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CCP Scientists Submitted COVID Sequence to Database Weeks Before Admitting They Had One, Then Deleted It.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime scientists had access to a SARS-CoV-2 sequence weeks before they handed one over to the United Nations (UN), according to documents uncovered by House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans. The sequence was even submitted to a U.S. database, but it was deleted when U.S. officials began asking questions about it.

Dr. Lili Ren, working for a pathogen research institute attached to the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, submitted a sequence for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID, to the U.S. National National Institutes of Health (NIH) database GenBank on December 28th, 2019.

Not until January 11th, 2020, was a sequence for the villy published; however, when China submitted the information to the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the WHO sequence was in the hands of the Chinese version of the CDC by January 5th but was not shared with scientists overseas.

Ren’s earlier, unpublished sequence “was nearly identical” to the one given to the WHO weeks later, Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Legislation Melanie Egorin told the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Chinese researcher ignored the NIH when asked for further details on the December sequence; however, it was quietly deleted from the GenBank database on January 16th.

Committee Chairwoman Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said the findings prove the U.S. “cannot trust any of the so-called ‘facts’ or data provided by the CCP and calls into serious question the legitimacy of any scientific theories based on such information.”

Ren is attached to U.S.-funded coronavirus projects led by EcoHealth Alliance. EcoHealth Alliance leader Peter Daszak has links to Anthony Fauci and is still using U.S. funding to experiment with exotic viruses from bats and other animals.

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime scientists had access to a SARS-CoV-2 sequence weeks before they handed one over to the United Nations (UN), according to documents uncovered by House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans. The sequence was even submitted to a U.S. database, but it was deleted when U.S. officials began asking questions about it. show more

NYT: New Hampshire is ‘High Water Mark’ for Haley, Who ‘Can’t Win’ Due to Positions on Immigration, Social Security, and Foreign Wars.

On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page admitted the political reality for ex-South Carolina Governor Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley: she lacks a realistic path to victory for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

“But even if Ms. Haley does well in New Hampshire, it won’t matter,” Damon Linker writes, adding: “That’s because Ms. Haley is starkly out of step with the evolution of her party over the past decade.”

Former President Donald Trump’s appeal among non-college-educated voters poses an insurmountable hurdle for Haley, according to the Linker, a senior lecturer in the department of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. These voters have “grown weary of candidates emphasizing cuts to entitlements and taxes on the wealthy while also favoring liberal rates of immigration, free-trade agreements that resulted in manufacturing jobs being shipped abroad.”

Haley’s vocal support for raising the retirement age, slashing social security, and cutting other entitlements has been a persistent point of criticism against the former South Carolina Governor on the campaign trail. Her embrace of U.S. interventionism abroad, especially in Ukraine, has also proven to be out of step with much of the Republican electorate — though not with Democrat mega-donors.

Haley finished third place in Monday’s Iowa Republican Caucus, gaining only eight Republican convention delegates to former President Donald Trump’s twenty delegates. The former President won the Caucus by a historic margin with 51 percent of the vote to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 21.2 percent and Haley’s 19.1 percent.

“New Hampshire is overwhelmingly likely to end up as the high-water mark for her campaign,” the Times says of the Haley campaign, noting that Republicans will still prefer Trump as “they’d rather go into the general election with someone they feel they can trust.”

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On Wednesday, the New York Times opinion page admitted the political reality for ex-South Carolina Governor Nimrata 'Nikki' Haley: she lacks a realistic path to victory for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. show more

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BIDEN’S JOBS GROWTH LIE: Quiet Corrections Reveal Economy Added Near HALF A MILLION FEWER Jobs Than First Claimed.

Cumulative revisions to monthly jobs reports from January through November 2023 suggest that at least 443,000 fewer jobs were created in Joe Biden’s economy than the public was initially told.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BSL) publishes monthly job reports. Its figures often show job creation has been “surprisingly” high, with Biden’s economy stronger on paper than expected, given “hardship withdrawals” are rising and polls show most Americans feel the country is not performing well.

However, revisions to BSL job estimates over the course of the year indicate that people are not wrong to feel a disconnect between the numbers and their lived experiences. Revisions were downwards in 10 months out of the 11 for which revised estimates are available. The revisions are not small, either.

In June, the new jobs estimate was cut almost in half, dropping from 209,000 to 105,000. September, February, and May also saw big cuts of 74,000, 63,000, and 58,000, respectively.

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Revisions for December 2023 were unknown as of the time of publication, but analysts say the prognosis is bleak.

Economist Dr. E.J. Antoni believes the current figures point towards “the economy shedding 1.5 million full-time jobs in a single month, big downward revisions” and a “true unemployment rate between 6.4 percent and 7.5 percent.”

Antoni also noted that government jobs accounted for roughly a quarter of all job gains in December, explaining that “this is highly problematic [because] you need many private sector jobs to support each [government] job via tax revenue,” far above the ratio that currently exists.

