EU Rules AstraZeneca Vaccine Can Cause Blood Clots but Claims Benefits Outweigh the Risks

The European Medicines Agency (ESA) has ruled that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine can cause unusual blood clots in the brain, but said the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks that you may keel over and croak.

Nothing quite says “We love you” more than government-run healthcare.

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The committee said there had been 18 deaths reported in its review of 62 cases of CVST (a clotting in the sinuses that drain blood from the brain) and 24 cases of splanchnic vein thrombosis (in the abdomen) that were reported in an EU drug safety database. The cases came mainly from spontaneous reporting systems of the European Economic Area and the UK, where around 25 million people in total had received the vaccine, it noted.

If AstraZeneca’s vaccine is so safe, why hasn’t it been approved for use in the United States?

Few of us could ask for a dose of a vaccine, take it home, and test it to see if it works and that it’s safe. This is the government’s job and the EU — in the midst of another serious wave of Covid-19 infections — is desperate to get the virus behind them. They approved the AstraZeneca vaccine with inadequate testing and now they want to pass it off as “almost” foolproof.

A vast majority of people who are vaccinated will not sicken and die. But reports are coming in from all over Europe of the blood clots and other serious complications that have placed a cloud over the distribution of the vaccine.

The agency published its conclusion as the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency held a press conference on the same issue, five days after its weekly report confirmed at least 22 people had experienced CVST and at least eight cases of thrombosis events with low blood platelet counts, which is a relatively rare combination.

The EMA decision also follows a move in Germany, which last week suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in people under 60 years old after 31 reports of CVST. Twenty-nine of the 31 were women aged 20 to 63, and nine of the patients died, according to a Reuters report citing the country’s medicines regulator.

What to do about the blood clot problem? The ESA thought about it, debated it, and decided that it was enough just to add the blood clots and low platelet counts to the list of possible “side effects.”

“Side effects could include, headache, nausea, soreness, weakness…and death.”

EMA Executive Director Emer Cooke told a press conference Wednesday that the agency would add the clots and low platelet counts to its list of possible side effects from the vaccine, but added the safety committee “has confirmed that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing Covid-19 overall outweigh the risks of side effects” and that that EMA’s recommendations for use of the vaccine were not changing.

There are now three other vaccines on the market that don’t cause blood clots or low platelet count. There certainly haven’t been reports of nine deaths — although one or two deaths are still being looked at with the vaccines as a possible cause. By all metrics, the other vaccines available in the U.S. are superior in efficacy and safety.

It’s irresponsible for the EU to continue offering this vaccine to the general public, regardless of the “emergency.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/04/07/eu-rules-astrazeneca-vaccine-can-cause-blood-clots-but-claims-benefits-outweigh-the-risks-n1438133

The WHO Confirms that the Covid-19 PCR Test is Flawed: Estimates of “Positive Cases” are Meaningless. The Lockdown Has No Scientific Basis

The Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (rRT-PCR) test was adopted by the WHO on January 23, 2020 as a means to detecting the SARS-COV-2 virus, following the recommendations of a Virology research group (based at Charité University Hospital, Berlin), supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (For Further details see the Drosten Study)

Exactly one year later on January 20th, 2021, the WHO retracts. They don’t say “We Made a Mistake”. The retraction is carefully formulated.

While the WHO does not deny the validity of their misleading January 2020 guidelines, they nonetheless recommend “Re-testing” (which everybody knows is an impossibility).

The contentious issue pertains to the number of amplification threshold cycles (Ct). According to Pieter Borger, et al

The number of amplification cycles [should be] less than 35; preferably 25-30 cycles. In case of virus detection, >35 cycles only detects signals which do not correlate with infectious virus as determined by isolation in cell culture…(Critique of Drosten Study)

The World Health Organization (WHO) tacitly admits one year later that ALL PCR tests conducted at a 35 cycle amplification threshold (Ct) or higher are INVALID. But that is what they recommended in January 2020, in consultation with the virology team at Charité Hospital in Berlin.

If the test is conducted at a 35 Ct threshold or above (which was recommended by the WHO), segments of the SARS-CoV-2 virus cannot be detected, which means that ALL the so-called confirmed “positive cases” tabulated in the course of the last 14 months are invalid.

According to Pieter Borger, Bobby Rajesh Malhotra, Michael Yeadon, et al, the Ct 35 has been the norm “in most laboratories in Europe & the US”.

The WHO’s Mea Culpa

Below is the WHO’s carefully formulated “Retraction”. The full text with link to the original document is in annex:

WHO guidance Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2 states that careful interpretation of weak positive results is needed (1). The cycle threshold (Ct) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load. Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology. (emphasis added)

WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2). This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.

“Invalid Positives” is the Underlying Concept

This is not an issue of “Weak Positives” and “Risk of False Positive Increases”. What is at stake is a “Flawed Methodology” which leads to invalid estimates.

What this admission of the WHO confirms is that the estimate of covid positive from a PCR test (with an amplification threshold of 35 cycles or higher) is invalid. In which case, the WHO recommends retesting: “a new specimen should be taken and retested…”.

The WHO calls for “Retesting”, which is tantamount to “We Screwed Up”.

