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Programming Alert: Live Coverage of Senate Hearing on Election ‘Irregularities’
BY EPOCH VIDEO December 15, 2020 Updated: December 15, 2020 biggersmaller Print
The Senate will hold a hearing Wednesday on irregularities that took place during the 2020 presidential election.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said during the hearing announcement that “a large percentage of the American public does not view the 2020 election result as legitimate because of apparent irregularities that have not been fully examined.” The goal of the hearing is to “resolve suspicions,” he added.
The hearing is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET. NTD and The Epoch Times will livestream the full hearing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/programming-alert-live-coverage-of-senate-hearing-on-election-irregularities_3619991.html
Pompeo lambastes Russia for sowing 'chaos, conflict, and division' in Mediterranean
Pompeo's comments came in response to accusations from his Russian counterpart that the U.S. plays 'games' in region.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has launched a verbal salvo charging that Russia continues to destabilize the Mediterranean, and that it sows "chaos, conflict, and division" in the region.
Pompeo directed his comments Tuesday at his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who recently accused the U.S. of playing political games in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
"It’s unfortunate and unhelpful that Mr. Lavrov again gets the facts wrong and attempts to rewrite history," Pompeo said in a statement. "The United States is working actively with allies and partners in the Eastern Mediterranean to promote greater stability, security, and prosperity."
The comments come during a time of increased tensions between Washington and Moscow, and in the wake of reports that Russian hackers have breached U.S. government computer systems.
Although he did not directly mention hacking operations, Pompeo charged Russia with spreading disinformation and undermining national sovereignty specifically in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean.
"In Syria, Russia supports the Assad regime whose war against its own people has added to regional instability, led to a protracted humanitarian crisis, and displaced half the population," Pompeo said.
The secretary of state listed a number of Russian actions in Greece, Cyprus, Malta, and elsewhere.
"In Libya, Russia supported an assault on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, killing civilians and undermining the UN’s efforts to bring peace to the country," Pompeo said.
Citing a litany of actions in Libya, Pompeo noted Russia had printed counterfeit Libyan dinars and has used its proxy mercenary army known as Wagner to fuel conflict.
"The Libyan government’s release of two Wagner operatives caught undermining Libyan politics is just another example of how Russia uses mercenaries and political shenanigans rather than open democratic means to advance its interests," Pompeo said.
Lavrov made his remarks about the United States during a virtual meeting Dec. 4 of the Mediterranean Dialogues conference in Rome.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/pompeo-says-russia-sows-chaos-conflict-and-division-mediterranean
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Leaders of Mexico, Brazil congratulate Biden on US election win
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro finally accepted the loss of Trump, a political idol with whom he had sought to forge closer ties.[File: Eraldo Peres/ AP]
16 Dec 2020
The leaders of Latin America’s two biggest economies, Brazil and Mexico, congratulated Joe Biden on Tuesday on his election victory after a long delay that ignited criticism they were courting danger by rebuffing the US president-elect.
Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro both waited until the day after Biden’s November 3 election win was confirmed by the US Electoral College before acknowledging it, each leader running the risk of alienating Biden and his fellow Democrats with their extended delay.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un may be the only key international leader who has yet to recognise Biden’s defeat of Republican President Donald Trump in last month’s election.
Trump himself has refused to concede defeat, making unsubstantiated claims of widespread voting fraud and pursuing unsuccessful legal efforts to overturn the results.
For weeks, Lopez Obrador argued it was prudent to wait until Trump’s legal challenges ended.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said it was prudent to wait until Donald Trump’s legal challenges ended [Henry Romero/Reuters]
At his daily morning news conference, Lopez Obrador said he sent the incoming American leader a letter praising Biden’s “triumph”.
He stressed the Democratic former vice president’s pro-immigrant stance and suggested the two neighbours work together on the thorny issue, after years of Trump’s unprecedented demands that the Mexican government do more to reduce the flow of US-bound migrants.
“I also want to express my recognition of your position in favour of Mexican and the world’s migrants, which will allow the continuation of our plan to promote development and well-being in southeast Mexico and among the countries of Central America,” Lopez Obrador wrote.
