McAuliffe took $350,000 donation from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe
A government watchdog group hit Terry McAuliffe with a campaign finance complaint on Friday over a $350,000 donation he received from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The National Legal and Policy Center is asking the FEC to “promptly investigate” whether the contribution to the Virginia gubernatorial candidate violated federal laws prohibiting campaigns from accepting political donations from foreign nationals.
“Terry McAuliffe has a history of accepting foreign contributions. The FEC must fully investigate these serious charges that he accepted $350,000 in illegal foreign contributions for his current campaign,” said Washington, D.C. attorney, Paul Kamenar, counsel to NLPC, who drafted and filed the complaint with the FEC.
LycaTel LLC, owned by Sri Lankan-British national Allirajah Subaskaran, gave McAuliffe $350,000 in July, the Free Beacon first reported in early October. The company is a New Jersey subsidiary of Subaskaran’s U.K.-based telecom conglomerate, which boasts a complicated web of offshore businesses and has been the subject of tax-fraud and money-laundering charges in France.
Federal law prohibits campaigns from accepting money from foreign nationals and entities, directly or indirectly, in local, state, and federal elections. While U.S.-based subsidiaries of foreign corporations can contribute, the donation can’t be made under the direction of the company’s foreign leadership—which legal experts said can be a murky legal distinction.
“This is effectively a really easy way to launder foreign money into the U.S. political process and to avoid the FEC prohibition on foreign nationals making contributions in U.S. elections,” Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy, told the Free Beacon earlier this month.
LycaTel does not appear to have contributed to previous Virginia campaigns or federal races. In July, the company retained D.C.-based lobbyist Robert Thompson to lobby on “Telecom” issues, according to disclosure records. Prior to that, Thompson had registered as a foreign agent representing Subaskaran as part of a “business expansion within the U.S.A.,” according to records filed with the Department of Justice.
Thompson was a lobbyist for the Sri Lankan government from 2013 to 2014, according to disclosure records. Thompson did not respond to a request for comment about his lobbying work.
Subaskaran, through his WWW Holding Company and other entities, owns a globe-spanning web of companies in the technology, media, and gaming sectors, many of them with the word “Lyca” in the names. The Lyca group has clashed with British authorities over allegations of unpaid taxes. French authorities in 2016 raided LycaMobile’s Paris headquarters and arrested “19 people suspected of being involved in a money-laundering system implicating Lycamobile and Lycamobile Services,” according to a statement from French prosecutors.
LycaMobile couriers in 2015 were photographed transporting tote bags of cash—reportedly as much as $1 million per week—to various post offices around the United Kingdom, according to a series of articles by BuzzFeed. LycaMobile denied any wrongdoing related to the deposits and noted that it operates a cash-heavy business.
LycaTel’s operations in the United States have come under scrutiny as well. The Federal Communications Commission in 2011 fined the company $5 million for “deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards” to largely immigrant buyers. The company reportedly claimed the low-cost cards could be used to make “hundreds of minutes of calls” overseas, but buyers were only able to use “a fraction of those minutes for calls, because LycaTel applies a variety of fees and surcharges that quickly deplete the card,” said the FCC.
LycaTel did not respond to emailed questions. When reached by phone earlier this month, LycaTel’s general counsel said the company had no comment on the donation and was “waiting to hear back from management as to what they want to disclose and what they don’t.” McAuliffe’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin will face off at the polls on Nov. 2.
Former President Donald Trump continues to be a huge fundraising force despite losing the 2020 election, campaign finance records show.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Trump’s Save America Political Action Committee had more than $90 million in cash as of June 30. By using texts, emails, and other devices like what he did in both the 2016 and 2020 races, Trump has steadily raised more than $1 million per week, according to The Washington Post.
Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for the former president said in a statement to the Post that Trump’s organization exists to “identify and support” candidates who are “committed to saving America by putting America First.”
“The power of President Trump’s effort cannot be disputed,” Budowich said in the statement. “Save America will continue to serve as the primary political vehicle of President Donald J. Trump and deliver an unprecedented level of success across the country on his behalf of the MAGA movement.”
To compare, the Republican National Committee has around $70 million cash on hand as of Sept. 30, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reported having more than $62 million as of the same date, according to FEC reports.
