U.S. Coast Guard Interdict 29-Foot Vessel For Suspected Human Smuggling Venture Off Florida’s Coast

MIAMI — (USCG) – A Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet law enforcement team and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations law enforcement teams interdicted a 29-foot vessel with 16 people aboard Wednesday approximately 5 miles off West Palm Beach.

Coast Guard Robert Yered arrived on scene and a crew brought all the vessel occupants: two Bahamians, seven Jamaicans, two Haitians and four Dominican Republicans, aboard the ship. Some passengers were brought ashore for further investigation of potential criminal charges by Homeland Security Investigations. The remaining passengers were repatriated to the Bahamas Friday.

A CBP AMO aircraft notified Coast Guard Station Miami watchstanders of the suspected smuggling vessel at approximately 12:20 a.m.

“Wednesday’s case spotlights the great work done every day by Air and Marine and our DHS partners,” stated John Priddy, Executive Director of the AMO Southeast Region. “With our integrated operations, we get the job done and protect our homeland.”

Since Oct. 1, 2020, Coast Guard crews have interdicted 78 Bahamians, eight Jamaicans, 182 Haitians, 194 Dominican Republicans compared to fiscal year 2020, Oct. 1, 2019 – Sept. 30, 2020, where crews interdicted 194 Bahamians, four Jamaicans, 418 Haitians and 1,117 Dominican Republicans.

Once aboard a Coast Guard cutter, all migrants receive food, water, shelter and basic medical attention.

https://breaking911.com/u-s-coast-guard-interdict-29-foot-vessel-for-suspected-human-smuggling-venture-off-floridas-coast/

IBM Partners with Moderna for “COVID Reset”. “Health Passports Are Here”

Better hang on folks, as technocracy’s plan to digitize you to the blockchain so you can be manipulated and controlled as a digital asset is being deployed — just as they said they would.

Please understand, though, that this technocracy blockchain implementation is centralized, which is the primary problem as it is under the government’s control. This is in radical contrast to decentralized crypto assets like bitcoin, which I believe actually offers a solution to the impending tyranny and seizure of our finances.

Health Passports Are Here

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that “health passports” would be implemented, and in recent months the reality of what we’re facing is getting clearer. Make no mistake: The voluntary “health passes” now being rolled out are just the tip of the iceberg.

Before long, they will become mandatory, at which point unvaccinated individuals will be effectively excluded from society. This is the slippery slope I’ve warned about that will create two separate classes of citizens: those with approved and verified health status, and the “untouchables.”

Not only will these passes — once mandatory — restrict your ability to move about and engage in social activities if you’re unvaccinated, but you will also face financial penalties. Even your ability to obtain employment will ultimately be based on your medical decisions.1

Evidence of this can be found in IBM Watson Health’s announcement that IBM’s Digital Health Pass will be integrated into Salesforce’s Work.com “to help businesses, schools and governments verify vaccine and health status.”2

In short, we will soon find ourselves in an iatrarchy, meaning we’re governed by physicians’ decisions (although the ruling agency is more likely to be Bill Gates than a qualified medical expert), and if you refuse, you’re penalized. Other descriptive terms include medical technofascism and medical technocracy.

Regardless of how you describe it, the fact is you will no longer have the right of self-determination. You will no longer have the right to decide what medical risk-taking you’re willing to submit to, and which you’d rather do without. Your body and your health will no longer be yours to preside over.

If you want to have the ability to shop, socialize, get an education and work, you’ll have to hand over your body, and all your biological data, for the medical technocracy to do with what it will. It’s hard to imagine a less free society than that.

https://youtu.be/xz2IGjIXKfQ

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79523/ibm-partners-with-moderna-for-covid-reset-health-passports-are.html

Day Before Election, Entirety of Israel’s Voter Data Leaked Online – Again

Hackers post lists detailing names, ID numbers and voting location of all Israeli adults a day before election, blames politicians for using app they call a spy tool

A database with the names and ID numbers of all the eligible voters in Israel was leaked by anonymous hackers on Monday, a year after an identical breach and a day before the country’s fourth election in less than two years.

