President Trump: “They Are So Desperate To Hide The Truth, They’ll Make It Criminal To Speak It!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/breaking-president-trump-desperate-hide-truth-make-criminal-speak/
Virginia Supreme Court Rejects Petition to Stop Glenn Youngkin’s No Mask Mandate
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin scored a victory Monday when the state Supreme Court dismissed a petition to stop his mask mandate prohibition in schools.
Launched by a group of parents in Chesapeake, Virginia, the petition essentially asked the court to invalidate Youngkin’s executive order blocking the enforcement of masking in Virginia schools, seeking a writ of mandamus. The court instead offered “no opinion on the legality” of Youngkin’s executive order and ruled that a writ of mandamus is only used for extraordinary circumstances.
“Mandamus is ‘an extraordinary remedy employed to compel a public official to perform a purely ministerial duty imposed upon him by law,'” read the opinion.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/virginia-supreme-court-rejects-petition-stop-glenn-youngkins-no-mask-mandate/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/virginia-supreme-court-rejects-petition-stop-glenn-youngkins-no-mask-mandate/
Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Bill to Reinstate Troops Discharged over Vaccine Mandate
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would allow servicemembers who were discharged over the Biden administration’s military coronavirus vaccine mandate to be reinstated, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
The bill, called the Service Restoration Act, would also prevent troops from facing punishment or any adverse treatment as a result of not wanting to get vaccinated. “Adverse action” would include retaliation, punishment, disparate treatment, a requirement to wear a mask or reside in sub-standard housing.
The bill would also allow reinstated service members to count the time they were discharged towards their retirement benefits and expunge from the service member’s service record any adverse action that was based solely on not receiving the vaccine.
Roy said in a statement to Breitbart News:
Because of President Biden’s power-hungry, anti-science COVID-19 vaccine mandate, hundreds of valuable American service members are being forced out of our military, taking with them years of subject-matter expertise, careers of selfless sacrifice, and lifelong dreams of military service. This is strategically foolish, profoundly un-American, and completely unacceptable.
I introduced the Service Restoration Act to ensure that the brave men and women of our armed forces are not fired over this wrong-headed mandate — whether it be for a medical, religious, conscientious or any reason — and that those already dismissed are able to get back to honorably serving their country with their time of service and records rightfully restored.
The bill so far has seven Republican co-sponsors, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (GA); Michael Cloud (TX); Bill Posey (FL); Matt Rosedale (MT); Louie Gohmert (TX); Van Taylor (TX); and Bob Good (VA).
During a recent rally in Texas, former President Donald Trump called for Republicans to reinstate troops discharged over the mandate if they take control of Congress in 2022, as reported by Breitbart News.
This bill comes as the military has discharged more than 500 service members for not complying with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate issued in August.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/exclusive-rep-chip-roy-introduces-bill-to-reinstate-troops-discharged-over-vaccine-mandate/
US Global Management Company Oaktree Capital Somehow Is Able to Seize Two Properties from Bankrupt China Evergrande Group
We’ve been reporting on China Evergrande Group’s financial crisis for months. The company is the largest debtor in world history to go bankrupt.
One US global management company, Oaktree Capital has somehow been able to seize two properties of Evergrande’s in an effort to recover the $1 billion that they are owed by the failing company.
Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management has seized a second Evergrande property in China as part of an unprecedented push to recover $1 billion in unpaid debt.
Oaktree has seized a massive “Venice” apartment complex on the Yellow Sea coast near Shanghai that had defaulted on a $400-million secured loan, according to the Financial Times.
This came after Oaktree, which manages $166 billion in assets, seized a large plot of land in Hong Kong called “Project Castle,” where China Evergrande Group had hoped to build a Versailles-like mansion. The loan to that project came to around $600 million.
Oaktree is a distressed debt specialist, and the firm’s aggressive moves to foreclose on two secured loans represents a rare intrusion into a domestic crisis in China–this one caused by the world’s biggest collapse of a property developer.
