CNBC anchor says it's 'dumb' for CEOs to make fun of the Chinese communist party: 'You're just asking for trouble'

CNBC anchor Melissa Lee said it was "dumb" for any business CEO to make fun of the Chinese communist party and added that they would be "just asking for trouble."

Lee made the comments on her show "Fast Money" on Wednesday. She was referring to an incident with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimond who had to walk back a joke he made about the communist party in China.

"The Communist Party is celebrating its 100th year. So is JPMorgan," said Dimon at a speaking event in Boston, Massachusetts.

"And I'll make a bet we last longer!" he quipped.

"I can't say that in China," Dimon joked. "They probably are listening anyway."Dimon walked back the comments and apologized to China's leaders, prompting Lee to scold him for mocking the communist leadership when his company had so much financial advantage at stake in the communist country.

"I feel like for business people, particularly CEOs, there are three things that you never want to talk about, right? I mean, politics, religion and China," said Lee.Dimon walked back the comments and apologized to China's leaders, prompting Lee to scold him for mocking the communist leadership when his company had so much financial advantage at stake in the communist country.

"I feel like for business people, particularly CEOs, there are three things that you never want to talk about, right? I mean, politics, religion and China," said Lee.

"I mean you just don't make fun of the communist party, that just strikes me as kinda dumb, you're just asking for trouble," she added.

Lee's guests didn't disagree with her assessment and reiterated that it was foolish to mock the communist government of China when companies are seeking trade and markets in the massive nation.

Critics of the communist Chinese government have argued that opening up business opportunities in China has allowed an antagonistic regime to use its financial power to take advantage of American companies.

Some have stood up to the communist regime despite the risk of losing massive financial gain. Among the more laudable efforts are those of the World Tennis Association, which has demanded China answer for the disappearance of a professional tennis player who had accused a former Chinese official of sexual assault.

"We're definitely willing to pull our business and deal with all the complications that come with it," said World Tennis Association president Steve Simon.

"Because this is certainly, this is bigger than the business," he concluded. "Women need to be respected and not censored."

Others, like NBA basketball star Lebron James, have been publicly lambasted for appeasing China while calling on Americans to join anti-racism political movements at home.

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/11/cnbc-anchor-says-its-dumb-for-ceos-to.html

Disturbing Details Emerge from Inside Australian Quarantine Camps

Details about life inside the Australian quarantine camps are beginning to leak out through the internet. Although the information cannot be directly verified, due to the importance of this issue, TheCOVIDWorld has decided to report on this story since it’s unlikely the Australian government is going to release such information themselves.

An anonymous poster has detailed their experiences in an Australian quarantine camp. The poster claims he was confined after flying into Australia from Singapore.

Despite being vaccinated and having taken 3 tests on his trip, which were all negative, he was forced to attend the camp.

In the post, the writer says that he was forced onto a bus with blacked-out windows by armed guards for a two-hour ride to the quarantine camp. Inmates are allegedly forced to take the vaccine, but also tested regularly and watched by cameras and armed guards. Detainees are charged $2,500 for their two-week involuntary stay.

Although the inmates have internet, which is presumably monitored, GPS is blocked, making them unable to determine exactly where they are. However, other posters suggested that he was imprisoned at the Howard Springs ‘National Resilience Center’.

“They asked me about if I was vaccinated, I declined to answer, they threatened me and told me to come with them and called for backup, I was questioned, told to follow them and I boarded a bus with others and we had to sit rows apart and we were brought here. Windows were blacked out.”

“I don’t know how long I can post here but I came to let you know it is worse than you know.”

“There was a girl here who fought a guard and we haven’t seen her for six days since then.”

Another anonymous poster claimed he was next door to a 77-year-old man who had recently drunk himself to death after being repatriated. He further claimed that detainees could only leave their rooms once every 3 days to do laundry, that there were armed police ‘everywhere’, and that you would be yelled at if you stopped or walked too slow.

