/qnotables20/ - ===Q Notables 2020===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039088 (151759ZDEC20) Notable: Anon bun from 15369? Baker Missed? / Yep and it’s not just Pelosi either… While serving as Speaker, Nancy Pelosi’s net worth went from $24- to over $100 million USD. (Official salary is $220k/year)

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While serving as Speaker, Nancy Pelosi’s net worth went from $24- to over $100 million USD. (Official salary is $220k/year)

www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/nancy-pelosi/net-worth?cid=N00007360&year=2018

Yep and it’s not just Pelosi either. Almost all major American politicians leave office as multi-millionaires, or shortly after leaving become multi-millionaires.

Hell just look at the list of Presidents, afaik the only people with reasonable explanations are Trump, Hoover and the founders who were all basically landowning aristocrats. But how the hell does Bill Clinton earn 75 million dollars when that’s the highest paying he’s ever had and it “only” pays $400,000 / yr.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/while-serving-as-speaker-nancy-pelosis-net-worth-went-from-24-to-over-100-million-usd-official-salary-is-220k-year/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039090 (151759ZDEC20) Notable: Peter Nygard Files++

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https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-arrested-in-canada/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039124 (151802ZDEC20) Notable: US Covid-19 relief package set to IMMUNIZE corporations from pandemic lawsuits, alarms worker advocates +DigsNews

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THE HELLISH REALITY AND TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW-SECTION 13 OF THE VACCINE INSERTS

CHECK BELOW FOR THE 83 VACCINES’ MANUFACTURERS’ INSERT INFORMATION (FOR PHYSICIANS) ON SECTION 13WHERE THEY STATE THAT…

NO vaccine has been evaluated for the potential to cause:

Cancer

Mutate DNA

Or Impair Fertility of Both Males and Females

THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION IS THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION – FDA) –http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093833.htm

In addition, vaccine manufacturers are held to a lower standard than other pharmaceutical, and are not required to do double-blind placebo studies or long-term studies past 6 months, nor have they ever compared vaccinated populations with the unvaccinated! Meanwhile, every person who gets a vaccine is being injured by them. See VACCINE SUMMARY –http://www.healthalertphilly.org/Vaccines.htm

NOTE: Beware of “patients inserts” are not the same as “physicians inserts” and may not contain the same information.

SAMPLE VACCINE INSERT SECTION: Section 13 NONCLINICAL TOXICOLOGY 13.1 Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility VAXCHORA has not been evaluated for the potential to cause

1. Adenovirus Type 4 and Type 7 Vaccine, Live, Oral

Section 13, omittted

2. Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed

13. NONCLINICAL TOXICOLOGY The effect of BioThrax on embryo-fetal and pre-weaning development was evaluated in a developmental toxicity study using pregnant rabbits. One group of rabbits was administered BioThrax twice prior to gestation and during the period of organogenesis (gestation day 7). A second group of rabbits was administered BioThrax twice prior to gestation and on gestation day 17. BioThrax was administered at 0.5 ml/rabbit/occasion, by intramuscular injection. No adverse effects on mating, fertility, pregnancy, parturition, lactation, embryo-fetal or preweaning development were observed. There were no vaccine-related fetal malformations or other evidence of teratogenesis noted in this study 	Biothrax

3. BCG Live

BCG VACCINE has not been evaluated for carcinogenic, mutagenic potentials or impairment of fertility. 	BCG Vaccine

4. BCG Live

TICE® BCG has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic, mutagenic potentials or impairment of fertility. 	TICE BCG

5. Cholera Vaccine Live Oral

VAXCHORA has not been evaluated for the potential to cause carcinogenicity or genotoxicity, or to impair fertility. 	Vaxchora

6. Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids Adsorbed

Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids Adsorbed has not been evaluated for carcinogenicity, mutagenic potential, or impairment of fertility. 	No Trade Name

7. Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed

Tripedia vaccine has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potentials or impairment of fertility. 	Tripedia

8. Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed

INFANRIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility. 	Infanrix

9. Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed

DAPTACEL has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or impairment of fertility. 	DAPTACEL

10. Diphtheria & Tetanus Toxoids & Acellular Pertussis Vaccine Adsorbed, Hepatitis B (recombinant) and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine Combined

PEDIARIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility. 	Pediarix

11. Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine

KINRIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility. 	KINRIX

12. Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine

Quadracel has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or impairment of fertility. 	Quadracel

13. Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed, Inactivated Poliovirus and Haemophilus b Conjugate (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) Vaccine

Pentacel vaccine has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or impairment of fertility. 	Pentacel

14. Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Meningococcal Protein Conjugate)

Liquid PedvaxHIB has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or potential to impair fertility. 	PedvaxHIB

15. Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate)

ActHIB vaccine has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or impairment of fertility. 	ActHIB

16. Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate)

HIBERIX has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility. 	Hiberix

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https://thefullertoninformer.com/section-13-of-the-vaccine-inserts/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039161 (151804ZDEC20) Notable: CDC to suspend data collection for 2020-2021 flu season amid rising COVID-19 deaths, causing all flu deaths to be counted as “covid deaths”

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CDC to suspend data collection for 2020-2021 flu season amid rising COVID-19 deaths, causing all flu deaths to be counted as “covid deaths”

Governments worldwide have had all hands on deck since the pandemic broke out in March. Scientists, health experts and entire agencies are directing their attention to controlling the transmission of the coronavirus.

In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) even announced in October that it will suspend data collection for the 2020-2021 flu season due to the ongoing pandemic.

True enough, the agency’s COVIDView, their weekly surveillance of COVID-19 activity in the U.S., is providing more detailed updates than FluView, their weekly influenza surveillance report, despite it being flu season.

But while basic data collection for the flu season is still ongoing, the CDC’s projected suspension raises several concerns. For instance, health authorities could be counting flu cases, which are expected to be lower this year, as COVID-19 cases. Deaths from the flu could be counted alongside those from COVID-19 as well.

Experts also noted a trend that has persisted since the pandemic began: as COVID-19 cases go up, flu cases go down.

Flu or COVID-19?

Most of the people who die from COVID-19 are those with preexisting health conditions or comorbidities. But people who tested positive for COVID-19 and died later on, whether due to COVID-19 or not, are also counted as official COVID-19 deaths.

One thing that could explain this haphazard counting of COVID-19 deaths is the fact that hospitals in the U.S. get reimbursed for COVID-19-related care, which includes deaths, because of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

But according to David Holcombe, medical director at the Louisiana Department of Health, that money is not for the hospitals’ use. Rather, it protects patients from being left with a large hospital bill. Holcombe also said that the official number of COVID-19 deaths is underestimated, not overestimated.

But other practitioners and health experts dispute this claim. Nick Coatsworth, an infectious disease specialist and one of Australia’s Deputy Chief Medical Officers, said that determining the cause of death is complex.

“I remember as a junior doctor trying to do death certificates – it’s not always an easy thing.”

State senator and physician investigated for questioning COVID-19 deaths

Some government authorities and health experts have been questioning the legitimacy of the official numbers of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. since President Donald Trump signed the CARES Act into law in March.

But such inquiries have so far been met with criticism and intolerance. In late June, for example, the Board of Medical Practice in Minnesota investigated State Sen. Scott Jensen. Jensen, who is also a family physician, had his medical license placed under review as well. (Related: Minnesota doctor decries censorship, says he is under investigation for COVID-19 opinions.)

Jensen was accused of reckless advice for his “willingness to compare COVID-19 to influenza outbreaks.” The board also claimed that Jensen was spreading misinformation about how COVID-19 death certificates were being categorized. The investigation was dismissed not a month later.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-14-cdc-suspend-flu-data-collection.html

https://www.wakingtimes.com/cdc-announces-they-will-be-rolling-back-collection-of-flu-data-during-the-2020-2021-season/

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#ILIMap

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039185 (151806ZDEC20) Notable: Anon bun from 15369? Baker Missed? / (CM: Bunch of people reaching out to me that they are getting messages from superiors telling them to be prepared for an imminent emergency announcement. Its probably nothing though, right?

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CM: Bunch of people reaching out to me that they are getting messages from superiors telling them to be prepared for an imminent emergency announcement.

Its probably nothing though, right?

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1338907117487419394

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039282 (151813ZDEC20) Notable: Rouhani: Iran Will Return to Nuclear Deal Within an Hour of US Doing So

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Rouhani: Iran Will Return to Nuclear Deal Within an Hour of US Doing So

The Iranian president says Iran will accept no preconditions to return to JCPOA

Reiterating his desire to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran could come into compliance with the agreement within an hour of the US doing so.

Rouhani also said that Iran would not accept any preconditions for returning to the deal, known as the JCPOA, including limitations on Iran’s ballistic missile program.

A stricter deal that includes Tehran’s missiles is a demand of Iran hawks in the Trump administration. Rouhani addressed this demand and his hopes for the incoming administration.

“The Americans were trying for months to add the missile issue and this was rejected,” Rouhani said of the 2015 JCPOA negotiations. “Trump was uninformed and did not know about the matter, but Mr. Biden is well aware of the details of the deal.”

Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he plans to work with Iran to return to the JCPOA and work on a follow-on agreement that deals with Iran’s missiles after the fact. “I have not heard Biden say that we have to reach another agreement in order to return to the nuclear deal, that is what Trump says,” Rouhani said.

In the final days of the Trump administration, there are a lot of forces at work hoping to sabotage Biden’s attempts to return to the JCPOA, including Israel, who is the likely perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Rouhani discussed Fakhrizadeh’s killing on Monday and accused Israel of trying to start a war. “Waging instability and war in the final days of the Trump administration was the main aim of the Zionist regime in the assassination,” he said.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/14/rouhani-iran-will-return-to-nuclear-deal-within-an-hour-of-us-doing-so/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039290 (151814ZDEC20) Notable: Anon bun from 15369? Baker Missed? / (CM: Bunch of people reaching out to me that they are getting messages from superiors telling them to be prepared for an imminent emergency announcement. Its probably nothing though, right?

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CM deleted this tweet.

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1338907117487419394

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039295 (151815ZDEC20) Notable: Anon bun from 15369? Baker Missed? / Los Angeles’s newly elected, George Soros-funded district attorney is set to enact sentencing requirements that will take the sentence of life without parole off the table for a cop killer

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/george-soros-district-attorney-police-execution

Los Angeles’s newly elected, George Soros-funded district attorney is set to enact sentencing requirements that will take the sentence of life without parole off the table for a man suspected in the execution-style murder of a police officer.

District Attorney George Gascon will ask a judge to dismiss all enhancements and special circumstances for multiple murders, including the murder of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Solano last year, which could prevent the suspected killer from spending life in prison, according to Fox 11 News Los Angeles.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039313 (151816ZDEC20) Notable: Nothing is what it seems. + Coordinates

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The TELL.

Who is meeting in secret right now?

_THE_FLOOR_IS_YOURS_

:We see you (live).

Who can we TRUST?

What comes next?

Be READY.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039448 (151825ZDEC20) Notable: Questions arise over whether Trump should employ 2018 order against foreign election influence

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Questions arise over whether Trump should employ 2018 order against foreign election influence

The 2018 executive order addresses a specter similar to the revelation that Russian hackers penetrated the DHS.

Amid recent reports of foreign breaches into U.S. government computer systems, questions have emerged whether hackers manipulated the results of the 2020 elections — and if so, whether that would trigger a White House executive order on responding to such an incursion.

The 2018 executive order from President Donald Trump addresses the specter similar to Monday's revelation that Russian hackers had penetrated the Department of Homeland Security.

"Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system," Trump wrote in his 2018 order. "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."

A Sunday report from a forensic analyst who delved into the Dominion Voting System connected the dots between the 2018 executive order and possible foreign election interference perpetrated via the Dominion machines.

"We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results," reads the Dec. 13 report from Allied Security Operations Group. The report was compiled in connection with a lawsuit from Antrim County, Michigan resident William Bailey, who charged that there were problems with the county voting machines.

Dominion has disputed the report and insisted there were no problems with its machines. U.S. officials likewise have said there is no evidence of widespread fraud or foreign intrusion in the just-completed election.

The forensic analysis report cited the 2018 executive order, implying that the White House should assess whether to impose its provisions.

The executive order instructs the heads of "appropriate executive departments and agencies," including the Director of National Intelligence, to conduct and complete such an evaluation.

"The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security," the order reads.

The assessment is subject, however, to a timeline that may extend into a new administration under Joe Biden, possibly rendering moot the mandate from Trump.

The first portion of the timeline must commence "not later than 45 days after the conclusion of a United States election," according to the order.

The FBI and the government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned in October that a Russian state-sponsored hacking group had launched a campaign against U.S. targets, including government and aviation networks.

Russia has also meddled in U.S. elections using social media, according to an October report from the RAND corporation.

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https://justthenews.com/government/security/questions-arise-over-whether-trump-should-employ-2018-executive-order-against

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039461 (151826ZDEC20) Notable: Consultancy Linked to Biden Nominees Scrubs Middle East Ops From Site

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Consultancy Linked to Biden Nominees Scrubs Middle East Ops From Site

Biden's NSA, VA picks worked for Macro Advisory Partners

A consulting firm linked to incoming Biden officials removed references to its foreign dealings in the closing weeks of the election.

Both Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden's incoming national security adviser, and Denis McDonough, Biden's pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, have served as partners at Macro Advisory Partners, a consulting firm that says it helps clients manage geopolitical risk.

Until early November, the firm advertised its work helping a financial services company expand into the Middle East, according to archived versions of the website. The firm said it helped its clients manage the "geopolitical and economic volatility" in Middle Eastern markets by drawing on the extensive policy expertise of Macro Advisory Partners employees.

"The intersection of geopolitics, policy and politics is defining the long-term prospects for financial services in the Middle East," the website said in now-deleted comments. "MAP's partner-led team includes professionals with decades of experience analysing Middle Eastern markets, politics and security."

Tom Anderson, a director at the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said the move raises questions about the work the Biden duo conducted and whether they stand to profit from the new administration's policy in the region.

"When politicians or officials are caught trying to hide something—there is a reason for their actions. Usually, they see a bigger reward than the risks associated with scrubbing," Anderson said. "Hiding motivations for seeking positions should raise red flags for oversight professionals, and the media to expose potential conflicts of interest."

The American Prospect reported in July that Sullivan's clients included ridesharing giant Uber. He also "used [the] knowledge he acquired from negotiating the Iran deal in the Obama administration to help companies profit from the opening of the Iranian economy," the magazine reported.

As a chief negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal—at the time, Sullivan was then-Vice President Joe Biden's national security adviser—any of his business dealings with companies looking for guidance in the Middle East would raise questions about whether he has a vested interest in ensuring the Biden administration reenters the deal. McDonough, who served as then-President Barack Obama's chief of staff, was also privy to discussions about the Iran nuclear deal and other Middle Eastern foreign policy issues, raising similar conflict-of-interest concerns. The current employment status of the two Biden picks is unclear. McDonough is still listed as a partner at Macro Advisory Partners, but Sullivan disappeared from the firm's website after July.

Neither Macro Advisory Partners nor the Biden transition team responded to requests for comment.

Robert Spalding, a former staffer for the Trump White House's National Security Council, said former officials cross a line when they work for U.S. adversaries after retiring from office. "I don’t necessarily think they shouldn’t work in this space, but working for the Russians, CCP, Iranians, or any other thuggish regime ought to be a no-no," he told the Washington Free Beacon.

Macro Advisory Partners is the second Biden-linked firm to expunge references to its overseas work as top executives were tapped to senior positions in the incoming Democratic administration.

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https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/firm-linked-to-biden-nominees-scrubbed-middle-east-dealing/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039467 (151826ZDEC20) Notable: Earthquakes in Maine?

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RE: EQ's in Main, the following link is IDing the quakes as inside New Brusnwick, however the locations are clearly Maine. Scroll in on the top map to see the two quakes right beside Moneymaker Lake.

https://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/maine/recent

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039474 (151827ZDEC20) Notable: Rep. Van Drew: 'Absurd' for Dems to say he shouldn't be seated in House for backing election lawsuit

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Rep. Van Drew: 'Absurd' for Dems to say he shouldn't be seated in House for backing election lawsuit

NJ Republican said 'we were worried about election integrity'

Democrats who are calling for the removal of their colleagues for supporting President Trump's election fight are making an "absurd" argument, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said Tuesday.

“Well, I guess it is because we support the president and I guess it is because we were worried about election integrity,” the former Democrat told "Fox & Friends."

Van Drew said “regardless of the issue” pertaining to Trump, there needs to be an assurance of the “highest level of integrity in the U.S. election.”

“Quite frankly, we haven’t and we have been retrogressing. Years ago, we were actually doing better with elections than we are now,” Van Drew said.

Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., sent a letter Friday urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to consider blocking more than 100 Republican lawmakers from taking office because of their support for Trump's lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results.

The letter calls out the 126 Republicans who joined the president's lawsuit, which was headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Friday, the court rejected that case.

"The courageous Reconstruction Congress implanted into our governing document safeguards to cleanse from our government ranks any traitors and others who would seek to destroy the Union," he said.

The 12-term legislator went on to quote the 14th Amendment, which blocks individuals from serving in office if they engaged in an "insurrection or rebellion."

"I call on you to exercise the power of your offices to evaluate steps you can take to address these constitutional violations this Congress and, if possible, refuse to seat in the 117th Congress any Members-elect seeking to make Donald Trump an unelected dictator," he said.

The 126 members who backed the lawsuit make up roughly two-thirds of Republicans in the House.

Van Drew said the “important issue is that certain states changed their election laws and the way they went about voting in a very serious and significant way, without the legislature meeting and voting on it.”

“That is unconstitutional, it is not legal, I believe in the rule of law, they absolutely should have had a meeting of those folks obviously that are in the legislature and that is what this suit is all about and that is what this concern is about,” Van Drew said, adding he did not agree with the Supreme Court's rejection of the challenge.

"The notion that after the people voted for me that I couldn’t sit in the House of Representatives, that you would literally disenfranchise my voters in my district, is an absurd notion.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-van-drew-absurd-dems-election-lawsuit-support

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039498 (151829ZDEC20) Notable: Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief; doesn’t tell Gantz

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Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief; doesn’t tell Gantz

The nominee, identified only by the Hebrew initial ‘Dalet,’ will take over as spymaster for the PM’s confidant Yossi Cohen if approved

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he has selected the deputy head of the Mossad to be the next chief of the spy agency.

The official, who was identified only by the Hebrew initial “Dalet,” was described in a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office as having a “stellar record and a lot of experience.”

The statement added that his nomination had been submitted to the Goldberg Commission, which vets candidates for senior posts.

“The Mossad has great and significant challenges in safeguarding the security of the State of Israel. We will wait for the approval of the Goldberg Commission and wish Dalet success in his position,” a separate statement from Defense Minister Benny Gantz said.

Hebrew-language media reported that Netanyahu hadn’t informed Gantz about his choice ahead of time, amid deep distrust between the two leaders. Gantz was said to have called Netanyahu and expressed his fury.

Formally, the prime minister isn’t obligated to inform the defense minister of that decision ahead of time, but that is the accepted practice.

If approved, Dalet will take over for Yossi Cohen, a close confidant of Netanyahu who served as the premier’s national security adviser before he became Mossad chief in January 2016.

His term as Mossad leader was set to end in January, but in July Netanyahu said he would extend it until June 2021.

Cohen has served as Netanyahu’s chief envoy for the government’s most sensitive diplomatic assignments and took a leading role in the recent normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Last month, he was reported to have accompanied Netanyahu on a trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with the kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the first such visit by an Israeli leader.

Cohen has been identified as a prime contender to replace Netanyahu as head of Likud, where he is a popular figure, and some unconfirmed reports have suggested he is Netanyahu’s favorite to succeed him.

The spymaster is famed in the Mossad ranks as an operations man. Under his watch, the Mossad has reportedly grown in personnel and budgets and has focused on espionage operations targeting the Iranian nuclear program.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-taps-deputy-mossad-head-as-spy-agencys-next-chief/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039521 (151830ZDEC20) Notable: Calls grow for Insurrection Act, window of opportunity Dec. 18th – 24th

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Calls grow for Insurrection Act, window of opportunity Dec. 18th – 24th

Increasing calls for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, coming from attorney Lin Wood, The Epoch Times, Gen. McInerney and many others.

