Mike Flynn fires back at FBI, DOJ: ‘I've seen corruption up close and personal’

Former general suggests trial judge refused to follow law.

Newly pardoned, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn says his four-year legal odyssey in the Russia case exposed the widespread corruption of intelligence, law enforcement and judicial institutions where politics was allowed to overrule the law.

“I've seen corruption up close and personal,” the retired three-star general told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview Thursday with the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And I see it as it's playing out in our current election. I mean, real corruption is really now publicly known. And we should still find it unacceptable.

“This corruption in our institutions — justice, intelligence community, senior law enforcement — it didn't happen overnight. This had to happen over, you know, probably decades, certainly a decade of a shift in the culture of acceptable bad behavior.”

Asked whether he was frustrated that Attorney General William Barr and special prosecutor John Durham had not done more to bring accountability to the misconduct identified in his case, Flynn urged patience.

“I actually think that, you know, the attorney general we just need to give him some space, because there's some elements inside that block and tackle the truth, even from the attorney general,” Flynn said. “But I would say there are moments in time and now is one of them.”

Flynn was pardoned by President Trump the day before Thanksgiving, ending a four-year legal odyssey that began when the FBI opened a criminal case against him in summer 2016 on the now-debunked suspicions he was helping Trump collude with Russia.

He said he was deeply grateful for Trump’s clemency but had hoped all along it would be unnecessary if the judge in his case, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, had simply dismissed the charge of lying to the FBI as the Justice Department had asked.

“The judge, in my case should have, you know, made the right decision, followed the law,” Flynn said.

The former three-star general said when Trump called to inform him of the pardon, it was like old times when they worked together on the 2016 campaign.

“The conversation that I had with the President was a terrific one,” he said. “And it was like, you know, like the phrase old home week? I mean, it was like, we never left each other.”

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/fri-mike-flynn-fires-back-fbi-doj-ive-seen-corruption

Rep. Biggs to AG Barr: How do you know there was no voter fraud if you didn’t investigate it?

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs, R-AZ, slammed Attorney General William Barr on Monday’s episode of “The Sara Carter Show” for suggesting there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election while showing no evidence of an investigation into claims of such fraud.

Barr told the Associated Press earlier this month that the Justice Department was conducting an investigation, but claimed that “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

The Freedom Caucus last week wrote a letter to Barr asking him for evidence of his investigation, but Biggs says that evidence hasn’t yet been provided.

“If you didn’t investigate, then you wouldn’t know if there’s fraud or not,” Biggs told Carter of Barr. “But I’m disgusted. He’s named Durham, to be special counsel, ostensibly, so he can keep investigating in a Biden era.”

In his home state of Arizona, Biggs says the proper way to restore election integrity is to conduct an audit of the 2020 election. That will need to be directed by either Governor Doug Ducey, who will need the support of the state legislature, or the board of supervisors, Biggs noted.

“All’s the governor has to do is either bring legislature in and they can vote to have an audit, or the board of supervisors can order an audit, or the governor could issue an executive order and what would an audit do a forensic audit? He would either say that what the governor has been saying is right, that we had a wonderful election, there was no fraud, every legal ballot was counted and no illegal ballots were counted,” Biggs explaned.

“That’s what it would show he’d be a hero for that. Or he would say look, you know, we did find some a systemic problem. We did find enough balance to bring this into question and, and then you could pursue the remedy. He’d be a hero for that. You can’t lose. So why won’t he do it?”

Biggs also emphasized that despite hundreds of affidavits, many state leaders have gone on the “defensive” to prevent any such investigations.

https://saraacarter.com/rep-biggs-to-ag-barr-how-do-you-know-there-was-no-voter-fraud-if-you-didnt-investigate-it/

The British Hand Behind America’s Color Revolution: Soros and Lord Malloch Brown

Canadian Patriot editor Matthew Ehret discusses the ongoing US Color Revolution with a focus on George Soros, Dominion voting systems, Smartmatic and Soros’ globalist bosom buddy Lord Mark Malloch Brown who has just become President of Soros’ Open Society Institutes on December 4th.

https://theduran.com/the-british-hand-behind-americas-colour-revolution-soros-and-lord-malloch-brown/

Mastercard Faces US$18B Collective Lawsuit in the U.K.

The United Kingdom’s most senior court has greenlit a $14 billion (US$18.5 billion) group legal action against credit provider Mastercard for allegedly overcharging more than 46 million people over a 15-year period.

The collective proceedings marked the first case of this kind to reach the U.K. Supreme Court, with judges noting in their statement on Friday it had raised “important questions about the legal requirements for certification of a claim.”

‘Class action’ lawsuits, popular in the United States, in which a group seeks damages through a single representative, are subject to stringent tests in the United Kingdom. Claimants must first file for what’s known as a ‘collective proceedings order’ (CPO), which requires a court to approve both the class representative and the inclusion of the various claims under a single action.

Walter Merricks, the U.K. former financial ombudsman, first sought a CPO against Mastercard after a European Commission decision in December 2007 ruled that the credit provider had breached competition law “by fixing a default ‘interchange fee’ as part of their payment card schemes,” according to the court’s statement.

Merricks argued that the fees, used by Mastercard to pay companies for accepting cardholder transactions, resulted in U.K. customers paying higher rates on exchanges with Mastercard-accepting businesses.

The former ombudsman claimed then that “consumers paid higher prices for goods and services than they would otherwise have done,” as a basis for seeking “an award of damages for the whole class — an aggregate award — rather than damages for the claim of each class member.”

Merricks later sought appeal after a lower court ruled that the case did not meet the requirements for a CPO because the various claims weren’t suitable for an aggregate payout.

Mastercard condemned the Supreme Court decision, arguing that people in the U.K. “pa[id] the same price for their shopping however they chose to pay.”

“In our system, costs are shared by the business accepting a payment, banks and Mastercard, as all of us benefit from a purchase, so it’s right that all of us contribute to the cost of the payment system,” Mastercard Executive Vice Chair, Ann Cairns, commented.

She blamed “US-based lawyers and litigation funders primarily focused on making money for themselves” for pushing the case before the U.K. judiciary, “wasting both the court’s time and taxpayers’ money.”

“Collective or ‘Class’ actions are new for the U.K., but in the U.S., class action lawyers have attempted to bring almost identical claims against us, and all of those cases were thrown out by the courts, often long before any trial,” Cairns claimed, stressing that Mastercard would continue to oppose the action.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13523-mastercard-faces-us-18b-collective-lawsuit-in-the-u-k

NATO and the EU are sending a “message” to Russia. Again.