According to the Post story, Trump is prohibited from direct use the money from his several PACs for a possible 2024 run for the Oval Office, but the funds could go to other Republican candidates in the 2022 election cycle that share his agenda.
While not formally announcing a 2024 bid, which would make Trump only the second president in history, next to Herbert Hoover, to run after losing a race for re-election, he has toyed with the idea during his signature rallies since leaving office.
“We’re not supposed to be talking about it yet, from the standpoint of campaign finance laws, which frankly are ridiculous,” Trump said Sept. 11 in a separate Post story, when asked if he would again be a candidate for president. “But I think you are going to be happy. Let me put it that way.”
As Trump’s apparent war chest grows, Democrat President Joe Biden is seeing his approval rating plummet during the first nine months of his administration as he tries to deal with a continued COVID-19 threat, a supply chain crisis and inflation, as well as thousands of illegal migrants crossing the border in record numbers each month.
Brittney Cooper, a professor at Rutgers University, has caused outrage over comments she made at an event about ‘critical race theory’ (CRT) where she suggested white people should be “taken out.”
During an event entitled ‘Unpacking the Attacks on Critical Race Theory’ hosted by The Root, Cooper made several comments that have since spread across social media and caused uproar. The event was held on September 21, but was only recently noticed by her critics.
“The thing I want to say to you is we got to take these motherf**kers out. But, like, we can’t say that, right?” Cooper said, before quickly adding: “I do not believe in a project of violence. I truly don’t.” She claimed critical race theory is the ‘proper’ teaching of American history.
She went on to refer to ‘whiteness’ as “an inconvenient interruption” in black people’s history.
“Whiteness is going to have an end date, because despite what White people think of themselves, they do not defy the laws of eternity.”
Cooper later claimed white people are “committed to being villains in the aggregate” and said they “deserve” a low birth rate.
“White people’s birth rates are going down…because they literally cannot afford to put their children, newer generations, into the middle class… It’s super perverse, and also they kind of deserve it,” she said.
Rutgers professor: "White people are committed to being villains," "We gotta take these MF'ers out."
Cooper, on a sabbatical leave from Rutgers, is no stranger to causing outrage with her political and social statements, making headlines last year for blaming Covid-19 spreading on Donald Trump supporters.
“F**k each and every Trump supporter. You absolutely did this. You are to blame,” she tweeted at the time.
At the time, Cooper shrugged off backlash and said she could not be canceled due to her tenured status at Rutgers.
“I said what I meant. And I curse cuz I’m grown. I have tenure. Rutgers won’t be firing me for tweets,” she said from her Twitter account, which is currently ‘protected’ so only approved followers can reply to her messages.
Even with her tenure, calls for Cooper to be fired have grown since clips of her recent comments went viral.
@RutgersU either you fire Dr. Brittney Cooper immediately, or we shall assume that you share her feelings that "white motherf–ers" including your white students, the white parents who pay tuition, and any white donors and alumni to/of Rutgers, "need to be taken out." ("" hers) https://t.co/Lz1nenvogB
— Conservative Republican Alliance of NY 🇺🇸 (@CRANewYorkState) October 29, 2021
Responding to the latest controversy, Cooper tweeted on Thursday to say she had been receiving death threats, adding “white supremacy is a violent project that attempts to silence those of us who call it out.” She branded negative coverage of her comments as an “onslaught of right-wing disinformation.”
Infections, hospitalizations, and deaths linked to COVID-19 have risen among people who have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine in recent months, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But the bulk of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths remained among unvaccinated Americans, the data show.
Cases per 100,000 among the fully vaccinated increased from 12.3 in late June to 121 in mid-August, according to the data. Around the same time, COVID-19-associated hospitalizations in that population rose from 8.9 per 100,000 to 75 and COVID-19 deaths jumped from 0.1 per 100,000 to 1.1.
A stream of studies in recent months have indicated that COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness is waning, especially against infection from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19. The CDC data, gathered from surveillance systems in states and hospitals, provides another source verifying a drop in protection.
