He also said they were “domestic terrorists.” Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, “Squad” leader Cori Bush and plenty of others agreed that they were domestic terrorists. Even the mayor of Orlando says so, and DC mayor Muriel Bowser called the occupation “textbook terrorism” so that clinches it.

Curiously, there is a federal definition of domestic terrorism, but it isn’t a crime. There is now tremendous pressure to change that, and depending on what kind of law takes shape, there could be huge implications for dissidents.

For now, this definition from 18 U.S. Code § 2331 is worth studying:

(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that — (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended — (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.

Does this apply to the Capitol takeover? Domestic terrorism must be an illegal act “dangerous to human life” and meant to influence policy. The Trump supporters wanted to influence policy alright, but what does “dangerous to human life” mean? The Michigan Penal Code says it is “that which causes a substantial likelihood of death or serious injury.”

That wouldn’t include trespassing, breaking and entering, or even scuffling with the police. Anyone who may have killed Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick would meet the definition of a “domestic terrorist,” but the circumstances of his death are still not clear. It may be there wasn’t a single “textbook” domestic terrorist at the Capitol that day. Lefties are gloating over the death of Ashli Babbitt, but the only thing she did that was “dangerous to human life” was stop a bullet.

Why all the talk about “domestic terrorism”? I suspect it’s because people can’t stand the idea that the Trump mob could be guilty of nothing more than trespassing. Time reports sadly that there are no laws against domestic terrorism, but lists the charges it wants brought: seditious conspiracy, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence, homicide, assault, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, restricted-area violations, vandalism, and trespassing.

Sure enough, the Justice Department has set up a task force to file sedition and conspiracy charges. The investigation is said to be “one of the most expansive criminal investigations in the history of the Justice Department.” The authorities promise to hunt the rioters — many of whom just walked through an open door — to the ends of the earth as if they were Osama bin Laden. The contrast with the handling of BLM and antifa rioters is stark.

Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, has another idea. “Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol,” he wants everyone involved put on the No-Fly List.

https://www.unz.com/article/are-we-all-domestic-terrorists/

Biden Picks “Mr. Monsanto” Tom Vilsack to Head the USDA

Under Obama, Vilsack brought us cloned farm animals, lab-grown meat and more GMOs than any Agriculture Secretary before or after him

“No More Malarkey” Joe Biden just nominated one of Monsanto’s best friends to head the US Department of Agriculture.

During his eight years under Obama, Tom Vilsack earned the nickname “Mr. Monsanto” for approving more new genetically modified organisms than any Agriculture Secretary in history, and for making gobs of money for every approval.

• Roundup Ready sugar beets. A judge ruled Monsanto’s sugar beets would inevitably contaminate other crops, eventually “eliminating a consumer’s choice to eat non-genetically engineered food.”

• Roundup Ready alfalfa. Monsanto’s first genetically modified perennial went wild, costing alfalfa growers millions.

• Monsanto’s DroughtGard corn. The GMO seeds actually ended up yielding 11% LESS corn than conventional corn during the 2012 drought.

• Dicamba-tolerant Xtend soy and cotton. Several states have banned Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide since its approval in 2015, after it drifted and destroyed millions of acres of conventional soy, as well as nurseries, vineyards, vegetables, trees and native plants.

• Roundup Ready lawn grass. Vilsack told the Scotts Miracle-Gro it didn’t need permits to sell genetically engineered grass commercially.

• Agrisure corn. Vilsack allowed Syngenta to sell corn seed with genetically engineered traits that were illegal in China to U.S. farmers. The corn crop was rejected by the markets, costing farmers $1.5 billion.

• Ethanol-only corn. Unsuitable for human or animal consumption, Syngenta’s ethanol corn has the potential to destroy the genome of edible corn where cross contamination occurs.

• 2,4-D-tolerant corn, cotton and soy. A known endocrine disruptor, Dow’s 2,4-D is linked to cancer, thyroid disorders, decreased fertility and birth defects. Vilsack’s approval of the crops increased the use of 2,4-D as much as 600%.

• Innate potatoes. The former Monsanto scientist who invented this “RNA interference” GMO exposed the dangers of his work four years after Vilsack approved it. He found an accumulation of toxins in the potatoes, and even scarier, he found their double-stranded RNA enters the human bloodstream, where it can influence our own cell function.

• Arctic Apples. These ever-green apples don’t turn brown when they bruise or start to rot, and even retain their bright green pigment when they are juiced. These GMOs were also created using RNA interference technology.

• Cloned animals. When Vilsack was asked in 2010 if cloned cows or their offspring had made it into the North American food supply, he claimed he “didn’t know”. Needless to say, this aroused alarm. While Europe responded with an embargo, Vilsack left the door open for cloned animal products to be labeled “USDA Organic.”

“It is very likely that the offspring of cloned animals are now being used to produce organic milk and other food,” the Organic Consumer’s Association says.

