Maricopa County – Investigation Finds Additional 740,000 Ballots Have No Documented Chain Of Custody

A new report from Verity Vote provides massive evidence of law violations in Maricopa County’s 2020 election.

740,000 ballots were accepted and counted without the proper chain of custody documentation in violation of Arizona Law.

Maricopa County failed to record the number of ballots on 1,514 out of 1,895 unique chain of custody documents and failed to record signatures on 48 of these documents. There is no way of knowing how many ballots these invalid documents accounted for or inserted into the system.

The Arizona Senate’s full forensic audit report has been delivered to the Arizona Attorney General, and we are awaiting the results of his criminal investigation.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, auditors have been chosen to analyze the routers and Splunk logs used in the 2020 election, and they are working to answer the Senate’s questions.

The “Maricopa County Chain of Custody Failure” report details Verity Vote’s investigation into 740,000 illegal ballots.

Maricopa County Chain of Custody Failure

740,000 Ballots Have No Documented Chain of Custody

Verity Vote has conducted an investigation of Maricopa County’s ballot chain of custody for the 2020 General Election.County records used to document retrieval of early voting ballots from vote centers and drop box locations reveal numerous violations of Arizona election law.

The violations identified are important because failure to maintain chain of custody and properly document ballot retrieval and transport makes it impossible to verify the origin of the ballots counted in an election.Arizona Law outlines specific requirements for secure ballot retrieval and chain of custody procedures for the transfer of voted ballots from drop boxes and vote centers. Maricopa County officials violated Arizona law and do not have the required chain of custody for at least 740,000 ballots.

According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, “keeping a proper chain of custody is more than a best practice ─ it is essential to encouraging trust in our democracy.” EAC advocates for thorough, detailed chain of custody. “Chain of custody documents provide evidence that can be used to authenticate election results, corroborate post-election tabulation audits, and demonstrate that election outcomes can be trusted.” The Arizona legislature understood the need for ballot chain of custody and included that requirement in Title 16. The AZ Secretary of State, Governor, and the Attorney General agreed on the requirements for voted ballots deposited in Early Voting locations in the 2019 Elections Procedures Manual (EPM). The EPM identifies the County Recorder as the party responsible for implementing procedures to ensure proper chain of custody of ballots.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/huge-maricopa-county-investigation-finds-additional-740000-ballots-no-documented-chain-custody/

Biden Department of Homeland Security Declares Heightened Terrorism Threat Due to “False and Misleading Narratives” and “Conspiracy Theories” Online

You just can’t make this stuff up!

The Biden Department of Homeland Security is not focused on the record 2 million illegal aliens who crossed the open US southern border in the last 12 months. The Biden DHS is not focused on the 100,000 deaths from overdose last year as illegal drugs were smuggled across the border in record amounts.

That’s not an issue. In fact, it’s part of their plan.

Instead, the Biden DHS declared a heightened terrorism threat due to “several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”

The DHS published this terror alert on Monday. The number one item of concern is so-called fake news.

The Marxists are going after your right to free speech!

The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence. Mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders and small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation. While the conditions underlying the heightened threat landscape have not significantly changed over the last year, the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions; (2) continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure; soft targets and mass gatherings; faith-based institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques; institutions of higher education; racial and religious minorities; government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement and the military; the media; and perceived ideological opponents; and (3) calls by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/biden-department-homeland-security-declares-heightened-terrorism-threat-due-fake-news-online/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/biden-department-homeland-security-declares-heightened-terrorism-threat-due-fake-news-online/

Trudeau Government Threatens to Criminally Target Americans Who Donated to the Freedom Convoy 2022

The Trudeau government is now threatening Americans who donated to the massive GoFundMe to support the Freedom Convoy 2022.

The grassroots movement raised $10 million dollars until GoFundMe took it down and announced they would steal the donations and turn it over woke groups of their choosing. GoFundMe later backed down after several US Attorneys General announced they will open investigations on the radical leftist company.

On Monday Canadian officials said they will investigate Americans who donated to the Freedom Convoy 2022. They say they will look at “the intent” of the donors who were trying to undermine public safety. It’s not clear how they are going to prove intent of the donors but certainly, the FBI will be more than happy to help out.

Via Conservative Treehouse.

Reading from a prepared statement, Justin Trudeau’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stated the Canadian government intends to target any American who may have donated to the Freedom Convoy protest effort. Apparently, the Canadian government wants to scare Americans away from donating to support the Freedom Protest in Ottawa. [Full Presser Video Here]

Minister Mendicino identified the Ottawa protest group as a “violent”, “hate” group. The Ottawa truck drivers were described as an “angry, loud, intolerant and violent crowd,” who “threaten the national security of Canada.”

Canadian TV News reported:

Mendicino said on Monday that Canada has a “robust” intelligence community that will flag to the government concerns of national security, as well as a separate branch within the RCMP that looks into these types of issues.

“That’s why I’m certainly confident that wherever there’s foul play of the sort, that we’ll be in a position to act appropriately,” said Mendicino.

The public safety minister added that there are laws in place that prohibit anyone from contributing to an initiative that undermines national security.

“If, for example, someone was contributing with the intent of either causing public harm of trying to undermine public safety, that would be something that would be against the law and there would be appropriate sanctions for that, if proven in the court of law,” he said.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair added that it is necessary to cast a light on the sources of funding who are endorsing “illegal activity.”

“I think when [Canadians] understand the source of some of this funding, it helps them understand the motivation of this protest – who is actually behind it – and I think it also reveals some of the false nature of claims being made and the positions being put forward,” he said on Monday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/trudeau-government-threatens-criminally-target-americans-donated-freedom-convoy-2022/

Wisconsin Election Commission Charged Republicans Up to $12,500 for Each Voter Data Request in the 2020 Election But Gave Similar Data to Democrat Democrat Groups for Free

A May 2019 memo from the Wisconsin Elections Commission was unearthed showing how the state charges entities for information within the ERIC voter roll maintenance system. These fees however were not consistently assessed during the 2020 Election cycle.

A document unearthed from 2019 in Wisconsin shows that the state had an agreement with the ERIC voter roll maintenance system and used this system to manage the state’s voter roll.

We reported on the ERIC system recently at The Gateway Pundit.

Since our first report, Louisiana has voted to stop using ERIC, Arizona has calls to end that state’s relationship with ERIC, and Florida patriots have raised concerns there as well.

The 2019 document that we unearthed in Wisconsin related to ERIC is embedded below. There are two points in the memo that we highlighted.

The first point is what is expected of the data housed in ERIC.

