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Biden/Burisma UPDATE: President Trump Was RIGHT to Ask Questions About Ukraine!

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Fox and Friends” on @Fox News to discuss Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine with Burisma and how then-Ambassador Yovanovitch sounded the alarm back in 2017.

https://youtu.be/OJufeBJZPS8

https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/biden-burisma/

Questions arise over whether Trump should employ 2018 order against foreign election influence

The 2018 executive order addresses a specter similar to the revelation that Russian hackers penetrated the DHS.

Amid recent reports of foreign breaches into U.S. government computer systems, questions have emerged whether hackers manipulated the results of the 2020 elections — and if so, whether that would trigger a White House executive order on responding to such an incursion.

The 2018 executive order from President Donald Trump addresses the specter similar to Monday's revelation that Russian hackers had penetrated the Department of Homeland Security.

"Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system," Trump wrote in his 2018 order. "In recent years, the proliferation of digital devices and internet-based communications has created significant vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of foreign interference, as illustrated in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat."

A Sunday report from a forensic analyst who delved into the Dominion Voting System connected the dots between the 2018 executive order and possible foreign election interference perpetrated via the Dominion machines.

"We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results," reads the Dec. 13 report from Allied Security Operations Group. The report was compiled in connection with a lawsuit from Antrim County, Michigan resident William Bailey, who charged that there were problems with the county voting machines.

Dominion has disputed the report and insisted there were no problems with its machines. U.S. officials likewise have said there is no evidence of widespread fraud or foreign intrusion in the just-completed election.

The forensic analysis report cited the 2018 executive order, implying that the White House should assess whether to impose its provisions.

The executive order instructs the heads of "appropriate executive departments and agencies," including the Director of National Intelligence, to conduct and complete such an evaluation.

"The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security," the order reads.

The assessment is subject, however, to a timeline that may extend into a new administration under Joe Biden, possibly rendering moot the mandate from Trump.

The first portion of the timeline must commence "not later than 45 days after the conclusion of a United States election," according to the order.

The FBI and the government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned in October that a Russian state-sponsored hacking group had launched a campaign against U.S. targets, including government and aviation networks.

Russia has also meddled in U.S. elections using social media, according to an October report from the RAND corporation.

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https://justthenews.com/government/security/questions-arise-over-whether-trump-should-employ-2018-executive-order-against

Consultancy Linked to Biden Nominees Scrubs Middle East Ops From Site

Biden's NSA, VA picks worked for Macro Advisory Partners

A consulting firm linked to incoming Biden officials removed references to its foreign dealings in the closing weeks of the election.

Both Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden's incoming national security adviser, and Denis McDonough, Biden's pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, have served as partners at Macro Advisory Partners, a consulting firm that says it helps clients manage geopolitical risk.

Until early November, the firm advertised its work helping a financial services company expand into the Middle East, according to archived versions of the website. The firm said it helped its clients manage the "geopolitical and economic volatility" in Middle Eastern markets by drawing on the extensive policy expertise of Macro Advisory Partners employees.

"The intersection of geopolitics, policy and politics is defining the long-term prospects for financial services in the Middle East," the website said in now-deleted comments. "MAP's partner-led team includes professionals with decades of experience analysing Middle Eastern markets, politics and security."

Tom Anderson, a director at the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said the move raises questions about the work the Biden duo conducted and whether they stand to profit from the new administration's policy in the region.

"When politicians or officials are caught trying to hide something—there is a reason for their actions. Usually, they see a bigger reward than the risks associated with scrubbing," Anderson said. "Hiding motivations for seeking positions should raise red flags for oversight professionals, and the media to expose potential conflicts of interest."

The American Prospect reported in July that Sullivan's clients included ridesharing giant Uber. He also "used [the] knowledge he acquired from negotiating the Iran deal in the Obama administration to help companies profit from the opening of the Iranian economy," the magazine reported.

As a chief negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal—at the time, Sullivan was then-Vice President Joe Biden's national security adviser—any of his business dealings with companies looking for guidance in the Middle East would raise questions about whether he has a vested interest in ensuring the Biden administration reenters the deal. McDonough, who served as then-President Barack Obama's chief of staff, was also privy to discussions about the Iran nuclear deal and other Middle Eastern foreign policy issues, raising similar conflict-of-interest concerns. The current employment status of the two Biden picks is unclear. McDonough is still listed as a partner at Macro Advisory Partners, but Sullivan disappeared from the firm's website after July.

Neither Macro Advisory Partners nor the Biden transition team responded to requests for comment.

Robert Spalding, a former staffer for the Trump White House's National Security Council, said former officials cross a line when they work for U.S. adversaries after retiring from office. "I don’t necessarily think they shouldn’t work in this space, but working for the Russians, CCP, Iranians, or any other thuggish regime ought to be a no-no," he told the Washington Free Beacon.

Macro Advisory Partners is the second Biden-linked firm to expunge references to its overseas work as top executives were tapped to senior positions in the incoming Democratic administration.

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https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/firm-linked-to-biden-nominees-scrubbed-middle-east-dealing/

Rep. Van Drew: 'Absurd' for Dems to say he shouldn't be seated in House for backing election lawsuit

NJ Republican said 'we were worried about election integrity'

Democrats who are calling for the removal of their colleagues for supporting President Trump's election fight are making an "absurd" argument, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said Tuesday.

“Well, I guess it is because we support the president and I guess it is because we were worried about election integrity,” the former Democrat told "Fox & Friends."

Van Drew said “regardless of the issue” pertaining to Trump, there needs to be an assurance of the “highest level of integrity in the U.S. election.”

“Quite frankly, we haven’t and we have been retrogressing. Years ago, we were actually doing better with elections than we are now,” Van Drew said.

Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., sent a letter Friday urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to consider blocking more than 100 Republican lawmakers from taking office because of their support for Trump's lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results.

The letter calls out the 126 Republicans who joined the president's lawsuit, which was headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Friday, the court rejected that case.

