Cybersecurity expert in Lake trial: Ballot printers must have been intentionally tampered with

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer sought to dismiss a subpoena requiring his testimony at the trial, but the judge denied the motion.

A cybersecurity expert in the civil trial of Kari Lake's lawsuit testified Wednesday that the issues experienced with ballot printers at Maricopa County vote centers on Election Day had to have been intentionally caused by changing the printer settings.

The trial began Wednesday with the testimonies of Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, Maricopa County Director of Elections Scott Jarrett, and cybersecurity expert Clay Parikh.

Parikh, who has previously worked with election systems, testified that the settings on either the printers or the laptops at the vote centers that sent the ballot print jobs to the printers had to have been intentionally changed to cause the printer errors that were experienced on Election Day.

Jarrett explained under direct examination that the vote center wait times were based on prior elections, and calculated that voters would wait in line for about 30 minutes on average. He said that wait times included how long it would take voters to check in at the vote centers. The election director said under cross-examination by defendants' counsel that the average wait time for all voters was less than few minutes on Election Day.

When asked by Lake's legal counsel about reports from poll workers that wait times were over two hours, Jarrett said that those workers could make estimates, but unless they were timing voters, it was an assumption.

Jarrett also testified that there was no 19-inch ballot design for the 2022 general election, only the August primary, so ballot printers couldn't have printed the wrong ballot.

Richer was questioned by Lake's attorney Bryan Blehm about his responsibilities as the Maricopa County recorder, which include Early Voting ballots and ballots in drop boxes, including any early ballots dropped off on Election Day.

Under cross-examination by the defendants' legal counsel, Richer said that he had "absolutely not" done anything to make the ballot printers not print correctly or knew of anyone who did.

The second witness to be questioned by Lake's legal counsel is Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett.

After a decade of election failures in Maricopa County, election officials are on trial this week for their management of the 2022 election.

As the trial for Lake's lawsuit begins Wednesday against Maricopa County election officials and her Democratic gubernatorial opponent, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, Lake's legal counsel plans to also call Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates to testify about their handling of the 2022 election, according to a court filing on Sunday.

Both Hobbs and Richer sought to quash subpoenas for their testimony, but the judge overseeing the case denied their motions on Monday. Later on Monday night, Hobbs asked the judge to reconsider his denial of her motion. On Tuesday, Lake's attorneys withdrew their subpoena for her testimony. Lake didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

Lake's lawsuit was allowed to continue to trial after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson dismissed 8 of Lake's 10 counts against the defendants while leaving intact counts II ("Illegal Tabulator Configurations") and IV ("Ballot Chain of Custody").

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/kari-lake-lawsuit-maricopa-county-put-trial-after-decade-election-issues

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/eFfp9lUm6Qv1/

Fuckery afoot

US Government in Full Scale Implosion Because of Corruption – Catherine Austin Fitts

"There Is No Left & Right" - Austin Fitts Warns Corruption Out Of Control In "Spending Machine Financed With Our Taxes"

Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), says the U.S. government is so fraudulent that it will self-destruct much sooner than later. CAF predicts, “If you look at FTX, my question is how much of the money sent to Ukraine got laundered right back for the (2022 midterm) election? So, to me, Ukraine is not a destination point, it is a through put point. . . . At this point, and I hate to say it, but we are in full scale implosion. The corruption is that bad. That’s why I am telling you what we need is sovereignty. The federal government is not going to deliver. . . . The financial coup has reached a point where if you want sovereignty, the only person who can deliver that is your state governor and your legislature. . . . If you’ve got a great state AG, if you have great legislature, if you have a great governor, you better start supporting them. They are the people that can protect your sovereignty. You need governmental sovereignty if you are going to have individual sovereignty, and you better do it now. You have no time to be entertained by Joe Biden, Trump and Hunter Biden.”

