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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186878 (181559ZDEC24) Notable: ABLECHILD: Flawed Report Ignores Key Facts, Leaving America Vulnerable to Future Assassination Attempts

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ABLECHILD: Flawed Report Ignores Key Facts, Leaving America Vulnerable to Future Assassination Attempts==1/2

By Guest Contributor Dec. 18, 2024

The Reality of the Bipartisan Task Force Investigation into Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump.

The Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump Final Report. Sounds impressive. A Task Force. Like Storming a beachhead or cracking down on organized crime. Unfortunately, in the case of this Congressional committee, the American People did not get its money’s worth.

In fact, after months of “investigating” the result of those efforts consists of what the People already knew…==the Secret Service did an extremely lousy job of protecting the then former President.

Do the People know why the alleged shooter attacked the then former President? No.Do the People know what physical evidence was collected to determine who was the alleged shooter? You know like DNA, fingerprints, photographs? Nope.

Did the Congressional Task Force interview the parents of the alleged shooter to determine what the family may have known about the shooting event, or did it bother to have a conversation with the alleged shooter’s employer?

You know an employer who had a recent photo of the alleged shooter and not some insulting High School photo.No. Neither of those interviews happened.

But the Task Force did provide the American People one hell of a photo op when its members took a day trip to Butler Pennsylvaniato get a firsthand look at the rally venue and stand on the roof of the AGR building. How impressive. But was it worth the expense when the Task Force only came away with the Secret Service didn’t do its job?

AbleChild has been following the investigations associated with the attempted assassination in Butler, PA, and held some hope that that Task Force might provide some much-needed answers. Unfortunately, the Task Force Final Report leaves much to be desired so AbleChild must continue to ask the obvious questions.

For example, on Page 24 of the Final Report it is acknowledged that “at approximately 1:30p.m. Crooks’ father gave him the rifle that would later be used in the assassination attempt. The firearm was legally transferred to Crooks by his father the year prior.

Crooks told his father that he was going to the local gun range…” It seems obvious to ask if the father legally transferred the weapon to his son the prior year, why would the father have to give him the weapon?

Seriously, why would the son have to ask for the gun if he owned it for a year and, according to Senator Grassley’s report, the alleged shooter used it all the time at the local gun range?

But it gets weirder, on Page 16 it is explained that “at 10:56p.m. Crooks’ father placed a 911 call regarding his son, stating that he had left earlier that afternoon with his rifle…and uncharacteristically had not returned home. The 911 dispatcher escalated this information, which was then relayed to the AFT.”

According to several news accounts, including Fox, BBC, CNN and CBS, the alleged shooter’s father made a call to law enforcement about his son being missing with a weapon.What’s really bizarre is that all news accounts report that the call was made prior to the shooting incident.

Then the Task Force explains that “Crooks’ father exited the residence, stepped onto the front porch, and asked something to the effect of “Is it true? CNN called me and told me that (redacted) shot Trump.”What? This is just stupid...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/ablechild-flawed-report-ignores-key-facts-leaving-america/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186886 (181600ZDEC24) Notable: Mike Johnson's new spending bill allows vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, expanded emergency powers, and gain-of-function research.

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The General @GeneralMCNews

BREAKING: Mike Johnson's new spending bill allows vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, expanded emergency powers, and gain-of-function research.

https://twitter.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1869381216950259777

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186893 (181602ZDEC24) Notable: ABLECHILD: Flawed Report Ignores Key Facts, Leaving America Vulnerable to Future Assassination Attempts

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Now the Task Force is asking the American People to believe the father waited until 10:56 p.m. to call 911 about his missing sonand gun and only after CNN called Dad to advise that his son tried to kill the former President? C’mon. That is just unbelievable.

Clearly these Members of the Task Force are not investigators, or they surely would have asked to see the father’s cell phone records to establish a factual time that the 911 call was made.

More importantly, maybe the Task Force could have asked the father if he phoned his son at any time during the day about his whereabouts. Maybe the son and father had a conversation that day. We won’t know unless some smart person asks for the phone records of Dad and the alleged shooter.

Moving along to the autopsy one cannot help but wonder why the Task Force did not release the autopsy to the public. The public is waiting with bated breath to find out how the alleged shooter was identified.

But, yeah, no, the Task Force did not provide that data. So, was it fingerprints, DNA, photographs? What’s the big secret?Just let the public see the autopsy so it can put that question to bed. And the Task Force does not provide any data that show fingerprint or DNA results for the alleged weapon used in the shooting. Why?

It also is disingenuous how the Task Force explained the removal of the alleged shooter’s body from the roof of the AGR building. “The coroner subsequently removed Crooks’ body from the scene during the early hours of July 14.”

Truth be told, the body of the alleged shooter lay on the AGR building roof all night until 6:30 a.m. the following morning, leaving most to wonder why the Butler County Coroner was turned away at midnight when he first went to the crime scene as was reported by the Butler Eagle Newspaper.The Task Force didn’t bother to ask those questions.

And the autopsy explains that the toxicology findings “show negative results for alcohol and drugs of abuse, including controlled substances.” Yes. Tests were done of “controlled substances,” but how about a host of psychotropic drugs? Nope.

The autopsy explains that “Crooks’ father denies that Crooks ever used illegal drugs and said Crooks was not known to be prescribed to any medication.” This is the same father who also did not know his son was building bombs in the basement.

It also is the same father and mother who allegedly are mental health experts and had no problem handing over a high-power rifle to a child who clearly was having some mental health issues.

Why didn’t the Task Force subpoena the parents to get some much-needed answers? Why does it seem that these parents are being protected?Why does the public know more about the alleged CEO shooter, Luigi Mangione, than alleged shooter Crooks and his parents? Not acceptable.

At the very least the Task Force owed to the American People proof, physical evidence, that Crooks was the shooter.And, to suggest that this report is a comprehensive review of what occurred at Butler Pennsylvania on July 13th is insulting.

Let’s be honest, the American people already knew that the Secret Service was incompetent by virtue of the former President being shot, one dead and two others seriously wounded.Beyond that, this Final Report by the Congressional Task Force is useless and appropriating more money to the Secret Service won’t get the answers the public needs about what occurred at Butler.

(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/ablechild-flawed-report-ignores-key-facts-leaving-america/

We knew this would happen when they refused to put the 3 extremely well trained military snipers serving in Congress that volunteered, to be on the panel, they chose mostly lawyers, and didn't ask the three Congressman to assist with this Investigation.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186906 (181603ZDEC24) Notable: Top Russian General Who Accused Democrats of Funneling Profits from Secret Ukrainian Biolabs to Fund Elections – Is Blown Up in Moscow

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Top Russian General Who Accused Democrats of Funneling Profits from Secret Ukrainian Biolabs to Fund Elections – Is Blown Up in Moscow

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/top-russian-general-who-accused-democrats-funneling-profits/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186930 (181607ZDEC24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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Catching The View From The Edge Of Space

December 18, 2024

Does “Pix or it didn’t happen” apply to traveling to the edge of space on a balloon-lofted solar observatory? Yes, it absolutely does.

The breathtaking views on this page come courtesy of IRIS-2, a compact imaging package that creators [Ramón García], [Miguel Angel Gomez], [David Mayo], and [Aitor Conde] recently decided to release as open source hardware.

It rode to the edge of space aboard Sunrise III, a balloon-borne solar observatory designed to study solar magnetic fields and atmospheric plasma flows.

To do that the observatory needed a continual view of the Sun over an extended period, so the platform was launched from northern Sweden during the summer of 2024.

It rose to 37 km (23 miles) and stayed aloft in the stratosphere tracking the never-setting Sun for six and a half days before landing safely in Canada.

Strictly speaking, IRIS-2 wasn’t part of the primary mission, at least in terms of gathering solar data.

Rather, the 5 kg (11 pound) package was designed to provide engineering data about the platform, along with hella cool video of the flight.

To that end, it was fitted with four GoPro cameras controlled by an MPS340 microcontroller.

The cameras point in different directions to capture all the important action on the platform, like the main telescope slewing to track the sun, as well as details of the balloon system itself.

The controller was programmed to record 4K video at 30 frames per second during launch and landing, plus fifteen minutes of 120 FPS video during the balloon release.

The rest of the time, the cameras took a single frame every two minutes, which resulted in some wonderful time-lapse sequences.

The whole thing was powered by 56 AA batteries, and judging by the video below it performed flawlessly during the flight, despite the penetrating stratospheric cold and blistering UV exposure.

Hats off to the IRIS-2 team for this accomplishment. Sure, the videos are a delight, but this is more than just eye candy.

Seeing how the observatory and balloon platform performed during flight provides valuable engineering data that will no doubt improve future flights.

https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/catching-the-view-from-the-edge-of-space/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWAjiNBPxo

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186936 (181608ZDEC24) Notable: #AnonNews (FU ELON)

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22186993 (181619ZDEC24) Notable: Standard Uranium Announces Engagement of Fleet Space Technologies for ExoSphere Multiphysics at Flagship Davidson River Project

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https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/234239/Standard-Uranium-Announces-Engagement-of-Fleet-Space-Technologies-for-ExoSphere-Multiphysics-at-Flagship-Davidson-River-Project

https://standarduranium.ca/news-releases/

Standard Uranium Announces Engagement of Fleet Space Technologies for ExoSphere Multiphysics at Flagship Davidson River Project

December 18, 2024 7:00 AM EST

Standard Uranium Ltd. (TSXV: STND) (OTCQB: STTDF) (FSE: 9SU) ("Standard Uranium" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the engagement of Fleet Space Technologies to implement their ExoSphere Ambient Noise Tomography ("ANT") and ground gravity surveys on the Company's flagship Davidson River project.

Standard Uranium is pleased to be the first uranium company to deploy the industry leading innovative technology in the southwest Athabasca basin.

Highlights

First ANT Survey in the SW Basin: The Company and Fleet Space are partnering to complete what will be the first combination ANT-Gravity surveys in the southwestern Athabasca Basin region on the Davidson River project.

Targeted Multiphysics: Multidisciplinary approach to targeting through Fleet space's end-to-end mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, collecting ground gravity data in tandem with real-time ANT data, upgrading historical work and layering additional geophysics over known uranium-bearing corridors on the Davidson River project.

Uranium Deposit Vectors: ANT-Gravity grids covering uranium-bearing structural corridors on the Project are designed to characterize lithological variations and alteration signatures, in addition to further refining the structural architecture of known basement conductors on Davidson River.

The results of the surveys will assist in prioritization of target areas on the Project for upcoming drill programs.

"We are very excited to be working with the Fleet Space team on what will be the first deployment of ExoSphere Multiphysics surveys in the southwest Athabasca Basin," said Sean Hillacre, President & VP Exploration of Standard Uranium.

"I look forward to de-risking our exploration strategies and upgrading our drill targets at Davidson River through these cutting edge technologies, which will provide additional discovery vectors on our flagship project."

First ExoSphere Multiphysics in the SW Athabasca Basin Region

Fleet Space Technologies is transforming critical mineral discovery with its end-to-end mineral exploration solution, ExoSphere, which combines satellite connectivity, 3D multiphysics, and artificial intelligence ("AI") to image mineral systems up to depths of 5 km in real-time.

Over 40 leading exploration companies like Rio Tinto, Barrick, and Gold Fields, among many others, use ExoSphere's real-time 3D subsurface imaging on projects across five continents.

ExoSphere is a vertically integrated solution, combining Fleet Space's LEO satellite network, satellite-enabled smart seismic sensors, and predictive AI models to streamline data acquisition, processing, integration, and delivery of targeting insights in a single workflow.

Deployed in an array across an area of interest, Fleet Space's lightweight, hand-deployable seismic sensors ("Geodes") transmit high-quality 3D Ambient Noise Tomography ("ANT") data, measured from naturally occurring environmental seismic vibrations in the ground, to Fleet Space's satellites for processing into actionable insights for exploration teams in the field.

This simplifies data operations, enhances the quality and speed of data-driven targeting selection, and helps to minimise environmental footprint across the lifecycle of a project.

Leveraging the collected ANT data, ExoSphere will automatically conduct a cover correction of the gravity data collected simultaneously to remove false positive anomalies due to the geometry of the overburden and basement contact.

The combination of data will create a 3D density model providing a multidimensional view of subsurface structures and differentiation of rock types and potential alteration signatures to aid in drill target selection and prioritization.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187003 (181622ZDEC24) Notable: Warren Sends Letter to Trump Claiming Conflict of Interest with Elon Musk Leading DOGE – Trump Press Secretary Fires Back Saying The Fake Indian’s “Societal Impact is 1/1024th of Elon Musk’s”

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Democrat Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren Sends Letter to Trump Claiming Conflict of Interest with Elon Musk Leading DOGE – Trump Press Secretary Fires Back Saying The Fake Indian’s “Societal Impact is 1/1024th of Elon Musk’s”

Failed Presidential candidate and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the Trump Transition Team Monday, nitpicking Elon Musk’s involvement with the incoming Trump administration and demanding answers as to what ethics standards Elon Musk will be held to as Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-chair.

"He should be held to the ethics standards that you have established for your transition team and should provide clarity about his role and his activities in order to reassure the American public that he is working solely on their behalf and not using his role in the transition as an opportunity to fatten his own wallet," she says.

Trump Transition Team Spokeswoman and incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Gateway Pundit, "President Trump has assembled the most impressive and qualified team of innovators, entrepreneurs, and geniuses to advise and staff our government."

Leavitt further slammed Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren, cunningly noting the 1/1024 Indian heritage Warren has so proudly touted.

"Pocahontas can play political games and send toothless letters, but the Trump-Vance transition will continue to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards possible—a standard unfamiliar to a career politician whose societal impact is 1/1024th of Elon Musk’s," Leavitt said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/democrat-sen-elizabeth-pocahontas-warren-sends-letter-trump/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187004 (181622ZDEC24) Notable: Earnst diggz

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>>274752

> RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation

>>274752

>RTX's supply of weapons to Israel led to protests against the company during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war

Joni Ernst, Iowa GOP Senate Candidate, Failed To Disclose Rental Property

Iowa GOP Senate Candidate Failed To Disclose Rental Property

Christina Wilkie

By

Christina Wilkie

Oct 21, 2014, 08:07 PM EDT

|Updated Dec 6, 2017

WASHINGTON - Joni Ernst, the Iowa Republican candidate for U.S. Senate,failed to disclose her ownership of an income-generating rental property on financial disclosure reports filed with the Senate.

Ernst campaign spokeswoman Gretchen Hamel told The Huffington Post Tuesday that the campaign would "immediately" amend the disclosure reports.

The reports fail to list Ernst's industrial property in Red Oak, Iowa, which had an assessed value last year of $54,830. The property generated at least $1,200 in income for Ernst in 2013, according to Ernst's campaign.

Ernst is locked in a tight Senate race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley to replace retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D). The outcome may determine which party controls the Senate.

"The campaign inadvertently left off $100 of monthly rental income from a property used for storage and parking," Hamel said in a statement to HuffPost. "She reported this income and paid taxes on it. We are filing an amended report to correct it immediately."

U.S. Senate ethics rules require candidates, and senators, to disclose assets that generate income. Since announcing her candidacy for the Senate in July 2013, Ernst has filed two formal disclosure reports, neither mentioning the property or the income from it.

