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African Migrant Shipwreck off Tunisia Leaves at Least 20 Dead

ROME — At least 20 African migrants drowned Thursday when a dinghy carrying about 45 people sank off the coast of Tunisia.

The small boat was attempting to cross the Strait of Sicily on Christmas Eve day to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa, a common point of arrival for African migrants attempting to enter Europe, according to Mohamed Zekri, spokesman for the Tunisian Defense Ministry.

The Tunisian Coast Guard rescued five people who are in serious condition and was still searching for about 20 more who were still unaccounted for. A Coast Guard spokesman in Sfax, Ali al-Ayari, confirmed the migrants were all from sub-Saharan Africa.

The official also noted that the dinghy sank about six miles off the coast of Sfax, a port city that has become a popular departure point for African migrants looking to get to Europe.

On the same morning of December 24, nongovernmental organization Alarm Phone, which monitors migrant boats in the Mediterranean, reported that a craft fleeing Libya and carrying 65 people, including several children, was in trouble, adrift between the Tunisian Kerkennah islands and Lampedusa.

The boat eventually reached Malta and was awaiting rescue.

In noting news of the Tunisian shipwreck, Alarm Phone blamed the tragedy not on unscrupulous human traffickers, but on Europe. “Europe’s borders kill,” it said in a tweet.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/12/24/african-migrant-shipwreck-tunisia-leaves-least-20-dead/

The “New Confederacy”? Yes, It’s Time For Conservatives To Unite Against The Globalist Reset

The narrative could not be more transparent or obvious, but then again, the elites are becoming lazy in their propaganda and the leftists are not all that bright. Essentially, every time conservatives (or moderates) organize to defend themselves against communist or globalist attack we are called “Nazis”, brownshirts, populists, bullies, etc. Now, I would remind these people that if we were really going the path of the Sturmabteilung then there would be rampant intimidation and assault on leftists to the point that they would be afraid to leave their homes or even identify as leftists. Conservatives believe in self defense, not coercion and terror tactics.

Such actions are the wheelhouse of the political left these days. They are far better than we are at imitating Brownshirt behavior. The reality is that across the board the only people engaging in widespread censorship and violence are on the political left, yet we are supposed to be the “Nazis”?

Historically, there does seem to be a pattern here, though. In Germany in the 1920s-1930s communist groups were highly active and initiated street violence, riots and even assassinations. This lured many Germans in fear of being overtaken by a communist regime to support national socialism, the other side of the coin when it comes to tyranny. In other words, to defeat the communists the public supported the fascists, and the fascists ended up being just as bad as the communists.

If you study the investigations of historians like Antony Sutton in books like ‘Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution’ or ‘Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler’, you will discover there is incredible evidence proving that BOTH the communists and the fascists were funded and managed by the same global elites. In other words, the bankers win either way because they control both sides of the game.

I do suspect that a similar strategy is being implemented within the US today, and that part of the agenda of globalists hellbent on getting their “great reset” is to foment civil war in America while controlling or manipulating both sides of the fight.

It is indeed a Catch-22 for conservatives:

If we roll over and do nothing, then the extreme left and their corporate and political partners take control of the country and we will never see freedom again as they assert their “social justice” mandates along with their lockdown mandates.

If we fight back using the same tactics as the leftists or support martial law, then we ultimately erase the civil liberties protected within the Bill of Rights. Those rights will NEVER return (don’t believe the promises for a second) and we become history’s biggest hypocrites and a cautionary tale of the “dangers of nationalism” told to children generations from now, much like the Nazis.

There is, however, another option, and it’s not diplomacy.

That’s okay. We don’t need them to sanction our own security and defense. Like I said, we can handle it ourselves.

In the meantime, the leftists will label us “brownshirts”, but as mentioned they are the people that have proven over and over again to be violent and totalitarian, so their accusations ring hollow. The media will call us the “new confederacy”, which is funny because the majority of the original confederates and slave owners during the Civil War were Democrats.

We’ll set aside that irony and point out that people have an inherent right to self defense and to freedom from oppression, and none of us are slave owners. Anyone that calls for the globalist Reset is an enemy of individual rights, and anyone that tries to enforce medical tyranny is on the wrong side of history and of morality.