I lived most of my life in Europe and even though by the time I moved to the USA (2002) Europe was already in a very bad shape, what I see happening there now never ceases to amaze me. In fact, it makes me wonder if the Europeans or, more accurately, the European leaders have gone completely insane. Either that, or maybe they have some kind of death wish?

The first thing which absolutely amazes me is the fact that the EU leaders are acting as if this was still the 1980s when Europe still mattered and when the European continent was relatively prosperous. And even when EU leaders acknowledge the problems facing Europe today (crime, immigration, lockdowns, civil unrest, tensions with Russia, self-defeating sanctions under US pressure, etc.), they systematically deal with them (so to speak) by minimizing their actual and potential impact and consequences. And if nothing else matters, they use the riot police forces to “solve” the issue.

Then there is NATO which now seems to believe that mantric incantations and some really dumb military “for show” activities along the borders of Russia will terrify the Kremlin and turn Russians into Poles. Apparently, the entire analytical apparatus of NATO has never opened a history book. Either that, or they have decided to ignore the lessons of history, because “this time around” the Russians will definitely surrender.

To be fair, all the military operations along the Russian border bother the Russians only because they show that the “collective West” still hates and fears Russia. But in purely military terms, they are a joke.

Not so long ago the endless western provocations eventually got a reaction out of Russia: the Russians re-created of the First Guards Tank Army (FGTA). For most people, the concept of “Tank Army” means little. A “Guards Tank Army” even less. So rather than use any Russian sources (Putin’s never sleeping “hackers” and “agents”), let’s take a source which nobody can suspect of being pro-Russian: Wikipedia. Please check this Wikipedia entry for the history of the First Guard Tank Army”. At the bottom of the article, there is a partial list of units and subunits composing this Army. Check it out:

Army Headquarters (Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast)

60th Command Brigade (Selyatino village near Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast)

2nd Guards Motor Rifle ‘Tamanskaya’ Division (Kalininets, Moscow Oblast)

4th Guards Tank ‘Kantemirovskaya’ Division (Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast)

6th Separate Tank ‘Częstochowa’ Brigade (Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle ‘Sevastopol’ Brigade (Mosrentgen, Moscow City)

112th Guards Missile ‘Novorossiysk’ Brigade (Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast) (9K720 Iskander)

288th Artillery ‘Warsaw’ Brigade (Mulino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

49th Missile Air Defence Brigade (Krasnyi Bor, Smolensk Oblast) (Buk-M2)

96th Separate ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance) Brigade (Sormovo, Nizhny Novgorod City)

unknown Combat Engineer Regiment (in formation until the end of 2018) (unknown location in Moscow Oblast)

20th Separate NBC Defence Regiment (Tsentralny, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

69th Separate Logistics Brigade (Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)

No need to go into all the details, but let’s just say two things about this Tank Army: first, it has a lot more capabilities than “just” tanks and, second, this was the Army which really broke the back of the Nazi forces in WWII: it destroyed or captured 5,500 tanks, 491 self-propelled guns, 1,161 aircraft, 1,251 armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 4,794 guns of various calibers, 1,545 mortars, 5,797 machine guns, 31064 vehicles and other military equipment. The 1st guards tank army fought its way from Kursk to Berlin, which stretched for three thousand kilometers (source).

https://thesaker.is/nato-and-the-eu-are-sending-a-message-to-russia-again/

U.K. Labor Party: £470M Worth of COVID-19 Contracts Linked to Tax Havens

The U.K. Labor party called for “urgent clarity” over the £470 million (US$624.35 million) it found to have been doled out by the government for ten COVID-19 contracts to companies that are either listed, or have a parent company, in a tax haven, it said in a Thursday press release.

Its recent analysis found that these contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) were from companies listed in countries such as Malta, Mauritius, Luxembourg, and Dubai – known for their secretive or low-tax financial services industries.

“Taxpayers deserve to know their money is being handled with great care – and that any risks of its misuse through tax havens is carefully handled by this government,” Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, Rachel Reeves, said.

The U.K. government’s public procurement process, she added, “lacks important transparency, we are seeing no real moves to increase clarity or trust.”

Labor’s dissatisfaction over the government’s opaque COVID-related spending has been previously vocalized alongside members of parliament from the Green and Liberal Democratic parties.

In October, several MP’s launched judicial review proceedings against the government with The Good Law Project, demanding that it publish details on a roughly £3 billion ($3.92 billion) black-hole of COVID-19 contracts, whose recipients had yet to be revealed despite being legally required to do so within a 30-day period.

The contracts that have been under public scrutiny have also drawn criticism. The Labor party, in its press release, asserts that the Tory-led government has fast tracked hundreds of contracts, and that over £1.5 billion ($2 billion) has gone to friends and donors of the party.

When pressed about this issue in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC, Rishi Sunak, U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer – the government’s top finance official – declined to acknowledge that the government had misused public funds.

“When you’re in the midst of a crisis and you’re trying to ensure that you have enough PPE… it was right to try to do everything we can, and I’m not going to apologize for us acting in that way,” he said.

Facing allegations that some of his own wealth may also be stashed in offshore tax havens, Sunak, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, has been pressured to reveal where his funds are located in order to avoid any potential conflicts of interest while in office.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13519-uk-labor-party-470m-worth-of-covid-19-contracts-linked-to-tax-havens

The Memo: Hunter Biden twist brings new problems for president-elect

News that Hunter Biden is facing a Justice Department investigation into his finances has breathed fresh life into a story that seemed to be fading in the waning days of the presidential campaign.

It also presents new political challenges for his father, President-elect Joe Biden.

Some Republicans are already calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the matter. It seems unlikely, for now, that Joe Biden will accede to that request anytime soon after his Jan. 20 inauguration. But the controversy does, at the least, give conservatives a cause around which to rally from Day One of the Biden presidency.

It emerged on Wednesday that the younger Biden’s tax affairs have been under investigation since 2018. In a statement, he said he had learned of the probe the previous day. He insisted he was “confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisers.”

A statement released at the same time from the president-elect’s transition team said that Joe Biden was “deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges” — an apparent reference to Hunter Biden’s struggles with addiction.

It is hard to gauge the exact importance of the news given how little is known about its specifics, or how much compelling evidence has been found over the past two years.

The New York Times reported that suspicions of money laundering had fueled the probe’s early stages but that this line of inquiry had “failed to gain traction” because of a lack of evidence.