"The courageous Reconstruction Congress implanted into our governing document safeguards to cleanse from our government ranks any traitors and others who would seek to destroy the Union," he said.

The 12-term legislator went on to quote the 14th Amendment, which blocks individuals from serving in office if they engaged in an "insurrection or rebellion."

"I call on you to exercise the power of your offices to evaluate steps you can take to address these constitutional violations this Congress and, if possible, refuse to seat in the 117th Congress any Members-elect seeking to make Donald Trump an unelected dictator," he said.

The 126 members who backed the lawsuit make up roughly two-thirds of Republicans in the House.

Van Drew said the “important issue is that certain states changed their election laws and the way they went about voting in a very serious and significant way, without the legislature meeting and voting on it.”

“That is unconstitutional, it is not legal, I believe in the rule of law, they absolutely should have had a meeting of those folks obviously that are in the legislature and that is what this suit is all about and that is what this concern is about,” Van Drew said, adding he did not agree with the Supreme Court's rejection of the challenge.

"The notion that after the people voted for me that I couldn’t sit in the House of Representatives, that you would literally disenfranchise my voters in my district, is an absurd notion.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-van-drew-absurd-dems-election-lawsuit-support

Netanyahu taps deputy Mossad head as spy agency’s next chief; doesn’t tell Gantz

The nominee, identified only by the Hebrew initial ‘Dalet,’ will take over as spymaster for the PM’s confidant Yossi Cohen if approved

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he has selected the deputy head of the Mossad to be the next chief of the spy agency.

The official, who was identified only by the Hebrew initial “Dalet,” was described in a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office as having a “stellar record and a lot of experience.”

The statement added that his nomination had been submitted to the Goldberg Commission, which vets candidates for senior posts.

“The Mossad has great and significant challenges in safeguarding the security of the State of Israel. We will wait for the approval of the Goldberg Commission and wish Dalet success in his position,” a separate statement from Defense Minister Benny Gantz said.

Hebrew-language media reported that Netanyahu hadn’t informed Gantz about his choice ahead of time, amid deep distrust between the two leaders. Gantz was said to have called Netanyahu and expressed his fury.

Formally, the prime minister isn’t obligated to inform the defense minister of that decision ahead of time, but that is the accepted practice.

If approved, Dalet will take over for Yossi Cohen, a close confidant of Netanyahu who served as the premier’s national security adviser before he became Mossad chief in January 2016.

His term as Mossad leader was set to end in January, but in July Netanyahu said he would extend it until June 2021.

Cohen has served as Netanyahu’s chief envoy for the government’s most sensitive diplomatic assignments and took a leading role in the recent normalization agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Last month, he was reported to have accompanied Netanyahu on a trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with the kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the first such visit by an Israeli leader.

Cohen has been identified as a prime contender to replace Netanyahu as head of Likud, where he is a popular figure, and some unconfirmed reports have suggested he is Netanyahu’s favorite to succeed him.

The spymaster is famed in the Mossad ranks as an operations man. Under his watch, the Mossad has reportedly grown in personnel and budgets and has focused on espionage operations targeting the Iranian nuclear program.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-taps-deputy-mossad-head-as-spy-agencys-next-chief/

Calls grow for Insurrection Act, window of opportunity Dec. 18th – 24th

Increasing calls for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, coming from attorney Lin Wood, The Epoch Times, Gen. McInerney and many others.

Sidney Powell says clear evidence of foreign interference allows Trump to invoke his 2018 EO and seize all the assets of corporations and individuals who were complicit in the election rigging.

Gen. Flynn calls for Trump to invoke the 2018 Executive Order on foreign interference.

President Trump declares any swing state electoral votes cast today are cast under conditions of vote fraud.

Pennsylvania chooses alternate electors, putting election into contention until at least Jan. 6th.

Sources warn of coming “10-day lockdown” with window of likely action appearing to be Dec. 18th – 24th. The next window is right after Jan. 6th, if all other efforts fail.

CCP infiltration of Big Pharma, Big Tech, the legacy media, election voting machines, lawmakers, regulators, universities and more. We are living under enemy occupation.

Patriots growing restless, about to initiate their own action to defend the republic.

Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, deploy the troops, and arrest the traitors.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/12/15/situation-update-calls-grow-for-insurrection-act-window-of-opportunity-dec-18th-24th/

IT’S WAR: Communist China successfully infiltrated vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline as part of “unrestricted warfare” to defeat the US military and conquer North America

We now have confirmation from multiple sources that the newly-leaked database of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) loyalists includes the names and details of 123 individuals who have successfully infiltrated the vaccine industry, attaining employment at vaccine giants Pfizer, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline — corporations that are manufacturing coronavirus vaccines for U.S. civilian and military use.

The Epoch Times, which has strong ties to Chinese dissidents who are able to confirm such information, now reports:

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a global coalition of lawmakers, obtained the database from an unidentified Chinese dissident, then shared the material with four media organizations, according to a Dec. 12 report by British newspaper The Mail on Dec. 13, which obtained the list and reviewed it.

The Mail found that major aerospace companies Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Boeing have employed hundreds of CCP members. Additionally, Pfizer and British drugmaker AstraZeneca employed a total of 123 Party members. British automaker Jaguar Land Rover also employed CCP members.

Members of the CCP, “swear oath to ‘guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life…and never betray the Party’” reports the UK Daily Mail.

CCP loyalists routinely steal corporate secrets and compromise the security and integrity of corporations that might compete against Chinese interests. Also according to the UK Daily Mail, “there were more than 600 party members across 19 branches working at the British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered in 2016.”

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The CCP created the coronavirus bioweapon, and we believe that the CCP used its spies to infiltrate and compromise vaccine manufacturers in order to turn coronavirus vaccines into “second wave” bioweapons that will injure or kill very large numbers of people who take the vaccines.

This also means that individuals who are pushing vaccine mandates are playing right into the hands of communist China — which has sworn to destroy the United States of America through “unrestricted warfare” — and are themselves engaged in acts of criminal treason against the United States.

How many CCP loyalists work in Big Tech?