They can call us whatever they want and make erroneous historical comparisons until they are blue in the face; it won’t change the fact that we are seeking to be free and they are seeking to take that freedom away. This is all that matters.

https://patriotrising.com/the-new-confederacy-yes-its-time-for-conservatives-to-unite-against-the-globalist-reset-2/

80,000 Sign Yeadon and Wodarg Vaccine Petition, EMA Still Silent

Since late November, transnational pharmaceutical giants, propped-up by their partnering governments and their corporate media syndicate – have unleashed a torrent of high-level public relations and marketing for their brand new experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccine – in the hopes of fast-tracking the controversial product’s approval. Their effort to sidestep normal safety and testing protocols appears to have worked – compressing what would normally be a 4 to 10 year process of animal testing, observation, retesting, human testing, reviewing, and follow-ups – into a new hyper-active ‘warp speed’ journey of just just 6 months. The recklessness of the industry and government has shocked many leading professionals in the field.

While politicians and the media have chosen to turn away and ignore these crucial concerns over this unprecedented ‘fast-tracked’ vaccine product, a few ethical professionals have been brave enough speak out and campaign for accountability on the issue. However, despite their success in garnering a substantial constituency of international support, government authorities and industry regulators are still hiding behind a wall of denial, refusing to acknowledge any requests for communication from dissenting parties.

2020 News reports…

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, pulmonologist and former head of a public health department, and Dr. Michael Yeadon, ex-Pfizer research director for respiratory diseases, petitioned the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, on December 1, 2020, to immediately stop clinical trials of the Corona vaccines. The petition has been supported by at least 80,000 people and can be further supported.

The flood of emails from concerned supporters was so high so that during the peaks the EMA’s server was temporarily unavailable. Nevertheless, as of December 11, 2020, there has been no response, no comment from the EMA on the petitioners’ submission.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/22/80000-sign-yeadon-and-wodarg-vaccine-petition-ema-still-silent/

Police called in to break up Sydney beach party amid cluster fears

NSW Police have been called to a popular beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs to break up large crowds gathered at a Christmas Day event.

Authorities were called to Bronte Beach to disperse scores of revellers in Santa hats who appeared to be giving little consideration to social distancing.

In a video of the event, crowds of people can be seen bunched together while singing and dancing.

The party was held just half an hour's drive from the Northern Beaches where thousands of families remain under lockdown this Christmas due to a coronavirus outbreak.

It was also held on a day where NSW recorded seven new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, all seven of which are linked to the Avalon cluster.

NSW Chief Medical Officer Dr Kerry Chant said the source of three of the cases is under investigation.

Dr Chant said two of the cases are household contacts of a previous mystery case on the Northern Beaches, and one is a person who works in the region.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-called-in-to-break-up-sydney-beach-party-amid-cluster-fears/7a985be0-cbe6-44a2-b4d2-0b44bd592842

Fuck ya Covid bullshit mate, weez aven a party cunts

CHINA: Chinese Media Says Beijing Demanded Biden Rejoin Iran Nuclear Deal During ‘Backchannel Talks’

The Biden team is communicating with the Communist Chinese via backchannels they claimed violated the Logan Act when they alleged Trump was colluding with the Russians

According to Communist Chinese media outlets, Beijing opened “backchannel talks” with individuals close to the Biden team last month. These backchannel communications would essentially find the Biden team in violation of the Logan Act, an allegation they freely made of the incoming Trump administration in 2016.

The Communist Chinese affiliated Hong Kong publication, South China Morning Post, reported that through this established “backchannel,” the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, undiplomatically and pointedly “ordered” Biden to rejoin the Iran Nuclear Agreement, lift sanctions of Iran, and rollback the hardline policies against the Chinese Communist government.

“The US shall return to the Iran nuclear deal as soon as possible and without any preconditions, and the US should also scrap all sanctions imposed on Iran, other third-party entities and individuals,” Yi said during a video conference hosted by the European Union.