The poster does however report that the food is ‘pretty good’ and dropped off to inmates once a day at 6 pm. They get one hot and two cold meals.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/disturbing-details-emerge-inside-australian-quarantine-camps/5762746

Nearly 3/4 of the World’s Dictators Receive US Weapons and Military Assistance

The US supports nearly 75% of the world’s dictators, autocracies, monarchies, military regimes, etc., with weapons, military training and money. Please remember this the next time someone tells you the US should do X or Y because such and such a nation is bad…

Comparing Freedom House’s list of Not Free nations to FY 2020 US overseas weapons sales, military training and financial assistance*, we find that of the 57 nations considered undemocratic, 42 receive weapons, training and/or money for their military and security services. This means 74% of the non-democratic nations of the world are supported militarily by the US. Interestingly, the remaining 15 nations are nearly all sanctioned. The world’s countries can be divided into two parts: those who buy/receive weapons from the US and those sanctioned. It seems like it’s a pretty simple arrangement.

74% is a slight increase from four years ago when Rich Whitney at Truthout utilized the Freedom House list and compared it to FY 2015 military assistance data. It is likely no surprise to anyone that US support for non-democratic governments increased under President Trump, but, to be fair, it was a minor increase. The hypocrisy and dissonance between stated US support for democracy, liberty and freedom, and how the US government conducts itself exists whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House.

The list of nations is below. I have listed occupied territories with the nations that are occupying them; so, Gaza and West Bank are under Israel, Western Sahara is under Morocco, Tibet is under China, and Donbas and Crimea are under Russia. Also, please note, this list only includes nations not considered democracies. Nations that are listed as partly free or free by Freedom House, but are clear and gross violators of human rights, and that are recipients of US weapons, military training and military assistance funding, like Columbia, Honduras, India, Pakistan, Philippines, and Ukraine are not included.

Y denotes received weapons, military training or military funding assistance, or a combination.

https://original.antiwar.com/Matthew_Hoh/2021/11/24/nearly-3-4-of-the-worlds-dictators-receive-us-weapons-and-military-assistance/

New Records Cast Doubt On Hunter Biden’s Claim He Finally Divested From Chinese Private Equity Firm

Hunter Biden’s attorney told The New York Times on Saturday his client no longer holds any interest in his personal LLC that holds a 10% stake in a Chinese private equity firm.

But Chinese business records continue to state as of Wednesday afternoon that Hunter Biden’s personal company, Skaneateles LLC, holds a 10% stake in the Bank of China co-owned private equity firm, BHR Partners.

And business records obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show that Hunter Biden remains the only listed governor and beneficial owner of Skaneateles LLC.

Hunter Biden no longer holds any interest in his personal LLC or the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners, his attorney told The New York Times on Saturday, but new records obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation cast doubt on the claim.

Hunter Biden, through his company, Skaneateles LLC, obtained a 10% stake in BHR with a $420,000 investment in October 2017. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said as early as February that Hunter Biden was in the process of divesting his ownership stake in the firm, but Chinese business records continue to state as of Wednesday afternoon that Skaneateles remains a 10% owner of BHR

And while Chris Clark, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, told the New York Times that Hunter “no longer holds any interest, directly or indirectly, in either BHR or Skaneateles,” Washington D.C. business records for the LLC continue to list him as the only governor and beneficial owner for the company.

Hunter Biden was identified as the only governor for Skaneateles in the firm’s latest two-year report submitted to the Washington, D.C., Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) on Oct. 20, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the DCNF. The DCRA told the DCNF that the Oct. 20 filing, which incurred a $400 submission fee, was the most recent filing on hand for the company.

The DCRA’s public-facing online business registry continues to identify Hunter Biden as the only beneficial owner of Skaneateles as of Wednesday afternoon. However, the DCRA records also reflect that Skaneateles’ status is revoked, meaning that continued operation could result in fines unless the business is reinstated.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/24/hunter-biden-claims-to-divest-bhr-partners-skaneateles/

Interpol Elects Emirati General Accused of Torture as New President

Istanbul (AFP) – An Emirati general accused of torture was elected president of Interpol Thursday, despite the concerns of human rights organisations who fear the agency will be at risk of exploitation by repressive regimes.

The decision follows generous funding by the United Arab Emirates for the Lyon, France-based body and accusations Abu Dhabi has abused Interpol’s system of so-called “red notices” for wanted suspects to persecute political dissidents.

Emirati General Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi was elected following three rounds of voting during which he received 68.9 percent of votes cast by member countries, Interpol said in a statement.

Raisi, head of the UAE’s security forces, will take on a largely ceremonial and voluntary role for a four-year term.

It is Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock who handles day-to-day management of the organisation. Stock was given a second five-year term in 2019.

South Korean Kim Jong-yang was president since the 2018 arrest of his predecessor Meng Hongwei in China, where he had served as a vice minister of public security.

