Barack Obama: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ‘Will Restore a Bunch of Norms’

Former President Barack Obama said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) that people who voted for President Donald Trump may not have had “facts” because of their news sources and that he believes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will “restore a bunch of norms.”

In the interview, host Michel Martin asked Obama about the election but did not mention that it has not been officially certified.

“Let’s talk about the campaign,” Martin said. “How do you understand the election results? I mean, by that I mean, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win the White House, but Republicans make gains in the House.”

“And in fact, Republicans now control more state legislatures than at any point in U.S. history,” Martin said. “They control both legislative houses in 32 states.”

“And of course, we are speaking at a time when there are more than 10 million COVID cases in the United States, 240,000 people have died,” Martin said. “This is as, just as we are speaking now. Yet 70 million people voted for the incumbent who presided over all this. So what do you thinks going on here? How do you understand it?”

“Look, I think there’s no doubt that the country is deeply divided right now,” Obama said. “And, you know, when I think back even to my own first presidential election in 2008, the country didn’t feel this divided, what some people have called the great sort in which you have a combination of a political, cultural, ideological, in some cases, religious and geographical divide that seems to be deeper than just differences in policy.”

“A lot of that I think has to do with changes in how people get information. I’ve spoken about this before, I write about this in my book,” Obama said. “If you watch Fox News, you perceive a different reality than if you read The New York Times and that didn’t use to be as stark because you had local newspapers and you had people overlapping in terms of where they got information.”

“But now partly because of social media and sort of the echo chamber, a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump do not believe that in fact COVID was mishandled, contrary to the facts that now you or I might assert, those aren’t the facts that they accept,” Obama said. “And I think that until we can start having a common baseline of facts from which to discuss the direction of the country, we’re going to continue to have some of these issues.”

“Now part of it is also the fact that the Republican Party — because you mentioned state legislatures — Democrats tend to now be primarily in metropolitan areas, not just cities, but surrounding suburbs, metro areas, and Republicans are spread out more in less densely populated rural areas,” Obama said. “That gives them a huge advantage automatically in the Senate. It gives them a big advantage with respect to state legislative races and even gives them some advantage in congressional races.”

“So, Joe Biden can win by 5 million votes in the popular vote, but because of how those votes are distributed, Democrats are going to be at a disadvantage,” Obama said. “All of which means that I am thrilled that Joe and Kamala have won.”

“I believe that they will restore a bunch of norms — respect for science, respect for facts, respect for rule of law that I think have been breached over the last four years — but some of the bigger challenges in bringing the country together, that’s going to be a project that goes beyond just one election,” Obama said.

Obama is making the rounds to promote his third memoir, A Promised Land.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/16/barack-obama-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-will-restore-a-bunch-of-norms/

Softening Us Up for ‘Great Reset’ Climate Lockdowns

Democrats are eager to lock us down again — you know, because the previous lockdowns worked out so well.

Two more weeks, y’all…

Welcome to month eight of two more weeks.

Can you imagine the corporate media if, back in April, I had told you Democrats would use the coronavirus to cancel Thanksgiving? I would have been called a conspiracy theorist, ridiculed, and fact-checked to within an inch of my life. Without evidence, Breitbart News claims Democrats want to cancel Thanksgiving.

But here we sit, eight months into two more weeks, and these assholes are looking to cancel Thanksgiving.

And yet they are canceling Thanksgiving while they are, at the same time, behaving as though they themselves believe the coronavirus is a big hoax, isn’t really all that serious, doesn’t really require any sort of lockdown.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) wants to cancel Thanksgiving while he’s out proving he doesn’t believe the coronavirus is a serious threat by attending a big party.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants to cancel Thanksgiving while she’s out proving she doesn’t believe the coronavirus is a serious threat by running around maskless, getting her hair done, and planning big parties of her own (until she’s caught).

The corporate media want to cancel Thanksgiving while they are out proving they don’t believe the coronavirus is a serious threat by championing left-wing riots, left-wing protests, and celebrations for Joe Biden.

It’s like Global Warming… Look at all the people who claim the planet is warming, who tell us we are going to have to give up our freedom, but who do not themselves behave as if they believe the planet is warming — who do things like move to the very same coasts they tell us will soon flood if you and I don’t give up meat and air conditioning.

Watch the highlights from this week's Great Reset call. Featuring expert insight from @borgebrende, @AbiyAhmedAli, @gilliantett, @zahidi and more.

Read more: https://t.co/13UEyZkjyT #TheGreatReset #wef21 pic.twitter.com/baQx0fbcPA

— World Economic Forum (@wef) June 11, 2020

Why would anyone who believes Global Warming is real move to the coast?

I wonder, though, if these schemes are somehow connected….

