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>>11751801 HRC pushing Vaccines

>>11751846 Chelsea Clinton pushing Vaccines

>>11751856 "You Are Such A Dick" - New Jersey Governor Heckled While Enjoying Mask-Free Meal With Family

>>11751992 John Kerry pushes climate change

>>11752005 Dominion CEO Admits In Testimony: Machines Rely On Chinese Parts From ‘Screen Interface Down To Chip Level’

>>11752009 @TomFitton The number of Obama officials implicated in corruption that Biden proposes to add to his team is astounding

>>11752034 Trump To Ban US Exports To Nearly 100 Chinese Communist Party-linked Tech Firms

>>11752048 Michigan AG Seeks Criminal Charges For State Legislators Who Spoke With Trump

>>11752067 Gov. Andrew Cuomo Says Areas Face Red Zone Restrictions, Which Prohibit ‘Non-Essential Gatherings of Any Size’

>>11752106 Oregon’s Democrat Governor Wants Citizens to Snitch over Lockdown Violations

>>11752120 Britain ‘Will Suffer’ If It Blocks Chinese Businesses, Warns China Lobbyist Group

>>11752129 Over 2,000 ‘Child’ Asylum Seekers in the UK Lied About Their Age to Cheat the System: Report

>>11752135 Booz Allen is an AWS partner

>>11752256 New Book Exposes History and Money Behind the Transgender Lobby

>>11752283 Gov. Newsom And Family Go Into Isolation Following COVID-19 Exposure

>>11752382 Third Circuit Court of Appeals grants expedited review for Team Trump’s appeal from Pennsylvania.

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Logistics Experts: COVID-19 Marks End Of Globalization, Makes National Supply Chains Critical Infrastructure

Logistics experts say that the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic will mark the end of globalization, paving the way for localized supply chains to be fundamental once more. The industry survey, conducted by Bollore Logistics and Transport Intelligence, noted that 34 percent of the respondents agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic will signal the end of global supply chains, and local supply chains will be of utmost importance again. Five percent of the survey’s respondents expressed strong agreement. On the other hand, 27 percent disagreed with the statement and six percent expressed strong disagreement.

“Despite the relatively even spread of results, it is remarkable that as many as 34 percent of respondents agree that the COVID-19 crisis will lead to the end of globalization,” the authors of the report wrote.

In addition, the report mentioned that the figures were “particularly striking,” as the respondents were professionals who had “witnessed the benefits of globalization first-hand.”

The firm interviewed 422 logistics professionals from Europe, Asia Pacific and North America between July and August 2020. More than half of the respondents represented retail and manufacturing shippers that use air and sea forwarding services, while freight forwarders made up almost a fourth of the respondents.

Bolloré’s report described the pandemic as a once-in-a-generation disruption that impacted a global freight forwarding market already facing significant challenges, including the U.S.-China trade war and moves towards protectionism. However, the respondents agreeing with COVID-19’s effects on the logistics sector represented a significant change from the previous consensus.

When asked how the crisis would affect their supply chain strategy over the medium term, 37 percent of respondents said it would have a significant impact, 36 percent answered it would be moderate and 25 percent mentioned a slight effect. Only two percent believed the crisis would have no effects on their supply chain strategies.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/logistics-experts-covid-19-marks-end-of-globalization-makes-national-supply-chains-critical-infrastructure/

LA reports 300 homicides for the first time in a DECADE as cops blame the coronavirus lockdown and cuts to the police

The city of Los Angeles has recorded its 300th homicide this year equalling a total last reached in 2009.

Despite various lockdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a 32% increase in shootings.

After a brief lull in killings that police attributed in part to lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic earlier in the year, homicides and shootings began to rise again and then spiked this summer.

Police Chief Michel Moore has said that he believes some of the increased crime is due to problems related to the pandemic, such as economic struggles and virus-related restrictions on services and interventions.

This year's spike in violence mirrors that seen in other cities across the country including Houston, Chicago and New York.