Located at 111 West Grimes St., in Ernst's hometown, the two-parcel corner lot contains an industrial-sized garage and a second, smaller garage. According to Montgomery County real estate deeds, Ernst and her husband, Gail Ernst, purchased the property one parcel at a time, the first in 2008 and the second in 2009, from Creston, Iowa, resident Eloise Larson. County records show that Ernst paid property taxes on the property on Sept. 2.

As a candidate, Ernst has trumpeted her role in helping to cut property taxes for Iowa landowners during her two terms in the state Senate.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187022 (181627ZDEC24) Notable: Russia announces it has developed a cancer vaccine, free for all citizens.

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Globe Eye News

@GlobeEyeNews 22h

BREAKING:

Russia announces it has developed a cancer vaccine, free for all citizens.

Dec 17, 2024 · 6:11 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1869083024903807118

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187037 (181630ZDEC24) Notable: House panel votes to release Gaetz ethics report

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In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report

By Alayna Treene, Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN

December 18, 2024

(McCarthy got his way, the House betraying their rules,Congress once again proves they a corrupt body with absolutely no ethics)

The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.

The report is now expected to be made public after the House’s final day of votes this year as lawmakers leave Washington for the holidays, those sources said.

The vote, which has not previously been reported, amounts to a stark reversal for the panel after it had voted along party lines in late November not to release the results of the investigation. The decision to release the report suggests that some Republicans ultimately decided to side with Democrats on the matter, and it is unclear if the committee will once again change course now that it has voted.

When the committee voted last month to shelve the report, Gaetz was President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be attorney general. Since then, Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration for the Senate-confirmed post, though he maintains frosty relations with many in his party and is still active in GOP politics.

It is exceedingly rare for an ethics report to be released after a member has left Congress, though it has happened on a couple of occasions in the past. The committee revisited the issue behind closed doors earlier this month after a feud over the report spilled into public view before Thanksgiving.

The Ethics Committee’s report concludes a years-long probe into numerous allegations against Gaetz, including whether he engaged in sexual misconduct, used illicit drugs, “shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gifts,” according to an announcement by the panel last summer.

Gaetz has vigorously denied all the allegations and has characterized the investigation as a witch hunt.

In a post on X in response to CNN’s reporting on Wednesday, Gaetz emphasized that he was “FULLY EXONERATED” by a separate Department of Justice probe. And he said he “NEVER had sexual contact with someone under 18” — a claim that is addressed in the House Ethics report, CNN has previously reported.

“My 30’s were an era of working very hard - and playing hard too. It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have earlier in life. I live a different life now.”

Lawyer describes client's testimony in House Ethics Committee investigation of Gaetz

Speaker Mike Johnson has said that he does not believe the report should be released, since Gaetz is no longer a member of Congress after he abruptly resigned once Trump announced him as his initial attorney general choice. Johnson has acknowledged he has no role on the operations of the panel, which has traditionally operated separately from leadership. Many lawmakers believed that Gaetz resigned to try to bury the investigation.

Gaetz, who was reelected to the seat last month prior to his resignation, has said he has no plans of returning to Congress next year.

“I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch. I do not intend to join the 119th Congress,” he told Charlie Kirk in an interview last month.

“I’m going to be fighting for President Trump. I’m going to be doing whatever he asks of me, as I always have. But I think that eight years is probably enough time in the United States Congress,” he said.

He also recently announced that he will be joining One America News Network in January.

(Since they are releasing Gaetz report. Release the 1,000s of report from Congress people of who and how much did the hand out for sexual perversions, drug and alcohol addictions, crimes against the US. This will backfire on the "Holier than Thou" ethics committee==)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187043 (181631ZDEC24) Notable: Russia announces it has developed a cancer vaccine, free for all citizens.

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>>274769

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-launch-free-cancer-vaccine-2025-2001432

https://twitter.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1869144206796894289

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187058 (181635ZDEC24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/A_fall_of_CubeSats

A fall of CubeSats

18/12/2024

Four pioneering ESA Technology CubeSats reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the last few months.

Each was only about the size of a shoebox or smaller, but despite their diminutive dimensions the missions left an outsize legacy in terms of demonstrating innovative space technology, industrial capacity building and scientific data return.

“The ESA in-orbit demonstration phases of these missions had already been completed,” explains Roger Walker, heading ESA’s Technology CubeSats.

“The companies overseeing them continued to operate them after the conclusion of our involvement however, gathering additional flight experience to the end, right up until their reentry.”

CubeSats are small low-cost satellites built up from standardised 10 cm boxes. Originally developed for educational uses these highly capable platforms are increasingly finding operational uses.

ESA’s Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality employs them to provide the European space sector with early flight demonstrations of promising innovations, typically targeting scientific or Earth-observing goals at the same time.

The CubeSats had been intentionally deployed in low enough altitudes for their orbits to naturally decay over time, fulfilling ESA space debris regulations.

SIMBA tracked the Sun

Developed for ESA by a Belgian-led consortium, the SIMBA (Sun-earth IMBAlance) CubeSat, which was launched in September 2020 and reentered on 14 August, harnessed a highly accurate Attitude Determination and Control System based on an experimental star tracker camera and reaction wheels.

This enabled SIMBA’s main radiometer instrument to perform measurements of total solar irradiance – how much solar energy Earth is receiving from the Sun – and how much is being radiated back, to determine Earth’s radiation budget – a vital variable for climate studies.

"Fitting a radiometer aboard such a tiny satellite proved quite challenging," recalls Stijn Nevens of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Principal Investigator for the mission.

"We had to omit some of the features of conventional radiometers, requiring extra work at the data processing stage, but we learned a lot. For me this has been a long and winding road – it feels weird not having SIMBA in the sky anymore!"

Tjorven Delabie of the Belgium-based ArcSec Space start-up, spun out of KU Leuven, adds: “Our spin-off company most probably wouldn’t be here if not for the SIMBA mission.

It took a startracker algorithm that was previously very much an academic endeavour and demonstrated our approach worked for real in space, giving a lot of traction in the market.

"So far we’ve sold more than a hundred startrackers around the world, and we’re following up with reaction wheels and ultimately a full ADCS for CubeSats.

With SIMBA such an important part of our history, getting the email that it had reenteed was a little bit of a sad moment, almost like someone had died, but we are involved in ESA’s follow-on CubeSpec mission.”

RadCube monitored space weather impacts to Earth's magnetosphere

Six days later SIMBA was followed into atmospheric reentry by the RadCube mission from Hungary, Poland and the UK, tasked with surveying space weather.

Equipped with miniaturised magnetometers to chart disturbances to Earth’s magnetic field as well as a space radiation ‘telescope’ detector, the August 2021-launched CubeSat was in the right place at the right time as the Sun entered its 11-year peak of activity, giving rise to sensing numerous solar storms and active terrestrial auroras.

And RadCube’s MAGIC magnetometers, based on over the counter ‘magnetoresistive’ sensors typically used in computer hard drives or smartphones, will be reflown on a follow-up ESA CubeSat called HENON, which will venture beyond Earth into deep space in order to survey space weather.

The same MAGIC sensors are also destined to form part of a ‘space weather station’ for the lunar Gateway in orbit around the Moon, the European Radiation Sensors Array.

“RadCube has been a tremendously valuable opportunity, allowing us to demonstrate the capabilities of MAGIC,” explains Jonathan Eastwood of Imperial College London.

“To start with we successfully validated the instrument performance and demonstrated that these sensors, an order of magnitude smaller and more power efficient than those used for typical science missions, could still meet the requirements needed for space weather monitoring of magnetic field disturbances in low-Earth orbit.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187075 (181639ZDEC24) Notable: Earnst diggz

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>>274767

>Joni Ernst, Iowa GOP Senate Candidate, Failed To Disclose Rental Property

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>Squeal - March 24, 2014

==The Honor of Senator Joni Ernst

Senator Ernst calls herself a combat veteran at every turn== on her Senate web page, in campaign debates, and in her stump speeches. She can say this because she served in a combat zone. But the unit was never in a firefight, or for that matter attacked at all.

By

Andrew Reinbach, Contributor

Journalist

Feb 6, 2015, 08:15 AM EST

|Updated Apr 8, 2015

When most people hear "combat veteran," they think firefights with the enemy. But the military defines combat veteran differently - as soldiers who served in a combat area.

Which brings us to Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), one of the GOP's most recent stars. It was Sen. Ernst who was selected to give the Republican response to President Obama's recent State of the Union message this year.

Senator Ernstcalls herself a combat veteran at every turn- on her Senate web page, in campaign debates, and in her stump speeches. She can say this because she served in a combat zone.

And it's technically true. She was company commander of the Iowa National Guard's 1168th Transportation Company during its tour of active duty in Kuwait and southern Iraq, from February 2003 to April 2004. Butthe unit was never in a firefight, or for that matter attacked at all; it delivered supplies,and later, guarded the front gate and ran perimeter patrol at their home base outside Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan.

Real combat veterans I spoke to don't think much of how the Senator talks up her combat duty. Larry Hanft, for instance, who earned the Combat Infantryman's Badge fighting in Vietnam, says, "By her definition, everybody who stepped off the plan in Kuwait is a combat veteran. Joni Ernst is using her military experience to gain a political edge and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. She's a fraud…"Mr. Hanft is one of Sen. Ernst's constituents.

This isn't to say Sen. Ernst's soldiers spent the Iraq War lounging by a pool. According to the official history of the unit's deployment written by the Senator the 183 soldiers of the 1168th worked hard. Between May and August 2003, they drove 230,278 miles on 402 missions around Kuwait and southern Iraq, hauling everything from Patriot missiles and body armor to mattresses. Then the unit was re-assigned to Force Protection security at their home base, manning the front gate and patrolling the camp's perimeter.

Convoy duty in Iraq was dangerous work. Armies can't fight without supplies, convoys deliver them, and convoys were prime targets of both Iraqi infantry and, later, roadside bombs. In fact on its way back from its first mission, the 1168th was forced to a crawl in one town: Iraqi men threw themselves in front of the trucks, and stayed there until they were almost run over (the trucks only slowed). Sen. Ernst's soldiers would have been sitting ducks if they'd taken fire.

But they didn't, and that's the point. In the 1168th's 14 months in theater, the unit was never under fire, or hit by a roadside bomb. The deployment's only injury occurred on its last day in Kuwait, when a sergeant dislocated his shoulder.

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>>274775

>>274776

muh WMDs

Iraqi WMD Turn Up in Iowa Senate Race

GOP candidate Joni Ernst thinks she has secret intelligence. It seems pretty unlikely.

By Susan Milligan

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May 13, 2014, at 11:51 a.m.

Foolish or delusional?

Truth, it is said, is the first casualty of war. And facts, in turn, are often the first casualty of campaigns.

Joni Ernst, an Iowa state senator running for the GOP nomination for U.S. senator, delivered a remarkable line in an interview with the Des Moines Register. Said Ernst: “I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

It’s a rewriting of history that demands a new definition of the word “audacious.” Here is one of the most famous misstatements – decide on your own if you believe it was misinformation or an out-and-out lie – made in recent presidential history. In the eerie glow of fear in the years after 9/11, the George W. Bush administration was able to convince Congress and the American people, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them against the United States. No proof was produced – nothing solid, anyway. It was the sort of innocuous “evidence,” shown privately to members of Congress, that was very much in the eye of the beholder. If you really wanted to believe the photos showed WMD, well, then, they did.

[SEE: Cartoons about the Republican Party]

Many millions, billions of dollars later, many deaths – American and Iraqi – later, there were still no weapons of mass destruction. Nothing was found, and it wasn’t because no one was looking. The Bush administration, prosecuting a war that was beginning to be pretty unpopular, was desperate to prove it had done the right thing by invading a sovereign, if deeply troubled and repressive, nation. Nada.

Ernst, however, talked to the editorial board as if she was one of the few who new the real story. Ernst is a lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to her bio, her unit ran convoys from Kuwait into southern Iraq. That's an important mission, during any kind of war, but it’s not like she was on the search-and-recover team for WMD. She won’t say how she knows, or exactly what she knows – just that the intelligence under which they were operating was based on the idea Saddam Hussein had WMD. Well, of course it was. That was the entire basis for the debacle of a war. What else would officers in country be told?

[MORE: Cartoons on Defense Spending]

Is there a chance they are there somewhere, hidden away? Not really. Someone would have found them by now. And while Ernst refers cryptically to things her husband, also a military officer, might know, I have a vivid, and somewhat unsettling, memory of an interview I did with a military man when I was in Iraq during the war. He had been a general in the Iraqi military before Saddam Hussein fell, and he was an affable sort, very even-toned and measured in the way he spoke. I asked about the WMD, and he looked up coolly. “If we had weapons of mass destruction,” he said, “we would have used them against you.”

Republicans have an excellent chance (though not a guaranteed one) of taking back control of the Senate this fall. The problem they have had in the past is that their candidates seem stuck in some earlier era, mouthing old talking points and directing their speeches at a demographic that just isn’t who and what America is anymore. Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock got the party into trouble by making insulting comments about rape, and others in the party made it worse by giving tepid criticisms of those remarks. Mitt Romney seems to think we’re still in the 1950s, with women who are busily making dinner for their families at 5 pm while their husbands go to work and ponder the dynamics of the Cold War. To defend a misstatement that America was just beginning to get over, with the troop withdrawal from Iraq, is foolish at best and delusional at worst. Iowa is a very gettable seat for the Republicans. Running backwards, however, won’t get anyone to the finish line.

Corrected on May 13, 2014: An earlier version of this post incorrectly spelled Joni Ernst's name.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187097 (181646ZDEC24) Notable: The short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown includes a one-year extension on the State Department's Global Engagement Center, Johnson useful idiot??? $69,300 PAY INCREASE

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The 1,500 page spending bill extends the Global Engagement Center. Their stated mission:

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1869394689620668581

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187099 (181647ZDEC24) Notable: House panel votes to release Gaetz ethics report

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Matt Gaetz

@mattgaetz

The Biden/Garland DOJ spent years reviewing allegations that I committed various crimes.

I was charged with nothing: FULLY EXONERATED. Not even a campaign finance violation. And the people investigating me hated me.

Then, the very “witnesses” DOJ deemed not-credible were assembled by House Ethics to repeat their claims absent any cross-examination or challenge from me or my attorneys.I’ve had no chance to ever confront any accusers. I’ve never been charged. I’ve never been sued.

Instead, House Ethics will reportedly post a report online that I have no opportunity to debate or rebut as a former member of the body.

In my single days, I often sent funds to women I dated - even some I never dated but who asked. I dated several of these women for years. I NEVER had sexual contact with someone under 18. Any claim that I have would be destroyed in court - which is why no such claim was ever made in court.

My 30’s were an era of working very hard - and playing hard too.

It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have earlier in life. I live a different life now.

But at least I didn’t vote for CR’s that fuck over the country!

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https://x.com/mattgaetz/status/1869406920768917618

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Researchers eye space nuclear thermal propulsion for space maneuver warfare and to cut transit time to Mars

Dec. 18, 2024

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are surveying industry for companies able to design space-qualified nuclear thermal rocket propulsion engines for future military and commercial space applications.

Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., issued a request for information (DARPA-SN-25-21) on Friday for the Nuclear Thermal Rocket Propulsion project.

Nuclear thermal propulsion

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) is a fission-powered system that uses a reactor to heat a liquid propellant into a gas, which shoots through a nozzle to propel a spacecraft.

