/qnotables23/ - ===Q Notables 2023===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058486 (111826ZDEC23) Notable: PF Eyez on Skyz

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>>113254

Polish AF PLF220 departed Warsaw west

This is high level Polish AF and used by both President and PM in past

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058506 (111831ZDEC23) Notable: Finland Declassifies Oswald File

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Finland Declassifies Oswald File

Following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, Supo wrote a memorandum on JFK’s reported killer Oswald’s stay in Finland but kept it secret from the public until now.

TGP Article:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/finlands-intelligence-agency-declassifies-long-awaited-file-lee/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058507 (111831ZDEC23) Notable: Mel Monzack, 83, Joe Biden's personal lawyer is LINKED to Hunter's newly filed criminal indictment

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Mel Monzack, 83, Joe Biden's personal lawyer who is authorized to act on the president's behalf in financial matters, is LINKED to Hunter's newly filed criminal indictment

Corporate records obtained by DailyMail.com reveal links between Joe Biden's confidante who has his power of attorney and Hunter's business deals

Mel Monzack's law firm was listed as the registered agent for Robinson Walker LLC – a company owned by business partner and Biden family friend, Rob Walker

The payments from Robinson Walker LLC are part of new criminal tax charges against the First Son filed Thursday in a California federal court

A little-known lawyer has the power to handle all of President Joe Biden’s financial and business affairs – and is linked to Hunter Biden’s shady Chinese business dealings, documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal.

Mel Monzack, 83, a close friend of the President, has held Joe’s ‘power of attorney’ since 1987, allowing him to control POTUS’s bank accounts and sign financial documents on Joe’s behalf.

And DailyMail.com can now reveal that Monzack may also be also linked to Hunter Biden’s suspect dealings with Chinese oil giant CEFC - dealings that are now part of a new criminal indictment filed on Thursday.

Monzack was not named in the indictment filed Thursday, nor were any other Hunter associates.

Corporate records show Monzack’s law firm is the registered agent for a company belonging to Hunter’s business partner that received $3 million from State Energy HK, a CEFC affiliate, in an alleged plot to buy influence with the President.

Monzack has been Joe’s close confidant and personal attorney for decades. He served as treasurer for his failed 2008 presidential campaign, and is the registered agent for Joe and First Lady Jill Biden’s companies that have recorded millions of dollars in income.

Monzack’s law firm, Monzack Mersky Mclaughlin and Browder, is also the registered agent for Robinson Walker LLC, a company that received $3 million from State Energy HK Limited and funneled the cash to three Biden family members as part of an allegedly corrupt energy deal.

Special Counsel David Weiss charged Hunter with nine tax crimes on Thursday, citing the payments that came via Robinson Walker LLC in the indictment filed in a Los Angeles federal court.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12805163/President-Biden-attorney-Mel-Monzack-company-Hunter-Chinese-deal.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058589 (111851ZDEC23) Notable: #24620

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Dough

https://fullchan.net/?eee59e323927e884#9yLzSXTXB3GMk9rzzTar2YzHPjgL8XjGpKTSXpLQku7F

Baker needs off hand, gone @20

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058652 (111902ZDEC23) Notable: Nikki Haley’s Top Donor Exposed As Ukrainian Billionaire, Key Zelensky Ally, Jan Koum

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Nikki Haley’s Top Donor Exposed As Ukrainian Billionaire, Key Zelensky Ally, Jan Koum

by Laura Loomer

Dec 10, 2023

https://loomered.com/2023/12/10/nikki-haleys-top-donor-exposed-as-ukrainian-billionaire-key-zelensky-ally-jan-koum/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058672 (111906ZDEC23) Notable: Nikki Haley’s Top Donor Exposed As Ukrainian Billionaire, Key Zelensky Ally, Jan Koum

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>>113270

>https://loomered.com/2023/12/10/nikki-haleys-top-donor-exposed-as-ukrainian-billionaire-key-zelensky-ally-jan-koum/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058687 (111911ZDEC23) Notable: NavalInstitute - USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker

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U.S. Naval Institute

@NavalInstitute

2h

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Dec. 11, 2023

Dec 11, 2023 · 4:43 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1734252565678715379

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058771 (111924ZDEC23) Notable: We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X

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Attorney General Andrew Bailey

@AGAndrewBailey

🚨BREAKING: We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.

