Biden asks Congress to ban ‘weapons of war on our streets’ as he uses 3rd anniversary of Parkland shooting to demand gun control

President Joe Biden has released a statement allowing a closer look at what his “commonsense” policy on gun laws will be, demanding, among other things, that Congress pass universal background checks and ban “assault weapons.”

“Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms,” Biden said in his Sunday statement. The timing matched the third anniversary of the Parkland shooting, which saw a gunman open fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 and wounding another 17.

Biden has long promised to put his weight behind stricter gun laws if he were elected president and his ideas run down the list of common demands gun-control advocates often push for. The president is calling for universal background checks on all gun sales, banning high-capacity magazines, an “assault weapons” ban, and “eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.”

“We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now,” Biden said.

Though he is calling on Congress to act, Biden promised his administration will “not wait for the next mass shooting” to take action.

With Democrats holding a majority in the House and an even split in the Senate leaving Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote, Democrats find themselves in a slightly favorable position when it comes to potential new gun laws.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week that Biden is “personally committed” to pushing new “gun safety measures” while in office.

Leaders of gun-control advocacy groups also recently met with Susan Rice, who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, and walked away confident new gun laws will be pushed through, not only via Congress but by executive action as well.

“President Biden is committed to taking executive action and working with Congress to put in place reforms that will keep this country’s kids and communities safe,” Peter Ambler, head of the gun-control group Giffords, said after the meeting.

https://www.rt.com/usa/515558-joe-biden-gun-control-parkland/

UK foreign sec says Covid vaccine passports ‘under consideration’ just days after vaccine minister calls idea ‘discriminatory’

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab revealed that domestic Covid-19 vaccine passports – which would allow only vaccinated Brits to enter shops and other establishments – haven’t been ruled out, despite their controversial nature.

After being asked by LBC radio host Tom Swarbrick whether a “domestic vaccine passport, where you have to show a bit of paper to go into a supermarket” will be implemented by the government, Raab replied, “Well, it’s something that hasn’t been ruled out and it’s under consideration.”

The minister added, however, that it has to be “workable”, and that a key factor of such a system being successful would be for the passports to show a reliable vaccine status.

Raab’s claim that the government is still considering a vaccine passport is contrary to what Covid-19 Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi said just last week, when he called the concept “discriminatory”.

Asked on Sky News whether the government was considering such a system, Zahawi claimed, “No, we are not.”

Zahawi explained that the government is not considering domestic vaccine passports because, on top of being discriminatory, they do not stop a fully vaccinated individual from still spreading the virus.

“I think the right thing to do is to make sure that people come forward and be vaccinated because they want to, rather than it being made in some way mandatory through a passport,” he said.

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also denied just days ago that the government was working on a domestic vaccine passport, saying the idea was “not on the cards”. Shapps did hint that a vaccine passport system could be used for international travel, however.

Seemingly, the majority of Brits on social media opposed the idea of a domestic passport, calling Raab’s comments “shameful”, “insane”, and “worryingly dystopian”, and questioning which minister was telling the truth.

“How can you seriously consider not letting people into a supermarket based on their vaccine/ health status, literally denying them access to food!”questioned one shocked Brit. “This government has completely lost its mind!”

A petition against the government implementing a Covid-19 vaccine passport system received over 100,000 signatures this week.

https://www.rt.com/uk/515542-dominic-raab-covid-vaccine-passports/

Liberal Hollywood celebrities suffer complete meltdowns over Trump's acquittal, deem Republicans as 'traitors'

Bette Midler, Debra Messing, Rob Reiner, Rosie O'Donnell, Alyssa Milano went on unhinged rants

The Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement of insurrection for the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Liberal Hollywood celebrities suffered complete meltdowns over the results of the impeachment trial.

All of the Democratic senators and seven Republicans voted to convict Trump, resulting in a 57 to 43 vote, 10 short of the 67 votes needed to secure a conviction against Trump.

The hashtag #43Traitors trended on Twitter after Trump's acquittal, which was full of rage toward the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit the former president. In the U.S., traitors who are convicted of treason are subject to "suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years."

Twitter reactions by several left-wing celebrities labeled the 43 Republican lawmakers who voted to acquit as "traitors."

"Frozen" voice actor Josh Gad quote-tweeted a "list of traitors up for election in '22."

Rosie O'Donnell responded to a tweet from the official Senate GOP Twitter account by ranting and raving, "well f*** u all - traitors - cult members - reality deniers u have no shame - u tossed ur legacy in with his - the nation will not forget ur betrayal - he tried to kill mike pence for gods sake - what will it take - damn it #TrumpIsGuilty."

O'Donnell also directed her venom toward Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), "spare us mitch - u voted NOT guilty so shut the french toast #43traitors."

Comedians Wanda Sykes, Jim Gaffigan, and actor Jeffrey Wright also spewed contempt toward McConnell.

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/hollywood-celebrities-trump-acquittal-twitter

WHO ‘ramping up readiness’ for new Ebola outbreak dubbed ‘EPIDEMIC’ in Guinea

The World Health Organization (WHO) is heightening its readiness and response to an Ebola outbreak in the West African nation of Guinea after eight infections and at least four deaths were linked to the deadly disease there.

The Guinean officials on Sunday sounded the alarm over the new outbreak, with National Health Security Agency Chief Sakoba Keita calling the problem an “epidemic situation.”

