Republican congressman introduces bill requiring Americans to be alive to vote

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A Republican congressman made a stand against dead people voting in elections and introduced a bill that requires Americans to be alive in order to cast ballots. Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) proposed the You Must Be Alive to Vote Act last week.

"The right to vote is one of the most vital pillars of our democracy, the foundations of which are election integrity and confidence in our democratic processes," Babin said. "The ease with which someone is able to steal the ballot of a deceased person and cast an illegitimate vote should disturb, alarm, and outrage every American citizen, no matter what side of the aisle they sit on. To protect our democratic process and Americans' faith in our elections, we must ensure that deceased individuals are not allowed to remain on state voter rolls."

"My bill will prevent any funds from the U.S. Departments of Transportation or Education, with the exception of those going toward law enforcement agency grants, from going to counties of any state that do not annually check their voter lists against the Social Security Administration's most recent death records in order to purge them of any individuals found to be deceased," Babin declared. "All elected officials, from your local city council member to your U.S. President, have an obligation to obey the law and prevent fraud in our elections, and Congress should not be awarding taxpayer dollars to any counties or states that refuse to do the job they swore to do."

"You would think it would be unnecessary to have a bill like this, I mean it goes without saying you should be alive before you get to vote," Bain said in an OAN interview. "We've uncovered some fraudulent plans to register a bunch of dead people to vote down in South Florida, and it's the easiest thing in the world for these local counties to purge their voter list of deceased individuals. All they have to do is to go to the Social Security system and cross check against their deceased Social Security recipients on their list and then purge them off of the voter list."

"Everyone in this Congress — everyone in this country — should want an assurance that dead people are not voting. And we don't have that assurance right now because so many of these voter lists have just not been updated, whether it's intentional, and whether it's laziness indolence are just, you know, nonchalance," Babin explained. "We need to make sure that these voter lists are accurate and that deceased individuals are not on their voting."

Babin noted, "This is not a Republican bill," and that there should be a "bipartisan effort to make this election process a lot more transparent." The GOP congressman wants to "clean up our election process."

Bain points out, "We have an enormous number of individuals in this country that don't trust the election process. Not good."

The bill, which has eight co-sponsors thus far, arrives on the heels of President Donald Trump challenging the results of the 2020 election, claiming that there was widespread fraud. The Trump legal team has alleged that there has been voter fraud after deceased people have cast ballots.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/republican-congressman-bill-alive-voting-elections

DHS Investigated For Spying On Citizens Using Cell Data From Mobile Advertising

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is launching an inspector general investigation into whether federal agencies surveilled Americans via their cell phone data without a warrant. While this sounds like nothing new, it involved federal agents buying access to a large commercial database.

According to a letter the DHS sent to Congressional leaders last week and obtained by The Wall Street Journal:

The department’s inspector general told five Democratic senators that his office would initiate an audit "to determine if the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components have developed, updated, and adhered to policies related to cell-phone surveillance devices," according to a letter sent last week to Capitol Hill and shared with The Wall Street Journal.

Putting aside the dubiousness of a major federal agency mounting an "objective" probe of one of its own internal departments over violations of Constitutional rights, the episode shows the US government has done little in the way of reform after the Edward Snowden NSA revelations of 2013. Of course, there were few that believed subsequent empty "promises" of politicians to curtail illegal domestic spying in the first place.

In this newest case the investigation will focus on US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and its alleged use of of commercially-available phone tracking data to snoop on the whereabouts of individuals. Congressional inquiries started when it was first revealed the CBP payed up to $500,000 to private company for access to a commercial database which has "location data mined from applications on millions of Americans' mobile phones."

The company at the center of the probe is a government contractor named Venntel which sources its data from mobile advertising to create "100 percent commercially available data".

Last Wednesday a group of Senators led by Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) issued a statement which said the following:

If federal agencies are tracking American citizens without warrants, the public deserves answers and accountability, I won’t accept anything less than a thorough and swift inspector general investigation that sheds light on CBP’s phone location data surveillance program.

"CBP is not above the law and it should not be able to buy its way around the Fourth Amendment," the senators said in the letter addressed to Inspector General Joseph Cuffari.

Simultaneous to the Congressional probe the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last week filed a lawsuit demanding the release of "records about their purchases of cell phone location data for immigration enforcement and other purposes."

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/dhs-investigated-spying-citizens-using-cell-data-mobile-advertising

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Staten Island ‘Autonomous Zone’ bar owner released after hit with 10 charges

The co-owner of Staten Island’s rogue “Autonomous Zone” bar was freed from custody Sunday — despite being hit with 10 charges for allegedly driving into a sheriff’s sergeant trying to arrest him for illegally staying open.

