GEORGIA: Court Tosses GOP Lawsuit Demanding Signature Verification For January 5 Runoff

Did a Republican lawsuit seeking more stringent signature matching for mail-in ballots in the run-off elections again target the wrong entity?

A lawsuit filed by Republicans seeking stronger, more uniform signature matching for the January 5, 2021, US Senate run-off elections has been dismissed by a District Court of Appeals court in Georgia.

The district court found the complainants lacked standing. This prompted an appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

The Georgia Republican Party was joined by US Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and David Perdue (R-GA), in a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The suit claimed that signature matching for mail-in ballots, as executed in the November 3, 2020, General Election was “unconstitutional, arbitrary, and inconsistent.”

The three-judge panel – consisting of Clinton nominee Charles Wilson, Obama nominee Beverly Martin, and Trump nominee Robert Luck, ruled Sunday that the plaintiffs did not adequately allege an injury that can be addressed to establish standing.

The Georgia #RepublicanParty, joined by @KLoeffler and @SenDavidPerdue, had sued @GaSecofState, alleging the signature matching for mail-in #Ballots was “unconstitutional, arbitrary, and inconsistent.”

Judges denied the motion for an injunction.https://t.co/euTAGq1iAy

— NTD News (@news_ntd) December 21, 2020

“Like in Jacobson, the campaigns sued the Secretary of State,” the panel wrote in its dismissal. “They alleged that the Secretary is the state’s chief election officer, that he has the authority and responsibility to manage Georgia’s electoral system, and that he, along with the election board members, has the duty to promulgate rules and regulations to obtain uniformity in the practices of election officials and to ensure a fair, legal, and orderly conduction of elections.”

“Jacobson” refers to Jacobson v. Florida Secretary of State, a precedent-setting case in the matter.

“But, just as in Jacobson, the absentee ballot statute puts the duty to ‘compare the signature’ and accept or reject a ballot on the ‘registrar or clerk’ – not the secretary of state.”

The judges explained that the motion for injunction before them asked them to do what they already stated they couldn’t do in the previous case, “order a nonparty county official to do something contrary to state law.”

The question that begs to be asked is this. Did the Georgia GOP and lawyers for Loeffler and Purdue do their due diligence in seeking the correct relief from the right litigant?

Judging from the language of the dismissal this appears to be a valid question.

https://nationalfile.com/georgia-court-tosses-gop-lawsuit-demanding-signature-verification-for-january-5-runoff/

Google & Facebook to team up in fight against govt accusations of secret pact to rig online ad market – report

Silicon Valley behemoths Google and Facebook have reportedly foreseen that a secret deal to manipulate the advertising market could be exposed and vowed to cooperate if one of them faces an antitrust lawsuit.

In a complaint filed last week, Texas and nine other states accused the tech duo of striking a deal to divide the lucrative market, with Google agreeing to give Facebook perks if the latter backs off from direct competition. The secret pact was codenamed after a ‘Star Wars’ character, and while the exact name was omitted from the publicly available redacted version of the lawsuit, the initial version seen by the Wall Street Journal says that it was known as ‘Jedi Blue’.

While the final version merely said that the two firms were aware that their agreement could trigger antitrust investigations, the draft document reviewed by the WSJ elaborated on some details of the alleged illegal deal. The draft version cited in the report says that Google and Facebook agreed to “cooperate and assist each other in responding to any Antitrust Action,” and “promptly and fully inform the Other Party of any Governmental Communication Related to the Agreement.” The word ‘antitrust’ is reportedly mentioned no fewer than 20 times in the companies’ contracts.

Both companies have denied any wrongdoing, with Facebook calling the allegations “baseless.” Google said that agreements linked to antitrust threats are extremely common, describing the claims as inaccurate and insisting that their fellow tech giant does not receive special data.

Several other details were also removed from the final version of the lawsuit, such as the purported value of the deal. The draft version reportedly implies that Facebook considered the deal to be “relatively cheap” compared to direct competition. According to the Wall Street Journal, citing the draft document, in the deal’s fourth year the social media company was to spend half a billion dollars annually for Google-run ad auctions.

The suit accusing Google of monopolistic practices in the online search market has become part of mounting legal actions against the tech giant. The Texas-led lawsuit was followed by another major antitrust effort from 35 states, which accused Google of anti-competitive activities to create a monopoly in online search and search advertising. Similar accusations were made by the US Justice Department, which sued the company in October.

https://www.rt.com/business/510391-google-facebook-lawsuit-cooperation/

Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium Opens for Early Voting in Georgia Runoff Election

The Atlanta Falcon’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium is opening as a new early voting location for voters in Georgia’s Fulton County.

The Jan. 5 runoff election will mark the first time that the stadium has lent a portion of its space to early voting, according to WSB-TV Channel 2.

VOTE 🗳

Early voting for Fulton County opens today at #MBStadium

Dec. 22-23: 8:30AM – 6:00PM

Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/fIeF9m87gX pic.twitter.com/3oYPRqCfs8

— MercedesBenzStadium (@MBStadium) December 22, 2020

The Falcons’ facility will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 22, 23, and 26. On Sunday, Dec. 27, it will be open from noon to 7 p.m. And for Dec. 28, 29, and 30 it will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Fulton County voters had been able to cast their ballot at the Atlanta Hawks’ State Farm Arena, but with the resumption of play, the early voting booths were closed.

The NFL had opened many of its stadiums for early voting during the 2020 election cycle this year.

The runoff elections in Georgia will determine which party will control the U.S. Senate with sitting GOP Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler running against Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/12/22/atlantas-mercedes-benz-stadium-opens-for-early-voting-in-georgia-runoff-election/

Covid cases recorded in Antarctica for first time – reports

Antarctica, once the only continent not to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, has reportedly recorded its first cases. The 36 new infections are among people stationed at a Chilean research base and include 26 members of the Chilean army and 10 maintenance workers.

Spanish-language media reported the outbreak at the General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme research base on Monday.