That recommendation is pro-forma. It won’t happen. Millions of people Worldwide have already been tested, starting in early February 2020. Nonetheless, we must conclude that unless retested, those estimates (according to the WHO) are invalid.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/nucleic-acid-testing-technologies-use-polymerase-chain-reaction-pcr-detection-sars-cov-2/5739959

FinCEN Begins Making Rules For Corporate Transparency Act

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) asked last week for the public to comment on a series of questions about the new beneficial ownership reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), according to an Advance Notice of Public Rulemaking (ANPR).

FinCEN.svgFinCENThe act targeted financial crimes like money laundering and terrorist financing by requiring corporations and limited liability companies to report details about their beneficial owners and thus, ending the anonymity of malign actors perpetrating these crimes.

“The ability to engage in activity and obtain financial services in the name of a legal entity without disclosing the identities of the natural persons who own or control the entity—the natural persons whose interests the legal entity most directly serves—enables those natural persons to conceal their interests,” the ANPR said.

“As FinCEN has previously highlighted, such concealment ‘facilitates crime, threatens national security, and jeopardizes the integrity of the financial system,’” it said. 

Changes in these regulations comes after an international outcry to crack down on anonymous shell companies. Led by ICIJ and Buzzfeed News, the OCCRP and several other outlets published in 2020 the FinCEN files, exposing the role of financial institutions in wide-scale money laundering. In December, more than 20 international organizations called on the United Nations to crackdown on anonymous shell companies.

The rulemaking process allows for the public to have a say in the regulations created to enforce the act. The ANPR asked the public to answer a range of questions pertaining to the CTA including how to define key terms, suggestions on reporting procedures and what type of information should go into reports.

Beneficial ownership information will be organized into a non-public database maintained by FinCEN and available to law enforcement and financial institutions bound by customer due diligence as long as they have the consent of the customer, according to the act.

Experts like Jim Richards, founder of RegTech consulting who has 20 years of experience in financial crimes, delivered praise for the new regulations with a healthy dose of skepticism. One of the stated goals of the CTA is to facilitate the sharing of information with the goal of curbing financial crime, but Richards questioned the effectiveness of a database as it is lined out so far in a recent article he wrote for RegTech.

“Financial institutions’ access to the database is severely restricted, and the punishing requirements imposed on federal, State, and Tribal government agencies to gain access to the information in the database may dissuade many of them from using it at all,” Richards said.

He also raised concerns about possible loopholes in the CTA, specifically when it comes to reporting exceptions for companies he refers to as “tall, dark, and handsome”- corporations or llcs which have a minimum of 20 employees, US$5 million in revenue and a physical office in the U.S.

Theoretically, by creating the right kind of facade criminals could create a corporation which would not be required to report its beneficial owner under the CTA.

Nothing is set in stone yet, the public is allowed and “strongly encouraged” to submit comments on the rules through May 5, 2021, according to FinCEN. The new rules which will enforce the actions required by the CTA must be finalized by January 1, 2022.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14186-fincen-begins-making-rules-for-corporate-transparency-act

Hunter Biden Was ‘Odd Couple’ Roommates With Crackhead Mother of 7 Named ‘Bicycle’

Blamed racism when hotels kicked out 'ant trail' of drug dealers

Hunter Biden shared his Logan Circle, D.C., apartment with a crackhead named “Bicycles” for five months, where “the two of us interacted with a deranged, crack-addled version of the Odd Couple,” the president’s son wrote in his memoir.

Bicycles had seven children, “one on death row, another in prison for life. She didn’t know the whereabouts of the five others,” the book said.

“Almost anyone who lives or works in DC has at one time or another seen Bicycles–also known as Rhea, a homeless, middleaged Black woman–weaving in and out of traffic or swerving around sidewalk pedestrians” with a “piercing voice that can be heard a block away as she shouts for everybody to get the hell out of her way, which she does almost continuously,” Biden wrote.

Biden had a decades-long relationship with Bicycles, buying crack from her in a park near the White House when he was a Georgetown University student in the 1990s.

Decades later, Biden would throw change out of his apartment window to her and she would go to the store to buy him cigarettes.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-homeless-crackhead-bicycle

Couple in Mexico hoists brother and sister, ages 5 & 6, over boulders and abandons them at the border

JACUMBA, Calif.—U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two children who had been abandoned along the border near Jacumba Monday afternoon.

At approximately 3 p.m., agents spotted a man and woman walking just south of the border with two small children. Watching the couple, agents observed them hoist the small children over large boulders in an area where the border wall ends at the side of a mountain abutting the large boulders.

Agents quickly arrived in the area finding the children alone and crying. The children, a six-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, were unable to communicate with agents except for providing their names.

The children were transported to a nearby Border Patrol station for care and processing. At the station, the children provided agents a handwritten note which had their mom’s name and phone number on it. The siblings also had their mom’s name and phone numbers written in marker on their forearms.

Agents contacted the mother and were able to obtain additional information for the children. The children were processed and will be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.

“It is unconscionable that anyone would abandon these small children and those responsible for smuggling events like this will be aggressively prosecuted,” said Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke. “Thankfully, our agents were able to quickly rescue these siblings.”

https://breaking911.com/couple-in-mexico-hoists-brother-and-sister-ages-5-6-over-boulders-and-abandons-them-at-the-border/

Democrat Lawfare Group Including Perkins Coie Sends Legal Threat to Group Auditing Maricopa County Election

This is very interesting… and it appears the professional Democrat machine is increasingly apoplectic at the Maricopa, Arizona, ballot audit approved by the state senate and affirmed by the state courts.