Sidney Powell says clear evidence of foreign interference allows Trump to invoke his 2018 EO and seize all the assets of corporations and individuals who were complicit in the election rigging.

Gen. Flynn calls for Trump to invoke the 2018 Executive Order on foreign interference.

President Trump declares any swing state electoral votes cast today are cast under conditions of vote fraud.

Pennsylvania chooses alternate electors, putting election into contention until at least Jan. 6th.

Sources warn of coming “10-day lockdown” with window of likely action appearing to be Dec. 18th – 24th. The next window is right after Jan. 6th, if all other efforts fail.

CCP infiltration of Big Pharma, Big Tech, the legacy media, election voting machines, lawmakers, regulators, universities and more. We are living under enemy occupation.

Patriots growing restless, about to initiate their own action to defend the republic.

Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, deploy the troops, and arrest the traitors.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/12/15/situation-update-calls-grow-for-insurrection-act-window-of-opportunity-dec-18th-24th/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039539 (151832ZDEC20) Notable: "IT’S WAR: Communist China successfully infiltrated vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline as part of “unrestricted warfare” to defeat the US military and conquer North America"

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IT’S WAR: Communist China successfully infiltrated vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline as part of “unrestricted warfare” to defeat the US military and conquer North America

We now have confirmation from multiple sources that the newly-leaked database of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) loyalists includes the names and details of 123 individuals who have successfully infiltrated the vaccine industry, attaining employment at vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline — corporations that are manufacturing coronavirus vaccines for U.S. civilian and military use.

The Epoch Times, which has strong ties to Chinese dissidents who are able to confirm such information, now reports:

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a global coalition of lawmakers, obtained the database from an unidentified Chinese dissident, then shared the material with four media organizations, according to a Dec. 12 report by British newspaper The Mail on Dec. 13, which obtained the list and reviewed it.

The Mail found that major aerospace companies Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Boeing have employed hundreds of CCP members. Additionally, Pfizer and British drugmaker AstraZeneca employed a total of 123 Party members. British automaker Jaguar Land Rover also employed CCP members.

Members of the CCP, “swear oath to ‘guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life…and never betray the Party’” reports the UK Daily Mail.

CCP loyalists routinely steal corporate secrets and compromise the security and integrity of corporations that might compete against Chinese interests. Also according to the UK Daily Mail, “there were more than 600 party members across 19 branches working at the British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered in 2016.”

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The CCP created the coronavirus bioweapon, and we believe that the CCP used its spies to infiltrate and compromise vaccine manufacturers in order to turn coronavirus vaccines into “second wave” bioweapons that will injure or kill very large numbers of people who take the vaccines.

This also means that individuals who are pushing vaccine mandates are playing right into the hands of communist China — which has sworn to destroy the United States of America through “unrestricted warfare” — and are themselves engaged in acts of criminal treason against the United States.

How many CCP loyalists work in Big Tech?

So far, only 8,192 names have been publicly released of the nearly 2 million CCP loyalists whose names are on the full list. We have not yet seen how many CCP loyalists are working with the tech giants such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. However, we already know that Facebook deliberately hired communist Chinese software experts to design its “hate speech engineering” algorithm that censors U.S. citizens who defend the Constitution or President Trump.

In other words, Big Tech deliberately recruits communist Chinese to build more advanced censorship algorithms to censor Americans, and then Big Tech deploys these algorithms to bury all evidence of election theft that was also carried out via China-owned Dominion Voting Systems. What we are describing here is a massive, international criminal conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America.

This is why all the CEOs of Big Tech must face arrest, prosecution and public executions if found guilty of treason.

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https://dcdirtylaundry.com/its-war-communist-china-successfully-infiltrated-vaccine-giants-pfizer-astrazeneca-and-glaxosmithkline-as-part-of-unrestricted-warfare-to-defeat-the-us-military-and-conque/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039567 (151834ZDEC20) Notable: Shocking report on COVID vaccine adverse effects: the roll-out continues anyway

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Shocking report on COVID vaccine adverse effects: the roll-out continues anyway

Millions of people can experience life-threatening effects from the vaccine

From the UK, The Guardian has the story [1]: “People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not receive the Covid vaccine, the medicines regulator has said, after two NHS workers experienced symptoms on Wednesday.”

They just figured this out? Now?

The Guardian is referring to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which has just been approved in the US.

Two people experiencing significant adverse effects may not sound important, particularly since they already a history of allergic reactions, but the following quote in the Guardian article raises major red flags a mile high:

“The MHRA [UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency] advice states: ‘Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine. Resuscitation facilities should be available at all times for all vaccinations. Vaccination should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available’.”

First of all, a very large number of people have a history of allergic reactions to a vaccine or medicine or food. Automatically, these people should not take the vaccine. But how many people in the general public are aware of this restriction?

Second, with the operation to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people running at top speed, who actually believes that many locations where shots are given will have the necessary resuscitation equipment on hand? Sheer insanity.

Then, on top of all this, we have a bombshell statement from the Denver Post [2]: “Documents published by the two [vaccine] companies [Pfizer and BioNTech] showed that people with a history of severe allergic reactions were excluded from the [clinical vaccine] trials, and doctors were advised to look out for such reactions in trial participants who weren’t previously known to have severe allergies.”

In other words, the clinical trials were already biased, because they excluded people with a history of allergic reactions. Therefore, the performance of the vaccine looked safer. Therefore, no one would find out that allergic reactions to the vaccine are a MAJOR danger.

And NOW, as if it’s nothing more than an afterthought, we get—“Oh, by the way, if people have allergies, they shouldn’t take the vaccine.”

Why don’t regulators simply admit, “This vaccine is as disastrous as possible, but we can’t let that cat out of the bag.”

I have written about the inherent dangers of the new experimental RNA technology deployed with this COVOD vaccine. The world population is a vast group of guinea pigs. Past efforts to introduce RNA tech have failed because serious autoimmune reactions have occurred. [3] The body basically attacks itself.

What rational person would line up to take this shot?

You have to ask yourself why some Pittsburgh and Chicago medical centers aren’t making the new COVID vaccine mandatory for their own healthcare workers. [4] [5]

They’ve issued that announcement on the basis of wait-and-see. They know the vaccine carries major risks, and the clinical trials were far from convincing.

According to WebMD [6], “more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year.” 200,000 people come to the ER with food allergies. 4-5% of the population have food allergies. Who can say, with certainty, how many Americans would experience, say, life- threatening anaphylactic shock from the COVID vaccine?

And when it comes to medicines, consider just one type of allergic reaction—to penicillin or antibiotics. Is the outbreak of a rash serious enough to warrant automatic exemption from the COVID vaccine? Should shortness of breath be the standard? No one knows.

Finally, as I’ve reported in these pages several times, the 3 major clinical trials of COVID vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca) were designed to prevent nothing more than a “mild case of COVID-19.” That means a cough, or chills and fever. [7]

Serious cases of illness? Hospitalization? Death? These were not on the radar of the clinical trials.

Cough, or chills and fever, cure themselves naturally. No need for a vaccine.

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https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78754/shocking-report-on-covid-vaccine-adverse-effects-the-rollout-continues.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039733 (151847ZDEC20) Notable: Calls grow for Insurrection Act, window of opportunity Dec. 18th – 24th

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Epoch Times Urges Trump: Use Insurrection Act, Seize Dominion Voting Machines, Restore Law And Order

"The Insurrection Act enables Trump to use the military to seize the key electoral evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate accounting of the vote"

In an editorial titled “At This Critical Time, President Trump Should Take Action”, the well respected Epoch Times urged President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to seize and examine evidence of voter fraud in key states and provide a transparent accounting of the 2020 election.

The editorial, published by the entire Epoch Times editorial board, outlines what they view as a fundamental struggle between freedom and communism represented in the 2020 election, quoting President Trump at times to add credence to their statements.

“President Trump has referred to our election system as being under ‘coordinated assault and siege,’ the article explains. The Epoch Times also notes, “On Dec. 5 in Georgia, Trump said of those who want to steal the election, ‘These people want to go further than socialism, they want to go into a communistic form of government, and I have no doubt about it.'”

The Epoch Times also notes that President Trump “has taken an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, and he has the presidential powers to do so.”

From the Editorial Board

This #Election is the climax of the battle between #Freedom and #Communism.

The #InsurrectionAct will enable Trump to seize the key #Evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate vote count. https://t.co/DGkVLwzRAh

— Epoch Times Opinion (@EpochOpinion) December 14, 2020

They then make their key argument, that “Trump should use those powers as President to safeguard the future of our Republic and arrest those who have conspired to deprive people of their rights through election fraud.”

“The Insurrection Act enables Trump to use the military to seize the key electoral evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate accounting of the vote,” the editorial continued. “Our system is in crisis. Trump should act to restore the rule of law.”

“Through opening the books, honesty can defeat fraud. The wishes of the majority of the people will be realized, and the victory sought by communism defeated.”

https://nationalfile.com/epoch-times-urges-trump-use-insurrection-act-seize-dominion-voting-machines-restore-law-and-order/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039748 (151849ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039753 (151849ZDEC20) Notable: Big tech executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Biden campaign

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Big tech executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Biden campaign

Executives at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram donated tens of thousands of dollars to President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign, Fox News reports.

Moreover, critics of the tech giants, say their actions during the 2020 general election and actions targeting conservatives on social media raise serious concerns about censorship in America.

Numerous executives donated the maximum amount to the Biden campaign, including Facebook vice president of public policy, Erin Egan, Facebook chief revenue officer David Fischer…

Fox News

The donations are just the tip of the iceberg. Federal Election Commission records reveal that top executives at the big tech companies made several large donations to the Biden campaign, while there was no record of them donating to the Trump campaign.

The legal maximum amount to donate is $2,800. Numerous executives donated the maximum amount to the Biden campaign, including Facebook vice president of public policy, Erin Egan, Facebook chief revenue officer David Fischer, Facebook’s chief financial officer, David Wehner, Facebook vice presidents Gene Alston, Michael Verdu, Shahriar Rabii and T.S. Khurana and Instagram’s chief operating officer, Marne Levine.

A number of of Facebook and Twitter employees also donated the maximum amount.

The social media giants have been under fire recently for accusations of censorship. Earlier this week, Twitter prevented users from sharing tweets by President Donald Trump. Trump has also accused the tech companies of suppressing the circulation of news stories that expose the alleged Hunter Biden scandals.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog group noted that Google and YouTube “under false and non-sensical pretenses, double down on election intervention and political censorship against @RealDonaldTrump to help Joe Biden – the after President Trump officially threatens to veto over section 230 reform.”

GOP members of the House Oversight Committee are demanding a hearing to investigate Twitter and Facebook’s “unjustifiable censorship” of the New York Post’s reporting on Biden’s foreign business dealings.

“Reporting indicates this investigation is related to his overseas business dealings,” the GOP members wrote in a new letter obtained by Fox News. “In light of Hunter Biden’s admission that he is under investigation, especially after Big Tech’s unjustifiable censorship of the New York Post’s report, we are renewing our hearing request.”

Tom Fitton

@TomFitton

.@Google/@YouTube, under false and non-sensical pretenses, doubles down on election intervention and political censorship against @RealDonaldTrump to help Joe Biden – the day after President Trump officially threatens veto over Section 230 reform.

https://saraacarter.com/big-tech-executives-donated-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-to-biden-campaign/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039761 (151850ZDEC20) Notable: The UN and NATO Exploit the Refugee Crisis to Promote the Rhetoric of Peace and Security

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The UN and NATO Exploit the Refugee Crisis to Promote the Rhetoric of Peace and Security

The UN excels in statistical data, most of it derived from its complicity in allowing human rights violations to thrive. “We are now surpassing another bleak milestone that will continue to grow unless world leaders stop wars,” the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, declared. In the first half of 2020, over 80 million people were forcibly displaced globally as a result of war and conflict.

It is indeed one of the biggest contradictions for the UN to claim world leaders are instigating war, when the same world leaders congregate together at the UN’s headquarters to maintain the discrepancy between human rights and human rights violations, in order to create a false equivalence between peace and security. Peace can have no tangible definition when it is derived from security, which is heavily based upon militarisation, surveillance and aggression.

In addition, the erroneous distinction between the humanitarian consequences and the aggressive actions of governments is contributing to policies in which refugees are only relevant to the politics of exclusion.

Pushback policies, the targeting of refugee trajectories ostensibly to disrupt human trafficking, border closures, refugee camps and state violence have all been used by world leaders in their alleged fight against migration, which is the euphemism used to disguise the political war against refugees, and all in violation of international law.

The UN is complicit in this extension of violence. Rhetoric condemning military solutions to solve the refugee crisis does not address the source – that is, military violence, which is one of the main instigators of forced displacement. The UN Security Council, which is tasked with determining actions that breach peace and security, adopts a militarised approach that triggers and maintains cycles of forced displacement globally. Not to mention the cohesion between the UN and NATO – the UNSC has provided mandates for foreign intervention to NATO, creating the conditions for globalised violence, while international humanitarian law is later invoked in a futile coverup for the committed violations.

Chapter 7 of the UN Charter outlines the UNSC’s role – its hypocrisy perhaps best outlined in Article 43 (1): “All members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.”

NATO describes its alliance with the UN as “pragmatic interaction”. In 2008, both institutions updated their cooperation framework. “Mindful that prevention and resolution of conflicts not only saves lives but represents a more efficient use of resources, the UN and NATO will continue to work together to help national authorities to strengthen their capabilities to address emerging crises.”

Yet NATO and the UN have instigated conflict and foreign intervention, upon the pretext of peace, security and democracy. For organisations that thrive upon militarisation, refugees are merely the extension of war – a humanitarian phenomenon that is exploited to justify political narratives on security at the expense of humanity. There is no recognition of how the countries deciding the fate of forcibly displaced people are acutely involved in their dispersal. The contradiction of expecting world leaders to find solutions for refugees while international institutions perpetuate the violation f forced displacement is not an issue that the UN or NATO would wish to address.

Instead of the UN sustaining refugees, refugees are sustaining UN politics, albeit unwittingly. In 2018, which was also described as a record in terms of forced displacement, Grandi rhetorically asked, “When is the last conflict that you remember was resolved?” A question which would be best directed at the institutions proclaiming the defence of human rights while eradicating their very foundations.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/14/un-and-nato-exploit-refugee-crisis-to-promote-rhetoric-peace-and-security/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039775 (151851ZDEC20) Notable: South Front Reports: Map Update: Israeli Strikes On Syria In 2020

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Map Update: Israeli Strikes On Syria In 2020

The tensions between the US-Israeli bloc and Iranian-led forces in the Greater Middle East are especially clear if one takes into account what has been happening in Syria in 2020.

https://southfront.org/map-update-israeli-strikes-on-syria-in-2020/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039779 (151852ZDEC20) Notable: Vice President Pence Leads a Roundtable Discussion on Operation Warp Speed

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039792 (151853ZDEC20) Notable: Sheriff stands up to Bogus COVID orders

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https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/15/sheriff-don-barnes-wont-release-prisoners-inmates-community-judge-order-covid-19-coronavirus-aclu/

Orange County, California, Sheriff Don Barnes said Tuesday that he will not release 1,800 prisoners into the community despite a court order that says he must do so to prevent COVID-19 infection.

“I think they present a serious threat,” Barnes said on “Fox & Friends.” “The only inmates remaining now are serious offenders and to order the release of 1,800 inmates, 700 of which would be medically vulnerable, I think is absurd.”

Orange County Civil Court Judge Peter Wilson ordered Barnes to release the 1,800 inmates Tuesday, supporting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that argued the prison was overcrowded and ideally suited for spreading coronavirus.

“Of the medically vulnerable, 90 of them are in custody for murder or attempted murder, 94 for child molestation. It’s an incredible order he placed on me and I have no intention of doing that — of releasing these individuals back into the community,” Barnes argued.

Some California prisoners have been caught deliberating infecting themselves with coronavirus in the hope of being released early from their incarceration.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039796 (151853ZDEC20) Notable: Paris Goes Into Night Time Lockdown as Government Fights Spread of COVID

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Paris Goes Into Night Time Lockdown as Government Fights Spread of COVID

Earlier on Tuesday, theatres and cinemas in Paris were ordered to remain closed for a few more weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Watch a live broadcast from Paris as the city enters its nighttime coronavirus lockdown on Tuesday.

The French authorities recently imposed a curfew in the capital from 8pm-6am to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Families will, however, be allowed to meet on Christmas Eve.

Earlier in the day, some cultural venues, including cinemas and theatres, were ordered to remain closed until at least early January. This enraged entertainment sector employees, many of whom protested in central Paris.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202012151081466434-paris-goes-into-night-time-lockdown-as-government-fights-spread-of-covid/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039826 (151855ZDEC20) Notable: Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Move Toward Europe

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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Move Toward Europe

Police agencies have long known that Mexican drug cartels help supply Europe’s nearly US$10 billion annual cocaine habit, but acknowledge they have little idea about the workings of these highly organized and well-financed operations.

But now, a recent Italian police investigation, code-named Operation Halcon, has provided the most in-depth look yet into how Mexico’s leading drug traffickers, the Sinaloa Cartel, do business in Europe. IrpiMedia, OCCRP’s Italian partner, obtained access to police files and surveillance reports that show the cartel’s methods in unprecedented detail.

About This Report

This article was produced in collaboration with “The Cartel Project,” an investigation coordinated by Paris-based Forbidden Stories. It involves 60 journalists from 25 organizations in 18 countries and involves various aspects of Mexican cartel violence, including the murders of journalists in Veracruz state. Forbidden Stories is a nonprofit group dedicated to continuing the work of journalists silenced by homicide.

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Operation Halcon started in early 2019, at a time when Europe was being flooded with cocaine from Latin America. The Sinaloa Cartel, a global leader in cocaine sales with operations in at least 50 countries, was looking for new routes into Italy as a way to expand its European presence. Mexican cartels already sold synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine on the continent, but Colombian, Albanian, and Italian organized crime have historically dominated Europe’s cocaine trade.

Most drugs arrive in Europe by ship, usually to large ports with good connections to other major cities. Sinaloa wanted to establish another route: Bulk shipment by private planes flying into small airports in Southern Italy, with the drugs then trans-shipped to other parts of the country.

Catania, a mid-size city on Sicily’s eastern coast, was chosen for a test. The area, which was rapidly becoming a tourist destination, offered an international airport and a special draw: an airport official willing to help.

The Informant

The cartel’s plan didn’t stay secret for long. The Organized Crime Investigation Group (GICO), the anti-mafia unit of Italy’s financial police in Catania, learned from an informant in January 2019 that Sinaloa was planning to fly in cocaine from Colombia.

The tip seemed odd. Catania isn’t known as a hub for international drug trafficking, and direct drug flights using private planes are generally unknown in Italy. Catania–Fontanarossa Airport had only limited international service, while the local port sees relatively little commercial traffic.

But the local head of the GICO, Captain Pablo Leccese, took the report seriously. In less than three months, the unit identified the cartel’s players in southern Italy: Guatemalans Daniel “Tito” Esteban Ortega Ubeda and Felix Ruben Villagran Lopez. The airport insider was identified only by his nickname, Don Señor.

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Credit: Guardia di Finanza

Felix Ruben Villagran Lopez.

Ortega and Villagran were working with another Guatemalan, Luis Fernando Morales Hernandez, alias “El Suegro,” or “The Father-in-Law,” who would make arrangements for the shipment in Colombia.

The police informant added more names to the file. The cell operating in Catania was under the direction of a shadowy Sinaloa leader known as “El Flaco,” or “Skinny,” whom police identified as second-in-command of the entire cartel after drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia.

El Flaco was soon to meet Don Señor to work out the logistics for handling the cocaine flight and the distribution of its cargo to buyers from various organized crime groups who would come for it.

The Italian police would be waiting for them.