In a statement, the Chilean army said: “Thanks to the timely preventive action … it was possible to relieve said personnel, who, after being subjected to a medical control and the administration of a PCR test … turned out to be positive for Covid-19,” according to Newsweek. It reported that three crew members on a ship providing support to the base have also tested positive since returning from their mission to Antarctica.

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The 36 individuals who tested positive have since been evacuated to the city of Punta Arenas in Chile, where they are reported to be under isolation and in good condition.

General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme is one of 13 Chilean bases on the island, the ABC reports.

Trying to keep the virus at bay in Antarctica has come at a cost. All major research projects in the Antarctic have been halted. As a result, research by scientists around the world has been interrupted.

While the continent has no permanent residents, it 1,000 researchers and other visitors stayed on the island over winter, according to the Associated Press.

In March, as the world locked down in response to Covid’s rapid spread, the Antarctic programs agreed the pandemic could become a major disaster. With the world’s strongest winds and coldest temperatures, the continent roughly the size of the United States and Mexico is already dangerous for workers at its 40 year-round bases.

According to a document by the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs seen by the Associated Press: “A highly infectious novel virus with significant mortality and morbidity in the extreme and austere environment of Antarctica with limited sophistication of medical care and public health responses is high risk with potential catastrophic consequences.”

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/12/covid-cases-recorded-in-antarctica-for.html

Rand Paul: Lawmakers Perpetuating Lockdowns by Handing Money to States with ‘Arbitrary and Unscientific’ Rules

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted the $2.3 trillion government spending bill — $900 billion of which is dedicated to coronavirus relief — criticizing Republicans for voting to print money with impunity. He warned Congress is essentially perpetuating lockdowns by handing money to states with leaders implementing rules that are “arbitrary and unscientific.”

Both the House and Senate passed the 6,000-page coronavirus relief and spending bill on Monday, which Paul said makes “modern monetary theory look like child’s play in comparison,” labeling the legislation a “deficits don’t matter disaster.”

“This bill is free money for everyone,” he said, explaining how “free money” is not the answer to the nation’s economic issues:

“And yet if free money were the answer, if money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time? Why stop at $600 per person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000?” Paul continued, pondering when someone will point out the dollar “no longer has value.”

“Maybe these new free money Republicans should join the everybody-gets-a-guaranteed-income caucus. Why not $20,000 a year for everybody? Why not $30,000? If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it?” he asked.

“The treasury can just keep printing the money. That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value,” Paul continued.

“To s0 called conservatives who are quick to call out the socialism of Democrats, if you vote for this spending monstrosity, you are no better. When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity,” he said, assessing that the difference between parties is “less Adam Smith versus Marx and more Marx versus Engels.”

The Kentucky Republican further explained the country’s fiscal situation, noting the nation brought in $3.3 trillion last year and spent $6.6 trillion. The deficit was a “record-busting $3.3 trillion,” he said, explaining there is no more coronavirus bailout money and that such extraordinary spending habits have been “going on for decades.”

Several members of Congress are taking to social media to complain about the handful of hours they have to read the 5,593-page spending bill. https://t.co/Va6H3HoOg0

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 21, 2020

“Today’s money is gone, so Congress is spending tomorrow’s money,” he said, noting that the country finds itself $27 trillion in debt today with no cuts, offsets, or prioritization in Congress.

“Spend all this money and leave the future to figure itself out,” Paul said, adding that Congress is essentially perpetuating the lockdowns by supporting states implementing rules that are “arbitrary and unscientific.” Governors, Paul said, are picking winners and losers while family businesses are being wiped out.

“The need for help is real … but it’s clear that government has worsened the economic damage and acted as the biggest obstacle to economic recovery,” Paul added.

President-elect Joe Biden reacted to the passage of the by essentially calling for more spending:

I applaud this relief package, but our work is far from over. Starting in the new year, Congress will need to immediately get to work on support for our COVID-19 plan.

My message to everyone out there struggling right now: help is on the way. https://t.co/ktET5loEnm

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 22, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/22/rand-paul-lawmakers-perpetuating-lockdowns-by-handing-money-to-states-with-arbitrary-and-unscientific-rules/

Law enforcement take down three bulletproof VPN providers

The three VPN services provided safe haven for cybercriminals to carry out ransomware attacks, web skimming operations, spearphishing, and account takeovers.

Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have seized this week the web domains and server infrastructure of three VPN services that provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims.

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The three services were active at insorg.org [2014 snapshot], safe-inet.com [2013 snapshot], and safe-inet.net before the domains were seized and replaced with law enforcement banners on Monday.

The services have been active for more than a decade, are believed to be operated by the same individual/group, and have been heavily advertised on both Russian and English-speaking underground cybercrime forums, where they were sold for prices ranging from $1.3/day to $190/year.

According to the US Department of Justice and Europol, the three companies' servers were often used to mask the real identities of ransomware gangs, web skimmer (Magecart) groups, online phishers, and hackers involved in account takeovers, allowing them to operate from behind a proxy network up to five layers deep.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/law-enforcement-take-down-three-bulletproof-vpn-providers/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=21735961543072688253262375158449&mid=13210876&cid=717936240

Head of Corrupt Intel Unit Promoted to Top Mexican Border State Police Post

The head of a border state police intelligence unit that is plagued with allegations of corruption and a long history of cartel links was quietly promoted to one of the top law enforcement positions in the state. The members of that task force are linked to cartel extortion, illegal searches, and the covered-up murder of a Texas man.

In recent days, officials in Nuevo Leon quietly promoted Juan Francisco de Jesus Vidaurri Esquivel to helm the Fuerza Civil as the new Commissar General. Vidaurri previously headed the controversial General Investigations Directorate (DGI)–a group that officials tried to phase out after complaints of corruption and human rights abuses.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/12/22/exclusive-head-of-corrupt-intel-unit-promoted-to-top-mexican-border-state-police-post/

Israel illegally recruits Canadian citizens to its army

Human rights activists are demanding an end to the Israeli military’s recruitment of Canadians, which violates the laws of that country.

