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Best of the Web: Yes, it was a stolen election

John Perazzo
Frontpage Mag
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 08:51 UTC
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As Americans continue to watch the 2020 election controversy unfold, the very same publications that spent years lying about President Trump's "Russia collusion" are once again telling us what we are dutifully supposed to believe. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, assures us that Trump's "baseless" and "dangerous" claim "that the election was rigged to benefit Joe Biden" has been thoroughly "debunked."[1] The New York Times proclaims that "Trump's false election fraud claims" are founded upon nothing more than a "torrent of falsehoods."[2] Sneering at "how Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen," The Washington Post mocks Republicans who "are still pretending that there was election fraud."[3] And CNN.com warns that "Trump's obsession with overturning the election" has now begun to spiral "out of control."[4]

But so much for what the comic books have to say. What follows is a compilation of vital facts that will demonstrate, to anyone interested in following the truth wherever it may lead, that the 2020 presidential election was indeed rife with fraud, and that Joe Biden, if he should in fact be sworn into office next month, will be an illegitimate president from the very start.

Before the Election: How We Got Here

Fifteen years ago, a landmark report by the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, known informally as the Carter-Baker Commission, advised all U.S. states that in order to guarantee free and fair elections, they should: increase voter ID requirements; minimize the use of mail-in ballots, which "remain the largest source of potential voter fraud"; disallow ballot harvesting by third parties; purge voter rolls of all ineligible or fraudulent names; allow election observers to monitor ballot-counting processes without restraint or obstruction; ensure that voting machines are accurate in their tabulations; and encourage news organizations to "delay the release of any exit-poll data until the election has been decided." All of these recommendations were widely ignored in the elections of November 2020.[5]
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Best of the Web: Christmas morning explosion in Nashville, Tennessee 'intentional act' - UPDATES: AT&T building damaged, internet outages reported, human remains found


RT
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:00 UTC
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© Reuters/Andrew NellesA vehicle burns near the site of an explosion in Nashville, Tennessee, December 25, 2020.
Police in Nashville, Tennessee believe that a massive Christmas morning explosion in the city "was an intentional act." The blast destroyed buildings and vehicles, and filled downtown Nashville with smoke and fire.

The explosion occurred at around 6:30am local time near Second Avenue, according to city police. Police responded to a 'shots fired' call in the area and saw an RV they considered suspicious. As officers evacuated the area and a bomb squad arrived, the RV exploded, police sources told WKRN News.

Police and federal agents began an investigation immediately afterwards, with a police spokesman telling reporters that the blast "was an intentional act."


According to some witnesses, a message coming from the RV prior to the blast warned bystanders to evacuate. Police told News Channel 5 that they are investigating these reports.


Three people were transported to hospital following the explosion, but none of their injuries have been reported as critical.

Comment: Additional footage of the damage:


CCTV video of the moment of the explosion have appeared:


RT reports:
Video footage has emerged showing the exact moment an RV exploded in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The blast was apparently preceded by a pre-recorded warning, urging bystanders to evacuate.

That is odd. It sounds similar to one of those US Govt Emergency Broadcast signals that was 'accidentally' aired numerous times in the last couple of decades.

Whoever did this then, meant to blow up the RV, but with minimal or no casualties.

The NY Post reports:
A bomb squad was heading to the scene — just blocks from the historic Ryman Auditorium, former home of the Grand Ole Opry — when the blast took place around 6:30 a.m., knocking one cop to the ground.

There was no immediate evidence that a shooting had actually taken place, Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said.
This statement is contradicted by eyewitnesses. See below...

UPDATES

The Tennessean is reporting the explosion was near an AT&T facility:
Widespread 911 issues in the Nashville area were reported after AT&T wireless and internet service were disrupted on Friday hours following a massive explosion downtown.

AT&T internet and phone service were disrupted in the area about 12 p.m. Friday.

Users around the country reported disruptions in service, but there was a concentration in the Nashville area and Middle Tennessee, growing in reach from Kentucky to Alabama as more reports came in.
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© DownDetector.comAn AT&T outage was reported in Nashville and Middle Tennessee hours after an explosion took place near an AT&T facility.
A handful of local police departments reported the outage was disrupting 911 access, including some non-emergency lines, in their jurisdictions. [...]

Nashville International Airport announced Friday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. that the Federal Aviation Administration had halted flights out of the airport until later this afternoon. [...]

