Texas Attorney General Investigating Voter Fraud Operation Following Project Veritas Exposé

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday said his office contacted the state’s Attorney General’s office about O’Keefe’s undercover video of a ballot chaser bribing voters and getting paid thousands of dollars to help Joe Biden get elected.

“An investigation will determine if voter fraud has occurred. If so, it will be prosecuted,” Governor Abbott said.

“Voter fraud won’t be tolerated in Texas,” he added.

Project Veritas on Wednesday released undercover footage of a ballot chaser admitting to conducting massive voter fraud to help elect Joe Biden.

The new video is the second part to a bombshell undercover investigation into a Texas “Republican” consultant who was caught on camera violating both Texas and federal laws by coercing and bribing voters into voting Democrat, which was released on Tuesday.

In the new footage, Raquel Rodriguez, a consultant for GOP House candidate Mauro Garza, admits that she will be making about $55,000 to change 5,000 votes, as rigging the election will cost “five to eight dollars per vote.” She also admitted that “some of my Republicans are precinct chairs that cannot be known… they want to help Biden.”

Rodriguez stated that she is getting paid to help Republicans who want to flip votes for Biden, saying “yeah, that’s what I’m doing. That’s exactly what I’m getting paid to do.”

In Tuesday’s video, Rodriguez was seen providing a gift to an elderly woman after coercing her into changing her vote and helping her change the ballot.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/texas-attorney-general-investigating-voter-fraud-operation-following-project-veritas-expose/

Rangers, Green Berets Showing Interest in New Nonlethal M4 Carbine, Firm Says

A California-based company has introduced a nonlethal M4 carbine-style training tool that is catching the interest of elite door-kickers in Army Special Operations Command.

Unit Solutions Inc.'s Unit4 is a standalone M4 look-alike system that uses carbon dioxide to fire 8mm nonlethal projectiles, thus making it a "non-weapon" by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms standards, Joe Fitterer, a field service representative of Unit Solutions, told Military.com.

Other nonlethal training systems on the market rely on primer-fired ammunition and require designated training areas, said Fitterer, a former Green Beret with 3rd Special Forces Group.

"You are no longer [required] to go to the range for training," he said. "You can train off-range."

The Unit4 system is designed for close-range, force-on-force tactical training. It can fire on semiautomatic and fully-automatic, launching paintball-style and non-marking projectiles at 300 to 350 feet per second, with a maximum range of about 35 meters, Fitterer said.

"All the components look very similar to a user's M4; there is a slight modification in the lower [receiver] and the bolt doesn't have a firing pin and it's a smoothbore barrel," Fitterer said.

"We are certified by the FBI to not break skin or quarter-inch glass outside of five feet."

The 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia just purchased 30 of the systems. And two other SF units, 3rd Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, have evaluated the system, Fitterer said.

Military.com reached out to Army Special Operations Command to confirm the Ranger Regiment's purchase but did not receive an immediate response.

"We are basically trying to get it in the door of Special Operations Command," Fitterer said, adding that the company will work with any service that is interested.

"Right now, we are so new that we wanted to get into special operations – with the idea that if Green Berets and Rangers have it, other units are going to want to get it."

The Unit4 project actually started in 2011 and is now in its third-generation model, Fitterer said.

"It has taken a long time, but if you don't have the right product to introduce, then you are not going to get a second chance," he said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/28/rangers-green-berets-showing-interest-new-nonlethal-m4-carbine-firm-says.html

Former Navy chief convicted for Bahrain sex crimes faces new rape allegations

A former U.S. Navy chief convicted as part of a rash of sailor sex crimes in Bahrain is facing new stateside sexual assault charges, according to charge sheets obtained by Navy Times.

Then-Chief Logistics Specialist Calvin Halfacre is charged with raping a woman in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Feb. 3, 2019.

At the time of the alleged rape, Halfacre had just signed a plea deal in January 2019 and was awaiting his day in court in March 2019 on a previous sex crime dating back to when he was assigned to Bahrain.

Three Thai women working as prostitutes in Bahrain accused him of brutally sodomizing them against their will on the Middle Eastern island in 2017.

Navy investigators lost track of those three women and they did not testify in court against Halfacre.

