President Trump Joins Call Urging State Legislators to Review Evidence and Consider Decertifying ‘Unlawful’ Election Results

President Trump spoke to 300 state legislators from the battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia on Saturday in a Zoom conference call hosted by Got Freedom? in which the 501 (c) (4) non-profit election integrity watchdog group urged those lawmakers to review evidence that the election process in their states was unlawful and consider decertifying the results of the November 3 presidential election.

President Trump addressed the call for 15 minutes at the invitation of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who now serves as the president’s personal attorney, and was one of the featured speakers on the call.

Other featured speakers included Chapman Law School Professor John Eastman, Dr. Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing (appearing in his personal capacity), John Lott, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Justice (also appearing in his personal capacity), and Liberty University Law School Professor Phill Kline.

Kline, a former attorney general in Kansas, is a spokesperson for the 501 (c) (4) Got Freedom? non-profit, and also serves as director of the 501 (c) (3) Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, an election integrity public interest law firm which is engaged in litigation regarding the 2020 election.

In a press statement released after the call, GotFreedom? said they conducted Saturday’s “exclusive national briefing . . . at the request of state legislators from Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to review the extensive evidence of irregularities and lawlessness in the 2020 presidential election.”

“A similar briefing is being scheduled in Washington, D.C. at the request of Members of Congress,” the group noted.

UPDATE: Representatives and senators' objections to Electoral College votes on Wednesday will allow Republicans to air allegations of vote fraud. https://t.co/zl9I6HIWK5

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 1, 2021

A joint session of the newly convened 117th Congress will meet in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to determine if they will accept the results of the December 14 meeting of the Electoral College, in which Joe Biden received 306 Electoral College votes for president and Donald Trump received 232 Electoral College votes.

If at least one member of the House of Representatives and one member of the Senate object to certifying those votes on Wednesday, each chamber must then separately hold a debate on whether to accept those Electoral College votes.

More than 30 members of the House have already announced they will object to certification. Last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced he will publicly object to certification.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/03/president-trump-joins-call-urging-state-legislators-to-review-evidence-and-consider-decertifying-unlawful-election-results/

Dallas police rescinds memo for officers to ignore stolen vehicle, criminal mischief calls after it’s leaked online

Police in Dallas, Texas, has backtracked on its memo for officers not to respond to 911 calls about an array of offenses, including car theft, criminal mischief and reckless damage, saying it was sent “prematurely” after outcry.

The internal memo, which began making rounds online on Saturday, was to come into force Monday, January 4, and would have seen police officers no longer being dispatched to 911 calls dealing with stolen cars, criminal mischief, reckless damage, graffiti, runaway children and identity theft, among other offenses.

The 911 dispatchers were instead told to ask victims to file reports online through the Dallas Online Reporting System (DORS).

According to the leaked document, an exception was to be made for callers who lack internet access or if a call-taker “hears an ongoing disturbance or distress” on the other end of the receiver.

Officers were also to respond to the otherwise deprioritized calls if the online reporting mechanism malfunctions.

Almost as soon as the memo was posted online, it drew a considerable pushback. Conservative radio host Mark Davis accused police of “a complete surrender to the attack on policing,” while others interpreted the recommendations as a call to arms.

#Dallas police will no longer respond to stolen cars, criminal mischief, reckless damage, runaway kids and child custody escalations, among other offenses. A complete surrender to the attack on policing. Good luck, Big D. https://t.co/heIdrk9Tjs

— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) January 2, 2021

“So we can start shooting people on our property now with no response? That's what I'm hearing,” one commenter said.

So we can start shooting people on our property now with no response? That's what I'm hearing

— Jeff (@JeffNekuza) January 2, 2021

“If Dallas wants to see the formation of neighborhood militias like we saw in the CHAZ/CHOP disaster, this is how you do it,” another chimed in.

If Dallas wants to see the formation of neighborhood militias like we saw in the CHAZ/CHOP disaster, this is how you do it.

— Mike Endres (@RealMikeEndres) January 2, 2021

It did not take long for the Dallas police to rescind the yet-to-be-implemented memo. However, the department did not rule out the guidelines being enforced in future, saying that the force was “still in the evaluation phase on this item.”

“Although conversations have been held on this topic, the memorandum was sent prematurely,” they said.