The federal government corruption was turbocharged in 2019. CAF says, “While everyone was focusing on the teenage sex life of the Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh, the House, the Senate, the White House, Democrat and Republican, both sides of the aisle got together and approved Statement 56 of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) which said they could keep secret books. That was everybody—together. So, there is no Right vs Left. There is no Trump vs Biden. There is a machine in control of a spending machine that is financed with our taxes, and debt borrowed in our name, that is being sold into our pension funds and retirement accounts. . . . That machine, to keep balancing the books, is implementing a depopulation plan. That is the reality that has to be faced and changing the President won’t matter. . . . If you want to make real progress against the machine, you’ve got to talk turkey about where your money is going, who are the local leaders and who are your state legislators who are going to support you when this machine fails you completely. If it doesn’t fail you in 2023, it will fail you in 2024. So, you better be ready.”

CAF says a big trend in 2023 that is already underway is people realizing the CV19 injections were not meant to save you but harm and kill you. CAF say the CV19 injections were a bioweapon meant for depopulation, and everybody in America will know this in 2023. CAF says, “The mainstream media has done a good job painting a different picture, but at some point, you cannot defy reality, and that is coming out. We have already seen it translate into market action. We see life insurance companies trading down 30% and the funeral home business trading up 20%. That is a 50% divergence.”

CAF talks about the importance of physical gold and silver in the not-so-distant future. CAF also talks about using cash, growing clean food, paying down debts, Central Bank Digital Currency, places to live to weather the coming storm, taxes and the strength of binding together for sovereignty against the machine.

In closing, CAF says, “Get out of fear and stay out of fear. . . .You think a snowflake is weak and fragile until enough of them get together, and then they can shut down New York City. . . . If we can face it, God can fix it. Don’t go to fear.”

There is much more in the 1-hour and 5-minute interview.

https://usawatchdog.com/us-government-in-full-scale-implosion-because-of-corruption-catherine-austin-fitts/

https://rumble.com/embed/v1z2jl2/?pub=4

https://twitter.com/ArchbpVigano/status/1605563922228076546

Biden Announces Additional $1.85 Billion in Military Aid to Ukraine as Zelensky Arrives to Red-Carpet Welcome

On December 21, as part of President Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced $1.85 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $1 billion, as well as $850 million in assistance via the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).

The Presidential Drawdown is the twenty-eighth such drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine that the Biden Administration has authorized since August 2021. Capabilities in this package include:

One Patriot air defense battery and munitions;

Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);

500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;

10 120mm mortar systems and 10,000 120mm mortar rounds;

10 82mm mortar systems;

10 60mm mortar systems;

37 Cougar Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles;

120 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);

Six armored utility trucks;

High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);

Precision aerial munitions;

Over 2,700 grenade launchers and small arms;

Claymore anti-personnel munitions;

Demolition munitions and equipment;

Night vision devices and optics;

Tactical secure communications systems;

Body armor and other field equipment.

Under USAI, the DoD will also provide Ukraine with:

45,000 152mm artillery rounds;

20,000 122mm artillery rounds;

50,000 122mm GRAD rockets;

100,000 rounds of 125mm tank ammunition;

SATCOM terminals and services;

Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.

This is in addition to the $45 billion in aid to Ukraine written into the latest Omnibus spending bill making its way through Congress.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3252782/185-billion-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Negotiating Bail Deal While Being Extradited to US

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Wednesday agreed to be extradited to the United States.

Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas last week and charged with 8 counts of money laundering and fraud right before he was set to testify to Congress about his collapsed Ponzi scheme.

According to CNN, Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers are negotiating a bail deal to avoid detention while being extradited to the US.

CNN reported:

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried are negotiating with federal prosecutors in New York on a bail arrangement that would enable him to avoid detention, people familiar with the matter told CNN.

FTX crypto exchange founder Bankman-Fried, who oversaw his now-bankrupt empire from a luxury compound in the Bahamas, is expected to return as early as Wednesday to the United States.

In a hearing Wednesday morning, his lawyer in the Bahamas told the court that Bankman-Fried had agreed to extradition to the US, where federal prosecutors have charged him with orchestrating “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.”

Under questioning by a local magistrate, a disheveled-looking Bankman-Fried confirmed his decision to leave the Bahamas.

“I do wish to waive my right to formal extradition proceedings,” Bankman-Fried said in court.