This approach reportedly is twice as efficient than chemical rockets, which can free space and weight for more payload and supplies.

Nuclear thermal propulsion, moreover, is expected to reduce the time it takes to reach Mars by as much as 25 percent, which could speed space exploration and limit crew exposure to cosmic radiation.

The project seeks information and industry expertise in space-qualified nuclear thermal rocket propulsion engine design; development, modeling, and simulation; engine integration; autonomous engine and reactor control; engine instrumentation; and engine system integration.

The dramatic improvement in propulsion efficiency offered by nuclear thermal propulsion potentially enables development of a true space logistics network, researchers say.

Space maneuver warfare

For the military, nuclear thermal propulsion holds the potential to enable combat forces no longer to be static and predictable, and achieve space maneuver particularly in the face of an adversary to maintain initiative, achieve surprise, and outmaneuver an adversary in space.

For commercial space, nuclear thermal propulsion may help transport astronauts safely to and from Mars, substantially reduce trip time, and reduce the risks of space radiation and other aspects of long-duration space missions.

For deep-space missions, nuclear thermal propulsion could cut years off transit times for planetary exploration, and widen launch windows based on orbital alignment.

Nuclear thermal propulsion conceptually is similar to chemical propulsion; it replaces the combustion chamber with a nuclear reactor to heat propellant and accelerate it out a nozzle to generate thrust.

NASA collaboration

Separately, DARPA researchers are working together with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington to develop nuclear thermal propulsion as part of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program, in which Lockheed Martin Corp. will demonstrate this technology as early as 2027.

The DRACO demonstration will use pressure-fed gaseous helium as a propellant to reduce system complexity; however, the DRACO reactor is designed for operation with liquid hydrogen propellant to allow extensibility to future operational systems.

Industry responses to this request for information by help inform and explore future programs that involve nuclear thermal propulsion.

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/power/article/55250237/space-nuclear-propulsion-for-space-maneuver-warfare-and-exploration

https://crystalbook.ru/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/DARPA-SN-25-21.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187118 (181652ZDEC24) Notable: The Supreme Court will hear TikTok's challenge to a law that could ban the app by next month, but declines to block the ban while the case is being considered.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear TikTok's challenge to a law that could ban the app by next month, but declines to block the ban while the case is being considered.

https://x.com/BreakingNews/status/1869417838420635749

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>>274768

>ERNST: I'm Joni Ernst. I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I get to Washington I'll know how to cut pork.

muh castrated pigs

Family Of New GOP Senate Pork Buster Joni Ernst Pocketed Almost Half A Million In Government Assistance

Rick Ungar

Former Contributor

I write from the left on politics and policy.

Jan 22, 2015,02:25pm EST

Updated Jan 22, 2015, 03:48pm EST

This article is more than 9 years old.

Anyone who tuned in to hear the GOP response to the State of the Union address was treated to an introduction to the GOP’s newest freshman Senate star, Joni Ernst of Iowa.

You may recall Ms. Ernst’s legendary campaign commercial where she informed us all that she had grown up castrating pigs and was, therefore, uniquely qualified to cut the pork from bloated federal spending. You may also recall that, in the castration commercial, she told us about how her family had taught Ernst what she needed to know about the importance of living within one’s means—a lesson, Ernst argued, that has been lost on the federal government.

Turns out, the Senator’s family has a somewhat unusual concept of what "living within one’s means" actually involves as we now know that her father and uncle have been the beneficiaries of some of that good old government pork that the newly minted Senator has sworn to snip from the body of the federal budget.

Apparently, living within their means, inside the Senator's family, involves including some of your tax dollars and mine as a part of the family budget.

While it may be true, as Senator Ernst recounted in her official response to the SOTU, that she had to walk to school in the snow, uphill both ways, when she was a kid—not really as her actual claim to feeling the pain of low income Americans is that she and her friends wore bread bags over their one and only pair of shoes to protect them from the snow—her family may well have paid for those shoes with taxpayer cash.

An examination by the Washington DC based District Sentinel website reveals thatErnst’s father, Richard Culver, pocketed $38,395 in taxpayer money in the guise of corn subsidies.

But then, Ernst’s dad can’t hold a candle to his brother when it comes to receiving government redistribution of wealth asSenator Joni’s Uncle Dallas has pocketed a cool $370,000 in government subsidies.

Somehow, as Senator Ernst castigated the federal government for all this wasteful spending and wealth redistribution, she failed to mention that her own family has benefitted substantially from the same.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/01/22/family-of-new-gop-senate-pork-buster-joni-ernst-pocketed-almost-half-a-million-in-government-assistance/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187147 (181658ZDEC24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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Japanese Space Startup's Rocket Launch Fails Minutes After Lift-Off

Dec 18, 2024 10:41 am IST

A Japanese space startup's attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit was aborted minutes after liftoff on Wednesday.

This was Tokyo-based Space One's second attempt to launch the Kairos small rocket, nine months after the company's first try ended in an explosion.

The Kairos No 2 rocket lifted off from a site in the mountainous prefecture of Wakayama in central Japan.

The flight lasted about 10 minutes before it was terminated because "the achievement of its mission would be difficult", Space One said.

The cause of the flight failure was not immediately known, but footage circulating on social media showed the 18-metre (59 ft) solid-propellant rocket blasting off from Spaceport Kii in western Japan at 11:00 am (local time) but soon losing stability in its trajectory as it ascended.

As many as five small satellites, including one from the Taiwan Space Agency, were on board the rocket headed into sun-synchronous orbit roughly 500 kilometres above the Earth's surface.

The company said it is investigating the incident and will host a press conference at 2:00 pm local time.

Space One hopes to become Japan's first company to put a satellite into orbit in a boost to Asia's second-largest economy's lagging space industry.

But the debut flight of its Kairos rocket in March, carrying a Japanese government satellite intended to monitor North Korea's missile launches and other military activities, exploded five seconds after launch.

At the time, Space One said that inappropriate flight settings triggered the rocket's autonomous self-destruct system even though no issues were found in its hardware.

The company said it had fixed the cause of the debut flight failure.

Tokyo-based Space One was founded in 2018 by Canon Electronics, IHI's aerospace unit, construction firm Shimizu and a state-backed bank, with the goal of launching 20 small rockets a year by 2029 to capture growing satellite launch demand.

Japan hopes the company can pave the way for a domestic space industry that can compete with the United States and other space leaders.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/video-japanese-space-startups-rocket-launch-fails-minutes-after-liftoff-7274567

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187188 (181708ZDEC24) Notable: The short-term funding bill to avert a government shutdown includes a one-year extension on the State Department's Global Engagement Center, Johnson useful idiot??? $69,300 PAY INCREASE

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Chuck Callesto

@ChuckCallesto

49m

BREAKING REPORT: ⚠️ New Continuing Resolution Spending Bill reveals $69,300 PAY INCREASE for members of Congress…

DO THEY DESERVE THIS?

Dec 18, 2024 · 4:18 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1869416898041164059

>>274785

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187208 (181712ZDEC24) Notable: Mike Johnson's new spending bill allows vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, expanded emergency powers, and gain-of-function research.

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Natalie Winters

@nataliegwinters

The CR/Omnibus also expands the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness and Response Act.

This allows for vaccine and mask mandates, vaccine passports, intentional emergency powers, gain of function research.

It also created BARDA, the agencies responsible for mRNA/GOF research.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187215 (181714ZDEC24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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Nuclear Thermal Propulsion: Game Changing Technology for Deep Space Exploration

The headshot image of Loura Hall

Loura Hall

May 25, 2018

Article

Two men look at a computer on a table in front of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion equipment.

New work on Nuclear Thermal Propulsion builds upon NASA’s Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) program of the 1960s. This is an explanatory drawing of the NERVA thermodynamic nuclear rocket engine.

Credits: NASA

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion: Game Changing Technology for Deep Space Exploration

The headshot image of Loura Hall

Loura Hall

May 25, 2018

Article

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/tech-demo-missions-program/nuclear-thermal-propulsion-game-changing-technology-for-deep-space-exploration/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187222 (181715ZDEC24) Notable: This year’s national defense bill includes bipartisan measures on AI to expand our AI infrastructure and strengthen America’s competition against the Chinese Communist Party/skynet???

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Chuck Schumer

@SenSchumer 22h

This year’s national defense bill includes bipartisan measures on AI to expand our AI infrastructure and strengthen America’s competition against the Chinese Communist Party in critical and disruptive technologies.

Dec 17, 2024 · 7:05 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1869096528415170791

>disruptive technologies

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187265 (181724ZDEC24) Notable: #27153

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Dough

https://pastebin.us/?7fadef64b97eec45#9T9JHLqcZNV6jF6FwimtRTqKdszccbm3AewztsQWwk4m

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187288 (181727ZDEC24) Notable: Trump wants to talk to Putin and Zelensky in a bid to stop the “carnage” between Moscow and Kiev

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Trump says he wants to talk to Putin

The incoming US president has refused to comment on whether any contact with the Kremlin has already taken place

US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he will speak to both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in a bid to stop the “carnage” between Moscow and Kiev.

During a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday,Trump refused to comment when asked whether he had spoken to Putinsince he won last month’s presidential election. However, Trump said that he intends to do so.

“We’ll be talking to President Putinand we’ll be talking to the representatives, Zelensky and representatives from Ukraine,” he said. “We’ve got to stop it. It’s carnage,” he added, referring to the almost three-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“It’s a carnage that we haven’t seen since the Second World War,” he continued. “It’s got to be stopped. And I’m doing my best to stop [it].”

Trump vowed on the campaign trail to end the conflict within a day of taking office, although he has since admitted that doing this may be “more difficult” than he previously thought. The incoming president met with Zelensky in Paris earlier this month, and said immediately after last month’s election that he will likely speak to Putin in the near future.

Trump and his prospective cabinet officials have refused to comment on media reports claiming that they have been in contact with Moscow, while the Kremlin last month denied a report by the Washington Post suggesting that Trump reached out to Putin by phone immediately after the election.

Putin has said that Trump’s statements on ending the conflict “deserve attention,” and that he is open to talks with the president-elect. “It wouldn’t be beneath me to call him myself,” the Russian president said at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi last month.

As Trump has not revealed any details on the kind of settlement he intends to propose to Putin and Zelensky, his plans have remained the subject of media speculation. Most American news outlets have predicted that Trump will push for the conflict to be frozen along the current line of contact, with Ukraine abandoning its aspirations of NATO membership in exchange for security guarantees from the West.

Trump has explicitly said that the US will leave the enforcement of such a deal up to NATO’s European members.

Moscow maintains that any settlement must begin with Ukraine ceasing military operations and acknowledging the “territorial reality” that it will never regain control of the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, as well as Crimea. In addition, the Kremlin insists that the goals of its military operation – which include Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – will be achieved.

https://www.rt.com/news/609500-trump-talk-putin-ukraine/

(Interesting picture once again that RT uses for this article.)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187303 (181730ZDEC24) Notable: Zelensky says he won’t ‘rush’ to end conflict

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(The Brat) Zelensky says he won’t ‘rush’ to end conflict

The Ukrainian leader has claimed that a freeze would give Russia an opportunity to “attack” at a later date

Kiev will not “rush” into any agreements with Russia, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said. In an interview with French news outlet Le Parisien published on Wednesday,Zelensky declared his reluctance to make concessions, either territorial or in relation to Kiev's NATO and EU ambitions, to achieve peace.

Zelensky has previously insisted that the only viable path to peace with Russia was his ten-point ‘peace formula’, which includes a complete withdrawal of Russian forces from former Ukrainian territories and the restoration of the country’s 1991 borders. Widely touted by the West, the proposal was never taken seriously in Moscow.

However, Zelensky has signaled in recent weeks that he would be willing to relinquish territorial claims if Kiev becomes a NATO member. Recent media reports have also suggested that US President-elect Donald Trump, who met Zelensky in Paris earlier this month, could persuade the Ukrainian leader to ‘freeze’ the conflict along the current line of contact and enforce negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. Trump previously pledged to end the conflict within 24 hours upon returning to the White House in January next year.

“He really wants to move quickly [but] he is not yet in the White House and cannot have access to all the information. He also knows my firm desire to not rush to the detriment of Ukraine,”Zelensky stated.

“No matter how many presidents or prime ministers want to decree an end of the war, we are not going to simply give in and give up our independence,” he added. Zelensky claimed that freezing the conflict at its current stage would give Russia an opportunity to “attack” Ukraine at a later date.

“Putin is a boomerang: he comes back until he gets what he wants… If we do not stop Putin, he will continue to destroy us,” he stated. Zelensky said he would be ready to negotiate peace with Moscow only from “a position of strength,” and in order to get there, Ukraine must become part of the EU and NATO.

Zelensky rejected claims that he would acknowledge the loss of former Ukrainian territories that have joined Russia, namely the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye, and Crimea.

“We cannot give up our territories. The Ukrainian Constitution forbids us to do so,” he stated, admitting, however, that Kiev does not currently have “the strength to regain” these territories.

Moscow has maintained that freezing the conflict unacceptable. It has repeatedly said it is open to negotiations and would welcome a diplomatic settlement, but insisted that this is only possible if Kiev ceased military operations, withdrew its forces from Russian territory, including former Ukrainian regions, ensured the rights of Russian-speaking residents, and became a neutral, nuclear-free state.

(Zelensky has made it very clear, he disrespects Trump and has no problem saying so. His arrogance and threats will be ended soon. He doesn’t have the power, all Trump needs to do, is to stop all funding for arms, they government, and any money going there. And then send Interpol to the accounts of Zelensky and all the thieves there, and seize them, and return them to the US for paying off part of the loans to them. In mind opinion, the only way to expose this farce and theft, is to arrest all oligarchs in the Ukraine Government once and for all. Zelensky underestimates Trump, and that’s a big mistake.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/609523-zelensky-conflict-rush-peace/

BTW, I wonder what the Ukrainian’s dying in the battle think of Zelensky not wanting to stop the war and save their lives?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187333 (181737ZDEC24) Notable: Ukrainian currency hits all-time low against dollar

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Ukrainian currency hits all-time low against dollar

The grivna is expected to slide further in the coming weeks, local media say

Ukraine’s national currency, the grivna, dropped to 41.83 to the US dollar on Tuesday, according to data from the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). The figure is a record low, multiple media outlets reported.

The devaluation of the Ukrainian currency could be a result of an easing of foreign currency controls by the regulator, noted online outlet Strana.ua.

The weakening of the grivna also follows a rejection by Kiev of a proposal to hold a ceasefire over Christmas, and the assassination of the head of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces in Moscow, which is believed to have been carried out by Ukraine. Moscow has accused Kiev of resorting to terrorist tactics due to its military failures.

Over the past year, the grivna has lost over 13% of its value. Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022,the currency has devalued by over 44%.

Previously, the exchange rate of the Ukrainian grivna reached a record low of 40.69 per $1 in mid-June. The fall followed the central bank’s decision to cut the key rate by 0.5 percentage points to 13%.

The Ukrainian currency is expected to fall further to 42.10 grivna to the dollar, the rate set in the state budget for the end of 2024, noted Strana.

“The government needs to make a lot of social payments at the end of the year, so it wants to get more grivnas for the dollars and euros it received from international partners,” the treasury director of one major Ukrainian bank told the publication.