While some applauded the move, others argued that the police went into damage-control mode in a bid to “appease” critics, and that the memo could be reinstated when the dust settles.

So your getting a lot of pushback so your trying to appease your critics.But it sounds like this is the direction u r going…I just didn't want to announce it or have it leaked. A lot of cops must be so demoralized by everything…including inept leadership

— Kdino (@kdino975) January 3, 2021

it will eventually be (quietly) reinstated

— Tre (@GLR3_America) January 3, 2021

https://www.rt.com/usa/511398-dallas-police-memo-calls/

Microsoft Says Source Code Was Accessed During SolarWinds Hack

"This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical institutions, including security firms."

Microsoft announced that their source code was accessed as a result of the SolarWinds breach in a statement on December 17.

“The attack is ongoing and is being actively investigated and addressed by cybersecurity teams in the public and private sectors, including Microsoft,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith. “As our teams act as first responders to these attacks, these ongoing investigations reveal an attack that is remarkable for its scope, sophistication and impact.”

JUST IN – Microsoft: @SolarWinds hackers gained access to source codes.

— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) December 31, 2020

Smith noted in the statement that the cyber attack is still ongoing, but the company “has identified and has been working this week to notify more than 40 customers that the attackers targeted more precisely and compromised through additional and sophisticated measures.”

Microsoft asserts that the bad actors were unable to edit the source code, but did not say how many source code repositories were compromised or how long the source code was accessed for.

While many have suggested that Russia and/or Russian actors are responsible for the SolarWinds cyber attack, President Donald Trump has suggested that China may have been involved, as National File reported.

President Trump also said that the cyber attack could have impacted “our ridiculous voting machines” during the 2020 US election, adding that the election was a “corrupted embarrassment for the USA.”

This comes after several days of the mainstream media repeatedly blaming Russia or Russian actors for the devastating attack.

The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2020

….discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA. @DNI_Ratcliffe @SecPompeo

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2020

https://nationalfile.com/microsoft-says-source-code-was-accessed-during-solarwinds-hack/

‘Republicans for Biden’ Headliner Visited China On CCP-Sponsored Trip

A delegation composed of former U.S. Congressional representatives – including fundraisers for the “Republicans for Biden” group – visited a Chinese Communist Party-led think tank flagged by the U.S. government for conducting “undercover intelligence gathering” operations, The National Pulse can today reveal.

The trip was organized as part of the CUSEF operation seeking to “disseminate positive messages” and “favorable coverage” regarding China.

The delegation, which visited China’s capital city of Beijing and province of Hunan in April of 2012, featured five former members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Constance Morella, Barbara Kennelly, Philip English, John Tanner, and Martin Frost.

Morella, one of two Republican members on the five-person delegation, backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, holding fundraisers on behalf of Biden as part of the “Republicans for Biden” group. She has also recently participated in pro-CCP policy events alongside Chinese Communist Party representatives on Capitol Hill.

“I just don’t hold [Trump] in the highest regard with regard to integrity,” said Morella, who accepted the trip and speaking roles from the greatest human rights-abuser nation in the world: China.

Useful Idiots.

A 2011 Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) between lobbying firm BLJ Worldwide and its client, trip organizer China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF). CUSEF is a Chinese Communist Party-funded initiative founded by Tung Chee Hwa which often targets American universities with offers to fund policy research, high-level dialogues, and exchange programs.

Its chairman, Tung, also serves as Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, (CPPCC) which is identified by the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission as a key component of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Work Front effort, “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party.”

“The United Front strategy uses a range of methods to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” the commission’s report adds before noting Tung’s CPPCC is the “highest-ranking entity overseeing the United Front system” whereby “military and civilian officials coordinate foreign influence operations.”

The filing reveals: “following the visits, BLJ will work with the former Congressmen to create reports on their experience that will be distributed to politicians, experts, and other relevant individuals and organizations in the US. BLK will also explore securing media coverage surrounding the visits” as part of CUSEF’s broader goal to garner “favorable coverage” and “disseminate positive messages” in Western media.