The 30-year-old appeared to be holding a plastic bag of personal belongings during the hearing. Bankman-Fried gave his occupation as “entrepreneur and executive” and told the magistrate that his address was “a little unclear right now.”

Bankman-Fried last Tuesday told the magistrate he couldn’t go to jail because he’s a vegan and depressed.

The judge denied his bail and he was marched to an overcrowded jail in the Bahamas.

According to the New York Post, the correctional facility SBF was taken to, Fox Hill Prison, is infested with rats and maggots.

Bankman-Fried is facing 115 years in prison.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/new-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-negotiating-bail-deal-extradited-us/

Taliban Bans All Education For Afghan Girls, Ironically As Huge Pallets Of Cash 'Humanitarian' Aid Flown In

On Tuesday the Taliban suspended university education for all women, and Afghan girls promptly began being turned away from any college campuses, sparking limited attempts at protest.

But on Wednesday it emerged that the ban on education has extended to all levels and ages, even down to elementary schools, which has effectively been suspended for all girls.

Teachers too, have been impacted, as The Wall Street Journal reports, "In a gathering in Kabul with private-school directors, clerics and community representatives, Taliban officials on Wednesday also barred female staff, including teachers, from working in schools, closing off one of the few professions that had remained open to Afghan women under the new government, according to school principals who attended the meeting."

The new hardline Islamist Taliban laws are so sweeping that they go beyond school campuses, as women can now no longer visit mosques or religious seminaries.

Already there had been a long pause in girls' schooling following the August 2021 Taliban takeover of the country amid the large-scale US-NATO troop withdrawal, with secondary schools shuttered starting in March. More recently, in some locations many women had just passed college entrance exams and were ready to pursue higher education.

The WSJ is basing its reporting on a high-level Taliban meeting this week where the decision against women in schools at all levels was made:

According to attendees at the meeting, the Taliban said the ban on girls’ schooling would be temporary. However, during their first rule in the 1990s, the Taliban also said a prohibition on girls’ education that they had promulgated was temporary, but was never lifted it.

After the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, they closed schools across the country. Most schools eventually reopened, but girls in secondary school were told to stay at home until conditions—which the Taliban didn’t define—were ready for them to return to classes. The announcement to return to school never came.

The US State Department quickly condemned the "Taliban’s indefensible decision to ban women from universities" - though clearly the Taliban will remain undeterred as the expanded policy is being made known the following day.

Price warned of the further negative impact the decision will have on any Washington engagement with Taliban officials. "With the implementation of this decree, half of the Afghan population will soon be unable to access education beyond primary school," Price said.

Meanwhile, large pallets of what's been dubbed humanitarian aid has been showing up at Kabul's airport, after having been delivered from an undisclosed country or entity. Fox reported last week:

A large package containing around $40 million in cash for "humanitarian aid" was seen on an airport tarmac in Afghanistan, officials there said last week.

The money was handed over to the Da Bank of Afghanistan, the Taliban-controlled central bank of Afghanistan, which is headquartered in Kabul. The bank tweeted several images of the cash. One shows packages of U.S. $100 notes bound in plastic, boxed and bagged in an airport.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taliban-bans-all-education-afghan-girls-ironically-huge-pallets-cash-humanitarian-aid

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Paying for fear porn propaganda

This story is all over MSM minus the payment part

'What will you do for me?' Renowned Juilliard composer accused of soliciting sexual 'favors' from female students

The Juilliard School, perhaps the most prestigious fine arts conservatory in the world, is currently facing a long list of sexual misconduct accusations leveled at several high-profile faculty members, both past and present. One particular professor has since been placed on leave while an outside law firm investigates allegations of "decades-long abuse of women and power."

On Friday, Robert Beaser, 68, a current faculty member and former chair of the musical composition department at Julliard, was placed on leave after the school received an open letter, signed by 500 musicians and other artists, which claimed that Beaser solicited female students for sex throughout his lengthy career.

