Former Harvard Chemistry Chair Admits to Taking Tens of Thousands of Dollars From China

The former chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department accused of hiding Chinese ties had admitted to taking tens of thousands of dollars from China, a video presented to the federal court on Dec. 17 shows.

The video, shot during federal investigators’ interrogation of nanoscientist Charles Lieber, was played for jurors during the Friday court hearing, the fourth day of the trial on Lieber’s alleged false statements about China funding.

The 62-year-old Harvard professor had maintained that he didn’t take payments from a Chinese university except for compensation of his travel costs to China. But he shifted account quickly after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents Robert Plumb and Kara Spice accosted him with copies of evidence, including a bilingual contract he signed with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in 2011.

“That’s pretty damning,” Lieber, dressed in a blue jacket, told the agents at the campus police station during a three-hour interrogation, which took place on the day of Lieber’s arrest nearly two years ago. “Now that you bring it up, yes, I do remember,” he said in the recording, local media reported.

The five-year agreement described Lieber as a “strategic scientist” at the Chinese school that entitled him to $50,000 per month with approximately $158,000 in living expenses. It also alluded to his future involvement with China’s Thousand Talents Plan, a state-run program to solicit top scientific and specialized experts from around the world.

Later in the interview, FBI agents showed Lieber an email he wrote, asking the Wuhan university to pay half of his salary in cash with the other half deposited into a Chinese bank account.

https://www.ntd.com/former-harvard-chemistry-chair-admits-to-taking-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-from-china_716485.html

CCP Stuns Biden, Blasts U.S. Military ‘War Crimes’ In Middle East.

ustice may be delayed, but it will not be denied,” is the strap-line of a video from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that now has millions of views from across the world. The startling speech in the clip attached (below) is part of a new Chinese Communist Party effort to undermine the United States on the world stage, taking advantage of an increasingly weak Biden regime.

No such wild sabre-rattling came from China during the Trump administration. They didn’t dare. But with Biden and Harris at the helm for less than a year, the world is now witnessing a rush to exploit the power vacuum in both American politics and foreign policy.

With U.S. military leaders more concerned with deploying troops around the nation’s own Capitol, as well as professing preferences for critical race theory training, China sees its opportunity and they’re not being shy about it.

In the aforementioned clip, Wang Wenbin, the spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explicitly outlined how the U.S. was no longer atop the international pecking order:

“The era in which the US acted arbitrarily in the world under the pretext of so-called ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ is over,” he asserted.

And while White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki couldn’t even insist that Beijing would face “repercussions” for its human rights abuses, Wang was quick to demonize America for its greatest ever foreign policy misadventure in the Middle East and Asia.

“We condemn the brutal US military intervention by the US in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria in the name of “democracy” and “human rights,” he exclaimed, before calling on the “international community to investigate the US military’s war crimes of killing innocent civilians around the world and hold it accountable.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/watch-ccp-stuns-biden-blasts-u-s-military-war-crimes-in-middle-east/

As Mandates Rolled Out, Dozens of Politicians Invested in Vax Companies, Directly Profiting from Their Own Policies

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, the US government has poured billions of your tax dollars into the vaccine program. More than $9 billion of your tax dollars were given to vaccine companies for research and $22 billion of your tax dollars were then used to support vaccine distribution. The feds also shelled out another $10 billion to expand access and later announced $3 billion more to spend on an ad campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy. Billions more have followed and in spite of some states being heavily vaccinated, they are still seeing massive spikes in hospitalizations.

As a result of billions of your taxpayer dollars flowing into the coffers of big pharma, these companies have experienced massive windfalls with Pfizer and Moderna seeing near-exponential increases in stock prices.

Adding to the insidious nature of using taxpayer funds to bolster the bottom lines of big pharma, these companies have taken a portion of those billions and used them to lobby against whistleblowers who would expose their crimes.

Pfizer has been lobbying hard to block legislation that would make it easier for whistleblowers to hold companies liable for corporate fraud, according to a report in the Intercept.

These laws have led to previous criminal penalties against Pfizer in the past, including the historical $2.3 billion fine for illegally marking drugs not approved by the FDA. Now, this corrupt company is pushing once more, possibly planning for a future criminal case for their botched vaccine studies.

As Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla called for jailing people who criticize his company’s vaccine, thanks to this corrupt marriage between corporate and state, his portfolio has increased substantially. And he’s not alone. This taxpayer-funded vaccine scheme has created at least a dozen new pharma billionaires whose portfolios have skyrocketed thanks to government tyranny.

It’s not just the big pharma insiders who’ve won big from government programs fleecing the taxpayers in the name of the covid-19 vaccine — it’s also the government.

In a scathing, yet not surprising report from Business Insider, we learned this week that dozens of politicians have invested in companies that have a direct stake in the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and they are profiting from it.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/as-mandates-rolled-out-dozens-of-politicians-invested-in-vax-companies-directly-profiting-from-their-own-policies/

NYT investigation reveals ‘hundreds’ of civilian deaths uncounted in US strikes

An investigation by the New York Times has found that the Pentagon severely downplayed the civilian death toll from its “precision” strikes in Syria and Iraq, while failing to investigate reports of potential civilian casualties.

The New York Times investigation, the first part of which was released on Monday, draws on over 1,311 casualty assessment reports that were previously kept under wraps by the Pentagon. Having reviewed the files and visited “nearly 100 casualties sites” in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, the Times reported that the US military often dismissed reports of civilian casualties as non-credible, despite failing to visit the sites or speak to the witnesses.

The Times revealed that in 216 instances in which the Pentagon found reports of civilian casualties credible, its investigators visited the actual site of the bombing in only one case. None of the investigations resulted in any penalties for those responsible for the strikes, and only one “possible violation” in mapping out a strike was identified by the Pentagon.