The attendees – chosen due to their euphemistically-called “open-minded perspective to China” – are listed in a 2013 CUSEF FARA filing as having had China-bound trips “arranged”:

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/congressional-caifc-delegation/

Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Signs Recall Petition for Gavin Newsom

Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer (R) has signed a recall petition aimed at California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), the latest sign that the campaign is gaining momentum — and that, if successful, Newsom could face a formidable opponent.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Saturday:

San Diego’s former Republican mayor Kevin Faulconer announced Saturday he had signed a petition to recall Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Faulconer told The San Diego Union-Tribune as recently as last month that he is considering his own run for governor. He served seven years as San Diego’s mayor.

Faulconer also tweeted his support for the recall effort:

In a Facebook post, Faulconer said:

It’s a new year. We need a new governor. I’m signing the petition to recall Gavin Newsom.

Jobs are leaving, homelessness is skyrocketing, and the state can’t even do the basics like issue unemployment checks to people who at this very moment are struggling to get by. We know that California is better than this, and we have the power to make a change.

Every Californian fed up with the governor’s hypocrisy and failures should sign the recall petition. Either through a recall or a regular election, it’s time to start holding the governor accountable.

Faulconer won a special election in 2014 after the previous Democratic mayor was ousted in a sexual harassment scandal. He was later re-elected and served for nearly seven years. He left in December after reaching the two-term limit.

Though he was the only Republican mayor of a major American city, Faulconer often tacked to the left. In 2015, for example, he joined Democrats in threatening ton boycott Indiana over that state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was a response to a spate of lawsuits by LGBTQ activists against Christian business owners. Then-Gov. Mike Pence (R) asked for changes to the law to clarify that it was not intended to discriminate against LGTBQ individuals.

The effort to recall Newsom reported last month that it was halfway to the threshold of 1.5 million signatures needed by March 17 to qualify for the next ballot.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/03/former-san-diego-mayor-kevin-faulconer-signs-recall-petition-for-gavin-newsom/

More Than 400 Ex-intelligence Officers to Investigate Election Irregularities

Over 400 people from the Intelligence Community (IC), military, law enforcement, and the judiciary have formed a loose network to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election.

Robert Caron, one of the organizers of this network, began his intelligence career with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He later worked for the Special Situation Group, a task force established by President George H.W. Bush that includes strategic planning, technologies, and foreign and domestic investigations.

He told The Epoch Times that he was recruited to the network in 2014, during which time many in the intelligence community (IC) were seeing an increase in improper operations. Many IC officers were withholding information from their leaders, and their leaders were withholding information from the public. Caron mentioned that in 2014, Lt. General Michael Flynn called out then-President Barack Obama for “not acting properly on intelligence.”

In the same year, Obama fired Flynn over management issues. On Aug. 7, 2014, Flynn left his post as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and ended his 33 years of an army career. After President Donald Trump pardoned Flynn last month, Flynn said in an interview with The New York Post that he was framed via the Russia-collusion investigation partly because Obama was afraid of Flynn’s ability to expose his corruption.

“President Obama was not acting properly on intelligence that he received concerning Benghazi,” Caron said, referring to an attack of U.S. government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the deaths of several U.S. officials. He said he believes it was then that a lot of people from the intelligence community got together and started recruiting people to join the network.

Epoch Times Photo

Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn speaks among President Donald Trump supporters who rally in Washington, on Dec. 12, 2020. (Yong Wang/The Epoch Times)

After numerous reports of irregularities in the 2020 election, the investigation network expanded. Many have focused on investigating the election, according to Caron, who said most are volunteering, while some are getting paid for the inquiry. He said that as far as he knows, the size of the network is “way over 400” and that each member of the network sees obvious election fraud based on their own observations.

Caron said that the network includes former intelligence officers, analysts, operatives, military, law enforcement, and judiciary from the FBI, CIA, Military Intelligence, DIA, and National Security Agency (NSA), among others, as well as many former intelligence officers in other countries.

“The fraud was so massive and so blatant, despite what the mainstream media said, that we need to get this information out to the public,” said Caron. “That’s why more and more people from the intelligence community and law enforcement are coming out, which is unheard of.”

Caron shared an example of information control by the mainstream media that he witnessed in McAllen, Texas, when Trump visited the border wall there in January 2019.

He said he saw two groups on both sides of the street. A group of about 100 was on one side, and a much larger group was on the other side. “A lot of people, because of what was told in the mainstream media, thought that all the people in the big crowd were the ones against the president. But no, they were the ones that were for the president.”