The whole matter will undoubtedly be seen through a partisan lens, given President Trump’s insistence, especially in the run-up to the election, of wrongdoing on Hunter Biden’s part.

Another piece of context is the complicated tale of a laptop that the president-elect’s son apparently left at a Delaware repair shop — only for the store’s owner to ultimately pass a copy of the external hard drive to Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

The New York Post published stories based around the laptop’s contents, but the matter never really gained the race-changing attention the Trump campaign desired. Democrats cast aspersions on the laptop story, though the Biden campaign has not denied that the documents found were real.

Still, a cloud that the president-elect hoped might have been beginning to lift is once again hovering over him and his family.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Thursday called for the appointment of a special counsel.

https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/529755-the-memo-hunter-biden-twist-brings-new-problems-for-president-elect

Senate passes defense bill, setting up Trump veto fight

The Senate passed a mammoth defense policy bill on Friday, setting up a veto showdown with President Trump.

Senators overwhelmingly supported the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in an 84-13 vote, approving it with more than the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override a potential veto from President Trump, who opposes the legislation on two points.

The bill already passed the House this week in a 355-78 vote, meaning it now goes to Trump, where he’ll have to decide if he is going to follow through with his veto threat despite bipartisan opposition.

Top Republicans touted the bill ahead of Friday, underscoring the division between the president and congressional Republican leaders.

“It does not contain every policy that either side would like to pass, but a huge number of crucial policies are included and a lot of bad ideas were kept out. So I would encourage all our colleagues to vote to advance this must-pass bill,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Trump has homed in on two issues. One is his months-long fight over a plan, included in the final version of the bill, that would require Confederate bases and military installations to be renamed within three years. Though senators had hoped that he had backed down from that fight, Trump shouted out the provision in a tweet this week.

More recently he’s hammered the bill over not including a repeal of Section 230, which provides a legal shield to tech companies and has emerged as a prime punching bag for the president and his allies. The bill also rebuffs Trump’s efforts to draw down troops in Germany and Afghanistan.

Though the bill passed both chambers this week with enough votes to override a veto, there could be a shuffling on an override vote with some GOP lawmakers flipping to stick with Trump and some Democrats who opposed the bill supporting an override.

Republicans say there have been efforts to talk Trump down from his veto threat, which could imperil a bill that typically passes with overwhelming bipartisan support and has been signed into law for 59 years in a row.

“My hope is that if the number is big enough that the president reconsiders his threat to veto it. It's clear what the final outcome will be,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

But Trump has shown no signs of backing down from trying to sink the bill, and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who spoke with the president this week, said he expects him to veto it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/529808-senate-passes-defense-bill-setting-up-trump-veto-fight

Patriot Act Used By The FBI To Collect Internet Browsing Data, Contradicting Claims Made To Oversight

The NSA shut down its bulk phone records collection authorized under Section 215 after it became apparent it wasn't worth the effort. Reforms put in place by the USA Freedom Act prevented the agency from collecting it all and sorting it out later. Instead, it had to approach telcos with actual targeted requests and only haul away responsive records. The NSA somehow still managed to overcollect records, putting it in violation of the law. The NSA hinted the program had outlived its usefulness anyway, suggesting it had far better collections available under other authorities that it would rather not subject to greater scrutiny.

But this didn't end the government's bulk records collections. It just ended the phone metadata program. The NSA still collects other records in bulk, including banking records and, oddly, books checked out by library patrons. The broad authority of Section 215 could be read to allow the government collect other records, like email metadata and internet activity. Reasoning that people voluntarily create records of their internet use by using third-party services to surf the web, the government hinted it could sweep these up just as easily as it had swept up call records.

The government's attempt to collect internet history under this authority ran into some friction earlier this year when the Senate voted to block this collection. Senator Ron Wyden directly asked the director of national intelligence (DNI) to inform the Senate whether or not agencies under its purview had gathered internet use records under this authority. He received this answer.

In a Nov. 6 letter to Mr. Wyden, John Ratcliffe, the intelligence director, wrote that Section 215 was not used to gather internet search terms, and that none of the 61 orders issued last year under that law by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court involved collection of “web browsing” records.

Wyden took this response to mean that implementing a ban on collection of internet history records could be put into place without negatively affecting any intelligence gathering activities. But when the New York Times pressed DNI John Ratcliffe on specifics, a new party inserted itself into the conversation: the DOJ. According to its response, the FBI had already done the thing the DNI had just told Sen. Wyden it hadn't.

In fact, “one of those 61 orders resulted in the production of information that could be characterized as information regarding browsing,” Mr. Ratcliffe wrote in the second letter. Specifically, one order had approved collection of logs revealing which computers “in a specified foreign country” had visited “a single, identified U.S. web page.”

So, the FBI was collecting internet browsing records, albeit with an order that only targeted foreign users visiting one US web page. Still, this wasn't what the DNI originally said to Sen. Wyden. This set Wyden off. Again. The supposedly honest answer he received in response to his questions wasn't actually all that honest. As he pointed out in his statement, the belated admission raised questions about domestic surveillance and potential abuse of Section 215 authority to collect something the DNI said no one was collecting. And, if nothing changed, there was no guarantee the Intelligence Community wouldn't talk itself into believing a collection of internet browsing data would be cool and legal.

“More generally,” Mr. Wyden continued, “the D.N.I. has provided no guarantee that the government wouldn’t use the Patriot Act to intentionally collect Americans’ web browsing information in the future, which is why Congress must pass the warrant requirement that has already received support from a bipartisan majority in the Senate.”

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201205/08544645823/patriot-act-used-fbi-to-collect-internet-browsing-data-contradicting-claims-made-to-oversight.shtml

Pfizer’s vaccine studies are based on FRAUD and put lives in danger, warns former Pfizer vice president

Dr. Michael Yeadon, the former vice president and scientific director for Pfizer, has come forward with evidence that widespread SCIENCE FRAUD was used in the 2020 race for a coronavirus vaccine.

In pursuit of speedy regulatory approval, Pfizer abandoned all scientific integrity. The study design for new mRNA injections is based on fraudulent diagnostic protocols that manipulate data endpoints and conceal the short and long-term adverse events inflicted by their vaccines.