A message from the hackers said they were motivated by the continued use of Elector, a so-called campaign-management app, by political parties.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-just-before-election-entirety-of-israel-s-voter-data-leaked-online-again-1.9642920

26-year-old woman known as ‘Lady Tank’ sentenced for enticing minors to have sex at local motels

Columbia, South Carolina — (DOJ) — India Tykeyah-Najee Cuyler, a/k/a “Lady Tank,” 26, of Columbia, was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison, after pleading guilty in February 2019 to “using a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor under the age of 18 to engage in sexual activity.”

Cuyler’s co-defendant, Donnell Salethian Woodard, a/k/a “Tank,” 33, also of Columbia, was sentenced February 24, 2021, to 25 years imprisonment, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to sex traffic minors and benefiting from sex trafficking of minors. Woodard was also ordered to pay restitution to the minor victims, register as a sex offender, and will be on supervision for 15 years following service of the term of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system.

“The cruelty of sex trafficking is hard to comprehend, and it must be punished severely,” said Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart. “This sentence closes the door on the horrific crimes committed by these defendants and demonstrates our commitment to stopping sex trafficking in South Carolina.”

“Today’s sentencing, along with the previous sentencing of Donnell Woodard, has brought an end to a local child sex trafficking operation,” said Susan Ferensic, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge. “These hideous crimes are frequently uncovered by local law enforcement. We thank the Lexington Police Department and the West Columbia Police Department for their vigilance and dedication as they worked alongside the FBI to bring these individuals to justice. We ask that if anyone sees any indication that a child is being trafficked, they report such to their local law enforcement agency or the FBI.”

Evidence presented to the court showed that on November 21, 2017, undercover officers with the Lexington Police Department encountered a minor advertising sex via a website. An undercover officer set up a time to meet with the minor at a local motel, wherein officers observed the minor being dropped off by Cuyler and Woodard. Officers learned that the minor was 16 years old and a runaway. When Cuyler and Woodard returned to the local motel to pick the minor up, officers placed them both under arrest. The investigation led to another nearby motel where the second minor, who was also involved in the illegal venture, was located. The investigation further revealed Woodard and Cuyler were using a cell phone to post photographs and advertisements for commercial sex with the minors on a website and taking a portion of the proceeds. The investigation further showed that the minors had sometimes up to ten (10) meetings per day at various hotel rooms rented by Woodard.

At sentencing, Cuyler received an obstruction of justice enhancement for 2017 jail phone calls in which she attempted to have another minor assault the minor victims in retaliation for cooperating with law enforcement. Cuyler also lost her reduction for acceptance of responsibility for pleading guilty after she assaulted another inmate inside the jail, which resulted in a state assault charge.

During the sentencing, United States District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs also ordered Cuyler to make restitution to the victims involved. Following service of her 188-month term of imprisonment, Cuyler will be on supervised release for 15 years and will be required to register as a sex offender.

The case was investigated by the FBI, the Lexington Police Department, and the West Columbia Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney Stacey D. Haynes of the Columbia office prosecuted the case.

https://breaking911.com/26-year-old-woman-known-as-lady-tank-sentenced-for-enticing-minors-to-have-sex-at-local-motels/

United Methodist Church Promotes Hateful Propaganda Alleging Trump Supporters are KKK, Confederate-Supporting Racists

The website UMC.org is the main portal of practically all United Methodist Churches today.

This week they decided to promote disturbing and hateful propaganda against Trump supporters.

The promoted content is just grotesque!. According to the section “Name the Racism You See” protesting the irregularities in the 2020 election makes you a racist!

And every Trump supporter who attended President Trump’s speech at the Ellipse and anyone who went over to the US Capitol on January 6th is a racist because there was one Confederate flag there? And there was accoding to the Methodist website -KKK insignia? Where?

These are horrible and hateful lies they are pushing! And from a Christian organization!

Seriously?

