/qnotables20/ - ===Q Notables 2020===

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26167 (182222ZDEC20) Notable: Potus Bill Announcements

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Bill Announcement

Issued on: December 18, 2020

On Friday, December 18, 2020, the President signed into law:

S. 910, the “National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2020,” which reauthorizes the National Sea Grant College Program through fiscal year 2025; clarifies that the scope of the program includes financial assistance for research, training, and technology transfer; and modifies the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program;

S. 945, the “Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act,” which requires certain issuers of securities to establish that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government, specifically if the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is unable to audit specified reports because the issuer has retained a foreign public accounting firm that is not subject to inspection by the Board;

S. 1069, the “Digital Coast Act,” which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to maintain a program capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices to improve local, State, and Federal capacities to manage the coastal region; and

S. 1982, the “Save Our Seas 2.0 Act,” which establishes a nongovernmental Marine Debris Foundation and a prize competition for the “Genius Prize for Save Our Seas Innovation”; increases efforts to engage, cooperate, and coordinate with other governmental and nongovernmental entities to raise international awareness of plastic waste and combat marine debris; and creates infrastructure grant programs to be administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/bill-announcement-121820/

Trump signs bill that could kick Chinese firms off U.S. stock exchanges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that would kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges unless they adhere to American auditing standards, the White House said.

"The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act" bars securities of foreign companies from being listed on any U.S. exchange if they have failed to comply with the U.S. Public Accounting Oversight Board's audits for three years in a row.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/trump-signs-bill-that-could-kick-chinese-firms-off-us-stock-exchanges-2372049

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26168 (182223ZDEC20) Notable: Potus Bill Announcements, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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>>187574

26 mins ago

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26209 (182323ZDEC20) Notable: Herridge: #FBI expected to brief on Swalwell matter on Capitol Hill including House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 7AAAE78C_3704_4333_991F_A0A5B0C4A3AF.jpeg

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Anyone grab from Twatt etc.. and bring back?

https://mobile.twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1340038428671553536

#FBI expected to brief on Swalwell matter on Capitol Hill including House minority leader Kevin McCarthy

@GOPLeader

+ implications for house intelligence committee

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26212 (182324ZDEC20) Notable: planefaggin, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: CLUB25_USAF_E_4B_Nightwatch_out_from_Offutt_AFB_se_for_seconf_time_today_RUFF07_USN_Mercury_west_from_Pax_321pm_pst_121820.png

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CLUB25 USAF E-4B Nightwatch is out for the second time todayand se from Offutt

Sec. of Defense uses this tail #

It went ne earlier over central Michigan and had a tanker above it for a little bit then back to Offutt.

RUFF07 US Navy E-6B Mercury continues west from Pax River

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26213 (182325ZDEC20) Notable: Pompeo: The Hong Kong 12 should be released immediately., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 6783940D_7BA6_4532_B8B1_F318C7ED5B39.jpeg

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The Hong Kong 12 should be released immediately. Their so-called “crime” was to flee tyranny. Communist China today is turning Hong Kong into the East Berlin of yesteryear, actively preventing its own people from seeking freedom elsewhere.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1340035080861921284

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26218 (182327ZDEC20) Notable: Pompeo: Always good to speak with Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: C681CF72_C13A_42AD_93B1_DE1FCD03A8A2.jpeg

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https://mobile.twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1340048944928317440

Always good to speak with Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs

@teddyboylocsin

about our shared interests in the South China Sea. The U.S.-Philippine Alliance is vital to a free and open Indo-Pacific. #FriendsPartnersAllies

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26223 (182333ZDEC20) Notable: Herridge: #FBI expected to brief on Swalwell matter on Capitol Hill including House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 78C0B062_FBB7_4B6E_89C0_5E3CCA51FC1A.jpeg

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>>187576

BREAKING REPORT: Kevin McCarthy Says DNI John Ratcliffe Delivered the Report on Swalwell

The FBI on Friday briefed GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Pelosi on Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with Chinse spy Fang Fang.

McCarthy emerged from the briefing Friday afternoon and told reporters at the Capitol that Swalwell ‘should not be on intel’ committee.

“I just think there are definitely 200 other Democrats that I know could fill that place,” McCarthy said.

Swalwell currently sits on the House Intelligence Committee and has access to some of the nation’s most highly classified information.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-report-kevin-mccarthy-says-dni-john-ratcliffe-delivered-elections-intel-briefing-due-today/

https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1340072012593700869

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26231 (182343ZDEC20) Notable: Waltons Transfer $48 Billion of Walmart Shares to Family Trust, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: walmart_walton_family_trust_dump_121820.png

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Walton Family Trust sold Walmart, Inc.: $218.48m-Dec 17,18

cap #2 is Nov sale

from March 9, 2020

Waltons Transfer $48 Billion of Walmart Shares to Family Trust

The world’s wealthiest family moved $48 billion of Walmart Inc. stock to a different holding company in an action that may signal future share sales and bolster their philanthropy. Walton Enterprises LLC, the main investment entity of the retailer’s founding clan, transferred about 15% of Walmart’s outstanding shares to the Walton Family Holdings Trust, according to regulatory filings last week. The shift of 415 million shares represented about 29% of the shares held by Walton Enterprise. This entity now owns about 1 billion shares. The family owns about half of the retailer’s outstanding shares and last week’s transaction doesn’t change their overall stake. But if previous selling patterns by the trust are any guide, disposals may occur. In the past five years, the trust has sold 98% of the 194 million shares that were distributed to it in April 2015.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/waltons-transfer-48-billion-of-walmart-shares-to-family-trust-1.1402575

https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/

Reported by three family members

Robson Walton

https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1219112&tc=7

Alice Walton

https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1013440&tc=7

Jim Walton

https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1219106&tc=7

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26234 (182346ZDEC20) Notable: David Rothschild: Russia - look here, not at Chyna!!, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: C5CE2C83_313C_4D73_8CB0_87B4F24D9757.jpeg

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David Rothschild - ignore Salawell, Russia attacked us

https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1340076510233960448

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26235 (182346ZDEC20) Notable: Seattle takes down second CHAZ/CHOP, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: andy_ngo_on_takedown_of_new_zone_in_seattle.png

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Andy Ngô

@MrAndyNgo

After days, the city of Seattle sent in a huge team of police & city workers to dismantle the antifa autonomous zone at Cal Anderson Park, the site of the former CHAZ occupation. 11 people were arrested. #antifa

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1340073465735475210

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26251 (190005ZDEC20) Notable: Andrew Yang raises eyebrows with call for proof-of-vaccination barcodes, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: uiDb8vpu.jpeg

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Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26265 (190032ZDEC20) Notable: Herridge: FBI must provide FISC with intel that undercuts first FISA, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: herr_0.png, herridge_extraordinary_and_unique.png, herridge_extraordinary_and_unique_2.png

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>>>/midnightriders/26258

if you like pens.....

Catherine Herridge

@CBS_Herridge

#SpecialCounselDurham Newly released

@petestrzok text messages show

@carterwpage denied knowing Russian at heart of Steele dossier allegations DAYS before first FISA 2016. FBI has obligation to provide FISC with intel that supports + UNDERCUTS surveillance warrant application.

https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1340089191561093120

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26268 (190038ZDEC20) Notable: PM on Secy Hobbs defending resistance of Maricopa County Boar of Supervisors to lawful subpoena, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: pm_on_hobbs.png

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Praying Medic @prayingmedic

The courts can't provide a remedy for fraudulent elections because it might set a precedent.

Local officials can't comply with lawful subpoenas because

it might set a precedent.

When crooks run the government.

https://twitter.com/prayingmedic/status/1340088346782048256

[Hobb's stmt here ]

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In case you forgot, @SecretaryHobbs

once called Trump supporters neo-Nazis.

4:23 PM · Dec 18, 2020·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/prayingmedic/status/1340090459255832576

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26275 (190054ZDEC20) Notable: Gen. Flynn to RINO Rep. Adam Kitzinger: "Study the Constitution!", MISSING MEDIA/FILES: flynn_slam.png

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‘Study the Constitution’: General Michael Flynn Slams RINO Congressman for Rejecting Martial Law to Overturn Vote Steal

Flynn put this sniveling RINO in his place

General Michael Flynn schooled Rep. Adam Kitzinger (R-IL) after the anti-Trump RINO lawmaker suggested that the military could not be deployed to re-do the disputed 2020 presidential election marred with irregularities.

Kitzinger made a pathetic Twitter post in which he begged for a return of the Bush-era Republican Party that everybody hated and was regularly smoked at the polls by former president Barack Hussein Obama.

He wrote: “No. The military will not be “deployed” to re-run an election. It’s time for this to be shut down, and now. Gen. Flynn has lost his moral authority to be taken seriously, and the GOP needs to stand up to it.

This ridiculous comment is what prompted Gen. Flynn to smack down Kitzinger:

Kitzinger is shaking in his boots because Gen. Flynn’s strength is starting to resonate with patriots in the Republican Party who have had enough of tolerating blatant fraud.....

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/study-the-constitution-general-michael-flynn-slams-rino-congressman-for-rejecting-martial-law-to-overturn-vote-steal/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26285 (190102ZDEC20) Notable: Gen. Flynn: Other countries have intel on our elections they're willing to share with the US

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General Flynn with Lou Dobbs

WOW! General Flynn says that other countries had their intelligence agencies monitoring our election and are “more than willing” to share the intel directly with POTUS.

HUGE!

https://twitter.com/TArrived17/status/1340064354679599107

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26290 (190106ZDEC20) Notable: No. 2 Republican Senator John Thune Warns Gov't Shutdown Could Happen This Weekend, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: govt_shutdown_imminent.png

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No. 2 Republican Senator Warns Government Shutdown Could Happen This Weekend

A member of the Republican leadership in the Senate warned a partial government shutdown may occur starting early on Saturday morning.

Funding for the federal government is slated to expire at midnight on Friday.

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said that some senators might not support a continuing resolution to fund the government if leaders do not come to an agreement on separate CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus stimulus measures.

“If it’s for a very short amount of time on a weekend, hopefully it’s not going to be something that would be all that harmful,” Thune told Fox Business. “The preferable route is to keep the government open and get this done and get it done quickly.”

In a comment to another reporter on Friday, Thune said that passing the continuing resolution to avert the government shutdown “could prove to be a pretty heavy lift.” The Senate would need the support of every senator to approve the measure in a timely manner, Thune said.

“It’s coming together, it’s just taking time, but it’s slower,” he added. “And you know I think we have to assume that even when there’s a deal announced, that by the time it gets written up and processed, we’re going to be pushing through the weekend.”.....

https://www.theepochtimes.com/top-republican-warns-government-shutdown-could-happen-this-weekend_3624723.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub

https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1340098275924455425

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26292 (190108ZDEC20) Notable: Lin Woods tweetstorm goes full kraken on Justice Roberts & flt log entry

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Lin Wood tweetstorm goes full Kraken on Justice Roberts and Epstein flight log entry

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/lin-wood-tweetstorm-goes-full-kraken-on-justice-roberts-epstein-conspiracy/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26325 (190133ZDEC20) Notable: Antrim County: 22 Dominion machines authorized for forensic audit

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The forensic audit of 22 Dominion Voting Systems machines had been authorized on December 4th by an Antrim County judge after it was found that the Dominion machines had flipped 6,000 votes in the historically Republican county from Trump to Biden.

https://drrichswier.com/2020/12/13/gag-order-failed-forensic-results-of-dominion-machines-stealing-votes-leaked/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26329 (190136ZDEC20) Notable: SC Responds To Claims That Roberts Screamed At Other Justices Over Texas Election Lawsuit, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 84dc034a11f5e4b85cc9b243f1a6ef4a294.jpg

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Supreme Court Responds To Claims That Roberts Screamed At Other Justices Over Texas Election Lawsuit

A spokesperson for the U.S. Supreme Court disputed a report that claimed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts shouted at the eight other justices in a room in the high court, urging them not to the Texas election lawsuit against four other key states.

As guidance, the court “has been conducting its conferences remotely by phone since March when the building closed due to the pandemic,” a Supreme Court spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email on Friday in response to a question about the claim.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/supreme-court-responds-claims-roberts-screamed-other-justices-over-texas-election-lawsuit

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26330 (190137ZDEC20) Notable: Seattle antifa autonomous zone - new city council guidelines, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: seattle.png

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https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1340073465735475210

(pic related)

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Under new guidelines, the Seattle City Council has said they do not want police involved in clearing encampments, but Seattle Parks officials said conditions have become too dangerous to be at the park without police protection.

"Recent regular (Seattle Parks & Recreation) maintenance efforts have been met with threats of physical violence which is why SPR has had to request the assistance of the Seattle Police Department to ensure the safety of park maintenance and other City employees," a parks spokesperson told KOMO News on Wednesday. "Individuals have barricaded a portion of the park and intentionally set a fire to a tent. SFD has reported five fires in the last month."

An activist named Ada Yaeger, who had been living in a 'protest encampment' in the park since the summer, sued the city to try and prevent SPD from clearing the encampment. The clearing was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but the city postponed the removal pending a ruling on the case. US District Judge Richard Jones ruled on Thursday that the lawsuit would not stop the city from moving in to clear out the people camping there.

More in this article:

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-seattle-police-dismantle-new-autonomous-zone

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and here:

https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/1340037270020083712

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26346 (190148ZDEC20) Notable: Russia hack claims: What is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)?

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Russia hack claims: What is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)?

Established under President Trump in 2018, CISA operates under DHS oversight

The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently reported widespread hacks involving government agencies and private businesses – an apparent attack linked to Russia that may have gone unreported for up to nine months.

The hack compromised federal agencies and "critical infrastructure" in a sophisticated attack that was hard to detect and will be difficult to undo, CISA announced in an unusual warning message Thursday.

Established under President Trump in 2018, CISA operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight.

Its activities are a continuation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). CISA was established when Trump signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act.

CISA’s mission is to "build the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks" and to work "with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the .gov networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies."

CISA is an independent arm under DHS, on par with the Secret Service or Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Christopher Krebs was CISA’s first director. He was fired by President Donald Trump in November.

Like the NPPD, CISA oversees the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA), the Office of Cybersecurity & Communications (OC&C) and the Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP).

In an effort to reduce CISA’s backlog in cybersecurity vulnerability assessments, a Senate panel recently proposed offering CISA an additional $59 million in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget.

For the 2020 election, the agency conducted 131 remote penetration tests and 59 onsite risk and vulnerability assessments for local election infrastructure and approximately 263 election officials around the country are receiving weekly vulnerability scan reports. It also helped train thousands of election officials through online security courses.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russia-hack-claims-what-is-the-cybersecurity-infrastructure-security-agency-cisa

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26362 (190221ZDEC20) Notable: Has the die been cast? Silence is deafening., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: b141dd3bdcfdec8354.jpg

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Fresh CM

Has the die been cast?

Silence is deafening.

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1340113356204638209

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26364 (190225ZDEC20) Notable: On election night in the United States, bandwidth between the United States and Frankfurt Germany reached a new record:, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 040934256488451.jpg, Dr_Keshavarz_Nia.jpg

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CM rt

Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

Level 1:

On election night in the United States, bandwidth between the United States and Frankfurt Germany reached a new record: DE-CIX Frankfurt hits 10 Tbps peak traffic - DE-CIX

https://twitter.com/PatrickByrne/status/1340040934256488451

Dr. Keshavarz-Nia, "results were forwarded to servers located in Frankfurt, Germany."

Col. Phil Waldron, "We observed packet traffic going to a server in Frankfurt, Germany."

Is this US election data being sent to Frankfurt, Germany on election night?

It couldn't be... right?

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1340108877870710785

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26367 (190231ZDEC20) Notable: Wells Fargo to Sell Student Loan Book to Apollo, Blackstone

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Wells Fargo to Sell Student Loan Book to Apollo, Blackstone

Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to sell its $10 billion private student loan book to a group including Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Group Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Wells Fargo said in a statement late on Friday that it had agreed to the sale, without identifying the investors or disclosing terms. Apollo and Blackstone were the purchasers, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a private matter. Bloomberg reported the talks earlier this month. Representatives for Apollo and Blackstone declined to comment. A representative for Wells Fargo declined to comment beyond the statement. The loan portfolio will be serviced by Nelnet Inc., a student-loan servicing firm, according to the statement. Wells Fargo has been in talks to pare back certain businesses as Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf, who took over late last year, prepares to lay out his vision for the beleaguered lender. In his time atop the firm, Scharf has been conducting business reviews and promised a simpler structure focusing on key units. He told analysts in October that Wells Fargo will “continue to exit some things which aren’t core to the U.S. banking franchise.”

Wells Fargo has also been exploring selling its $607 billion asset manager, as well as its corporate trust and private-label credit cards businesses, Bloomberg has reported. The lender was expected to receive second-round bids for its asset management arm on Friday, Dow Jones reported. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo notified customers in September that it would exit the private student loan business. It will accept new applications from existing private student loan borrowers until late January, according to the statement. The principal balance of the student loan portfolio was $10 billion at the end of September, it said.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wells-fargo-to-sell-student-loan-book-to-apollo-blackstone-1.1538781

This gets all the non-performing (or whatever is included in these trans.) paper off Wells Fartgo's books and buried at Apollo and Blackstone.