Much MORE

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/inside-the-sinaloa-cartels-move-toward-europe

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039836 (151856ZDEC20) Notable: WHO Denies Italy COVID Cover-up

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WHO Denies Italy COVID Cover-up

The World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected accusations that it covered up a report critical of Italy’s COVID-19 response, despite warnings from one of the authors that burying it could cause a “scandal of huge proportion” that would damage the agency’s credibility.

The study appeared on the WHO website for just one day in May, and showed that Italy had failed to update its pandemic plan in the years before COVID-19 struck the country, which has suffered one of the highest numbers of deaths in Europe.

Immediately after the study was taken offline, one of its authors, Francesco Zambon, wrote to WHO Director, Tedros Adhanom, requesting a meeting, according to emails obtained by OCCRP.

“I am confident you will give this due consideration acknowledging that a [media] and political scandal of huge proportion – in a delicate moment for WHO with the forthcoming COVID-19 investigation – could happen at any moment,” Zambon wrote.

His warning appears to have been prescient.

National and foreign media have reported on the scandal, with the Italian public broadcaster’s flagship investigative journalism program, Report, focusing on Ranieri Guerra, a senior WHO official. Before joining the WHO, Guerra was director of prevention at the Italian Ministry of Health from 2014 to 2017, and was in charge of updating the pandemic plan.

Prosecutors in the hard-hit region of Lombardy have launched a preliminary investigation into the health ministry’s failure to update its pandemic plan, as required by European Union regulations, and have questioned Guerra.

A WHO spokesperson said the decision to quickly remove the study had nothing to do with protecting former or current officials from the Italian health ministry. The spokesperson said the WHO had not attempted to cover up the study.

"No, we have not! WHO engages in frank and forthright communication with governments on an ongoing basis. The organization undertakes all activities impartially," a spokesperson for the European regional office told OCCRP.

In his email to Adhanom and other top WHO officials, Zambon said the report he co-authored contained “key lessons” from Italy’s flawed response. He said that in removing the report, the WHO could be “preventing lives to be saved.”

The 100-page study entitled "An unprecedented challenge – Italy’s first response to COVID-19" was based on interviews with scientists, politicians and other experts. The researchers set out to understand the first phase of Italy’s response, with the goal of assisting other countries hit by the pandemic.

“Unprepared for such a flood of severely ill patients, the initial reaction of the hospitals was improvised, chaotic and creative,” the study found.

Critically, the researchers noted that Italy’s health ministry had failed to improve its pandemic plan as required. Instead, it was still using a plan issued in 2006.

Guerra wanted the researchers to change that date to 2016, which would give the impression the plan had been updated, according to an email he sent to Zambon, a fellow Italian who works at the WHO office in Venice.

As part of their probe, prosecutors in Lombardy hoped to question Zambon about the matter, and they wrote to the WHO requesting his presence. But the WHO rejected the request.

“WHO staff members and experts are not authorised to represent the Organization and speak on its behalf, including before national courts unless expressly authorized to do so,” the agency wrote to prosecutors in a November letter seen by OCCRP.

Although the WHO prevented Zambon from testifying, the agency allowed Guerra to speak to prosecutors, telling OCCRP that he did so “in his personal capacity.”

However, a document provided to OCCRP of Guerra's travel expenses to Bergamo, where the prosecutors are based, indicates that the WHO considered it a work trip – the agency paid him a per diem, which was listed as "duty travel."

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13538-who-denies-italy-covid-cover-up

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039843 (151857ZDEC20) Notable: Where real profits go in the wars

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"The pattern of rightwing not-for-profits promoting public protests while still more radical groups use lockdown resistance as a platform for extreme rightwing causes looks set to continue in events advertised in other states over coming days.

In Idaho on Friday, protesters plan to gather at the capitol building in Boise to protest anti-virus restrictions put in place by the Republican governor, Brad Little.

The protest has been heavily promoted by the Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF), which counts among its donors “dark money” funds linked to theKoch brotherssuch as Donors Capital Fund, and Castle Rock, a foundation seeded with part of the fortune of Adolph Coors, the rightwing beer magnate."

Charles Koch, George Soros Help Fund Think Tank

Opposed To 'Endless War'

Welcome to 21st-century politics (finally) with creation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

"The Boston Globe reports the "astonishing turn" that organizations created by libertarian billionaireCharles Kochand progressive billionaire George Soros are helping to fund a new think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The new group is committed to promoting "ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace."

From the Globe's write-up:

"It will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing. This is a radical notion in Washington, where every major think tank promotes some variant of neocon militarism or liberal interventionism.Soros and Koch are uniting to revive the fading vision of a peaceable United States.The street cred they bring from both ends of the political spectrum—along with the money they are providing—will make this new think tank an off-pitch voice for statesmanship amid a Washington chorus that promotes brinksmanship….

The institute plans to open its doors in September and hold an official inauguration later in the autumn. Its founding donors—Soros's Open Society Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation—have each contributed half a million dollars to fund its takeoff. A handful of individual donors have joined to add another $800,000. By next year the institute hopes to have a $3.5 million budget and a staff of policy experts who will churn out material for use in Congress and in public debates. Hiring is underway. Among [Trita] Parsi's co-founders are several well-known critics of American foreign policy, including Suzanne DiMaggio, who has spent decades promoting negotiated alternatives to conflict with China, Iran, and North Korea; the historian and essayist Stephen Wertheim; and the anti-militarist author and retired Army colonel Andrew Bacevich."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group

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https://reason.com/2019/07/01/charles-koch-george-soros-help-fund-think-tank-opposed-to-endless-war/

Where real profits go in the wars

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039862 (151858ZDEC20) Notable: "RichPlanet.net??"

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"Richplanet has received nearly 1,000 emails from concerned citizens about many different aspects of this frustrating and highly concerning situation, which humanity has been plunged into. With help from campaigner and Richplanet stalwart Andrew Johnson, Richard explores areas including germ theory, evidence of pre-planning, evidence of fraudulent statistics, legal challenges, vaccination, propaganda, censorship, Bill Gates, Geopolitics and the new monetary and technocratic systems which are being planned as a result of a blatantly engineered "crisis". Humanity is being dehumanised in a number of ways, the population of the world must protest harder if freedom is to be re-gained."

https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=286&part=1&gen=99

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039883 (151900ZDEC20) Notable: Anon bun from 15369? Baker Missed?

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#15369 FINAL Notables

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>>161349, >>161371, >>161387, >>161391, >>161397, >>161400, >>161408 US Covid-19 relief package set to IMMUNIZE corporations from pandemic lawsuits, alarms worker advocates +DigsNews

>>161350, >>161375 Link to MI Dominion CEO HearingLive!

>>161351 Facebook Complicit in Surge of Counterfeit Sales Online

>>161352 Massive TikToker loses access to account with 100 million followers: 'TikTok locked everyone out'

>>161354 And Where are the Biohazrd Waste Disposal Centers? NYC mayor: Restaurants need to close, but everyone should ride the subway

>>161355, >>161372, >>161414 Nothing is what it seems. + Coordinates

>>161356, >>161389, >>161401 (WH Presser (Live!

>>161359 Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church received $4.4M COVID-19 PPP loan

>>161360 Cheeky Brits flag BBC & politicians after Metropolitan Police asks public to report ‘extremist views’

>>161362 Biden Transition Leader Partnered With Chinese Military Think Tank, Worked Under Top CCP Defense Officials

>>161363 Chinese Astrologicals Snake Eat Rat?

>>161365, >>161367, >>161368 S.945 - Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act LawAnon Review+

>>161366, >>161382 “I don’t care about my legacy,” he said. “I’ll be dead.” +digs

>>161373 EU Fishermen Threaten to Blockade Ports If No Deal Ends Their Fishing Claims

>>161374 Pakistani Migrant Accused of Drugging and Raping Minors

>>161376 Oh they'll cooperate with big business! Fauci says Biden and Harris must go to the head of the vaccination line ASAP

>>161377 London’s Khan: Make Public Wear Masks Outside, Don’t Relax Corona Rules For Christmas

>>161378 Sweden suffers deadliest November since Spanish flu era as Stockholm ICUs hit 99 percent capacity

>>161380 Yahoo Groups has been shut down

>>161381 Kamala Harris Pushes Gun Control ‘To Keep Our Children Safe’

>>161383 Biden's office warned in 2015 that Ukrainian oligarch who hired son Hunter was deemed corrupt

>>161384 NEW - Google is "worried" about the intentions of the European Commission to regulate digital services.

>>161386 SEN JOHNSON on HANNITY: Joe Biden Lied to the Public About Ties to Communist China

>>161388 “That’s An 8500% Markup”: Doctor Goes Viral On Twitter After Sharing A Thread About How Retail Pharmacies Put A Ridiculous Markup On Medicine

>>161390 Uber is facing $59M fine from California regulators and could be shut down if it does provide information on 6,000 sexual assault and harassment claims filed by drivers and riders

>>161395 This seems to come outta nowhere: Why Are Jews Leading The Alt-Right & ‘White’ Nationalist Movements?

>>161399 Duke delayed family holidays to party with Epstein: These exclusive pictures show Andrew in the Bahamas with his daughters. Now our probe reveals the bombshell 48 hours he was on paedophile's island

>>161404 Yep and it’s not just Pelosi either… While serving as Speaker, Nancy Pelosi’s net worth went from $24- to over $100 million USD. (Official salary is $220k/year)

>>161398 Worth a dig?

>>161407 CM: MSM has their marching orders

>>161409 CDC to suspend data collection for 2020-2021 flu season amid rising COVID-19 deaths, causing all flu deaths to be counted as “covid deaths”

>>161410, >>161412 (CM: Bunch of people reaching out to me that they are getting messages from superiors telling them to be prepared for an imminent emergency announcement. Its probably nothing though, right?

>>161411 Rouhani: Iran Will Return to Nuclear Deal Within an Hour of US Doing So

>>161413 Los Angeles’s newly elected, George Soros-funded district attorney is set to enact sentencing requirements that will take the sentence of life without parole off the table for a cop killer

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039896 (151900ZDEC20) Notable: Joe Biden Admits He as a “Bit of a Cold” After Coughing Nonstop During His Speech

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Joe Biden Admits He as a “Bit of a Cold” After Coughing Nonstop During His Speech

78-year-old Joe Biden coughed his way through a press conference where he prematurely declared victory on Monday evening.

Biden was coughing nonstop as he delivered his speech.

Everyone noticed and many people thought he may have Covid.

After coughing and clearing his throat dozens of times, Biden wrapped up his short speech and shuffled away from the lectern.

Joe Biden looked feeble as he stiffly shuffled out of the room with his wife Jill guiding him.

Biden is not well and he admitted to having a ‘bit of a cold’ during a call with one of his only supporters after his speech.

Virtually no one watched Biden’s speech but he supposedly got 80 million votes.

“Thank you, I have a little bit of a cold, I’m sorry, but look, you know, you did it, you did it, not a joke,” Biden said to a caller.

“This campaign for president was more like the first time I ran as a 29-year-old for the Senate. I believed that ordinary folks and extraordinary folks would get together and make this work. You didn’t let us down. You didn’t let the country down. I really mean it, think about it,” Biden said.

Biden shuffled away then snapped back at Fox News reporter Peter Doocey for shouting questions about Hunter Biden.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/joe-biden-admits-bit-cold-coughing-nonstop-speech/

All Flu cases are Covid this year aren't they?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039943 (151904ZDEC20) Notable: "RichPlanet.net??"

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SCAMDEMIC

"Richplanet has received nearly 1,000 emails from concerned citizens about many different aspects of this frustrating and highly concerning situation, which humanity has been plunged into. With help from campaigner and Richplanet stalwart Andrew Johnson, Richard explores areas including germ theory, evidence of pre-planning, evidence of fraudulent statistics, legal challenges, vaccination, propaganda, censorship, Bill Gates, Geopolitics and the new monetary and technocratic systems which are being planned as a result of a blatantly engineered "crisis". Humanity is being dehumanised in a number of ways, the population of the world must protest harder if freedom is to be re-gained."

https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=286&part=1&gen=99

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039948 (151904ZDEC20) Notable: Cynical US Policy on Syria Revealed: Block the Russians and Iranians, Destroy the Economy, to Hell with the People

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The Rambo of theDEEPState Department is leaving. James Jeffrey, the outgoing Syria envoy, boasts about his achievements in a recent candid interview with Al-Monitor which with no sense of shame opens up to public gaze the the cynicism, callousness and sheer power-crazedness of US policy on Syria, conducted as though it were a video game or a game of Monopoly.

Jeffrey makes no bones about it. It’s not about ending the Syrian conflict, it’s about prolonging it:

Basically, first and foremost is denial of the [Assad regime] getting military victory….And of course, we’ve ratcheted up the isolation and sanctions pressure on Assad, we’ve held the line on no reconstruction assistance, and the country’s desperate for it. You see what’s happened to the Syrian pound, you see what’s happened to the entire economy. So, it’s been a very effective strategy….

The point is, this [preserving the SDF] is our plan B. We have a plan A. Plan A doesn’t answer ‘how does this all end?’ Plan A’s whole purpose [is] to ensure that the Russians and Assad and the Iranians don’t have a happy answer to how this all ends, and maybe that will someday get them to accept Plan B. Meanwhile, they’re tied up in knots. They don’t see Syria as a victory.

So, we don’t care a jot if Syrian people are suffering greatly, that’s part of the plan. We are happy to prolong the suffering indefinitely as long as the Russians, Iranians and Assad can’t claim victory.

Plan B, by the way, requires implementation on US terms of UN resolution 2254, which would amount effectively to a suicide note for Assad as under those terms it would allow millions of Syrians outside Syria to vote and thus decide the fate of those still inside.

At no point in this lengthy interview does Jeffrey even mention the Syrian people. The only Syrians (condescendingly) mentioned are the Kurdish militia SDF:

The SDF, they’re clean kids. I’ve gotten to know them and their leadership very, very well. They really are phenomenal, by Middle Eastern standards. They’re a highly disciplined Marxist offshoot of the PKK.

So, let’s get this straight: the US is supporting a bunch of Marxists in North East Syria to stop Assad getting the much needed oil for the Syrian people and is indifferent to the fact that Idlib is controlled by a bunch of Islamist fanatics?

Jeffrey in fact does not say a single word about the character of the opposition to acknowledge their Islamist extremism, or about the likely consequences if Plan B were to succeed and deliver the keys of Damascus to Islamist radicals. In this game – and a game is clearly how callous power-crazed Washington policy makers see it – only preventing victory by the other side matters.

Trump emerges as relatively sensible, which is saying a lot.

The president was uncomfortable with our presence in Syria. He was very uncomfortable with what he saw as endless wars. … Trump kept asking, “Why do we have troops there?”

The reason that Trump pulled the troops out was I think because he was just tired of us having come up with all these explanations for why we’re in there.

We at the State Department never provided any troop numbers to the president. That’s not our job. We didn’t try to deceive him. He kept on publicly saying numbers that were way below what the actual numbers were, so in talking to the media and talking to Congress, we had to be very careful and dodge around. But the Syria mission is the gift that keeps on giving. We and the SDF are still the dominant force in [northeast] Syria.

‘Not our job?’ The deviousness of this is breathtaking. The US State Department deliberately withheld crucial information from the President in order to get their way on keeping their counters on the Monopoly board which for them is Syria.

It’s no surprise that someone of Jeffrey’s calibre boasts about helping Israel to pulverise Syria:

More

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/15/cynical-us-policy-on-syria-revealed-block-the-russians-and-iranians-destroy-the-economy-to-hell-with-the-people/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040073 (151914ZDEC20) Notable: Dominion Lobbyists Paid McConnell Thousands Before He Crushed Election Integrity Bills, Ignored Election Contests

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Dominion Lobbyists Paid McConnell Thousands Before He Crushed Election Integrity Bills, Ignored Election Contests

The Senate Majority Leader wouldn't allow a vote on the bills in July last year

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quashed two election integrity bills in July last year after receiving thousands in donations from Dominion lobbyists.

In July, McConnell blocked two bills, one that would provide $775 million to “bolster election security,” along with requiring a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in the country, and a second that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and their families, to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them.

“Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent,” said McConnell on the Senate floor, as he refused to allow the bills to be put to a vote.

However, within the previous year, multiple lobbyists representing Dominion Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software, who together make up around 80% of all voting machines in the country, donated thouands of dollars to the McConnell campaign.

David Cohen and Brian Wild, both of lobbyist Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, who lobbied for Dominion in 2019, donated $2,000 and $1,000 respectively to the McConnell campaign funds. And around the same time, Emily Kirlin and Jen Olson, who have lobbied for ES&S, also donated $1,000 each.

Interestingly, these donations occurred throughout March of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic first reached the United States and mail-in voting became an almost certainty for the 2020 election.

FLASHBACK: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security…"

McConnell killed a voting security act that would have hammered Dominion, after receiving *thousands* from the foreign company's lobbyists.🤔🔻https://t.co/MmedjAojM7 pic.twitter.com/cRoegIhlI7

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 15, 2020

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell Recieved Money From Dominion, Squashed 2 Voter Security Bills pic.twitter.com/bntzOB3KFL

— Chief America 1st Trumpster (President Elect) (@ChiefTrumpster) December 15, 2020

McConnell on Tuesday praised the processes and outcome of the presidential election, and appeared to align himself with Vice President Biden. “Americans voted in this year’s general election. Legal and Constitutional processes have continued to play out since then,” McConnell said. “As of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect, and a vice-president elect.”

The Senate Majority Leader didn’t mention any of the currently ongoing lawsuits exposing the lack of integrity in the election, or any of the several slates of alternate electors sent by the contested states. “Our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20, the Electoral College has spoken.” McConnell added. “So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”

Thanks for playing, @DonBlankenship. #WVSen pic.twitter.com/TV1ETgQdmu

— Team Mitch (Text MITCH to 47360) (@Team_Mitch) May 9, 2018

National File reported in November that Roger Stone, longtime Trump ally and close friend, said that “100% of the voting machines and voting systems in this country are using the same software that Dominion has been using to switch votes.” This software, known as “Election Guard,” Stone alleges, was created by Microsoft at the behest of Bill Gates himself.

#RogerStone Reveals the Mass Manipulator of the 2020 Vote: It’s @BillGates pic.twitter.com/NiiT9qpkUt

— Enrique Alejandro (@EnriqueAleTV) November 21, 2020

https://nationalfile.com/dominion-lobbyists-paid-mcconnell-thousands-before-he-crushed-election-integrity-bills-ignored-election-contests/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040076 (151914ZDEC20) Notable: Remember This?

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I 'member

WSJ OPINION | COMMENTARY

Fake Claims About Dominion Voting Systems Do Real Damage

Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm. We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez.

By John Poulos

Nov. 30, 2020 11:56 am ET

https://archive.vn/74xoR

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040114 (151916ZDEC20) Notable: Who's hiding 'Russiagate' informant Stephen Halper, and why?

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Who's hiding 'Russiagate' informant Stephen Halper, and why?

Questions raised over what became of the subpoena and no-show of FBI informant Stefan Halper and his handler, Stephen Somma

As Special Counsel John Durham carries on with the investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, widening his prosecutorial team, critical questions linger over the role played by FBI informant Stefan Halper and his longtime FBI handler, Stephen Somma.

Halper emerged in the middle of the firestorm in May 2018, when his identity as the secret FBI informant embroiled in Crossfire Hurricane was exposed. It cast a dark shadow on his prestigious career as a foreign policy expert, Cambridge professor, author and analyst with deep ties to intelligence figureheads and sources spawning the globe.

But since then he appears to have been hidden from public view. The whereabouts of Somma, who subsequently was exposed as his handler and shared blame for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) mishaps against Trump campaign aide Carter Page, also have been unclear.

Despite both Halper and Somma being poised as having played a pivotal part in the U.S. counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane – which officially ran from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, to determine "whether individuals associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election" – neither of them have testified publicly about their roles and what they knew.

"The key is getting Halper (and Somma) to testify publicly, once he speaks, this whole thing unravels," Steven Schrage, a former senior G8 and congressional chief of staff, whose studies Halper directly supervised as the "Russiagate" scandal was playing out, told Fox News. "So, who is protecting him and why?"

Trumpeted efforts to bring Halper into the limelight in recent months also have fallen into the abyss.