Prosecutors later offered the chief a deal that withdrew the sexual assault charges in exchange for him pleading guilty to paying the three women for sex.

Halfacre, 42, was sentenced last year to 30 months in the brig, a bad-conduct discharge, reduction in rank to E-1 and forfeiture of all pay and allowances during confinement. He remains incarcerated at the Naval Consolidated Bring Charleston, South Carolina.

The alleged Virginia Beach victim’s name is redacted in the charge sheet copy provided to Navy Times.

The new rape charges against Halfacre accuse him of "placing (the woman) in fear that she would be subjected to grievous bodily harm,” the charge sheet states.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/10/28/former-navy-chief-convicted-for-bahrain-sex-crimes-faces-new-rape-allegations/

Statement from Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband Commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-assistant-attorney-general-eric-dreiband-commemorating-twentieth-anniversary

Socialist presidential candidate accuses Dems of enabling Trump, puts both major US parties on blast as serving ‘the ruling class’

The Democrats are “covering up” Donald Trump and the Republicans’ assault on democracy and US workers, socialist presidential candidate Joe Kishore has told RT, in a strong critique of the two-party political process.

The “ramming through” of conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court bench will not just facilitate a massive rightward shift of the institution, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate said. It may also help Trump to “undermine” the results of the election, should it not go his way, and “retain power.”

Kishore speculated that Republican agents are planning to challenge the validity of mail-in ballots, a voting method on which Democrats massively rely amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

He accused the Democrats of “refusing to do anything” to block or postpone Barrett’s nomination and confirmation, despite there being “numerous ways” to achieve it.

“They made sure there would be no significant effort to stop the nomination of Barrett.”

“If the roles were reversed, Republicans would have blocked it,” Kishore said, recalling 2016, when the Republican-majority Senate stonewalled then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to appoint Merrick Garland to the Court, almost a year before the election.The socialist candidate believes such political impotence on the part of Democrats is intentional.

“Democrats are really terrified of the development of a real popular movement against Trump’s conspiracies”.

They are “covering up” for Trump, Kishore said, despite the sitting president being a fundamental threat to their espoused ideals. “The Democrats, a party of Wall Street, are terrified to mobilize a popular opposition against [Trump].” The reason for that, in Kishore’s view, is that the party’s establishment does not wish to share its power with outsiders to the state apparatus.

However, the candidate sees hope, saying that there is “enormous growing opposition” in the US, to which the president is responding with “fascistic violence returning to authoritarian forms of rule.”

Kishore perceives that a real anti-establishment effort has to come from the outside, saying it would have to be a “mass popular opposition, not only to Trump but to the ruling class policy that he represents, the financial oligarchy in the United States.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/504788-socialist-candidate-both-parties/

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PETA Demands Federal Prison Accommodate Ghislaine Maxwell’s Vegan Diet

Animal-rights activist group PETA is demanding a federal prison accommodate Ghislaine Maxwell's vegan diet to prevent her from "contributing to suffering."

PETA sent a letter to the Metropolitan Detention Center on Tuesday demanding the federal prison provide Maxwell, a longtime confidant to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, with plant-based meals—"regardless of the accusations against her." Maxwell was arrested in July on multiple charges related to sex trafficking and sexual abuse of young girls and is being held in the Brooklyn detention center without bail.

"Regardless of how anyone feels about Ms. Maxwell, no one should be forced to eat the corpse of an animal who felt pain and fear and didn't want to die," PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement.

PETA said its decision to advocate for Maxwell follows multiple reports that the facility has for months failed to provide her with meals suitable to her vegan diet. In the letter, addressed to the detention center's warden, PETA said that providing vegan meals to Maxwell and other inmates can help end animal suffering. "Although none of us can stop all violence, by providing everyone with vegan meals, you have the power to prevent Ms. Maxwell and other inmates from contributing to suffering," the organization said.

Newkirk told the Washington Free Beacon that PETA has asked multiple prisons to serve "cruelty-free" meals, which she claims cost less.

"PETA always suggests ways to save animals from pain and suffering, which is why we advocate for vegan choices for everyone," Newkirk said. "We have asked numerous prisons—most recently, the Indiana penitentiary holding accused cannibal Joseph Oberhansley—not only to accommodate requests for vegan meals (which, apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell has made) but also to reduce violence generally by providing all inmates with cruelty-free food. In addition, our prison systems, paid for with our taxes, should be saving funds by serving vegan meals, which are less costly."