The Times investigation also revealed that trigger-happy US troops tended to rely on “incorrect or incomplete” intelligence to hit terrorist targets, sometimes killing dozens of civilians instead. Confirmation bias was said to play a role in troops interpreting scant intelligence in a way that affirms their “pre-existing beliefs” about the targets.

For instance, during a strike in Iraq in 2015, US forces killed a child after identifying him as “an unknown heavy object” who was being “dragged” to a supposed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) position by an alleged militant.

Sloppy targeting practices resulted in around 120 Syrian villagers dying in a US strike on July 19, 2016, according to the investigation. At the time of the strike, the Pentagon apparently thought that 85 militants were killed in the bombing instead, even though it took place “far from the front line.” In another botched strike, a warplane killed an entire family escaping West Mosul in 2017, mistaking the civilian vehicle with two children for a car bomb.

Even in instances in which the US acknowledged civilian casualties, it was not in a hurry to pay compensation to the victims, with the Times reporting that “fewer than a dozen condolence payments were made.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/543655-civilian-casualties-syria-iraq-undercounted/

Dem senator claims he didn't know event he attended was linked to Communist Party — but video suggests otherwise

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued a mea culpa Friday after he was caught attending an event linked to the Community Party USA.

What is the background?

The Connecticut People's World Committee hosted its annual Amistad Awards last Saturday, Dec. 11. Not only did Blumenthal attend the event, but he honored the award winners with "certificates of special recognition" from the United States Senate, according to the Yankee Institute.

The problem is: The Connecticut People's World Committee is directly associated with the Communist Party USA, and last Saturday's award ceremony was hosted in honor of the Communist Party USA's 102nd birthday.

What is Blumenthal saying now?

After his appearance at the event generated criticism, Blumenthal is now claiming ignorance.

In an interview with the Hartford Courant, Blumenthal said he was unaware of the event's links to the Communist Party USA, and said he would not have attended the event if he had known the ties.

"My understanding was that this ceremony was strictly a labor event. If I had known the details, I wouldn’t have gone," Blumenthal said. "Let me just say very emphatically, I’m a Democrat and a strong believer in American capitalism. I have been consistently a Democrat and a strong supporter and believer in American capitalism."

The Democratic senator further pleaded his case of ignorance by suggesting some details fall through the cracks of his busy schedule.

"I go to a lot of events, places, meetings, rallies, and ceremonies in Connecticut. I’m delighted to be invited anywhere, and in this instance, I was invited by local labor unions to honor these three individuals, and that’s why I was there. That’s pretty much it," Blumenthal said.

Blumenthal also dismissed the criticism.

"People are going to do what they’re going to do. I’m just going to keep doing my job for the people of Connecticut. There’s a lot at stake in the Senate right now - voting rights, the ongoing pandemic, making childcare affordable, lowering prescription drug prices. That’s where my focus is," he told the Courant.

Did he really not know?

Video from the event suggests Blumenthal could not have been unaware the event was linked to the Communist Party USA. In fact, the person who introduced Blumenthal noted "how important the Community Party is."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/richard-blumenthal-denies-knowing-communist-event

Disgraced Cop Gets NO JAIL Despite Admitting to the Repeated Rape of a Child

Washington, MO — When he was just 13-years-old, the victim of Byrnes Mill officer Ryan Shomaker was raped. The abuse would last years as the boy transitioned from a middle school student to high school, and this week, after attempting to seek justice for years, this abused boy found out that his rapist will not be going to jail.

Shomaker, 48, admitted to the abuse and pleaded guilty to second-degree sodomy, not once, but twice. On Dec 2 in Jefferson County, and on Nov. 22 in St. Louis County, Shomaker admitted to the crimes against this boy.

In Jefferson County, Shomaker was charged with first-degree statutory sodomy, an unclassified felony punishable by five years to life in prison, and in St. Louis County he was charged with two counts of sodomy. However, he was allowed to plea down to one count each of second-degree sodomy.

As the Leader reports, on Dec. 2, Jefferson County Div. 5 Circuit Judge Victor Melenbrink sentenced Shomaker to seven years in prison in the Jefferson County case, and St. Louis County Circuit Judge Joseph Dueker sentenced Shomaker to seven years in the St. Louis County case.

Despite these sentences, after the fact, Shomaker’s sentences were both suspended and this child rapist was given just 5 years probation.

Shomaker’s attorney called the lack of jail for the child rapist, “a fair outcome.”

“It was a negotiated resolution with both counties,” Joseph Wayne Flees II said according to the Leader. “We feel it addresses some of the potential concerns the state may have had in the case with their victim. It is essentially a fair outcome.”

According to court documents, Shomaker met his victim on an app in 2014 when he was just 13. The abuse continued for the next four years until the victim worked up enough courage to come forward.

After the victim came forward, Shomaker “separated” from the Byrnes Mill Police Department on Oct. 31, 2018. His case has been moving through the courts ever since.

The reason Shomaker was charged in two different counties was due to the fact that the abuse took place in multiple jurisdictions. According to the probable-cause statement, the victim told a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputy that Shomaker sexually molested him multiple times during his juvenile years, “at least two of which were within the Jefferson County jurisdiction.”

The first time they met, the boy was taken back to Shomaker’s home where he was sodomized by the officer, according to court documents. Just three days later, Shomaker found the boy again, where he was taken to a parking lot in House Springs, where Shomaker abused the child again.

This pattern unfolded for years and despite text messages proving that Shomaker knew he was doing this to a child, this monster will not be going to jail.

As the Free Thought Project reports on a regular basis, police sexual misconduct is not rare. Hundreds of officers are accused and prosecuted every year with many of them receiving slaps on the wrist. Shomaker’s case highlights the fact that even when cops horribly abuse children, they often get off with no jail.

Just last September, TFTP reported on a similar travesty of justice when Benjamin Reinhart, a disgraced officer with Genesee County was “sentenced” as part of a plea deal, to just five years of probation. The Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team, or GHOST, caught the officer in April attempting to lure a child for sex. He was on duty at the time. He didn’t even have to register as a public sex offender.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/disgraced-cop-gets-no-jail-despite-admitting-to-the-repeated-rape-of-a-child/

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul intends to change definition of 'fully vaccinated' to also include booster shots

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul declared that she intends to change the definition of "fully vaccinated" to include booster shots.