So far, only 8,192 names have been publicly released of the nearly 2 million CCP loyalists whose names are on the full list. We have not yet seen how many CCP loyalists are working with the tech giants such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. However, we already know that Facebook deliberately hired communist Chinese software experts to design its “hate speech engineering” algorithm that censors U.S. citizens who defend the Constitution or President Trump.

In other words, Big Tech deliberately recruits communist Chinese to build more advanced censorship algorithms to censor Americans, and then Big Tech deploys these algorithms to bury all evidence of election theft that was also carried out via China-owned Dominion Voting Systems. What we are describing here is a massive, international criminal conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America.

This is why all the CEOs of Big Tech must face arrest, prosecution and public executions if found guilty of treason.

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https://dcdirtylaundry.com/its-war-communist-china-successfully-infiltrated-vaccine-giants-pfizer-astrazeneca-and-glaxosmithkline-as-part-of-unrestricted-warfare-to-defeat-the-us-military-and-conque/

Shocking report on COVID vaccine adverse effects: the roll-out continues anyway

Millions of people can experience life-threatening effects from the vaccine

From the UK, The Guardian has the story [1]: “People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not receive the Covid vaccine, the medicines regulator has said, after two NHS workers experienced symptoms on Wednesday.”

They just figured this out? Now?

The Guardian is referring to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which has just been approved in the US.

Two people experiencing significant adverse effects may not sound important, particularly since they already a history of allergic reactions, but the following quote in the Guardian article raises major red flags a mile high:

“The MHRA [UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency] advice states: ‘Any person with a history of a significant allergic reaction to a vaccine, medicine or food (such as previous history of anaphylactoid reaction or those who have been advised to carry an adrenaline autoinjector) should not receive the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine. Resuscitation facilities should be available at all times for all vaccinations. Vaccination should only be carried out in facilities where resuscitation measures are available’.”

First of all, a very large number of people have a history of allergic reactions to a vaccine or medicine or food. Automatically, these people should not take the vaccine. But how many people in the general public are aware of this restriction?

Second, with the operation to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people running at top speed, who actually believes that many locations where shots are given will have the necessary resuscitation equipment on hand? Sheer insanity.

Then, on top of all this, we have a bombshell statement from the Denver Post [2]: “Documents published by the two [vaccine] companies [Pfizer and BioNTech] showed that people with a history of severe allergic reactions were excluded from the [clinical vaccine] trials, and doctors were advised to look out for such reactions in trial participants who weren’t previously known to have severe allergies.”

In other words, the clinical trials were already biased, because they excluded people with a history of allergic reactions. Therefore, the performance of the vaccine looked safer. Therefore, no one would find out that allergic reactions to the vaccine are a MAJOR danger.

And NOW, as if it’s nothing more than an afterthought, we get—“Oh, by the way, if people have allergies, they shouldn’t take the vaccine.”

Why don’t regulators simply admit, “This vaccine is as disastrous as possible, but we can’t let that cat out of the bag.”

I have written about the inherent dangers of the new experimental RNA technology deployed with this COVOD vaccine. The world population is a vast group of guinea pigs. Past efforts to introduce RNA tech have failed because serious autoimmune reactions have occurred. [3] The body basically attacks itself.

What rational person would line up to take this shot?

You have to ask yourself why some Pittsburgh and Chicago medical centers aren’t making the new COVID vaccine mandatory for their own healthcare workers. [4] [5]

They’ve issued that announcement on the basis of wait-and-see. They know the vaccine carries major risks, and the clinical trials were far from convincing.

According to WebMD [6], “more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year.” 200,000 people come to the ER with food allergies. 4-5% of the population have food allergies. Who can say, with certainty, how many Americans would experience, say, life- threatening anaphylactic shock from the COVID vaccine?

And when it comes to medicines, consider just one type of allergic reaction—to penicillin or antibiotics. Is the outbreak of a rash serious enough to warrant automatic exemption from the COVID vaccine? Should shortness of breath be the standard? No one knows.

Finally, as I’ve reported in these pages several times, the 3 major clinical trials of COVID vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca) were designed to prevent nothing more than a “mild case of COVID-19.” That means a cough, or chills and fever. [7]

Serious cases of illness? Hospitalization? Death? These were not on the radar of the clinical trials.

Cough, or chills and fever, cure themselves naturally. No need for a vaccine.

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https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78754/shocking-report-on-covid-vaccine-adverse-effects-the-rollout-continues.html

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‘I am a passionate Zionist,’ declares Boris Johnson

London Mayor Boris Johnson declared himself supporter of Jewish national movement on morning radio, before distancing himself from Israel’s actions, which he called “disproportionate”.

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/boris-johnson-zionist/

lots of shit posting to keep the count high in other bread very little substance

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comms come in get the bake fuck shit up so stuff doesn't work then claim they are the victims

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Fashion mogul Peter Nygard arrested in Canada amid sexual assault allegations

Manhattan fashion designer Peter Nygard has been arrested in his native Canada amid allegations that he sexually assaulted dozens of teenage girls and women, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

The 79-year-old disgraced mogul was picked up in Winnipeg under the Extradition Act and is set to appear in a courtroom Tuesday afternoon, according to court records.

Federal authorities raided Nygard’s Manhattan headquarters earlier this year — less than two weeks after a lawsuit accused him of luring young women to his Bahamas estate with cash and modeling opportunities.

Several of them claimed they were 14 or 15 years old when the mogul plied them with booze or drugs and then raped them.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-arrested-in-canada/

Epoch Times Urges Trump: Use Insurrection Act, Seize Dominion Voting Machines, Restore Law And Order

"The Insurrection Act enables Trump to use the military to seize the key electoral evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate accounting of the vote"

In an editorial titled “At This Critical Time, President Trump Should Take Action”, the well respected Epoch Times urged President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to seize and examine evidence of voter fraud in key states and provide a transparent accounting of the 2020 election.

The editorial, published by the entire Epoch Times editorial board, outlines what they view as a fundamental struggle between freedom and communism represented in the 2020 election, quoting President Trump at times to add credence to their statements.

