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Lawyer: Canada border questions violated Huawei CFO's rights

Jim Morris
AP / Yahoo! News
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:54 UTC
Meng Wanzhou
© Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP
Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves her home to attend a hearing at B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., Friday, March 19, 2021.
Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies argued at an extradition hearing Friday that her detention and questioning at the Vancouver airport violated her rights, saying agents had no reason to question her about the company's activity in Iran except to assist U.S. investigators.

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer who is also the daughter of the company's founder, was arrested at the airport in late 2018 at the request of U.S., which wants her extradited to face fraud charges. The arrest infuriated Beijing, which sees her case as a political move designed to prevent China's rise.

The U.S. accuses Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company called Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It says Meng committed fraud by misleading the HSBC bank about the company's business dealings in Iran. Much of the case centers around an August 2013 PowerPoint presentation made to an HSBC executive during a lunch in Hong Kong.

Meng's lawyers claim her extraction should be halted because of an abuse of process, saying Canada Border Services Agency officers detained and questioned her without a lawyer, seized her electronic devices and put them in special bags to prevent wiping, and compelled her to give up the passcodes before her official arrest.

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Journalist behind crowd-funded Hunter Biden biopic: 'Stop the coverup, get the truth out there, let the chips fall where they may'

Chris Sweeney
RT
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 22:02 UTC
Hunter Joe Biden
© Getty Images / Teresa Kroeger
Hunter Biden (L) and Joe Biden at the World Food Program USA's Annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC
My Son Hunter, a controversial movie about the president's son, is slated to be released online later this year after being overwhelmed by a flood of financial support to reveal the truth about Joe Biden's problem child.

Hollywood, big tech, and the mainstream media are complicit in a coverup, according to investigative journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer. The Irishman has revealed his next project will be a movie about Hunter Biden in which he aims to reveal the truth about the president's wayward second son.

McAleer believes if the allegations surrounding Hunter Biden had been properly scrutinized, then Donald Trump may still be in the White House. Those involved claim that Joe Biden indulged in corruption to help his son professionally, centering around suspicious emails discovered on Hunter's laptop. That led to accusations of money laundering and illegal dealings with Chinese intelligence.
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Health

Dysentery outbreak in Vancouver 'symptom of broader systemic malady'

Bailey Nicholson, Lisa Steacy
City News 1130
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:55 UTC
Vancouver
© THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
FILE - The Balmoral and Regent hotels are pictured in the downtown eastside in Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, November 6, 2019.
People living on the Downtown Eastside are facing a third health crisis, on top of COVID-19 and the poisoned drug supply — an outbreak of dysentery caused by the shigella bacteria.

On Feb. 26, Vancouver Coastal Health informed doctors in the area of the outbreak. At that time "more than 10″ people who live on the Downtown Eastside had been hospitalized. That memo encouraged doctors to test for Shigellosis in patients with gastrointestinal symptoms if they " are homeless, under-housed, or part of the social network of the Downtown Eastside." On Tuesday, writing for The Conversation Dr. Ben Huang, an emergency physician, said at least 20 cases have now been confirmed by the BC Centre for Disease Control.

"Shigellosis usually occurs in developing countries where sanitation is poor, making an outbreak in urban Vancouver, where I work as a resident emergency doctor, highly unusual," he wrote.

Comment: With lockdowns and experimental vaccines weakening the immune system of the wider population, it's possible that outbreaks such as these pose an even greater threat: COVID Mass Vaccination Experiment: Prepare For The Worst With This Health Protocol

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Louisiana man charged with gruesome plot to kill & dismember gay men

Rebecca Rosenberg
New York Post
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:01 UTC
Seneca
© Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
Chance Seneca, 19, is accused of stabbing Holden White, 18, on June 20, 2020.
A deranged Louisiana teen has been charged with plotting to murder gay men — including a plan to dismember one victim and use his body parts as trophies, mementos and food, officials said.

Chance Seneca, 19, of Lafayette, was indicted on six counts including hate crime with intent to kill, kidnapping, firearm possession and obstruction charges in connection to an overarching scheme to attack gay men for their sexual orientation, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

He allegedly tried to kidnap one man and successfully abducted two others on June 19 and 20 of last year — using the dating app Grindr as his "hunting ground," the release says.

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Attention

Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: Toxic chemicals threaten humanity

Erin Brockovich, Suzanne Boothby
The Guardian
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:23 UTC
People
© Mark Lennihan/AP
Nothing short of a full-scale emergency for humanity.
The chemicals to blame for our reproductive crisis are found everywhere and in everything...

The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate around the globe. A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, finds that sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973. Following the trajectory we are on, Swan's research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that sink in. That would mean no babies. No reproduction. No more humans. Forgive me for asking: why isn't the UN calling an emergency meeting on this right now?

The chemicals to blame for this crisis are found in everything from plastic containers and food wrapping, to waterproof clothes and fragrances in cleaning products, to soaps and shampoos, to electronics and carpeting. Some of them, called PFAS, are known as "forever chemicals", because they don't breakdown in the environment or the human body. They just accumulate and accumulate - doing more and more damage, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day. Now, it seems, humanity is reaching a breaking point.