In Brasilia, the far-right Bolsonaro finally accepted the loss of Trump, a political idol with whom he had sought to forge closer ties.
“Greetings to the President Joe Biden, with my best wishes and the hope that the USA will remain ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave,'” Bolsonaro said in a statement that quoted the US national anthem.
Bolsonaro pledged to work with Biden, emphasising the defence of sovereignty and trade integration.
Biden’s victory and Bolsonaro’s reluctance to recognise it have cast a dark cloud over US-Brazilian relations, which had warmed to the point of discussing a free trade deal last year.
Bolsonaro, a former army captain, had echoed Trump in voicing concerns about alleged widespread fraud in the US election, without citing evidence.
Lopez Obrador never went that far, despite his own past of alleging fraud and challenging election results in Mexico during his own previous runs for the presidency.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/16/leaders-of-mexico-brazil-congratulate-biden-on-us-election-win
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Speakeasy of secrets: Forgotten tales of debauchery from NYC’s ‘21’ Club
By Michael KaplanDecember 15, 2020 | 7:36pm | Updated
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The ‘21’ Club has spent the last 90 years as a magnet for the rich, louche, beautiful and powerful. Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton both stashed bottles of pricey wine in the West 52nd Street restaurant’s cellar (and some are said to still be there). Ernest Hemingway made love to a girlfriend of gangster Legs Diamond on a kitchen staircase. (Luckily, Legs was gunned down before he could seek his promised retribution.) Novelist John O’Hara routinely got blind-drunk and was liable to throw punches at anyone within proximity, while a sad and solo-dining Jackie Gleason insisted on swapping his pool cue from “The Hustler” (which remains on display) for a model train encased behind the bar.
Novelist Jay McInerney wed socialite Anne Hearst there in 2006, with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani officiating. Recalling the meal afterward, McInerney told The Post, “Prince Edward stopped by the table to say hello. In retrospect, it was quite a lunch.”
For the last 30 or so years, McInerney has enjoyed an annual boozy Christmas lunch at ‘21’ with publishing-world cronies — but no longer. Last week, The Post reported that the restaurant, New York’s last remaining eatery that once served as a Prohibition-era speakeasy, is closed indefinitely and may shut down for good in March. “I find it incredibly tragic,” McInerney said, acknowledging that the real sadness is for suddenly unemployed workers there. “It is a loss to New York. There is so much history ensconced in that place.”
Back in the 1960s when ‘21’ reigned as the city’s It destination for food and booze — where men were made to wear jackets, slacks on women were verboten and unescorted ladies were not allowed to drink at the bar — agent Swifty Lazar smashed a water glass into the head of Otto Preminger during a lunchtime dust-up over the movie rights to “In Cold Blood.” Preminger required stitches and pressed charges; the 5-foot-3 Lazar was arrested in his office.
Then there was the eccentric artist Salvador Dalí. He was allowed to flout health department rules and bring in his ocelot, Babou. “A man named Captain Moore, I think, came with Mr. Dalí to look after this wild animal, so to speak,” said Bruce Snyder, who managed ‘21’ from 1969 until 2005 and was famous for his dapper French cuffs and Bergdorf Goodman suits. “We had a place where Babou would get tied up. My only regret is that I never asked Mr. Dalí to sign a book for me.”
Of course, that would have broken a sacred tenet of ‘21’ that Snyder himself helped to maintain: “It was a safe haven. When you ate there, nobody got near you or asked for autographs,” he said, recalling the time a young teenager approached Nancy Reagan. Snyder took the girl aside and scolded her. “I think I made her cry,” he told The Post.
That tight-lipped policy helped attract security-conscious high-flyers such as Robert De Niro, Jackie Kennedy and her son John Jr., and a century’s worth of presidents. Donald Trump — whose father Fred routinely took the family to ‘21’ for Sunday-night dinners — has a long history of ordering well-done hamburgers and Diet Cokes at ‘21′ and even chose it to celebrate his 2016 election win.