The Arizona legislature authorized a full and comprehensive audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election ballots.

The Maricopa County board of elections has thrown every roadblock against the state legislature trying to block the audit. However, a state judge agreed with the legislative intent and affirmed the authority of the audit. Then the county board held an emergency secret meeting and refused to allow the auditors to use their facilities. {Go Deep}

Part of the audit authorization (included in the state’s audit instructions) was for a limited canvassing of actual voters; meaning the auditors can go to the homes/locations of people/groups and verify they actually voted or submitted the ballots attributed to them. This ability to go directly to the source has triggered a politically connected legal team known as “Protect Democracy” into another level of panic. The Protect Democracy group uses Clinton’s infamous law firm Perkins Coie.

Perkins Coie is threatening the contracted auditing agency, Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, with legal action if they follow through with their authority and question the voters who are attributed as sources of thousands of ballots in single geographic locations. [Perkins Coie Threat Letter Here]

The auditing agency previously said:

“When I was approached about submitting a proposal for this audit, I knew full well that this would mean I’d come under attack and that my business might be damaged by those attacks… The big question should not be, ‘Am I biased,’ but ‘Will this audit be transparent, truthful and accurate?’ The answer to the latter question is a resounding ‘Yes.'”

~ Cyber Ninjas’ chief executive officer, Doug Logan (source)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/04/07/democrat-lawfare-group-including-perkins-coie-sends-legal-threat-to-group-auditing-maricopa-county-election/

Retired Lt. Gen. Honore calls 'BS' on Capitol Police, rioters, in latest commentaries

The former Army three-star general has continued his run of spirited observations.

Within a day of describing a security assessment from the U.S. Capitol Police union chief as "BS," retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore on Tuesday said that rioters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after being told "a little BS about what they want to hear."

Honore made his most recent comments on April 6 while he appeared on a video panel to address extremism in the U.S. armed forces and police agencies. Honore, who in January was appointed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to lead a task force to examine security at the Capitol, deviated from the panel's topic, and presented his views on what caused the Jan. 6 breach.

The former Army three-star general said that the attack was the result of "propaganda" that gave people "a little BS about what they want to hear."

"I think we've been had by a little propaganda and a superb use of information operation, which is an offensive weapon to shape people's minds," Honore said during the panel organized by the Atlantic Council. "And again, just tell them a little BS about what they want to hear, a sliver of truth and have them act on it."

The comments followed a Monday press appearance wherein Honore seemingly both contradicted and agreed with a union official regarding the state of the Capitol Police.

Over the Easter weekend, Capitol Police union chief Gus Papathanasiou said that the department has 233 fewer officers than the allotted 2,000-member force.

"We are struggling to meet existing mission requirements even with the officers working massive amounts of forced overtime," Papathanasiou said in a statement. "In the next 3-5 years we have another 500 officers who will be eligible to retire. Many of these officers could put in their retirement papers tomorrow."

Honore on Monday dismissed the union chief's comments, while also seeming to support them.

"That's BS," Honore said April 5 on CNN. "The Capitol Police can meet the mission. The former Army officer noted that he understands the "enthusiasm" to hire more officers, but the union chief's claim is an "overstatement."

Honore also said, however, that his task force report addressed the staffing issue.

"We made the recommendation that they need to get the funding to recruit and hire the 233 officers they are short," Honore said. "We made a recommendation to hire another additional 800 officers. Those recommendations are there, it's up to Congress to take action."

While Honore's most recent comments are notable for their contradictions and use of the term "BS," military observers who know the longtime infantry officer privately noted that the comments are far from being "full Honore."

Earlier this year, Honore drew ire from Republicans, particularly from Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, after critiquing police. The outspoken retired general, known for his role during Hurricane Katrina, sounded off in a tweet against Hawley.

"This little piece of s— with his @Yale law degree should be run out of DC and Disbarred ASAP," Honore reportedly wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

In another tweet that still appears on his feed, Honore wrote of Colorado Republican and gun rights activist Rep. Lauren Boebert: "Put Her Stupid A– on the No Fly List."

Honore now frequently gives seminars and speeches to private clients. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Just the News.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/retired-lt-gen-honore-calls-bs-capitol-police-rioters-latest-commentaries

Peter Thiel Blasts Silicon Valley’s ‘Useful Idiots’ for Selling Out to China

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel slammed Silicon Valley leaders for outsourcing vital technologies to the Chinese Communist Party.

Joined by former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser Robert O’Brien at a Tuesday seminar on China, Thiel said his peers in the tech industry act as "useful idiots" for the interests of Beijing by transferring innovative American technology to the oppressive regime. The entrepreneur and founder of PayPal pointed to companies such as Google that export artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to China, tools used to oversee the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in Western China.

"It’s some combination of wishful thinking. It’s useful idiots, you know, it’s CCP fifth column collaborators," Thiel said of Silicon Valley administrators. "I think if you think of it ideologically or in terms of human rights or something like that, I’m tempted to say it’s just profoundly racist. It’s like saying that because they look different, they’re not white people, they don’t have the same rights. It’s something super wrong."