We have launched an investigation.

https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1734283515007480188

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058782 (111926ZDEC23) Notable: Biden awkwardly poses halfway in the photo, then just wanders away

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https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1734270569036591388

Biden awkwardly poses halfway in the photo, then just wanders away

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058922 (111952ZDEC23) Notable: 'Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service'

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WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

Dec 10

'Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service'

| El Pais

english.elpais.com/spain/202…

The Spanish government has spoken to the U.S. ambassador about its concern regarding the hostile actions, which are not expected between two allies

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2023-12-08/spain-expels-two-us-spies-for-infiltrating-secret-service.html

Dec 10, 2023 · 12:38 AM UTC

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1733647363619672281

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20058943 (111957ZDEC23) Notable: PF Report - Potato in 09-0015 C32A landed at Philly Intl

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>>113216 lb

Potato in 09-0015 C32A landed at Philly Intl

Campaign event then back to WH

Did not bother to look at schedule as rare for him to do much if anything after returning from most longer trips

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

09-0018 C32A out from JBA

>>113257 lb

C102 Coast Guard G5 landed at Seattle-Boeing Field from LAX depart

SAM401 heading to Travis AFB

SPAR28 continues west from JBA depart

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059013 (112008ZDEC23) Notable: Harvard President Claudine Gay DENIES she plagiarized sections of her Ph.D

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Harvard President Claudine Gay DENIES she plagiarized sections of her Ph.Dand says she 'stands by the integrity of my scholarship' - as she faces pressure to step down after disastrous congressional hearing

▶ Harvard President Claudine Gay is hit with plagiarism accusations - which she DENIES and

▶In a statement to the Boston Globe on Monday, Gay said: 'I stand by the integrity of my scholarship. Throughout my career, I have worked to ensure my scholarship adheres to the highest academic standards.'

▶It comes after the billionaire hedge fund boss Bill Ackman highlighted reports that she allegedly plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis.

▶ The 53-year-old is facing intense scrutiny after she failed to condemn anti-Semitism in a shocking exchange before NY Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik last week.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12851539/Harvard-President-Claudine-Gay-hit-plagiarism-accusations-DENIES-says-stands-integrity-scholarship-faces-pressure-step-disastrous-congressional-hearing.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059089 (112028ZDEC23) Notable: Baker change/claimed dough

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>>113269

Claiming the bake

...Let the reees commence.

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#24620 >>113269

>>113270, >>113271 Nikki Haley’s Top Donor Exposed As Ukrainian Billionaire, Key Zelensky Ally, Jan Koum

>>113272 NavalInstitute - USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker

>>113273, >>113275 We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X

>>113274 Biden awkwardly poses halfway in the photo, then just wanders away

>>113276 'Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service'

>>113277 PF Report - Potato in 09-0015 C32A landed at Philly Intl

>>113278 Harvard President Claudine Gay DENIES she plagiarized sections of her Ph.D

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059096 (112030ZDEC23) Notable: Christie warns of ‘deranged sycophants’ staffing second Trump administration

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Christie warns of ‘deranged sycophants’ staffing second Trump administration

Filip Timotija

Mon, December 11, 2023 at 2:10 PM EST·2 min read

https://news.yahoo.com/christie-warns-deranged-sycophants-staffing-191015893.html

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie warned that a second Trump administration could be staffed with “a bunch of deranged sycophants” during a Monday morning appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.

The former governor of New Jersey made the comments in response to Hewitt asking whether “we ought to have more clarity on who’s coming in with the team,” referring to a potential second Trump administration.

“Is this going to be the Kash Patels of the world?” Christie said. “The Jeffrey Clarks of the world? The Michael Flynns of the world are going to be the people who are going to populate the next Trump administration: a bunch of deranged sycophants who will just do whatever the masters tell them to do regardless of the law and the Constitution.”

All three potential staffers — Patel, Clark and Flynn — were at least briefly part of Trump’s administration during his first term.

Clark spread Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. He served as a senior Department of Justice appointee in the Trump administration.

More at link

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059162 (112049ZDEC23) Notable: Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted

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Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted

WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results.

Smith made his request for the court to act with unusual speed to prevent any delays that could push back the trial of the 2024 Republican presidential primary front-runner, currently set to begin on March 4, until after next year’s presidential election.

