8,000 Ballots Requested In GA Senate Race Believed To Be From Non-Residents, Secretary of State Investigating

Roughly 8,000 ballots are believed to have been requested by non-Georgia residents for the upcoming Senate elections according to the Secretary of State.

In response, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office sent letters to individuals who had filed a National Change of Address notice with the US Postal Service indicating that they live outside of Georgia, but still requested absentee ballots.

“Qualified Georgians and only Georgians are allowed to vote in our elections,” Raffensperger noted in a December 22nd press release.

“I have said many times that I will not tolerate out of state voters attempting to undermine the integrity of the vote in Georgia. Let this be a warning to anyone looking to come to Georgia temporarily to cast a ballot in the runoffs or anyone who has established residence in another state but thinks they can game the system: we will find you and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” he added.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/8000-nonresident-ballots/

Fast-Moving Wildfire Threatens Major Marine Corps Base Near San Diego

A major Marine Corps base in southern California is under emergency evacuation orders as a wildfire has grown out of control and is now encroaching on the area.

Marine base Camp Pendleton, which is home to the 1st Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Force, infantry training schools and many other key units, is under threat by the Creek Fire.

The fast-moving brush fire resulted in the overnight emergency evacuation of about 7,000 residents. The fire is said to be burning entirely on Camp Pendleton, which given its vast mountainous training areas includes a lot of brush areas.

The fire has scorched some 3,000 acres of the base's about 125,000 total acres. The base lies along the coastline in northwestern San Diego County.

The fire is said to be at least 35% contained as of Thursday morning.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fast-moving-wildfire-threatens-major-marine-corps-base-near-san-diego

Peter Navarro

@RealPNavarro

Hypocrisy of Twitter evident in their allowing this post to go without comment on its platform. Note to CCP-enabler Twitter: If you are going to censor & de-platform Americans speaking the truth (e.g., Bannon Warroom), you might want to warn or censor this CCP propaganda crap.

https://twitter.com/RealPNavarro/status/1341880557966393351

Have the Courts Been Compromised Too? Where are the Righteous Judges? Supreme Court Slows President Trump’s PA Case!

The US Court system has been taken over by the corrupt left. It’s time for the Justices on the Court to rule based on righteousness. The 2020 election was stolen. Joe Biden received 20 million fraudulent votes and biased judges and Obama judges are the only ones to see cases and they then ridicule and discount the massive fraud.

We’ve already discussed Justice Roberts. Many people believe the Chief Justice is compromised. His rulings make no sense. He is either crazy or he is being blackmailed.

The courts to date have thrown out the President’s cases in regards to the unspeakable fraud committed during the 2020 Presidential election. Obama judges have been allowed to ridicule the President and the record setting number of Americans who voted for him and then throw out the cases based on their grotesque biases.

Our courts have been compromised by biased judges who somehow are given the key cases involved in the 2020 election.

Over the past weekend the President filed a case with the Supreme Court and asked for it to be expedited due to the fact that it involves the 2020 election and the future of this country. If Joe Biden, who stole the election from record-setter President Trump is allowed to win the election, the country will never recover. How can President Trump’s record setting election that destroyed the previous all time high by nearly 10% be stolen?

The Supreme Court yesterday acknowledged the filings were received.

Pennsylvania changes the law and then stole the election for senile Joe Biden. No one wants a China loving Joe Biden other than a minority of Democrats, elites and China.

The courts and the legislatures better wake up! Americans are livid.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/courts-compromised-righteous-judges-supreme-court-slows-president-trumps-pa-case/

1000s Of Trucks Still Stranded In UK As French COVID-Testing Rules Spark "Chaos"

France announced the reopening of its borders with the UK late on Tuesday, ending a two-day closure prompted by fears of a fast-spreading coronavirus mutation in England.

As a result of the border shut down, thousands of truck drivers remain stranded in the UK, while France's new public health measures require drivers to be tested before entering the country.

France and Britain agreed on a rapid PCR (polymerase chain reaction) COVID-19 test that takes about 30 minutes, but that doesn't necessarily mean the thousands of stranded truck drivers waiting to cross the channel will be resolved in a day's time.

Despite the reopening of the borders, FT notes the backlog of trucks on Wednesday was in the thousands.

The situation was chaotic at the Port of Dover entrance, which was blocked throughout much of Wednesday by lorry drivers unable to board ferries because they did not have the tests demanded by the French government.

The UK government set up the main testing operation 20 miles away from Dover at Kent's Manston airport, a disused facility where most of the stranded lorries were being held. -FT

Drivers parked their trucks at Manston International Airport this week as they waited for coronavirus testing.

While BBC News said 3,000 trucks were in holding areas, the Department for Transport said the figure could be upwards of 5,000 trucks waiting to cross the English Channel.

According to the Road Haulage Association, the estimate could be as high as 10,000.

Manston Airport, which is becoming a lorry park for Dover, is where Brexit and UKIP began. The party took control of Thanet council in 2015 - a major foothold - after the airport was shut.