The cases appear to be connected to a burial of a nurse who died a few weeks ago, soon after becoming ill. Keita claimed that “among those who took part in the burial, eight people showed symptoms: diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding,” while “three of them died and four others are in hospital.”

One of the hospitalized patients had also allegedly “escaped” from quarantine, but was later caught.

Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa, said the organization was “very concerned” by the Ebola deaths in Guinea, and is “ramping up readiness & response efforts to this potential resurgence” of the virus in West Africa.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Saturday that the organization was performing “confirmatory testing” in the region.

It is the first time in five years that Ebola has been linked to deaths in Guinea.

https://www.rt.com/news/515555-who-guinea-ebola-epidemic/

Incoming SEC Chair Gary Gensler Could Be Worth Up To $119 Million

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, who we profiled here and is referred to as "the sheriff", could have a net worth between $41 million and $119 million.

Gensler was previously the chairman of the CFTC and a partner at Goldman Sachs. He disclosed his net worth as part of disclosures he had to file with the Office of Government Ethics, Bloomberg noted on Friday. A majority of his money was made at Goldman, where he joined in the late 1970's after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. He became one of the youngest partners in Goldman Sachs history.

Gensler's largest holding is a stake worth $25 million and $50 million in the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF. He also disclosed that he had between $50,000 and $100,000 in capital gains from holding shares of Tesla, the only stock that is listed individually on his disclosures. He has since sold the position.

He also disclosed that he will participate in a benefit plan from Goldman Sachs which is expected to pay out $977 per month starting at age 71.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/incoming-sec-chair-gary-gensler-could-be-worth-119-million

VIDEO: Seattle Antifa Builds ‘Snow Wall’ To Keep Police, Emergency Vehicles From Leaving East Precinct

Seattle Antifa used snow to keep powerless police officers from leaving the building, potentially hindering emergency response.

A group of Seattle Antifa members, who organize on the chat messaging system Discord, build a “snow wall” that successfully kept emergency vehicles from responding last night. They claimed it was simply a “snowball fight” on public property, and refused to leave when police asked them to.

In one video, a group of shrill female voices mocks the police, telling them that Antifa is aware they cannot arrest individuals without committing “violent offenses.” As the police leave, Antifa members proceed to throw a snow ball at a police vehicle.

Another clip reveals the Antifa members built a “snow wall” that appears to be between 3′ and 4′ high. A police cruiser, potentially leaving the precinct building to respond to an emergency somewhere in the City of Seattle, gets stuck on the wall, prompting cheers and jeers from the Antifa members.

Once the vehicle became stuck in the snow, the Antifa member began pelting it with snowballs.

Screen shots reveal that the Antifa cell organized their actions on Discord, which has become notorious for banning individuals for “hate speech”, including the apolitical Wall Street Bets server.

“Antifa snowball fight?” wrote one user. “I’m thinking east precinct is the spot”.

Another added, “Theoretically down. Lil scared to drive in the snow and idk if I’m winter clothes ready, but f*ck it.”

The person who seemingly organized the activity on Discord wrote, “psst 6pm, pass it around Bloc,” referring to the leaderless “black bloc” organizational structure Antifa members use to avoid being arrested by police.

At one point the police left the building to ask the Antifa members to immediately stop attempting to trap and attack emergency vehicles with snow.

“I am giving you orders, do you understand?” One officer commanded, “You cannot block police from exiting, via police vehicle, a precinct.”

Members of Antifa mocked the police officers, asking if they do not own a snow plow.

In another video, an Antifa member appears to hold a snowball against a police officer’s chest as she argues with him. The police eventually left the area, and allowed it to become blocked by Antifa members.

It is unclear if these are the same Antifa members who burned American flags and rioted throughout the city as Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20.

During that January 20 riot, Antifa members attacked an historic Seattle courthouse that was named for a Japanese-American who was detained by the U.S. Government and placed into a camp during World War II.

https://nationalfile.com/video-seattle-antifa-builds-snow-wall-to-keep-police-emergency-vehicles-from-leaving-east-precinct/

CDC director Rochelle Walensky: Too early for states to lift mask mandates

The new director of the CDC warned Sunday that it’s “absolutely” too soon for states to begin lifting mask mandates.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that the country is still grappling with case numbers “more than two and a half fold times what we saw over the summer.”

“It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place,” Walensky told NBC anchor Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”

When asked about whether it was too soon for states to forgo mask requirements, Walensky replied, “Absolutely.”

“We need to all take responsibility to decrease that community spread, including mask-wearing so that we can get our kids and our society back,” she continued.

Walensky said that following public health measures is critical as the country faces an outbreak of the new UK variant believed to be 40 to 50 percent more contagious.

“That means we’re likely to have more cases and more deaths from this,” she said, adding that data has indicated there might be “increased morbidity and mortality.”

“It, all of it, is really — wraps up into we can’t let our guard down. We have to continue wearing masks. We have to continue with our current mitigation measures. And we have to continue getting vaccinated as soon as that vaccine is available to us,” she added.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-too-early-to-lift-mask-mandates/

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Russian & Chinese vaccines are necessary to win ‘world war’ against Covid-19 – Macron

The world needs vaccines developed in Russia and China to win the war against Covid-19, French President Emmanuel Macron said, calling the global effort a race against time as the virus causing the disease is constantly mutating.

“We must work with the Chinese and the Russians so that the vaccines developed by their scientists fit into this great multilateral effort against the pandemic – once they have been the subject of the necessary certifications by the WHO,” Macron told Le Journal du Dimanche.