Swan's book is staggering in its findings. "In some parts of the world, the average twenty-something woman today is less fertile than her grandmother was at 35," Swan writes. In addition to that, Swan finds that, on average, a man today will have half of the sperm his grandfather had. "The current state of reproductive affairs can't continue much longer without threatening human survival," writes Swan, adding: "It's a global existential crisis." That's not hyperbole. That's just science.

Comment: As per status quo, we do much too little, much too late.

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Mayor de Blasio tells NYPD to pay people home visits for 'hurtful' comments

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
de Blasio
© Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says NYPD officers should pay people home visits if they engage in "hurtful" behavior to others even if the action isn't criminal.

What could possibly go wrong?

De Blasio told reporters:
"Even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it's NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they've done was very hurtful to another person — and could, if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges — that's another important piece of the puzzle."
The Mayor failed to define precisely what he meant by "hurtful," but since he framed it in the context of non-criminal behavior, he can only be referring to mean words. De Blasio urged officers to "confront" people to tell them their behavior is "not appropriate," urging alleged victims to make more reports to authorities.

He then even suggested that cops, instead of responding to actual crimes, should visit New Yorker's homes to police their speech. "I assure you, if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask you about something you did, it makes people think twice," he said. "We need that."

Comment: There are not enough minutes in the day, nor officers on the sidewalks, to make this really stupid idea happen.

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Footprints

Americans move to freedom - fleeing these five states and here's why

Chuck DeVore
Fox News
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
license plate
© screenshot
When people vote - with a moving van or a U-Haul truck - they vote for lower taxes and smaller government. That's the conclusion from comparing a new report on freedom at the state level with the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data.

Over the course of a year a net of 788,381 people moved to Florida, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, the "freest" five states in America, according to the Fraser Institute's annual Economic Freedom in North America index.

The annual report, published by Canada's Fraser Institute, ranks the states and provinces of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico using objective measures of government spending, tax rates and labor market freedom. The least-free U.S. state is New York. West Virginia, Alaska, California and Vermont round out the bottom five.

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Footprints

Three trucks packed with hundreds of migrants stopped in Mexico - ignored Biden's call to stay home


The Guardian
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:18 UTC
Migrants
© Adrees Latif/Reuters.jpg
Honduran man with his son after crossing into the US from Mexico.
Three trailer trucks packed with hundreds of migrants have been found in Mexico in the latest sign that many would-be immigrants are ignoring calls from Joe Biden not to risk trying to enter the United States.

Mexican migration agents along with national guard police said they stopped the trucks early on Thursday near the border with Guatemala as part of routine checks and discovered 329 Guatemalans and Hondurans inside, including 114 unaccompanied minors.

The trucks were stopped on a highway south of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas state, according to an interior ministry statement.

The migrants were provided with food and water. The unaccompanied minors were sent to shelters run by the migration authority while the adults were taken to nearby offices to begin administrative processing, the statement added.
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Attention

Fauci and The Variants

Eric Peters
EricPetersAuto
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:58 UTC
Corona
© Wochenblick.at
It sounds like an '80s synth band but the tune is more like the braying of a defective donkey.

Perhaps you saw the exchange between Pope Fauci and Senator Rand Paul over Mask Wearing Forever, which the Pope of Sickness insists on.

Paul inquired of his Holiness, why dost thou continue to wear thy vestment in view of the fact that thou hast been anointed with the Holy Water (i.e., the "vaccine" - which ostensibly renders the recipient immune from the 'Rona, else why bother taking it and with it, whatever risk of unknown problems it may cause)?

The Pope's reply was what one would expect of any religious leader: Just believe. For I saith so.

And, obey.

Rand - playing the part of a latter-day Martin Luther - questioned the Pope about this, demanding to know what evidence could be adduced to substantiate the Holy Assertion that wearing a vestment or two served other than a ritualistic purpose. None was forthcoming.
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In incredible dissent, federal judge has launched broadside attack on SCOTUS precedent protecting left-wing press

Chris Pandolfo
The Blaze
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:15 UTC
Laurence H. Silberman

Honorable Laurence H. Silberman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
US Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman warns the current state of media is 'a threat to a viable democracy'

A federal judge called for a landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press and libel laws to be overturned in a fiery dissent decrying "bias against the Republican Party," blasting the near "one-party control" of legacy news media, slamming Silicon Valley's censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and warning that the current state of American media is "a threat to a viable democracy."

U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a Reagan appointee, launched a broad attack on the Supreme Court's unwillingness to revisit precedent and the news media in a dissent in Tah v. Global Witness — a defamation case. After arguing against the court majority's ruling on the merits of the case, Silberman was "prompted to urge the overruling of New York Times v. Sullivan" — a landmark ruling that established what a plaintiff must show to prove a claim of defamation or libel made against a publisher.

Comment: Finally, a judge who is ready to recognize the current reality. However appropriate the New York Times v. Sullivan ruling was then, it is a different world now.

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