“The marked pronounced change in vaccine effectiveness is likely due to emergence of the Delta variant as the dominant variant, and the waning of vaccine immunity over time,” Paul Alexander, a former Trump administration COVID-19 adviser who has a masters of science in clinical epidemiology and community health, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“The immunity from the vaccine drops markedly over the few months post vaccine. The Delta is more infectious (yet far less lethal) but the real issue is that there is a mismatch as the vaccine does not hit the Delta so there is immune escape. It has effectively failed against the Delta and the accumulated evidence shows this (UK, Israel, etc.). So once infections rise, there is usually a hospitalization curve and then a death curve that follows,” he added.
Scientists often refer to cases, hospitalizations, or deaths that occur in the fully vaccinated as “breakthroughs.” None of the vaccines are 100 percent effective, and all of them have declined in effectiveness over time, according to studies and clinical data. The decline has largely matched the introduction and quick dominance of the CCP virus’ Delta variant.
A breakdown of the CDC’s data by age showed cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the vaccinated increased across all age groups.
Officials in Maryland, which contributed data on cases and deaths, said they’ve seen an increase in deaths attributed to COVID-19 among the vaccinated.
Of the 190 deaths among confirmed COVID-19 cases between Sept. 16 and Oct. 18 in the state, 32 percent were fully vaccinated people, Andy Owen, deputy director for media relations for the Maryland Department of Health, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“Many of these deaths are linked to comorbidities that make patients more vulnerable. This further underscores our mission to maintain immunity by urging all eligible Marylanders to get their booster shots. Keep in mind that as the number of our residents who are vaccinated continues to increase, we expect to see an increase in the proportion of COVID-related deaths occurring in vaccinated individuals,” he said.
Still, just 295 of the nearly 4 million Marylanders who have been fully vaccinated have died of COVID-19, officials in the state said. That’s less than one-hundredth of a percent.
The waning effectiveness of vaccines recently drove drug regulators and the CDC to authorize and recommend booster shots for millions of Americans, including everybody who got the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Boosters are needed to generate long-lived immunity with virtually every non-live vaccine, including polio and hepatitis A shots, said Dr. David Boulware, professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine.
“Thus, needing a booster was an expectation for most immunologists, infectious disease physicians, and/or pediatricians familiar with vaccines. The only question was when?” he told The Epoch Times in an email.
While data show antibodies from the vaccines are decreasing over time, memory B cells are retained, which help the human body respond rapidly to infections. However, the Delta variant brought shorter incubation periods, highlighting a need for a larger population of the B cells.
“This is achieved with a booster, which is why boosters are beneficial at >6 months. With boosters, I (and others) expect vaccine breakthrough infections to greatly decrease, and the emerging data support this,” Boulware said.
The data on breakthrough metrics showed a slight drop in breakthrough cases near the end of August.
The bulk of the infections, hospitalizations, and deaths were found to be among the unvaccinated, or people who had no verification of having received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the CDC. The agency said the data showed an unvaccinated person in August had a 6.1 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and an 11.3 percent great risk of dying from COVID-19.
Metrics among the unvaccinated did rise across age groups but the data illustrated how younger, healthy people are at little risk from the disease. Unvaccinated 18- to 29-year-olds saw deaths lower than most fully vaccinated age groups, and the death rate for unvaccinated 30- to 49-year-olds was well below that of fully vaccinated people 80 or older and close to that of fully vaccinated 65- to 79-year-olds.
Most of the deaths were among unvaccinated people 65 or older.
City employees to get 3-day leave after suffering loss of baby due to abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth
Pro-choice activists are celebrating an amendment to Portland’s bereavement leave policy that has made it the first local government in the United States to give paid time off to public employees after an abortion. One pro-life group is calling it an unwitting acknowledgment of the loss of life.
The new policy allows public employees to take up to three days of bereavement leave for an abortion or a miscarriage, stillbirth or any other type of pregnancy loss, “irrespective of whether deemed medically necessary,” Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
The city council approved the changes unanimously.
Laura Narefsky, an attorney on the education and workplace justice team at the National Women’s Law Center, told CNBC that Portland is among the first local governments around the world to allow paid leave following pregnancy loss.
“It’s incredibly exciting to see cities see this as an important way to support their workers,” she was quoted as saying. “As employers think about loss in whatever form it appears, they’re signaling that it isn’t the kind of thing we should be second-guessing or requiring people to prove the types of loss we think are deserving or undeserving of time off,” she added.
“It’s important to recognize that employees need time to address their reproductive health needs … and they may need time to process what they’re experiencing,” Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, an abortion advocacy group, was quoted as saying.