An AT&T spokesman confirmed the outage was linked to the explosion:

"Service for some customers in Nashville and the surrounding areas may be affected by damage to our facilities from the explosion this morning. We are in contact with law enforcement and working as quickly and safely as possible to restore service," said Jim Greer, an AT&T representative.
The FBI has released pictures of the suspected RV:


Updated outage map from downdetector.com:

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RT reports human remains have been found at the blast site:
Investigators have found human remains in close vicinity of the blast site in Nashville, Tennessee, according to AP and CNN sources familiar with the ongoing probe, but it is unclear if they might belong to a suspect or a victim.



NBC News interviewed residents from the area:
One of the residents is Betsy Williams, 64, who runs a vacation rental business in a building her family owns across the street from where the RV was parked.

She was sleeping in her third-floor apartment on 2nd Avenue North when she was awakened by the sound of gunfire around 4:30 or 5 a.m., she said.

"It sounded like it was from an automatic weapon because it was rapid fire," she said, adding that she heard several loud bursts of gunfire, prompting her to call 911.

Williams' son, who was visiting from Georgia for the holiday and staying in one of the vacation units, noticed the RV parked across the street and thought it seemed suspicious, she said. Then she heard a voice coming from the vehicle warning that it was about to explode.

"It was, 'Evacuate now. This vehicle has a bomb. This vehicle will explode,'" she said.

When the message changed to a countdown, warning that the vehicle would explode in 15 minutes, then 14 minutes, she woke up her 85-year-old sister, who lives in Arizona but was visiting for the holiday, staying in another apartment. She put her cat, Mavis, into a carrier and she and her family got on the elevator around the time the message was giving an 11-minute warning.

They ran to her car, which was parked a block away, and drove across the river to watch from a distance. When nothing happened after 15 or 20 minutes, they started driving back home, she said. That's when they saw the explosion.

"A fireball went up above the AT&T building," she said. "It was a hellacious blast. It was just a big old boom and it blew out the front of those buildings and caused a crater in the street."

Williams and her family are now staying in a hotel with just the clothes they were wearing when they evacuated, unable to buy a change of clothes since the police have the downtown area shut down.

"I said I wanted to spend Christmas day in my pajamas all day long but I didn't really mean that," she joked.

She's not sure when she'll be able to get back home, or if anything will be left.

"It's terrible," she said. "All of my stuff. All of our Christmas presents. We had all of our stuff laid out, ready to have Christmas stockings and Christmas breakfast and open our gifts and spend all day having a really nice, relaxed Christmas, sipping on a little champagne, and now we're not doing any of that."

Still, she said, she's grateful that whoever planted the bomb issued the evacuation warning, enabling her family to escape with their lives.

"Thank God for that," she said.

Williams' spouse Kim Madlom, said they first called 911 about 5:30 a.m. after hearing what sounded like gunshots. About half an hour later, Madlom began to hear audio alerting them to the bomb.

"We went all the way down to our basement area and went out the back door on First Avenue because we were afraid to get on Second Avenue," Madlom said. "Because we also were concerned that we heard gunshots that, you know, we might be, somebody might be trying to lure us out."

Madlom believes whoever set off the bomb had given residents a "grace period" in case they didn't leave before the 15-minute warning was over.

"I do want to say in retrospect, we've talked about it, we feel like those gunshots were a recording as well. Not actual gunshots," Madlom said. "I mean, we feel like it was a recording because there was the sound the pattern to it. By the third time we heard it was exactly the same."
Sounds like this was a small-scale but sophisticated operation, designed to terrorize people, but somewhat more subtly than terrorist attack operators typically do.

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Best of the Web: James Corbett: The Future of Vaccines

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci: The unholy twins driving the fake Covid-19 "pandemic"
If the Gateses and the Faucis and the representatives of the international medical establishment get their way, life will not return to normal until the entire planet is vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. What many do not yet understand, however, is that the vaccines that are being developed for SARS-Cov-2 are unlike any vaccines that have ever been used on the human population before. And, as radically different as these vaccines appear, they represent only the very beginning of a complete transformation of vaccine technology that is currently taking place in research labs across the planet. This is a study of The Future of Vaccines.

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Best of the Web: HUGE meteor fireball lights up southern China's dark morning skies


Stuff.co.nz
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:16 UTC
Fireball over Yushu City
© WeiboThis shot of the meteor was taken from a plane.
A suspected low-flying meteor has lit up the sky in northwestern China's Yushu City on December 23.

Video from the event in the city in China's Qinghai Province showed a bright fireball streaking across and lighting the dark sky.

According to reports, the fireball was probably a bolide and it might have dropped several meteorite fragments somewhere in the area.

A bolide is a very bright meteor.