We’ve never before locked down the healthy, quarantined the healthy, shoved the healthy in masks… We’ve never seen that before. Lockdowns make sense in a Democrat-run city like New York, which did such a terrible job of managing the China virus their healthcare system was in danger of being overrun. That I get. If the system could collapse, I get that…

But here we are, eight months later, and we’re back to the lockdown talk, back to the two more weeks talk…

Could it be we are being softened up for climate lockdowns… That we are being conditioned for what is now being called the Great Reset?

Have you heard of the Great Reset?

The world must stop building new coal power plants and instead embrace green alternatives in a post-coronavirus reset world, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. https://t.co/kpaXCBthFx

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 16, 2020

Scary stuff. James Bond-villain type stuff…

First reared its fascist head in June…

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/16/nolte-softening-us-up-for-great-reset-climate-lockdowns/

WTF?

Jim Jordan Expects Durham Report on Spygate 'Real Soon'

Despite a prior report that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into Spygate would be shutting down due to concerns about “blowback from Biden” should Joe Biden ultimately win the presidential election, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) says that we should expect a report “real soon.”

“I’ve had numerous talks with the Justice Department. Mr. Durham is doing his work. I expect some kind of report … real soon,” Jordan told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.

Jordan is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.

“Like you, I am frustrated that it didn’t happen sooner,” Jordan continued. “But, look, you and I can’t prosecute anyone. We can’t indict anyone. All we can do is get the facts out to the American people. The Justice Department has to do that. I’m hopeful they are going to have something real soon for the American people.”

Something had better come soon. Many of us were disappointed that we didn’t get a preliminary report or indictments prior to the election, as the truth about Spygate is something that the voters deserved to know before they voted.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/11/16/jim-jordan-expects-durham-report-on-spygate-real-soon-n1149806

Obama Calls for More Big Tech 'Fact-Checking' in Wake of Trump Getting 71M Votes

Former President Barack Obama lamented the fact that President Donald Trump won 71 million votes in the 2020 election, blaming the “current media environment” for a supposed lack of an “informed citizenry.” He called for “the media” and “the tech companies” to “inform the public better” and “separate truth from fiction.” Obama said this just as Facebook, Twitter, and legacy media outlets have worked to bury or undermine important stories like the Hunter Biden emails and the irregularities in the 2020 election.

In an interview aired on 60 Minutes on Sunday, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley lamented that the 2020 election (the results of which are still disputed) wasn’t a clear repudiation of Trump.

“President-Elect Biden won in this election more votes than anyone in history,” Pelley noted. “And yet, the 2020 vote wasn’t a repudiation of Donald Trump; it was more like an affirmation. He received 71 million votes, eight million more than he did in 2016. What does that tell you about our country today?”

Obama said the results show that America is “very divided,” even down to the level of the voters. “It has now become a contest where issues, facts, policies per se don’t matter, as much as identity and wanting to beat the other guy. You know, that’s taken priority. I do think the current media environment adds to that greatly. This democracy doesn’t work if we don’t have an informed citizenry,” he argued.

Pelley noted that Americans appear to hate one another at levels not seen since the Civil War. Obama said, “I think we’d like to avoid that.”

He suggested that Joe Biden will set a new tone, but he encouraged the legacy media and tech companies like Facebook and Twitter to pose as arbiters of truth, as if that will defuse partisan gridlock.

“I do think that a new president can set a new tone. That’s not gonna solve all the gridlock in Washington. I think we’re gonna have to work with the media and with the tech companies to find ways to inform the public better about the issues and to bolster the standards that ensure we can separate truth from fiction,” Obama said.

To his credit, the former president went on to encourage more work on the local level, where “that kind of visceral hatred” is less likely to develop. Even so, Obama clearly encouraged more “fact-checking” from the legacy media and tech companies — a trend that conservatives have rightly condemned as a form of censorship.

In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, The New York Post reported on a trove of emails from the laptop of Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden. Hunter Biden had been notorious for cashing in on his father’s famous name, taking lucrative deals in China, Ukraine, and elsewhere. The new documents suggested that — contrary to his repeated denials — Joe Biden was not only aware of his son’s dealings but involved in them.

Twitter and Facebook limited sharing of The New York Post‘s bombshell report, while legacy media outlets largely ignored it. After the Post story failed to get the kind of traction many expected it would, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, came forward with firsthand knowledge — and evidence — tying Joe Biden to the notorious deals.

Democrats, former intelligence officials, and even the Biden campaign claimed — without evidence — that the story was “Russian disinformation.” Not only did numerous sources debunk that claim, but Vladimir Putin himself came out to vouch for Hunter Biden.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/11/16/obama-calls-for-more-big-tech-fact-checking-in-wake-of-trump-getting-71m-votes-n1150338

Former FBI Chief Andrew McCabe Threatens Trump: Secret Intel Could Cast You In A 'Very Negative Light'

Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe threatened President Trump on CNN Friday night that secret intelligence exists which could cast him "in a very negative light."