“President Trump has referred to our election system as being under ‘coordinated assault and siege,’ the article explains. The Epoch Times also notes, “On Dec. 5 in Georgia, Trump said of those who want to steal the election, ‘These people want to go further than socialism, they want to go into a communistic form of government, and I have no doubt about it.'”

The Epoch Times also notes that President Trump “has taken an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, and he has the presidential powers to do so.”

From the Editorial Board

This #Election is the climax of the battle between #Freedom and #Communism.

The #InsurrectionAct will enable Trump to seize the key #Evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate vote count. https://t.co/DGkVLwzRAh

— Epoch Times Opinion (@EpochOpinion) December 14, 2020

They then make their key argument, that “Trump should use those powers as President to safeguard the future of our Republic and arrest those who have conspired to deprive people of their rights through election fraud.”

“The Insurrection Act enables Trump to use the military to seize the key electoral evidence in contested states and deliver a transparent, accurate accounting of the vote,” the editorial continued. “Our system is in crisis. Trump should act to restore the rule of law.”

“Through opening the books, honesty can defeat fraud. The wishes of the majority of the people will be realized, and the victory sought by communism defeated.”

https://nationalfile.com/epoch-times-urges-trump-use-insurrection-act-seize-dominion-voting-machines-restore-law-and-order/

Big tech executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Biden campaign

Executives at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram donated tens of thousands of dollars to President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign, Fox News reports.

Moreover, critics of the tech giants, say their actions during the 2020 general election and actions targeting conservatives on social media raise serious concerns about censorship in America.

Numerous executives donated the maximum amount to the Biden campaign, including Facebook vice president of public policy, Erin Egan, Facebook chief revenue officer David Fischer…

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The donations are just the tip of the iceberg. Federal Election Commission records reveal that top executives at the big tech companies made several large donations to the Biden campaign, while there was no record of them donating to the Trump campaign.

The legal maximum amount to donate is $2,800. Numerous executives donated the maximum amount to the Biden campaign, including Facebook vice president of public policy, Erin Egan, Facebook chief revenue officer David Fischer, Facebook’s chief financial officer, David Wehner, Facebook vice presidents Gene Alston, Michael Verdu, Shahriar Rabii and T.S. Khurana and Instagram’s chief operating officer, Marne Levine.

A number of of Facebook and Twitter employees also donated the maximum amount.

The social media giants have been under fire recently for accusations of censorship. Earlier this week, Twitter prevented users from sharing tweets by President Donald Trump. Trump has also accused the tech companies of suppressing the circulation of news stories that expose the alleged Hunter Biden scandals.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog group noted that Google and YouTube “under false and non-sensical pretenses, double down on election intervention and political censorship against @RealDonaldTrump to help Joe Biden – the after President Trump officially threatens to veto over section 230 reform.”

GOP members of the House Oversight Committee are demanding a hearing to investigate Twitter and Facebook’s “unjustifiable censorship” of the New York Post’s reporting on Biden’s foreign business dealings.

“Reporting indicates this investigation is related to his overseas business dealings,” the GOP members wrote in a new letter obtained by Fox News. “In light of Hunter Biden’s admission that he is under investigation, especially after Big Tech’s unjustifiable censorship of the New York Post’s report, we are renewing our hearing request.”

Tom Fitton

@TomFitton

.@Google/@YouTube, under false and non-sensical pretenses, doubles down on election intervention and political censorship against @RealDonaldTrump to help Joe Biden – the day after President Trump officially threatens veto over Section 230 reform.

https://saraacarter.com/big-tech-executives-donated-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-to-biden-campaign/

The UN and NATO Exploit the Refugee Crisis to Promote the Rhetoric of Peace and Security

The UN excels in statistical data, most of it derived from its complicity in allowing human rights violations to thrive. “We are now surpassing another bleak milestone that will continue to grow unless world leaders stop wars,” the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, declared. In the first half of 2020, over 80 million people were forcibly displaced globally as a result of war and conflict.

It is indeed one of the biggest contradictions for the UN to claim world leaders are instigating war, when the same world leaders congregate together at the UN’s headquarters to maintain the discrepancy between human rights and human rights violations, in order to create a false equivalence between peace and security. Peace can have no tangible definition when it is derived from security, which is heavily based upon militarisation, surveillance and aggression.

In addition, the erroneous distinction between the humanitarian consequences and the aggressive actions of governments is contributing to policies in which refugees are only relevant to the politics of exclusion.

Pushback policies, the targeting of refugee trajectories ostensibly to disrupt human trafficking, border closures, refugee camps and state violence have all been used by world leaders in their alleged fight against migration, which is the euphemism used to disguise the political war against refugees, and all in violation of international law.

The UN is complicit in this extension of violence. Rhetoric condemning military solutions to solve the refugee crisis does not address the source – that is, military violence, which is one of the main instigators of forced displacement. The UN Security Council, which is tasked with determining actions that breach peace and security, adopts a militarised approach that triggers and maintains cycles of forced displacement globally. Not to mention the cohesion between the UN and NATO – the UNSC has provided mandates for foreign intervention to NATO, creating the conditions for globalised violence, while international humanitarian law is later invoked in a futile coverup for the committed violations.

Chapter 7 of the UN Charter outlines the UNSC’s role – its hypocrisy perhaps best outlined in Article 43 (1): “All members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.”

NATO describes its alliance with the UN as “pragmatic interaction”. In 2008, both institutions updated their cooperation framework. “Mindful that prevention and resolution of conflicts not only saves lives but represents a more efficient use of resources, the UN and NATO will continue to work together to help national authorities to strengthen their capabilities to address emerging crises.”

Yet NATO and the UN have instigated conflict and foreign intervention, upon the pretext of peace, security and democracy. For organisations that thrive upon militarisation, refugees are merely the extension of war – a humanitarian phenomenon that is exploited to justify political narratives on security at the expense of humanity. There is no recognition of how the countries deciding the fate of forcibly displaced people are acutely involved in their dispersal. The contradiction of expecting world leaders to find solutions for refugees while international institutions perpetuate the violation f forced displacement is not an issue that the UN or NATO would wish to address.