He said he asked them what they thought and learned that the border wall made their families feel safer, and was told that without the wall, various Mexican criminal organizations would cross the border and force their children to sell drugs.

One of the IC network’s current investigations focuses on foreign interference during the Nov. 3 election, with the Chinese Communist Party being a significant player.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/more-than-400-ex-intelligence-officers-to-investigate-election-irregularities_3640420.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-02-5

Mapped: The Top Surveillance Cities Worldwide

Since the world’s first CCTV camera was installed in Germany in 1942, the number of surveillance cameras around the world has grown immensely. In fact, it only took us 79 years to go from one camera to nearly one billion of these devices.

In the above interactive graphic, Surfshark maps out how prevalent CCTV surveillance cameras are in the world’s 130 most populous cities.

Big Brother is Watching

So how many of us are being watched? China and India are the countries with the highest densities of CCTV surveillance cameras in urban areas. Chennai, India has 657 cameras per square kilometer, making it the number one city in the world in terms of surveillance.

Here’s a closer look at the world’s top 10 cities by CCTV density.

London is the only non-Asian city to crack the list with 399 CCTV cameras per square kilometer.

Beijing ranks in tenth place. The Chinese capital has the highest number of CCTV cameras in total, at just over 1.1 million installed in the city.

Although CCTV cameras have become extremely prevalent in cities around the world, this does not mean these cameras are seeing and recognizing our every move. In most instances, cameras are in a fixed position—and some of the more invasive aspects of CCTV, like accompanying facial recognition technology, are not universal yet.

The Need for CCTV

The ubiquity of surveillance cameras can be unnerving to some, as they represent diminishing privacy. However, there are also those that feel the presence of cameras creates added safety.

While governments like China’s claim that having high amounts of surveillance cameras helps reduce crime, the actual data gets messy. For example, the Chinese city of Taiyuan has roughly 120 cameras per every thousand people and yet the city has a higher crime index than most.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/mapped-the-top-surveillance-cities-worldwide/

Psychiatric symptoms reported worldwide in some COVID-19 patients

A small number of COVID-19 patients are experiencing severe psychiatric symptoms after recovering from the virus.

The New York Times reports that multiple doctors have observed psychiatric symptoms in recovered COVID-19 patients who had no previously recorded history of mental illness.

Studies in the U.K. and Spain have found that a small number of hospitalized coronavirus patients developed “new-onset psychosis,” the Times notes, with similar anecdotal reports coming in from the Midwest.

The Times did not speak to any patients who had experienced psychiatric symptoms, but some physicians were given permission by their patients to describe their cases.

A 42-year-old mother in New York described continually seeing her children being murdered and said she heard voices telling her to kill her children and herself. In New York City, a 30-year-old man tried to strangle his cousin after becoming convinced they were planning on murdering him. A 49-year-old man described hearing voices and believed himself to be the devil.

The physician treating the 42-year-old mother, Hisam Goueli, told the Times the cases were unique due to the patients’ self-awareness of their mental health decline.

“People with psychosis don’t have an insight that they’ve lost touch with reality,” Goueli said.

Goueli also noted it was unusual that most of these patients were in their 30s and 40s. According to the physician, the symptoms that patients described were more often attributed to schizophrenia in younger people or dementia in the elderly.

Experts have stated that viral effects on the brain may be attributable to the immune system's response or even the physical symptoms that patients experience.

"Some of the neurotoxins that are reactions to immune activation can go to the brain, through the blood-brain barrier, and can induce this damage,” said Vilma Gabbay, co-director at the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME).

Experts who spoke to the Times concurred with Gabbay's assessment, saying a continued immune response after a patient has recovered could impact the brain, though the symptoms may be dependent on which region of the brain is affected.

Robert Yolken, a neurovirology professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the Times, "Some people have neurological symptoms, some people psychiatric and many people have a combination.”

The Times notes that similar cases were observed in past viruses such as the 1918 Spanish flu, SARS and MERS. Though the mechanism through which these symptoms are brought on is not well understood, experts told the Times that studying these patients could help better understand psychosis.