“A policy like this is a really important step forward in providing that kind of support to employees and in recognition of the fact that we aren’t just robots.”
But it implicitly acknowledges the loss of life, commented Gabriel Vance, director of external affairs for the group Created Equal.
“What they are acknowledging is that abortion is a tragic loss — that somebody dies in an abortion,” she said on social media. “So if you’re getting bereavement leave for an abortion, they are acknowledging that there is a loss of someone — that someone died … And who is that? That’s the baby, who is a human being, who is a person. … They’re trying to normalize abortion, but in that, they’re acknowledging that, like miscarriage, like stillbirth — that it’s tragic.”
Three Boston city councilors have also proposed including a loss of pregnancy in the city’s paid parental leave policy.
In March, Councilors Lydia Edwards, Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George filed an amendment to a city ordinance that allows up to 12 weeks paid leave for parents of newborns, recently adopted children, and those who have experienced a stillbirth, Boston.com reported at the time.
The “loss of pregnancy” would include miscarriages, terminations, instances involving dilation and extraction.
Similarly, the City Council of Waterloo, Iowa, passed a resolution earlier this month calling for the establishment of a paid leave policy for pregnancy and infant loss.
Several unvaccinated government employees, including active-duty military members, who were named in the lawsuit challenging the president’s vaccination mandate as illegal were granted a temporary restraining order on Thursday by a federal judge in Washington.
The plaintiffs are requesting a religious exemption from the Biden vaccination requirement for federal employees, which was originally disclosed officially on September 9.
As reported by Fox News, District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that none of the civilian employee plaintiffs would be subject to discipline while their request for a religious exemption was ongoing.
Additionally, according to Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s judgment, Kotelly’s active-duty military plaintiffs whose religious exemption petitions have been refused will not be penalized or separated while their appeals are pending.
Jenna Ellis, a political journalist, and lawyer shared the decision on Twitter on Thursday: “This is an amazing development from the DC District Court in the stand for OUR RIGHTS against the unconstitutional vaccine mandates,” she said.
BREAKING: @Yoder_Esq with a HUGE WIN in Church v. Biden.
(Yes, that’s the actual case caption. For those playing along, 1:21-cv-2815)
This is an amazing development from the DC District Court in the stand for OUR RIGHTS against the unconstitutional vaccine mandates. pic.twitter.com/kWus7XQ4pp
As reported by Fox News, “the court additionally ordered that the defendants in the Biden administration file a supplemental notice by noon on Friday, indicating whether they will agree that no plaintiff will be penalized or dismissed until the court’s judgment.”
Plaintiffs’ attorney Mike Yoder followed suit with a similar statement to Biden’s. According to his tweet, “I will be immediately filing suit against [Joe Biden] regarding his [overboard] & unconstitutional vaccine mandate.”
In addition, Yoder stated that “Your executive order may not be about freedom, but this lawsuit sure as hell is.”
I will be immediately filing suit against @JoeBiden regarding his overbroad & unconstitutional vaccine mandate.
Your executive order may not be about freedom, but this lawsuit sure as hell is
Yoder went on a rant about the mandate on the internet the day before he was granted a temporary restraining order in his favor.
According to him: “Under Biden, exercising your religious freedoms will get your fired, for cause and you lose your benefits,” he wrote. “But if you perjure yourself like FBI’s Andy McCabe, you’ll get a pension, $200,000 in backpay, & $500,000 worth of attorneys fees.”
“The agreement does not change the findings of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz that McCabe lied under oath to investigators on three occasions; it simply eliminates all consequences for doing so.” wrote The Hill in an op-ed last month.
Under Biden, exercising your religious freedoms will get your fired, for cause and you lose your benefits.
But if you perjure yourself like FBI’s Andy McCabe, you’ll get a pension, $200,000 in backpay, & $500,000 worth of attorneys fees.
As President Joe Biden stated in September, mandated immunization and testing, as well as mask restrictions, affect not just government employees, but also numerous private enterprises.
As The Daily Wire noted at the time, “Companies with at least 100 employees must require their employees get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID-19 tests under a new Biden administration plan to combat the coronavirus and encourage vaccination,” The Daily Wire reported at the time. “President Joe Biden is scheduled to outline a revamped federal strategy to address COVID-19 that includes far more invasive regulations and restrictions than the federal government has put in place to date. Part of Biden’s six-point plan involves cracking down on 100+ employee companies to push their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.”