So this is what the Methodist church is pushing?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/united-methodist-church-promotes-hateful-propaganda-alleging-trump-supporters-kkk-confederate-supporting-racists/

‘Terrible Conditions’: Texas Congressman Releases Photos of Children in Border Patrol Facility

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) released several photos from an overflow tent facility in Donna, Texas, showing extremely crowded conditions as hundreds of illegal immigrants and minors pour across the border.

The photos show children sleeping on the floors along with makeshift beds.

Cuellar, whose office first shared the photos with Axios, told the news outlet that one “pod” held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. The pods are supposed to hold a maximum of 260 people, he said.

The pods provide “terrible conditions for the children,” Cuellar added, saying these children should be moved to be housed and cared for by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Over the weekend, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited areas along the border, but his office restricted media access. A number of news outlets have said that their journalists and photographers have been denied access.

Cuellar told Axios that he didn’t visit the Donna facility himself, adding that the photos were provided to him as he attempts to raise awareness of the situation at the border.

Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents are “doing the best they can under the circumstances” but are “not equipped to care for kids” and “need help from the administration,” he said. “We have to stop kids and families from making the dangerous trek across Mexico to come to the United States. We have to work with Mexico and Central American countries to have them apply for asylum in their countries.”

https://www.ntd.com/terrible-conditions-texas-congressman-releases-photos-of-children-in-border-patrol-facility_585176.html

Reporter Grills Psaki: ‘Why Are Illegal Aliens Getting Hotel Rooms When National Guard Were Left to Sleep in Parking Garages and Given Contaminated Food?’

A reporter on Monday grilled White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about the Biden Amin’s treatment of illegal aliens vs. its treatment of National Guard troops.

One day after Biden’s inauguration, 5,000 soldiers were moved to a cold parking garage in the dead of winter.

There was one power outlet and one bathroom for 5,000 soldiers.

After Biden used the soldiers for protection, they were tossed into a cold parking garage near the Capitol building.

More than a dozen Michigan National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C. had been sickened, with some hospitalized, after being served raw, undercooked meat and meals laced with metal shavings according to a report by WXYZ-TV reporter Brian Abel.

Other meals the troops have received courtesy of a contractor selected by the Democrat run D.C. government are leaving the troops malnourished.

The problem with the undercooked food began in early February but the meals were so bad they prompted a staff sergeant to contact the Detroit news station in early March.

It was recently reported that the Biden Administration has let a six-month contract worth $86 million to a Texas non-profit to house up to 1,200 migrant families at hotels in border communities in Texas and Arizona.

A reporter grilled Psaki about this and she spun like a top trying to explain why the Biden Admin prioritizes illegal aliens over members of the military.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/reporter-grills-psaki-illegal-aliens-getting-hotel-rooms-national-guard-left-sleep-parking-garages-given-contaminated-food-video/

Supreme Court Rebuffs Facebook Appeal in User Tracking Lawsuit

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook’s bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when they are logged out of the social media platform.

The justices declined to hear Facebook’s appeal of a lower court ruling that revived the proposed nationwide litigation accusing the company of violating a federal law called the Wiretap Act by secretly tracking the visits of users to websites that use Facebook features such as the “like” button.

The litigation also accuses the company of violating the privacy rights of its users under California law but Facebook’s appeal to the Supreme Court involved only the Wiretap Act.

Four individuals filed the proposed nationwide class action lawsuit in California federal court seeking $15 billion in damages for Menlo Park, California-based Facebook’s actions between April 2010 and September 2011. The company stopped its nonconsensual tracking after it was exposed by a researcher in 2011, court papers said.

Facebook said it protects the privacy of its users and should not have to face liability over commonplace computer-to-computer communications. Facebook has more than 2.4 billion users worldwide, including more than 200 million in the United States.

The case centers on Facebook’s use of features called “plug-ins” that third-parties often incorporate into their websites to track the browsing histories of users. Along with digital files called “cookies” that can help identify internet users, the plaintiffs accused Facebook of packaging this tracked data and selling it to advertisers for profit.

