Why Is Election Denier Stacey Abrams Overseeing Elections In Nigeria?

It's an odd case of juxtaposition. A politician well known for refusing to accept election outcomes based on dubious claims is now helping to oversee the "integrity" of elections in an unstable foreign nation like Nigeria.

Democrat and failed Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams is famous for her hypocrisy when it comes to accusations of election rigging while attacking conservative candidates for also questioning elections. Abrams refused to concede to Republican Brian Kemp after the Georgia election results of 2018, claiming that the election was stolen due to voter oppression tied to discrimination. She specifically targeted rules restricting some mail in ballots and absentee ballots. Federal courts ruled that there were no grounds for her accusations.

Abrams has long been an avid defender of absentee ballot harvesting tactics and claims rules against the practice are "race related." The methodology of ballot harvesting has long been a boon for Democrats in the US as a means to secure election wins through absentee votes, which are collected by political operatives from people's homes and then delivered to polling places. Suspicions over ballot harvesting and the potential for vote rigging within the chain of custody have been the cause of numerous election conflicts, including conflicts over the 2020 presidential election.

The former governor's candidate is also known for her aggressive opposition to voter ID laws designed to prevent non-citizens from casting in US elections.

Abrams is, strangely, now in Nigeria, joining the National Democratic Institute (along with the National Republican Institute) on a mission to observe elections and encourage voter participation. The diplomatic initiative includes a contingent of globalist think-tank representatives from institutions like the Atlantic Council and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which is heavily involved in diversity and equity programs similar to ESG efforts.

The NDI/NRI are focused on convincing younger voters to appear at polling stations, which seems to be a fair mission. However, with widespread delays and attacks on some polling stations, there are questions of corruption and foreign interference. The groups involved in the effort are predominantly concerned with the spread of globalist policies.

Why Stacey Abrams and why Nigeria? It's hard to say, but one of the major candidates for President of Nigeria is Bola Tinubu, a member of the socialist All Progressives Congress party, and Tinubu has some ties to Barack Obama, just as Abrams is a close associate of Barack Obama. While Joe Biden's interest in Tinubu is less certain, his former boss and the Democrat Party asked the Nigerian socialist to attend the Democratic National Convention in 2012, allegedly offering him a "gold card invitation". The circumstances surrounding the level of favor garnered by Tinubu's DNC invitation are debated.

The leftist oriented Woodrow Wilson Center, which as noted is part of the NDI election oversight operation in Nigeria, has also taken a special interest in Tinubu, inviting him to speak in 2014 on the value of the Opposition Parties in "progressing" Nigeria.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-election-denier-stacey-abrams-overseeing-elections-nigeria

CDC Spreads False Information About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring

A top U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official gave false information about COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring to the agency’s vaccine advisory panel, and a spokesperson for the agency refused to correct the misinformation.

Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, presented on COVID-19 vaccine safety to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Feb. 24.

Shimabukuro went over updates to the safety signal for ischemic stroke following Pfizer bivalent booster vaccination that CDC officials detected in one of the agency’s monitoring systems.

After sharing the updates, Shimabukuro made the false statement.

“No safety signals were detected for ischemic stroke for the primary series or monovalent boosters for Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. and global monitoring,” Shimabukuro said.

That’s not true. The CDC identified ischemic stroke as a safety signal following Moderna and Pfizer vaccination after analyzing reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a different system, which the agency co-manages.

Asked for comment, Shimabukuro did not respond. But a CDC spokesperson doubled down on the false claim.

“The statement from Dr. Shimabukuro’s slides is correct. There have not been any safety signals detected at this time in the U.S. for ischemic stroke for the primary series or monovalent boosters,” Katherina Grusich, the spokesperson, told The Epoch Times in an email.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cdc-spreads-false-information-about-covid-19-vaccine-safety-monitoring

In pictures: Homes burn and cars are torched as Israeli settlers take 'revenge' in West Bank

Israeli settlers rampaged across towns in the occupied West Bank, torching cars and burning buildings

Fire rises above the town of Huwwara, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on Sunday evening.