The European Union has been providing billions of euro in financial support to Kiev through its Ukraine Facility. The United States has given at least $26.8 billion in budget support to the government of Ukraine since 2022.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609535-ukrainian-currency-grivna-record-low/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187380 (181749ZDEC24) Notable: Nuclear war would be good for Ukraine – neo-Nazi activist

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Nuclear war would be good for Ukraine – neo-Nazi activist

Ukrainians are best prepared for the end of civilization thanks to a popular video game, Evgeny Karas has said

Ukraine would benefit from being targeted by a Russian nuclear strike, which is why Moscow will never undertake such a step, a notorious far-right activist and head of a hate group has claimed.

Prominent Ukrainian neo-Nazi Evgeny Karas has said he would welcome a nuclear escalation in the Ukraine conflict, in an interview on Tuesday with Ukrainian broadcaster Radio Bayraktar. Karas is leader of the S14 far-right group, whose members have a record of harassing minorities and have been accused of high-profile political murder.

”Nuclear war is good,” he told the station, named after a Turkish-made attack drone.“When it happens, we’ll have no more reasons to whine. Nothing worse could happen after a nuclear strike.”

Countries like India and China would turn against Moscow, Karas argued, adding thatnuclear fallout in Ukraine may even be good for evolutionn. “A nuclear war may help us evolve in a way that we could see through an official and tell whether he is a thief or not.”

Karas claimed that the November release of the video game ‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl’, which was developed in Ukraine, has prepared the country for a nuclear war.The country will come through a nuclear crisis and make a leap forward in technology, producing artificial intelligence and advanced robots, Karas believes.

The remarks were part of his dismissal of Russia’s new hypersonic ballistic missile Oreshnik, which he called poorly-named and not really scary.

Russia demonstrated the Oreshnik’s capability in late November in response to Ukraine’s use of long-range Western-donated weapons for strikes deep inside its territory. It fired a non-nuclear version of the medium-range missile at a Soviet-built arms factory in the city of Dnepr, Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609517-nuclear-war-ukraine-karas/

Ukrainians NAZI'S seem like evil and depressed freaks

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187397 (181752ZDEC24) Notable: Paris Hilton’s Powerful Speech in DC: Ending Abuse in the Troubled Teen Industry

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Paris Hilton’s Powerful Speech in DC: Ending Abuse in the Troubled Teen Industry

Dec 18, 2024

#stopinstitutionalchildabuseact #Advocacy #ParisHilton

Join Paris Hilton as she delivers a compelling speech in Washington, D.C., advocating for the passage of the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act.

Drawing from her personal experiences, Paris sheds light on the harrowing realities of the troubled teen industry and calls for urgent reform to protect vulnerable youth.

Watch as she uses her platform to inspire change and stand up for those who have endured abuse in institutional settings.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187415 (181755ZDEC24) Notable: drone bun

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https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/157945/New-York-radiation-drones-Jersey

*Daily Dose of FearPorn:

New York radiation levels spike amid drone sightings as Americans told 'prepare for worst'

An expert on US-Chinese relations has warned that the hundreds of drones buzzing New Jersey homes and military bases could be the precursor to a grim attack

By Michael Moran

07:12 ET, Wed, Dec 18, 2024 | UPDATED: 09:58 ET, Wed, Dec 18, 2024

Military-grade drone expert says New Jersey drones are searching for ‘rogue nuclear warhead’

The New Jersey drones could be searching for ‘rogue nuclear device' (Image: Youtube/ABC 7)

A US-China relations expert fears has warned Americans to "plan for the worst" amid the ongoing New Jersey drone mystery – with reports about unexplained radiation spikes in the area.

According to the Geiger Counter World Map, which tracks radiation levels across the world, two areas in the New York metro area have been flagged as red. The areas are both said to be over the 200 counts-per-minute safety threshold. There are similar red flags further north near Connecticut.

It follows claims that the drones are hunting for a nuclear warhead that went "missing" during the Cold War.

Dad makes friend dig own grave and kill himself after raping his daughter, six

US Congressman names 4 suspects behind mystery drones causing mass panic

And author Gordon Chang has told Forbes the drones could well be to do with the radiation. “There have been reports of spikes and radiation in the New York metropolitan area,” he said. “Two of them, one on each side of the Hudson. That leads to the conclusion that maybe they're looking for an implanted nuclear weapon.”

Chang's most recent book Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America discusses the imminent possibility of a Chinese sneak attack on US soil

Radiation spikes have been reported at two sites on the East Coast (Image: gmcmap.com)

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He said that he drew parallels between the current drone “flap” and the 2023 “spy balloon” crisis – when a Chinese craft was spotted in US airspace.

In both cases, Chang saw “the apparent failure of the federal government – both the military and the president to protect the American people,” and he believes that China's leadership is now ready to go to war against America.

Chang says that recent vague reassurances made by the authorities have been of no help, and that it’s time to level with the public. He continued: “At this point we really need the president of the United States to actually address the American people and tell us what the federal government knows and what it doesn’t know.”

Gordon Guthrie Chang (born July 5, 1951) is an American journalist, lawyer, political commentator, a

Gordon Chang warns that almost any interpretation of the drone crisis is bad news (Image: Wikipedia)

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He painted a grim scenario of the possibilities, involving an alliance between two or more of America’s adversaries. He continued: “For more than a decade US officials have been worried about the North Koreans taking apart a device, smuggling the parts into the United States and reassembling it in the location of their choice.

"This is not something which is just wild speculation.”

Chang speculated the drones are being flown by either the Department of Homeland Security or the FBI to hunt for nuclear warheads.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187423 (181757ZDEC24) Notable: @Schiff - Betting sites love to celebrate the underdog – until the underdog starts winning

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Adam Schiff

@SenAdamSchiff 21h

Betting sites love to celebrate the underdog – until the underdog starts winning.

Throttling winners while targeting those who continually lose is not fair play. That's manipulation.

Dec 17, 2024 · 8:05 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1869111595277963264

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187427 (181758ZDEC24) Notable: PlaneFaggin'

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>>274801

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POLO98

word association makes me think Marco Polo

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187428 (181758ZDEC24) Notable: SIGN THE BILL - Anonymous Authors of OUR Legislation Is Unacceptable

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>>>/qresearch/22187360

Hey, Elon & Vivek,

Howbout D.O.G.E.

Demands ALL Contributing Authors & Entities to Any Congressional Bill → MUST SIGN THEIR NAMES TO THE DOCUMENT

I'm talking about [The Actual Authors].

The [Shadow Authors].

Not the Bill Sponsors & their staff.

Anonymous Authors of OUR Legislation Is Unacceptable

Our Founding Fathers = Signed Their Names!

And Pledged;

Their Lives, Their Fortunes & Their Sacred Honor.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187436 (181800ZDEC24) Notable: The ISS is Falling?

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THE ISS IS FALLING

https://x.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1869371790658859342

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187444 (181801ZDEC24) Notable: Chinese space defence expert Zhang Xiaoxin dies in car crash in Beijing

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Chinese space defence expert Zhang Xiaoxin dies in car crash in Beijing

8:44pm, 17 Dec 2024

A top Chinese space expert who specialised in weather monitoring and early warning systems died in a car crash in Beijing on Sunday night aged 62.

Zhang Xiaoxin, a space expert who had long been involved in space weather research, was mourned in an obituary issued on Tuesday by the National Satellite Meteorological Centre (NSMC), an affiliate of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), where he worked.

Zhang won a top award given by the Chinese military for science and tech progress, although little information is available about his research project.

He is the second Chinese scientist with close ties to the military to die in a car crash in recent years.

In July last year, Feng Yanghe, an outstanding young expert in artificial intelligence related to China’s defence sector, died in Beijing on the way to “a major mission” at the age of 38.

Feng was an associate professor at the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) in Changsha, Hunan province, and led teams in developing the War Skull I and War Skull II AI programs used by the People’s Liberation Army to simulate joint operation military war games.

Zhang was born in 1962 in Shandong province in eastern China. He received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Jilin University in 1987 and a doctorate in space physics from Auburn University in the United States in 2003.

In 2007, he returned to China as a high-level overseas talent and served as a special expert for the CMA, giving up a US green card to devote himself to building and developing China’s space weather sector.

Regarded as “one of the important pioneers and founders” of his field, Zhang is remembered for his outstanding contribution to monitoring and warning technologies and platforms.

According to a 2021 article by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the team led by Zhang implemented and expanded weather application services in key areas such as space, aviation and communications, serviced missions, including Shenzhou and Chang’e, and established business relationships with users like the air force and the civil aviation sector.

As the chief expert in an 863 Programme, also known as China’s State Hi-Tech Development Plan, Zhang led the initial completion of a space weather disaster observation network for short-wave communication, a star-ground radio link and long-distance power grid.

He was also one of the leading scientists behind China’s FengYun series of meteorological satellites.

Among his many positions, Zhang was director of the space weather office of the NSMC, co-chair of the international space weather coordination group of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and an expert adviser to the aviation meteorology working group of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

His achievements earned him many honours, including the titles of outstanding senior returned scholar, CMA leading talent and leadership contribution award from the WMO commission on observing technology systems.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3291249/chinese-space-defence-expert-zhang-xiaoxin-dies-car-crash-beijing

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187500 (181814ZDEC24) Notable: SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas

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SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas

December 17, 2024

SpaceX is hoping to officially make its Starbase facility a new city in South Texas.

The private spaceflight company submitted a petition to local authorities on Dec. 12, requesting an election on incorporating the Starbase launch site as its own city.

The Starbase facility located near Boca Chica, Texas, has seen some of SpaceX's most ambitious launches, including the recent Starship rocket catch, and will become the company's new headquarters in a move from California to Texas.

"To continue growing the workforce necessary to rapidly develop and manufacture Starship, we need the ability to grow Starbase as a community," SpaceX said in the petition, which was shared in a post on X (formally Twitter).

"That is why we are requesting that Cameron County call an election to enable the incorporation of Starbase as the newest city in the Rio Grande Valley."

The petition was addressed to Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr., the county's top elected official.

The next step will be for officials to review the petition to determine if it complies with statutory requirements. Then, an election would be held to incorporate Starbase.

Starbase serves as SpaceX's primary launch site for Starship test flights, which demonstrate its reusable rocket technology.

The most recent launch on Nov. 19 represented the sixth test flight of the Starship launch vehicle, which proved successful with the first in-space burn of a single Raptor engine for deorbiting processes.

SpaceX is preparing for a seventh test flight in January 2025, which will attempt another booster recovery at the launch site.

Thousands of SpaceX employees work at Starbase, with several hundred living on-site. The company credits the generation of "hundreds of millions in income and taxes for local businesses and government" to the launch facility.

Given the remote location of the launch site, SpaceX already helps manage the area's roads and utilities, and assists with schooling and medical care for residents through agreements with the county.

With Starship expected to "fundamentally alter humanity's access to space," SpaceX aims to make the area of the Starbase launch site the "Gateway to Mars," the company wrote in the petition.

This is not the first time turning Starbase into its own city has come up. SpaceX founder Elon Musk previously proposed the idea on social media in 2021; however, it was not until Dec. 12 that a petition was officially filed with the support of Starbase residents.

"Incorporating Starbase will streamline the processes required to build the amenities necessary to make the area a world class place to live — for hundreds already calling it home, as well as for prospective workers eager to help build humanity's future in space," SpaceX officials said in the petition.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/spacex-wants-starbase-to-become-an-official-city-in-texas

https://x.com/jessica_kirsh/status/1867375268936982742

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187530 (181821ZDEC24) Notable: Contracts awarded to Joni Ernst's father raise conflict of interest questions

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EXCLUSIVE: Iowa Senate shocker - contracts awarded to Joni Ernst's father raise conflict of interest questions

Father of GOP nominee won $200,000 in contracts when Joni Ernst was in office, despite conflict of interest rules

By Luke Brinker

Published October 7, 2014 10:59AM (EDT)

A construction company owned by GOP Iowa Senate candidate JoniErnst's father received more than $200,000 in county contracts while she served as auditor of Montgomery County, Iowa, despite a strict conflict of interest code governing the provision of contracts to family members of county officials.

A new review of records as well as an analysis of the Code of Iowa by Salon reveals that the nature of the contracts and how they were promulgated, may have violated relevant county standards.

Ernst is facing Democratic congressman Bruce Braley in a neck-and-neck race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin. Polls show it as too close to call (with several polls finding Ernst with a small lead). Given the volatility of several Senate races this cycle, this particular campaign could potentially help decide which party controls the Senate.

Ernst was elected Montgomery County auditor in 2004, serving in that role until her 2011 election to the state Senate seat she currently holds. Among the duties a county auditor “may perform,” according to the Iowa State Association of County Auditors, are issuing contract bid notices and soliciting and receiving contract proposals. Minutes from an April 2007 Montgomery County Supervisors meeting – printed in the Red Oak Express – note Ernst’s involvement in county contracts, stating that Ernst would “work [the] issue” of advertising bids for a roofing project in the county.

The Iowa Code lays out stringent conflict of interest standards for county contracts. Chapter 331 of the code stipulates that “[a]n officer or employee of a county shall not have an interest, direct, or indirect, in a contract with that county.” The provision applies if 5 percent of a company’s outstanding stock is owned by either a county employee or an immediate family member – including a parent – of an employee.

Still, a search by Salon of Montgomery County records reveals that Culver Construction – a construction company owned by Ernst’s father, Richard Culver – received $215,665 in county contracts during Ernst’s tenure as auditor. The six contracts, all awarded between 2009 and 2010, included five totaling $204,794 from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for such projects as road and flood damage repairs.

County supervisors approved FEMA contracts for Culver ranging in size from an $8,960 grant in December 2010 for the repair of three flood-damaged sites to a $63,501 contract for secondary road construction in August 2009. Supervisors also approved FEMA contracts for Culver of $32,425, $40,428, and $59,480.

According to Montgomery County Supervisors minutes printed in the Red Oak Express, the supervisors unanimously approved Ernst's appointment as the county’s chief financial officer for federal and state assistance following flooding in Iowa on June 7, 2007. Ernst held the role concurrently with her position as county auditor.

Supervisors also awarded Culver a $10,871 contract for a Department of Homeland Security project in April 2010.

As county auditor, Ernst did not have a vote in approving contracts for Culver Construction or any other contractors. Still, the state code’s conflict of interest provision calls for contracts to be voided if any county “officer or employee” has an interest in the contractor.

Late last week, the Des Moines Register reported that American Democracy Legal Fund, a group founded by liberal media watchdog David Brock, has filed a complaint with Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, seeking Miller’s opinion on whether Culver Construction’s contracts violated the state’s conflicts of interest law. The Register’s report did not list the details of Culver Construction’s contracts, noting only that they totaled $215,665. The details of the contracts are first being reported here, as is the relevant section of the code that pertains to potential conflicts.

As Ernst seeks to defeat Braley and retake a long-Democratic Senate seat, Culver Construction has ranked among her top campaign contributors. According to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, Ernst’s campaign has received $10,400 in donations from her father’s company.