The conference was attended virtually by foreign ministers from Russia, Iran, Britain, France and Germany, all signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran Nuclear Agreement) that President Trump exited in 2018.

Representatives from Germany, Iran, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom “welcomed” the possibility of a Biden administration bringing the United States back into the subservient fold.

Germany’s state-run DW News called the prospect “positive” adding, “With Joe Biden on board, all parties to the nuclear deal want to bring it back to life.”

https://nationalfile.com/china-chinese-media-says-beijing-demanded-biden-rejoin-iran-nuclear-deal-during-backchannel-talks/

>>12172489

The question shouldn't be what happened in Nashville

But MORE so

What is it distracting from???????????????

The real Gerasimov Doctrine: Russian Army chief says Moscow won't be drawn into arms race as Kremlin looks to cut defense costs

The head of Russia's General Staff has told foreign military attaches that Moscow has no intention of joining an arms race, and is much more interested in stabilizing the world and developing its defensive capabilities in peace.

"Next year, the Russian Ministry of Defense will continue to work to create conditions for the progressive and balanced development of the army and navy to ensure peaceful socio-economic development of the country without being drawn into a costly arms race," Valery Gerasimov said on Thursday.

The general also noted that Russia is capable of protecting the interests of the country and its allies.

Gerasimov's comments come at a time when the country's armed forces are being considered for potential spending cuts, making a Cold War style military spending joust an impossible task. The proposed 2021 budget could see the army receive 120 billion rubles ($1.6 billion) less than in 2020, as military spending falls to just 2.7 percent of national GDP – its lowest level in a decade.

‘Compared to you, we are squeaky clean’: Putin blames West for betraying promises to Moscow and launching ‘new Cold War’ READ MORE: ‘Compared to you, we are squeaky clean’: Putin blames West for betraying promises to Moscow and launching ‘new Cold War’

On Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova addressed the Finance Ministry's suggestion that the Armed Forces could reduce its staff by 10 percent. She noted that her department had rejected the idea, explaining that it would make no difference to finances.

Last week, at his annual press conference, President Vladimir Putin called Russia a peace-loving country, noting that five countries spend more money on their militaries. He also pointed out that the US had pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and Open Skies treaties, which the Kremlin continues to support.

https://www.rt.com/russia/510758-army-chief-defense-costs/

A deepfake Queen is more truthful than the real one – how ironic!

A British broadcaster aired a technologically manipulated version of the Queen’s annual Christmas speech and, while it was satire, it was honest about things the real monarchy tries to pretend don’t exist.

Hardcore royalists didn’t even take a day off to open their presents, reacting with fury to the Alternative Christmas Message. Filmed by Channel 4 and broadcast 25 minutes after the real deal, it features actress Debra Stephenson impersonating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The team used ‘deepfake’ technology to impose the Queen’s face on the actress, making her near-indistinguishable from the original, while Stephenson herself supplied a credible voice impression.

One aim of the project was to raise awareness for deepfake videos, which have increased by 250 percent this year, with Britain being one of the top targets for those who create them.

Right-wing tabloid the Sun’s headline was“Plumbing new depths” and the royals-obsessed Daily Express claimed the move had sparked a “boycott of Channel 4”.

There were plenty of similar opinions online, with Twitter users proclaiming“The Queen is sacred! Putting ANY words in her mouth is an egregious breach of trust, not least after a lifetime of diligent dutiful service to the UK” and “Channel 4 has failed the British public for years and does not deserve its licence.”

But what the Buckingham Palace cheerleaders failed to grasp was that the joke was on them.

The fake Queen said: “On the BBC, I haven’t always been able to speak plainly and from the heart.” That was no satire, though, as, while she’s been doing it for almost 70 years, the Christmas speech is always full of clichés hailing togetherness, love and hope. It’s as if the Queen copies the words from schmaltzy greeting cards and simply mashes them together. One of the 2020 vintage was that “life brings hope”.

The Alternative Speech, in contrast, made mention of Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Prince Andrew.

The first two stormed out of the royal family to seek refuge from the paparazzi in the millionaires’ playground of Hollywood – and are doing everything they can to become bigger celebrities via TV and podcasts. The latter was a friend of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and has been accused of sexual misconduct himself, even though no guilt had been decided by any court.