McCabe, who personally signed off on investigating Trump for obstruction of justice, is panicking along with the rest of the FBI and CIA over Trump's latest push to declassify everything from the Russia witch hunt.

From The Independent, "Secret intelligence exists that 'would cast Trump in very negative light', warns ex-FBI chief":

Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has warned that classified intelligence from bureau's investigation into President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign ties to Russia could contain information that would "risk casting the president in a very negative light".

[…] "There is some very, very serious, very specific, undeniable intelligence that has not come out, that if it were released, would risk compromising our access to that sort of information in the future.

"I think it would also risk casting the president in a very negative light - so, would he have a motivation to release those things? It’s almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out, I don't see how he spins it into his advantage, because quite frankly, I don’t believe it’s flattering.

Asked if Mr McCabe thought there was more “bad stuff” about Mr Trump that wasn't already publicly known, he replied: "There is always more intelligence, there is a lot more in the intelligence community assessment than what is ever released for public consumption.

"The original version of that report was classified at the absolute highest level I have ever seen. We're talking about top secret, compartmentalised code word stuff, and it would be tragic to American intelligence collection for those sources to be put at risk."

Senator Chuck Schumer similarly threatened Trump with intelligence agency retaliation back in 2017, telling him that if you "take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

As Don Jr. said, "We can't let the bad actors get away with it!"

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61917

Facebook moderators manually censored New York Post story regarding Biden family corruption, to protect Democrats before the election

Internal Facebook documents gathered by British media outlet The Guardian show that the social media company had to manually intervene to suppress and censor the New York Post’s groundbreaking story regarding the massive corruption going on within the family of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and the former vice president’s ties to an energy company in Ukraine.

The Guardian’s reporters were able to uncover this when they got their hands on a leaked copy of Facebook’s updated moderation guidelines. The document laid out in detail the social media company’s policies for dealing with content that their fact-checking team deems to be filled with misinformation.

The policy states that the platform will begin removing content that supposedly contains “unverified rumors” that can lead to violence, harm or election interference.

New York Post story was “soft demoted,” receiving 50 percent less distribution

Facebook’s fact-checking system relies on artificial intelligence (AI) and human moderators to flag down articles, videos and other content that needs fact-checking. The AI looks for signals, such as feedback from community members and a significant number of comments that are reacting in disbelief. Posts that get flagged by the AI get “soft demoted” on Facebook’s feed for seven days, which means that the chances of showing up on a user’s timeline are reduced by 50 percent. While content is on soft demotion, it is forwarded to Facebook’s content moderation team, which manually goes through each report.

However, posts from the top 5,000 most popular websites in the world – including the New York Post – do not get automatically demoted. This means content from popular sites are supposed to have a high rate of distribution throughout the website. Still, moderators can manually override this guideline upon consultation with their team’s leadership.

“In some cases, we manually enqueue content,” read the guidelines, “either with or without temporary demotion. We can do this on escalation and based on whether the content is eligible for fact-checking, related to an issue of importance and has an external signal of falsity.”

This means that the suppression of the story regarding the corruption within Joe Biden’s family must have been handled manually by Facebook moderators.

“This story is eligible to be fact-checked by Facebook’s third party fact checking partners,” said Facebook Director of Policy Communications Andy Stone after word got out that the social media website was censoring the New York Post’s story. “In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform. This is part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation. We temporarily reduce distribution pending fact checker review.”

According to social media engagement experts, the censorship of the story was successful, as it was only able to reach about half the engagement a regular article from the New York Post would have gotten. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Commerce Committee denying that his company censored the media outlet and its story regarding the Biden family.

Listen to this episode of the Health Ranger Report, a podcast by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, as he talks about how Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, is warning America that Biden might win the election through cheating and rigging. He and many other militias are organizing an effort to protect America from election fraud.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/11/rigged-facebook-moderators-manually.html

Marines Prep for Possible War in Europe During Massive East Coast Training Exercise

The Marine Corps has put a lot of emphasis on countering China, but tens of thousands of East Coast leathernecks have their sights set on another part of the world.

Members of II Marine Expeditionary Force wrapped up a training exercise last week that ran from North Carolina to New York. The Marines were tasked with taking back territory in a friendly country that was invaded by a near-peer adversary.

It's a scenario not unlike Russia's effective annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

The exercise, called Marine Expeditionary Force Exercise or MEFEX 21.1, matches the focus that Commandant Gen. David Berger put on II MEF readying for missions in the Atlantic and Europe.

Lt. Gen. Brian Beaudreault, II MEF's commanding general, told reporters Friday that if U.S. troops are called up to respond to a crisis in Europe, his Marines are going.

