Human Rights Activists Urge Biden to Join Boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics

A coalition of human rights advocates representing groups repressed by the Chinese Communist Party — including members of the Tibetan, Uyghur, Inner Mongolian, and Hong Kong communities — issued a call Thursday for the world to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, set to take place in Beijing.

The groups urged the government of the United States, in particular, to join the boycott, as the world’s leading nation, in the name of those currently suffering human rights atrocities at the hands of the government hosting the games.

Beijing, dominated by the ethnic Han Chinese majority, is implementing policies the administrations of both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have deemed genocidal against the Uyghur people, the majority of whom live in western Xinjiang, China. The Communist Party has built hundreds of concentration camps for Uyghur and other majority-Muslim communities in the region, systematically sterilized women in the community, and stands accused of harvesting bodies of political prisoners to sell their organs. A report published by the BBC this week, citing eyewitnesses and victims who went on the record, described extremely gruesome torture used against Uyghur women, particularly the implementation of systematic gang rape in the concentration camps and the rape of women using electric instruments as a form of electroshock torture.

The Communist Party has also implemented a labor camp policy in occupied Tibet, in addition to enforcing the use of the Han Mandarin language, which is not native to Tibet, and attempting to control the leadership of the majority religion there, Tibetan Buddhism. Similarly, Beijing has implemented a policy of language and cultural erasure in Inner Mongolia, which has triggered widespread protests and corresponding state violence.

In Hong Kong, the Communist Party illegally imposed a “national security” law last year that allows it to imprison political dissidents for a minimum of ten years if found guilty of crimes such as “subversion of state power.”

A coalition of 150 groups representing these communities and human rights activists generally issued an open call on Tuesday to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing to “ensure they are not used to embolden the Chinese government’s appalling rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent.”

Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, which the groups note preceded the outrageous abuses now taking place in the country.

“The IOC [International Olympic Committee] refused to listen in 2008, defending its decision with claims that they would prove to be a catalyst for improved human rights,” the groups’ statement read. “As human rights experts predicted, this decision proved to be hugely misplaced; not only did China’s human rights record not improve, but violations increased substantially without rebuke.”

“Now, in 2021, we find ourselves back in the same position with the IOC who are refusing to act despite the clear evidence of genocide and widespread and worsening human rights failures,” the letter continued. Given the inaction on the part of Olympics officials, the group urged sovereign states to act, concluding, “anything less will be seen as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian rule and blatant disregard for civil and human rights.”

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/02/04/human-rights-activists-urge-biden-join-boycott-2022-beijing-olympics/

Wisconsin GOP legislature repeals Dem Gov. Tony Evers' mask mandate; he reacts by signing a new one

It only took the Democrat an hour to issue another mask decree

The GOP-controlled Wisconsin General Assembly voted Thursday to repeal Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' emergency order and statewide mask mandate, but the achievement did not last long.

Within an hour, Evers signed a new emergency order along with a decree requiring masks — and Republicans are threatening to overturn those, too.

What are the details?

The repeal of Evers' mask mandate passed 52-42 in the General Assembly after passing 18-13 in the Senate, with a resolution the governor cannot veto.

The Hill reported that Wisconsin state House Speaker Robin Vos (R) and state Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R) issued a joint statement following the vote, saying that Evers "has abused his limited authority for far too long by repeatedly issuing unlawful orders beyond his 60-day emergency powers. The Assembly and Senate voted to end the executive overreach and restore our constituents' voice in the legislative process."

Vos said ahead of the vote that Republicans are not anti-mask, but cannot allow the governor to exert "unlawful powers that he does not have," such as requiring masks in private businesses.

In announcing his new decree less than an hour following the repeal of his first dictates, Evers argued, ""If the Legislature keeps playing politics and we don't keep wearing masks, we're going to see more preventable deaths, and it's going to take even longer to get our state and our economy back on track."

Now, Republicans are threatening to repeal Evers' latest mandate and emergency order, which he issued citing "more contagious strains of the [COVID-19] virus" including "the B.1.17 variant, which has been found in Wisconsin and 31 other states."

State Sen. Steve Nass (R) issued a statement saying, "Tony Evers is now an openly lawless governor clearly in violation of his oath of office and his duty to comply with the rule of law."