O’Brien accused Silicon Valley leaders of hypocrisy for preaching "woke" pieties about social justice issues in the United States while ignoring crackdowns on human rights and political freedom within China.

"In Silicon Valley, we’ve got … a very woke industry in general about what’s happening here," O’Brien said. "Yet it’s not very woke in what’s happening to the Uyghurs, what’s happening to the Tibetans, what’s happening to the democrats with a small ‘d’ in Hong Kong, the threats against Taiwan where you’ve got the indigenous people of Taiwan. So, there seems to be less concern about those folks in Silicon Valley and industry in general than the concern for woke progressive politics here."

Part of the tech problem, Thiel said, also comes from American companies refusing to cooperate with the Pentagon and instead pivoting to Beijing. In order to right the ship, he said, the United States must take a more active role in pressuring private companies to divorce from Chinese markets.

"We need to call companies like Google out on working on AI with Communist China, not with [the] U.S. military," Thiel said. "I think we should be putting a lot of pressure on Apple with its whole labor-force supply chain on the iPhone manufacturing in China…. There is [this] obviously crazy double standard where labor laws don’t apply there, but do apply here and all sorts of crazy double standards, and you need to call people out on that relentlessly. I think the cyber security is simply a mess as far as I can tell."

A major element of the conflict with China is an ideological struggle, Pompeo said. Beyond preparing the American tech industry for competition with China, Americans must also "be unashamed" about addressing abuses perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party, he said.

"We will know who ultimately wins this by which ideas dominate the next 10, 20, 40 years," Pompeo said. "We need to be unashamed about talking about that, whether on college campus or at a PTA meeting or at the United Nations."

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/peter-thiel-blasts-silicon-valleys-useful-idiots-for-selling-out-to-china/

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1379879533940244481

Northern Ireland riots: Bus hijacked and set on fire in Belfast.

Navy fires Hopper CO

The commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Hopper was relieved of command Tuesday “due to a loss of confidence in her leadership,” the Navy announced.

While the announcement of Cmdr. Kathryn J. Dawley’s firing did not include a reason for the relief, a Navy official who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter said Wednesday that it was based on the commander’s “overall performance in this critical leadership billet,” and that no investigation spurred the firing.

Dawley did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent via Navy officials.

Capt. Don Rauch, deputy commander of Destroyer Squadron 31, has assumed temporary command of the Hawaii-based warship.

Dawley took command of Hopper in October 2018.

Months before she took command, another Hopper CO, Cmdr. Jeffrey Tamulevich, was fired as commander of the ship in May 2018 after an investigation determined that he had a sexual relationship with one of his petty officers.

Dawley enlisted in the Navy in 1997 and was commissioned in 2003, according to her service record.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/04/07/navy-fires-hopper-co/

Convicted Rochdale grooming gang boss, 51, tells of his surprise that he hasn't been deported to Pakistan six years after jail release - as he's seen shopping in town where he abused young girls

Abdul Rauf was jailed for six years for role in Rochdale child sex trafficking ring

In 2015, Rauf, 51, and two others were told by the Home Office they would be stripped of citizenship and were going to be deported after convictions in 2012

However, six years later, Rauf has been spotted shopping for food in Rochdale

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9445133/Convicted-Rochdale-grooming-gang-boss-51-brags-WONT-deported-Pakistan.html

Nancy Pelosi Rents Office Space To Group Designed By Pedophile, Connected To Pedophilia And Child Porn

San Mateo Has A Massive Child Trafficking Problem

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi personally rents office space to a child welfare group, First 5 San Mateo County, that was set up by a convicted pedophile. The group partners with a nonprofit that ran a group house where child molestation occurred and partners with a conflict resolution center that had a volunteer convicted for storing hundreds of images of child porn. NATIONAL FILE has exclusively obtained the lease documents showing that Nancy Pelosi is the group’s landlady dating back to 2002, the same year monstrous pedophile Dr. William Ayres was given an award by city politicians for his work with the group. By that time, numerous pedophilia allegations including a police report had been made against Ayres, who was later convicted on pedophilia charges in 2007 and died in prison.

First 5 is a statewide supposed child welfare group in California that was previously chaired on a state level by Rob Reiner, and is funded with cigarette tax money. California is in the middle of a massive crisis involving child sex trafficking allegations and pedophilia arrests in the Child Protective Services (CPS)/foster care system. In fact, California does not even send out an Amber alert for missing foster care children, instead counting them all as runaways. San Mateo County, where pedophile Ayres set up the local First 5 chapter that calls Pelosi landlady, is arguably the center of the child sex trafficking crisis in California. Nancy Pelosi spends a lot of time in San Mateo due to her friendship with San Mateo lawyer and Democrat fundraiser Joe Cotchett. Cotchett, who is picking federal judges for the Biden administration, and was accused by his ex-wife in his divorce case of physically assaulting his children and being nude around his daughters. A partner in Cotchett’s law firm protects judges from her perch on the Commission on Judicial Performance.

