Zuckerberg money used to massively grow vote in Democrat stronghold of Philadelphia, memos show

Grant application turned over under federal court order quadruples polling places from primary, promises as many as 800,000 votes from city in November. Only 675,000 voted in 2016.

Documents produced by the city of Philadelphia under a federal court order show millions of dollars in nonprofit grant money donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being used to quadruple the number of voting places and massively grow the number of ballots cast in the Democratic stronghold on Nov. 3.

The memos were turned over in a federal lawsuit filed by the conservative Thomas More Society, and they detail how city election officials filed a grant request in August to the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) by promising to open 800 polling places and grow voting to as many as 800,000 ballots cast in the general election.

The number of promised polling places is more than four times the 190 polling places opened during the city's pandemic-affected primary earlier this year, and the promised turnout is estimated to be as many as 120,000 voters larger than the 2016 presidential election, which drew about 680,000 voters. About 80% of the vote went to Democrats in 2016 in the city.

"The Office of the City Commissioners understands CTCL's interest in maximizing the number of polling locations and will work to identify over 800 locations," states the city application seeking $10 million for the fall election.

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Philadelphia CTCL Grant plan.pdf

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-10/Philadelphia%20CTCL%20Grant%20plan.pdf

Zuckerberg announced several weeks ago he has donated $250 million to CTCL to help local governments across the country hold elections this fall in the midst of the pandemic. He has since augmented that amount with another $100 million in recent days.

But the Thomas More Society and its lead counsel Phill Kline have filed lawsuits against several of the jurisdictions receiving CTCL grants, arguing the money is wrongly privatizing an election function that should be handled entirely by government and that the grants are targeting mostly Democratic strongholds, raising questions of election interference.

Kline, director of Thomas More's Amistad Society Project, told Just the News that of the top 20 CTCL grants, amounting to $63 million, only one for $289,000 has gone to a county Trump won in 2016.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania recently ordered Philadelphia officials to produce records on how it applied for and won its $10 million grant, and the first records produced indicate the city is using the Zuckerberg money to compensate poll workers with "hazard pay," including election judges who decide ballot integrity issues.

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-10/CTCLPhillyApprovalLetter.pdf

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/memos-show-zuckerberg-money-used-massively-grow-vote-democrat-stronghold

Russian Embassy Says Hacking Accusations Coming From US Have ‘Nothing to Do With Reality’

The Russian Embassy in Washington has refuted US claims of alleged Russian involvement in a major cyber attack targeting officials and various large-scale events, with an embassy representative telling Sputnik that Russia has no intention to engage in destabilizing operations.

On Monday, the US charged six alleged Russian military intelligence officers with a major cyber attack, claiming that they targeted large-scale events, such as elections in France, Ukraine's power grid and American medical facilities.

"It is quite obvious that such information has nothing to do with reality and is aimed only at stirring up Russophobic sentiments in the American society, at launching a 'witch hunt' and spy mania. All this has been a distinctive feature of Washington's political life for several years now. The US authorities are consistently destroying the once pragmatic Russian-American relations and artificially imposing a toxic perception of Russia and everything connected with it on their population," a Russian embassy representative told Sputnik.

The representative of the embassy in Washington added that "Russia does not and has not had any intention of engaging in any kind of destabilizing operations around the world. This is not in line with our foreign policy, national interests, as well as our understanding of how relations between states are built. Russia respects the sovereignty of other countries and does not interfere in their affairs."

The Russian embassy in Canada has also dismissed all allegations concerning Russia’s alleged cyber activity, calling them "absurd and baseless."

Global Affairs Canada and the Communications Security Establishment issued a statement on Monday saying that "Canada is concerned over reports of a series of global malicious cyber activities, as detailed in today’s statements by the United States and the United Kingdom." According to the release, the activities "are examples of the willingness of Russian military intelligence, GRU, to target critical infrastructure and international organizations."

The Russian embassy in Canada said on Twitter on Monday that Ottawa was damaging its relations with Moscow by issuing such groundless statements.

"Another absurd and baseless Canada allegations on Russian 'malicious cyber activity' copycat US-UK intelligence disinformation as part of psychological war against Russia. Ottawa is further damaging Canadian-Russian relations following its Russophobic narrative," the embassy said.