Farage campaigned to reopen Manston. Brexit has kinda done that pic.twitter.com/sye7pooHDY

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) December 22, 2020

The transport department told the haulage industry that it has the capacity at the moment to test 300 drivers per hour, and the backlog could be cleared up in the coming days.

Testing of the drivers is so massive that the UK government called in the military.

"This is a mammoth task and clearing the backlog will take time and patience," said transport secretary Grant Shapps.

Even as the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France reopened early Wednesday morning, automobiles started flowing through, but it wasn't until the afternoon when truck volumes started to increase.

"It's only late this afternoon that volumes have picked up significantly," Getlink, the company that operates the Channel Tunnel, said.

Getlink expects freight volume through the tunnel will rise as trains will operate through the holiday session to reduce the backlog.

The chaotic situation at the Channel Tunnel has not been limited to just the UK side.

Weeks ago, we reported backlogs and other delays formed in France as companies rushed goods into the UK before Britain leaves the European Union Customs Union on Jan. 1.

Supply chains in some of Europe's largest economies are a complete mess at the moment, aiding in the view that a robust economic recovery is nowhere to be found.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/10000-trucks-stranded-uk-side-amid-new-covid-testing-procedures-enter-france

Denmark reports 33 cases of mutant coronavirus that plunged UK into tougher restrictions and border shutdown

Health authorities in Denmark reported that 33 people have been infected by a new variant of coronavirus which has been spreading rapidly across Britain where it was first discovered.

The State Serum Institute (SSI), Denmark’s infectious disease authority, confirmed its findings in a report on Wednesday, based on its analysis of 7,805 positive tests between November 14 and December 14.

This means the variant was found in 0.4 percent of samples, although only 13.5 percent of infections during the period were tested, meaning the real number of mutant cases may be much higher, according to the report.

The SSI said there is a “societal infection” of the variant, albeit at a “very low level,” however the 33 cases of the strain appear to be among the highest number recorded outside of the UK.

Denmark is among more than 50 countries that shut its borders to Britain over the strain which scientists believe played a part in cases shooting up in London and the South East of England.

The World Health Organization has said that initial analysis indicates that the variant “may spread more readily between people,” while research is ongoing to see if the strain increases the severity of the virus or its resistance to vaccines.

Most of the EU’s 27 nations shut their borders to the UK, while other countries across the world imposed a ban on British arrivals including Canada, Russia, China, Brazil and India.

https://www.rt.com/news/510649-denmark-mutant-coronavirus-uk/

Comms 33, fallen signaling they are still running this shit

Alibaba stock plunges after China launches anti-monopoly probe into online retailer

China’s antitrust regulator has kicked off an investigation into alleged monopolistic practices of internet giant Alibaba. One of Jack Ma’s other crown jewels, Ant Group, has been summoned for a regulatory meeting.

The probe was announced on Thursday by the country’s top market watchdog, the State Administration for Market Regulation. In a brief statement on its website, the regulator said it was investigating Alibaba over its “choosing one from two” policy, which reportedly puts pressure on its sellers not to offer their goods on rival services.

On the same day, China’s central bank and the agencies overseeing securities, banking and insurance, announced that they would meet with the executives of fintech company Ant Group, the long-anticipated IPO of which had been abruptly called off earlier this year.

According to Xinhua, the agencies want to “supervise and guide Ant Group” to implement financial and other legal requirements as well as “regulate its operation and development of financial services.”

Both companies confirmed that they are aware of the regulatory actions. Ant Group, backed by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, said it would “seriously study and strictly comply with all regulatory requirements and commit fully to fulfilling all related work.”

Alibaba vowed to actively cooperate with the regulators on the investigation, adding that its businesses operations remain normal. The news of the probe plunged the online giant’s shares, which closed eight percent lower in Hong Kong. New York-listed shares of Alibaba were down more than three percent in after-hours trading.

The regulatory move is seen as part of a broader action by the Chinese government to tighten control on the rapidly developing fintech industry. The same trend is seen in other parts of the world, including the US and Europe.

Last month, China's bureau for regulating monopolies released new draft rules that define what constitutes anti-competitive behavior, addressing such issues as data collection and use as well as consumer protection among other areas.

https://www.rt.com/business/510603-china-alibaba-antitrust-probe/

Another variant of coronavirus ‘seems to have emerged’ in Nigeria – Africa’s disease control agency

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday that a new strain of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, but further investigation is needed.

“It’s a separate lineage from the UK and the South African lineages,” John Nkengasong, director of the CDC, told reporters from Addis Ababa. “The one we are seeing in Nigeria, and this is based on very limited data yet, has the 501 mutation,” he said, referring to the variant termed 501.V2 and announced by South African health officials on December 18.

Britain had earlier reported a new strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that appears to be more contagious, and the news prompted countries to close their borders with the UK and suspend flights.

Nkengasong explained that Nigeria’s principal Covid-19 investigator had just released the genomic sequences of the new strain. More samples will be studied, Nkengasong said. “Give us some time… it’s still very early.”

The most populous country in Africa, with more than 200 million people, Nigeria has reported relatively few coronavirus cases – over 80,000. However, daily recorded cases exceeded 1,000 for the first time this month, and in the past week, Nigeria recorded a 52-percent increase in cases, Nkengasong said. There was also a 40-percent increase in South Africa.