Under 2015 Act 261, the Elections Commission is required to enter into a membership agreement with ERIC. The agreement must: (a) safeguard the confidentiality of information or data in the registration list; (b) prohibit the sale or distribution of the information or data in the registration list to a third-party vendor and prohibit any other action not associated with administration of or compliance with the agreement; and (c) allow the state to make contact with electors by electronic mail, whenever possible.

The second point is the costs charged for sharing data from ERIC.

The Commission currently sells voter registration data to various individuals and organizations and, under state statute, is required to use fee revenue to “cover both the cost of reproduction and the cost of maintaining the list.” The Commission currently charges a $25 base fee plus $5 for up to 1,000 records, $5 for each additional 1,000 records, and a maximum of $12,500 for the sale of voter registration data.

These are noted in the document below.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/exclusive-wisconsin-officials-charged-republicans-12500-voter-data-request-2020-election-gave-similar-data-democrat-related-groups-free/

14 Out of 22 Missouri Republican Senators Join Democrats to Defeat 7-1 Redistricting Map – What’s Going On? …Update: Culprits Named

In Missouri, state Republicans in the Senate turned down an attempt to create a map of Congressional districts that would place the state in a 7-1 Republican lead. 14 Republicans joined all the Democrats to defeat the bill.

We reported on this previously, in Missouri the Republicans created a map that benefits the Democrat Party in this year’s redistricting effort. In Missouri where President Trump won the 2020 Election by nearly 20%, the state is now redistricting its Congressional districts. This effort has been secretive. RINOs in the state are attempting to push through the redistricting as quickly as possible that favors Democrats.

While Republicans in several states including Missouri are gifting Congressional seats to Democrats, the Dems are vicious in their attempts to build maps that give them every possible seat imaginable in blue states.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/uniparty-14-22-missouri-republicans-join-democrats-defeat-7-1-redistricting-map-going/

Capitol Police Spies 'Dressed Like Construction Workers' To Surveil GOP Congressman's Office

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has lodged a bombshell accusation against the Capitol Police, who he says broke into his office without his knowledge and photographed sensitive documents.

Two days later, three intelligence officers dressed like construction workers ran into a member of Nehls' staff while trying again during Thanksgiving week to enter the office - questioning the staffer as to the contents of a photograph they illegally took two days earlier.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/capitol-police-spies-dressed-construction-workers-surveil-congressmans-office

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/capitol-police-spies-dressed-construction-workers-surveil-congressmans-office

‘Bear with me, my beauty,’ Putin tells Ukraine

Did the Russian president make a vulgar sexual threat to Kiev?

Russian is an infamously complex language, and its enigmatic turns of phrase have been on full display this week, with online commenters picking apart a saying from President Vladimir Putin and attempting to figure out – was his recent advice to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky a vulgar threat, or an innocent idiom taken from fairy tales?

On Monday, Putin hosted French President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow to discuss a wide range of issues, including European security concerns and the current crisis surrounding Ukraine. At a joint press conference after their meeting, Putin addressed the issue of the Minsk agreements – treaties signed in 2014 and 2015 that were meant to resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region. The Russian leader blamed Kiev’s leadership for failing to follow the terms of the agreements, and emphasized his point with a succinct rhyme.

“In Kiev, first they say they will comply, then they say it will destroy their country,” Putin complained. “And the president said recently there’s not one item in the Minsk agreements that he likes. ‘Like it or not, my beauty, bear with it’. They must be fulfilled, it won’t work any other way.”

Putin’s choice of phrase, which rhymes in Russian, immediately attracted the attention of listeners online, some of whom accused the world leader of making a joke about sexual assault in connection with Ukraine. As one Western correspondent put it on Twitter, Putin “said Ukraine should be forced to implement Minsk accords using a vulgar reference alluding to rape.”

The controversy caught fire when social media users noted that the phrase bears a close resemblance to lyrics from a 1990s song by punk group Krasnaya Plesen, or Red Mold, which goes, “The beauty sleeps in her coffin, / I snuck in to f**k her. / Like it or not, / My beauty, sleep.” The rhymes in the original Russian heighten the similarity between the shock rock group’s words and Putin’s.

However, Russian speakers on Twitter were quick to point out that the president’s phrase is a common one, often used in routine family life or at school. As special correspondent for the Moscow daily Kommersant Elena Chernenko wrote, “That saying about the sleeping beauty for most Russians has no reference to rape or else. It is a common idiom that means you have to do something even if you don't like it. Parents would say that to children who won't eat or so.”

Putin’s version of the idiom, imploring the listener to “bear with it,” is a variant of the one used by Krasnaya Plesen. “Sleep, my beauty” is most likely a reference to the fairy tale character Sleeping Beauty. The phrase is common enough that its origins have been obscured, but, as one historian in Moscow explained, “In Russian folklore, the second part existed separately for a long time, and the Krasnaya Plesen group added the first part to it only in 1995. At least this makes this story less necrophilic [sic].”

Asked on Tuesday about the controversy surrounding Putin’s choice of words, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists that he did not believe the president was familiar with the work of Krasnaya Plesen, and that the phrase most likely came out of Russian folklore.

https://www.rt.com/russia/548669-putin-vulgar-sexual-threat-zelensky/

Ukraine & Russia Plan Rival War Drills As Macron Meets With President Zelensky

A day after his five-hour long summit in Moscow with President Putin, France's Emmanuel Macron arrived in Kiev on Tuesday, continuing his push to find a diplomatic settlement to the ongoing Ukraine standoff. Macron said he had received "assurances" from Putin of no more escalation, and the two leaders had agreed to work on the French president's proposals for deescalating the situation.

"I obtained [commitments] that there will be no worsening and escalation," Macron told reporters on the plane while en route to Ukraine. However, as Bloomerg reports, "A French government official said Macron’s remark that Putin assured him of no further escalation was in reference to not massing any further troops near the Ukraine border. But the official added it was a conditional commitment and the situation, and its perception by Putin, could change."

"For me, it was about 'locking the game' in order to prevent an escalation and open up new prospects. For me, this goal has been achieved. France has strengthened its credibility," Macron told a broadcaster.

"We will do everything to find compromises that suit everyone," Macron said further according to France 24. He said that Putin "assured me of his readiness to engage," adding "there is no security for the Europeans if there is no security for Russia."

Macron on Tuesday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he communicated some of the positive diplomatic momentum gained with Putin. Zelensky in a joint press conference acknowledged that "Emmanuel Macron is doing a lot to preserve peace."

France is "determined to pursue mediation efforts," the Ukrainian leader added. "This shared resolve is the only path" to peace. Macron said during the joint presser that France wants to "reengage in a lasting de-escalation" in the region. Both agreed that "The discussions have made it possible to build this security and stability in the region."