During a press conference on Thursday, the Democratic governor of New York announced that she plans to expand the definition of fully vaccinated.

"At some point, we have to determine that fully vaccinated means boosted as well," Hochul proclaimed. "And we’ll give people a sufficient timeframe to make that happen."

Currently, New York classifies "fully vaccinated" as when a person has received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or one shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

"People are underestimating the power of omicron because they say, 'people aren't getting sick, they aren't going to hospitals;' but if you have a million more people infected, that means you will have over-flowing hospitals at this rate," Hochul said. "This is a crisis; this is a healthcare crisis and people are going to die."

CNY Central reported, "Gov. Hochul emphasized that if people had gotten vaccinated early on in the pandemic, the mask mandate would not have been necessary."

The outlet noted that Dr. Mary Bassett — the Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health — said during the press conference that the current winter spike of COVID-19 cases is something the state anticipated.

"We’re in the midst of a delta surge, and we have omicron in the wings," Bassett said.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/definition-fully-vaccinated-holchul-fauci

She reminds me of the mars attacks woman

Fauci: No Lockdowns if Americans Get Vaccinated, Boosted

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he does not see a return to lockdowns if Americans got vaccinated.

Guest host Jon Karl said, “So with that, and what you have described as, you know, the way to be prudent, the success of vaccines and boosters, we are not headed towards anything approaching the kind of lockdown we saw last year, are we?”

Fauci said, “I don’t see that in the future if we do the things we’re talking about. Jon, the thing that continues to be troublesome to me and my colleagues is the fact we have 50 million people in the country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not vaccinated. When you have that degree of vulnerability, and you have a virus like Omicron that spreads so rapidly, it is quite likely that we are going to see in some sections of the country a significant stress on the hospital system as well as on the health care workers who are getting exhausted by all of this. So the stress is going to be there. I don’t foresee the kind of lockdowns that we’ve seen before, but I am certain of the potential for stress on our hospital system.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/19/fauci-no-lockdowns-if-americans-get-vaccinated-boosted/

UK Health Secretary: Unvaxed ‘Must Really Think About the Damage They Are Doing to Society’

Britain’s health secretary, Sajid Javid, has railed against the unvaccinated for the “impact” he says they are having on fellow citizens, guilt-tripping them to “really think about the damage they are doing to society”.

“People have had over a year — almost a year now, to get vaccinated. There’s still ten per cent of our population that have chosen, for whatever reason, not to get vaccinated… five million-plus,” Javid seethed during an interview with Comcast-owned Sky’s Trevor Phillips, a former Labour politician and chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality and its Tony Blair-created successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

“I just cannot emphasise enough the impact that they are having on the rest of society. They must really think about the damage they are doing to society — they take up hospital beds that could have been used for someone with maybe a heart problem, or maybe someone who’s waiting for an elective surgery, but instead of protecting themself and protecting the community they choose not to get vaccinated,” the Tory MP continued.

“They are really having a damaging impact and I just can’t stress enough, please, do come forward and get vaccinated; it’s a really positive thing to do not just for yourself, for your loved ones, but for your community too,” he insisted.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/19/uk-health-secretary-unvaxed-must-really-think-about-the-damage-they-are-doing-society/

Former Prime Minister of Slovakia Arrested on Live TV for Backing Covid Protest

Former Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico was arrested on live television this week after attempting to give a statement ahead of a planned protest that would defy the country’s Wuhan virus restrictions.

The arrest of the former Prime Minister of Slovakia, who leads the left-populist Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (SMER-SD) party, came on Thursday evening as he was making an attempt to give a statement to Slovakian television cameras.

Fico commented said of his arrest: “This is what democracy on the air looks like, ladies and gentlemen. So once again, we wanted to make a peaceful passage through Bratislava and look at this situation.”

Addressing a police officer, Fico added: “Are you normal, man? How dare you talk to a Member of Parliament like that? What crime have I committed? What crime have I committed? Explain to me. You aim to stop this protest because this protest was to show how democracy is abused in Slovakia.”

According to a report from the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, the protest had been announced on Tuesday and was to protest Slovakian president Zuzana Caputova and her objection to a referendum on a possible new national election.

Protests under Slovakia’s Wuhan virus restrictions, which state that no more than six people are allowed to gather in public, are effectively illegal, although Fico claimed the rally was not in breach of restrictions as protesters would be in their cars and not gathered on the street.

Fico has been an ardent critic of the Slovakian government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and of the restrictions put in place in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.

On Friday the news service Reuters reported that following his arrest Fico could face charges of incitement, but the matter was in the hands of local prosecutors and no charges had yet been filed.

Per capita, Slovakia has seen some of the most infections and deaths in Europe from the coronavirus, with nearly 800,000 confirmed cases and over 15,000 deaths.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/19/former-prime-minister-of-slovakia-arrested-on-live-tv-for-backing-covid-protest/

Brexit Minister Frost Resigns over Boris Johnson’s Tax Hikes, Lockdown Lunacy

Boris Johnson’s future as Prime Minister was thrown into further question late Saturday night after it emerged that Brexit negotiator Lord David Frost has resigned over the government’s leftist policies on taxes, the Build Back Better green agenda, and the push for more coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Questions over Prime Minister Johnson’s leadership have swirled in London in the wake of a disastrous election defeat to the Liberal Democrats in North Shropshire this week, as well as a large scale Tory rebellion against the latest round of COVID restrictions earlier this month in Parliament.

The problems facing Mr Johnson’s administration were amplified on Saturday following a report from the Mail on Sunday, which pre-empted an announcement that Lord Frost had resigned from the government. While his resignation was reportedly intended to officially take place next month, the report brought the move forward to have “immediate effect”.