The Canadian government has so far refused to enforce its laws, allowing Israel to continue the practice.

Canadians joined Zionist militias during the Nakba, the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland in 1947 and 1948.

The Israeli army has boasted in recent years that it has enlisted hundreds of Canadian citizens to its occupation military, joining other foreigners including those from the US.

The CBC reported last year that Canadian government agencies do not keep track of how many of its citizens join the Israeli army.

Last year, the Israeli consulate in Toronto said that a representative of its military would be interviewing potential recruits.

From November 11-14, the Israeli consulate in Toronto will be recruiting Canadians to serve in Israel’s terrorist military.

It is obscene that @justintrudeau’s government allows this terrorist recruitment to occur on Canadian soil.#Palestine #Israel #terrorism @CanadaFP pic.twitter.com/pOXyrQHLRJ

— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) November 3, 2019

What are Palestinian Canadians supposed to think when finding out that Canadians are being recruited to the Israeli army to participate in the violent oppression of their families? #NoCanadians4IDF @MinJusticeEn https://t.co/iyngv7jyBi

— Hammam Farah (@HumHum83) October 19, 2020

Legal experts say this is a violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act which prohibits a foreign state from enlisting Canadian citizens into its armed forces.

The act, which passed in 1937, was originally an anti-communist measure to criminalize Canadians who traveled to Spain to help fight against the fascist Franco dictatorship.

In mid-October, 170 prominent Canadian faith leaders, activists, artists and intellectuals called on justice minister David Lametti to investigate and potentially take legal action “against all those involved in recruiting and encouraging recruiting” in the country for the Israeli army.

In addition to the prominent Canadian signatories, leftist scholar Noam Chomsky, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, filmmaker Ken Loach, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and journalist Chris Hedges signed the letter.

John Philpot, a criminal litigation attorney and international law expert, filed a formal complaint with Lametti over Israel’s recruitment within Canada.

Such recruitment is “a crime under the criminal code of Canada,” Philpot told The Electronic Intifada.

Philpot also called on Lametti to investigate Deborah Lyons, Canada’s ambassador to Israel, who held a party at the country’s embassy in Tel Aviv to honor its citizens serving in the Israeli army.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-illegally-recruits-canadian-citizens-its-army?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=fbc3bae155-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-fbc3bae155-290660781

Ted Cruz Drops NUKE On Hollywood and Federal Funding They’re Receiving Over Concerns of Censorship

Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, “United States of Socialism,” reveals how the Left uses the Venezuelan formula for socialism, decisively refutes this new face of socialism, chillingly documents the full range of the Left’s gangster tendencies, and provocatively exposes the tactics of the socialist Left.

Who is behind it, why is it evil, and how can we stop it?

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/ted-cruz-drops-nuke-on-hollywood-and-federal-funding-theyre-receiving-over-concerns-of-censorship/

White House Adviser Navarro: 379,000 ‘Possibly Illegal Ballots’ Cast in Michigan

Michigan Secretary of State's office disputes claims

White House adviser Peter Navarro claimed in an interview on Monday that more than 379,000 possibly illegal ballots were allegedly cast in Michigan, although his assertions were later dismissed by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office.

“My top-line number at this point for illegal, possibly illegal ballots, is 379,000,” Navarro said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “That’s more than twice the victory margin,” he continued.

Navarro, the head of the White House Office for Trade and Manufacturing Policy, last week released his own report saying the election “may well have been stolen” from President Donald Trump. Navarro said he produced the report as a private citizen, not as a U.S. official.

But in the Bannon interview Monday, Navarro claimed he has “the receipts now” to prove that votes were illegally cast in the state, saying that 174,384 ballots were cast without proper voter identification; another 195,000 or so, he said, were the product of “inexplicable vote surges.” Navarro did not elaborate on the nature of these receipts.

During a nine-hour period on Nov. 4, Trump had a significant lead over Joe Biden, he added. Within “five seconds” at around 6:30 a.m. Biden’s “total [votes] skyrocketed by 141,258 votes,” or “30 times the expected vote count,” Navarro said, citing data from the New York Times.

“Within that same time frame, do ya know how many Trump got? 5,968,” he claimed. In another instance at around 3:50 a.m. ET in Michigan, 54,497 votes were provided for Biden while Trump only received about 4,718 votes, he said, stressing it was irregular.

In response, a spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s office said that “Navarro’s claims are wrong and demonstrate his true intent in sharing them as well as his lack of knowledge of election administration.”

“If he had proof of anything one would expect he would bring it to law enforcement rather than a podcast. Absentee ballot counts are reported in batches as large jurisdictions finish counting them in absentee ballot counting boards. This is common practice in every major election in Michigan,” according to the spokesperson.

The spokesperson added that the reason for the so-called “ballot drops” is because more absentee ballots were counted.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-adviser-navarro-379000-possibly-illegal-ballots-cast-in-michigan_3627635.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-21-4

Karima Baloch, Pakistani human rights activist, found dead in Canada

Husband says foul play cannot be ruled out after body of 37-year-old dissident discovered in Toronto

A dissident Pakistani human rights activist living in exile in Canada has been found dead in Toronto after going missing.

Karima Baloch, 37, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016 after her work as a human rights activist in the troubled Pakistan state of Balochistan had led to her being followed and threatened by the authorities.

The first chair of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO-Azad), a political student organisation, she had been advocating for the rights of those in a region home to a long-running insurgency movement, and raising the ongoing issue of enforced disappearances.

She was listed by the BBC in its 100 most inspirational and influential women of 2016 for her work in human rights.

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Baloch is the second Pakistani dissident from Balochistan living in exile to be found dead this year. In May, Sajid Hussain, a journalist who wrote about human rights violations in Balochistan, was found dead in a river in Sweden, where he had sought asylum after threats to his life in Pakistan.

Baloch’s husband, Hammal Haider, also a Pakistani activist living in exile, said she had left home at midday on Sunday for a walk on Toronto’s Centre Island as she often did, but never returned. Toronto police later put out an appeal for information on Twitter and her body was found on Monday on the island.