Beaser first joined the Juilliard faculty in 1993. According to the accusations, Beaser regularly hosted female students for private lessons at his residence. One former composition student, whose name has not been disclosed, claimed that Beaser made "repeated" sexual advances towards her. In one particular instance, Beaser offered her a promising career opportunity on the condition that she provide him sexual "favors" in return.

"What will you do for me?" he supposedly asked the student at the time.

"I knew that composition was a man’s field—I never had any allusions to it being different—and I knew how to play," the student wrote in a statement draft sent to the school. "So I sucked it up, and dealt with the reality as best as I could."

Other allegations against Beaser include repeated sexual advances and sexual relationships with students during the 1990s and early 2000s. As Julliard is an institution which serves mainly college-level and graduate-level students, romantic relationships between faculty and students would not necessarily be criminal in nature or even prohibited. However, pressure on students to offer sexual favors would likely be considered sexual harassment or sexual misconduct.

Beaser has agreed to "step away from his teaching duties" while the investigation unfolds, and on Sunday, Beaser told the Washington Post that he was "more than willing to participate in Juilliard's outside investigation in order to protect and defend [his] reputation."

Beaser is not the only Juilliard faculty member accused of sexual impropriety. Fellow composer John Corigliano has been accused of refusing to work with female students so that he might surround himself with more male students, ostensibly for romantic relationships. Corigliano denies the allegations.

"Such a position was neither my preference nor my policy," he stated. "I have taken great joy in working with many very gifted young women and men in my long teaching career."

Other former students have pointed fingers at late composer Christopher Rouse, who died in 2019. One female doctoral applicant claimed that Rouse attempted to kiss her after having dinner with her. The woman said her application to the school was rejected the day after she rebuffed him.

Juilliard spokesperson Rosalie Contreras confirmed that the school has hired an outside law firm to investigate the allegations. "Sexual discrimination and sexual harassment have no place in our school community," she said in a statement. "We take all such allegations extremely seriously."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/what-will-you-do-for-me-renowned-juilliard-composer-accused-of-soliciting-sexual-favors-from-female-students

Biden admin used taxpayer funds to 'sponsor' foreign journalists attending climate change 'reporting tour,' emails reveal

Last year, the Biden administration used taxpayer dollars to "sponsor" multiple foreign journalists to attend a virtual "tour" intended to educate them on climate change reporting, Fox News Digital reported.

According to internal emails obtained by Protect the Public's Trust, a government watchdog project, officials from Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry's office and the Office of Global Change exchanged emails in March 2021 discussing a proposal to sponsor international journalists.

The Foreign Press Centers, an agency within the Bureau of Global Public Affairs, was lined up to sponsor the reporting tour — "Combating the Climate Crisis Through U.S. Innovation." The FPC's mission is to further "global understanding of U.S. policy, society, culture, and values through engagement with foreign media." In addition, the department provides foreign news outlets with "authoritative American information sources."

High-ranking State Department officials, whose names were redacted, expressed interest in the program and referred to the idea as "fantastic" and "great."

"Jean Foschetti at the FPC mentioned this to me about a week ago," a State Department official wrote in an email. "Sounds like a great reporting tour idea; basically, the FPC will sponsor multiple foreign reporters to have experiences that educate them on reporting on climate change. Can EGC and SPEC take a look and clear?"

"Thanks for sharing … I think this sounds like a fantastic FPC (virtual) reporting tour and I'm looking forward to the stories that will come out of this," another State Department official responded.

When the State Department announced the program in 2021, it did not reveal that taxpayer dollars would be used to fund it or that foreign journalists would be "sponsored."

"The American public may be shocked but, unfortunately, not surprised to learn their taxpayer funds are being used to promote climate alarmism around the world," Michael Chamberlain, director of the PPT, told Fox News Digital. "The State Department should come clean about which foreign publications, articles, and authors they are forcing American taxpayers to fund."

The virtual reporting tour occurred in May 2021 and ran for two weeks. The tour was intended to "promote the Administration's goal of prioritizing the fight against climate change through global efforts to reduce emissions," the State Department stated.

According to the State Department website, 50 journalists were selected from over 125 nominations to participate in the virtual briefings. However, the department did not reveal which journalists or news outlets were sponsored by the program.