The Nigeria CDC director general, Chikwe Ihekweazu, also tweeted on Thursday that in recent weeks, there has been a huge increase in the number of samples sent to the Nigerian CDC’s reference lab.

The African continent now has more than 2.5 million confirmed cases, or 3.3 percent of global cases. Confirmed infections in South Africa approach 1 million, and the new strain is now the predominant one there, Nkengasong said; adding, however, that this mutation is unlikely to have an effect on the deployment of vaccines.

https://www.rt.com/news/510679-nigeria-africa-variant-mutation/

WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website

Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

Coronavirus lived on surfaces until it didn’t.

Masks didn’t work until they did, then they did not.

There is asymptomatic transmission, except there isn’t.

Lockdowns work to control the virus except they do not.

All these people are sick without symptoms until, whoops, PCR tests are wildly inaccurate because they were never intended to be diagnostic tools.

Everyone is in danger of the virus except they aren’t.

It spreads in schools except it doesn’t.

On it goes. Daily. It’s no wonder that so many people have stopped believing anything that “public health authorities” say. In combination with governors and other autocrats doing their bidding, they set out to take away freedom and human rights and expected us to thank them for saving our lives. At some point this year (for me it was March 12) life began feeling like a dystopian novel of your choice.

Well, now I have another piece of evidence to add to the mile-high pile of fishy mess. The World Health Organization, for reasons unknown, has suddenly changed its definition of a core conception of immunology: herd immunity. Its discovery was one of the major achievements of 20th century science, gradually emerging in the 1920s and then becoming ever more refined throughout the 20th century.

Herd immunity is a fascinating observation that you can trace to biological reality or statistical probability theory, whichever you prefer. (It is certainly not a “strategy” so ignore any media source that describes it that way.) Herd immunity speaks directly, and with explanatory power, to the empirical observation that respiratory viruses are either widespread and mostly mild (common cold) or very severe and short-lived (Ebola).

Why is this? The reason is that when a virus kills its host, it cannot migrate. The more aggressively it does this, the less it spreads. If the virus doesn’t kill its host, it can hop to others through all the usual means. When you get a virus and fight it off, your immune system encodes that information in a way that builds immunity to it. When it happens to enough people (and each case is different so we can’t put a clear number on it) the virus loses its pandemic quality and becomes endemic, which is to say predictable and manageable. Each new generation incorporates that information through more exposure.

This is what one would call Virology/Immunology 101. It’s what you read in every textbook. It’s been taught in 9th grade cell biology for probably 80 years. Observing the operations of this evolutionary phenomenon is pretty wonderful because it increases one’s respect for the way in which human biology has adapted to the presence of pathogens without absolutely freaking out.

https://www.aier.org/article/who-deletes-naturally-acquired-immunity-from-its-website/

Brexit Deal Signed: EU Boasts of a ‘Good Deal’ In Their Interest

The Brexit negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union concluded on Thursday, Christmas Eve, with the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen calling a press conference and boasting the EU got a “good deal” out of the years of negotiations.

Update: Boris Speaks

Speaking from Downing Street on Christmas Eve, Prime Minister Johnson announced the agreement of what he terms a “comprehensive, Canada-style free-trade deal” — an agreement that Mr Johnson has been seeking since the beginning of negotiations, which the European Union had said was impossible to strike.

“I’m very pleased to tell you that we have completed the biggest trade deal yet, worth £660 billion a year,” he said, continuing that the deal would protect British jobs by allowing “UK goods to be sold without tariffs and without quotas in the EU market, which will if anything allow our companies to do even more business with our European friends.”

Mr Johnson implied that the deal, which he said was 500 pages long — not 2,000 as previously claimed — and which as yet must be passed in the House of Commons, fulfils completely the June 23rd, 2016 vote to leave the European Union.

He said: “And yet, what it achieves is something that the people of this country instinctively knew was doable but which they were told was impossible: we’ve taken back control of our laws and our destiny, we’ve taken back control of every jot and tittle of our regulation in a way that is complete and unfettered.”

Johnson continued that “from January 1st, we are outside the Customs Union and outside the Single Market,” pledging that “British laws will be made solely by the British parliament, interpreted by UK judges sitting in UK courts, and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice will come to an end.”

“We will be able to set our own standards,” the prime minister added. “We will be able to decide how and where we will stimulate new jobs and new hope with freeports, new green industrial zones.”

Much of the obstruction on the agreement of a new deal with the bloc hinged on the EU’s demands for continued, permanent access to Britain’s lucrative fishing waters. Mr Johnson said that the UK will regain full control of her waters, after some five-a-half-years of what appears to be another transition period for European fishermen.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/24/brexit-deal-signed-eu-boasts-of-a-good-deal-in-their-interest/

Mexican Border State Police Officer Caught Leading Gulf Cartel Cell

Last week in General Bravo, Nuevo Leon, state police officers arrested one of their own during an operation targeting cartel cells, U.S. law enforcement sources operating in Mexico revealed to Breitbart Texas. Authorities were carrying out sweeps in response to a series of high-profile shootouts involving armored vehicles. The gunfights are part of an turf war where the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas is trying to take territories previously held by the Gulf Cartel.