• Synbio dairy substitutes. Vilsack allowed companies like Perfect Day to begin using genetically-altered yeast cultures to manufacture synthetic dairy substitutes. Most vegans have no idea their non-dairy cheese is a product genetic engineering.

• Lab-made meat. Vilsack gave companies like Memphis Meat the green light to engineer cell-cultured meat without requiring USDA inspection or labeling. A former USDA staffer of his ended up lobbying for the company.

https://returntonow.net/2020/12/29/biden-picks-mr-monsanto-tom-vislack-to-head-the-usda/

Twitter red-faced after Pelosi tweet resurfaces declaring Clinton/Trump election was 'hijacked'

BIG TECH CUTS COMMS, BIG FOOD CUTS SUPPLY LINES.

Just as big tech is cutting our comms, big food is cutting our supply lines: siege warfare. We are witnessing a first battle in a much larger, protracted war on humanity — and as with any war, ensuring our own food supply is an absolute priority. …

www.bitchute.com/video/vnz9z2qqj7MJ/

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/ice-age-farmer-big-tech-cuts-comms-big-food-cuts-supply-lines/

FAA announces 'zero-tolerance' crackdown on unruly passengers: No more warnings; expect big fines and possible jail time

Getting serious

We have all heard horror stories of unruly airline passengers making life miserable for hundreds of fellow passengers.

Flyers will fight with each other or with airline staff. And things have reportedly gotten much worse with the airlines' adoption of mask mandates and the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol.

In response to increasing unruliness among passengers, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an order this week designed to crack down on travelers' bad behavior.

What's the deal with the new FAA order?

The new order signed by FAA chief Stephen Dickson on Wednesday empowers airlines to implement a no-nonsense, "stricter legal enforcement policy against unruly airline passengers," the agency said in a statement.

According to the FAA, the airline industry "has seen a disturbing increase in incidents where airline passengers have disrupted flights with threatening or violent behavior." The agency said the incidents partly stemmed from customers' refusal to wear face masks during the pandemic and from the Jan. 6 violence at the Capitol.

For example, air travel news site GateChecked.com reported that "almost 3,000 passengers have been put on temporary no-fly lists as a result of failing to wear masks on board. Tensions have risen due to the Capitol Hill riot, even resulting in an American Airlines pilot 'threatening' to dump passengers in Kansas if they don't 'behave.'"

The new policy scraps the warnings and counseling the agency has historically used to deal with unruly passengers. The FAA will now "pursue legal enforcement action" against anyone who gets out of line. Actions include massive fines and possible jail time.

"Passengers who interfere with, physically assault, or threaten to physically assault aircraft crew or anyone else on an aircraft face stiff penalties, including fines of up to $35,000 and imprisonment," the FAA statement said. "This dangerous behavior can distract, disrupt, and threaten crewmembers' safety functions."

The agency highlighted that, though it does not have the power to criminally charge passengers, it "works closely with federal law enforcement and national security partners on any reported security threats that may impact aviation safety."

Dickson told CNBC on Thursday that the "zero-tolerance" policy was prompted by a surprising increase in the number of disruptions.

"This is about flight safety," he said. "Any time we see a trend like this, we need to take action, because traveling on a commercial airline in the United States is the safest form of travel in human history. And I want to make sure it stays that way."

Dickson admitted that in the past the FAA would adjudicate many of the unruly passenger situations with counseling or warnings, but he said that "with this order … I'm telling my inspectors, I'm telling my attorneys in the FAA chief counsel office that we need to expedite gathering the facts on all of these, and we're going to take immediate enforcement action in appropriate situations."

"That's what we mean by a 'zero-tolerance' policy," he said.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/faa-zero-tolerance-crack-down-unruly-passengers

China Shrugs, Declares Its Half-Effective COVID Vaccine 'Good Enough'

Here’s another reminder that you can’t trust anything China’s communist dictators say.

In late 2020, China declared it had a COVID vaccine ready to roll and as a “public good” would make it available internationally. China boasted that its vaccine is about 80% effective, basing this on its own testing.

No detailed efficacy data of the vaccine has been publicly released but its developer, Beijing Biological Products Institute, a unit of Sinopharm subsidiary China National Biotec Group (CNBG), said on Wednesday its vaccine was 79.34% effective in preventing people from developing the disease based on interim data.

If it was 80% effective, the Chinese vaccine would still trail the U.S. vaccines, which are said to be around 94-95% effective, and Russia’s, which are reported to be around 91% effective.

Several countries stepped up to accept the Chinese vaccine, including Brazil.

Brazil’s Butantan Institute subjected the Chinese vaccine to trials, and found that even the 80% reported effectiveness is nowhere near actual.

China’s COVID vaccine is just 50.4% effective, according to Brazil. That level just barely meets the threshold of regulatory approval in Brazil.