An alumnus of three Republican administrations and given further gravitas by his esteemed position as a Cambridge University professor, Halper convened conferences and gatherings rich with high-profile guests including Michael Flynn, who served as Defense Intelligence Agency chief at the time, before his brief stint at Trump's national security adviser ahead of the Russiagate implosion.

In June, Senate Judiciary Committee authorized Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to issue subpoenas related to oversight of the FISA process and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, on which Somma was named.

"I want to know why all these counterintelligence investigations were opened to begin with," Graham said in a statement at the time. "This Committee is not going to sit on the sidelines and simply move on."

Schrage had been working with Durham's investigation since 2019. However, he told Durham in June that he needed to reach out to other investigators due to their lack of action and concern that important evidence would stay hidden from the public past the 2020 election.

Days later, in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News, dated June 8, 2020, Schrage informed Graham that he had "information that may be indispensable to revealing critical facts on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

"Your subpoenas and hearing may be the last chance to expose vital information being kept from you and that risks being buried after the 2020 election," Schrage, a former Senate chief of staff, wrote, adding that he was willing to meet with Graham or with his top staff members on short notice.

After following up for several days, Schrage said he received a response from a staffer who said neither Graham nor his top aides were willing to meet on this evidence. However, a Senate Judiciary staffer told Fox News that the panel did not receive enough information to evaluate what the evidence was and that Schrage did not want to talk to a senior investigator in advance, which they had offered.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stephen-halper-russiagate-trump-russia-hiding-why

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040149 (151919ZDEC20) Notable: Vaccine Passports and Health Passes: Is Showing Your “Papers” the “New Normal?”

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Vaccine Passports and Health Passes: Is Showing Your “Papers” the “New Normal?”

Life cannot return to normal until there is a vaccine for COVID 19.

At least, that is what governments, corporations, and their mainstream propaganda media outlets have been incessantly arguing. Interestingly, the development of that vaccine was “warp speed,” allegedly at the behest of the Trump administration.

“Warp speed” also took place in other countries like the UK, where shots have been administered. This information has caused some to question whether the vaccine was ready long before the announcement was made or, indeed, before the pandemic ever began.

They tried to warn us about mandated vaccines

Years ago, “conspiracy theorists” were ridiculed for warning of a system in which vaccines would be required to access normal aspects of life. Today, however, government officials and MSM are now openly discussing the very same system.

In case you have been living under a rock for the past several weeks, here are several instances where the “public discussion” has centered around the idea of a “vaccine passport” or “immunity passport” or the general blockade and sanctioning of anyone not willing to take the jab.

Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario Dr. David Williams recently stated that individuals who refuse the COVID-19 vaccination might “face some limits.” Some of the “limits” he suggested included not being able to enter a hospital or nursing home without showing proof of having been vaccinated without personal protective equipment.

Welcome to the new normal: Vaccine Passports and Health Passes

For the moment, vaccine passports are mainly intended for international travel. However, their use can be extended to many other areas of life. Vaccine passports in the form of free mobile apps in which a traveler (or event goer, employee, or shopper) uploads their COVID-19 test results or vaccination status.

There are currently two existing vaccine passports options, one being operational in the United States right now.

Common Pass: Created by Commons Project, this health pass has been in international use since October on United and Cathay Pacific flights between New York, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Common Pass operates via Apple’s Health app on iOS and CommonHealth for Android. It connects to 230 US health systems. It functions as a scannable QR code and can store a passenger’s test or vaccine data and travel plans. (It is not yet publicly available for download.)

IATA Travel Pass: Expected to launch in early 2021, IATA Travel Pass, is currently under development by the International Transport Association. According to the IATA website, the digital pass for travelers is: A global and standardized solution to validate and authenticate all country regulations regarding COVID-19 passenger travel requirements.

Vaccination tickets: the future of concert and event-goers

Ticketmaster announced that it is exploring the possibility of requiring proof of vaccination for ticket purchases and entrance to events. An article published on Billboard stated:

Ticketmaster has been working on a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smartphones to verify fans’ vaccination status or whether they’ve tested negative for the coronavirus within a 24 to 72-hour window.

Many details of the plan, still in development, will rely on three separate components: the Ticketmaster digital ticket app, third party health information companies like CLEAR Health Pass or IBM’s Digital Health Pass, and testing and vaccine providers like LabCorp and CVS Minute Clinic.

If the vaccination tickets are approved, how would it work?

The Billboard article gives further details about what people will have to do to attend concerts and other events.

After purchasing tickets, concert fans will have to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or test negative 24-72 hours before the event

Fans must have proof of vaccination or test results delivered to a health pass company, such as CLEAR or IBM

Health pass company verifies the attendee’s COVID-19 status to Ticketmaster (Ticketmaster will not be granted access to fan’s medical records)

Vaccinated fans or those with negative test results would be issued the credentials needed to access the event by Ticketmaster

Fans testing positive or who can not verify their status will not be granted access to any event.

More

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/12/vaccine-passports-and-health-passes-is-showing-your-papers-the-new-normal.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040163 (151920ZDEC20) Notable: #15370

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Notables are NOT endorsements

#15370 BAKING A LITTLE EARLY! Need a breather.

>>161415 Questions arise over whether Trump should employ 2018 order against foreign election influence

>>161416 Consultancy Linked to Biden Nominees Scrubs Middle East Ops From Site

>>161417 Earthquakes in Maine?

>>161418 Rep. Van Drew: 'Absurd' for Dems to say he shouldn't be seated in House for backing election lawsuit

>>161419 Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief; doesn’t tell Gantz

>>161420, >>161423 Calls grow for Insurrection Act, window of opportunity Dec. 18th – 24th

>>161421 "IT’S WAR: Communist China successfully infiltrated vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline as part of “unrestricted warfare” to defeat the US military and conquer North America"

>>161422 Shocking report on COVID vaccine adverse effects: the roll-out continues anyway

>>161424 Locked Thread Bun

>>161425 Big tech executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Biden campaign

>>161426 The UN and NATO Exploit the Refugee Crisis to Promote the Rhetoric of Peace and Security

>>161427 South Front Reports: Map Update: Israeli Strikes On Syria In 2020

>>161428 Vice President Pence Leads a Roundtable Discussion on Operation Warp Speed

>>161429 Sheriff stands up to Bogus COVID orders

>>161430 Paris Goes Into Night Time Lockdown as Government Fights Spread of COVID

>>161431 Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Move Toward Europe

>>161432 WHO Denies Italy COVID Cover-up

>>161433 Where real profits go in the wars

>>161434, >>161437 "RichPlanet.net??"

>>161435 Anon bun from 15369? Baker Missed?

>>161436 Joe Biden Admits He as a “Bit of a Cold” After Coughing Nonstop During His Speech

>>161438 Cynical US Policy on Syria Revealed: Block the Russians and Iranians, Destroy the Economy, to Hell with the People

>>161439 Dominion Lobbyists Paid McConnell Thousands Before He Crushed Election Integrity Bills, Ignored Election Contests

>>161440 Remember This?

>>161441 Who's hiding 'Russiagate' informant Stephen Halper, and why?

>>161442 Real anons digging the trafficking front

>>161443 Vaccine Passports and Health Passes: Is Showing Your “Papers” the “New Normal?”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039420 (151823ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Dough

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DOUGH IN ORDER!

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039444 (151824ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Tribunal Talks

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Only saying this once. Barr had to leave his official post. Why? Because he's going to be a witness in the upcoming Tribunals.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039522 (151830ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Anyone else hearing lovely booms today? USMC Tweets: Rocking Everywhere'''', MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_1.png

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Rocking Everywhere

@IIIMEF

Marines fire an M224A1 60mm mortar system during exercise Fuji Viper 21.1 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan. During this evolution, Marines demonstrated their distributed infantry and combined arms skills.

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1338912969971871744

>rocking everywhere

>castle_rock?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039565 (151834ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / UK = Covid

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UK = Covid

The first new variant of Coronavirus was just identified in England. England was also the first country to introduce the vaccine. Get ready for an endless cycle of new strains and fear mongering.

The vaccine is being pushed as a vehicle for relief, when in actuality, as all vaccines do, it will push more mutations of the coronavirus that are more resilient. The end of this BBC article, one of the largest arms of propaganda in the world, even states that themselves

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-55312505

They have known about 6 distinct types for months

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-types-idUSKCN24I1YI

And the WHO have had over 84,000 strains on file for months

https://streamable.com/4vd2re

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039573 (151834ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Prison is "legal torture" Cori Bush

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cori-bush-biden-death-penalty-b1774470.html

Incoming House Democrat Cori Bush is calling on president-elect Joe Biden to offer clemency to those on death row end the death penalty.

Ms Bush, representative-elect for Missouri's 1st congressional district, urged Mr Biden to grant clemency to all 52 prisoners currently on death row in the US.

Her comments come as the outgoing Trump administration presses ahead with a spate of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons.

Writing in a piece published by Time magazine on Monday, Ms Bush asked the incoming president to consider ending the federal government's "legal torture" of inmates when he assumes office.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039577 (151835ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Lin Wood Agrees! "I am with you, Ashley" RT+, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_1.png

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I am with you, Ashley @AshleyWeis4

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@DNI_Ratcliffe reports to @realDonaldTrump.

When he does so, President Trump will intervene & act. The President will take all necessary steps to make certain the laws of our country are faithfully executed. Trust Trump.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1338914878053109761

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039639 (151840ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Lin Wood Agrees! "I am with you, Ashley" RT+, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Screenshot_1.png

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I don’t believe @GOPChairwoman is with you, Ashley @AshleyWeis4. Her disloyalty will be revealed soon. The People of @GOPwho supported @realDonaldTrump are with you. The leadership of GOP is not.

I guarantee you that @GenFlynn

@SidneyPowell1

@DanScavino

ARE with you.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1338916024339603456

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039659 (151841ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Thanks for the topcover

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>oss showed up yesterday with a bake pulling the same shit. they're all the same team, just with new identifiers.

What exactly did I do yesterday?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12039721 (151846ZDEC20) Notable: Locked Thread Bun / Important information

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They use what ground they've taken to disrupt the board when they lose confidence in their ability to censor otherwise.

Baker drama / split thread is fabricated suppression of our coherency.

For what it's worth to the sincere observer, I feel as distant as you do while they blame their fellow co-workers for the chaos they both create~

That's the truth you'll never hear.

From someone who has had a birds eye view during this time, OSS hero sounds like a cheap rebranding of "Eat Shit Shills" baker who's job was to fuck up the weekend threads, who appears in tactical tandem with loli baker.

Their. Game. Doesn't. Change. As much as they want you to thin~k.

They need:

To control the flow/priority of information (Baker)

To control the drumbeat of the hivemind ("weighted" personalities on the board)

To keep you eating shit (Demoralized - unable to accept new information / generate insights)

They'll create whatever game they need, and shift whatever personalities they need, to keep this up.

Now You Know.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040376 (151939ZDEC20) Notable: the ceo of Dominion is testifying before the Michigan Legislature as we speak.

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Anons,

the ceo of Dominion is testifying before the Michigan Legislature as we speak.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040468 (151950ZDEC20) Notable: Dominion Voting Systems CEO Testifies to Michigan Legislature

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040503 (151953ZDEC20) Notable: Vice President Pence Leads a Roundtable Discussion on Operation Warp Speed

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaQ4BUnHeRk

Vice President Pence Leads a Roundtable Discussion on Operation Warp Speed

503 watching now•Started streaming 94 minutes ago

The White House

1.77M subscribers

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040532 (151956ZDEC20) Notable: Fleeing New Yorkers Resulted in $34B in Lost Income

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Fleeing New Yorkers Resulted in $34B in Lost Income

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/fleeing-new-yorkers-34-billion-lost-income/2020/12/15/id/1001589/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040550 (151958ZDEC20) Notable: Democrats Resigned to Dropping Local Aid in COVID-19 Bill

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Hummmm…wonder why?

Democrats Resigned to Dropping Local Aid in COVID-19 Bill

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/democrats-coronavirus-relief/2020/12/15/id/1001561/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040576 (152001ZDEC20) Notable: Tony Pham Stepping Down as Acting ICE Director

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Tony Pham Stepping Down as Acting ICE Director

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tony-pham-resignation-ice-director/2020/12/15/id/1001588/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040635 (152005ZDEC20) Notable: Ratcliffe: Space Force to become 18th member of the U.S. intelligence community

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“We see this as a critical next step in establishing the nation’s newest service,” said Maj. Gen. Leah Lauderback, Space Force director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force soon will become the 18th member of the U.S. intelligence community, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Dec. 9.

Intelligence elements of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force are part of the U.S. intelligence community. The Space Force will be added next, Ratcliffe said during the eighth meeting of the National Space Council at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

A spokeswoman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told SpaceNews that Ratcliffe is “working with Space Force leadership to evaluate the potential for the Space Force to become the 18th member of the U.S. intelligence community. We anticipate a decision on this history-making opportunity in the next few months, which would profoundly strengthen the partnership between the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.”

https://spacenews.com/ratcliffe-space-force-to-become-18th-member-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040735 (152014ZDEC20) Notable: LIVE: Trump Electors, Stop The Steal Coalition Hold Press Conference on Capitol Hill

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🔴 LIVE: Trump Electors, Stop The Steal Coalition Hold Press Conference on Capitol Hill

https://youtu.be/fcqrkGxwG_8

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040769 (152018ZDEC20) Notable: Solarwinds configuration and account info

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Solarwinds configuration and account info

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040799 (152021ZDEC20) Notable: Patrick Byrne: The Story Behind the Clinton Bribe

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>yep I saw that short portion of the interview.

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>What a shitshow. Pull the plug on this thing already. It's toast.

@tracybeanz

"If you missed it, @SharonGBlack wrote a detailed article about @PatrickByrne back in October, and we interviewed him on the podcast in long form twice, where he went into detail about his story." https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1338874475438280704

Patrick Byrne: The Story Behind the Clinton Bribe

Editors note: The following account was taken directly from the blog post written by Patrick Byrne on his website, Deep Capture. Although UncoverDC has summarized the story, we highly recommend reading it in full here along with its substories. Please devote the time to read this, and come to your own conclusions.

On August 22, 2019, (now former) CEO of Overstock, Patrick Byrne, appeared in a series of major media interviews, where he alleged that the FBI engaged him to rekindle a relationship with a Russian woman named Maria Butina – even though Byrne had informed the FBI he was worried at the time that she may be attempting to contact various political figures on behalf of Russia. Maria Butina plead guilty in December of 2018 to one count of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign official. She was arrested six months earlier in July. Butina was released this past October and deported to her home country of Russia.

However, that wasn’t the only thing Byrne said in his appearances.

For approximately 14 months Byrne kept the major details of his interactions with the FBI hidden, but about ten days ago in a long and detailed blog post on his website, he relayed stunning information about his past and his involvement in what has now come to be known as Spygate. UncoverDC will recount the major points here, but recommend reading the post in its entirety.

2005-2006

Patrick Byrne went to Washington, DC to expose Wall Street by stating he believed there was a crack in the national capital market’s settlement system which led to 200 indictments and more than 100 people went to prison. He spoke with the Senate Judiciary Committee and also the FBI.

During that time he had several meetings with then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter. In one such meeting, he walked into a room and there was “a group of Senators waiting for [him], led by Chairman Specter”. Byrne goes on to explain the meeting, “They made a speech. They told me that if one understands the Constitutional structure, one understands that the Senate Judiciary Committee is the bulwark that protects rule of law for the USA. That is because the Senate Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction regarding corruption in the USA (‘anything touched by a civil or criminal penalty’). The Senate Judiciary’s authority to look into corruption trumps the authority of anyone else in government. And given that pretty much any activity one can imagine could be touched by a civil or criminal penalty, in practice this all adds up to the following: in the name of stopping corruption, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee has the authority to look into anything in the United States of America that it desires.”

Byrne continued, “With senators from both parties standing around me nodding, Chairman Specter told me they agreed with me, they thought that I was right about what I had been saying publicly with increasing volume over 2005-2006, that some form of systemic corruption was taking over the United States government. They were not even sure what it was, but that it was like it was a foreign nation subverting our government yet they could not pinpoint it, and they had learned that it could not even be fought from within the government.”

Byrne stated that during this meeting they told him they were giving him a “blanket immunity” by showing him a letter that is being kept in a safe in the DOJ. They held the letter up so he could read it but he was not even allowed to touch it. This letter states, as Byrne recalls, that until his death, “The first paragraph had language about their growing concern that some kind of deep systemic corruption was infiltrating and corrupting the federal institutions of the United States. The second paragraph started with a sentence along the following lines: The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary requests that Patrick M. Byrne be afforded extraordinary latitude under the laws of the United States of America to pursue his activities investigating and disrupting corruption within the federal government.” Byrne added, “Chairman Specter said, ‘This is not a pardon, you can’t go kill anyone, but for the rest of your life this letter is going to be sitting in a safe at the Department of Justice, and it will make it extremely unlikely any prosecutor is going to touch you in the future’.”

2008

comtinued…

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/10/21/patrick-byrne-the-story-behind-the-clinton-bribe/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040908 (152031ZDEC20) Notable: McConnell’s sister-in-law named to Bank of China board 10 days after Trump election

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Ya well you know the drill by now. 10% for the Big Guy. How much did Mitch get here? Someone knows. And someone knows he's a goner.

Report: McConnell’s sister-in-law named to Bank of China board 10 days after Trump election

By World Tribune on April 24, 2018

https://www.worldtribune.com/tag/report-mcconnells-sister-in-law-named-to-bank-of-china-board-10-days-after-trump-election/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040963 (152035ZDEC20) Notable: Vice - Meet the Dangerous QAnon Figure Doing Whatever It Takes to Win Trump's Approval

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Vice - Meet the Dangerous QAnon Figure Doing Whatever It Takes to Win Trump's Approval

On Monday night, President Donald Trump retweeted a message posted by Ron Watkins.

Watkins, who for years has been running the site where QAnon lives, has been indirectly boosted by Trump before, but Monday night’s retweet marks the culmination of a rapid ascent for a man who has become the right wing’s go-to conspiracy theorist in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory last month.

As the administrator of 8kun — previously known as 8chan — Watkins is seen by many experts as being instrumental in the perpetuation of the QAnon cult, a movement that has destroyed families and led to real-world violence, including murder.

But in the last month, Watkins has sought to step out of the shadow of QAnon and forge his own identity as a star witness willing to say whatever it takes to win the approval of Trumpworld.

On Election Day last month, Q, the anonymous persona behind the QAnon cult, posted a generic update including a quote from Abraham Lincoln and a short message: “Together we win.”

On the same day, Watkins announced that he was stepping down as administrator of 8kun, the fringe message board when Q posts their updates.

When asked why he was stepping down, Watkins at the time told VICE News that he “fell in love with woodworking and plan on focusing all my efforts into mastering it. Also want to finish a book I’m writing about constitutional law.”

And while Watkins has made some references to woodworking in his public tweets since the election, the vast majority of his posts show him positioning himself as something of a conspiracy whisperer to the growing ranks of right-wing figures and groups that have aligned themselves with Trump and his outlandish and baseless claims of election fraud.

Watkins, who now lives in Japan, has tweeted incessantly during the last six weeks, jumping from one conspiracy theory to the next.

His most influential campaign has been his attempts to smear Dominion Voting Systems. Earlier this month, Watkins posted a video of a Dominion employee using one of the company’s voting machines, falsely claiming the employee was manipulating results. As a result, the 20-year-old employee received death threats and someone hung a noose outside his house.

But such incidents didn’t stop Watkins from becoming a star in the alternate universe that sprouted up to support Trump’s wild allegations of widespread vote-rigging.

First, Watkins appeared on the partisan, pro-Trump news channel One American News Network, where he was interviewed several times about his Dominion conspiracy theories. Trump helpfully retweeted one of these segments to his 80 million Twitter followers.

Watkins then appeared in the pages of one of the “Kraken” lawsuits filed by onetime Trump attorney Sidney Powell. He was cited as an expert witness, seemingly based on the fact he had read the Dominion voting machine manual. It might be “within the realm of possibility” for a biased poll worker to fraudulently switch votes, Watkins concluded in his affidavit.