Lord Frost, who spearheaded the negotiations during the United Kingdom’s separation from the European Union, first publicly criticised the government in November, warning that Johnson’s high tax “European social model” policies would jeopardise the benefits of gaining independence from the EU.

The Minister of State for the Cabinet Office was also reportedly concerned about the Prime Minister’s Build Back Better agenda, under which Johnson has pledged to reduce British carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050 — a project which is expected to run costs in the trillions.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/19/brexit-minister-frost-resigns-over-bojos-lockdowns-green-agenda-high-taxes/

Jeremy Corbyn’s Brother Piers Arrested over Call to ‘Burn Down’ Offices of Pro-Lockdown Politicians

Piers Corbyn, the brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, has reportedly been arrested after footage emerged on social media in which he apparently called for people to “burn down” the offices of pro-lockdown politicians.

On Sunday morning, the Metropolitan Police announced they had arrested an unnamed man in his seventies on suspicion of encouragement to commit arson, in relation to a “video posted online in which people were encouraged to burn down MPs’ offices”.

The arrest came after footage of the brother of far-left MP Jeremy Corbyn appeared to encourage violence in response to lockdown measures.

In the clip, Corbyn, 74, told the crowd: “We are getting more support but we’ve got to get a bit more physical. It means we have to take down these lying vax centres, and we’ve got to take down these lying MPs.

“We’ve got to support all those and we’ve got to hammer to death those scum, those scum who have decided to go ahead with introducing new fascism.

“We’ve got to get a list of them, we can get a list of them on websites, and if your MP is one of them, go to their offices and — well, I would recommend burning them down, OK? But I can’t say that on-air.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/19/jeremy-corbyns-brother-piers-arrested-over-calls-to-burn-down-politicians-offices/

15 Insane things in democrats’ H.R. 1 bill to corrupt elections forever

On Wednesday, House Democrats passed an 800-page bill that would mandate insecure voting processes and subject voting tallies to partisan manipulation. It’s a slap in the face to the half of Americans, including many Democrats, who believe the 2020 election was riddled with fraud and errors, largely due to the rapid expansion of mail-in balloting and other suspensions of state election laws.

“It is difficult to imagine a legislative proposal more threatening to election integrity and voter confidence,” write 20 Republican attorneys general in a Thursday letter about the ridiculously named For The People Act of 2021, or H.R. 1. Democrats have made the bill their top priority this Congress to permanently cement their current unified control of the federal government.

The bill “would (among other things) implement nationwide the worst changes in election rules that occurred during the 2020 election; go even further in eroding and eliminating basic security protocols that states have in place; and interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls, secure the fairness and integrity of elections, and participate and speak freely in the political process,” says a Heritage Foundation analysis.

H.R. 1 broadcasts Democrats’ goals for unending electoral dominance through openly rigged voting processes. It would engineer an unconstitutional federal takeover of state elections for national office. No surprise, then, that Joe Biden says he will sign this legislation if it reaches his desk.

Here are just some of the unconstitutional, absurd, nakedly partisan, and crime-assisting provisions in this bill that 220 House Democrats voted for and every House Republican voted against.

https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/12/the-list-19-senate-republicans-give.html

Border Crisis Funded By US Allies

A worker at a plastic folding table inside the Reynosa immigration camp in Mexico, announced they were distributing the cards for IOM to assist the waiting migrants.

They must wait to cross the Rio Grande at greater leisure to claim asylum, for which most will be declared ineligible years later.

Many parents, for example, got roughly $400 every 15 days, or $800 a month if they were still there to get it, although the support level varied.

Pictures of the incident posted to Twitter and related dispatch for the Center for Immigration Studies attracted fury among some Republican lawmakers. They noticed the photos as evidence that the U.S. taxpayer-funded IOM provided material support to a continuous mass migration harmful to America’s national interest.

A couple of weeks later, Texas Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, and 11 other House Republican co-sponsors presented the “No Tax Dollars for the United Nations

Immigration Invasion Act” bill.

The bill bans the $3.8 billion in contributions currently suggested in the White House 2022 budget to the IOM and other UN-backed organizations. A Daily Caller story that broke news of the bill’s introduction quoted Gooden citing the Reynosa photos.

The money card proves to be true; there is also evidence of the “hard cash in envelopes,” movement assistance, and an online IOM “Emergency Manual.” This program for migrants is called “Cash-Based Interventions,” or CBIs.

For starters, country-specific IOM “Cash Working Groups” are coordinating the handouts of the cash-holding plastic cards to U.S. border crossers in Reynosa, Mexico. The IOM is handing out cash and other material aid to illegal border crossers in as many as 100 other shelters it helped build, expand, or funds from Central America North.

https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1033294-revealed-border-crisis-funded-by-us-allies

Alabama judge who called colleagues ‘Uncle Tom’ removed from bench

An Alabama judge who called her fellow jurists “Uncle Tom” and “heifer,” and who allegedly put her finger on the scales in domestic cases has been yanked from the bench.

A nine-judge panel found that Nakita Blocton, of Jefferson County, Ala., had a history of “inappropriate comments” and, as regarded her staff, a “pattern of abuse,” according to Law & Crime.

That abuse included “excessive, unproductive, and unnecessary nights and weekends” she forced her underlings to work, according to the panel’s Dec. 10 judgment.

And when her actions came under investigation by the state Judicial Inquiry Commission, the disgraced magistrate attempted a coverup, “order[ing] employees to allow her to see their private cellphones so that information that might be relevant to the Commission’s investigation could be deleted,” according to the judgment.

Blocton, who was a circuit judge in the Birmingham court’s domestic relations division, also used fake Facebook accounts “to communicate with litigants in a pending domestic-relations case in an effort to affect the outcome of the case,” according to the judgment.

She threatened one party in a divorce case and provided advice to another through the fake accounts, according to the complaint.

“False Prophet How Much Is Your White Judge Paying You,” she wrote to the disfavored party. “THE DEVIL IS WATCHING YOU.”

