Georgia’s Raffensperger Caught in Another Scandal – After His Claims that “Audits” of Georgia’s Voting Machines and Election Were Performed by a Certified Auditor Come into Question

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the face of 2020 Election sham. His actions in Georgia were reprehensible. And now we caught him in another scandal.

It’s really hard to find the words to describe Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s actions during the 2020 election cycle. We’ve reported extensively on his actions and today can add more dishonesty on his part to the list.

To this day there are hundreds of thousands of ballots that were lacking the legal documentation to confirm the results in Georgia in the 2020 election. Secretary of State Raffensperger certified the results anyway.

Hundreds of thousands of ballots lack the proper documentation required by law to confirm their validity. These votes should never have been certified by anyone:

But there’s more. Raffensperger used a firm to audit the Dominion voting machines before and after the 2020 election. But Raffensperger withheld information on the audit firm and actually lied about its certifications.

Attorney Sidney Powell told the World Tribune:

“There should be an investigation, a thorough criminal investigation, frankly, of everyone involved in acquiring the Dominion [Voting] System for the state of Georgia,” attorney Sidney Powell said.

Powell is right.

Georgia’s Secretary of State Raffensperger withheld pertinent information from Georgia’s voters and outright lied about the firm auditing Georgia’s machines and vote.

Jeff Carlson at the Markets Work shared this in early December:

The firm hired by Georgia’s secretary of state to conduct an “audit” of Dominion Voting Systems technology used during the 2020 elections is the same one that previously certified the Dominion systems and also approved a last-minute system-wide software change just weeks before the election.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger failed to disclose that the company, Pro V&V, had a preexisting relationship with Dominion that dated back years, in his Nov. 17 statement announcing the results of the audit.

Raffensperger also failed to disclose that Dominion had used technical conclusions from Pro V&V in a pre-election Georgia lawsuit that questioned the reliability of Dominion’s systems during a last-minute software fix before the Nov. 3 election. The testing from Pro V&V had been characterized as “superficial” and “cursory testing” by an expert cited in court documents.

In the widely quoted statement, Raffensperger said that the audit of Dominion machines was complete, there was “no sign of foul play,” and that “Pro V&V found no evidence” of tampering with the machines:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/georgias-raffensperger-claimed-audits-georgias-voting-machines-election-performed-certified-auditor-complete-fabrication/

Former FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith Sentenced to PROBATION After Falsifying Document in Trump Spygate Scandal

Update: Kevin Clinesmith has been sentenced to PROBATION.

Judge James(((Boasberg)))held a hearing on Friday to sentence Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer charged by John Durham for making a false statement after altering evidence to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page.

Clinesmith plead guilty in August to one charge of making false statements 18 USC 1001 a(3) “makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.”

Clinesmith altered Carter Page evidence to support the FISA warrant used to spy on the Donald Trump campaign in 2016.

Carter Page previously worked as a source for the CIA, however Clinesmith falsely said Page was “never” a CIA source.

Judge Boasberg gave Carter Page a chance to speak Friday morning at the sentencing hearing.

Mr. Page said he first collaborated with the CIA while he was in the military and never betrayed their trust.

Page said his life “spun out of control” after Obama’s goons falsely alleged he was a traitor and perhaps working as a double agent for Russia.

Mueller’s thugs harassed Carter Page and physically searched his belongings and hotel room and took photographs in 2017.

DOJ attorney Scarpelli requested a “more significant sentence” of prison – the recommended sentence is 3-6 months in prison. Kevin Clinesmith’s lawyer threw others in the FBI and DOJ under the bus and said that Clinesmith wasn’t the only one ‘made mistakes in the FISA applications.’

Clinesmith ‘has lived his life in service of others’ the lawyer argued.

Clinesmith’s lawyers are also trying to use the old Covid excuse to keep him out of prison (he already had Covid).

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/developing-former-fbi-lawyer-kevin-clinesmith-sentenced-falsifying-document-obtain-fisa-warrant-carter-page/

'If you don't have the police…things go a little crazy': Former SEC official compares GameStop buying frenzy to US Capitol riot

Eyebrows were raised on social media after former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official Laura Unger made a “revealing” comment comparing the frantic buying of GameStop and other stocks to the US Capitol riot.

Unger, who became a commissioner at the SEC in 1997 and was made acting chairman by George W. Bush for half of 2001, joined CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell’ on Thursday to give her thoughts on trading app Robinhood halting and then limiting the buying of stocks in companies such as GameStop and AMC, which saw significant boosts to their values after a buying frenzy by individuals motivated by a subreddit group this week.

The chaos in the marketplace, Unger claims, is “not unlike what we saw on January 6 at the Capitol,” referring to the storming of the Capitol by pro-Donald Trump supporters – a riot that led to five deaths, including that of a police officer.

“If you don’t have the police in there at the right time, things go a little crazy,” she said. She did acknowledge, however, that the happenings in the stock market were a kind of crazy of a “lesser degree” than the violence the country saw in Washington, DC earlier this month.

It is, however, the same “platform-created frenzy that people are operating under,” she added, saying Wall Street was living through “trying times.”

#BREAKINGFormer SEC Commissioner Laura Unger compares short squeeze to January 6th at the Capitol pic.twitter.com/H1PCv1ZUk6

— PG Howie (@pghowie3) January 28, 2021

According to Unger, the SEC could suspend trading on certain stocks and investigate whether specific market manipulation is happening through a concerted effort, or whether people have a legitimate interest in what they are buying.

While the buying frenzy has been described as market manipulation by Unger and other stock experts, the limiting of individuals in buying stocks by apps such as Robinhood has drawn the ire of many on both sides of the political aisle, from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York). Critics have argued that halting individuals’ rights to buy stocks is an infringement of their rights to participate in what should be a free marketplace.

https://www.rt.com/usa/514066-laura-unger-capitol-riot-robinhood/

Google DELETES 100,000-plus one-star ratings of Robinhood app after enraged retail traders pile negative reviews over GameStop ban

Google has come to the rescue of the stock-trading app Robinhood, deleting negative reviews flooding the company after it had blocked the purchase of stock in companies like GameStop, AMC, and others.