Nass vowed, "I will be immediately drafting another senate joint resolution to end the Evers Emergency Declaration issued on February 4, 2021. I will also be calling on senate leadership to consider filing for an emergency action in the Wisconsin Supreme Court."

Anything else?

The Associated Press reported that "Evers and the Legislature have been at odds throughout the pandemic but the latest moves created an unprecedented level of whiplash." The outlet went on to note that "Republican lawmakers last year persuaded the state Supreme Court to scrap Evers' stay-at-home order and a state appeals court halted the limits he placed on indoor gatherings."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/wisconsin-gop-legislature-repeals-dem-gov-tony-evers-mask-mandate-he-reacts-by-signing-a-new-one

Michigan Gov. Whitmer calls for pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell to lose her law license over 'grave attorney misconduct'

'She filed a complaint based on falsehoods'

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell to be stripped of her law license over "grave attorney misconduct" related to lawsuits about the 2020 election.

Powell filed many of the lawsuits aiming to overturn the results of the presidential election over accusations that Democrats concocted a complex scheme involving Dominion voting machines to switch votes in order to elect President Joe Biden. Dominion later filed a billion dollar lawsuit against Powell for the claims against the company.

Whitmer has joined the fray by filing a complaint demanding Powell, a former federal prosecutor, lose her ability to practice law in Texas and in Michigan.

"She did not just tiptoe near a precarious ethical line — she outright crossed it," Whitmer wrote in the complaint.

"By filing a frivolous lawsuit based on false statements and by brazenly attempting to disenfranchise Michigan voters during the recent presidential election, she engaged in grave attorney misconduct," she added.

Powell said that she could link Dominion to efforts by China and Iran to interfere in the election, and even included the deceased dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.

Whitmer accused Powell of trying to disenfranchise voters in her state through her legal efforts, and also claimed that Powell helped incite the lethal violence at the U.S. Capitol.

"Ms. Powell has abused the trust the State Bar of Texas placed in her," Whitmer said in the complaint.

"She filed a complaint based on falsehoods, used her law license in an attempt to disenfranchise Michigan voters and undermine the faith of the public in the legitimacy of the recent presidential election, and lent credence to untruths that led to violence and unrest," she continued. "In doing so, she violated both her attorney oath and the rules of professional conduct that govern the practice of law."

Here's more about the lawsuit against Powell:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/whitmer-sidney-powell-kraken-license

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The Globalists Are Gonna Need A Bigger Virus As Economic Fraud Is Exposed

It is a general rule that corrupt economies tend to operate on faith and not on fundamentals. And to be clear, it’s not so much about naive faith that the system is stable or functional. No, it’s more about the masses having faith that the corruption and instability will never be derailed. Most people are not as stupid as the establishment and central bankers think they are – Almost everyone knows the system is broken, they just refuse to consider the possibility that the fraud will be disrupted, or that it will be allowed to fail.

The old mantra “too big to fail” is a lie. NOTHING is too big to fail, and that includes the US economy, the dollar and the elaborate Kabuki theater that keeps them both afloat. All it takes is a single moment, an epiphany that the Ponzi scheme is unsustainable rather than unstoppable.

I’m reminded specifically of the inflationary crisis of Argentina in 2001 – 2002.

Argentina’s economy was highly dependent on foreign capital inflows, and its currency peg to the US dollar, not to mention they were precariously reliant on support from the IMF. The IMF openly validated the government of Argentina and their currency peg model, but foreign capital began to decline and the peg became unsustainable. Without tangible growth in manufacturing and a strong middle class, an economy cannot survive for long. A top down system based on illusory “financial products” and creative accounting is doomed to crash eventually.

All it took was for the IMF to criticize the policies they initially endorsed and announced that they were removing financial aid, and all hell broke loose in Argentina.

Almost overnight the Argentina peso plunged in value, interest rates spiked and inflation struck hard. People poured into the streets and civil unrest erupted. The IMF would later admit it made “errors” in its handling of the Argentina situation, but this was simply spin control designed to protect them from further scrutiny. The IMF avoided most of the blame and has been growing into a monstrous global centralization machine ever since.