"We're not just saying we can go do it," he said. "We're demonstrating we're ready to go do it."

The exercise ran for nearly six weeks, stretching from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia up to Fort Drum in New York. Troops from several other countries participated in the exercise, including Norway, the United Kingdom and Canada.

The Navy's 2nd Fleet also participated, and Beaudreault called the naval integration portion of the exercise one of the most important pieces.

"It's [about] the Marine Corps unlocking the ability of the Navy to maintain naval maneuver," he said. "That's important in Pacific theater, given a likely threat, and it's definitely important in the European theater, given the threat that can emanate out of [Russia's] Northern Fleet."

Berger's planning guidance has come under scrutiny by some for putting so much emphasis on China. But Beaudreault said that, while the planning guidance has a Pacific focus, it's not a "Pacific-only" strategy.

After decades of land warfare and crisis-response missions, the Marine Corps is moving back toward its naval roots. If war breaks out in Europe, Beaudreault said, there's "very much a maritime component to that."

The Marines can set up expeditionary advanced bases, assist in anti-submarine warfare by establishing refueling sites for maritime patrol aircraft, boost ships' unmanned sensing capabilities, and carry out long-range precision fires from ashore, he said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/16/marines-prep-possible-war-europe-during-massive-east-coast-training-exercise.html

Russians Got Situation Under Control In Nagorno-Karabakh. 25 Posts Deployed. Demining Of Lachin Corridor Started

The Russian peacekeeping force continues the deployment in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the country’s defense ministry reported on November 16.

“In the areas of the peacekeeping operation along the contact line of the sides, the deployment of observation posts of the Russian peacekeeping forces has been completed, which are monitoring the situation around the clock.

Control over the observance of the ceasefire regime is carried out by peacekeeping units at nine observation posts in the southern zone of responsibility and nine more in the northern.

In the Lachin corridor (along the road Zabukh – Lysogorsky state farm – Zarysly) there are seven temporary observation posts that ensure the passage of military columns of peacekeeping units.

The ceasefire is observed along the entire contact line,” the defense ministry reported in a statement on its website.

Currently, the Russian military has 25 observation points in the contested region.

Forces of the Russian peacekeeping arrive in Yerevan:

https://southfront.org/russians-got-situation-under-control-in-nagorno-karabakh-25-posts-deployed-demining-of-lachin-corridor-started/

Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls President Trump’s Campaign Rallies “Klan Rallies”

Radical Muslima Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday called President Trump’s campaign rallies “Klan rallies.”

Ilhan Omar’s lies and dehumanization of Trump supporters is precisely why there was violence against men and women who attended the million MAGA march for Trump in DC over the weekend.

According documents and sources previously reported by investigative journalist David Steinberg, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her own brother in order to defraud US immigration.

In fact, evidence is mounting that Ilhan Omar isn’t even her real name.

Ilhan Omar refuses to answer questions about her fraudulent marriage to her own brother and accuses anyone asking questions of bigotry and Islamophobia.

Ilhan Omar also lied under oath about her brother-husband and may have fraudulently filed federal income tax returns.

As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, in 2017, Rep. Omar swore under penalty of perjury while divorcing her brother-husband that she hadn’t seen Ahmed N. Elmi since 2011 and didn’t know anyone who could help her contact him.

Project Veritas recently revealed a ballot harvesting scheme involving political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar.

The FBI sent out a dozen agents to investigate a ‘noose’ that turned out to be a garage door pull rope yet they have done nothing to investigate Ilhan Omar’s countless crimes.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/radical-democrat-rep-ilhan-omar-calls-president-trumps-campaign-rallies-klan-rallies-video/

76. HAS DONALD TRUMP TURNED ON NETANYAHU?

VIDEO ON BIT CHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/video/NM0twE…

0:00 - - Introduction to video - De-industrializing America. Civil war. Moving industry south. Letting Dem cities burn. News articles…

1:36 - - US ISRAEL Energy Co-operation act. Legislating "illegal" technology transfers into legality.

2:52 - - Senior Trump Official: Politicians Get ‘Very Rich’ by Supporting Israel

10:00 - - We need Jews, Christians and Muslims coming together in the United States. The Belt & Road is being rammed together while America fights over election.

14:18 - - The US Israel Energy Co-operation Act in full.

15:21 - - Israeli Semiconductors and the US-China Tech War

22:52 - - My UN Refugee document and it's relevance to current events. Written about in 2012 from jail, unfolding now.

24:00 - - Back to Israeli Semiconductors and the US-China Tech War

31:16 - - Zohar Zisapel, the king of critical infrastructure security. Israeli Military Intelligence. Please see…

1. COVID KILL SWITCH | ISRAELS SECRET WEAPON, THE TALPIOT PROGRAM - REMASTERED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ9_U…

48:35 - - UN document, my writing on Israeli intelligence activity in Australia and elsewhere.