After Robinhood controversially stepped in and made the “risk management decision” to block the purchasing of stocks being made unusually popular thanks to the r/WallStreetBets subreddit, its app on Google Play was inundated with reviews from unsatisfied customers.

The app’s near-perfect rating stumbled to just one star on Thursday after over 100,000 reviews came in. Google has now deleted enough of those reviews, however, that the app’s rating has jumped to over four stars (out of five).

Google admitted to actively deleting the reviews, as they violate a policy the company has on reviews that are published specifically to manipulate a company’s overall rating.

On Apple’s App Store, Robinhood holds a near-perfect five-star rating, though there are numerous one-star reviews from Thursday when the app made the controversial decision to delist certain stocks for individual traders, a move that has drawn the ire of everyone from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York).

https://www.rt.com/usa/514058-google-deletes-robinhood-reviews/

SEC Publishes Statement On Short Squeeze Insanity, "Will Protect Investors From Manipulative Trading"

It was only a matter of time before the SEC stepped in to "protect" investors from making money and ramming Wall Street's own strategies up its behind, and moments ago the world's most useless regulator published a statement in response to the short squeeze mania that has gripped markets.

The Commission said it will closely review actions taken by regulated entities that may disadvantage investors or otherwise unduly inhibit their ability to trade certain securities. Translation: any extreme shorts that hurt the hedge funds that are our close friends will likely soon be banned.

“We will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity that is prohibited by the federal securities laws,” SEC Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee and Commissioners Hester M. Peirce, Elad L. Roisman and Caroline A. Crenshaw said in a statement on the commission’s website.

Market participants should be careful to avoid such activity and issuers must ensure compliance with the federal securities laws for any contemplated offers or sales of their own securities.

Here is the full statement, which is hilarious because after years of Wall Street selling worthless, massively overvalued IPOs to retail investors which always end up losing money when the bubble burst, is now so closely focused on the reverse situation, the one where Wall Street ends up being the patsy. Highlights ours.

Statement of Acting Chair Lee and Commissioners Peirce, Roisman, and Crenshaw Regarding Recent Market Volatility

Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee

Commissioner Hester M. Peirce

Commissioner Elad L. Roisman

Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw

Jan. 29, 2021

The Commission is closely monitoring and evaluating the extreme price volatility of certain stocks’ trading prices over the past several days. Our core market infrastructure has proven resilient under the weight of this week’s extraordinary trading volumes. Nevertheless, extreme stock price volatility has the potential to expose investors to rapid and severe losses and undermine market confidence.

As always, the Commission will work to protect investors, to maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and to facilitate capital formation. The Commission is working closely with our regulatory partners, both across the government and at FINRA and other self-regulatory organizations, including the stock exchanges, to ensure that regulated entities uphold their obligations to protect investors and to identify and pursue potential wrongdoing. The Commission will closely review actions taken by regulated entities that may disadvantage investors or otherwise unduly inhibit their ability to trade certain securities.

In addition, we will act to protect retail investors when the facts demonstrate abusive or manipulative trading activity that is prohibited by the federal securities laws. Market participants should be careful to avoid such activity. Likewise, issuers must ensure compliance with the federal securities laws for any contemplated offers or sales of their own securities.

The Commission will continue our work on behalf of investors and the markets. In this regard, we hope to facilitate a robust public dialogue among market participants and investors on the structure and operation of our securities markets. Members of the public can submit tips or complaints through the Commission’s website using this online form. Members of the public with questions should contact the Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy at 1-800-732-0330, ask a question using this online form, or email us at Help@SEC.gov.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sec-publishes-statement-short-squeeze-insanity-will-protext-investors-manipulative-trading

A Major Bank Publishes A List Of Shorts That Will Surge Next

First, we'd like to pat ourselves on the back a little.

While most of the US daytrading class is now in a furore over the "discovery" that most shorted stocks tend to outperform - to put it mildly - when a bunch of autists rams illiquid, heavily shorted names up the collective behind of hedge funds which "legally" collude during idea dinners to put on a basket of shorts, hence why stocks like GME can end up with a synthetic short that is higher than the entire float, none of this should be news to regular readers, as the theme of going long the most shorted names is one we first presented and discussed as far back as 2013:

Presenting The Best Trading Strategy In This Market: Buy The Most Hated Stocks, Short The Most Widely Held

We then reiterated this strategy in 2014…

The Most Beloved, And Hated, Hedge Fund Stocks Are…

… 2015…

Stocks Soar To Best Week In A Year On "Mother Of All Short Squeezes"

Presenting The Top 50 Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts

… 2016…

After Three Years, This Remains The Best Trading Strategy

… 2017

These Are The Top 50 Hedge Fund Long And Short Positions

… 2019

These Are The 50 Most Popular Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts

… 2020

Top Hedge Fund Longs Suffer Historic Crash As Top Shorts Outperform… And Much More Pain Is Coming

And so on.

It took banks about 6 years after our first post on this matter to admit we were right and that going long "the most shorteds" is not only the most profitable strategy but also the most successful one in the past decade; in Aug 2019 Bank of America showed that "buying the 10 most underweight stocks and selling the 10 most overweight stocks by active funds has generated alpha in the past years with the exception of 2017"…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/major-bank-publishes-list-shorts-will-surge-next

Horowitz: The Robinhood-GameStop scandal, lockdowns, and a two-tiered justice system

The ruling oligarchy keeps revealing itself

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?" ~James Madison, Federalist No. 62

If you are not a member of the ruling oligarchy, you can buy a stock only when it benefits the ruling oligarchy, but not when the oligarch shorted the stock and will lose money. In that case, you can only sell. They, the esteemed members of the system, on the other hand, can do what they want at any point to win the rigged game.

That was essentially the lesson the American people learned this week about our government-corporate manipulated economy when the oligarchs got together to block people from buying stocks like GameStop after the well-connected Wall Street hedge funds were slated to lose billions on their short-sale gamble. However, what happened this week was emblematic of a broader trend that has taken over our economy this past generation, but should have become patently obvious to the American people since the unconstitutional lockdowns began last March. The oligarchs in charge of our country have manipulated the entire economy in a way that arbitrarily weighs down individual risk-takers and business owners in order to benefit the ruling class, which includes large corporations like Walmart and Amazon.