Complaints of “torture” were filed against the Emirati general in recent months in France and Turkey, which is hosting Interpol’s general assembly in Istanbul this week.

Only the Czech Republic’s Sarka Havrankova, a veteran officer overseeing the country’s international cooperation in police matters, stood against the general for the post.

‘Undermine Interpol’

Raisi joined the Emirati police force in 1980 and worked there for several decades.

Three European Parliament members wrote a letter dated November 11 to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to warn of the impact the general’s appointment would have on Interpol.

“The election of General Al Raisi would undermine the mission and reputation of Interpol and severely affect the ability of the organisation to carry out its mission effectively,” they wrote.

And in October 2020, 19 NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, expressed concern about the possible choice of Raisi, whom they described as being “part of a security apparatus that continues to systematically target peaceful critics”.

One of the complainants against Raisi, British national Matthew Hedges, said he was detained and tortured between May and November 2018 in the United Arab Emirates after he was arrested on false charges of espionage during a study trip.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2021/11/25/interpol-elects-emirati-general-accused-of-torture-as-new-president/

Trump Policy Cracking Down On Pedophiles Being Stopped By Biden

The Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new rules to "retire" data sets, and the program is now up for 60 days of public comment.

To "reduce the reporting burden," the OCR suggested dropping accusations of rape or sexual assault last week. The OCR will still solicit schools to present data on the number of documented rape or sexual assault incidents within their school system.

They will not be demanded to report the number of accusations of sexual assault or rape, either student-to-student or staff-to-student, that ended in resignation or retirement of the accused, or such claims that resulted in a teacher's reassignment to another school district.

"For the 2021-22 CRDC, OCR will continue to collect data on the number of documented incidents of offenses committed by school staff, including rape or attempted rape, and sexual assault. These are

data the CRDC has collected since 2015-16. We propose retiring data on the number of allegations made against school staff to reduce burden and duplication of data," and Education Department spokesperson told DailyMail.com.

Reporting alleged sex crimes in addition to documented cases are used to show the real prevalence, as in many cases, the accused may retire or quit before the cases play out.

Some critics maintain that the Education Department is making the changes to influence the will of teachers' unions.

https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1032589-trump-policy-cracking-down-on-pedophiles-being-stopped-by-biden

Russian Politician Calls for Murder of People Who Try to Avoid Covid Vax

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/russian-politician-calls-for-murder-of-people-who-try-to-avoid-covid-vax/

New York judge extends ban on keeping New York Times from publishing material about Project Veritas after conservative group accused feds of 'leaking' secret communications

A New York judge extended a ban on Tuesday keeping the New York Times from publishing or seeking certain materials concerning Project Veritas

Justice Charles Wood extended ban from November 18 to December 1

The ban is part of a 2020 defamation lawsuit Project Veritas, a conservative activist group, filed against the newspaper after they published a report that fall

In September 2020, The New York Times claimed Project Veritas used 'no verifiable evidence' when accusing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of voter fraud

Project Veritas, led by James O'Keefe, has used what critics view as deceptive tactics to expose what it describes as liberal media bias

The New York Times published an article discussing memos by a Project Veritas lawyer that the group said were protected by attorney-client privilege

O'Keefe's home was raided by the FBI earlier this month; his lawyer claims the DOJ tipped off and leaked documents to The New York Times about the raid

A New York trial judge on Tuesday extended a ban keeping The New York Times from publishing or seeking certain materials concerning the conservative activist group Project Veritas.

Justice Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court said his temporary ban imposed on November 18 will now run until at least December 1, a deadline for Project Veritas to respond in writing to The New York Times' bid to end it.

The judge granted the extension at a nearly two-hour hearing in White Plains, which was part of a defamation lawsuit that Project Veritas filed against The New York Times last year.

The New York Times and First Amendment advocates claim the restriction violates decades of First Amendment protections.

Project Veritas, led by James O'Keefe, has used what critics view as deceptive tactics to expose what it describes as liberal media bias.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10235207/Judge-extends-New-York-Times-ban-Project-Veritas-coverage.html

Official FDA report finds all-cause Death rate is higher among the Vaccinated and admits young Myocarditis victims have required Intensive Care

The clinical trials of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine found that the all-cause mortality rate of the vaccinated group was higher than that of the control group, months after the trials were launched, according to a recently released FDA report.