Meanwhile, muscle-flexing continues on both sides. Russia has continued sending forces to Belarus in preparation for major planned joint military exercises coming just days away. At the same time, Ukraine is planning its own 'response' in the form of large-scale drills mirroring that of its rival.

"Ukraine’s armed forces geared up for military exercises in response to Russia’s troop buildup along its borders as French President Emmanuel Macron shuttled from Moscow to Kyiv on Tuesday in an attempt to ease tensions and avert a conflict," The Wall Street Journal describes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-russia-plan-rival-war-drills-macron-meets-president-zelensky

German state-owned broadcaster drops staffers after antisemitism probe

Five Deutsche Welle personnel were fired, though the investigation found no “structural” issue with antisemitism

Deutsche Welle, Germany’s public broadcaster, announced this week that five staff members had been let go after a probe which looked into antisemitic comments made on and off the job, and also examined its recruiting processes, as well as the diversity of guest speakers.

Besides the five staffers, four of whom worked at the Arabic desk, some freelancers for the outlet have also been terminated, and the investigation is ongoing.

So far, it has not uncovered evidence of a systematic problem at the public broadcaster, which receives hundreds of millions in federal funds every year.

Individual instances of antisemitism include one journalist referring to Israel as a “cancer,” according to Bild newspaper, and a recruiter comparing Jewish people to “ants,” and even Holocaust denial, according to the investigative report from Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) that helped kick off the internal investigation.

The probe began in December and was conducted by independent investigators. Only publicly available information like social media posts was analyzed for it.

The company also announced that it would be providing staff members and business partners with “detailed guidelines” on what defines antisemitism, and there will be “additional hires” for the Israel correspondence office.

https://www.rt.com/news/548674-deutsche-welle-antisemitism-probe/

Serial Rapist Cop, Sentenced to 263 Years, Up for Parole After Doing Just 6 Years

Oklahoma City, OK — A disgraced former Oklahoma City police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, was sentenced to 263 years in prison in 2016, after being convicted of numerous rapes and sexual assaults while on duty. Holtzclaw was convicted on 18 felony counts — including four counts of first-degree rape in December, 2015.

After serving a portion of this sentence, Holtzclaw appealed, maintaining his innocent since the beginning. In 2019, Holtzclaw tried to appeal the case, however, the evidence against him is so overwhelming, a judge refused to overturn his conviction.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in August 2019 upheld the convictions of Holtzclaw. On Monday, however, Holtzclaw once again tried to get out of jail, getting yet another chance before Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board. Luckily for his victims, once again, he was denied in a 5-0 vote.

Holtzclaw and his family have maintained his innocence since day one and claim that because the judge in his case, Oklahoma County District Judge Tim Henderson, was accused of sexual misconduct himself, that Holtzclaw must have been railroaded.

“I hope and pray more people finally see I truly was railroaded and wrongfully convicted,” he said in a statement. “I upheld my oath of office by protecting and serving my community, while Judge Henderson was allegedly abusing women and violating his oath. It’s time to reopen every one of Henderson’s cases, including mine, that was impacted by his sexual misconduct.”

Clearly his family is ignoring all the evidence in the case which is what led to the unprecedented sentence against this serial rapist cop.

In most cases, police departments and unions rush to the defense of criminal cops, but in this case, they actually didn’t.

“Your offenses committed against women in our community constitute the greatest abuse of police authority I have witnessed in my 37 years as a member of this agency,” Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty said in a letter when he fired Holtzclaw.

The evidence in the case showed that Holtzclaw actually went through the police database to find the vulnerable women that he could attack.

As we reported at the time, after accessing the list of names that Holtzclaw had run through the department’s databases, the Sex Crimes Unit interviewed the women on that list and discovered six more women who accused Holtzclaw of sexually assaulting them. The women had been afraid to report the crimes because most of them had a history of drug abuse or prostitution. According to the Sex Crimes Unit, Holtzclaw used one database to check for existing warrants and the other database to see if any of his victims had reported him.

“He didn’t choose CEOs or soccer moms; he chose women he could count on not telling what he was doing,” District Attorney Lori McConnell said during the trial’s closing arguments, according to Reuters. “He counted on the fact no one would believe them and no one would care.”

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/serial-rapist-cop-sentenced-to-263-years-up-holtzclaw-parole-after-doing-just-5-years/

New Zealand Convoy Protesters Gather Near Parliament Against COVID-19 Restrictions

Hundreds of New Zealand protesters have gathered near the Parliament building in the country’s capital Wellington, demanding an end to COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates.

Arriving in convoy from around the country, cars, trucks, camper vans, and other vehicles jammed the capital’s streets for hours as they got out to meet and speak on Parliament’s forecourt.

Protesters carrying signs and flags against vaccine requirements and other restrictions took to city streets.

In New Zealand, teachers, doctors, nurses, police, and military personnel are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Masks are also required in stores and among children over age 8 in school classrooms.

Vehicles covered with messages such as “give us back our freedom” and “coercion is not consent” stationed themselves in the streets surrounding the Parliament building, AFP reported.

Stu Main, from Wellington, told AFP that he believes people should be free to choose whether to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

“I’m actually vaccinated but I’m against mandating people to be vaccinated,” he said. “I think it’s disgraceful, forcing vaccination on people who don’t want it.”

Police told 1News they were monitoring the protests.

“We understand any delays for motorists as a result of the protest will be frustrating. Our staff will continue to monitor the situation and respond to any issues that may arise,” a police spokesperson told the news outlet.

Police also said Tuesday afternoon they hadn’t made any arrests and that protest organizers had asked protesters to move their cars and trucks by 5 p.m., ahead of the evening rush hour.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Radio New Zealand that she didn’t plan to enter discussions with the protesters.

“Ninety-six percent of New Zealanders have gone out and got a vaccination, which has enabled us to live now with fewer restrictions because of the extra protection that has provided,” she said.

https://www.ntd.com/new-zealand-convoy-protesters-gather-near-parliament-against-covid-19-restrictions_737521.html

Peloton Co-founder Steps Down After Rough Ride

The co-founder of Peloton is stepping down as chief executive after an extended streak of tumult at the interactive exercise bike and treadmill company, which will also cut almost 3,000 jobs.

John Foley first pitched the idea for Peloton in 2011, hoping to disrupt the industry. He will give up the CEO position and become executive chair at Peloton Interactive Inc.

Barry McCarthy, who served as CFO at Spotify as well as at Netflix, will take over as CEO, the company said Tuesday. Shares surged more than 16 percent in morning trading on Tuesday.

