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#17227

>>13603238 Prince Harry joins entertainment royalty at 'Vax Live' concert to push vaccine equity

>>13603247 Critical Race Theory Illuminates Democrats’ Master Plan To End Honest Elections In America

>>13603249 CM : Reminder: You can’t have information security without physical security.

>>13603249, >>13603281, >>13603484 CM: The ALLEGED weighted race function is what many have claimed may have been used to give one candidate 1.2 votes for the other candidate’s 0.8 votes (Applying Standard Deviation)

>>13603249 CM: The AZ Senate needs to demand an explanation from DOMINION and Maricopa County about why they don’t have the password for the machines.

>>13603253 Biden omits the word 'God' from national prayer declaration

>>13603255 Direct correlation between vaccinated people and deaths

>>13603276 Divided We Stand: Why We Must Resist Political 'Unity', To call for unity is, in effect, to call for obedience

>>13603290 Simulation hypothesis

>>13603294 Questions Emerge On Swiss Diplomat’s Death In Iran

>>13603313, >>13603547 General McInerney & Maria Zack (60 mins)

>>13603431 Kennedy's Micro smile after touching nose (Cap)

>>13603432 Abuses under the Qui Tam and provisions of the False Claims Act Remedied

>>13603530 Maricopa County Treasurer Miscalculated, Schools Taxing Districts Overpaid

>>13603531 British Royal Marines have been practicing storming a ship at sea with jet packs

>>13603607, >>13603608 Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist

>>13603697 CAUTION - Autist Theory

>>13603722 Microchips? "We don't need no stinkin microchips!"

>>13603727 "Heavy Water Taste lately?" 'Have some jew news'?

>>13603733 World's First Intrastellar Freight Company? Harbor freight space program

>>13603755 This is not Ace Combat, There will Be No Catastrophic Meltdown Reports China - "Most parts of CZ-5B rocket debris to burn up in atmosphere, unlikely to cause any harm, China says"

>>13603791, >>13603813 WH EO's 404'ed? Is This Normal? Qnalysis

>>13603806, >>13603820, >>13603893 U.S. Central Command Tweets: Cruisers and Destroyers 8E 85 8/5 THOR

>>13603868 U.S. 5th Fleet Leadership Change

>>13603870 Ray Valenzuela from the Maricopa County Recorders Office: When we partner with Dominion, it’s not for them to run the election. …They’re just there contractually to support us on Election Day (Cap 1:11)

>>13603944 Fake News pounding 4am talking points: Three terrorists at Salem Border Police base on Friday morning before being shot by officers

>>13603985 #17227

#17226

>>13602486 H2-Q7 RNA profiling data generated by Mouse ENCODE project

>>13602497 Jen Psaki Stepping Down Next Year

>>13602579 Bar owner charged with selling fake coronavirus vaccine cards in one of the first cases of its kind

>>13602591 CNN the ‘biggest loser’ in post-Trump era, viewership halved

>>13602620 Internet Inventor Al Gore, Bans Trump From Internet for keks

>>13602642 Same Propaganda by FAKE NEWS again Indian Variant? It will NEVER END until we say stop it.

>>13602645 St. Louis Prosecutor Who Charged McCloskeys on the Verge of Losing Her Law License

>>13602682, >>13602684, >>13602686, >>13602689, >>13602692 COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..

>>13602687 CM: Former Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes knows a lot about Dominion Voting Systems. The internet is forever.

>>13602690 CM: What if Dominion employees were the admins for Maricopia County Election center?

>>13602695 CM: DOMINION right now for keks

>>13602704 CM: Eric Coomer Quote "Trump won't F..king win, I made sure of that"

>>13602719, >>13602994 CM: Something smells in AZ (Cap 0:28)

>>13602731 FAKE NEWS Melinda Gates Warned Bill About Jeffrey Epstein

>>13602760 Jonathan Bush, brother of President George H.W. Bush, dies

>>13602777 US Army Today is the 70th anniversary of the National Day of Prayer.

>>13602911 Jonathan Bush, brother of President George H.W. Bush, dies

>>13602873 Jim Jordan Says “Votes are There” to Oust Unhinged and Bitter Liz Cheney from GOP House Leadership

>>13602882 Watch Shady Ray Valenzuela from the Maricopa County Recorders office try to downplay Dominion’s role in Maricopa County’s elections.