Spokespersons for the Ernst and Braley campaigns did not respond to Salon’s requests for comment on this story.

https://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/exclusive_contracts_awarded_to_joni_ernsts_father_raise_conflict_of_interest_questions/

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>>274737, >>274741, >>274742, >>274744, >>274747, >>274749, >>274752, >>274752, >>274767, >>274767, >>274768, >>274775, >>274776, >>274777, >>274781, >>274784 Ernst diggz

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187537 (181823ZDEC24) Notable: Plane crashes into a building while landing at San Fernando Airport in Argentina

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Insider Paper

@TheInsiderPaper 1h

JUST IN - A Bombardier Challenger 300 (LV-GOK) plane crashes into a building while landing at San Fernando Airport in Argentina

Marcelo Umpierrez 📞099323625

Dec 18, 2024 · 5:17 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1869431861258399788

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187549 (181825ZDEC24) Notable: Church of England Child Sex Abuse Scandal Sees Another Major Resignation

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Church of England Child Sex Abuse Scandal Sees Another Major Resignation

George Carey, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, quit after a BBC investigation reported that he allowed a priest who had been banned over sexual abuse claims to return to priesthood.

His resignation letter, sent on Dec. 4, said he had been in active ministry since 1962 and is turning 90. The letter did not mention the investigation.

The BBC reported that Carey agreed to allow a priest, David Tudor, to return to working in the church in 1994 after Tudor was suspended from ministry for five years over allegations of assault against teenage girls.

Documents suggested that Carey advocated for Tudor to get a job in a diocese, the BBC reported.

Carey’s resignation came as another senior clergyman due to take temporary charge of the Church of England faced calls to resign over his handling of Tudor’s case.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/18/church-of-england-child-sex-abuse-scandal-sees-another-major-resignation/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187583 (181833ZDEC24) Notable: TGA staff acknowledge that DNA integration into the genome is possible

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BOMBSHELL🔥🧵 Internal emails show the Australian drug regulator knows DNA fragments in mRNA vaccines can enter the nucleus & integrate into the genome 🧬

The TGA withheld this info from the public, presenting a picture of certainty where there is none.

https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/bombshell-australian-drug-regulator

https://x.com/dystopian_DU/status/1869286361024680376

Highlights

TGA staff acknowledge that DNA integration into the genome is possible

The TGA knows that the SV40 enhancer/promoter in the Pfizer vaccine can drag DNA into the nucleus of cells

Pfizer did not disclose the SV40 sequence to the regulator

TGA staff not aware of any testing for modRNA/DNA integration into human genome

link below for more:

https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/bombshell-australian-drug-regulator

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187592 (181836ZDEC24) Notable: The United States has repatriated two Malaysian prisoners from Guantanamo Bay

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Carol Rosenberg

@carolrosenberg

11h

MORE NEWS: The United States has repatriated two Malaysian prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, concluding a secret military operation. The rare transfer, a day after the Pentagon delivered another prisoner to Kenya, leaves the detainee population at 27 men.

nytimes.com/2024/12/18/us/po…

Pentagon Repatriates Malaysian Prisoners Who Pleaded Guilty to War Crimes

The prisoners were airlifted from Guantánamo Bay in a secret operation nearly a year after they admitted to serving as foot soldiers for the accused Indonesian terrorist leader Hambali.

nytimes.com

Dec 18, 2024 · 6:43 AM UTC

https://twitter.com/carolrosenberg/status/1869272271732473876

>>>/qresearch/22187565

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187606 (181839ZDEC24) Notable: Moderna Halts mRNA RSV Vaccine Trial for Children After FIVE INFANTS Were Hospitalized

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Moderna Halts mRNA RSV Vaccine Trial for Children After FIVE INFANTS Were Hospitalized

Moderna has paused its mRNA RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) vaccine trial for children after five infants were hospitalized with severe respiratory complications.

Moderna has paused its mRNA RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) vaccine trial for children after five infants were hospitalized with severe respiratory complications.

This comes just days after the FDA quietly admitted it had halted enrollment in similar trials, citing safety concerns for children under two years old.

The news broke during Thursday’s FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting, where panelists struggled to navigate the safety implications of Moderna’s findings, Fierce Pharma reported.

Henry Bernstein, a professor of pediatrics at Hofstra/Northwell, stated, “This all seems like an incredible conundrum with lots of unanswered questions remaining—lots to still learn.”

The halted trial, identified as mRNA-1365-P101, sought to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of two mRNA-based vaccines, mRNA-1345 and mRNA-1365. The vaccines were designed to protect infants and toddlers against RSV.

“FDA was notified of a study pause in Phase 1 study mRNA-1365-P101 due to a study pause criterion being met. A potential safety signal for RSV sLRTI was identified, and as additional information accrued, an imbalance in cases of RSV sLRTI was noted, with more cases identified in the vaccine groups compared with the control group. This raised a concern for possible VAERD,” according to the briefing document.

During the study’s younger cohort phase (5 months to

Five cases of severe RSV-LRTI occurred among vaccinated infants receiving lower doses of the vaccines.

Only one case was reported in the placebo group, highlighting a concerning imbalance.

Symptomatic RSV infections progressed to severe illness in 26.3% of vaccinated infants, compared to just 8.3% in the placebo group.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/breaking-moderna-halts-mrna-rsv-vaccine

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187617 (181841ZDEC24) Notable: The ISS is Falling?

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https://spacenews.com/axiom-space-revises-space-station-assembly-plans/

Axiom Space revises space station assembly plans

Dec 18, 2024

Axiom Space is revising the assembly sequence for its commercial space station, a move it says will allow it to get to a free-flying station sooner while addressing NASA’s needs to prepare for the deorbiting of the International Space Station.

The company announced Dec. 18 a revised sequence of modules it will deploy through the end of the decade to assemble its Axiom Station, starting with a Payload Power Thermal Module (PPTM) that will be installed on the ISS.

Axiom originally planned to install a habitat module on the ISS in late 2026, followed by a second habitat module and a research module.

Finally, a power and thermal module, with an airlock, would be attached, allowing those modules to undock from the station around the end of the decade to be a free-flying station.

One issue with that approach, Axiom executives said in an interview, is that the company would have installed those modules on a docking port called Node 2 Forward on the ISS under an agreement with NASA in early 2020.

That is the port that will later be used by the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), the spacecraft that will provide the final maneuvers to deorbit the station into the South Pacific at the end of its life.

NASA approached Axiom earlier this year to find ways to deconflict USDV from the Axiom modules. One option would have been for the USDV to dock to the Axiom modules.

“That potentially presents a risk to Axiom if, for some reason, they had to deorbit and we weren’t ready to separate,” said Mark Greeley, chief operating officer of Axiom Space and program manager for Axiom Station.

The company decided to revise the sequence of the station’s assembly. It will now start with the PPTM, which includes power and thermal systems as well as eight science racks for research payloads.

Rather than dock PPTM to Node 2 Forward, it will instead berth to one of two ports currently used by cargo spacecraft like Cygnus.

“The huge advantage here to both NASA and Axiom is the fact that they do not have to reconfigure the forward port,” said George Motter, chief engineer and architect of Axiom Station.

“They can bring the deorbit vehicle at any time. They can prepare for deorbit on their schedule, and once we arrive, we can stay there for a short time or a long time. We’re not in the way.”

Axiom would then launch the first habitat module, Hab1. However, rather than dock it to the ISS, the PPTM would depart the ISS and dock with the habitat module, enabling a free-flying station with just two modules, supporting four crew members.

That could take place as soon as 2028, the company said, sooner than previous plans.

“The dream sequence would be to go to ISS, be there for a bit, wait for Hab1 to launch, leave ISS and dock fairly directly with Hab1,” Motter said.

However, both the habitat module and the PPTM have the ability to loiter in orbit independently if needed.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187646 (181848ZDEC24) Notable: Congress gives themselves a 39% pay raise of almost 70K

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Congress gives themselves a 39% pay raise

Congress has sparked outrage by approving a 39% pay raise for its members. This decision, coming at a time when many Americans face financial struggles, has left voters questioning the priorities of their elected officials and the ethics behind such a move.

The raise was buried in a 1,547-page spending bill designed to prevent a government shutdown. This last-minute “continuing resolution” (CR) left little room for debate or public scrutiny. By removing a long-standing provision blocking automatic pay increases, Congress effectively ensured their own pay hike for the first time in over a decade.

Financially, the raise increases annual salaries from $174,000 to $180,600—an additional $6,600. For perspective, this is more than double the 2023 median U.S. household income of $80,610. Critics argue this disparity underscores Congress’s detachment from everyday Americans, fueling resentment and skepticism about their priorities.

Opposition has been fierce. Representative Jared Golden of Maine condemned the move, stating, “If any of my colleagues can’t afford to live on this income, they should find another line of work.” Many Americans share this sentiment, calling the raise an affront to workers who continue to face stagnant wages and rising costs.

The timing has only deepened the backlash. At a moment when families are cutting back during economic uncertainty, lawmakers’ decision to enrich themselves feels tone-deaf and self-serving. Critics have labeled the raise a “Christmas tree” provision—loaded with perks for legislators while their constituents struggle to make ends meet.

This controversy exposes a glaring lack of transparency in how Congress operates. By hiding such a contentious raise in a dense spending bill, lawmakers sidestepped accountability and left voters feeling betrayed. The question remains: will this spark meaningful reforms, or will Congress continue to prioritize itself over the public it serves?

https://citizenwatchreport.com/congress-gives-themselves-a-39-pay-raise/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187667 (181854ZDEC24) Notable: New York Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government

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New York Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-york-resident-pleads-guilty-operating-secret-police-station-chinese-government-lower

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187677 (181858ZDEC24) Notable: Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

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Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-abortion-63c051a7f3c75b1af53805239a044014

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187704 (181909ZDEC24) Notable: @elonmusk X Posts DOGE In Effect

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk 1m

We’re funding bioweapon labs in this bill!

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok 3m

BREAKING: New Congressional Resolution bill includes funding for at least 12 new biolabs 🤔

Dec 18, 2024 · 7:07 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1869459369559224802

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187719 (181914ZDEC24) Notable: drone bun

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Drones latest: Biden insists flying objects pose ‘no danger’ as FBI issues urgent firearm and laser warning

Wednesday 18 December 2024 18:00 GMT

President Joe Biden insisted that there is “no sense of danger” surrounding the mysterious spate of drone sightings across the US.

“Nothing nefarious apparently, but they’re checking it all out,” he told reporters at the White House on Tuesday amid growing public demands for an explanation.

“We’re following this closely, but so far no sense of danger.”

The FBI also issued a warning to New Jersey residents, urging them not to shoot down or shine lasers at suspected drones flying overhead.

The bureau, along with state police, noted an increase of pilots being hit in the eyes with lasers, after those on the ground have mistaken planes for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS’s).

“There is also a concern with people possibly firing weapons at what they believe to be a UAS,” the agency added in a statement.

Members of Congress were briefed on the potential origins of the drones in a classified House Intelligence Committee meeting on Tuesday by Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Major General Pat Ryder.

Officials continue to brush off claims that the UAS’s are linked with anything more clandestine, with Ryder telling reporters: “Completely understand the concerns, completely will reinforce we’re taking it seriously.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/drones-new-jersey-east-coast-updates-b2666486.html

https://www.westchestergov.com/images/stories/newsroom/2024/drones-final.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ntUsOUldIU

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk 7m

Stop the steal of your tax dollars!

Call your elected representatives now.

They are trying to railroad this thing through today!

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal 9m

🇺🇸WTF IS AN OMNIBUS, AND WHY IS CONGRESS USING IT TO RUIN CHRISTMAS?

An omnibus bill is Congress’s sneaky way of bundling a ton of unrelated stuff into one giant package. It’s like cramming all your holiday leftovers—good and bad—into one sandwich and forcing everyone to eat it.

By dumping it all into one bill, they force lawmakers to say yes to the whole thing or risk a government shutdown.

No time for debates. No time to cut the junk.

Just a rushed, last-minute vote they’re shoving down everyone’s throat while you’re distracted by holiday shopping.

It’s wasteful, it’s sneaky, and it’s the worst Christmas gift ever.

Source: X

Dec 18, 2024 · 7:06 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1869459189711704321

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No bills should be passed Congress until Jan 20, when @realDonaldTrump takes office.

None.

Zero.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869461048828522999

US Congress is a criminal organization, it’s a lawless mafia authorized to steal of much as our tax money as they want

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1869461747599565092

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Nancy Mace suggests mysterious drones are from 'outer space'

Tue, December 17th 2024 at 4:39 PM

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., suggested during an interview recorded Monday a recent surge in unexplained drone activity in the U.S. could be coming from “outer space.”

Unexplained drone sightings have been reported in multiple states recently, including New Jersey, New York and Maryland. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., last week accused the Pentagon of being “incredibly stupid” with its handling of sightings in his home state.

The Biden administration’s Department of Defense denied the congressman's claim that an Iranian "mothership" is involved with the drones.

During an appearance on “OutKick The Show with Clay Travis,” Rep. Mace said the government is not being honest with Americans about the sightings.

“My concern is, if it’s not craft from outer space — because I think that has to be on the table, that has to be an option — is it our technology?”

she asked. “Or is it Russia or Iran or China? Is there someone who’s winning the arms race, and are we behind?”

The drones, she said, could be searching for "radiation" or a “missing nuclear warhead.” For this reason, Rep. Mace added, the government is purposefully obscuring the facts.

"The government is doing what the government does,” she added. “They are not being forthcoming, they are lying to the American people about these drones in New Jersey. How can we ever trust them?”

President Joe Biden may have even received briefings that confirm such information, Rep. Mace claimed. He may be one of the key figures in keeping such findings concealed from the public, she said.

Rep. Mace also addressed speculation that the drones are evidence of alien ships which crash landed on Earth and are unable to return to space.

The congresswoman nodded in agreement as Travis suggested such a notion was not a “crazy argument.”

“I will tell you, given the size of the universe and the number of planets and systems that are out there and galaxies that are out there, the odds are in your favor,” she said.

“The question is are we being visited or are we not?” she added.

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday said he spotted “dozens” of drones over his home.

New York Post journalist Steven Greenstreet suggested, however, the lights in a video shared by the former governor matched the constellation Orion.

Flight data around the time Hogan claimed to have filmed the video, Greenstreet added, showed three planes flying near his location.

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/nancy-mace-suggests-mysterious-drones-are-from-outer-space-new-jersey-drone-sightings-pentagon-outkick-the-show-with-clay-travis

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Multiple drones spotted flying in North Texas city, feds investigating

Updated: 10:41 AM CST December 18, 2024

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — Federal and local officials are investigating after multiple drones were spotted flying in a North Texas city Tuesday.

White Settlement police say they began receiving reports of multiple drones flying near neighborhoods in the city as well as near federal and military properties shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday.

White Settlement is home to the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

White Settlement Police Chief Christopher Cook said in a statement that officers saw drones flying near Bomber Road, Silver Creek and North Las Vegas Trail and they began working with staff at federal and military property to try to find the pilot.

They responded to more reports of drone sightings shortly before 9 p.m. and shortly before 10:30 p.m., officials say.

“As a reminder, the City of White Settlement and adjacent areas near federal and military properties are ‘NO FLY ZONES’ due to being a military operation area in the national airspace,” Cook said in a post on social media.

Cook said drone sightings have been reported to the FBI, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Air Force Office of Special Investigations as they work to determine who was piloting the drones.