Israeli settlers rampaged through towns in the area on Sunday evening in revenge attacks after two Israelis were killed, burning and attacking Palestinian homes and property for hours.

At least one Palestinian was killed and nearly 400 wounded in the attacks, Palestinian health officials said.

In the main photo, cars burnt out by settlers are seen from a broken window.

A man stands in front of the burned remains of his home and his car in Huwwara, in the occupied West Bank.

Two Israeli settlers were killed by a Palestinian near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, according to Israeli officials.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-huwwara-west-bank-settler-revenge-pictures

UKRAINIAN NAZIS HUNT EMERGENCY WORKERS IN DONETSK (VIDEO 18+)

Emergency service officers in the city of Donetsk described the terrorist tactics of the Ukrainian military. After Ukrainian soldiers shell the city, they wait until the rescue crews arrive to help civilians and shell the same areas again. This is the way the Ukrainian military has been hunting people who have been saving lives of civilians during the eight years of war in the Donbass.

For example, on February 23, Ukrainian Nazis launched precise strike with the US-made HIMARS MLR on the ambulance in the city of Donetsk. Ukrainian terrorists used the same inhumane tactics of the repeated fire.

As a result of the attack, four members of the ambulance staff were killed, including two young women. Ukrainian terrorists intentionally killed four ambulance employees who came to rescue a wounded woman as a result of the first round of shelling.

The Nazis coordinated fire with a drone and clearly designated their target. The Nazis proudly shared the video online. It was also broadcasted by the Ukrainian TV, showing another “victory” of the Nazi regime.

https://southfront.org/ukrainian-nazis-hunt-emergency-workers-in-donetsk-video-18/

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TOP EX-CIA OFFICIAL: U.S. GOVERNMENT-&-PRESS NOW CONSTANTLY LIE FOR MORE WARS

The former Chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy branch of the CIA, who became the CIA official that in the early 2000s informed America’s President every day and answered his questions about the latest intelligence reports, addressed the U.N. Security Council on 21 February 2023, and he revealed to them that the U.S. Government knew in 1995 that Saddam Hussein’s entire WMD program and stockpiles were destroyed by Saddam’s people who had built it, destroyed under Saddam’s own command for them to do so, but that the CIA was lying to the public to allege that Iraq still constituted a WMD danger to the world, or at least to express doubts, about whether it still did have WMD. (I wrote even more conclusively about President G.W. Bush’s personal involvement in the deception about this, here.) The retired CIA official, Ray McGovern, who had been reading to President Bush the Daily Intelligence Brief and so knew that this U.S. President was lying to the public about what the CIA knew, told the U.N. Security Council on February 21st that the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent report that and how the current U.S. President, Joe Biden, had made his decisions to destroy, and had overseen the destruction of, the two Nord Stream natural gas pipelines from Russia to the EU, is, according to McGovern’s sources, like all of Hersh’s prior reports had been: impeccable in its methodology and sourcing and extremely credible though it contradicts the U.S. Government’s lies.