>>13602896 Donald Trump Jr, Thoughts on Facebook's Decision on My Father's Ban (6:31)

>>13602911 Jonathan Bush, brother of President George H.W. Bush, dies

>>13602916 SF Mayor Announces $3.75 Million Redirected from Law Enforcement to Black Businesses

>>13602936 Pro golfer Dan Bowling tried to meet 15-year-old for sex: cops

>>13602963 CM: Prediction, Everyone learns that Dominion was running the show in at least Maricopa county?

>>13603037 Suspect 'possibly' in custody after FBI agents stormed the bank , St. Cloud, MN

>>13603045 Gates family without Bill escapes to safe haven? Needs further dig

>>13603117 PDJT serving up burgers (Cap 0:30)

>>13603160 Quake in Reno 5.1

>>13603202 #17226

#17225

>>13601870, >>13601888, >>13601930, >>13601899 It's the little things

>>13601793 900k Covid deaths in America? Gates-backed institute claims global coronavirus toll MORE THAN DOUBLE the official number

>>13601805 ‘They’re coming to kill us’: Canada’s Rebel News CANCELED by PayPal without notice, founder says

>>13601810 As Canada’s vaccine rollout sputters, Ontario & Manitoba premiers ask neighboring US states to inoculate essential workers

>>13601864 South Carolina Follows Montana In Ending All Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Programs

>>13601902 Biden’s Deputies Inivite More ‘Vulnerable’ Migrants Across the Border

>>13601913 Ashkenazi JEW Genetic Testing

>>13601934 Sephardic JEW Genetic Testing Now Available

>>13601951 Nearly Half of All U.S. Counties Are Now Second Amendment Sanctuaries

>>13602017 How China Treated 85% Of Their COVID-19 Patients Through Traditional Chinese Medicine

>>13602055 Enjoy the show anons, it's called Winning!

>>13602079 Meet Bishop Garrison: The Pentagon’s Hatchet Man in Charge of Purging MAGA Patriots and Installing Race Theory in The Military

>>13602095 JEWS ARE KHAZARIANs

>>13602110 Senior D.O.D Official: UFOs ‘Are Demonic & We Shouldn’t Be Pursuing Them’

>>13602152 Madcow freaking the fuck out

>>13602161 ALL MODERN JEWS ARE KHAZARIANS.

>>13602222 One spark will ignite the entire thing

>>13602351 #17225

#17224

>>13601441, >>13601498, >>13601518 JonDoodle is Comped

>>13600950 Nasty Partisan Professor Pamela Karlan, Who Shared Crude ‘Joke’ About Barron Trump Last Year, Is Behind Threatening Letter to AZ Senate This Week

>>13600958 Second Man Arrested In Case Of 10-Year-Old Girl Sexually Assaulted By 5 Men At South Side Motel

>>13600973 Jordan says 'votes are there' to oust Cheney from GOP leadership

>>13600984 Fundraiser Launched by Citizens of Windham to Raise Funds to Hire Their Own Auditor Jovan Pulitzer to City Audit!

>>13601006 Dr. Fauci is Funding Gruesome University of Pittsburgh Study Skinning Scalps off of Aborted Babies and Growing them on Lab Rats

>>13601013 Former CBP Chief: Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas ‘Turning U.S. into Sanctuary Country’ for Illegal Aliens

>>13601061 De Blasio rebrands wife’s $1B ThriveNYC — and makes program permanent

>>13601080 Teachers Union Head Defends Indoctrinating Children with Critical Race Theory

>>13601100 ARIZONA: Ward Wants Mail-In Ballot Signatures Verified, Cites Previous Finding That 6%-11% ‘Unlikely’ To Be Authentic

>>13601139 Facebook SUSPENDS Populist London Mayor Candidate for Vaccine, Lockdown Post One Day After Trump Ban Upheld

>>13601155 German, Italian Police Nab Alleged ‘Ndrangheta Members

>>13601171 OSS Baker - posts Notables exposing the Organized Jewish Cabal RICO-level Criminality.