Facebook said it uses the data it receives to tailor the content it shows its users and to improve ads on its service.

https://www.ntd.com/supreme-court-rebuffs-facebook-appeal-in-user-tracking-lawsuit_585058.html

New emails heighten mystery around presidential vote count in Georgia's largest county

Media were told ballot-counting had stopped; sworn testimony says counters were dismissed.

Internal emails from Fulton County election workers obtained by Just the News are heightening the mystery surrounding ballot-processing in Georgia's largest county during last November's presidential contest.

Uncertainty arose regarding the ballot processing operation at Fulton County's State Farm Arena on and after Election Night, when ballot-scanning apparently continued even after most election workers had reportedly been sent home.

Two separate sworn affidavits from Election Night poll workers claimed that, at roughly 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, an official directed workers to stop working and to return the next day at 8:30 a.m.

Nearly half a dozen local and national media outlets, meanwhile, reported being told that absentee ballot-counting had ceased at around 10:30 p.m. and would resume the next day. Several reports cited county spokeswoman Regina Waller for that information.

Counting at the State Farm Arena, however, continued past 10:30 p.m. after most staffers had left. In December, Waller told Just the News that, contrary to the numerous media reports, she had "stated to all media … that although several workers were released to go home, a small team remained behind to assist with scanning ballots."

It is unclear why no media outlets appear to have mentioned that fact.

In the emails obtained this weekend by Just the News through an open records request, Waller appears to indicate that the ballot-counting team had dispersed by around 10:30 p.m.

In the email, timestamped at 10:22 p.m. on Nov. 3 and addressed to several county officials as well as State Farm Arena spokesman Garin Narain, Waller wrote: "The workers in the Absentee Ballot Processing area will get started again at 8 am tomorrow." Waller goes on to request arrangements for news crews hoping to get live shots of the counting the following day.

Reached for comment via email, Waller said the email "was in response to a question received asking when all workers would return." She did not respond to a request to see the original email to which she was responding.

Another email obtained by Just the News, meanwhile, also points to more uncertainty regarding the timetable of ballot-counting on Election Night.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/county-emails-georgia-fulton-state-farm%2C

Photos: Migrants Fly ‘Biden for President 2020’ Flag in Mexico While Awaiting U.S. Entry

Hundreds of migrants are waiting in an encampment in Tijuana, Mexico, until they can be processed and potentially released into the United States interior by President Joe Biden’s administration.

Photos captured of the encampment show a “Biden for President 2020” flag waving as migrants stay huddled in tents. The photos show the scale to which migrants are sitting in close range to the U.S.-Mexico border in the hopes of being released into the U.S. interior.

The Biden administration, as Breitbart News exclusively reported, has ordered federal immigration officials to quickly release border crossers into the U.S. interior without going through standard protocols such as notifying an immigration court or issuing the border crossers a Notice to Appear for which they would have to show up in court.

Simultaneously, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed to lawmakers last week the agency has released border crossers into the U.S. interior without testing them for coronavirus.

The expansive Catch and Release process, implemented by the Biden administration, has coincided with skyrocketing illegal immigration levels.

Federal immigration officials apprehended almost 100,000 border crossers in February, an increase of 170 percent compared to the same time last year. The total number of illegal aliens who successfully crossed the border, undetected, since October 2020 has surpassed 118,000, Breitbart News exclusively reported.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/22/photos-migrants-fly-biden-president-2020-flag-mexico-awaiting-u-s-entry/

First Details Of Biden's $3 Trillion "Build Back Better" Infrastructure Plan Have Just Leaked

Weeks after the administration previewed (via Bloomberg) its plans to push ahead with the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to fund its infrastructure ambitions, the first details of the Biden's multitrillion-dollar infrastructure-climate plan have just been leaked via the New York Times.