See Country-Wide and Bank of Italy America in early 2008 and in no way done prior to the engineered take down of the markets in late Sept. /s

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26371 (190238ZDEC20) Notable: Peter Navarro tells @gregkellyusa "we cannot as a nation inaugurate an 'illegitimate' Presiden, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Dec_18_21_34.jpg, 1zElKqLX3B6R4uAb.mp4

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CM rt

Peter Navarro tells @gregkellyusa "we cannot as a nation inaugurate an 'illegitimate' President that a large segment of this country think 'stole' the election." http://nws.mx/tv

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1340094853061984256

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26377 (190245ZDEC20) Notable: On election night in the United States, bandwidth between the United States and Frankfurt Germany reached a new record:

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>>>/midnightriders/26372

https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickByrne/status/1340040934256488451

On election night in the United States, bandwidth between the United States and Frankfurt Germany reached a new record: DE-CIX Frankfurt hits 10 Tbps peak traffic - DE-CIX

https://www.de-cix.net/en/about-de-cix/news/de-cix-frankfurt-hits-10-tbps-peak-traffic

and Note the background colors on both

Gold and Silver.

Byrne did an extensive job documenting wall st. largresse at deepcapture.com

Tons of evidence and it never went anywhere.

They tried to make Mark Cuban the face of all of that after Byrne sort of kept queit-that was another management job ala Occupy cock wall street.

commented on this in gen with the backgrounds

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26387 (190301ZDEC20) Notable: Lin Wood-I have never had my pro hac vice status denied or challenged., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screen_Shot_2020_12_18_at_9_00_39_PM.png

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https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1340129433651429377

Over 43 years of law practice, I have appeared in cases in 27 states. I have never had my pro hac vice status denied or challenged.

Now I fight for truth to be exposed & law upheld in cases involving

@realDonaldTrump

election & am accused of improper conduct.

Connect the dots.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26388 (190302ZDEC20) Notable: Judicial Watch-Our investigation of voter rolls nationwide turned up 2.5M extra names, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screen_Shot_2020_12_18_at_9_01_43_PM.png

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https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1340129730641747968

Our investigation of voter rolls nationwide turned up 2.5M extra names. Our analysis of data from the U.S Election Assistance Commission found 378 counties that had a combined 2.5 million more voter registrations than citizens old enough to vote. Read:

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26390 (190307ZDEC20) Notable: SC Responds To Claims That Roberts Screamed At Other Justices Over Texas Election Lawsuit, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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>>187527 pb

>>187539 pb

Notables #118

Alleged shouting from Justice Roberts re Texas case - true or not?

Supreme Court Responds To Claims That Roberts Screamed At Other Justices Over Texas Election Lawsuit

by Tyler Durden Friday, Dec 18, 2020 - 15:28

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

A spokesperson for the U.S. Supreme Court disputed a report that claimed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts shouted at the eight other justices in a room in the high court, urging them not to the Texas election lawsuit against four other key states.

As guidance, the court “has been conducting its conferences remotely by phone since March when the building closed due to the pandemic,” a Supreme Court spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email on Friday in response to a question about the claim.

The statement contradicts what a GOP Texas elector, Matt Patrick, said earlier this week, claiming that an anonymous person said that “the Justices went into a closed room” to determine whether to take the Texas lawsuit that was eventually dismissed. Then, according to the elector, “When the Texas case was brought up he said he heard screaming through the walls as Justice Roberts and the other liberal Justices were insisting … afraid of what would happen if they did the right thing.”

The claim first appeared on Hal Turner’s website, sourcing an alleged “clerk for one of the [Supreme Court] justices.” It is unclear where Patrick obtained his information.

“The Justices met in a closed and sealed room, as is standard,” Turner’s website said, citing the alleged Supreme Court whistleblower.

“Usually it is very calm, however today we could hear screaming all the way down the hall. They met in person, because they didn’t trust telephonic meeting as secure. Chief Justice Roberts was screaming, ‘Are you going to be responsible for the rioting if we hear this case?’”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/supreme-court-responds-claims-roberts-screamed-other-justices-over-texas-election-lawsuit

https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-court-responds-to-claim-that-john-roberts-shouted-at-other-justices-over-texas-lawsuit_3624378.html

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Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26392 (190311ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: XA340_USAF_G5_ne_from_Maui_706pm_pst_121820.png, XA340_USAF_G5_north_depart_from_Maui_and_back_703pm_pst_121820.png, USAF_G5_09_0525_wheels_up.png

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XA340 formerly SAM340 USAF G5 departed Maui ne after an arrival on 1216 from Peterson AFB depart

JBA departure on 1214 to Offutt AFB prior to Peterson arrival

On 1217 in departed north as XA340 (cap 2) then returned about three hours later...having some 40ft discussions that day?

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26397 (190323ZDEC20) Notable: LA Is Spending $130,000 Per "Tiny Home" To Shelter Its Homeless, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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LA Is Spending $130,000 Per "Tiny Home" To Shelter Its Homeless

by Tyler Durden Friday, Dec 18, 2020 - 22:00

When, last week, we wrote about 56% of Americans stating they would be OK living in a "tiny home", this isn't what we had in mind.

But apparently, in L.A., being homeless has its perks. What better way for California to help get its budget crisis under control than to pay for minimalist structures, known as “tiny homes”, to the total cost of $130,000 each, for its homeless. What was once an idea to house the homeless in "emergency shelters" has now - as things do in liberal states - turned into "expensive development projects with access roads, underground utilities and concrete foundations," according to the LA Times.

LA has opened one "village" and has planned five more. Mayor Eric Garcetti has championed the program as a way for the city to stop neglecting its homeless - an issue that was brought up in a recent federal lawsuit against the city.

The total cost of the first village is now about $5.2 million. Additional projects that are set to open in April are "projected" to cost less, but we'll believe it when we see it. The city says for those villages, it expects to spend "at least $82,000 per shelter". The contract attracted only one bid, which came in more than $400,000 over expectations.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/la-spending-130000-tiny-home-shelter-its-homeless

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26402 (190341ZDEC20) Notable: Waller sworn in as Federal Reserve Board governor, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Jay_powell_hmmmm.png

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Waller sworn in as Federal Reserve Board governor

Christopher Waller was sworn in Friday to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, whose members - along with the leaders of the 12 regional Fed banks - set U.S. interest rate policy for the world’s biggest economy.

not really-the bond market does it and they are just the messengers-but they like to tell everyone they set rates.

Waller was most recently the research director at the St. Louis Fed, and is the fifth person that outgoing President Donald Trump has put into their current roles on the Board. Waller, whose term ends in 2030, took his oath remotely from his residence in St. Louis, the Fed said in a statement.

The Fed cut interest rates to near zero as the coronavirus spread in March and has promised to keep them there until the labor market has healed and inflation has risen to its 2% goal. The Fed this week also pledged to keep buying $120 billion in Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities each month until the economy has made “substantial progress” towards those goals.

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fed-waller/waller-sworn-in-as-federal-reserve-board-governor-idUSL1N2IY3A3

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26407 (190428ZDEC20) Notable: Georgia Poll Workers Who Raised Election Concerns Terminated, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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Georgia Poll Workers Who Raised Election Concerns Terminated

by Tyler Durden Friday, Dec 18, 2020 - 18:20

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times

Poll workers in Georgia who raised concerns about election irregularities were informed this week that their contracts are not being renewed, according to letters obtained by Epoch Media Group.

Bridget Thorne and Susan Voyles say they witnessed abnormal actions taken during the election in Fulton County. They’ve spoken to news outlets and state legislators about what they saw.

In the new letters, Dwight Brower, elections consultant for the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections, informs the women that Georgia law enables officials to appoint poll managers, and managers must be reappointed for each election event.

“There are many factors (management skills, performance, actions, behavior, etc.) considered prior to making reappointments for each primary or election. Unfortunately, a decision has been made to not reappoint you in a poll management or other poll positions in Fulton County,” Brower wrote.

“I see it as a direct consequence of my being honest,” Voyles told NTD, which is part of Epoch Media Group.

“In that oath, we say that I will, to the best of my abilities, make sure there is no fraud, deceit—it kind of goes on down like this,” Voyles added. “So I saw what I was doing was an extension of my job as a poll manager. In other words, I had seen fraud I had seen deceit, I had seen the things that in our poll reading we were warned to stay away from and to report if we see them. I did, and in this case, at this point, the truth was not received well.”

A Fulton County spokeswoman didn’t respond to requests for comment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/georgia-poll-workers-who-raised-election-concerns-terminated

https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-poll-workers-who-raised-election-concerns-get-terminated_3624301.html

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Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26434 (190843ZDEC20) Notable: Clinical trial data strongly supports the assertion a very efficacious treatment of Covid-19, for all stages of the disease: ivermectin., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ivermectin.png

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Covid Analysis Retweeted

Covid19Crusher

@Covid19Crusher

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16h

The clinical trial data below strongly supports the assertion that a very efficacious treatment of Covid-19 has now been found, for all stages of the disease: ivermectin.

https://ivmmeta.com

https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher/status/1339958522952511489

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So Ivermectin is good at all stages - and the AMA has also rescinded its negative policy about HCQ. Looks like we now have viable treatments for Corona - no need for anyone to get vaxxed who doesn't want to.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26440 (191138ZDEC20) Notable: Clinical trial data strongly supports the assertion a very efficacious treatment of Covid-19, for all stages of the disease: ivermectin., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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>>187613 Study stats are for all studies (listed in the document) AND efficacy stats after studies that might be biased are removed. Still great results. Interesting that there are studies ongoing for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis; testing whether Invermectin prevents people from getting Covid in the first place.

https://ivmmeta.com

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26441 (191210ZDEC20) Notable: Clinical trial data strongly supports the assertion a very efficacious treatment of Covid-19, for all stages of the disease: ivermectin., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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>>187613 From the group who did this study of the studies:

Why did you start c19study?

We welcome the goals of using a science based approach to decisions regarding COVID-19, but noticed that the sheer volume of research and data, and the frequently contradictory conclusions from equally qualified experts, made it extremely difficult for anyone to choose the best options. Moreover, decision makers were very suddenly thrown into positions where they needed to make very rapid and very public decisions. The fact that the science based approaches resulted in different decisions around the world highlights this difficulty.

Whether it be treatments or interventions, the plethora of seemingly similar quality research supporting contradictory positions, and the use of digital echo chambers, facilitates widespread confirmation bias - evidence supporting any initial position can be easily found. Self-serving bias and cognitive dissonance further make it challenging to alter positions, especially for those taking very public and strong positions with serious implications.

We felt that attempts to organize and make the research and data easier to navigate, highlighting areas of applicability, and analyzing limitations, could potentially be beneficial.

What is the search strategy for papers on c19study?

All significant original contributions related to the use of the treatments we cover, including searches of the typical sources augmented by contributions from the community. Covering all research is important for HCQ in particular because it is easy to choose a search strategy that results in a subset of papers reporting a desired conclusion. This is especially so if one takes the conclusions reported in papers at face value without examining the actual data, methods, or regions of applicability.

Who is @CovidAnalysis?

We are PhD researchers, scientists, people who hope to make a contribution, even if it is only very minor. You can find our research in journals like Science and Nature. For examples of why we can't be more specific search for "raoult death threats" or "simone gold fired". We have little interest in adding to our publication lists, being in the news, or being on TV (we have done all of these things before but feel there are more important things in life now).

https://c19study.com/faq.html

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26452 (191351ZDEC20) Notable: Potus: Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud 'more than sufficient' to swing victory to Trump, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 3CDB6339_A0D4_4CBA_BC32_00351998D3F9.jpeg

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POTUS last night

Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud 'more than sufficient' to swing victory to Trump https://washex.am/3nwaBCe. A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340185773220515840

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26455 (191431ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: SAM330_USAF_G5_departed_Paris_Le_Bourget_inbound_to_JBA_o2_5001_USAFSOC_C_32B_nw_from_Eglin_626am_pst_121920.png, pepe_planefag_no_quarter.png

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SAM330 USAF G5 inbound from Paris- Le Bourget Airport overnight

This AC departed JBA on 1213 and a ground stop at Shannon, Ireland then on to Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion Int'l for a 1214 arrival

Depart on 1215 for a ground stop at Riyadh, SA then on to Dubai for an overnight

Depart on 1216 back to Riyadh, SA then nw to London-Stansted Airport

1217 with a dash down to Paris-Le Bourget Airport for a 2 day stay then depart on 1219 nw

02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B departed Eglin AFB nw

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26466 (191607ZDEC20) Notable: Potus: He didn't win the Election. He lost all 6 Swing States, by a lot, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 57CE454E_17D8_4222_BB8B_5D71DAF26906.jpeg

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DJT

He didn’t win the Election. He lost all 6 Swing States, by a lot. They then dumped hundreds of thousands of votes in each one, and got caught. Now Republican politicians have to fight so that their great victory is not stolen. Don’t be weak fools!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340306154031857665

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26467 (191612ZDEC20) Notable: Sidney RT's, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: AA954EC8_E947_4043_83F6_FF6BDAB9A4E5.jpeg

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Sidney rt

Breaking: Pompeo says Russia ‘pretty clearly’ behind massive cyberattack against U.S. | Just The News

https://justthenews.com/government/security/pompeo-says-russia-pretty-clearly-behind-massive-cyberattack-against-us

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1340312775374082049

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26468 (191617ZDEC20) Notable: Sidney RT's, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 9CD1DB75_9E4A_45DB_A16C_897ABB26B47C.jpeg

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Sidney rt

https://twitter.com/BillWhiteNY/status/1340039687113728000

WUt

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26471 (191624ZDEC20) Notable: CM twats, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 38F558A9_0688_40F8_B406_BC50E0957EA8.png

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CM rt Jim

.@CodeMonkeyZ

Rumors are magic. The Hessians in Trenton had so many rumors of attack, that they had given up on it. So even though they were warned Washington was coming. They were not prepared and were defeated. Even a little victory is a victory and rumors can serve a purpose.

https://twitter.com/RQueeninc/status/1340295149079810048

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26472 (191625ZDEC20) Notable: CM twats, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 05C9E868_844F_4F9D_9A1E_16D24A405114.jpeg

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CM asks some questions

https://twitter.com/codemonkeyz

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CM

Serbian Warning: What Happened When Their Elections Were Stolen in 2000

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1340271711384555522

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26477 (191722ZDEC20) Notable: Potus: The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 682B82BC_CEE4_4892_8AD3_702CC050B64D.jpeg

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New DJT

The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of....

....discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA.

@DNI_Ratcliffe

@SecPompeo

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340333618691002368

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26485 (191741ZDEC20) Notable: Specific findings on HCQ: studies going back to 1889, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: hcq1.png, hcq2.png

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>>187615

>https://c19study.com/faq.html

This meta-study looked at the effect of treating CV19 with ivermectin, but with HCQ and other drugs.

Specific findings on HCQ: studies going back to 1889

Excellent collection of studies, going back all the way to 1889 - where quinine was used for respiratory infections.

According to this meta-analysis, 819,067 people have currently died due to the treatment ban on HCQ.

CAPS

two pages

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26486 (191743ZDEC20) Notable: Specific findings on HCQ: studies going back to 1889, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: hcq3.png

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>>187626

page 2

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>>187627

page 3

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26495 (191755ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: VV100_US_Navy_G5_inbound_from_Genoa_Italy_onight_to_JBA_R1778_US_Army_G5_ne_depart_from_JBA_950am_pst_121920.png, 02_5001_USAFSOC_C_32B_on_descent_earlier_on_ground_now_at_Bozeman_MT_939am_pst_121920.png

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Navy brass that went to New Delhi and Mumbai inbound from Genoa, Italy overnight

VV100 US Navy G5 inbound to JBA from

This AC departed JBA on 1214 and ground stop at Marseille prior to arrival at Manama, Bahrain on 1215

Depart se for New Delhi on 1216 and a trip sw to Mumbai on 1217 for an overnight

1218 depart to Rome, Ciampino Airport for a ground stop then Genoa for an overnight.

depart earlier today nw

R1778 US Army G5 departed JBA ne

>>187617

02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B on descent for Bozeman, MT. Yellowstone Int'l-landed an 1 hr 50min ago

departed Eglin AFB earlier

This AC was last here on Monday 1214

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26499 (191759ZDEC20) Notable: Pence: U.S. Space Force troops will be called "guardians", MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 21E3BDFE_5F0C_48D7_A655_679729888D80.png

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https://mobile.twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1340346066638659585

Pence reveals U.S. Space Force troops will be called "guardians"

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26501 (191801ZDEC20) Notable: US media's suppression of HCQ (Ingraham Angle), MISSING MEDIA/FILES: A245AB77_F35A_4E78_9B0E_2658EEC1EC3B.png

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https://mobile.twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1340302179324866561

The U.S. Media Are Suppressing the Truth about Hydroxychloroquine - American Greatness

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Both of these departed JBA earlier and went to NY Stewart Airport-just nw of West Point

SAM363 USAF G5 departied JBA ne tail# 18-1942 is a high profile AC

R1778 US Army G5 landed just in front of SAM363

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>>187629 pb

02-5001 USAFSOC C-32B departed Bozeman, MT Yellowstone Int'l se after a ground stop and heading for Bragg

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26577 (192057ZDEC20) Notable: Feds: Zoom Executive Interrupted Meetings at Direction of Chinese Communist Govt, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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Feds: Zoom Executive Interrupted Meetings at Direction of Chinese Communist Govt

by Tom Ciccotta 19 Dec 2020

Federal prosecutors have charged Zoom executive Zinjian Jin over his alleged efforts to restrict speech on the video conferencing platform that is critical of the Chinese government. Jin reportedly participated in an effort to shut down Zoom events about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

According to a report by the New York Times, federal prosecutors have charged Zoom executive Zinjuan Jin over his alleged participation in an effort to shut down critics of the Chinese government. Jin, who was based out of Zoom’s office in China, was fired by the company this week after the charges were made public.

