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Biden: Day One Legislation To offer Legal Status To 11 Million Immigrants

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LA Times: During his first days in office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to send a groundbreaking legislative package to Congress to address the long-elusive goal of immigration reform, including what’s certain to be a controversial centerpiece: a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the country without legal status, according to immigrant rights activists in communication with the Biden-Harris transition team.

People in masks hold hand-painted signs with messages in support of immigrants.

The bill also would provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protected status and beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who were brought to the U.S. as children, and probably also for certain front-line essential workers, vast numbers of whom are immigrants.

In a significant departure from many previous immigration bills passed under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the proposed legislation would not contain any provisions directly linking an expansion of immigration with stepped-up enforcement and security measures, said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center and its Immigrant Justice Fund, who has been consulted on the proposal by Biden staffers. Read More …

Migrant Caravan in Guatemala Pushes Through Border from Honduras — Heading to U.S.A.

Thousands of Honduran migrants push through the police fence as they attempt to cross the border at El Florido in Guatemala forming the first migrant caravan of the year on it's way to the United States on January 15, 2021. - Some 3,000 people left Honduras on foot January 15 …

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Will COVID Numbers Now Shift for Biden’s Benefit?

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American Thinker, Brian C. Joondeph, M.D: Any bets that once Biden is ensconced in the Oval Office these test criteria are suddenly deemed overly sensitive and revised, miraculously reducing the case counts which are breathlessly reported daily on cable news? All of a sudden, COVID will be going away, only because the Orange Man is out of the White House and Brilliant Biden is now in charge, with no mention of the rule change.

Deborah Birx, AIDS researcher, takes a prominent role in coronavirus messaging for Trump administration - Los Angeles Times

Will COVID death criteria change in a similar manner? I predict they will. Early in the pandemic, Dr. Deborah Birx acknowledged that there was no distinction made between death with COVID versus death from COVID.

So, I think in this country we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality. There are other countries that if you had a preexisting condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem some countries are recording as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now…if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.

How soon until the CDC suddenly realizes the distinction and starts reporting deaths more realistically, as other countries do? Again this will support the narrative that all the 2020 COVID deaths were due to President Trump and it took a change of presidential leadership to miraculously reverse the death toll. Read More

Trump orders US military’s Central Command to include State of Israel

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Jewish News Service: U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees the mission of the U.S. military in the Middle East, to include Israel, reported The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.

Until now, Israel had been part of the U.S. European Command for the sake of America’s Arab allies that have had adversarial relationships with the Jewish state.

The development of the Abraham Accords—in which CENTCOM members the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations with Israel—has allowed for pro-Israel groups to make the case that the time is ripe for Israel to fall under CENTCOM as well. (Sudan and Morocco, the other more recent signees of the Abraham Accords, are not part of CENTCOM, as Sudan does not have military cooperation with the United States and Morocco is part of the U.S. Africa Command.)

One of the pro-Israel groups to advocate for the move was the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), whose president and CEO, Michael Makovsky, said that the realignment “will strengthen strategic planning, defense cooperation and deterrence against Iran by America and its regional allies.” Read More

Goldman Pours Cold Water On Biden’s Fiscal Plan, Sees Just $1.1 Trillion Enacted

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Zero Hedge: Last night, in our post-mortem of Biden’s hyperambitious $1.9 trillion stimulus plan we warned that “the bigger size, and inclusion of Democratic priorities such as a minimum-wage hike, also means that it will be next to impossible for Republicans to vote for Biden’s proposal.” Additionally, we said that “there is a distinct risk that the recent market euphoria will fade soon once traders realize, that Bide’s use of the phrases “paying their fair share” and “closing loopholes” could spark a tax-hike driven selloff since the stimulus boost is already fully priced in.”

We echoed this warning this morning, when we said that equities are hit “as attention turned to how much of the package will ultimately get passed by Congress, with the go-big price tag and the inclusion of proposals set to be opposed by many Republicans.”

And judging by the market’s reaction, traders are finally paying attention, and with good reason: according to Goldman, which just last week said it expects a $750BN stimulus to pass in the aftermath of the Democrats’ blue sweep after their victory in the Georgia runoff, overnight hiked its assumption for how much stimulus will ultimately pass.

And therein lies the problem, because at a revised $1.1 trillion, Goldman estimate of a realistic stimulus, is just 60% of the number proposed by Biden. Read More

BREAKING: In-person March for Life canceled for all but ‘small group of pro-life leaders’

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LifeSite News — Organizers of the annual March for Life in the nation’s capital have announced that the mass gathering against abortion is being effectively canceled this year in place of a virtual event, with only a “small group of pro-life leaders” invited to demonstrate in person.