As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the United States Labor Department aims to release an emergency interim standard in a couple of weeks “implementing the new requirement, which will cover 80 million private-sector workers. … Businesses that don’t comply can face fines of up to $14,000 per violation, [officials] said.”
Particularly noteworthy is that Daily Wire co-founder and co-CEO Jeremy Boreing reacted to the announcement immediately through Twitter, stating that he would not comply with Biden’s demands.
“The Daily Wire has well over 100 employees. We will not enforce Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and tyrannical vaccine mandate,” Boreing wrote. “We will use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to resist this overreach. More to come.”
The Daily Wire has well over 100 employees. We will not enforce Joe Biden's unconstitutional and tyrannical vaccine mandate. We will use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to resist this overreach.
Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin told Breitbart News Saturday that his campaign is going into Election Day with “a ton of momentum” as Virginians are rejecting Democrat Terry McAuliffe — the “Godfather of [the] modern day progressive Democratic Party” — and his divisive campaign, as voters unite around issues on education, lower taxes, better jobs, and the fundamental desire for a government that “doesn’t tell us what to do all the time.”
Speaking to Breitbart News Saturday on the eighth day of his ten-day bus tour, Youngkin said his campaign has “a ton of momentum” and “enormous enthusiasm,” expressing confidence that “we’re going to win this” election.
Republican Glenn Youngkin has pulled ahead of Democrat Terry McAuliffe by 8 points in the Virginia's governor's race. https://t.co/tVwnKmSXBa
Polls show education standing as one of the most important issues to Virginia voters, and Youngkin explained that “everybody has seen Loudoun County, Virginia, as ground zero for the fundamental demand from parents to have a role in their children’s education.”
Virginia law, he said, states that parents have a fundamental right to make decisions on their children’s education, yet school boards are shutting parents out, and Democrats approve. While parents have been standing up for their fundamental right, “Terry McAuliffe says you don’t have a right,” Youngkin said, demonstrating the deep contrast between himself and his Democrat opponent.
“He wants government between parents and their children — politicians and bureaucrats dictating what our kids are doing,” Youngkin said, speaking of the “explosive” issue of Loudoun County’s coverup of an alleged assault and rape, noting officials knew and tried to hide it.
Students at Broad Run High School in Loudoun County, Virginia, walked out of school Tuesday morning in support of sex assault victims in the school district and to demand safety. https://t.co/fTQ2vnAoJ0
Instead of investigating concerned parents with President Biden’s blessing, Youngkin said, the FBI should be investigating that issue. He said there should be resignations and firings and vowed that the state’s new attorney general “will go to work on this issue.”
Youngkin emphasized that education issues are not just big in Virginia, noting that he is getting feedback from parents across the country, who say the same issues are happening in their areas. He said those parents are pleading, “Please Virginia, make a statement for us.”
Terry McAuliffe is a “big government control politician who only knows how to dictate and tell people what to do. And I’m going to work on behalf of parents and children and even teachers. This is our moment to make a fundamental statement and change the direction of education in Virginia,” he said, adding that Virginia’s education system has been “watered down” over the last eight years under Democrat leadership.
“After eight years of Democrat governors … we’ve watched the education system in Virginia be watered down, standards reduced to the point where 62 percent of Virginia’s kids aren’t able to pass an 8th grade math equivalency test. 62 percent! And we watched the parents be pushed out of the classroom. We watch teachers who want to teach their children how to think being told no, teach them what to think. The entire system now is broken,” he said, adding that he will press forward with a new charter school initiative and hand back control to parents and teachers.
Overall, Youngkin said parents are concerned about kitchen table issues such as lower taxes, better jobs, safer communities, the best schools, and smaller government.
“These are the issues that Virginians are so focused on, and these political tricks that are just divisive and beyond pale have no place in Virginia or any politics and Terry McAuliffe is showing his true true colors, and people are rejecting it,” he said, referencing the stunt pulled Friday at the hands of Never Trumpers and Democrat operatives, who stood outside of his bus holding tiki torches — an obvious nod to racism and white supremacy.