Last year, the city recorded 253 homicides, with 260 in 2018.

Four shootings that took place overnight Saturday into Sunday nudged the city over the 300-death mark for the first time in a decade.

The victims were 17-year-old boy riding a bike, a 50-year-old homeless man, a 20-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman.

'The reality is there are 300,' Los Angeles Police Department Captain Stacy Spell said to the LA Times. 'It's tragic.'

The majority of the violence was in South L.A. and Central L.A.

In the Los Angeles Police Department's South Bureau, which covers South L.A., homicides are up by 50% from last year.

In addition to homicides, nonfatal shootings are also up.

As of October, the number of victims who had been shot was up more than 21% compared with the same time last year, according to the latest set of data from the LAPD.

Moore called the pace of violence in 2020 a 'terrible loss' and an 'erosion' of progress that had been made reducing gun violence in the city in recent years.

He said he believed that economic struggles have increased across the city's population.

The threat of the virus has undercut efforts to provide services and interventions for individuals who have been victims of shootings and may be vulnerable to becoming perpetrators of retaliatory violence.

Moore also said more people seem to be carrying guns around.

Adding to the problem, the increase in violence comes as the LAPD works to reorganize after a $150-million budget cut that forced it to begin reducing its ranks of sworn officers by several hundred.

Despite the figures being the highest in more than ten years, the city is still some way off the shocking statistics on the 1980s and 90s when some years experienced more than 1,000 killings.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/11/la-reports-300-homicides-for-first-time.html

US Pullout in Afghanistan Will Empower the Taliban, HR McMaster Says

The new Pentagon plan for accelerating the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan will speed a Taliban takeover and renew risks of major terror attacks on the U.S. homeland, retired Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said Sunday.

"I think it's abhorrent what we're doing, and I hope that a Biden administration will reassess based, again, on what's in it for us," McMaster, who also served as national security adviser to President Donald Trump, said on CBS' "Face The Nation" program.

The plan to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 by Jan. 15 is in line with Trump's commitment to end America's "forever," but McMaster said conditions on the ground should dictate the pace.

"If the Taliban establishes control of large parts of Afghanistan, gives safe haven and support base to terrorist organizations who want to commit mass murder against us on the scale of 9/11, we will be far less safe and vulnerable to these groups," he said. "And I think what happened is the prioritization of withdrawal over our interests led to us actually empowering the Taliban."

President-elect Joe Biden has said that he is committed to ending the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan in his first term, but has avoided giving a timeline.

"Any residual U.S. military presence [in Afghanistan] would be focused only on counter-terrorism operations and supporting local partners," he said in response to a September survey by the Military Officers Association of America. "For the time being, we will also likely need to maintain a residual presence in Iraq and Syria, with our coalition partners, to prevent a re-emergence of ISIS."

McMaster spoke a day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met in Doha, Qatar, with Taliban representatives in an effort to break the deadlock in peace negotiations with the Kabul government.

In a Twitter post following the meeting Saturday, Pompeo said, "I commend both sides for continuing to negotiate and for the progress they have made. I encourage expedited discussions on a political road map and a permanent and comprehensive cease-fire."

The Pompeo meeting began hours after a rocket attack in Kabul that killed at least eight and wounded more than 20, according to Afghanistan's Tolo news agency. An offshoot of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors ISIS statements.

The attack was the latest incident in escalating violence; the U.S. has launched airstrikes in recent weeks to beat back Taliban offensives against Kandahar and the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah in southwestern Helmand province.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/23/us-pullout-afghanistan-will-empower-taliban-hr-mcmaster-says.html

Saudi denies MBS meeting with Israel's Netanyahu

Saudi today denied reports that Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the kingdom last night.

Israel Army radio had claimed Netanyahu made a secret trip to Saudi Arabia yesterday to meet Bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Neom on the Red Sea coast.

However, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud took to Twitter today to deny the news, and said that the meeting "was only between Saudi and American officials".