Per the NYT, Biden's economic advisers are preparing to recommend spending as much as $3 trillion on an "infrastructure" package that also features some facets of the Green New Deal, and other progressive measures to help "narrow economic inequality." After months of debate and preparation, the Biden advisors are expected to present their proposal to the president this week. The plan reportedly recommends carving the administration's economic agenda into separate legislative parcels, rather than trying to push through another leviathan like the stimulus bill (the battle over the "American Rescue Plan Act of 2021" passage seeped precious momentum from the administration as it struggled to deliver on its broad promises for the first 100 days).

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/first-details-bidens-3-trillion-build-back-better-infrastructure-plan-have-just-leaked

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/first-details-bidens-3-trillion-build-back-better-infrastructure-plan-have-just-leaked

"What Idiot Pre-Announces A Cyberattack?": Biden Admin Has Spent 2 Weeks Touting Russia Response

Earlier this month a report from The New York Times was the first to reveal that the Biden administration is planning a series cyberattacks targeting Russia in the "coming weeks".

Anonymous senior US officials told the Times that a "series of clandestine actions across Russian networks" will be done in such a way as to be "evident to President Vladimir Putin and his intelligence services and military but not to the wider world." It's also expected to come alongside new anti-Russia sanctions.

Naturally, the first question people asked was why announce in advance a "surprise" cyberattack against an "enemy"? Or as Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist put it… "What idiot pre-announces a cyberattack?"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-idiot-pre-announces-cyberattack-biden-admin-has-spent-2-weeks-touting-russia

Watch: FNC’s Faulkner Breaks into Trump Interview to Wrongly Report Resignation of Biden DHS Secretary

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner during her Monday program interrupted her interview with former President Donald Trump to report the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas resigned.

Faulkner said, “I want to get to this because it just happened now. I want to check with our producers. The DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has resigned Mr. President.”

Trump said, “I’m not surprised. Good. That’s a big victory for our country.”

Listening to producers on her earpiece, Faulkner said, “Hold on. Let me stop. Let me stop. Let me listen to my team one more time. Forgive me. Forgive me. That has not happened. And I apologize.”

While laughing, Trump said, “Oh, OK. Cross off that victory.”

Faulkner said, “You called for that, though. And you were just talking about him, just to clarify, as somebody who is not competent to handle what’s going on. So let me clean up on aisle seven with my error. He has not resigned. Let me move to what you were calling for and others too, for him to move out of the way and get somebody who can do the job. Your thoughts?”

Trump replied, “Well, I think that will eventually happen. He is way over his head.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/22/watch-fncs-faulkner-breaks-into-trump-interview-to-wrongly-report-resignation-of-biden-dhs-secretary/

US Hits China With Human Rights Sanctions In Major Joint Action With Western Allies

In coordination with the newly announced European Union sanctions on select Beijing officials for the alleged ongoing major crackdown on Muslim Uighurs, the Biden administration has hit Beijing with its own punitive sanctions, setting tensions further on edge just two days after the conclusion of the fiery Alaska summit.

The US sanctions target to top Chinese officials for "serious human rights abuses" against Uighur minorities concentrated in northwest Xinjiang province. Along with the EU, the sanctions were coordinated with Canada and the United Kingdom, which rolled out with similarly targeted sanctions that included additional individuals, according to a Treasury Department statement.

"Chinese authorities will continue to face consequences as long as atrocities occur in Xinjiang," Treasury's Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control Andrea M. Gacki said. Meanwhile, it could be the US administration is still smarting over this…

"Treasury is committed to promoting accountability for the Chinese government's human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention and torture, against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities," she added. The statement identified the following individuals that fall under the new US action:

The US designated Wang Junzheng, the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.

"These individuals are designated pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuse and corruption," the Treasury Department added.

The UK government neanwhile said of the coordinated actions in a statement: "Acting together sends the clearest possible signal that the international community is united in its condemnation of China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang and the need for Beijing to end its discriminatory and oppressive practices in the region."

In response to the earlier Monday morning EU sanctions announcement, which was a first in over three decades, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs blasted the EU as "disregarding and distorting the facts" as well as "grossly interfering in China's internal affairs" by bringing sanctions against government officials.