Comment: The Daily Mail provides a few more details of the awesome event:
In another piece of footage, the burning object is seen descending quickly towards hills and fields.

In a third clip, the fireball becomes brighter and bigger as it approaches the ground.

Dan Ba, a local, said he witnessed the fireball while taking his child to school.

'It started very small, but three minutes later it became very big and bright,' the parent told Pear Video.
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Yu Jun, chief writer of Chinese science website Guokr, told Beijing News that the fireball looked like a bolide, which is a very bright meteor.

The Nanxiang County Government told Red Star News that it had heard of the matter but was unclear of the details.
It brings to mind the spectacular fireball that roared through Russia's skies on February 15th, 2013, which SOTT reported on at the time: Fireball explodes over Russian city: Widespread panic and structural damage, Thousand people injured

Although there have been a great many smaller events since then, as recorded in our Fire In The Sky section.

See also: Something Wicked This Way Comes

And check out SOTT radio's: More footage and data is emerging on Twitter:





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Best of the Web: New York Times normalizes racist eugenics supported by woke doctors

John Nolte
Breitbart
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:36 UTC
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© Joe Raedle/Getty Images
When it comes to deciding who will receive the coronavirus vaccine, the far-left New York Times is normalizing the idea that skin color is more important than need, risk, and vulnerability.

Yep, the Times is perfectly comfortable arguing that it is okay to sacrifice your grandparents on the altar of social justice.

Feel free to accuse me of hyperbole, but the truth is the truth, and the truth is that not since Nazi Germany have we seen something like what the New York Times is guilty of, which is an establishment news organization openly normalizing the idea of choosing who lives and who dies, not on need, but on race and skin color.

Wither the Hippocratic Oath.
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Best of the Web: New study shows mask mandates had zero effect in Florida or nationwide, but the lie continues

Scott Morefield
Townhall
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:20 UTC
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© AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Obviously, no amount of evidence, data, trends, facts, studies, or science will ever convince most 'public health officials' that masks aren't doing squat to stop the spread of COVID-19. Cases and deaths continue to spike (yes, many of these are super-sensitive PCR test-driven numbers, but still) despite the fact that well over 90% of the country are complying with their absurd mandates. Yet, predictably, the virus keeps going right on virusing, as highly contagious respiratory viruses, unfortunately, tend to do, especially once cold weather hits.

Nevertheless, those of us who are mask skeptics have a difficult chore in front of us. Given that most of the country is under a mask mandate of some form or another, we can point to spikes all day AFTER these mandates were put in place only to have our opponents simply say, "Look how bad it would have been WITHOUT masks!"

It's a tough argument to counter given the fact that our overlords have sold masking as a low-cost, easy "solution" that's totally worth it even if they "save one life," or something (nevermind the health risks - let's censor docs who talk about those!). So, how DO we prove that things wouldn't have been worse without masks? One way is to look at data from the few free states remaining.

In Florida, for example, most counties have so far bravely refused to implement mask mandates while others, usually in high population centers, have done so. Justin Hart and the team at Rational Ground (follow them on Twitter here - it's worth it) just released a comprehensive data analysis of masked vs non-masked counties in the state. A total of 22 of 67 counties in the state have implemented a mask order at some point during the period of May 1 through December 15. It may not sound like many, but these include almost all of Florida's largest metro areas. To be more than fair, if an area added a mask order at some point during the outbreak, the study's authors gave a 14 day period to allow time for cases to begin subsiding. "Cases were summed for both mandate and non-mandate jurisdictions and adjusted per 100,000 people for days the mandates were or were not in effect," wrote the authors, describing the methodology used.

Comment: Here's Hart's Twitter thread laying out the findings:







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Best of the Web: Merry? No, this year we need an Angry Christmas!

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:53 UTC
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A general view of a family delivering Christmas presents on December 19 before going into a lockdown at midnight in Cardiff, Wales
Some of my past Christmases have gone spectacularly wrong, from the festive point of view. In 1989, I spent Christmas Eve courageously hiding under my bed in a Bucharest hotel, as tracer bullets whizzed by my window, and the snowy city echoed to the sound of crazy gunfire.

Christmas Day wasn't much better and when I eventually made it home I promised my family and myself that I'd try not to let that happen again. But how can you tell?

That particular mad journey had begun with what was supposed to be a day trip to Dresden in what was still East Germany. Just as a later visit to Jerusalem somehow finished up in Mogadishu, a city I had never planned to visit and hope very much never to see again.

And in 2003 I managed to find myself on my way back from a miserable, dark and desperate Baghdad as Christmas approached, slumped in the back of a utility truck as it growled endlessly across the reddish Mars-like desert between the River Euphrates and the Jordanian border.