But his Twitter account is where Watkins has really found his stride — and the endorsement of many influential right-wing figures.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wqm7/ron-watkins-meet-the-dangerous-qanon-figure-doing-whatever-it-takes-to-win-trumps-approval

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12040982 (152037ZDEC20) Notable: New Jeffrey Prather YouTube live now.

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New Jeffrey Prather YouTube live now.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041043 (152042ZDEC20) Notable: "Not a single “journalist” has asked Joe Biden about why his son failed to disclose $400,000 in income on his taxes or where that income came from.

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MSM may not embarrass Dear Leader Biden

"Not a single “journalist” has asked Joe Biden about why his son failed to disclose $400,000 in income on his taxes or where that income came from.

Remember when the media used to care about tax returns? What changed?"

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1338874752396525570

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041057 (152043ZDEC20) Notable: #15371

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>>161454 the ceo of Dominion is testifying before the Michigan Legislature as we speak.

>>161455 Dominion Voting Systems CEO Testifies to Michigan Legislature

>>161456 Vice President Pence Leads a Roundtable Discussion on Operation Warp Speed

>>161457 Fleeing New Yorkers Resulted in $34B in Lost Income

>>161458 Democrats Resigned to Dropping Local Aid in COVID-19 Bill

>>161459 Tony Pham Stepping Down as Acting ICE Director

>>161460 DAN SCAVINO TWEETS

>>161461 Ratcliffe: Space Force to become 18th member of the U.S. intelligence community

>>161462 LIVE: Trump Electors, Stop The Steal Coalition Hold Press Conference on Capitol Hill

>>161463 Solarwinds configuration and account info

>>161464 Patrick Byrne: The Story Behind the Clinton Bribe

>>161465 McConnell’s sister-in-law named to Bank of China board 10 days after Trump election

>>161466 CM Tweet (12/12/20)

>>161467 Vice - Meet the Dangerous QAnon Figure Doing Whatever It Takes to Win Trump's Approval

>>161468 New Jeffrey Prather YouTube live now.

>>161469 "Not a single “journalist” has asked Joe Biden about why his son failed to disclose $400,000 in income on his taxes or where that income came from.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041093 (152045ZDEC20) Notable: Joe Biden Warned In 2015 That Son Hunter's New Employer And Burisma Boss Was Corrupt

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Joe Biden Warned In 2015 That Son Hunter's New Employer And Burisma Boss Was Corrupt

In today's episode of 'Things that should have come out during the impeachment,' just-released diplomatic memos reveal that Vice President Joe Biden's office was warned in 2015 that the Ukrainian oligarch who hired his son, Hunter, was deemed corrupt - and that the US Justice Department had gathered evidence to support that conclusion, according to Just The News.

"I assume all have the DoJ background on Zlochevsky," wrote former US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in Kiev in a 2015 letter to Biden's top advisers, referring to Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky.

"The short unclas version (in non lawyer language) is that US and UK were cooperating on a case to seize his corrupt assets overseas (which had passed through the US)," Pyatt added, noting that the asset forfeiture case against the Ukrainian billionaire "fell apart" when individuals in the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office "acted to thwart the UK case."

Talking points

Pyatt's email also includes responses to several talking points Joe Biden's Washington staff crafted, should he be questioned about Hunter's role on the board of Burisma.

"Have you asked Hunter to step down from the board? Has he discussed that with you?" the talking points anticipated being asked.

"I'm not going to discuss private conversations with my family. Hunter is a private citizen and does independent work," the memo recommended the vice president answer.

If pressed by a question asking whether Joe Biden thought "Zlochevsky is corrupt," the talking points suggested the vice president respond, "I'm not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals." -Just The News

PyattBedingfieldEmail12-6-2015

https://www.scribd.com/document/488257544/PyattBedingfieldEmail12-6-2015#from_embed

As JTN notes, the New York Times published an article days after Pyatt's email suggesting that Hunter's role at Burisma while it remained under a corruption investigation was potentially undercutting US anti-corruption policy.

"Separately, a Russian-backed media outlet in Ukraine had written an even more scathing expose on what it called the "Ukrainian scam of the Biden family." That article sent State officials scrambling to develop messaging for the U.S. government," according to Just The News.

The memos, released last week by Senate committees investigating Hunter Biden, also reveal that the US Justice Department was involved in the 2014 asset forfeiture brought against Zlochevsky in the UK, right as Hunter Biden was hired to sit on the board of Burisma.

Multiple State officials have attested to the awkward appearance of conflict of interest posed by Hunter's position on the board as the United States led efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine. In a September, 2015 speech, Pyatt railed against Ukrainian prosecutors for thwarting the UK asset forfeiture case against Zlochevsky.

Pyatt was recently deposed by investigators for the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee about the Ukraine controversy. Though his staff had reported an alleged Burisma bribe and believed the Bidens' conduct in Ukraine created an apparent conflict, Pyatt said he never felt compelled to raise such concerns with the vice president.

"So you never gave thought of raising a concern to the Vice President about this board position his son had?" a Senate investigator asked Pyatt during the deposition back in September.

"No," the ambassador answered. "He's the Vice President of the United States, and it would have been wildly out of place for me to raise something like that, especially insofar as it had zero impact on the work that I was doing." -Just The News

Meanwhile, let's not forget that according to evidence from Hunter Biden's laptop published by the New York Post, Biden didn't just know about his son's business dealings in Ukraine and elsewhere, he participated in them.

And Democrats impeached Trump for asking Ukraine to investigate.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/joe-biden-warned-2015-son-hunters-new-employer-and-burisma-boss-was-corrupt

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041102 (152046ZDEC20) Notable: China accuses Australia of playing the victim and politicising trade, says coal ban is 'responsible act'

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China accuses Australia of playing the victim and politicising trade, says coal ban is 'responsible act'

China has defended its alleged ban on Australian coal as both legal and good for Chinese consumers and companies, accusing Australia of playing the victim as the fraught relationship continues to deteriorate.

Key points:

Wang Wenbin accused Australia of "constantly accusing and attacking China by innuendo"

Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier said a ban on coal would breach WTO rules

Chinese media appeared to confirm Beijing has blocked Australian coal imports

"The Chinese authorities have recently taken measures against some imported Australian products in accordance with law and regulations," said Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a regular press conference Tuesday in Beijing.

"It is in line with Chinese laws and regulations and international practices, as well as a responsible act for Chinese domestic industries and consumers.

"Actually for some time, I have repeatedly heard some people from the Australian side claim to be the so-called victims, constantly accusing and attacking China by innuendo, which is completely making a countercharge confusing right and wrong. China will never accept this."

The comments come after Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the reported ban as a "lose-lose situation" and said he was seeking clarification from the Chinese Government.

He said China would be in breach of World Trade Organization rules as well as a bilateral free trade agreement if it banned Australian coal.

Mr Morrison was responding to a report in the Chinese state-owned Global Times newspaper that the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission had given power plants approval to import coal without restrictions except for Australian coal.

China's trade war

China and Australian flags superimposed on cracked earth

Barley, wine, timber. These are the industries buckling under tariffs and sanctions amid China's escalating trade war.

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Mr Morrison said he was treating the report as "media speculation" until the Chinese Government clarified their position.

China has consistently said Australia is entirely responsible for disruptions in economic and political ties motivated by what it sees as anti-Chinese bias among Australian politicians, civic leaders and media outlets.

Mr Wang said China would "never accept" accusations of unfair trade practices, and accused Australia of having politicised bilateral exchanges in trade, investment, science and technology, while targeting Chinese companies with increased security checks on investments.

He also said Australia had "taken discriminatory measures against Chinese enterprises and gone further down the wrong path".

China's latest move straight from its punishment playbook

The Morrison Government seems to be betting that all it needs to do is hold its nerve and hold the line when it comes to China's trade threats, writes Stephen Dziedzic.

Read more

"What is really worrying is the ones politicising normal economic and trade activities and setting restrictions for no reason, interfering in the internal affairs of other countries in violation of the basic norms of international relations and even provoking differences and confrontation," Mr Wang said.

"We hope that the Australian side will reflect on itself, be consistent with its words and actions and effectively provide good conditions and atmosphere for China-Australia practical cooperation in various fields, rather than the other way around."

Coal and iron ore are Australia's most lucrative exports and China is Australia's biggest trading partner, taking $13.7 billion worth of metallurgical and thermal coal in 2019.

But Australian exports to China appear to have suffered due to deteriorating bilateral relations since Australia called for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic.

Australian products including wine, lobster, beef, barley and timber have also been affected this year.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-16/china-defends-reported-coal-ban-against-australia/12987604

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041125 (152048ZDEC20) Notable: New Zealand offers to mediate truce between Australia and China

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New Zealand offers to mediate truce between Australia and China

New Zealand is offering to step in to try and resolve the trade feud between Australia and China.

The country's new Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta said she is willing to negotiate a truce between Australia and China amid a tense diplomatic relationship.

New Zealand will host next year's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and Ms Mahuta said it presented an opportunity to bring both parties to the table.

"Do I believe that there might an opportunity for New Zealand to create a different environment and have a conversation? Yes, I do," Ms Mahuta said in an interview with Reuters.

"And I think hosting APEC might well be the opportunity… but both parties will have to be willing to come together and concede in some areas where they are currently not seeing eye to eye."

In the latest trade dispute, China appears to have formally restricted imports of Australian coal in favour of both local production and imports from other suppliers, in a move that threatens the $14 billion export industry.

China has recently increased tariffs on Australian wine and barley and blocked imports on lamb, beef, lobsters and other goods.

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has not ruled out the Federal Government taking China to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the reported threats to coal exports.

China is Australia's largest trading partner, taking up 30 per cent of our exports.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/new-zealand-offers-to-mediate-australia-and-china-dispute/f3f12f92-19a2-428c-8a94-2a563f2e76bd

Just like Lebanon when Rothschild sent Macron in after the blast NZ is going in to offer the Rothschild's/Cabal's offer!

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041138 (152050ZDEC20) Notable: Pro-Trump Australian MP Releases Plea for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned, Says Only Trump Can Protect Free Speech From the Democrats

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Pro-Trump Australian MP Releases Plea for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned, Says Only Trump Can Protect Free Speech From the Democrats

Australian Member of Parliament George Christensen, a fierce and loyal defender of President Donald Trump, has launched a petition for Julian Assange to be pardoned.

Christensen also released a video appeal addressing the president, and urging him to protect freedom of speech from the Democrats seeking to destroy it.

Assange, an Australian citizen, is currently imprisoned in the UK awaiting a court’s decision about extraditing him to the United States to face extreme charges related to his publishing activities.

https://youtu.be/dYTb3vrA47Q

In an open letter to the president, Christensen wrote that “If you, as Commander in Chief, pardon Julian Assange, you will ensure that the national interest is protected and truth prevails. We can’t let the Deep State win.”

“You have the opportunity to demonstrate, as guardian of the Constitution, that the rule of law is paramount, and shield us from the Democrats’ willingness to violate the First Amendment, at any cost,” Christensen added.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/watch-pro-trump-australian-mp-releases-plea-julian-assange-pardoned-says-trump-can-protect-free-speech-democrats/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041155 (152051ZDEC20) Notable: Georgia Sheriffs Condemn Democrat Police Reform as ‘Crazy Talk’: ‘The Country Will Be Less Safe’

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Georgia Sheriffs Condemn Democrat Police Reform as ‘Crazy Talk’: ‘The Country Will Be Less Safe’

ATLANTA — County sheriffs in Georgia publicly condemned Democrat plans for police reform Tuesday after President-elect Joe Biden told a group of civil rights leaders to avoid discussing police reform until after Georgia’s January 5 Senate runoff election.

The sheriffs indicated that the “defund the police” movement is central to Democrat plans for police reform. They warned that if Democrat candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock win their runoff races, Republicans will lose their Senate majority and police will thereby lose their last line of defense for funding.

Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway, speaking at a press conference Tuesday at Liberty Plaza, said, “All we’ve heard for months from the Democrat Party is ‘defund the police.’”

“Now I understand Joe Biden’s talking the other way now, not wanting to talk about defunding the police until after this election, but that doesn’t change anything,” Conway continued. “The program by the Democrat Party has been to defund the police, to change the basic concept of police work.”

Biden told a group of civil rights leaders last week that he thought they should not “get too far ahead” of themselves with police reform messaging before the Georgia runoffs, according to audio obtained by the Intercept.

Biden said to the group:

I also don’t think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they’ve already labeled us as being ‘defund the police.’ Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing, which I promise you, will occur. Promise you. Just think to yourself and give me advice whether we should do that before January 5.

Republican organizations working to elect incumbent Sens. David Perdue (R-GA) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) sounded alarms over Biden’s comments.

“They’re desperate to hide their ‘defund the police’ agenda, but Georgians know the truth that Warnock, Ossoff, and their backers in DC are too radical,” National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Jesse Hunt said in a statement.

“Biden, Ossoff, and Warnock share the same misguided vision for our country, and defunding the police is at the very top of their list,” Georgia GOP spokeswoman Abigail Sigler said in a statement. “Georgians who stand with the rule of law must support Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. The safety of our communities depends on it.”

Some Democrats throughout this year have embraced the idea of defunding the police, while others have avoided it. Earlier this month, for instance, former President Barack Obama distanced himself from the “defund the police” slogan, while “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) pushed back that it is “not a slogan but a policy demand.”

Ossoff’s and Warnock’s campaign policies do not outright call to defund the police; however, Ossoff has said that police funding should be “on the line” and Warnock has said “we need to reimagine policing.” Both candidates have called for “demilitarizing” police departments and increasing officer accountability.

Conway, who has worked in policing for more than 40 years and plans to retire this year, said, “I’ve led a couple of agencies for a long time, and I’ve never had the money that I felt like I needed for training, hiring, and retention of police officers. So talking about defunding police is just insanity.”

Conway continued, “It’s only common sense that you can’t make a better product … by cutting down on labor cost, training, and material. We have to have more money for police if we want better police. It’s crazy talk to say you want to defund police. The country will be less safe.”

Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman and Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds also denounced Democrat police reform plans during the press conference. Their full remarks can be heard here.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/15/georgia-sheriffs-condemn-democrat-police-reform-crazy-talk-country-less-safe/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041186 (152053ZDEC20) Notable: -WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041229 (152057ZDEC20) Notable: Cryptocurrency Firm Co-Founder Sentenced in Celeb-Touted Scam

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Cryptocurrency Firm Co-Founder Sentenced in Celeb-Touted ScamRobert Farkas, a/k/a “RJ,” was sentenced on December 15 to one year and one day in prison, in connection with his participation in a scheme to induce victims to invest more than $25 million dollars’ worth of digital funds in Centra Tech, Inc. (“Centra Tech”), a Miami-based company he co-founded and that purported to offer cryptocurrency-related financial products.

The scam was promoted by celebrities including boxer Floyd Mayweather and musician DJ Khaled.

Farkas previously pled guilty to conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his and his co-conspirators’ use of material misrepresentations and omissions to solicit investors to purchase securities, in the form of digital tokens issued by Centra Tech, through an initial coin offering (“ICO”) beginning in approximately July 2017.

Ilan T. Graff, the Attorney for the United States said: “Farkas and his co-conspirators created fictitious executives and fabricated business relationships with legitimate institutions to dupe investors into handing over millions of dollars for a fraudulent ICO. We will continue to aggressively pursue frauds like this one, whether they involve traditional securities or newer financial instruments and crypto-assets.”

According to statements in the Superseding Information, and other filings and statements at public court proceedings in the case:

In or about July 2017, FARKAS, along with co-defendants Sohrab Sharma and Raymond Trapani, founded a company called Centra Tech that claimed to offer cryptocurrency-related financial products, including a purported debit card, the “Centra Card,” that supposedly allowed users to make purchases using cryptocurrency at establishments accepting Visa or Mastercard payment cards. From approximately July 30, 2017, through October 5, 2017, FARKAS and his co-defendants solicited investors to purchase unregistered securities, in the form of digital tokens issued by Centra Tech (“Centra tokens” or “CTR tokens”), through a so-called “initial coin offering” or “ICO.” As part of this effort, Farkas and his co-defendants represented, in oral and written offering materials that were disseminated via the internet: (a) that Centra Tech had an experienced executive team with impressive credentials, including a purported CEO named “Michael Edwards” with more than 20 years of banking industry experience and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University; (b) that Centra Tech had formed partnerships with Bancorp, Visa, and Mastercard to issue Centra Cards licensed by Visa or Mastercard; and (c) that Centra Tech had money transmitter and other licenses in 38 states, among other claims. Based in part on these claims, victims provided millions of dollars’ worth of digital funds in investments for the purchase of Centra Tech tokens. In or about October 2017, at the end of Centra Tech’s ICO, those digital funds raised from victims were worth more than $25 million. At certain times in 2018, as the defendants’ fraud scheme was ongoing, those funds were worth more than $60 million.

More

https://breaking911.com/cryptocurrency-firm-co-founder-sentenced-in-celeb-touted-scam/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041242 (152057ZDEC20) Notable: Houston Police Capt. Arrested For Holding Repairman At Gunpoint In Bogus Voter-Fraud Conspiracy

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Houston Police Capt. Arrested For Holding Repairman At Gunpoint In Bogus Voter-Fraud Conspiracy

Former Houston Police Capt. Mark Anthony Aguirre, who went to authorities with pre-election claims that a massive voter fraud scheme was underway in Harris County, was instead arrested himself Tuesday and charged for running a man off the road and pointing at gun at this head in an attempt to prove his claims.

“He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime and we are lucky no one was killed,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “His alleged investigation was backward from the start – first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened.”

Aguirre, 63, was arrested by Houston Police Tuesday and charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

According to a court document describing probable cause for the charge, Aguirre told police shortly after the Oct. 19 incident, that he was part of a group of private citizens called, “Liberty Center,” who were conducting a civilian investigation into the alleged ballot scheme.

According to Aguirre, he had been conducting surveillance on the victim for four days under a theory the victim was the mastermind of a giant fraud, and there were 750,000 fraudulent ballots in a truck he was driving. Instead, the victim turned out to be an innocent and ordinary air conditioner repairman.

Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get the technician to stop and get out, according to the document. When the technician got out of the truck, Aguirre, pointed a handgun at the technician, forced him to the ground and put his knee on the man’s back – an image captured on the body-worn camera of a police officer.

Aguirre directed police to a parking lot nearby where another suspect, who has not been identified, took the truck. There were no ballots in the truck. It was filled with air conditioning parts and tools.

Aguirre never told police that he had been paid a total of $266,400 by the Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country, with $211,400 of that amount being deposited into his account the day after the incident.

The case was investigated by the Houston Police and is being prosecuted by the Public Corruption Division of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Aguirre’s claims of election fraud were found to be baseless after thorough investigation by Houston Police and by the Office Constable Precinct 1 Alan Rosen, as part of the Harris County Election Security Task Force.

https://breaking911.com/breaking-houston-police-capt-arrested-for-holding-repairman-at-gunpoint-in-bogus-voter-fraud-conspiracy/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041280 (152100ZDEC20) Notable: George Soros and Charles Koch collaborated on a U.S.-bashing think tank?

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George Soros and Charles Koch collaborated on a U.S.-bashing think tank?

George Soros is rightly regarded as one of the most consequential advocates of freedom in Central and Eastern Europe. Years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Hungarian-born financier began investing his fortune in democratic dissidents. Once the Berlin Wall fell, his Open Society Foundations rapidly opened offices across the region, providing crucial support to independent journalists, civil-society activists and liberal-minded politicians.

It is this steadfast support for democracy that makesSoros’s latest gambit so confusing. The liberal philanthropist has joined forces with fellow billionaire Charles Koch in founding a foreign policy think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.Disparaging “the foreign policy community in Washington” for having "succumbed to intellectual lethargy and dysfunction,” the institute will advocate “a new foreign policy centered on diplomatic engagement and military restraint.” On most issues, the liberal Soros and the libertarianKoch exist on opposite ends of the political spectrum.??== That they are collaborating on foreign policy may be a harbinger of a new left-right consensus favoring isolationism.

