Amid Capitol riot fallout, Michigan lawmaker says legislature's election inquiry will continue

Legislature had earlier announced inquiries into reported 2020 election irregularities.

Members of the Michigan legislature will continue their inquiry into reported irregularities in the 2020 election, a state lawmaker revealed this week, despite growing pressure to abandon further scrutiny of the 2020 presidential election results amid fallout from the recent Capitol riot.

The riot at the U.S. Capitol came amid a pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" rally to protest the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election. Trump himself spoke at the rally, urging participants to "show strength" and "be strong" in their protests of the certification.

Though the president stressed that the protests should be done "peacefully and patriotically," the mayhem that numerous rally attendees soon generated at the Capitol has been laid mostly at his feet by many, with Democrats and pundits claiming the riot was largely spurred by his months-long insistence that the election was stolen from him.

In recent weeks, meanwhile — and particularly since the chaos at the Capitol — pressure has been growing for Americans to cease questioning the results of 2020. In mid-December, New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said politicians who were questioning the 2020 results were "bordering on sedition and treason." Earlier in the month, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro claimed a Texas lawsuit challenging the election results was itself "seditious."

YouTube shortly after the Capitol chaos, meanwhile, announced enhanced penalties for anyone who posts what the company deems "false claims" about the U.S. election results. And in Wisconsin, one teacher was recently suspended reportedly for directing his students to watch a video questioning the 2020 results.

And on Jan. 3, "all 10 living former defense secretaries" claimed that "the time for questioning the results has passed," citing the "unbroken record of such transitions since 1789."

In Michigan, inquest will continue

Yet though that pressure will likely intensify up to and beyond Joe Biden's inauguration later this month, lawmakers in Michigan will continue inquiries into that state's handling of this year's presidential race.

Daire Rendon, who represents Michigan's District 103 in the state House, confirmed to Just the News that the investigations teed up by the Michigan legislature last month will continue after state lawmakers convene on Wednesday.

"I have spoken with [House Oversight Committee] Chair Matt Hall," Rendon, a Republican, told Just the News. "It is his goal to continue the oversight hearing on the election."

Rendon noted that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has placed "a lot of restrictions" on how lawmakers can meet in the state capitol.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/amid-fallout-capitol-riot-mi-lawmaker-says-legislatures-election

Day of the Poodle? Tony Blair Reportedly Set to Make 'De Gaulle-Style' Political Comeback

General Charles de Gaulle returned to power in the 1958 military coup d'etat that overthrew the French Fourth Republic, but resigned 11 years later after a series of assassination attempts, mass strikes and protests. Blair was forced out in 2007 after squandering his popularity on following the US into the Afghan and Iraq wars.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair is allegedly planning a return to politics like that of late French president Charles de Gaulle — on the back of the COVID-19 crisis.

The Sunday Times newspaper reported that Blair has been secretly advising current PM Boris Johnson's Health Minister Matt Hancock on his approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hancock refused to deny the report, saying only: "I talk to all sorts of people and we take ideas from lots of sources."

Last month Blair called for delaying booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines until all high-risk individuals had been given a first dose, on the basis that more would then have at least partial immunity — an idea which has since been adopted as government policy.

One source, described a a personal friend of Blair's, told the newspaper Blair wanted to make a comeback in the style of General de Gaulle — who was installed in a military coup d'etat in 1958.

The source said that after more than a decade of raking in money from speaking engagements, the former PM has "no shortage of that now, and wants to re-establish his reputation".

Blair is reported to charge up to £330,000 for appearances at public events since his resignation as PM in June 2007, making him one of the world's most highly-paid after-dinner speakers.

Even Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party — formerly the Brexit Party — called for arch-Remainer Blair to be put in charge of the UK's coronavirus vaccination programme early this week.

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) January 4, 2021

"Tony believes deeply, as do many of the people around him, that he left office at the peak of his powers," his un-named friend said. "He got better at governing as time went on. Ten years later, he is definitely animated by a burning feeling that the British governance is inadequate. He feels that he has the drive and ideas to change that."

The former Labour Party leader won three elections between 1997 and 2005. But his popularity drained away after he took the UK into the Afghan and Iraq wars, drawing criticisms that he was US president George W Bush's "poodle".