During one of the sweeps, Nuevo Leon’s Fuerza Civil arrested German Cordero Romo, who identified himself as a high ranking law enforcement official and tried to intimidate the arresting officers by claiming connections with even higher officials. Breitbart Texas confirmed that Cordero Romo is no longer employed with Fuerza Civil, however, it remains unclear when his relationship with the agency ended.

At the time of the arrest, authorities also caught Jose Manuel “El Meny” Vaca Leyva and Ivan Collazo Vaquera who were carrying radios, drugs, and weapons. The group was apparently checking on their lookouts and cells spread out through the northern region of Nuevo Leon.

Following the arrest, the gunmen confirmed information previously published by Breitbart Texas about the Gulf Cartel working to recruit local and state police officers from Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. The gunmen also revealed that the criminal organization switched tactics to keep a lower profile.

Instead of using large 4-door SUVs and luxury vehicles during the day, the Gulf Cartel now drives small work trucks known as “estaquitas” and gunmen wear orange workmen vests to blend with highway cleanup and construction crews.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/12/24/exclusive-mexican-border-state-police-officer-caught-leading-gulf-cartel-cell/

Former upstate New York politician, 71, is found limping along an Ohio road 23 years after skipping town before jail sentencing for illegally selling guns

A former upstate New York politician who fled before his 1997 sentencing for illegally selling eight handguns has been found 23 years later by police limping down an Ohio street.

William Jones, 71, once the supervisor for the town of Mentz in Cayuga County, has been living the past two decades under a fake identity in Ohio, officials said.

Jones was out on a $20,000 bail when he failed to appear for his sentencing in 1997 after he was convicted of selling eight handguns when his pistol permit was suspended by a County Court judge.

But on Sunday, 23 years later, the long-time fugitive was found by an unassuming police officer in Waverly, Ohio, who stopped to assist a man who was limping down the side of the road, Cayuga County Sheriff Brian Schenck said.

The officer took the unidentified man - who we now know to be Jones - to a local hospital but he became concerned when he did not have any photo identification to hand. He was also unable to identify himself.

An investigation revealed that the man was William Jones, who was a wanted fugitive out of the state of New York. Jones is now being held at a jail in Butler County, Ohio, to await extradition.

Jones had already served a jail sentence by the time of his disappearance in 1997.

As the Town Supervisor for Mentz in Cayuga County, he was convicted in 1996 of Official Misconduct stemming from his official role. He had failed to pay two highway department workers in October 1996, reports Syracuse.

While awaiting trial in that case, Jones went rogue for a month before surrendering himself to authorities.

He was eventually sentenced to one year in the Cayuga County Jail and served eight months.

After this first conviction, his pistol permit was suspended by County Court Judge Peter Cornings. But in 1997, he refused to relinquish his permit and eight handguns. He instead sold the guns and was subsequently charged.

He then went on the run after failing to appear for his sentencing - only to be found on Monday by an officer, 23 years later.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/12/former-upstate-new-york-politician-71.html

Meet ‘Dr’ Tony Blair, warmonger turned vaccination guru and health passport promoter

Former British PM Tony Blair is calling for millions to be vaccinated with a single dose in a radical acceleration of the vax programme and also for the roll-out of health passports. But what, exactly, is his medical expertise?

‘Listen to the experts.’ ‘Follow the science.’ Two phrases we’ve heard ad nauseam in 2020.

But who qualifies as an ‘expert’ or ‘scientist’ is highly selective. A whole host of medical and scientific professionals who have argued against lockdowns as an anti-coronavirus strategy have been dismissed as ‘cranks’: we saw that quite clearly in the way the distinguished authors of the Great Barrington Declaration were treated.

By way of contrast, those with no qualifications in ‘the science’ have been elevated as public health gurus, simply because they are pro-lockdown and espouse the ‘official narrative’.

The most obvious example of these double standards is Bill Gates, a rather geekish multi-billionaire American computer software tycoon with a nice line in sweaters who is regarded as the ‘go-to’ man by leading news channels on what we should do next about Covid-19.

Gates’ funding of public health bodies and university departments – and media outlets too – is extraordinary. But that shouldn’t hide the fact that he is not a qualified doctor. Yet criticise Gates’ interventions and you’ll be screamed at by the very same people who say we shouldn’t be listening to experienced medical/scientific professionals who take a very different view. And so it is with Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.

‘The Blair Creature’ – to give him Peter Hitchens’ wonderful nickname – has emerged, on the day before Christmas Eve, to call for as many people as possible in Britain to get a special New Year present. “The aim should be to vaccinate as many people as possible in the coming months,” Blair writes in The Independent.

The target should be to cover a majority of the population by the end of February. “We should consider using all the available doses in January as first doses, that is, not keeping back half for second doses,” he continues. That’s despite the two vaccines in question only being licensed on the basis that people receive two doses.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/510577-tony-blair-vaccine-advice/

German nuns accused of enabling child sex abuse by priests

Nuns in the city of Speyer "dragged" children to be sexually abused by priests and politicians, a survivor told a German court. His explosive testimony is the latest abuse scandal to rock the German Catholic Church.