For months we reported on Evergrande failing being a symptom of a bigger issue for China.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/us-global-management-company-oaktree-capital-somehow-able-seize-two-properties-bankrupt-china-evergrande-group/
GOP establishment pushes pro-LGBT, mandate-supporting mayor in Illinois governor race
Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin proudly marched in a homosexual Pride march and mandated COVID vaccination.
The Republican establishment in Illinois is getting behind the liberal mayor of Aurora to be the next governor of the state.
Mayor Richard Irvin is one of a handful of candidates running for the GOP nomination for the 2022 gubernatorial elections. But he has a record of supporting liberal policies and causes.
“Let me tell you, I think it’s important for people to protect themselves by getting vaccinated and boosted if they choose to. I’ve never been one for mandates,” Irvin told NBC 5 last week. But Aurora, where he serves as mayor, mandated that all city workers get jabbed or undergo weekly testing.
“The mandate applies to all non-exempt, executive, seasonal, temporary and contracted employees, as well as the Aurora Fire Department,” WGN reported in October 2021. “Employees who are not in compliance will be prohibited from reporting to work on city premises or using city vehicles.”
He has also directed taxpayer dollars to the city’s homosexual “Pride Parade” and joined in marching in it.
“I don’t believe a monetary gap should stop the momentum gained from last year’s inaugural parade,” Irvin said in April 2019, according to Patch.com. That’s why he gave $3,000 in tax dollars to the homosexual march and encouraged others to give money to support the cause — the parade would have been canceled but Irvin intervened to convince “progressive community advocacy group” Indivisible Aurora to move forward.
“It swells my heart to see everyone loving and caring for each other,” Mayor Irvin said at the event. “Knowing that today is about pride and our community being together as one people. Today is special for the city of Aurora, today is good for the city,” Irvin said, according to NCTV 17.
Irvin’s consultants are the same ones who have pushed pro-homosexual agenda, pro-abortion politicians in the state for years. “Irvin was recruited to run — and his campaign organized — by a network of GOP political operatives with ties to former GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner and ex-Sen. Mark Kirk,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Rauner ran in 2014 and said he had “no social agenda,” according to an ad featuring his wife Diana, a “lifelong Democrat” and supporter of abortion organizations.
But as governor he signed into law bills mandating so-called abortion counseling for pregnant women and required taxpayers to pay for abortions through Medicaid. He also officiated at a same-sex “wedding.” He signed legislation to allow gender dysphoric individuals to get a new birth certificate that lists the opposite sex.
Former Sen. Kirk supported abortion, homosexual “marriage,” and was one of only a few Republicans to support legislation in Congress that would strip religious freedom protections from pro-life businesses like Hobby Lobby that did not want to cover abortifacient birth control under Obamacare.
However, Irvin’s record on abortion is more conservative than his history with vaccine mandates and homosexual advocacy.
“I think Planned Parenthood is bad for Aurora. And it’s not simply an issue of abortion. It’s an issue of how that organization … came into our city using deceptive practices,” Irvin said during an event in 2009. Planned Parenthood deceptively moved into the city using a different corporation name during construction and permitting.
His running mate is state representative Avery Bourne, a pro-life millennial with a record of opposing abortion.
The Irvin-Bourne campaign did not respond to a LifeSiteNews request for comment clarifying the Aurora mayor’s position on vaccine mandates, so-called LGBT issues such as bathroom policies and “hormone therapy” for children, and his stance on abortion.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gop-establishment-pushes-pro-lgbt-mandate-supporting-mayor-in-illinois-governor-race/?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=usa
Trudeau Government Threatens Americans Who Donated To Freedom Convoy, Vows To 'Investigate'
On Tuesday, Justin Trudeau’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stated that the Canadian government intends to target any American who may have donated to the Freedom Convoy protest effort. The grassroots movement raised $10 million dollars until GoFundMe took down the page and announced their plans to distribute the funds to left-wing causes. GoFundMe later backed down and refunded the donations after intense backlash.