In the ultimate unconstitutional market distortion, the government refashioned life itself with its draconian lockdowns in a way that forced entire chains of commerce only through narrow, well-connected giant companies while crushing small businesses. Just like the GameStop investors on Reddit who were shut down from making profit and could only take a loss in order to transfer wealth to the hedge funds, small businesses were shut down so that the consumer capital would flow to Zoom, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix. Amazon's stock price has nearly doubled since the lockdowns began last March.

The difference between who was shut down and who was given a waiver to open their business was so arbitrary in Pennsylvania that the auditor general wrote in a report, "The waiver process appeared to be a subjective process built on shifting sands of changing guidance, which led to significant confusion among business owners." He observed, "Some owners of small businesses may not have had the knowledge to use the right 'buzzwords' in their justification for remaining open, or realized they could ask a legislator for help to navigate the process."

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-robinhood-gamestop-scandal-lockdowns-and-a-two-tiered-justice-system

Portuguese parliament approves legalization of euthanasia despite last-minute attempt to delay vote

Euthanasia is to become legal in Portugal after the country’s parliament voted on Friday to allow terminally ill patients to seek assistance from a doctor to end their lives, becoming only the seventh nation in the world to do so.

The euthanasia law was passed with 136 votes in favor, 78 against, and four abstaining.

The move means that people over the age of 18 can request assistance to die if they are suffering from “lasting” and “unbearable” pain. The law states that only national citizens and legal residents will be able to request medical assistance to end their lives.

Politicians voted in favor of proposals aimed at changing the law in February 2020, setting up Friday’s vote despite opposition in the Catholic-majority country and a campaign by the Church for a national referendum on the issue.

The timing of the vote has also come into question with opposition party PSD (Social Democratic Party) seeking to postpone it, claiming the Covid-19 pandemic had created “great anxiety, great fear among people that has to do with issues of life and death.”

However, parliamentary leader of the People-Animals-Nature party, Ines Real, rejected this criticism, noting: “It is dishonest to invoke an extremely difficult moment in the country… to confuse deaths related to Covid-19 with the legislative process that aims to allow euthanasia to those suffering.”

The final step in the legalization process rests with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who previously said he would respect parliament’s vote and sign the measure into law.

Neighboring Spain also legalized euthanasia in December under strict conditions and despite fierce opposition from the Church and conservative parties.

https://www.rt.com/news/514063-portugal-euthanasia-law-parliament/

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli weighs in on GameStop-Robinhood saga, says he’s ‘willing to testify’ to Congress

Infamous ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud, has said he is “willing to testify” to Congress on the GameStop-Robinhood stocks controversy.

Shkreli weighed in on the raging controversy in an email to his ex-partner, former Bloomberg News reporter Christie Smythe, who made waves last month after giving an interview to Elle magazine about her relationship with the former hedge fund manager and Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO.

“LOL – this thing is so nuts,” wrote Shkreli in the email posted by Smythe, adding: “You can let the world know, if you’d like, that I’d be willing to testify [at a congressional hearing on the incident].”

“As an original WSB moderator, I have a lot to say,” Shkreli concluded in his email, referencing the WallStreetBets subreddit online community where the mass stock purchases were organized by the amateur traders.

Someone is definitely missing out on the fun today. pic.twitter.com/HrGhJlDwtY

— Christie Smythe (@ChristieSmythe) January 29, 2021

Several members of Congress have already called for an official hearing, after trading app Robinhood prohibited its users on Thursday from buying stocks in a number of companies including GameStop, Nokia, and BlackBerry. Those stocks had been invested in by a group of have-a-go investors, resulting in billions of dollars worth of losses for Wall Street hedge fund short-sellers.

The trading app’s decision generated a huge controversy, with Robinhood being accused of interfering in the free market against the interests of its working- and middle-class users in an effort to protect the wealthy.

Shkreli himself shot to infamy in 2015, after raising the price of the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent, and soon became the media’s go-to representative of American capitalist greed. He appeared to enjoy the infamy, taking on a cocky internet villain persona, and engaging in stunts such as purchasing the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s much-hyped ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ album and then refusing to let the public listen to it, until he was imprisoned in 2018.

After posting a screenshot of Shkreli’s email on Twitter, Smythe was asked by a fellow journalist whether the two were “talking again,” to which she replied that they were, concluding her post with a smiley-face emoji.

In December, Elle detailed how Smythe gave up everything – including her job and her marriage – after falling in love with Shkreli while covering his story. Ironically, he then appeared to break off the relationship, with a statement to the magazine wishing her “the best of luck in her future endeavors.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/514015-martin-shkreli-gamestop-robinhood-testify/

MSNBC Guests Suggests Trump’s Election Remarks Warrant Drone Strike

MSNBC Contributor Clint Watts insisted that Donald Trump’s comments warranted a “drone strike” during a segment decrying President Trump for “inciting” violence at the U.S. Capitol.

Watts, also a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and advocate of the 2016 Russia collusion narrative, made the violent suggestion on an MSNBC panel alongside Nicole Wallace, Miles Taylor, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

“If you took what President Trump said, and instead put it in Anwar Awlaki’s mouth, we would be talking about a drone strike overseas,” Watts said.

Awlaki was a U.S.-born citizen and suspected al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen by an Obama-era drone strike and has been responsible for radicalizing a host of radical Islamic terrorists.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/msnbc-guest-trump-drone-strike/

Robinhood CEO accused of ‘lying’ on CNN after claiming he halted stock purchases to adhere to vague ‘regulatory requirements’

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is facing a heavy backlash after he attempted to defend his trading app’s decision to stop users from buying certain stocks, claiming it had “no choice.”

Tenev was interrogated by CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday amid the Robinhood-GameStop stocks controversy, with the CEO claiming his decision was made to adhere to vague “regulatory requirements” and not to protect wealthy hedge funds that were shorting the stocks.

After Cuomo highlighted the irony of the company being called Robinhood – a legendary outlaw who stole from the rich to give to the poor – when the company of the same name appears to be “doing exactly the opposite,” Tenev insisted: “That’s not what it is at all… We had to make a very difficult decision to protect our customers and our firm.”

When Cuomo referenced Robinhood’s connections with Citadel Securities, a firm that facilitates trades on the app and that bailed out Melvin Capital, the hedge fund targeted by the Redditors, Tenev maintained its relationships with any other company had “nothing to do with” its decision to halt trading.