Our source explained, “Pedophile Dr. William Ayres served with former San Mateo County District Attorney Jim Fox and former San Mateo County Supervisor Richard Gordon on the San Mateo County Children and Families First Commission (now called the First 5) in the early 2000s. Ayres designed the group in San Mateo. Rich Gordon was instrumental in having Ayres employed by the commission and honoring him with the lifetime achievement award. After his time on the board of supervisors in San Mateo, Democrat Rich Gordon became an assemblyman in Sacramento. There were red flags about Ayres for decades. I believe that First 5 knew because there is a broad representation on the commission.”

https://nationalfile.com/nancy-pelosi-rents-office-space-to-group-designed-by-pedophile-connected-to-pedophilia-and-child-porn/

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Assemblyman Rich Gordon was keynote speaker at StarVista’s breakfast in 2012 and praised StarVista. Rich Gordon also led the creation of the StarVista’s “Daybreak” program. StarVista runs the Your House South program. StarVista explains: “StarVista’s Your House South program provides a ‘break’ for young people experiencing conflict within their families, and an opportunity to work on the family’s situation.” In 2019, a man was sentenced to eight years behind bars for child molestation stemming from his time as a Your House South counselor.

In 2018, Patch reported (emphasis added): “Caceres was a counselor at Your House South, a group home run by the nonprofit StarVista, and had sex with a then-14-year-old girl there starting in December 2016, prosecutors said. After he was arrested in January 2017, another girl who was 13 at the time and lived at the same group home also came forward and said she was a victim of Caceres, leading to additional charges being filed against him, according to the district attorney’s office.”

Former San Mateo County chief probation officer Stuart Forrest was caught with 470 naked boy pictures and convicted in 2013 for child porn. Forrest reportedly knew Dr. William Ayres for years, from a period in which Forrest worked at Hillcrest Juvenile Hall, where Ayres conducted sessions with boys, according to insiders. As of 2009, Stuart Forrest was identified as a volunteer at Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. First 5 San Mateo County identifies Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center as a “valuable partner” in its internal materials (page 2).

In November 2020, Michelle Vilchez was interviewed in her role as executive director of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center. Guess what her background is? She worked on developing the strategic plan for First 5 County San Mateo. Dr. William Ayres also worked on developing that strategic plan.

San Mateo is rife with sex scandal. In 2007, federal authorities raided a network of Las Vegas brothels in an operation called Operation Doll House, which found illegal immigrant prostitutes. The San Mateo county sheriff and undersheriff were found inside a sleazy brothel during the raid, but were not prosecuted despite media scandal. Democrat congresswoman Jackie Speier later held a gun buyback in 2013 with a sheriff who was present in the brothel, and headlined another gun buyback in 2018 with the other law enforcement officer who was present in the brothel.

Las Vegas Review Journal reported: “Also caught up in the busts were two high-ranking California law enforcement officers — San Mateo County Sheriff Greg Munks and Undersheriff Carlos Bolanos — who told reporters on Tuesday that they had believed the illegal brothel was a legitimate business.” That didn’t stop Congresswoman Speier from holding a gun buyback with Carlos Bolanos:

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JPMorgan's Dimon Admits "Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong" In America… And China Knows It

As his bank tries to offload big blocks of Manhattan real estate, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon proclaimed in his latest annual letter to shareholders, published Wednesday morning, that the economic expansion in the US could run through 2023, which would justify lofty equity valuations which recently pushed the S&P 500 north of 4K.

And the CEO who once called for the US to raise taxes on the rich and adopt more explicitly socialist policies to expand access to higher education, housing and child care, praised the federal government's response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic. Consumers who are now flush with savings will help drive an economic boom, Dimon wrote in his 34K-word missive.

"I have little doubt that with excess savings, new stimulus savings, huge deficit spending, more QE, a new potential infrastructure bill, a successful vaccine and euphoria around the end of the pandemic, the US economy will likely boom," Dimon said.

"This boom could easily run into 2023 because all the spending could extend well into 2023."

"Ascertaining the quality of the government's spending will take years, Dimon said, but he has little doubt that "spent wisely, it will create more economic opportunity for everyone," he said.

Although equity valuations are already "quite high", Dimon aid a multi-year boom may help to justify current levels, because markets are pricing in economic growth and excess savings that may soon be poured into the market.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jp-morgans-dimon-says-economic-boom-could-justify-lofty-stock-valuations-lasting-through

ICE removes convicted rapist from US to Mexico

PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a convicted rapist and public safety threat, with multiple sexual assault convictions in Oregon, from the United States to Mexico, Tuesday.

Juan Cortez-Magdaleno, 53, is a Mexican citizen who was granted legal status in the United States in 1991. On Nov. 10, 2004, Cortez-Magdaleno, came to the attention of ERO officers following convictions for two counts of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, for which he was sentenced to 405 months in prison. ERO officers lodged an immigration detainer with the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) the same day.

ICE lodges immigration detainers on individuals, like Cortez-Magdaleno, who have been arrested on local criminal charges and who are suspected of being removable, so that ICE can take custody of that person when he or she is released from local custody.

“The immigration detainer allows ICE to take custody of individuals who are deemed public safety threats, like Cortez-Magdaleno, versus releasing them to the streets where they could potentially prey on additional children, said ICE’s acting Seattle Field Office Director Michael Melendez.”