The duration in which patients suffer from psychiatric symptoms is not certain. One patient described in the Times piece recovered within 40 days while another was reportedly still struggling with psychotic symptoms more than two months after being hospitalized.

https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/531931-psychiatric-symptoms-reported-worldwide-in-some-covid-19-patients

Defense officials reveal US aircraft carrier was pulled out of Middle East to 'de-escalate' tension after Iran put military on high alert - as Trump is told he will 'witness severe revenge' by Tehran on anniversary of Soleimani killing

The United States reportedly removed its only aircraft carrier from the Middle East region to ‘de-escalate’ tensions with Iran, as one of the country's top officials said that President Trump and other US leaders were ‘not safe on this Earth.’

US intelligence officials have reportedly been alarmed at growing indications that an Iranian forces are on high alert and a possible attack on American forces is ‘imminent’ in the run-up to Sunday’s one-year anniversary of the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.

Iran denies plotting an attack, with the country's foreign minister going so far as to accuse arch-enemy Israel of planning to using 'agent-provocateurs' to kill US service members in order to provoke Trump into responding against Tehran.

Acting defense secretary, Christopher C. Miller, ordered the redeployment of USS Nimitz away from the region in a 'de-escalatory' signal to Tehran, US officials told the New York Times.

Officials are keen to avoid sparking a crisis in the region less than three weeks before the end of Trump's presidency.

But the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, appeared to threaten Trump himself, saying all those who had a role in the killing of Quds Force commander Soleimani last year will not be able to ‘escape law and justice,’ even if they were an American president.

‘They will witness severe revenge,’ Raisi told the gathering at Tehran University, referring to Trump and US military leaders.

Defense officials reveal US aircraft carrier was pulled out of Middle East to 'de-escalate' tension after Iran put military on high alert - as Trump is told he will 'witness severe revenge' by Tehran on anniversary of Soleimani killing

January 03, 2021 News

The United States reportedly removed its only aircraft carrier from the Middle East region to ‘de-escalate’ tensions with Iran, as one of the country's top officials said that President Trump and other US leaders were ‘not safe on this Earth.’

US intelligence officials have reportedly been alarmed at growing indications that an Iranian forces are on high alert and a possible attack on American forces is ‘imminent’ in the run-up to Sunday’s one-year anniversary of the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.

Iran denies plotting an attack, with the country's foreign minister going so far as to accuse arch-enemy Israel of planning to using 'agent-provocateurs' to kill US service members in order to provoke Trump into responding against Tehran.

Acting defense secretary, Christopher C. Miller, ordered the redeployment of USS Nimitz away from the region in a 'de-escalatory' signal to Tehran, US officials told the New York Times.

Officials are keen to avoid sparking a crisis in the region less than three weeks before the end of Trump's presidency.

But the head of Iran’s judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, appeared to threaten Trump himself, saying all those who had a role in the killing of Quds Force commander Soleimani last year will not be able to ‘escape law and justice,’ even if they were an American president.

‘They will witness severe revenge,’ Raisi told the gathering at Tehran University, referring to Trump and US military leaders.

President Trump

President Trump (left) and other senior American officials who had a hand in the January 2020 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani 'will witness severe revenge,' the head of Iran's judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi (right), warned on Friday

The Pentagon earlier this week decided to return home the USS Nimitz, the Naval aircraft carrier that has been operating just off the coast of Somalia during a 10-month deployment. The Nimitz is seen above in the Strait of Hormuz on September 18, 2020

‘What has come so far has only been glimpses.’

‘Do not presume that someone, as the president of America, who appeared as a murderer or ordered a murder, may be immune from justice being carried out. Never,’ Raisi said.

‘Those who had a role in this assassination and crime will not be safe on Earth.’

The Pentagon on Thursday ordered the USS Nimitz to return to its homeport in Washington State - a move at odds with a recent warning from the president.

The Nimitz was operating just off the coast of Somalia and was in the midst of a 10-month deployment when the Defense Department announced that it would be returning to homeport.

The move comes just two days after the US flew strategic bombers over Iran as a show of force and a week after Trump warned its government that it would be held responsible for attacks targeting Americans in Iraq.

http://www.madnesshub.com/2021/01/defense-officials-reveal-us-aircraft.html

LIVE COVERAGE: House votes to name Speaker

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532414-live-coverage-house-votes-to-name-speaker

Obama, once again, busted funding al-Qaeda affiliate

Obama, once again, busted funding al-Qaeda affiliate

The Duran: Episode 844.