I have seen press reports about a purported meeting between HRH the Crown Prince and Israeli officials during the recent visit by @SecPompeo. No such meeting occurred. The only officials present were American and Saudi.

— (@FaisalbinFarhan) November 23, 2020

Netanyahu, for his part, declined to comment on the reports.

The US has been calling for Saudi to normalise relations with the occupation state of Israel and follow in the footsteps of its neighbours and allies, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain who signed normalisation deals with the occupation in September.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201123-saudi-denies-mbs-meeting-with-israels-netanyahu/

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GOP senator says Biden's vote lead 'has not changed,' urges country to 'move forward'

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Monday said there is no proof of widespread voter fraud that could change President-elect Joe Biden’s lead in the vote counts of key battleground states and urged the nation to “resolve any outstanding questions and move forward.”

Portman, who is poised to become the next chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, also called on the General Services Administration to release funds to the Biden transition team to help prepare for Biden’s inauguration in January.

“Based on all the information currently available, neither the final lawful vote counts nor the recounts have led to a different outcome in any state. In other words, the initial determination showing Joe Biden with enough electoral votes to win has not changed,” Portman wrote in an op-ed published Monday in the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Portman wrote that he believes “there is no more sacred constitutional process in our great democracy than the orderly transfer of power after a presidential election.”

“It is now time to expeditiously resolve any outstanding questions and move forward,” he wrote.

Portman’s exhortation for President Trump and the rest of the nation to accept the results of the 2020 election follows a similar statement delivered by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) over the weekend.

Toomey on Saturday called on Trump to “accept the outcome of the election and facilitate the presidential transition process.”

He issued his statement after Matthew Brann, a federal judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, dismissed a Trump campaign lawsuit in a scathing opinion that scolded Trump’s legal team for making “strained legal arguments without merit.”

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of Trump’s closest allies, on Sunday called the conduct of Trump’s legal team “a national embarrassment.”

“Elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen,” he said.

Portman in his statement Monday noted that Trump’s campaign has been waging legal challenges in key states for about three weeks.

He noted that the “vast majority of these lawsuits have been resolved and most of the remaining ones are expected to be resolved in the next couple of weeks.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/527172-gop-senator-says-bidens-vote-lead-has-not-changed-urges-country-to-move

Wikileaks US Embassy cable warned of Smartmatic link to Venezuela

Classified US Embassy Cable Proves Smartmatic’s Connection to Venezuela

https://theduran.com/wikileaks-us-embassy-cable-warned-of-smartmatic-link-to-venezuela/

Court arrests Dagestani police official in 2010 Moscow subway terror attack criminal case

The terror attacks carried out on March 29, 2010 claimed the lives of 39 people while over 100 others were injured

MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. Moscow’s Basmanny Court has placed Head of the Interior Ministry Department for the Kizlyar District of Dagestan Police Colonel Gazi Isayev into custody in the 2010 Moscow subway terror attack criminal case, the court’s press office told TASS on Monday.

"The investigator’s request has been granted. Custody until January 4, 2021 has been chosen for Isayev," the press office said.

As part of the criminal probe into the terror attacks carried out at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury (Park of Culture) stations of the Moscow subway, the Investigative Committee’s Main Investigation Department jointly with the Federal Security Service of Russia has detained Chief of the Russian Interior Ministry Department for the Kizlyar District, Police Colonel Gazi Isayev. He is charged with committing crimes stipulated by Part 3 of Article 210, Part 3 of Article 209 and Part 3 of Article 205 of Russia’s Criminal Code (participation in a criminal community, banditry and a terror act), Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said earlier on Monday.

As the investigators say, Isayev was a member of the Imarat Kavkaz criminal community (outlawed in Russia). In 2009-2010, using his official position, he provided information to the ringleaders of the criminal community on the activity of the Kizlyar District Interior Department and on special operations against illegal armed formations.