Catholic nuns who ran a former children's home in the German city of Speyer allegedly aided in the sexual abuse of the children who were under their care, according to a newly-surfaced court decision.

The latest scandal came to light after a victim filed a case to claim compensation from the Catholic church, prompting the Darmstadt Social Welfare Court to investigate.

Although the court ruled on the case in May this year, it was not made public until now.

Protestant news agency EPD and Catholic news agency KNA acquired copies of the court's decision, which detailed claims of horrific abuse that children suffered at the hands of clergy members in the 1960s and 1970s.

Nuns were key in aiding the abuse, regularly bringing boys and girls to predatory priests and even receiving money to do so, the man testified in court.

On Thursday, the Bishop of Speyer, Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, went public with the allegations of abuse for the first time in an interview with Catholic magazine Der Pilger. He said that "several" abuse allegations had been filed.

Years of abuse at children's home

The court testimony in the court case stems from a 63-year-old man who lived at the nun-run children's home in Speyer for several years.

Much of the alleged abuse centered on one priest in particular — identified by the Bishop of Speyer as a now-deceased vicar named Rudolf Motzenbäcker.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-nuns-accused-of-enabling-child-sex-abuse-by-priests/a-55913677

Former US Envoy To Syria Admits Misleading Trump To Keep Troops In Syria

In a recent interview with DC-based al-Monitor, former U.S. envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, revealed what many of us already knew and had been writing about long ago. Namely, that American foreign policy is not directed by the President, but by the military industrial complex and the Deep State itself.

In the interview, Jeffrey, who is supposed to work at the behest of the President, stated that he and his team misled the Trump administration during the course of the war in terms of which direction their “strategy” should take.

One revelation was that, while the Trump administration already viewed Iranian influence in Syria as a problem, Jeffrey and his team convinced the administration that there was no way to deal with ISIS (Trump’s main goal in Syria) without first dealing with Iran. In other words, the Deep State of which Jeffrey was a mouthpiece directed the president to engage in hostility towards Iran under the guise of providing “stability” to the region and “defeating ISIS.”

Nonsensical as the argument may sound to readers of my articles, it apparently worked on the President of the United States.

In the interview, Jeffrey stated,

The Syria strategy was a stepchild since the Obama administration.

The Trump administration saw one of the major flaws in the Obama administration: that it treated Iran as a nuclear weapons problem a la North Korea. They saw Iran as a threat to the regional order. So they wanted a Syria policy building on the bits and pieces of the Obama policy. So the Trump administration came up with that policy in 2017.

Secretary Pompeo and I convinced people in the administration of this: If you don’t deal with the underlying problem of Iran in Syria, you’re not going to deal in an enduring way with IS. We saw this all as one thing.

We then also had the Israeli air campaign. The US only began supporting that when I came on board. I went out there and we saw Prime Minister Netanyahu and others, and they thought that they were not being supported enough by the US military, and not by intelligence. And there was a big battle within the US government, and we won the battle.

The argument [against supporting Israel’s campaign] was, again, this obsession with the counterterrorism mission. People didn’t want to screw with it, either by worrying about Turkey or diverting resources to allow the Israelis to muck around in Syria, as maybe that will lead to some blowback to our forces. It hasn’t.

Basically, first and foremost is denial of the [Assad regime] getting military victory. But because Turkey was so important and we couldn’t do this strategy without Turkey, that brought up the problem of the Turkish gripes in northeast Syria. So my job was to coordinate all of that.

So you throw all those together — the anti-chemical weapons mission, our military presence, the Turkish military presence, and the Israeli dominance in the air — and you have a pretty effective military pillar of your military, diplomatic and isolation three pillars.

So that was how we put together an integrated Syria policy that nestled under the overall Iran policy. The result has been relative success because we — with a lot of help from the Turks in particular — have managed to stabilize the situation.

The only change on the ground to the benefit of Assad has been southern Idlib in two and a half years of attacks. They are highly unlikely to continue, given the strength of the Turkish army there and the magnitude of the defeat of the Syrian army by the Turks back in March.

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.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/12/former-us-envoy-to-syria-admits-misleading-trump-to-keep-troops-in-syria.html

Now They Censor Anyone Explaining the Great Reset of Schwab

YouTube has censored anything explaining what Agenda 2030 is all about. These individuals are part of the conspiracy to end capitalism, and they are now advocating Communism 3.0 intermixed with Feudalism. First, it was COVID, then Trump; now it is anything that explains the Great Reset, which is a publicly declared agenda to which Trudeau has openly committed Canada to follow. Trudeau will NEVER tell the people the truth.

These people act like the worse tyrants in history. They will eliminate elections and impose George Soros’ one-world government with the United Nations at the helm.

Anyone who still refuses to believe the election was rigged simply because they hate Trump, well, you better start paying attention to the people who convinced you to hate Trump, for they have a far worse future in mind for you. The problem is simple. They know that the longer they can prevent people from rising up, the more small businesses will be destroyed, and small businesses employ 70% of the civil workforce. You better wake up, for your children are being condemned, and these people will not allow you to know their evil intentions. These people are committing outright treason against the United States and free society.