Because Mr. McGovern was addressing the U.N. Security Council, which consists primarily of the U.S. Government and its allies, his presentation was generally contradicted by others there (without supplying any evidence — they had no case other than that they were saying Hersh’s article is just a bunch of lies — which the U.S. representative there stated unequivocally), and the U.N. is sufficiently beholden to the U.S. Government for its funding so that McGovern’s statement made apparently no impression there. In fact, the U.N.’s official summary of the proceedings contains separate summaries of each one of 16 presentations that were made, excepting only McGovern’s and Jeffrey Sachs’s (which was also supportive of Hersh’s article). Whether that was despite, or instead because, his was by far more important and evidentially relevant than all of the 16 presentations which were listed, can only be guessed. Though Jeffrey Sachs’s presentation was likewise supportive of Hersh’s article, it had no evidence of his own to supply regarding the matter. All of the other presentations were varying degrees of rejection or conditional support of Hersh’s article. If the presentations by McGovern and Sachs weren’t summarized because they aren’t public officials, then why did the U.N.S.C. even include them?) However, for any member of the general public, McGovern’s statement — unlike any of the others — comes from a person who has impeccable credentials to speak precisely and with some personal authority about these matters, and clearly does present strong evidence that the U.S. Government will do practically everything to increase the chances of war wherever and whenever it can do so, and that the U.S. Government routinely lies to the public in order to foment and perpetrate wars. So, McGovern’s testimony there was historically very important. Maybe that’s the reason they excluded to summarize it in their summary — so that the U.S. team’s lies that were being exposed by his presentation would not be known to individuals who read only that summary of the proceedings.

https://southfront.org/top-ex-cia-official-u-s-government-press-now-constantly-lie-for-more-wars/

LastPass Vault Breached via Employee's Home Computer, Giving Keys to the Kingdom to Hackers

Millions of LastPass users may be at risk after a major breach of the home computer of one of their top employees. This employee was only one of four people in the company with access to their corporate vault. The breach may have come through a home Plex media account, according to Ars Technica, and appears to have been perpetrated by the same hackers who breached LastPass security on a smaller scale last August. At about the same time, Plex’s security was also breached.

LastPass is a program that allows you to store multiple passwords in a single account accessed by a single password. So by getting the keys to the kingdom at LastPass, the hackers may have gotten the keys to the kingdom of millions of users as well.

Chrome’s blurb for this browser add-on gives some idea of the risks users face. “LastPass, an award-winning password manager, saves your passwords and gives you secure access from every computer and mobile device. LastPass puts you in control of your online life – making it easy to keep your critical information safe and secure so you can access it whenever you want, wherever you are. Save all your passwords, addresses, credit cards, and more in your secure vault, and LastPass will automatically fill in your information when you need it.”

According to LastPass, “The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA (Multifactor Authorization), and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” According to their report hackers got, “decryption keys needed to access the AWS S3 (Amazon Web Service) LastPass production backups, other cloud-based storage resources, and some related critical database backups.”

Two months ago, Last Past said that in their previous hack, the perpetrators had obtained both encrypted and plaintext data from their customer vault and the ability to copy customers’ encrypted data.

While hackers usually wait for up to two years before attempting to access personal accounts that have been breached, there is little to be gained by waiting. For LastPass users, it may be time to switch up your passwords. A word to the wise is sufficient.

Unrelated is another reminder of how vulnerable online data can be. There was a major ransomware hack of the U.S. Marshals Service last week. Data collected includes returns from legal processes, information on people being investigated, fugitives, and some employees. There is no word on whether the ransom was paid. But the information would be of more than passing interest to criminal elements at home and around the world.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gregbyrnes/2023/02/28/lastpass-vault-breached-via-employees-home-computer-giving-keys-to-the-kingdom-to-hackers-n1674308

The Only Thing Conspiratorial About The Covid Lab-Leak Theory Was Media’s Coordinated Dismissal Of It

This week, Democrat activists posing as journalists were forced to admit a hard truth millions of Americans have known for years: The outbreak of the Covid-19 virus most likely came as the result of a lab leak in China.

On Sunday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Energy Department had recently provided a classified memo to the White House and several members of Congress concluding “the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.”

“The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research,” the report reads. “The FBI previously came to the conclusion that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab leak in 2021 with ‘moderate confidence’ and still holds to this view.”

Within hours of the Journal report’s release, corporate media outlets, from CNN and NBC News to The New York Times and The Guardian, dutifully regurgitated the Biden administration’s findings. The Narrative™ is changing, so regime media are taking their cues.

Conservatives, who had considered evidence of a possible lab leak from the beginning, have seen this routine before and remember well the coordinated squelching of a dissenting origin theory. We know exactly how these same self-professed truth-seekers went out of their way to accuse anyone who considered the possibility that Covid leaked out of a Chinese lab of promoting a “debunked” “conspiracy theory.”