Also, he repeatedly personally transported the ringleaders of the criminal community’s structural units across the territory of the Republic of Dagestan and personally delivered a female suicide bomber with an explosive fastened to her to the bus terminal in the area of Kizlyar in his car for her to depart for Moscow for committing a terror attack.

https://tass.com/emergencies/1226921

If Illegitimate and Unexplained Negative Votes Were Reversed or Eliminated in Georgia, President Trump Would Easily Win the State

We’ve reported numerous times on the vote and election fraud in Georgia. We now have uncovered that if the illegitimate and unexplained negative votes that were recorded and included in Georgia’s vote totals were properly reversed or eliminated, President Trump would hold the lead in Georgia.

Overall it is clear that Georgia did not vote for Joe Biden. We believe not many people did. Once the stinch of fraud is eliminated, Georgia will end up a very red state. President Trump won Georgia by more than 5% in 2019. There is no way this was reversed. The amount of fraud that occurred in this state in 2020 is inconceivable.

In 2020 President Trump set a monumental new record by adding over 11 million new votes to his 2016 tally across the US.

President Trump won bellwether states Florida and Ohio by 5% and by more than this in Iowa.

But now the media wants you to believe that Georgia went blue under Donald Trump.

Does anyone believe this?

The results in Georgia were not random. They were stolen.

Not a single batch in our data set after the “lead switch event” varied from that margin for all new vote batches. This is inconceivable and indicates fraud.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-illegitimate-unexplained-negative-votes-reversed-eliminated-georgia-president-trump-easily-win-state/

Facebook Plans To Promote COVID Vaccines To Curry Favor With Biden White House

Facebook has decided on a novel strategy to try and get back in Joe Biden's good graces (and hopefully stave off a heavy-handed antitrust crackdown): brainwash convince its 2 billion users that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective, while also promoting content about the Paris Climate Accords, especially arguments about the US rejoining the agreement.

Part of the company's strategy, as we've noted before, is to elevate the status of Nick Clegg, a former deputy PM from the UK who already has a close relationship with Biden (who served as VP in the US for part of Clegg's time in the highest echelons of British government).

But will this be enough to salve the fury of progressive Democrats who accuse Facebook of failing to safeguard American Democracy by allowing too many conservative voices to flourish on its platform. Progressives have accused Facebook of allowing hate speech and Russian propaganda to flourish, with little in the way of actual evidence (though every once in a while progressive journalists will find a 'white supremacist' group whose Facebook page hasn't yet been taken down). In reality, Dems are angry that the most popular Facebook pages belong to Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, two conservative pundits with more reach than some of the biggest "mainstream" media companies (like the NYT).

The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:

1. Dan Bongino

2. Donald J. Trump

3. Dan Bongino

4. Fox News

5. Franklin Graham

6. Fox News

7. Classic Hollywood | Los Angeles Times

8. Breitbart

9. Bernie Sanders

10. CNN

— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) November 19, 2020

According to the FT, Facebook's most immediate goal is to try and secure a 'hearing' with Biden and his top policy team (which, to be sure, includes many Silicon Valley stalwarts who are sympathetic to Facebook's corporate aims).

In its attempt to secure a hearing from the new administration, Facebook is planning a series of initiatives that align with Mr Biden’s top priorities in government, insiders say. The company will expand its efforts to combat misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, and is considering publishing a banner advertisement at the top of users’ news feeds encouraging them to take a vaccine once it is approved.

Such a move threatens a backlash from the majority of Americans, however, who say they are not convinced that a vaccine will be safe and are not sure they will receive one.

The company is also working on how to promote action on climate change, including a range of new stickers, buttons and other functions to encourage users to share content about the Paris climate agreement, which Mr Biden has promised to re-join.

Mr Biden will now have to decide whether to lend his weight to various Congressional efforts to regulate social media, including whether to follow through on his threat to try to repeal Section 230. And his pick to head the FTC will decide whether to push for Facebook — which bought Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014 respectively — to be broken up altogether.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/facebook-plans-push-covid-vaccines-try-and-curry-favor-biden-white-house

Blinken is ‘a friend of Israel,’ ex-officials say

“I think he's worth investing time in and I think he can be a very positive influence.”