Twitter is the most disgustingly corrupt of all. Dorsey is lucky I am not president, for I would have sent the military in and seized his company as Truman did during the strikes under National Security. Two weeks before the election Twitter changed how you retweet because they obviously didn’t want certain things to go viral. Now that Dorsey got the political result he wanted, so low and behold, he’s going back to the old way. Dorsey I believe is an absolute vile individual who has conspired against the United States and we will see Twitter make every effort to push Schwab’s takeover of the world. Dorsey and Zuckerger I believe should go to prison where they will enjoy “equality” and everyone gets the same – for life. Here we have these two individuals doing EXACTLY what they accused Russia of doing – influencing the US election.

Obviously, the US Constitution is in violation of their community guidelines and today they would ban Thomas Jefferson and many others.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/revolution/now-they-censor-anyone-explaining-the-great-reset-of-schwab/

Biden’s Cabinet is going to be the U.S. branch office of the Chinese Communist Party

A Joe Biden presidency is going to be a dream come true for the Chinese Communists, a huge break they probably never in a thousand years imagined would come true.

Not only is the incoming president and his son compromised by the ChiComs, the people Biden is selecting to fill roles in his Cabinet are either pro-Beijing sycophants (like Biden himself) or China apologists.

Either way, it’s completely understandable why Beijing was pulling for Joe to beat President Donald Trump, who was tougher in China than any president in modern history.

Case in point: Biden has selected Washington swamp creature Anthony Blinken to be his secretary of state and, according to U.S. intelligence community veteran and expert Charles “Sam” Faddis, that is good news for the ChiComs.

Writing at AND Magazine, which he founded, he says:

If you understand Biden’s announcement to mean that it will be Blinken’s job to function as America’s top diplomat and represent our interests to the world, however, you completely misunderstand the situation. As Director of the Penn Biden Center, Blinken did not preside over some institute charged with educating Americans and helping them understand the world around us. He presided over an entity that was funded in large measure by the Chinese and which seems to have been dedicated primarily to pushing Chinese propaganda inside the United States.

How is the Penn Biden Center connected to Beijing? The same way that Joe and Hunter Biden are reportedly connected — money.

Faddis notes that the center has gotten more than $70 million from ‘donors’ in China in recent years. And until the center was asked about those donations, it didn’t report any of them though it was required to by law. In fact, Faddis says, more than $20 million of those donations is still being categorized as having come from anonymous Chinese sources. In May 2018, one donation alone was $14.5 million.

For you see, Chinese leaders practice a weird form of communism; it’s more like capitalist Communism where money is allowed to be made (and a lot of it by the top echelons of Chinese society) but the people are ruled with an iron fist.

https://patriotrising.com/bidens-cabinet-is-going-to-be-the-u-s-branch-office-of-the-chinese-communist-party/

Vaccine one day mutant strain the next

Sounds legit no?

GOP senator on Trump pardons: 'This is rotten to the core'

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Wednesday blasted President Trump’s latest pardons of political allies such as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and political adviser Roger Stone as “rotten to the core.”

Sasse issued his statement Wednesday evening, specifically mentioning Manafort and Stone.

“This is rotten to the core,” he said in a terse one-liner.

The statement by Sasse said that “felons like Manafort and Stone” had “flagrantly and repeatedly violated the law and harmed Americans.”

Sasse was the first GOP senator out of the gate to criticize the pardons. Others are likely to follow.

Trump also pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The elder Kushner pleaded guilty in 2004 of 16 counts of tax evasion and retaliating against a witness. He served two years in prison.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who prosecuted Charles Kushner at the time, said his crimes were among the most “loathsome” he had dealt with.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the lead Democratic prosecutor during Trump’s impeachment trial, called Manafort’s pardon particularly outrageous.

“During the Mueller investigation, Trump’s lawyer floated a pardon to Manafort. Manafort withdrew his cooperation with prosecutors, lied, was convicted, and then Trump praised him for not ‘ratting.’ Trump’s pardon now completes the corrupt scheme. Lawless until the bitter end,” Schiff tweeted Wednesday.

Several Senate Republicans urged Trump to avoid sparking a scandal over pardons.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) earlier this month advised that Trump follow the recommendations of the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney.

“In general, I think presidents ought to take the advice of the pardon office that is within the Department of Justice,” she said. “But the president’s pardon authority is very broad.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who is retiring from Congress at the end of 2022, said, “I think pardons should be used very judiciously.”

Trump’s controversial pardons are likely to spark further debate about whether the president’s broad constitutional power over federal sentences needs to be reexamined.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/531545-gop-senator-on-trump-pardons-this-is-rotten-to-the-core

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Azerbaijan seeks to improve relations between Israel and Turkey

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov turned to Jerusalem with the proposal Baku could help build new bridges between Israel and Turkey.

Israel and Turkey both offered the government of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev military support during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. Now Baku suggested to Jerusalem and Ankara it could help build new bridges between its two allies, Walla! reported on Wednesday.