“This question about the Wuhan lab — we know it’s been debunked, that this virus was man-made or modified or anything like that,” then-MSNBC host Kasie Hunt previously said. “The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Is A Conspiracy Theory, Not Science,” a June 2021 headline from Forbes reads. Other outlets that attempted to dismiss the theory include NPR, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, CNN, NBC, and The New York Times, just to name a few.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/28/the-only-thing-conspiratorial-about-the-covid-lab-leak-theory-was-medias-coordinated-dismissal-of-it/

NSW premier calls for end of COVID vaccine mandates, says they have no impact on transmission

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has called for the end of broad COVID-19 vaccine mandates in his state, saying the jab has no effect on transmission.

Public health orders mandating vaccines for health professionals expired in November but some workplaces can require mandatory vaccination under their own applicable work, health and safety obligations.

https://canberraweekly.com.au/nsw-premier-calls-for-end-of-covid-vaccine-mandates-says-they-have-no-impact-on-transmission/

Finland begins building 200 kilometre fence along Russian border

Finland has begun constructing its planned 200 kilometre fence on the Russian border, amid fears within Helsinki that Moscow could use migrant flows at the frontier for political purposes.

Key points:

The fence is expected to cost about $597 million

Russia and Finland share a 1,300 kilometre border

The fence is designed to stop large-scale illegal entries from Russian territory

Terrain work began on Tuesday "with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March", the Finnish Border Guard said in a statement.

The 3 kilometre pilot project at the south-eastern border crossing in Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, it added.

Construction of a further 70 kilometres, mainly in south-eastern Finland, will take place between 2023 and 2025.

In total, Finland plans to fence 200 kilometres of its 1,300-kilometre border with Russia at a cost of about 380 million euros ($597 million).

The fence will be over 3 metres tall, with barbed wire at the top and particularly sensitive areas equipped with night-vision cameras, lights and loudspeakers.

At present, Finland's borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences, mainly designed to stop livestock from wandering to the wrong side.

Fearing that Moscow could use migrants to exert political pressure on Helsinki, Finland passed new amendments to its Border Guard Act in July to facilitate the erection of sturdier fences.

Although the Finland-Russia border has "worked well" in the past, Brigadier General Jari Tolppanen told AFP in November that the war in Ukraine had changed the security situation "fundamentally".

He said the border fence was "indispensable" to stop large-scale illegal entries from Russian territory.

Finland saw an influx of Russians in September after President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine.

Estonia, Latvia and Poland have also increased security on their borders with Russia or are planning to do so.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-01/finland-begins-200-km-fence-build-along-russian-border/102036830

Texas sheriff warns that America is experiencing a 'silent invasion' of military age men

Once they arrive in major U.S. cities, they are embedded with gangs and or cartel affiliates acting like a "Trojan horse," Coe said.

“We’re experiencing a silent invasion of military age men,” Coe told The Center Square when describing what his deputies have been increasingly facing over the past two years.

He spoke with The Center Square during an Operation Lone Star task force multi-day operation during which law enforcement officers rescued foreign nationals from a burning vehicle and revived a five-year-old girl being smuggled who’d been stashed inside of a car’s trunk.

The “silent invasion,” Coe said, is being committed primarily by single, military age men between the ages of 17 and 45 who are illegally entering the U.S. They’re wearing camouflage and carrying backpacks, according to video captured by cameras placed throughout the county viewed by The Center Square. Many are armed and dangerous, committing robberies and engaging in shootouts with law enforcement, Coe said.

The men are believed to be working or associated with Mexican cartels. Once they arrive in major U.S. cities, they are embedded with gangs and or cartel affiliates acting like a “Trojan horse,” Coe said. “They set up in our cities, take over through voting and or crime, and scare the local people who move out. It’s happening in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio,” he said, where crime has also exponentially increased over the last few years.