According to the indictment, unveiled on Monday, six alleged Russian military intelligence officers have used "the world’s most destructive malware to date," including NotPetya, which wreaked havoc globally and caused nearly $1 billion in losses to victims identified during the probe.

US authorities alleged that in December of 2015 and 2016, the conspirators launched destructive malware attacks against the electric power grid in Ukraine. In the US, hospitals in Pennsylvania were allegedly attacked with malware. US authorities claimed that the suspects also tried to undermine the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and attempted to meddle in elections in France, as well as tried to compromise the Georgian parliament network and a major media company in the post-Soviet Republic. The group also allegedly conducted "spearphishing campaigns" against investigations by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory into the Novichok nerve agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, according to the indictment.

A source at the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Monday that the accusations are groundless, aim to create anti-Russian sentiments, and are addressed to the internal audience within the context of the upcoming presidential election in the United States.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202010201080821652-russian-embassy-says-hacking-accusations-coming-from-us-have-nothing-to-do-with-reality/

UK dad jailed for sex with family chickens while wife filmed sick display

A British dad will spend three years behind bars for sexually abusing defenceless birds while his wife filmed the ordeal on her mobile phone.

A sick dad was yesterday jailed for three years for having sex with the family’s pet chickens.

Vile Rehan Baig, 37, abused the defenceless birds and romped with his twisted wife, Haleema, 38, at the same time, The Sun reports.

The mum-of-four even filmed it on a mobile phone and a Go-Pro so they could watch it back, a court was told.

Rehan Baig then stored the footage away on his home computer in a folder entitled “family vids”.

Prosecutor Abigail Langford said officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) raided the couple’s West Yorkshire home in July 2019 after a tip-off.

Ms Langford said: “The premises were searched. A large number of exhibits were seized including two computer towers and a mobile telephone.

Those devices were interrogated and a number of indecent images of children were found.

“Also located among the devices interrogated were moving images showing the defendant engaging in penetrative sexual intercourse with a number of chickens.”

She said Haleema Baig was stood nearby while this was happening and was also depicted within those videos.

“Having viewed the videos it is clear they are filmed in the cellar area of the property.

“She is heard to make sexual encouraging remarks towards the defendant and engages in sexual intercourse with him.

“During the course of these incidents she was a willing participant.”

The pair also abused a dog.

Bradford Crown Court was told that each one of the family’s pet chickens died during the horrifying abuse.

In one video Baig even had sex with the dead animal before stuffing one into a black bin liner.

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/uk-dad-jailed-for-sex-with-family-chickens-while-wife-filmed-sick-display/news-story/9e3f8fa1d9381b98531e8b65c5cda385

Suspect Charged In Alleged Plot To Kidnap Michigan Governor Released On Bail

LANSING – The eighth individual charged for his alleged participation in a plan of domestic terrorism that included storming the Michigan Capitol building and harming government officials has been released on bond.

Brian Higgins, 51, of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, was charged with material support of an act of terrorism, a 20-year felony. Higgins walked out of the Columbia County Jail in Wisconsin Monday after posting $10,000 bail.

According to WNEM, Harris has to “limit travel to Columbia and Dane Counties. He also has to surrender his passport and is not allowed to have any contact with the co-conspirators.”

It is alleged that Higgins provided assistance in the plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home.

The Attorney General’s office charged seven men after the execution of multiple search and arrest warrants Oct. 7 in a joint operation with the U.S. Attorneys of the Eastern and Western districts of Michigan, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Michigan State Police.

“While the political rhetoric in our nation may at times be divisive, I am encouraged by the united front our law enforcement community has displayed in response to this indescribable act of terror,” Nessel said. “These were very credible, and very serious threats to our elected officials and the public in general, and the swift actions taken by state and federal authorities this past week are nothing short of heroic.”

Including this latest charge against Higgins, a total of 20 state felony charges were filed by Attorney General Nessel against eight individuals known to be members of the militia group Wolverine Watchmen or associates of Wolverine Watchmen. Federal charges were also filed against six other individuals.

https://breaking911.com/suspect-charged-in-alleged-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-released-on-bail/