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Cumulative revisions to monthly jobs reports from January through November 2023 suggest that at least 443,000 fewer jobs were created in Joe Biden's economy than the public was initially told. show more

Corporate News Giant Fires Tops Execs As Financial Woes Grow.

One of the world’s largest commercial news publishers, Reach, owner of the far-left Daily Mirror, the right-leaning Daily Express, and over 100 local newspapers, has parted ways with senior staff and cut around 800 jobs within the space of one year.

The Daily Mirror‘s first female editor, Alison Phillips, reportedly left by mutual agreement, following group editor-in-chief, Lloyd Embley, who abruptly left last summer. Phillips was a 26-year veteran of the left-leaning tabloid. The moves fueled concerns that the pre-Christmas job cuts may continue this year, further plunging the group into crisis.

“Everyone is reeling,” one longtime staffer told The Guardian. “Everyone is saying the same thing. We are done. There is no real faith in the direction and support for the title. There is a lot of despondency. I have been here a long time and I have never seen staff morale so low.”

In addition to The Daily Mirror and the Daily Express, Reach owns the Daily Star, the Daily Record, the Manchester Evening News, the Liverpool Echo, and over 100 other local newspapers and websites across the United Kingdom.

Although it is the sixth biggest online operation in the UK after Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and the BBC — and the UK’s largest newspaper group — Reach’s digital revenues dropped by £21 million (~$26.7 million) in 2023 to just £127.8 million (~$162.6 million). Reach’s market valuation, which was a whopping £1.3 billion (~$1.65 billion) in mid-2021, has plummeted to just £220m (~$280 million) in less than three years.

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One of the world's largest commercial news publishers, Reach, owner of the far-left Daily Mirror, the right-leaning Daily Express, and over 100 local newspapers, has parted ways with senior staff and cut around 800 jobs within the space of one year. show more
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FBI Found Cocaine in Hunter Biden’s Gun Pouch.

A court document released Tuesday shows that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) discovered cocaine in a gun pouch belonging to Hunter Biden in 2018, a revelation which is pivotal to his ongoing criminal proceedings.

The filings were made by Special Counsel David Weiss at the U.S. District Court in Delaware in response to multiple motions Hunter Biden filed in December. Weiss revealed that the cocaine was found in Biden’s brown leather gun pouch, and the incriminating evidence partially came from statements Hunter made admitting drug use in his 2021 memoir. After unsealing evidence in 2023, the FBI found a white powdery substance, suspected to be cocaine, on the pouch that held Biden’s firearm in October 2018. Federal chemists later confirmed the substance was indeed cocaine.

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has pleaded not guilty to charges that accuse him of lying about his drug use when acquiring the firearm under scrutiny. He possessed the gun for 11 days, and has admitted struggling with addiction during that time. His lawyers insist he did not violate any laws.

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A court document released Tuesday shows that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) discovered cocaine in a gun pouch belonging to Hunter Biden in 2018, a revelation which is pivotal to his ongoing criminal proceedings. show more

Trump Trial Judge Screened For Jurors Who Believe 2020 Election Stolen, Posted on Truth Social or Rumble.

The judge presiding over the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against former President Donald Trump is screening any potential juror for a hint of right-leaning political beliefs. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan pressed potential jurors if they believed the 2020 election was stolen, if they have affiliations with groups like the Proud Boys, and if they’ve ever posted on Truth Social or Rumble. Potential jurors who answered in the affirmative are likely to be removed from the jury pool.

Five potential jurors have already been excused — three admitted they could not be fair in delivering a verdict, and two others said their ability to be impartial was impaired by what they’ve already heard or read regarding the several ongoing prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.

Attorneys for Ms. Carroll are expected to move to strike jurors identified by Judge Kaplan as having right-leaning political beliefs. While striking potentially unfavorable jurors is standard for the jury selection process, the active involvement of the presiding judge is uncommon — but not unheard of.

The ongoing law-fare campaign by the Biden government against Trump makes the selection of a fair jury difficult — as the ongoing prosecutions continue to receive a high level of media attention. Before the start of the second defamation trial, Judge Kaplan ruled Trump cannot challenge Carroll’s rape claim against him.

Last year, a judge ruled the former President had defamed Ms. Carroll and awarded a $5 million civil judgment against Trump regarding an alleged encounter in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. This second trial will determine additional damages for defamation linked to a statement Trump made in 2019 while he was still president, denying he knew Carroll and asserting that she invented the rape allegation to promote her book.

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The judge presiding over the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against former President Donald Trump is screening any potential juror for a hint of right-leaning political beliefs. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan pressed potential jurors if they believed the 2020 election was stolen, if they have affiliations with groups like the Proud Boys, and if they've ever posted on Truth Social or Rumble. Potential jurors who answered in the affirmative are likely to be removed from the jury pool. show more

Poland’s New, Gay Deputy Justice Minister Announces Laws Banning ‘Hate Speech’ Against Gays and Transgenders.