Dr. Yeadon is joined by German lung specialist, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg. The two brave doctors have filed an urgent application with the European Medicine Agency, calling out the BioNtech/Pfizer vaccine study because it’s based on FRAUD.

mRNA vaccine studies are based on fraud, conceal serious vaccine injuries

The doctors concur that Pfizer’s vaccine studies should be halted until a credible study design can be presented, one that doesn’t falsify data endpoints and one that addresses a host of serious safety concerns. The doctors warn that Pfizer is conflating non-specific symptoms of illness with COVID-19 diagnoses for the control arm while using inaccurate, high cycle PCR tests for a diagnosis. The doctors warn that the vaccine’s efficacy is being contorted because the study design fails to properly diagnose cases of COVID-19 and fails to confirm infection using the Sanger sequencing method. They conclude that risk of disease and potential vaccine benefit cannot be measured or determined with accuracy. They demand a halt to all human experimentation with these mRNA injections.

Wodarg and Yeadon also warn that the vaccine’s efficacy toward spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 is a real measurement of immune reaction, but this effect will also cause autoimmune issues as well. Among these autoimmune issues is the destruction of the female reproductive system. The vaccines will produce temporary antibodies to coronavirus by attacking the spike’s syncytin-homologous proteins. Not coincidentally, the syncytin-1 is also essential for the formation of the placenta in mammals and humans. Therefore, the vaccines could cause infertility, miscarriage and birth defects, and Pfizer is not disclosing this information to patients.

The use of polyethylene glycol will also cause autoimmune reactions, a problem already being observed in U.K. patients. A 2016 study in Analytical Chemistry found anti-PEG antibodies in 72 percent of human samples, and 8 percent of those samples contained high levels, which led to increased adverse events and waning vaccine efficacy.

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/pfizers-vaccine-studies-are-based-on-fraud-and-put-lives-in-danger-warns-former-pfizer-vice-president/

YouTube's New Rules Now Ban The Majority Of Americans From Expressing Their Political Views

YouTube under CEO Susan Wojcicki announced Wednesday they're going to ban all content "alleging widespread fraud or errors" changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

From YouTube:

Since September, we've terminated over 8000 channels and thousands of harmful and misleading elections-related videos for violating our existing policies. Over 77% of those removed videos were taken down before they had 100 views.

We also work to make sure that the line between what is removed and what is allowed is drawn in the right place. Our policies prohibit misleading viewers about where and how to vote. We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election. However in some cases, that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election as election officials have worked to finalize counts.

Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections. For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come. As always, news coverage and commentary on these issues can remain on our site if there's sufficient education, documentary, scientific or artistic context.

Many people, including myself, wondered whether Big Tech was going to back off after Joe Biden was installed or ramp up their censorship to Bolshevik levels. That's question has now been answered.

We also showed information panels linking both to Google’s election results feature, which sources election results from The Associated Press, and to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) "Rumor Control" page for debunking election integrity misinformation, alongside these and over 200,000 other election-related videos. Collectively, these information panels have been shown over 4.5 billion times. Starting today, we will update this information panel, linking to the "2020 Electoral College Results" page from the Office of the Federal Register, noting that as of December 8, states have certified Presidential election results, with Joe Biden as the President-elect. It will also continue to include a link to CISA, explaining that states certify results after ensuring ballots are properly counted and correcting irregularities and errors.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61950

Battleground States Weakly Deny Texas Lawsuit’s Allegations, Texas Says They Ignore ‘Grave’ Election Concerns

Attorney Generals from Defendant States in Texas’s lawsuit before the Supreme Court attempted to deflect to politics in their Thursday response causing Texas to hit back

The lawsuit that the State of Texas has brought against four Defendant States – Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia – brings forth transgression by each state against the US Constitution. The Defendant States responded by playing vitriolic partisan politics.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the US Supreme Court on behalf of the people of the State of Texas charging that each of the Defendant States illegally and unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, and triggered significant voting irregularities by relaxing ballot-integrity measures.

Each of the Defendant States “violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution,” the lawsuit alleges.

In responses to the lawsuit – responses that were due by 3 p.m. ET Thursday, each of the four states rejected the allegations yet failed to address any of the legal or constitutional questions put forth in the lawsuit.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro wrote that the request “to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas’s preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an [affront] to principles of constitutional democracy.”

Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul wrote, “Texas is unable to allege that Wisconsin itself did anything to directly injure Texas’s sovereign interests.”

Texas Attorney General Paxton and other state attorneys issued a reply, stating the Defendant States “do not seriously address grace issues that Texas raises, choosing to hide behind other court venues and decisions in which Texas could not participate and to mischaracterize both the relief that Texas seeks and the justification for that relief.”

“An injunction should be issued because the Defendant States have not – and cannot – defend their actions,” they added.

My office filed additional briefing in support of Texas’s lawsuit to protect the integrity of our elections ⬇️

1) https://t.co/3gqRg6358e

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— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) December 11, 2020

The Texas lawsuit does not seek to overturn the election results in any of the Defendant States. Instead, it asks the Supreme Court to remand the power of seating each of the Defendant States’ electors to its original source per the US Constitution: The State legislatures.

https://nationalfile.com/battleground-states-weakly-deny-texas-lawsuits-allegations-texas-says-they-ignore-grave-election-concerns/

Federal Judge Could Allow 200K Georgia Voters Purged in 2019 Be Restored for Runoff

Federal Judge Steve C. Jones, a Barack Obama appointee, is set to decide whether some 200,000 people purged from the Georgia voter rolls in 2019 can be put back on, allowing them to cast a ballot in the January 5 runoff election for two Senate seats.

The Law 360 website reported on the consequential case:

U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones said at the end of a three-hour hearing Thursday that he’ll decide “pretty quickly” whether to grant a request by four multi-state voter and civil rights organizations to re-register the purged voters. Voter registration for Georgia’s senatorial runoffs, which will decide the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans in the upper chamber, closed Monday.

Counsel for the plaintiff organizations said the state did not follow federal law when it determined in 2019 that 313,243 voters should be removed because they had died or moved out of the jurisdiction in which they were registered to vote. The organizations said their experts found through several system checks that 199,908 of those purged were likely still eligible to vote.

“If one person, if two people don’t have the ability to vote because they were wrongly purged, that’s one or two too many,” said Tricia P. Hoffler of The CK Hoffler Firm, an attorney for the organizations. “People died so we could vote.”

The left-wing groups seeking judicial intervention in the runoff include the Transformative Justice Coalition, Rainbow Push Coalition, Black Voters Matter Fund, and Southwest Voter Registration Education Project.

The groups sued Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on December 2, claiming violations of the National Voter Registration Act and the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of voting rights.

