Cartel-Linked Mexican Governor Calls on Immigrants in U.S. to Vote for Biden

A Mexican governor took to social media to ask people originating from his state who live in the U.S. to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in what he called an opportunity to end “a long night of racism and hate.” The governor was previously accused by a top cartel boss for exchanging money for votes in his own election.

Through a video posted on Twitter, Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles asked “paisanas and paisanos” in the U.S. to vote in support of Biden, claiming that President Donald Trump hates migrants.

Mensaje a nuestras paisanas y paisanos con motivo de las próximas elecciones presidenciales en EUA. pic.twitter.com/VcxEebViM8

— Silvano Aureoles (@Silvano_A) October 29, 2020

“This November 3, the U.S. is having elections that are determining for you who live and work and have family on the other side,” Aureoles said. “You have an opportunity to choose a humanitarian government with a different approach that knows and understands the needs of migrants.”

According to Aureoles, there are more than 4 million with roots from Michoacán living in the U.S. and he called on those with voting rights to give voice to those “living in the shadows.”

“While Donald Trump builds walls to stop migrants and separates families, and promotes hate and racism against those who need to go to the other side [of the border],” Aureoles said. “At the same time, he only benefits the rich.”

In the video, Aureoles praised comments made by Biden about providing a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

“On the contrary, the candidate to replace him is pushing an agenda that carries a lot to the historic hopes and dreams of the migrant community through a naturalization program,” Aureoles said. “[Biden] has a vision for all Americans–even for those who don’t yet have papers.”

Aureoles has been a controversial figure since taking office due to the raging violence in his state where large swaths remain under the control of cartels. The escalating turf wars have led to mass kidnappings without any real response by authorities. In early 2018, Nicolas “El Gordo” Sierra, the leader of Los Viagras Cartel, claimed Aureoles paid large sums of money to cartels to generate votes.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/10/30/cartel-linked-mexican-governor-calls-on-immigrants-in-u-s-to-vote-for-biden/

U.S. Marshals Operation Results in Recovery of 27 Missing Children in Virginia

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-marshals-operation-results-recovery-27-missing-children-virginia

Facebook Adds Bogus ‘Fact Check’ to Grenell Post About Biden Tax Plan

Facebook added a “fact check” from the Associated Press to a post by former acting Director of National Intelligence, Ric Grenell, accusing Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden of wanting to raise taxes on Americans. Grenell posted a video of Biden’s own words, which the AP says “lacks context.”

“I posted to @Facebook the video of @JoeBiden saying he would raise taxes. He said it. It’s a video. And this is what Facebook does to the post of Biden’s actual words,” said Grenell on Twitter.

The video shows Joe Biden telling a voter, “if you elect me your taxes are going to be raised not cut.”

“If you elect me, your taxes are gonna be RAISED, not cut.”@JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/8CtXcWbztv

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 28, 2020

I posted to @Facebook the video of @JoeBiden saying he would raise taxes. He said it. It’s a video.

And this is what Facebook does to the post of Biden’s actual words. pic.twitter.com/7oKokRJG2f

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 29, 2020

“The former Malaysian Prime Minister is saying Muslims have a right to kill French people and the President of Iran consistently calls for gays to be pushed off buildings but posting an actual video of Joe Biden speaking is censored. Facebook and Twitter are out of control,” Grenell told Breitbart News.

The Associated Press “fact check” added to the Facebook post claims the video is “missing context” because it doesn’t quote Biden’s full tax plan, including his promise not raise income taxes on those who make less than $400,000 a year.

However, numerous instances of the Democrats taking comments from President Trump out of context, including the “very fine people” hoax are typically not fact-checked by Facebook.

In addition to suppressing the New York Post’s bombshell Biden-Ukraine story, Facebook has also censored ads from the Trump campaign highlighting Antifa violence.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied censoring the Post’s content at a hearaing of the Senate Commerce Committee earlier this week, but social media analytics shows that his platform’s actions reduced the reach of the Post’s story to around half that of high profile anti-Trump stories.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/30/facebook-adds-bogus-fact-check-to-grenell-post-about-biden-tax-plan/

Federal appeals court nixes Minnesota Democratic secretary of state's plan to extend the mail-in ballot deadline — for now

The court ordered officials to separate late-arriving ballots for possible removal

A federal appeals court has upended Minnesota Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon's plan to extend the state's vote counting deadline by seven days.

In a 2-1 decision Thursday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Republican state representative and GOP activist could challenge Simon's order to extend the deadline and ordered that all ballots received after election day must be separated "to be removed from vote totals in the event a final order is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction determining such votes to be invalid or unlawfully counted."

"However well-intentioned and appropriate from a policy perspective in the context of a pandemic during a presidential election, it is not the province of a state executive official to re-write the state's election code," the decision added. "There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution."

Reuters reported that while Minnesota law requires absentee ballots be received by Election Day, the deadline had been extended by Simon through a settlement reached with a citizens group which sued earlier in the year.

Under the settlement, mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Nov. 3 would be counted if received by Nov. 10 — and even those without postmarks would be counted unless it could be proven that they were not sent before or on the 3rd.

The ruling sends the case back down to a lower court for further litigation but orders that late-arriving ballots not be lumped in with the rest.