“Robinhood, as a brokerage, has lots of financial requirements, SEC [the US Securities and Exchange Commission] requirements,” Tenev said, though Cuomo shot back that the SEC “hasn’t said you had to do this.”

The key moment is when Cuomo says "The SEC didn't say you had to this." That's the whole game right there. And that's exactly where Vlad starts stuttering and looking extra uncomfortable. 1/x

— Mr. Johnnie (@MrJoneV) January 29, 2021

Tenev concluded by denying that Robinhood took action on the orders of any other market entity, and again blamed the decision on unspecified requirements.

Viewers were not convinced by Tenev’s excuses, however, lambasting the CEO in CNN’s YouTube comments, with some accusing him of “lying” and “dodging every single question.”

We proactively stopped our clients from buying right when they were about to squeeze our investor for billions, but it's not related. 🙄

— Eammon Atkinson (@EammonAtkinson) January 29, 2021

“Of course he did exactly what his corporate overlords wanted. He is no different than any other hedge fund douche,” one user suggested, while another called Tenev’s story about regulatory “requirements” a “BS answer.”

On Twitter, others asked Tenev to cite any regulation that required him to halt trading on the stocks. Another said he looked “unprepared” and mistakenly thought he could “word salad” his way out of it.

Robinhood prohibited its users this week from buying stocks in a number of companies, including GameStop, Nokia, and BlackBerry, after they had been invested in by a group of amateur traders, resulting in billions of dollars worth of losses for Wall Street hedge fund short-sellers.

Several members of Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI 13th District), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14th District), have publicly called for an official hearing over Robinhood’s actions.

https://www.rt.com/business/514032-robinhood-vlad-tenev-cnn/

Delingpole: Davos Is a Madrassa for Global Eco-Fascist Tyranny

To get a better idea of the fundamentally fascistic nature of the World Economic Forum – plotting global domination online all this week – check out this video from one of its young acolytes.

Alexei Levene runs a company called Desolenator and like all Great Resetters just knows that the transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution must be accelerated immediately. The main problem is that pesky thing called ‘democracy’.

“We all know what’s happening with our climate,” he says, taking it for granted, as the globalist elite do, that we’re all totally on board with their doomsday prognostications.

“We all know that there’s a fundamental shift underway”, he goes on. By this, of course, he means the Great Reset, which he presents here as a fait accompli. Except it isn’t a fait accompli, is it? Did you vote for the Great Reset? Did anyone you know vote for the Great Reset? If this ‘fundamental shift’ really is underway then it’s certainly not something any of us asked for or planned for or should be expected to accept without demur.

But this is the bit where it gets really scary.

The technology exists to make that transition. What we’re missing is a force, a, er, a collective will to actually make that change, not in an incremental way. So our main focus is to identify key stakeholders whether from the corporate world, whether from the NGOs, who really get that and who really want to push the boundaries to do transformative work and to hopefully create an unstoppable force.

Note that at no point is Levene asking how best to give people what they want (ie the free market system which has made us more prosperous and given us more choice). Rather he is seeking a top down imposition of something he just knows is good for everyone whether they like it or not.

This is a remarkable admission that the thing lacking from the climate agenda is democracy, and that the likes of WEF and Davos man want to find a way around that problem without resorting to actually testing 'collective will'. https://t.co/TDZlbyI8wv

— Ben Pile (@clim8resistance) January 28, 2021

Davos likes to get its claws on them while they’re relatively young. Here’s another example – the future Chancellor of Austria pictured in 2015 with the World Economic Forum’s sinister, cat-stroking mastermind Klaus Schwab on a ‘Global Shapers’ course.

What was the pro-lockdown Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (2nd right) doing 5 years ago? He was with Klaus Schwab (3rd from right) & other ‘Global Shapers’ at Davos! All roads in this never-ending lockdown hell lead back to WEF. Kurz was a WEF ‘Young Global Leader’ like Macron https://t.co/BG9uyKevHV

— Neil Clark (@NeilClark66) January 27, 2021

Kurz is routinely described in the media as a ‘conservative’ and ‘right-wing.’ So far right, according to a German satirical magazine that his nickname should be ‘Baby Hitler’.

But on green issues and the lockdown, Kurz is in complete harmony with the Great Reset agenda. If he really is a conservative, he’s certainly not the sort that believes in free markets or freedom of choice. Rather, like so many of the world leaders paying online homage to the megalomaniacal Schwab at his Swiss mountain lair — Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, even Vladimir Putin — he’s just another tool of the globalist movement.

By the way, the video of Alexei Levene has had a grand total (at the time of writing) of four views on YouTube, while another one he made, two days ago, has zero views. Never EVER forget this: the Davos agenda is the agenda of a remote plutocratic elite which doesn’t give a damn for the interests of ordinary folk. We are many; they are few – and therein lies our only hope of salvation.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/29/delingpole-davos-is-a-madrassa-for-global-eco-fascist-tyranny/

U.S. Bishops Blast Biden over Reinstatement of Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has condemned President Biden’s reinstatement of taxpayer-funded abortions around the world, calling his act “grievous.”

“It is grievous that one of President Biden’s first official acts actively promotes the destruction of human lives in developing nations,” declare Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop David Malloy, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace in a statement.

“This Executive Order is antithetical to reason, violates human dignity, and is incompatible with Catholic teaching. We and our brother bishops strongly oppose this action,” the bishops state.

On Thursday, Biden signed an executive order allowing U.S. taxpayer funds to be sent to organizations that both “promote and provide abortions in developing countries,” revoking the life-saving Mexico City policy, the Bishops say.

The overturned policy had separated abortion from family planning activities and “ensured U.S. taxpayer dollars only went to organizations that agreed to provide health services in a way that respected the dignity of all persons,” the bishops observe.

“We urge the President to use his office for good, prioritizing the most vulnerable, including unborn children,” the bishops add, asserting that the Catholic Church stands ready to work with him to promote global women’s health in a manner that furthers integral human development, and respects the dignity of every human life, “beginning in the womb.”

“To serve our brothers and sisters with respect, it is imperative that care begin with ensuring that the unborn are free from violence, recognizing every person as a child of God,” the bishops conclude. “We hope the new administration will work with us to meet these significant needs.”