“I can’t believe that it’s an act of suicide. She was a strong lady and she left home in a good mood,” Haider said. “We can’t rule out foul play as she has been under threats. She left Pakistan as her home was raided more than twice. Her uncle was killed. She was threatened to leave activism and political activities but she did not and fled to Canada.”

Haider said a month ago he had received multiple threatening messages over social media after raising the issue of human rights abuses and military operations in Balochistan.

He said: “I was told that my brothers and wife can be targeted. I didn’t take them seriously. We often get such trolls and threats while talking about human rights abuses.

“I can’t blame anyone right now. We are just waiting to hear from police on its investigation.”

Lateef Johar, a Baloch activist and close friend in exile in Canada, told the Guardian the police had said Baloch’s body had been found near a body of water. “The police have not provided any further details. They have not told us the cause of death nor have they returned the body of Karima.”

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Johar said he had met Baloch on Thursday at the University of Toronto, where they were both students. They talked on the phone on Friday. “I don’t think this is an accident or an act of suicide,” Johar said. “We all feel threatened here. Even after the killing of Sajid Hussain I fear when I find myself in a dark street.”

Amnesty International said: “The death of activist Karima Baloch in Toronto, Canada is deeply shocking and must be immediately and effectively investigated. The perpetrators must be brought to justice without recourse to the death penalty.”

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/12/karima-baloch-pakistani-human-rights.html

Pyscho Pelosi on Trump: I Plan to Pull Him Out of There By His Hair, Little Hands and Feet

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has serious psychological issues with President Trump. She loses her cool and childishly acts out in settings like the State of the Union address and White House meetings where decorum dictates responsible behavior from the person second in line to the presidency.

Pelosi’s latest example of her pathological hatred of Trump is reported by Politico in an article on how the COVID stimulus deal finally came together this past weekend.

Trump has refrained from directly negotiating with Pelosi, instead having Treasury Secretary Mnuchin deal with the Speaker. That has not softened Pelosi’s psycho-hatred of Trump, as Politico notes in her comments to Democrats during the negotiations on Trump’s potential last day in office January 20:

“I’m counting down the hours ‘til he’s gone,” Pelosi told her leadership team as they strategized this weekend. “I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands and his feet.”

Trump has reportedly not spoken to Pelosi in over a year. During that time Pelosi led a bogus impeachment against Trump and repeatedly sabotaged COVID relief stimulus bill negotiations for political advantage, hurting millions of Americans so she could hurt Trump.

A Morning Consult-Politico poll released Tuesday shows the American people are tired of Pelosi’s act, with 56 percent of voters saying she should be replaced as Speaker and only 31 percent saying she should keep her job. Democrats support keeping Pelosi as speaker, 53 to 33 percent.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/pyscho-pelosi-trump-plan-pull-hair-little-hands-feet/

POLL: Who Is The Greater Danger To The American People?

The Democrats’ theft of the 2020 election is obvious to everyone.

Numerous reports of election fraud have fallen on deaf ears at the FBI and DOJ.

FBI Director Chris Wray and Attorney General Bill Barr have done nothing.

Meanwhile, they continue to persecute Julian Assange, who exposed Hillary’s misdeeds to the world.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/greater-danger-american-people/

Cyber Attacks by Israeli Spy Firm NSO Group Are a Modern-Day Marketing Campaign

When you have a product or service, you want to sell it. So, you have to promote it in order to attract new clients.

That’s why NSO Group’s Pegasus is now in the news, right after the US Congress passed the NDAA 2021 that contains provisions to include Israel on a list of countries eligible for an exception to weapons export regulations.

Spyware and hack tools are not the kind of products that you can advertise on TV or in newspapers, at least not with paid commercials and paid advertisements.

The only way to really effectively advertise your spyware is by having others talk and write about it in news stories.

Having the efficiency of your spyware discussed, voluntarily, by journalists and news anchors is what really draws the attention of dictators and corrupt politicians. When the mainstream media reports about how your cyber weapon was used to spy on all sorts of people and companies, evil people will want to buy it from you and they’ll pay any price you set because confidential information from your enemies is worth the price. An efficient cyber weapon saves you time, effort and manpower.

Of course, with Israel involved there are always several layers to a story or event. It’s not any different in this case.

Another goal that is being achieved here, against the current backdrop of a brewing new cold war, is the legislation of new laws allegedly to protect people and companies against more new cyber attacks but in reality to limit people’s use of cyberspace.

After the controlled demolitions of 9/11, a similar situation was created. Because it was too easy for ‘the terrorists’ to commit terror crimes, so we were told, new laws were required to fight ‘the terrorists’ and their networks.

In reality, everyday people found it harder to travel and were now being monitored and spied upon extensively – legally. All the while the US and Israeli governments experienced no problems with propping up Al Qaeda and ISIS.

The victims were not ‘the terrorists’, it were and still are the everyday people.

Here, just after the “cyber pandemic” has been announced, we will see the same thing happen. New laws will be passed that limit everyday people’s use of the internet and cyberspace while governments and their contractors will be able to legally obtain confidential information from people’s devices and online accounts.

From a marketer’s point of view this latest Pegasus promotional campaign was very effective and will be extremely profitable because it will translate into new business deals for NSO Group, worth hundreds of millions of shekels.

https://erbn.online/1935

The FAATMAN tech stocks have gained $3.1 trillion in value this year

Facebook, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple & Netflix collectively gained more than $3 trillion dollars in market capitalisation in 2020.

That is a lot of new paper millionaires in a year when US unemployment has literally broken records.

From chart 17 in 2020: A Year In Charts.

Source: Data from Koyfin

Tool: Excel

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-faatman-tech-stocks-have-gained-3-1-trillion-in-value-this-year/

Donald Trump Administration’s Approval of “Radioactive Roads”: Lawsuit against EPA

Phosphogypsum Use in Roadbuilding Previously Prohibited Due to Risks of Cancer, Genetic Damage

Environmental, public health and union groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for approving the use of radioactive phosphogypsum in roads. The groups also petitioned the agency to reconsider its Oct. 20 approval.

