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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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Ghislaine 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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Ex-CIA boss Brennan says Pentagon's declassified UFO videos are 'eyebrow-raising,' advises 'to keep an open mind'


RT
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:48 UTC

Comment: Another drip in the ongoing 'drip-drip-disclosure' of the 'UFO phenomenon'...


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Former Obama-era CIA director John Brennan has described the declassified Pentagon UFO videos as "eyebrow-raising" and has said they should be treated with an open mind.

"I've seen some of those videos from Navy pilots, and I must tell you that they are quite eyebrow-raising when you look at them," Brennan said in a recent interview at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

Among the several recently-declassified videos was the so-called 'tic tac' craft captured on camera by Navy pilots in 2004 performing neck breaking and apparently physics defying maneuvers 100 miles off the Pacific shore. Brennan was careful not to confirm nor deny the existence of aliens, but struck a curious tone.
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Year Zero

CJ Hopkins
Consent Factory
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:58 UTC
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2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them.

In the relatively short span of the last ten months, societies throughout the world have been transformed beyond recognition. Constitutional rights have been suspended. Protest has been banned. Dissent is being censored. Government officials are issuing edicts restricting the most basic aspects of our lives ... where we can go, when we can go there, how long we are allowed to spend there, how many friends we are allowed to meet there, whether and when we can spend time with our families, what we are allowed to say to each other, who we can have sex with, where we have to stand, how we are allowed to eat and drink, etc. The list goes on and on.

The authorities have assumed control of the most intimate aspects of our daily lives. We are being managed like inmates in a prison, told when to eat, sleep, exercise, granted privileges for good behavior, punished for the slightest infractions of an ever-changing set of arbitrary rules, forced to wear identical, demeaning uniforms (albeit only on our faces), and otherwise relentlessly bullied, abused, and humiliated to keep us compliant.

None of which is accidental, or has anything to do with any actual virus, or any other type of public health threat. Yes, before some of you go ballistic, I do believe there is an actual virus, which a number of people have actually died from, or which at least has contributed to their deaths ... but there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any authentic public health threat that remotely justifies the totalitarian emergency measures we are being subjected to or the damage that is being done to society. Whatever you believe about the so-called "pandemic," it really is as simple as that. Even if one accepts the official "science," you do not transform the entire planet into a pathologized-totalitarian nightmare in response to a health threat of this nature.

The notion is quite literally insane.
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2020: The Year We Lost the Plot

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:43 UTC
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This piece is the first in a series of five articles I will be publishing over the next couple of weeks looking at various aspects of our new Covidian State in 2020. These pieces are also due to be published on The Conservative Woman website from 27-31 December.
"Our Government, along with Governments around the world will shortly announce the quarantining of whole populations for a seasonal respiratory virus which leaves 99.8-99.9% of those who get it in the land of the living. What is more, they will also announce a shutdown of the entire economy for months and then, when the epidemic has actually gone, will mandate that you cover the lower half of your face with a bit of cloth. They will do this by frightening people into compliance with a barrage of propaganda, slogans, data entirely taken out of context, and the threat of massive fines."
Anyone making this claim at the beginning of the year would rightly have been thought to have mislaid the plot and their marbles, long ago. But here we are, at the end of that same year, and it is precisely what has happened.

Only it is much worse than that.

Had you somehow been persuaded to give credence to this insane prophecy, you would probably have been comforted by the following thought: "They'll never get away with it. The people will never stand for it."

Not a bit of it. Somehow, millions of people across the country, and in fact across the world, were persuaded to accept it. By far the majority somehow thought that quarantining whole nations of healthy people for a virus, for the first time in history, was a good idea. Well, actually the second time in history to be precise. It was tried in 2009 by the Mexican Government during the Swine Flu outbreak, but they had the good sense to end it after a couple of weeks after realising how much it would devastate the country.
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Herd immunity: Flawed science and mass vaccination failures

Suzanne Humphries, MD
Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:53 UTC
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The oft-parroted sound bite - "we need herd immunity" - implies that if ninety five percent of the population can become "immune" to a disease via vaccination, target immunity levels will be met and diseases will either be eradicated or controlled. This sound bite is the most commonly pulled weapon used by the vaccinators, only second to "smallpox and polio were eradicated by vaccination." "Herd immunity" is the trump card for the defense of vaccination on TV, Internet, medical journals and newspapers as to why we should be vaccinated over and over throughout our lives, with an ever-increasing number of vaccines.