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: 'Serious criminality' by UK's MI6 abroad, as tribunal reveals agency is also free to break UK law


RT
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:46 UTC
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© REUTERS/Toby MelvilleFILE PHOTO: The MI6 building in London August 25, 2010
While debate rages over controversial spying legislation in the UK, other disclosures indicate British spooks have long been secretly free to commit crimes with impunity anyway.

There has rightly been intense controversy over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill in recent months.

The legislation would enshrine in law the ability of undercover operatives - both employees of British state agencies and their informants - to not only commit extremely serious crimes, up to and including rape, torture and murder, but also insulate them from criminal prosecution and civil actions for doing so.

However, for all their at times fiery condemnation, few if any mainstream critics acknowledged that the UK intelligence services have been allowed to commit crimes with impunity for some time.

Comment: When every agency is soon to be granted legal powers to commit heinous crimes you can be sure that the establishment is now well and truly ponerized and, if history is anything to go by, the future looks very bleak indeed for the UK: Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

See also: UK gives legal powers to various agencies to plan and commit CRIME, court rules

And check out SOTT radio's:

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Best of the Web: Ruthless UK government places a third of its population under EVEN STRICTER lockdown for Christmas

James Tapsfield
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:30 UTC

Comment: For months now the British press has been gaslighting the population with the promise of 'Christmas'. Now, one week before, the psychopaths have decided to get their seasonal jollies by placing the country under even stricter lockdown than anything seen so far...


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Boris Johnson faced fury tonight as he dramatically cancelled Christmas for 18million people after hitting the panic button on a rampant new mutant strain of coronavirus.

The PM was accused of 'inconsistency and confusion' after the extraordinary last-minute U-turn to put a third of England, including London and swathes of the home counties, into a brutal new 'Tier 4' from midnight.

The draconian bracket means non-essential shops being forced to shut, and travel restrictions including a 'stay at home' order for Christmas Day itself - even though Mr Johnson insisted just days ago that it would be 'inhuman' to axe five-day festive 'bubbles'.


Comment: It takes an inhuman one to know one.


The rest of England will not escape unscathed, with up to three households now only allowed to mix on Christmas Day rather than between December 23 and 27.

Wales has also announced it is going into a full lockdown from midnight and will follow suit by slashing bubbles to a single day. Nicola Sturgeon said at her own press conference tonight that a ban on cross-border travel is being upgraded, and the law will be changed to cut bubbles to one day.


Comment: 'Bubbles' apparently means 'the freedom to meet people from your wider social network'. What horrific mangling of the English language these psychopaths have managed in just one year.


She also said that mainland Scotland will be in its top 'Level 4' squeeze from Boxing Day - at which point around 28million people across all four UK nations will be under the toughest restrictions.

Comment: Clever, aren't they? To introduce an even more totalitarian level in their lockdown scale ('Tier 4'), they introduced a "rampant new mutant strain of coronavirus" to justify it with.

And all this time, people have been policing each other in the belief that 'if we all just behave now, the nice govt man will let us celebrate Christmas in peace'...

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Best of the Web: About time: France detains modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry - UPDATE: Brunel charged with rape

Kim Willsher
The Guardian
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:33 UTC
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© MEGAGhislaine Maxwell with Jean Luc Brunel
French police are questioning the boss of a modelling agency suspected of supplying underage girls to the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was arrested by police at Charles de Gaulle airport before boarding a plane to Dakar on Wednesday, French officials said.

Paris prosecutors told journalists Brunel was being quizzed as part of an investigation opened last year into the alleged rape and sexual assault of minors, sexual harassment, and human trafficking of underage girls for sexual exploitation.

Agence France-Presse reported Brunel's lawyer had not responded to requests for a comment.

Comment: See also: UPDATE 18/12/2020: Jean-Luc Brunel has been charged in France with sexual harassment and the rape of minors over 15 years old
Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested on Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was preparing to take a flight to Senegal.

The Paris prosecutor announced in a statement on Saturday that a magistrate had laid the charges on Friday at the end of Brunel's custody period. It said Brunel was not handed any human trafficking charges, which was one of the main lines of inquiry.

The magistrate decided that there was not enough evidence to rule on that count, but he was not acquitted and could be charged in the future if anything new emerges. Brunel was remanded in custody.

Brunel is being investigated as part of a broad French inquiry into alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls by Epstein and his circle. A number of women have identified themselves as alleged victims and spoken to police since the investigation began in August last year, the same month in which Epstein killed himself in jail.


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