The EPA has long prohibited use of phosphogypsum in roads because it contains uranium and radium that produce radionuclides linked to higher risks of cancer and genetic damage.

The agency ignored its own expert consultant, who found numerous scenarios that would expose the public — particularly road-construction workers — to a cancer risk the agency considers to be unacceptably dangerous.

Because the phosphogypsum is likely to be used in roads within 200 miles of phosphogypsum storage stacks, most of which in are Florida, the approval may also affect hundreds of protected plants and animals and their critical habitat.

“This shameless, political favor to the fertilizer industry will have devastating, long-term environmental and human health effects,” said Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Americans should be outraged that the agency charged with protecting us from harm has greenlighted the construction of radioactive roads.”

Since 1989 the EPA has required phosphogypsum to be stored in mountainous piles called “stacks,” because if dispersed, the material would present an unreasonable public health threat from radon gas emissions that would continue for generations given their radioactive 1,600-year half-life.

The EPA has also found that phosphogypsum contains appreciable quantities of radium-226, uranium, uranium-238, uranium-234, thorium-230, radon-222, lead-210, polonium-210, chromium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, fluoride, zinc, antimony and copper.

Phosphate ore, mined largely in Florida, is transported to fertilizer plants for processing by chemically digesting the ore in sulfuric acid.

“This is a slap in the face to the Gulf communities and workers who will be most impacted by this decision,” says Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of Healthy Gulf. “Building radioactive roads is about the dumbest idea I’ve heard of in my 30 years in the environmental protection field. We won’t let this stand.”

“The distribution of phosphogypsum will unnecessarily expose workers, the environment and the general public to otherwise avoidable radiation exposure. To allow the use of phosphogypsum as a construction material is the height of irresponsibility,” said Glenn Compton, chair at ManaSota-88.

For every ton of phosphoric acid produced, the fertilizer industry creates five tons of radioactive phosphogypsum waste. The phosphogypsum must be stored in stacks, and the resulting radon gas emissions must be limited.

The majority of these stacks are in Florida, but can also be found in Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-administrations-approval-of-radioactive-roads-lawsuit-against-epa/5732779

NAACP files suit accusing Trump, GOP of violating KKK Act

The NAACP is accusing President Trump and the Republican Party of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act with their efforts to overturn election results in key battleground states.

In an amended lawsuit filed Monday night, the civil rights organization added the Reconstruction-era law to their case against the president's campaign that was filed last month.

"Defendants’ efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters — targeting cities with large Black populations, including Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia — repeat the worst abuses in our nation’s history, where Black Americans were denied a voice in American democracy for most of the first two centuries of the Republic," the new lawsuit reads.

The NAACP filed the lawsuit last month on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and a group of Black Michigan voters, accusing the Trump campaign of violating the Voting Rights Act in seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

The amended lawsuit added the Republican National Committee (RNC) as a defendant in the case and the allegations about the Ku Klux Klan Act.

The complaint accuses the campaign and the RNC of violating the 1871 law's prohibition against "preventing by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as an elector for President or Vice President."

Neither the Trump campaign nor the RNC immediately responded when asked for comment.

The Trump campaign and its allies have filed a flurry of lawsuits seeking to decertify the election results in key battleground states in a long-shot effort to change the outcome of the election.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/531277-naacp-files-suit-accusing-trump-gop-of-violating-kkk-act

Biden campaign says Twitter will wipe POTUS account's followers

The digital director for President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said Tuesday that Twitter told the Biden team it will be wiping followers from the official POTUS and WhiteHouse Twitter accounts before transferring them to the Biden administration.

The move would be different than what the social media platform did in 2016 when transferring the accounts to President Trump’s administration from former President Obama’s, Rob Flaherty, the Biden campaign’s digital director, said.

“In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse — at Team 44's urging,” Flaherty tweeted Tuesday. “In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero.”

Obama was the nation's 44th president.

In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse – at Team 44's urging.

In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero. https://t.co/wj1R02SmiK

— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) December 22, 2020

Twitter spokesperson Nicholas Pacilio would not confirm Flaherty’s statement and said the social media platform is still speaking with the Biden transition team about the transfer of the accounts.

“Twitter has been in ongoing discussions with the Biden transition team on a number of aspects related to White House account transfers,” Pacilio said in a statement.

Flaherty doubled down on his comment in response to Pacilio’s statement, tweeting he’s “happy to share the email thread where we pushed back and we were told this was unequivocal.”

Pacilio responded, “Hey Rob, no need i’m familiar with it!”

A spokesperson for Biden’s transition team was not immediately available for comment.

The POTUS account has 33.2 million followers and the WhiteHouse account has an additional 26 million followers.

Even combined, the two official accounts have less followers than the 88.5 million President Trump has on his personal account.

Trump has continued to tweet posts from his personal account offering unsubstantiated allegations over his electoral defeat that have not been supported in court.

The claims have frequently put him in conflict with Twitter, which has labeled a number of Trump’s posts for containing claims about election fraud that are "disputed."

Once he leaves office, Trump could see some of his future posts be deleted.

A spokesperson for Twitter previously confirmed that Trump’s account will be treated like any other once he leaves office.

"Twitter’s approach to world leaders, candidates and public officials is based on the principle that people should be able to choose to see what their leaders are saying with clear context. This means that we may apply warnings and labels, and limit engagement to certain Tweets," the spokesperson said in November. "This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions."

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/531292-biden-campaign-official-says-twitter-will-wipe-potus-accounts-followers

Chinese Whistleblower Comes Forward & Claims 5 Million Ballots for 2020 Elections Were Printed in CHINA for US Elections

A Chinese whistleblower has came forward claiming that over 5 million ballots were printed in communist China that were mailed and used in the 2020 United States elections.

I posed this question on Twitter earlier this morning. Why is my team of investigators and intel guys looking into this instead of DHS or the FBI? We have limited resources, and work our asses off. These folks have Billion-dollar budgets just to do just this.