Paul Offit smiled and played the card while peddling his book on the comedy central channel as Steven Colbert jokingly said, "if the vaccines work so good for you, why do I need one?" Dr. Mark Segal pulled it on Fox News as Mary Holland, JD eloquently described the issue of vaccine injury and loss of legal recourse in an era of forced and mandated vaccines. In addition to flaunting several false allegations and sound bites, Dr. Segal's well-rehearsed rant brushed right over the issue at hand, the fact that victims of vaccine injury have no legal right to sue - and instead launched into his agenda of scaring the listeners by parroting the "herd immunity" dogma.

The hype about herd immunity unfortunately creates a wall of hostility between those who vaccinate and those who delay some vaccines, avoid certain vaccines, or quit vaccinating altogether.
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'Fast Movers' and Transmedium Vehicles - The Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force

Tim McMillan
The Debrief
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:55 UTC
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In an exclusive feature for The Debrief, U.S. military and intelligence officials, as well as Pentagon emails, offer an unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes of what's currently going on with The Pentagon's investigation into UFOs, or as they term them, "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP).

For the last two years, the Department of Defense's newly revamped "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force" (or UAPTF) has been busy briefing lawmakers, Intelligence Community stakeholders, and the highest levels of the U.S. military on encounters with what they say are mysterious airborne objects that defy conventional explanations.

Along with classified briefings, multiple senior U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the matter say two classified intelligence reports on UAP have been widely distributed to the U.S. Intelligence Community. Numerous sources from various government agencies told The Debrief that these reports include clear photographic evidence of UAP. The reports also explicitly state that the Task Force is considering the possibility that these unidentified objects could, as stated by one source from the U.S. Intelligence Community said, be operated by "intelligences of unknown origin."

Significantly, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general and head of RAND corporation's Space Enterprise Initiative has — for the first time — gone on record to discuss some of the most likely explanations for UAP. His responses were surprising.

Comment: It remains a mystery to the general public, but many politicians and bureaucrats are clearly being brought into the loop.

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Great Reset: Pope joins forces with Rothschilds and mega-corporations to 'replace capitalism with something more inclusive'

Anne Quito
msn.com
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:35 UTC

Comment: In line with the Focus article we published today - which argues that 'climate change', 'Covid-19 and the 'Great Reset' are all buzzwords for the elite 'reset' to 'replace capitalism with something nicer' - here's Pope Francis giving the Church's blessing to their global power grab...


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Photo of the Pope with Lynn Rothschild at the Vatican, along with the heads of some of the world's largest monopolies, posted on their new 'Inclusive Capitalism' website
Capitalism has been condemned for many of the world's evils, from massive income inequality, human rights atrocities, to climate change. But self-interest was never the core idea of the economic system first codified by Adam Smith in the 18th century. Avarice became coupled with the heart of capitalism in the 1980s, fueled largely by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman's theory that the singular goal of businesses is to maximize profits for its shareholders. In short, it was the argument that, in business, "greed is good".

Now, a new global alliance with Pope Francis as its moral leader, is pushing to rescue the heart of capitalism and reorient it as a force for social good. The founding members of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican comprises large corporations like the Bank of America, BP, Estée Lauder, EY, Johnson & Johnson, Mastercard, Merck, Salesforce, and Visa. It also includes grant-giving bodies like the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, government bodies as well as the International Trade Union Confederation, the world's largest workers' rights group.

Comment: A silver lining in 2020 is that this globalist anti-democratic putsch has made our job of waking people up to the fact that elites are (generally) completely out of touch with ordinary people that much easier.

Far from 'lifting people in the eyes of the Lord', this clique is of course 'lowering people into the arms of the Beast'.

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Reuters October report 'predicted' current scenario of 'duelling electors' upending presidential election process

Tom Hals
Reuters
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:05 UTC

Comment: How did Reuters manage to predict - two months ahead of time - the current scenario of duelling electors?