Former Israeli officials who had worked with US President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, had overwhelmingly positive things to say about him.

Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the US, called Blinken “a great diplomat and true friend of Israel.”

“I had the honor and pleasure of working with him for years in Washington and know him to be brave and clear-sighted statesman,” Oren tweeted. “I can think of no finer choice.”

Blinken was National Security Adviser to Biden when he was vice president from 2009-2013, then Deputy National Security Adviser to former president Barack Obama and then Deputy Secretary of State. He also was the foreign policy adviser to Biden's 2020 campaign. Blinken is Jewish and his stepfather was a Holocaust survivor.

Former foreign ministry director-general of Dore Gold to the State Department in 2016, which included a meeting with Blinken.

Gold said he was “impressed with him and found him to be very professional and a good listener.

“I didn’t detect any kind of anti-Israel undertone. To the contrary, he was very open,” Gold added. “The meeting was an eye-opener. We saw he was a really good guy.”

Blinken’s attitude towards Israel was contrary to some officials in the Obama administration who were “simply difficult,” Gold said.

“I think he's worth investing time in and I think he can be a very positive influence,” Gold added.

Blinken tweeted after their meeting: "In face of unprecedented regional threats, affirmed ironclad support for [Israeli] security with Israel Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold."

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/blinken-praised-as-friend-of-israel-solid-choice-for-biden-admin-649952

Sounds like a line out of GOODFELLAS

Voting Process is Compromised if You Don't Allow Observers to Watch Ballots Being Counted!

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Spicer & Co” on @Newsmax TV to discuss the ongoing election crisis, risks of voter fraud, & much more!

https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/voting-process-compromised/

A dozen compelling allegations of voting irregularities in 2020 election

From ejected ballot observers to fraudulently backdated mail-in votes, the evidence of irregularities is growing nationwide.

While many Democrats and their allies in the traditional media argue there is no evidence of systemic voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 election, a mountain of evidence has been amassed in private lawsuits alleging there was, in fact, significant and widespread voting misconduct.

The question for the courts is whether the irregularities were widespread enough to impact the outcome or erase Joe Biden's lead in at least three of the six battleground states where results are being contested.

And while both President Trump's campaign and private entities like the Amistad Project are planning to file more lawsuits on Monday, Just the News reviewed the scores of filings and affidavits and declarations in the court cases.

Here are the 12 most compelling pieces of evidence presented to the courts as of Sunday night:

City of Detroit worker swears she witnessed thousands of ballots being falsified

Of all the sworn statements to date, career civil servant Jessy Jacob of Detroit provided the most sweeping claim of election fraud.

She stated in an affidavit she personally witnessed — and in some cases was instructed — to backdate thousands of absentee ballots the day after the election to make them appear legal even though they were not in the Qualified Voter File and had not arrived by the deadline. "I estimate that this was done to thousands of ballots," her sworn statement says.

Jacob also described how in the weeks before Election Day she witnessed Detroit poll workers skipping voter ID checks and that she was "instructed by my supervisor to adjust the mailing date of these absentee ballot packages to be dated earlier than they were actually sent. The supervisor was making announcements for all workers to engage in this practice."

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Jacob described 70 to 80 other poll workers who also were instructed to falsify ballots, potentially a massive fraud.

Nearly three quarters of Detroit's precincts had mismatched voting totals

Wayne County Board of Canvassing member William Hartmann, a Republican, says in a sworn declaration that Michigan's largest county certified results knowing there were massive discrepancies between the approved voter files and the ballots cast and counted in Detroit.

"In my review of the results, I determined that approximately 71% of Detroit's 134 absentee voter counting boards were left unbalanced and many unexplained," his statement said.

Hartmann also raised concerns that birth dates in voter ID files "were altered in the pollbooks."