In the video a caller is heard requesting a bulk order of ballots to ship to the United States.

The following video according to the Gateway Pundit has been translated as accurate from a Mandarin translator. Stating that the votes were printed in China and mailed to the United States.

https://youtu.be/VhwwuX0CjfQ

https://thedcpatriot.com/chinese-whistleblower-comes-forward-claims-5-million-ballots-for-2020-elections-were-printed-in-china-for-us-elections-video/

Countdown to Knesset collapse, with hours to go until government’s likely fall

With failure to pass a budget by stroke of midnight triggering automatic new elections, leaders appear to be out of options to save the coalition

Seven hours remain for the Knesset to pass a state budget for 2020 in three separate readings, or dissolve and send the country to a fresh election.

Since that is a virtual impossibility at this point, barring any last-minute magic tricks by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it appears that is where we are headed at the stroke of midnight.

The liveblog will be with you to give you the latest updates from the political world and other areas of interest during these almost-certainly-final hours of the 23rd Knesset.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-22-2020/

Union: Stay at Home (Unless You’re Campaigning for Georgia Dems)

California UNITE HERE sends members to GA despite support for lockdowns

Days before calling for a "true lockdown" and closure of "all nonessential businesses and activities," a California labor union dispatched members to Georgia to canvass for Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

UNITE HERE Local 11—a "progressive" hospitality union based in Los Angeles—signed a Wednesday "Lock Down Now" letter asking California officials to "enact stay at home orders that are strict enough to truly suppress the virus by closing all nonessential businesses and activities." Just days earlier, however, the union partnered with the New Georgia Project to send a group of members to knock on doors for Ossoff and Warnock. The union has since touted its work to "take back the Senate" in the Peach State, sharing videos from the ground in Atlanta.

A number of California Democrats have been caught breaking their own coronavirus rules in recent weeks. Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared to dine indoors at a posh Napa Valley restaurant in November—one night later, San Francisco mayor London Breed celebrated a friend's birthday at the same restaurant. At the time, San Francisco restaurants were banned from seating more than six diners at one table.

UNITE HERE Local 11 did not respond to a request for comment on if it considers political canvassing to be an "essential activity." While the letter signed by the union stresses the need to "support our most vulnerable working families," UNITE HERE Local 11 has demanded dues payments from workers left unemployed by the coronavirus.

Ossoff has also signaled support for temporary shutdowns. During a November CNN appearance, the Democrat said that it would be "malpractice" to oppose such measures if they were endorsed by "the CDC and its leadership." Ossoff's and Warnock's Republican opponents, meanwhile, have campaigned against new coronavirus lockdowns.

"I want to reopen our economy. I want to ensure Georgia small businesses and workers have relief," Warnock's opponent, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, tweeted in November. "Democrats want lockdowns—and they've blocked relief time and time again."

UNITE HERE Local 11 is not the only California interest group that has gone to bat for Ossoff and Warnock. The Democrats raised $26 million from Californians between Nov. 4 and Nov. 23, compared with just $4.4 million from Georgians, according to Bloomberg News.

The Los Angeles union is one of many out-of-state organizations campaigning with the New Georgia Project, a voter-registration nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams. Warnock also served as CEO of the group from 2017 until February 2020. During his tenure, the group failed to pay thousands in unemployment insurance. The nonprofit is now under investigation for allegedly sending ballot applications to non-Georgia residents.

Ossoff and Warnock will face Republican senators David Perdue and Loeffler, respectively, on Jan. 5. Republicans must hold one of the two seats to maintain a 2021 majority in the upper chamber.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/union-stay-at-home-unless-youre-campaigning-for-georgia-dems/

Dominion Voting website scrubbed of reference to software group allegedly hacked by Russia

Company says it did not use specific software program implicated in breach.

Dominion Voting Systems recently scrubbed a reference on its web site to a company at the center of a major cybersecurity breach allegedly carried out by Russian hackers.

The Austin, Texas-based software company SolarWinds has been the subject of explosive controversy, due to revelations that a hacker or group of hackers, possibly originating from Russia, used vulnerabilities in its software to breach "U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations" starting in at least March 2020, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Thursday.

The breach occurred in part via SolarWinds's Orion platform, which CISA described as "an enterprise network management software suite that includes performance and application monitoring and network configuration management along with several different types of analyzing tools."

SolarWinds said on its website that the hack "could potentially allow an attacker to compromise the server on which the Orion products run." The company "currently believes the actual number of customers that may have had an installation of the Orion products that contained this vulnerability to be fewer than 18,000," SolarWinds said in SEC filings on Monday.

Multiple government agencies including the Treasury, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security may have been affected by the breach, according to reports.

Dominion Voting Systems, the company that for the last six weeks has been at the center of controversy and allegations surrounding the 2020 election, had a reference on its Web site until sometime last week indicating it used SolarWinds to manage its DVS file share system, according to archival web captures.

Dominion's Web site suggested it utilized SolarWinds's Serv-U FTP file transfer platform to manage that system. Yet some time between Dec. 14 and Dec. 18, the company scrubbed the reference to SolarWinds from the current FTP login page.

Reached for comment, Dominion did not respond to questions on its use of the SolarWinds product, though the company said in a statement that it "does not now — nor has it ever — used the SolarWinds Orion Platform, which was subject of the DHS emergency directive."

Pressed for more information on its use of the Serv-U platform, the company resent an identical statement.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/dominion-voting-scrubbed-website-reference-software-group-allegedly

How The Barr DOJ Failed

“They’ve been protecting Hillary Clinton, they’ve been protecting Obama, they’ve been protecting the Deep State,” Fitton stated last Friday.

Attorney General Barr’s resignation amidst a contested presidential election dominated last week’s political airwaves. On Friday, Fitton reminded viewers that “AG Barr or at least the Justice Department under AG Barr has been a black hole in terms of responding to Judicial Watch.” As Fitton reported, “they recently went to court to shut down all of our Clinton email investigations, discovery, and FOIA lawsuits – they don’t want us to do anything.”