Poland’s new deputy justice minister, a gay activist, has announced new laws outlawing “hate speech” on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability.

Krzysztof Śmiszek says the “hate speech” regulations will be finalized by the end of February. The populist Konfederacja (Confederation) party has expressed grave misgivings about the planned speech restrictions, which were included in the coalition agreement between the three globalist political alliances that have combined to govern Poland.

“In practice, this means nothing more than criminal prosecution for expressing views that are inconsistent with a specific ideology that is close to the new coalition,” warned Konfederacja politician Konrad Berkowicz.

“This is obvious censorship, an obvious attack on freedom of speech and obvious, creeping totalitarianism,” he added.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk is moving swiftly to completely undo the legacy of the previous conservative government, which governed Poland from 2015 to late last year. Not only have illegal aliens formerly turned away at the previous government’s border wall been invited to meet the Speaker, but conservatives working for state media have also been fired en masse, and former government ministers have been jailed and expelled from the legislature.

The process has been lawless, with the new government ignoring the Constitutional Tribunal, Supreme Court judges it disagrees with, and presidential pardons to implement its agenda. Nevertheless, President Joe Biden and his ambassador in Warsaw have signaled their approval of the regime.

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Poland's new deputy justice minister, a gay activist, has announced new laws outlawing "hate speech" on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability. show more

Biden Raised Nearly $100M in Q4 2023.

The Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee raised over $97 million during the Fourth Quarter of 2023, the campaign announced.

Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez called the campaign’s impressive fundraising a “historic haul” before claiming that “democracy and hard-fought basic rights and freedoms are on the line in 2024, and these numbers prove that the American people know the stakes and are taking action early to help defeat the extreme MAGA Republican agenda again.”

The campaign said more than 520,000 donors contributed to Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Q4 2023, with 97 percent of donations below $200. The Biden team conducted 39 fundraisers in the final quarter, benefitting from more than 130,000 donors who contribute monthly. A competition to meet Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also raised over $3 million for the campaign.

The Biden campaign now has $117 million cash on hand.

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The Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee raised over $97 million during the Fourth Quarter of 2023, the campaign announced. show more

Trump Already Back in NY Court for Second E. Jean Carroll Trial.

Donald Trump returns to court on Tuesday to begin the hearing in the second defamation case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll previously brought a civil suit against Trump alleging that he raped her in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied that the incident ever happened. Last year, a jury in that case found that Trump did sexually abuse Carroll and defame her, and awarded her $5 million in damages.

The current defamation trial centers on comments Trump made in 2019, once again denying Carroll’s story, which the former President maintains is a fabrication. The focus of this week’s hearings is to ascertain the amount of damages Trump, who is appealing the previous verdict, should pay Carroll for his 2019 statements.

As to the potential damages, Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed the former President’s proposition to cap any future damages. Carroll is seeking more than an additional $10 million in damages. Trump, staunchly maintaining his innocence, has appealed all verdicts and rulings against him. The former president is expected to testify on his own behalf on Monday.

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Donald Trump returns to court on Tuesday to begin the hearing in the second defamation case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. show more

YAHOO: Inflation ‘Cooling’ Thanks to Cheap Migrant Labor Depressing Your Wages.

Cheap migrant labor is the cause of subsiding inflation numbers — while also depressing the wages of American workers. While inflation ticked up slightly in December, the overall trend has shown prices falling — for the most part — as the demand for labor is easing and wages fall.

According to Yahoo Finance, foreign-born labor numbers by December of 2023 were nearly 10 percent higher than they were pre-coronavirus pandemic — with 20 percent of the U.S. labor force being comprised of immigrant workers. While Yahoo points to the immigrant labor increases as a reason for subsiding inflation, the increase in foreign workers has also driven down the wages of American workers — arguably decreasing their quality of life.

In addition, the increase in foreign labor could also have contributed to December’s elevated inflation numbers. The influx of immigrants also means an increase in consumers. Additional consumers mean an increase in demand for products — which often leads to higher prices. While the finance industry experts cited by Yahoo Finance fail to mention this problem, they do fret that the addition of non-productive immigrants “such as elderly relatives, stay-at-home mothers, and students” could negatively impact the economy.

Financial industry experts, cited by Yahoo Finance, argue the increase in immigrant labor helps the U.S. avoid a theoretical ‘wage-price spiral.’ However, there is scant evidence this was the case in the U.S. where wages have lagged behind inflation for years. Even the U.S. Federal Reserve has argued a minimal degree of inflation — around two percent — is desirable to avoid a deflationary trap – which was a top concern shortly before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Cheap migrant labor is the cause of subsiding inflation numbers — while also depressing the wages of American workers. While inflation ticked up slightly in December, the overall trend has shown prices falling — for the most part — as the demand for labor is easing and wages fall. show more