“Virginians are absolutely rejecting this partisan, divisive politics that’s been the trademark of Terry McAuliffe’s 43 year political career. I mean, he’s the Godfather of [the] modern day progressive Democratic Party, and he’s seeing it all fail,” Youngkin said. “He’s seeing it crash down on him because Virginians are rejecting it.”
Nearly four dozen GOP congress members sent a letter to the Biden Administration’s various agency heads on Friday, demanding answers to a report that they are considering paying illegal immigrants who crossed the U.S. border illegally in 2018, $450,000 in compensation each.
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) led 43 colleagues to seek answers from U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Department of Justice’s Attorney General Merrick Garland about a recent report from the Wall Street Journal about the compensation plan.
The WSJ report said that the Biden administration is in talks with groups like The American Civil Liberties Union which is representing illegal immigrants who filed one of the lawsuits. The reports said there are currently 940 claims filed by illegal immigrants and the total payout to families could be $1 billion.
Murphy said he could not believe the reports about the Biden administration that they would even consider compensating those that broke U.S. laws to enter the country.
“We are a nation of laws, and our laws must be enforced. Promising tens of thousands of dollars to those who unlawfully entered the United States would not only reward criminal behavior, but it would surely send a message to the world that our borders are open, and or rule of law will not be enforced,” the House GOP letter states.
“If your Administration decides to give out financial compensation to thousands of illegal immigrants in the amount of roughly one-half of a million dollars, you will unilaterally incentivize migrants from more than 150 nations across the world to surge our border,” the letter continues.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of the illegal immigrants says the children who were separated from their parents at the border in 2018 faced some sort of “lasting psychological trauma.”
A group of Venezuelans wait to be picked up by Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas, on June 3, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
“The suffering and trauma inflicted on these little children and parents are horrific,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead lawyer in the family separation lawsuit, Ms. L v. ICE, which was filed in 2019. In a 2021 statement, he says that not only should families be reunited but compensated for their suffering.
“The incoming administration must reunite the separated families in the United States, but we cannot stop there. These families deserve citizenship, resources, care, and a commitment that family separation will never happen again,” said the lead lawyer for the illegal immigrants.
The lawmakers say the compensation for illegal immigrants as compared to the average income in the United States, which is 68,000, is unacceptable.
“Furthermore, compare it to the maximum payout from a SGLI life insurance policy for military members, which is $400,000. The idea that we would give illegal foreigners who broke the law a check that exceeds the amount that our government supplies to our valiant and heroic Gold Star Families is shameful, reprehensible, and morally indignant.”
The Republicans argue that taxpayer money should not be used to reward illegal entry into the United States, no matter what the circumstance.
“As Members of Congress, we are extremely alarmed that this misguided policy shows that the Administration wants to treat illegal immigrants better than law-abiding citizens who create families and contribute to our economy through hard, legal work. We are the country of the strong and the brave, not the country of exploitation and shortcuts,” the members wrote.
The Republicans urge the administration to reconsider any such compensation plans.
The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment on the alleged compensation plan by the time of publication.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that COVID cases plummeted in India thanks to new rules that promote Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to its massive population.
The 33 districts in Uttar Pradesh, India have now become free from COVID-19 government announced last month. The recovery rate has increased up to 98.7% proving the effectiveness of IVERMECTIN as part of the “Uttar Pradesh Covid Control Model.” Of course, the media won’t mention that Ivermectin is being used for the treatment of COVID-19.
This state has an estimated population of 241 million people in 2021 and has the highest population in India. This is almost two-thirds of the United States population in 2021 and yet it is now a COVID-19 free nation.
So what could the United States be doing wrong? Let’s ask Dr. Fauci.
Last August, the government of UP issued a notification to have Ivermectin (12 mg) tablets. The Dialogue reported:
“The government notification reads, “Doctors are advising to take ivermectin 12 mg to contain the impact of pandemic. This medicine is quite effective in protecting from covid-19. Therefore, we appeal each and every citizen to have this tablet.”
The notification then goes on to explain the dosage: For positive patients isolated at home (one tablet per day for three days and for primary and secondary contacts (one tablet each on the first and 7th day).”
Uttar Pradesh is the leading state in India to use Ivermectin as early and preventatively in all family contacts. And this state has one of the five lowest COVID cases of all states in India despite having only a low vaccination rate.