Israeli technology and Turkish military know-how allegedly provided Aliyev with drones and other weapons that eventually helped his forces take the city of Shusha from Armenian hands and sign a cease-fire agreement with the government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Aliyev allegedly phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week and suggested various paths into improving diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel.

While economic and security relations between Jerusalem and Ankara have continued despite a rocky past, Erdogan has a history of publicly slamming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkey expelled Israeli ambassador Eitan Na'eh two years ago.

In October, Erdogan opened the Turkish parliament's legislative session with a speech that addressed the city of Jerusalem and the Palestinian people, in which he stated: "Jerusalem is our city."

Erdogan was reported to respond positively to the overtures, Walla! reported, and officials in Azerbaijan told their Israeli counterparts that the Turkish politician was swayed into anti-Israeli rhetoric due to the influence of former aids.

Last week, Azeri Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov allegedly called Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi to discuss the same issue with the message that his country would be interested to see both of its allies enjoying improved relations.

While no officials were willing to comment on record concerning the call, it is possible both Netanyahu and Erdogan are watching Washington closely., hoping to present US president-elect Joe Biden with two strong regional allies of the US getting along better than ever when he begins his term in the White House.

Another issue that Turkey might wish to see resolved is that of gas. Israel is intimately involved with both Greece and Cyprus in regional energy operations that Ankara might wish to influence. However, it seems unlikely Israel would be willing to damage already established deals to appease a Turkish leader known to speak ill of the Jewish state.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/azerbaijan-seeks-to-improve-relations-between-israel-and-turkey-653188

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'Happy Days' star Henry Winkler reacts to Scott Baio's critical remarks about cast's reunion fundraiser

Baio, a Trump supporter, previously slammed the fundraiser as 'bizarre'

Henry Winkler holds his "Happy Days" co-star Scott Baio in high regard despite their opposing political views.

It's been over three decades since Winkler took on the role of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, the doting older cousin of Charles "Chachi" Arcola (Baio) in the beloved ABC show about the Cunningham family, which ran from 1974 to 1984.

The two sitcom stars had the opportunity to reunite with the rest of the cast at a Democratic fundraiser held in Wisconsin in October. Many, including Winkler, participated in the event, but Baio, a vocal President Trump supporter, was noticeably absent.

At the time, Baio dubbed the event "a little bizarre," given that its purpose was to "promote" then-Democratic nominees Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, the actor told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo. Winkler caught up with Fox News this week, when he made it clear that the bond struck between Fonz and Chachi wasn't just manufactured for the small screen.

"Scott is my family," Winkler, 75, told Fox News in a written statement. "But he has his political life and I have mine."

Winkler's comment comes just days after Don Most, who portrayed Ralph Malph in the sitcom, communicated his disappointment in Baio's harsh critique of the event. Baio, 60, previously claimed he wasn't on board with it because, "I don't believe in socicalism and Marxists."

"I knew that he would not be a part of this because of the differences in political views. So it was not a question of whether he would be a part of it or not. That was a given," Most, 67, told Fox News. "But you know, Scott and I, we played golf together. It’s been a while now, about a couple of years, but we’ve stayed in touch somewhat. But in the last year, I haven’t seen him."

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/happy-days-henry-winkler-reacts-scott-baio-critical-reunion-fundraiser

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At Least 102 Killed After Prime Minister’s Visit In Latest Ethiopian Ethnic Massacre

On December 23rd, an ethnic massacre took place in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, leaving at least 102 people dead.

The attack occurred a day after Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, visited the region and spoke about the need to bring to justice those responsible for the recent attacks.

The attacks are separate from the deadly conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region where Ethiopian forces and allied regional forces began fighting Tigray regional forces since early November. That fight is almost over, with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) all but defeated.

The desire by enemies to divide Ethiopia along ethnic & religious lines still exists. This desire will remain unfulfilled. In discussions with residents of Metekel, the expressed will of our people for unity, peace, development and prosperity far outweighs any divisive agenda. pic.twitter.com/DYlnCNH0tc

— Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 (@AbiyAhmedAli) December 22, 2020

Regardless, even before the war started, the Ethiopian central government had its fair share of issues that needed tackling.

iolence between groups fighting over land and other resources has forced many hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes following Abiy taking office in 2018, according to UN estimates.

Belay Wajera, a farmer in the western town of Bulen, told Reuters he counted 82 bodies in a field near his home after the dawn attack on December 22nd.

He and his family awoke to the sound of gunshots and ran out of their home as men shouted “catch them”, he said. His wife and five of his children were shot dead; he was shot in the buttocks, while four other children escaped and are now missing.

Another resident of the town, Hassen Yimama, said armed men stormed the area at first light in the morning.

He told Reuters that he counted 20 bodies in a different location. He grabbed his own weapon but assailants shot him in the stomach.

A local medic said he and colleagues had treated 38 injured people, most suffering from gunshot wounds. Patients had told him of relatives killed with knives, and gunmen who set houses on fire and shot at people trying to escape, he said.