She used fake accounts to “friend” divorce lawyers and even leak information on other judges, according to the complaint.

Her attorney, Emory Anthony, told Above the Law: “We were trying to keep her on the bench, and we were disappointed they removed her from the bench.”

https://nypost.com/2021/12/18/alabama-judge-nakita-blocton-removed-from-bench/

Here's a List of Every Single House Democrat Not Running for Re-Election in 2022

Those Democrats are:

Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona

Alan Lowenthal, Jackie Speier and Karen Bass of California

Val Demings and Charlie Crist of Florida

Cheri Bustos of Illinois

John Yarmuth of Kentucky

Anthony Brown of Maryland

G.K. Butterfield and David Price of North Carolina

Tom Suozzi of New York

Tim Ryan of Ohio

Peter DeFazio of Oregon

Conor Lamb and Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania

Eddie Bernice Johnson and Filemon Vela of Texas

Peter Welch of Vermont

Ron Kind of Wisconsin

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/12/blue-doom-heres-list-of-every-single.html

Grand jury unseals federal indictment claiming fraud by Air Force military police officer

A federal grand jury Friday unsealed a five-count indictment against a military police officer at Edwards Air Force Base alleging more than $250,000 in fraudulent unemployment assistance.

Trevon Miller, 28, is charged with mail fraud for submitting unemployment insurance claims in more than 30 states, according to a news release issued by Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert.

The indictment states that Miller, who legally changed his name and Social Security number from Trevor Rodney in December 2016, used his previous identity to file unemployment claims to state workforce agencies, such as the Employment Development Department, falsely stating he was an unemployed resident of that state.

The indictment also alleges that Miller took advantage of the fact that the U.S. government had created a $300 billion expansion of eligibility for unemployment benefits as a result of COVID-19. As a result, he was able to file false claims in New York, California, Arizona, Nevada and Indiana, according to the indictment.

In count, for example, Miller claimed he was an unemployed cab driver and chauffeur in Nevada, according to the indictment. He then applied for and received assistance in the form of debit cards from Bank of America and Key Bank in the name of Trevor Rodney, and used the state workforce agency funds deposited into those cards for his own benefit.

The actual losses incurred to state agencies listed in the indictment exceeded $140,000, although his claims as cited in the indictment exceeded a quarter-million dollars. The complaint claims he used the U.S. Postal Service “for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice to defraud.”

The case is the product of an investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the U.S. Secret Service, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, according to the DOJ news release. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Barton is prosecuting the case.

If convicted, Miller faces a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each of the mail fraud counts. Federal sentencing is determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors in federal guidelines, which take into account several variables.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/12/grand-jury-unseals-federal-indictment-claiming-fraud-by-air-force-military-police-officer/

Two Former CIA Directors Call on Biden to Threaten Iran Militarily

“The military threat the U.S. poses to Iran is a key reason why the Iranian nuclear program has expanded,” an analyst said, criticizing the statement.

A hawkish gaggle of former U.S. national security officials, lawmakers, and diplomats has launched a public campaign to pressure the Biden administration into militarily threatening Iran. The statement, headlined by former CIA chiefs Leon Panetta and retired Gen. David Petraeus as well as former Obama-era senior Pentagon official Michèle Flournoy asserts that “it is vital to restore Iran’s fear that its current nuclear path will trigger the use of force against it by the United States.”

The statement — which was also signed by former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman and Democratic diplomatic heavyweight Dennis Ross, and published by the Washington Institute, a militarist think tank — argues that the Biden administration must “take steps that lead Iran to believe that persisting in its current behavior and rejecting a reasonable diplomatic resolution will put to risk its entire nuclear infrastructure, one built painstakingly over the last three decades.” They suggest that President Joe Biden consider “orchestrating high-profile military exercises by the U.S. Central Command, potentially in concert with allies and partners, that simulate what would be involved in such a significant operation, including rehearsing air-to-ground attacks on hardened targets and the suppression of Iranian missile batteries.”

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Iran analyst Hooman Majd, author of “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran,” said the letter from the former U.S. officials “is just plain silly.” He told The Intercept, “There’s no ‘restoring’ Iran’s fear — the last time it feared a U.S. military strike or war was in the immediate aftermath of the Iraq invasion when it looked like the easy victory there and in Afghanistan would indeed perhaps lead to ‘real men going to Tehran.’” Majd points out that despite repeated U.S. and Israeli threats of military action, Iran has steadily “beefed up” its military capabilities. “So I’d say that Iran doesn’t fear U.S. military action against it now,” he added. “All of the Israeli bluster about preparing for war with Iran hasn’t changed their calculus — and they know Israel is probably more likely to attack their facilities than the U.S. is — so why would any U.S. bluster or ‘preparations’ for war do so?”

Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, blasted the statement, telling The Intercept: “The exaggerated faith in the miracles that U.S. military threats can deliver are not limited to any one party in the United States, but is intrinsic to the establishment religion that American security is achieved through global military hegemony.”

https://theintercept.com/2021/12/17/iran-hawks-military-pressure-biden/

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Former Sen. Johnny Isakson dies at 76

Former Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) died on Sunday at the age of 76, the Isakson Initiative announced.

“It is with deep sorrow that The Isakson Initiative shares that former U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson passed away overnight on December 19, 2021, at age 76. Sen. Isakson’s family is grateful for the prayers and support,” it said on the former senator's Twitter page.

“Funeral arrangements will be shared when finalized,” it added.

The former Georgia lawmaker, who had served in both the House and Senate, was considered an esteemed lawmaker that members of both political parties respected, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted, adding that he is best known for legislation including the No Child Left Behind Act and his work on immigration policy, Department of Veterans Affairs reform and health care.

“Johnny was one of my very best friends in the Senate. But the amazing thing about him was that at any given time, approximately 98 other Senators felt the same way. His infectious warmth and charisma, his generosity, and his integrity made Johnny one of the most admired and beloved people in the Capitol," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement.