Raffensperger denied claims the leftist groups made and asked the court to dismiss the case because plaintiffs have no standing and that “to re-register purged voters from an out-of-date list would lead to duplications and associated problems in the January runoffs.”

“The groups said Georgia failed to use a U.S. Postal Service licensee, of which there are 18 nationwide, to check the National Change of Address Registry in order to determine who should be dropped from registered voter rolls,” 360 reported. “This violation of the Voter Registration Act led to the state’s second violation for failing to maintain accurate and current voter lists, the plaintiffs alleged.”

The organizations — all of which want far-left Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to beat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler — also said the Georgia law that says registered voters have to vote to be kept on the voting rolls is unconstitutional.

Jeanne E. Mirer of Mirer Mazzocchi & Julien PLLC, an attorney for the organizations, said their complaint was largely based on a report published on September 1 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia and written by California-based reporter Greg Palast.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/11/federal-judge-could-allow-200k-georgia-voters-purged-2019-restored-runoff/

Israel Struck 500 Targets On ‘Six Fronts’ This Year: IDF Chief Of Staff

Iran’s entrenchment in Syria is slowing down as a result of ongoing Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operations, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on December 11.

These operations are a part of Israel’s “War-Between-Wars” campaign, which started in the mid-2000s and ramped up following the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011. The campaign is meant to prevent Iran and its allies from developing capabilities that will enable them to violate Israel’s balance of deterrence.

“The Iranian entrenchment in Syria is in a clear slowdown as a result of IDF activity, but we still have a long way to go to complete our goals in this arena,” Kochavi said, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli general went on to reveal that the IDF struck more than 500 targets in different areas over the last year. Tel Aviv claimed responsibility for several strikes on Syria.

“We operate in six areas intensively. There are arenas with activities on a daily basis and there are those with weekly or monthly activities,” said Kochavi.

An increase in the intensity of Israeli strikes on Syria was noticed in 2020. While Kochavi claims that Iranian forces are being pushed back, the situation in the war-torn country has not changed much from the previous years.

The IDF chief also revealed that Israel “carried out many offensive operations” in the cyber sphere, without providing further details on the matter.

“The Middle East is the most divided and violent region in the world,” Kochavi said, “Most of the countries surrounding Israel have areas without governance, and that challenges us to operate with ‘classic’ measures.”

Kochavi’s remarks indicate that Israel is still convinced that its military campaign will eventually force Iran out of Syria. Nevertheless, Tel Aviv’s military pressure appears to be brining Damascus and Tehran closer and closer.

https://southfront.org/israel-struck-500-targets-on-six-fronts-this-year-idf-chief-of-staff/

Illegally bombing it's neighbors and bragging about it

FBI Reportedly to Subpoena Docs of Texas AG Who Filed Lawsuit to Void Election Results in 4 States

The subpoena is reportedly not related to the lawsuit, which has been supported by the attorney generals of 17 other states and over a hundred federal lawmakers who believe that several US states illegally changed their electoral laws just months ahead of the election.

The FBI has subpoenaed documents from the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a part of a probe into allegations of abuse of office, local media outlet KVUE reported.

The media outlet did not elaborate on what information precisely had been requested by the bureau, but noted that it was related to an investigation that began following a joint complaint by several former employees of Paxton's office. They reportedly raised concerns over the Texas AG's alleged relations with local Austin investor Nate Paul, whom he allegedly helped hire a lawyer to look into alleged misconduct by the FBI during a raid on one of Paul's offices.

In addition, another outlet, the Austin American-Statesman, reported that Paxton had an alleged affair with a woman who was then employed by Nate Paul at one point under recommendation from the AG.

The FBI has not commented on the reports, while Paxton has denied any misconduct on his part, while dismissing the accounts of the former office employees.

"Their allegations are overblown, based upon assumptions, and to a large degree misrepresent the facts", the Texas AG said.

Texas AG's Crusade Against Battleground States Gains More Supporters

Paxton found himself in the limelight in December 2020 after he filed a lawsuit with the US Supreme Court against four battleground states – Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin – demanding to void their presidential election results. The Texas AG argues that the four states illegally altered their election laws in the months ahead of the election under the pretext of responding to the threat of the pandemic and claims that these states witnessed numerous irregularities and reports of voter fraud.

The attorney generals of 17 other Republican states and over a hundred federal GOP lawmakers soon threw their support behind the US Supreme Court suit that seeks to overturn the results of the election, in which Biden is currently the projected winner. Republican House Representatives Tom Emmer and Pete Stauber are two of the most recent lawmakers to join the lawsuit. Stauber's name was left out of the last list of signatories due to a clerk's mistake, which the lawmaker said would soon be corrected.

The lawsuit initiated by Paxton is the latest measure in an array of moves by the Republicans to tip the scales in their favour, as many of them refuse to recognise Biden's victory. President Donald Trump has also refused to concede despite giving a green light to the transition process. POTUS claims the election was "stolen" from him and has promised to fight for victory in court. His legal team, however, has so far failed to overturn the results in any states.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202012111081432189-fbi-reportedly-to-subpoena-docs-of-texas-ag-who-filed-lawsuit-to-void-election-results-in-4-states/

Turkish Proxies Use U.S. Missiles Against U.S. Proxies In Syria

Turkish-backed militants continue to use U.S.-made TOW anti-tank missiles (ATGMs) against the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria.

On December 10, the Hawar News Agency shared a video showing the remains of a TOW ATGM. They were found near the town of Ain Issa in the northern countryside of Raqqa.

The missile was launched by militants of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) at a post of the SDF near the M4 highway, to the north of Ain Issa. The incident took place during the last round of escalation around Ain Issa, which resulted in an agreement to expand Syrian military presence in the town.

Turkish-backed militants have been using TOW ATGMs against the SDF for a while. This type of the ATGM was intensively used by the SNA during Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria last year.

Hundreds of TOW ATGMs were supplied by the U.S. as a part of the covert operation, condemned “Timber Sycamore,” to train and equip anti-government groups in Syria. Loads of these advanced missiles ended up in the hands of Turkish-backed groups.