Blaire's successor, his chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown, missed the chance to call a snap election following his move from 11 Downing Street to Number 10 and found himself mired in the Credit Crunch banking crisis the following year. Brown lost the 2010 election to Conservative David Cameron, who formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

https://sputniknews.com/uk/202101101081722367-day-of-the-poodle-tony-blair-reportedly-set-to-make-de-gaulle-style-political-comeback/

Veteran Capitol cop reportedly commits suicide days after DC riot

A veteran US Capitol Police officer has died by suicide, authorities and reports said Sunday, a further blow to a department already reeling from the death of a member during last week’s riot.

Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, died on Saturday while off-duty, the department announced in a statement.

“He was assigned to the Senate Division, and has been with the Department since April 2005,” the statement read. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, and colleagues.

“We ask that his family, and other USCP officers’ and their families’ privacy be respected during this profoundly difficult time.”

The department did not disclose the circumstances of Liebengood’s death, but outlets and reporters including Jake Sherman, of Punchbowl News, said that the lawman took his own life, citing sources.

It was not immediately clear what spurred the act.

Liebengood’s death came as the department was still mourning Officer Brian Sicknick, who was pepper-sprayed and fatally bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher when supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday in a futile attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

It was not immediately clear if Liebengood, like Sicknick, was on-duty at the time of the deadly riot.

The department itself is under intense scrutiny for the ease with which the mob overwhelmed Capitol Police and forced their way into the seat of American democracy.

Chief Steven Sund has announced his resignation from the force, effective Jan. 16.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/10/veteran-capitol-cop-reportedly-commits-suicide-days-after-dc-riot/

IED Attacks Targeted Three US-led Coalition Convoys In Iraq

On January 9, three logistic supply convoys of the US-led coalition came under attack in Iraq’s central and southern regions.

The first coalition convoy was targeted with an improvised explosive device (IED) in the central city of Hilla. No human losses were reported as a result of the attack.

The Sabereen News, a Telegram channel with links to Shiite armed groups, said a faction dubbed the “International Resistance” had claimed responsibility for the attack. The faction was behind an attack on a coalition supply convoy in the city of Samarra on January 4.

The second and third convoys were attacked in the southern Iraqi city of al-Nasiriyah. Both convoy were targeted with IEDs. The attacks didn’t result in any human losses.

Another attack was reportedly foiled by security forces on January 10. An Iraqi security source told the al-Ain News TV that an IED, which was planted on the al-Muthanna-Dhi Qar highway to target a supply convoy of the US-led coalition, was removed.

On January 9, a logistical convoy of the U.S military was targeted by an IED attack in Hillah area.

On January 9, two logistical convoys of the U.S military was targeted by an IED attack in the Nasiriyah area.

The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, Faleh al-Fayyad.

On January 9, 3 ISIS fighters were arrested in the Samarra area, according to the Interior Ministry Intelligence.

On January 9, a new antigovernment protest erupted in Nasiriyah city. Five people were arrested and two were killed in the protests.

The unrest in Iraq today is a direct result of the assassination of Iran’s Quds Force Commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy-Commander of the Popular Mobilization Units more than a year ago. US troops and diplomatic mission in the country are under constant threat.

https://southfront.org/ied-attacks-targeted-three-us-led-coalition-convoys-in-iraq/

Unidentified Aircraft Bombed Turkish-linked Oil Smugglers In Aleppo

Late on January 9, unidentified aircraft struck facilities and tankers of Turkish-linked oil smugglers in northern Aleppo. The strikes took place near the village of Tarhin destroying multiple tankers and causing large fires there.

This incident became the recent in a series of similar strikes that were purging Turkish-linked oil smuggling business in the area. Pro-militant sources claim that the strikes were carried out by some ‘mysterious drones’ and expectedly blame the ‘Assad regime’ and the ‘coward Russians’.

https://southfront.org/unidentified-aircraft-bombed-turkish-linked-oil-smugglers-in-aleppo-videos/

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The Origins of America’s Secret Police

“Know Thyself,

Nothing to Excess,

Surety Brings Ruin”

– inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

Many are aware of the Apollo at Delphi inscription and associate it as words of wisdom, after all, the Temple at Delphi was at the center of global intelligence. Kings, emperors, statesmen, generals from all quarters of the ancient world would travel to the Temple with a very generous payment in gold in hopes that the wisdom of the great god Apollo would be bestowed on them and give strength and power to their particular cause.

One of the most famous prophecies made by the Cult of Delphi, according to the ancient historian Herodotus, was to King Croesus of Lydia. King Croesus was a very rich king and the last bastion of the Ionian cities against the increasing Persian power in Anatolia. King Croesus wished to know whether he should continue his military campaign deeper into Persian Empire territory and whether he should seek a military alliance in such a feat.