In response, Simon told reporters that the timing of the decision was "unnecessarily disruptive" and complained that "just shy of 400,000" absentee ballots requested by voters in the state have not been received.

"They could be in transit or they could be on coffee tables throughout Minnesota," he said, adding that officials are considering an appeal to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted North Carolina's and Pennsylvania's extended deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots.

Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar blasted the ruling on Twitter, saying, "In the middle of a pandemic, the Republican Party is doing everything to make it hard for you to vote."

Minnesota Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan praised the decision.

"The Democrats are losing it," she tweeted Thursday. "Their efforts to manipulate our election laws met a road block today: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and the law. The integrity of our election to have votes in by 8 pm Election Day is intact. We will always applaud freedom and fairness."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/appeals-court-minnesota-mail-in-voting

As Facebook Censorship Peaks—A Better Alternative Treats You as a Customer, Not the Product

It is no secret that Facebook is a leviathan of corruption, censorship, spying, and an outright divide-stoking platform that has been a part of facilitating a massively bicameral society that is ripping apart. Thanks to its algorithms that keep users in their own partisan bubbles, billions of people across the planet who get most of their information from Facebook, have fallen into a bias-confirming slumber and react with anger, and sometimes violence, when presented with factual information that challenges their Facebook-constructed world view.

It is leading to mass ignorance, the shouting down of peaceful ideas, and hatred for our fellow man.

Even former high-level executives inside Facebook have come forward to attempt to alert the world to technocratic dystopia this social media platform is creating. For years, the Free Thought Project has been screaming this information from the rooftops. We even held a summit in Houston last year with heads of media companies from all over the world to discuss how to successfully combat the forthcoming big tech dictatorship.

But we were lacking one thing — an awakening to the censorship large enough to help create a massive migration to something better.

While heads of state across the world set out to make Facebook change to their will, or regulate them into submission — which cannot and will not ever happen or lead to any positive change — the Free Thought Project and others have been promoting and building alternative platforms. On these other platforms, unlike Facebook, the user is actually the customer, not the product. And, the term “censorship” is only used to describe these dinosaur social media companies who are finally being exposed.

Since the great alternative media purge in 2018, the Free Thought Project has kept our presence on Facebook — despite them repeatedly banning our pages, wiping away years of work and millions of followers in the process — in an effort to help guide people to a better way. Finally, after having their private information bought and sold by the highest bidder, repeated spying, and and constant censorship of peaceful views, this complacency is waning and people are now looking for a that better way.

Luckily, it is here.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/as-facebook-censorship-peaks-better-alternative-treats-you-as-a-customer-not-the-product/

Mexican Government ‘Profoundly Upset’ After DEA Arrests Fmr. Secretary of Defense

Mexico’s top diplomat publicly shared that his country’s government is “profoundly upset” after the DEA arrested a former secretary of defense for drug charges without official warning.

During a news conference, Mexican Foreign Relations Minister Marcelo Ebrard said he expressed discontent toward the U.S. Ebrard claimed that U.S. diplomats had told him they could not release information about the sealed grand jury indictment. The diplomat expressed his unhappiness anyway. The official added that Mexico’s government was ready to provide consular assistance to the jailed general.

Earlier this month, the DEA arrested General Salvador “El Padrino” Cienfuegos on drug charges–alleging he worked with and provided official protection to members of the Beltran Leyva Cartel (aka “H2”). Authorities arrested Cienfuegos as he landed in California. A federal judge ruled he will be held without bond.

The arrest sent shockwaves throughout Mexico. Cienfuegos served under former President Enrique Pena Nieto from a rival party to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). Cienfuegos is the second top official to face arrest in recent months. In December 2019, U.S. authorities arrested Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former Public Security Secretary, on drug charges. While Garcia Luna and Cienfuegos did not serve under AMLO, their arrests reinforce the perception of corruption at the highest levels in Mexico City.

The latest arrest is still a headache for AMLO as his administration relies heavily on the military to address cartel and public security issues.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/10/29/mexican-government-profoundly-upset-after-dea-arrests-fmr-secretary-of-defense/

Florida police say 2 men fished mail out of a drop box, stole ballots

Be on the lookout for election crime

Police say two Florida men stole mail, including two mail-in ballots, from a dropbox at a post office in Broward County.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that on Tuesday a patrolling police officer spotted the men lingering near a mailbox in Lighthouse Point, north of Fort Lauderdale, long enough to draw the officer's suspicions. The two suspects, Junior Alexander Cabral, 28, and Vladimir Cabral Cuevas, 20, were in a white Honda CRV next to the mailbox when approached by the officer.

During questioning, the policeman noticed a bag of mail wedged between the front seat and center console of the vehicle. He also observed a device used to extract mail from the drop box and two ballots that were separated from the rest of the mail.

Cabral and Cuevas were arrested and charged with stealing ballots, fraud, and petty theft, the Associated Press reports.

When the men appeared in court Thursday morning, presiding Judge Corey Amanda Cawthorn expressed concerns over the nature of the charges so close to Election Day.

"I'm not going to speculate as to the intentions behind the allegations, what mail was intended to be recovered or not," she said. "But, I do have to take notice of the fact we have a very big election coming up next week and the timing seems to be aggravating in Mr. Cabral's case."