According to the report – which was released by the US Food and Drug Administration to provide background information on its questionable decision to grant full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA injection, after initially offering limited emergency use authorisation just six months after the vaccine’s clinical trial began – the total number of deaths reported in the vaccinated group was nearly one-quarter higher than the number of deaths in the placebo group.

Just under 22,000 participants were included in each group, with half receiving the coronavirus vaccine, and half receiving a saline solution injection.

The initial results of the clinical trials suggested a high-level of efficacy for the vaccine in preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19, an in particular, serious illness from COVID – but lacked significant data on all-cause mortality, due to the short time-frame.

A follow-up assessment of participants completed on March 13th of this year looked at the overall health outcomes of the trial participants, six months after they received either the experimental vaccine or the saline solution injection.

While Pfizer released partial data on the outcomes from the six-month assessment ending March 13th, the new FDA report includes more comprehensive data, and shows a significantly higher number of all-cause fatalities among the vaccinated cohort.

The Pfizer report in late July of this year showed effectively equal all-cause fatality rates between the vaccine and placebo cohorts six months after the tests were conducted, with 15 deaths among the nearly 22,000 vaccine recipients, versus 14 deaths among the nearly 22,000 placebo recipients.

Most of the total 29 deaths in both groups were not related to Covid-19. Three fatalities were listed as being related to the virus; two in the placebo group and one in the vaccinated group.

The FDA report, however, revealed a larger number of deaths by all causes in both groups, with 17 deaths among the control group and 21 in the vaccinated cohort.

https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/11/25/official-fda-report-finds-all-cause-death-rate-is-higher-among-the-vaccinated/

https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download

Washington Post: 'Waukesha Tragedy' Was 'Caused By A SUV'

The "Waukesha tragedy" was "caused by a SUV," according to the Washington Post.

Here's what we know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy caused by a SUV. https://t.co/FWwYFEjits

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 25, 2021

"Here's what we know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy caused by a SUV," the Post said in a tweet on Wednesday night.

The article itself pushes the whole "fleeing a knife fight" theory citing one officer "reporting he had heard of a possible knife fight," completely leaves out that police said they were not chasing Darrell Edward Brooks Jr before he crashed through the barriers and waits five paragraphs before naming the accused.

What "we" know, they would have you believe, is essentially nothing.

From The Washington Post, "How the events unfolded at Waukesha parade":

It was 4:35 p.m. in Waukesha, Wis., 34 days before Dec. 25. But the neighbors of this city west of Milwaukee were celebrating a Christmas parade moving through Main Street.

At the same time a few blocks away, an officer reported he had heard of a possible knife fight near the boat launch in Frame Park, according police audio and time codes provided by the website Broadcastify. Police arrived to the park minutes later but did not immediately find the fight. At 4:37 p.m., the officer clarified to say that the fight was by the rental business near the Rotary Building. It was not clear from the police audio if or when officers approached the second location.

A quarter-mile from the rotary building, at 4:39 p.m., an officer told a dispatcher a maroon Ford Escape “just blew by [him]” at White Rock and Hartwell avenues, the intersection where barricades blocking traffic to the parade were removed just a minute before, according to police audio and time codes provided by Broadcastify.

A few moments later, the SUV rammed through the parade participants, killing five and injuring more than 40 people, including children.

They said nothing about Brooks' violent anti-white views, black supremacist postings on social media or the fact he described himself as a "terrorist" in one of his own music videos.

For contrast, this is how the Post covered Charlottesville one day after the event:

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62706

>>15078636

>returned to being a [British] prison colony.

Never stopped being one only it's owned by the US corp now

Documents relating to registration with the SEC of the Australian Government as a privately owned American company

https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-03/FOI_2117_T198654.pdf

Christianity Is Vanishing From the Middle East. This Reporter Documents Its Decline

Visiting the beleaguered Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Janine di Giovanni discovers a people facing an existential threat but determined to persevere

Longtime war reporter Janine di Giovanni has covered conflicts for three decades and counting, from Bosnia to Rwanda. Yet when she visited northern Iraq after the fall of ISIS there, what stood out was a peaceful moment.

On her last day in Nineveh Governorate, she climbed uphill to enter the ancient Chaldean Christian monastery of Rabban Hormizd.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-christianity-is-vanishing-from-the-middle-east-this-reporter-documents-its-decline-1.10413190

Israeli media

Healthy Australian woman says she was forced into COVID quarantine camp for 14 days

'These COVID camps are real. It doesn’t matter if you’re fully-vaxxed, one-vaxxed or non-vaxxed: you can get sent to these camps if you’re a close contact,' said Haley Hodgson from her prison.