>>13601277 McConnell Warns Lack of US Troops Will See Afghanistan ‘Overrun’ by Taliban

>>13601295 US Supports Ukraine's Entry Into NATO

>>13601397 "After reviewing the documents and accompanying reports, the Prosecutor-General ordered for Finance Minister Ali Shareef Al Emadi to be arrested and interrogated in relation to the reported crimes linked to public service, including assault of public funds and abuse of power," the prosecutor's office said in a statement, as quoted by the agency.

>>13601494 Amazon's Bezos Sells $2 Billion In Stock Days After Blowout Earnings Report

>>13601504 PF

>>13601570 #17224

#17223

>>13600409, >>13600492 “Why Are You Working So Hard to Shut the Audit Down? What Are You Hiding” – TGP Reporter Confronts AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs — Katie Hobbs Runs!

>>13600183 Celebrate #SpaceDay21 w officials across #USSPACECOM, including Gp Capt Darren Whiteley

>>13600239 CDC: 4,178 Americans DEAD Following Experimental COVID Injections – Deaths from COVID Shots now Equal 20 Years of Recorded Deaths Following Vaccines Since 2001

>>13600310 EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Mo Brooks: Tech Censorship Allows Evil to Thrive

>>13600317 Arizona Republicans hunt for bamboo fiber China ballots in 2020 ‘audit’ effort

>>13600327 Kenyan learns to use a smart phone

>>13600344 Arizona Republicans hunt for bamboo fiber China ballots in 2020 ‘audit’ effort

>>13600432 Alleged second Steele dossier on Trump emerges in British media as John Durham closes in

>>13600595 Australia loves its Jews, but nearly one in five question their loyalty, new survey shows

>>13600624 MEET GEORGE SOROS(Jewish)

>>13600649 Democrats are concerned about where you sit at a baseball game but not what happened to your grandparents in a nursing home during #COVID19.

>>13600668 James O’Keefe joined Pete Hegseth on Fox News to discuss Mainstream Media collusion with Big Tech

>>13600767 REPORT: School Board President Running ‘All-Ages’ Sex Shop Refused To Address Teacher Reading Trans Book To First Graders

>>13600789 Former Maldives president and now its parliamentary speaker narrowly escaped a suspected assassination attempt in the capital Male.

>>13600810 OAN Obtains Letter From DOJ Trying To Stop Arizona Audit

>>13600811 #17223

Previously Collected Notables

>>13599304 #17221, >>13600078 #17222,

>>13596858 #17218, >>13597639 #17219, >>13598455 #17220

>>13594533 #17215, >>13595310 #17216, >>13596116 #17217

>>13591784 #17212, >>13592712 #17213, >>13594103 #17214

>>13589736 #17209, >>13590345 #17210, >>13591040 #17211

>>13587359 #17206, >>13601623 #17207, >>13601960 #17208

>>13584966 #17203, >>13585749 #17204, >>13586566 #17205

>>13582568 #17200, >>13583440 #17201, >>13584166 #17202

>>13580318 #17197, >>13580999 #17198, >>13581782 #17199

>>13578289 #17194, >>13578674 #17195, >>13579933 #17196

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>>13320392 Q Research Notables #6

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>>13603987

>>13603998

BAKER requests Handoff

Kitchen is open

>>13604012

Tell the fairy to pick me up.

>>13604012

Going to check out side, brb

>>13604023

Would be best.

>>13604023

No fairy's but it was nice out.

fairies*

super tired

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>>13604037

No one is 17227 with nearly a full bread at 730 post and the other is 17228 with 17 posts

>>13604063

>>13604048

>>13604037

Reported the other bread

ty

>>13604076

growth and endurance, kek

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The good times are already here, everyday with all of you.

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>>13603987

>>13603998

>>13604011

BAKER requests Handoff

Kitchen is open

OR Ghosting in 20 posts

New Baker self confirm

Thank you anons

>>13604111

Always chasing the edge

Thanks for always humoring me anons

You will see me tomorrow

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>>13604136

enjoy the bake bakes

thanks

GAO Report on U.S. Nuclear Triad

May 7, 2021 6:12 AM

The following is the May 6, 2021 Government Accountability Office report, Nuclear Triad: DoD and DoE Face Challenges Mitigating Risks to U.S. Deterrence Efforts.