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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/dozen-compelling-pieces-evidence-voting-irregularities-2020-election

Fifteen Members and Associates of Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra Indicted on Federal Racketeering Charges

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fifteen-members-and-associates-philadelphia-la-cosa-nostra-indicted-federal-racketeering

Florida and Tennessee Pain Clinic Owner Extradited from Italy to the United States to Face RICO Charges

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/florida-and-tennessee-pain-clinic-owner-extradited-italy-united-states-face-rico-charges

Dominion Exec VP Lets It Slip: Software Switched Votes From One Candidate To Another

Here is PROOF Dominion has done it and can do it: in a Palm Beach Post news article, Waldeep admits and explains in simple terms how the votes were changed during transmission from precinct to central, switching votes from one mayoral candidate to the other.

In the software business, once the source code exists, like yeast for bakery bread or wine vineyards, it is always there and can be expanded or deployed when needed. It never disappears.

Waldeep Singh is originally from Sequoia, CA. His name and signature are on all the contracts Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan…. Dominion Voting Systems (DVS) has the source code software to do this. The shady David Orr in Chicago (see more on Orr below) deal was the first DVS 5.5 purchase. And the software was developed and designed for Cook County, and the software was FIRST developed and designed for Cook County/Chicago.

Was this practice before they got to the big leagues, not thinking the little old lady volunteers would actually count the ballots in Palm Beach?

It appears all roads lead back to Chicago – the first domino to fall. The voting system ES&S, based in Nebraska with Thomas Dee of Vedder Price, filed a Federal Complaint that Cook County/Chicago chose an uncertified new system now known as the infamous Dominion 5.5. Although Cook announced an RFP period March – July 7 2017, I have obtained documentation that indicates:

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/11/23/dominion-exec-vp-lets-it-slip-software-switched-votes-from-one-candidate-to-another/

Will the Technocratic Coup Succeed?

“We’re not going back to the same economy”, Fed Chair Powell said recently: “We’re recovering, but to a different economy, and it will be one that is more leveraged to technology – and I worry that it’s going to make it even more difficult than it was, for many workers.” Klaus Schwab, the Davos Chair, was more blunt: “Nothing will ever return to the ‘broken’ sense of normalcy that prevailed [earlier]. We … will be surprised by both the rapidity and unexpected nature of these changes – as they conflate with each other, they will provoke cascading effects and unforeseen outcomes”. Schwab makes it clear that the western élite will not allow life to return to normal, suggesting that rolling lockdowns and other restrictions may become permanent.

‘Recovering to a different economy’? Well, actually the creeping ‘coup’ has been residing in plain view for quite a while. The changes have been less noticed – partly because western élites have stuck fast to the free market narrative, whilst incrementally shifting over the decades to an oligarchical economy blossoming alongside the free market economy. Yet it has been an important metamorphose, for it has laid the ground-work for a more fundamental fusion of interests of business oligarchy and government. This fusion used to be called the ‘administrative state’, and was widely practiced in 19th Century Europe.

If we want to understand the roots to this ‘quiet coup’, we need to return to the ethos that emerged from WW2. It was ‘never again’ in terms of that terrible wartime bloodshed, and it encapsulated the notion that the spilt blood should be somehow ‘redeemed’ by moving to fairer, more equitable societies. These latter sentiments turned activist, culminating in the 1960s – an occurrence that frightened U.S. business élites.

The élites moved their ‘counter-revolution’. They lobbied; they lobbied hard, evolving their lobbying enterprise into an ‘industrial scale’ enterprise, employing ‘brigades’ of lawyers and encompassing big money. And now, trillions of dollars are at stake: K Street (the lobbying HQ in Washington) is where the legislative ‘sausage’ is actually assembled, and not the U.S. Congress. It is external to Congress, to whom it is ‘sold’ in a mutually beneficial exchange.

Gradually, one segment of the erstwhile radical Boomers quietly folded themselves into the new Big Corporate ethos, whilst another part entered into politics, eventually going on to become the nation’s political leaders. It is not hard to see how a common zeitgeist might emerge. It is half-heartedly woke, big corporate in outlook, and committed to the notion of élite ‘scientifically administered’ rule.