Maxwell has allegedly lost 25 pounds over the past four months because she has refused to eat the meals provided for her. According to one friend, she also says she is "humiliated" by the paper clothes the prison has forced her to wear while on suicide watch.

The letter comes just one week after the release of a 2016 deposition, in which Maxwell denied all allegations of wrongdoing against her. She denies claims that she recruited minors to have sex with Epstein and has said she was unaware of accusations that he was abusing women and young girls. Her trial is set for next summer.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/peta-demands-federal-prison-accommodate-ghislaine-maxwells-vegan-diet/

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NY Gov. Cuomo Reaped $6.2 Million In Campaign Cash From 347 State Vendors Who Pocketed $7 Billion Since 2014

While New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and national progressives decry corporate money in politics, Governor Andrew Cuomo has embraced the highly unethical practice of soliciting campaign cash from state contractors.

Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found 347 state vendors that gave $6.2 million in political donations to Cuomo over a six-year period (2014-2019). Meanwhile, these companies reaped $7 billion in state payments.

These donations represented the equivalent of more than half of the current cash on hand – $11.9 million – in the governor’s campaign committee as of 12/31/2019, according to disclosures.

We created an interactive map displaying by ZIP Code all of the governor’s campaign contributions since 2014. Just click a pin (ZIP Code) and scroll down to see the results that render in the chart beneath the map.

We reached out to Governor Cuomo and Rich Azzopardi, a senior advisor, answered for the administration, “No contribution of any size plays a role in any official action and any official who can be swayed by a single dollar has no business being in government.”

However, since 1940, individuals and entities negotiating or working under federal contracts have been prohibited from giving political cash to federal candidates, parties, or committees. In New York, however, this political patronage is perfectly legal (at least for now).

Here are some of the big winners who gave campaign cash to Gov. Cuomo and separately received state payments.

Hospitals – Covid-Positive Patients Transferred To Nursing Homes

The Greater New York Hospital Association (Association) funneled $1 million to Cuomo’s re-election through the state Democratic party in 2018. That same year, the Association and the healthcare union, 1199SEIU, backed Cuomo’s healthcare “reforms” and spent $5.9 million lobbying in Albany.

By February 2020, Cuomo appointed the Association’s past chair and board member Michael Dowling along with 1199SEIU President Dennis Rivera as co-chairmen of the “Medicaid Redesign Team.” (State Medicaid was $4 billion in the red because of Cuomo’s accounting gimmicks.)

Just six weeks before the governor’s appointment, Michael Dowling gave Cuomo a $5,000 campaign donation (12/14/19). (Dowling is also the CEO of Northwell Health – which received $10 million in state payments in 2019.)

Twenty-eight days before the governor made 1199SEIU president Dennis Rivera co-chairman of his Medicaid Team, the union gave $15,000 to Cuomo’s re-election fund (1/6/2020). Since 2014, 1199SEIU backed Cuomo with political endorsements and $95,250 in campaign cash.

Cuomo didn’t answer our question as to whether soliciting state contractors for campaign cash was ethical, and a senior aide, Rich Azzopardi, argued that the governor exerted no influence.

“Agency contracting is done at the agency level on the merits, by career civil servants and procurement professionals — with no input or influence from the Executive Chamber—and generally through a competitive bidding process.”

Meanwhile, New York residents are left with skyrocketing taxes and an increasingly bleak future.

We can blame Governor Cuomo, but he’s just a reflection of today’s broken culture of public service.

Methodology: We matched companies donating to Andrew Cuomo For New York, Inc., as disclosed by the NYS Board of Elections, to state payment transactions – which are available for download on the NYS Comptroller’s website, Open Book New York. Separately, the Comptroller posts a searchable contract file also within the Open Book New York portal. To the extent that the information contains government errors, our report will reproduce those errors. No quid pro quo or illegal activity by any elected official, company or individual referenced in this piece is implied or intended. Andrew Cuomo was elected governor in 2010. Every person or entity in this piece was given an opportunity to provide comment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-gov-andrew-cuomo-reaped-62-million-campaign-cash-347-state-vendors-who-pocketed

“Unless the US stops printing money, the dollar will collapse.”