I think we are witnessing the beginning of a similar end of mass faith in fraud in the US. The recent Robinhood short squeeze event as well as the current decoupling of physical silver prices from the paper ETF market have accelerated the timetable. Not surprisingly, these moves have forced the establishment to intervene to some extent to essentially stop renegade traders from freely investing. Accusations are flying and deplatforming has ensued. The idea that the system is a functional fraud is gone; The world now knows it is a dysfunctional fraud, and collapse cannot be very far behind.

Furthermore the collusion between banks, hedge funds and Big Tech is blatantly revealed. These relationships are supposed to remain hidden in the ether. They are obvious to anyone with any financial knowledge and sense, but they aren’t supposed to be wielded in the open. Conspirators aren’t supposed to admit to the conspiracy? Right?

Some people might say the establishment has been forced to unmask by activists. Maybe. But, as I have been warning for many years, when criminals start openly admitting to their crimes it is probably because they think that it’s too late for anyone to do anything about it.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-globalists-are-gonna-need-a-bigger-virus-as-economic-fraud-is-exposed/

Italy Detains Suspected Drug Trafficking Camorra Members

Italian authorities detained on Tuesday 20 suspected members of three distinct mafia clans operating in the Naples area. Police said they believe the suspects trafficked hashish to Malta and cocaine to Italy.

Neapolitan suburbs of ScampiaNeapolitan suburb of Scampia (Photo: Vincenzo de Bernardo, Shutterstock)Operation “Buenaventura” targeted the Genovese family of Torre Annunziata, as well as two other groups identified only as the D. clan of Secondigliano and M. clan of Scampia by the Guardia di Finanza’spress release.

However, regional news outlets have rapidlyidentified the two clans as the Dannier and Manzi families, and listed the names of most of thedetained individuals, including an alleged international drug broker who acted in a minor role in the Netflix series “Gomorrah” – a show about the Camorra, a criminal organization from the Naples area.

He is the latest to fall foul of the so-called “Gomorrah Curse,” with several actors in the 2008 film or 2014 series having been arrested in recent years for mafia-related offences.

Regarding the families’ offences, members of the Genovese clan, acting alongside the Gallo-Cavaliere clan of Torre Annunziata, trafficked hashish from southern Italy to Malta via Costa Nostra intermediaries in Sicily. Members of the Dannier clan, which is deeply embedded in drug trafficking networks, acted as criminal brokers between Spanish drug syndicates and other Camorra clans.

The offences of the Manzi clan are not stated by the Guardia di Finanza, yet theirprior involvement in cocaine trafficking from Colombia to Spain andformer collaboration with Dannier members is already known. The Operation’s name –“Buenaventura”-reportedly refers to the Colombian port from which the Manzi sourced their cocaine.

The Dannier family wasplanning to supply the drugs to the dominant force in Secondigliano, the legendary Di Lauro clan. From the 1990s to the early 2000s,Paolo di Lauro was one of the most powerful Camorra bosses alive, controlling a vast empire of drugs, cigarettes and counterfeit textiles.

A lost mafia war and the arrests of several Di Lauros hasfragmented that empire, however, leaving them only their heartland of Secondigliano. The Genovese, Dannier and Manzi families are also on the decline, with younger clans rising to take their place.

“[The] Camorra has always had historical families but [also] new and very violent groups ready to grab power and business” said Sergio Nazzaro, an adviser to the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission.

Furthermore, drug trafficking remains the bedrock of that business, sparking conversations in Italy over legal reform.

The question remains whether to legalize or not the so-called light drugs like hashish and marijuana, Nazzaro told OCCRP.

“[For some] officials in the field, there is the idea that [it may] be a solution,” he said.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13798-italy-detains-suspected-drug-trafficking-camorra-members

First ‘excerpt’ from Hunter Biden’s new memoir

Yesterday it was revealed that Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Biden, will release a memoir in April called “Beautiful Things.” But New York Post columnist Kyle Smith got an exclusive first look, thanks to a draft he found on a laptop Computer abandoned in the Champagne room at Ba-Da-Bing’s on Route 1 outside Wilmington, Del. Here, he shares with us an exclusive excerpt from Chapter 1:

Some of you are wondering why I called this memoir “Beautiful Things” instead of, say, “Ukrainian Business for Dummies,” or “Not the Good Son — the Other One.” Some joker even told me I should have called it “Ten Easy Ways to Secure Your Laptop” (No. 1: don’t go on a binge and forget you left it in a repair shop for a year.)