On March 1, 2021, the Oregon DOC transferred Cortez-Magdaleno to ICE custody and on March 31, an immigration judge ordered Cortez-Magdaleno removed to Mexico.

On April 6, Cortez-Magdaleno was removed from the United States via an ICE Air Operations charter flight and transferred to the custody of Mexican authorities.

ICE is now implementing the interim civil immigration enforcement priorities directed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to focus its limited resources on threats to national security, border security and public safety. ICE continues to carry out its duty to enforce the laws of the United States in accordance with the Department’s national security and public safety mission.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-removes-convicted-rapist-us-mexico

HSI investigation results in seizure of 3 domain names purporting to be biotechnology company websites with COVID-19 treatments

At least 1 fraudulent website claimed to sell counterfeit vaccinations

BALTIMORE – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has seized “healthbridgescience.com,” “global-pandemic-vaccines.com,” and “genobioscience.com” all of which purported to be the websites of actual biotechnology companies developing treatments for the COVID-19 virus but instead were allegedly used to collect the personal information of individuals visiting the sites, in order to use the information for nefarious purposes, including fraud, phishing attacks, and/or deployment of malware. Individuals visiting those sites now will see a message that the site has been seized by the federal government and be redirected to another site for additional information.

The seizure of the domain names was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner and Special Agent in Charge James R. Mancuso of Homeland Security Investigations - Baltimore.

“We have now seized a total of eight fraudulent websites that seek to illegally profit from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner. “We urge all Maryland residents to be skeptical - don’t provide personal information or click on links in unsolicited e-mails and remember that the COVID-19 vaccine is not for sale. The Federal government is providing the vaccine free of charge to people living in the United States. We will continue to aggressively prosecute fraudsters who seek to prey on unsuspecting residents and their families.”

“The danger with these illegitimate sites is that they can appear legitimate to the average viewer – all the more reason to exercise caution when searching for COVID-19 pandemic information,” said Special Agent in Charge James Mancuso for HSI Baltimore. “As part of our cyber mission, HSI is committed to denying online scammers the ability to deceive and profit from the American people by exploiting the demand for vaccines and treatments.”

According to the affidavits filed in support of these seizures, these investigations began in March 2021. Homeland Security Investigations and the National Intellectual Property Rights Center received notification of two fraudulent websites, “genobioscience.com” and “healthbridgescience.com.” The third site, “global-pandemic-vaccines.com,” was discovered by Homeland Security Investigations’ Cyber Crimes Center (C3) during ongoing investigations for malicious websites. The cases were referred to HSI Baltimore for investigation.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-investigation-results-seizure-3-domain-names-purporting-be-biotechnology-company

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The COVID-19 Response Is Killing More Than It Saves

In medicine, we are constantly balancing risk and reward. Nearly all medicines and many therapeutic treatments involve risk to the patient we hope to help. It's time we use this same intellectual exercise to create a reasonable inquiry into the risks we took when responding to COVID-19 and balance it against the reward. If nothing else is accomplished, a better plan for future societal responses can be formulated. And if we recognize and remedy our failures in time, maybe we'll still have a recognizable United States of America.

We have the benefit of hindsight, so we can look at the results objectively. The reward? Although we've lost well over 500,000 American lives to COVID-19, it could have been far worse. Even though the number is in question (as there were economically rewarding incentives to list COVID-19 as a cause of death when it could have had little to do with a person's demise), it is still a frightening and increasing number.

But our methods to mitigate COVID-19 come at a terrible societal cost. People will die from the fallout from the governmental response. Meanwhile, politicians and the media are transparently manipulating "the science," justifying bad and ineffective policies to erode the whole idea of the United States of America, ignoring the toll their decisions have wrought. They ignore real science, studies replicated over years, that easily prove that the COVID-19 response they chose to follow will kill far more people than it saves.

On top of that, the consequences of the world's response have resulted in what will be millions of deaths worldwide, far outweighing mortality from the virus itself. Even knowing this, even when we are aware that the cure is worse than the disease, we remain compliant in the middle of a fear-stoked roar from complicit mainstream media and politicians, doubling down on bad policy and poorly substantiated recommendations.

Studies are accumulating estimations of potential deaths from the consequences of the lockdowns, school closings, and business closures. A recent Bureau of Economic Research study suggests that just the "unemployment shock" in America will lead to a 3% increase in mortality projected out over the next 15 years. This translates to roughly 890,000 additional deaths.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/the_covid19_response_is_killing_more_than_it_saves.html

Ex-US Soldier Who Staged Kidnapping of 12-Year-Old 'Girlfriend' Sentenced to Over 12 Years in Prison

Former US Army paratrooper James Murdock Peele previously admitted in a videotaped confession that he staged the kidnapping of a 12-year-old child he referred to as his "girlfriend." He also admitted to having sexual intercourse with the pre-teen, but claimed he was unaware that she was a minor.

The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Tuesday that Peele, 21, was sentenced to 151 months (>12.5 years) in prison for the "transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity."

The court's sentencing comes as part of a plea deal with US attorneys.

Citing court documents and statements, the release detailed that authorities were first alerted on the morning of October 21, 2018, after a woman in New Bern, North Carolina, discovered her 12-year-old granddaughter was missing. A handwritten ransom note demanding $20,000 for her return was also retrieved from the scene.