“There have been numerous instances of intimidation, harassment, violence and hate,” Mendicino said without evidence. “Many residents have been effectively held hostage in their own city, blockaded by an angry, loud, intolerant and violent crowd,” he continued. Mendicino added that the convoy has “crossed the line of acceptable conduct,” and praised the Ottawa Police Service.
Following his baseless claims regarding the convoy’s conduct — which has been overwhelmingly peaceful — Minister Mendicino shifted his focus to donors who have supported the convoy, saying that Canada has a “robust” intelligence community that will flag all concerns of national security, as well as a separate branch within the RCMP with the same function. “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. “If, for example, someone was contributing with the intent of either causing public harm or 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.
MPs on the House of Commons Public Safety and National Security Committee have called GoFundMe to testify about the funds raised. “Important questions remain about how such a huge sum of money could be raised by anonymous donors and what their motivations were. People are rightly worried about American interference and what sort of standard is applied when donations are accepted,” reads a statement from the NDP’s public safety critic Alistair MacGregor.
It is unclear how the Canadian government would go about such investigations or whether the Biden Administration would assist them.
https://nationalfile.com/trudeau-government-threatens-americans-donated-freedom-convoy-vows-investigate/
Inspector General Investigating Capitol Police for Improper Surveillance of Lawmakers, Staff and Visitors
On Tuesday, Congressman Troy Nehls (R-Texas) posted an alarming thread on Twitter.
BREAKING The @CapitolPolice Intelligence Division investigated my office illegally and one of my staffers caught them in the act.
On November 20th, 2021, Capitol Police entered my office without my knowledge and photographed confidential legislative products protected by the Speech and Debate clause enshrined in the Constitution, Article 1 Section 6.
Two days later on Monday November 22, 2021 (Thanksgiving week), three intelligence officers attempted to enter my office while the House was in recess.
Upon discovering a member of my staff, special agents dressed like construction workers began to question him as to the contents of a photograph taken illegally two days earlier.
@CapitolPolice never informed myself or senior level staff of their investigation and the reasons are clear.
They had no authority to photograph my office, let alone investigate myself or members of my staff. So, why is the Capitol Police Leadership maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character?
Maybe it is because I have been a vocal critic of @SpeakerPelosi, the @January6thCmte, and @CapitolPolice leadership about their handling of January 6th, the death of Ashli Babbitt and the subsequent SHAM investigation.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger told the agency’s side of the story by claiming that a “vigilant officer” performing normal weekend rounds noticed that Nehls’s office door had been left wide open. “If a Member’s office is left open and unsecured, without anyone inside the office, USCP officers are directed to document that and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious,” he explained.
Once inside the office, the officer noticed a whiteboard that contained “suspicious writings mentioning body armor,” which he photographed and passed along to USCP analysts. Manger said that the following Monday, “USCP personnel personally followed up with the Congressman’s staff and determined no investigation or further action of any kind was needed.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/02/08/inspector-general-investigating-capitol-police-for-improper-surveillance-of-lawmakers-staff-and-visitors-n1557426
Bombshell Email Reveals Plan to Arrest Maskless Students in Loudoun County
School mask mandates have recently been lifted in New Jersey and in Delaware. Massachusetts is also considering lifting its mandate.
But in Loudoun County, Va., students who attempt to enter school maskless could face arrest. According to a leaked email, a security official for Loudoun County Public Schools coached principals on obtaining a warrant to arrest students who attempted to enter school maskless.
The email was sent on Feb. 1, by John Clark, the Director of Safety and Security for Loudoun County Public Schools to the district’s principals.
“If you determine that an individual should be trespassed then a school admin representative, in conjunction with S&S Coordinator Rich Thomas, will proceed to the magistrate to swear out a trespass summons/warrant,” the email says. “School admin will meet Rich Thomas at the Safety & Security office and then proceed to the magistrate, which is located next to our office.”