52:18 - - At Last, Israelis Are Turning Away From Their Medieval Religious Maniacs

58:17 - - Kissinger's right hand man Dr Steve Pieczenik talks getting rid of the US Constitution, bringing in Chabad Lubavitch Jared Kushner.

Netanyahu After Biden Win: 'Republicans, Democrats, There's No Difference'

Speaking at Knesset vote to ratify Trump-brokered normalization deal with Bahrain, Netanyahu says 'I've had a warm relationship with Joe Biden for many years'

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-netanyahu-after-biden-win-republicans-democrats-there-s-no-difference-1.9301342

Israeli Semiconductors and the US-China Tech War

With its strong tech industry, Israel has emerged as a rare beneficiary of the U.S.-China rivalry – for now.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/israeli-semiconductors-and-the-us-china-tech-war/

Tech Industry Connects Texas, Israel

http://www.thejewishoutlook.com/home/2018/6/27/tech-industry-connects-texas-israel

42 USC 17337: United States-Israel energy cooperation

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:42+section:17337+edition:prelim)

Pentagon senior adviser accused Pompeo and senior politicians of taking money and getting rich from ‘the Israeli lobby’

https://thedailycable.com/2020/11/13/pentagon-senior-adviser-accused-pompeo-and-senior-politicians-of-taking-money-and-getting-rich-from-the-israeli-lobby/

Senior Trump Admin. Official Says Politicians Get 'Very Rich' by Supporting Israel

https://israelpalestinenews.org/senior-trump-official-politicians-get-very-rich-by-supporting-israel/

"The Great Reset" Trends On Twitter After Justin Trudeau Says Pandemic Has Provided "Opportunity"

“The Great Reset” began trending on Twitter after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the coronavirus pandemic had provided an “opportunity for a reset.”

Trudeau made the comments during a United Nations video conference back in September, but they are only just receiving attention.

“Building back better means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)” said Trudeau.

“This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset – this is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change,” he added.

Trudeau is saying that the purpose of Coronavirus is for ‘The Great Reset’. The Cabal are coming out of hiding now 👀

pic.twitter.com/xcCEInn5y9

— derf_anon (@derf_anon) November 15, 2020

Many Twitter users asserted that “The Great Reset” was a “conspiracy theory” despite the fact that it’s an agenda openly espoused by the World Economic Forum and numerous other financial elitists and NGOs.

As former Australian Senator Cory Bernardi outlined, “The Great Reset” is merely a re-branding of the move towards the centralization of power and a New World Order.

Bernardi noted how the coronavirus pandemic had facilitated the opportunity to impose a very similar crackdown that technocrats had previously sought to justify under the banner of climate change, namely, shutting down economies, lowering fuel consumption and airline travel as well as curtailing civil liberties and freedom of movement.

As we previously highlighted, in promoting “The Great Reset,” World Economic Forum globalist Klaus Schwab asserted that the world will “never” return to normal, despite him admitting that coronavirus “doesn’t pose a new existential threat.”

Watch the interview below with James Delingpole for a full breakdown of what “The Great Reset” actually represents.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/great-reset-trends-twitter-after-justin-trudeau-says-pandemic-has-provided-opportunity

Noam Chomsky: ‘White Supremacy Is a Deep Principle in U.S. Society – and Jews Are Familiar With That’

The renowned progressive tells Haaretz his less than great expectations for a Biden presidency and what Trump’s 70 million votes means for America

Noam Chomsky said multiple times before the U.S. election that he intended to vote for Joe Biden, and that U.S. progressives should do likewise. In an interview before November 3, the legendary linguist and intellectual told Salon: “My position is to vote against [President Donald] Trump. In our two-party system, there is a technical fact that if you want to vote against Trump, you have to push the lever for the Democrats.”

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-chomsky-white-supremacy-is-a-deep-principle-in-u-s-society-and-cultyre-1.9311389

Daughter finally unmasks paedophile dad

One of Victoria’s most sadistic paedophiles and rapists has finally been unmasked by his own daughter as thousands of victims get their voices back.

David Hodson, one of Victoria’s most sadistic paedophiles and rapists can finally be unmasked, after one of his victims – his biological daughter, Jaime Lee Page – won an eight month legal battle to reveal her real name and the chilling details of what happened in the “house of horrors” she grew up in.

Hodson, who is also a convicted murderer, spent years sexually terrorising his young daughter Jaime, and her older stepsister Carol, who he later murdered in 1997, after she reported the frequent rapes and incest to police, along with allegations of bestiality involving the family dog.

Until now, an oppressive sexual assault victim gag law which has prevented Jaime from revealing her own name, has also served to protect Hodson, because there has been no way to reveal his identity without also indirectly revealing Jaime’s identity too.