A federal judge ruled the case could go forward, but Trump signaled he would ask the federal appeals court in Washington to reverse that outcome. Smith is attempting to bypass the appeals court, the usual next step in the process, and have the Supreme Court take up the matter directly.

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https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-prosecution-immunity-f3e7206bdf169c9faa15a19084541824

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059169 (112050ZDEC23) Notable: She’s with him: Hillary Clinton steps out as a key player in Biden’s re-election effort

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She’s with him: Hillary Clinton steps out as a key player in Biden’s re-election effort

Clinton hosted a $1 million fundraiser at her Georgetown home.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/hillary-clinton-joe-biden-campaign-rcna128190

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059186 (112056ZDEC23) Notable: PEDO ALERT - pizzagate continues

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PEDO ALERT - pizzagate continues

This account on ETSY is selling children and they are not afraid to be discovered.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/YummyYumPizza

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059267 (112116ZDEC23) Notable: Q+ successfully gets fake news to criticize its own controlling dictatorship

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Q+ successfully gets fake news to criticize its own controlling dictatorship.

kek

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111563845443724295

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059275 (112118ZDEC23) Notable: @rumble - We are aware of service disruptions and our engineers are looking into it. We will provide an update shortly.

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Rumble- 🏴‍☠️ $RUM @rumble

We are aware ofservice disruptionsand our engineers are looking into it. We will provide an update shortly.

Dec 11, 2023, 10:08 AM

https://truthsocial.com/@rumble/posts/111562647994937442

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059379 (112140ZDEC23) Notable: #24620

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~@720Last call

...Prepping the next bake.

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

#24620 >>113269

>>113270, >>113271 Nikki Haley’s Top Donor Exposed As Ukrainian Billionaire, Key Zelensky Ally, Jan Koum

>>113272 NavalInstitute - USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker

>>113273, >>113275 We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X

>>113274 Biden awkwardly poses halfway in the photo, then just wanders away

>>113276 'Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service'

>>113277 PF Report - Potato in 09-0015 C32A landed at Philly Intl

>>113278 Harvard President Claudine Gay DENIES she plagiarized sections of her Ph.D

>>113279 Baker change/claimed dough

>>113280 Christie warns of ‘deranged sycophants’ staffing second Trump administration

>>113281 Swamp Schedule

>>113282 Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted

>>113283 She’s with him: Hillary Clinton steps out as a key player in Biden’s re-election effort

>>113284 PEDO ALERT - pizzagate continues

>>113285 Q+ successfully gets fake news to criticize its own controlling dictatorship

>>113286 @rumble - We are aware of service disruptions and our engineers are looking into it. We will provide an update shortly.

#24620

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059401 (112143ZDEC23) Notable: #24621

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Dough

https://fullchan.net/?4c256ed6b53b2fa1#5G8t4Bt1Rc9KJ9qz5ZSzjCpiPhqBTMWUVZLacDC1q2fm

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059498 (112208ZDEC23) Notable: Preliminary Evidence: we are closer to AGI than it appears.

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Preliminary Evidence: we are closer to AGI than it appears.

If prompted with "concepts" on propositional logic, GPT4's lowest score on ConceptARC goes from 13% GPT4 vs 86% Human, to 100% GPT4, without training examples.

This performance jump extends to ALL text benchmarks.

[Around January 4, 2024] I will release a full chess engine based on GPT4, whose code / prompts anyone will be able to inspect... GPT4's "performant output" willbeat every other chess engine in existence in a tournament of any size.

https://twitter.com/kenshin9000_/status/1734238211088506967

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059551 (112222ZDEC23) Notable: @ZelenskyyUa - I began my visit to the USA by meeting with @SecDef Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Brown at the US National Defense University.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

I began my visit to the USA by meeting with

@SecDef

Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Brown at the US National Defense University.

We discussed global security challenges, frontline developments, and further US-Ukraine defense cooperation.

I am grateful to the U.S. for the implementation of our agreements, particularly those on strengthening our air defense, as well as to Secretary Austin and General Brown for their personal leadership.