These are the real things the British people want addressed. Is the royal family an establishment or a private members’ club? It seems to act as the latter, trying to carry out its business in secrecy as if it’s unthinkable to consider being truly open with its noble subjects.

Another one of the fake Queen’s memorable lines was that “2020 has also been a year of heroes, such as our brave NHS workers, many of whom were forced to take incredible risks, like treating Boris Johnson, knowing at any time, as a result, they too could become pregnant.” That was a pointed jab, as blundering BoJo caught Covid-19 after flaunting the basics of pandemic precautions and continuing to shake hands with people.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/510759-deepfake-queen-christmas-speech/

Major AT&T Outage In Nashville After RV Bombing

Update (1408 ET): Local television station WTVF is reporting a major outage of AT&T internet and phone service following the Downtown Nashville bombing.

MAJOR OUTAGE OF AT&T INTERNET AND PHONE SERVICE IN THE NASHVILLE AREA AFTER BOMBING - WTVF

— FXHedge (@Fxhedgers) December 25, 2020

According to The Tennessean, the recreational vehicle exploded "near" an AT&T facility that caused widespread disruption to communication services in the metro area.

AT&T NASHVILLE-AREA SERVICE AFFECTED BY EXPLOSION: TENNESSEAN

EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE NEAR AN AT&T BUILDING: TENNESSEAN

Courtesy of Downdetector, the AT&T outage started around 1245 ET, or about six hours after the explosion.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/powerful-explosion-rocks-downtown-nashville

>>12172681

Never AGAIN

ISIS Calls for Christmas Jihad: 'Coldly Kill Them With Hate And Rage'

Another Christmas is upon us, and it’s the same old story: in Muslim lands, Christians are oppressed and in constant danger of violent jihad attacks. And in the lands once known as Christendom, jihadis threaten new jihad massacres.

And so it was no surprise when International Christian Concern reported Wednesday that “security forces in Pakistan reportedly stopped a major terror attack planned to take place on Christmas Day in Peshawar. In a raid on a house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, four terrorists, including the leader of a banned militant outfit, were arrested.” Among those arrested was Zakir Afridi, the commander of the jihad terror group Lashkar-e-Islam.

“Along with the terrorists,” International Christian Concern reported, “security forces seized three suicide jackets and six improvised explosive devices.”

If this plot wasn’t inspired by a call from the Islamic State to murder Christians on Christmas Day, it certainly had the same goal in mind. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported that “on December 12, 2020, online supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) distributed an audio clip of a new nasheed (Islamic religious chant) titled ‘Coldly Kill Them With Hate And Rage.’” The jolly folks who “released the song on Telegram included a poster featuring a Christmas tree with a bomb attached to it, and the caption: ‘Just Terror 2020. Here are their holidays at your doorsteps, and we are here too! And we are about to enter them with you!’ The post also includes the hashtag #MerryChristmas, suggesting it be used on social media to disseminate the song.”

The charming ditty includes these lyrics: “They fought Islam day and night/Killed many Muslims all in one time/Vengeance fill the hearts and minds/Coldly kill them with hate and rage/Stab them, shoot them or a blast/Make their media cry and broadcast/The khilafah [caliphate].” Well, it ain’t exactly “The First Noel,” but at least they tried.

Meanwhile, OpIndia reported Monday that an old video from the renowned Islamic apologist Zakir Naik has gone viral this year. In it, Naik, who has been accused of ties to jihad terror activity, answers a young man’s question about whether or not it is permissible for Muslims to wish Christians a merry Christmas: “To reach your goals, you cannot use wrong means, brother. What is Haram [forbidden] to them is also Haram to you. When you are wishing Merry Christmas to them, you are agreeing that he is the son of God and that is Shirk [the grave sin of associating partners with Allah in worship]. Because they believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Irrespective of whether they are practising Christians or not, they celebrate the day because of His birthday…Is saying Merry Christmas wrong? I am telling you it is wrong. It is 100% wrong according to me….If you don’t know what Christmas stands for and happen to wish someone, Allah may forgive you. If you drink alcohol, mistaking it for Pepsi, Allah may forgive you. But if you are doing it to build a relationship after knowing what Christmas stands for, you are building your place in Jahannam (Hell). Therefore, for reaching good means, you never have to follow bad means. You have to follow the guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah (literature based on life and deeds of Prophet Muhammad).”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2020/12/25/isis-calls-for-christmas-jihad-coldly-kill-them-with-hate-and-rage-n1286353