He said, “You can win a lot of battles without getting violent,” referring to the “silent invasion” as an act of war against the U.S. by Mexican cartels.

Coe last month sent out an SOS asking for help from other counties to apprehend human smugglers in his small border county of roughly 3,000 people. In response, law enforcement officers from 20 agencies participated in a days-long operation during which The Center Square participated in a ridealong.

As soon as the task force got started, officers were engaged in smuggling pursuits. He said, “the more people we have, the more effective we’ll be” at pushing smugglers and gotaways “out of the area.” Gotaways are those who illegally enter the U.S., don’t request asylum or make other immigration claims, and intentionally evade capture.

A retired Border Patrol agent, Coe took office Jan 1, 2017, and says he’s never seen what’s he seeing now in his entire life. Things first started getting bad after President Joe Biden altered border security and immigration policies, and have only gotten worse since, he said.

In 2022, for example, his deputies made 877 arrests, filing 3,057 felony charges. Of all the criminal cases filed that year, 927 were immigration-related involving illegal foreign nationals or smugglers, he said.

While these numbers are unprecedented, the number of people who got away are even greater. Detected on cameras making their way through the county on foot, nearly 21,500 foreign nationals were detected but weren’t apprehended last year. That’s at least seven times the size of the county’s population. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.

“The other unknown,” he said, “is what’s not on camera. You might see two or three are on camera but shadows are also visible indicating there are more people behind them. The camera only shows the 2 to 3 people.”

In 2022, Kinney County Sheriff’s deputies apprehended 3,192 illegal foreign nationals compared to the 1,124 they apprehended in 2021, according to the sheriff’s data.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/texas-sheriff-were-experiencing-silent-invasion-military-age-men

Apology demanded after crude Jesus joke on The Project

A guest on The Project speaking about the hate he receives for his sexuality left Waleed Aly speechless with an X-rated remark.

Queer comic Reuben Kaye was speaking about the hate he receives for his sexuality and for dressing up in drag - particularly from the Christian community - when he made the X-rated remark.

“I love Jesus, I love any man who can get nailed for three days straight and come back for more,” Kaye quipped.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/comedians-crude-jesus-joke-leaves-waleed-aly-speechless-on-the-project/news-story/d767d7844a8305ba9ec50cc44e0add68

Pentagon says it struggles to track US weapons in Ukraine

The military’s inspector general seemingly admitted that the US can’t follow its own arms control laws

A classified report last year found that the Pentagon was unable to keep tabs on tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons sent to Ukraine. Details of the report were revealed – apparently inadvertently – by a Republican lawmaker during a hearing on Tuesday.

Speaking at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday, Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch noted that the US has allocated $113 billion in aid to Ukraine since the conflict there began last February, around 60% of which went to the country’s military.

Storch – who is tasked with ensuring that this money is accounted for and not lost to waste, fraud, or abuse – refused to say whether his team had encountered any such corruption in Ukraine. However, Republican Rep. Mike Johnson stated that a report from Storch’s office last October found that the Pentagon was unable to carry out monitoring of weapons deliveries to Ukraine in line with its own policies.

Storch responded that the report in question was supposed to remain classified, but admitted that it was “accurate” in acknowledging “challenges” faced by the US in Ukraine.

Monitoring of such arms deliveries is governed by the 1996 Arms Export Control Act. Questioned by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz – a vocal opponent of military aid to Ukraine – Storch would not confirm or deny under oath whether the Pentagon was complying with this act.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed in January that the Biden administration has “not seen any signs” that military or economic aid “has fallen prey to any kind of corruption in Ukraine.” However, the classified document mentioned by Johnson appears to back up a slew of reports suggesting that weapons often disappear once delivered.

https://www.rt.com/news/572224-ukraine-weapons-corruption-inspector/

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after 2 years he's now saying something.

flames must be licking his feet so he's now looking for an out