The mainstream media have presented President Biden as a “devout Catholic” who takes his faith seriously.

The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is an abominable crime and a sin so grave that the harshest punishment the Church imposes — automatic excommunication — is attached to it.

The Church also teaches that Catholic politicians have a “grave and clear obligation to oppose” any law that promotes abortion.

As Breitbart News reported Thursday, Biden’s executive order came the day after two national polls revealed that a majority of Americans back restrictions on abortion and support a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion overseas and domestically.

By denying the wishes of Americans, Biden is promoting the abortion industry and fulfilling his campaign promise, cited in a Planned Parenthood ad, to do “everything in my power” to defend and expand abortion rights.

Throughout the presidential campaign, left-wing Catholics sought to downplay the importance of the abortion issue in order to persuade their fellow Catholics to vote for Biden, despite the bishops’ insistence that opposition to abortion was the “preeminent priority” in the election.

One papal biographer, Austen Ivereigh, went so far as to call for a “reckoning” against pro-life U.S. Catholics who voted for Donald Trump, claiming that during the four years of Trump’s presidency there was “not a single unborn life saved.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/29/u-s-bishops-blast-biden-over-reinstatement-of-taxpayer-funded-abortions/

Swedish Politician Accidently Shares Manga Porn During Remote Meeting

A Swedish politician, allegedly a member of the ruling Social Democrats, was caught accidentally showing pornography to colleagues during a remote meeting in the city of Uppsala.

The incident occurred during a remote board meeting of the local city government and saw the unnamed politician accidentally share their screen with the rest of the participants in the meeting. the screen revealed the politician was allegedly browsing Japanese-style manga pornography.

“There were a lot of sex pictures, it was so rough that no one took it seriously. I thought we were hacked or something,” one of the participants to the meeting told Swedish broadcaster SVT.

The participant said the person later admitted to having shared their screen in error and told the broadcaster, “I think the person crossed the line. If you are at a political meeting where you are paid, you should have full focus on the issues and nothing else.”

SVT also spoke to the individual who showed the pictures to the meeting. The politician described the pictures as “manga pictures” and said they felt ashamed. The politician apologised and later resigned from their position on the board.

Sarah Havneraas, a local Christian democrat politician, identified the man as a member of the Social Democrats on Twitter saying, “Tips for all left-wing feminists who are looking for more to talk about: Social Democrat porn surfs at a paid committee meeting in Uppsala and happens to share a screen with all participants.”

“But maybe it’s ok because he was a Social Democrat?” she added.

The incident comes just months after CNN contributor and former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin was caught masturbating during a Zoom call with employees of the New Yorker and WNYC radio in October.

While Toobin was suspended from the New Yorker following the incident, CNN kept Toobin on as a contributor but noted that Toobin has chosen to take time off to deal with a “personal issue.”

A similar situation occurred in June of 2017 when former Vanity Fair editor Kurt Eichenwald posted a picture to Twitter with an open tab of Japanese-style manga pornography.

Eichenwald admitted to browsing the pornography, saying, ” Believe it or not, my kids & I were trying to convince my wife that ‘tentacle porn’ existed.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/29/swedish-politician-accidently-shares-manga-porn-during-remote-meeting/

Biden DoJ Reportedly Invites Former Big Tech Defender to Lead Admin's Antitrust Division

The great antitrust challenge of the next decade will be Big Tech, an arena controlled by a few consolidated players who wield massive power over who can communicate what message. That this power is used frequently and with an agenda goes without saying.

So naturally, the new Biden administration is meeting the challenge by hiring a lawyer who once represented Big Tech to lead one of the federal government’s key antitrust divisions.

According to a Thursday report from The American Prospect and The Intercept, attorney general nominee Merrick Garland wants Susan Davies, the lawyer who represented him during his failed Supreme Court nomination, to head up the Department of Justice’s antitrust division.

Davies, who also served under Garland during their time in the Clinton administration, represented Facebook in a 2012 lawsuit against the maker of a third-party app for the social media platform that relied on an advertising-based model to cover costs.

Facebook would ban the app and lure its clients away, according to Law360. Not only that, users had to disable all products by the app maker — Sambreel Holdings LLC — causing it to lose a million users within a week.

Davies is one of those rare picks who should aggravate both the right and left, even while it sounds all the right notes in the squishier parts of the establishment mire.

She represented Facebook in her capacity as a lawyer with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, described by The Intercept’s Ryan Grim and The American Prospect’s David Dayen as a “right-leaning firm” that was “at one point home to Robert Bork, a now-deceased conservative legal scholar and rejected Supreme Court nominee; Kenneth Starr, best-known for his role as independent counsel during Clinton’s impeachment and who has now joined Trump’s impeachment team; conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh; John Bolton, a former national security adviser for President Donald Trump; Alex Azar, Trump’s secretary of health and human services; and Trump’s Attorney General William Barr.”

They wrote that the rest of Davies’ client roster “is equally worrying to opponents of concentrated power, as she has spent most of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers, fending off antitrust enforcement, and, as her law firm bio puts it, ‘frequently interact[ed] with regulators and policy makers on behalf of corporate clients.'”

Facebook is one of two Big Tech firms being sued by the federal government over antitrust concerns. The Federal Trade Commission sued the social media giant in December, as CNBC noted, following its purchase of photo- and video-sharing social network Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp. (Google is also being sued by the DOJ.)

“Since toppling early rival Myspace and achieving monopoly power, Facebook has turned to playing defense through anticompetitive means,” the FTC’s lawsuit alleges.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2021/01/biden-doj-reportedly-invites-former-big.html

FDA Issues New Warnings on Hand Sanitizers — Hundreds of Americans Poisoned This Month

Last year there were numerous warnings and recalls on toxic, blinding, and deadly hand sanitizers. This included warnings that some brands were being mistaken for food or drinks due to misleading packaging. The FDA issued additional warnings this week.

From MSN:

Hundreds of Americans poisoned by hand sanitizer this month

More than half of hand sanitizers imported from Mexico contain dangerous levels of toxic ingredients and should not be used by consumers, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In January alone, more than 900 accidental poisonings involving hand sanitizer were reported in the U.S., the overwhelming majority involving young children.