Macron was referring to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ACT-Accelerator, which was launched last April to ensure that access to tools necessary to fight Covid-19 are available globally and equally.

The world needs vaccines developed in Russia and China to win the war against Covid-19, French President Emmanuel Macron said, calling the global effort a race against time as the virus causing the disease is constantly mutating.

“We must work with the Chinese and the Russians so that the vaccines developed by their scientists fit into this great multilateral effort against the pandemic – once they have been the subject of the necessary certifications by the WHO,” Macron told Le Journal du Dimanche.

Macron was referring to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ACT-Accelerator, which was launched last April to ensure that access to tools necessary to fight Covid-19 are available globally and equally.

Saturday’s online ceremony was led by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and joined by numerous dignitaries, including Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

https://www.rt.com/news/515552-macron-russian-chinese-vaccines/

New Zealand puts largest city into lockdown over three positive COVID-19 cases

New Zealand put its largest city into lockdown Sunday — after just one family tested positive for COVID-19.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered the three-day lockdown for Auckland after a couple and their daughter tested positive in the nation widely hailed for virtually eliminating the spread of the contagion.

The new community cases make just four in the last three months — with the lockdown the first in New Zealand in six months.

“We have stamped out the virus before and we will do it again,” Ardern told a news conference in the capital, Wellington.

The level 3 restrictions require everyone to stay home except for essential shopping and essential work. It will also force a delay in America’s Cup sailing regatta.

“Three days should give us enough time to gather further information, undertake large-scale testing and establish if there has been wider community transmission,” Ardern said. “That is what we believe the cautious approach requires and its the right thing to do.”

Airlines were alerted because the woman in the infected family works for an airline catering company, LSG Sky Chefs, where she mostly works in laundry facilities, officials said. She had not been going aboard planes.

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Her unidentified family was the first confirmed infection since a traveler returning from Europe tested positive on Jan. 24, which was the first case in two months.

New Zealand, with a population of 5 million, has reported a total of just over 2,330 cases and 25 deaths since the pandemic started.

Scientists are carrying out genome sequencing to see whether they are variants, and also to see whether they match with any infected passengers, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said.

“New Zealand has kept COVID-19 contained better than almost any other country,” Hipkins said of the nation that closed its international borders and introduced strict social distancing early in the pandemic.

“But as we have kept saying, there is no such thing as no risk.”

https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/new-zealand-puts-auckland-into-lockdown-over-three-covid-19-cases/

Swalwell: ‘We Could Have God Herself’ as a Witness — GOP Still Would Not Convict Trump

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Saturday on MSNBC that the Democrats could have called “God herself” to testify during the impeachment, and Republican senators would not have voted to convict former President Donald Trump.

Swalwell said, “Yeah. I want everyone to know we took an MRI to this case over the last few weeks, and we put forward a powerful, overwhelming case. We went into the day yesterday feeling we had proved the case. New evidence was unearthed last night. We felt a responsibility to get that evidence into the record. But as many people like Jaime Herrera Beutler who were willing to come forward and speak up, there were a lot of doors we knocked on, phone calls we made, invitations that we sent that were not answered by people who were witnesses.”

“And, you know, the choice was, do we chase those people not knowing what they’re going to say to the courts for years or go forward with the powerful, thundering case that we have and knowing that Mitch Mcconnell was telling us it was a jurisdictional one,” he added. “So we could have called God herself, and it would not have happened.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/02/14/swalwell-we-could-have-god-herself-as-a-witness-gop-still-would-not-convict-trump/

British Lawmakers Call to Ban China From Buying 'Financially Fragile' UK Defence Companies

British lawmakers underlined that foreign investments in the UK defence supply chain should be restricted to companies from NATO countries or London's allies outside the North Atlantic Alliance.

Beijing may snap up more UK aerospace companies in order to obtain access to their technology and increase its military buildup, the UK House of Commons Defence Committee has warned in a report.

According to the study released on Sunday, venture capital funds "represent an avenue for hostile foreign investors to gain entry into the UK defence supply chain".

The lawmakers urged the Ministry of Defence to open a probe into China's drive to get control of "financially fragile" British aerospace companies hit by the downfall in civilian air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The report singled out at least nine such firms that provide the Defence Ministry and allied forces with military components and which have already been bought by China.

The list includes companies that supply parts for the Royal Air Force (RAF)'s F-35B fighter jets and the A400M Atlas transport planes, as well as firms dealing with space technology and the production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

The MPs insisted that foreign investment in the British defence industry should be restricted to companies from NATO countries and other UK allies. They recalled that over the past 30 years, the government has pursued a policy of attracting investments to the defence sector on an "acceptable risk" basis.

The lawmakers urged Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to compile a list of hostile countries that should be stopped from entering the UK's defence supply chain, adding that China should be referred to as one of the main threats in this regard.

The Defence Ministry, in turn, responded by pointing out that they're keeping an eye on foreign investments in the UK's defence sector and "undertake rigorous assessments when considering their [investments] potential risks to national security".

"The National Security and Investment Bill [which is going through parliament] is intended to enhance the government's powers to screen and, where necessary, intervene", the ministry added.

Last year, Defence Select Committee member Tobias Ellwood called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to join efforts with the US on a new blueprint for global unity, warning of the intensifying rivalry with Beijing that Ellwood claimed may spill into an "eventual conflict".