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1734279403251630364

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059607 (112235ZDEC23) Notable: Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals

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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/12/11/who_is_sara_biden_joes_in-law_emerges_as_central_figure_in_foreign_cash_deals_996942.html

Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals

AP

By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations

December 11, 2023

Trouble has followed Sara Catherine Jones since she married into the Biden family almost three decades ago.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059615 (112236ZDEC23) Notable: @AdamKleppAZ - 3rd straight Monday in Lukeville. Welcome back everybody for the march of the migrants.

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Adam Klepp

@AdamKleppAZ

3rd straight Monday in Lukeville. Welcome back everybody for the march of the migrants.

https://twitter.com/AdamKleppAZ/status/1734229106416664668

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059632 (112240ZDEC23) Notable: New poll shows Trump winning 2024 in a landslide, taking the majority of swing states

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Leading Report

@LeadingReport

1h

BREAKING: New poll shows Trump winning 2024 in a landslide, taking the majority of swing states.

https://theleadingreport.com/new-poll-indicates-trump-victory-in-2024/

@RacetotheWH Swing States polling avg. (Biden vs Trump, July 20 Dec. 10) GA: D+0.2 → R+5.7 AZ: D+1.2 → R+4.9 NV: D+2.7 → R+2.9 PA: D+1.5 → R+2.3 MI: D+1.6 → R+1.3 WI: D+7.3 → D+1.9 EC based on polls...

theleadingreport.com

Dec 11, 2023 · 8:51 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/LeadingReport/status/1734314940067164227

>>>/qresearch/20059528

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059653 (112243ZDEC23) Notable: Real Estate Titans Battle DeSantis Over China Property Crackdown

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This article names a good amount of companies who may not want limits on China buying up US property.

Real Estate Titans Battle DeSantis Over China Property Crackdown

(Bloomberg) - Ron DeSantis rattled corporate America by making Walt Disney Co. a target of his conservative culture wars. Now, the Florida governor’s campaign to rid the state of Chinese influence is fueling a forceful backlash from big-name investors.

A group that represents companies including Blackstone Inc., Steve Ross’s Related Cos. and Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital wants to roll back a law that went into effect in July that bans most Chinese investment in real estate in Florida. Other developers, including home builder Lennar Corp., also are pushing back on the statute. Lobbyists are pressing state lawmakers to pass legislation early next year to relax the restrictions, people involved in the process say.

DeSantis, whose bid for the Republican nomination for president is struggling, has made getting tough on China part of his campaign to woo conservative voters. The Foreign Countries of Concern law, he says, blocks agents of China’s communist regime from buying property near US military bases to use for spying.

Yet the law also bans most Chinese capital from being used to fund projects in Florida, choking off a relatively cheap source of financing for an engine of the state’s economy at a time of high interest rates and distress in commercial real estate. Firms with Chinese investors are barred from taking even small, non-controlling stakes in real estate deals under the statute.

“The law is far-reaching, very, very confusing, and the unintended consequences would be very, very detrimental,” said John Fish, chairman of the Real Estate Roundtable, a lobbying group for dozens of America’s biggest real estate investors, including Citigroup Inc., Blackstone, Related, Starwood and Wells Fargo & Co.

Wells Fargo declined to comment. Citigroup, Blackstone, Related and Starwood didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Earlier this year, Ken Griffin, the founder of the Citadel financial empire and Florida’s second-richest person after Jeff Bezos, was able to win some changes to the legislation — which places restrictions on China, Venezuela and five other “countries of concern” — before it was enacted. Griffin’s lobbyists managed to loosen some of the curbs on home purchases by Chinese nationals.

The continuing coordinated pushback by companies involved in buying and selling property suggests the law is having a significant negative impact on an industry that is a vast source of jobs and wealth for Floridians. Real estate accounts for 17% of Florida’s gross domestic product, about $244 billion, and generates almost a fifth of its tax revenue, according to the latest Federal Reserve data.

Delayed Projects

Funding from China has long helped bankroll big projects throughout the state, but in recent months some of that money is drying up amid concern about running afoul of DeSantis’ law.

Developers like Lennar and DR Horton Inc. commonly use limited partnerships to pool funds from investors and buy land to build homes or commercial properties. As a result of the law’s restrictions on Chinese investment, however, Lennar has had to delay at least two development projects in Florida, according to people familiar with the builders’ plans.