While these missiles were intended to be used against Syrian government forces, many of them found their way to the hands of terrorist groups, including ISIS. The rest are now apparently being used against the U.S. main ally in Syria, the SDF.

https://southfront.org/nato-friendship-turkish-proxies-use-u-s-missiles-against-u-s-proxies-in-syria-video/

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Bill Barr’s Remarkable History Of Scandalous Cover-Up

https://www.nationalmemo.com/bill-barrs-remarkable-history-of-scandalous-cover-up

Portland Police ‘Aware of Weapons Stockpile’ in Expanding Autonomous Zone

Portland Police Bureau Chief Chuck Lovell said his department is aware of a “stockpile of weapons” and “the presence of firearms” in a growing autonomous zone. A group of anti-eviction protesters set up the zone to stop the lawful eviction of the occupants of what has become known as “the Red House on Mississippi.”

“Those present at the barricade should leave it behind, put down your weapons, and allow the neighborhood to return to peace and order,” Chief Lovell said in a video posted on Twitter. “We are aware of the stockpile of weapons and the presence of firearms.”

The chief said they are also aware of the threats to the community, to police, and to media. “We’ve seen the attacks,” Lovell continued.

Portland police came under a brutal attack on Tuesday as they attempted to help the local sheriff’s office enforce an eviction at the “Red House,” Breitbart News reported.

Portland officers arrived at the “Red House” on Tuesday morning and were greeted by a crowd of at least 100 protesters, OPB.com reported. The protesters quickly became violent and began smashing the windows of police vehicles and slashing tires. The protesters then erected an “anti-eviction barrier.”

Now in its fourth day, the autonomous zone barricade continues to grow, according to independent journalist Andy Ngo. A photo posted on Twitter shows the size of the occupied zone which grew to three blocks in diameter. The Oregonian reports that protesters erected corrugated metal sheets and stacked wooden boards. They also deployed nail-studded spike strips and accumulated a stockpile of glass bottles and rocks to use as weapons.

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/12/11/portland-police-aware-of-weapons-stockpile-in-expanding-autonomous-zone/

The District of Corruption Has Overplayed Its Hand

This is just an observation (because I'm not looking forward to gulag life), but I think the only thing keeping Trump voters from burning the whole corrupt system down right now is that nobody knows whom or what to attack. That should be a pretty sobering consideration for an establishment class that thinks it just stole the 2020 presidential election fair and square. If there were a ship out in the harbor loaded up with all the Democrats' fraudulent ballots from the election, there's no doubt in my mind that a hundred million Americans would dress up as members of the Washington Football Club and sink that ship to the bottom of the sea. If the politicians and journalists who call the District of Corruption home were wearing bright red coats, I suspect they'd find themselves tossed to the curb head-first by every small business–owner going belly-up right now due to political whims disguised as public health orders. If there were a field of battle to defend or clearly demarcated enemy zones on the map, I'm guessing the powder keg ignited from mail-in ballot fraud this election cycle would have already gone boom!

The truth is that Americans are mad, and they should be. They have put up with four years of fake Russian collusion hoaxes and fake impeachments and fake judges using their powers to hamstring lawful executive orders from President Trump. They have watched the CIA abuse its powers to spy on a Republican political campaign and the FBI abuse its powers to punish political allies of the president, and the only person facing any semblance of justice in the whole mess is some no-name young lawyer from deep in the bowels of the Deep State's operations against Trump who lacked the judgment to understand that his own side would use him as a scapegoat. Police officers have been totally thrown under the bus so that lawless Democrat mayors and district attorneys could send armies of Antifa thugs into the streets this election year as a show of strength. Old and young veterans have been watching elected officials tear up the Constitution they took oaths to defend, and if fighting broke out tomorrow, I think 90% of those former soldiers would be at the front lines the day after next.

We have a tinderbox right now, and about the only miracle saving the Establishment Club in D.C. from the impending inferno is that the Americans most fired up to tear the whole thing down are the same Americans who have spent their lives respecting the rule of law and American institutions. Drink that irony in! The men and women in D.C. who see themselves as part of the "permanent government" have abused their powers to take down a sitting president, Establishment Club Republicans have looked the other way as Democrats used the cover of a pandemic to justify the dumping of unaccounted mail-in ballots across battleground states to overturn an otherwise likely Trump victory, and the only thing keeping Trump voters from destroying the whole corrupt system is their own self-restraint. As soon as enough of them decide that a two-tiered justice system that protects leftist agitators while persecuting the MAGA crowd is unacceptable or that a rigged election system that magically lifts establishment candidates to victory is illegitimate, then the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_district_of_corruption_has_overplayed_its_hand.html

Texas Tells SCOTUS That Defendant States Didn’t Address 'Grave' Election Issues

The state of Texas argued in a filing to the Supreme Court on Friday that the four states it is suing didn’t address “grave issues,” instead “choosing to hide behind other court venues and decisions.”

Texas sued Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the nation’s top court this week, alleging that the states unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, and triggered significant voting irregularities by relaxing ballot-integrity measures.

The states “violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution,” the lawsuit alleges.

Officials from the defendant states filed briefs Thursday urging the Supreme Court to reject the suit.

The request “to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas’s preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an [affront] to principles of constitutional democracy,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro wrote.

“Texas is unable to allege that Wisconsin itself did anything to directly injure Texas’s sovereign interests,” Wisconsin Attorney General Joshua Kaul added.

In the new reply, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other state attorneys said the defendant states “do not seriously address grace issues that Texas raises, choosing to hide behind other court venues and decisions in which Texas could not participate and to mischaracterize both the relief that Texas seeks and the justification for that relief.”

“An injunction should issue because Defendant States have not—and cannot—defend their actions,” they added.

Texas is not asking the Supreme Court to reelect President Donald Trump, according to the filing, nor does it seek to disenfranchise lawful voters.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-tells-scotus-that-defendant-states-didnt-address-grave-election-issues_3614484.html

What in God’s name? Pope Francis plans to ‘fix’ global capitalism – with the help of the Rothschilds, Rockerfellers and Mastercard

The Vatican has said it will partner with Fortune 500 companies to address various economic grievances, including inequality and environmental degradation. But is it really incumbent upon the Bishop of Rome to virtue-signal?

Anyone entertaining hopes that planet Earth might escape the insanity of 2020 without any more mind-blowing stories may wish to fasten their seatbelts for a hard landing.

At a time when a global pandemic has swept away millions of jobs, and transformed a handful of global capitalists from ‘merely wealthy’ to fantastically wealthy overnight, Pope Francis has decided to take sides in this epic battle. Any hunches what side that might be? Hint: much like the Vatican, it is immensely wealthy, influential, and acts like a government unto itself.