Danny Presti, co-owner of Mac’s Public House, was arrested just after midnight Sunday for allegedly driving a new turquoise Jeep into 30-year-old New York City Sheriff sergeant Kenneth Matos — breaking his legs and leaving him clinging to the hood for around 300 feet before being stopped by a sheriff’s car.

The bar owner plowed into the officer “intentionally and with depraved indifference to human life,” his charge sheet shows — leaving the officer in “substantial pain” and in “fear for his physical safety.”

The 43-year-old did so to escape being busted for again serving customers at the Grant City bar in defiance of COVID-19 orders — fleeing after the officers shouted “Presti!” to stop him, the documents say.

Presti — who had been arrested earlier in the week for keeping his bar open — was hit with 10 charges Sunday, including third-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury, menacing, reckless driving, resisting arrest and unlawfully fleeing a police officer.

He was arraigned from inside Staten Island’s 122nd Precinct and released on his own recognizance despite the slew of serious charges.

It was unclear why he was released — as the assault rap is bail-eligible. The Staten Island DA’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

A charging document alleges that the bar owner “drove with Sgt. Matos on the hood of his motor vehicle down South Railroad Avenue, turned left onto Lincoln Avenue, and made another left onto North Railroad before being stopped by a sheriff’s motor vehicle.”

The officer suffered fractured bones, including both tibias, sources told The Post.

Mac’s bar has become a center point for recent protests against government-ordered lockdowns, repeatedly serving customers in rebellion against orders not to do so.

Mac’s remained defiant Sunday — accusing the officers of hiding “like snakes in the grass” to yet again bust its outspoken co-owner.

“We will not back down! You have not scared us!! The world is watching and it’s time for everyone to wake up!” the bar wrote in a since-deleted Facebook update early Sunday.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/06/si-autonomous-zone-bar-owner-released-from-custody/

Pentagon Denies Friction, Delays with Biden Transition Team

The Pentagon pushed back Saturday on allegations that the department has been slow in meeting requests from the Biden-Harris transition team and had blocked initial access to intelligence agencies run by the military.

In a background briefing, two senior Defense Department officials denied any attempt to slow-roll the transition and said meetings with President-elect Joe Biden's agency review teams were scheduled with the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency on Monday and Tuesday.

The officials also denied that President Donald Trump's refusal thus far to concede the election was hampering the transition process at DoD.

In a statement Saturday before the background briefing, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller said that DoD's own transition leadership was "fully cooperating with the Biden transition team, placing national security and the protection of the American people at the forefront of any and all discussions."

"Leadership transitions, be they from one company commander to the next or one presidential administration to another, are an area in which the department boasts a long record of bipartisan excellence," said Miller, a retired Army colonel.

Miller was installed Nov. 9 after Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper via Twitter.

The senior DoD officials, who spoke on grounds of anonymity, took issue with news reports citing anonymous sources alleging that recent political appointees to the department, including Chief of Staff Kash Patel, may have been involved in denying on delaying requests from the Biden team.

One of the senior officials said the background briefing was being held "to correct the record on a good deal of misinformation that has been pushed in the last 24 hours on how DoD is handling the transition."

The second senior official said that "reporting about access to DoD intelligence agencies is untrue," adding that "Kash [Patel] has not been selecting individuals to do meetings." The official added that "Kash has not refused a single interview request."

However, the officials suggested that some of the mostly virtual meetings with the Biden team may have been delayed to make sure that the right DoD officials could attend.

The transition process usually begins quickly after each presidential election, but was delayed this year until Nov. 23, when the General Services Administration gave approval to all federal agencies to cooperate with Biden's teams.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/12/06/pentagon-denies-friction-delays-biden-transition-team.html

USA Today Is Now Using College Kids To Censor Media They Dislike

An alliance between Big Tech and leftist papers to suppress dissent is a deeply sinister thing. The amount of scorn required for this already troubling work to then be outsourced to partisan college kids is incredible.

USA Today uses left-wing college interns to censor news media and opinion articles they disagree with, working hand in glove with unaccountable social media giants to suppress it. Newspapers earn a lot of money performing this task for Facebook and its related companies, and are proud of the job they do to police public speech, even bragging about it publicly on social media platforms.

If you begin to feel an intense and crushing feeling of dread at this reality, don’t be alarmed. That indicates only that you are still sane.