“While we do not believe there were any immediate threats related to last night's activities, it is concerning due to operating in ‘NO FLY ZONES’ near federal and military properties,” Cook added.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 817-246-4973 or 817-246-7070

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/multiple-drones-spotted-flying-north-texas-city-feds-investigating/287-ab2fdab8-9e62-472d-9bad-f164a8acb381

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Gitmo express returning to base after a visit to Jacksonville…

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Burchett says government lying about drone activity: ‘I don’t think they have control of it’

12/17/24 9:08 PM ET

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday said he believes the government is lying about recent drone activity.

“You think the government is lying?” NewsNation’s Blake Burman asked Burchett on “The Hill.”

“I don’t wanna put words in your mouth, but you think they’re — they’re lying on this issue, Congressman?”

“Oh yeah, I mean, when — when have they ever told us the truth on anything … Come on, this thing has been going on, and …

I don’t think they have control of it, and they don’t know what to do, so they’re just gonna lie,” Burchett responded.

Drone sightings have rattled multiple Northeastern states, most notably New Jersey, over the past month.

Federal government officials said in a Monday statement that recent drone sightings have included a combination of “lawful” drones, other aircraft and stars.

“We recognize the concern among many communities,” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) said in their joint statement.

“We continue to support state and local authorities with advanced detection technology and support of law enforcement.

We urge Congress to enact counter-[unmanned aircraft systems] legislation when it reconvenes that would extend and expand existing counter-drone authorities to identify and mitigate any threat that may emerge,” they added.

On Monday, President-elect Trump said that the Biden administration knows what is happening with the drone sightings, implying that they are not due to a foreign adversary.

The Tennessee Republican later added that he believes Trump will “go a long way in solving” the drone sightings.

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5045606-burchett-says-government-lying-about-drone-activity-i-dont-think-they-have-control-of-it/

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Wall Street Mav

@WallStreetMav 8m

I would like to know who requested that provision to be included and why did @SpeakerJohnson agree to it?

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok 16m

BREAKING: The CR bill would allow Congress to block subpoenas for "House data"

This bill must NOT pass.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk 7m

Replying to @WallStreetMav @SpeakerJohnson

What the heck is going on?

Dec 18, 2024 · 7:37 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1869467038642827566

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187845 (181947ZDEC24) Notable: Trump Sues Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register for Fraudulent Polling and Election Interference

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President Trump Sues Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register for Fraudulent Polling and Election Interference

December 17, 2024 | Sundance

If President Trump could succeed in getting the Des Moines Register and Ann Selzer to the point of discovery in the lawsuit, he would win- BIG TIME. However, getting a judge to allow Trump as a plaintiff to advance a lawsuit to the level that would expose the fraud, is a very uphill battle.

Intellectually honest people know exactly what happened. Ideological political operatives in/around Ann Selzer’s polling operation,perhaps even Ann Selzer herself, manufactured, meaning completely fabricated, a polling outcome of Kamala Harris +3 in the final weekend before the November election.

It likely wasn’t an actual poll per se’, andno one is even sure if any voters were contacted; however, the assembled data analysis was sold as a genuine poll outcome.The poll was 16 points wrong.The claimed Kamala +3 poll was actually Trump +13 in the voter result in Iowa.Quit Pretending – Pollsters don’t miss by 16 points unless they are trying to miss by 16 points.

Selzer didn’t get it wrong or make a mistake. With malicious intent and malice of forethought, Selzer created a fraudulent narrative using a manufactured poll to push it.

If Trump could get to the emails, text messages and various communications from the people in/around Selzer’s polling operation, he would find the explosive planning and coordination in the background. But I doubt it’s going to get that far; a judge will likely try and stop it.

The motive for the poll was simple. In the final days of theKamala campaign, they were pushing the abortion message as hard as possibleto get out the votes. The Iowa +3 poll was the launch vehicle where Selzer proclaimed that a“MASSIVE UPSWING” in Iowa womensuddenly shifted the entire race as the women were showing up inside the data to support Kamala.

The corporate media ran with that shock polling narrative on Saturday, Sunday and Monday before election day on Tuesday.It was all nonsense, and Ann Selzer knew it. That’s why Trump is suing her.

(Via Politico) – President-elect Donald Trump is suing retired Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer over her pre-election survey that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in the state, calling it “brazen election interference.”

The shock poll, which drew national attention given Selzer’s record of success in Iowa, proved incorrect: Trump won the state by more than 13 points. But that has not stopped the president-elect from claiming the poll was intended to manipulate the results of the election. “While Selzer is not the only pollster to engage in this corrupt practice, she had a huge platform and following and, thus, a significant and impactful opportunity to deceive voters,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit also represents an escalation of Trump’s pledge to more aggressively pursue litigation against media he views as unfair to him. The case against Selzer comes just after Trump settled another media lawsuit with ABC News and its political anchor George Stephanopoulos for $15 million. (read more) Just like the ABC case, if President Trump can get to the discovery phase, he wins.

The Des Moines Register will never permit Ann Selzer to sit for a deposition where she likely describes the people who did everything for her, under her name, and claims she had no idea what they were doing. Nor will anyone associated with the plan allow their emails and text messages, which clearly evidence the structure of the fraud, being reviewed in discovery.

If President Trump’s lawyers got close to discovery where depositions and communications were going to be revealed, the DMR and Selzer would throw massive money at him to settle the lawsuit, just like ABC did…. for exactly the same reason.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/17/president-trump-sues-ann-selzer-and-des-moines-register-for-fraudulent-polling-and-election-interference/

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Reports of Drone Incursions Taken Seriously, DOD Spokesman Says

Dec. 17, 2024

The Defense Department is taking all reports of drones seriously and working with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Aviation Administration to examine the sightings and assess the situation, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said today.

It is a big job.

"Just to kind of put this into context, … [there are] over a million drones registered in the United States, and on any day, approximately 8,500 drones are in flight," Ryder said at a news conference.

"The vast majority of these drones are going to probably be recreational or hobbyist. They're going to be commercial drones used in things like architecture, engineering, farming or they could be used for law enforcement."

It is possible some of the drones could be up to malign activities, "but for the vast majority that is not the case," he said.

Drones flying near or over U.S. military installations is not something new, the general said. "We take all of those [reports] seriously," he said.

"Typically, when we detect them, we attempt to classify them and take appropriate measures. Is it possible that some of those are surveillance?

Absolutely. Can you make that assumption in every case? Not necessarily so."

Local installation commanders have the authorities to respond appropriately and will continue to do so.

DOD is sending additional resources to Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle — both in New Jersey — to better enable the installations to detect, track and monitor drone activity, Ryder said.

Commanders can use the recently released counter unmanned systems strategy to craft their responses to any incursions.

The recent strategy looks at the priority installations and what the department needs to do to address the issue — particularly when the systems pose a threat to personnel or security.

"The thing is, I think we've all recognized the fact that unmanned systems are here to stay," Ryder said. "They are a part of modern warfare, whether it's here in the homeland or overseas.

We want to make sure that we're doing due diligence to protect our forces and protect our equities from a national security standpoint.

You will see us continuing to look at that, and it's something we're going to continue to take seriously."

DOD is also taking the situation in Syria seriously and still concentrating on the Defeat-ISIS mission in the country.

The overthrow of the Assad regime opened up areas where ISIS was sheltering and those have become targets.

"We all have a vested interest in ensuring that groups in the region capitalize on the situation there, to enable the people of Syria to be able to have a better life than they did under the Assad regime," Ryder said.

Even with the confusion in Syria, the mission against ISIS continues, "as evidenced by the counter ISIS strike, we took a couple days ago," Ryder said. "[U.S. forces] are able to conduct their mission.

And, as it has always been, force protection remains a top priority for our forces."

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4008836/reports-of-drone-incursions-taken-seriously-dod-spokesman-says/

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BREAKING: Republicans are reportedly having a hard time getting votes for the 1,500 page spending bill because of Elon Musk's crusade against it, per PunchBowl News.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1869471948369224067

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NFL reiterates call to Congress to safeguard events from drones

December 18, 2024 11:22 AM

Forty-five years after a drone, technically, killed an NFL fan at Shea Stadium, the league is trying to avoid similar outcomes.

Via Mark Maske of the Washington Post, the NFL has renewed its call to Congress to safeguard major sports events against drone activity.

“Over the past several years, an increasing number of drones have flown into restricted airspace during NFL games,” NFL senior V.P. of security Cathy Lanier said in a statement.

“With the nation’s attention now focused on drones, we again call on Congress to protect critical infrastructure and mass gatherings such as major sporting events.”

As Maske notes, the most recent AFC Championship, in Baltimore, was delayed by drove activity. The incident resulted in felony charges.

Per the league, “threats, incidents, and incursions by unauthorized drones over NFL games jumped from a dozen in 2017 to more than 2,800 in 2023.”

It should be a no-brainer for Congress to ensure that any large gathering is properly secured, from anything that could put attendees at risk. Whether it’s a drone or a flying lawnmower.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/nfl-reiterates-call-to-congress-to-safeguard-events-from-drones

https://x.com/MarkMaske/status/1869399390227718302

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>>274835

JUST IN: @ElonMusk is standing up for the American people in the Congressional battle over the 1,547-page Continuing Resolution.

It's already having a BIG IMPACT on Capitol Hill.

@ChadPergram of @FoxNews reports:

"Fox is told there could be real-time attrition in yea votes for CR based on Musk tweet saying those who vote for the bill should be voted out in 2 years. Republicans will try to gauge how many votes they have on their side during the upcoming vote series."

Musk earlier posted on @X:

"Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!"

The X owner also urged voters:

"Please call your elected representatives right away to tell them how you feel! They are trying to get this passed today while no one is paying attention."

Congress is paying attention now. Keep up the pressure!

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1869458716803698885

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Drone almost crashes into passenger jet near Port of Spain

December 18, 2024

On December 8, a passenger plane over Port of Spain descending into the Piarco International Airport, came within six metres (20 feet) of unmanned drone.

The near miss has been reported to police and is being investigated by the Trinidad and Tobao Civil Aviation Authority (TTCAA) which issued a statement on what was a potentially catastrophic crash.

Drone operators were reminded of the height restriction for flying drones in all areas of the country.

In the case of the December 8 incident, the commercial flight was approaching the airport and at 1,067 metres (3,500 feet) when the left wingtip came close to the drone.

The TTCAA reminded that it was unlawful to operate a drone above 120 metres (400 feet).

"Thee TTCAA considers the operation of this drone in the vicinity of a manned commercial aircraft as a reckless and a very serious threat to the safety of the flight.

Operators are being warned that using a drone with intent to disrupt or endanger civil aviation of any public or private property shall attract a fine of $350,000 and five years prison.

https://trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/drone-almost-crashes-into-passenger-jet-near-port-of-spain/article_6f5a1a96-bd2c-11ef-95db-33dd06f865e6.html

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https://x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1869469841213776259

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Rep. Carlos Giménez: ‘Drones pose a threat,’ feds don’t know anything

12/18/24 7:10 AM ET

Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.) warned Tuesday that the federal government lacks a clear understanding of widespread drone sightings across the U.S., calling the situation a potential national security vulnerability.

Giménez, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” that he is deeply concerned about the government’s inability to track or identify the origins of numerous drone flights.

“The federal government hasn’t the faintest idea what’s going on with these drones,” the Florida Republican said. “That concerns me more than anything else.”

The comments come after multiple drone sightings across the East Coast, including near military installations in New Jersey and Ohio.

While White House and Pentagon officials have downplayed the incidents, suggesting most are recreational or commercial aircraft, Giménez argues more investigation is needed.

Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder acknowledged that over one million drones are registered in the U.S., with approximately 8,500 in flight on any given day. Most are used for recreational or commercial purposes, he said.

“Drones pose a threat and they’re going to be an increasing threat and one day they’re going to do something bad,” Giménez said.

A closed-door House Intelligence Committee briefing on the drone sightings has further fueled speculation.

The Florida lawmaker suggested that the classified meeting was an attempt to gain more information after previous public briefings revealed “nothing.”

White House national security spokesperson John Kirby stated that initial analysis shows the aircraft are “a mix of law enforcement drones, commercial drones and hobbyists,” with no indication of public safety or national security risks.

Giménez, who has been raising concerns about drone threats since his time as Miami-Dade County mayor, warned that technological advances, particularly in artificial intelligence, could make future drone incidents more dangerous.

“With the advent of artificial intelligence, when you don’t need a pilot anymore, those drones are going to pose a significant problem,” he said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5045702-carlos-gimenez-mystery-drones-pose-threat/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22187993 (182027ZDEC24) Notable: Ohio School District To Pay $450K To Teacher Fired For Not Using Trans Students’ Pronouns

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EXCLUSIVE: Ohio School District To Pay $450K To Teacher Fired For Not Using Trans Students’ Pronouns

“Geraghty’s sincerely held religious beliefs and scientific understanding govern her view that a person is male or female based on sex, not personal identity, and participating in a student’s social transition violates those beliefs by forcing her to communicate messages she believes are untrue and harmful to the student,” her legal team at Alliance Defending Freedom said in a press release.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-ohio-school-district-to-pay-450k-to-teacher-fired-for-not-using-trans-students-pronouns

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188024 (182034ZDEC24) Notable: Assassinated Russian General Accused Democrats of Funneling Profits from Secret Ukrainian Biolabs to Fund Elections

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Top Russian General Lt. General Igor Kirillov, Who Accused Democrats of Funneling Profits from Secret Ukrainian Biolabs to Fund Elections – Is Blown Up in Moscow

By Jim Hoft Dec. 18, 2024 10:00 am276 Comments



Source: Russian Ministry of Defence

As reported earlier in May 2022, Democrats in the US partnered with pharma companies and foundations led by George Soros and Bill Gates to set up bioresearch in Ukraine, using the project to generate additional funding for elections, the Russian military claimed in its latest biolab briefing.

“It needs to be said that the ideologues of US military biological research in Ukraine are leaders of the Democratic Party,” said Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, as reported by Russia Today.

According to RT, the US government set up a way to fund the military bio-research directly from the federal budget, but also used government guarantees to raise funds from “non-governmental organizations controlled by the leadership of the Democratic Party,” Kirillov said.

These organizations include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society and investment funds, the Rockefeller Foundation, the EcoHealth Alliance, and Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners, Kirillov claimed.

The Russian Defense Ministry spox also named Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and Gilead as involved in this scheme, “using it to test medications while bypassing international safety standards”, according to RT. In return, Big Pharma donates to the Democratic Party, Kirillov claimed.



Source: Russian Ministry of Defence

Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov was very outspoken in his numerous public statements on the US-funded Ukrainian biolab research.

Kirillov even accused Democrats of using the lab money to fund their elections at home.



The late Lt. General Igor Kirillov was blown up in Moscow this week.

The Kiev regime once again resorts to ‘asymmetrical tactics’ (a.k.a. terrorism) and assassinates a top Russian General, in a move that is sure to generate a considerable escalation and also certain retaliation by the Russians against top Ukrainian officials.

On Tuesday’s morning, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated on Moscow’s Ryazansky Prospekt.

The massive, deadly blast killed high-profile Russian chemical defense chief General Igor Kirillov.



Sputnik reported on Telegram:

“The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into the murder of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian Armed Forces, and his assistant.

The IED was planted on an electric scooter positioned at the entrance of a residential building in southeast Moscow.”

Lt. General Igor Kirillov was killed on the scene. He was the expert on the Ukrainian biolabs and their US Democrat Party connections.