Representatives for Miami-based Lennar declined to comment. (cont) 1/2

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ron-desantis-s-china-crackdown-draws-backlash-from-wall-street-real-estate-titans/ar-AA1ljSjC

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059660 (112244ZDEC23) Notable: Real Estate Titans Battle DeSantis Over China Property Crackdown

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>>113294

(cont)

“The new law has served as a significant impediment to further investment,” the Real Estate Roundtable wrote in a Sept. 5 letter to the DeSantis-appointed Florida Real Estate Commission, adding that it stands to “limit the freedom of Florida’s future growth.”

There are signs that the lobbying effort is having some success, according to seven people involved in it. The Florida Commerce Department, led by DeSantis Chief of Staff Alex Kelly, proposed rules in September that would open the door for investors from any of the countries of concern to take stakes of as much as 25% in funds that own property as long as they don’t have operating control. But the changes have yet to be adopted and lawyers following the rulemaking process say they still have unanswered questions.

The Department of Commerce didn’t respond to requests for comment about the issues the business community has raised, and didn’t provide a timeline for when the regulations would be formally adopted.

Representatives from the governor’s office and DeSantis’ presidential campaign didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Clashing With Business

The pushback amplifies how some of DeSantis’ signature policies clash with big business, once a vital Republican constituency. His fight with Disney over a law that limits public-school teaching about gender identity alienated wealthy donors who once saw him as an alternative to former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP nomination. DeSantis’ administration also targeted BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, for promoting environmental, social and governance principles.

Billionaire developer Jorge Perez, the 74-year-old CEO of Related Group known as Miami’s condo king, said he’s “totally against” DeSantis’ restrictions on foreign investment in Florida real estate. “I mean, this is something that should not be so politicized,” Perez said in an interview.

More than two dozen states have either passed or proposed limits on Chinese property ownership, but Florida’s law is one of the most restrictive. The American Civil Liberties Union has challenged the law as discriminatory on behalf of a group of Chinese immigrants, and the US Department of Justice has said it’s unconstitutional. The law has complicated the buying and selling of homes by individuals, on top of its effects on investors and builders.

Major real estate investors are worried about repercussions. Executives at Carlyle Group are concerned that the law would complicate the ability to use funds with investors from China in Florida real estate deals, people familiar with the firm’s thinking said. Representatives for Carlyle Group declined to comment.

Since 2018, Griffin had tapped into his $36 billion fortune to become one of DeSantis’ biggest donors, yet ties between the two men have strained. Griffin didn’t donate to DeSantis’ presidential campaign. And, as DeSantis lost ground in the polls, Griffin and other business leaders, like JPMorgan Chase CEO James Dimon, have hinted at shifting their support to former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Trump meanwhile has maintained a double-digit lead.

Off Limits

Griffin saw Florida’s anti-China law as an affront, as it would have barred Chinese citizens from buying property within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of military facilities or infrastructure such as ports or power substations. That would have put almost all of South Florida, where Griffin moved his business from Illinois, off limits.

Lobbyists for Citadel, which has a large number of employees from China, convinced lawmakers to narrow the restrictions for those with work permits, Bloomberg reported in August.

Related’s Perez, who has built dozens of buildings in Miami and beyond over four decades, said banks and investors from China and Venezuela have been an important source of funding. But he said he always called the shots.

“It’s not like I’m getting foreigners that are going to control what I build, or not,” Perez said. “These are limited partners.”

DeSantis’ law, he said, goes too far.

“It’s really making something out of nothing,” said Perez. “Investment should flow freely.” 2/2

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ron-desantis-s-china-crackdown-draws-backlash-from-wall-street-real-estate-titans/ar-AA1ljSjC

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059683 (112249ZDEC23) Notable: Ex-EU boss elected as Polish PM again (RT)

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Ex-EU boss elected as Polish PM again

Donald Tusk has regained the PM post nearly a decade after his departure

Veteran pro-EU politician Donald Tusk on Monday became Poland’s new prime minister, after the country’s parliament ousted now-former PM Mateusz Morawiecki in a decisive no-confidence vote.

Tusk secured a comfortable victory, with 248 MPs voting for him and 201 against. The politician needed to secure at least 225 votes to become the new PM.

The election of a premier came shortly after the Polish parliament ousted Morawiecki from his post. The house overwhelmingly backed the no-confidence motion against the now-former PM, with some 266 MPs voting in favor of it.