China has maintained the Uighur crackdown and charges of genocide are "based on nothing but lies and disinformation."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-hits-china-human-rights-sanctions-coordinated-action-western-allies

Rohingya refugee camp homes destroyed by Bangladesh fire, emergency services rescue residents

A large fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, destroying thousands of homes.

Key points:

At least four blocks of the heavily populated camp are destroyed by the late-afternoon fire

Rohingya refugees say several people have died, but UN officials cannot confirm any deaths

Nearby villagers work with emergency services to bring the fire under control

Local officials said emergency services were working with volunteers from nearby camps to quell the blaze and help local residents.

The fire broke out in the late afternoon and spread to at least four blocks of the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar district, according to Mohammad Shamsud Douza, the deputy Bangladesh government official in charge of refugees.

Rohingya refugees in the camps said several people had died, but neither authorities nor UN officials confirmed there were any deaths.

"Fire services, rescue and response teams and volunteers are at the scene to try to control the fire and prevent it spreading further," said Louise Donovan, spokesperson for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Cox's Bazar, where more than one million refugees live in ramshackle huts.

"Humanitarian partners have mobilised hundreds of volunteers from nearby camps to support the efforts, as well as fire safety vehicles and equipment.

"Efforts are underway to install fire breaks to prevent spread to further camps.

"So far, the fire has affected shelters, health centres, distribution points and other facilities."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-23/rohingya-refugee-camp-homes-destroyed-by-fire/100022458

‘Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide’: No Meeting Could Change Biden Stance On China, Psaki Says

President Joe Biden’s stance on China is set in stone so long as the communist country continues its “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska, for a two-day meeting last week. Biden followed up on the meeting with new sanctions against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Xinjiang, where the administration says China is carrying out a genocide against Uyghur Muslims. Psaki declared that Biden and U.S. allies are committed to the anti-CCP stance, saying they have “grave concerns” about China’s “crimes against humanity and genocide.”

“This was a reaction to what we felt were serious human rights abuses, and obviously the Europeans felt this as well, against members of Xinjiang’s ethnic and religious minority groups,” Psaki said at a Monday press conference. “No meeting would change our concerns related to that.”

The U.K., Canada and the European Union joined Biden’s Monday sanctions against two top CCP officials in Xinjiang. It represents the first time the E.U. has leveled sanctions against China in more than 30 years.

“These designations include Wang Junzheng, the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB),” the administration wrote in a statement accompanying the official announcement. “Due to their roles in the XPCC and XPSB, respectively, Wang Junzheng (Wang) and Chen Mingguo (Chen) are connected to serious human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, which reportedly includes arbitrary detention and severe physical abuse, among other serious human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim population indigenous to Xinjiang, and other ethnic minorities in the region.”

Chinese officials have argued that its human rights abuses in Xinjiang as well as its destruction of democracy in Hong Kong are “internal affairs.” China has also vowed retaliation if the U.S. and its allies continue to raise the issue.

“China is firmly opposed to US interference in China’s internal affairs,” China’s Foreign Affairs Commission Director Yang Jiechi said during the Alaska meeting. “We have expressed our staunch opposition to such interference, and we will take firm actions in response.”

https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/22/psaki-china-biden-uyghur-genocide-blinken/

Brittany Higgins audio recordings reveal why she stayed quiet about alleged rape

Former parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins has revealed that she felt she had to stay quiet about allegedly being raped by a colleague because of “weird party stuff,” a tearful audio recording broadcast by the ABC’s Four Corners reveals.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/brittany-higgins-audio-recordings-reveal-why-she-stayed-quiet-about-alleged-rape-20210322-p57d3e.html

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sells for $3.7m

The tweet – “just setting up my twttr” – was the first made by the Twitter chief on March 21, 2006. It has grown considerably in value since, selling as a non-fungible token for $US2.9m.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/twitter-boss-jack-dorsey-s-first-tweet-sells-for-us2-9-million-as-an-nft-20210323-p57d42.html

China sanctions EU parliamentary members in a tit-for-tat move.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1374013213428310020

McKinsey Consultants Pay $45Mln to Settle Opioid Marketing Probe - Nevada Attorney General

McKinsey & Company has paid $45 million to resolve investigations into the role the firm played in Nevada's opioid epidemic by advising drug producers how best to market them, state Attorney General Aaron Ford said in a press release on Monday.