Senate Investigation Finds Obama Admin Knowingly Funded al-Qaeda Affiliate

https://theduran.com/obama-once-again-busted-funding-al-qaeda-affiliate/

Vaccine rollout inspires Jews to move to Israel and Israelis to return

Israel is looking more attractive than ever as a place to live, both to Israelis who have been living abroad and American Jews who are thinking of moving to Israel.

The coronavirus crisis has accomplished what decades of government ad campaigns did not do — it has brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis back from abroad and made the country more enticing as a home for American Jews.

As of July, more than 190,000 Israelis had returned to Israel from abroad, including more than 6,000 who had been away from the country for over half a year, according to data released by the Foreign Ministry. Many of those who returned early in the pandemic had been Israelis working in China, where the effects of the virus were first felt. Israeli embassies and consulates abroad have issued approximately 10,000 travel documents, including issuing new passports (often for children of Israelis born abroad who had not been in Israel yet) and renewing and extending passports for Israelis planning to come back since the beginning of the pandemic.

While Israel has had its challenges handling the pandemic, it still has a notably lower mortality rate from the disease than many countries around the world where Israelis tend to live, notably the US, which has had over 1,000 deaths per every million of the population, as opposed to Israel, with 370 deaths per million. Areas where many Israelis live, including such cities as New York, have been hit particularly hard. For example, there have been over 7,700 deaths in the borough of Brooklyn alone since the pandemic began, many of them in the Jewish community.

And now, with the vaccination campaign in Israel bringing the Pfizer vaccine to more than one million Israelis in less than two weeks, Israel is looking more attractive than ever as a place to live, both to Israelis who have been living abroad and American Jews who are thinking of moving to Israel.

“We have no idea when we are getting vaccinated,” said Manhattanite Shira Dicker, a freelance writer and public-relations consultant. Although she is 60, her husband is 71 and they have private insurance, “We just don’t know.” She was recently approached by someone she calls a “nominal friend,” with a suggestion about “how we could jump the line” for getting vaccinated, an offer she calls “sleazy” but which she sees as a sign of the times, following the ParCare fraudulent vaccine scandal in New York.

Dicker’s sister, Adina Feldman, is a well-known singer in Israel, and Dicker and her family have spent three years in Israel at different times, so although they do not have Israeli citizenship, “Making aliyah has always been a steady thought.”

She has many friends who are seriously thinking about moving to Israel and some who are actually making the move now, she said, although ultimately she decided it was not practical for her family right now.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/vaccine-rollout-inspires-jews-to-move-to-israel-and-israelis-to-return-654141

GOP senators want election commission similar to what decided disputed 1876 race

Cruz, other Republicans look for a repeat of what led to the election of President Rutherford B. Hayes

Several Republican senators are vowing to challenge electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election from several battleground states when the votes are formally counted at a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, with the hopes of establishing a commission to determine who gets the votes.

Unlike what was called for by a failed lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, the suggestion here is not to simply overturn the election results outright and award a second term to President Trump, but rather to have an independent investigation of those states' elections. While out of the ordinary, it would not be the first time for such a process, as it is what happened following the 1876 election, allowing Rutherford B. Hayes to become president.

"We should follow that precedent," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and 10 other current and incoming senators said in a joint statement, referring to the race between Hayes and Samuel Tilden. "To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed."

In 1877, following the 1876 election, returns from Florida, Louisana, and South Carolina – and one elector from Oregon – were disputed. Congress then set up a commission to determine how the electoral votes should be allocated, reserving the right to accept or reject the commission's findings. In the end, Congress awarded all 19 of the contested electoral votes to Hayes, who was elected with 185 electoral votes to Tilden's 184.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senators-election-commission-disputed-1876-election

What’s At Stake in the Assange Decision

When it comes to human behavior, things only change for the better when there is a lucid and unobstructed perception of what’s going on.

Self-destructive behavior patterns only go away when there’s a lucid and unobstructed perception of the previously unconscious psychological dynamics which were driving them.

Victims of abuse only end their abusive relationships when they obtain a lucid and unobstructed perception of the abusive dynamics as they truly are.

Toxic social dynamics like racism, sexism and homophobia only begin moving toward health when society collectively begins gaining a lucid and unobstructed understanding of how disordered and damaging those dynamics really are.