Clark’s directive blatantly defies Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order empowering parents to opt their kids out of school mask mandates.
The email says that if a warrant is obtained it “will be served by law enforcement,” within 24 hours. The email also provided steps to prevent school access to parents.
“Parents should only be admitted at your discretion,” Clark wrote. He also recommended schools establish “outdoor parent gathering areas,” for parents picking up students, and restrict access to entrances.
“While parents have certain educational rights they do NOT have the right to enter your school without proper vetting and permission,” Clark wrote.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/02/08/bombshell-email-reveals-plan-to-arrest-maskless-loundoun-county-students-at-school-n1557326
Serbian-Hungarian Dual Citizen Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Multi-Million Dollar Business Email Compromise Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/serbian-hungarian-dual-citizen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-multi-million
Pierre Poilievre - Conservatives MP "The Prime Minister's Tactic Is To Divide, Demonize & Distract"
Northern Ireland sees shocking rise in online child sex abuse crime
THE PSNI have today marked Internet Safety Day ( February 8) with the release of shocking statistics related to online child sex abuse crime.
Statistics show that online child sexual abuse crimes, recorded by the PSNI, have jumped by over 80 per cent in the last three years and the team that investigates the most serious of these crimes are busier than they have ever been.
From 2020-2021, 308 such crimes were reported, which shows a big increase from the 2016-2017 figure of 178.
These offences include sexual assault, rape, or sexual communication with a child where any element of the offence was committed online.
Today, Internet Safety Day (8th February), the Police Service of Northern Ireland has issued a video to all schools, highlighting the potential dangers for their children online.
The video encourages parents to be more aware of their child’s online activities and in particular, who they are speaking to and the types of games they are playing.
You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/UaKtcvk-1jc
The Police’s Child Internet Protection Team (CIPT) are the busiest they have ever been since their inception in 2010. The once 8 strong Police unit have now doubled in size and are charged with investigating the most serious and complex cases of online child abuse.
Since January 2021, the team have been involved in 125 searches (nearly 3 a week), resulting in 52 arrests for offences, including possession, making and distributing indecent images and sexual communication with a child. The number of searches and arrests have increased by over 23 per cent and 18 per cent respectively compared with the previous 12 months.
Detective Chief Inspector Kerry Brennan said: “We know that children are being groomed online in Northern Ireland.
“Children now have access to numerous digital devices at home, meaning they are at greater risk to be targeted by online predators.
“We want to help parents understand the dangers online and encourage them to have the same safeguarding conversations that they would if their children were leaving the house to go outside to play.
“Just because they are in their room on their devices, doesn’t mean they are safe. Your child could be talking to anyone online. Check in regularly, find out who they are talking to and educate yourself and your child about the importance of online safety.”
Officers are working closely with local schools, Department of Education and the Education Authority to highlight the potential dangers online, and would appeal to any parents concerned that children may be being groomed online or at risk, to contact police on 101, or in an emergency always dial 999.
https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/19907112.northern-ireland-sees-shocking-rise-online-child-sex-abuse-crime/
Many Australian companies are failing to prevent links to modern slavery
Evaluating the early impact of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/580025f66b8f5b2dabbe4291/t/6200d3d9db51c63088d0e8e1/1644221419125/Paper+Promises_Australia+Modern+_Slavery+Act_7_FEB.pdf
A coalition of human rights organisations, church groups and academics are demanding the federal government strengthen Australia’s modern slavery laws after releasing an investigative report into the issue.
The report found that many companies are failing to identify obvious risks of forced labour in their supply chains or take action to address them.
Under scrutiny in the report conducted by the Human Rights Law Centre, assisted by the privately-run Catholic University of Notre Dame and RMIT University, are the disclosure statements of 102 companies sourcing from four sectors with known risks of modern slavery: garments from China, rubber gloves from Malaysia, seafood from Thailand and fresh produce from Australia.
The Modern Slavery Act was introduced in 2018 and now requires around 3,000 companies to review their supply chains and check if workers face human trafficking, servitude, forced labour, deceptive recruiting or other poor conditions.