You clowns need to stop this old stick ain't gonna work

Syrian Air Defense Intercepts Israeli Missile Barrage Over Hama District

In the early hours of December 25th, Israel carried out missile strikes on Syrian territory, over the Misyaf region.

According to Syrian state outlet SANA, most of the missiles were intercepted by air defense.

A military source told SANA that at 12.40 a.m., the Israeli enemy launched missiles from a position not too far from Lebanon’s Tripoli city towards Masyaf region in Hama, adding that the army confronted the aggression and shot down most of the missiles.

https://youtu.be/3MnhL4QA6dA

There is also a debris from a Pantsir-S / C1 anti-aircraft missile system of the Syrian army found in the zone where the Israeli missiles were intercepted.

Later on, the unnamed reports were confirmed by the Syrian Defense Ministry.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense posted a statement saying Israel “launched an aggression by directing a barrage of rockets” from the Lebanese city of Tripoli towards the Masyaf area. The ministry continued by stating their air defenses “confronted the enemy missiles and intercepted most of them.”

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported strikes on Masyaf, saying neighboring Israel was “likely responsible.”

The war monitor said the attack was aimed at “positions of regime forces and Iran-backed militias,” without providing additional details.

Shortly before the raids, Israeli warplanes were heard flying over neighbouring Lebanon, with some residents of Beirut reporting seeing missiles in the skies over the city.

Israel regularly violates Lebanese airspace and has launched hundreds of raids in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011. The attacks have hit government troops, allied Iranian forces and fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

https://southfront.org/syrian-air-defense-intercepts-israeli-missile-barrage-over-hama-district/

Majority of Americans plan to delay COVID vaccine or not get it at all

Nearly a third plan to get it as soon as possible.

A majority of American voters have no plans to get the COVID-19 vaccine right away, with a sizable percentage of that group saying they will never get it at all, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen.

Among voters, 65% said they will either "wait and see how it works," that they're "in no particular hurry," or that they "will never take the COVID vaccine."

Just under a third, meanwhile—31%—expressed a wish to be vaccinated "as soon as possible," while 4% were undecided.

COVID-19 vaccine doses began rolling out in the U.S. this month, with frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable elderly populations among the first to receive the novel new medicine.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/majority-americans-plan-delay-covid-vaccine-or-not-get-it-all

Tom Waterhouse slammed for weird Christmas posts alongside models and goats

Tom Waterhouse looked like he was celebrating Christmas a little differently this year, coming under fire for a seriously weird festive photo.

The Waterhouse family must do things a little differently to the rest of us.

Tom Waterhouse — the son of famous bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse and legendary horse trainer Gai Waterhouse — confused everyone on the internet with a seriously weird social media post wishing his followers a merry Christmas.

There wasn’t a leg of ham to be seen as the former bookie turned racing insider instead posed with animals — including goats and what looks like an alpaca — as well as a handful of women in bikinis to simply say: “From my family to yours, wishing you all Merry Christmas.”

Waterhouse is wearing a suit holding a goat out in the countryside, while the women behind him are all wearing flannelette shirts and keeping animals under control. Two of them are wearing wide-brimmed hats.

From my family to yours, wishing you all Merry Christmas. pic.twitter.com/OrK1tcv7Da

— Tom Waterhouse (@tomwaterhouse) December 24, 2020

In another post, Waterhouse is wearing a different suit and sitting at the head of a table, in front of platters of fruit and a couple of trophies. In this image, four women stand around him, one appearing to hold a napkin for him, while a rabbit lies on the table.

The caption reads: “Good times in Happy Valley.”

