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This isn’t as much hyperbole as it sounds: the main reason investors bought bonds issued by Chinese state-backed companies is an implicit guarantee from default by the local or provincial government. That belief has been shattered by a recent spate of defaults by major Chinese state-owned companies. Yongcheng Coal and Electricity Holding Group, a state-owned coal company, defaulted on a $152m bond in November. At the time of the default, Yongcheng was a AAA-rated company by Chinese domestic credit rating agencies. This became, pun unintended, the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Shortly thereafter, Tsinghua Unigroup, a state-backed technology company...

NEW DELHI: With an eye firmly on China, India has assured Vietnam of all possible help in modernizing its armed forces, including weapon supplies, training of its fighter pilots and submariners, and enhancing its maritime capabilities. The two countries also decided to come out with a new five-year “joint vision statement” next year to build on the earlier one during talks between defense minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart General Ngo Xuan Lich through video-conferencing on Friday. In the backdrop of defence cooperation being a vital component of the “comprehensive strategic partnership” between the two countries, which are wary of...

Payza.com Processed Over $250 million of Proceeds from Ponzi Schemes and Other Criminal Enterprises WASHINGTON – On November 10, 2020, Firoz Patel and Ferhan Patel, the founders and operators of Payza.com, AlertPay.com, and Egopay.com, and their company MH Pillars were sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for operating an Internet-based unlicensed money service business that processed more than $250 million in transactions. Firoz Patel was sentenced to 36 months of incarceration; Ferhan Patel was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration; and MH Pillars, Inc., doing business as Payza, was sentenced to three years of...

WASHINGTON D.C, November 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Using statistical analysis, a senior lecturer from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has demonstrated that COVID-19 has resulted in no excess deaths, yet the university has censored the article online. Dr. Genevieve Briand, the “Assistant Director for MS in Applied Economics,” gave a video lecture in which she examined the deaths due to COVID-19 and deaths overall in the U.S. Her findings were compiled in an article in the JHU newsletter, penned by Yanni Gu, which has since been removed by the university. In a tweet, JHU stated that the article was deleted, because...

WASHINGTON – Eric Schneider, a 60-year-old Virginia resident and former Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Communications Resource, Inc. (CRI), pled guilty on November 6, 2020 in federal court in the District of Columbia to one count of conspiracy to violate the Procurement Integrity Act and one count of obstruction of justice. According to court papers, Schneider admitted to giving gifts to multiple officials at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to influence the award of contracts worth over $19.2 million to CRI and another company he controlled. Schneider admitted to giving USDA officials Corvette wheels, concert tickets,...

Lin Wood @LLinWood HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT FOR PATRIOTS: 1. Learn how color revolution works. 2. Learn about George Soros “reset” & “new world order.” 3. Learn about Bill Gates “depopulation” goal. 4. Learn about Abraham Lincoln’s exercise of power in 1861 to save our country. EDUCATE CITIZENS.

General Michael Flynn Speaks Out...........

A judge presiding over a major election lawsuit in Georgia on Sunday ordered the state to cease and desist wiping or resetting election machines. “Defendants are ordered to maintain the status quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court,” Judge Timothy Batten wrote in an emergency order issued Nov. 29. Lin Wood, an attorney associated with the Trump campaign, was the first to share the news. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit on Sunday filed an emergency motion which included a message from an election official...

Biden and Cardinal Wilton Gregory share a mandate for healing divisionsWhen Pope Francis needed someone to help heal Catholics in the nation’s capital recovering from the latest round of clergy sex abuse that had engulfed now former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, he tapped Archbishop Wilton Gregory as its new leader in April 2019.This January, when Joe Biden becomes only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, the politician who pledged to heal America amid a global pandemic, economic dislocation and a racial reckoning will have Gregory as his local pastor.Both men have been put in their positions with a mandate for...