Instead of the UN sustaining refugees, refugees are sustaining UN politics, albeit unwittingly. In 2018, which was also described as a record in terms of forced displacement, Grandi rhetorically asked, “When is the last conflict that you remember was resolved?” A question which would be best directed at the institutions proclaiming the defence of human rights while eradicating their very foundations.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/14/un-and-nato-exploit-refugee-crisis-to-promote-rhetoric-peace-and-security/

Map Update: Israeli Strikes On Syria In 2020

The tensions between the US-Israeli bloc and Iranian-led forces in the Greater Middle East are especially clear if one takes into account what has been happening in Syria in 2020.

https://southfront.org/map-update-israeli-strikes-on-syria-in-2020/

Paris Goes Into Night Time Lockdown as Government Fights Spread of COVID

Earlier on Tuesday, theatres and cinemas in Paris were ordered to remain closed for a few more weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Watch a live broadcast from Paris as the city enters its nighttime coronavirus lockdown on Tuesday.

The French authorities recently imposed a curfew in the capital from 8pm-6am to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Families will, however, be allowed to meet on Christmas Eve.

Earlier in the day, some cultural venues, including cinemas and theatres, were ordered to remain closed until at least early January. This enraged entertainment sector employees, many of whom protested in central Paris.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202012151081466434-paris-goes-into-night-time-lockdown-as-government-fights-spread-of-covid/

Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Move Toward Europe

Police agencies have long known that Mexican drug cartels help supply Europe’s nearly US$10 billion annual cocaine habit, but acknowledge they have little idea about the workings of these highly organized and well-financed operations.

But now, a recent Italian police investigation, code-named Operation Halcon, has provided the most in-depth look yet into how Mexico’s leading drug traffickers, the Sinaloa Cartel, do business in Europe. IrpiMedia, OCCRP’s Italian partner, obtained access to police files and surveillance reports that show the cartel’s methods in unprecedented detail.

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.

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Operation Halcon started in early 2019, at a time when Europe was being flooded with cocaine from Latin America. The Sinaloa Cartel, a global leader in cocaine sales with operations in at least 50 countries, was looking for new routes into Italy as a way to expand its European presence. Mexican cartels already sold synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine on the continent, but Colombian, Albanian, and Italian organized crime have historically dominated Europe’s cocaine trade.

Most drugs arrive in Europe by ship, usually to large ports with good connections to other major cities. Sinaloa wanted to establish another route: Bulk shipment by private planes flying into small airports in Southern Italy, with the drugs then trans-shipped to other parts of the country.

Catania, a mid-size city on Sicily’s eastern coast, was chosen for a test. The area, which was rapidly becoming a tourist destination, offered an international airport and a special draw: an airport official willing to help.

The Informant

The cartel’s plan didn’t stay secret for long. The Organized Crime Investigation Group (GICO), the anti-mafia unit of Italy’s financial police in Catania, learned from an informant in January 2019 that Sinaloa was planning to fly in cocaine from Colombia.

The tip seemed odd. Catania isn’t known as a hub for international drug trafficking, and direct drug flights using private planes are generally unknown in Italy. Catania–Fontanarossa Airport had only limited international service, while the local port sees relatively little commercial traffic.

But the local head of the GICO, Captain Pablo Leccese, took the report seriously. In less than three months, the unit identified the cartel’s players in southern Italy: Guatemalans Daniel “Tito” Esteban Ortega Ubeda and Felix Ruben Villagran Lopez. The airport insider was identified only by his nickname, Don Señor.

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Felix Ruben Villagran Lopez.

Ortega and Villagran were working with another Guatemalan, Luis Fernando Morales Hernandez, alias “El Suegro,” or “The Father-in-Law,” who would make arrangements for the shipment in Colombia.

The police informant added more names to the file. The cell operating in Catania was under the direction of a shadowy Sinaloa leader known as “El Flaco,” or “Skinny,” whom police identified as second-in-command of the entire cartel after drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia.

El Flaco was soon to meet Don Señor to work out the logistics for handling the cocaine flight and the distribution of its cargo to buyers from various organized crime groups who would come for it.

The Italian police would be waiting for them.

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https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/inside-the-sinaloa-cartels-move-toward-europe

WHO Denies Italy COVID Cover-up

The World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected accusations that it covered up a report critical of Italy’s COVID-19 response, despite warnings from one of the authors that burying it could cause a “scandal of huge proportion” that would damage the agency’s credibility.

The study appeared on the WHO website for just one day in May, and showed that Italy had failed to update its pandemic plan in the years before COVID-19 struck the country, which has suffered one of the highest numbers of deaths in Europe.

Immediately after the study was taken offline, one of its authors, Francesco Zambon, wrote to WHO Director, Tedros Adhanom, requesting a meeting, according to emails obtained by OCCRP.

“I am confident you will give this due consideration acknowledging that a [media] and political scandal of huge proportion – in a delicate moment for WHO with the forthcoming COVID-19 investigation – could happen at any moment,” Zambon wrote.

His warning appears to have been prescient.

National and foreign media have reported on the scandal, with the Italian public broadcaster’s flagship investigative journalism program, Report, focusing on Ranieri Guerra, a senior WHO official. Before joining the WHO, Guerra was director of prevention at the Italian Ministry of Health from 2014 to 2017, and was in charge of updating the pandemic plan.

Prosecutors in the hard-hit region of Lombardy have launched a preliminary investigation into the health ministry’s failure to update its pandemic plan, as required by European Union regulations, and have questioned Guerra.

A WHO spokesperson said the decision to quickly remove the study had nothing to do with protecting former or current officials from the Italian health ministry. The spokesperson said the WHO had not attempted to cover up the study.

"No, we have not! WHO engages in frank and forthright communication with governments on an ongoing basis. The organization undertakes all activities impartially," a spokesperson for the European regional office told OCCRP.

