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Anonymous ID: 67f45a Dec. 8, 2020, 5:01 a.m. No.11947913   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7926 >>8048 >>8289 >>8426

Chairman of Smartmatic’s parent company to become president of George Soros’s ‘Open Society Foundations’

https://www.oann.com/chairman-of-smartmatics-parent-company-to-become-president-of-george-soross-open-society-foundations/

Anonymous ID: 67f45a Dec. 8, 2020, 5:20 a.m. No.11948017   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8048 >>8126 >>8289 >>8410

Chuck Yeager, U.S. Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Dies at 97

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/chuck-yeager-u-s-pilot-who-broke-the-sound-barrier-dies-at-97

 

Chuck Yeager, the World War II fighter ace who became the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound, epitomizing the derring-do that Tom Wolfe celebrated as “The Right Stuff,” has died. He was 97.

 

His wife, Victoria Yeager, announced Yeager’s death in a post on his verified Twitter account, saying his was an “incredible life well lived” and that his “legacy of strength, adventure, and patriotism will be remembered forever.”

 

Yeager “challenged each of us to test the limits of what’s possible,” said Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat and former governor of the state where Yeager was born.

 

Considered the greatest test pilot ever by many contemporaries, Yeager said he never had interest in becoming an astronaut, a role he mocked as “little more than Spam in the can.” Still, he trained and inspired many fellow U.S. test pilots who pioneered space exploration.

 

Yeager’s 20/10 vision enabled him to “see forever,” in the words of fellow flier Clarence “Bud” Anderson. He began building his legend in World War II when he downed five German planes in one day. He sealed his place in history in 1947, at 24, when he became the first person to fly at supersonic speed.

 

The attempt to break the ominously named “sound barrier” was carried out with Cold War secrecy and intensity because of its implications for air combat. The U.S. Air Force had chosen Yeager to pilot the experimental Bell X-1 rocket ship at Muroc Lake, in California’s Mojave Desert, now Edwards Air Force Base.

 

The plan was to push closer and closer to the speed of sound Mach 1, or roughly 665 mph (1,070 kph) at the cruising altitude of today’s passenger planes over the course of numerous tests. The gradual approach was deemed necessary to study the shock waves that caused extreme turbulence as a vehicle approached supersonic speed.

 

Yeager arrived for his ninth flight on Oct. 14, 1947, in pain from two broken ribs suffered during a nighttime horseback ride. Already impatient with the program’s pace, he declined to disclose his discomfort to his superiors.

 

“I suppose there were advantages in creeping up on Mach 1,” Yeager recalled in his 1985 memoir, “but my vote was to stop screwing around before we had some stupid accident that could cost us not only a mission, but the entire project.”

 

The flight plan that day called for the X-1 named Glamorous Glennis, after Yeager’s wife at the time to reach 0.97 Mach.

 

At 20,000 feet, it detached from the B-29 bomber that had carried it into the sky. Yeager activated rocket boosters that propelled the ship to 42,000 feet (12,800 meters). With 30% of his fuel still remaining, he activated another booster to reach 0.96 Mach, employing a recently devised technique adjusting a horizontal stabilizer on the ship’s tail to counter the shock wave building up there.

 

“I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride,” he said. “Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to 0.965 Mach – then tipped right off the scale. I thought I was seeing things!”

 

Measurements showed he had reached Mach 1.06, about 700 mph. The sonic boom that accompanied the breakthrough notified the crew on the ground that Yeager had made history.

 

“I was thunderstruck,” he wrote. “After all the anxiety, breaking the sound barrier turned out to be a perfectly paved speedway.”

Anonymous ID: 67f45a Dec. 8, 2020, 5:55 a.m. No.11948241   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8289 >>8426

Safe harbor deadline: Here’s why Dec. 8 matters in the 2020 election

https://www.fox29.com/news/safe-harbor-deadline-heres-why-dec-8-matters-in-the-2020-election

 

WASHINGTON - There are many dates to be aware of following the projected win of President-elect Joe Biden and before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2021 — one of them being the “safe harbor” deadline on Dec. 8, 2020.

 

Americans spent several days following Election Day 2020 waiting for the race to be called. After it was finally projected by the Associated Press, FOX News and other major networks that Biden won, President Donald Trump refused to concede and instead has promised a barrage of lawsuits in states that narrowly voted for Biden.

 

Additionally, the Trump campaign requested a recount in Wisconsin, which Biden also added to his win column. In Georgia, the secretary of state announced that election officials would complete a recount after vote totals showed a razor-thin margin between Trump and Biden.

 

Given the ongoing legal action and lingering recounts, the “safe harbor” date becomes a notable step in the path to Inauguration Day.

 

Federal law (3 U.S. Code § 5) frees a state from further challenge if it settles legal disputes and certifies its results at least six days before the Electoral College meeting, which occurs this year on Dec. 14.

 

“Whatever final decision that state reached by (Dec. 8) — that’s conclusive and final and binding and nobody has any right to second guess it,” explained Adav Noti of Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that focuses on voting rights, campaign finance, anti-gerrymandering work and government ethics.

 

Noti is the center’s senior director for trial litigation and chief of staff. He previously spent more than 10 years with the Federal Election Commission in a variety of capacities.

 

“It’s not a deadline in the sense that states don’t have to do that — states have until Dec. 14 to figure out who their members of the Electoral College are,” Noti added. “But if they do it at least six days in advance, they have this extra protection under federal law.”

 

At the state level, only Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia specify deadlines for contests related to presidential electors, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NSCL). In most of the five states, the deadline to decide a contest is tied to the “Safe Harbor” deadline.

 

In Tennessee, contests for presidential electors must be decided before the last day of November. The rest don’t even specify a deadline in their state laws to conclude contests, according to the NCSL.

 

If a state hasn’t resolved its legal disputes in the presidential election by Dec. 8, than it doesn’t get to take advantage of the extra protection in law.

 

“There are other protections in federal law that make sure that just because they go past Dec. 8, they don’t lose their right to decide who is representing the state in the Electoral College,” Noti said.

 

Noti added that there are other provisions in federal law that specify what happens if a state sends multiple slates of presidential electors to the Electoral College. “It doesn’t all hinge on the Dec. 8 date.”

 

The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden, in which multiple states in the South cast competing sets of electoral votes, led Congress to pass the Electoral Count Act of 1887 — encompassing the “safe harbor” provision so states could resolve their own disputes without Congress having to get involved.

 

If the deadline comes and goes and state officials submit conflicting electoral votes, Congress must agree on which to accept, according to the Congressional Research Service. If the U.S. Senate and House don’t agree, the votes certified by the state’s governor win.

 

Each state has its own laws and procedures for how it finalizes its result, and most of the deadlines are well in advance of Dec. 8, 2020.

 

Noti added that courts are good at handling election cases “extremely quickly.”

 

“Even courts that generally take a long time to hear cases can deal with election cases within a matter of days,” he said.

 

“So there’s really no reason to think that the Dec. 8 date is going to present any difficulty, even in the states that are conducting recounts. There are timelines for those recounts, and they should all be resolved well in advance of Dec. 8.”

Anonymous ID: 67f45a Dec. 8, 2020, 5:59 a.m. No.11948257   🗄️.is 🔗kun

We are going to need a slaughter house to take care of all these traitors.

Use the exact same method used to kill the cows.

Rod through the head.