Jin reportedly logged onto Zoom events about the Tiananmen Square Massacre posing as a terrorist. Then, Jin would flag the event and have them shut down as a violation of the platform’s terms of service. Jin reportedly targeted meetings that were deemed problematic by the Chinese government.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/12/19/feds-zoom-executive-interrupted-meetings-at-direction-of-chinese-communist-govt/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26579 (192116ZDEC20) Notable: "There is no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of an American election", MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screen_Shot_2020_12_19_at_3_09_03_PM.png

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https://twitter.com/Chicken55834223/status/1340403621092069376

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/election-fraud-martial-law-army-no-role/2020/12/19/id/1002337/#

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's Newsmax TV remarks on President Donald Trump weighing "martial law" and "military capabilities" amid election fraud has forced U.S. Army leaders to issue a statement Friday rejecting that consideration.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's Newsmax TV remarks on President Donald Trump weighing "martial law" and "military capabilities" amid election fraud has forced U.S. Army leaders to issue a statement Friday rejecting that consideration.

"There is no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of an American election," Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Army chief of staff Gen. James McConville wrote in a joint statement Friday.

The statement echoed one by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley before the election.

Gen. Flynn told Thursday's "Greg Kelly Reports":

"He could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the country on his order. He could also order, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. It's not unprecedented.

"I mean, these people are out there talking about martial law like it's something that we've never done. Martial law has been instituted 64 times."

Flynn's martial law remarks were on the heals of Georgia lawyer L. Lin Wood's previous comments to Newsmax TV's "The Count" last week:

"If the Supreme Court does not act, I think the president should declare some extent of Martial law, and he should hold off an stay the electoral college.

"Because we cannot have in this country, an election of our leader, where you have massive evidence of fraud and illegality. This country has to have a vote that has integrity. And the electoral college does not need to meet and vote until we have resolved these issues."

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26596 (192236ZDEC20) Notable: Biden's niece Caroline gets no jail time after DUI guilty plea, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: biden_niece.png

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Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11

Liberal privilege:

Joe Biden’s niece was just let off with a fine after driving drunk & crashing into a tree

This is after being let off for spending over $110,000 on a stolen credit card and assaulting a police officer

Why do the Bidens continually get away with everything?

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1340411034608275458

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26599 (192240ZDEC20) Notable: Biden's niece Caroline gets no jail time after DUI guilty plea, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: caroline_biden.png

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>>187641

here's a little sauce:

Joe Biden’s niece Caroline gets no jail time after DUI guilty plea

Another Biden walks free.

Joe Biden’s niece Caroline Biden pleaded guilty to DUI on Dec. 3 — and was sentenced to 20 days to six months of “confinement,” Pennsylvania court records said.

But the small print shows Biden, 33, won’t see a day behind bars after she negotiated a plea deal with the Montgomery County district attorney.

Instead of jail, she got five-plus months of probation, with 20 days of rehab in January counted toward her sentence.

The walk-free plea continues a long Biden family tradition of avoiding jail time. A Post investigation in July found at least eight other busts of Bidens resulted in wrist slaps.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/caroline-biden-gets-no-jail-time-after-dui-guilty-plea/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26600 (192255ZDEC20) Notable: Gen. Flynn w/Lou Dobbs re Solarwinds cyberattack: longer mp4, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: gen_flynn_on_lou_dobbs_re_SolarWinds.mp4

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Lou Dobbs @LouDobbs

Keys to the Vault:

@GenFlynn

says the cyberattack on SolarWinds is an entry point into the entire critical infrastructure of the United States #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1340063686237573123

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Longer version of yesterday's interview with Gen. Flynn as an mp4.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26602 (192302ZDEC20) Notable: Londoners risk being arrested if they try and leave city after midnight, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: londoners_confined.png

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Londoners risk being arrested if they try and leave city after midnight

Londoners have been banned from leaving the city and may even risk being arrested if they try to travel to other parts of the country for Christmas. The strict new travel rules come into place after midnight as the capital and South East England are plunged into a tier four lockdown. Boris Johnson said people should not enter or leave tier four areas and residents must not stay overnight away from home. The legislation setting out what regulations tier four will involve has not yet been published and has not yet been agreed by parliament.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/19/londoners-face-arrest-for-travelling-home-for-christmas-13777819/?ito=socialmetrouktwitter

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26606 (192308ZDEC20) Notable: Left Questioning McConnell's Vote Totals in KY (not a conspiracy if THEY do it)

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It's Not a 'Conspiracy Theory' When They Do It: Left Is Questioning Mitch McConnell's Vote Totals in Kentucky

BY RICK MORAN DEC 19, 2020 3:45 PM ET

I do so love liberal hypocrisy. What makes it so entertaining is that they are oblivious to their intellectual dishonesty and lack the capacity for introspection. It makes for unintentional humor when they can’t fathom why people laugh at their riotous inconsistency.

The latest installment of liberal hypocrisy comes from an article in the radical left publication Raw Story. It seems that some liberals are questioning Senator Mitch McConnell’s surprisingly easy victory over Democrat Amy McGrath. The author of the piece, Allison Greene, is blissfully unaware that she’s asking some of the same questions asked by Trump supporters in the aftermath of the election.

Just what’s fishy about the vote?

– McConnell racked up huge vote leads in traditionally Democratic strongholds, including counties that he had never before carried.

– There were wide, unexplained discrepancies between the vote counts for presidential candidates and down-ballot candidates.

– Significant anomalies exist in the state’s voter records. Forty percent of the state’s counties carry more voters on their rolls than voting-age citizens.

– Kentucky and many other states using vote tabulation machines made by Election Systems & Software all reported down-ballot race results at significant odds with pre-election polls.

Do you mean to say that a lot of counties in Kentucky have more registered voters than voting-age citizens? Perish the thought! Someone should have told her to ask the cities of Milwaukee, Detroit, and dozens of other Democratic states, cities, and counties how they ended up with more voters than voting-age citizens. I’m sure it would be very instructive.

Just asking questions, you say? Yes…and your point is? The point is that Democrats are allowed to ask questions but if Republicans dare question the results of an election it’s a “conspiracy theory.”

As for the rest, Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw performs the necessary lobotomy on Ms. Greene’s gray matter.

They next note “wide, unexplained discrepancies between the vote counts for presidential candidates and down-ballot candidates.” Yes, it’s called ticket-splitting. Did Ms. Greene fail to notice that Joe Biden allegedly won the popular vote in a “landslide” while the Democrats lost a significant number of seats in the House and are barely hanging on to their majority there? Funny how that works, huh?

How about those “significant anomalies” in the voter rolls and the fact that 40% of Kentucky’s counties record more registered voters than living, voting-age citizens? Yes, we know. That’s true of a lot of primarily Democratic counties all over the country, but you didn’t seem to take issue with it when a Democrat was winning. I’ve been railing about the need to clean up the nation’s voter rolls for years but nobody ever listens. I’m so sorry this is happening to you.

This is what happens when you get someone imbued with “the true faith” to write about something she knows nothing about. It’s like asking an Islamic fanatic to write about Christianity. The results can be entertaining.

And finally, Greene notes that vote totals recorded by the Election Systems & Software voting machines were “at significant odds” with pre-election polling. Really? Ya think? A very brief Google search will produce enough stories about how the polls were once again a steaming pile of hot garbage to fill up an encyclopedia. I would also note the irony in a liberal complaining about the Election Systems & Software machines while not uttering a peep about Dominion. But hey… you do you, Alison.

We eagerly await Allison’s Greene next article about how strange and suspicious the vote in the presidential election turned out.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/19/its-not-a-conspiracy-theory-when-they-do-it-left-is-questioning-mitch-mcconnells-vote-totals-in-kentucky-n1221022

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26617 (192345ZDEC20) Notable: Sidney Powell visits WH as POTUS reportedly considers her appt as SP to look into election fraud, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: powell_to_be_sp_mebbe.png

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Sidney Powell visits WH as POTUS reportedly considers her appt as SP to look into election fraud

President Donald Trump invited attorney Sidney Powell to the White House on Friday night where they reportedly discussed making her a “special counsel” to investigate election fraud.

The New York Times reported that the meeting “became raucous at times” with White House counsel Pat Cipollone attempting to push back against the ideas being discussed. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani called into the discussion over the phone....

She appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Thursday to give additional details about Dominion and Smartmatic voting software, which is now being referred to as a “Cyber Pearl Harbor.”

“They designed and developed the Smartmatic and Dominion programs and machines that include a controller module that allows people to log in and manipulate the vote even as its happening,” Powell said. “We are finding more and more evidence of this.”

Powell claims that she and her legal team have compiled “reams and reams of actual documents” from the firms showing that Dominion and Smartmatic “planned and executed all of this.”

“We know that 400 million dollars of money came into Smartmatic from China only a few weeks before the election, that there are George Soros connections to the entire endeavor,” Powell said – bringing up Eric Coomer and Mark Malloch Brown as two individuals she believes are involved with the entire scheme.

Powell explained that the documents are still being reviewed but investigators are getting a clear picture of who the major players are. Some of these individuals reportedly include former Venezuelan communications director Jorge Rodriguez, Hezbollah liaison Khalil Majid Mazoub, software designer Gustavo Reyes Zumeta, and Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mujica.

“Frankly, our national security agency and defense intelligence agency need to be all over this immediately. The evidence is overwhelming and extremely troubling that this has been going on and didn’t just start this year,” Powell said....

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/kraken-sidney-powell-visits-white-house-as-president-trump-considers-making-her-special-counsel-to-investigate-election-fraud/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26618 (192348ZDEC20) Notable: Man who rode jetski from Scotland to Isle of Man to see girlfriend jailed for Covid breach

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Man who rode jetski from Scotland to Isle of Man to see girlfriend jailed for Covid breach

The man, who had never driven a jetski before, believed the journey would take 40 minutes, but it took four-and-a-half hours

Tue 15 Dec 2020 01.52 EST

A Scottish man has reportedly been jailed for breaching coronavirus rules after he rode a jetski from Scotland to the Isle of Man to see his girlfriend.

Dale McLaughlan, 28, from North Ayrshire met his girlfriend in September while working as a roofer on the Isle of Man, the BBC reported.

On Friday, determined to see her despite coronavirus rules banning non-residents from entering the island without special permission, he made the four-and-a-half-hour journey by jetski despite never having driven a personal watercraft before. He had expected the journey to take 40 minutes, prosecutors said.

Briton arrested after fleeing Australia on a jetski, armed with crossbow

His defence lawyer said in court that McLaughlan suffered from depression and was struggling to cope without his girlfriend. He admitted arriving unlawfully on the island and was sentenced to four weeks in jail.

Deputy high bailiff Christopher Arrowsmith said McLaughlan’s “deliberate and intentional attempt to circumnavigate” the restrictions had posed a risk to himself and the island’s residents.

After departing the Isle of Whithorn in the morning and arriving in the northern town of Ramsey at 1pm, McLaughlan walked 15 miles (25km) to its capital, Douglas.

He gave a policeman his girlfriend’s address as his own. The couple attended two busy nightclubs before he was caught on Sunday following identification checks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/man-who-rode-jetski-from-scotland-to-isle-of-man-to-see-girlfriend-jailed-for-covid-breach

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26624 (200001ZDEC20) Notable: President Trump: We Don’t Want To Have Lockdowns (re Boris Johnson's UK lockdown), MISSING MEDIA/FILES: potus_no_lockdowns.png

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President Trump: We Don’t Want To Have Lockdowns

President Trump said the U.S. doesn’t want lockdowns, emphasizing the cure can’t be worse than the problem itself.

In a tweet on Saturday, the President slammed coronavirus lockdowns. He noted they’ve cost lives and hundreds of thousands of jobs each day.

President Trump has repeatedly called for political leaders to avoid lockdowns and to instead let Americans make decisions for themselves.

The President made the remarks in response to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced his decision on Saturday to put areas of the country into a “tier four” lockdown.

“That means residents in those areas must stay at home, apart from limited exemptions set out in law,” Johnson stated. “Non-essential retail, indoor gyms and leisure facilities and personal care services must close.”

The new restrictions will affect parts of London in addition to the southeast and the east of England, which are all currently in “tier three.”

The changes will take effect on Monday.

https://www.oann.com/president-trump-we-dont-want-to-have-lockdowns/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26634 (200021ZDEC20) Notable: @BarackObama Here are some of my favorite songs of the year., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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has this been noted?

Barack Obama

@BarackObama

Here are some of my favorite songs of the year. As usual, I had some valuable consultation from our family music guru, Sasha, to put this together. I hope you find a new song or two to listen to.

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1340386687898312706

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26635 (200023ZDEC20) Notable: @BillClinton With the passing of Governor William F. Winter, Mississippi has lost one of its greatest champions, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Bill Clinton

@BillClinton

With the passing of Governor William F. Winter, Mississippi has lost one of its greatest champions of equality, reconciliation, and progress; and I have lost a friend, an inspiration, and one of the finest people I’ve ever known.

https://twitter.com/BillClinton/status/1340421046021877768

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26637 (200031ZDEC20) Notable: @JoeBiden my administration will rejoin the Paris Agreement, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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1 hour ago and 100,000 likes? FUCK NO!

Joe Biden

@JoeBiden

On day one, my administration will rejoin the Paris Agreement and put America back in the business of leading the world on climate change.

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1340427943051284480

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26680 (200121ZDEC20) Notable: PF updates, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: SAM205_USAF_C_40B_se_from_Shannon_froze_over_Romania_453pm_pst_121920.png, Turkish_AF_TR010_Challenger_appears_heading_north_over_Cairo_heading_back_to_Ankara_506pm_pst_121920.png, MCFAMC_USAF_C_17_Globemaster_departed_Diego_Garcia_ne_after_onight_and_Manama_inbounf_515pm_pst_121920.png

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SAM205 USAF C-40B that left Shannon earlier has frozen over Bucharest heading se

Not the greatest coverage here

If they are not going to Turkey then on to the Gulf-Kuwait, Bahrian, SA, Qatar, UAE

Turkish AF Challenger CL60 appears over Cairo heading north back to Ankara where it departed from yesterday.

Hard to say where it went/came from-obviously they did no want anyone to see.

Not the best coverage here but AC are visible further south in eastern Africa

MCFAMC USAF C-17 Globemaster departed Diego Garcia, Indian Ocean ne

Don't often catch these as yet another example of poor coverage in this part of the world

This AC arrived at DG on 1217 from Yokota AB, Japan and a ground stop at Kadena AB Okinawa on the way

It departed DG nw for Manama, Bahrain on 1218 and returned

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26694 (200145ZDEC20) Notable: @CodeMonkeyZ "Military government is the supreme authority the military exercises by force or agreement over the lands, property, and IPIs of DOMESTIC [emphasis mine], allied, or enemy territory,", MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Ron

@CodeMonkeyZ

"Military government is the supreme authority the military exercises by force or agreement over the lands, property, and IPIs of DOMESTIC [emphasis mine], allied, or enemy territory,"

-Civil-Military Operations - Chapter 2, Section 5 [July 2018]

https://jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp3_57.pdf

7:21 PM · Dec 19, 2020

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1340467233860927489

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26706 (200214ZDEC20) Notable: @LLinWood Our first President George Washington was a truth-giver, a Patriot, & a warrior for freedom., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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Lin Wood

@LLinWood

Our first President George Washington was a truth-giver, a Patriot, & a warrior for freedom.

Read his words carefully. Choose wisely.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1340375644249747462

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26715 (200222ZDEC20) Notable: @LLinWood Our first President George Washington was a truth-giver, a Patriot, & a warrior for freedom., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: lin_wood_12_19_2020_george_washignton_conquer_or_die_full_tweet_.jpg

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>>>/midnightriders/26703

West coast time stamp (shown)

11:17 AM

East coast time stamp

2;17 pm

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26745 (200250ZDEC20) Notable: POTUS' Andrew Jackson in background, also Winston Churchill, Lincoln hhmmmm……., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: scavino.png

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just now from Scavino - POTUS' not looking to 'Merry Christmassy' tonite. Got bigger things on his mind?

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1340488794416574467

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26756 (200300ZDEC20) Notable: POTUS' Andrew Jackson in background, also Winston Churchill, Lincoln hhmmmm……., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: reaction_to_scavino_twat.png

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>>187657

>>>/midnightriders/26752

Others are noticing the comms, too. Churchill, then a phone call. Wonder who POTUS is phoning.

https://twitter.com/wokesocieties/status/1340490305221648384

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26779 (200326ZDEC20) Notable: @alexsalvinews Pres. Trump reportedly asked Michael Flynn about imposing martial law during a meeting at the White House on Friday, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: newsmax_interview_with_Gen_Flynn.mp4, nyt_suspended.png

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not sure whether this interview's been posted (Gen Flynn with Newsmax) but posted as an mp4 bc the OP was suspended from twatter - over this vid?

Alex Salvi @alexsalvinews

Pres. Trump reportedly asked Michael Flynn about imposing martial law—an idea he floated on Newsmax earlier in the week (below)—during a meeting at the White House on Friday. (@NYT)

Aides in the room forcefully pushed back against such a suggestion.

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1340494794389274624

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26785 (200337ZDEC20) Notable: @MrAndyNgo “Go home! Get a f—ing job!” vid, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: black_guy_confronts_antifa_in_sacramento.mp4

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Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo

“Go home! Get a f—ing job!”

A man confronts antifa in Sacramento, Cal. after they used pepper spray in the streets.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1340428606875570177

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26786 (200343ZDEC20) Notable: @LLinWood Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pennsylvania are states in which martial law should be imposed & machines/ballots seized., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: lin_wood_say_do_martial_law_potus.png

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Lin Wood @LLinWood

Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pennsylvania are states in which martial law should be imposed & machines/ballots seized.

7 states under martial law.

43 states not under martial law.

I like those numbers.

Do it @realDonaldTrump!