The replies to Waterhouse’s posts ranged from bemused, to confused, to downright savage. Many users tweeted “WTF” in response. One wrote: “Seen some bizarre s**t on Twitter this year but this takes the cake and chocolates too.”

Another added: “What the hell is going on in this photo?”

Bizarrely, Waterhouse retweeted hundreds of replies to his photos — be they positive or negative. He retweeted people calling him a marketing genius for generating such a stir, he retweeted those criticising him for such a tactless photo and he retweeted people making fun of him for a bungled attempt to somehow look cool.

Whatever the point of it all, it seems all Waterhouse wants for Christmas is for Australia to be talking about him.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/tom-waterhouse-slammed-for-weird-christmas-posts-alongside-models-and-goats/news-story/ec5d8feb68d55ae4c2caf75c7a97e099

Be Ready For Banking And Commercial Real Estate Collapse In America!

This year, the standards to what was once considered “normal” have been constantly disrupted and reshaped. But for some sectors of our economy, the greatest trouble hasn’t even started yet. That’s the struggle thousands of U.S. commercial real estate owners are about to face early next year. In 2020, property owners have seen their buildings shut down during several rounds of restrictions, leaving many of their tenants unable to afford their back rent and making the whole sector question the practicality of its own operations. As the remote work trend gains force, and travel and tourism continue to be impaired by the fallout of the health crisis, in addition to the progressive bankruptcy of retailers, restaurants, and hotels, commercial real state space has been sitting empty, while, on the other hand, mortgage-based securities keep falling into delinquency.

The latest evaluations of the sector are leading strategists to worry about the enormous financial distress these owners will have to cope with over the next months, which could potentially result in a catastrophic banking crisis, considering their credit is already compromised and the economic outlook doesn’t look promising enough for owners to regain their ability to pay off their debt. But so far, the commercial real estate market hasn’t really had a reckoning. However, experts warn that this is set for a change. That’s what we are going to investigate in this video.

All across the country, offices, restaurants, gyms, stores, and hotel rooms are getting increasingly vacant due to the new round of lockdowns. The sanitary outbreak has prompted a major relocation of the masses, driving people to fly away from metropolitan areas seeking more affordable housing and a scape from the mounting social turbulence we all have been witnessing over the course of the year. Cities are being hollowed out due to the shift to remote working, the preference for online shopping, and the obstacles surrounding business and touristic traveling. That has caused a huge shock to commercial properties of almost all descriptions.

The imminent threat of bankruptcies and defaults has already led banks to tighten credit and lending, which means, commercial borrowers are likely to face even bigger hardships to access the loans and refinance their debt to weather the coming storm. Recent Federal Reserve data suggests that the overall stakes have never been higher. Nationwide, commercial property debt skyrocketed to a record-high of $3.06 trillion in the third quarter from a 10-year low of $2.2 trillion in 2012. In some states, such as New York, the situation is way more complicated. With approximately $1.1 billion worth of property loans now considered distressed in Times Square, the latest property evaluation indicated that the value of properties has been slashed by 80% to about $92.5 million.

The Big Apple’s overbuilt hotel industry has a large excedent of vacant rooms, with four out of five properties backed by hotel mortgage bonds now presenting signs of strain. But hotels aren’t the only ones in deep trouble. The retail apocalypse has provoked a major crunch in commercial real estate, and since a considerable amount of those stores were permanently closed, that will create a glut of retail space in a country that already had too much of it.

Up until now, the owners of two sizable portfolios of over 130 shopping malls have filed for bankruptcy after a series of stores and restaurants either shut down their activities or lost their means to pay their rent. Multiple leading companies are announcing an inevitable shift to remote working. In short, office owners in many high-cost areas are going to have to get used to higher vacancy rates, since things won’t probably ever come back to “normal”.