According to Herodotus, the amount of gold King Croesus delivered was the greatest ever bestowed upon the Temple of Apollo. In return the priestess of Delphi, otherwise known as the Oracle, (some poor young girl selected once a year with the “right attributes”) would spout nonsensical babble, intoxicated by the gas vapours of the chasm she was conveniently placed over. The priests would then “translate” the Oracle’s prophecy.

King Croesus was told as his prophecy-riddle, “If Croesus goes to war he will destroy a great empire.” Croesus was also told to ally himself with the most powerful Greek state, and he chose Sparta. Croesus was overjoyed and thought his victory solid and immediately began working towards building his military campaign against Persia. Long story short, Croesus lost everything and Lydia was taken over by the Persians. The Spartans never showed up.

It turns out the prophecy-riddle was not wrong, but that Croesus mistook which great empire would fall.

There is likely a great deal of truth in this story. And the words inscribed at the Temple of Apollo “Know Thyself, Nothing to Excess, Surety Brings Ruin” becomes more a foreboding to anyone who dares enter such a Temple in search of wisdom and power; those who are “worthy” of the god Apollo will have the wisdom to solve the riddle of their prophecy and will prevail, those unworthy of Apollo’s “good graces” will fail and be ruined.

It’s a nice story, but it is in fact, a brilliant cover for a global intelligence racket.

The Cult of Delphi was indeed the nerve center of military and political intelligence that had no “allegiance” to any state or empire, but rather was able to use intel that they collected with their network of spies, along with intel they were given by those foolish enough to layout their plans (and their gold) to them. The priests of Delphi would then decide thereupon what information needed to be shared with what target to fit their purpose, a “prophecy” that they shaped, like moving pawns on a chessboard.

The question for those who dared visit the Cult of Delphi was thus not so much about having enough wisdom to solve the veiled prophecy, but rather, ‘What kind of pawn are you to the priests of Apollo?’

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https://fort-russ.com/2021/01/the-origins-of-americas-secret-police/

Breaking out of Polarities: How a Generation was Brainwashed

Why is it that so few Americans alive seem to have any real understanding of their own anti-imperial traditions or even the system of political economy that emerged out of the revolution as the first in history to put humanity, and the powers of mind above the laws of monetary profit? The ignorance of this historical truth has resulted in the susceptibility of many of Americans (as well as Europeans and other Commonwealth citizens) to believe that their only choices in the face of an oncoming economic meltdown is to support either Keynesian top down systems of control or Libertarian “anything goes” bottom up systems which strip government of all its authority to resist the actual trans national oligarchy.

In this interview with Rogue News, the Canadian Patriot Review’s Matthew Ehret discusses the historical dynamic of this fraudulent sleight of hand which will take us through some major events of history that have been scrubbed out of history books including:

The international dynamics of the American Revolution

The science of human happiness advanced by Ben Franklin as the foundation for the American system of full spectrum economics

The political controllers of Adam Smith, Malthus, Mill and even Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School)

The rise of the American System of protectionism, productive credit, and internal improvements through Germany with Friedrich List who Menger was hired to stop using a repackaging of Adams Smith’s mystical doctrines of self-organizing vice.

The manufacture of WWI and WWII, as well as the growth of eugenics which British operatives like John Maynard Keynes were deployed to advance as the new controlling religion of world government under the League of Nations

How the Top down money printing of Weimar and the bottom up do nothing, austerity approach of von Mises in Austria were both two forms of fascism while the actual “American system solution” supported by Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau and Russia (architects of the 1922 Rapallo Treaty) was destroyed with Rathenau’s assassination.

How did this false Keynes vs Hayek attack and undermine what Franklin Roosevelt was actually doing by reviving the American System in the form of his war on Wall Street and London as well as his broader anti-colonial vision to establish a world of win-win cooperation alongside Russia and China?

These topics and more will be discussed in the video below. The first 16 minutes feature low quality audio due to a microphone issue.

https://fort-russ.com/2021/01/breaking-out-of-polarities-how-a-generation-was-brainwashed/

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Lincoln Project co-founder accused of ‘grooming’ young men, offering jobs for sex

Republican strategist John Weaver, a founding member of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project group, has been accused by conservative reporters and alleged victims of “preying” on young men by offering them work in exchange for sex.