Peloton has been on a wild ride for the past two years during the pandemic. Company shares surged more than 400 percent in 2020 amid COVID-19 lockdowns that included gyms. Nearly all of those gains were wiped out last year as the distribution of vaccines sent many people out of there homes and back into gyms.

This week, there were reports that Amazon or Nike might buy the company and those that have pushed for the sale of Peloton continued to do so this week.

Activist investor Blackwells Capital asked again for the company to be sold Tuesday despite the change in leadership.

Blackwells sent a presentation to Peloton on Monday outlining “the mismanagement of the company by John Foley, the poor governance and board composition and the rationale for immediately commencing a sale process.”

In addition to the leadership shakeup, Peloton announced Tuesday that it was cutting 2,800 jobs, including approximately 20 percent of corporate jobs at the New York City company. The instructors who lead interactive classes for Peloton will not be included in cuts, nor will the content that the company relies on to lure users.

Peloton said its winding down the development of its Peloton Output Park in Ohio. It will also reduce its owned and operated warehousing and delivery locations and will instead ramp up its third-party relationships.

Peloton is looking to reduce its planned capital expenditures for this year by about $150 million. The restructuring program is expected to result in approximately $130 million in cash charges related to severance and other exit and restructuring activities and $80 million in non-cash charges. The majority of the charges will be recorded in fiscal 2022.

The company also slashed its full-year sales outlook and now expects a range of $3.7 billion to $3.8 billion. That’s down from a prior range of $4.4 billion to $4.8 billion, which it announced last November. It originally had expected $5.4 billion.

https://www.ntd.com/peloton-co-founder-steps-down-after-rough-ride_737570.html

Arizona AG says state can cite ‘invasion’ to deport migrants without feds

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich claims in a new legal opinion that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey can declare the Grand Canyon State to be under “invasion” in order to begin deporting suspected illegal immigrants — but Ducey appears reluctant to do so.

The approach would theoretically allow Arizona to break with the Biden administration and start turning away people at the US-Mexico border, where officials made approximately 1.9 million arrests last year.

“The federal government’s failure to secure the border and protect Arizona from invasion is dangerous and unprecedented,” Brnovich wrote. “Thankfully, the Founders foresaw that States might need to protect themselves from invasion and made clear in the Constitution that States retain the sovereign power to defend themselves within their own territory.”

Republican Arizona state Rep. Jake Hoffman requested the opinion, which was published Monday night, after former Trump administration officials Ken Cuccinelli and Russ Vought proposed last year that border states like Arizona dust off an obscure provision in the Constitution to address the border crisis

Cuccinelli, a former acting deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security, and former White House budget director Vought — now the president of the conservative nonprofit Center for Renewing America — met with Brnovich and members of his staff last month.

“The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an ‘invasion’ under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the Governor’s authority as Commander-in-Chief,” Brnovich wrote. “An actual invasion permits the State to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border.”

Cuccinelli told The Post that “this obviously turns attention now not just to Gov. Ducey in Arizona — though that’s the logical first place — but over to Texas and people asking, ‘Well, why don’t you do this?'”

https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/arizona-ag-says-state-can-cite-invasion-to-deport-migrants/

US Approves $100 Million Military Deal for Taiwan’s Patriot Air Defense System

TAIPEI, Taiwan—The United States has approved a potential $100 million sale of equipment and services to boost the island’s Patriot missile defense system, amid China’s increasing aggression against the self-ruled island.

The money would be used to “sustain, maintain, and improve” the missile defense system, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement on Feb. 7.

“This proposed sale serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient’s continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability,” DSCA said.

The agency added, “The proposed sale will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, economic and progress in the region.”

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sees Taiwan as part of its territory that must be united with the mainland, by force if necessary. However, internationally, Taiwan is widely recognized as a de facto independent body, given that it has been governed as a separate entity for more than seven decades.

In light of its ambitions toward Taiwan and the broader Asia–Pacific region, Beijing has been engaged in an aggressive program of military modernization.

U.S. military officials and China experts have given different timelines as to when China might attack Taiwan.

In March 2021, Adm. Philip Davidson, who was then-head of U.S. Indo–Pacific Command, told a Senate hearing that the Chinese regime could invade Taiwan in the “next six years.” Weeks later, Davidson’s successor at the Command, Adm. John Aquilino, testified in front of another Senate hearing that China might attack Taiwan sooner “than most think.”

Currently, the United States has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, ever since Washington changed its diplomatic recognition in favor of Beijing in 1979. However, the two sides have enjoyed a robust relationship based on the Taiwan Relations Act, a law that authorizes the United States to provide the island with military equipment for self-defense.

DSCA also said that the main contractors for the sale would be U.S. defense giants Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin.

Beijing has reacted angrily to the sale. On Feb. 8, Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, condemned the pending sale and demanded Washington to revoke the deal immediately during a daily briefing, according to China’s state-run media.

Also on Tuesday, Taiwan’s foreign ministry said it “highly welcomed” the U.S. decision in a statement.

https://www.ntd.com/us-approves-100-million-military-deal-for-taiwans-patriot-air-defense-system_737557.html

Canadian Left Accuses Justin Trudeau of Leaving ‘Leadership Void’ After Vanishing to ‘Undisclosed Location’

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing mounting frustration in his side of the political aisle for failing to act in the face of growing “Freedom Convoy” protests against coronavirus-related mandates – frustration he tried to stem by making a last-minute appearance in Parliament on Monday night.

Trudeau announced that he had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus on January 31 and that he would be recovering in an undisclosed location. The announcement immediately preceded the arrival of a “Freedom Convoy” of trucks into Ottawa, where they have been parked since, honking in protest and demanding an end to vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and all restrictions on civil rights imposed by the Trudeau government in the name of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The Ottawa protest has been, according to police, largely peaceful, attracting families and creating a party atmosphere in the city’s downtown. The prime minister emerged once during his quarantine to broadcast remarks from his undisclosed hideout dismissing the protesters as deranged, racist conspiracy theorists.

“The concerns expressed by a few people gathered in Ottawa, right now, are not new, not surprising, are heard, but are a continuation of what we’ve unfortunately seen in disinformation and misinformation, online conspiracy theorists, about microchips, about God knows what else that go with tinfoil hats,” Trudeau rambled early on in his isolation period.

Trudeau made few comments and announced no policy to deal with the protests – which have spread beyond Ottawa to Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and several points along Canada’s southern border – prior to his last-minute appearance in Parliament on Monday. The Toronto Star observed that Trudeau offered the Canadian people “nearly four full days of silence” before resurfacing in Ottawa.

Trudeau used the opportunity on Monday to repeatedly associate the entirety of the anti-mandate protests with “swastikas” and demand that the protest movement “has to stop.” He again refused to discuss meeting with protesters or addressing any of their concerns.