"Today, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a settlement with one of the world’s largest consulting firms, McKinsey & Company, to resolve investigations into the company’s role in Nevada’s opioid epidemic," the release said. "As a result of this settlement, Nevada will receive $45 million."

The state of Nevada's filings in court described how McKinsey advised opioid manufacturers, including OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma, for more than a decade, the release said.

"Nevada is a hardest-hit state by the opioid crisis and is owed a great deal of compensation and justice. I applaud McKinsey's decision to step forward to address the opioid crisis and the particular devastation it caused here in Nevada," Ford said in the release.

The complaint, filed with the settlement, alleges that McKinsey advised Purdue and other opioid manufacturers on how to maximize profits from its highly-addictive opioid products, including targeting high-volume prescribers and using specific messaging to get physicians to prescribe more opioids to more patients, the release said.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202103221082420792-mckinsey-consultants-pay-45mln-to-settle-opioid-marketing-probe—nevada-attorney-general/

Ex-Maltese PM Aide Among 11 Charged with Corruption

Prosecutors in Malta charged on Saturday former top government official Keith Schembri, his father and nine business associates with money laundering and fraud. Schembri was accused years ago by murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia of corruption.

Schembri, who served as former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff, and the others were charged with money laundering, criminal conspiracy and accountancy crimes to fraud, false testimony and the falsification of documents.

They pleaded not guilty but were denied bail after prosecution said they had access to means to abscond and to an obscure financial system. The suspects have also shown a propensity to obstruct justice when they allegedly falsified documents and made untrue declarations to state authorities, local media cited the prosecution as saying.

In March 2016, Schembri and his associates were accused by Maltese investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, of corruption, money-laundering and bribery in her popular blog Running Commentary. In the same blog post, she accused the then Prime Minister Muscat of lying about Schembri’s holdings in the British Virgin Islands.

“The Prime Minister is lying,” she wrote at the time. “Keith Schembri’s holdings in the British Virgin Islands are not for his legitimate Kasco business. He is the beneficiary of those holdings in his personal name.”

“This is the scandal of the century – a tangled web of corruption, sleaze and white-collar crime,” she added.

More than a year later, in October 2017, Caruana Galizia was killed when a bomb planted under her car exploded. Two years later, Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, Schembri’s close friend, was charged with complicity in her murder, and a month later, Schembri resigned as chief of staff.

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation called the Saturday charges “overdue,” adding that “the failure to prosecute Schembri five years ago allowed him to commit crimes related to Daphne’s assassination and her investigative work.”

Caruana Galizia’s final blog post, posted only half an hour before her assassination and titled “That crook Schembri was in court today, pleading that he is not a crook,” outlined how Schembri set up a secret company in Panama together with a minister. It accused him of “using his government influence to benefit his private business in Malta.”

“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate,” her final comments read.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14092-ex-maltese-pm-aide-among-11-charged-with-corruption

Medical Doctor and Study Coordinator Sentenced to Prison in Scheme to Falsify Clinical Trial Data

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/medical-doctor-and-study-coordinator-sentenced-prison-scheme-falsify-clinical-trial-data

Statement attributable to ICE Acting Director Tae D. Johnson

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has signed a short-term contract with the non-profit division of Endeavors to provide temporary shelter and processing services for families who have not been expelled and are therefore placed in immigration proceedings for their removal from the United States. The $86.9 million contract provides 1,239 beds and other necessary services. The families will receive a comprehensive health assessment that includes COVID-19 testing."

“Our border is not open. The majority of individuals continue to be expelled under the Centers for Disease Control’s public health authority.”

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/statement-attributable-ice-acting-director-tae-d-johnson