The Donald somehow convinced management to allow TV cameras into the restaurant to film a dinner scene for the first season of “The Apprentice.” Referring to Omarosa Manigault Newman and her crew, Diana Biederman, the former publicist of ‘21,’ told The Post, “The number of times they ran into the loo, for whatever reason, was a tad disruptive.”
No stranger to star turns, ‘21’ recently served as a scene-setter in Sofia Coppola’s love letter to Manhattan, “On the Rocks.” Over the years, ‘21’ has also turned up in films such as “Sweet Smell of Success,” “All About Eve” and “Wall Street”— in which Charlie Sheen’s hapless Bud Fox eats the restaurant’s classic steak tartare soon after Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko admonished, “Lunch is for wimps.” In 1954, Marilyn Monroe turned heads while drinking at the bar during a press party for “The Seven Year Itch.”
Underscoring the fact that nobody went to ‘21’ for the food, Carol Channing used to bring her own dinner — carried in by her husband — and Trump’s former fixer, the attorney Roy Cohn, demanded that the kitchen serve him off-menu tuna salad for lunch made with fish from the can.
“We kept a jar of Hellmann’s mayonnaise in the kitchen,” Snyder told The Post, adding that Cohn was not the only one who required déclassé ingredients. “Frank Sinatra liked these red cherry peppers that came in a jar at the supermarket. We left [them] in the refrigerator for him. He enjoyed drinking Sambuca Originale, which was not the best sambuca. You couldn’t find it in the Manhattan liquor stores. So we had to bring it in from New Jersey.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/sinatra-trump-and-other-tales-from-nycs-21-club/
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Apparently, the Chairman got whatever he wanted at ‘21’: “Mr. Sinatra handed out money like crazy. I once held the door as he exited. He tipped me 20 bucks and I said I couldn’t take it. I was management. He said, ‘Take it!’ I took it. You did what he said.”
It really did feel like a bit of a club — with a few dozen iron lawn jockeys standing guard outside 21 West 52nd St. They were donated by restaurant regulars in the 1930s, many of whom owned race-horse stables, in a tradition said to be started by the sportsman J. Blan van Urk.
Inside, items donated by the boldface names who dined there hung from the ceiling. They included a baseball bat signed by Willie Mays and a smashed tennis racquet from John McEnroe. On one memorable night, as reported in Page Six, Monica Lewinsky unwittingly sat beneath the model replica of Air Force One that came courtesy of Bill Clinton. Remembering that staffers scurried to provide an “extra wide chair for [broadly haunched oil mogul] Marvin Davis,” McInerney described ‘21’ as “an amazing diorama of a certain class of New Yorker.”
Not bad for a restaurant that began as a Greenwich Village speakeasy called the Red Head, moved up to West 49th Street as the Puncheon Club (it got pushed out to make room for Rockefeller Center) and relocated to 21 West 52nd St. in 1930, in the midst of Prohibition. Originally known as Jack and Charlie’s ‘21,’ the place was named for owners Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns. Ensuring that their restaurant would not be evicted to make room for another new construction project, the partners bought the building where ‘21’ remains situated — at least for the time being.
Kriendler and Berns also made sure that their customers could enjoy the then-illegal liquor they loved. Despite being politically connected — NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker was a regular in the early 1930s and once closed off the street when word came that a raid was in the offing — the owners took additional precautions.
“Liquor was on a shelf that could collapse with the push of a button; that was in case the Feds came,” said Snyder. “Bottles would then go down a stone chute with spikes on it. Glass shattered and liquor sank into a pile of sand at the bottom. The evidence was destroyed.”
Later, in 1962, just as Cuban cigars were about to be deemed contraband in the US, Kriendler and Burns bought 750,000 Havana stogies, stashed them in a warehouse humidor on West 52nd Street and made the smokes available to their best customers.
Post-Prohibition, ‘21’ became known for its top-shelf cocktails — the gin-driven Southside was supposedly created there — and its so-called “secret cellar” (a leftover from Prohibition), long ranked among the best wine repositories in the United States.