At this point, someone in a position of authority — say, the WHO — should ask China what they knew about this and when they knew it. Did China knowingly peddle a vaccine that’s nowhere near as effective as it claimed, either to make money, to give the world a false sense of inoculation, or for some other reason?

China covered up key facts about the coronavirus in the earliest days when the world could have mounted a far more effective response.

China reportedly continued allowing flights out of Wuhan to points around the globe while it cut off domestic travel, unleashing the virus on everyone.

Only today, more than a year into the pandemic and its devastating toll on the world, has the World Health Organization entered Wuhan to investigate the origins of the virus. That’s after the communists erected bureaucratic hurdles keeping investigators out.

A cynic might read those hurdles as time-buying moves to give China time to destroy evidence.

The investigation commences following months of discussions and further bureaucratic hurdles when China announced that some members of the team hadn’t received valid visas.

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Beijing has long resisted demands for an international investigation, instead pushing fringe theories that the virus entered China from abroad.

Remember when China tried to blame the U.S. Army for bring coronavirus to Wuhan?

China’s response to the vaccine news is typical of that regime. In the state-owned Global Times, the communists declare the half-effective vaccine is “good enough.”

Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing severe and moderate infections, 77.96 percent effective in preventing mild cases, and has an overall efficacy of 50.4 percent in Brazil’s final-stage trials.

Experts say the result is good enough considering almost all participants in Brazil are high-risk medical workers, and the 77.96 efficacy for mild-case protection means the vaccine can reduce 78 percent of people from needing hospitalization.

“The vaccine was able to 100 percent prevent severe illness in such a high-risk population, and effectively control the morbidity, and protect at least 50% of people from infection, which is good enough,” Wang Guiqiang, director of the Infectious Disease Department at Peking University First Hospital, told the Global Times.

Is it, though, when you reported it to be 80% effective?

Brazil apparently intends to move forward and use the Sinopac vaccine.

We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that China claimed its vaccine 80% effective when testing outside China shows that it’s not. They probably knew that before shipping it around the world. When caught, China shrugs and essentially tells the customer that the big dent they see in the car they’re selling will buff out like a paint scratch.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/01/14/china-shrugs-declares-its-half-effective-covid-vaccine-good-enough-n1347688

Did CNN Accidentally Prove That Trump Did NOT Call for Violence at the Capitol?

The political left and their allies in the mainstream media have gloated over the second impeachment of Trump. In record time, articles of impeachment alleging President Trump incited an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were filed and approved by the House of Representatives.

Here is the key claim of the article of impeachment against President Trump

Shortly before the Joint Session commenced, President Trump, addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. There, he reiterated false claims that “we won this election, and we won it by a landslide.” He also willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol, such as: “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Thus incited by President Trump, members of the crowd he had addressed, in an attempt to, among other objectives, interfere with the Joint Session’s solemn constitutional duty to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential election, unlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel, menaced Members of Congress, the Vice President, and Congressional personnel, and engaged in other violent, deadly, destructive and seditious acts.

But according to a new report from CNN, “Evidence uncovered so far, including weapons and tactics seen on surveillance video, suggests a level of planning that has led investigators to believe the attack on the US Capitol was not just a protest that spiraled out of control, a federal law enforcement official says.”

This completely undermines the entire case Democrats made for impeaching Trump.

CNN’s story also seems to support other reports that that the FBI had warned Capitol Police a day before the assault that there was evidence that an attack on the Capitol was expected and being planned on social media platforms, including Twitter.

Despite this stunning admission, CNN also claims that the FBI is examining evidence that there are “indications that some participants at the Trump rally at the Ellipse, outside the White House, left the event early, perhaps to retrieve items to be used in the assault on the Capitol.” But the only quote cited in the article of impeachment, “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore,” was made toward the end of his speech, not in the beginning. If that was his most incendiary rhetoric—and according to Democrats it must be if that’s what they chose to quote—then the argument that people heard that line and were suddenly motivated to go back home to retrieve items for an assault on the Capitol doesn’t hold up. Especially when Trump only said that after his speech they were going to “walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women.” That hardly sounds like inciting violence, does it?

The bottom line: CNN’s report contradicts everything the left has alleged about the violence at the Capitol and undermines the justification for impeaching Trump. The riot at the Capitol was either planned in advance, or inspired by President Trump’s speech. It simply cannot be both.

It is clear that Democrats wanted an excuse to impeach Trump again to make him “the first president in history to be impeached twice,” and rushed through impeachment, without an investigation, over a couple of days because Trump would soon be out of office. Worse yet, ten Republicans joined with Democrats in impeaching Trump over bogus charges. While House Democrats are under the thumb of Nancy Pelosi, Republicans had no excuse to pass judgment prior to a proper investigation.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/01/14/did-cnn-accidentally-prove-that-trump-did-not-incite-the-violence-at-the-capitol-n1346680

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