LifeSiteNews’ Calvin Freiburger predicted Wednesday that the March, which was to take place Friday, January 29, would be the target of renewed pressure to cancel in light of the riot at the US Capitol last week following a rally and march in support of President Donald Trump’s protest of the 2020 election certification, where Democrats and their allies, as well as a handful of “pro-life” voices affiliated with the NeverTrump movement, claim Trump “incited violence” despite his speech calling only for peaceful protest to support Republicans who demanded an audit of the election results.

“The annual rally will take place virtually and we are asking all participants to stay home and to join the March virtually,” she continued. “We will invite a small group of pro-life leaders from across the country to march in Washington, DC this year. These leaders will represent pro-life Americans everywhere who, each in their own unique ways, work to make abortion unthinkable and build a culture where every human life is valued and protected.” Read More

Iran says ballistic missiles destroy target 1,800 km away in anti-warship drill

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Times of Israel: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a drill on Saturday launching anti-warship ballistic missiles at a simulated target in the Indian Ocean, state television reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and a US pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic.

Footage showed two missiles smash into a target that Iranian state television described as “hypothetical hostile enemy ships” at a distance of 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles). The report did not specify the type of missiles used. That range could put the missiles in striking distance of Israeli targets.

IRGC's 'Terrorist' Designation Raises U.S. Stakes Over Iran

Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri was present on the second day of the drill, alongside Guards chief Major General Hossein Salami and aerospace commander Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh. The IRGC is designated as a terrorist group by the US. Read More

Joe Biden’s $15 Minimum Wage Could Kill More than 1.3 Million Jobs

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Breitbart: President-elect Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour could put more than 1.3 million Americans out of work.

On Thursday, Biden unveiled his $1.9 trillion dollar spending plan meant to tackle the economic consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The president-elect’s proposal, which seeks to allocate more money for vaccine distribution and provides a bailout for cities and states hit hardest by the virus, also includes a trove of progressive priorities.

 

Despite Biden’s desire to put an end to the “real pain overwhelming” the economy, his proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 could have the opposite effect.

A study conducted by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in July 2019 found that raising the federal minimum wage from the current rate of $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, even if done incrementally over five years, would likely result in more than 1.3 million jobs lost. Read More

 

Israel is launching Covid Immunity Passports. Here’s what they allow you to do

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CNBC: Less than a month after receiving its first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab, Israel has vaccinated around 20% of its population.

  • Essentially an immunity passport announced by the Ministry of Health earlier this week, the “green booklet” would be given to people who’ve received two doses of the vaccine.

Israel has been lauded for deploying what is currently the fastest Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the world.

A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak, on January 6, 2021.

 

Vaccinated people holding the booklet would be “eligible for relaxed restrictions in destinations around the world,” the ministry’s website said. Read More

Big Tech Coalition Is Developing a Digital COVID Vaccination Passport

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Breitbart: A coalition of tech and health organizations including Oracle, Microsoft, and the Mayo Clinic, is reportedly working to develop a digital COVID-19 vaccination passport that would allow businesses, airlines, and governments to check if individuals have received the vaccine.

The Hill reports that a coalition of health and technology organizations are working to develop a new digital COVID-19 vaccination passport that could be checked by businesses, airlines, and countries to confirm if an individual has received the vaccine. The coalition includes tech giants such as Microsoft and Oracle, along with the Mayo Clinic.

Covid Vaccine Digital Credentials See Interest From Microsoft, Salesforce - The New York Times

On Thursday, the Vaccination Credential Initiative announced that it is developing technology to confirm vaccinations in case governments mandate that people provide proof that they have received a vaccination in order to travel.

The coalition hopes that the tech will allow people to “demonstrate their health status to safely return to travel, work, school and life while protecting their data privacy.” The group is using work from the Commons Project’s international digital document that verifies a person has tested negative for COVID-19. Read More

Shin Bet Receives Extension to Tap Personal Cell Phones

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Jerusalem Online: The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has voted to extend until January 20, 2021 the authorization given to the Israel Security Service (Shin Bet) to use phone tracking to detect coronavirus carriers and those who came in contact with them. The government originally requested that the authorization be extended until January 28.

Shin Bet - Wikipedia

In late July the Knesset plenum passed a law authorizing the Shin Bet to assist in the national efforts to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus .

Under the terms of the law, the government may grant the Shin Bet this authorization for a period that shall not exceed 21 days, until the temporary order expires. The authorization may be extended. Following the government’s approval, the decision is transferred to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for approval. The temporary order was due to expire on January 20, 2021.

However, Article 38 of Basic Law: the Knesset states that “Any enactment due to expire during the last two months of the term of office of the outgoing Knesset or within four months after the Knesset has decided to dissolve itself or during the first three months of the term of office of the incoming Knesset shall continue in force until the expiration of the said three months.” In accordance with the law, the temporary order will remain valid until July 6, 2021. Read More