News of the institute’s creation was broken by Boston Globe columnist Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times reporter who has become a radical left-wing critic of U.S. foreign policy, publishing highly tendentious books on the 1953 coup in Iran as well as one calling upon the United States to abandon its traditional allies in the Middle East and cozy up to the Khomeinist regime. Lately, Kinzer has been parroting Assadist propaganda on the Syrian White Helmets, a group of courageous relief workers, whom he labels “an arm of the terror movement” and slanders as “heroes to #ISIS but not to any humanitarian.” Kinzer touted theKoch-Soros collaboration as “one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history.”

How the Koch brothers built the most powerful rightwing group you've never heard of

Americans for Prosperity is a little-known, billionaire-funded organization that has pushed US politics to the right. How did it happen?

Where did Walker’s ultra-conservative labor agenda come from? As a candidate, Walker barely mentioned collective bargaining or union busting. And we know this plan did not come from voters. Before the legislation popped up on the agenda, Wisconsinites generally supported collective bargaining. Nationally, only about 40% of American adults favor curbs to public sector bargaining rights, and in Wisconsin, this minority level of support was about the same.

Instead, to understand what happened in Wisconsin – and what is happening in states across the country – we need to look to the underappreciated organization that is at the center of the political network created and directed by the billionaire conservative industrialists, Charles and David Koch.

We are a group of Columbia and Harvard-based researchers who for the past five years have been investigating precisely how theKoch brothers work to influence US politics and the role played by AFP.In recent years, AFP has quietly pushed behind the scenes for many of the most important conservative victories across the nation, including the anti-union bills that passed in former union strongholds such as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/27/why-are-george-soros-charles-koch-collaborating-us-bashing-think-tank/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-rightwing-political-group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd6c6CsW4-k&feature=youtu.be

When the peace wants war, who benefits?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041284 (152101ZDEC20) Notable: Dominion CEO John Poulos Says Dominion Not Linked to SolarWinds Orion – Denies that Votes were Sent Off-Site to be Manipulated

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Dominion CEO John Poulos Says Dominion Not Linked to SolarWinds Orion – Denies that Votes were Sent Off-Site to be Manipulated

In a huge development on Monday morning, Michigan Judge Elsenheiemer gave Attorney Matthew DePerno permission to release the results of his forensic study on the Dominion Voting Machines by IT experts with the provision that he make a few redactions, which DePerno claims were “minor.”

DePerno said the redactions were “not relevant,” and that the key part of the report has been released in his bombshell report.

The report by Allied Security Operations Group was released following the hearing.

From our report by Patty McMurray on Monday — After the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim, Co. MI, Allied Security Operations Group has concluded that the Dominion Voting machines were assigned a 68.05% error rate. DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect the ballots in a folder. “The ballots are sent somewhere where people in another location can change the vote,” DePerno explained.

This was a very significant finding. The Dominion machines were set up to dispute 68.05 percent of all ballots. These ballots were then sent off to “another location” where people in other locations could change the votes.

On Tuesday Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos testified before the Michigan State Oversight Committee.

During questioning, Senator Michael MacDonald asked Poulos if it was possible to change a record value either locally or remotely on the Dominion machines.

Poulos said to his knowledge that was not possible and if it were you couldn’t do it undetected. Poulos added, “It would leave a trail. There would be a mismatch from another card. And there are several checks and balances in the machine.”

Poulos told the committee Dominion does not use the SolarWinds Orion package that was the subject of the DHS report from the 13th.

Poulos also said it was not possible for a USB drive to manipulate the data.

https://youtu.be/60GfW3tb4JU

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dominion-ceo-john-poulos-says-dominion-not-linked-solarwinds-orion-denies-votes-sent-off-site-manipulated-video/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041317 (152103ZDEC20) Notable: Major news networks go silent on sexual harassment allegations against liberal darling Gov. Andrew Cuomo

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Major news networks go silent on sexual harassment allegations against liberal darling Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Imagine that

The newscasts for CBS, NBC, and ABC were silent Sunday night following news of the sexual harassment allegations against Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Lindsey Boylan, a former Cuomo aide, said that her ex-boss was guilty of sexually harassing her.

Boylan served as deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser in Cuomo's administration from 2015 until October 2018.

Cuomo has since denied all of Boylan's allegations against him.

What are the details?

According to a Tuesday report from the New York Post, those networks by Monday morning hadn't even reported on the allegations.

Newsbusters reported that three major networks' morning shows — NBC's "Today," CBS' "This Morning," and ABC's "Good Morning America" — "all avoided the accusations against the governor, despite a combined six hours of available air time."

Fox News on Monday also reported that "transcripts revealed that CNN and MSNC didn't mention Boylan's claims during the 24-hour period following her shocking tweet."

On Sunday, Boylan — who is running as a Democratic candidate for Manhattan Borough president — tweeted, "Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched. I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years."

She added, "Not knowing what to expect what's the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it. No one. And I *know* I am not the only woman. I'm angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently. I hate that some men, like @NYGovCuomo abuse their power."

What else?

This isn't the first time that Boylan has spoken out about what it was like to work for Cuomo.

Earlier in December, she blasted Cuomo's office as being a "toxic" work environment, and proclaimed that many people were "deathly afraid of him."

"Most toxic team environment? Working for [Cuomo]," Boylan said. "I've had many jobs. Waitressing at Friendly's as a teenager was an infinitely more respectful environment. Even when I had bad customers who tipped poorly. … If people weren't deathly afraid of him, they'd be saying the same thing and you'd already know the stories."

She later added, "Seriously, the messages and texts I receive when I speak the truth about this … it's a whole book of people who have been harmed. I tried to quit three times before it stuck. I've worked hard my whole life. Hustled — fake it till you make it style. That environment is beyond toxic. I'm still unwrapping it years later in therapy!"

The former aide concluded, "Don't be surprised that it's the same small group of white people sitting alongside him at every presser. The same group that he has had by him the whole time, doing his dirty work. If you're not one of those handful, your life working for him is endlessly dispiriting."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/networks-ignore-sexual-harassment-allegations-against-cuomo

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041322 (152103ZDEC20) Notable: Maricopa County To Conduct Full Forensic Audit On Dominion Voting Machines

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Maricopa County To Conduct Full Forensic Audit On Dominion Voting Machines

Explanation of why certain large counties were chosen to implement the “steal.”''

Arizona’s State Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on possible election fraud. The outcome is that the Senate issued a subpoena on all of Dominion Voting System (DVS) machines used in Maricopa County. All machines used in the 3 November 2020 elections will be subjected to a full forensic audit. Votes in Maricopa County appeared to “flip” for Joe Biden after counting was stopped late on 3 November and resumed in the early hours of 4 November – similarly to what occurred in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Patrick Byrne, former CEO Overstock.com, interviewed by Dave Janda , stated that the Q Snatch malware that resides on Dominion’s voting machines/software provided the ability to flip votes in:

Atlanta, GA

Philadelphia, PA

Milwaukee, WI

Detroit, MI

Maricopa, AZ

https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/12/15/maricopa-county-to-conduct-full-forensic-audit-on-dominion-voting-machines/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041417 (152111ZDEC20) Notable: 'Dueling' Electors, 'Hanging Chads': a History of Contested U.S. Elections

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Technically Trump is the projected President elect.

The dualing electors sent by republicans in the state senates are as legit as the ones sent by the states House

And including the "dualing" electors Trump has more electors.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2020-10-23/dueling-electors-hanging-chads-a-history-of-contested-us-elections

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041424 (152112ZDEC20) Notable: Special Counsel John Durham EXPANDS Team Of Prosecutors

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>Special Counsel John Durham EXPANDS Team Of Prosecutors

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9052643/John-Durham-expands-special-counsel-probe-hiring-prosecutors.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041436 (152113ZDEC20) Notable: CodeMonkey Tweet, 'Dominion deleted the reference and link to "SolarWinds" from their website, but we have the archive still.'

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Poulos told the committee Dominion does not use the SolarWinds Orion package

Notice the semantics. Poulos is speaking in the PRESENT TENSE.

Whether they're still using it today is not relevant to the fact they DID USE IT.

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1338850031445536769

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041472 (152116ZDEC20) Notable: Canadian government also uses Solarwinds; Solarwinds Managed Service Provider (MSP) office in Ottawa, Canada?

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Canadian government also uses Solarwinds; Solarwinds Managed Service Provider (MSP) office in Ottawa, Canada?

The contracts which still seem to be in effect with valid licences appear to be used at:

- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

- Courts Administrative Service

There are some older, expired contracts which mention Solarwinds:

- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

- Office of the Auditor General of Canada

- Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions of Canada

- Fisheries and Oceans Canada

- National Defence

https://search.open.canada.ca/en/ct/?sort=contract_date_s%20desc&page=1&search_text=solarwinds

Ironically there is a Solarwinds MSP office in Ottawa too.

https://www.solarwindsmsp.com/contact

Would post screencaps but they're not uploading kek.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041490 (152118ZDEC20) Notable: The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic (GUN GRAB)

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The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic (GUN GRAB)

Joe Biden knows that gun violence is a public health epidemic. Almost 40,000 people die as a result of firearm injuries every year in the United States, and many more are wounded. Some of these deaths and injuries are the result of mass shootings that make national headlines. Others are the result of daily acts of gun violence or suicides that may not make national headlines, but are just as devastating to the families and communities left behind.

Joe Biden has taken on the National Rifle Association (NRA) on the national stage and won – twice. In 1993, he shepherded through Congress the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established the background check system that has since kept more than 3 million firearms out of dangerous hands. In 1994, Biden – along with Senator Dianne Feinstein – secured the passage of 10-year bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. As president, Joe Biden will defeat the NRA again.

Joe Biden also knows how to make progress on reducing gun violence using executive action. After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, President Obama tasked Vice President Biden with developing both legislative proposals and executive actions to make our communities safer. As a result of this effort, the Obama-Biden Administration took more than two dozen actions, including narrowing the so-called “gun show loophole,” increasing the number of records in the background check system, and expanding funding for mental health services.

It’s within our grasp to end our gun violence epidemic and respect the Second Amendment, which is limited. As president, Biden will pursue constitutional, common-sense gun safety policies. Biden will:

Hold gun manufacturers accountable. In 2005, then-Senator Biden voted against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, but gun manufacturers successfully lobbied Congress to secure its passage. This law protects these manufacturers from being held civilly liable for their products – a protection granted to no other industry. Biden will prioritize repealing this protection.

Get weapons of war off our streets. The bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that Biden, along with Senator Feinstein, secured in 1994 reduced the lethality of mass shootings. But, in order to secure the passage of the bans, they had to agree to a 10-year sunset provision and when the time came, the Bush Administration failed to extend them. As president, Biden will:

Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Federal law prevents hunters from hunting migratory game birds with more than three shells in their shotgun. That means our federal law does more to protect ducks than children. It’s wrong. Joe Biden will enact legislation to once again ban assault weapons. This time, the bans will be designed based on lessons learned from the 1994 bans. For example, the ban on assault weapons will be designed to prevent manufacturers from circumventing the law by making minor changes that don’t limit the weapon’s lethality. While working to pass this legislation, Biden will also use his executive authority to ban the importation of assault weapons.

More

https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041507 (152119ZDEC20) Notable: Interview with Overstock Founder Patrick Byrne on Bribing Hillary Clinton 3pm EST

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>>161485

this was live streamed bout 80 minutes ago.

Interview with Overstock Founder Patrick Byrne on Bribing Hillary Clinton 3pm EST12/15/20

https://youtu.be/HJ_e5HJNbL0

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041547 (152123ZDEC20) Notable: How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune

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How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune

Jul 19, 2019

William Barr made his name serving as attorney general for two presidents, George H. W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. But he made his fortune out of office, collecting more than $50 million in compensation as an executive and director for some of America’s largest companies.

Today Barr, who did not comment for this story, has an estimated net worth of $40 million, after accounting for taxes, personal spending and modest investment returns. That figure is more precise than what’s on Barr’s public financial disclosure report, a document that deals only in broad ranges and shows assets worth somewhere between $24 million and $74 million.

The money started piling up around 1993, when Bush left the White House and Barr reentered the private sector. The next year, Barr became general counsel at telephone giant GTE Corporation. When GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon in 2000, Barr stayed onboard as executive vice president and general counsel. From 2001 to 2007, he raked in an average of $1.7 million in annual salary and bonuses, according to documents filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Barr also received valuable stock options, some of which he traded while at the company, collecting an estimated $3 million after taxes from 2003 to 2007.

Barr’s $40 Million Fortune

The attorney general piled up tens of millions in the private sector.

The Verizon job came with other benefits. Barr got a $31,000 flexible spending allowance, $10,000 or so for financial planning, plus use of the company jet for personal purposes. The biggest benefit, however, came upon retirement. Barr stepped down from the company at the end of 2008, receiving a $17.1 million distribution from Verizon’s income deferral plan, according to an SEC filing. On top of that, company documents also detail an additional $10.4 million separation payment for Barr.

At the time, the global economy was in a tailspin. Corporate pay was under close scrutiny, and Barr’s exit package made for an easy target. An independent research firm named the Corporate Library graded Verizon with a “D,” noting “high governance risk” and “very high concern” in executive pay. In a filing, Verizon specifically pointed to Barr’s pay package in connection with the assessment.

Retiring did not mean Barr was done working. The year after he left Verizon, he joined the boards of two publicly traded companies, Dominion Resources and Time Warner. From 2009 to 2018, Dominion paid Barr $1.2 million in cash and granted him another $1.1 million in stock awards, according to SEC filings.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/07/19/how-attorney-general-bill-barr-built-a-40-million-fortune/?sh=5b38860e4f3a

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041578 (152127ZDEC20) Notable: Veritas has obtained never before heard audio recordings between the State Department & Julian Assange.

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Interdasting.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1338958368497684481

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041596 (152129ZDEC20) Notable: Veritas has obtained never before heard audio recordings between the State Department & Julian Assange.

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>>161498

Notable Veritas Assange leak tomorrow.

Veritas has obtained never before heard audio recordings between the State Department & Julian Assange.

A fascinating look into the relationship between the US Government &

@wikileaks

.

We publish tomorrow, on the heels of Assange’s request of a Pardon from

@realDonaldTrump

.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041600 (152129ZDEC20) Notable: Houston Police Capt. Arrested For Holding Repairman At Gunpoint In Bogus Voter-Fraud Conspiracy

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>Kim Ogg

Soros DA:

"Soros-backed DAs across the country have been causing chaos by subverting law and order, allowing rioters to walk free after destroying property or injuring American citizens.

Gonzales, per reporting from the San Antonio Express-News, was backed by the Texas Justice & Safety political committee. According to Transparency USA, Soros has dropped $3.6 million into the PAC dating back to 2017.

In addition to Gonzales in Bexar County, the Soros-affiliated organization spent over half a million backing Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg in 2016. Harris County is at the center of one of the most aggressive pushes to undermine Texas election law during the 2020 election."

https://texasscorecard.com/commentary/greer-soros-messing-with-texas-elections/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041611 (152130ZDEC20) Notable: GCHQ spies probe whether Russian hackers stole UK government secrets after months-long cyber attack on US agencies using the same SolarWinds security software

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GCHQ spies probe whether Russian hackers stole UK government secrets after months-long cyber attack on US agencies using the same SolarWinds security software

National Cyber Security Centre assessing impact of US hacking incident on UK

Hackers believed to be Russian targeted hugely popular software SolarWinds

Global firm SolarWinds reportedly used by Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office, GCHQ and other government branches as well as all five branches of US military

Sophisticated campaign targeted US Treasury and Commerce Departments but impact and reach of the hackers is still being investigated by Homeland Security

British security services are investigating whether Russian hackers stole UK government secrets following extensive cyber attacks on US agencies which used the same security software.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating what was described as a large-scale penetration of US government agencies.

The attack has been apparently linked to the same months-long cyberespionage campaign that also afflicted the prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye.

SolarWinds software is used by government departments including GCHQ, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice, according to the Telegraph.

The hacks were revealed less than a week after FireEye disclosed that foreign government hackers had broken into its network and stolen the company's own hacking tools.

Many experts suspect Russia is responsible. FireEye's customers include federal, state and local governments and top global corporations.

Now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, which forms part of GCHQ, has confirmed it is looking into whether the hackers targeted UK agencies.

A spokesman for the NCSC told MailOnline: 'The NCSC is working closely with FireEye and international partners on this incident.

'Investigations are ongoing, and we are working extensively with partners and stakeholders to assess any UK impact.

'The NCSC recommends that organisations read FireEye's update on their investigation and follow the company's suggested security mitigations.'

SolarWinds is used by hundreds of thousands of organisations globally.

This includes most Fortune 500 companies and multiple US federal agencies who will now be scrambling to patch up their networks, said Mr Alperovitch, the former chief technical officer of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

FireEye said in a blog post that its investigation into the hack of its own network had identified 'a global campaign' targeting governments and the private sector that, beginning in the spring, slipped malware into a SolarWinds software update.

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http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/12/gchq-spies-probe-whether-russian.html

It was China using Israeli technology but Russia Russia Russia

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041622 (152131ZDEC20) Notable: JP Morgan taking a page out of Goldman’s book

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JP Morgan taking a page out of Goldman’s book

Well, it looks like JPM is taking a page out of the Goldman Sachs book, and are currently pushing an absolute dog shit structured product. It’s essentially a CDO made up of 3 ARK funds, leveraged 1.5x. It is a note, but yet there is no dividend, or coupon payment. Your only payout is principal plus the risk-adjusted return of the lowest performing ARK fund in the set of the 3. They’re only offering about $500,000 in total, which makes me wonder what’s the point? It’s probably some CPS (Cross Product Sales) asshole trying to get a Christmas bonus.

I always thought JPM was the moral, sophisticated older brother of the big banks. Anyway, the full prospectus is down below.

www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001665650/000121390020041505/s129095_424b2.htm

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/jp-morgan-taking-a-page-out-of-goldmans-book/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041626 (152132ZDEC20) Notable: @USNavy TWEETS, 'Not on our watch!'

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@USNavy

Not on our watch!

#ICYMI: In just one week, #USSGabrielleGiffords and our @USCG

partners seized over 3000 Kg in narcotics worth an estimated 17 million dollars while operating in @NAVSOUS4THFLT.

STORIES:

Dec.2) https://go.usa.gov/xACQj

Dec.5) https://go.usa.gov/xACQW

https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1338951972318294017

4:00 PM · Dec 15, 2020

>17 million

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041637 (152133ZDEC20) Notable: Pelosi will require House members to wear masks to be recognized

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Tuesday said masks would be a requirement for members in the chamber as the number of coronavirus cases – and related deaths – rise throughout the U.S.

On the House floor, the speaker said members would not be recognized if they were not properly wearing their face coverings – and recognition would be withdrawn if masks were removed while a lawmaker was speaking, according to the official Twitter account of the chamber.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-require-house-members-masks

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041664 (152134ZDEC20) Notable: Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief

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>>161503

interesting

Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief; doesn’t tell Gantz

The nominee, identified only by the Hebrew initial ‘Dalet,’ will take over as spymaster for the PM’s confidant Yossi Cohen if approved

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-taps-deputy-mossad-head-as-spy-agencys-next-chief/

Gantz selects replacement to chair powerful Knesset defense panel

Defense minister chooses MK Eitan Ginzburg to take over as head of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee after saying he’ll remove MK Zvi Hauser for defecting to another party

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-selects-replacement-to-chair-powerful-knesset-defense-panel/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041676 (152136ZDEC20) Notable: Joe Biden Is Packing His Administration With Money Printers

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Joe Biden Is Packing His Administration With Money Printers

Well, I was wrong.

I had previously written that the election was in the courts and that based on legal precedent, the courts would give President Trump a second term.

The Supreme Court put that notion to rest late on Friday night when it rejected to even hear the case brought by Texas and 18 other states.

It’s pretty staggering if you think about it.

There are sworn affidavits from thousands of poll workers swearing to witnessing fraud. There are vote audits that have turned up fraud. There is statistical analysis that shows fraud. There is historical precedent concerning how key counties and states determine election outcomes that show fraud.

And yet the courts have all either refused to accept any of this evidence… OR refused to even listen to the cases. It’s pretty incredible when you consider just how many ridiculous lawsuits and court cases are heard at all levels of the judiciary, even the Supreme Court.