As we enter the darkest stage of the economic meltdown for multiple business sectors, the losses suffered have the potential to ripple far beyond building owners and their tenants. Considering commercial property upholds the tax base in several cities across the nation, a collapse in the real estate market will not only cause a banking crisis, as it will strike local budgets. In other words, this will be translated into much more economic challenges ahead, and possibly the extension of this never-ending recession that doesn’t cease to impair our life prospects and jeopardize our standards of living. America is doomed to an ominous future and we are all going down with it.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/be-ready-for-banking-and-commercial-real-estate-collapse-in-america/

Sidney Powell Says White House Aides Are Blocking Her Efforts to Help Trump

Attorney Sidney Powell said in a Dec. 23 interview with Zenger News that senior White House aides are preventing her from communicating with President Donald Trump and are blocking her efforts to assume a formal coordinating role in pursuing contest-of-election challenges on the president’s behalf.

The interview followed what has been widely reported as a tense meeting at the Oval Office on Friday, first reported by The New York Times, with the participation of Trump, Powell, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and White House counsel Pat Cipollone. National security adviser Robert O’Brien and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani reportedly participated by phone.

Powell told Zenger News that she was verbally offered the position of “special White House counsel” by Trump during Friday’s meeting, but that she has been unable to present the president with paperwork that would make it official and that her appointment has effectively been blocked.

“It has not come to pass,” Powell said, “because it seems it was blocked after Friday night, or undone, or I’m not sure what you’d call it” by senior White House staff, she suggested.

“Someone threw sand in the gears?” the interviewer asked. “Something like that,” Powell replied.

“I’ve been blocked from speaking to or communicating with the president since I left the Oval Office on Friday night,” Powell said, “by apparently everyone around” the president.

Powell clarified that the role she was offered was “not a Robert Mueller-style special counsel,” but that “there was a discussion about me being a special White House counsel.” A special counsel is appointed by the Attorney General, while a special White House counsel can be appointed by the president.

Attorney General William Barr said at a press conference Monday that he doesn’t see a reason to appoint a special counsel to probe election fraud allegations.

“If I thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool and was appropriate I would name one but I haven’t, and I’m not going to,” Barr said, adding that he stands by his earlier assessment that the Department of Justice had not found evidence of fraud of a significant enough scale that would overturn the election.

“I was commenting on the extent to which we had looked at suggestions or allegations of systemic or broad-based fraud that would affect the outcome of the election and I already spoke to that and I stand by that statement,” he said, adding that he believes “there was fraud in this election” on Nov. 3. “Let me just say that there [is] fraud in, unfortunately in most elections, I think we’re too tolerant of it,” he said.

Barr resigned from his role as Attorney General, with Dec. 23 being his last day in office.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/sidney-powell-says-white-house-aides-are-blocking-her-efforts-to-help-trump_3632491.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-25-1

Woman Running for Governor of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Clara Luz Flores, Was Nxivm Coach

Clara Luz Flores has been selected as the MORENA (National Regeneration Movement) candidate for the governorship of Nuevo Leon, which has caused controversy – not only because of the PRI past of the woman chosen by the Morena’s leadership but also because of her ties to the NXIVM organization, whose leader has been convicted of serious crimes that range from abuse, fraud and even pedophilia.

For many years, evidence began to circulate that linked Clara Luz, the former mayor of Escobedo, was part of Nxivm. Although she has tried to minimize her involvement, in reality, there is evidence that her participation could have been much more relevant than she claims.

It was journalist Frank Parlato who began to expose the role of Clara Luz with Nxivm. Parlato is the reporter who has written the most about the case, and his investigation was responsible, to a great extent, for the fall of leader Keith Raniere. In other words, the exposure of Clara Luz’s role is not only “an allegation”, but involves relevant documented data.

One of the ways in which mayor Clara Luz – who is the wife of the well-known PRI politician Abel Guerra Garza – has downplayed the importance of her role in NXIVM are statements made to the press, such as the interview with Azucena Uresti, on June 28, 2019, where he stated that “She only attended one course”, and that “She is just one of the thousands of people who took some kind of workshop in the organization.”

However, according to information published by Frank Parlato, Clara Luz is on the list of the 150 highest-ranking members of Nxivm. She would not just be “one of thousands”, as she claims.

https://frankreport.com/2020/12/24/woman-running-for-governor-of-nuevo-leon-mexico-clara-luz-flores-was-nxivm-coach/

>>12173140

Always deceiving