Nation supports you.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1340482330893365256

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26788 (200347ZDEC20) Notable: POTUS' Andrew Jackson in background, also Winston Churchill, Lincoln hhmmmm……., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: savino_trump_looking_at_lincoln.png

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https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1340487389890957314/photo/1

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26792 (200352ZDEC20) Notable: California Reports Record COVID Cases and Deaths—Despite Strict Lockdown, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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California Reports Record COVID Cases and Deaths—Despite Strict Lockdown

Sadly, but perhaps predictably, government regulations do not appear to be slowing down the coronavirus.

by Jon Miltimore Thursday, December 17, 2020

On December 4, a bipartisan group of California legislators sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a letter urging him to reconsider his order closing outdoor playgrounds as part of his regional stay-at-home order.

“While we must appropriately consider best practices to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, we also must ensure the children across the state are not unfairly deprived of their opportunities for outdoor access and play,” the legislators wrote.

Today, we sent another letter to the Governor urging him to reconsider the full closure of playground structures. The local playground may be the only opportunity for some families to “get outdoors,” as advised for physical & mental health. pic.twitter.com/2FB8Oe1CgQ

— Lorena Gonzalez (@LorenaSGonzalez) December 4, 2020

Newsom’s order closing outdoor playgrounds—a response many see as senseless and ineffective, which prompted the governor to rescind it—is just one example of the hardline approach California public officials have taken in their attempt to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

Other restrictions include a 10 p.m. curfew, bans on outdoor dining and religious gatherings, as well as school closures. Surveys in recent months have shown California’s restrictions are some of the strictest in the US.

Sadly, but perhaps predictably, the regulations do not appear to be working. State data show California is smashing its previous highs in both COVID-19 cases and deaths.

“California broke its statewide records for both coronavirus cases reported and deaths reported in a single day on Wednesday,” The Hill reports. “The state reported 51,724 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, breaking the previous record of 42,088 cases, which was just set on Monday, according to a Los Angeles Times tally.”

https://fee.org/articles/california-reports-record-covid-cases-and-deaths-despite-having-the-strictest-lockdown-in-the-us/

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/california-reports-record-covid-cases-and-deaths-despite-strictest-lockdown

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26793 (200353ZDEC20) Notable: @CodeMonkeyZ SPECIAL PROSECUTOR ranking by Twitter vote:, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ron_sp_survey.png

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Ron @CodeMonkeyZ

SPECIAL PROSECUTOR ranking by Twitter vote:

1. Sidney Powell - 95% yes

2. Rudy Giulianni - 88% yes

3. Lin Wood - 85% yes

4. Ken Star - 68% yes

5. Trey Gowdy - 58% yes

90% support a limited martial law.

—tentative results—

—final results tomorrow—

6:56 PM · Dec 19, 2020·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1340491146791776257

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26848 (200810ZDEC20) Notable: @10MTNDIV Missing soldier Spc. Hayden Harris alert, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_2020_12_20_10th_Mountain_Div_on_Twitter.png

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wow check this out

https://twitter.com/10MTNDIV/status/1340368251461709824

10th Mountain Div.

@10MTNDIV

If anyone has information on the whereabouts of Spc. Hayden Harris, please call one of the numbers on the poster or submit to http://cid.army.mil/report-a-crime.html

.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26878 (201135ZDEC20) Notable: Pfizer trial shows evidence of Pathogenic Priming in older adults. Not good.

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>>>/midnightriders/12102566

Captured on twatter: Robt Kennedy's discussion of potentially dire effects from Covid19 vaxxes, due to Pathogenic Priming - where the vaccine appears to have triggered a robust immune response after administered but when the person encounters the actual virus in real life, he (for unknown reasons) is very badly affected (much worse than unvaxxed people).

https://twitter.com/lyne_ian/status/1335197467143356416

Here's the article that says the same thing K says on whatever program he's on (sorry, twitter poster did not sauce the program):

Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial Shows Alarming Evidence of Pathogenic Priming in Older Adults

By James Lyons-Weiler, PhD & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In the development of vaccines against coronaviruses like SARS-COV-1 and MERS in the early 2000’s, researchers found evidence of a serious problem. Teams of U.S. and foreign scientists vaccinated animals with the four most promising vaccines. At first, the experiment seemed successful as all the animals developed a robust antibody response to coronavirus. However, when the scientists exposed the vaccinated animals to the wild virus, the results were horrifying. Vaccinated animals suffered hyper-immune responses including inflammation throughout their bodies, especially in their lungs.

This issue is well known. Early in the COVID-19 scenario, Dr. Peter Hotez, of Baylor College of Medicine, testified before Congress about the dangers of accelerating coronavirus vaccine development, saying “(The) unique safety problem of coronavirus vaccines” was discovered 50 years ago while developing the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine.”

He went to register that this “‘paradoxical immune enhancement phenomenon’ means vaccinated people may still develop the disease, get sicker and die.”....

Researchers had seen this same “enhanced immune response” during human testing of the failed RSV vaccine tests in the 1950s. The vaccines not only failed to prevent infection; 80% of the children infected required hospitalization, and two children challenged with the RSV died (see Openshaw, 2005). In April of 2020, Hotez told CNN, “If there is immune enhancement in animals, that’s a showstopper.”

["Enhanced immune response" = "pathogenic priming"]

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-covid-vaccine-allergic-reactions/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26892 (201427ZDEC20) Notable: Irish Man Sentenced To Two Months In Prison For Failing To Wear A Face Mask, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Irish Man Sentenced To Two Months In Prison For Failing To Wear A Face Mask

by Tyler Durden Sunday, Dec 20, 2020 - 8:10

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

An Irish man has been sentenced to two months in prison for failing to wear a face mask on a bus while traveling to his uncle’s funeral despite claiming he was medically exempt.

Andrew Heasman was traveling from Dublin to Knock in the Republic of Ireland on July 14 to lay his relative to rest when he was asked by a bus driver to wear his mask properly.

Garda police officer Thomas Bowens told Castlebar District Court that Heasman was wearing his mask “like a hat” and refused to follow orders to cover his mouth and nose, prompting other passengers to exit the bus.

Mr Heasman told authorities he was medically exempt and that under data protection laws, he was not legally required to provide evidence.

A Co Mayo man has been sentenced to two months in prison for failure to wear a face mask on a Bus Éireann coach in Ballyhaunis on 14 July last https://t.co/qnLym73HRG

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 17, 2020

Despite protesting that the charges were “trumped up,” Heasman was convicted under the Health Act 1947 and now faces two years in jail.

According to Judge Fiona Lydon, Heasman’s behavior had been “totally inappropriate,” with the judge asserting, “she was satisfied that all of the ingredients required to secure a conviction had been satisfied by the State.”

Respondents to the story expressed a mixture of opinions, with some proclaiming their satisfaction at the man being sent to prison and others decrying the draconian response.

“Ireland is quickly becoming a communist country. Horrible treatment of our people,” said one.

“Good, I hope it makes other anti maskers sit up and take notice,” remarked another.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/irish-man-sentenced-two-months-prison-failing-wear-face-mask

https://summit.news/2020/12/17/irish-man-sentenced-to-two-months-in-prison-for-failing-to-wear-a-face-mask/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26893 (201435ZDEC20) Notable: How Belarus Exposes The Lockdown Lie, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png, ClipboardImage.png

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How Belarus Exposes The Lockdown Lie

by Tyler Durden Sunday, Dec 20, 2020 - 7:00

Authored by Rachel Allen via Off-Guardian.org,

Most European governments instituted the shutdown of economies, restrictions on freedom of movement and other policies known as lockdown. This was allegedly in response to the spread of Sars-Cov-2, a dangerous respiratory virus that originated in Wuhan, China.

Few countries rejected this approach; Sweden is the most well known of these. However, a more interesting case of dissent from the official narrative is Belarus and its leader Aleksandr Lukashenka.

This article will outline Lukashenka’s approach to the alleged pandemic, followed by an analysis of death figures and how the Belarussian case exposes the lies of lockdown advocates.

THE BELARUSSIAN APPROACH TO COVID 19

The alleged pandemic broke out in Europe in March 2020, and most European governments followed the severe strategy of imposing lockdowns. Lukashenka’s response was much more limited. A Belarussian press release from the 25th March talks about the quarantines set up for people who enter Belarus:

Quarantine stations were set up at all the points of entry. Screening measures include temperature checks. This system of control really works, [healthcare minister] Vladimir Karanik noted. This helped identify symptoms of a viral infection in more than 250 people, however the absolute majority of them had influenza, parainfluenza, and adenovirus. If a person tests positive for coronavirus, healthcare workers put their contacts under medical observation. “Such a targeted approach helps curb the spread of the virus,” the minister said.”

Lukashenka also advocated staying at home if one has symptoms of the virus. He also famously made some comments – reported widely in the Western media – giving health advice:

I am teetotal, but in recent times I say jokingly, that it is necessary to not only wash hands with vodka, but probably that [consuming] 40-50 grams of a measure of clean spirit a day – [can] “poison” [in commas in original text] this virus. But not at work.” He then says that “Today, go to the sauna. But if [you go] two-three times a week that is even healthier. The Chinese have told us that this virus cannot withstand temperatures of 60 degrees”.

Overall, the Belarussian approach has been the least authoritarian in Europe.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/how-belarus-exposes-lockdown-lie

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26897 (201457ZDEC20) Notable: pb, pb, PF major goings on regarding the State Department and it's AC's to Europe that started this morning

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SAM370 USAF C-32A ne from JBA

99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B wn from Eglin AFB-looks like they are heading for Tucson, AZ at present

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SAM430 USAF G5 departs from JBA nw

99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B continues wn from Eglin AFB and some heavy spoofing on west Texas/NM border

SCAR96 US navy E-6B Mercury se from Tinker into Gulf of Mexico and should set up some tracks a little further south

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26929 (201619ZDEC20) Notable: Newt Gingrich - Why I will not give up, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: potus_and_newt.png

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Why I will not give up

by Newt Gingrich

A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s victory.

The friend made the case that Biden had gotten more votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most votes. Normally, we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting events.

So, my friend asked why was 2020 different?

Having spent more than four years watching the left #Resist President Donald Trump and focus entirely on undoing and undermining the 2016 election, it took me several days to understand the depth of my own feelings.

As I thought about it, I realized my anger and fear were not narrowly focused on votes. My unwillingness to relax and accept that the election was over grew out of a level of outrage and alienation unlike anything I had experienced in more than 60 years involvement in public affairs.

The challenge is that I – and other conservatives – are not disagreeing with the left within a commonly understood world. We live in alternative worlds.

The left’s world is mostly the established world of the forces who have been dominant for most of my life.

My world is the populist rebellion which believes we are being destroyed, our liberties are being cancelled, and our religions are under assault. (Note the new Human Rights Campaign to decertify any religious school which does not accept secular sexual values – and that many Democrat governors have kept casinos open while closing churches though the COVID-19 pandemic.) We also believe other Democrat-led COVID-19 policies have enriched the wealthy while crushing middle class small business owners (some 160,000 restaurants may close)….

https://www.gingrich360.com/2020/12/why-i-will-not-give-up/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26930 (201620ZDEC20) Notable: Rep. Matt Gaetz Says He Will Challenge Electoral College Votes on Jan. 6, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: gaetz.png

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Rep. Matt Gaetz Says He Will Challenge Electoral College Votes on Jan. 6

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said on Saturday that he plans to challenge electoral college votes when they are counted during a Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6.

“So on January 6, I’m joining with the fighters in the Congress and we are going to object to electors from states that didn’t run clean elections,” Gaetz told a crowd during the first day of the Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit.

Republicans in Congress are considering whether to join the effort to challenge the 2020 general election results. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) initiated the push when he announced his intention to object to the electoral college votes come January, while several other Republican lawmakers from both chambers have remained open to participating in the effort.

Objections during the joint session must be made in writing by at least one House member and senator. If the objection meets requirements, the joint session pauses and each house withdraws to their own chamber to debate the question for a maximum of two hours. The House and Senate will then vote separately to accept or reject the objection, which requires a majority vote from both chambers.

If one chamber accepts and the other rejects, then according to federal law the “the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted.”

Several Republican senators have not ruled out the possibility of objection but have said that they would first monitor the developments regarding claims of voter fraud. Meanwhile, newly elected Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has previously suggested that he may join the planned objection by members of the House of Representatives.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-matt-gaetz-says-he-will-challenge-electoral-college-votes-on-jan-6_3625817.html/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26947 (201700ZDEC20) Notable: General Flynn - Treat the word impossible as motivation, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: flynn_motivation.png

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General Flynn @GenFlynn

“Treat the word impossible as motivation” & when everyone around you is afraid, be the one who is indifferent to fear, instead follow your heart & what you know to be true.

On this Sunday, I needed to hear this message. Please listen.

⁦

@lofly727

https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1340699869862871041

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26951 (201725ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag Reports, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 99_6143_USAFSOC_C_32B_heading_for_NAS_North_Island_from_Eglin_AFB_depart_919am_pst_122020.png

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99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B is heading to NAS North Island from Eglin AFB depart

This AC has departed east from NI as ANON previously

Nov 1 and September 3-caps 2,3

Sept 3 was 02-5001

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26966 (201841ZDEC20) Notable: UK Christmas cancelled - national 3 week lockdown due to the spread of an new strain’ of CV, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 5F6828C2_6EB8_4695_B02D_BD6AB07E6913.jpeg, C1830B4F_107A_44CB_AE5E_C8B8C73782E0.jpeg, 0CC4D378_3814_497B_8E08_BB8BFCAA8905.jpeg

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Christmas cancelled in the UK

As the entire country is informed of a national 3 week lockdown due to the spread of an new strain’ of CV.

Some random tweets

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26968 (201903ZDEC20) Notable: Sidney rt - @POTUS Is Ready to TAKE ACTION!, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: 5B0C10BB_9E7B_4342_AB0A_9D837A5BF724.jpeg

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Sidney rt

BUCKLE UP PATRIOTS SOMETHING'S BREWING!

@DanScavino Posts Series of Tweets After Raucous Oval Office Meeting -

@POTUS Is Ready to TAKE ACTION!

#WeThePeople Are Ready!

Let's break the back of this #FraudulentElection!

@SidneyPowell1

@GenFlynn

https://twitter.com/Can2geterdone/status/1340530492131651584

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26982 (201954ZDEC20) Notable: Sidney - There was/is no discussion of a #militarycoup by @realDonaldTrump or anyone on his behalf, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: sidney_says_no_coup.png

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Sidney Powell @SidneyPowell1

There was/is no discussion of a #militarycoup by @realDonaldTrump or anyone on his behalf.

#FakeNews

@POTUS is a law-abiding #Patriot

People saying that including those around him are liars. The #coup is by #CCP & all people it has bought

@GenFlynn

@LLinWood

@Scavino45

https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1340746407981035521

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26986 (202017ZDEC20) Notable: YT Removes Video of Trump Lawyer’s Opening Statement at Senate Committee Hearing, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: jesse_Binnall_stmt_removed_by_YT.png, jesse_binnall_trump_campaign_lawyer_in_front_of_senate_cmte_YT_censored.mp4

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YT Removes Video of Trump Lawyer’s Opening Statement at Senate Committee Hearing

YouTube has removed the opening statement from President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jesse Binnall before the Senate Homeland Security hearing on election fraud.

YouTube has said that they will be removing “content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. presidential election.”

Binnall tweeted about the censorship on Saturday.

YouTube has decided that my opening statement in the U.S. Seante, given under oath and based upon hard evidence, is too dangerous for you to see; they removed it. To this day, “our evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.” Why is Google so afraid of the truth? #BigBrother

— Jesse R. Binnall ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (@jbinnall) December 20, 2020

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“YouTube has decided that my opening statement in the U.S. [Senate], given under oath and based upon hard evidence, is too dangerous for you to see; they removed it. To this day, ‘our evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.’ Why is Google so afraid of the truth? #BigBrother,” lawyer Jesse Binnall wrote on Twitter.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/wow-youtube-removes-video-trump-lawyers-opening-statement-senate-committee-hearing-watch/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons

Very good statement - mebbe too good.

Here's an mp4.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26988 (202023ZDEC20) Notable: Diagram of Sequoia ownership since 1970s, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: sequoia_chart.png

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Lance Edelman @Lance_Edelman

Replying to @tracybeanz

A fairly accurate visual depiction.

[of Sequoia ownership since 1970s]

https://twitter.com/Lance_Edelman/status/1340751392831655936

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26992 (202055ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag Reports, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: SAM340_USAF_G5_on_ground_at_Mesquite_Metro_Airport_TX_from_JBA_1251pm_pst_122020.png

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>>187675 pb

SAM340 USAF G5 landed at Mesquite Metro Airport, TX about 2 hours ago-inbound from JBA

>>187674 pb

ANON USAFSOC C-32B departed NAS North Island after a ground stop and went to Pinal Airpark just NW of Tucson, AX-it is on the ground now

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26995 (202143ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag Reports, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ANON_USAFSOC_C_32B_departed_Pinal_Airpark_east_after_gs_142pm_pst_122020.png

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>>187689

ANON USAFSOC C-32B departed Pinal Airpark after a ground stop east-back to Eglin AFB or mebbe a stop off at Bragg prior

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/26998 (202214ZDEC20) Notable: HUGE: Chinese Spy Swalwell Was Sleeping With Is Pictured with Chinese Agent Who Spied on Feinstein, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: D0E88C30_6CC1_41DA_844B_2FFCB2A9345F.jpeg

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HUGE: Chinese Spy Rep. Swalwell Was Sleeping With Is Pictured with Chinese Agent Who Spied on Sen. Feinstein for 20 Years

The Chinese were all over Democrat politicians in San Francisco – physically and in public.