The point here is that there was never anything inevitable to this American-led ‘quiet’ oligarchic take-over. It was never immutable. It happened in America, as it had ‘happened’ earlier in 19th Century Europe. The Boomer radicals never were true ‘revolutionaries’ – and the oligarchs took advantage of their reticence.

The Boomer influx into the corporate and business world, however, did lay firstly, that key incremental shift towards a fusion of big business to government. Secondly, that fusion is now being consolidated through the programmes of pandemic monetary relief concentrated in the corporate sector. And the third step – today’s U.S. Tech war with China – is both further entrenching Silicon Valley and the corporate oligarchy, as well as opening the prospect to a bigger power-grab that is intended to entrench a small Techno-élite at the head of a global administration and in command of global digital money and assets. This is the Re-Set – it aims to forge the new global order to its advantage.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/23/will-the-technocratic-coup-succeed/

Federal Government’s Ultimatum To Tigray Rebels Nears Its Deadline

The civil war in Ethiopia does not seem to be nearing its end:

On November 22, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed stated that attack on the capital of Tigray will begin within 72 hours unless the regional forces surrender. The army told people of Mekelle to move away from Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TFLP) facilities and positions;

On November 23, two rockets reportedly landed in Bahir Dar airport;

Axum Airport has been heavily damaged by the TPLF, according to Ethiopian gevenment;

On November 22, Tigray TV reported live from Adigrat denying ENDF claims about the control of the city;

On November 23, clashes between ENDF and TPLF continue in the Korem area.

More details on the background and reasons behind the ongoing war in Ethiopia can be found here: “Civil War In Ethiopia: Conflict Developments And Background”

https://southfront.org/map-update-federal-governments-ultimatum-to-tigray-rebels-nears-its-deadline/

FBI reportedly investigating threats against Georgia election officials

The FBI is investigating threats being made against Georgia’s top election officials amid allegations of voter fraud, according to reports.

In a joint operation with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), agents are probing targeted threats made against Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and members of his team, Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs confirmed to Forbes, without detailing the threats.

“The GBI has information of possible threats. We are in the process of investigating any such statements directed at Georgia officials to determine their credibility,” the GBI said in a statement, according to local news anchor Rahul Bali.

The confirmation came a day after the Peach State’s voting system manager, Gabriel Sterling, complained of threats being made against him.

“So this is fun … multiple attempted hacks of my emails, police protection around my home, the threats,” Sterling, a Republican, tweeted Saturday.

Despite calling himself a “proud” supporter of President Trump, Raffensperger has also found himself repeatedly under attack over the handling of the state’s election process after declaring Joe Biden the victor following a hand recount.

“Georgia’s voting system has never been more secure or trustworthy,” the Republican insisted in an op-ed in the Washington Post Saturday, complaining about “unfounded” criticism of the local system.

The threats came as Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said last week she’s received “ongoing and escalating” threats of violence in the aftermath of Biden’s presidential win.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/fbi-investigating-threats-against-georgia-election-officials-report/

FBI should look at his crimes instead of running defense

NYT: Joe Biden to Nominate Alejandro Mayorkas as Homeland Security Secretary

Former US Vice President Joe Biden, the media's presumptive winner of the 2020 US election, will nominate ex-Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas as his pick for DHS secretary in his anticipated administration.

Citing Biden's transition office, the New York Times reported Monday that the Democratic presidential nominee intends to nominate Mayorkas, a fellow Obama-era official, as DHS secretary. If confirmed, the Cuban-American lawyer would be the first Latino to head the department.

Mayorkas entered the Obama administration as director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2009, following a unanimous Senate confirmation vote. He was then promoted to DHS deputy secretary and held the position from 2013 to 2016.

Biden was initially slated to make this announcement and more nominations during a Tuesday address from Wilmington, Delaware. However, the former vice president released a statement on Monday confirming an array of cabinet and high-level administration nominations.