Ella Lee is a college senior who transferred to DePaul University in Chicago. There, she edits a school paper with a proclivity for left-wing activism and casual accusations of racism against fellow students. Her Facebook “likes” include Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as well as a political activism group that claims Donald Trump is a Nazi and an illegitimate president who must be physically resisted. In her spare time, Lee enjoys photography and employing partisan talking points to shut down legitimate debate on contested matters of serious public importance.

On Nov. 25, for example, she called an oped at The Federalist false, relying on differing reads on intent, as well as two partisan, Democratic spokesmen and one co-author. Although many of The Federalist’s staff’s emails are publicly listed on the site, in her totally expectable amateurism she reached out only to a mass-communication media email for comment. In a continuation of her inexperience, she decreed the opinion article “misconstrues the two articles it uses as evidence,” apparently misconstruing opinion, debate, and prediction with checkable facts subject to her suppression.

The Federalist op-ed is titled “Biden COVID Advisor: Those Older Than 75 Should Get Vaccines Last,” and uses the completely reasonable evidence of Joe Biden advisor Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel’s own opinions on the value and quality of his life after 75 as supporting evidence, compounded by an article he co-wrote years later stating, “we propose using Standard Expected Years of Life Lost (SEYLL) averted per dose of vaccine as the metric for premature death.” The author, Elizabeth Bauer, clearly delineates between his personal preferences and his policy suggestions, and leaves room for debate, asking readers, “what would health-care policy look like if Emanuel is not just one adviser among many but becomes a key adviser on policies for the elderly?”

“Americans,” she concludes, “should be wary to find out.” Now actively wondering what health policy impact a key policy maker’s stated opinions on quality of life — plus a suggested vaccine supply metric based on Standard Expected Years of Life Lost — is no longer allowed. Not, at least, according to USA Today, Facebook, and Instagram.

Earlier in her college years, Lee wrote an opinion column to push for leftist causes she stood for as well as ideas she stood against, but now she doesn’t need to do that because USA Today has handed her a censor’s stamp.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/05/usa-today-is-now-using-liberal-college-kids-to-censor-media-they-dislike/

The Cartel’s Consul in Barcelona

The government of Mexico made Fidel Herrera Beltrán its consul in Barcelona, but there was considerable doubt about his true loyalties and interests during his time in Spain.

From the start, Herrera stood apart from the other diplomats representing their country’s commercial interests and providing routine travel services in the Catalonian capital.

About This Report:

This article was produced in collaboration with “The Cartel Project,” an investigation coordinated by Paris-based Forbidden Stories. It involves 60 journalists from 25 organizations in 18 countries and involves various aspects of Mexican cartel violence, including the murders of journalists in Veracruz state.

Forbidden Stories is a nonprofit group dedicated to continuing the work of journalists silenced by homicide.

He seldom appeared at diplomatic social events, where gossip over tapas and drinks surely involved his unorthodox appointment. Mexican Ambassador Roberta Lajous once refused to be photographed with him, and the Barcelona city government demanded to know why the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs had accepted his credentials.

When out on the town, the Mexican career politician traveled in a high-security bubble uncommon for a consul in such a pleasant posting.

Herrera drove “like a sheriff” in Barcelona, said an officer for a Spanish security agency. “He always moved in a capsule. With one van behind, another in front, and him in the center. If he went into a restaurant, they inspected it first.”

His bodyguards were soon known around the city as “The Men in Black” because of their matching black suits.

The agent knows this because he and others were watching Herrera from the moment he arrived in October 2015. What they saw was a fierce bundle of energy.

He appeared at exhibitions and art auctions, met business leaders and promoted commercial initiatives. Mexican news outlets said he made resumption of direct flights between Barcelona and Cancun a top priority. But he also met with unsavory people and made unusual visits to nearby Andorra, well beyond his consular jurisdiction.

“He was a networking machine,” said another Spanish police officer who was also watching from the shadows.

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https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/the-cartels-consul-in-barcelona

Election Fraud Severing American Society

The 2020 U.S. election, rigged by the Chinese Communist Party, has become the biggest case of election fraud since the founding of the United States, and more than 10 of President Trump’s supporters’ cars were vandalized to varying degrees during this Sunday’s pro-Trump march in California.

“People disagree with the things that I say, and I disagree with the things they say,” Lisa Carlisle, a supporter of President Trump, stated. “But it doesn’t mean damaging property, I mean it’s ridiculous.”

As long as election fraud remains unaddressed, American society will remain divided, the confrontation between Americans who have been deceived by the media and Americans who are righteous will further divide American society. And this is exactly what the Chinese Communist Party would like to see happen.