Today, after a lengthy eight-month legal fight which has cost tens of thousands of dollars, Jaime has finally won the right to reveal her real name, and with it, the details of her “dark childhood”.

In the process, she has also produced landmark law reforms which are set to restore agency, voice and identity to tens of thousands of sexual assault survivors, after she spearheaded the #LetUsSpeak campaign in August this year.

As those new laws prepare to come into effect tomorrow, Jaime is finally revealing her whole story and the full, never-heard-before events which triggered the #LetUsSpeak campaign.

JAIME LEE PAGE: THIS IS MY STORY

“The first time it happened, I was eight years old,” says Jaime Lee Page, a 40-year-old mother of three from Melbourne.

“He came into my room at night and asked if I wanted to play a game. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I was so young and so confused and I thought ‘is this what every father does?’”

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/letusspeak-daughter-finally-unmasks-paedophile-dad/news-story/a42a69ec06c81d56fd398cfa6e142573

U.K. Seizes $1.58 Million Linked to Flat Bought with Graft Money

The U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said it has secured nearly £1.2 million (US$1.58 million) last week from the Brazilian owner of a luxury apartment in West London, which is believed to have been purchased with money stemming from Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal, Brazil’s Operation Car Wash.

The amount was seized from Julio Faerman, “the owner of a £4.25 million ($5.6 million) luxury apartment in West London which the SFO suspected to have been partly purchased with the corrupt funds of its owner’s criminal conduct,” the anti-fraud agency said.

Faerman was implicated in the corruption scandal that uncovered systematic bribery to win contracts from the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras. While under investigation by Brazilian prosecutors, “Faerman admitted paying bribes to win contracts for the Dutch company SBM Offshore NV, for whom he acted as an agent,” the SFO said.

The agency’s investigation focused on Faerman’s luxury apartment as well as a number of Swiss bank accounts and offshore companies believed to have partly funded its purchase. Faerman admitted to Brazilian prosecutors that he was paying bribes to win contracts for the Dutch company SBM Offshore NV, for whom he acted as an agent.

Faerman signed a cooperation agreement with Brazilian prosecutors and paid a settlement of around $54 million, the agency said.

“We will not sit back and allow the U.K. to be a safe harbour for dirty money. We will continue to investigate, confiscate and recover criminal assets which are held on our shores,” head of the SFO Proceeds of Crime and International Assistance Division, Liz Baker, said.

Operation Car Wash, also known under its Brazilian name ‘Lava Jato,’ is a seemingly never-ending series of scandals involving the giant Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras. It has been a historic trans-national anti-corruption probe that has so far led to the arrest of more than 100 prominent politicians, officials, and executives in Latin America.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13405-u-k-seizes-1-58-million-linked-to-flat-bough-with-graft-money

Heart doctors more likely to implant devices from manufacturers that pay them, new study finds

The research challenges the claim that patient care decisions are not influenced when physicians receive large payments from drug and medical device companies.

Doctors have long defended the large payments many receive from drug and device companies as just compensation for advising on products, and for sharing what they know with colleagues at conferences. Patient care decisions, they maintain, are not influenced.

But an authoritative new study of patients who received common types of implants used to keep hearts beating in rhythm substantially challenges this claim.

In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Yale University-led research team found that cardiologists were between two and 11 times more likely to implant a defibrillator made by the device company that paid them the most, researchers found. And for two of the manufacturers studied, the size of the payment mattered as well, with those in excess of $10,000 appearing to influence the choice of device more often than payments less than $100.

“I find these results concerning,” said Jeptha Curtis, the senior author of the study, in comments posted on a Yale website announcing the study. “Medical decisions should be made independent of one’s relationships with industry. If we cannot live up to that ideal, we should question whether these payments should be allowed at all.”

A 2018 investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that patients around the globe have been harmed by medical devices that were poorly tested, or not tested at all. It also highlighted long-standing concerns about the close relationship between device companies and the doctors that recommend those same products.

In the U.S., where drug and device manufacturers are required to disclose payments to physicians, the 10 largest medical device companies paid nearly $600 million to doctors or their hospitals in 2017, according to an ICIJ analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This figure doesn’t include device-related payments from heavyweights that sell other products, including Johnson & Johnson and Allergan.

The study focused on two common heart devices, the implantable cardiac defibrillator, or ICD, and the cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator, or CRT-D. The devices are slightly different, but operate generally with the same purpose: they are surgically implanted and programmed to deliver electric shocks to keep the heart beating normally.