We’re less than two weeks away from the US election, and yet this sense of utter confusion, bitter political conflict, and economic uncertainty that has been ominously hovering over the nation, as well as the rest of the world, doesn’t seem to have subsided. The country still appears to be in a directionless state, with its economy in serious trouble and its society dangerously fragmented.

There seems to be a wide rift in US politics, which is not just pragmatic or ideological, but perceptual too: The two “camps” and their supporters appear to be living in and arguing about two different versions of reality, and neither corresponds to the actual experiences of most ordinary citizens, taxpayers and savers. This disconcerting dissonance became painfully apparent in the first Presidential debate, at least to those who had the patience to keep watching after the first few minutes. It was especially pronounced when the candidates were asked about their economic policies and recovery plans. Both had all these grand plans, big-spending dreams and voter-pleasing promises, and for those of us who understand even the very basic lessons from our monetary history, one thing was clear as day: If there’s one thing the two sides can agree on, it’s that fiscal prudence, responsibility and long-term thinking, are at the bottom of their priority list.

This has serious implications for investors and savers that go well beyond the theoretical realm of politics and ideology. To put all these risks in their proper context and to help us get a clearer understanding of how investors can prepare for what lies ahead, I asked my friend Patrick Barron for some of his valuable insights. Pat is an Austrian school economist and he has been a private consultant to the banking industry since 1985. He has taught an introductory course in Austrian economics for several years at the University of Iowa and he also taught for over thirty years at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. He has written dozens of excellent essays disseminated worldwide, including the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, USA.

Claudio Grass (CG): For any student of monetary history, the past decade was a fascinating period. Many of us expected this reckless experiment with QE, negative rates and aggressive expansionism by central bankers to end in tears, but few could have foreseen the response to the Covid crisis. Do you expect this move to “double down” on bad policies to expedite the monetary system’s demise or perhaps to breathe new life into it and simply prolong it?

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/unless-the-us-stops-printing-money-the-dollar-will-collapse/

FinCEN wants to clamp down on small payments fueling crime

Concerned that money transfers worth just a few hundred dollars are helping terrorists and fentanyl traffickers, the U.S. Treasury is pushing a new rule for banks, money transmitters and others.

The top U.S. financial crime watchdog wants to slash the value of transactions that banks and other financial institutions must report as potentially suspicious, citing small payments used to plan terrorist attacks and to import deadly drugs.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, published a proposal with the Federal Reserve last week to require banks and others to collect and share with authorities information on potentially suspicious transactions sent overseas worth more than $250. The current threshold is $3,000.

“Malign actors are using smaller-value cross-border wire transfers to facilitate or commit terrorist financing, narcotics trafficking, and other illicit activity,” FinCEN said in its proposed rule. “Increased recordkeeping and reporting concerning these transactions would be valuable to law enforcement and national security authorities.”

The proposal comes weeks after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists BuzzFeed News, and more than 400 reporters worldwide published the FinCEN Files investigation. The 16-month investigation was largely based on more than 2,100 leaked reports submitted by banks to FinCEN that detail possibly criminal money transfers.

FinCEN Files revealed how banks moved staggering sums of illicit cash for shadowy characters and criminal networks. Banks didn’t always know to whom they were providing services or did so even after the banks were penalized by U.S. authorities for flaws in anti-money laundering practices.

ICIJ reported on transactions, some worth only a few hundred dollars, that banks suspected may have paid for deadly drugs to arrive in the U.S. from China or been used to bribe witnesses to lie during a high-profile war crimes trial. In many cases, banks and other financial institutions, like Western Union and MoneyGram, reported the transactions as suspicious months or years after those who sent or received the money were charged or even jailed for high-profile crimes.

The existing $3,000 threshold dates to 1995. Under that rule, financial institutions that send or receive funds must collect and retain information on the sender’s name and address, the amount, the date, the bank that receives the money and other details.

That threshold is outdated, say crime fighting experts and law enforcement agencies.