After checking the pre-teen's Facebook page, authorities were able to identify Peele as a suspect and member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg.

"They traced him to a barracks room, where the same afternoon they found Peele together with the minor victim," the issuance read. "A forensic examination confirmed that Peele had recently had sexual intercourse with the minor."

Peele's roommate - another Ft. Bragg soldier - told investigators that he chose to leave the room after the roommate told him to turn up his music, "which the roommate understood to mean that Peele planned to have sex with the girl behind a sheet that had been hung across the room for privacy."

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrived soon after and arrested Peele. Investigators later learned that Peele introduced the minor to his parents during a brief trip to South Carolina.

According to authorities with the Craven County Sheriff's Office and the FBI, a fellow soldier at Ft. Bragg gave Peele a ride to the minor's home about a week before the staged kidnapping.

The friend began to question the girl's age after noticing the "childlike décor, including middle school photographs and a hamster." He allegedly exited the room after Peele and the minor began kissing.

After first claiming that he was unaware of the child's age, Peele eventually admitted to FBI agents that he had seen the girl at a sleepover with other girls who looked young, "including one girl whose age he had seen to be 12 years old."

Both Peele and the minor admitted to having a sexual relationship. During a forensic interview, the pre-teen told investigators that Peele was well aware of her age.

"He also admitted to writing the ransom note, although he stated that the victim had asked to leave with him and had come up with the idea of staging a kidnapping," the Tuesday issuance detailed.

Peele was notably directed for separation from the 82nd Airborne Division in April 2019, around six months after his arrest.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202104071082565209-ex-us-soldier-who-staged-kidnapping-of-12-year-old-girlfriend-sentenced-to-over-12-years-in-prison/

‘Protect Democracy Project’ – The Group Threatening Arizona Auditors Is Connected to Obama, Soros, China and Biden’s DOJ

The corruption from the Obama years is not over. It’s just beginning. The so-called “Non-For-Profit” group, the Protect Democracy Project, is now involving itself in the Arizona Senate’s audit of Maricopa County. They are connected to Obama, Soros, China, and Biden’s DOJ, and are fighting to prevent an accurate count of the valid votes in the county.

Yesterday we reported that some legal firms joined the Not-For-Profit Protect Democracy Project in threatening the auditors selected in Arizona by the Senate to audit the 2020 Election results of Maricopa County.

In a letter emailed Tuesday to the Senate’s hired auditors, attorneys for the non-profit voting-rights group Protect Democracy and three Phoenix firms warn that the auditors’ plan to knock on doors to search for voters likely violates state and federal law.

Per an article from the National Pulse the Protect Democracy Project is connected to all sorts of crooked players, including the Chinese:

…President Obama’s former associate White House Counsel, Ian Bassin, who heads the anti-Trump litigation efforts Protect Democracy Project and United to Protect Democracy.

Bassin previously headed the far-left Avaaz network, founded in turn by the leftist MoveOn.org group, as well as the Truman National Security Project, which has featured lead Joe Biden policy advisor Jake Sullivan and Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on its board.

Despite claims of being non- or bi-partisan, The National Pulse exposed the group as a host of NeverTrump activists, partnered with [George Soros] Open Society Foundation staffers, and partnered in turn with Chinese Communist Party officials.

Bassan was not the only Obama operative in this ‘NFP’. Also, Emily Loeb worked in the Obama White House and now she’s been given a top job at the DOJ. We are unable to find information as to whether Loeb still is working for the Protect Democracy Project. Below is from the 2019 Protect Demacracy Project’s tax filing:

Think about this. An appointee of the Democratic Biden administration, serving in a senior position in his DOJ, is (or was until recently?) an executive committee member of the nonprofit which is attempting to sabotage the Arizona Senate’s attempt to simply determine the accuracy of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, by threatening the auditors hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct the audit.

The Protect Democracy Project was one of the 24 powerful, progressive and activist nonprofits singled out in the February 4, 2021 Time article, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” which The Thinking Conservative called “The Real Conspiracy to Steal the 2020 Election and Screw the American People.”

Ian Bassin, founder of the Protect Democracy Project, was quoted in that Time article:

Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,’ says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy…”

The ‘proper’ outcome of the election was apparently not the legitimate outcome. If it was, these culprits wouldn’t be attempting to stop the valid and accurate recount in Maricopa County.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/breaking-exclusive-protect-democracy-project-group-threatening-arizona-auditors-connected-obama-soros-china-bidens-doj/

Men Charged for Locking 16 Undocumented Immigrants in Nogales House

Human smugglers locked over a dozen undocumented immigrants, including a child, in a room of a house in Nogales, Arizona, without access to a bathroom or running water last week, federal prosecutors allege in a new criminal complaint.

U.S. Border Patrol agents and officers with the Nogales Police Department found the 16 immigrants, one of whom was an "unaccompanied juvenile," locked in a room of a Nogales home. The door to the room had been locked with a large padlock. Large piles of trash were found in the room and the "stench of human waste and putrid food" was "significant." The migrants told law enforcement that the smugglers had seized their cellphones and IDs.