Sen Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), meanwhile, said that Isakson "was a statesman who served Georgia with honor."

"He put his state and his country ahead of self and party, and his great legacy endures. Alisha and I will keep Dianne and the Isakson family in our prayers,” Ossoff added.

And Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said that the state "has lost a giant, one of its greatest statesmen, and a servant leader dedicated to making his state and country better than he found it."

"Johnny Isakson personified what it means to be Georgian," Kemp said.

Isakson jumped into politics during Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican presidential campaign as a volunteer, according to the Journal-Constitution. Isakson would later serve in both the Georgia's state House and state Senate in addition to running Georgia's Board of Education.

He subsequently took his sights to Congress, where he served in the House between 1999 and 2004 as well as in the Senate between 2005 and 2019.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586462-former-sen-johnny-isakson-dies-at-76

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/586462-former-sen-johnny-isakson-dies-at-76

Spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group found on phone of jailed Indian activist

Investigation finds device belonging to Rona Wilson, a critic of Modi’s government, was targeted with controversial Pegasus tech just before he was arrested on terror charges

The case against a jailed Indian activist has come under renewed scrutiny after it was revealed that the man, a critic of the government, had his phone hacked using controversial Israeli spyware, the Guardian reported.

The report published Friday said an analysis of Rona Wilson’s phone by experts from Amnesty International found that it was infected with Pegasus spyware, developed by the NSO Group, between July 2017 and March 2018, some three months before he was arrested on terror-related charges.

Amnesty’s investigation found that during that period, Wilson’s phone was targeted with 15 text messages containing links to install the Pegasus spyware and compromise the device.

The report said Wilson was part of a network of advocates for the rights of indigenous communities and Indians who are members of low castes. Members of the network have been detained since 2018.

The report said research carried out by US digital forensic science firm Arsenal Consulting found that evidence had been planted on the computers of some of those detained, including Wilson.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/spyware-made-by-israels-nso-group-found-on-phone-of-jailed-indian-activist/

Teachers get raises, bonuses from federal COVID relief funds meant to reopen schools safely

NEA guidance issued in June outlined how unions could claim entitlement to increased teacher compensation from federal COVID-19 emergency relief funding and school cost savings realized during the pandemic.

This week's Golden Horseshoe once again goes to the U.S. Department of Education for allowing school districts to use pandemic relief funds for pay raises and bonuses for teachers despite the funds being appropriated to reopen schools safely.

Schools nationwide received $190 billion through three relief packages passed. Of that total, the largest sum, $122 billion, was from President Biden's American Rescue Plan.

The federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds were ostensibly meant to reopen schools safely amid the pandemic and return students to in-person instruction. Millions, however, were used for COVID-19 bonuses, teacher pay raises, even to cover payroll, Just The News found.

Teachers, who are public employees, continued receiving their normal pay despite school closures while teaching remotely.

Connecticut, which was awarded over $1.6 billion in ESSER funding, spent $21.1 million on "personal services-salaries" and $2.6 million on employee benefits, the state website shows.

Detroit Public Schools used $60 million of its pandemic relief funds to give out COVID-19 bonuses, school documents show.

"Salary increases will be one-time bonuses funded through COVID funding," the Detroit Public Schools Community District report showed.

The Detroit Federation of Teachers signed a school reopening letter of agreement with DPSCD that detailed the "COVID-19 supplement of $500 each quarter" for union members.

"DFT bargaining unit members who mainly or entirely perform their job duties in-person, face-to-face, for the 2021-22 academic year shall receive a COVID-19 supplement of $500 for each quarterly marking period that they complete through June 30, 2022," the union agreement with DPSCD stated.

In addition, teachers who provide blended or virtual teaching will receive a total of $2,000 in COVID-19 bonus payments through the end of June 2022.

Despite COVID-19 posing little risk to those under 18, teachers unions pushed back against reopening schools and prolonged virtual learning, resulting in learning loss for students, with minority students disproportionately affected.

"The pandemic widened preexisting opportunity and achievement gaps, hitting historically disadvantaged students hardest," McKinsey & Co. reported. "In math, students in majority Black schools ended the year with six months of unfinished learning, students in low-income schools with seven."

The National Education Association, the largest union in the U.S., pushed for ESSER funds to be used for teacher pay in a document titled "The ESSER Funds: Bargaining and Advocacy Guidance for Safe and Equitable Schools."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/suteachers-get-bonuses-pay-raises-federal-pandemic-relief

REVIEW: ‘Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide’

In the spring of 2019, in between bouts of crack smoking and trysts with prostitutes, living out of hotels and stinking of smoke and booze, Hunter Biden made a strangely lucid decision. He got in a car, drove to a computer service shop, and dropped off his laptop for repair. The next day, he returned to give the clerk an external hard drive so that the contents could be extracted. Then he never came back.

Why Hunter decided to take his computer to a repairman (and ultimately abandon it) two weeks before his father's presidential announcement, rather than just buy a new one, could be an interesting puzzle for Freudian theorists. But out of that fateful decision comes Miranda Devine's fascinating book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.

Devine's gripping account of the Biden family's sleazy business dealings, gleaned from the contents of Hunter's hard drive, picks up where the New York Post‘s stellar pre-election reporting left off.

Many of the details have been reported before in bits and pieces. Devine weaves them together with new direct reporting on correspondence and documents pulled from the laptop and puts them in context with what was happening at the time with Joe Biden's vice presidency and presidential run.

The book is a devastating chronicle of political corruption. From Ukraine to Mexico to China, Hunter Biden's private correspondence shows how he and his family leveraged his father's position to win high-paying, low-work gigs with shady foreign actors—and how Joe's official actions at times directly benefited his family's financial backers.

At best, Joe Biden comes off as a hapless father who facilitates his son's clearly unethical moneymaking schemes. At worst, and as some of Hunter's texts and emails suggest, Joe was a knowing participant and beneficiary of the family business.