The study examined data from a three-year period involving nearly 150,000 patients and four leading device manufacturers. Of the 4,435 physicians who implanted one of the devices, the vast majority — 94%—accepted some kind of payment from a device manufacturer, the analysis found. The median payment was $1,211. Four percent of the cardiologists received payments in excess of $25,000.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/heart-doctors-more-likely-to-implant-devices-from-manufacturers-that-pay-them-new-study-finds/

Aust. State DS media

ASIO launches first public awareness campaign to warn Australians of foreign spies on social media

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is warning of the dangers posed by foreign spies who use social networking sites to cultivate and groom potential targets in espionage operations.

Key points:

The ASIO director-general said spies were targeting Australians they believed may give up sensitive information

He said more than one country was using social networking sites to identify and groom Australians

A former CIA officer was recently convicted of espionage after being recruited via LinkedIn

In its first public awareness campaign, ASIO has collaborated with its international Five Eyes intelligence partners to urge people online to "think before you link".

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess said foreign intelligence agencies were known to target Australians through social media and professional networking platforms if they believed they may give up sensitive information.

"As my mum always used to say, 'If it's too good to be true, it probably is,'" Mr Burgess told the ABC.

"Now that might sound a little risk adverse or paranoid, but actually if someone is offering something really good and you don't really know who it is, you might want to pause and think."

Last year, ASIO warned in its annual report that "hostile intelligence services" were using social media to target people across business and government.

In the United States, former CIA officer Kevin Mallory was recently convicted of espionage after being recruited via professional networking site LinkedIn.

A report in the New York Times in 2019 also said China was using LinkedIn to try to cultivate foreign spies.

The ASIO boss is declining to say which particular nations are behind online attempts to lure Australians, but Mr Burgess believes there are several culprits.

"It is the view of my organisation, ASIO, that there is more than one country using social networking sites to identify, groom and cultivate relationships with Australians that have access to sensitive information," he said.

Mr Burgess revealed some social media platforms were reluctant to cooperate with his intelligence agency when it asked for assistance in shutting down espionage threats.

"We get cooperation from companies across the board — some of them are helpful, some of them are not so helpful," Mr Burgess said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-17/asio-warns-foreign-spies-grooming-australians-on-social-media/12889228

Sweden sets new ‘absolutely necessary’ Covid-19 restrictions, limits public gatherings to 8 people

The Swedish government has announced new coronavirus restrictions will come into force for four weeks to limit socializing in the run-up to Christmas, amid soaring infections and falling compliance with current guidelines.

In a digital press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said there had been concerning developments in the spread of Covid-19 in Sweden and that new restrictions are needed.

From November 24, gatherings of more than eight people will be banned for a month. The previous limit was 300 people.

Lofven called on Swedes to do their “duty” and take “responsibility” in slowing the spread of the virus. He also told people not to attend parties or dinners and to refrain from visiting the gym or cinema.

“These are very intrusive measures that are unparalleled in our history, but they are absolutely necessary to limit the infection,” the PM said.

This spring we saw a great compliance. Advice and recommendations were enough for most people to keep their distance and cancel plans. Now compliance is lower.

Lofven said the ban on group gatherings was justified because of rising Covid-19 cases, and that the guidance outlined by the health authorities was no longer being taken as seriously by some people. As a result, Sweden needed to move from recommending social distancing to bans.

The PM reiterated his government’s strategy in holding off on the more strident measures put in place elsewhere in Europe, claiming “we don't believe in a total lockdown, we believe the measures being implemented in total will have an effect.”

Last week, the country moved to ban the sale of alcohol after 10pm.

Sweden received a lot of international attention earlier in the year when it chose not to lockdown the country in response to the first wave of the coronavirus, unlike many other nations.

However, subsequent research showed Sweden suffered a very large number of deaths, taking into account its population size. Neighboring countries, such as Finland, had been considerably more successful in preventing fatalities.

Research from John Hopkins University highlights that Finland has recorded 6.69 deaths per 100,000 from Covid-19, whilst Sweden has registered 60.53 fatalities per 100,000.

https://www.rt.com/news/506879-sweden-covid19-restrictions-infections-groups/

Tyson Foods Employs COVID-19 “Tracking Algorithms” At Meatpacking Plants

Tyson Foods has deployed infection-tracking algorithms and a “surveillance testing” program at its meatpacking facilities to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, reported WSJ.

The Arkansas-based company is concerned about a second and third wave of the virus pandemic, investing money into protective gear and advanced technologies to decrease the spread of the virus among its workers.

“Everyone is concerned about a second or third wave,” Tyson Chief Executive Dean Banks said in an interview.

In April, widespread virus outbreaks among workers in the US meatpacking industry (see: here & here) forced some companies to shutter production lines. According to the CDC, as many as 16,000 workers were infected, and 86 died from the virus. By late spring, some meatpacking plants’ closures created chaos for farmers, many of whom had to cull thousands of animals. The turmoil continued down the chain to supermarkets, where some experienced shortages of meat products or had to limit purchases – ultimately resulting in surging meat prices.

