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"And he's a man of his word."

'Unfair': MAGA rioter who fled country cries foul after Canada arrests him​


A man who fled the country after being convicted for his actions during the January 6th Capitol riots is crying foul after authorities in Canada placed him under arrest.

CBC reports that convicted MAGA rioter Anthony Vo was arrested this week in British Columbia four years after he and his fellow Trump supporters illegally stormed the Capitol in a failed attempt to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election.


"On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said Vo was arrested in Whistler on Jan. 6 on a warrant under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)," reports CBC. "The agency assesses whether people coming to Canada are legally admissible and investigates those already here who may not be. It can arrest and detain inadmissible individuals under the act."

Vo had originally fled to Canada after being slapped with a nine-month prison sentence and he had tried to claim asylum in the country.

Oluwadamilola Asuni, an attorney representing Vo, complained to the CBC that his client's arrest was politically motivated.

"He thinks that Canada is just trying to prove a point... to the current U.S. government to say, Oh, we are not condoning your political opponent or stuff like that," Asuni said. "He thinks the whole thing is unfair to him, and he thinks that the entire thing is unreasonable."


Regardless, Vo might fare better in the United States now given that President-elect Donald Trump has pledged mass pardons for convicted Capitol rioters when he returns to office later this month.

In fact, Vo told CBC he was confident that Trump would pardon him.

"He's already made too many promises in the public spotlight that it would look really bad if he didn't," Vo said. "And he's a man of his word."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...ies-foul-after-canada-arrests-him/ar-BB1ramrp

Why is public health info being suppressed?

We do live in nazi germany

https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-communications-cdc-hhs-fda-1eeca64c1ccc324b31b779a86d3999a4

In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink told agency staff leaders Tuesday that an “immediate pause” had been ordered on — among other things — regulations, guidance, announcements, press releases, social media posts and website posts until such communications had been approved by a political appointee.
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Never been a watch guy. I tend to see more Smart Watches than anything. People looking at their wrist for any notification associated with their phone. Maybe has sleep, fitness features that come along?

The Dress Watch is probably more of a dying breed I assume? Those are more of a fashion statement than anything. We went into a Rolex shop in Scottsdale a few years back. One of the watches was like $75k. Dumb.

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Cant satisfy people; WR Phillips is said to also add speed yet people bitch we didnt get a CBack

After 5 years of bitching about not having any really good WRs many posters on here are bemoaning the fact that the hawks got WR Phillips to come to Iowa. He has proven the first aspect that he can catch and as we have seen that is important (Kaleb Brown and some others have not been very good at catching the ball). So many want a CB and that is important.

If Phil can get a ready made shutdown CBack that would be awesome. But we need receivers maybe more since it is our offense that was really bad, now slightly improved, but needs to improve another 30% in the passing game at least. A 30% better pass rush can really help our the corners we already have.

If Phillips has speed and he and Gill can at least be two very good receivers then that is great. If Buie, Howard and some others can add meaninful catches then that is really great.

If Gill and Phillips are the best then maybe they should be on the field for 66-70 percent of snaps.

Panama alerts the United Nations to Trump’s inaugural remarks on the canal.

Panama submitted a formal letter to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres and the U.N. Security Council on Monday, rejecting comments that President Trump made about reclaiming the Panama Canal during his inauguration speech.

“We didn’t give it to China,” Mr. Trump said after being sworn in. “We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.”

The letter, dated Jan. 20 and seen by The New York Times, attached a statement by President José Raúl Mulino of Panama saying that on behalf of his country and people, “I must reject in its entirety the words expressed by President Donald Trump regarding Panama and its Canal in his inaugural address.”
Mr. Mulino said, “the canal is and will continue to be Panama’s.”
The letter cited two articles of the U.N. charter that prohibit member states from using threats and force against “the territorial integrity or political independence,” calling such actions inconsistent with the purpose of the United Nations, and suggesting that Mr. Trump’s statements violated the U.N. charter.
Panama did not ask for the Security Council to convene a meeting about the issue, but diplomats said that if tensions between the United States and Panama persist, then it was possible that the Council could schedule a meeting.
The United States is among the five permanent veto-holding members of the council.
Starting late last year, Mr. Trump has repeatedly taken aim at Panama, falsely claiming that Panama has ceded control of the canal to China and that the United States must reclaim the strategic passageway.
Those claims have been rebuffed several times by President Mulino, who said, after Mr. Trump brought up the canal in a speech in late December, that “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be.”
He added at the time: “Our country’s sovereignty and independence are not negotiable.”
The canal was constructed by the United States in the early 20th century, but after lengthy negotiations in the late 1970s, the United States agreed to hand over full control to Panama in 1999. Since then, Panama has overseen the waterway through its Panama Canal Authority, which completed an expansion of the canal in 2016 to accommodate larger cargo ships.
Mr. Trump has not backed off his claims. This month, in a long speech he gave at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Florida, he refused to rule out using military force to retake the canal. “It might be that you’ll have to do something,” Mr. Trump said.
The statement unnerved Panamanians, many of whom remember not only an era when the United States controlled the canal and the surrounding territory, known as the Canal Zone, but also recall when the U.S. military invaded Panama in 1989 to depose the autocratic regime of Manuel Noriega.
“That was not an invasion to colonize or take territory,” said Raúl Arias de Para, an ecotourism entrepreneur and descendant of one of Panama’s founders. “It liberated us from a formidable dictatorship.”
On Monday, Mr. Mulino swiftly released a statement rebuking the incoming U.S. president for his rhetoric.
“Dialogue is always the way to clarify the points mentioned without undermining our right, total sovereignty and ownership of our Canal,” Mr. Mulino said in his statement, which was posted on X on Monday afternoon.
However, later on Monday, the Panamanian comptroller’s office announced that auditors had visited the county’s maritime authorities to initiate an audit of Panama Ports Company, a Hutchison Ports Holding subsidiary. The company is a major port operator and the country’s main port concessionaire. It is also part of CK Hutchison Holdings, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate.
“The purpose of this exhaustive audit is to ensure the efficient and transparent use of public resources,” the comptroller’s office said.
Mr. Trump’s comments during his inaugural speech seemed to signal an escalation in tensions with Mr. Mulino, who since taking office last year has consistently signaled his willingness to help the United States restrict migration toward the U.S. border.
At the Darién Gap, the number of migrants fell sharply over the last year, after Panama introduced tougher restrictions to complement the Biden administration’s new asylum policies. In August 2023, a record 80,000 migrants passed through the Darién Gap in a single month. In December, Panamanian officials reported that just under 5,000 people went through.

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