An Australian woman says she was taken to a quarantine facility and held there for 14 days against her will as punishment for failing to test against COVID and lying about it.

Haley Hodgson shared her ordeal in an interview with Monica Smit, founder of Australian news website Reignite Democracy Australia (RDA), a week ago when she was still in quarantine at the Howard Springs facility near Darwin, Northern Australia.

“These COVID camps are real,” Hodgson told Smit.

“You can get sent to those camps no matter what if you’re ‘close contact’.”

The video was released only yesterday on RDA’s official website, as Hodgson feared that releasing it sooner might result in the extension of her stay at the quarantine camp.

Hodgson explained that she had been in “close contact” with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.

She recalled that health officials came to her house asking whether she knew the person who tested positive and if she had had a test done.

Hodgson initially lied about having had a test. When the Australian health authorities got back to her saying they couldn’t find her result, Hodgson admitted that she had failed to do a test.

“I was scared. I’ve been in quarantine before, [and] I just didn’t want to go back there,” Hodgson explained.

She then apologized to the health officers, saying, “I’m sorry that I lied.”

“They said, ‘No worries,’ and [before] they hung up the phone, they said, ‘Someone will be there to test you in the next 20 minutes, so don’t leave your home,” Hodgson recalled.

Within 20 minutes the police were at her house. Hodgson said they told her that she had to go with them and that she was “going to Howard Springs to quarantine.”

Hodgson said she told the police that she had not been informed of this, and the police replied that if she refused to come, she would have to pay a $5000 fine (roughly $3600 U.S.).

She then agreed to follow the police officers and was escorted to a “COVID cab” which took her to Howard Springs. On the way there, one of the police officers allegedly told Hodgson that she would need to quarantine for only 48 hours while awaiting the result of her COVID test.

But once at the facility, Hodgson said, she was informed that she would have to stay there for 14 days “no matter what” and that she “[had] no choice.”

“So, I’m here against my will,” the woman said.

Smit asked why Hodgson wasn’t given the option to self-quarantine at home, especially when the 7 to 10 other close contacts of the person who tested positive were all allowed to self-isolate at home.

“That’s what I was [asking] them,” replied Hodgson.

“Now that I’ve found out, it’s because I said I had a test done when I hadn’t,” she continued.

“So, it’s pretty much a punishment; they’re punishing me because I lied and said I had a test when I hadn’t.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-australian-woman-describes-covid-quarantine-camp-horror/

Northern Territory's Chief Minister Michael Gunner has used a COVID-19 update press conference to denounce misinformation spread by anti-vaxxers and overseas conspiracy theorists who, he says, could harm Indigenous Territorians.

Key points:

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner says there is "insane, unhinged stuff spreading online"

The misinformation is coming mainly from overseas, he says

He highlighted false rumours about the ADF during the current outbreak

At the press conference, Mr Gunner announced one new case in the outbreak and the lifting of the hard lockdown for one of the communities that, earlier in the week, had been considered most at risk.

Mr Gunner also called it a "positive day" in the current outbreak, which has predominantly impacted Aboriginal Territorians.

However, he singled out what he called a "huge amount of misinformation spreading online in the last few days".

"I don't really want to lean into the lies that are being spread," he said.

"Although, given these press conferences genuinely get spliced up by international trolls: 'Hello, conspiracy theorists overseas watching this: Please, get a life'."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-25/nt-covid-outbreak-michael-gunner-conspiracy-theorists-speech/100650132

State Media cover story

Sydney Harbour lit up blue by rare bioluminescence display

Sydney Harbour has been lit up with a blue glow after a rare display of bioluminescence in the water.

The water normally reflects the glowing lights of the Opera House, Luna Park and the Harbour Bridge, however this week it was a little different.

The water had a blue sparkle due to bioluminescence, captured by Eddy Agcaoili.

Weatherzone said bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon where light is produced by a chemical reaction inside living organisms.

"In this case, the light was emitted by small organisms that were present in a dense bloom near the water's surface," Ben Domensino from Weatherzone said.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-weather-sydney-harbour-lit-up-blue-by-rare-bioluminescence-display/4ca1a487-3a5d-4b64-af37-e60836fef2cf