The fact that Hunter's market value was derived from his father's position seemed to be a source of resentment for the younger Biden, even as he continued to cash in on the name. Hunter complained in texts to his daughter that he had financially supported the Biden clan for three decades and that "pop" takes a cut of "half [my] salary." Financial records and correspondence reported on by Devine indicate that money from Hunter's business accounts was used to cover Joe's AT&T bill and home maintenance expenses and that a portion of at least one major China deal was earmarked for the elder Biden.

As the 2020 presidential election approached, Hunter's correspondence sounded more and more like the impotent protests of middle Corleone brother Fredo in The Godfather Part II: "I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says, like dumb. I'm smart and I want respect!"

He sent long, passive-aggressive missives to his father.

https://freebeacon.com/culture/review-laptop-from-hell-hunter-biden-big-tech-and-the-dirty-secrets-the-president-tried-to-hide/

Incompetent Public Health Bureaucrats at CDC Overcounted Partially Vaccinated Americans

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/12/19/incompetent-public-health-bureaucrats-at-cdc-overcounted-partially-vaccinated-americans-n1542714

REVEALED: CDC Massively Inflated Number of 'Vaccinated' Americans

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has been wildly inflating the number of "vaccinated" Americans by counting potentially tens of millions of "boosters" and second doses as first time shots, according to a report from Bloomberg News.

To give you an idea of the scale of the CDC's overreporting, in just one state, Pennsylvania, the CDC overreported the number of first doses for the elderly "by about 850,000" when compared to the state's own revised estimates.

There's only around 2.27 million elderly people (aged 65 and over) in all of Pennsylvania.

"Alison Beam, the state's acting health secretary, said their review showed that some first doses were actually second doses – meaning that fully inoculated people were counted twice as half-vaccinated," Bloomberg reported.

From Bloomberg, "Vaccine Data Gaps Point to Millions More in U.S. Who Lack Shots":

Last weekend, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised a bellwether metric – the share of people 65 and older with at least one shot. The agency reduced the proportion from 99.9%, where it had been capped for weeks, to 95%, without changing its raw shot totals.

The move acknowledged a dynamic state officials have discovered: in collating reams of data on vaccinations, the U.S. has counted too many shots as first doses when they are instead second doses or booster shots.

CDC data show 240 million people with at least one shot, or about 72.5% of the population. But the agency says only 203 million are fully vaccinated, or 61.3%, an 11-percentage-point difference that is far larger than in other developed countries.

State and local officials say it's improbable that 37 million Americans got one shot without completing their inoculations. Instead, they say, the government has regularly and incorrectly counted booster shots and second doses as first doses, a dynamic the CDC acknowledged in a statement.

That means both the fully vaccinated and completely unvaccinated are officially undercounted. The precise number miscounted is unknown, but revisions in data from three states Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia found enough over-counting of first shots to indicate millions of unvaccinated people nationally who've mistakenly been counted as having received a dose.

Changes to national data on the scale of Pennsylvania's revisions, for example, would mean increasing the number of Americans who are unvaccinated by more than 10 million.

"The truth is, we have no idea," said Clay Marsh, West Virginia's Covid czar.

The CDC put out an empty statement dodging the issue:

The White House referred questions about the over-count of first shots to the CDC. In a statement, the agency acknowledged the ongoing data review. "Given the complex nature of vaccine administration and data reporting in the United States, CDC has been actively working with partners at state and local levels to enhance the quality of vaccine data," the agency said.

[…] "We don't have any faith in the numbers on the CDC website, and we never refer to them," [James Garrow, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health] said.

[…] Last month, in one data change submitted to the CDC, the state government in Pennsylvania lowered its estimate for adults with at least one shot to 94.6% from 98.9%. The proportion of fully vaccinated older people also fell. Another data update is due by year's end.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62747

Big Pharma, Gates, Fauci, UK Officials Accused of Crimes against Humanity in Complaint to International court

Activists are charging UK officials and the world’s most powerful health figures with genocide, citing a range of statistics on the effects of COVID “vaccines” and policies.

A group that includes former Pfizer vice president Dr. Michael Yeadon filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of UK citizens against Boris Johnson and UK officials, Bill and Melinda Gates, chief executives of Big Pharma companies, World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab, and others for crimes against humanity.

The UK group, including an astrophysicist and a funeral director, additionally charged Dr. Anthony Fauci; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO); June Raine, chief executive of Medicines and Healthcare products regulatory agency (MHRA); Dr. Radiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation; and Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, as “responsible for numerous violations of the Nuremberg Code … war crimes and crimes of aggression” in the UK and other countries.

“to stop the rollout of COVID vaccinations, introduction of unlawful vaccination passports and all other types of illegal warfare … being waged against the people of the UK.”

In the group’s complaint filed December 6, they present evidence that COVID-19 “vaccines” are in fact experimental gene therapies engineered with gain-of-function research from bat coronaviruses, arguing that these “vaccines” have caused massive death and injury and that the UK government has failed to investigate such reported deaths and injuries;

that COVID case and death numbers have been artificially inflated;

that face masks are harmful due to hypoxia, hypercapnia and other causes;

and PCR tests are “completely unreliable” and “contain carcinogenic ethylene oxide.”

They furthermore argued that effective treatments for COVID-19 such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, were suppressed, leading to a greater death toll from COVID-19 than what should have occurred.