London and Beiing remain at loggerheads over an array of issues pertaining to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, Huawei, and human rights, among other things.

https://sputniknews.com/uk/202102141082072322-british-lawmakers-call-to-ban-china-from-buying-financially-fragile-uk-defence-companies/

Israel Will Face 'Toughest Response' If It Crosses 'Red Lines' in Syria, Iran Warns

Over the past few years, Israel has reportedly carried out a number of airstrikes on Syria, which Tel Aviv says are aimed at countering the alleged Iranian military presence in the Arab republic. Damascus condemns such attacks as violations of Syria's national sovereignty.

Ali Asghar Khaji, a senior aide to the Iranian Foreign Minister, has warned Israel against crossing "red lines" in Syria, in an apparent reference to the Jewish state's alleged ongoing air raids on Syrian soil.

The diplomat described "the nature of the Zionist entity" as "aggressive and hostile towards the region, the Palestinians, and neighboring countries".

"While the Syrian government is fighting terrorists, Israel supports them. Our presence in Syria is aimed at combating ISIS [Daesh*] and other terrorist groups, but if Israel wants to cross the 'red lines', it will face the toughest response, which will make them regret their actions", Khaji argued.

Syria Pens Letters to UN Over Alleged Israeli Attack on Hama

The statement comes a few weeks after the Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Security Council, and the UN Human Rights Council in the wake of the latest alleged Israeli air attack on the war-torn country.

"Israel committed […] new aggression on the Syrian Arab Republic's territories in the surrounding of Hama, which claimed the lives of two parents, two children, and injured four members of the same family, in addition to destroying a number of houses", the letter reportedly read.

According to the Ministry, last month's airstrike was one of over fifty attacks carried out in the space of less than a year, with other strikes also purportedly claiming the lives of civilians and destroying their property. These ongoing strikes are a "clear violation" of Syrians' human rights and of international law, and an attack against Syrians' right to live in peace and security, Damascus stressed.

Syria Shouldn't Be Turned Into Battlefield for Israel and Iran, Lavrov Says

Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Israel that Syria should not be turned into a battlefield between Tel Aviv and Tehran, and asked the Israeli government to give Moscow any information on any perceived threats instead of using the military option.

"Our dear Israeli colleagues, if you have facts that your state is facing threats from Syrian territory, report them urgently and we will take every measure to neutralise the threat", Lavrov stressed.

While Israel usually doesn't comment on the matter, the Syrian governnment has repeatedly attributed the missile attacks, which, in particular, targeted armament depots in Syria, to the work of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Tel Aviv insists that Tehran is providing weapons to Damascus as a means of attacking Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement at the Knesset (Israel's parliament) in Jerusalem, December 22, 2020.

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Netanyahu Says Israel Not to Allow Pro-Iranian Armed Groups to Gain Foothold in Syria

Damascus and Tehran condemn the airstrikes, urging the international community to take steps to prevent further raids. Iran denies having a military presence in the Arab Republic apart from advisers sent in at the request of Damascus to help the Syrian government fight terrorist groups.

Relations between Israel and Iran remain frozen, with Tehran denying the Jewish state's right to exist and constantly vowing to destroy it.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202102141082072900-israel-will-face-toughest-response-if-it-crosses-red-lines-in-syria-iran-warns/

Paedophile Convicted of Sexually Abusing Sister, 8, Says Charges Motivated by Racism

A 23-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing his 8-year-old sister during the Wuhan virus lockdown claims the charges were brought due to the colour of his skin.

The Liège Correctional Court sentenced the man to just six years in prison after finding him guilty of sexually abusing his younger sister from the period between April and May of last year during Belgium’s lockdown.

The 23-year-old had returned to live with his mother during the lockdown and at the same time the 8-year-old victim developed symptoms of a sexually transmitted disease, Sudinfo reports.

A doctor reported the incident to the police after discovering that the young girl had also suffered injuries of a sexual nature and tests were initiated on all of the family members to determine who else had the sexually transmitted disease.

The 23-year-old was found to have the disease and was taken into custody. He claimed he felt no symptoms but a second test produced the same result.

In several countries, reports of child abuse have surged during lockdowns. In the United Kingdom, the Internet Watch Foundation reported a nearly 50 per cent rise in reports of child abuse images in just eleven weeks in 2020.

The National Sexual Assault Hotline in the United States also reported a 22 per cent increase in calls from minors reporting abuse, with 67 per cent stating that the abuse came from a family member in March of 2020.

Camille Cooper, vice president of public policy for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), told broadcaster NPR: “So a lot of the kids that were coming to the hotline were feeling pretty vulnerable and traumatized. And it was a direct result of COVID-19 because they were quarantined with their abuser. The abuser was now abusing them on a daily basis.”

Sweden, despite having much more lax coronavirus restrictions than many other countries, also saw a surge of child rapes in 2020, with rape of underage victims driving the overall increase in rapes last year.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/14/man-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-sister-8-says-charges-motivated-by-racism/

Google adds 12 new types of manual action penalties that can censor websites and make them disappear from search results

Google has escalated its control over what people see when they use the big tech company’s market-dominating search engine. It has added 12 new types of “manual action penalties,” or topics where human moderators are allowed to manually penalize websites and suppress them, preventing them from showing up in search results.

This marks the first time that a website could potentially receive a manual penalty for violating Google News and Google Discover policies. Previously, manual actions could only be applied for violation of Google Search policies. (Related: Google’s monopoly on power allows it to weaponize data against its political opposition.)