Yes, you guessed it. Instead of the poor and destitute – you know, ‘the meek who shall inherit the earth' rigmarole – taking their rightful place alongside the Pope to fight against globalization on steroids, the Vatican has announced it will form a “historic partnership” with big business, known as the Council for Inclusive Capitalism. You can’t make this stuff up. And make no mistake: this is no mere talk shop, but rather a vast undertaking that involves“more than $10.5 trillion in assets under management, companies with over $2.1 trillion of market capitalization, and 200 million workers in more than 163 countries.”

“Capitalism has created enormous global prosperity, but it has also left too many people behind, led to the degradation of our planet, and is not widely trusted in society,” said Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Founder of the Council and Managing Partner of Inclusive Capital Partners. “This council will follow the warning from Pope Francis to listen to ‘the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor’ and answer society’s demands for a more equitable and sustainable model of growth.”

In other words, in an apparent act of divine intervention, the Rothschild family (whose wealth is estimated at $20 billion, although nobody really knows for sure), together with other famous brand names of globalization, such as the Rockefellers and Mastercard, will now take up the standard for the world’s downtrodden. Who will be the first one to hold their breath?

I tried to contain my skepticism, I really did, until I read a bit deeper into this contract between the Catholic Church and corporate power. Any guesses as to who will ensure the corporate chieftains live up to their end of the bargain?

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509405-pope-vatican-global-capitalism/

Reports: Ga. Gov. Kemp awarded Dominion Voting Contract after meeting with Chinese consulate official in Atlanta

New reports highlight the relationship between Georgia’s governor and consuls from China. They show that Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) may have closer ties to China than just asking for their business.

According to recent reports, Kemp met with China’s consul general from the Houston consulate in Atlanta on July 12, 2019. The Houston consulate was shut down by the U.S. government for being used as a location for spies.

“We’ve terminated special treatment agreements with Hong Kong in response to CCP’s actions to deny freedom to the people of Hong Kong,” Secy. of State Mike Pompeo said when he appeared before the Senate in July. “And we closed our consulate in Houston because it was a den of spies.”

On July 29 of the same year, Kemp handed Dominion a ten-year contract worth over $100 million.

$400 Million SEC Filing Links Dominion, UBS, and China https://t.co/pPjBEP2WG7 via @news_ntd

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) December 6, 2020

Dominion has been accused multiple times of changing votes for President Trump to votes for Joe Biden. The company also has various ties to China.

In June of this year, the New York Times reported there is evidence that heavy lobbying and sales tactics were used leading up to their implementation.

On Tuesday, outlets highlighted resurfaced pictures of Kemp meeting with several Chinese diplomats who are suspected of committing espionage and attempting to steal COVID-19 research.

On July 12, 2019, GA Gov Kemp met Houston Consul General Li Qiangmin at rumored Chinese spy hub consulate in Houston.

On July 29, 2019, GA signs contract for Dominion Voting Machines statewide.

Coincidence?

Sources:https://t.co/67RgR8Jtwrhttps://t.co/va3yeHDsNt pic.twitter.com/9FDz4dfvpW

— Ron (@CodeMonkeyZ) December 8, 2020

Separate reports also called attention to massive Chinese investment in Georgia, which may violate CFIUS rules. Kemp is known to have welcomed questionable Chinese money in his state.

https://www.oann.com/reports-ga-gov-kemp-awarded-dominion-voting-contract-after-meeting-with-chinese-consulate-official-in-atlanta/

New York lawmaker proposes making COVID-19 vaccine MANDATORY for all state residents if initial round of shots fails to establish sufficient herd immunity

The bill was proposed by Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal of New York's 67th District and has been referred to a committee for further examination

Rosenthal's mandate would make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for all eligible residents if initial doses fail to establish sufficient immunity

The bill adds that anyone who is exempted by a licensed medical professional will not be required to receive the vaccine

Rosenthal called the bill a 'protective health measure' and said not everyone would have to get the vaccine, so long as a certain number of people do

New York Assemblyman David DiPietro called her proposal 'very dangerous'

Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes said she doesn't support it

Gov. Cuomo said last week that New York state could receive its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine as early as December 15

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9039571/New-York-lawmaker-proposes-making-COVID-19-vaccine-MANDATORY-state-residents.html

Georgia House speaker moves against election official

Amid continuing Republican attacks on the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s presidential victory in Georgia, the state House speaker is proposing to take the selection of the state’s chief election official from the voters and put it in the hands of legislators.

Republican House Speaker David Ralston said Thursday that he will seek a state constitutional amendment to change how Georgia’s secretary of state is chosen.

With two-thirds approval needed by both the House and Senate, such a move is unlikely, particularly with Democrats signaling immediate opposition. If it were to pass, a majority of voters would decide the question in the next even-numbered year.

Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is being savaged by members of his own party, including broadsides from President Donald Trump and calls for his resignation by U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. The senators are locked in contests with Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock for control of the U.S. Senate in a Jan. 5 runoff election.

“In a clear power grab, Ralston and the Trump campaign want to give the General Assembly the power to select winners of elections and violate the will of the people,” Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said.

Ralston said he was reacting to what he felt was Raffensperger’s unresponsiveness, saying the secretary has “chosen to be on his own” and that being accountable to lawmakers would “bring a closer focus.”

“The people feel like they’re being excluded by that office and they are focusing their frustrations on the members of the General Assembly,” the Blue Ridge Republican said in a news conference. “I’m getting emails, messages and phone calls not only from people in my House district but from people all over the state of Georgia.”

The attack by the most powerful leader in the General Assembly is yet another sign that Raffensperger is likely to find his office and power under siege in the legislative session that begins in January. Raffensperger was already on the outs with the speaker over his decision to send absentee ballot applications to every active Georgia voter before the June primary election.

On Thursday he also cited discontent with Raffensperger’s decision to settle a lawsuit over how the state verifies signatures on absentee ballots without consulting the General Assembly, as well as a refusal by Raffensperger and his subordinates to appear at a House hearing Thursday that rehashed baseless assertions of widespread voter fraud in Georgia’s presidential election.

In the morning, Trump’s legal team, led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, largely repeated allegations and conspiracies raised last Thursday during a similar hearing before a state Senate committee. In the afternoon, a number of Republican poll watchers and election monitors complained of procedural irregularities in some county election offices. A number of those county-level issues are already under investigation by Raffensperger’s office.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-georgia-constitutions-elections-c31554e4ffa22286ae8cb2d768e85061

Genocide is Globalist End Game

In 2020, the Zionists launched open warfare on all of humanity, open warfare they are no longer even trying to keep secret. They emphasized there can be NO RETURN TO NORMAL until they have completed their plan for the mass genocide of humanity.