The prime minister’s stance on the protests have naturally irked conservatives, but his appearance Monday did little to stem growing complaints on the left that he has no plan to end what leftists consider a “crisis” in the government’s relationship with the Canadian people. Among those concerned is communist leader of the New Democratic Party Jagmeet Singh, who called Monday night’s Parliament meeting and lamented that Trudeau has simply “not been visible” during the affair.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/canadian-left-accuses-justin-trudeau-of-leaving-leadership-void-after-vanishing-to-undisclosed-location/

No Rehearing in Suit Over Israeli Attack on Humanitarian Flotilla

The Ninth Circuit declined to revisit its conclusion that former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak is immune from civil liability for ordering a deadly raid in the Mediterranean Sea, denying a petition to rehear the case brought by the family of a raid victim.

The Ninth Circuit declined to revisit its conclusion that former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak is immune from civil liability for ordering a deadly raid in the Mediterranean Sea, denying a petition to rehear the case brought by the family of a raid victim.

Barak commanded a 2010 raid on a humanitarian flotilla that left 10 people dead, including 18-year-old U.S. citizen Furkan Doğan. An Israeli military helicopter shot Doğan four times and then again after he fell.

Ahmet and Hikmet Doğan sued in 2015 on behalf of their son, claiming Barak’s orders to Israeli soldiers led to extrajudicial killings and torture and international human rights violations that preclude immunity.

A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, finding Barak is protected by foreign sovereign immunity laws.

On appeal, Doğan family attorney Dan Stormer of Hadsell Stormer & Renick told the Ninth Circuit panel the actions authorized by Barak, including extrajudicial killings, are not an “official act” protected by foreign sovereign immunity laws.

But the Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the lower court’s dismissal in August, writing that Barak is entitled to “common law immunity because exercising jurisdiction over him in this case would be to enforce a rule of law against the sovereign state of Israel.”

In a petition for rehearing en banc, Stormer argued the ruling conflicted with the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Hilao v. Marcos, which held that that foreign government officials are not immune for violations of jus cogens – the principles which form the norms of international law that cannot be set aside.

The ruling also creates a circuit split with the D.C Circuit, which found in Lewis v. Mutond that the “official nature of the acts in question is not sufficient to trigger immunity,” the petition said.

Additionally, Stormer said the panel failed to analyze the purpose of the Torture Victim Protection Act and Congress’ intent in passing it.

“By granting immunity, the panel subjects U.S. courts to the whims of those foreign governments willing to embrace their officials’ acts of torture and extrajudicial killing, acts that violate standards accepted by virtually every nation as their own,’ Stormer wrote in the rehearing petition. “This does not simply disregard Congress’s intent in passing the TVPA, it literally turns Congress’s intent on its head.”

U.S. Circuit Judges Mary Murguia, appointed by Bill Clinton, and Carlos T. Bea, a George W. Bush appointee, voted Wednesday to deny the petition for rehearing. U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian, a Barack Obama appointee sitting by designation from the Eastern District of Washington, recommended denial of the petition.

None of the active judges on the Ninth Circuit bench called for a rehearing of the case either.

In a statement, Stormer called the decision “a tremendous setback for American citizens.”

“In this case an American citizen was murdered in cold blood and this decision gives his murderers full immunity. It is contrary to the very essence of the rule of law and we are saddened by the court’s acquiescence to this travesty,” Stormer said.

Attorneys for the state of Israel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.courthousenews.com/no-rehearing-in-suit-over-israeli-attack-on-humanitarian-flotilla/

Excess deaths soaring in every country where covid “vaccine” uptake is high: data

Former Pfizer Vice President Dr. Michael Yeadon is once again speaking out about the spike in excess deaths he is seeing in nearly every country where Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” uptake is high.

During a recent interview, Yeadon addressed Scotland, which is one of the countries where deaths are soaring amid heavy vaccine compliance. He also talked about Germany, Israel, Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and of course the United States, which are seeing similar trends.

“They’ve all seen a significant uptick in all-cause mortality,” Yeadon told the interviewer. “Why is that? What did they do differently in 2021 than they did in the years before?”

Not only is all-cause mortality up in 2021 compared to 2020, Yeadon further pointed out, but it smashed the five-year average. What changed? Hundreds of millions of people rolled up their sleeves for spike protein injections – that is what happened.

Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) October 14 Covid-19 Daily Dashboard shows that despite 87 percent of the adult population now considered to be “vaccinated,” weekly deaths are a shocking 30 percent above normal.

“This marks the 20th consecutive week with excess deaths above the five-year average and the highest since the week ending January 10, 2021,” the report explains.

The plandemic of the fully vaccinated rages on

In Germany, Europe’s most populous nation, nearly 78,000 deaths were reported during the month of September 2021, which is more than 10 percent higher than the expected figure, according to government demographers.

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-02-02-excess-deaths-soaring-countries-covid-vaccine-high.html

Former Big Pharma Scientist Sounds The Alarm: COVID Vaccines Weren’t Put Through The Proper Safety Trials For Gene Technology

Dr. John D. Flack, a retired Pharmaceutical Research and Development Scientist is sounding the alarm and asking why the covid-19 vaccines were not put through the proper safety trials for gene technology.

He says these gene-technology covid vaccines were not subject to the standard safety studies required for novel genetic-based medicines.

Dr. Flack, is a member of the Heart Advisory & Recovery Team HART, a group of highly qualified UK doctors, scientists, economists, psychologists and other academic experts, who came together over shared concerns about policy and guidance recommendations relating to the pandemic.

He has also been was involved in pharmaceutical research throughout his career and served as Director of Safety Evaluation for a pharmaceutical company When it comes to the safety studies of new drugs he knows what’s he’s talking about.

Published by the Daily Sceptic, the following is an excerpt of a piece Dr Flack wrote regarding the matter:

“It seems to me that the regulatory authorities may have considered this new class of medicine as a vaccine and followed the toxicology guidelines for conventional vaccines. But as discussed above, they are not vaccines in the conventional sense. They are injections of a laboratory synthesised gene sequence – what in previous decades we would have called a new chemical entity (NCE). Furthermore, they are being given, not as a single dose, but because of their limited efficacy as repeated injections – called boosters. On the hoof, it seems, it is decided that extra doses must be given. How can this possibly be unless supported by the appropriate safety studies? And how convenient for the worldwide authorities regulating the approval of new medicines that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the USA modified the definitions of vaccine and vaccination – to allow for the new “ways in which vaccines can be administered” – to embrace this new technology that would be previously classed as an NCE. Sorry, but simply changing the definition of the term vaccine to fit the properties of these novel injections doesn’t obviate the need to conduct the appropriate studies by which their safety can properly be assessed. That is why I use the term vaccine in quotation marks or simply describe them as injections.