As its name suggests, a manual penalty is issued by a human moderator at Google. It is applied after a Google reviewer determines that a site’s content is not in compliance with the corporation’s guidelines. Before this change in policy, any violations in Google News and Google Discover were handled by automated action.

Google has not mentioned what the penalty would be for violating News and Discover’s new policies. Historically, a manual penalty results in pages or sites receiving a lower ranking in a search result. Offending websites might even be removed from the result entirely. Since penalties are handled at the discretion of Google’s moderators, there’s no way to know for certain what punishment a site with supposedly offending content would receive.

Furthermore, Google’s help page does not indicate whether pages would be demoted or removed only from News and Discover, or if this penalty would be extended to Google Search.

Listen to this special Situation Update breaking news episode of the Health Ranger Report, a podcast by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, as he talks about how American corporations like Google are now treating their loyal customers as “the enemy.”

Here are the nine manual penalties that are shared between News and Discover:

Harassing content – Content that involves threats, bullying or harassment.

Sexually-explicit content – Content that involves explicit sexual videos or imagery intended to cause sexual arousal.

Medical content – Content that aims to provide medical treatment, or to help give advice or a diagnosis regarding medical concerns for commercial purposes.

Violence and gore content – Content that incites or glorifies violence, or content that is purposefully extremely graphic for the sake of eliciting a reaction of disgust.

Dangerous content – Content that could cause serious and immediate harm to animals or people.

Terrorist content – Content that is related to terrorism, terrorist organizations and acts of terrorist extremism. This includes content that is intended to recruit people, incite violence or celebrate terrorist actions.

Vulgar language and profanity – Content that includes “gratuitous” use of profanities or obscenities.

Manipulated media – Video, image or audio content that has been manipulated with the goal of misleading, defrauding or deceiving.

Hateful content – Content that is intended to “incite hatred.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/google-adds-12-new-types-of-manual-action-penalties-that-can-censor-websites-and-make-them-disappear-from-search-results/

18 Trash Bags Full of Human Remains Found near Mexican Soccer Stadium

Authorities in Mexico found 18 trash bags filled with what appear to be severed human remains in the coastal state of Jalisco. The discovery took place near a large sporting complex where one of Mexico’s top professional soccer teams play.

The gruesome discovery took place this week in the town Zapopan, near the Akron Stadium in the Guadalajara metropolitan area. According to information released by the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office, a group of local police officers was patrolling the streets when they spotted what appeared to be a human leg on one of the avenues near a soccer stadium. The location of the discovery is just a few yards away from Akron Stadium, where the Mexican soccer team Chivas de Guadalajara plays.

The local cops called state investigators who began a search of the area. Police found a shallow pit near an overpass that passes by Bosques de la Primavera Avenue and Periferico. In that pit, authorities found 18 trash bags filled with various human remains. It remains unclear how many bodies were inside the trash bags.

As Breitbart Texas reported, there have been numerous mass graves discovered in recent months in the state of Jalisco — an area controlled by Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion who uses extreme violence and social media videos to spread fear. In 2020 authorities found more than 185 bodies in three separate mass graves in the town of Tlajomulco.

In December, a group of hitmen assassinated the former governor of Jalisco, Jose Aristoteles Sandoval, in a ritzy bar in the tourist resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Breitbart Texas reported. The triggerman was able to reach the politician and shoot him even though he had a squad of bodyguards and police officers to defend him. That crime is also believed to be linked to the struggle between cartels for control of the region.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/02/14/18-trash-bags-with-human-body-parts-found-near-mexican-soccer-stadium/

Secret bat cages at Wuhan lab where researchers planned to breed animals for virus experiments - despite denials of British scientist on the WHO team 'investigating' the origins of Covid

The Chinese laboratory at the centre of suspicion over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic was awarded a patent for cages to hold live bats for testing just months before the virus started spreading.

The revelation comes after the World Health Organisation last week backed Beijing's line, saying that a leak from the institute was 'highly unlikely', while giving credence to theories that the virus had entered the country via frozen meat.

The team included Peter Daszak, a British-born zoologist whose organisation EcoHealth Alliance has studied bat-borne viruses with Wuhan lab scientists for 15 years, and who has categorically denied that researchers keep the mammals for testing.

However, The Mail on Sunday has established that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) filed an application in June 2018 to patent 'bat rearing cages' which would be 'capable of healthy growth and breeding under artificial conditions'.

The patent, which has been seen by this newspaper, was granted in January 2019 – 11 months before Beijing reported that the first cases of the virus in the city had broken out just a few miles from the institute.

A separate patent, filed by the institute on October 16, 2020, relates to the 'artificial breeding method of wild bat'.

The patent discusses cross- species transmission of SARS- CoV from bat to humans and other animals, saying: 'Bats infected with the virus naturally or artificially have no obvious clinical symptoms, and the mechanism is unknown'.

It explicitly states that the method is for breeding bats for scientific experiments: 'The invention aims to provide an artificial breeding method of wild bat predators, which aims at overcoming the defects in the prior art, and the wild bat predators are artificially domesticated, bred and passaged to establish an artificial breeding group, thereby providing a brand-new model experimental animal for scientific research.'

Responding to a question over whether researchers were keeping live bats, Mr Daszak tweeted in April last year: 'The researchers don't keep the bats, nor do they kill them.

'All bats are released back to their cave site after sampling. It's a conservation measure and is much safer in terms of disease spread than killing them or trying to keep them in a lab.'