This morning, Maria Bartoromo on FOX News reported that she saw a picture with two Chinese spies and a US Senator. The Chinese spy who was sleeping with California Representative Eric Swalwell is reportedly in the same picture as the Chinese spy who spied on Senator Diane Feinstein for 20 years:

The Tennessee Star has the picture and reports:

All the details of a former, longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein staffer who’s accused of relaying information to Chinese intelligence services while working for the California Democrat point to Russell Lowe, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has determined.

Lowe worked for 20 years in Feinstein’s San Francisco office, where he was a staff liaison to the Asian-American community before leaving approximately five years ago. All those details match up with the descriptions of the Chinese spy Feinstein reportedly employed.

“Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics,” Politico Magazine reported on July 27, describing the staffer as “a liaison to the local Chinese community” who was secretly “reporting back” to Chinese intelligence services.

Since then, more details have emerged about the alleged spy, including that he worked for Feinstein for 20 years, “attended Chinese consulate functions for the senator” and was fired five years ago.

Feinstein’s spy is seen in a picture with Fang Fang, Rep. Eric Swalwell’s spy. The Daily Caller then reports more:

California Rep. Eric Swalwell, whose contacts with a Chinese spy were revealed this week, spoke at a same event in 2013 as another alleged Chinese agent who worked for decades for California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

The event was hosted by the group led by Christine Fang, a Chinese national whose relationship with Swalwell was the subject of a report published this week by Axios. There is no indication of wrongdoing on Swalwell’s part.

The California State University, East Bay Chinese Student Association hosted both Swalwell and Russell Lowe, who then worked for Feinstein, at an event to commemorate the Chinese Lunar New Year on Feb. 9, 2013, according to the group’s Facebook page.

How corrupt are the Democrat politicians in California who sleep with and spend time with China spies? How bad has our national security been broken?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/huge-chinese-spy-rep-swalwell-sleeping-pictured-chinese-man-spied-sen-feinstein-20-years/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27002 (202240ZDEC20) Notable: SES - Obama’s Secret Army - The most powerful three-letter agency in government, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army

October 31 2019

It’s the most powerful three-letter agency in government.

More powerful than the CIA, the NSA and the FBI.

In fact, it’s so powerful it has its own seal and its own flag.

And no, it’s not the FDA, the SEC, or the IRS.

And it’s not part of Homeland Security or FEMA… Although its tentacles reach deep into every one of those agencies.

The mainstream media rarely mentions it by name…

So most Americans have no idea it even exists.

But thanks to an obscure executive order and the secretive, if not treasonous, actions by former President Barack Obama…

It’s become the hidden force behind the coup of a duly elected president and the ongoing “complete transformation of America.”

And only by exposing it and bringing it out of the shadows, will it ever be stopped.

You see, on December 15th, 2015, six months after Donald J. Trump declared his candidacy for president and began to rise in the polls…

Former President Barack Obama signed what at the time, appeared to be an innocuous executive order.

However, Obama’s intentions were much more complex and sinister.

Because with that single executive order, Barack Obama launched an accelerated purge of thousands of American patriots from virtually every government agency — including our intelligence services and the military —while replacing them with party loyalists and political operatives loyal not to the country and the Constitution, but to him and his globalist and progressive-socialist agendas.

It was a purge of patriots and a takeover of government that began early on in his first term…

A purge that began by transforming an obscure federal agency hidden deep within the bowels of government, into what soon became a private, stay behind army.

An army of political operatives committed to two things:

The complete political, cultural and economic transformation of America as promised by Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.

And the overthrow of a Donald J. Trump presidency should he be elected.

The Department of The Deep State

FlagThe Senior Executive Service, or “SES,” was created on September 19, 1979 during the Carter administration.

It was originally formed to professionalize career civil service, while attracting the nation’s best and brightest in an effort to improve and modernize the management of the federal bureaucracy.

A position within the “SES” is considered the equivalent to general officer or the flag officer ranks in the U.S. Armed Forces.

For that reason, they are often referred to as our “civilian generals.”

Their pay scale starts above the top level of civil service (GS-15), with base salaries ranging from a minimum of $127,914 to a maximum of $192,300.1

Ostensibly, the SES was to be a corps of non-partisan, career managers who serve as the executive management of federal agencies…

Their job being to implement policy, not create it.

At least it was until then President Barack Obama changed that with a mere flick of his pen…

Making SES members nearly impossible to fire, once hired.

To say Obama’s transformation of the SES into an army of political operatives was effective would be a gross understatement.

There are more than 2 million federal government employees. And at the top of that pyramid are approximately 8,000 SES (Senior Executive Service) employees who service as the professional managerial class linking our political leaders to the civil service rank and file.

And Barack Obama as president, replaced more than 6,000 members of the 8,000-member SES during his two terms, assembling what became a stay-behind army of political operatives…2

So how pervasive is the SES?

Here’s a list of the number of SES employees that were embedded in the following government agencies at the end of Obama’s 2nd term in 2016:

Department of Education – 86

Department of Housing & Urban Development – 115

Department of the Air Force – 182

Department of Labor – 200

Department of State – 204

Department of Transportation – 231

Department of Interior – 258

Department of the Army – 261

Department of the Navy – 326

Department of Veterans Affairs – 357

Department of Agriculture – 361

Department of Commerce – 425

Department of the Treasury – 458

Department of Health & Human Services – 468

Department of Defense – 478

Department of Energy – 490

Department of Homeland Security – 639

Department of Justice – 821

All Other Agencies (all non-Cabinet level agencies) – 1,796

And it wasn’t just a purge of patriots from governmental agencies…

https://stpaulresearch.com/2019/10/31/obamas-secret-stay-behind-army/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27016 (202314ZDEC20) Notable: CDC Issues New Guidelines, Launches Probe After 1000s Affected By CV Vaccination, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: CDC_issues.png

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CDC Issues New Guidelines, Launches Probe After 1000s Negatively-Affected Following COVID-19 Vaccination

SUNDAY, DEC 20, 2020

Thousands of people have been unable to work or perform daily activities, or required care from a healthcare professional, after getting the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As of Dec. 18, 3,150 people reported what the agency terms “Health Impact Events” after getting vaccinated.

The definition of the term is: “unable to perform normal daily activities, unable to work, required care from doctor or health care professional.”

As The Epoch Times' Zachary Stieber reports, the people reporting the negative effects reported them through V-safe, a smartphone application. The tool uses text messages and web surveys to provide personalized health check-ins and allows users to quickly tell the CDC if they are experiencing side effects.

The CDC and Pfizer, which produces the vaccine with BioNTech, didn’t respond to request for comments.

The information was presented by Dr. Thomas Clark, a CDC epidemiologist, to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an independent panel that provides recommendations to the agency, on Saturday.

The CDC said that 272,001 doses of the vaccine were administered as of Dec. 19. That means most people who were vaccinated did not experience negative effects.

The CDC has identified six case reports of anaphylaxis, or severe allergic reaction, that occurred following vaccination with the new vaccine, Clark reported. Other case reports were reviewed and determined not to be of anaphylaxis.

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Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27026 (202328ZDEC20) Notable: Lin Wood is representing Sidney Powell against Smartmatic - his letter to their counsel, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: lin_wood_tweet_re_Sidney_lawsuit.png

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Lin Wood

@LLinWood

Knowing my background & experience in defamation law, Sidney

@SidneyPowell1

asked me to represent her & respond to SmartMatic litigation threat.

Since everything Sidney is saying about election fraud is documented TRUTH, my response to SmartMatic was simple & to the point.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1340729543267667970

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Letter:

Dear Erik:

I represent Sidney Powell. I have carefully reveiewed your letter of December 15, 2020. I am not impressed. Ms. Powell retracts nothing.

File your lawsuit.

Sincerely,

L. Lin Wood.

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Just so!

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27030 (202336ZDEC20) Notable: Portman, Peters Statement on Widespread Cyberattacks, Plan Hearings & Legislation in Early 2021, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: portman_stmt.png

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>>187700

Portman, Peters Statement on Widespread Cyberattacks, Plan Hearings & Legislation in Early 2021

December 18, 2020 | Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI) issued the following statement on the ongoing cyberattacks against our federal agencies, U.S. companies, and some state governments. Portman and Peters have been leaders in the Senate on legislative efforts to strengthen the federal government cyber response. They will lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the new Congress and plan to hold hearings and work on bipartisan comprehensive cybersecurity legislation in the new year.

“The recently discovered and ongoing cyberattacks cannot be tolerated and demonstrate the weakness of our cyber defenses and capacity to respond. These attacks were highly complex and they must be unraveled to know the full extent of the exposure to federal and state agencies and the private sector. The immediate effort must be to stop the immediate threat and ensure our systems are secure. We will in the future need to understand the full scope and impact to ensure that we know what damage has been done and to better prepare to respond next time. These types of sophisticated attacks are going to continue and we must work across the federal government, as well as with our private sector and state and local partners, to learn from this and strengthen our cyber defenses moving forward.

“In June 2019, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a bipartisan report that extensively documented the cybersecurity vulnerabilities and weaknesses in many of our federal agencies, including the Departments of State and Homeland Security. Next Congress, through the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, we intend to work together to understand the origin, scope, and severity of this breach, and plan to work on bipartisan comprehensive legislation to improve our cyber defenses to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”....

https://portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-peters-statement-widespread-cyberattacks-plan-hearings-legislation

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27036 (202346ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag Reports, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: French_AF_CTM1013_departed_LAX_west_heading_to_Hawaii_337pm_pst_122020.png, French_AF_Airbus_A330_F_UJCS.png

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French AF CTM1013 Airbus A330-200 west from LAX depart heading to Hawaii

Arrived earlier from Paris-Charles Degaulle Airport-yesterday in had a flight east of Paris for a shakedown and return to CDG

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27061 (210019ZDEC20) Notable: pb, pb, PF major goings on regarding the State Department and it's AC's to Europe that started this morning, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: SAM412_USAF_C_40B_departed_JBA_ne_and_heading_across_the_pond_416pm_pst_122020.png

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Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27069 (210029ZDEC20) Notable: Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States

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Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States – Constitutional Lawyer

Ivan Raiklin says Vice President Pence can request states send Electoral College slates that actually reflect the will of the people

Tom Pappert by TOM PAPPERT December 20, 2020

Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States – Constitutional Lawyer

Citing the United States Constitution and U.S. Code, Constitutional Lawyer Ivan Raiklin says it is Vice President Mike Pence’s duty to instruct states to expeditiously send their Electoral College Certificates immediately if they have not been received.

U.S.C. 12 explains that “When no certificate of vote and list mentioned in sections 9 and 11 of this title from any State shall have been received by the President of the Senate or by the Archivist of the United States by the fourth Wednesday in December, after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, the President of the Senate … shall request, by the most expeditious method available, the secretary of state of the State to send up the certificate…”

Beyond the allegations and evidence of widespread fraud presented by both President Donald Trump’s legal team and independent lawyers and witnesses across the United States, several states have now sent competing slates of delegates to Washington, D.C.

Additionally, Republicans in Pennsylvania and Arizona have asked the U.S. Congress not to accept the votes assigned by the state’s Secretary of State, suggesting they represent fraudulent election results.

Should Pence take this action, he is then instructed by the law to request these states immediately send accurate Electoral College Certificates before January 6.

Raiklin told National File that Pence will essentially force states to reclaim their Constitutional power to appoint Electoral College votes.

“That forces State Legislatures’ hand,” said Raiklin. “Pence can force the legislatures to reclaim their Constitutional power, hold a session, and appoint the Electoral College votes themselves as the Supreme Court did not address this issue.”

Mr @vp @Mike_Pence ,Please read every word! You play an outsized role on Wednesday#WeThePeople https://t.co/hG19sACQ0K pic.twitter.com/ULIfUycBAw

— Ivan E. Raiklin (Former Green Beret Commander) (@Raiklin) December 20, 2020

According to Raiklin, the Constitution would allow these states to be completely stricken from the Electoral College if Pence should refuse to accept them, and the number of Electoral College votes required to win would shrink dramatically from 270. President Trump would win under a simple majority of Electoral College votes, 232-227, without any risk of triggering a contingent election.

Dec 23 Plan Q & A. @VP @Mike_Pence https://t.co/jUCEHrKhQv

— Ivan E. Raiklin (Former Green Beret Commander) (@Raiklin) December 20, 2020

While many legal scholars have indicated there is ambiguity about how Electoral Votes are accepted, the media has maintained that Biden’s electoral win was secured on December 14, and will be confirmed on January 20. However, Raiklin tells National File he is willing to defend his analysis.

“I challenge any attorney anywhere to fact check this. If you have a different legal analysis, prove it.”

Should Republicans push for a contingent election, President Trump’s victory would again rely on Pence to cast the tie breaking vote after the House and Senate are deadlocked on whether battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin should be stricken from the total. Should neither candidate reach 270 votes, a contingent election would almost certainly see President Trump reelected by a vote cast by individual states, not Representatives, in the House, and Vice President Pence reelected in the Senate.

President Trump and his Republican allies in the House of Representatives and potentially the Senate have been preparing for an Electoral College contest on January 6 that may well lead to a contingent election. According to Raiklin, this would spare the country from this almost wholly uncharted territory.

https://nationalfile.com/law-prohibits-pence-from-accepting-electoral-votes-from-fraudulently-certified-states-constitutional-lawyer/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27073 (210033ZDEC20) Notable: Kamala on inauguration: Can’t wait for you and your family to join our virtual celebrations, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Kamala Harris

@KamalaHarris

.

@BidenInaugural

will look a little different in January than in years past, but

@JoeBiden

and I can’t wait for you and your family to join our virtual celebrations.

https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1340788114185437188

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27081 (210045ZDEC20) Notable: 10th Mountain Div. UPDATE: Corporal Harris has been found deceased and the investigation is on-going, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_2020_12_20_10th_Mountain_Div_on_Twitter_1_.png

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https://twitter.com/10MTNDIV/status/1340698669310423046

10th Mountain Div.

@10MTNDIV

UPDATE: Corporal Harris has been found deceased, and the investigation is on-going.

"We are grateful to everyone who shared his picture or said a prayer for his safe return... keep his Family in your thoughts and prayers, as we will," said Brig. Gen. Brett Funck

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27084 (210046ZDEC20) Notable: GEORGE, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_2020_12_20_GEORGE_NEWS_Real_news_Platform_2020.png

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New GEORGE daily news

https://george.news/#/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27086 (210049ZDEC20) Notable: U.S. Navy released a tri-service strategy called #AdvantageAtSea, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_2020_12_20_U_S_Navy_on_Twitter.png

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U.S. Navy

@USNavy

#ICYMI: This week the #USNavy, @USMC

, and @USCG

released a tri-service strategy called #AdvantageAtSea, designed to guide our maritime services for the next decade and shape the maritime balance of power for the rest of this century.

Go To: https://go.usa.gov/xA2GG

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27104 (210124ZDEC20) Notable: Planefag Reports

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>>187689, >>187690

ANON on ground at NAS Oceana from Tucson depart

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27158 (210227ZDEC20) Notable: Congress to adopt 1-day stopgap bill to prevent government shutdown

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The Hill

@thehill

Congress to adopt 1-day stopgap bill to prevent government shutdown http://hill.cm/HabLh1E

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1340845702222667776

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27159 (210227ZDEC20) Notable: CM Insurrection act allows for a precise operation to achieve the mission. Martial law is not required., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Ron

@CodeMonkeyZ

Glad

@realDonaldTrump

clarified that the martial law stuff was fake news.

The insurrection act, on the other hand, seems to not be off the radar.

Insurrection act allows for a precise operation to achieve the mission.

Martial law is not required.

8:16 PM · Dec 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1340843578956771329

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27161 (210230ZDEC20) Notable: On January 6, EVERY elector needs to be contested individually.

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Ron

@CodeMonkeyZ

On January 6, EVERY elector needs to be contested individually.

This then requires a TWO HOUR DEBATE PER ELECTOR.

Dozens of electors may force it into overtime, forcing a legislative vote in the house with each state getting one vote along party lines. @realDonaldTrump wins.

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1340844550231785472

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27175 (210322ZDEC20) Notable: pb, pb, PF major goings on regarding the State Department and it's AC's to Europe that started this morning, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: SAM388_USAF_C_40B_departed_Shannon_Ireland_se_after_a_ground_stop_inbound_from_JBA_706pm_pst_122020.png, KANSAS_twat_720pm_Iran_1220pm.png

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SAM388 USAF C-40B departed Shannon, Ireland after a ground stop and refuel

Left earlier today from JBA

SAM370 USAF C-32A departed JBA earlier this morning ne-Pompeo has used this AC as well as tail # 01-0040 (same type as SAM388)

>>187674 pb

SAM412 also departed from JBA about 3.5 hours ago

>>187703 pb

If you haven't noticed there is some major goings on regarding the State Department and it's AC's to Europe that started this morning.

twatter is 46min ago

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27176 (210326ZDEC20) Notable: Trudeau announces “new variant” of COVID in UK, cancels flights starting tonight, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: new_covid_variant_trudeau_cancels_flights.png

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Rebel News

@RebelNewsOnline

BREAKING: Trudeau announces “new variant” of COVID in UK, cancels flights starting tonight

7:19 PM · Dec 20, 2020·Twitter for Android

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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1340859451012755456

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27186 (210342ZDEC20) Notable: The Real Problem with Liberals Is They’ve Given Up on What Works for What Sounds Good, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Dan Bongino

@dbongino

Truth

https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1340816768730865664

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The Real Problem with Liberals Is They’ve Given Up on What Works for What Sounds Good

by John HawkinsPosted: December 20, 2020

Fight tech tyranny. Join Dan on Parler @dbongino.