It stands behind a brick door that is said to weigh some 2,500 pounds and is opened by sticking a thin wire through one of several pockmarked holes in front.
According to Kriendler’s memoir, “’21’: Everyday Was New Year’s Eve,” the cellar’s rarities have included an 1804 Madeira and a bottle of Château Margaux that dates back to 1870. The most expensive bottle of wine is said to be a $22,000 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.
The original owners eventually sold ’21’ in the 1980s, and today it is owned by luxury hospitality company Belmond Ltd., which says the restaurant cannot survive in its “current form.”
With high-priced imbibing currently on hold at ‘21,’ McInerney and his gang — who include publishing pals Gary Fisketjon and Morgan Entrekin, along with former ‘SNL’ segment producer James Signorelli — have done the sensible thing.
“We’re suspending our lunch this year,” said the author. Then his voice turned hopeful as he echoed a Christmas wish of many a New Yorker: “Maybe ‘21’ will reopen in 2021 and we’ll be there next Christmas.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/sinatra-trump-and-other-tales-from-nycs-21-club/
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Open Records Request Finds NO INVOICES OR WORK ORDERS on Reported Election Day Water Main Break in Atlanta — Here’s What We Found…
By Joe Hoft
Published November 11, 2020 at 9:26am
What really happened in Georgia when the water main reportedly broke causing a delay the election counting in the state?
On election night in Georgia President Trump was running away with the Presidential election, then suddenly it was reported that vote counting had stopped in Fulton County due to a water main break in Atlanta.
According to CBS WVLT8 ballots in Georgia would not be counted due to a water main break:
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Nearly 40,000 absentee ballots will not be counted for the state of Georgia until at least Wednesday after a water main break, Fulton County officials said.
According to officials, a water main break at State Farm Arena caused a pipe to burst. The burst pipe was discovered around 6 a.m. Counting of the ballots began at 11 a.m.
WVLT8 also released a statement from the Secretary of State related to the incident:
Tnight Fulton County will report results for approximately 86,000 absentee ballots, as well as Election Day and Early Voting results. These represent the vast majority of ballots cast within Fulton County.
(States like Florida count these ballots before the election and provide up to date results which enables them to provide final results on election night. Any state that doesn’t count ballots before the election when received so winners can be announced on election night appears to place ulterior motives ahead of transparency and timeliness.)
One Georgia resident, attorney Paul J. Dzikowski, attempted to obtain more information on the reported water main break in Atlanta. He sent a letter to and requested any information related to the water main break under the Georgia Open Records Act. This is what he wrote in his request:
Please accept this correspondence (and the attached letter) as a request for production and inspection of records under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70, et seq. (the “Act”). Please produce, for inspection and copying, the following records:
• ALL “Public records” related to the burst pipe at State Farm Arena that occurred on or about November 3, 2020, which impacted the counting of ballots by Fulton County authorities, including and not limited to internal and external communications with any person(s), communications with Fulton Co. Board of Registrations and Elections, memoranda, notes, work orders, requisitions, invoices, repair records, and all other public records.
This request is intended to be as comprehensive as possible and should be interpreted as broadly as the law allows, in accordance with the Act, and shall encompass records in paper form and any electronic and digital format. I look forward to your prompt response as soon as the records are available for inspection and copying but in no event more than three (3) business days following your receipt of this request, as required by the Act.
In response the only public records generated as a result of the alleged “burst pipe” that halted the counting of ballots in Atlanta (Fulton Co.) were a few text messages. These messages were with the Sr. Vice President of the Atlanta Hawks, Geoffrey Stiles, who called it a “slow leak” that was “contained quickly,” and he said the entire thing was “highly exaggerated.”
No repair orders or work orders or invoices from a plumber associated with this “burst pipe” were provided. Nothing.
Dzikowski also filed a similar request with the Fulton County Board of Registrations and Elections which resulted in no records being located per their response.
What really happened on election night in Atlanta and what was the real reason they stopped counting tens of thousands of absentee votes until the next day?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-exclusive-open-records-request-finds-no-invoices-work-orders-reported-election-day-water-main-break-atlanta-found/