The downfall of Morawiecki comes after his right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party suffered losses in Poland's general election in mid-October. It was won by Tusk’s broad coalition of pro-EU parties, which now holds a majority in the parliament.

The PiS has conceded defeat, with party president Jaroslaw Kaczynski hailing the country’s “democracy,” although he blamed the downfall of the government on a broad smear campaign against the party. After Tusk got elected, however, Kaczynski himself became unruly and stormed the parliament’s podium, in the process accusing the new PM of being a “German agent.”

Tusk served as Poland’s Prime Minister between 2007 and 2014. Shortly after ending his tenure, he became the president of the European Council, leading the bloc’s executive body until late 2019.

https://www.rt.com/news/588908-old-new-polish-pm/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059689 (112250ZDEC23) Notable: #SCOTUS has *granted* Jack Smith’s motion to expedite the petition for certiorari before judgment—and has ordered former President Trump to respond to the petition by next Wednesday at 4 ET.

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#SCOTUS has *granted* Jack Smith’s motion to expedite the petition for certiorari before judgment—and has ordered former President Trump to respond to the petition by next Wednesday at 4 ET.

Dec 11, 2023 · 10:29 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1734339538368311631

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059701 (112252ZDEC23) Notable: Minneapolis - About 30-40 pro Palestine protesters have entered the freeway on I-94 near IMS, blocking traffic.

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NOW: Minneapolis - About 30-40 pro Palestine protesters have entered the freeway on I-94 near IMS, blocking traffic.

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https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1734343896027828395

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059722 (112255ZDEC23) Notable: @HillaryClinton - I'm so sorry to hear of the passing of my friend Dr. Gao Yaojie, who faced house arrest and exile from China after exposing a blood transfusion program that spread HIV/AIDS.

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I'm so sorry to hear of the passing of my friend Dr. Gao Yaojie, who faced house arrest and exile from China after exposing a blood transfusion program that spread HIV/AIDS. She was simply one of the bravest people I've ever known. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Dec 11, 2023 · 9:25 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1734323599844982925

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059750 (112301ZDEC23) Notable: Tucker Carlson Interviews (Ep. 48 /w Kid Rock & Ep. 49 /w Dana White)

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Ep. 48 The Tucker Carlson Encounter: Kid Rock

11:00 AM · Dec 11, 2023

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1734287101326155882

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059751 (112301ZDEC23) Notable: URGENT: Community Notes requires a makeover, as it seems to be infiltrated

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https://twitter.com/AlertChannel/status/1734283772151922922

URGENT: Community Notes requires a makeover, as it seems to be infiltrated

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059763 (112302ZDEC23) Notable: Tucker Carlson Interviews (Ep. 48 /w Kid Rock & Ep. 49 /w Dana White)

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Tucker Carlson

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Ep. 49 The Dana White Interview

1:56 PM · Dec 11, 2023

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1734331457571561729

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059827 (112318ZDEC23) Notable: SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to launch secretive X-37B space plane  today after delay

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to launch secretive X-37B space plane  today after delay

Dec 11, 2023

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to launch the X-37B space plane for the U.S. Space Force on tonight (Dec. 11) after a one-day delay due to weather, and you can likely watch the action live.

Liftoff of the Falcon Heavy is scheduled to occur from Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a 10-minute window that opens at 8:14 p.m. EST (0114 GMT Dec. 12). If, as expected, SpaceX webcasts the liftoff, you can watch it live here at Space.com. SpaceX announced its delay of the flight by 24 hours early Sunday.

"Now targeting Monday, December 11 for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the USSF-52 mission, with weather conditions forecasted to improve to 70% favorable for liftoff on Monday night," SpaceX wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "The team will use the time to complete additional pre-launch check outs."

The upcoming launch will be the seventh launch to date for the reusable X-37B space plane its first-ever ride on a Falcon Heavy, which could have consequences for its coming orbital mission.

Five of the six X-37B launches to date have employed United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets, with one other using a SpaceX Falcon 9. Falcon Heavy, which utilizes three Falcon 9 boosters as its first stage, outclasses both of those other rockets when it comes to getting mass to orbit. According to a recent Space Force release, some of the objectives of the coming X-37B mission, known as OTV-7 ("Orbital Test Vehicle-7"), include "operating in new orbital regimes," which, given the launch vehicle, may indicate a higher orbit than usual, farther from Earth.