The FDA on Tuesday issued a countrywide import alert for alcohol-based hand sanitizers from Mexico, the agency’s latest attempt to address a pandemic-induced spike in products contaminated with methanol, or wood alcohol. The substance, which in most cases is not listed as an ingredient on the labels, can be toxic when absorbed through the skin, and life-threatening when ingested.

“Although people using these products on their hands are at risk for methanol poisoning, young children who ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol substitute are most at risk,” the FDA noted.

The increased use of hand sanitizers has led to a surge in accidental poisonings, most involving children. According to data from the National Poison Data System, there were 938 hand-sanitizer exposure cases reported to the 55 U.S. Poison Control Centers during a 10-day period, from January 1, 2021 to January 10, a 57% increase from a year ago. Of those cases, nearly 600 involved children ages 5 and younger.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79116/fda-issues-new-warnings-on-hand-sanitizers–hundreds-of-americans-poisoned-this.html

Pentagon Says Date for Afghan Pullout Uncertain, Is Biden Rethinking Peace?

Pentagon accuses Taliban of failing to meet commitments

Questions about how US foreign policy is going to shake out between President Trump and President Biden have been the subject of a lot of speculation, and Afghanistan looks to be the first place this change will be addressed.

On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the pullout date from Afghanistan is now uncertain, and would be entirely conditional on the Taliban meeting a series of commitments. Press Secretary John Kirby insists the Taliban failed to meet a number of commitments.

They didn’t address specific grievances, but from the February 29 deal, it would be fair for either the US or Taliban to say that some of the terms were not met as expected. In general, the US and Taliban have avoided major fighting with one another, and the US pullout is at least on schedule so far.

President Trump was long ahead of pace on the pullout from Afghanistan, but it may have been a mistake for him not to wrap things up before the inauguration, particularly when Biden’s intentions were so unclear.

As far as Biden’s position goes, it was so unclear that the Taliban started holding up the intra-Afghan talks specifically to see if there was still a peace to be negotiated. They are no doubt still wondering.

Biden is the final decision-maker, but the military is emphasizing that he’s “reviewing” the process, and if he’s getting military feedback that could be a bad sign. In 2017 the military talked Trump out of ending the war, and seems every bit as pessimistic about the process now. If Biden went in waiting for what the military brass says, it could very well be another reversal back into Afghanistan.

This far into the pullout, it seems like it would take a lot less effort to complete Trump’s deal than return to a state of war that the US clearly isn’t winning, and 20 years later is finally on the verge of climbing out of.

It isn’t, after all, as if the US is claiming victory in Afghanistan’s impossibly long war, or has plans for such a victory. A negotiated settlement was the best there was to be had, and dragging it on longer probably is just going to further delay the deal that was the best they could ever get.

In selling this as the Taliban not living up to the deal, it would raise questions about the many US airstrikes on Taliban targets since then, also clearly in violation of the deal. It may have been an imperfect rollout, but it was the best anyone could hope for at this point.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/28/pentagon-says-date-for-afghan-pullout-uncertain-is-biden-rethinking-peace/

New US SecDef and Israeli Defense Minister Discuss Iran in First Call

Lloyd Austin vowed to uphold Israel's military edge

On Thursday, recently confirmed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held his first call in the new position with his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

According to a statement from Israel’s Defense Ministry, Gantz raised the issue of “Iranian aggression” with Austin, something Gantz said the two countries “need to deal with.” The call comes at a time of heightened tensions, with Israeli officials threatening to attack Iran if the Biden administration revives the nuclear deal.

The Pentagon said that Austin pledged to uphold Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge (QME) while speaking with Gantz. The QME is a commitment by the US to ensure Israel maintains military superiority over its neighbors.

Austin’s conversation with Gantz came the day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, who also brought up Iran.

President Biden has yet to speak directly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although he doesn’t seem to be in any rush now, President Biden said as a candidate that he would work with Iran to return to the nuclear deal, something Netanyahu is strongly opposed to.

Israeli sources told Axios that Netanyahu is hoping not to clash with Biden on the nuclear deal and is strategizing how best to influence the new administration’s Iran policy.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/28/new-secdef-and-israeli-defense-minister-discuss-iran-in-first-call/

Biden Administration Affirms Support for Protectionist Jones Act, Throwing Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans to the Sharks

Pandering to maritime unions means higher costs and harsher lives for coastal minority populations.

President Joe Biden may have said on the campaign trail that Puerto Rico should become a state, but that doesn't mean he supports laws that make it a viable, economically competitive state if doing so means angering maritime unions.

In an executive order signed Monday and in subsequent comments, Biden made it abundantly clear that he supports the Jones Act, a 1920 federal law that requires that cargo ships traveling between American ports be made in America and owned and crewed by American citizens:

The executive action I am taking also reiterates my strong support for the Jones Act and American vessels, you know, and our ports, especially those important for America's clean energy future and the development of offshore renewable energy.

The Jones Act is an absolutely terrible law, designed purely for protectionist measures, that shields maritime companies and unions in the United States from competition. The consequence of the Jones Act is that a foreign commerce ship that goes to states like Hawaii or Alaska or to territories like Puerto Rico can engage in domestic trade in only one American port. It can travel to other American ports but cannot take on or deliver goods unless it goes to a foreign port and then returns. A vessel from Japan that's heading to Los Angeles cannot also stop in Hawaii along the way and engage in commerce, despite the logical economic efficiencies in doing so.

Supporters of the Jones Act insist that these protections are necessary to sustain American jobs and to maintain a viable shipping industry. But those arguments are not supported by the data. In reality, as researchers with the Cato Institute have found, American shipyards have been in a long decline as a result, and most of the ships we build are almost entirely for use in our own waters. It's cheaper to build large vessels overseas than in America, but since they cannot operate in America due to the Jones Act's requirement, U.S. shipping companies can't buy them.