A defense attorney representing Cuevas claimed that incident was a misunderstanding.

"My client was charged incorrectly by overzealous law enforcement looking to fill an empty narrative that would make a politically expedient mountain out of a molehill given the proximity to the general election," he told the Sun-Sentinel in a statement issued Thursday.

Broward assistant state attorney Katherine David requested a $10,000 bond for the ballot theft charge, noting that Cabral and Cuevas had no prior convictions.

Lighthouse Point police Commander Jack Vaccaro said the ballots will not be held as evidence and will be counted in the election.

"We are making arrangements to return these two ballots to their owners so they can deliver them to be counted," he said.

In September, the Federal Bureau of Investigations warned voters to be on the lookout for election crimes as the Nov. 3 election approaches. Earlier this week, the FBI began an investigation after a ballot drop box holding more than 120 ballots was set on fire in Boston.

"Every year, Americans pick their leaders and make their voices heard through elections," assistant director for the Criminal Investigative Division Calvin Shivers said in September. "Those elections must remain free and fair to ensure voters' voices are truly heard. As Americans get ready to vote, the FBI is asking each citizen to remain vigilant and report any suspected criminal scheme targeting voters to the FBI immediately."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-police-say-2-men-fished-mail-out-of-a-drop-box-stole-ballots

France Dissolves Islamist Group, Founder Requests Political Asylum in Erdogan’s Turkey

The former head of the Islamist NGO Barakacity, which was dissolved by the French government, has requested political asylum from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The founder and former head of the now-defunct Islamist NGO, Idriss Sihamedi, took to Twitter to speak about the aftermath of the government ban.

“The French state decided to dissolve the humanitarian aid and human rights organisation Barakacity, which operates for two million poor people in 26 countries. This is despite there being no real charges in the files after a three-year investigation,” Sihamedi wrote in Turkish.

He went on to address President Erdogan’s Twitter account directly, asking: “I would like to request political asylum for myself and my team since I am not safe in France on behalf of our NGO.”

Macron Govt Proposes Dissolving Major Islamist Associations After Teacher Beheading https://t.co/N90nY0RouO

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 20, 2020

France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the formal dissolution of Barakacity earlier this week after stating that the group “incited hatred” and “maintained relations within the radical Islamist movement”.

Sihamedi has been labelled a Salafist in the past, and French media revealed that he had previously been under observation by the French domestic security agency, the Directorate General of Homeland Security (DGSI).

The NGO has also been accused of strange financial practices in 2013 when it raised around €3 million but claimed to have a “profit” of nearly €2 million.

The ban on the group is just one step taken by President Emmanuel Macron’s government since the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.

A mosque which shared a video on Facebook targeting Paty was also closed by the government following the attack. Earlier this week, a court confirmed the closure of the Patin mosque for the next six months.

Sihamedi’s request to President Erdogan is likely not a coincidence as Erdogan has called President Macron mentally unwell over his policy to crack down on Islamist groups and tensions between the two countries remain high.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/30/fmr-head-dissolved-french-islamist-ngo-asks-turkey-asylum/

Sculpture of Donald Trump Having Sex With Miss Universe Displayed in London Gallery

A lewd sculpture depicting President Donald Trump having sex with a mock Miss Universe has been put on display in an art gallery in Central London. The sculpture will be shown at the Soho Revue until election day on November 3rd and was dubbed by the artist the “Official Presidential Send Off”.

In an exclusive interview, British artist Alison Jackson told Breitbart London that her raunchy depiction of the American leader gives people the opportunity to see “everything they’ve imagined but never seen before, come to life before their very eyes.”

“The thing about this sculpture, it’s like throwing up a mirror to people of what Donald Trump does and represents. He represents grabbing women by the pussy, and his bad behaviour with women. So when people see this sculpture they say that’s exactly what he’s going to be doing in the Oval Office,” Jackson said.

“This is what you expect, this is what you imagine of Donald Trump. This is what he does best,” she added.

The gallery’s windows have been blacked out aside from two peepholes, for pedestrians to stare into and get a glimpse of the simulated sex act. Next to the peephole is a mock road sign warning that reads: “Caution Slippery Politicians”.

One passerby told Breitbart London: “I think it captures 2020 perfectly, I certainly think it captures the essence of Trump in his entirety.”

Another was more critical, saying: “I think it lacks subtlety, it’s brutal, to the point, but it’s a bit like Banksy, it says something very obvious, in not a very clever way.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/30/exclusive-video-sculpture-of-donald-trump-having-sex-with-miss-universe-displayed-in-london-gallery/

COVID Vaccine Trials: Rigged Benchmarks and Horrible Side Effects

By now, word regarding the COVID vaccine trials

has leaked out. We know that many companies from the Big Pharma cartel have had to report embarrassing results from their COVID vaccine trials. Recently, we learnt that a volunteer participant in Brazil died in the COVID vaccine trial being conducted by AstraZeneca (in conjunction with Oxford University). Before that, in the same set of AstraZeneca trials, 2 women developed serious adverse effects, one of whom experienced neurological symptoms consistent with a serious spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis. Meanwhile, in the COVID vaccine trials of Johnson and Johnson (yes, the same Big Pharma company that was present at Bill Gates’ prophetic Event 201 simulation), there was an ‘unexplained illness’ in one of the volunteers. Even for those who passionately believe in vaccines, these horrible side effects are disturbing, all the more since the New World Order (NWO) agenda is dictating that the COVID vaccine be rolled out worldwide on a quasi-mandatory or fully mandatory basis.