Journalists heard directly from government climate officials and were provided custom-created video content. Attendees learned about "foreign policy priorities on the climate crisis, with a focus on emissions, renewable energy, and U.S.-led research and innovation."

The State Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment, Fox News Digital reported.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-admin-used-taxpayer-funds-to-sponsor-foreign-journalists-attending-climate-change-reporting-tour-emails-reveal

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48 of 113 Ballots Reviewed During Kari Lake Challenge Were 19-Inch Ballots on 20-Inch Paper — THAT JAMMED THE MACHINES ON ELECTION DAY

Kari Lake will appear in court on Wednesday for her historic election contest trial against Maricopa County and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

Election Day tabulators across Maricopa County were not working in this year’s midterms.

Voters were told to put their ballot into a box under the tabulator so that their ballot may be tabulated at a later time downtown.

42% of the ballots (48 out of 113 ballots) examined by investigators in Arizona Election Challenge by Kari Lake were 19-inch ballots produced on 20-inch paper.

These ballots all jammed the tabulators on Election Day in Maricopa County.

The ballots were all printed at Runbeck Company, a printing corporation run by a very liberal Arizona family that strictly donates to Democrat candidates and causes.

The flawed ballots were handed out on Election Day when officials KNEW Republicans would come out in force.

72% of voters on Election Day were voting Republican.

Only 17% of the voters that day were voting Democrat.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/kari-lake-trial-25-year-cyber-security-expert-testifies-oath-using-wrong-size-ballots-election-day-caused-rejected-video/

FBI Says Twitter Infiltration Business As Usual , Slams 'Conspiracy Theorists'

The FBI has issued a statement in response to the Elon Musk's release of THE TWITTER FILES, which boils down to 'Of course we've embedded ourselves in social media companies, and anyone who has a problem with it is a conspiracy theorist trying to tarnish our stellar reputation.'

"The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our tradition, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.

As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.

The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public.

It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-says-twitter-infiltration-business-usual-slams-conspiracy-theorists

House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security

Democrat leadership blamed for ‘knee-jerk reaction’ and failing to equip police in security staffer’s email after tragedy.

House Republicans gathered a trove of text and email messages showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office was directly involved in the creation and editing of the Capitol security plan that failed during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and that security officials later declared they had been “denied again and again” the resources needed to protect one of the nation’s most important homes of democracy.

The internal communications were made public Wednesday in a report compiled by Republican Reps. Rodney Davis, Jim Banks, Troy Nehls, Jim Jordan and Kelly Armstrong that encompasses the results of months of investigation they did of evidence that had been ignored by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee. The lawmakers were authorized by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to do their own probe.

The report concludes the Capitol was left vulnerable on Jan. 6 as a result of failures by the Democratic leadership in the House and law enforcement leaders in the Capitol Police who allowed concerns about the “optics” of having armed officers and National Guardsmen visible to the public to override the need for enhanced security.

“Leadership and law enforcement failures within the U.S. Capitol left the complex vulnerable on January 6, 2021. The Democrat-led investigation in the House of Representatives, however, has disregarded those institutional failings that exposed the Capitol to violence that day,” it concluded.

It also corroborated prior reporting by Just the News that Capitol Police began receiving specific warnings in mid-December that there could be significant violence planned against the Capitol and lawmakers by protesters planning to attend the certification of the 2020 election results.

“Prior to that day, the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) had obtained sufficient information from an array of channels to anticipate and prepare for the violence that occurred,” the report noted.

You can read the full report here:

File

FINAL Report of Investigation.pdf

Banks said the GOP report helps counter a Democrat narrative that ignored security failures by police and political leadership, he said.

"Our report exposes the partisanship, incompetence and indifference that led to the disaster on January 6 and it the leading role Speaker Pelosi and her office played in the security failure at the Capitol," he said. "Unlike the sham January 6th Committee, House Republicans produced a useful report that will keep out Capitol and USCP officers safe with no subpoena power and no budget."