The end result for the shipping industry has been completely backward. America produces fewer ships, by weight, than much smaller countries like Italy and Germany. It also hamstrings American competitiveness in international shipping because it costs more to operate U.S. vessels than their foreign counterparts. U.S. ships engaged in international trade aren't bound by the Jones Act, but they're all also foreign built.

https://reason.com/2021/01/27/biden-administration-affirms-support-for-protectionist-jones-act-throwing-hawaiians-puerto-ricans-to-the-sharks/

Pfizer Admits Vaccine Does Not Prevent COVID

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/01/29/pfizer-admits-vaccine-does-not-prevent-covid.aspx

Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard watches a 17-year-old dance on a stripper pole in his private jet - before he relaxes in his 'orgy cabin' with a girl, as his videographer comes forward with new footage ahead of his sex trafficking trial

Newly released footage shows disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard hosting teenage girls at boozy parties on his private jet

A 17-year-old is seen dancing around a strip pole installed in the jet's cabin

It was filmed by Nygard's former personal videographer Stephen Feralio

He documented Nygard's life between 2011 and 2014

Feralio alleges the fashion exec would take a group of girls to a bed at the front of the plane for sex

He also filmed at Nygard's weekly 'pamper parties', which he claims were an opportunity to recruit his victims

One video shows Nygard, now 79, approaching a 16-year-old athlete at the 2012 London Olympics and attempting to get her number

Nygard is facing charges for allegedly assaulting dozens of women in a decades-long sex trafficking schemeShocking video shows disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard watching a 17-year-old girl dancing around a stripper pole in his private jet in 2012.

The fallen fashion executive is shown leering at the girl before the footage reveals his 'orgy cabin' at the front of the plane, where he would allegedly invite groups of girls for sex.

The videos were released by Nygard's former personal videographer, who has come forward with hours of behind-the-scenes footage showing Nygard's predatory behavior over three years – as he tried to recruit girls as young as 16 to be among his 'girlfriends'.Stephen Feralio was hired by the 79-year-old in 2011 and recorded hours of his 'pamper parties' - a Sunday ritual in which Nygard would invite groups of girls and women for beach, food and dancing in the Bahamas or Los Angeles.

Yet, he also allegedly used the parties as an opportunity to recruit victims, as Feralio reveals how he would be given the signal to stop filming as Nygard chose two or three girls to go up to his bedroom.

Feralio said he was also filming when Nygard singled out a 16-year-old runner at the 2012 London Olympics as a target, telling another woman he was traveling with to get the girl's number.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2021/01/disgraced-fashion-mogul-peter-nygard.html

How Can the Government Agency Certifying Elections (the EAC) Maintain Its Independence When Its CIO Previously Worked for 10 Years for Dominion Voting Systems?

A former Dominion employee for 10 years who represented Dominion in certifying its Pennsylvania implementation of its ‘Democracy Suite’ in 2017 now works for the government agency that certifies voting machine systems.

Jeff Carlson at the Markets Works created a report in November about the Voting Machine Certification Process:

An understaffed tiny federal agency and 2 private testing labs responsible for certification of nation’s voting systems

The fallout of the Nov. 3 elections has put the spotlight on the integrity of electronic voting machines used in the United States. In response, authorities have pointed to certifications of the machines as a safeguard against potential systemic problems with the voting machines and their software.

A deeper look into the certification process used for the machines, however, reveals that the main certification agency in the United States, the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), maintains an unexpectedly small staff, and one of its chief employees is a former executive of Dominion Voting Systems.

Carlson was referring to Jennifer Bowers who worked for Dominion for 10 years:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/can-government-agency-certifying-elections-eac-maintain-independence-cio-previously-worked-10-years-dominion-voting-systems/

Another fucking tranny

Dominion spokesperson confirms they have drafted a letter for Trump in case they add him to their $1.3billion defamation lawsuits

Voter machine company Dominion has drafted a letter to former President Donald Trump to preserve his records in case they pursue a lawsuit against him for his debunked claims of election fraud, a spokesman has said.

Company spokesman Michael Steel would not tell MSNBC's Deadline: White House if they were suing President Trump outright.

But he revealed letters would be sent to a 'number of figures, right-wing media outlets, and others, and we're making a decision on a case by case basis, building as we go.'

When asked if Trump was getting a letter, Steel stated: 'I believe so, yes.'

Following his loss of the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his proxies went on a massive campaign promoting false claims of election fraud involving the company's machines.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/01/dominion-spokesperson-confirms-they.html

Chinese National Charged with Criminal Conspiracy to Export US Power Amplifiers to China

Avnet Asia Admits to Criminal Liability for the Conduct of Former Employees, and Agrees to Pay More Than $3.2 Million

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-charged-criminal-conspiracy-export-us-power-amplifiers-china

It’s time for a government bailout of GME shareholders at $10,000 per share. This would be roughly equivalent to the $700 billion bank bailout in 08 that was necessary to prevent ‘systemic risk’.

The short positions put on by the hedge funds are posing a systemic risk to the market. Bail out both sides by liquidating the hedge funds, but not the brokers or clearinghouses, but also put a buy order in for $10k per share to allow GME shareholders to exit. Isn’t $700 billion better than a financial meltdown? Just like last time you can ‘put rules in place to make sure this won’t happen again’

In 2008 the banks held risky assets and got bailed out because they said the innocent normal people would be hurt even more if you didn’t bail them out, so the government did it.

We posed a risk to the liquidity of the hedge funds, brokers, and clearinghouses yesterday. By bankrupting them it would probably cause a temporary stock market crash as they liquidate their positions.

Are we not now in the same position as the banks were in 2008? Buy us out of our positions for $700 billion to save the rest of the market and the normal people right?

Edit because it got attention: if this ever was a reality it would in the form of a loan to clearinghouses and brokers to cover any losses up to $10k per share. They would have to pay it back over time. The government would get the money back and reimburse taxpayers, while at the same time collecting taxes from the gains of the retail investors. Long term the clearinghouses and brokers recover, the market continues to function, and then they never let hedge funds put on a risky play like that ever again. The hedge funds involved are deservedly bankrupt, and the retail traders get the reward they deserve by playing the free market game by the rules.

https://nationalpreview.com/its-time-for-a-government-bailout-of-gme-shareholders-at-10000-per-share-this-would-be-roughly-equivalent-to-the-700-billion-bank-bailout-in-08-that-was-necessary-to-prevent-syst/

Guard Has to Order from DC Restaurants After Food Contract Comes Up Short

A food contract between a supplier and the National Guard did not provide enough meals, forcing units still deployed to Washington, D.C., to buy local, Military.com has learned.