Widespread and Serious Side Effects Everywhere in COVID Vaccine Trials

In another case, the COVID vaccine being developed by Moderna led to one participant developing a fever of more than 103º and later fainting in his home. In Moderna’s Phase 1 human trial, 100% of volunteers in the high-dose group suffered systemic side effects – fatigue, chills, headache and myalgia (muscle pain). In fact, Moderna’s vaccine was shown to have a 20% “serious” injury rate in its high-dose group; one participant in their trial stated that he had become “the sickest in his life” after taking the vaccine. In this interview with Gates, the CBS anchor reveals 80% of trial participants had a systemic reaction after the 2nd dose. The corruption goes deeper still, for the FDA just granted permission to yet another Big Pharma company Pfizer to test its experimental COVID vaccine on American children! Although it wasn’t for the COVID vaccine, there was another COVID trial that was halted; the NIH stopped the Eli Lilly COVID antibody trial because of safety concerns. The dubious amount of side effects apparently hasn’t been a problem for AstraZeneca, who according to Reuters was able to strike deals with many nations whereby it will gain protection from future vaccine liability claims.

https://thefreedomarticles.com/covid-vaccine-trials-rigged-benchmarks-and-horrible-side-effects/

U.S. Air Force launches $7million Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile 4,200 miles across the Pacific to remote Marshall Islands in test 'not related to current world events'

The U.S. Airforce has launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in the latest in a series of tests.

The Minuteman III ICBM was equipped with a test reentry vehicle and was launched at 12.27 a.m. on October 29, according to an Air Force news release.

Officials stressed that the test was planned well in advance and was not a reaction to current events.

The ICBM's reentry vehicle travelled 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the speed of 15,000mph. A single Minuteman III costs $7 million.

'The launch calendars are built three to five years in advance, and planning for each individual launch begins six months to a year prior to launch,' according to the release.

'Test launches are not a response or reaction to world events or regional tensions.'

The latest in a string of such tests, the launch aimed to demonstrate that the U.S. nuclear deterrent is a 'safe, secure, reliable and effective' means to deter modern threats and reassure allies, Air Force officials said.

'Like previous test launches, this event demonstrated the Air Force's commitment to the Nation's nuclear enterprise while ensuring the United States' nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, and effective to deter our adversaries while reassuring our allies and partners,' said Air Force Chief of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., in a statement.

'We must continue to invest in this viable deterrent, and the Airmen who support this mission, as part of the most responsive leg of our nuclear triad.'

A video released by the Airforce showed the missile launching from a silo after a cover slid back.

Smoke is seen coming out of the hole in the ground before a flash of light is seen as the missile blasts out of the silo and into the air above the base.

Another camera angle - far back from the launch site - shows the missile as its propelled into upwards, leaving a trail of flames across the night's sky.

http://www.domigood.com/2020/10/us-air-force-launches-7million.html

DID THE ECONOMIST AID A CHINESE COMMUNIST INFLUENCE OPERATION?:

via strategypage:

On Oct. 26, the Washington Free Beacon published a hard-hitting investigative article exposing a truly appalling and destructive example of communist China’s long-term war on free societies, in this case using influence and information as weapons.

More:

The Free Beacon’s bottom-line accusation: Chinese money bought advantageous (euphemized) treatment, if not favorable news coverage and a positive editorial attitude in a news and business journal long regarded as one of the world’s most influential — influential in terms of its editorial acumen, erudite reporting and savvy story selection. The Economist’s international subscriber base is well educated, wealthy and connected.

It appears the CCP managed to influence The Economist’s purveyors of influence and did so not in one or two instances but for eight critical years. The CCP wasn’t simply targeting The Economist. Huawei has tried to coopt media everywhere. But The Economist allegedly influences the influencers in capital cities around the planet, which gives it unique leverage.

An even bigger bottom line:

From the Chinese perspective, Hunter Biden’s alleged business deals in China would classify as an effort to influence an individual leader.

It’s my latest Creators Syndicate column.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/did-the-economist-aid-a-chinese-communist-influence-operation/

'Big four' tech titans Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple see profits climb by £29billion and post record £177billion sales as they cash in during Covid pandemic

The 'big four' tech titans Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple have posted combined profits of £29billion and produced a record £177billion of sales as they continue to cash in on the coronavirus pandemic.

In a blowout set of earnings, the four tech giants all reported quarterly results within minutes of each other yesterday.

For July to September, Amazon's profits climbed to £4.87billion ($6.3billion); Apple's dropped to £9.8billion ($12.7billion); Google's increased to £8.7billion ($11.25billion); and Facebook's rose to £6.1billion ($7.84billion).

The figures stand in stark contrast to the fortunes of many traditional businesses, which have been devastated by the Covid-19 crisis, as consumers flock online to buy goods and switch to working from home.

Big Tech's earnings also continue to soar despite increased regulatory scrutiny across the four companies - including federal antitrust charges against Google's parent company Alphabet Inc and user and advertiser boycotts of Facebook Inc.