There are still several cases outstanding as well as political avenues through which President Trump could secure a second term, but those are all EXTREME and likely not worth delving into at this point.

At the end of the day, I was wrong.

I am not in the business of pretending to be psychic, nor do I care for those analysts and pundits who make predictions that don’t prove correct and who then pretend they never made said predictions.

I predicted President Trump would win a second term in the courts. I was wrong. The end.

What matters to us as investors now is how a Biden administration will impact the markets. And by the look of things, the markets love the idea that Biden will packing the Fed and the Treasury with money printers.

The US was already on a trajectory towards hot inflation BEFORE Joe Biden won the election and started enlisting money printers like Janet Yellen to run key positions in his cabinet. Now that we DO have a Biden administration and it is packed with money printers, it’s not a question of IF we get HOT inflation, but WHEN.

On that note, the $USD has continued to break down in a big way. As I write this, it’s dropping like a stone, again. We are now coming up on MAJOR support in the large consolidation pattern that the $USD has been following since 2015.

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https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/joe-biden-is-packing-his-administration-with-money-printers/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041702 (152138ZDEC20) Notable: MSNBC’s Dr. Gupta: Just Because You Get Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Should be Traveling or That You’re Liberated From Masks

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MSNBC’s Dr. Gupta: Just Because You Get Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Should be Traveling or That You’re Liberated From Masks

It was never about a virus.

MSNBC’s Dr. Vin Gupta on Tuesday said that just because you’ve been vaccinated doesn’t mean you’re allowed to travel or walk around without a face mask on.

President Trump launched “Operation Warp Speed” earlier this year in an effort to produce a safe and effective Covid vaccine by the end of 2020.

“We’re here to discuss a monumental national achievement. From the instant the coronavirus invaded our shores, we raced into action to develop a safe and effective vaccine at breakneck speed. It would normally take five years, six years, seven years, or even more. In order to achieve this goal, we harnessed the full power of government, the genius of American scientists, and the might of American industry to save millions and millions of lives all over the world. We’re just days away from authorization from the FDA, and we’re pushing them hard, at which point we will immediately begin mass distribution,” Trump said last week at the Operation Warp Speed vaccine Summit.

“Before Operation Warp Speed, the typical timeframe for development and approval, as you know, could be infinity. And we were very, very happy that we were able to get things done at a level that nobody has ever seen before. The gold standard vaccine has been done in less than nine months,” he said.

Pfizer began delivering doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to hospitals this week but MSNBC’s Dr. Vin Gupta said despite vaccination, Americans should not be traveling or abandoning their face masks.

“There’s a source of confusion…one of the misperceptions out there is just because you get vaccinated with that second dose does not mean you should be participating in things like traveling in an out-of-control pandemic or that you’re liberated from masks,” Dr. Gupta said. “Everything applies until all of us get the two dose regimen and we don’t think that’s gonna happen until June or July.”

“We don’t know if vaccination prevents serious illness or does it also prevent you from getting infection entirely?”

The “out-of-control pandemic” Gupta is referring to has a 99.9998% survival rate for most people.

Video in link

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/msnbcs-dr-gupta-just-get-vaccinated-doesnt-mean-traveling-liberated-masks-video/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041703 (152138ZDEC20) Notable: colorado live session on election

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colorado live session on election

their Sof S said they use PRO VV FOR VALIDATING THEIR ELECTION

https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/voting-system-test-laboratories-vstl/pro-vv

ISN'T that what Georgia used too?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041771 (152146ZDEC20) Notable: Veritas has obtained never before heard audio recordings between the State Department & Julian Assange.

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>>161511

Is it going to be more from this call?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041782 (152147ZDEC20) Notable: colorado live session on election

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>https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/voting-system-test-laboratories-vstl/pro-vv

>>161510

>https://www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/voting-system-test-laboratories-vstl/pro-vv

Pro V&V

700 Boulevard South , Suite 102

Huntsville, Alabama 35802

Status: Accredited

Program Manager: , President

Phone: 256-713-1111

Related Documents

02/24/2015 - Certificate of Accreditation

08/02/2015 - Pro V&V Letter of Agreement

08/02/2012 - NIST Recommendation Letter - Pro V&V

08/02/2012 - Pro V&V Certification of Conditions and Practices

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041791 (152148ZDEC20) Notable: Exposed: Chinese Psyops Against America – One Hell Of A Success

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The list goes on. Ex-Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, a former Senator from Maine and a model of “Down East” sensibility, runs a consulting firm pushing business with the PRC. He just hired another ex-Defense Secretary, retired Marine General James Mattis. Say it ain’t so. “About those Chinese concentration camps and PLA threats to kill American servicemen by the thousands, General?

”https://andmagazine.com/talk/2020/12/15/exposed-chinese-psyops-against-america-one-hell-of-a-success/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041796 (152149ZDEC20) Notable: Epoch Times: Support for Insurrection Act Grows

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Epoch Times: Support for Insurrection Act Grows

The 2020 presidential election is unlike any that came before and requires unprecedented measures to protect it, our republic, and our future.

Both the degree and the scale of voter fraud were unprecedented. In swing states, President Donald Trump had large leads on election night. Then, late that night, counting was stopped and election observers were ushered out. And then, huge, statistically impossible vote dumps occurred, giving Joe Biden the lead.

This pattern, which occurred only in the states where Biden needed to reverse the results in order to win, and which hadn’t occurred in previous elections, points to a coordinated effort to steal the election.

This effort likely involved manipulation of the vote by Dominion Voting Systems. According to a forensic audit of its machines and software in Michigan, ”the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”

In addition, a thousand sworn affidavits by election observers and others now attest to various forms of illegal ballot harvesting and election irregularities.

There are reports—not yet confirmed—that foreign influence helped to undermine our election.

Trump has said our election system was the focus of a “coordinated assault and siege.”

As a consequence, our form of government is at risk. If an election can be won through such dishonest means as were used in 2020, then one can expect the next election to be won in the same manner. The American people will effectively lose their right to vote.

If there was a coordinated effort to steal the election, those actions amount to subversion.

In addition, if the United States in effect has one-party rule, then legal changes may fundamentally alter our system.

The Democrats have spoken of ending the Electoral College—assuring that the predominantly Democratic big cities will elect the president—and packing the Supreme Court, to ensure that Democratic-appointed judges have the majority.

But as serious as these threats to our republic are, they don’t get to the heart of what is at stake.

At its root, the current danger is not about whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump wins. It is not about the Democratic or Republican parties.

The United States is facing an evil force that wants to destroy our country and in fact destroy all good things in humanity.

This election is the climax of the battle between freedom and communism, between good and evil.

With the fall of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, people in the United States and around the world relaxed, thinking the communist threat had ended. But communism has never slept. Globalization strengthened it and weakened the United States.

Good and evil cannot compromise. They are like fire and ice. Giving in to evil only encourages it. A victory for communism in this election would result in a defeat for freedom everywhere. Humanity would be plunged into a long, dark night.

On Dec. 5 in Georgia, Trump said of those who want to steal the election, “These people want to go further than socialism, they want to go into a communistic form of government, and I have no doubt about it.”

How will the United States be defended? Local officials are often those most complicit in the corruption of the election. Judges, because of the doctrine of separation of powers, are often reluctant to tell states how to run their elections. The U.S. Congress has no role unless the Electoral College fails to deliver a winner.

Trump’s destiny is to fill the breach. He has taken an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, and he has the presidential powers to do so.

Trump should use those powers as president to safeguard the future of our republic and arrest those who have conspired to deprive people of their rights through election fraud. The Insurrection Act enables Trump to use the military to seize the key electoral evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate accounting of the vote.

Our system is in crisis. Trump would act to restore the rule of law.

Through opening the books, honesty can defeat fraud. The wishes of the majority of the people will be realized and communism defeated.

https://archive.vn/i5tTc#selection-1121.0-1225.134

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041810 (152150ZDEC20) Notable: Andy Ngo TWEETS

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A Portland restaurant owner critical of antifa’s mass vandalism on Sandy Blvd. had his business burned down shortly after making the comments. Now investigators are saying the fire was an arson attack. This is the surveillance video:

>Just an idea, mates.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1338962377996382208?s=20

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041822 (152151ZDEC20) Notable: #15372

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>>161471 Joe Biden Warned In 2015 That Son Hunter's New Employer And Burisma Boss Was Corrupt

>>161472 China accuses Australia of playing the victim and politicising trade, says coal ban is 'responsible act'

>>161473 FBI abruptly cancelled congressional briefing about Swalwell.

>>161474 New Zealand offers to mediate truce between Australia and China

>>161475 Pro-Trump Australian MP Releases Plea for Julian Assange to Be Pardoned, Says Only Trump Can Protect Free Speech From the Democrats

>>161476 Peace on Earth and mercy mild: #Syria’s Christians gear up for #Christmas holiday

>>161477 Georgia Sheriffs Condemn Democrat Police Reform as ‘Crazy Talk’: ‘The Country Will Be Less Safe’

>>161478 ,WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

>>161479 Cryptocurrency Firm Co-Founder Sentenced in Celeb-Touted Scam

>>161480 , >>161500 Houston Police Capt. Arrested For Holding Repairman At Gunpoint In Bogus Voter-Fraud Conspiracy

>>161481 Cancers, strokes, birth deformities: Iraq reportedly plans to sue US over depleted uranium use

>>161482 George Soros and Charles Koch collaborated on a U.S.-bashing think tank?

>>161483 Dominion CEO John Poulos Says Dominion Not Linked to SolarWinds Orion – Denies that Votes were Sent Off-Site to be Manipulated

>>161484 Major news networks go silent on sexual harassment allegations against liberal darling Gov. Andrew Cuomo

>>161485 Maricopa County To Conduct Full Forensic Audit On Dominion Voting Machines

>>161486 Military origins of 'alien-like hexagon' shape spotted on #Australia's coast revealed

>>161487 Joseph R. Biden @JoeBiden has been declared the winner of the US presidential election. Congratulations from Vladimir Putin

>>161488 'Dueling' Electors, 'Hanging Chads': a History of Contested U.S. Elections

>>161489 Special Counsel John Durham EXPANDS Team Of Prosecutors

>>161490 CodeMonkey Tweet, 'Dominion deleted the reference and link to "SolarWinds" from their website, but we have the archive still.'

>>161491 We out here, Planefaggin'

>>161492 Canadian government also uses Solarwinds; Solarwinds Managed Service Provider (MSP) office in Ottawa, Canada?

>>161493 Vladimir Putin sent a message to Biden congratulation him on his 'victory'

>>161494 The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic (GUN GRAB)

>>161495 Interview with Overstock Founder Patrick Byrne on Bribing Hillary Clinton 3pm EST

>>161496 Brazil's Bolsonaro congratulates Biden on election victory

>>161497 How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune

>>161498 , >>161499 , >>161511 , >>161512 Veritas has obtained never before heard audio recordings between the State Department & Julian Assange.

>>161501 GCHQ spies probe whether Russian hackers stole UK government secrets after months-long cyber attack on US agencies using the same SolarWinds security software

>>161502 JP Morgan taking a page out of Goldman’s book

>>161503 Head of the #Israel Security Agency will enter isolation after being exposed to a #coronavirus patient in his office.

>>161504 @USNavy TWEETS, 'Not on our watch!'

>>161505 Pelosi will require House members to wear masks to be recognized

>>161506 Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief

>>161507 Joe Biden Is Packing His Administration With Money Printers

>>161508 Have Anons seen this sort of message about 'community experience' on the comment sections of news sites?

>>161509 MSNBC’s Dr. Gupta: Just Because You Get Vaccinated Doesn’t Mean You Should be Traveling or That You’re Liberated From Masks

>>161510 , >>161513 colorado live session on election

>>161514 Exposed: Chinese Psyops Against America – One Hell Of A Success

>>161515 Epoch Times: Support for Insurrection Act Grows

>>161516 Andy Ngo TWEETS

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041853 (152154ZDEC20) Notable: Joe Biden Holds Parking Lot Rally for Ossoff and Warnock at Empty Wearhouse — Photos — WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE? This Guy Got 81 Million Votes?

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Joe Biden Holds Parking Lot Rally for Ossoff and Warnock at Empty Wearhouse — Photos — WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE? This Guy Got 81 Million Votes?

Joe Biden, the most popular and charismatic Democrat in world history, is holding a parking lot rally for Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon.

Here is Pratt Pullman Yards in Atlanta where the rally is being held today.

It looks like a condemned building.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/joe-biden-holds-parking-lot-rally-ossoff-warnock-empty-wearhouse-photos-people-guy-got-81-million-votes/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041889 (152159ZDEC20) Notable: Mostly Empty Biden rally. (Faceberg Link)

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Mostly Empty Biden rally.

Can't upload pics.

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error: Internal Server Error)

https://www.facebook.com/NMArchibong/videos/222918639286126/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041892 (152159ZDEC20) Notable: Colorado live session, witness trying to justify why Judicial Watch found more active voters than registered voters or people living in the county.

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Colorado live session

witness trying to justify why Judicial Watch found more active voters than registered voters or people living in the county.

5- 6 counties.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041894 (152159ZDEC20) Notable: Mark Serrano Mad At Newsmax

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Dump Newsmax

https://twitter.com/MarkVSerrano/status/1338831030850117640

https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041931 (152204ZDEC20) Notable: HUGE: Veritas To Release Audio Recordings Between The State Department & Julian Assange 12/16/2020

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HUGE: Veritas To Release Audio Recordings Between The State Department & Julian Assange 12/16/2020

https://youtu.be/spd1hzHAiwY

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041966 (152209ZDEC20) Notable: Ghislaine Maxwell’s security fears she may suffer same fate as Princess Diana

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s security fears she may suffer same fate as Princess Diana

https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/ghislaine-maxwells-security-compares-her-to-princess-diana/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

But D was an accident right

?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041980 (152211ZDEC20) Notable: FDA approved its first GM pig for consumption, potentially safe for red meat allergy sufferers

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Critics say the agency failed to adequately scrutinize whether the pork will cause allergic reactions, or the environmental consequences of a GM pig escape.

Commins, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, is one of the nation’s foremost researchers specializing in alpha-gal syndrome, the term for an increasingly common allergy to meat and animal products. Named after the specific sugar that triggers allergic reactions, alpha-gal syndrome is widely believed to be caused by tick bites that introduce the offending molecules into the bloodstream, according to the CDC. In turn, consumption of red meat, which also contains alpha-gal, can then trigger subsequent allergic reactions, ranging in severity from hives to difficulty breathing.

But it may be wise to not count our pork chops before they’re plated. FDA’s approval only covers a single hog farm in Iowa with the capacity to produce 1,000 “GalSafe” pigs per year. In addition, it appears that the nutritional element of this approval may be ancillary to the medical possibilities at hand. Revivicor, the company that applied for FDA’s green light, is a developer of pig-based organs for use in human medicine, and yesterday’s approval is the first step in its efforts to develop heart and kidneys that can be transplanted in people.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12041994 (152212ZDEC20) Notable: Meet the Dangerous QAnon Figure Doing Whatever It Takes to Win Trump's Approval

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QANON IS BAD M'KAY!

As the administrator of 8kun — previously known as 8chan — Watkins is seen by many experts as being instrumental in the perpetuation of the QAnon cult, a movement that has destroyed families and led to real-world violence, including murder.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wqm7/ron-watkins-meet-the-dangerous-qanon-figure-doing-whatever-it-takes-to-win-trumps-approval

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042034 (152217ZDEC20) Notable: We out here, Planefaggin'

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Any eyes on a Pave Low looking chopper flying south a few miles west of Richmond, VA?

It appeared to be just a few hundred feet up (shook my entire house) and I swear I saw guys hanging off either side.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042038 (152218ZDEC20) Notable: Vatican’s Nativity Scene Blasted As ‘Hideous’, Postmodern, ‘Demonic

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Vatican’s Nativity Scene Blasted As ‘Hideous’, Postmodern, ‘Demonic

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/vatican-nativity-scene-hideous-demonic/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042111 (152223ZDEC20) Notable: The Small World of Voting Machine Certification

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https://themarketswork.com/2020/11/20/the-small-world-of-voting-machine-certification/

This article is part of ongoing series at The Epoch Times.

The Small World of Voting Machine Certification

November 20, 2020 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

An understaffed tiny federal agency and 2 private testing labs responsible for certification of nation’s voting systems

The fallout of the Nov. 3 elections has put the spotlight on the integrity of electronic voting machines used in the United States. In response, authorities have pointed to certifications of the machines as a safeguard against potential systemic problems with the voting machines and their software.

A deeper look into the certification process used for the machines, however, reveals that the main certification agency in the United States, the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), maintains an unexpectedly small staff, and one of its chief employees is a former executive of Dominion Voting Systems.

Furthermore it appears the bulk—if not all—of the testing of the election equipment is conducted by only two companies, Pro V&V and SLI Compliance.

Electronic voting systems have become increasingly incorporated into the election process, raising concerns over their security, reliability, and accuracy in the process. Lightly-staffed federal agencies who appear to maintain overly close ties to the companies they are supposed to be monitoring raises additional questions about the thoroughness and integrity of the verification process.

Dominion Executive Joins Federal Certification Commission

Kathy Boockvar, just two weeks after she was appointed as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth, concluded in a Jan. 17, 2019 report (pdf) that Dominion’s “Democracy Suite 5.5A” voting machine “can be safely used by voters at elections,” and certified the Dominion voting systems in Pennsylvania.

Representing Dominion in that process was Jessica Bowers, director of certification for Dominion. In addition to Pennsylvania, Bowers appears to have been responsible for the implementation of Dominion Systems into a number of other states, including California, Colorado, Nevada, and Tennessee.

However, after enjoying a 10-year career at Dominion, Bowers would find her way into a new career path at the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

The EAC, which describes itself as “an independent bipartisan commission,” is responsible for adopting voluntary voting system guidelines and provides for the accreditation of manufacturers’ voting systems and voting system testing laboratories.

In May 2019, just as the agency was preparing for the 2020 election, it announced the departure of Ryan Macias, who had served as EAC’s acting director of testing and certification.

Macias’s position was an important one as he was responsible for managing EAC’s program that “works with the country’s top voting equipment vendors to certify and decertify voting system hardware and software, and accredits labs for testing equipment,” according to the website CyberScoop. Additionally, Macias had been overseeing an “important update to voting system security guidelines.”

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042136 (152225ZDEC20) Notable: The Small World of Voting Machine Certification

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On May 9, 2019, the EAC announced that they had selected Jerome Lovato, who had worked at the EAC since September 2017, to replace Macias. The resignation of Macias and the subsequent appointment of Lovato raised some concerns in Congress, as noted in a letter sent to the EAC by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.).

“Following the resignation of Ryan Macias, public reporting indicates that the EAC now employs only one full-time staff member dedicated to overseeing the certification process. While we understand that the Commission may be working to hire additional staff, we are concerned by the sudden appointment of Jerome Lovato to be the Director of Testing and Certification especially as reports indicating that Mr. Lovato will be working remotely, more than a thousand miles from EAC headquarters. As states continue to update their election equipment and vendors develop new machines, it is essential that Testing and Certification at the EAC be fully operational,” the senators wrote in their letter.

“Given the length of time the certification process can take, we are concerned that the EAC will not be able to certify the machines that states intend to use as part of their modernization efforts ahead of the 2020 elections.”

The concern over the EAC having only “one full-time staff member dedicated to overseeing the certification process” seems understandable given the potential importance of that duty. The senators asked the EAC what actions they would be taking to shore up personnel in front of the 2020 election.

That question was answered on May 21, 2019 with the announcement that the EAC was adding two individuals to its voting certification program—Jessica Bowers,recently the director of certification for Dominion and a 10-year veteran with the firm, andPaul Aumayr, a former Maryland election official.

An article describing the new hires noted “It was not immediately clear how the EAC might mitigate any potential conflicts of interest that could arise with hiring Bowers, the former director of certification at Dominion Voting Systems, onto the EAC program.”

The EAC website describes Bowers as managing “voting system testing and certification projects as well as assisting the development of new Voluntary Voting System Guidelines” but fails to disclose any direct mention of her role at Dominion Voting Systems.