A former strategist for George W. Bush, John McCain, and John Kasich, John Weaver was in a celebratory mood on Thursday, declaring“America is great again,” after Congress formally certified Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Though a Republican, Weaver is also a member of the Lincoln Project, a group of disaffected ‘Never Trump’ Republicans and neoconservatives formed with the sole purpose of defeating the president.

Emboldened by Trump’s downfall, and buoyed by the $67 million they raised in the runup to the election, the Lincoln Project began work on a “database” of soon-to-be former Trump staff and officials, with a view to holding them “accountable” for the rest of their professional lives. However, Weaver himself was soon confronted with some alleged skeletons in his own closet.

“Maybe I should start talking about one of the founding members of the Lincoln Project offering jobs to young men in exchange for sex,” Conservative pundit Ryan Girdusky tweeted on Saturday, adding, “his wife is probably interested.”

Maybe I should start talking about one of the founding members of the Lincoln Project offering jobs to young men in exchange for sex… his wife is probably interested https://t.co/vAtUS9aPPl

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) January 9, 2021

Girdusky went on to say he had been contacted by several men who claimed to have been groomed by the “founding member.” Girdusky did not reveal more, but said he had screenshots of messages the Lincoln Project member sent to one recipient.

A Twitter user named Josh Price, who has since locked his account, soon came forward and named Weaver as the creep in question. He was followed by another liberal pundit, who claimed Weaver sent him “pushy” and “flirty” messages.

https://www.rt.com/usa/512085-lincoln-project-grooming-sex/

Coons Calls for ‘Accountability’ for Trump Actions Through NY AG or US Department of Justice

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” called for criminal accountability for President Donald Trump’s incitement of the riot on Capitol Hill last week.

Partial transcript as follows:

BRENNAN: You’re close to the president-elect who tweeted yesterday, “Our president is not above the law. Justice serves the people. It doesn’t protect the powerful.” What does that supposed to mean? Does he support potentially prosecuting President Trump?

COONS: President-elect Biden is focused on the enormous challenges that will face him when he becomes president 10 days from now. It is up to Congress in the next 10 days, to work to ensure the safety and security of our country, to press successfully, hopefully, for President Trump to resign, or for Vice President Pence to enact what he can do under the 25th Amendment. President Trump, by his actions over the last two months since the election, has lost the right to be president and by the actions this past Wednesday and his failure to take any responsibility or show any remorse for it of significance. I think he doesn’t deserve to be president anymore.

BRENNAN: Well, he won’t be in 10 days, regardless of what happens. Should he be prosecuted after he leaves office? You sit on Senate Judiciary. Do you think that would be appropriate?

COONS: I think there needs to be accountability for his actions. Whether that comes through the New York attorney general or the US Department of Justice we’ll have to leave for now. But many of my Republican colleagues are now calling for healing and for us to come together. I’ll tell you that there can only be reconciliation with repentance. And I think the single most important thing that Republicans in Congress who helped facilitate this widespread conspiracy theory that somehow the election was stolen- and the most important thing that President Trump can do in these remaining 10 days is to stop those lies and to persuade their followers and supporters that President-elect Biden is the duly elected president of the United States. That’s what Mike Pence certified on Wednesday night once we returned to the Capitol. That’s what Senators Blunt and Klobuchar certified. That’s an important next step if we are, in fact, going to have any healing.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/10/coons-calls-for-accountability-for-trump-actions-through-ny-ag-or-us-department-of-justice/

Ghana: Lawmakers ‘Exchange Blows’ in Parliament Brawl

Opposition lawmakers clashed on the floor of Ghana’s parliament in Accra on Wednesday night, prompting a military intervention by at least 20 Ghanaian soldiers, Africa News reported on Thursday.

Footage of the hours-long brawl broadcast live on Ghanaian state television showed legislators “pushing and shoving” each other before nearly two dozen soldiers entered the parliament chamber to try and restore order.

“Ranks of MPs [members of parliament] then faced each other and chanted over a dividing line of masked soldiers and police,” according to the report.

“In one of the footages, a lawmaker was punched by opposition but rescued by his colleagues [sic],” Nigeria’s Punch newspaper reported on Thursday.

“A female lawmaker was also seen pushing one of her male counterparts aggressively,” according to Punch.

Prior to the chaotic outburst, Ghanaian legislators had been voting to choose the West African nation’s next parliamentary speaker. The fighting erupted after a lawmaker from Ghana’s ruling, right-wing New Patriotic Party (NPP) allegedly “tried to seize the ballot box,” according to Africa News.