On Wednesday, a day before the earnings were published, Republican senators in a virtual Senate commerce committee tongue-lashed Facebook, Google and Twitter, accusing them of censoring conservative content on their platforms.

Google has also been sued by the Department of Justice for anti-competitive behaviour and Apple is being watched after it emerged that it was charging a premium for companies to advertise through its App Store.

Amazon said yesterday that its sales surged 37 per cent for the quarter to a record $96.2 billion (£74.4billion), generating a $6.3 billion (£4.87billion) profit, roughly three times its profits from the same period last year.

'There is no doubt that Amazon's latest results show it continues to be a winner from disruption caused by the pandemic,' said Neil Saunders of the research firm GlobalData.

But Saunders said growth was slower than in recent quarters as rivals ramped up competition and that 'Amazon's share of wallet dropped back a little.'

Shares in iPhone maker Apple fell as the firm reported a one per cent rise in revenues to £50billion ($64.7 billion) and a seven per cent drop in profits to £9.8billion ($12.7billion).

This was slightly better than expectations but Apple did not offer any forecasts of sales for Christmas, leaving investors in the dark about how well the firm thinks its new iPhone 12 handset will sell.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive and richest person in the world, said in a press release, 'We're seeing more customers than ever shopping early for their holiday gifts, which is just one of the signs that this is going to be an unprecedented holiday season.'

At the same time, logistics costs have been rising in recent months as Amazon worked to cut standard delivery times for Prime loyalty club customers – and the pandemic has only added to its challenges.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/10/big-four-tech-titans-amazon-facebook.html

Global Dark Winter Plan Initiated – France national security alert system has just been raised to the maximum level!

Looks like the globalists are firing off a global Jihad, starting in France!

BREAKING – France hit by terror wave on Prophet Mohamed’s birthday:

– beheadings in the church of Notre-Dame in #Nice

– stabbing attack on police officers in #Avignon

– knife attack on a security guard at the French embassy in Saudi Arabia

— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) October 29, 2020

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/global-dark-winter-plan-initiated-france-national-security-alert-system-has-just-been-raised-to-the-maximum-level/

Key Steele Dossier Source Revealed As Alcoholic Disgruntled Russian PR Exec In Cyprus

Just days before the election, but certainly still dismissed from coverage by the very networks that for years peddled the hoax, the final nail has gone into the Steele dossier coffin.

Already widely debunked, including by no less than Special Counsel Robert Mueller who the Steele dossier advocates put all their hopes in only for their delusion to eventually be shattered, a key source for many of its claims has been revealed by The Wall Street Journal to be a disgruntled Russian PR executive living in Cyprus.

40-year old Olga Galkina "stood as the dossier’s most important contributor," WSJ reported, after she was tapped by her old school friend and Steele’s employee, Igor Danchenko, to dig up dirt of Trump's dealings in Russia using the "vast network of people" from her various jobs in and out of the public sector.

Described as a public-relations executive, she "fed notes" to Danchenko for the dossier, including many of its most central claims. And of course behind all of this was British spy Christopher Steele, himself paid by Fusion GPS, and behind this the DNC itself.

They knew each other since the 8th grade in Perm, as the WSJ details:

Mr. Danchenko told the FBI that a school friend, referred to in heavily redacted FBI notes as "Source 3," had provided him with information for Mr. Steele "across a wide range of topics," and stood as the dossier’s most important contributor. The former high-ranking U.S. national-security official told The Wall Street Journal that the source in question was Ms. Galkina.

It was Galkina who claimed Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly contacted Russian intelligence in Prague to establish compensation for DNC hackers in the summer of 2016. Crucially she had fed Steele's team the name of her own Cyprus-based employer Webzilla as being behind the hack under company owner Aleksej Gubarev.

So the Steele Dossier that kicked off 4 years of Russiagate hysteria among the US ruling class was cooked up by two Russian alcoholics from Perm. “Gogolesque” does not begin to describe the grotesque credulity & stupidity of the American elites.https://t.co/LynUT8KLWx

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) October 28, 2020

At the very time Galkina was feeding Danchenko the information she was locked in an ugly dispute with her employer (the parent company of Webzilla) which she was intent on taking down. A mere eight months after starting at Webzilla in Cyprus, the company was forced to contact Cypriot police over her erratic and even dangerous behavior, which included frequently showing up to work late and drunk while making threats.

The WSJ notes that its reporters have reviewed the police statement, which revealed further: "The manager told police that an acquaintance of Ms. Galkina had told him he would face deep trouble, including possible death, unless he paid €10,000 ($11,740) in compensation, according to the statement, which was confirmed by a Cypriot official and a person who attended its recording."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/key-steele-dossier-source-revealed-alcoholic-disgruntled-russian-pr-exec-cyprus

Instagram has temporarily removed its 'recent' search listings for US users in a bid to stop fake election news

Instagram has temporarily removed the 'Recent' tab on its hashtag pages for US users to prevent the spread of misinformation before the November 3 presidential election.

This means that when US users of the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform search for a hashtag, they no longer have the option to view 'recent' results.

Instagram's 'Recent' tab arranges hashtags in chronological order and amplifies the most recent posts regardless of their content.