In his email to Adhanom and other top WHO officials, Zambon said the report he co-authored contained “key lessons” from Italy’s flawed response. He said that in removing the report, the WHO could be “preventing lives to be saved.”

The 100-page study entitled "An unprecedented challenge – Italy’s first response to COVID-19" was based on interviews with scientists, politicians and other experts. The researchers set out to understand the first phase of Italy’s response, with the goal of assisting other countries hit by the pandemic.

“Unprepared for such a flood of severely ill patients, the initial reaction of the hospitals was improvised, chaotic and creative,” the study found.

Critically, the researchers noted that Italy’s health ministry had failed to improve its pandemic plan as required. Instead, it was still using a plan issued in 2006.

Guerra wanted the researchers to change that date to 2016, which would give the impression the plan had been updated, according to an email he sent to Zambon, a fellow Italian who works at the WHO office in Venice.

As part of their probe, prosecutors in Lombardy hoped to question Zambon about the matter, and they wrote to the WHO requesting his presence. But the WHO rejected the request.

“WHO staff members and experts are not authorised to represent the Organization and speak on its behalf, including before national courts unless expressly authorized to do so,” the agency wrote to prosecutors in a November letter seen by OCCRP.

Although the WHO prevented Zambon from testifying, the agency allowed Guerra to speak to prosecutors, telling OCCRP that he did so “in his personal capacity.”

However, a document provided to OCCRP of Guerra's travel expenses to Bergamo, where the prosecutors are based, indicates that the WHO considered it a work trip – the agency paid him a per diem, which was listed as "duty travel."

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13538-who-denies-italy-covid-cover-up

Joe Biden Admits He as a “Bit of a Cold” After Coughing Nonstop During His Speech

78-year-old Joe Biden coughed his way through a press conference where he prematurely declared victory on Monday evening.

Biden was coughing nonstop as he delivered his speech.

Everyone noticed and many people thought he may have Covid.

After coughing and clearing his throat dozens of times, Biden wrapped up his short speech and shuffled away from the lectern.

Joe Biden looked feeble as he stiffly shuffled out of the room with his wife Jill guiding him.

Biden is not well and he admitted to having a ‘bit of a cold’ during a call with one of his only supporters after his speech.

Virtually no one watched Biden’s speech but he supposedly got 80 million votes.

“Thank you, I have a little bit of a cold, I’m sorry, but look, you know, you did it, you did it, not a joke,” Biden said to a caller.

“This campaign for president was more like the first time I ran as a 29-year-old for the Senate. I believed that ordinary folks and extraordinary folks would get together and make this work. You didn’t let us down. You didn’t let the country down. I really mean it, think about it,” Biden said.

Biden shuffled away then snapped back at Fox News reporter Peter Doocey for shouting questions about Hunter Biden.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/joe-biden-admits-bit-cold-coughing-nonstop-speech/

All Flu cases are Covid this year aren't they?

Cynical US Policy on Syria Revealed: Block the Russians and Iranians, Destroy the Economy, to Hell with the People

The Rambo of theDEEPState Department is leaving. James Jeffrey, the outgoing Syria envoy, boasts about his achievements in a recent candid interview with Al-Monitor which with no sense of shame opens up to public gaze the the cynicism, callousness and sheer power-crazedness of US policy on Syria, conducted as though it were a video game or a game of Monopoly.

Jeffrey makes no bones about it. It’s not about ending the Syrian conflict, it’s about prolonging it:

Basically, first and foremost is denial of the [Assad regime] getting military victory….And of course, we’ve ratcheted up the isolation and sanctions pressure on Assad, we’ve held the line on no reconstruction assistance, and the country’s desperate for it. You see what’s happened to the Syrian pound, you see what’s happened to the entire economy. So, it’s been a very effective strategy….

The point is, this [preserving the SDF] is our plan B. We have a plan A. Plan A doesn’t answer ‘how does this all end?’ Plan A’s whole purpose [is] to ensure that the Russians and Assad and the Iranians don’t have a happy answer to how this all ends, and maybe that will someday get them to accept Plan B. Meanwhile, they’re tied up in knots. They don’t see Syria as a victory.

So, we don’t care a jot if Syrian people are suffering greatly, that’s part of the plan. We are happy to prolong the suffering indefinitely as long as the Russians, Iranians and Assad can’t claim victory.

Plan B, by the way, requires implementation on US terms of UN resolution 2254, which would amount effectively to a suicide note for Assad as under those terms it would allow millions of Syrians outside Syria to vote and thus decide the fate of those still inside.

At no point in this lengthy interview does Jeffrey even mention the Syrian people. The only Syrians (condescendingly) mentioned are the Kurdish militia SDF:

The SDF, they’re clean kids. I’ve gotten to know them and their leadership very, very well. They really are phenomenal, by Middle Eastern standards. They’re a highly disciplined Marxist offshoot of the PKK.

So, let’s get this straight: the US is supporting a bunch of Marxists in North East Syria to stop Assad getting the much needed oil for the Syrian people and is indifferent to the fact that Idlib is controlled by a bunch of Islamist fanatics?

Jeffrey in fact does not say a single word about the character of the opposition to acknowledge their Islamist extremism, or about the likely consequences if Plan B were to succeed and deliver the keys of Damascus to Islamist radicals. In this game – and a game is clearly how callous power-crazed Washington policy makers see it – only preventing victory by the other side matters.

Trump emerges as relatively sensible, which is saying a lot.

The president was uncomfortable with our presence in Syria. He was very uncomfortable with what he saw as endless wars. … Trump kept asking, “Why do we have troops there?”

The reason that Trump pulled the troops out was I think because he was just tired of us having come up with all these explanations for why we’re in there.

We at the State Department never provided any troop numbers to the president. That’s not our job. We didn’t try to deceive him. He kept on publicly saying numbers that were way below what the actual numbers were, so in talking to the media and talking to Congress, we had to be very careful and dodge around. But the Syria mission is the gift that keeps on giving. We and the SDF are still the dominant force in [northeast] Syria.