“We weren’t prepared for this and we are out of medicine,” a nurse at the same facility told Reuters, adding that a five-year-old child had died while being transferred to the clinic.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement on Twitter condemning the tragedy:

“The massacre of civilians in Benishangul Gumuz is a tragedy. I am deeply saddened by the inhumane treatment of our people. Our efforts to solve the problem in various ways have not yielded the desired results.

The goal of our enemies is to disperse the powerful forces we wield against the Junta. This will not work. The government has taken the necessary steps to address the root causes.

I urge all of us to work as hard as we can to achieve the desired results.”

በቤኒሻንጉል ክልል መተከል ውስጥ በዜጎች ላይ እየተፈጸመ ያለው ጭፍጨፋ እጅግ አሳዛኝ ሆኗል። በወገኖቻችን ላይ በተፈጸመው ኢሰብአዊ ተግባር በእጅጉ አዝኛለሁ። ችግሩን በተለያየ መንገድ ለመፍታት ያደረግነው ጥረት የሚፈለገውን ውጤት አላመጣም። 1/3

— Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 (@AbiyAhmedAli) December 24, 2020

የምንፈልገውን ውጤት ለማግኘት ሁላችንም እንደ ከዚህ ቀደሙ በትኩረትና በኅብረት እንድንሠራ ጥሪ አቀርባለሁ። 3/3

— Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 (@AbiyAhmedAli) December 24, 2020

https://southfront.org/at-least-102-killed-after-prime-ministers-visit-in-latest-ethiopian-ethnic-massacre/

Democracies Don’t Start Wars. But Democrats Do

It may have been President Bill Clinton who once justified his wrecking of the Balkans by observing that liberal interventionism to bring about regime change is a good thing because “Democracies don’t start wars with other democracies.” Or it might have been George W. Bush talking about Iraq or even Barack Obama justifying his destruction of Libya or his interventions relating to Syria and Ukraine. The principle is the same when the world’s only superpower decides to throw its weight around.

The idea that pluralistic democracies are somehow less inclined to go to war has in fact been around for a couple of hundred years and was first elaborated by Immanuel Kant in an essay entitled “Perpetual Peace” that was published in 1795. Kant may have been engaging in some tongue in cheek as the French relatively liberal republic, the “Directory,” was at that time preparing to invade Italy to spread the revolution. The presumption that “democracies” are somehow more pacific than other forms of government is based on the principle that it is in theory more difficult to convince an entire nation of the desirability of initiating armed conflict compared to what happens in a monarchy where only one man or woman has to be persuaded.

The American Revolution, which preceded Kant, was clearly not fought on the principle that kings are prone to start wars while republics are not, and, indeed, the “republican” United States has nearly always been engaged in what most observers would consider to be wars throughout its history. And a review of the history of the European wars of the past two hundred years suggests that it is also overly simple to suggest that democracies eschew fighting each other. There are, after all, many different kinds of governments, most with constitutions, many of which are quite politically liberal even if they are headed by a monarch or oligarchy. They have found themselves on different sides in the conflicts that have troubled Europe since the time of Napoleon.

And wars are often popular, witness the lines of enthusiastic young men lining up to enlist when the Triple Entente took on the Germans and Austrians to begin the First World War. So, war might be less likely among established democracies, but it should be conceded that the same national interests that drive a dictatorship can equally impact on a more pluralistic form of government, particularly if the media “the territory of lies” is in on the game. One recalls how the Hearst newspaper chain created the false narrative that resulted in the U.S.’s first great overseas imperial venture, the Spanish-American War. More recently, the mainstream media in the United States has supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq, the destabilization of Syria, and the regime change in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Libya.

So now we Americans have the ultimate liberal democratic regime about to resume power, possibly with a majority in both houses of Congress to back up the presidency. But something is missing in that the campaigning Democrats never talked about a peace dividend, and now that they are returning the airwaves are notable for Senators like Mark Warner asking if the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. computers is an “act of war?” Senator Dick Durbin has no doubts on the issue, having declared it “virtually a declaration of war.” And Joe Biden appears to be on board, considering punishment for Moscow. Are we about to experience Russiagate all over? In fact, belligerency is not unique to Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. War is in the air, and large majority of the Democratic Party recently voted for the pork-bloated National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), endorsing a policy of U.S. global military dominance for the foreseeable future. If you are an American who would like to see national health insurance, a large majority among Democrats, forget about it!

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/24/democracies-dont-start-wars-but-democrats-do/

Mueller Prosecutor Says Trump Could Face Charges After Pardons

The witch hunt continues.

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann attacked President Trump during an interview on MSNBC.

He threatened that President Trump could face charges due to his pardons of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Charles Kushner.

Mediaite reported:

On Monday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Willie Geist asked Weissmann about Trump’s recent pardons, particularly of associates like Paul Manafort and Roger Stone…

…“And what we saw yesterday was essentially the president carrying out the final act of an obstruction of justice,” Weissman said, and added “So to your point about can the president currently be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, I think the answer is yes. There is substantial evidence of that. And what he did yesterday is going to be proof of that obstruction because it’s really the final act that fulfills the promise of the dangled pardons.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/witch-hunt-mueller-prosecutor-says-trump-face-charges-pardons/