This automated amplification can lead to the rapid spread of misinformation on the platform when users search #uselection in the next few days.

However, Instagram has removed the Recent tab for US users regardless of what hashtag they search for.

'As we near the US elections, we’re making changes to make it harder for people to come across possible misinformation on Instagram,' the Instagram Comms Twitter account said late on Thursday.

'Starting today, for people in the US we will temporarily remove the 'Recent' tab from hashtag pages.

'We’re doing this to reduce the real-time spread of potentially harmful content that could pop up around the election.'

The decision comes after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg warned of the potential for 'civil unrest' on election day.

'I'm worried that with our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or weeks to be finalised there is a risk of civil unrest,' said Zuckerberg during a call discussing Facebook’s third-quarter earnings.

'Given this, companies like ours need to go well beyond what we've done before.'

Facebook has banned all new political advertisements in the week before the election and also plans to stop running political ads indefinitely in the US once the polls close.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2020/10/instagram-has-temporarily-removed-its.html

The Bank of England has pumped up the housing market again

Overnight there has been quite a shift in economic sentiment. To some extent I am referring to the falls in equity markets although the real issue is the new lockdown in France and increased restrictions in Germany. As we have been noting they were obviously on their way and the Euro area now looks set to see its economy contract again this quarter. It will be interesting to see how and if the ECB responds to this in today’s meeting and these feeds also into the Bank of England. The UK has tightened restrictions especially in Northern Ireland and Wales as we now wonder what more the central banks can do in response to this?

Still even in this economic storm there is something to make a central banker smile.

LONDON (Reuters) – Lloyds Banking Group LLOY.L posted forecast-beating third quarter profit on Thursday, lowering its provisions for expected bad loans due to the pandemic and cashing in on a boom in demand for mortgages.

Britain’s biggest domestic lender reported pre-tax profits of 1 billion pounds for the July-September period, compared to the 588 million pounds average of analysts’ forecasts.

Few things cheer a central banker more than an improvement in prospects for The Precious! But we can see that there is also for them a cherry on top of the icing.

The bank booked new mortgage lending of 3.5 billion pounds over the quarter, after receiving the biggest surge in quarterly applications since 2008.

That links into the theme of monetary easing which of course is claimed to help businesses but if you believe the official protestations somehow inexplicably ends up in the housing market every time. So let us look at the latest monetary data which has just been released. Oh and one point before I move on, what use are analysts who keep getting things so wrong?

Mortgages

Whoever was responsible for the Bank of England morning meeting today must have run there with a smile on their face and gone through the whole release word by word.

The mortgage market strengthened a little further in September. On net, households borrowed an additional £4.8 billion secured on their homes, following borrowing of £3.0 billion in August. This pickup in borrowing follows high levels of mortgage approvals for house purchase seen over recent months. Mortgage borrowing troughed at £0.2 billion in April, but has since recovered reaching levels slightly higher than the average of £4.0 billion in the six months to February 2020. The increase on the month reflected higher gross borrowing of £20.5 billion, although this remains below the February level of £23.4 billion.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-bank-of-england-has-pumped-up-the-housing-market-again/

How to Track Your Absentee Ballot by State

If postal slowdowns have you concerned about the status of your mail-in ballot, here's how to check that it's been received and counted.

Voting in 2020 looks very different across the country. People will be voting by absentee ballot in record numbers and with the postal system facing major delays, the question of whether your vote counts can be an all too literal one. Fortunately, most states and the D.C. have set up systems for voters to check whether or not their ballot was received.

The first step, of course, is registered to vote and requesting or filling out that ballot. Once that's done, the states below let you enter your name and date of birth to find out the status of your ballot.

Alabama

Alabama Votes

Alaska

Alaska Division of Elections

Arkansas

Arkansas Secretary of State

Arizona

Arizona Secretary of State

California

Where's My Ballot?

Colorado

https://au.pcmag.com/how-to/68732/how-to-track-your-absentee-ballot-by-state

Use link for state by state instructions

Israel Prepares for War on Multiple Fronts

IDF wraps up massive military exercise that simulated war in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and other countries

On Thursday, Israel’s military completed a massive military exercise known as Lethal Arrow. The drill began on Sunday and simulated war on multiple fronts, in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and countries far from Israel’s borders.

An IDF spokesperson said the drill simulated a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon to the north and battle with other groups in Syria, Gaza, and “in countries that don’t border” Israel. The drill involved ground forces, fighter jets, and Israel’s Navy.

“We are preparing for a significant attack from the north and at the same time we can’t be surprised by attacks from the east from various ranges,” a senior IDF official said. “We are at war with an enemy with an arsenal of thousands of rockets and we are taking into account that there would be attacks from the east as well.”

Tensions have been high between Israel and Hezbollah since an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a member of the Shia group. Israel regularly bombs Syria, although they rarely admit it. Israeli officials usually make vague statements about the strikes, and Israeli media paint whatever targets get hit as “Iranian.”