And in December he appeared to repeat the claim by stating the labs he had worked with for 15 years – such as the one in Wuhan – 'DO NOT have live or dead bats in them. There is no evidence anywhere that this happened'.

The cloak of secrecy with which the Chinese government has enveloped the institute makes it hard to establish the extent to which the patents were translated into practice, but an online biography of the lab's work also states that researchers have the capacity to keep 12 bat cages, along with 12 ferret cages.

Last week, Mr Daszak, who has faced fierce criticism over his research and funding connections to the Wuhan lab, also took aim at US intelligence which has pointed to a lab leak being the 'most credible' source of the virus, in the words of the US State Department.

Mr Daszak was part of the investigating WHO team which swung its weight behind the Chinese government's attempts to dent any responsibility for the spread of the virus. Their findings were based on interviews with staff at the WIV, which has strong links to the Chinese army.

This newspaper revealed last year that the WHO had allowed China to vet scientists taking part in the probe, while also appointing Mr Daszak to its ten-strong team – despite the British charity chief's funding for research on bat viruses at the Wuhan laboratory having been previously stopped on safety grounds.

http://www.cuzzblue.com/2021/02/revealed-secret-bat-cages-at-wuhan-lab.html

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'The structure of Sars-Cov-2 shows this virus could have been produced artificially. There is still no scientifically verifiable proof the pathogen developed naturally, yet a potential human error-induced lab accident as a source of the pandemic was ruled out.

'This is negligent, putting us all at risk, when there are multiple examples of previous lab accidents and dozens of laboratories around the world are experimenting with mutated pathogens with potential to trigger a pandemic.'

Jamie Metzl

Healthcare and technology expert, member of the WHO advisory committee on human genome editing.

'I was appalled by the announcement that the possibility of an accidental lab leak does not merit further investigation. While no evidence has yet been found indicating Covid-19 stems from transmission between animal hosts in the wild or from frozen foods, as the committee entertains, significant evidence points to accidental leak as a possible origin.

'We need urgently an unrestricted forensic investigation without access managed by the Chinese authorities.'

Alina Chan

Molecular biologist at Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

'The investigation served China's purposes by delivering precisely the outcome it wanted since the WHO was saying things such as the need to investigate frozen food transmission and suggestions the virus came from another country while ruling out a lab leak. This felt like a performance. WHO has shown that it has no leverage against a country such as China that plays hardball.'

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Biden tells Americans to wear face masks until 2022 just months after saying they’d only need them until April

Despite President Joe Biden declaring this week that the United States will have enough COVID-19 vaccines by the end of the summer to inoculate 300 million Americans, he told Americans that they will need to wear face masks until at least 2022.

Biden visited the National Institutes of Health complex in Bethesda, Maryland, this week. During a news conference with Dr. Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, Biden informed Americans that he is recommending that they wear masks for the rest of the year.

"I had a little discussion with my friends behind me, Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci, about whether or not I should take my mask off, and the truth is, although we're more than 10 feet away, I think it's important that I not," Biden said.

"It's critically important the message — and I realize I'm speaking to a vast majority — at least, I hope I am — of the folks out here at NIH," he stated. "You know that wearing this mask through the next year here can save lives — a significant number of lives.

"We lost over 100,000 — 100,000 of our fellow citizens," Biden said. "We're on track to cross 500,000 dead Americans this next month."

"The new strains emerging create immense challenges, and masking is still the easiest thing to do to save lives," he asserted. "But we need everyone to mask up.

"I know it's a pain in the neck, but it's a patriotic responsibility," he said. "We're in the middle of a war with this virus. It's a patriotic responsibility — not only if you care about your family, if you care about your fellow Americans."

Biden exclaimed that the U.S. government had signed the final contracts for 100 million more Moderna and 100 million more Pfizer vaccines. He added, "That means we're now on track to have enough supply for 300 million Americans by the end of July."

Biden noted that the federal government "provided $3 billion to 37 states and territories and tribes to bolster existing vaccination centers and create more of the centers to administer — where we administer the vaccine."

In December, Biden promised Americans a much shorter mask timeline – "Just 100 days."

"On the first day I'm inaugurated, I'm going to ask the public for 100 days to mask," Biden told CNN on Dec. 3. "Just 100 days to mask — not forever, just 100 days. And I think we'll see a significant reduction."

April 30, 2021, will be 100 days after Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20.

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/02/biden-tells-americans-to-wear-face.html

US Marshals and ICE ‘Reevaluate’ Operations on Sex Offenders After Biden Deportation Freeze

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are now working to “reevaluate” enforcement operations on sex offenders after a new executive order issued by President Joe Biden has put them at a distinct disadvantage.

“According to our Sex Offender Investigations Branch chief, the USMS is working with ICE to reevaluate upcoming enforcement operations to ensure compliance with recent Executive Orders issued by the POTUS,” the USMS told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.

According to Jessica Vaughn, the director of policy studies of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), asserted in a recently published article that, “ICE had been planning a nationwide operation in partnership with the U.S. Marshals targeting at-large sex offenders, but it was scuttled by the new directive from Biden.

Acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske had issued the new directive (pdf) on Jan. 20 in response to Biden’s executive order, which revoked former President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13768 signed in 2017. Trump’s executive order had, in part, ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, to prioritize the removal of illegal aliens who “have been convicted of any criminal offense” or “charged with any criminal offense, where the charge has not been resolved.”