So how would I design a package of studies to assess the safety of these novel ‘vaccines’?

Here is a list of preclinical toxicology studies that in my view should have been performed before regulatory authorities gave their approval to the licensing of these novel therapies under the Government emergency powers:

https://en-volve.com/2022/02/08/former-big-pharma-scientist-sounds-the-alarm-covid-vaccines-werent-put-through-the-proper-safety-trials-for-gene-technology/

Virginia Supreme Court dismisses school mask lawsuit brought by Chesapeake parents

The Virginia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a challenge brought by Chesapeake parents over Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that seeks to end mandatory masks in schools.

The lawsuit was brought by 13 Chesapeake parents — all of whom have children in Chesapeake Public Schools — and asked the state’s high court to issue an emergency order blocking the new administration from enforcing the order.

In tossing the lawsuit, the Virginia Supreme Court did not take a stand on whether Youngkin’s executive order is lawful.

“By this dismissal, we offer no opinion on the legality of (the executive order),” the court said in a footnote to the 3-page order.

Youngkin’s executive order, which took effect Jan. 24, says no “teacher, school, school district, the Department of Education, or any other state authority” can force a student to wear a mask against his or her parents’ wishes.

Implementation of Youngkin’s executive order was previously put on hold by an Arlington County Circuit Court judge, who issued a temporary injunction Friday in a separate legal challenge. That case was brought by several school boards — including Hampton’s board — who claimed the order violates state law and that Youngkin overstepped his legal authority. Youngkin’s office expects to appeal the that decision.

The attorney representing the Chesapeake parents, Kevin Martingayle, said that while the Virginia Supreme Court “has rejected the Chesapeake parents’ case on procedural grounds,” it did not find Youngkin’s order legal. It’s “now evident,” he contended, that school boards “cannot be forced to obey it.”

“This is far from over,” Martingayle said.

On the other hand, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares — who is representing the Youngkin administration in the lawsuit — said he and the governor are pleased with the ruling.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-supreme-court-dismisses-school-183000675.html

=Retired pope asks to be forgiven any wrongdoing in handling of Catholic Church's sex abuses

On Tuesday, retired Pope Benedict XVI asked to be forgiven for any “grievous faults” he may have been guilty of while handling clergy sex abuse cases during his tenure as archbishop.

The Associated Press reports that while he did seek to absolve himself, Pope Benedict did not admit to any specific instance of wrongdoing after an independent report scrutinized his handling of sex abuse cases while he served as the archbishop of Munich, Germany.

“I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church,” the retired pope said, “All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate.”

The 94-year-old retired pope made this statement in response to a German law firm’s January report, commissioned by the German Catholic Church, to investigate the handling of sex abuse cases by the Munich Archdiocese between 1945 and 2019.

Pope Benedict XVI served as head of the German archdiocese — as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — from 1977 to 1982.

The law firm’s report faults how Benedict handled four cases of sex abuse while he served as archbishop. It accuses him of misconduct for not restricting the ministry of the priests who were found criminally guilty of sex abuse.

The report also found that Benedict’s predecessors and successors were at fault. It is estimated that there were at least 497 victims of abuse over the decades being investigated. It found there to be at least 235 suspected perpetrators.

Responding to the report, Pope Benedict’s legal team said, “As an archbishop, Cardinal Ratzinger was not involved in any cover-up of acts abuse.”

The retired pope’s legal team asserted that the report’s authors provided no evidence that then-Cardinal Ratzinger was aware of the criminal history of the priests in question.

In his personal response, Benedict noted his meeting with abuse victims while serving as pope.

Pope Benedict said, “I have seen first hand the effects of a most grievous fault, and I have come to understand that we ourselves are drawn into this grievous fault whenever we neglect it or fail to confront it with the necessary decisiveness and responsibility, as too often happened and continues to happen.”

He continued, “As in those meetings, once again I can only express to all the victims of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow, and my heartfelt request for forgiveness.”

Reflecting on his legacy, he said, “Quite soon, I shall find myself before the final judge of my life. Even though, as I look back on my long life, I can have great reason for fear and trembling, I am nonetheless of good cheer, for I trust firmly that the Lord is not only the just judge, but also the friend and brother who himself has already suffered for my shortcomings.”

As head of the Vatican, Pope Benedict was the first pope to meet with victims of abuse, instituted policies to punish priests who raped children, and defrocked nearly 400 priests for abuse.

http://www.tathasta.com/2022/02/retired-pope-asks-to-be-forgiven-any.html

The Tantura massacre is another Israeli crime for which prosecutions must follow

Dozens of soldiers from the then nascent Israel "Defence Forces have confessed to committing the 1948 Tantura massacre in a documentary directed by Alon Schwarz. The Israeli veterans of the Alexandroni Brigade who appeared in the film included the terrorists Moshe Yamant, Haim Levin and Mika Fikon.

Witnesses say that more than 200 Palestinian victims of the massacre were buried in a mass grave near the site south of the occupied city of Haifa. The mass grave is still believed to be underneath the car park adjacent to Dor HaBonim Beach.

"Beneath the place where my father used to park his car when we travelled to Tantura, not far from the memorial that was in fact installed for the fallen soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade, was, and perhaps still is, a mass grave," wrote Gideon Levy in Haaretz. "A malicious hand erased its memory."

Sooner or later the occupation state will be held accountable for its crimes, of which the Tantura massacre is but one of many. After all, this has happened where massacres of civilians have taken place in other countries: Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone spring to mind, for example. It is an international duty to put the leaders of the occupying state on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes that violate international laws and conventions. Palestinian military courts must also issue rulings against these Zionists, as the Allied powers did after the Second World War when Nazi war criminals were brought to justice. If Nazis can still be hunted down and prosecuted decades after they committed their crimes, then why can't Zionists? Palestinian diplomats must make moves against the Zionist state in international forums, and sympathetic countries should be asked to criminalise and arrest Israeli officials wherever a law of universal jurisdiction is on the statute books.

Palestinian ambassadors around the world should not ignore this documentary evidence and confessions of those responsible for the massacre in Tantura. History does not and should not forgive and forget such crimes and those who committed them. I believe that the Palestinians are now in a position to reopen the issue of Israeli crimes at the International Criminal Court and seek the prosecution of those responsible.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220208-the-tantura-massacre-is-another-israeli-crime-for-which-prosecutions-must-follow/

Trudeau: Anti-vaccine mandate trucker protest 'has to stop'

“Canadians have the right to protest, to disagree with their government, and to make their voices heard. We’ll always protect that right,” Trudeau tweeted on Tuesday. “But let’s be clear: They don’t have the right to blockade our economy, or our democracy, or our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop.”