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>>274845

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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1h

We’re funding bioweapon labs in this bill!

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869459369559224802

Libs of TikTok

@libsoftiktok

BREAKING: New Congressional Resolution bill includes funding for at least 12 new biolabs 🤔

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1869459012691107866

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188050 (182039ZDEC24) Notable: Assassinated Russian General Accused Democrats of Funneling Profits from Secret Ukrainian Biolabs to Fund Elections

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188061 (182041ZDEC24) Notable: Spending Bill They Say

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>>274842

I'm sorry, but we just can't pass disaster relief funding unless we also pass….new regulations on short term hotel room prices and all-inclusive vacations.

Vital shit, you see.

https://x.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1869472871174795589

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188070 (182043ZDEC24) Notable: THAT LITTLE PHOTOBOMBING PIECE OF SHIT BETTER KILL THAT BILL RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW!!!

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il Donaldo Trumpo

@ilpresidento

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THAT LITTLE PHOTOBOMBING PIECE OF SHIT BETTER KILL THAT BILL RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW!!!

https://truthsocial.com/@ilpresidento/posts/113675749048848376

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188127 (182052ZDEC24) Notable: #27154

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Fresh Dough

https://pastebin.us/?736f816533871c8e#ofHXH2mEhcU5MfqTWHsyvDwkcV1cjDrSkNAn2vxtpAj

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188136 (182053ZDEC24) Notable: THE STORM IS HERE!!! Papi on a tear

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>>274853

tyb

THE STORM IS HERE!!!😎🇺🇸⚡️⚡️⚡️

https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1869478023193575659

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>>274853 You know the thing bakes… Thanks

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188167 (182059ZDEC24) Notable: Elon - The terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

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BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul announces he will delay the passage of the massive Omnibus Spending Bill if it clears the House, potentially leading to a government shutdown if not passed by Friday.

https://x.com/Jesse_Morgan_/status/1869101360345645474

Great!

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1869470600978395509

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188179 (182102ZDEC24) Notable: Elon - The terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Your elected representatives have heard you and now the terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

VOX POPULI

VOX DEI

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188235 (182111ZDEC24) Notable: THE STORM IS HERE!!! Papi on a tear

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https://truthsocial.com/@ilpresidento/113675843656932896

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It’s not just the federal government who lies to you. Your local and state governments do as well. They mean you harm.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188291 (182120ZDEC24) Notable: Fake Plague 2.0 Bird Flu blah blah PANIC!

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Watch [CA].

Beta TestBed

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188302 (182121ZDEC24) Notable: Ukraine unveils laser weapon ‘based on UK prototypes’

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Ukraine unveils laser weapon ‘based on UK prototypes’

Iona Cleave Wed, December 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM EST

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article.

Key Takeaways

• Ukraine has developed a cutting-edge laser weapon that is ready to shoot down Russian jets, a military commander has revealed.

• The weapon is known as Tryzub (Trident), and is thought to have been modelled on a UK prototype after designs were shared with Kyiv earlier this year.

• Col Vadym Sukharevskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, said the advanced laser system is capable of downing aircraft at distances of more than 2km.

“It really works; it really exists,” he said at a defence industry conference, in Ukraine’s first official acknowledgement of the existence of Tryzub.The commander noted Ukraine was only the fifth country to possess a high-power laser weapon, which uses an intense light beam to cut through its target.

Trident, which is also a symbol featured on Ukraine’s coat of arms, was “already” ready to shoot down Russian jets, Col Sukharevskyi claimed, adding that efforts were under way to improve its capabilities. He did not elaborate further on its specifics, and The Telegraph cannot independently verify his claims.

Grant Shapps, the then defence secretary, said in Aprilthat the UK’s DragonFire laser, which is due to be deployed in 2027, could be used in Ukraine to counter Russian drones and missiles==. He said the laser guns, also known as directed energy weapons, could have “huge ramifications” for the conflict, adding that the British military was rushing to get it into service.

The DragonFire, built by British scientists, is a revolutionary £10-a-shot laser said to have enough precision to hit a £1 coin over a kilometre away.

Originally slated for production in 2033, the electrically powered system is now scheduled to be deployed on Royal Navy warships six years earlier than expected.

“It didn’t have to be 100 per cent perfect in order for Ukrainians perhaps to get their hands on it,” Mr Shapps said at the time. The UK Ministry of Defence has been asked for comment.

Trident could soon help defend Ukraine’s skies. Russian hypersonic missiles, which can travel as fast as 3,800mph, are difficult to target with physical weaponry but could be more easily shot down with a laser beam.

It could also provide an inexpensive means to counter Russia’s constant drone attacks.“The big deal with lasers is that they provide a way of downing cheap weaponssuch as drones without using something costing vastly more,” Martin J Dougherty, a weapons expert and author of Aircraft, Tanks and Artillery of the Ukraine War, told The Telegraph.

Mr Dougherty added that the war in Ukraine had helped usher in a new dawn of arms development, which he described as “cheap rubbish” – weapons designed to “overwhelm the expensive defence systems everyone has in place”. “Low-capability weapons are being deployed in huge numbers.

Lasering them seems to be a promisingly low-cost counter once the lasers themselves are in place,” he said.

Western militaries have been increasingly intrigued by laser guns as a cheap alternative to using expensive drones and missiles to shoot down and hit targets.

Speaking at the European Defence Industry: Prospects for Cooperation with the Ukrainian Defence Industry event in Kyiv, Col. Sukharevskyi alsodiscussed the development of so-called “queen drones”, which lead a flock of FPV (first-person view) attack drones. These unmanned aerial vehicles, he said, are capable of flying more than 70km into enemy territory to hit deep targets. He described them as a “breakthrough” in Ukrainian drone technology.

The Unmanned Systems Forces was established less than six months ago in response to Ukraine ramping up its domestic drone production. It includes combat and research units operating across air, land, and sea.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-unveils-crucial-laser-weapon-152041215.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188311 (182122ZDEC24) Notable: Fake Plague 2.0 Bird Flu blah blah PANIC!

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🚨Wisconsin reports first presumptive human case of bird flu

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1869493008594587684

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The Question of the Millennia

Did they learn Anything

Let's see what happens

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Comments show people are AWAKE!

Maybe the French Laundry is getting too crowded, and Newsom is getting tired of waiting for a table so this is a way for him to save all the nice stuff for himself

Someone needs to tell him the election is over.

Newsom is lying. There is zero need for concern.It’s a complete joke. DO NOT BE FOOLED AND DO NOT PANIC.

But 32 PEOPLE out the whole state of California have gotten it & they say you CANNOT pass it from person to person. THE WORLD IS ENDING!!! *sarcasm…obviously*

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188392 (182136ZDEC24) Notable: Johnson considers plan B amid Trump World opposition to spending deal

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Johnson considers plan B amid Trump World opposition to spending deal

(Snake like picture of Johnson)

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking at a plan B to fund the government ahead of Friday’s shutdown deadline as Republicans inside and outside the Capitol, including those from Trump world, slam his spending package.

The back-up option Johnson is examining is a “clean” continuing resolution, two sources familiar with the matter told The Hill. That would entail dropping the additional provisions that were included in the initial 1,500-page spending package negotiated by congressional leaders, including disaster aid and economic assistance for farmers.

The Speaker’s office declined to comment when reached by The Hill. Politico first reported on Johnson considering a plan B.

Talks of a plan B come as Johnson’s funding plan, which he rolled out on Tuesday, is facing intense criticism from Republicans of all stripes.On Wednesday, Trump told Fox News host Lawrence Jones III he is “totally against” the continuing resolution, following his allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in slamming the measure.

Musk, who has spent considerable time with Trump since his election, wrote on X that any lawmaker “who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!”

It remains unclear if Johnson will ultimately pull his spending package and put the “clean” continuing resolution on the floor. The Speaker has not yet scheduled a vote on the stopgap.

Switching would mark a win for hardline House conservatives, who railed against the stopgap for its sprawling nature. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), for example, told reporters on Wednesday “it’s not a CR, which is a continuation of the budget, it’s turning into an omnibus.”

If Johnson does, however, pull the negotiated spending package, the “clean” CR is not guaranteed to clear the lower chamber. Some Democrats are balking at the alternative plan because they secured a number of victories in the initial package, including full federal funding for the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

“Given the negotiations that have taken place, I don’t think that that would be agreeable to a good number of the Democratic Caucus — perhaps the majority,” Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) predicted.

Garcia pointed specifically to the emergency disaster aid and several other provisions, including nutrition and health measures, he described as “essential” for securing Democratic support.

“So I think it would become hugely problematic if we depart” from the negotiated package, he said.

The negotiated spending package would fund the government at current levels through March 14, extend the farm bill for one year and appropriate roughly $100 billion in disaster relief and $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers, among other authorizations.

(They don't list all the crap, all the nice fluffy stuff to distract from the crap)

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5047285-mike-johnson-spending-plan-b/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188437 (182141ZDEC24) Notable: Chris Murphy CT Dem Gaslights brighter than ever before

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SEN. MURPHY: "Why is Donald Trump engaged in this relentless campaign to try to silence journalists, media companies & his political opposition? It's because he's trying to steal from you."

"[Trump] wants to steal from ordinary Americans in order to make him and his Mar-a-Lago friends even richer."

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1869496580786589768

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188455 (182143ZDEC24) Notable: Elon - The terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

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DEVELOPING: Fox News is reporting that @elonmusk's outspoken opposition to the CR spending bill and his threats of supporting primary challenges may have just derailed the bill.

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1869496714878656910

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188483 (182147ZDEC24) Notable: RFK's very long fought battle with big pharma and vaccine poisonings

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Shocking…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "She came to me with a transcript of a secret meeting with i think 52 vaccine industry officials officials from all the regulatory agencies, FDA, CDC, NIH, the European Medical Association, the WHO. They all had a secret meeting in a off-CDC campus because they didn't want it to be subject to freedom of information requests."

"And they had convened this meeting because all these mothers who were complaining to CDC that my kid got poisoned by a vaccine and got autism. They actually did a study and they used the biggest database in the country called the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which is the vaccination records from the top 10 HMOs from millions of clients."

"They looked at the hepatitis B vaccine given during the first 30 days and they'd compare that to people, kids who got it later or didn't get it at all. That vaccine was just loaded with mercury. And what they found is kids who got it during the first 30 days had an 1135% greater chance of getting a later autism diagnosis."

"And they knew right then what was causing the autism. I've just been gone from one in 10,000 in my generation, and it still is in 69-year-old men, to one in 34 in my kids' generation. So they knew. And I don't know how it happened, but somebody had transcribed that meeting."

"And I published them in Rolling Stone magazine and in Salon simultaneously. And then Salon withdrew it six years later, withdrew the article, and then… Rolling Stone finally, 16 years later during the pandemic, when Rolling Stone was taken over by pharmaceutical people, they also withdrew it. And that was the beginning of my battle with the pharmaceutical industry."

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1869496160768888993

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188496 (182149ZDEC24) Notable: OFFICIAL statement from President Trump and JD Vance on the disgraceful Continuing Resolution bill

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🚨BREAKING: OFFICIAL statement from President Trump and JD Vance on the disgraceful Continuing Resolution bill:

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1869499827161317471

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188501 (182149ZDEC24) Notable: GOP leadership making threats to withhold hurricane funding unless they voted for bloated CR bill

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>>274872

>Who

A very prominent Republican member of Congress just called me and told me that GOP House Leadership threatened to withhold hurricane funding from their storm ravaged district unless they voted for the bloated, woke CR.

Also threatened their committee seats.

Dirty moves…

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1869496042452042207

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188570 (182159ZDEC24) Notable: THE STORM IS HERE!!! Papi on a tear

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188682 (182216ZDEC24) Notable: OFFICIAL statement from President Trump and JD Vance on the disgraceful Continuing Resolution bill

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Donald J. Trump

A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance:

The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.

Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.

Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country…

….Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.

THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!

Dec 18, 2024, 5:13 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113676124870048584

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188692 (182218ZDEC24) Notable: School gives child an assignment which asked kids to act out being LGBTQ and “coming out

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A father blasted the Vista Unified School Board for giving his child an assignment which asked kids to act out being LGBTQ and “coming out”

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1869259297370308749

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188699 (182219ZDEC24) Notable: BREAKING: George Stephanopolous expected to be FIRED by ABC News

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🚨BREAKING: George Stephanopolous expected to be FIRED by ABC News

https://x.com/BoLoudon/status/1869505264602558563

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188708 (182221ZDEC24) Notable: Elon - The terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

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one of those posts that make your eyes water from laughing too hard.

1547 pages of words to give dems everything they wanted and Elon posts a couple of times and kills it all. Truth is , Elon was probably doing 5 other things while typing those few word posts

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1869502149123797017

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188711 (182221ZDEC24) Notable: THE STORM IS HERE!!! Papi on a tear

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fucking correct. do you see a download button for retards. expodentially moar simpleton. make it so.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188722 (182222ZDEC24) Notable: @GenFlynn - STAY STEADY!

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https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1869486489123672521

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188759 (182230ZDEC24) Notable: Elon - The terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188771 (182232ZDEC24) Notable: Here’s the ‘secret sauce’ to identifying 60 years of US psyops

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Ready to be blown away? Here’s the ‘secret sauce’ to identifying 60 years of US psyops…December 18, 2024 (6 hours ago) ==1/2

Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson

The CIA has run psyops on the American public for years. In this 1983 clip, ex-agent Frank Snepp explains how the CIA did it in Vietnam.

@Snowden highlighted a clip of this interview as the most important of 2022. Here is the full discussion. 1. Spreading Disinformation

9:06 AM · Dec 9, 2022

https://x.com/bfcarlson/status/1601216811483250688

What we’re about to share might not blow your mind—you probably already know what’s up. But something remarkable is happening in this country right now, and it’s worth talking about. Americans, from both sides of the aisle and even the middle, who used to blindly trust the government and so-called “experts,” are now questioning everything. The same people who used to “go with the flow” are now giving every story and every elite claim a well-deserved side-eye.

The awakening started decades ago for some—the so-called “anti-government kooks” you were told to shun, mock, and dismiss as “weirdos” for daring to question the official narrative.

This is the “stereotypical” ’90s guy you were told to mock and fear—just because he didn’t buy what the government was selling. Little did we know back then, but this guy was way ahead of his time—and a national hero.

Widespread mistrust of the US government, media, and “experts” didn’t go mainstream until President Trump splashed onto the scene. That’s why they hate him so much. He’s the cog in their machine. The disruptor who yanked back the curtain and exposed just enough to jolt the country awake. Thanks mostly to Trump’s America First movement, we now know the truth: many so-called “experts” are just political pawns, there’s one big “uniparty” screwing us all over, and the fake news media is running a giant CIA psyop on the American people. ttps://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1706853987780059579

That’s right—we thought those CIA “mind control” tricks were reserved for foreign hellholes. Turns out, they’re using those same nasty tactics on us.

By now, you likely know how the CIA operates. They have a playbook for manipulating the masses, and it’s probably not as complicated as some might think. Their go-to weapon is psychological operations, or psyops—a fancy term for “mind games” on a global, now national, scale. They plant narratives in the media, push emotional triggers, and flood the airwaves with carefully crafted “crises” to steer public opinion exactly where they want it. They know fear and confusion make people easier to control, so they whip up hysteria, then swoop in with the “solution” that just happens to fit their agenda.