The new DHS directive under the Biden administration had also imposed a 100-day pause on deportations starting Jan. 22 for certain illegal aliens who were ordered to leave, pending the completion of a review of immigration enforcement policies. A federal judge temporarily blocked the order for 14 days on Jan. 26—a victory for Texas, whose attorney general sued the Biden administration over the executive order.

In the directive, the DHS said it would, during the deportation freeze, be prioritizing in part, “Individuals incarcerated within federal, state, and local prisons and jails released on or after the issuance of this memorandum who have been convicted of an ‘aggravated felony,’ as that term is defined in section 101(a) (43) of the Immigration and Nationality Act at the time of conviction, and are determined to pose a threat to public safety.”

The new rules, according to Vaughan, only allow for “a very narrow set of cases of aliens” to be deported—in particular, “only those classified as current ‘aggravated felons,’ or the most serious criminals who are still in the custody of local authorities.” Most prior convictions would not count, and are “categorically excused” if they happened 10 or more years ago, she wrote.

The strict conditions mean that “only a rare few of the criminal aliens arrested throughout the country will be removable, and even many aliens who do have convictions for crimes of violence would be protected if the convictions occurred more than 10 years ago,” she asserted.

An unnamed ICE source told Vaughan that most of the at-large illegal alien sex offenders that USMS and ICE are targeting “do not clearly meet the new standards, especially in California, where sex offenders routinely get to plead down to far lesser charges, especially if it helps them avoid deportation, and where certain sex crimes, such as sex with a minor, are not classified as felonies as they are in other states.”

“Another ICE officer told me that they had more than two dozen deportable sex offender targets at large in his area who now will be free to re-offend,” Vaughan wrote.

https://thedcpatriot.com/us-marshals-and-ice-reevaluate-operations-on-sex-offenders-after-biden-deportation-freeze/

'Cancel Culture’ hits fever pitch: Journalists, critics, actors, TV hosts, musicians in crosshairs

"Blood in the water" leads to aggressive mobs, somber apologies, says an academic expert.

"Cancel culture" has long referred to the fury often faced by conservatives who become the victims of social media mobs, dismissal petitions and 48-hour news cycles. Often the precipitating incident is one in which the target expresses a conservative opinion — or at the very least one that offends mainstream progressive sensibilities — and the end goal is usually something like total marginalization: reputational harm, a social media ban, the loss of a job, public ostracization.

Yet the phenomenon is spreading beyond conservatives and increasingly sweeping up individuals who in earlier years would have seemed unlikely targets for the cancel mob: an apolitical musician here, a science journalist there, a popular dating show television host, even a gay art critic. As its target range expands, cancel culture produces an ever-more pervasive sense of what dozens of academics and writers last year called the "stifling atmosphere" of "public shaming and ostracism."

Most notably this past week, the Disney+ actress Gina Carano was fired from that company— including the smash-hit Star Wars feature "The Mandalorian" — over a series of controversial social media posts.

Carano has been outspokenly conservative in the past, and her social media behavior has ruffled feathers before. In one case she put the mock designations "beep/bop/boop" in her Twitter profile, a sarcastic send-up of the fashionable practice of displaying one's "preferred pronouns" such as "he/him/his." Elsewhere, she has been critical of COVID-19 mask mandates. Such criticism often riles commentators who claim masks are critical for saving lives amid the pandemic.

The recent Instagram post that appeared to trigger her firing was one in which Carano, via a shared meme, compared the current political climate in the U.S. to that of Nazi Germany. "[M]ost people today don't realize," the meme read in part, "that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews."

Following her firing by Disney+, Carano appeared to quickly land on her feet, on Friday announcing a movie partnership with Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire media company. Yet Carano is only the most recent — and arguably the most conservative — of public figures to be subject to attempted marginalization due to political outrage.

At the New York Times last week, veteran Times science reporter Donald McNeil announced his departure from the paper. McNeil had been at the center of controversy for several weeks over reports that, in 2019, he had used a racial slur while on a Times-sponsored trip to Peru with high school students.

None of McNeil's anonymous accusers alleged that he had directed the slur at anyone. McNeil himself eventually confirmed that he had said it as a reference, in the context of a conversation with some students one day.

Leadership at the Times was aware of the controversy and had initially determined that McNeil's behavior was not a fireable offense, yet pressure from dozens of Times staffers led editors Dean Baquet and Joe Kahn to force McNeil out.

https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/cancel-culture-hits-fever-pitch-journalists-critics-actors-tv-hosts-musicians

FOIA reveals Pentagon has been testing material discovered from UFO crashes

In another stunning admission the Pentagon has revealed that it has obtained and tested wreckage from Unidentified Flying Objects that have crashed on earth, according to numerous pages declassified in a Freedom of Information letter shared with The Sun media outlet.

According to a report in The Sun, Anthony Bragalia’s FOIA request to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which requested details of all UFO material was approved for public release. Bragalia shared the information with The Sun, which published the documents. The documents stipulate that the United States DOD has conducted tests on material that had been collected from wreckage that allegedly was not from Earth.

The discovery of advanced life outside of our planet would be the one of the biggest revelations for mankind and would literally change the way we view ourselves and our universe.

I recently interviewed Luis ‘Lue’ Elizondo, a friend and the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), the secretive Pentagon unit that studied UFOs. Elizondo discussed recent unexplained encounters between the U.S. military and the UFO’s on the The Sara Carter Show. He noted that the Defense Department has been conducting research into the mysteries of what is now more commonly described as Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAPs. He also discussed the interest of other nations, including the recent admissions of senior Russian military officials who say Moscow is studying the same phenomenon and that there is concern that these crafts are interested in our Earth’s nuclear capabilities.