Only about 20% of adults in Uttar Pradesh are fully vaccinated and only about 32 million got their second dose out of 241 million people. Uttar Pradesh has the lowest vaccine coverage as of now in all states in India.
Despite having the lowest vaccination rate, at least 71 out of 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh reported zero fresh Covid-19 cases on October 19th and 42 districts continued to remain Covid-free.
At least 71 out of the total 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh reported zero fresh Covid-19 cases on Tuesday with the remaining four districts accounting for 12 new patients in the last 24 hours. The number of active Covid cases stood at 118 in the last 24 hours.
With no new or active cases, 42 districts continued to remain Covid-free. The daily Covid case count in the state has not crossed 50 for around two months.
“Despite aggressive tracing and testing, UP’s positivity rate, which shows the level of infections in the people, has been registering a steady decline for several days indicating that Covid is receding from the state,” a government official said.
As of October 29, only 8 active cases were recorded. Here is the latest data of COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh.
Both Uttar Pradesh and Delhi have seen an incredible drop in COVID-19 cases because they use Ivermectin early and preventatively. Whereas Kerala, a tiny state located in southern India that is over-dependent on vaccines and less dependent on Ivermectin, has been reporting a significant increase in COVID-19 cases last August. Keep in mind that Uttar Pradesh has eight times larger population than Kerala.
As of October 29, Kerala recorded 7,722 new COVID-19 cases. Here is the latest data of COVID-19 cases in Kerala.
Despite the success of Ivermectin, the government is still pushing the vaccination drive to its constituents and are planning to deliver vaccine doses to 100% eligible population of the state by December 15. They’re doing this to give the credit to the vaccine.
Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to administer 13 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses
Uttar Pradesh crossed a major milestone on Friday when the number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered crossed the 13 crore mark–the only state in the country to achieve this number. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued directions to speed up vaccination and ordered the officers to deliver vaccine doses to 100% eligible population of the state by December 15.
The Gateway Pundit also reported the success of Ivermectin in Indonesia after the government granted the Emergency Use Authorization for Ivermectin as the therapeutic drug to cure the Covid-19.
Leaked internal Facebook documents, which included conversations among employees of the social media giant, show that staffers last year wanted to censor Breitbart News over its accurate reporting of riots following the death of George Floyd.
The documents were obtained by The Wall Street Journal, which has shared some jarring revelations this week about what has gone on in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire.
Facebook is of course used by millions of Americans — almost all of whom are influenced by what the platform allows them to see through its use of algorithms and censorship.
The ability the company has to influence public opinion and sway elections became apparent last year when Big Tech companies ganged up to de-platform former President Donald Trump. That occurred just months after those companies, Facebook among them, prevented voters from hearing about scandals relating to the family of now-President Joe Biden.
But some Facebook employees last June reportedly wanted to control the narrative over riots which sprang up across America after George Floyd died while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. When Breitbart accurately reported on fires set by arsonists, some Facebook staffers allegedly voted to strip the company of its ability to operate as a free and fair news publisher — which it is.
The Journal obtained leaked conversations about blocking the company from reaching its audience while much of the country was burned and looted from Los Angeles to New York.
The desire to block people from getting accurate news was of course rooted in accusations that Breitbart’s reporting was racist.
“Get Breitbart out of News Tab,” one of the Facebook employees reportedly wrote in a message to others.
That person used headlines from Breitbart’s site, including, “Minneapolis Mayhem: Riots in Masks,” “Massive Looting, Buildings in Flames, Bonfires!” and “BLM Protesters Pummel Police Cars on 101.”
There was nothing racist, hyperbolic or inaccurate about those headlines. Example:
I'm manning Breitbart News' livewire coverage on the violent protests in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the wake of George Floyd's death. Tune in below. https://t.co/vgImaB1lg6
But the company’s reporting was problematic for some who worked at Facebook, the Journal reported.
The same person who wanted to yank Breitbart’s ability to be listed as a news publisher allegedly argued those headlines were “emblematic of a concerted effort at Breitbart and similarly hyperpartisan sources (none of which belong in News Tab) to paint Black Americans and Black-led movements in a very negative way.”
According to the report, another employee said that by punishing Breitbart for covering the violent riots, Facebook would be risking repercussions.
