Governor pleads with Trump to declare EMERGENCY to aid recovery after Nashville bomb cripples AT&T networks and other systems

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has asked President Donald Trump for an emergency declaration enabling use of federal resources to aid recovery from the Christmas bombing that rocked Nashville and took out communications networks.

“The severity and magnitude of the current situation is such that effective response is beyond the capabilities of state and affected local governments,” Lee said Friday in a letter to Trump. He noted that the resources of state and local governments were depleted after they spent more than $175 million in responding to disasters in 2019 and 2020, including tornadoes and floods.

I have requested an emergency declaration from @POTUS to support ongoing efforts and relief. pic.twitter.com/7vwrvN1FBw

— Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) December 26, 2020

An RV exploded early Friday morning in downtown Nashville in what police have called an intentional act. Three people were injured, and possible human remains were found near the blast site. Lee said 41 businesses were damaged, and the affected buildings – many of which are historic – will have to be assessed by engineers to determine whether they can be entered safely.

The RV was parked outside an AT&T transmission building when the bomb went off, knocking out landlines and mobile-phone services alike across Tennessee and in parts of Kentucky and northern Alabama, Lee said. The explosion also crippled 20 911 emergency call centers and damaged computer networks, forcing state systems to operate on backup infrastructure.

“The damage is shocking, and it is a miracle that no residents were killed,” Lee tweeted after touring the area on Saturday morning.

AT&T acknowledged that telecommunications services remained disrupted on Saturday in Nashville and the surrounding areas. Two portable cellular systems were deployed downtown, and AT&T engineers drilled access holes to the damaged building to attempt to reconnect critical equipment to electricity.

https://www.rt.com/usa/510811-nashville-bomb-emergency-request/

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How the Concept of the ‘Greater Good’ is Used as a Tool for Social Control

It’s a question which has become more critical in 2020, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 ‘pandemic,’ and also due to the insistence of globalists to elevate of the issue of man-made ‘climate change’ as the central existential of this generation on Earth. According to these dialectics, the interests of the individual should always be subservient to that of the ‘greater good’ as defined by consensus makers.

More importantly: who decides what constitutes or defines the ‘greater good’?

Could the special interests of a small cadre of political elites or oligarchs end-up formulating the ‘greater good’ consensus?

Scott Van Gaaasbeck writes:

“The greater good argument – claiming that the benefits to a group of people outweigh the harm done to another group is always flawed because it always reduces the freedom and morality of all people when a large group uses a small group as a means to their ends, no matter how noble the ends. The resort to the greater good argument is in fact evidence of a failure of government to plan appropriately and work things out among the parties. The true greater good in any nation is inextricably linked to the degree of freedom and rights given to each and every citizen in equal measure.”

This short video presentation by Academy of Ideas explores this argument and tests the idea of collectivism against foundational post-enlightenment concepts such as liberty and individual rights. Watch:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/25/how-the-concept-of-the-greater-good-is-used-as-a-tool-for-social-control/

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Michigan Attorney General Wants to Disbar Sidney Powell, Pro-Trump Attorneys

Michigan is moving to disbar Sidney Powell and other pro-Trump attorneys for the work exposing credible accusations of voter fraud.

Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General, Dana Nessel, says she is pursuing sanctions and even disbarment against Sidney Powell and other pro-Trump attorneys who she says “wasted the court’s time” with “baseless” allegations of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election.

Nessel, who before being elected Attorney General worked as an LGBT rights attorney, says that sanctions against Powell and others who brought allegations of massive election tampering and fraud to Michigan’s courtrooms do not go far enough and claims that pro-Trump attorneys have violated their constitutional oaths and should be permanently banned from practicing law in the state.

“These are flagrant lies that Ms. Powell is submitting to, of all places, the United States Supreme Court in some cases. It’s disturbing and it undermines our entire profession, and she has to be held accountable,” Nessel told Detroit reporters. “We’d be asking there be action taken against her law license including potential disbarment.”

Nessel also says that the attorneys should be forced to pay court costs for election-related lawsuits.

In addition to Powell, Nessel has named attorney Matthew DePerno as one of her targets. DePerno, a Michigan-based constitutional attorney, represented voters in Antrim County after Dominion Voting Systems software was found to have shifted more than 6,000 votes for President Trump over to Joe Biden’s column, flipping the election’s outcome countywide.

Though Nessel has made an effort to portray her attacks against Powell and others as a sort of puritanical defense of the legal system, most believe that political motivation lies at their core, as Nessel has been a long-term and vocal opponent of President Trump.

Just days following Election Day and before virtually any arguments had been heard in court, Nessel had already blanketed legal challenges in contested states with the descriptor of “baseless,” and has compared election protestors to the Mafia. In May of this year, she publicly referred to President Trump as a “petulant child who refuses to follow the rules,” for not wearing a mask during a portion of his visit to a Michigan Ford plant.

In addition to Nessel’s efforts to take down pro-Trump attorneys, Wayne County’s Robert Davis, a convicted felon, is also seeking their disbarment. Davis, who served 18 months in federal prison for stealing $200,000 from schoolchildren, has been labeled a “serial litigator” by locals – though he fancies himself a “government watchdog” and “crusader.”

“It is unfathomable that licensed attorneys would deliberately file false and misleading affidavits and pleadings with the Court in an effort to disenfranchise millions of Michigan residents,” wrote Davis in a court filing. “Not only should these individuals and their attorneys be assessed financial sanctions, but they also should be barred from practicing in the federal courts in the Eastern District of Michigan.”

https://nationalfile.com/michigan-attorney-general-wants-to-disbar-sidney-powell-pro-trump-attorneys/