He wrote: “This could include physical debris recovered by personnel of the Department of Defense as residue, flotsam, shot-off material or crashed material from UAPS [unidentified aerial phenomenon] or unidentified flying objects.”

In the response, shared with The Sun, the DIA released 154 pages of test results that includes reports on a mysterious “memory” metal called Nitinol, which remembers its original shape when folded.

https://saraacarter.com/report-foia-reveals-pentagon-has-been-testing-material-discovered-from-ufo-crashes/

BlueBeam imminent?

Virginia College Forfeits Basketball Game After Suspending Players For Kneeling During Anthem

Bluefield College, a small Baptist liberal arts school nestled in the Appalachian mountains in Bluefield, Virginia doesn’t seem to be a likely place to make national news. But when players on the men’s basketball team took a knee during the playing of the national anthem — after being warned several times it was against school policy — the school president promptly suspended the players and forfeited a game.

The players had knelt several times before games in January and February, at both home and away contests. After being warned about the practice, the players decided to stay in the locker room during the playing of the national anthem before an away game.

But before the game on February 9, the players decided to kneel for the anthem. College President David Olive told the coach, “there would be consequences for the actions of the players for violating the College policy.” Those consequences involved suspending the entire team and forfeiting a game.

In a statement, Olive said his decision to suspend the entire team was based “on my own awareness of how kneeling is perceived by some in our country, and I did not think a number of our alumni, friends, and donors of the College would view the act of kneeling during the anthem in a positive way.”

The Hill:

Olive said he became aware on Feb. 1 that players had knelt during a Jan. 30 home game against Bryan College, as well as during away games on Jan. 23 and 26. He then told Head Coach Richard Morgan that kneeling during the national anthem “would not be allowed going forward.”

Olive said he later learned that players continued to kneel at a Feb. 2 game, and the team was kept in the locker room during the national anthem at an away game on Feb. 4.

It’s not like Olive didn’t give them fair warning. If the players’ object was to test Olive and see how far he’d go, they were certainly given a rude surprise.

The players are not revolutionaries and seem a little taken aback by all the fuss. They just want to play ball.

“It’s bigger than us, and we don’t want to have the season taken away from us,” forward Stanley Christian told ESPN.”We feel like we’re in a great position to bring this school a title. So we’ll stay in the locker room during the national anthem. They don’t want any more backlash, and we would definitely take a knee during the anthem.”

The players claim that a pro-Trump rally held near the campus shows that some protests are OK with the school. But the school pointed out that the Trump rally was held on city streets, not college grounds.

That didn’t satisfy the players: “So it’s OK for everyone to have a Trump rally with Confederate flags, but it’s not OK for us to kneel for our people who’ve fallen,” Christian said. “He didn’t have an answer for that.”

This is the mind of a child in the body of a college athlete. The Trump rally was not on the college grounds. The school had no connection with it. Olive tried to explain that to all the children on campus.

“We are a private entity, not a governmental entity,” Olive said in his statement. “We have policies and guidelines throughout the student handbook and the academic catalog that limit certain rights you otherwise might have elsewhere, such as in your home or in a public venue. The most important to me as it pertains to this matter, however, is what I shared earlier. When someone puts on a uniform or is performing a function on behalf of Bluefield College, that person is now representing Bluefield College. Heightened expectations are now placed on that individual as to what s/he can and cannot do or say as a representative of the College.”

It’s a shame other college presidents and pro sports team owners didn’t have the courage of David Olive of Bluefield College.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/02/14/virginia-college-forfeits-basketball-game-after-suspending-players-for-kneeling-during-anthem-n1425504

Blame The GOP For Trump's Impeachment Trial - They Backed It To Keep Him From Pardoning Assange

Multiple reports from last month indicated that GOP senators approved of Donald Trump's impeachment trial as a way to effectively blackmail the president into not pardoning Julian Assange.

As Tucker Carlson reported, Mitch McConnell "sent word over to the White House: 'if you pardon Julian Assange, we are much more likely to convict you in an impeachment trial.'"

CNN reported similar:

Trump is also not expected to pardon Edward Snowden or Julian Assange, whose roles in revealing US secrets infuriated official Washington.

While he had once entertained the idea, Trump decided against it because he did not want to anger Senate Republicans who will soon determine whether he's convicted during his Senate trial. Multiple GOP lawmakers had sent messages through aides that they felt strongly about not granting clemency to Assange or Snowden.

As he departs office, Trump has expressed real concern that Republicans could turn on him. A conviction in the Senate impeachment trial would limit his future political activities and strip him of some of the government perks of being an ex-president.

Trump is less worried about being barred from running from office again, and more concerned with the optics of being convicted by the Senate, people familiar with the matter said.

Though Republicans demanded Trump not pardon Assange or Snowden who exposed our corrupt ruling class they had no issue with Trump pardoning the Israeli handler of traitor Jonathan Pollard, Israeli colonel Aviem Sella, who fled the US and escaped justice after Pollard was arrested.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62047

Reality suggests

Trump did not stop the cabal

The US military is comped and let insurrection occur and continue to occur

There are no high profile arrests

We are still slaves being manipulated by the elite

The NWO is being rolled out unabated

All those who have already received the vaccine are damaged forever

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I know what we all want to happen but we cannot deny what is before us