“We’re scared of political backlash if we enforce our policies without exemptions,” another person with the company reportedly wrote.
According to the Journal, a senior researcher for the company even noted in one message that if the conservative publisher were to be punished over sharing news which people didn’t trust, other outlets might come under fire.
“I can also tell you that we saw drops in trust in CNN 2 years ago: would we take the same approach for them too?” that person wrote.
None of this reporting is the least bit surprising, especially when considering the censorship of conservatives online throughout the last year. Big Tech has it out for enemies of the Democratic Party and the narratives which are crafted by the establishment media.
Breitbart called looting exactly what it is in the outlet’s coverage of the riots. That countered the establishment media narrative that gatherings where people were harmed or killed — and where property was stolen, damaged or destroyed — were “mostly peaceful.”
Watchdog Hits McAuliffe With Campaign Finance Complaint Over Foreign Money
McAuliffe took $350,000 donation from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe
A government watchdog group hit Terry McAuliffe with a campaign finance complaint on Friday over a $350,000 donation he received from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe, according to a copy of the filing obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The National Legal and Policy Center is asking the FEC to “promptly investigate” whether the contribution to the Virginia gubernatorial candidate violated federal laws prohibiting campaigns from accepting political donations from foreign nationals.
“Terry McAuliffe has a history of accepting foreign contributions. The FEC must fully investigate these serious charges that he accepted $350,000 in illegal foreign contributions for his current campaign,” said Washington, D.C. attorney, Paul Kamenar, counsel to NLPC, who drafted and filed the complaint with the FEC.
LycaTel LLC, owned by Sri Lankan-British national Allirajah Subaskaran, gave McAuliffe $350,000 in July, the Free Beacon first reported in early October. The company is a New Jersey subsidiary of Subaskaran’s U.K.-based telecom conglomerate, which boasts a complicated web of offshore businesses and has been the subject of tax-fraud and money-laundering charges in France.
Federal law prohibits campaigns from accepting money from foreign nationals and entities, directly or indirectly, in local, state, and federal elections. While U.S.-based subsidiaries of foreign corporations can contribute, the donation can’t be made under the direction of the company’s foreign leadership—which legal experts said can be a murky legal distinction.
“This is effectively a really easy way to launder foreign money into the U.S. political process and to avoid the FEC prohibition on foreign nationals making contributions in U.S. elections,” Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy, told the Free Beacon earlier this month.
LycaTel does not appear to have contributed to previous Virginia campaigns or federal races. In July, the company retained D.C.-based lobbyist Robert Thompson to lobby on “Telecom” issues, according to disclosure records. Prior to that, Thompson had registered as a foreign agent representing Subaskaran as part of a “business expansion within the U.S.A.,” according to records filed with the Department of Justice.
Thompson was a lobbyist for the Sri Lankan government from 2013 to 2014, according to disclosure records. Thompson did not respond to a request for comment about his lobbying work.
Subaskaran, through his WWW Holding Company and other entities, owns a globe-spanning web of companies in the technology, media, and gaming sectors, many of them with the word “Lyca” in the names. The Lyca group has clashed with British authorities over allegations of unpaid taxes. French authorities in 2016 raided LycaMobile’s Paris headquarters and arrested “19 people suspected of being involved in a money-laundering system implicating Lycamobile and Lycamobile Services,” according to a statement from French prosecutors.
LycaMobile couriers in 2015 were photographed transporting tote bags of cash—reportedly as much as $1 million per week—to various post offices around the United Kingdom, according to a series of articles by BuzzFeed. LycaMobile denied any wrongdoing related to the deposits and noted that it operates a cash-heavy business.
LycaTel’s operations in the United States have come under scrutiny as well. The Federal Communications Commission in 2011 fined the company $5 million for “deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards” to largely immigrant buyers. The company reportedly claimed the low-cost cards could be used to make “hundreds of minutes of calls” overseas, but buyers were only able to use “a fraction of those minutes for calls, because LycaTel applies a variety of fees and surcharges that quickly deplete the card,” said the FCC.
LycaTel did not respond to emailed questions. When reached by phone earlier this month, LycaTel’s general counsel said the company had no comment on the donation and was “waiting to hear back from management as to what they want to disclose and what they don’t.” McAuliffe’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin will face off at the polls on Nov. 2.