The report also does not sugarcoat the behavior of pro-Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-locates-emails-texts-showing-pelosi-office-directly-involved-failed

In Indonesia, nearly 200 children have died from contaminated syrup medicines. Others have been left with debilitating injuries

When baby Rayvan had a mild fever six months ago, his parents weren't too worried.

Like other toddlers, he had just had a measles jab and doctors prescribed paracetamol in a syrup form for babies.

But a week later, he was still unwell. His body started to swell and he couldn't urinate.

His kidneys had suddenly failed.

Very soon, he was admitted to the ICU ward with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).

"We had to put him on dialysis," his mother Resti Safitri says.

"It took a while before he could pee again. Once he could pee it was so dark, he needed a second dialysis. Then his blood was so thick it couldn't re-enter his body so he needed a blood transfusion."

Tests later showed the paracetamol was contaminated with two toxic compounds, ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol, which are dangerous in all but the tiniest amounts.

A once normal, bubbly baby – who was already crawling – was now seriously ill.

The toxicity in Rayvan's body has damaged his neurological system and caused cognitive impairment. Today he can barely move and has lost the ability to swallow properly.

"He can't bend his legs. He can't eat properly. He can only drink milk through a tube. He can't breathe without a device. His eyes are unresponsive," his mother says.

Doctors can't tell his parents if their son will ever recover.

But Rayvan is not an isolated case.

Families seeking answers and justice

Since August, hundreds more Indonesian children have suffered AKI after taking contaminated syrup medicines – some for coughs, others for fever.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-22/indonesia-children-acute-kidney-injury-contaminated-medicine/101798484

Penny Wong promotes ‘further dialogue’ with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, after raising trade blockages and the detention of two Australians

Foreign Minister Penny Wong anticipates further talks with Beijing despite raising several sensitive topics during her first face-to-face meeting with her Chinese counterpart.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has protested the detention of two Australians during her first meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, as the two agree to “high levels of engagement” in the future.

Ms Wong held a press conference in Beijing after a 90 minute long meeting with Mr Wang which covered a wide range of issues including “trade blockages” and human rights.

It was a landmark meeting - the first dialogue of its kind since 2018 - and pivotal for the Albanese government which continues to attempt repairing a strained relationship with China.

Held on the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Ms Wong told reporters that the two agreed to “further dialogue” in the future.

“I did set out our position on issues which I know are important to Australians and are important to the government,” Ms Wong said.

“Relevant consular matters, trade blockages, human rights as well as regional security, international security and norms which underpin our prosperity.

“We have agreed to maintain high level engagement and we’ve agreed to further dialogue in a range of those areas.”

Ms Wong discussed the topic of lifting trade barriers - on products such as wine, coal, beef and barley - which currently cost exporters roughly $20 billion a year.

“In the context of trade, there was a discussion about opportunities for further dialogue to work through how we might do, what I think is in the best interest of both countries and consumers … and certainly in terms of Australian exporters and Chinese consumers, and that is for the trade blockages to be removed,” she said.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/penny-wong-promotes-further-dialogue-with-chinese-counterpart-wang-yi-after-raising-trade-blockages-and-the-detention-of-two-australians/news-story/3b5ccb15da3c0a83946565f59827fcb7

Dr Kerry Chant issues a face mask warning as Covid spreads ahead of Christmas - here's where she wants you to wear one

Australians have been warned to wear face masks in certain settings

Dr Chant request people to wear masks in hospitals and aged care facilities

She emphasised that mask wearing in other settings is 'personal choice'

She urged residents to take care around those that are vulnerable and elderly

Australians have been warned to wear face masks in certain settings as Covid-19 continues to spread ahead of Christmas.

New South Wales chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said that while state had already reached its virus peak, it was still important to wear masks around those who are vulnerable to catching the virus, such as the elderly and those with pre-existing medical conditions.

'Wearing masks is an effective measure, but it is a personal choice, but think about those around you,' she explained.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11560223/NSW-chief-health-officer-Dr-Kerry-Chant-urges-Aussies-wear-masks-Covid-peaks-Christmas.html

tranny says mask up for Christmas

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