“We’re also working with municipal partners to further strengthen our response, and we’ll continue to be there with whatever resources are needed to get the situation under control," he added.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/593251-trudeau-anti-vaccine-mandate-trucker-protest-has-to

Court accepts prosecution request for delay in Netanyahu trial amid wiretap claims

Deferment granted until Sunday to allow completion of examination of allegations that police illicitly spied on witnesses, defendants

The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday accepted the prosecution’s request to cancel a hearing scheduled for Wednesday in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, in order to provide more time for state attorneys to probe whether police illicitly tapped the phones of key witnesses.

It was the second hearing that the court agreed to cancel this week, after canceling Tuesday’s, as fallout from the police spyware scandal continues to snowball.

The prosecution told the court on Tuesday that its investigation into the alleged hacking of the phone of Shlomo Filber, a former Communications Ministry director general and a key state witness in the most serious case against Netanyahu, was still ongoing.

The court acceded to the prosecution’s request, giving it until Sunday at 2 p.m. to present its findings on Filber and any other instances of alleged spyware abuse. According to Haaretz, initial findings have not indicated that police violated a court-approved warrant in their tapping of Filber’s phone.

The prosecution is seeking to show that law enforcement did not breach any laws in its treatment of Filber, and hopes to stymie a petition filed by Netanyahu’s attorneys on Monday calling for a pause in the trial.

The defense petition is based on an explosive report that alleged that the Israel Police used the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack into the phones of a wide range of public figures — including associates and family members of Netanyahu as well as multiple people currently involved in the trial — without judicial oversight or approval.

According to the report, which was unsourced, police hacked the phones of former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua; former Communications Ministry directors general Filber and Avi Berger; Iris Elovitch, the wife of Shaul Elovitch, the former controlling shareholder of Bezeq, both of whom are defendants in the Netanyahu trial; former Bezeq CEOs Dudu Mizrachi and Stella Hendler; former Walla editor-in-chief Aviram Elad and other journalists at Walla, and others.

The abuse of the spyware reportedly extended far beyond people involved in the Netanyahu investigation and trial, with those illicitly targeted also said to include activists and demonstrators (including anti-Netanyahu protesters), mayors, ministry directors general, journalists and others.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecution-in-netanyahu-trial-requests-more-time-to-respond-to-wiretap-claims/

DoD, NIH caught changing data after whistleblowers expose covid “vaccine” fraud

Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wisc.) recent hearing exposing Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” resulted in so much truth coming out that both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DoD) are now scrambling to cover up as much incriminating data as they can.

Even though Johnson ordered these agencies to preserve all records after three whistleblowers came forward with evidence that fraud took place in the approval and emergency use authorization (EUA) of the jabs, both the NIH and the DoD have been caught altering or destroying the fraudulent data.

Dr. Robert Malone continues to blow the whistle about the DoD’s coverup actions, which aim to protect corrupt government officials who are complicit in the scam. Malone has also spoken out about how the United States military’s jab mandate is illegal (as are all other mandates).

The problem seems to be that too few people are raising a ruckus about any of this, though, especially within the political realm. Republicans who one would think should be speaking out about it are largely silent. (Related: The corporate-backed media is also refusing to report on Johnson’s hearing, so many Americans are still in the dark about it.)

“Americans have repeatedly accepted overt corruption from our ‘betters’ in our newly established oligarchy,” wrote a reader at The New American, which is where you can watch a video from Ben Armstrong, by the way, that dives deeper into the corruption.

“You can expect more and more of it until the GOP fights back … or the citizenry does … but it seems like Americans no longer possess such grit.”

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2022/02/08/dod-nih-caught-changing-data-after-whistleblowers-expose-covid-vaccine-fraud/

Insider Leak, Canadian Federal Police Likely to Begin Mass Arrests in Ottawa Very Soon

The Ottawa Freedom Convoy protests are exposing too many hypocrisies of the leftist Canadian government and their faux conservative opposition. It is only a matter of time before both wings of the Federal UniParty vulture known as Parliament sanction an aggressive federal response.

An insider within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), essentially the Canadian federal police force, has leaked some of the details. The leaked plan as outlined in this video warning {Direct Rumble Link} does seem to be authentic and aligns with the statements from federal ministers inside the administration of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. [Unfortunately embed disabled]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/08/insider-leak-canadian-federal-police-likely-to-begin-mass-arrests-in-ottawa-very-soon/

Facebook's Faceplant, Zuck Threatens to Cut Off Europe After HUGE Losses

You’re probably already aware that Evil Borg Facebook has lost more than 40% of its value in recent months, most of those losses happening on a single day last week. Actually, it’s the parent company Meta, but everyone knows it as Facebook so we’ll just use that.

Shares dropped from a September high of $382 to just $224 as we type these words. Mark Zuckerberg is only 58% the man he used to be. Well, 58% of the simulacrum.

Let’s pause here for a moment while Insanity Wrap does our little happy dance, even though Facebook is dragging down the value of tech stocks we actually do own.

Also: Our morning Bloody Mary tastes even better with a pinch of schadenfreude.

Anyway, Facebook for the first time ever lost users last quarter, and that spooked the Wall Street people. Apple’s new anti-Facebook privacy policies are another headwind, but when a free and simple and ubiquitous service starts losing users, that’s basically Robby the Robot spinning around in circles, shouting, “DANGER, Mark Zuckerberg! DANGER!”

Facebook is in a hole because it recently lost half a million daily users out of about 1.93 billion. That’s a tiny loss, but big enough to cause more than 200 BILLION DOLLARS worth of concern.

And what is Facebook doing to restore confidence after losing a mere 500,000 users?

Threaten to cut off 427 million more.

If Insanity Wrap’s math is right, Facebook would make last quarter’s problem approximately 854 times worse.

Insanity Wrap’s Second Rule of Holes: When your enemy is in one, hand him a bigger and nicer shovel.

Only this time, Facebook is demanding we hand them the new shovel.

OK, chief! Insanity Wrap won’t even ask you to sign for it.

The European Union is working on this new privacy law that says that user data must stay in Europe, processed on local servers. Facebook doesn’t like that for a couple of (evil) reasons we won’t bore you with here, but Facebook’s response will amuse you.

During the same disastrous earnings call last week that caused everybody to SELL! SELL! SELL! Facebook shares like it was Black Friday, the company threatened to shut down Facebook (and Instagram) in Europe.

The EU was reportedly “unfazed” by Zuckerberg’s threat.

“You mean you’ll stop invading our citizens’ privacy with shoddy services that turn brother against brother?” the EU said in some suave-yet-disdainful Franco-German accent.