“Prior to joining the EAC, she was the Director of Certification for a voting system manufacturer and has worked in the election industry in software development and certification since 2008,” the website states.

Under EAC Staff Members, Bowers is listed as Acting CIO/CISO, while Aumayr is listed as Senior Election Technology Specialist. Despite the important role the EAC plays in election integrity, they list only a total of 23 staff members, five executives (of which Lovato is one), and four commissioners. The EAC does have a large Board of Advisors comprised of 37 individuals.

Both Bowers and Aumayr appear to have hit the ground running as a July 9, 2019 update from the EAC Testing and Certification blog lists Aumayr as the Project Manager for Dominion Voting Systems’ “Democracy Suite 5.5B” and Clear Ballot’s “ClearVote 2.0” while Bowers is listed as the Project Manager for Election Systems & Software’s (ES&S) “EVS 6.1.0.0” and Unisyn Voting Solutions’ “OpenElect 2.1.”

All four of these companies are members of CISA’s Sector Coordinating Council, one of two councils that issued a recent Nov. 12 joint statement on the election, claiming it was the “most secure in American history.”

Only 2 Certified Testers of Election Equipment

==On the EAC website, there are seven Voting System Test Laboratories (VSTL) listed. However, only two of these testing labs, Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, are listed on the page as accredited, as the others are listed as having their accreditation expired.

From early 2017 on, these two companies are the only testing labs to have provided voting system certification according to a listing of certifications by the EAC.

For one of the two companies used, Pro V&V, the EAC fails to publicly provide the accreditation certificate on its website, instead linking to a page giving a “page could not be found” warning.

The latest certificate listed for Pro V&V on the company’s profile overview on the EAC website has an issue date of Feb. 24, 2015 and is effective through Feb. 24, 2017. It is unclear if the company’s accreditation is truly expired or if the fault lies with the EAC website.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042185 (152228ZDEC20) Notable: The Small World of Voting Machine Certification

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Despite being responsible for the testing and data used in the certification of entire voting systems, including that of Dominion’s recently certified“Democracy Suite (D-Suite) 5.5-C Voting System (Pro V&V Test Report June 16, 2020),while simultaneously providing system testing across the nation, Pro V&V has only a single office listed, located in a business suite, that is supported by a surprisingly crude and sparse website.

The website description of Pro V&V’s facilities omits the “Suite” portion of their address while claiming their “office and laboratory layouts allow ample space for test equipment, software, and hardware used in the testing process.” Their site also claims they have the option of expanding into additional space within the same complex.

Pro V&V, like Dominion Voting and Smartmatic, is a member of CISA’s Sector Coordinating Council, the same council that recently issued the joint statement on the 2020 presidential election. The other primary testing lab, SLI Compliance, is also a member of the same council.

In response to recent allegations of potential problems with the integrity of Dominion’s voting machines used in the Nov. 3 election, Pro V&V has been repeatedly cited as an authority in denying these allegations, including the recount in Georgia.

The Georgia Case

In July 2019, despite existing legal challenges, Georgia purchased a $106 million election system from Dominion Voting Systems. In a lawsuit, which originated in 2017, critics contended that the new system was subject to many of the same security vulnerabilities as the one it was replacing.

The issue most recently came to a head after credible accusations emerged of problems with voting machines.

Sworn affidavits, filed as part of an emergency motion on Nov. 17, detail allegations by poll observers of potential election fraud. Among other things, the poll workers recounted similar instances of pristine ballots that had similar characteristics: “They were all for Biden and had the same perfect black bubble.”

However, on that same day, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a statement announcing the completion of the state’s voting machine audit which claimed “Pro V&V found no evidence of the machines being tampered.”

The statement was widely cited by media organizations and others as evidence that claims of problems with voting machines in Georgia were meritless.

A closer examination of the statement, however, indicates that the only thing Pro V&V did was extract “the software or firmware from the components to check that the only software or firmware on the components was certified for use by the Secretary of State’s office.” The headline of the release appears to have been more important than the scope of the actual functions performed by Pro V&V.

Earlier this year, in an Aug. 24 sworn declaration,Harri Hursti, an acknowledged expert on electronic voting security, provided a first-hand description of problems he observed with Georgia’s new voting systems during the June 9 statewide primary election and the runoff elections on Aug. 11.

Hursti told the court of a series of problems, including the fact that “the scanner and tabulation software settings being employed to determine which votes to count on hand marked paper ballots are likely causing clearly intentioned votes not to be counted.”

Hursti also said that “the voting system is being operated in Fulton County in a manner that escalates the security risk to an extreme level.” And that “voters are not reviewing their BMD [Ballot Marking Devices] printed ballots, which causes BMD generated results to be un-auditable due to the untrustworthy audit trail.”

Separately, during pre-election testing of Dominion’s voting systems in Georgia in late September, election officials discovered a problem with the display for the U.S. Senate race, finding that under certain circumstances, not all of the candidates’ names fit on a single screen.

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Lawyers for Dominion called the problem a “very minor issue” easily fixed with changes to the software. Lawyers for “voting integrity activists,” already involved in lawsuits over Georgia’s new Dominion System, voiced concerns over “the severity of the problem and the security of a last-minute fix.”

Dominion submitted the software fix to Pro V&V, for evaluation. Notably, Pro V&V had just recently provided certification testing for Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.5-C on April 20, 2020 and June 16, 2020 leading to the July 9, 2020 EAC Certification but had not caught the software problem at the time.

On Oct. 1, a Zoom court hearing took place and a transcript of that hearing was made. During the call, Dr. Coomer from Dominion came into the Zoom meeting. Although no first name was provided, it appears to refer to Dr. Eric Coomer, director of Product Strategy and Security for Dominion Voting Systems.

Coomer told the Court it was his belief the software change “was de minimis,” but stated that Dominion did not make that determination but instead “submit that change to an accredited laboratory, in this case Pro V&V. They analyze the change. They look at the code. And they determine whether it is de minimis or not.”

Later during the hearing,Coomer was asked if he knew whom at Pro V&V was performing the software testing. Coomer said he did not and noted “I don’t know the makeup of Pro V&V’s employees.”

This statement from Coomer strikes as somewhat odd given that only three employees of Pro V&V have been located in reviewed documents; Jack Cobb, Michael Walker, and Wendy Owens. It was Owens and Walker who performed the Nov. 26, 2019 Testing for the Certification of Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite 5.5-A and it was these same two individuals who provided the April 13, 2020 and June 16, 2020 Testing of Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.5-C. Additionally, Pro V&V and Dominion are both members of the same CISA council.

Indeed, on Oct. 2, 2020, a letter from Wendy Owens of Pro V&V was sent confirming “that this version of the ICX software corrected the issue with displaying of two column contests.” The letter concluded with a recommendation from Pro V&V that the software change to Dominion’s systems be “deemed as de minimis.”

On Oct. 3, a declaration fromDr. J. Alex Halderman was filed that refuted the procedures of Pro V&V’s testing, noting that the “report makes clear that Pro V&V performed only cursory testing of this new software. The company did not attempt to independently verify the cause of the ballot display problem, nor did it adequately verify that the changes are an effective solution. Pro V&V also appears to have made no effort to test whether the changes create new problems that impact the reliability, accuracy, or security of the BMD system.”

On Oct. 11, Judge Amy Totenberg in the case issued a ruling (pdf) noting that “Despite the profound issues raised by the Plaintiffs, the Court cannot jump off the legal edge and potentially trigger major disruption in the legally established state primary process.”

Although Judge Totenberg ruled to allow the Dominion System to be used in the Nov 3, 2020 election, she voiced real concerns, stating the “risks are neither hypothetical nor remote.”

She also noted thatJack Cobb, the director of Pro V&V,“plainly indicated that he actually claims no specialized knowledge or background in cybersecurity engineering and did not himself perform any security risk analysis of the BMD [Ballot Marking Device] system.” Instead, “State Defendantsrelied on Dr. Coomer’stestimony, to address—based on his professional experience—some of the significant cybersecurity issues raised by Plaintiffs.”

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042257 (152234ZDEC20) Notable: Pentagon imposed emergency shutdown of computer network handling classified material

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Pentagon imposed emergency shutdown of computer network handling classified material

https://justthenews.com/government/security/pentagon-imposed-emergency-shutdown-computer-network-handling-classified

Updated: December 15, 2020 - 4:39pm

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042441 (152247ZDEC20) Notable: GEORGIA SENATE REPUBLICANS / MICHIGAN STATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

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GEORGIA SENATE REPUBLICANS

Demand that they certify Trump electors and require signature verifications in the run-offs AND seek a forensic audit of dominion machines as well as conduct a signature audit of the 2020 election.

john.albers@senate.ga.gov, john.wilkinson@senate.ga.gov, ben.watson@senate.ga.gov, larry.walker@senate.ga.gov, renee.unterman@senate.ga.gov, lindsey.tippins@senate.ga.gov, blake.tillery@senate.ga.gov, bruce.thompson@senate.ga.gov, brian.strickland@senate.ga.gov, emily.doppel@senate.ga.gov, jesse.stone@senate.ga.gov, randy.robertson@senate.ga.gov, chuck.payne@senate.ga.gov, jeff.mullis@senate.ga.gov, butch.miller@senate.ga.gov, p.k.martin@senate.ga.gov, william.ligon@senate.ga.gov, kay.kirkpatrick@senate.ga.gov, greg.kirk@senate.ga.gov, john.kennedy@senate.ga.gov, burt.jones@senate.ga.gov, chuck.hufstetler@senate.ga.gov, jack.hill@senate.ga.gov, billy.hickman@senate.ga.gov, billheath@billheath.net, tyler.harper@senate.ga.gov, marty.harbin@senate.ga.gov, steve.gooch@senate.ga.gov, frank.ginn@senate.ga.gov, mike.dugan@senate.ga.gov, greg.dolezal@senate.ga.gov, bill.cowsert@senate.ga.gov, dean.burke@senate.ga.gov, matt.brass@senate.ga.gov, ellis.black@senate.ga.gov, brandon.beach@senate.ga.gov, lee.anderson@senate.ga.gov

MICHIGAN STATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Demand that they send a subpoena to dominion machines in Wayne county immediately.

GrahamFiller@house.mi.gov, BeauLaFave@house.mi.gov, DianaFarrington@house.mi.gov, GaryHowell@house.mi.gov, StevenJohnson@house.mi.gov, DaireRendon@house.mi.gov, RyanBerman@house.mi.gov

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042477 (152250ZDEC20) Notable: Jeb Bush Faces Cries Of Favoritism In Defense Of Outgoing AG Barr

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Jeb Bush Faces Cries Of Favoritism In Defense Of Outgoing AG Barr

Twice serving as attorney general, Barr handed in his resignation on Monday

During his first tenure, Barr encouraged presidential pardons in the Iran-Contra affair

Barr eventually distanced himself from President Trump on election fraud claims

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was accused of playing family favorites with his praise for outgoing Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in the same role during his father's presidency.

Barr issued a two-page resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Monday, announcing he’d wrap up his remaining obligations and leave the administration on Dec. 23.

Jeb Bush, the younger brother of former President George W. Bush and the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, took to Twitter to praise Barr as a misunderstood leader.

Bill Barr is a man of great integrity. Strangely, it is a good sign to be criticized by progressives if you are protecting executive powers and by the President if you aren’t intervening in the election process. I appreciate his misunderstood leadership.

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 14, 2020

His comment triggered an uproar on Twitter, with commentators noting Barr’s reputation for steadfast loyalty to Trump, particularly in the investigation related to Russian election meddling.

Others argued that Bush’s notion of integrity was skewed given Barr’s role in the first Bush administration. Claims that Barr did favors for the Bush family were among the overwhelming cries of hypocrisy online.

Barr served first as U.S. attorney general in the George H. W. Bush administration. During his tenure, Barr’s Justice Department led a program that gathered vast records of calls made from the U.S. to 116 countries in the early 1990s, an investigation by USA Today found last year.

According to a Justice Department inspector general at the time, the department under Barr “failed to conduct a comprehensive legal analysis” of its authority to compile phone records.

Barr, another user observed, has a reputation as a clean-up man for powerful Republican figures, including former President George H.W. Bush. Those claims eventually earned him the nickname of “Cover-up Attorney General Barr” in Salon magazine.

In the Iran-Contra affair, a scandal that saw former President Ronald Reagan sending military equipment to Iran in violation of an arms embargo to finance rebels in Nicaragua, Barr advised the elder President Bush on issuing pardons to save the late president from testifying in the investigations.

https://www.ibtimes.com/jeb-bush-faces-cries-favoritism-defense-outgoing-ag-barr-3102644

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042503 (152253ZDEC20) Notable: California Covid-19 Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Orders 5,000 Body Bags, Refrigerated Units For Coroners As State Prepares For Surge In Deaths

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California Covid-19 Update: Governor Gavin Newsom Orders 5,000 Body Bags, Refrigerated Units For Coroners As State Prepares For Surge In Deaths

On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom took a victory lap after the arrival of the first 32,000 doses Covid-19 vaccine. “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. But there was a lot of darkness in the numbers later announced.

At his news conference, the governor ran through the distribution of the initial 327,000 doses from Pfizer, 60% of which could be delivered on Tuesday. Newsom announced an additional 393,000 from Pfizer as early as next week. The total number of doses delivered by the end of the year, could rise to 2.1 million, he said.

The first phase of the vaccine rollout will inoculate 3 million mostly frontline healthcare workers.

The second phase will inoculate 8 million others, which could include teachers, farm workers, grocery story workers. The workers included on that list are still being firmed up by a state working group.

The governor reported 32,326 new cases in the state over the past 24 hours. Even more grimly, California had seen 142 deaths. Newsom said that 163 people had been lost to the virus on average over the past 7 days. The all-time high number of deaths related to the virus was the 225 reported on Friday.

“This is not something to be trifled with,” he said. “Think about what the January number may look like if we continue [like this].”

Newsom then announced that the state had activated mutual aid among the state’s coroners. That means if one area’s coroners are overwhelmed, they can call on those from nearby regions for help.

“We have orders for 63 refrigerated units,” he said. “We just had to order 5,000 additional body bags and distribute them down to San Diego, L.A. County.” Newsom said his intention was not to scare Californians, but the gravity of the announcement was hard to ignore.

Asked whether he was concerned about hospitals being driven past their limits Newsom replied, “That is correct.”

“Even if we start seeing the case numbers go down,” said the Governor, “we have the residual, the impact on the hospitals. That’s what we’re concerned about — that long tail — in terms of our planning.”

The state’s director of Health and Human Services, Dr. Mark Ghaly, indicated that the state’s case counts were “15,000 two weeks ago. They’re now 30,000. That should tell you what our hospitals will be facing in the next 2 weeks.” In other words, a doubling of demand.

Ghaly indicated that it would be “45-60 days before our hospital system really sees the kind of relief and return to normal.” That prediction seemed to be predicted, however, on Californians modifying their behavior.

“We have an opportunity in the next few days to stay at home as much as we can,” said Ghaly, “to wear our masks as much as we can. To make different decisions about travel. Especially as we move into the holiday season.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/california-covid-19-governor-gavin-190254284.html

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GEORGIA SENATE REPUBLICANS

We the people hereby demand that 1) you certify Trump electors in the 2020 elections to the U.S. Congress; 2) require signature verifications in the run-offs and hold a special session to address the illegal consent decree and 3) seek a forensic audit of dominion machines and 4) conduct a signature audit of the 2020 election. Without these actions, you risk carelessly disregard clear constitutional rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens by allowing election fraud to be certified in a federal election. Thank you. 

john.albers@senate.ga.gov, john.wilkinson@senate.ga.gov, ben.watson@senate.ga.gov, larry.walker@senate.ga.gov, renee.unterman@senate.ga.gov, lindsey.tippins@senate.ga.gov, blake.tillery@senate.ga.gov, bruce.thompson@senate.ga.gov, brian.strickland@senate.ga.gov, emily.doppel@senate.ga.gov, jesse.stone@senate.ga.gov, randy.robertson@senate.ga.gov, chuck.payne@senate.ga.gov, jeff.mullis@senate.ga.gov, butch.miller@senate.ga.gov, p.k.martin@senate.ga.gov, william.ligon@senate.ga.gov, kay.kirkpatrick@senate.ga.gov, greg.kirk@senate.ga.gov, john.kennedy@senate.ga.gov, burt.jones@senate.ga.gov, chuck.hufstetler@senate.ga.gov, jack.hill@senate.ga.gov, billy.hickman@senate.ga.gov, billheath@billheath.net, tyler.harper@senate.ga.gov, marty.harbin@senate.ga.gov, steve.gooch@senate.ga.gov, frank.ginn@senate.ga.gov, mike.dugan@senate.ga.gov, greg.dolezal@senate.ga.gov, bill.cowsert@senate.ga.gov, dean.burke@senate.ga.gov, matt.brass@senate.ga.gov, ellis.black@senate.ga.gov, brandon.beach@senate.ga.gov, lee.anderson@senate.ga.gov

MICHIGAN STATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

We the people hereby demand that you send a subpoena to dominion machines in Wayne county immediately and 2) support the certification of Trump electors in Michigan and 3) investigate state police for refusing Trump electors access to public property in the State of Michigan under color of state law. Thank you.

GrahamFiller@house.mi.gov, BeauLaFave@house.mi.gov, DianaFarrington@house.mi.gov, GaryHowell@house.mi.gov, StevenJohnson@house.mi.gov, DaireRendon@house.mi.gov, RyanBerman@house.mi.gov

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042664 (152304ZDEC20) Notable: Supreme Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Colorado Churches

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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction to a Colorado church that was fighting Governor Jared Polis’s restrictions on capacity.

The court pointed to a decision in New York where the Catholic diocese of Brooklyn sued Governor Andrew Cuomo over his pandemic restrictions and won on the grounds that Cuomo’s orders violated the First Amendment.

This would appear to open the door to churches nationwide to decide their own COVID policies.

Washington Examiner:

Justice Elena Kagan dissented, along with Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, pointing to the fact that Colorado had preemptively lifted its church limitations once the High Plains Harvest appealed to the high court.

“The state has explained that it took that action in response to this court’s recent decision in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo,” Kagan wrote. “Absent our issuing different guidance, there is no reason to think Colorado will reverse course — and so no reason to think Harvest Church will again face capacity limits.”

Given that governors are slapping restrictions as severe as they were in the spring on their citizens, Kagan and the liberals are taking a lot on faith.

The arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the court has proven to be a godsend to religious liberty.

CNN:

The cases highlight the impact of Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the bench. Before her arrival, Chief Justice John Roberts had sided with the liberals, including the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, against houses of worship in similar disputes. Since Barrett’s arrival, however, and the establishment of a strong 6-3 conservative majority, the court now has reversed course and has the necessary votes to side with religious groups.

Another important religious liberty case in New Jersey was also decided in favor of houses of worship. The New Jersey suit concerned not only limiting capacity but also the mask mandate that required mask-wearing in church except for receiving communion.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal defended the state’s restrictions telling the justices that the state as “accommodated religious conduct — ensuring religious activities receive at least as much protection as secular conduct, if not more.”

New Jersey requires that religious gatherings fill no more than 25% of the room.

The Supreme Court issued the order with no dissent.

What’s truly disturbing is that political authorities thought nothing of violating the religious beliefs and liberty of the people in the name of “public health.” That the Supreme Court was forced into upholding our most fundamental rights against this assault says a lot about the state of freedom in the United States today and why vigilance, especially over the next four years, will be so important.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/15/supreme-court-strikes-down-restrictions-on-colorado-churches-n1213234

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042668 (152305ZDEC20) Notable: PDF Copy of Subpoenas freshly issued in Michigan

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DETROIT CLERK

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/Subpoena%20to%20Detroit%20City%20Clerk.pdf

LIVONIA CLERK

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/Subpoena%20to%20Livonia%20City%20Clerk.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/12042755 (152311ZDEC20) Notable: Patrick Byrnes backstory on Bulls & Bears 22 Aug 2019

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Patrick Byrnes backstory on Bulls & Bears 22 Aug 2019

Looks a little rattled….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5J-1rs1LJo