The Real Problem with Liberals Is They’ve Given Up on What Works for What Sounds Good

No nation in human history has been more successful or done more to help other nations than the United States. We were the decisive nation in WW1, WW2, and the Cold War. We have been the primary supporter of democracy on the planet, we have the most powerful military in human history, and other than Great Britain, no nation did more to end slavery. Americans built the largest economy in human history, put a man on the moon, and invented everything from the Model-T to the Internet. If you want to compare the United States to other nations that have accomplished a lot historically like Britain, Italy, Greece, Egypt, France, Russia, and China, none of them comes close. In the real world, despite our country’s flaws, America is still the pinnacle of human accomplishment. That doesn’t mean we can’t improve or that there isn’t any nation that can’t do things better than us, but we already are what other nations aspire to be.

Yet, that’s not good enough for so many people on the Left. So many liberals not only refuse to acknowledge our success, they put this country down at every opportunity. They’re the sort of people the late, great Machiavelli described just so:

“And many writers have imagined for themselves republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for there is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live that anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation: for a man who wishes to profess goodness at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.”

In other words, they hate the real country because they are in love with a theoretical utopia in their minds that has never existed in the real world and never will. It’s all fine and good to talk about critical race theory, fourth-wave feminism, intersectionality, or other ridiculous academic theories that have been taken far too seriously, but where have these theories brought success, happiness, and prosperity in the real world? What successful nation owes its accomplishments to those principles? When liberals look at American history, they tend to obsessively focus on our flaws despite the fact that they were common across the world. Yes, we took land from the Indians. However, there’s not a square foot of land on planet earth that wasn’t violently taken from one group of people by another at some point in time. We also had slavery at one time, just like almost every nation on the planet at one time or another. If prostitution is the oldest profession, then slave master was probably the second. There are racists in America, but if this country was really racist, non-white immigrants wouldn’t be flocking here by the millions.

What liberals always seem to miss is where we differ from so many other nations. Certainly, some of it was luck. This is a large, resource-rich nation that was just far away enough from Europe to keep any of those nations from controlling us long-term. However, beyond that, this nation had a devout Christian foundation and a Protestant work ethic. We had a well written, successful Constitution that created a Republic, embraced free speech, and jealously guarded the rights of the people from the government. We embraced capitalism, small government, personal responsibility, law and order, and a powerful culture that encouraged people that immigrated here to be part of a melting pot, not a salad bowl.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27216 (210450ZDEC20) Notable: Smartmatic Retraction Letter to Powell 12.15.2020.pdf

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>>187719

Smartmatic Retraction Letter to Powell 12.15.2020.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27220 (210455ZDEC20) Notable: "Christmas Star" - Worlds Will Align Next Week For Celestial Event Not Seen Since Middle Ages, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screen_Shot_2020_12_20_at_10_37_38_PM.png

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"Christmas Star" - Worlds Will Align Next Week For Celestial Event Not Seen Since Middle Ages

Tyler Durden's Photo

BY TYLER DURDEN

SUNDAY, DEC 20, 2020 - 21:00

Gazing into the night sky Monday, Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in the solar system, will appear closer together than they have ever been since the Middle Ages, offering billions of people around the world a celestial treat around the holidays, according to Rice University.

On Dec 21, the winter solstice, a day when the Earth's poles have their maximum tilt away from the Sun, offering the shortest period of daylight of the year, Jupiter and Saturn will almost appear as a double planet, which is called a "conjunction" by astrologist.

"Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring once every 20 years or so, but this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of how close the planets will appear to one another," said Rice University astronomer Patrick Hartigan. "You'd have to go all the way back to just before dawn on Mar 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky."

Between December 16 and 25, the two planets will appear as a double planet. The conjunction will take place in the low western sky for about an hour or so after sunset during this period of time.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/christmas-star-worlds-will-align-next-week-celestial-treat-not-seen-middle-ages

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27258 (210759ZDEC20) Notable: Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States – Constitutional Lawyer, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Law Prohibits Pence From Accepting Electoral Votes From Fraudulently Certified States – Constitutional Lawyer

20 December 2020

Citing the United States Constitution and U.S. Code, Constitutional Lawyer Ivan Raiklin says it is Vice President Mike Pence’s duty to instruct states to expeditiously send their Electoral College Certificates immediately if they have not been received.

U.S.C. 12 explains that “When no certificate of vote and list mentioned in sections 9 and 11 of this title from any State shall have been received by the President of the Senate or by the Archivist of the United States by the fourth Wednesday in December, after the meeting of the electors shall have been held, the President of the Senate … shall request, by the most expeditious method available, the secretary of state of the State to send up the certificate…”

Beyond the allegations and evidence of widespread fraud presented by both President Donald Trump’s legal team and independent lawyers and witnesses across the United States, several states have now sent competing slates of delegates to Washington, D.C.

Additionally, Republicans in Pennsylvania and Arizona have asked the U.S. Congress not to accept the votes assigned by the state’s Secretary of State, suggesting they represent fraudulent election results.

Should Pence take this action, he is then instructed by the law to request these states immediately send accurate Electoral College Certificates before January 6.

Raiklin told National File that Pence will essentially force states to reclaim their Constitutional power to appoint Electoral College votes.

“That forces State Legislatures’ hand,” said Raiklin. “Pence can force the legislatures to reclaim their Constitutional power, hold a session, and appoint the Electoral College votes themselves as the Supreme Court did not address this issue.”

Mr @vp @Mike_Pence ,

Please read every word! You play an outsized role on Wednesday#WeThePeople https://t.co/hG19sACQ0K pic.twitter.com/ULIfUycBAw

— Ivan E. Raiklin (Former Green Beret Commander) (@Raiklin) December 20, 2020

According to Raiklin, the Constitution would allow these states to be completely stricken from the Electoral College if Pence should refuse to accept them, and the number of Electoral College votes required to win would shrink dramatically from 270. President Trump would win under a simple majority of Electoral College votes, 232-227, without any risk of triggering a contingent election.

Dec 23 Plan Q & A. @VP @Mike_Pence https://t.co/jUCEHrKhQv

— Ivan E. Raiklin (Former Green Beret Commander) (@Raiklin) December 20, 2020

While many legal scholars have indicated there is ambiguity about how Electoral Votes are accepted, the media has maintained that Biden’s electoral win was secured on December 14, and will be confirmed on January 20. However, Raiklin tells National File he is willing to defend his analysis.

“I challenge any attorney anywhere to fact check this. If you have a different legal analysis, prove it.”

Should Republicans push for a contingent election, President Trump’s victory would again rely on Pence to cast the tie breaking vote after the House and Senate are deadlocked on whether battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin should be stricken from the total. Should neither candidate reach 270 votes, a contingent election would almost certainly see President Trump reelected by a vote cast by individual states, not Representatives, in the House, and Vice President Pence reelected in the Senate.

President Trump and his Republican allies in the House of Representatives and potentially the Senate have been preparing for an Electoral College contest on January 6 that may well lead to a contingent election. According to Raiklin, this would spare the country from this almost wholly uncharted territory.

https://nationalfile.com/law-prohibits-pence-from-accepting-electoral-votes-from-fraudulently-certified-states-constitutional-lawyer/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27259 (210802ZDEC20) Notable: White House Splits Over Special Counsel, Martial Law Amid Aftermath Of SolarWinds Breach, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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BREAKING: White House Splits Over Special Counsel, Martial Law Amid Aftermath Of SolarWinds Breach

Arguments between Senior White House staff and prominent Trump staffers erupted in the Oval Office on Friday, according to CNN.

Andrew White by ANDREW WHITE December 20, 2020

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The rift between members of the Senior White House staff is now as public as it is wide, after CNN reported an Oval Office meeting between top Trump staffers, including Trump Campaign Attorney Matt Morgan, Attorney Sidney, Powell and General Michael Flynn, the de-facto leaders of the grassroots movement fighting for election integrity, that allegedly included arguments over a possible voter fraud Special Counsel investigation and martial law to restore election integrity.

Matt Morgan has previously been blamed for the campaign’s lackluster initial handling of the numerous claims of election fraud in the early hours of Wednesday, November 4.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone were present at the meeting and reportedly pushed back against the notion of naming Powell as special counsel to investigate the widespread evidence of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election.

According to CNN, the conversation also included discussions on the possibility of enacting martial law to ensure election security, an idea that General Flynn suggested earlier this week on Newsmax. Some individuals in the room reportedly argued against it.

The idea of enacting an executive order to access and inspect US voting machines was also discussed in the meeting. This could possibly be a reference to President Trump’s 2018 executive order titled Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election.

“I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States…”

“…In recent years, the proliferation of digital devices and internet-based communications has created significant vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of foreign interference, as illustrated in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat.”

These developments arise amid the aftermath of the devastating SolarWinds cyber attack. As the unprecedented breach made its way into public view, DNI John Ratcliffe announced a delay in the release of the official report on foreign election interference due to new intelligence surrounding Chinese operations information, as National File reported:

https://nationalfile.com/breaking-white-house-splits-over-special-counsel-martial-law-amid-aftermath-of-solarwinds-breach/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27262 (210811ZDEC20) Notable: 2020 Election Integrity – A Snapshot Showing Where We Stand, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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2020 Election Integrity – A Snapshot Showing Where We Stand

By R.D. Wedge

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Chief Justice Roberts’s Supreme Court is manifestly reluctant to fulfill its statutory responsibilities, despite overwhelming, and steadily accruing, evidence of significant fraud that the election outcome. However, in 2018, President Trump may have prepared a time bomb that can still save the day.

Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, filed a complaint asserting that election fraud disenfranchised Texas voters. Texas voting was done within the framework of the U.S. Constitution and battleground states strayed beyond legal boundaries, to put it mildly. The legal votes of Texans were nullified by the alleged fraudulent votes of those states.

Article III, section 2, of the Constitution states in relevant part, the Supreme Court “[J]udicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity . . . to Controversies between two or more states. . . .” (Emphasis added.) Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has denied the Texas lawsuit challenging the election outcome in battleground states, asserting “lack of standing.”

Justices Alito and Thomas dissented from the majority opinion and wanted to hear the case. Alito wrote, “In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of the bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint, but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”

Reading between the lines, Texas has standing under the Constitution. Hearing the complaint’s merits is warranted based upon the clearly expressed text. Further, SCOTUS could wisely have avoided picking winners and losers by disqualifying the election based upon malfeasance, which defers the matter to Congress as the Constitution mandates.

The only thing missing from their judgment is courage. To say that this is a disappointment would be an understatement.

The issue of election fraud is not new. The Heritage Foundation’s database on this issue shows 1,302 “proven instances of voter fraud” as of this writing. In 2020, issues of the deceased voting, non-citizens voting, and 120% of registered voter participation in certain counties are just a few examples of election corruption.

The convoluted nature of this election is by design. The progressive ruling class, under the guise of the coronavirus, flooded the country with unsolicited mail-in ballots. What could possibly go wrong?

There are times when the ruling classes show their hand. Remember when Rahm Emanuel said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Corporate media and Big Tech cover for these people all day long.

Crosscurrents of arrogance, power, and intimidation are at play here. If this corruption were to go unresolved, we would never have a free and fair election again. But, the American Spirit in pursuit of the truth, wherever the facts lead, is shining a light on this mischief.

Forensic Audit of Dominion Machines

The results of a forensic audit of Dominion tabulators in Antrim, Michigan have been released. This is the Republican stronghold that gave Biden a win by a few thousand votes. The 6,000 vote “glitch” was rectified, but further illustrates what appears to be a trend.

Proprietary coding has been redacted but the merits of the substance remain. According to the Washington Examiner, Allied Security Operations Group conducted the analysis. A synopsis of their findings is as follows:

Dominion machines are intentionally designed to create fraud

They are designed to manipulate data with no oversight

liminating transparency is part of their signature

They were intentionally designed to eliminate an audit trail

The observable error rate is 68.05% when the Federal Election Comm. standard is 0.0008%

Republican Clerk did not update software, exacerbating the situation

Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan

Audit bottom line: Michigan’s election should not be certified.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/2020_election_integrity__a_snapshot_showing_where_we_stand_now.html

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27264 (210825ZDEC20) Notable: ‘Simple Math’ Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election

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REVEALED: ‘Simple Math’ Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election

By Joe Hoft

Published December 20, 2020 at 7:30am

5825 Comments

The 2020 election will go down as the most corrupt US election in history.

The US election was corrupted in so many ways.

When you win a record low 17% of counties, lose Black & Hispanic support, lose 18/19 Bellwether Counties, lose Ohio, Florida, & Iowa — and lose 27/27 House “Toss-Ups” — but you shatter the popular vote record❗️ pic.twitter.com/ceBEoVYf8k

— Kanekoa (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 19, 2020

TRENDING: REVEALED: 'Simple Math' Shows Biden Claims 13 MILLION More Votes Than There Were Eligible Voters Who Voted in 2020 Election

Bill Binney, of US Intel fame tweeted out a message yesterday noting that more people voted in the 2020 election nation-wide than were eligible to vote.

(39)With 212Million registered voters and 66.2% voting,140.344 M voted. Now if Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden. These numbers don’t add up to what we are being told. Lies and more Lies!https://t.co/pY3n6DEWzP https://t.co/5FSNfJw992

— Bill Binney, Constitutional Patriot (@Bill_Binney) December 19, 2020

What Binney points out is that according to the Washington Post, 2020 had the highest voter turnout in over a century:Of course this on its face value implies fraud since no one was excited about voting for Joe Biden, but the WaPo wouldn’t consider going there – not with their far-left extreme bias.

Binney attaches a link to the number of registered voters in the US. We made a copy as of today and added these voters up. When we add up the number of registered voters we obtain 213.8 million registered voters in the US as of this morning.

Using the numbers as of today, which are materially similar to Binney’s, we find a huge issue. If we have 213.8 million registered voters in the US and 66.2% of all voters voted in the 2020 election, that equals 141.5 voters who voted in the 2020 election (Binney shows 140 million which is materially the same).

If President Trump won 74 million votes, then that leaves only 67.5 million votes remaining for Biden. This means 13 million duplicate or made up ballots were created and counted for Biden!

This also supports our observations from the start. Biden committed fraud in every imaginable way, but the big steal was in millions of fraudulent votes that were created to steal the election for Biden. MILLIONS!

The results of the 2020 election at a very high level do not add up. This is math liberals – very simple math that even liberals should be able to understand. At a high level, the Biden camp clearly committed fraud.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-huge-simple-math-shows-biden-claims-13-million-votes-eligible-voters-voted-2020-election/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27272 (210857ZDEC20) Notable: Dan Scavino Spaceforce, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Dan Scavino

@DanScavino

Spaceforce

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27273 (210901ZDEC20) Notable: U.S. Air Force Medical evacuations, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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U.S. Air Force

@usairforce

Medical evacuations

Airmen assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron participated in an aeromedical evacuation mission on a C-130H Hercules over Southwest Asia.

#ReadyAF

@USAFCENT

Camera with flash by SSgt Trevor T. McBride

https://twitter.com/usairforce/status/1340904605593575425

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27274 (210902ZDEC20) Notable: Rudy W. Giuliani Retweeted Trump Campaign taking Constitutional fight to Supreme Court, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Rudy W. Giuliani Retweeted

Trump Campaign taking Constitutional fight to Supreme Court

“Today [we] filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law...”

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1340812262542430209

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27275 (210904ZDEC20) Notable: Sidney Powell Retweeted MSM has deep financial ties to China, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Sidney Powell Retweeted

Password Hunter02 @realDonaldTrump

MSM has deep financial ties to China:

Quote Tweet

Password Hunter02

@BenKTallmadge

· Sep 14

Has China Compromised Every Major Mainstream Media Entity? -l

• In 2017, NYT owner Carlos Slim’s Giant Motors signed joint venture with Chinazi JAC Motors, began producing cars in Mexico -to benefit Beijing amid US-China trade wars.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/has-china-compromised-every-major-mainstream-media-entity/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27276 (210906ZDEC20) Notable: Jenna Ellis Give them $600 for the whole year., MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Jenna Ellis

@JennaEllisEsq

Give them $600 for the whole year.

https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1340920185822199811

Harmeet K. Dhillon

@pnjaban

· 1h

Members of Congress got paid throughout the last ten months when governors took away OUR jobs and our pay.

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27277 (210911ZDEC20) Notable: NYC Restaurant Owners Have the Perfect Response to Governor Cuomo, He's Not Going to Like This

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NYC Restaurant Owners Have the Perfect Response to Governor Cuomo, He's Not Going to Like This

By Nick Arama | Dec 20, 2020 11:00 PM ET

If there was an award for the worst possible response to a pandemic, surely Governor Andrew Cuomo would not only be in the lead, but it would be hard to argue against him winning it.

Cuomo was responsible for an order forcing nursing homes to accept Wuhan coronavirus patients. Thousands of New Yorkers in nursing homes died in the wake of that order. His health department then changed the way nursing home deaths were counted after the scandal hit to cover-up exactly how many deaths were involved, we still don’t know exactly.

Then he tried to blame President Donald Trump for New York leading the nation in deaths, despite the fact that he had previously praised Trump for providing all kinds of help for the city.

Despite his horrible response, he was lauded by the liberal media for his response, who made him into a hero and even spoke about him as a possible presidential candidate at some future point.

Then with absolutely no self-awareness, he wrote a book lauding his response while the pandemic was still ongoing and despite so many deaths in New York.

Not only has he exacerbated nursing home deaths with his order, he’s also exacerbated businesses going under with arbitrary restrictions.

Restaurant owners in New York City have had enough and they’re letting him know in a very direct way. He is no longer welcome in any of their restaurants.

A group of restaurants agitating to reopen indoor dining have joined together to ban him from their restaurants.