Fitton believes that the Justice Department has turned a blind eye to scandals surrounding VP Joe Biden, especially material evidence discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop last year. The scandals, which he has described as “obvious criminal conduct,” were largely set aside by the Department of Justice, according to Fitton. “They [the DOJ] protected Joe Biden and interfered in the election by doing nothing about the Joe Biden scandals.”

Those defending the DOJ’s decision to not investigate the Bidens are, in Fitton’s estimation, misunderstanding the role the Agency plays in investigating corruption surrounding presidential candidates. While it is correct that the DOJ should not investigate candidates in a bid to influence the outcome of an election, Fitton believes that the Agency is doing just that – but in a different way: “this person is running for office and they get a get of jail free card.” Likening the policy to a game of Monopoly, Fitton contrasts this approach with that employed by the DOJ against President Trump, when “they specifically targeted Trump because he was running for office.”

As Fitton concluded, “it doesn’t matter who the next AG is, I don’t expect any difference coming January. We just have to keep doing the work we’re doing. We can’t trust them to investigate Biden, so we’ll do it instead.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/deep-dive/how-the-barr-doj-failed/

ICE announces the latest results of Operation Broken Promise, targeting aliens who failed to depart US voluntarily

WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday the latest results of a national enforcement effort called “Operation Broken Promise,” targeting for arrest and removal, aliens who promised to voluntarily leave the country, versus face a formal deportation, but never did.

From Monday, Dec. 7, to Tuesday, Dec. 17, ICE Enforcement and Removal (ERO) officers arrested more than 150 individuals, including 117 who failed to depart after being granted voluntary departure. About 71% of those arrested had criminal convictions or pending charges.

“Our officers are committed to preserving the integrity of our nation’s immigration laws and are strengthening the overall safety, security and well-being of our communities,” said ICE Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director Tony H. Pham.

On Nov. 19, ICE announced the arrest of more than 150 individuals who failed to depart after being granted voluntary departure from Nov. 2 to Nov. 17.

Voluntary departure is typically requested by the alien and granted by an immigration judge, where the alien is granted about 60 to 120 days to arrange their own departure, versus facing a formal deportation and the barriers to readmission that it carries. Voluntary departures benefit U.S. taxpayers by lowering the costs of deportations.

When an alien fails to depart the country per the agreement, they become subject to a final removal order which is then carried out as a formal deportation by ICE. In addition to the barrier on readmission, an illegal reentry after a formal deportation is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

ICE does not exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. All those in violation of immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States. ICE takes many factors into account when targeting and arresting individuals, including their criminal and immigration history.

Every day as part of routine operations, ICE targets and arrests aliens who commit crimes, and other individuals who have violated our nation’s immigration laws. While being mindful of the current pandemic, ICE is continuing to conduct its critical public safety and immigration enforcement mission, while taking efforts to minimize the risks to officers, aliens and the public related to COVID-19.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-announces-latest-results-operation-broken-promise-targeting-aliens-who-failed

UAE, Saudi used Israel spyware to hack Al Jazeera journalists' phones, report reveals

Spyware created by an Israeli company was reportedly used by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to hack into the phones and devices of dozens of journalists working for Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera.

The discovery of the widespread hacking was revealed in a report by the University of Toronto’s software developer Citizen Lab, which raised concerns over the vulnerability of Apple’s iPhone and the impact that lack of sufficient security has had on one of the prominent international media organisations.

Citizen Lab, which apparently has some of the world’s best researchers in digital surveillance, claimed that the malware it discovered was used by clients of the Israeli NSO Group and rendered "almost all" iPhone devices without Apple’s latest iOS 14 system vulnerable.

The hacking attack against Al Jazeera’s journalists was uncovered when its well-known investigative journalist Tamer Almisshal sought Citizen Lab’s help after he grew suspicious that his phone had been hacked. The researchers then monitored his phone and found the spyware, and in the process learned that the Israeli spyware was rapidly adapting to usual ways of being detected.

Unlike previous cases of the NSO Group’s spyware hacking phones through click methods such as sending WhatsApp messages – as Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did to Amazon chief Jeff Bezos last year – this attack on the journalists was conducted using "zero-click" technology.

It means that the victims of the cyberattack on their phones did not need to click on any link or message to allow the spyware to enter, making the advancement "more sophisticated, less detectable."

The hacking of Almisshal’s phone had been accomplished after it was infected with a malicious code delivered through Apple’s servers, which automatically connected it to an NSO Group server.

Another journalist named Rania Dridi, who works for Al Araby TV, was also hacked six times between October last year and July this year. Speaking to the British newspaper the Guardian, Dridi said: "I don’t know how to explain my feeling. It messes with your mind. Everything, your private life, it’s not private any more."

She stressed: "It wasn’t [just] for a month, it was for a year, and they have everything: the phone calls, the pictures, videos, they can turn the microphone on…It makes you feel insecure." Dridl will be taking legal action against the United Arab Emirates, which is reported to have been responsible for the hacking of her phone.

According to Citizen Lab’s report, 36 personal phones belonging to Al Jazeera employees were hacked by four "clusters" or NSO Group operators, most likely on behalf of the Saudi and Emirati governments. One of those operators allegedly spied on 18 phones and another operator on 15 phones, successfully hacking the phones of news anchors, producers and other journalists belonging to the media network which has for years been loathed by autocratic governments in the region along with Israel.

The channel has already been shut down in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt following the ongoing Saudi-led blockade against Qatar in 2017.

The NSO Group has sold its technology to various governments and intelligence agencies across the Middle East, enabling countries such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Morocco to use the Israeli spyware to monitor journalists and dissidents even living abroad.

When criticised and held to account for how its technology was used, the NSO Group has repeatedly denied responsibility for how its clients use its product, telling the Guardian: "We do not have access to any information with respect to the identities of individuals our system is used to conduct surveillance on."