"We have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and foreign policy," Biden said in a statement, as reported by NBC News. "I need a team ready on Day One to help me reclaim America’s seat at the head of the table, rally the world to meet the biggest challenges we face, and advance our security, prosperity, and values. This is the crux of that team."

US foreign service veteran Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs between 2013 and 2017, will be nominated as US ambassador to the United Nations, according to the transition office.

The UN ambassador position will also be elevated to cabinet-level status, sources noted to the NYT. US President Donald Trump removed the ambassador seat from his cabinet following Nikki Haley's 2018 exit.

Thomas-Greenfield, who is a Black American woman, is expected to be one of many diverse nominees for Biden's cabinet.

"These individuals are equally as experienced and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative," Biden said in a November 23 statement obtained by NBC News. "Their accomplishments in diplomacy are unmatched, but they also reflect the idea that we cannot meet the profound challenges of this new moment with old thinking and unchanged habits – or without diversity of background and perspective. It’s why I’ve selected them.”

Avril Haines, a former White House deputy national security adviser, has been tapped as Biden's director of national intelligence. Confirmation to the position would make her the first woman to ever hold the position.

Biden's transition office also confirmed reports that former US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan were selected to serve on the Democrat's potential administration.

Blinken was tapped for US secretary of state and Sullivan, a senior policy adviser with Hillary Clinton's Department of State, received the nomination to serve as Biden's national security adviser.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry was also picked by Biden to serve as special presidential envoy for climate. The 76-year-old Democrat publicly accepted the nomination via social media Monday.

America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. I'm proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on this crisis as the President's Climate Envoy.

— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) November 23, 2020

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Thailand moves to legalize abortion despite it violating a key Buddhist teaching

Backlash is expected from Thailand’s Christian leaders, and abortion is also considered to be a violation of a key tenet of Buddhist teaching, which requires that people refrain from killing since Buddhists believe that aborting a child is denying a soul the opportunity to be reincarnated

Thailand’s government has taken steps to legalize abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, with the cabinet proposing two amendments to a law that bans abortions except in the cases of rape or if the woman’s life is at risk.

Until now, abortion has been illegal in predominantly Buddhist Thailand (although women procure illegal abortions from doctors who charge several thousand baht to rid them of their pre-born children.) If the government’s bill is passed by the House of Representatives in early 2021, women who “insist on terminating their pregnancies” will be able to do so in the first three months of pregnancy. The second amendment to Thailand’s abortion ban would make it legal for doctors to perform abortions.

Rachada Dhanadirek, a government spokeswoman, announced that this reversal would mean that preventing abortions in the first twelve weeks would, under the new regime, constitute “an infringement of women’s rights,” and that “the constitution which dictates people have freedom over their lives and bodies” dictates that abortion should be legal.

“The law amendment will support and protect women’s and their unborn children’s rights equally and remove women’s motivations to seek out illegal abortions, which are not safe,” Rachada stated. She did not explain how legalizing abortion would be protecting “unborn children’s rights equally.”

Under the current law, women procuring an illegal abortion can receive a fine of up to 60,000 baht ($1,980) and a prison sentence of up to three years. The proposed amendments also make the punishments for abortion beyond the three-month cut-off less severe, with a fine of 100,000 baht or six months in prison. In stark contradiction to the prevailing line that abortion is “healthcare,” the government stated that the abortion itself was punishment enough.

Abortion activists, who have been pushing for this change by claiming that illegal abortions are inevitable and dangerous, are celebrating the move. Somchai Kamthong, spokesperson for the Thai chapter of Planned Parenthood, told one newspaper that the government move will help women considering abortion as “it will make their decision easier.”

Other abortion activists, unsurprisingly, are unsatisfied and are planning to continue pushing for a no-holds-barred abortion regime.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/thailand-moves-to-legalize-abortion-despite-it-violating-a-key-buddhist-teaching?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

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