In August, Israel carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah observation posts inside Lebanon near the border after reports of shots being fired towards Israeli troops. Israel also frequently bombs Gaza in response to rocket fire or incendiary kites being sent from the besieged enclave.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/29/israel-prepares-for-war-on-multiple-fronts/

FBI To The Rescue: Feds Arrest Members Of Suspected Fed-Run Honeypot 'The Base' Just Days Before Election

A neighbor told The Detroit News that one of the suspects is "a tool" and "he doesn't even have a car"

Christoper Wray's FBI on Thursday staged the dramatic arrest of two alleged "white supremacists" that were part of the suspected honeypot group "The Base" that was run by an intelligence contractor and suspected federal agent.

Reading through the lines, it appears the FBI could have arrested these two months ago but Wray sat on it just like with the Michigan militia (which was also filled with federal agents and informants) so it could have maximum electoral impact and push the media's hoax "white supremacy" narrative.

Fortunately, people these days are wising up to how this scam is run.

This is the top comment on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/d4uukeypS7Y

From CBS:

The FBI and Michigan state police have arrested a self-proclaimed leader of the white supremacy group The Base and an alleged associate, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Thursday. The suspects are linked to a December 2019 incident in which The Base allegedly targeted a Michigan family's home, mistakenly believing it belonged to a podcaster critical of the neo-Nazi movement.

Justen Watkins, 25, the man who allegedly claimed to be leader of the group, and Alfred Gorman, 35, both of Michigan, have been charged with felony counts of gang membership, unlawful posting of a message and using computers to commit a crime. If convicted, they could face more than 25 years in prison.

According to prosecutors, a man and a woman witnessed two men in dark clothing shining a light and taking pictures on the front porch of the family's home in Dexter, Michigan. The photos were then allegedly uploaded to The Base's channel on the secret chat app Telegram, and misidentified the house as belonging to the podcaster, who Nessel's office said had never lived in the home.

Nessel said the suspects intended to intimidate the podcaster and the posting of the message was "intended to cause conduct that would make the residents feel terrorized and emotionally distressed."

"Using tactics of intimidation to incite fear and violence constitutes criminal behavior," Nessel said in a statement. "We cannot allow dangerous activities to reach their goal of inflicting violence and harm on the public."

Prosecutors also said Watkins ran a "hate camp" for members of The Base. Prosecutors said he allegedly led tactical and firearms training for participants.

A neighbor told The Detroit News that Watkins is "a tool" and "he doesn't even have a car."

Incidentally, the supposed "leader" of the Michigan militia group was a homeless guy who was living in his friend's basement.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61870

NY Post’s ‘Smoking Gun’ Hunter Biden Email 100% Authentic, Forensic Analysis Concludes

An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation, is unquestionably authentic, a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.

The DCNF obtained a full copy of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday. The DCNF provided Robert Graham, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Errata Security, with a copy of the email and its metadata for forensic analysis.

Graham, who has been cited as a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Wired, Engadget and other news and technology outlets, told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email’s metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky, an advisor to Burisma’s board of directors, emailed Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015.

In the email, Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for “inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.”

The New York Post first reported the email in October, describing it as a “smoking-gun” showing that Hunter Biden had introduced his father to the Burisma executive in 2015.

The email was sent less than a year before Joe Biden pressured former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire a prosecutor who was reportedly investigating the gas company in return for a $1 billion loan guarantee.

Graham previously told the DCNF that emails sent from Gmail, such as Pozharski’s message to Hunter Biden, can be “absolutely verified beyond a shadow of a doubt” by testing its contents against the unique DKIM signature found in its metadata.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/29/cybersecurity-expert-authenticates-hunter-biden-burisma-email/

Democrats in Congress Demand More Big Tech Censorship, Not Less

As most on the Senate Commerce Committee too the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to task on censorship, some Senators went on record as saying they don’t censor speech enough

The hearings on social media censorship earlier this week saw Republican Senators, and some Democrat Senators, taking issue with Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg over their organizations’ propensity to employ politically biased censorship. But some on the committee believe they don’t go far enough.

While Republican Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX, and Ron Johnson (R-WI), took Dorsey and Zuckerberg to task, Democrats on the committee praised the Silicon Valley billionaires for silencing “hate speech” in America. And at least three made it quite clear they expected more of it.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), said social media and big tech companies need to take more action, not less, suggesting that all articles questioning universal masking be removed completely from the internet. She exampled a tweet by the President citing data that proves

99 percent of people recover from COVID. She was outraged that he hadn’t been censored.

https://nationalfile.com/democrats-in-congress-demand-more-big-tech-censorship-not-less/

FIVE PER DAY: Trump Rally Schedule Announced for Final Days of Campaign

The Trump campaign announced the schedule for President Trump for the last three days of the campaign that features five rallies per day in closely polling states on Sunday and Monday and four events in Pennsylvania on Saturday including three rallies.

Following Saturday’s barnstorming of Pennsylvania, Trump will hold three rallies in Michigan over Sunday and Monday, rallies in North Carolina Sunday and Monday, Sunday rallies in Iowa, Georgia and Florida, and Monday rallies in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Trump is holding rallies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota Friday. The Fayetteville, North Carolina rally that was scheduled for Thursday was postponed to Monday due to weather conditions.