From the report

What GAO Found

The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to replace or modernize existing triad platforms including submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bomber aircraft, as well as many of the nuclear command, control, and communication systems that facilitate control of them (see below). The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to modernize its nuclear infrastructure to life extend and produce warheads and bombs. DOD will be challenged to meet some U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) operational needs with existing triad systems, shown below, through the end of their service lives. DOD must manage shortfalls in quantities of systems that it can field and capability limitations that reduce effectiveness of these systems. For example, the Navy will have to carefully manage resources to meet USSTRATCOM’s operational requirements for the Ohio class submarine. Further, DOE faces a long-term sustainment challenge with one of its bombs, the B83-1.

DOD and DOE are working to replace triad systems nearing retirement, but these replacement programs face schedule risks that could exacerbate challenges with existing triad systems. Replacement programs have risk factors that include concurrency between phases of acquisition programs from development through production, immature technologies, and limited schedule margin. For example,

The Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program includes limited schedule margin for testing, and if it fails a major test event it would likely delay initial fielding.

The schedules for DOE’s life extension programs are highly dependent on the availability of suitable facilities to manufacture, assemble, and assess bomb and warhead components. However, many DOE facilities needed for these efforts are outdated or obsolete, as more than half of DOE’s facilities are over 40 years old.

DOD and DOE have limited ability to mitigate risks to the efficacy of the nuclear deterrent with their current strategy, and are beginning to consider alternatives.

https://news.usni.org/2021/05/07/gao-report-on-u-s-nuclear-triad

>>13604285

>>13604300

Jason Miller

Stefanik, eyeing House GOP leadership role, scoffs at donor class and talks up Arizona audit

https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1390621199848415232

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Stefanik, eyeing House GOP leadership role, scoffs at donor class and talks up Arizona audit

by Emily Brooks, Political Reporter | | May 06, 2021 03:57 PM

Rep. Elise Stefanik couldn’t have chosen a more potent outlet to make her case for replacing Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney as the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference: Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast.

In one of the first major interviews since the 36-year-old New York congresswoman became the favorite of former President Donald Trump and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise to be the new No. 3 House Republican, Stefanik leaned into asserting the need to investigate election systems and scoffed at those in the free-market donor class who are opposed to her candidacy.

Stefanik’s choice of show, hosted by an architect of Trump’s 2016 campaign working to keep the “America First” ideology alive, was in itself a refutation of Cheney, whose frequent quips criticizing Trump and his election fraud claims have frustrated the rest of her conference to the point of preparing to oust her.

Cutting to the crux of frustration that is spurring a second Cheney removal attempt, Stefanik explained her decision to join in objecting to the election results from the state of Pennsylvania on Jan. 6.

“There was unprecedented unconstitutional overreach. You had a number of states where there were unelected judges and bureaucrats who were rewriting election law in real time,” she said.

Stefanik talked about her alma mater Harvard removing her from a university advisory committee over her Pennsylvania objection: "I've experienced cancel culture at Harvard."

And she gave a thumbs-up to a Republican-commissioned audit and recount effort underway in Arizona, which a Department of Justice official wrote on Thursday might violate federal law.

“I fully support the audit in Arizona,” Stefanik said. “We want transparency and answers for the American people. What are the Democrats so afraid of?”

“It's not just Arizona,” she continued, noting the monthslong legal battle to determine a winner in New York’s 22nd Congressional District, which Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney narrowly won. “There were major, major issues. Ballots that were mislabeled. The judge was beside himself about many of the mistakes that were made in the absentee ballot process.”

Underneath a wave of high-profile support for Stefanik is an underbelly of opposition to making her the new conference chairwoman, a position that is supposed to be focused on messaging, questioning her conservative credentials.

The economically free-market, free-trade Club for Growth, whose political action committee spent more than $66 million supporting or opposing candidates in the 2020 election cycle, tweeted against the congresswoman on Wednesday.

“Elise Stefanik is NOT a good spokesperson for the House Republican Conference. She is a liberal with a 35% CFGF lifetime rating, 4th worst in the House GOP. House Republicans should find a conservative to lead messaging and win back the House Majority,” the group said.