Banks said Tyson’s new infection-tracking algorithms allow him to monitor internal testing results via a dashboard. To make this possible, Tyson launched a weekly “surveillance testing” program in July that tests employees at each production facility.

The monitoring system compares positive employee tests with what tasks they do in the plant and official infection rates in their local community.

“We can dial up the algorithm when we sense there’s something going on in the community, and we’re much more prepared for a second wave,” Banks said, adding that less than one percent of Tyson’s employees are infected with Covid-19.

Tyson is also hiring 200 new nurses and healthcare professionals for its US plants and will build seven mini-clinics near plants that will provide healthcare for employees.

This comes as advocacy groups for workers have complained the company isn’t doing enough to keep them safe. It also comes as the US reported 11 million total cases over the weekend. Just last week, cases were around ten million. The rapid increase in positive cases began accelerating across much of the country in October.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/11/tyson-foods-employs-covid-19-tracking-algorithms-at-meatpacking-plants.html

Tracking our food now FFS

How Trump will expose and stop biggest election heist in world history

The evidence of fraud, both digital (computerized) and analog (ballot-stuffing) is overwhelming.

Evidence continues to pile up that Trump got far more votes—and Biden far fewer—than the media is reporting, especially in the critical swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. If this had been a clean election, one in which every legal vote had been counted, and every illegal ballot thrown out, Trump would have over 300 Electoral College votes. Joe Biden would have called to concede the evening of November 3rd.

That is obviously not the situation that we find ourselves in.

The corrupt political establishments that run the swing states, or at least the big cities and most populous counties within those states, have engaged in historically unprecedented levels of election fraud. Virtually all the power centers in our country, from Big Media and Big Tech to Hollywood and Wall Street, are attempting to deny the true winner of the presidential contest his victory, and to perversely claim the runner-up as the president-elect.

If it were up to them, they would happily see an imposter will be sworn in on January 21st as the 46th President of the United States.

But for that to happen, the 45th President of the United States would have to concede. He would have to abandon his quest for the truth about what really happened in the days following November 3rd, when the huge leads he had built up in critical swing states disappeared in the dead of night.

He would have to drop all of the court challenges that have been filed in the federal and state courts in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Nevada. These lawsuits ask judges to throw out ballots that were illegally counted after Republican poll watchers were kicked out, and that went somehow all went to Biden.

He would have to stop assembling evidence about the even more massive fraud carried out by those who programmed and controlled electronic voting systems with names like Smartmatic and Dominion. He would have to abandon the whistleblowers who have come forward at great risk to expose the tricks they used to overturn elections. And he would have to delete his recent Tweet that:

“REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE. DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-trump-will-expose-and-stop-biggest-election-heist-in-world-history?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

PRAY FOR EACH OTHER

Trump Lawyer Tweets Article Alleging Philly Mob Boss May Reveal How They Stole The Election In Exchange For Full Expungement Of His Criminal Record

Trump team lawyer, and Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice, Jordan Sekulow tweeted an exclusive article from the Buffalo Chronicle that suggests the alleged boss of the Philly mob, Skinny Joey’ Merlino, may be ready to flip on Democratic Party operatives in exchange for a full expungement of his decades-long criminal record. – 100 Percent Fed Up

In addition to tweeting the link to the Buffalo Chronicle article, Sekulow tweeted: “Follow all leads #Elections2020”

From the Buffalo Chronicle – An associate says that Merlino might just be willing to flip on Joe Biden and the Pennsylvania political operatives who ordered up some 300,000 election ballots marked for Biden. The source alleges that Merlino and a lean team of associates manufactured those ballots at a rate of $10 per ballot — a whopping $3 million for three days of work. They were then packaged into non-descript cardboard boxes and dropped off outside the Philadelphia Convention Center.

Sources who spoke to The Chronicle on the condition of anonymity say that Merlino picked up those ballots from two private households where a trusted handful of associates were busily marking ballots with Sharpie markers. They were paid more than $1,000 per hour, often producing thousands of ballots every hour for more than 60 nearly-consecutive hours.

The ballots were purchased in cash.

It’s thought that Democratic Party operatives working inside Philadelphia’s election office provided Merlino with crates of raw ballots just hours before polls closed on election night, which he transported to two private households in South Philadelphia. By 10 p.m. that night Merlino’s operation was already generating more than 3,000 ballots per hour, which quickly scaled to more than 6,000 ballots per hour before midnight.

We cannot confirm the allegations made by the Buffalo Chronicle, we are simply reporting about the evidence we discover that could have an impact on the outcome of the election.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/trump-lawyer-tweets-article-alleging-philly-mob-boss-may-reveal-stole-election-exchange-full-expungement-criminal-record/