Trump was hospitalized at the begininng of October with the COVID-19 China coronavirus but has bounce back so strongly he jokes on stage that he feels like Superman.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/five-per-day-trump-campaign-rally-schedule-announced-final-days-campaign/

UK Police Chief: It’s a “Civic Duty” to Snitch on Neighbors Violating COVID Restrictions

A UK police chief has called it a “civic duty” to snitch on neighbors and businesses that violate COVID-19 restrictions while criticizing the culture that condemns such tattle tailing.

On Wednesday, Merseyside Chief Constable Andy Cooke condemned the ‘sneering culture’ against those who tip-off police when he told the Daily Mail that if Brits carry out their “civic duty” of snitching on those who refuse to follow the martial-law-esque social and economic restrictions imposed by government, they “will save lives.”

“People are doing a civic duty in contacting us for the right reasons,” Cooke said. “The vast majority of people across the country are really concerned about this. Any information that you can give us in relation to breaches will save lives, and that’s why people are doing it.”

Cooke’s words follow the decision of West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson to break up any Christmas celebration that violates government lockdown restrictions.

“If we think there’s large groups of people gathering where they shouldn’t be, then police will have to intervene. If, again, there’s flagrant breaking of the rules, then the police would have to enforce,” Jamieson said.

After adding that “it’s not the police’s job to stop people enjoying their Christmas,” the Crime Commissioner stated that this would not stop the police from following orders.

However, we are there to enforce the rules that the Government makes, and if the Government makes those rules then the Government has to explain that to the public.

Jamieson says he believes that public “frustration” with decisions to spoil Christmas celebrations could boil over into civil unrest.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/10/uk-police-chief-its-a-civic-duty-to-snitch-on-neighbors-violating-covid-restrictions.html

US and Chinese Militaries Hold Talks Amid Heightened Tensions

Beijing says US is not planning an attack on Chinese territory

With tensions between the US and China at their highest in decades, military chiefs from the two countries decided to hold talks on crisis communications. According to China’s defense ministry, the US and Chinese militaries held a video conference meeting on October 28th and 29th.

One issue China raised with the US were rumors of a US drone attack on Chinese-claimed islands in the South China Sea. The rumors of such an attack stemmed from a US military drill held in California in September. The exercise simulated an island attack, and US Airmen operating MQ-9 Reaper drones wore patches that depicted a drone and a skeleton over a red silhouette of China.

China said US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper dismissed the rumor that the US was planning an attack in the South China Sea. “US Defense Secretary Esper clarified the issue through the military diplomacy channel and said the reports were inconsistent with the facts,” Wu Qian, China’s defense ministry spokesman, said.

The US has significantly increased military activity in the South China Sea this year. Despite the increased military footprint, Wu said the US does not want to create a military crisis. “The US side does not have the intention to create a military crisis and is willing to build stable, constructive, results-oriented ties with the Chinese side,” Wu said.

Wu also called on the US to stop “stop military provocation against China” and said Beijing would respond to “anyone who dares to incite conflicts at sea.”

It’s not clear if Esper participated directly in the talks or if he spoke to China through other channels. A Pentagon statement on the talks said the dialogue allowed the opportunity to create principles to “prevent and manage crisis and reduce risk to forces.”

“The two sides agreed on the importance of establishing mechanisms for timely communication during a crisis, as well as the need to maintain regular communication channels to prevent crisis and conduct post-crisis assessment,” the Pentagon said.

The militaries are expected to meet again before the year is over to exchange views on humanitarian aid and maritime security.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/29/us-and-chinese-militaries-hold-talks-amid-heightened-tensions/

Ukraine launches criminal case against Constitutional Court judges

Verkhovna Rada member Yaroslav Yurchishin earlier revealed that he appealed to Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova asking her to launch a pre-trial probe against the judges on the article of forceful change or toppling of constitutional order

KIEV, October 30. /TASS/. A criminal case against the Constitutional Court judges was opened in Ukraine on the article of plot to forcefully topple constitutional order or seize state power, Verkhovna Rada (parliament) member Yaroslav Yurchishin inormed Friday.

"Proceedings were launched under my petition into possible collusion of the constitutional judges to seize power. It will help to remove judges complicit in the wrongdoing without destroying the institute of Constitutional Court to then later fill it with candidates through competition," he wrote on Facebook.

Earlier, the lawmaker revealed that he appealed to Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova asking her to launch a pre-trial probe against the judges on the article of forceful change or toppling of constitutional order. The article can entail a punishment of up to 10 years behind bars. Yurchishin made the appeal after the Constitutional Court ruled that a lot of provisions of the anti-corruption law ran counter to the constitution, in particular the requirement to publish digital declarations by officials and their inspection. On October 29, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defense Council that Kiev would lose the West’s financial support due to this decision.

Zelensky later introduced a bill to the parliament to sack the judges and recognize their decision null and void.

https://tass.com/world/1218397

Nancy Pelosi: 'Biden will be president WHATEVER the END COUNT is on Election Day'

Nancy Pelosi confident Biden will be president ‘whatever the end count is’ on Election Day

"I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected president on Tuesday," Pelosi (D-California) said through her mask at a press conference on Thursday afternoon. "Whatever the end count is on the election that occurs on Tuesday, he will be elected. On January 20 he will be inaugurated president of the United States."

https://theduran.com/nancy-pelosi-biden-will-be-president-whatever-the-end-count-is-on-election-day/