We call for non-violent solutions to problems, and we trust the U.S. Constitution, and we trust barristers like Giuliani, Powell, and Lin Wood to use the law to defend democracy and freedom, and to defend American values. And the Trump administration has also realized who is behind the manipulation, the CCP is over!

News Source: https://www.oann.com/counter-protesters-vandalize-cars-at-calif-pro-trump-rally/

https://gnews.org/623429/

Cyprus’ Auditor General Faces Removal After Golden Passport Report

After publishing a report casting further doubt on Cyprus’ controversial and recently suspended citizenship by investment program, auditor general Odysseas Michaelides is facing government pushback that could lead to his ousting.

While Michaelides’ report does not refer to any government official by name, it alleges a possible abuse of power by Cypriot politicians who were involved in granting citizenship to 18 executives of a casino project, along with 60 investors of an online video game platform, all of whom his office says did not meet the country’s formal criteria for receiving passports.

The auditor general now faces political backlash from high-ranking politicians, who have hinted that he may be called to the country’s Supreme Court – which could ultimately force his removal from office – to answer for what government spokesperson Kyriacos Kousios described as his “indecent” behavior, and for overstepping his authority.

Michaelides’ decision to release his office’s report, Kousios said, “violates the provisions of the Constitution, disdains institutions and, unfortunately, damages the prestige of the institution he was called on to serve.”

Michaelides had reportedly been warned not to publish any details of his report by Cyprus’ Attorney General Giorgios Savvides, who last August announced a four-member independent committee which has been tasked with investigating all citizenships granted to foreign investors, between 2007– when the scheme was launched – and August 17, 2020 which is the date the new legal framework on Cyprus’ citizenship by investment programme was put in effect.

The auditor general went ahead anyway, saying on Twitter that instead of attempting to block the report, the government should be focused on increasing transparency, which he called “the main enemy of corruption.”

On Tuesday, Michaelides was reportedly grilled for four hours by a committee assembled by Attorney General Savvides, which asked him how he was able to determine whether any law was broken throughout his investigation of the individuals he accused of having improperly been awarded Cypriot citizenship.

The auditor general spoke out to the media on Thursday, telling reporters that it would be determined by investigators and the courts whether there were possible criminal offences detailed in his report.

“There are serious issues to be investigated,” he said, adding that corruption and abuse could not be ruled out, and it remains to be seen who may have committed these offences.

“It could be by a government official, it could be by a head of a department, and it could be by a minister,” he said.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13484-cyprus-auditor-general-faces-removal-after-golden-passport-report

Manchin: Trump’s ‘Political Posturing’ During Pandemic Is ‘Dangerous’

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” called it “dangerous” that President Donald Trump had not taken the coronavirus pandemic seriously.

Partial transcript as follows:

CHUCK TODD: I want to start first with the situation with the virus here. You just heard from Dr. Birx. You’ve heard from Dr. Fauci. I think the frustration is, why is it that we can’t have even Washington unified? Why can’t even you guys in the United States’ Senate come together and everybody say, “Hey, let’s wear a mask?” I mean, it does seem absurd how polarized we’ve gotten over this, and it does seem to emanate from one individual, the president.

MANCHIN: It sure does. In my beautiful little state of West Virginia, you know we have 800 deaths have been registered, 17,000 cases, Chuck, and we are now having 1,000 cases a day. We have never ever ever seen this. Never thought we would. And we’re going into the most challenging, difficult time. So, absolutely we’re concerned. The Senate in Washington, as far as all of us, 100, most everybody is wearing a mask. The Senate Democrats, we haven’t met, as a group, since it started in March of this past — of this year. So, we’ve been very, very diligent about that. Now, our Republican colleagues are doing the same. They’re not meeting. They’re doing more Zooms like we have been doing all along. So everyone, I believe, is taking this more serious. The president has not. It’s been part of his political posturing. It’s very dangerous. It’s extremely dangerous. You know over— what close to 280,000 deaths, so far? It’s unbelievable, Chuck.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/06/manchin-trumps-political-posturing-during-pandemic-is-dangerous/

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1335738110651617281

A Michigan Trump Supporter’s House Was Bombed; Crickets From The MSM.

Macomb County, MICHIGAN — The homeowner said everything happened early Saturday morning just after midnight. He was upstairs with his girlfriend when they heard a loud boom go off. He rushed downstairs and said he was shocked at what he saw.

https://breaking911.com/a-michigan-trump-supporters-house-was-bombed/