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In the United States, a candidate becomes president by securing the most "electoral" votes rather than winning a majority of the national popular vote. Known as the Electoral College, the system allots electors to the 50 states and the District of Columbia largely based on their population.

It is theoretically possible for the governor and legislature, each representing a different political party, to submit two different election results, leading to so-called "dueling slates of electors."

Below are details of how that might play out.

What are electors?

The U.S. president is selected by 538 electors, known as the Electoral College, with electors apportioned based on each state's population. The popular vote in each state typically determines which candidate receives a state's electoral votes.

The U.S. Constitution and the 1887 Electoral Count Act govern the counting of electoral votes and any related disputes. The electors will meet on Dec. 14 to cast votes, which are then counted by Congress on Jan. 6 in a process overseen by Vice President Mike Pence in his role as Senate president.

Comment: So no, it hasn't really happened before. The only 'deal' Trump would take is one where he's president.

There are other 'unknowns' to the process of the apportioned EC votes being rubber-stamped by Congress on Jan 6th.

In addition to the prospect of Mike Pence - in his role as 'President of the Senate' - being handed sets of 'dueling electors' for 6 or 7 states, Senators/Representatives can raise objections as each of the EC votes per state are called out. Pence can choose to ignore them, or he can propose they be debated on their merits. If that starts happening on January 6th, you can see how what is ordinarily a formality could turn into a lengthy impasse lasting days or even weeks.

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Arizona Senate judiciary chair is seizing ALL voting machines from Maricopa County for forensic audit

Jack Davis
Western Journal
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:42 UTC
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Voting machines used in Arizona's Maricopa County may now be subject to inspection following action by a state legislator on Monday to begin the process of seizing the machines.

The action by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Eddie Farnsworth came after a six-hour hearing concerning the election and the ability of Arizona residents to trust the results, according to KJZZ-FM. Republican state Rep. Mark Finchem praised the action in a news release.
"Since shortly before the 2020 election a number of my colleagues and I have been examining potential fraud pathways and illegal actions through which our 2020 election could become tainted. I compliment Chairman Eddie Farnsworth, Senator Sonny Borrelli (Senate Whip), Senator Rick Gray (Majority Leader), Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita, and Senator Vince Leach. Each asked thoughtful, insightful questions that left no room for any conclusion that a forensic audit is about the only move that will restore constituent confidence in our elections integrity.

"The outcome of this hearing was a call by Chairman Eddie Farnsworth to issue subpoena's to seize the machines. A forensic audit is the likely next step. This is a huge development, and moves Arizona in the right direction to account for the many irregularities."
Farnsworth, a Republican, said that the issue is less about changing the results of the election than getting to the bottom of concerns regarding Dominion Voting Systems machines.

Farnsworth said his goal was to "try and see if we can reinsert some confidence in our election process. We hold and audit and we see what the outcome is," he said. "And then we can put this to rest." Subpoenas to seize the machines could be issued as soon as Tuesday, according to Farnsworth.

Comment: For context, Maricopa County is the fourth most populous in the US, including as it does the city of Phoenix. Almost two thirds of the entire set of votes for Arizona were cast in this single county.

Irrespective of the lack of media coverage, there is still tremendous grassroots pressure on state legislatures and courts to investigate voter fraud.

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Forcing the sick and elderly to die alone is crueler than COVID-19

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:18 UTC
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One year ago today, my father died following a 10-year battle with cancer. Our family's final weeks with him likely mirrored those of many other families. With a new wave of COVID-19 lockdowns beginning, however, I feel compelled to share our story because that journey convinces me that we, as a nation, are subjecting the dying to physical and psychological torture in the name of fighting a pandemic.

Caring for Family

I'm not sure when my father was first diagnosed with cancer because he didn't tell anyone. He didn't need to at the time because his cancer, called myelofibrosis, is a slow-progressing kind that can go without symptoms for years. Likely caused by his 30-some years spent in a garage teaching young adults auto mechanics at a technical college, this rare blood cancer finally advanced enough about five years ago to force my parents to move to a senior facility a mile from my older brother's home.
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