Because of the mix-up and shortage of meals, the Guard resorted to buying "a large quantity of various food choices off of the local economy," according to Army Maj. Aaron Thacker, a Guard Bureau spokesman.

There was never a risk of a food shortage, he emphasized.

"There are contingencies to the master feeding plan that are put in motion in the event that the primary feeding plan has an issue," Thacker said in an email Thursday, adding there were also "tens of thousands" of Meals, Ready-to-Eat on hand if necessary. Further details into how much the Guard spent on local restaurants and providers and how many members were given these meals over contractor-provided food were not immediately available.

Guardsmen were spotted eating Chick-fil-A this week. Thacker noted that the USO has partnerships with restaurants and other businesses and offered the Guard support, although this was not used for main subsistence.

"Corporations and other groups make donations to the USO … and the USO decides how to offer those donations as support to the military," he said. "[But] those donations are not a replacement for any food provided by the military – it is only a supplement to boost morale."

In an unrelated effort started early in the deployment, 18 restaurants around Capitol Hill donated meals to troops – from pizza to burgers to doughnuts. Some, including local chain We the Pizza, offered residents the chance to donate pizzas to the troops at $3 per head.

Nearly 26,000 Guard troops from every state and territory deployed to the D.C. region for President Joe Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration after a mob of President Donald Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The National Guard presence in Washington will decrease to about 7,000 by the end of this week, Gen. Dan Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said Monday, but about 5,000 will remain in the district until at least mid-March.

A contract solicitation from the D.C. National Guard published Jan. 16 shows the Guard's plan to provide "grab and go meals" for troops through the end of the month, as Guard numbers in the district drop week over week.

"The District of Columbia National Guard requests the procurement of meals for 25,000 personnel (22-24 Jan 2021), 21,000 personnel (25 Jan 2021), and 10,000 personnel (26-31 Jan 2021) activated in support of the current civil unrest within the district," the solicitation reads. "This includes three meals per person per day (Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner), to be delivered to the DC Armory, from 22-31 January 2021."

The claim that Guard troops were short of meals first surfaced on social media. In a since-deleted Nextdoor post, a northern Virginia resident asked neighbors whether they knew of any restaurants or organizations willing to work with the Guard to provide food, citing a lack of supplies that particularly affected troops self-isolating in hotel rooms after testing positive for the coronavirus.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/29/guard-has-order-dc-restaurants-after-food-contract-comes-short.html

Blast outside Israel’s New Delhi embassy damages cars; security raised worldwide

Nobody hurt in explosion apparently caused by a small improvised device; Israeli authorities treating it as a suspected attack

A blast outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi on Friday damaged cars but did not cause injuries, police said.

Israeli authorities were treating the explosion as a suspected attack aimed at the embassy, The Times of Israel has learned, and was stepping up security precautions at missions around the world.

“The assessment is that this was an attempted attack aimed at the embassy this evening,” Ambassador Ron Malka later told Channel 12 News, adding that the blast went off “a few dozen meters from the embassy walls.”

The district around the embassy was sealed off after the explosion and police and bomb disposal experts took over the scene.

A police statement described it as a “very low-intensity improvised device” that blew out the windows on three nearby cars and said a preliminary investigation “suggests a mischievous attempt to create a sensation.”

The New Delhi Television news channel said the explosive device had ball bearings wrapped in a plastic bag and was left on the pavement outside the embassy.

CNN India reported that police had found an envelope near the scene with the words “For Israel Embassy” on it. The report said police were not divulging the content of a letter inside.

There was no immediate police confirmation for either report.

Channel 12 reported that Israeli explosive experts andthe Mossad would be involved in the investigation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/explosion-outside-israeli-embassy-in-new-delhi-damages-cars-no-casualties/

Democrats ready to bypass Republicans on COVID-19 relief bill

Democrats are moving quickly to lay the groundwork for passing additional coronavirus relief, with or without help from Republicans.

The push comes as Democrats are under pressure to go big amid new data showing the economy shrank 3.5 percent last year with stubbornly high levels of unemployment persisting into 2021.

Democrats can muscle through a budget resolution, the first step for a coronavirus relief bill, with a simple majority in the House and Senate. Under a plan crystallizing on Capitol Hill, they are hoping to pass it through both chambers next week.

“Congress must pursue a bold and robust course of action to defeat the disease, recover our economy, get our country back to normal. … But if our Republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent and necessary legislation, we will have to move forward without them,” said Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the House would vote on its budget resolution next week and floated that moving forward could put pressure on Republicans to support the legislation. Senate Democrats haven't formally locked in a schedule, but Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said that next week was the “ambition,” and incoming Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he will be ready to go with the reconciliation instructions.

President Biden has pitched a $1.9 trillion proposal that includes a round of $1,400 stimulus checks, more help for state and local governments, funding for vaccines and schools and a boosted unemployment benefit. The measure also includes unrelated provisions like increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

But it’s unclear whether the entire bill could survive arcane Senate rules that determine what does, and does not, qualify under reconciliation. The budget process allows for bypassing the 60-vote legislative filibuster but also places limits on what can be included.

The wage hike appears most at risk of being jettisoned both because of Senate reconciliation rules and because, while Democrats are generally supportive of increasing the minimum wage, $15 an hour does not yet have the support of all 50 Democratic senators.

With an impeachment trial slated to start the week of Feb. 8, Congress is facing down an aggressive timeline to get the budget resolution through both chambers before it starts. After that, lawmakers will still need to draft the coronavirus bill, with the House out of session until late February.

Using the reconciliation process without any GOP support is already putting a spotlight on potential Democratic tensions because of slim margins in the House and Senate.

Progressives view the $1.9 trillion price tag from Biden as the floor for the size of the eventual bill, in a preview of the intraparty discussion that lay ahead if Democrats go it alone.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/536422-democrats-ready-to-bypass-republicans-on-covid-19-relief-bill

Major Security Issues w/ Hillary Clinton's Email Server–SCOTUS Fight Soon?

In 2020, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton sat down with Senior Attorney Ramona Cotca to discuss the Clinton Email Scandal–and what Judicial Watch is doing about it

https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/clinton-scotus-fight/