The report found 77 per cent of companies reviewed had failed to comply with the basic reporting requirements mandated by the legislation and that 52 per cent had failed to identify obvious modern slavery risks in their operations or supply chains.
Only one in four garment companies sourcing from China, for instance, made any mention of the risk of Uyghur forced labour in their supply chains.
Just 27 per cent of companies appeared to be taking some form of effective action to address modern slavery risks.
The lowest scoring companies included Lite & Easy, Drakes Supermarkets and Clifford Hallam Healthcare, while the highest included Woolworths, Coles and Kathmandu.
“The Modern Slavery Act was meant to drive a ‘race to the top’ by business to address modern slavery in global supply chains, but our research indicates most companies have barely left the starting blocks,” senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre and report co-author, Freya Dinshaw said
https://catholicleader.com.au/news/many-australian-companies-are-failing-to-prevent-links-to-modern-slavery/
Italy’s Archbishop Carlos Maria Vigano Endorses the Canadian Truck Drivers Against the New World Order
Dear Brothers and Sisters Canadian truck drivers,
The global coup that in these two years of psycho-pandemic farce has been carried out by the globalist elite appears most clearly if we do not limit ourselves to considering what happened in individual Nations, but broaden our gaze to what has happened everywhere.
Your protest, dear Canadian truck driver friends, joins a worldwide chorus that wants to oppose the establishment of the New World Order on the rubble of nation states, through the Great Reset desired by the World Economic Forum and by the United Nations under the name of Agenda 2030. And we know that many heads of government have participated in Klaus Schwab’s School for Young Leaders – the so-called Global Leaders for Tomorrow – beginning with Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron, Jacinta Ardern and Boris Johnson, and before that Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Tony Blair.
It would seem that Canada is – along with Australia, Italy, Austria and France – one of the nations most infiltrated by the globalists. And in this infernal project we must not only consider the psycho-pandemic farce, but also the attack on traditions and Christian identity – indeed, more precisely the Catholic identity – of these countries.
You understood this instinctively, and your yearning for freedom was shown in all its coordinated harmony, moving towards the capital Ottawa. Dear truck drivers, you are facing great difficulties, not only because you give up your work to demonstrate, but also because of the adverse weather conditions, long nights in the cold, and attempts to be cleared away that you face. But along with these difficulties you have also experienced the closeness of many of your fellow citizens, who like you have understood the looming threat and want to support you in protesting against the regime. Allow me also to express to you my support and my spiritual closeness, to which I join the prayer that your event may be crowned with success and may also extend to other countries.
In these days we see the masks of tyrants from all over the world fall, and unfortunately we also see so much conformism, so much fearfulness, so much cowardice in people who up until yesterday we regarded as friends, even among our family members. Yet, precisely because of this extreme situation, we discover with amazement gestures of humanity made by strangers, signs of solidarity and brotherhood on the part of those who feel close to us in the common battle. We discover so much generosity and so much desire to shake us from this stupor. We discover that we are no longer willing to passively suffer the destruction of our world imposed by a cabal of unscrupulous criminals, thirsty for power and money.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-endorses-canadian-truck-drivers-may-your-efforts-be-crowned-with-success/
Australia's premier conservative commentator hits Scott Morrison with the ULTIMATE insult as she declares the PM is 'NOT up to the job' in another major blow to his re-election hopes
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost another conservative media influencer
The Australian's Janet Albrechtsen wrote Mr Morrison is 'not up to the job'
Columnist said his spending has been 'wasteful, thoughtless and political'
Ms Albrechtsen wrote Mr Morrison has no leadership-defining policies
She joins Andrew Bolt in abandoning support for the PM
Sky News host said last week Mr Morrison was 'finished' as Liberal leader
He urged Defence Minister Petter Dutton to 'get ready to lead'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10491467/Staggering-blow-Scott-Morrison-conservative-columnist-rules-PM-not-job.html