Amazing how that works, right?

These guys are pros at making you believe you came to these conclusions all on your own. Whether it’s hyping a foreign threat to funnel billions in tax dollars, vilifying a political opponent to throw him in jail, or pushing a mail-order pandemic, the strategy is always the same: control the story, shape the message, and silence dissenting voices. And if you dare to question the narrative, well, congrats—you’re now a “conspiracy theorist” or an anti-

American domestic terrorist.

Rinse and repeat.

Honestly, it’s manipulation in plain sight, and it’s happening every day in this country. The government doesn’t care about your well-being. They’re not guiding you; they’re herding you.

For those still on the fence and confused about what’s going on, we’ve got a simple way for you to spot new psyops—and even trace them back 60+ years. Sean Davis, editor of “The Federalist,” dropped a banger of a post exposing the sleazy, underhanded tricks our government has been pulling for decades.

https://revolver.news/2024/12/ready-to-be-blown-away-secret-sauce-to-identifying-60-years-of-us-psyops/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188784 (182235ZDEC24) Notable: Here’s the ‘secret sauce’ to identifying 60 years of US psyops

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Sean Davis:

Ready to have your minds blown? I know what’s going on with the drones, and I will share it with you. But I’m also to give you the secret to seeing through all the nonsense we’ve been peddled for 60+ years.

What I am about to reveal to you is the Rosetta Stone for interpreting every major news event. I will give you the secret to unlocking the mystery. One simple assumption will reveal everything. Are you ready?

“The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.”

That’s it. That’s all you need to assume, and you will be correct. Think I’m crazy? That it couldn’t possibly be that simple? That it could never be that obvious? Let’s try it out and see how it works.

• Who killed JFK? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• How did the cartels manage to get so many drugs into and so much cash out of the U.S.? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• Why were all those women and children at Waco burned to death? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• Who let the 9/11 hijackers into the U.S.? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• Why were there no WMDs in Iraq? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• What caused the housing market collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• What happened with all that Russian collusion stuff in 2016? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• Where did COVID originate? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• Why was discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop banned in 2020? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• Who blew up the NordStream pipeline? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

• And finally: what’s going on with all those drones in the Northeast? Say it with me: “The U.S. government is behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.”

Every time there is some major new story that everyone is fixated on, assume that the story exists because your government is trying to manipulate you for its own purposes, and you will be correct at least 9 out of 10 times. Maybe even 99 out of 100.

Follow this simple rule, and you will know what is actually happening before anyone else. You will appear to be clairvoyant. And you will have a superpower that no one in corporate media has: the ability to see the truth.

Use it wisely.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1868714070620168388

Well done, and spot-on, Sean.

Sure, you probably already know this stuff, but here’s the thing: it takes a “great awakening” to spark the kind of reform and reprogramming this country desperately needs. So spread the word, far and wide, and wake up anybody who’s still in a government-induced haze.

This realization is like toothpaste—once it’s out of the tube, there’s no shoving it back in. So keeping that in mind, here are some memes to inspire and enlighten you.

https://revolver.news/2024/12/ready-to-be-blown-away-secret-sauce-to-identifying-60-years-of-us-psyops/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188832 (182248ZDEC24) Notable: Speaker Johnson the ultimate HEEL? or just playing one on TV?

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.@SpeakerJohnson personally killed a bipartisan, bicameral expansion + spending cap RECA deal. It was him alone.

BUT he’s willing to spend BILLIONS on Ukraine and foreign wars and every pork barrel project known to man

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AND…@SpeakerJohnson pulled out the RECA Compromise Bill! I just can’t with this guy anymore. It might be time for a discharge petition!

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It's literally the 3rd or 4th times he's betrayed Trump, MAGA, Republicans and even DemocratsHe is responsible for our defecit is at $36 Trillion, he agreed with all of it. ==He should go back and read the bible and go to Church. Congress is getting worse because he's so freakin weak.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188836 (182249ZDEC24) Notable: Speaker Johnson the ultimate HEEL? or just playing one on TV?

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188867 (182258ZDEC24) Notable: High Altitude Unmanned Balloon Passes Through DC, New Jersey

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zerohedge

@zerohedge

High Altitude Unmanned Balloon Passes Through DC, New Jersey

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188890 (182303ZDEC24) Notable: Trump’s Ukraine envoy condemns murder of Russian general

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Trump’s Ukraine envoy condemns murder of Russian general. Kiev broke “the rules of warfare” by targeting a top military officer in Moscow, Keith Kellogg has said(Oh Shit Zelensky and team are f’ed)

The assassination of Russian General Igor Kirillov in Moscow probably won’t impede peace talks, but was “not a good idea at all” for Kiev, US President-elect Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, has said.

Kirillov, who commanded the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, was killed in an explosion in southeastern Moscow early on Tuesday. The Russian authorities have detained a suspect, whom they say was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence and paid to carry out the attack.

In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Kellogg was asked whether the murder of Kirillov would hinder peace talks between Moscow and Kiev, which Trump hopes to broker once inaugurated next month.

“I don’t think it’s really a setback,” he responded, “but I would say this: there are rules of warfare and there are certain things that you just kind of don’t do.”

“When you’re killing flag officers, general officers – admirals or generals – in their hometown, it’s kind of like you’re extending it and I don’t think it’s really smart to do it. It’s not kind of the rules of war,”he continued, reiterating that the bombing was “not a good idea at all, in my opinion.”

In light of the murder, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that “all NATO decision-makers” from countries assisting Ukraine “can and should be considered legitimate military targets for the Russian state.”

Kellogg, formerly a lieutenant general in the US Army, confirmed to Fox News thathe will travel to Kiev before next month’s inauguration on a “fact-finding” mission. Kellogg will not travel to Moscow, but according to a Bloomberg report earlier on Wednesday, ==he is open to the idea.

Previously a staunch supporter of increased military aid to Kiev, Kellogg was nominated as Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia last month. In an announcement on social media, the incoming president promised that Kellogg would help “secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!”

Back in June, Kellogg told Reuters that he had advised Trump to use military aid as leverage to force Moscow and Kiev into peace talks.“We tell the Ukrainians: ‘You’ve got to come to the table, and if you don’t come to the table, support from the United States will dry up,’” he told the news agency.

“And you tell [Russian President Vladimir] Putin he’s got to come to the table and if you don’t come to the table, then we’ll give Ukrainians everything they need to kill you in the field.”

Trump has repeatedly promised to end the conflict within a day of taking office, without providing any detailed plan as to how he intends to achieve this goal.

Moscow maintains that any settlement must begin with Ukraine ceasing military operations and acknowledging the “territorial reality” that it will never regain control of the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, as well as Crimea. In addition, the Kremlin insists that the goals of its military operation – which include Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – will be achieved.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609564-russian-general-trump-envoy/

(This is the best think Kellogg has done, he should have given condolences, but that might be too far. But it would go a long way. So Zelensky and crew can't commit terrorism when Trump gets in.)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188896 (182303ZDEC24) Notable: TRUMP TRUTH - Really too bad that AOC lost the Battle for the Leadership Seat in the Democrat Party

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Kek!

Really too bad that AOC lost the Battle for the Leadership Seat in the Democrat Party. She should keep trying. Someday, she will be successful!

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113676181382851560

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188912 (182306ZDEC24) Notable: Fed cuts by a quarter point, indicates fewer reductions ahead

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Fed cuts by a quarter point, indicates fewer reductions ahead

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/18/fed-rate-decision-december-2024-.html

But the Market sells off! not a pretty chart at all. More selling coming

The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank deeper into the history books on Wednesday, with the index posting its 10th straight losing day as a disappointing rate outlook by the Federal Reserve rocked the stock market.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/17/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

Rough ride coming

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188928 (182311ZDEC24) Notable: Roger Stone - Sources say Biden will not be pardoning Pelosi and she will remain in Europe

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WOOT!!

https://x.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1869249524671381794

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188930 (182311ZDEC24) Notable: DOJ sues CVS for filling unlawful opioid prescriptions

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https://x.com/WCVB/status/1869503613384511693

Opium War never ended

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188939 (182313ZDEC24) Notable: TRUMP TRUTH on how to win - CALL THEIR BLUFF

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188971 (182318ZDEC24) Notable: Fake Plague 2.0 Bird Flu blah blah PANIC!

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Declares State of Emergency After First ‘Severe’ Human Bird Flu Case Hits US

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/18/governor-newsom-takes-proactive-action-to-strengthen-robust-state-response-to-bird-flu/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188991 (182322ZDEC24) Notable: Continuing Resolution Includes Section For House Offices to Quash Third Party Subpoenas of “House Data”

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Unconstitutional?? Continuing Resolution Includes Section For House Offices to Quash Third Party Subpoenas of “House Data” – Disregards Separation of Powers Doctrine

When control of the US House shifted after the 2022 midterms in favor of Republicans, there was not much that could be accomplished in terms of conservative legislation given the Democrat control that remained in both the Senate and the White House. However, that didn’t stop the House investigations into numerous issues within the federal government. From the January 6th Committee to the Hunter Biden Laptop to mass censorship collusion between the government and Big Tech, and most importantly, the overall weaponization of the Department of Justice against a political rival, the 118th Congress was never going to be much more than “strongly worded letters” and “kick the can down the road” legislation.

However, that all changed following the 2024 Presidential Election when President Trump and the MAGA-led GOP, as admitted by Mitt Romney this week, won not only an electoral landslide and the popular vote, but also maintained control of the House, and most notably, regained the Senate by a 53-47 majority. The “mandate” from the American people has been made clear.

Given that mandate, it is simply mind-boggling why Speaker Mike Johnson would introduce a Continuing Resolution (CR) that contained a section essentially mandating a court to “quash or modify any legal process directed to the provider for a House office if compliance…would require the disclosure of House data of the House office.”

Section 605 Treatment of Electronic Services Provided for House Offices does just that.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/unconstitutional-continuing-resolution-includes-section-house-offices-quash/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22188994 (182323ZDEC24) Notable: @elonmusk The voice of the people was heard. This was a good day for America

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The voice of the people was heard.

This was a good day for America.

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GOP KY Rep Barr on CR: The phone was ringing off the hook today. And you know why? Because they were reading the tweets, the X from musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and they were telling me that they were, that they were listening to them.. this shows the influence that president,

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189003 (182324ZDEC24) Notable: @elonmusk The voice of the people was heard. This was a good day for America

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Chad Pergram

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GOP KY Rep Barr on CR: The phone was ringing off the hook today. And you know why? Because they were reading the tweets, the X from musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and they were telling me that they were, that they were listening to them.. this shows the influence that president, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have in this process before they're even in office. The American people elected Donald Trump, and the American people want us to pay attention to that election and that election results, and so we've got to work. This is an important lesson for the the new unified Republican majority, that we have to work.. I do think the path forward is a skinny CR where you just take the 100 pages that the Appropriations Committee produced and everything else falls out… I think that included the disaster..

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189027 (182327ZDEC24) Notable: @DanCrenshawTX is spearheading the effort to get a pay raise for Congress

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Nick Sortor

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🚨 NEW: DC sources tell me that

@DanCrenshawTX

is spearheading the effort to get a pay raise for Congress

Last week when he was asked about his stock trading, Crenshaw whined that members of Congress haven’t had a pay raise since 2009.

Crenshaw ALMOST got his way, with a pay increase for members + benefits being included in today’s massive spending boondoggle.

Recently, Crenshaw even said “you have no way to better yourself as a Congressman” without being able to trade stocks. That’s INSANE.

THIS GUY is responsible for LOADS of the garbage we see being thrown into spending bills. All for his own benefit.

Time for Eye Patch McCain to go.

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https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1869519936605090077

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189053 (182332ZDEC24) Notable: Trump TRUTH Sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive Continuing Resolution, PLUS, is dying fast

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Donald J. Trump

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Sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive Continuing Resolution, PLUS, is dying fast, but can anyone imagine passing it without either terminating, or extending, the Debt Ceiling guillotine coming up in June? Unless the Democrats terminate or substantially extend Debt Ceiling now, I will fight ‘till the end. This is a nasty TRAP set in place by the Radical Left Democrats! They are looking to embarrass us in June when it comes up for a Vote. The people that extended it, from September 28th to June 1st, should be ashamed of themselves. It was political malpractice! Also, the Communist Global Engagement Center, a project of Crooked Hillary Clinton, should not in any way, shape, or form be extended and, the shielding of the very corrupt J6 Unselect Committee of Political Losers and Thugs would be suicidal for any Republican approving it. Likewise, this is not a good time for Congress to be asking for pay increases. Hopefully, you’ll be entitled to such an increase in the near future when we, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Dec 18, 2024, 6:27 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113676417276966776



Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189124 (182347ZDEC24) Notable: Pornhub will deny access to all Florida users because children will not be allowed to participate

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Pornhub, the world’s most popular pornography website, will deny access to all users in Florida beginning on January 1, 2025, in protest of the state’s new age verification requirements that protect children from adult content.

The decision comes as a protest against the state’s new age verification requirements imposed by HB 3, a law set to take effect at the beginning of the year.

Aylo, Pornhub’s parent company, confirmed the upcoming restrictions in an email, stating that the way Florida and many other jurisdictions have chosen to implement age verification is “ineffective, haphazard and dangerous.”

READ (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/18/they-want-your-kids-pornhub-to-block-access-in-florida-over-age-verification-law/)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189175 (182353ZDEC24) Notable: #27155

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NEEDING HANDOFF

Baker NEEDS HandOff

FRESH DOUGH

https://pastebin.us/?05ec02c3bf1a3122#EgUQhHmgnvXb6uzGfFjcjdkLVvTeJXLj1XQoA3EtbiLJ

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189187 (182354ZDEC24) Notable: POTUS Truth - If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration.

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If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried. Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025.

Dec 18, 2024, 6:40 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113676468224007678

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189201 (182358ZDEC24) Notable: POTUS Truth - If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration.

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If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried. Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113676468224007678

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189206 (182359ZDEC24) Notable: POTUS Truth - Sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive Continuing Resolution, PLUS, is dying fast, but can anyone imagine passing it without either terminating, or extending, the Debt Ceiling guillotine coming up in June?

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Sounds like the ridiculous and extraordinarily expensive Continuing Resolution, PLUS, is dying fast, but can anyone imagine passing it without either terminating, or extending, the Debt Ceiling guillotine coming up in June? Unless the Democrats terminate or substantially extend Debt Ceiling now, I will fight ‘till the end. This is a nasty TRAP set in place by the Radical Left Democrats! They are looking to embarrass us in June when it comes up for a Vote. The people that extended it, from September 28th to June 1st, should be ashamed of themselves. It was political malpractice! Also, the Communist Global Engagement Center, a project of Crooked Hillary Clinton, should not in any way, shape, or form be extended and, the shielding of the very corrupt J6 Unselect Committee of Political Losers and Thugs would be suicidal for any Republican approving it. Likewise, this is not a good time for Congress to be asking for pay increases. Hopefully, you’ll be entitled to such an increase in the near future when we, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113676417276966776

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22189209 (190000ZDEC24) Notable: Baker change

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>>274905

the more ya use em the faster they grow

kek

Handoff Confirmed

TYVM for stepping up bakes

Godspeed