Ha, ha! Inside joke. You probably don’t know what I’m talking about, because Dad’s media team is also known as “the media.” They fixed it so only one news organization in the country mentioned my laptop. Those jerks at The Post should have known you don’t mess with the B Team. I mean, Team B. I didn’t mean to suggest the Obamas were the A Team and that we’re this pathetic pile of janky political leftovers, like when you go in the carpet store and there’s this dusty corner marked “Remnants.” Sure, the last First Lady is super-glamorous and hangs out with Beyoncé and went to Harvard Law School and all that but — did you know my stepmom is a doctor? Not the kind you can get a Vicodin prescription from, unfortunately. (I asked.)

I’m calling this book “Beautiful Things” because I’ve wised up. I’m no longer a 30-year old scoundrel, coke fiend and influence peddler. Now that I’m a 51-year-old scoundrel and influence peddler, I’ve learned to appreciate some of the finer things. Yes, smoking crack and knocking up strippers have their place in my heart, but these days beauty is something that’s become more important. Have you ever seen a 2.8-carat diamond that’s worth $80,000? Really sparkly. It’s a Beautiful Thing.

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Hunter Biden’s memoir ‘Beautiful Things’ is arriving in April

So is my friendship with the man who gave it to me, a Chinese tycoon named Ye Jianming. Only haters don’t get that friendship is a Beautiful Thing!

Ye ran an energy company. I don’t know that much about energy, but I know a lot about juice, if you know what I mean. My dad was about to launch his presidential campaign. This made me very popular with Chinese businessmen. “Yo, Ye!” I used to say. It was a bro thing we had, joking around and stuff. He’d say, “Yo, for-sale son!” His English wasn’t that great.

Say, whatever happened to my old buddy Ye? Google says Ye, “who had ties to the Chinese military and intelligence services, was the chairman of CEFC until he disappeared after being taken into custody by Chinese authorities in early 2018.” Well now. I definitely would never take a diamond the size of a baseball from a corrupt Chinese spy. In fact, now that I think about it, I didn’t know that guy AT ALL. [Stacey please redact before publication, thanks — H.]

Some people ask me: Hunter, having been dishonorably discharged from the military and not having any relevant experience, how did you land a high paying job on the board of a foreign company? Turns out I didn’t have to mention to those guys that Dad was vice president. They knew already! As the song goes, “I got a name, and I carry it with me like my daddy did.” [Stacey, insert disclaimer from Legal about how Dad definitely never knew about any of this stuff — H.] Getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ukrainian energy companies while Dad was veep and point man for Ukrainian policy: Now that’s what I call a Beautiful Thing.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/exclusive-first-excerpt-from-hunter-bidens-new-memoir/

UK Revokes License For Top Chinese Communist Party Media Outlet

U.K. regulators stripped China Global Television Network’s national broadcasting license.

The decision follows the U.K.’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) determining the license holder has “no editorial control” of China Global Television Network (CGTN), and that “the Chinese Communist Party is ultimately in charge of the satellite news channel.”

Ofcom identified two main problems with CGTN’s holding company, Star China Media Limited.

The company has no editorial oversight over CGTN’s programming and it also violates U.K. broadcasting laws that restrict political bodies from holding licenses:

Our investigation concluded that Star China Media Limited (SCML), the licence-holder for the CGTN service, did not have editorial responsibility for CGTN’s output. As such, SCML does not meet the legal requirement of having control over the licensed service, and so is not a lawful broadcast licensee.

In addition, we have been unable to grant an application to transfer the licence to an entity called China Global Television Network Corporation (CGTNC). This is because crucial information was missing from the application, and because we consider that CGTNC would be disqualified from holding a licence, as it is controlled by a body which is ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

The decision follows Ofcom faulting CGTN for breaking U.K. policies in 2020 with biased coverage of Hong Kong protests and the airing of forced confessions.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/uk-revokes-cgtn-license/