From Washington Examiner:

“He can eat at some sh—- roadside diner outside of Albany but he will not be served anywhere in New York City, known universally as the world’s greatest dining destination! If he has to use the restroom he can go pee on my street-corner,” said bar owner Larry Baird.

Members of a Facebook group by the name of “NYC Restaurant Open,” which is comprised of several restaurant and bar owners from the city, have signaled support for the Cuomo ban.

“Completely schizophrenic behavior,” one group member said. “How are they coming up with these rules is beyond any logical reasoning.”

“He can dine at Gracie Mansion if wants hospitality in Manhattan,” another member added. “He ain’t getting it here!”

Cuomo has banned indoor dining once again in NYC earlier in the month, claiming that “with the rate of transmission, the density and crowding,” it was a “bad situation.”

In fact, the science suggests that the rate of transmission in restaurants in New York City, such as they can assess it, is rare. Only 1.3 percent of COVID 19 infections come from bars and restaurants in the city, according to the statistics. Yet Cuomo is willing to destroy a whole industry with all of the jobs and people’s lives associated with it. Over 1000 restaurants have closed permanently in New York City because of these restrictions.

Little about such restrictions seems truly based on science and statistics, but rather more based upon power and control.

So some like Mac’s Public House owner Danny Presti have gotten inventive when it comes to getting around the restrictions. He’s declared his place an “autonomous zone” where the food and drinks are “free” but people can leave “donations.”

“It doesn’t seem like we can do business,” said Mac’s Public House owner Danny Presti, who was arrested earlier this month in connection to refusing lockdown orders. “So here’s what we’re going to do for everybody: We’re going to give away everything for free. So now you can come to Mac’s Public House, and you can eat for free and you can drink for free. We just ask that you do make a donation toward us so that we can still pay our bills.”

This will hit the narcissistic governor right where he lives. Watch for the ensuing tantrum when he hears this.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/12/20/nyc-restaurant-owners-have-the-perfect-response-to-governor-cuomo-hes-not-going-to-like-this-n297842

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27278 (210915ZDEC20) Notable: Law Professor Calls for All Black Votes to Be Double-Counted From Now On

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Law Professor Calls for All Black Votes to Be Double-Counted From Now On

By Alex Parker | Dec 21, 2020 12:30 AM ET

Do you believe your vote counts?

To explain, I mean counts for one.

Or, if you’re black, possibly double that.

Such is the system that works for Brandon Hasbrouck, who recently penned a piece for The Nation magazine.

The Washington and Lee University School of Law assistant professor thinks each lever-pull by a black voter should be tallied twice.

Professor: The Votes Of Black Americans Should Count Twice | The Daily Wire. Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, says votes from black Americans should be counted twice. https://t.co/UCClJdslZL

— NicoleMak (@begoodly18) December 21, 2020

In the article, Brandon insists “black voters in this country are worth less than white voters.”

He does state that black people (in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Philadelphia) won Biden the Electoral College; yet, he asserts, despite “overwhelming Black support — 94 percent of Detroit voted for Biden,” Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were still “worryingly close.”

One enemy to the black American’s ballot-casting — says Brandon — is the Electoral College:

One core problem is the Electoral College. Wyoming, which has just 580,000 residents and is 93 percent white, gets three electors because of its two senators and one representative in the House. By comparison, Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District — which includes Atlanta, has 710,000 residents, and is 58 percent Black — has no dedicated electors or senators and can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state.

Do black lives matter? Where the government’s concerned, he estimates No:

This devaluation of Black votes allows our political system to ignore Black lives, and the consequences are devastating. Unequal representation has led to unequal health care outcomes, which the Covid-19 pandemic has only worsened.

One thing’s for sure — repeatedly, black voters by and large enlist Democrats to save the day.

The Daily Wire runs some numbers:

Democratic presidential candidates have received an average of nearly 90% of the black vote for more than five decades. George W. Bush got 9% of the black vote in 2000, then made a heavy outreach and soared in 2004 — to 11%. In 2012 Mitt Romney pledged to help the black community more than had President Barack Obama (who got 95% of the 2008 vote). Romney ended up with 8% of the black vote, the same percentage President Trump would get in 2016.

Has it served them well?

Regardless, Brandon argues the Electoral College was set up from the get-go to disadvantage black Americans.

Its foundational purpose, in fact, was to protect slavery:

The Constitution’s framers set up the Electoral College to protect the interests of slave states. Along with the Senate, the Electoral College was critical in the endurance of slavery and its continuation by other means. Abolishing this system would mean that ballots cast by Black voters — or any voters, for that matter — would count the same.”

Therefore, it’s time for reparations, Doublemint Gum style:

We can implement vote reparations by double-counting ballots cast by all Black residents.

The professor points out the idea isn’t only his — in a 2015 op-ed for The Washington Post, Brennan Center for Justice Senior Fellow Theodore Johnson called for roughly the same.

Mr. Johnson endorsed the increase of each black vote to 5/3 — accomplishing “a poetic symmetry with the three-fifths clause of the Constitution.”

That clause, as you may recall, counted each slave as 3/5 of a person.

But Brandon considers a doubling to be closer to right — it “keeps the point clear and provides redress for myriad forms of disenfranchisement deployed against Black voters.”

And if Washington will agree to it, voilà — balance to the Force:

Because white votes currently count more than Black ones, double-counting Black votes would restore electoral balance. Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes.

The university instructor makes clear: Systemic racism is real.

So a solution’s got to be found.

He asks readers to imagine a world where black votes are twice-counted:

To address systemic racism, we must transform how we choose our government. Even if vote reparations aren’t instituted, Black voters will keep tirelessly dragging our states toward a more perfect union. But just imagine our country if our votes counted twice.

Can you envision it?

If so, how ’bout it? Are you down with a doubling?

Or does Brandon’s plan just not add up?

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2020/12/21/brandon-hasbrouck-the-nation-black-votes-counted-double-restore-balance-systemic-racism-n297894

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27279 (210918ZDEC20) Notable: Are We Witnessing the Beginning of the End for Fox News?

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Are We Witnessing the Beginning of the End for Fox News?

By Jeff Charles | Dec 20, 2020 2:30 PM ET

What’s going to happen to Fox News?

After the election, it seems that conservatives and Republicans are gradually looking elsewhere for their news and commentary. But it isn’t just right-leaning consumers of content that are pivoting, the individuals who appear on these networks seem to be noticing the shift.

The Hill recently reported that GOP lawmakers are appearing more frequently on Newsmax than they have in the past. Indeed, Fox News was virtually the only conservative news outlet on which Republican leaders appeared up until recently.

“As President Trump openly feuds with Fox News, conservative lawmakers and loyal Trump officials have increasingly added Newsmax to their rotation of media stops, giving a sheen of credibility to the fledgling network as it seeks to compete for conservative viewers,” according to The Hill.

Newsmax is not yet rivaling Fox in terms of ratings, but it seems feasible that the outlet could close the gap in the next few years. GOP lawmakers told The Hill that the rise in popularity for Newsmax and other right-leaning news organizations has enticed them to appear more frequently on these alternative networks.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) stated that Trump’s feud with Fox contributed to his decision to look at smaller outlets. The Hill noted, “asked whether Trump’s criticism of Fox News is a factor for the small segment of Republicans considering the alternative networks, Harris replied: ‘It is for me.’”

The same seems to hold true for other GOP lawmakers. Newsmax anchor Sean Spicer and his co-host, Lyndsay Keith, recently interviewed newly-elected representatives August Pfluger and Tony Gonzales. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) still appears on Fox but has also made multiple appearances on Spicer’s show.

“Sean Spicer is well respected on Capitol Hill and his show with Lyndsay is both substantive and widely viewed in Congress,” Banks told The Hill. “I enjoy doing it and get feedback from constituents when I do.”

From The Hill:

“Over one 24-hour period last week, Newsmax featured new interviews with Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.).

Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) stopped by to attack elected Republican officials in Georgia for not doing enough to root out fraud. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) hammered Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) for his office having been infiltrated by a Chinese spy. And Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) came on to blame Democrats for stalling COVID-19 relief efforts.”

Other Republican politicians have not yet appeared on Newsmax, but they seem to be taking notice of the trend. “I know back home people are watching Fox less and watching the other outlets,” a GOP lawmaker in the Midwest told The Hill.

Still, Fox News remains the dominant right-leaning news outlet. It is the top-rated network in both daytime and prime time.

Still, Fox can book anyone it wants — including Trump, who sat for an interview with Fox & Friends last week, despite his criticism of the network. Its popularity is declining in the wake of the election, but it still has a ways to go before it has to worry about competition from the likes of Newsmax and OANN. But this does not mean it can afford to rest on its laurels.

Newsmax seems to be doing everything it can to capitalize on conservatives’ dissatisfaction with Fox. Reuters reported that “the network plans to hire more staff in the United States and London, debut a new primetime host and add more weekend programming to capitalize on post-election gains and some viewers’ discontent with Rupert Murdoch’s longtime ratings king Fox News.

Axios noted that Newsmax is making a push to snag some of Fox News’ talent. They reported that the company is “trying to lure away its vital booking agents with promises of higher salaries.”

Fox News might be the outlet of choice for most conservatives currently, but it is entirely possible that this is changing. The network’s handling of the election left a sour taste in many Republicans’ mouths, and it is no surprise that they are seeking out other news sources. While it is unlikely that the outlet will fold completely, it appears to be inevitable that its competitors will grow more popular and could pose a serious challenge to the network’s dominance.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2020/12/20/are-we-witnessing-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-fox-news-n297658

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27283 (210932ZDEC20) Notable: China aircraft carrier sails through Taiwan Strait raising alarm

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=China aircraft carrier sails through Taiwan Strait raising alarm==

The Shandong was accompanied by four other ships and led Taiwan to deploy aircraft and vessels to monitor the convoy.

The Shandong aircraft carrier, which was commissioned a year ago, sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait over the weekend [File: Li Gang/Xinhua via AP Photo]

21 Dec 2020

An aircraft carrier group led by China’s newest carrier, the Shandong, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on its way to routine drills in the South China Sea, China’s navy said on Monday, after Taiwan mobilised its forces to monitor the convoy.

The Shandong sailed through the Taiwan Strait a day after a US warship passed through the same stretch of sea.

The drills are part of “normal arrangements made in accordance with annual plans”, it said. “In the future, we will continue to organise similar operations based on training needs.”

The carrier’s move through the strait comes amid rising tension between China and Taiwan, which Beijing sees as part of its territory. The democratically ruled island says it has recorded almost daily incursions into its airspace by the Chinese armed forces in recent months.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said the Shandong was accompanied by four warships and had set out from the northern Chinese port of Dalian on Thursday. In a statement on its website, it said the convoy continued to move south.

Taiwan said it sent six warships and eight military aircraft to monitor the Chinese ships’ movements.

“The military has the confidence and ability to protect its homeland, ensure national security and maintain regional peace and stability,” the statement said.

Two PLA aircraft (Y-8 EW and Y-8 ASW) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Dec. 20. Please check our official website for more information: https://t.co/SJas2NnQav pic.twitter.com/gGpH6gEe5g

— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) December 20, 2020

The Shandong is China’s second carrier, and was formally commissioned almost exactly a year ago.

Since then, it has successfully completed tasks such as carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing and use of its weapons, the Chinese navy said.

“The combat capability of the formation system has been continuously improved in experimental training,” it added, referring to the group of warships which accompany the Shandong.

China has been working to hone its carrier operations but has little experience compared to the United States, which has operated integrated carrier battle groups with multiple vessels for decades.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/21/alarm-in-taiwan-as-china-aircraft-carriers-sail-through-strait

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27284 (210936ZDEC20) Notable: US to earmark $1.9bn to replace Huawei, ZTE telecoms gear: Report

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US to earmark $1.9bn to replace Huawei, ZTE telecoms gear: Report

The $900bn virus relief bill reportedly includes funds to replace telecommunications network equipment that the US says poses a national security risk.

Huawei is one of the Chinese companies caught in the heightened trade tensions between Beijing and Washington [File: Michele Tantussi/Reuters]

21 Dec 2020

US policymakers will back a $1.9bn programme to remove telecommunications network equipment that the US government says could threaten national security as part of a $900bn COVID-19 relief bill, two sources briefed on the matter told the Reuters news agency.

Policymakers will also back $3.2bn for an emergency broadband benefit for low-income Americans, senior congressional aides confirmed.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in June it had formally designated China’s Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp as threats, a declaration that bars US firms from tapping an $8.3bn government fund to buy equipment from the companies.

Earlier this month, the FCC finalised rules that require carriers with ZTE or Huawei equipment to “rip and replace” that equipment but is awaiting funding from Congress.

Huawei said earlier this month it was disappointed in the FCC’s decision “to force removal of our products from telecommunications networks. This overreach puts US citizens at risk in the largely underserved rural areas – during a pandemic – when reliable communication is essential”.

Rip and replace The bill “establishes a temporary, emergency broadband benefit program at the FCC to help low-income Americans, including those economically challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, get connected or remain connected to broadband,” according to a fact sheet seen by Reuters.

One of the sources also said the programme will supply a $50 monthly subsidy to qualifying households “to help them afford broadband service and an internet-connected device.”

The bill also expands eligibility for the rip-and-replace reimbursement programme to communications providers with 10 million subscribers or less but prioritises reimbursement for providers with two million subscribers or less, the source said, citing a draft fact sheet.

The bill will include $285m for connecting minority communities and will establish an Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

It will also offer funding to “support minority-serving education institutions, including when they partner with minority-owned businesses, to expand broadband capacity and use at the school and in the surrounding community,” the fact sheet seen by Reuters said.

It also includes about $250m for additional FCC support for tele-health and $1bn for an NTIA tribal broadband connectivity grant programme.

There is a separate $300m NTIA grant scheme to promote broadband expansion to Americans who have less connectivity, especially in rural areas, and $65m for better broadband maps.

That fully funds the FCC’s development of new, more accurate broadband availability maps to help the agency better target government funding for broadband deployment.

On Friday, the US Department of Commerce announced it is blacklisting Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co and more than 60 other Chinese companies “to protect US national security”.

Companies including Huawei and SMIC have been caught in the middle of worsening tensions between the world’s two largest economies, which have clashed on issues from trade to the pandemic.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/21/us-lays-out-funds-to-replace-telecom-equipment-from-huawei-zte

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27285 (210939ZDEC20) Notable: Which countries have banned UK travel over COVID concerns?

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Which countries have banned UK travel over COVID concerns?

At least 27 countries ban flights and travellers from the UK after the detection of a new coronavirus strain in England.

The new strain could be up to 70 percent more infectious, the United Kingdom has said, prompting its European neighbours and several other countries including Canada and Iran to close their doors to travellers from the country [Remo Casilli/Reuters]

21 Dec 2020

Several countries have banned or will ban flights and travellers from the UK after the British government said on Sunday that the spread of a more-infectious new strain of the coronavirus was now “out of control”.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and scientists announced that the new strain had led to spiralling infection numbers.

Here are the countries that have announced travel bans so far:

Argentina has banned flights from the UK. It said the last flight from the UK would arrive in the country on Monday.

Belgium banned flights from the UK for at least 24 hours from midnight on Sunday.

Bulgaria said flights to and from the UK would be suspended from midnight Sunday until January 31.

Canada is banning all UK flights for 72 hours.

Chile announced that it would suspend flights from the UK effective Tuesday.

Colombia will suspend all flights to the UK.

Croatia said it would temporarily suspend passenger air traffic from the UK for 48 hours.

Denmark has suspended flights from the UK for 48 hours starting Monday at 09:00 GMT.

El Salvador‘s President Nayib Bukele said anyone who had been in Britain or South Africa in the past 30 days will not be allowed to enter the country.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have halted flights from the UK.

Finland has barred flights from the UK for two weeks.

France has banned all travel from the UK for 48 hours, including journeys “related to goods transport by road, air, sea or rail”.

Germany halted all air links with the UK from midnight on Sunday, with the ban initially slated to last until December 31. Cargo flights will be exempt.

Hong Kong will ban flights from the UK over new coronavirus strain.

Italy has blocked flights from Great Britain and the “entry into Italy of people who have stayed there during the last 14 days”. The new strain has been found in one person in Italy who recently returned from the UK.

Iran has ordered flights from the UK suspended for two weeks.

Ireland has banned all flights arriving from the UK from midnight Sunday for at least 48 hours.

Israel said it was barring entry to foreign citizens travelling from the UK, Denmark and South Africa.

Kuwait has added the UK to a list of “high-risk” nations and banned flights.

Morocco banned all flights to the UK beginning on Sunday.

Norway will be suspend flights from the UK with immediate effect for a minimum of 48 hour, the Norwegian health minister said in a statement on Monday.

All passenger flights from the UK to the Netherlands have been banned until January 1, the Dutch government said. It later banned ferry passengers as well.

Poland will be suspending flights from the UK starting from midnight on Monday.

Romania has banned all flights to and from the UK for two weeks starting on Monday afternoon.

Switzerland has stopped flights until further notice.

Turkey said flights from the UK, Denmark – where nine cases of the new strain have been detected – the Netherlands and South Africa will be suspended.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/21/which-countries-have-banned-uk-flights-over-new-covid-19-concerns

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27286 (210942ZDEC20) Notable: Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries

The two largest planets will be one-tenth of a degree apart in what is being dubbed the ‘Great Conjunction’.

Saturn and Jupiter seen behind a church ahead of their conjunction that is being called The Christmas Star, on December 18, 2020 in Jersey City, US [Gary Hershorn/Getty Images]

21 Dec 2020

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky on Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo was alive in the 17th century.

Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two largest planets in our solar system are not particularly rare – Jupiter passes its neighbour Saturn in their respective laps around the Sun every 20 years.

They should be easily visible around the world a little after sunset, weather permitting.

Toss in the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest night of the year – and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere – and the spectacle promises to be one of the greatest of Great Conjunctions.

To see it, be ready shortly after sunset on Monday, looking to the southwest fairly low on the horizon.

Saturn will be the smaller, fainter blob at Jupiter’s upper right. Binoculars will be needed to separate the two planets.

Despite appearances, Jupiter and Saturn will actually be more than 730 million kilometres (450 million miles) apart.

Earth, meanwhile, will be 890 million kilometres (550 million miles) from Jupiter.

The two planets are drawing closer to each other as they head for a ‘Great Conjunction’ [Charlie Riedel/AP Photo]

“What is most rare is a close conjunction that occurs in our nighttime sky,” said Vanderbilt University’s David Weintraub, an astronomy professor.

“I think it’s fair to say that such an event typically may occur just once in any one person’s lifetime, and I think ‘once in my lifetime’ is a pretty good test of whether something merits being labelled as rare or special.”

It will be the closest Jupiter-Saturn pairing since July 1623, when the two planets appeared a little nearer. This conjunction was almost impossible to see, however, because of its closeness to the sun.

Considerably closer and in plain view was the March 1226 conjunction of the two planets when Genghis Khan was conquering Asia.

Monday’s conjunction will be the closest pairing that is visible since way back then.

Saturn and Jupiter have been drawing closer in the south-southwest sky for weeks. Jupiter – bigger and closer to Earth – is brighter.

Their next super-close pairing: March 15, 2080.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/21/jupiter-saturn-merging-in-night-sky-closest-in-centuries

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27287 (210954ZDEC20) Notable: Donald Trump Jr. Rallies in Georgia: ‘Do Not Squander This Opportunity’; Fight for the Senate, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Donald Trump Jr. Rallies in Georgia: ‘Do Not Squander This Opportunity’; Fight for the Senate

RINGGOLD, Georgia — Donald Trump Jr. told Georgians at a rally Saturday to protect the Republican Senate majority and preserve his father’s accomplishments by voting for Sens. David Perdue (R-GA) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) in the upcoming Senate runoff election.

Trump Jr. implored the crowd gathered at the Colonnade Center in Catoosa County on Saturday afternoon to not only vote but to vote early, call friends to vote, and speak to fellow constituents about the stakes of the election.

“Do not squander this opportunity,” Trump Jr. said. “Because I promise you, you will regret it. You will wake up one day in January and say, ‘Crap. Should’ve done a little bit more.’ Whatever you would do to reverse that feeling then, do it now.”

Perdue and Loeffler are facing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Senate runoff races on January 5, and at least one of the two Republican candidates must win for the GOP to retain its Senate majority.

“There’s way too much at stake, guys, for ourselves, for our families, for our freedoms, you know, all those things the left doesn’t really believe in. I still do. That’s why I’m doing this,” Trump Jr. said during the third of his three campaign stops scheduled in Georgia for the weekend.

The president’s eldest son also asked the crowd to “continue fighting” for his father. “This isn’t just the Senate, but it’s also my father’s legacy and his accomplishments,” he said. “All of those things that they’ll try to take away, all of the freedoms that he fought for.”

Trump Jr. was joined at the rally by Perdue and Trump campaign senior adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle.

On nationwide economic turmoil resulting from coronavirus-related mandates, Trump Jr. ripped into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) as an exemplary reason to vote Republican. “You have guys like Bill de Blasio … that destroyed New York City, by the way, minor details,” Trump Jr. said. “He’s saying that New York City’s future depends on this Senate race in Georgia, because he knows that if the leftists win, guess what? You will have the privilege of paying for New York’s incompetence.”

He added, “You notice how those leftist governors— Man, they love taking your freedoms. Not so quick to want to give them back.”

On China, Trump Jr. suggested the communist country favors a Democrat-run U.S. government. “Why does China want the Democrats to win? You think it’s because it’s good for America? Or do you think it’s because if the Democrats win it’s good for China?”

Trump Jr. laid into Democrats who have had run-ins with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including Ossoff, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Hunter Biden, and lamented that “no one cares.”

Ossoff omitted from his Senate filings a payment from a company directly linked to the CCP. He later corrected his paperwork and attributed the omission to an “oversight,” but questions remain both about whether the omission benefitted Ossoff in his primary run and whether Ossoff has evidence of the amount of the payment.

Trump Jr. also cited the reported relationship between Swalwell, who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee, and suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang, as well as Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China.

During the rally, Trump Jr. also dismissed the notion that Republicans would sit out voting because of concerns with election integrity. “That’s what the Democrats want,” he said.

“That sounds like a Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi talking point. That’s what the Democrats have been hoping and praying and dreaming for years would happen to Republicans,” Trump Jr. continued, “that Republicans would get sick of it, that they’d be dejected, that they’d end up just sitting at home.”

Overall voter participation in the runoff election is expected to be high, with early in-person voting already underway and absentee ballot requests topping one million.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/19/donald-trump-jr-rallies-in-georgia-do-not-squander-this-opportunity-fight-for-the-senate/

Originally posted at >>>/midnightriders/27288 (210958ZDEC20) Notable: Arnold Schwarzenegger to Biden: Create a New Voting Rights Act to Fight ‘Voter Suppression’, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: ClipboardImage.png

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Arnold Schwarzenegger to Biden: Create a New Voting Rights Act to Fight ‘Voter Suppression’

Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger is urging Joe Biden to create a new “Voting Rights Act,” saying that such a law would help combat “voter suppression.”

The Terminator star said in an interview Saturday with CNN’s Michael Smerconish that he wants the president elect and Congress to work on the new legislation.

“I just recommend very strongly that now when Biden is in office that they go and work on a new Voting Rights Act,” he said. “I think it is irresponsible to not have a Voting Rights Act and to have those polling places closed under the auspices of budgets, under the auspices of coronavirus, and all this stuff. I mean, I think that a lot of times, there are excuses because the fact of the matter is that it’s voter suppression.”

In the past, Democrats have frequently blamed “voter suppression” for their losses. Hillary Clinton alleged that ethnic minorities were turned away at the polls in Wisconsin in 2016, thus contributing to her defeat in the presidential election. In Georgia, which has become the center of the fight for control of the U.S. Senate, left-wing politicians including Stacey Abrams have repeatedly alleged that “voter suppression” has hurt them at the polls.

Democrats are now beating the drum for an update to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, after the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that parts of the act are unconstitutional.

Schwarzenegger, who has been trying to make a Hollywood comeback since leaving politics, has been a vocal critic of President Trump. In his CNN interview, the Hollywood actor and former Republican California governor said that Biden appealed to voters because he was seen as centrist. “People like to see a balance in Washington between the Democrats and the Republicans,” he said.

The actor didn’t mention vice president-elect Kamala Harris, whom the non-partisan GovTrack.us rated as the most left-wing member of the Senate, even further left than “democratic socialist” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/12/20/arnold-schwarzenegger-to-biden-create-a-new-voting-rights-act-to-fight-voter-suppression/

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Andrew Yang Calls for ‘Barcode’ to Prove Coronavirus Vaccination

Former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed a “barcode” program Friday for Americans to prove they have received a coronavirus vaccination.

Tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling.

— Andrew Yang🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) December 18, 2020

“Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated – like a barcode they can download on their phone? There ought to be,” Yang wrote on Twitter.

“Tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling,” he continued.

In November, Yang said he would “eagerly” accept a role in a Joe Biden administration.

He also wants to run for office again after his unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

“We all know if I ran again, it would be a lot more fun than the first time. Because the first time, you know, I was kind of climbing out of anonymity. The second time, you know, we’d have a blast from day one. I would 100% run for office again,” Yang told Yahoo Finance.

“You know, not sure which office, but the problems again are getting bigger now, not smaller. And I’m happy to say I feel like my ability to help has also gotten bigger. I’m just going to keep on helping until some of these problems actually get better.”

Meanwhile, other progressives are floating another type of verification scheme.

Wisconsin’s WISN reported Anit Mukherjee of the Center for Global Development said “some sort of technology is needed to verify whether [people] have had the vaccine” and is “almost a certainty for a return to normal.”

“There would be gatekeepers, as I call them, at different places, be it at your workplace or your office when you go in, or a stadium to watch the (Milwaukee) Bucks play,” Mukherjee said. “They would require some form of assurance that you have been vaccinated.”

He argued such a mandate is needed “for the greater public good.”

“We need to think of how we approach this in a very careful manner, but also understanding that this is the future,” Mukherjee told the news station. “There will be other pandemics and we need to be prepared.”

He said he developed such a scheme when he worked in India’s Department of Finance and could imposed in America “in a matter of months.”

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/12/20/andrew-yang-calls-barcode-prove-coronavirus-vaccination/

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Warships from three navies transit the Taiwan Strait as regional tensions simmer

China recently has been angered by increased U.S. support for Taiwan.

Updated: December 20, 2020 - 10:55pm

International tensions were underscored in the South China Sea over the weekend, as three countries sent military units to transit the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin on Saturday sailed through the channel on a routine mission that drew quick rebuke from Beijing, which claims to have shadowed the American warship. China on Sunday then dispatched a naval strike group featuring its new aircraft carrier, the Shandong, prompting Taiwan to send six warships and eight military aircraft to monitor the Chinese ships.

"That's a lot of maneuvering in a small space in a short amount of time," a Pentagon official told Just the News. "Everyone has been very professional, but they are making their views clearly known."

Beijing and Taipei long have been at odds over Taiwan, an island apart from mainland China. The conflict is rooted in the Chinese Civil War, when Mao Tse Tung's communist forces battled Chiang-kai Shek's nationalists. The nationalists in 1949 fled to the island of Formosa, now known as Taiwan. The Communist Chinese Party, based on the mainland, claims control over the independent Taiwan.

Beijing recently has been angered by increased U.S. support for Taiwan, including new arms sales and visits to Taipei by senior U.S. military officers. Additionally, Beijing is unhappy that the president of Taiwan has bolstered the country's defense forces.

The U.S. Navy has conducted numerous freedom-of-navigation exercises through the Taiwan Strait, the latest occurring Saturday.

China claimed the transit was a provocation.

"Recently, U.S. warships have sailed through the Taiwan Strait from time to time," said Senior Colonel Zhang Chunhui, a spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theatre Command. "They have deliberately raised the heat of the Taiwan issue … [and] sent flirtatious glances to Taiwan’s independence forces, severely jeopardizing peace and stability."

The Mustin's journey was a routine operation, the Navy countered.

"The ship’s transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," the Navy said in a statement. "The United States military will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows."

In June, the PLA's Eastern Theater Command held combat exercises partially in the waters near Taiwan. Zhang at the time reportedly described them as "a necessary move responding to the current security situation in the Taiwan Straits and were meant to safeguard national sovereignty."

Five states have overlapping claims over portions of the South China Sea. They include China, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/warships-three-navies-transit-taiwan-strait-regional-tensions-simmer

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Putin thanks spy agency for protecting Russia; does not mention cyber hack

"I know what I’m talking about here," the former KGB agent said.

Updated: December 20, 2020 - 12:47pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his foreign intelligence service for its work in comments Sunday made shortly after accusations were leveled at Moscow for launching a massive hack of U.S. government computer systems.

"I know what I’m talking about here," the former KGB agent said in comments translated by the Kremlin. "And I rate very highly the difficult professional operations that have been conducted."

Putin made his comments during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service. The event was held in conjunction with the annual Day of the Security Services Worker.

"I wish success to those who defend Russia from external and internal threats, stand for our sovereignty and national interests and for whom the security and wellbeing of the Motherland have been and will always be a lifelong commitment," Putin said. The job, he said, "is oftentimes connected with considerable risk."

Russian spies must pay the "most serious attention" to information security, and to fighting extremism and corruption, he said. Additionally, Putin told agents to pay close attention to conflicts that are "simmering" near Russia's borders.

Earlier this month, Poland-based military analyst Konrad Muzyka reported that Moscow has built up military forces within its Western Military District. The strategically important district borders Ukraine, Belarus, and other countries.

In the Dec. 20 speech to the SVR, Putin did not mention the cyber hacks. Moscow previously said it did not launch the attacks.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/putin-thanks-spy-agency-protecting-russia-does-not-mention-cyber-hack

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Trump Said He Spoke With Sen.-Elect Tuberville, Who Has Weighed a Challenge to Electoral Votes

BY ZACHARY STIEBER December 21, 2020 Updated: December 21, 2020 biggersmaller Print

President Donald Trump has spoken to Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), after Tuberville said he was mulling whether to join representatives next month in filing a challenge to electoral votes.

“I spoke to a great gentlemen Tommy Tuberville last night, and he was so excited. He said, ‘You made me the most popular politician in the United States.’ He said, ‘I can’t believe it.’ He’s great. Great senator,” Trump said on WABC radio.

Tuberville, who unseated Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), suggested earlier this month that he would challenge electoral votes when a joint session of Congress meets on Jan. 6, 2021, to count them.

A challenge must have the backing of at least one member of the House and one senator to trigger a debate and votes by each chamber.

Tuberville told told an Alabama outlet on Thursday after the video emerged that he’s “doing my due diligence” through the Christmas holiday.

“I want to do what’s best for President Trump and the people of Alabama and the people of this country. They asked me, ‘Are you going to support President Trump?’ And, of course, I’m always going to support President Trump. He’s the best president of my lifetime and has done more for the people of this country and the state of Alabama than anybody. But we want to make sure we do the right thing,” he said.

Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville

Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in Washington on Nov. 9, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Tuberville said he will probably meet with Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), the first person who will be in the House next month that committed to challenging votes.

Brooks said on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” that he plans on challenging votes from state’s like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin, where the count is in question because of irregularities and possible fraud.

“Their election systems are so flawed so as to render results on trustworthy,” he said.

The group of members and members-elect who plan to challenge has gotten bigger. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a staunch Trump ally, joined it on Friday.

“I’m joining with the fighters in the Congress, and we are going to object to electors from states that didn’t run clean elections,” Gaetz told a crowd in Florida.

On the senate side, Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have said they aren’t ruling it out. That number is smaller then the senators who have ruled it out, including Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has declared victory in the election, while Trump is contesting results in key states. The Epoch Times is not calling the race at this time.

Trump recently urged more Republican senators to follow Tuberville’s lead.

“We had a landslide victory, and then it was swindled away from the Republican Party—but we caught them. Do something!” Trump said. “We won the Presidential Election, by a lot. FIGHT FOR IT. Don’t let them take it away!”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-said-he-spoke-with-sen-elect-tuberville-who-has-weighed-a-challenge-to-electoral-votes_3627062.html

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Beijing ‘Substantially Involved’ in US 2020 Election: China Analyst

BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN December 21, 2020 Updated: December 21, 2020 biggersmaller Print

Beijing was “substantially involved” in the U.S. 2020 elections on multiple levels, says China analyst Gordon Chang who has described the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) infiltration of American “elite” circles as an “espionage emergency.”

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“I think China clearly interfered,” China expert Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” told NTD’s Focus News.

Chang, who has spent decades studying China and writing about the threat of the CCP, explained how leading up to the Nov. 3 presidential election, the trend of Chinese propaganda was that former Vice President Joe Biden should receive the Democratic Party nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). State propaganda later favored Biden over President Donald Trump, Chang said.

“We also know that China tried to cause chaos. Large Chinese networks like ‘Spamoflauge Dragon’ relentlessly attacked the president on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter,” Chang said, referring to a pro-Beijing spam network that targeted Trump in the run-up to the election.

“We know that the social media platforms have taken down a massive number of fake Chinese accounts,” Chang added. “Twitter in June alone took down 174,000 fake accounts, so we know that they were actively involved, and we have a number of indications that it was not to help the president.”

Responding to Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) recent announcement that the intelligence community could not meet the Dec. 18 deadline set by an executive order to report on foreign threats during the November election, Chang suggested that there could be a disagreement within the intelligence committee about the extensive nature of CCP involvement.

According to Trump’s executive order in 2018, the DNI was expected to deliver a report regarding “to the maximum extent ascertainable” whether any interference attempts took place, and the nature of such interference, methods used, and who was involved and authorized such efforts.

The order also directs the U.S. government to impose automatic sanctions on foreign nations, individuals, and entities who are found to be involved in trying to interfere in U.S. elections.

Amanda Schoch, a spokeswoman for the office, said in a statement last week that “agencies have not finished coordinating on the product.”

“I think there might be some honest disagreements, but the overall trend is that China was substantially involved in our elections,” Chang said of the delay. “They did this with these malicious disinformation campaigns on the surface, with these troll and bot farm operations below the surface, they were involved and they’ve been involved for a very long time.”

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Microsoft news recap: pushes for coordinated response to SolarWinds attack, push for passwordless access in 2021, and more

Microsoft news recap is a weekly feature highlighting the top Microsoft news stories of the past week. Sit back, grab some coffee, and enjoy the read!

Microsoft wants passwordless access to become the new normal in 2021

A Microsoft exec has called for 2021 to be the year of ‘passwordless access’, where passwords are not required to login to accounts, instead making using of tools such as Windows Hello, Microsoft Authenticator, and FIDO2 security keys.

Windows Hello Surface

Microsoft Flight Simulator crosses over 2 million PC players since launch

Released on PC in August, Microsoft Flight Simulator has crossed the 2 million players mark. It is officially the fastest growing entry in the series, and is the largest launch on Xbox Game Pass for PC history.

Microsoft Flight Simulator Numbers December 2020

Microsoft Authenticator for iOS and Android gets new autofill passwords feature in preview

The new password autofill feature for Microsoft Authenticator is now in preview across iOS and Android.