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CHINA IN CHARGE: The Chinese Communists are Gloating: “Good Riddance Donald Trump”

CHINA IS IN CHARGE–

The Chinese Communist Party is gloating today.

They did it!

China is not even hiding their absolute glee that they helped get rid of President Donald Trump!

Democrats are right there with them. So are the Iranians. So is Maduro in Venezuela.

It’s very clear now.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/china-charge-chinese-communists-gloating-good-riddance-donald-trump/

Biden Issues Barrage Of 17 Executive Actions On Border, Climate, Immigration & "100 Day Masking Challenge"

With just hours to go before his swearing-in, Joe Biden and his team have already started Wednesday with a blitz of announcements for Executive Orders that will be issued immediately.

Following at least a week's worth of media leaks teasing all the Biden "Day One" action items (Rejoin the Paris Accords, Keystone Pipeline, Halt the departure from the WTO, But mostly the massive immigration package that could create paths to citizenship for millions of illegal migrants), Biden is moving ahead with no fewer than 17 executive actions targeting Trump's various policies.

CNN reports there will be a total of 17 executive actions, at least 15 of those will be executive orders targeting a range of issues, while Biden pushes his immigration package and a raft of immigration legislation. Of these 17 actions, 9 will involve reversals of Trump-era policies.

His very first action will an executive order mandating masks be worn by all on federal property.

And after holding a COVID victim's memorial event on Tuesday evening, timed to maximally undermine Trump, who was at a private farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews

The FT reports that the barrage of orders also includes a "100-day masking challenge" to promote the wearing of face masks across the US, with a guest appearance by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who will (shocker of the century) serve as the media face of the challenge.

As expected, Biden will also roll back the Trump travel ban on citizens of certain Muslim -majority countries introduced at the very beginning of the Trump Administration, which survived a bitter court battle that infamously occupied plenty of headline space during the first half of 2017. It also sent protesters rushing to airports around the country as some travelers were caught up in the chaos.

"It was rooted in xenophobia and religious animus and president-elect Biden has been clear that we will not turn our back on our values with discriminatory bans on entry to the United States," Jake Sullivan, Biden's pick for national security adviser, said of the Muslim ban recently during a briefing.

Biden will sign the EOs and other memoranda in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, his incoming press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.

Psaki confirmed that, as we have previously reported, Biden plans to accompany his slate of EOs with a comprehensive immigration package that will be sent to Congress straightaway, where it will need to be passed by the (Democrat-controlled) House and Senate.

We have also noted previously that the day one orders will be part of a "10-day blitz" of orders, upon which we have previously reported, they will target the "four overlapping and compounding crises": COVID-19, the economy, climate change and racial inequality.

"In his first 10 days in office, President-elect Biden will take decisive action to address these four crises, prevent other urgent and irreversible harms, and restore America’s place in the world," Klain wrote at the time.

Other '10-day blitz' items include presidential directives on safely reopening schools and businesses, after Democrats spent much of last year insisting they remain closed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/biden-issues-barrage-15-executive-orders-border-climate-immigration-100-day-masking

European rabbis fume after Tunisian president blames country's unrest on 'THIEVING JEWS'

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) has expressed "deep concern" for Tunisia's Jewish community and condemned inflammatory remarks by the country's president who casually blamed the ongoing unrest on "thieving Jews."

"We consider that the Tunisian government is the guarantor of the security of Tunisian Jews," CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said, as quoted by the Jerusalem Post.

Such allegations threaten the integrity of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world.

The "deep concern" raised by the CER was prompted by a remark from Tunisian President Kais Saied, made earlier this week as he met people in a poor neighborhood in the country's capital. Amid a heated discussion about ongoing political unrest in the country, the president casually mentioned "thieving Jews," implying that they might be behind the turmoil.

Saied, a political newcomer elected back in 2019, is no stranger to anti-Semitic remarks and maintains a strong anti-Israeli stance. During his campaign, he said that any attempt to normalize ties with Israel – which he referred to exclusively as a 'Zionist entity' – constitutes high treason. He also said that Jews who don't have "dealings with Zionists" or hold Israeli passports may visit synagogues in Tunisia freely.

Tunisia is enduring a wave of mass protests, primarily driven by economic hardship. The protests, which have hit the capital city of Tunis as well as other locations across the country, have devolved into violent clashes for the past five nights.