In support of the new rule, FinCEN analyzed thousands of suspicious activity reports – or SARs – potentially related to terrorism financing. More than one million transactions included in the analyzed SARs were lower than $500, according to the report.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/fincen-wants-to-clamp-down-on-small-payments-fueling-crime/

Phone Reveals Moldova-Russian Connections

Moldovan President Igor Dodon, who is seeking a second presidential term, is apparently relying on support from the Kremlin and Russian intelligence, according to OCCRP partner RISE Moldova.

In its latest investigative project #Kremlinovici Leaks, RISE reporters worked with the Russian Dossier Center to track communications between Dodon and Russian sources.

According to the team, Kremlinovici is the username Dodon employed to communicate with Moldovan politicians. RISE has previously reported extensively about the president’s alleged shady businesses.

In the investigative report released last week, the reporters noted, “The communication took place via an encrypted application that runs on a BlackBerry smartphone the Socialist party leader had used until mid-2017.”

RISE Moldova said that the smartphone was delivered to its reporters by an anonymous intermediary. “A note [attached] to the device recommended journalists to study the smartphone’s content [for] a few days and extract the information of interest. We later returned the device via the intermediary,” RISE said.

After extracting the contents, RISE also analyzed the data from the Chernov Archives, a “leak from the so-called Moldova affairs division in the administration of President Vladimir Putin,” obtained by Dossier Center.

The RISE journalists said the motives of those providing the phone were unclear, while noting that interesting data was discovered.

“In the process of documenting #Kremlinovici, we have learned that an office with Russian ‘consultants’ exists in the very heart of Chisinau [the Moldovan capital], in the neighborhood close to the Moldovan presidential administration,” RISE said.

The agency added that Moldova’s “Socialist Party lawmakers and a former aide to Prime Minister, Ion Chicu, are frequent visitors to that office.”

RISE added that, “We’ve also learned that some Moldovan politicians have been engaged in collaborative activities with the Kremlin’s consultants for years and that Igor Dodon even has Moscow review speeches he prepares for international events.”

The investigative reporters further learned that an office within the Russian presidential administration deals with Moldova’s affairs. According to the Dossier Center, the office is run by Igor Maslov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13331-phone-reveals-moldova-russian-connections

EXC: Huffy Hunter Expenses Emails – Biden Claims He Is ‘Managing Director’ At Chinese Military-Linked Firm, Demands Massive Cash Reimbursements

Emails found on Hunter Biden’s hard drive reveal he served as the “Managing Director” of CEFC China Energy – a company that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party’s military, the PLA.

CEFC China Energy recently made headlines following a New York Post exposè highlighting how Hunter Biden leveraged his father’s name to ink deals with the Chinese government-linked entity.

The article – ‘Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm’ – also outlines how Joe Biden may have benefitted financially from the deal.

The company, founded by the now-missing Chinese tycoon Ye Jianming, has been identified as collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) since its founding.

CEFC’s PLA ties come through Ye. Even CNN acknowledges it:

“For years, rumors had circulated in China that Ye was a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) princeling […] Onlookers theorized that Ye Jianming’s grandfather was a high-ranking Communist Party official called Ye Jianying. A biography of the younger Ye in a 2012 financial report seemed to support claims of high-level PLA ties. It states that from 2003 until 2005 he was the deputy secretary general of the China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC). That group is a purported political arm of the Chinese military, according to a report by the Project 2049 Institute, a US-based organization that researches Asia security issues. Stylistic similarities between the CEFC China Energy and CAIFC logos did nothing to dispel the idea that Ye was linked to the military.”

What’s more, the Wall Street Journal noted the company was a supplier of the PLA in 2018:

“The company reports over $40 billion in annual revenue including Middle East oil production, financial holdings in Central Europe, trading in Singapore and oil storage depots for China’s strategic national reserve. A person with knowledge of the situation said CEFC supplies the People’s Liberation Army.”

Despite these ties, Hunter Biden identifies himself, “unequivocally with no room for different opinions or interpretation” as a Manging Director of CEFC.

“I am the managing director of CEFC. I have complete authority as to who I hire and who I fire. I have only employees that work for me in DC,” the former veep’s son wrote.

Hunter Biden continued: “I am not in a JV with CEFC. I am not partners with CEFC. I am not employed or funded by CEFC. My expenses will not be reviewed by any CEFC employee. The President of CEFC has no right reason nor ability to terminate HW3.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/hunter-biden-cefc-managing-director/

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