‘Not our job?’ The deviousness of this is breathtaking. The US State Department deliberately withheld crucial information from the President in order to get their way on keeping their counters on the Monopoly board which for them is Syria.

It’s no surprise that someone of Jeffrey’s calibre boasts about helping Israel to pulverise Syria:

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https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/15/cynical-us-policy-on-syria-revealed-block-the-russians-and-iranians-destroy-the-economy-to-hell-with-the-people/

ICE detainer not honored, convicted child murderer released

Officers forced to make another at-large arrest in sanctuary state

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer on a Salvadoran national serving time for a murder conviction at the California Department of Corrections at Pleasant Valley Prison in Chowchilla, California, Aug. 28, 2013. The request was not honored, and Carlos Morales-Ramirez was released onto the streets Dec. 4.

On Jan. 9, 1998, Morales-Ramirez, now 44, was convicted of second-degree murder, assault on a child causing death, and great bodily injury to a child causing death by the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

“State sanctuary laws grant law enforcement officials the discretion to cooperate with immigration authorities in instances where serious or violent crimes have been committed; again, we are talking about the murder of a child – rather than working with our officers to ensure this convicted aggravated felon was safely handed over to ICE, he was released back into the community and our officers were forced to exhaust more time and resources relocating and re-arresting him,” said ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Los Angeles Field Office Director Dave Marin.

ICE’s ERO Los Angeles officers arrested Morales-Ramirez during a targeted enforcement action, Dec. 10, and served him with a Notice to Appear (NTA) pursuant to section 237(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Morales-Ramirez’s conviction makes him amenable to be placed in removal proceedings and he remains in ICE custody pending the outcome of his hearing.

“California’s sanctuary policies continue to fail residents by allowing convicted criminals like Morales-Ramirez to walk free – state officials and advocates need to take a hard look at the reality, and potential consequences, of these misguided laws that leave potential victims wildly unprotected from very egregious criminal offenders,” Marin said.

ICE lodges immigration detainers on individuals who have been arrested on local criminal charges and who are amenable to removal, so that the agency can take custody of that individual when they released from local custody within secure confines. When local law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders onto the streets, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect public safety and carry out its national security mission.

In FY 2019, ICE arrested individuals with more than 1,900 convictions and charges for homicide, 1,800 for kidnapping, 12,000 sex offenses, 5,000 sexual assaults, 45,000 assaults, 67,000 crimes involving drugs, 10,000 weapons offenses, and 74,000 DUIs.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-detainer-not-honored-convicted-child-murderer-released

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When questioned, Dominion’s CEO blames the troublesome Antrim County audit on "human error" and a lack of "technical support." In addition, the CEO cites a "lack of an update" which probably lead to a 68% error rate.

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Dominion Lobbyists Paid McConnell Thousands Before He Crushed Election Integrity Bills, Ignored Election Contests

The Senate Majority Leader wouldn't allow a vote on the bills in July last year

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) quashed two election integrity bills in July last year after receiving thousands in donations from Dominion lobbyists.

In July, McConnell blocked two bills, one that would provide $775 million to “bolster election security,” along with requiring a physical paper trail of every single ballot cast in the country, and a second that would mandate political candidates, their staff members, and their families, to notify the FBI if any foreign government offered to assist them.

“Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent,” said McConnell on the Senate floor, as he refused to allow the bills to be put to a vote.

However, within the previous year, multiple lobbyists representing Dominion Voting Systems and Election Systems and Software, who together make up around 80% of all voting machines in the country, donated thouands of dollars to the McConnell campaign.

David Cohen and Brian Wild, both of lobbyist Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, who lobbied for Dominion in 2019, donated $2,000 and $1,000 respectively to the McConnell campaign funds. And around the same time, Emily Kirlin and Jen Olson, who have lobbied for ES&S, also donated $1,000 each.

Interestingly, these donations occurred throughout March of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic first reached the United States and mail-in voting became an almost certainty for the 2020 election.

FLASHBACK: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security…"

McConnell killed a voting security act that would have hammered Dominion, after receiving thousands from the foreign company's lobbyists.🤔🔻https://t.co/MmedjAojM7 pic.twitter.com/cRoegIhlI7

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 15, 2020

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell Recieved Money From Dominion, Squashed 2 Voter Security Bills pic.twitter.com/bntzOB3KFL

— Chief America 1st Trumpster (President Elect) (@ChiefTrumpster) December 15, 2020

McConnell on Tuesday praised the processes and outcome of the presidential election, and appeared to align himself with Vice President Biden. “Americans voted in this year’s general election. Legal and Constitutional processes have continued to play out since then,” McConnell said. “As of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect, and a vice-president elect.”

The Senate Majority Leader didn’t mention any of the currently ongoing lawsuits exposing the lack of integrity in the election, or any of the several slates of alternate electors sent by the contested states. “Our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on January 20, the Electoral College has spoken.” McConnell added. “So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden.”

Thanks for playing, @DonBlankenship. #WVSen pic.twitter.com/TV1ETgQdmu

— Team Mitch (Text MITCH to 47360) (@Team_Mitch) May 9, 2018

National File reported in November that Roger Stone, longtime Trump ally and close friend, said that “100% of the voting machines and voting systems in this country are using the same software that Dominion has been using to switch votes.” This software, known as “Election Guard,” Stone alleges, was created by Microsoft at the behest of Bill Gates himself.

#RogerStone Reveals the Mass Manipulator of the 2020 Vote: It’s @BillGates pic.twitter.com/NiiT9qpkUt

— Enrique Alejandro (@EnriqueAleTV) November 21, 2020

https://nationalfile.com/dominion-lobbyists-paid-mcconnell-thousands-before-he-crushed-election-integrity-bills-ignored-election-contests/

Who's hiding 'Russiagate' informant Stephen Halper, and why?

Questions raised over what became of the subpoena and no-show of FBI informant Stefan Halper and his handler, Stephen Somma

As Special Counsel John Durham carries on with the investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, widening his prosecutorial team, critical questions linger over the role played by FBI informant Stefan Halper and his longtime FBI handler, Stephen Somma.