They make the case that the lockdowns were enacted under the pretext of artificially inflated infection and death numbers from an engineered virus, as well as the experimental “vaccines” have resulted in:

Massive short-term damage and death, with at least 395,049 reported adverse reactions to COVID “vaccines” in the UK alone;

a sharp uptick in ChildLine calls from vulnerable children during lockdowns; “destruction of wealth and businesses” through imposed lockdowns;

” “severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law,” including bans on travel and gatherings, and forced quarantine and self-isolation; apartheid due to segregation by vaccine passport possession;

and “expected reduction in fertility” after “vaccination,” among other harmful physical and psychological effects.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-gates-fauci-uk-officials-accused-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-complaint-to-international-court/5764970

Ex-CIA Agent Calls on Washington to ‘Honestly Assess’ How US Has Contributed to Russia Tensions

Tensions between Russia and the West hit post-Cold War highs over Ukraine amid claims by the US and the EU that Moscow may be preparing to invade its neighbour. Russia has dismissed these claims, and expressed fears that the ‘invasion’ claims may be a smokescreen for ambitions by Kiev to resolve the frozen civil conflict in east Ukraine by force.

The current tensions between Russia and the US bear many of the hallmarks of Cold War-era animosities between Moscow and Washington in spite of the disappearance of virtually all of that conflict’s ideological and economic components, and Washington would do well to consider its own role in reigniting the conflict, former CIA officer Joe Weisberg has suggested. Part of the solution, he said, may lie in casting off the “one-dimensional” perspective of Russia.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the former agent-turned television writer, whose work includes The Americans, an FX television series offering a sympathetic portrayal of KGB agents during the Cold War, Weisberg noted that the latest news about US-Russia tensions feel “depressingly, pointlessly familiar.”

“…While the Soviet Union is gone, the fight between the United States and Russia somehow survives. It is no longer a contest between communism and democracy/freedom/capitalism, but is it a battle between an autocracy-spreading Russia and an America hanging onto democracy for dear life? A repressive oligarchical kleptocracy and a rich but faltering example of extreme capitalism? A struggle between a couple of old adversaries? Yes, Russia has serious flaws…Even so, the US-Russia conflict has outlived virtually all of the issues that once animated it, a remarkable testament to our (and no doubt their) need to have a best enemy,” Weisberg wrote.

https://sputniknews.com/20211219/ex-cia-agent-calls-on-washington-to-honestly-assess-how-us-has-contributed-to-russia-tensions-1091651459.html

Crime: FDA Approved Booster for Minors – Without Testing Boosters on Minors

On December 9, the United States FDA approved the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another Pfizer vaccine to be given at least 6 months after vaccination. The agency states: “authorizing the use of a single booster dose for administration to individuals 16 and 17 years of age.”

There’s just one small problem here. It’s a problem which all mainstream media journalists have either haven’t been told about by federal public health mavens, or have chosen to ignore completely. It’s an obvious key question: did Pfizer actually test its new gene-jab booster on the age group for which it is seeking authorization to inject their experimental product into en mass?

The answer should still shock you, even if it doesn’t surprise you.

Techno Fog at Substack writes…

The Pfizer vaccine is particularly dangerous for young men aged 16-17.

As we observed back in October, teenage boys are especially at risk for heart problems – like myocarditis – after getting the Pfizer vaccine:

“Boys between 16 and 19 years of age had the highest incidence of myocarditis after the second dose . . . The risk of heart problems in boys of that age was about nine times higher than in unvaccinated boys of the same age.” New York Times.

The risk of myocarditis for boys 16 – 19 years old is higher after the Pfizer second dose. What happens after the third dose??

That’s a good question.

One would rightly assume that the third dose might present more danger of heart problems than the second dose. But FDA doesn’t have the answer to this question. And why doesn’t it have the answer?

Because the FDA didn’t look.

Because the FDA decided against holding an advisory meeting to discuss the decision.

Because the FDA required ZERO tests in this age bracket before approving the latest Pfizer booster for this age bracket.

Instead, the FDA relied on prior (old) booster data from a study of “200 participants, 18 through 55 years of age.” Choosing to ignore the long-term data for the efficacy of the Pfizer booster shot, the FDA instead reviewed the old data showing “the antibody response against the SARS-CoV-2 virus one month after a booster dose of the vaccine.”

That’s it. That’s the rigorous studies that now meet FDA standards. Given the self-imposed and purposeful limitations the FDA has placed on its own own information, it has the audacity to conclude:

“The benefits of a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine or Comirnaty outweigh the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis in individuals 16 and 17 years of age to provide continued protection against COVID-19 and the associated serious consequences that can occur including hospitalization and death.”

This is the FDA making a cost/benefit calculation without knowing the costs or benefits. It doesn’t know the real risks because it didn’t study the potential for adverse reactions in kids aged 16 – 17 years. It doesn’t know the real benefits because it chose a shitty study that was limited to one month efficacy data.

This robust FDA cost/benefit calculation might sound familiar to our loyal readers. That would be because the Government did the same thing when recommending the COVID-19 vaccines for “people who are pregnant.”

https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/12/19/crime-fda-approved-booster-for-minors-without-testing-boosters-on-minors/

Not Making Headlines: Omicron Variant So Weak that South Africa will Stop Tracing and Quarantining of Contacts

South Africa ministers announced the country is moving to stop contact tracing and quarantining of Omicron contacts. Healthcare experts discovered the Omicron is so weak that they do not need to trace the Omicron variant among the people.

This is good news for those who believe that the Omicron will help with herd immunity.

It’s bad news for Fauci and his political operatives pushing vaccinations.

Alex Berenson reported from News 24:

The Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on Covid-19 has written to Health Minister Joe Phaahla, recommending that the quarantining of contacts be stopped as it is no longer viable in the current social and economic climate.

Furthermore, the committee said contact tracing was no longer necessary and should also be halted with immediate effect…

…With only a small number of contacts identified from a proportionally small Covid-19 cases, quarantining was no longer effective for containing the spread of the disease, MAC said.

The committee said testing was highly skewed toward detecting symptomatic cases, while the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic and go undetected.

“In addition, among the small proportion of symptomatic cases, testing is far from universal, since patients may not seek testing when their symptoms are mild and when testing would be burdensome and expensive. Furthermore, the SARS-CoV-2 test sensitivity is suboptimal, sometimes leading to false negative results.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/not-making-headlines-omicron-variant-weak-south-africa-will-stop-tracing-quarantining-contacts/