WASHINGTON – Cognosante, LLC has agreed to pay the United States $18,987,789 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by using unqualified labor and overcharging the United States for services provided to government agencies under two General Services Administration (GSA)) contracts, the Justice Department announced today. Cognosante, which is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, provides health care and IT services and solutions to federal agencies. GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts allow the federal government to leverage its buying power to achieve favorable pricing. Under MAS contracts, contractors negotiate with GSA to set maximum prices for...

WASHINGTON – Dawn Monique Garris, a 45-year-old District of Columbia resident, pled guilty in federal court in the District of Columbia to contempt in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 402, for disclosing the name of a Superior Court grand jury witness to a D.C. Department of Corrections inmate. Garris pled guilty to Count One of a criminal Indictment charging her with contempt. According to court papers, Garris was the sergeant-at-arms and a grand juror for a D.C. Superior Court grand jury in September 2019. She heard testimony from a grand jury witness as part of a violent crime investigation,...

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said bars should be closed in order to prioritize getting children back in school in New York City and other regions that have experienced rising COVID-19 cases. “Close the bars and keep the schools open,” Fauci told ABC anchor Martha Raddatz on “This Week.” “The default position should be to try as best as possible within reason to keep the children in school or to get them back to school.” The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases added that schools haven’t played a significant role in driving community spread of the...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As families across New York City grapple with ensuring their children are getting an education amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, new data shows that enrollment at public schools is dropping across the five boroughs. According to preliminary data obtained by Chalkbeat, school rosters lost about 31,000 students compared to this time last year — or 3.4%. Current enrollment at New York City public schools is just over 901,000, not including charter schools or early childhood programs. The analysis found bigger drops in enrollment at elementary and middle schools, while high schools remain stagnant. Losses in enrollment...

Dominion Voting Systems confirms it is a Clinton Foundation donor, and that it hired a Pelosi staffer as its lobbyist. Dominion Voting Systems is rebutting assorted claims of partisan bias and voting manipulation in the 2020 election, including rumors of a secret U.S. military raid on purported servers in Germany and ownership interests and other influence in the firm by prominent Democratic families. Election tech company Dominion Voting Systems is rebutting assorted claims of partisan bias and voting manipulation in the 2020 election, including rumors of a secret U.S. military raid on purported servers in Germany and ownership interests and...

WASHINGTON – Michael Johnson, 43-years old, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin. Johnson, of Columbia, Missouri, pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to making a false statement. The Honorable Trevor N. McFadden scheduled sentencing for February 9, 2021. The charge carries a statutory penalty of up to five years in prison and a fine of...

WASHINGTON – Since May 2020, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged more than 156 individuals for protest-related violence, marking the highest number of people charged in any federal district in the United States. These cases include Brennan Sermon, who was charged with assaulting a police officer who was responding to assist officers protecting Senator Rand Paul on August 28, 2020; six people who were charged for their role in inciting violence and destroying federal monuments in Lafayette Square on June 22, 2020; and 20 people who have been charged with assaults on civilians...

BREAKING UPDATE— Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. issued an order on Sunday to freeze ALL Dominion voting machines in the state of Georgia. Via Attorney Linn Wood: “Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”

A suicide bomber blew himself up in an ice-cream parlour in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing seven people, a police official said. Ten others were wounded in the attack on Friday, said senior police officer Mohamed Dahir. The death toll could rise as the critically injured were rushed to nearby hospitals, he added. The Gelato Divino restaurant is located near K4 Junction in the heart of Mogadishu, near the international airport. This latest attack comes days after five people were killed in Mogadishu on November 17, after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police academy....

In yet another move that seems to indicate that COVID-19 is unlike any virus that has ever existed, Dr. Anthony Fauci told McClatchy DC that people previously infected with and recovered from COVID-19 should get the vaccine anyway:“I believe they should” take the vaccine, Fauci said, addressing concerns among individuals who have already recovered from infection. “The final decision is going to be awaiting both FDA input, because we know that there were a certain percentage of the people who were in the original vaccine trial that had evidence they had been previously infected. So we need to see what...

“Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.”