“There was total breakdown of law and order,” Ghanaian Minister of Parliament-elect Kwame Twumasi Ampofo told Agence France-Presse of the melee.

“Looking at a member of parliament and a minister of state snatching ballot papers. … was so shameful,” the opposition lawmaker added.

After Ghanaian security forces restored order to the parliament chamber on Wednesday, the legislature elected a member of the country’s opposition party, the left-wing National Democratic Congress (NDC), as Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament. Veteran Ghanaian politician Alban Bagbin made history as Ghana’s first Speaker of Parliament not selected by the country’s ruling party. The feat was “a first in Ghana’s nearly 63-year post-independence history,” according to Punch.

Ghana’s general election last month “left a hung parliament, without a dominant party to push through the appointment of speaker and other key posts,” Reuters noted on Thursday. The presidential election saw NPP leader Nana Akufo-Addo declared the winner with 51.59 percent of the vote, ahead of his opponent and former Ghanaian President John Mahama. The December 7 election results were disputed by opposition leader Mahama. Lingering tension over the vote contributed to Wednesday’s brawl in parliament.

The Ghanaian Police Service said on December 9 that “five people had been killed from electoral violence” following the release of the general election’s results. “Twenty-one of the incidents are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involve gunshots resulting in the death of five,” the federal security force said.

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2021/01/09/ghana-lawmakers-exchange-blows-in-parliament-brawl/

Pope Francis’ Personal Doctor Dies From Coronavirus Complications, Report Says

The Pope appointed Fabrizio Soccorsi as his personal medical assistant in 2015, after he opted not to renew the term for Patrizio Polisca, who at the time served both as the papal doctor and head of the Vatican's health services.

Pope Francis’ personal doctor has died from COVID-19-related complications, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported.

The 78-year-old physician, Fabrizio Soccorsi, died at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he was reportedly being treated for “oncological pathology” - something that wasn’t announced as the cause of his death, though.

Pope Francis in Vatican, Rome

© Sputnik / Vladimir Astapkovich

Capitol Riots Were 'Against Democracy, Against the Common Good', Pope Francis Says

It’s unclear when he last had direct contact with the pontiff, who tapped Soccorsi as his personal physician in August 2015 after refusing to renew the term of longstanding Vatican Doctor Patrizio Polisca. The latter also doubled at the time as the head of the Vatican’s healthcare services at large.

As Francis’ personal physician, Soccorsi, who specialised in the areas of hepatology, immunology, and the digestive system, accompanied the head of the Catholic Church on most of his international trips.

On Saturday, the Pope announced plans to get a COVID-19 jab in the coming days as part of a vaccination programme at the Vatican.

“I believe that ethically everyone should take the vaccine”, the Pope said in an interview with the TV station Canale 5.

“It is an ethical choice because you are gambling with your health, with your life, but you are also gambling with the lives of others”, he contended.

https://sputniknews.com/society/202101101081723248-pope-francis-personal-doctor-dies-from-coronavirus-complications-report-says/

Iran Hails 'Victory' While Tankers & Cargo Ships Continue Arriving At Venezuelan Port

At a moment Washington D.C. is locked into a very different drama, Iranian state media is hailing 'victory' after late last week an Iranian cargo ship successfully made it to Venezuelan port and thus past the US blockade on the country.

The Iranian-flagged general cargo ship Golsan had left Iran in November at has arrived at the Venezuelan port of La Guaira. It's unknown exactly what the vessel was transporting but it's believed to have been laden with cargo to supply Caracas' first Iranian supermarket.

This comes at a moment the Trump administration has promised to prevent multiple Iranian fuel laden ships from discharging in Venezuela, now crossing the Atlantic.

As Reuters explains, "Iran has been supplying gasoline to ease fuel shortages in Venezuela caused by decay of the South American nation’s refineries and worsened by sanctions. It has also shipped food to help the government of President Nicolas Maduro."

While Venezuela is rich in crude, its derelict refineries can't process it into badly needed gasoline for domestic consumption. So while it continues to export its oil, it must rely on allies like Iran and Russia to bring fuel.

The Islamic Republic is also said to be helping Maduro's Venezuela circumvent severe US sanctions on its oil exports. Iranian supertankers in recent months have been observed transporting Venezuelan crude while under 'disguise' - that is, renaming a vessel to conceal its sourcing and true ownership.

Ships have also used 'ghosting' - or switching off their tracking transponders in certain waters where they are more subject to intercept by US forces.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-hails-victory-while-tankers-cargo-ships-continue-arriving-venezuelan-port

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