It only becomes unacceptable to have a totalitarian monarch who tortures and executes people without trial, murders anyone who speaks ill of him, and rules by divine right when society begins collectively gaining a lucid and unobstructed awareness of how ridiculous, unjust and unacceptable such models of government are.

Whether you’re talking about individuals or humanity in its entirety, the story of human progress has always been a story of moving from blindness to seeing. From unawareness to awareness. From the lights in the room being off to the lights being switched on.

There is no progress without clear seeing. We cannot move in the direction of health and harmony if we cannot lucidly perceive the ways in which we are still sick and dysfunctional. We can’t move forward if we’re unaware of the specific ways in which we are stuck in place.

Most of us, on some level, want things in our world to change for the better. Some few others want things to stay the same, because the status quo happens to be treating them quite well thank you very much. The struggle between the deep desire of the many for healthy change and the corrupt desire of the few to maintain the status quo is the struggle between turning the lights on and keeping them off. Between wanting to become aware of the various ways we are stuck so that we can move forward, and wanting the light of awareness as far away from our stuck points as possible.

The Struggle for Our Species

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/03/whats-at-stake-in-the-assange-decision/

SDF Calls On US President-Elect To Recognize Its Administration In Northeastern Syria

Sinam Mohamad, representative of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) political wing in Washington, has called on US President-elect Joe Biden to recognize the group’s administration in northeastern Syria, the Al-Monitor reported on December 30.

Mohamad made her appeal during a think tank event attended by US former Syrian envoy James Jeffrey and Michael P. Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East.

“We call on the Biden administration to recognize North and East Syria,” Mohamad said.

The representative said the SDF is in a military partnership with the US, arguing that Washington should translate this cooperation politically.

According to Mohamad, the SDF needs US recognition to receive support for humanitarian issues and development projects in northeastern Syria.

Biden, who is set to assume office in few weeks, has already voiced his support for US presence in northeastern Syria. However, it remains unclear if he is willing to recognize the SDF as a legitimate authority.

In an article published recently by the Washington-based Wilson Center, former envoy Jeffery warned the SDF against declaring autonomy or seeking independence from Syria.

The SDF appears to be planning to take advantage of Biden’s pro-intervention stand on Syria in order to establish a de-facto state in the northeastern region. These plans will likely endanger the very presence of the Kurdish-led group as it will provoke the region’s Arab majority.

https://southfront.org/sdf-calls-on-us-president-elect-to-recognize-its-administration-in-northeastern-syria/

SDF is an Israeli/US DS construct, GREATER ISRAEL PROJECT

Top Mainstream Media’s Misses of 2020

How bad was the mainstream corporate media in 2020? Many now believe it was their worst year ever, with public trust in their media brands hitting rock bottom as a result.

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine breaks down the mainstream media’s worst coverage of 2020, including the incredible media blackout of the Hunter Biden scandal. Watch:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/01/02/top-mainstream-media-misses-of-2020/

Georgia Data Shows Over 30,000 of Trump’s Votes Removed, Another 12,173 Switched to Biden: Data Scientists

Georgia election data indicates that more than 30,000 votes were removed from President Donald Trump and another 12,173 votes were switched to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, data scientists testified on Wednesday during a state Senate hearing.

Lynda McLaughlin from the Data Integrity Group, along with data scientists Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, presented the results before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections.

Mealey worked as an electronic warfare technician in the U.S. Navy for nine and a half years and was a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor as a data analyst and programmer for the National Counterterrorism Center. He currently works for one of the “Big Four” accounting firms as a programmer.

Lobue is a data scientist with over a decade of experience in a number of industries.

“What we have here is we actually have fraud that we can prove in this election, there was fraud in Georgia’s election, we can prove it with data,” Mealey said. “The voting will of the people of Georgia is not reflected in what was certified by the Secretary of State.”

According to their analysis, which was published online as early as Dec. 24, time-series election data shows Trump’s votes were decrementing in various counties instead of increasing as they do normally.

At least 30,593 votes were allegedly removed from Trump as result, including 17,650 votes in Dougherty County, 7,008 votes in Dodge County, and 5,935 votes in Putnam County.

The removals happened at the county level and were hard to be observed at the state level because the decrements were offset by accurate data uploaded by other counties.

“I want to make that very, very clear that at no point in an incremental process, should you decrement it,” Mealey said.