It assured, however, that "where we receive credible evidence of misuse, combined with the basic identifiers of the alleged targets and timeframes, we take all necessary steps in accordance with our product misuse investigation procedure to review the allegations."

Apple also commented on these latest hacking allegations, saying in a statement: "We always urge customers to download the latest version of the software to protect themselves and their data."

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78828/uae-saudi-used-israel-spyware-to-hack-al-jazeera-journalists-phones-report.html

Controversial ‘Spy Tech’ Firm Palantir Lands £23m NHS Data Deal

They claimed it was a short-term, ‘emergency’ response to the COVID crisis. In March, the UK government announced a massive NHS data deal with private tech firms. Experts warned it could involve an ‘unprecedented’ transfer of citizens’ private health information to controversial private firms like Palantir: a secretive artificial intelligence outfit founded by a Trump-backing billionaire.

During months of ensuing legal correspondence, the government assured us that this ‘COVID datastore’ would be unwound at the end of the pandemic and the data destroyed. They also assured us that any extension would go out to public tender, in which taxpayers could see and debate the issues at stake.

All of that has now turned out to be false. Today we can reveal that, right as health secretary Matt Hancock was heralding the new vaccine and telling Britons life would be getting “back to normal” by Easter, his government was quietly sealing a lucrative deal with Palantir, worth up to £23 million, to run its massive health datastore for two years. The contract, awarded on 11 December, paves the way for Palantir to play a major, long-term role in the NHS beyond COVID – now, even by the government’s own admission

It’s still not clear what precisely Palantir has been given access to: the list of NHS datasets that the firm will draw on have been redacted from the contract. What is clear, though, is that the government deliberately struck this deal on the quiet – knowing it would be controversial.

Public Trust

Palantir has built software accused of fuelling racist feedback loops in the hands of the Los Angeles police, and has come under fire from its own staff over its role in the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s brutal policy of family separations.

Palantir says its software is being used to “provide secure, reliable, and timely processing of data – while protecting the privacy of data subjects – to enable NHS decision makers to make informed, effective, and responsible public health decisions”.

But serious questions remain about whether the firm has earned the public’s trust, and is a fit and proper partner to be handling the sensitive personal health information of millions of NHS users across England. How should, say, Black or Muslim NHS users feel about their health data going to a company with a long track record of work with the CIA, the US Department of Defense and the LA police?

We’ve been asking the government questions in letters for months. We’ve asked them, repeatedly, what the long-term plans for the datastore are. Whether the companies involved stand to profit from this crisis. And how our personal health information is being used, traded and protected. These are critical questions which affect millions of people across the country. And yet the answers we’ve received have been partial, misleading and obfuscatory.

On 11 December, suspecting they were getting ready to strike a long-term deal with Palantir and others, we wrote to the government warning that we would issue court proceedings to challenge any such move.

Under the NHS Act, common law and data protection laws, the government has to consult the public about major changes to the National Health Service. Were they planning to do so?

They also have to conduct a ‘data protection impact assessment’: to show that they are complying with a range of laws to protect citizens’ sensitive health information. Had this been done?

We also questioned whether it was appropriate to use the so-called G-Cloud framework – an accelerated system for quick-fire, minor contracts – for flagship long-term programmes. We expressly sought assurance that no permanent steps would be taken until the legal issues were resolved.

Instead of responding, the government simply pushed the deal with Palantir through, thereby avoiding having to defend themselves in court.

On top of that, they used our enquiries as an excuse to hide what they were up to; telling other journalists that they couldn’t answer their questions on the COVID-19 datastore because it was the subject of “legal action”, while pressing ahead with the deal anyway.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/controversial-spy-tech-firm-palantir-lands-23m-nhs-data-deal.html

GEORGIA SENATE: ‘Coordinated Illegal Activities’ Happened On November 3, ‘Sufficient To Change The Results’

A report coming out of the Georgia State Senate concludes that illegal activity took place on Nov. 3 contrary to what Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger insists

A new report from the Georgia State Senate’s Election Law Study Subcommittee found evidence of illegal activity executed by election workers at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on November 3 and 4, 2020.

The Georgia Election Law Study Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Georgia State Senate Judiciary Committee. Subcommittee Chairman, William Ligon (R), said the draft report has not been formally approved by either the subcommittee or the Judicial Committee.

“The events at the State Farm Arena are particularly disturbing because they demonstrated intent on the part of election workers to exclude the public from viewing the counting of ballots, an intentional disregard for the law. The number of votes that could have been counted in that length of time was sufficient to change the results of the presidential election and the senatorial contests,” the report reads.

“Furthermore, there appears to be coordinated illegal activities by election workers themselves who purposely placed fraudulent ballots into the final election totals.”

Election workers counted mail-in ballots at the arena location and according to surveillance camera footage from Election Day – and corroborated by eyewitness testimony, workers stopped counting ballots at approximately 10:30pm local time. The illegal act comes in their resumption of the count after observers and media left the counting area.

Gabriel Sterling, an election official who works in Raffensperger’s office and who has vehemently insisted there was no vote fraud or ballot tampering through the whole of the election and across the state, has paradoxically acknowledged that there was an 82-minute period on Election Night when no monitor was present as ballots were being counted.

Raffensperger’s office has refused to acknowledge the illegality of the action, instead blaming the media and observers for leaving after the announcement that counting was stopping for the night.

A spokesman for embattled Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement, “The report makes rash conclusions based on a one-sided presentation of conspiracy theories, poorly assembled data and conjecture. Of the many courts that have reviewed this same jumble of misinformation, none have found one shred of it to be credible. It is disappointing that the members of the study committee let their political allegiance cloud their judgment when dispassionate analysis by the courts have determined the allegations to be nonsense.”

The subcommittee’s report acknowledged that a plethora of witnesses and experts testified about irregularities and fraud allegations during a public hearing earlier this month.

In summary, the legislators on the subcommittee wrote, the General Election “was chaotic and any reported results must be viewed as untrustworthy.”

https://nationalfile.com/georgia-senate-coordinated-illegal-activities-happened-on-november-3-sufficient-to-change-the-results/