Just as the Bolshevik Zionists genocided 100 million Christians in Eastern Europe in their takeovers following Russia's two "revolutions" of 1917, and another 150 million Christians in the Christian Holocaust of WW1 and WW2, their publications state that they now intend to genocide hundreds of millions of Christians after this installation of worldwide communism in 2020. So beware! Even if they call this flavor of communism "Technocracy", it is the same.

Rabid-Zionist Max Boot is a member of the CFR. He wrote books on quelling insurgency, in which he expressed his preference for the "British Model" used in Malaysia where Britain turned every city and town into a giant concentration camp in order to quell a Malaysian rebellion.

On 6 Jul 2020, Max Boot of the CFR wrote an article titled "What if Trump loses but insists he won?" in the Washington Post.

In this article, Boot revealed a scenario that had been "war-gamed" by a group calling itself the Transition Integrity Project (TIP). The TIP played out a scenario in which there would be a razor-thin victory for Joe Biden followed by actions by President Trump to keep control of the presidency "through lies and legal wrangling", it said.

The TIP predicted next that civil unrest might lead to civil war as the fight over the White House expanded. And that hints at huge riots starting in the spring of 2021, followed by martial law.

This article may have been "predictive programming" to promote a contested election, civil war, martial law, forced economic collapse in order to destroy the USA from within … and with all the blame going on that "nasty conservative" puppet Donald Trump.

In the unlikely event that US citizens might finally wake up and make serious attempts to foil the Zionism' genocidal plans, they could still choose to launch an EMP attack to take down the US electric grid and plunge the USA (or any other stubborn country) into years or even decades of total chaos.

And that is why we need to prepare for such eventualities by practicing how to live off-grid or else by simply fleeing the "smart"-cities for rural areas where one can grow one's own food and enjoy greater security.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: Whatever happens, the Zionists intend to continue their demolition of "advanced" economies until they have achieved the complete destruction of the middle class, and of all small or medium-sized enterprises (i.e. the complete destruction of the so-called "Mittelstand").

https://henrymakow.com/2020/12/Genocide-is-globallst-end-game.html

Gov. Cuomo Closes Indoor Dining in New York City Indefinitely Due to ‘Rising Covid-19 Cases’

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced all indoor dining in New York City will be banned indefinitely due to a rise in Covid-19 cases.

Cuomo’s new restrictions go into effect on Monday.

Only outdoor dining (in freezing temps) and takeout orders will be allowed as we enter what was supposed to be a busy holiday season for restaurants.

“In New York City, you put the CDC caution on indoor dining together with the rate of transmission and the density and the crowding, that is a bad situation,” Cuomo said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he supported Cuomo’s decision to ban indoor dining.

Cuomo added, “It’s in everyone’s interest to get the virus under control, don’t overwhelm the hospitals, don’t overwhelm the positivity rate.”

“If we don’t slow the spread and we overwhelm the hospital system — we get to a red zone… then every restaurant goes to zero indoor, outdoor zero. That’s the worst case scenario.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/gov-cuomo-closes-indoor-dining-new-york-city-indefinitely-due-rising-covid-19-cases-video/

Senate Passes One-Week Stopgap To Avert Shutdown

Congress has passed a stopgap government funding measure via voice vote, which will fund operations for another week as Congress works to reach spending and COVID-19 relief deals. The measure will head next to President Trump's desk, which he will need to sign into law before Saturday to avoid a government shutdown.

The bill will extend funding through Dec. 18 as lawmakers hash out what's shaping up to be a $1.4 trillion package to keep the government running through the end of Sept. 2021 - though they've failed to agree exactly how the funds will be used, according to CNBC.

Despite the most frantic efforts in months to craft a coronavirus rescue package, Congress has several major disputes to resolve to reach a deal. Millions of Americans await help as an uncontrolled outbreak ravages communities across the country and leads to food insecurity unseen in years.

If lawmakers cannot pass relief legislation in the coming days, about 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits on the day after Christmas. An eviction moratorium and family leave provisions put in place earlier this year will also expire at the end of December. -CNBC

At present the largest stumbling blocks remain over Democratic demands regarding state and local municipalities receiving pandemic relief, vs. liability protections which would shield employers from COVID-19 related lawsuits.

Democrats, meanwhile, have criticized the White House's most recent $916 billion aid offer endorsed by GOP leadership, which doesn't include additional federal unemployment insurance funding, yet does include a $600 direct payment - half of what Democrats are seeking. Instead, the left has placed their support behind a $908 billion package crafted by a bipartisan group which would include a $300 weekly federal jobless benefit but not direct payments.

According to Axios, drama ensued after Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) objected to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's initial attempt to pass the resolution via unanimous consent.

Sanders said he would withdraw his objection this week, but would not do so when funding expires before Christmas.

Hawley did the same, pleading: "If the Senate of the United States can find hundreds of billions of dollars to give to big government and big business, surely it can find some relief for working families and working individuals."

The big picture: Despite the momentum in stimulus talks, McConnell (R-Ky.) has refused to budge on his red line of including liability protections for businesses in the next relief bill. -Axios

According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, lawmakers "cannot go home" until a deal is reached - implying that Congress may remain in session until Dec. 26, when various emergency aid programs will otherwise expire.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-passes-one-week-stopgap-avert-shutdown

FDA lists 22 potential adverse effects of new COVID-19 vaccine and it’s not looking good

See all 22 adverse effects listed on FDA's COVID-19 Vaccine Saftey Surveillance bulletin – it may SHOCK you!

The 22 potential adverse effects listed on the official Food and Drug Administration website are:

Guillain-Barrésyndrome

Acutedisseminatedencephalomyelitis

Transversemyelitis

Encephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis/meningoencephalitis/meningitis/encepholapathy

Convulsions/seizures

Stroke

Narcolepsyandcataplexy

Anaphylaxis

Acutemyocardialinfarction

Myocarditis/pericarditis

Autoimmunedisease

Deaths

Pregnancyandbirthoutcomes

Otheracutedemyelinatingdiseases

Non-anaphylacticallergicreactions

Thrombocytopenia

Disseminatedintravascularcoagulation

Venousthromboembolism

Arthritisandarthralgia/jointpain

Kawasakidisease

MultisystemInflammatorySyndrome in Children

Vaccineenhanceddisease

https://www.intellihub.com/fda-lists-22-potential-adverse-effects-of-new-covid-19-vaccine-and-its-not-looking-good/

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