The upgrade in launch vehicle may also have to do with mass. The X-37B features a cargo bay to house equipment and experiments, and it could be carrying a secondary mission payload that requires Falcon Heavy's added lift capability.

The uncertainty here is not surprising; most details of X-37B missions are classified. However, USSF-52 does carry at lease one unclassified experiment: NASA's "Seeds-2" project, which will test the effects of radiation and long-duration spaceflight on plant seeds.

Each successive X-37B mission has been longer than its predecessors, with its most recent orbital jaunt lasting 908 days. That mission, called OTV-6, landed in November 2022.

https://www.space.com/spacex-space-force-x-37b-ot7-launch-webcast

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ussf-52

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/20059914 (112337ZDEC23) Notable: Trump Has Good Shot With Supreme Court to Get DC Case Tossed, Experts Say

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Trump Has Good Shot With Supreme Court to Get DC Case Tossed, Experts Say

While some of President Trump's arguments for getting the case dismissed are weak, others appear persuasive, according to legal experts. By Petr Svab Updated: Dec 10, 20231/2(Only posting 2 pages of 6 pages, excellent article, read the rest at the link)

Former President Donald Trump has several viable avenues to have the Supreme Court throw out federal charges he’s facing for his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election, several lawyers and Constitution experts told The Epoch Times.

His best case is that the charges encroach on his First Amendment rights, but he might also successfully assert presidential immunity or argue the law was impermissibly stretched by prosecutors, the experts said.

President Trump was charged by Special Counsel Jack Smith on Aug. 1 with obstructing electoral vote counting by Congress on Jan. 6 and conspiring to do so in order to stay in power. The conspiracy was allegedly carried out by spreading false claims that fraud and illegalities swayed the election outcome and using those false claims in attempts to convince various officials to overturn the results. President Trump’s lawyers have launched a barrage of motions to have the charges dismissed on constitutional grounds, statutory grounds, due to presidential immunity, and for malicious prosecution. While some of the claims are weak at best, others appear persuasive, according to the experts.

In practice, however, President Trump’s arguments will need to convince his judge, the appeals court, or, in the final instance, the Supreme Court. The experts predict that the District of Columbia federal judge on the case, Tanya Chutkan, will almost certainly deny all the motions to dismiss. On Dec. 1, she indeed denied about half of them. They also acknowledged that the arguments would likely encounter resistance in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, given its political leanings.President Trump’s best chance will be in the Supreme Court, they contend.

Free Speech Argument

President Trump’s lawyers have asserted that the indictment runs afoul of the First Amendment by trying to criminalize political speech and advocacy. The prosecution seeks to install itself as America’s censor, with roving authority to criminally prosecute all who speak out against its approved narratives,” the lawyers wrote in a Nov. 22 brief."The prosecution has no such mandate. Accordingly, the indictment is unconstitutional on its face and must be dismissed."

If prosecutors can claim that President Trump’s efforts to reverse election certifications amounted to a conspiracy to obstruct the government, then people advocating against other government actions, such as COVID-19 lockdowns or mask mandates could also face such charges, the lawyers argued. The prosecutors retorted that such hypotheticals wouldn’t apply “absent additional information about the conduct and mental state of the individuals.”

But if that’s the case, the defense lawyers responded, it would give the government a license to probe said individuals for such additional information—"inquire into their mental state, knowledge, and associations.” “The implication is that to get that information, investigation is necessary. Under the prosecution’s misconceived legal theories, then,every public statement a constituent makesto a member of Congress concerning a hotly debated topic is a license to open a federal criminal investigation into the person who made it—unless it is indisputably true,” the lawyers said. “That, of course, contradicts the very nature of hotly debated topics, where the truth is, by definition, in dispute.”

This argument appears “sound” to Rob Natelson, one of America’s preeminent constitutional scholars who’s written extensively on the original meaning of the Constitution and the First Amendment in particular, including for The Epoch Times.“Lying is protected by the First Amendment, except in a few cases such as fraud, lying to law enforcement, and defamation,” he said.

“It has to be so: Otherwise, as Trump's lawyers claim, every statement would be open to investigation into the speaker's motives. The effect would be, as the Supreme Court says [in previous cases], a severe ‘chilling effect’ on speech.”

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