Halper emerged in the middle of the firestorm in May 2018, when his identity as the secret FBI informant embroiled in Crossfire Hurricane was exposed. It cast a dark shadow on his prestigious career as a foreign policy expert, Cambridge professor, author and analyst with deep ties to intelligence figureheads and sources spawning the globe.

But since then he appears to have been hidden from public view. The whereabouts of Somma, who subsequently was exposed as his handler and shared blame for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) mishaps against Trump campaign aide Carter Page, also have been unclear.

Despite both Halper and Somma being poised as having played a pivotal part in the U.S. counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane – which officially ran from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, to determine "whether individuals associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election" – neither of them have testified publicly about their roles and what they knew.

"The key is getting Halper (and Somma) to testify publicly, once he speaks, this whole thing unravels," Steven Schrage, a former senior G8 and congressional chief of staff, whose studies Halper directly supervised as the "Russiagate" scandal was playing out, told Fox News. "So, who is protecting him and why?"

Trumpeted efforts to bring Halper into the limelight in recent months also have fallen into the abyss.

An alumnus of three Republican administrations and given further gravitas by his esteemed position as a Cambridge University professor, Halper convened conferences and gatherings rich with high-profile guests including Michael Flynn, who served as Defense Intelligence Agency chief at the time, before his brief stint at Trump's national security adviser ahead of the Russiagate implosion.

In June, Senate Judiciary Committee authorized Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to issue subpoenas related to oversight of the FISA process and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, on which Somma was named.

"I want to know why all these counterintelligence investigations were opened to begin with," Graham said in a statement at the time. "This Committee is not going to sit on the sidelines and simply move on."

Schrage had been working with Durham's investigation since 2019. However, he told Durham in June that he needed to reach out to other investigators due to their lack of action and concern that important evidence would stay hidden from the public past the 2020 election.

Days later, in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News, dated June 8, 2020, Schrage informed Graham that he had "information that may be indispensable to revealing critical facts on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

"Your subpoenas and hearing may be the last chance to expose vital information being kept from you and that risks being buried after the 2020 election," Schrage, a former Senate chief of staff, wrote, adding that he was willing to meet with Graham or with his top staff members on short notice.

After following up for several days, Schrage said he received a response from a staffer who said neither Graham nor his top aides were willing to meet on this evidence. However, a Senate Judiciary staffer told Fox News that the panel did not receive enough information to evaluate what the evidence was and that Schrage did not want to talk to a senior investigator in advance, which they had offered.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stephen-halper-russiagate-trump-russia-hiding-why

Vaccine Passports and Health Passes: Is Showing Your “Papers” the “New Normal?”

Life cannot return to normal until there is a vaccine for COVID 19.

At least, that is what governments, corporations, and their mainstream propaganda media outlets have been incessantly arguing. Interestingly, the development of that vaccine was “warp speed,” allegedly at the behest of the Trump administration.

“Warp speed” also took place in other countries like the UK, where shots have been administered. This information has caused some to question whether the vaccine was ready long before the announcement was made or, indeed, before the pandemic ever began.

They tried to warn us about mandated vaccines

Years ago, “conspiracy theorists” were ridiculed for warning of a system in which vaccines would be required to access normal aspects of life. Today, however, government officials and MSM are now openly discussing the very same system.

In case you have been living under a rock for the past several weeks, here are several instances where the “public discussion” has centered around the idea of a “vaccine passport” or “immunity passport” or the general blockade and sanctioning of anyone not willing to take the jab.

Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario Dr. David Williams recently stated that individuals who refuse the COVID-19 vaccination might “face some limits.” Some of the “limits” he suggested included not being able to enter a hospital or nursing home without showing proof of having been vaccinated without personal protective equipment.

Welcome to the new normal: Vaccine Passports and Health Passes

For the moment, vaccine passports are mainly intended for international travel. However, their use can be extended to many other areas of life. Vaccine passports in the form of free mobile apps in which a traveler (or event goer, employee, or shopper) uploads their COVID-19 test results or vaccination status.

There are currently two existing vaccine passports options, one being operational in the United States right now.

Common Pass: Created by Commons Project, this health pass has been in international use since October on United and Cathay Pacific flights between New York, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Common Pass operates via Apple’s Health app on iOS and CommonHealth for Android. It connects to 230 US health systems. It functions as a scannable QR code and can store a passenger’s test or vaccine data and travel plans. (It is not yet publicly available for download.)

IATA Travel Pass: Expected to launch in early 2021, IATA Travel Pass, is currently under development by the International Transport Association. According to the IATA website, the digital pass for travelers is: A global and standardized solution to validate and authenticate all country regulations regarding COVID-19 passenger travel requirements.

Vaccination tickets: the future of concert and event-goers

Ticketmaster announced that it is exploring the possibility of requiring proof of vaccination for ticket purchases and entrance to events. An article published on Billboard stated:

Ticketmaster has been working on a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smartphones to verify fans’ vaccination status or whether they’ve tested negative for the coronavirus within a 24 to 72-hour window.

Many details of the plan, still in development, will rely on three separate components: the Ticketmaster digital ticket app, third party health information companies like CLEAR Health Pass or IBM’s Digital Health Pass, and testing and vaccine providers like LabCorp and CVS Minute Clinic.

If the vaccination tickets are approved, how would it work?

The Billboard article gives further details about what people will have to do to attend concerts and other events.

After purchasing tickets, concert fans will have to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or test negative 24-72 hours before the event

Fans must have proof of vaccination or test results delivered to a health pass company, such as CLEAR or IBM

Health pass company verifies the attendee’s COVID-19 status to Ticketmaster (Ticketmaster will not be granted access to fan’s medical records)

Vaccinated fans or those with negative test results would be issued the credentials needed to access the event by Ticketmaster

Fans testing positive or who can not verify their status will not be granted access to any event.

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https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/12/vaccine-passports-and-health-passes-is-showing-your-papers-the-new-normal.html