“Whatever would we do, you silly American android person?”

Insanity Wrap made up those last two quotes but this next one is real. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, “I can confirm that life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook.”

So can you, gentle reader. So can you.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/02/08/insanity-wrap-facebooks-faceplant-zuck-threatens-to-cut-off-europe-after-huge-losses-n1557265

Communications attack in Ottawa! bell/rogers service down! police about to do BAD things.

RAW: Pastor Artur Pawlowski arrested AGAIN at home by undercover police

https://www.bitchute.com/video/oOjn8MCMVEk/

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Two Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency

Government Seized $3.6 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency Directly Linked to 2016 Hack of Virtual Currency Exchange

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency

==Boss Babies: The Children Who Own Hundreds of Luxembourg Corporations

Key Findings==

OCCRP and its partners identified 291 minors who own or control significant stakes in Luxembourg companies.

They included minors whose parents are oligarchs, criminals, or people with ties to politically influential figures.

In many cases, the companies' owners were younger than the companies themselves.

A one-year-old Mongolian toddler who owns part of a major coal company in the Gobi Desert. An eleven-year-old Azerbaijani profiting from state contracts with Turkmenistan and China. A Russian teenager who counted investments in Canadian and Californian pension systems among her billions of dollars of assets.

These are just a handful of the nearly 300 minors who owned or controlled significant stakes in Luxembourg companies as of 2020, an investigation as part of the OpenLux project has found.

While it is not illegal for children to own companies in Luxembourg, some of the names identified by OCCRP and its partners should have raised red flags. They included minors whose parents are oligarchs, criminals, and people with close ties to politically influential figures. A quarter of them were even younger than the entities they owned.

In 2019, Luxembourg published a register of “ultimate beneficial owners” — the true owners of companies, as opposed to proxies or nominees — for the first time, giving an unprecedented look into who has benefited from the country’s financial secrecy.

https://www.occrp.org/en/openlux/boss-babies-the-children-who-own-hundreds-of-luxembourg-corporations

Former Godfather Of Black Stone Gorilla Gang Pleads Guilty To Racketeering, Narcotics, And Firearms Offenses

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-godfather-black-stone-gorilla-gang-pleads-guilty-racketeering-narcotics-and

Former Columbus police officer pleads guilty to fentanyl trafficking, bribery

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/former-columbus-police-officer-pleads-guilty-fentanyl-trafficking-bribery

Canada's Bankster in Chief, Mark Carney, Advocates ruthlessly crushing truckers

It’s time to end the sedition in Ottawa by enforcing the law and following the money

Mark Carney is an Ottawa resident and former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

In our capital city, many people have been terrorized for more than a week. Women fleeing abuse have been harassed. Many elderly have been too afraid to venture outside their homes for groceries. Families have been deprived of sleep for days on end by the constant barrage of 100 decibel noise. Control over the city’s downtown core, which includes the Parliamentary Precinct, was ceded by the police and taken over by what the chair of the Police Services Board describes as an “insurrection.”

Canadians can be forgiven if they thought this would never happen in Ottawa.

The goals of the leadership of the so-called freedom convoy were clear from the start: to remove from power the government that Canadians elected less than six months ago. Their blatant treachery was dismissed as comic, which meant many didn’t take them as seriously as they should have. Certainly not our public safety authorities, whose negotiations facilitated the convoy’s entry into the heart of our capital and have watched as its dangerous infrastructure has been steadily reinforced – a policy of engagement that has amounted to a reality of appeasement.

On the first weekend, many Canadians who joined the demonstrations undoubtedly had peaceful objectives. Tired as we all are with unprecedented disruptions that we’ve all endured over the past two years, it’s understandable that many would want to come to Ottawa to protest. It’s a free country, and everyone should be able to express their opinions free of interference from the state, just as the press should be able to report without fear of harassment or intimidation.

But now in its second week, no one should have any doubt. This is sedition. That’s a word I never thought I’d use in Canada. It means “incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.”

On Sunday, authorities began to draw the line. Declaring a state of emergency was the right thing to do.

From now on, those who are occupying the downtown of our country’s capital should be in no doubt. They are no longer simply advocating a different strategy to end COVID-19. They are not patriots. This is not about “restoring freedom” but beginning anarchy. This isn’t getting carried away at a rally. It’s not a rush of blood to the head. It’s deliberate and calculated, and because of that, they must know that from now on, there will be consequences for their actions.

The police had been reluctant to enforce the most basic bylaws. But these “infractions” – the constant blaring of horns at all hours, the harassment of people, the culture of fear – have been making residents’ lives hell, will bankrupt our businesses, and if left unchecked, would help achieve the convoy’s goal of undermining our democracy and the rule of law.

Those who are still helping to extend this occupation must be identified and punished to the full force of the law.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-mark-carney-end-freedom-convoy-ottawa-state-of-emergency/

Senior CCP member makes substantial donation to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation.

In November 2016, after a cash-for-access fundraiser for the Liberal party that was attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the head of the China Cultural Industry Organization in Canada and Senior CCP member, Zhang Bin, donated $1 million to various Canadian organizations. $750,000 of the donation funded scholarships for the University of Montreal Faculty of Law and grants for Canadian students to visit China. Another $200,000 went to the Trudeau Foundation, and the remaining $50,000 went to funding for a statue of Pierre Trudeau. The fundraiser was held at the private residence of a Chinese Canadian businessman, and hosted other Chinese businessman and political elites. Prime Minister Trudeau has denied all accusations of impropriety and stated that it was an effort to attract Chinese investment in Canada.

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/incident/senior-ccp-member-makes-substantial-donation-to-the-pierre-trudeau-foundation/

People Realize Winter Olympics Is Dystopian Nightmare When They See What Big Air Event Is in Middle Of

It’s been well documented that the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games are taking place in a particular corner of a repressive, dystopian country that has no business hosting a prestigious international event.

As the home of a tyrannical communist regime, and in an area that gets little snowfall in a given year, Beijing has neither the human rights environment nor the natural environment that would make it an appropriate venue for the Games.

That point hasn’t necessarily been hammered home by the media in its coverage, but it’s been chronicled if you know where to look for it. (Here at The Western Journal, we’re here to remind you of what NBC won’t when it comes to the Games — and you can help us bring America the truth by subscribing.)

However, sometimes China itself can’t help but show how ill-conceived the idea of hosting the games in Beijing was. Enter the big air course for skiers and snowboarders, which isn’t quite what comes to mind when you think about the Winter Olympics:

https://www.westernjournal.com/people-realize-winter-olympics-dystopian-nightmare-see-big-air-event-middle/