Trump votes decrements

Data Scientists say time series data shows 17,650 of President Donald Trump’s votes were removed in Dougherty County, Ga. (Screenshot)

The group said a huge number of Trump’s votes were also observed being switched to Biden in a separate event.

A “clear example of vote switching” happened in Bibb county, they said.

At 9:11 p.m. local time, Trump received 29,391 votes as Biden simultaneously received 17,218. However, in the next reported time update, Trump’s votes became 17,218 while Biden’s changed to 29,391.

In this single event, 12,173 votes were switched, according to the data scientists.

State-certified election results show Trump lost Georgia by 12,670 votes.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-election-data-shows-17650-votes-switched-from-trump-to-biden-data-scientists_3640670.html

Facebook Removes 1.7 MILLION Member Group “Joe Biden Is Not My President” Without Warning — But Anti-Trump “Not My President” Page Still Up After 4 Years

Facebook removed the 1.7 million member “Joe Biden Is Not My President” group this weekend without warning.

This is what continues to happen to conservatives after Republican lawmakers refused to take action to preserve freedom of speech in America.

Via The Scoop:

The far-left radicals that run Facebook just deleted the 1.7 million member group ‘Joe Biden IS NOT MY PRESIDENT!‘.

The group’s admins say they were given no warning and no explanation as to why the group, which was created on December 15th, 2020 was deleted.

The Scoop reported 3 days ago that the group had set the record for the shortest amount of time to reach 1 million members.

Meanwhile, the “Not My President” anti-Trump Facebook group is still posting their nasty attacks on President Trump after 4 years.

The facebook group posted their first video before the Trump Inauguration four years ago.

That page has 750,000 members.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/facebook-removes-1-7-million-member-group-joe-biden-not-president-without-warning-anti-trump-not-president-page-still-4-years/

Pakistan Arrests Another Opposition Figure Over Graft Allegations

Pakistan's anti-graft agency arrested on Tuesday an opposition lawmaker for owning assets that they said he could not afford with his legal income. His allies say the move is part of the government's crackdown against political opponents.

Khawaja Asif MSC 2017Khawaja Asif (Photo:Kuhlmann /MSC, CC BY 3.0 DE , via Wikimedia Commons)Khawaja Asif, a senior Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) official who previously served as foreign minister, was arrested by officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Islamabad as he was leaving a meeting of his party.

“Khawaja Asif allegedly obtained assets in excess of his income while he failed to explain his source, nature and transfer of assets,” the NAB said in a press release.

Asif’s assets were worth 5.1 million Pakistani rupees (US$31,800) before he assumed public office in 1991. By 2018 the NAB found that he was worth 221 million rupees ($1,378,630). Such a rise, it said, was not “justifiable with his sources of income.”

Asif allegedly told investigators that he made the money working in the UAE, but the NAB said it found that the employment contract he presented only served as a cover, and that actually remained in Pakistan at the time.

The opposition lawmaker was presented to the accountability court judge on Wednesday in Islamabad and was then transferred to the eastern city of Lahore.

“I am 100 percent sure that Prime Minister Imran Khan is behind my arrest,” Asif told reporters who had gathered in front of the Islamabad court.

Since Khan came into power two and a half years ago, he has continually tried to weaken former leader Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N party, he added.

Khan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said at a press conference that Asif failed to answer the NAB’s questions, saying that “nobody is above the law and everyone is accountable.”

PML-N leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned Asif's arrest on Twitter.

"The arrest of Khawaja Asif is an extremely reprehensible incident between the selectors and the selected nexus. The government's confusion can be determined from such heinous acts but the government is bringing its end closer. The days of blind political revenge are numbered," said Sharif, who was also tried for corruption and was declared a fugitive after he failed to return to Pakistan from his medical treatment in London.

Khan, who assumed Pakistan’s highest office in August of 2018 after promising to end widespread corruption, has been accused by members of Nawaz Sharif’s former ruling party of using the NAB to suppress the opposition and critics of his government.

The anti-corruption agency has arrested nearly a dozen politicians from the opposition, mostly from Sharif’s PML-N party, over corruption allegations. They deny that it is being used for political purposes and maintains that it is an independent body acting in line with the law.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13571-pakistan-arrests-another-opposition-figure-over-graft-allegations