The protesters have been reportedly chanting slogans, dating back to the ill-fated 'Arab Spring', which sent the whole regions of the Middle East and North Africa into years of bloody turmoil and wars over a decade ago. "The people want the fall of the regime," the crowd was heard chanting during a mass protest in Tunis on Tuesday.

https://www.rt.com/news/513114-tunisian-president-thieving-jews/

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China Barricades Beijing, Locks Down Another 1.7MM As Mutant COVID Invades: Live Updates

Summary:

China locks down parts 1.7MM in Beijing as mutant strain discovered

US cases, deaths continue to slow from holiday peaks

Dutch gov't proposes first national lockdown since WW2

Japan reports 5,532 new COVID-19 cases

Turkey administers 1MM doses

Israel's vaccination effort is currently the most advanced in the world in terms

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While Joe Biden is inaugurated, the US is reeling from passing the 400K mark in COVID deaths, which it did officially Tuesday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins' count, as we reported yesterday.

But in China, CCP authorities are racing to stop a resurgence of the virus in the area surrounding the Chinese capital before it takes hold i Beijing, as an outbreak in Hebei Province, which surrounds Beijing in China's northeast., has continued to intensify.

After locking down some 30MM people already in recent weeks in Hebei, mostly in the capital city of Shijiazhuang, authorities are again ordering lockdowns within Beijing itself, as they did late last year, and over the summer and spring as well.

Bloomberg reports that 1.7MM people in part of the Chinese capital are now on lockdown amid reports that the mutated virus strain first identified in the UK may have finally arrived there. 2 of the most recent batch of COVID cases reported in Beijing’s Daxing district on Jan. 17 are believed to be due to the COVID "variant" first identified in the UK, according to Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Even though CCP officials insist that the cases aren't locally linked (citing food packaging, a favorite Beijing boogeyman, as an excuse), they are locking down Daxing district in southern Beijing, where the new airport is located, has been sealed off from the rest of the country after six infections were found there. The total number of cases in Beijing now stands at 15, while over a thousand infections have been found nationwide since early January, mostly in China’s vast rural northern provinces.

As lockdowns continue to intensify in Europe, The Dutch government on Wednesday proposed the first nationwide curfew since World War Two and a ban on flights from South Africa and Britain, part of what Reuters described as "its toughest moves yet" to combat the virus. However, Dutch PM Mark Rutte said the curfew must be approved by parliament, which is set to debate the new measures on Thursday.

In the US, COVID cases and deaths continued to decline on Tuesday, with hospitalizations taking a slight dip.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/china-locks-down-another-17mm-mutant-covid-invades-beijing-dutch-plan-first-curfew-ww2

Refilling The Swamp: Trump Revokes His Own Lobbying Ban For Former Officials

In one of his last acts in office, President Trump revoked his administration's five-year lobbying ban on former administration officials, in a Wednesday morning executive order, according to Politico.

Shortly after he entered office, Trump signed an executive order that barred appointees from any lobbying related to their agency for five years, in addition to a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government. Every Trump appointee was required to sign a pledge agreeing to those rules. But in a last-minute move early Wednesday, Trump reversed the order and allowed the revolving door in Washington to continue swinging.

The move - which mirrors Bill Clinton revoking his own five-year ban on lobbying in the 90s - essentially rewards those who remained in the Trump administration until the end with the opportunity for continuous employment, while granting a reprieve to former officials who had "not been able to work," as Trump joked would be the case when he signed the original order in 2017.

According to WaPo, Biden is expected to issue a similar executive order tackling ethics standards at the White House, which will be 'more strict' than those in place during both the Trump and Obama administrations.

The biggest shift is the new rule that will ban incoming officials from receiving compensation from their previous employer for taking a government job, a practice that has been a flash point for government reform advocates and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Under the Biden program, appointees would still be able to accelerate vesting for compensation they have already earned.

For departing administration employees, the Biden rules create a prohibition on lobbying the administration for at least the length of Biden’s term and add a one-year restriction on assisting lobbying efforts.

That is an effort to crack down on lucrative “shadow lobbying” jobs, in which former officials go to work at law firms to help guide lobbyists without making contact with government officials themselves. -Washington Post

According to Bloomberg, members of Trump's inner circle have had difficulty finding outside employment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-revokes-five-year-lobbying-ban-former-officials