It's unclear how long the migrants were locked in the room or what happened to them after law enforcement found them. (Presumably, at least some of them were placed into deportation proceedings.) The Nogales Police Department did not respond to New Times' requests for comment regarding the case and their collaboration with Border Patrol. A spokesperson for Border Patrol also did not respond to questions.

Four men were charged on April 2 in the incident. Two of them, Hector Hugo Aviles-Armenta and Ramiro Alberto Medina-Castillo, are cousins and Mexican nationals who were in Nogales illegally to shuttle migrants to the stash house. The other two defendants, Enrique Ramos and Adrian Collalmo-Bernal, are U.S. citizens and were found at the stash house. Several of the them were allegedly paid for their role in transporting migrants to the home and keeping them there.

Law enforcement officials discovered the migrants through surveillance and a joint search of the house. On April 1, U.S. Border Patrol agents were monitoring the parking lot at the Sacred Heart Catholic School in Nogales, which is frequently used by human smugglers for "load ups and vehicle swaps," according to the complaint. They tailed a car that left the lot that they suspected of carrying migrants to a two-story home with boarded-up windows. The agents observed the same car, which was driven by Ramiro Alberto Medina-Castillo, leave the house without any passengers. They suspected that he had dropped off migrants at the house.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/men-charged-for-locking-16-undocumented-immigrants-nogales-house-11543216

Spanish and Romanian police free 16 sex trafficking victims described by pimps as 'cash registers'

Spanish police said the gang controlled prostitution on the island of Tenerife which is generally popular with Irish holiday makers

Spanish and Romanian police have freed 16 victims of sexual exploitation who were described by their pimps as “cash registers”.

Police freed the women as part of an operation targeting human trafficking which operated in Spain, Romania and the UK.

The gang forced the women to take drugs and engage in prostitution.

Nine suspected members of the trafficking gang have been arrested.

Spanish police said the gang controlled prostitution on the island of Tenerife which is generally popular with Irish holiday makers.

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/spanish-and-romanian-police-free-16-sex-trafficking-victims-described-by-pimps-as-cash-registers-40281147.html

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BREAKING DC MEDICAL EXAMINER REPORT

Of the 5 people whose deaths are connected to the Capitol riot:

-2 died of a heart attack

-1 died from amphetamine poisoning

-1 from homicide (Ashli Babbitt)

Officer. Sicknick's cause of death remains unknown

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1379900369652834310

Ex-officials, including Trump impeachment witness Vindman, sign letter to create Jan. 6 commission

The letter has 140 signers including six former senators, and two members of the 9/11 Commission.

A group of Washington ex-officials – including former Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman,. who testified against former President Trump in his first congressional impeachment proceedings – is urging Congress to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

"We write to encourage this Congress to establish an independent and bipartisan national commission to investigate the January 6th assault of the U.S. Capitol Complex and its direct causes and to make recommendations to prevent future assaults and strengthen the resilience of our democratic institutions" the letter states.

Vindman said he witnessed a phone call between Trump and his Ukraine counterpart in which the then-president asked for a "favor" – gaining information on President Biden, according to NPR.

Biden at the time was a top potential Democratic presidential contender.

The letter is signed by 140 people, including nearly two dozen ambassadors, six former senators, four former secretaries of Homeland Security and two members of the 9/11 Commission, according to WTOP News.

This is the most recent request into forming a commission to study the Capitol riot. In January, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued for a such commission. She received pushback from Republicans, which effectively killed the idea.

The letter also urges Congress to form a commission similar to the one that investigated the 9/11 terror attacks and delivered a through report.

"A failure to deploy the full suite of tools available to fully understand January 6th and address its causes will leave the Capitol, and the nation, vulnerable to future attacks," the letter states.

Vindman retired from the Army after his testimony, citing "bullying" after testifying, according to USA Today.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/ex-officials-including-trump-impeachment-witness-vindman-sign-letter-create-jan

Scientists Issue Open Letter Claiming Incorrect And Contradictory Details In WHO Origins Report Used To Downplay Lab Leak Theory

A group of 24 scientists issued an open letter Wednesday highlighting incorrect, disputed, contradictory and imprecise statements in the World Health Organization’s COVID origins report used to downplay the lab leak theory.

The scientists aid a new investigation is needed that includes a thorough examination into the possibility that COVID-19 could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.

The WHO’s report “failed to reach some of the most basic standards of credible analysis and assessment,” the open letter stated.

A group of 24 scientists issued an open letter Wednesday demanding a full investigation into the origins of COVID-19 that includes a thorough examination into the possibility the virus could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.

The scientists said the World Health Organization’s report on the origins of the pandemic, which concluded the lab leak hypothesis was extremely unlikely, “failed to reach some most basic standards of credible analysis and assessment,” noting that the report contained 12 incorrect, disputed, contradictory and imprecise statements used to downplay the theory.

“Well over a year after the initial outbreak, critical records and biological samples that could provide essential insights into pandemic origins remain inaccessible,” the letter stated. “This withholding of key resources that could and should have been made available undermined the credibility of the joint study team work.”

The scientists said that a new investigation should be convened that strips China and any other government of veto power over the scientists selected to probe the pandemic’s origins. The Chinese government had such veto powers over the WHO’s recently-concluded origins investigation.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/07/scientists-highlight-errors-in-who-origins-report/