Cheney, for comparison, had a 65% rating on the group’s 2019 scorecard, while high-profile Freedom Caucus members Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Chip Roy of Texas had 100% ratings. Cheney also scored higher than Stefanik in American Conservative Union and Heritage Action rankings.

Bannon referenced the Club for Growth's opposition to Stefanik in his interview when talking about getting tough on the Chinese Communist Party on the origin of the coronavirus, particularly its relation to a Wuhan laboratory. “The donors, clearly, are not enthusiastic about supporting that,” he said.

“I don't really care about the donors’ viewpoint on this issue,” Stefanik responded. “I care about the impact on the American workers, and no one was hurt more from the COVID pandemic.”

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Right-wing populist types dismiss the scorecards that show Cheney getting higher marks than Stefanik, arguing that the measures used to create the conservative scorecards do not include “America First” principles.

But more factions on the libertarian-right are not buying that Stefanik can seriously take on the establishment.

“Warmonger Rep. Liz Cheney deserves to be removed, and the Republican establishment pulled off a real feat: finding the one swamp creature in Congress even worse to replace her,” said Eric Brakey, a spokesman for libertarian youth organization Young Americans for Liberty. “She is a big spender who supports welfare for dictators, mass surveillance on the American people, and forever wars in the Middle East. Not only is Rep. Stefanik ranked less conservative than Rep. Cheney, but she’s also less conservative than many Democrats in Congress.”

Brakey also said that Stefanik ”tried to recruit a primary challenger against liberty champion Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky” — a charge made in 2019 that Stefanik’s team denied at the time but that the group stands by. Cheney, as it happens, also supported a challenger to Massie in the 2020 primary, a move that frustrated some in her caucus and helped fuel discontent with her leadership that led to the first attempt to remove her as the GOP conference's leader.

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And here is the third wave, looking at the finish line

Germany’s third COVID wave ‘appears broken’, health minister says

Germany’s health minister has hailed a drop in coronavirus transmission rates in the country, citing physical distancing measures and an accelerating vaccination campaign.

“The third wave appears to be broken,” Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday during a weekly news briefing on Germany’s pandemic management.

Spahn’s comments came as the head of the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases, Lothar Wieler, confirmed the incidence of COVID-19 infections was falling across all age groups in the country.

The institute recorded 18,485 new infections in the 24 hours leading up to Friday, compared with 27,543 during the same period two weeks ago.

Germany has recorded more than 3.5 million coronavirus infections and 84,410 deaths since the start of the pandemic last year.

Spahn said the rate of infection had been driven down by efforts to reduce social contact and travel in recent weeks.

He also cited the rapid increase in vaccinations as a contributing factor. Mass immunisation efforts had initially got off to a sluggish start.

Spahn said about 26.2 million people, or about 31.5 percent of the German population, have now received at least one dose of vaccine. Almost nine percent have received a full dose of two shots.

About 900,000 people received a dose on Thursday, putting Germany “in the fast lane” by international comparison, Spahn said.

Germany gives all-clear to AstraZenecea

In a push to accelerate the vaccination drive, health authorities on Thursday allowed the shot from AstraZeneca to be given to all adults – reversing earlier curbs imposed after reports of rare cases of blood clotting.

The decision followed moves by several German federal states to allow people to get the AstraZeneca vaccine, in consultation with their doctors.

“We are convinced that this offer is attractive for those who would otherwise not get vaccinated so quickly,” said Spahn, adding that one million doses of the jab would be delivered to doctors’ practices next week.

But despite the apparent progress in curbing infections, Spahn warned against reopening some areas of public life too quickly, cautioning any such move would “bear a risk”.

Some of Germany’s 16 states have begun allowing limited tourism and outside dining again.

Spahn said Germans would need to endure “weeks or a few months” of restrictions yet in order for the country to fully get on top of the pandemic.

Legislation passed last month enabled the federal government to impose strict curbs including nighttime curfews, shutdowns and contact restrictions in areas where cases exceed 100 per 100,000 residents on three consecutive days.

Even stricter measures can be applied in areas where recorded cases rise above 165 per 100,000 people.

Four of Germany’s states – Brandenburg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein – are now under the key threshold of 100 cases per 100,000 people, according to data compiled by the Robert Koch Institute.

Three others – Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – are also getting close to breaching that figure.

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