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Thousands march in Washington DC to protest Deep State theft of election - Antifa terrorists later attack pro-Trump supporters

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Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, 12 December 2020
Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden.

Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators after sundown Saturday. WRC-TV reported that four people were taken to a hospital with stab wounds, and the Metropolitan Police Department told the station that 23 people were arrested.

The gatherings of mostly unmasked Trump loyalists were intended as a show of force just two days before the Electoral College meets to formally elect Biden as the 46th president. Trump, whose term will end Jan. 20, refuses to concede, while clinging to baseless claims of fraud that have been rejected by state and federal courts, and Friday by the Supreme Court.

Trump tweeted his apparent surprise Saturday morning at the rallies, publicly known for weeks: "Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn't know about this, but I'll be seeing them! #MAGA"


Attention

Coronavirus scandal breaking in Merkel's Germany affects the whole world

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Dr. Christian Drosten
The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the testing and medical advice being used to declare draconian economic shutdowns and next, de facto mandatory vaccinations. The scandals involve a professor at the heart of Merkel's corona advisory group. The implications go far beyond German borders to the very WHO itself and their global recommendations.

The entire case for WHO-mandated emergency lockdown of businesses, schools, churches and other social arenas worldwide is based on a test introduced, amazingly early on, in the Wuhan, China coronavirus saga. On January 23, 2020, in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, of the EU Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Dr. Christian Drosten, along with several colleagues from the Berlin Virology Institute at Charite Hospital, along with the head of a small Berlin biotech company, TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, published a study claiming to have developed the first effective test for detecting whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus identified first only days before in Wuhan. The Drosten article was titled, "Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR" (Eurosurveillance 25(8) 2020).

The news was greeted with immediate endorsement by the corrupt Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom, the first non-medical doctor to head WHO. Since then the Drosten-backed test for the virus, called a real-time or RT-PCR test, has spread via WHO worldwide, as the most used test protocol to determine if a person might have COVID-19, the illness.

On November 27 a highly-respected group of 23 international virologists, microbiologists and related scientists published a call for Eurosurveillance to retract the January 23, 2020 Drosten article. Their careful analysis of the original piece is damning. Theirs is a genuine "peer review." They accuse Drosten and cohorts of "fatal" scientific incompetence and flaws in promoting their test.

Comment: To read the Corman-Drosten Review Report, submitted 27th November, 2020, go here. Included are: a detailed analysis of mistakes, a list concerns and a summary of errors found in the paper.

'Follow the science' they said. What they didn't tell you is that what they want you to follow is not science.

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Sheriff

Texas sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at US Supreme Court to invalidate their election results - UPDATE: 18 more states back Texas

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The State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court shortly before midnight on Monday challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the grounds that they violate the Constitution.

Texas argues that these states violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions, but not through the state legislatures. Additionally, Texas argues that there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within the states, violating the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. Finally, Texas argues that there were "voting irregularities" in these states as a result of the above.

Comment: This (or similar inter-state disputes) could be the key that unlocks the Biden steal. The Supreme Court is not obliged to hear Texas' lawsuit though because it's technically a request for permission to file a lawsuit.

If it's not on solid legal standing, it's nonetheless something of a political shot across the bow.

Most interesting of all is this development has finally, an entire month later, forced the MSM to sit up and take notice rather than just laugh away or ignore the claim...

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Both Alabama and Louisiana are supporting Texas in their attempt to challenge the election results in the 4 swing states. Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall expects the Supreme Court to quickly decide whether to hear the case. If they do hear it, expect to see other states signing on as well.

UPDATE 9 Dec 2020

The US Supreme Court is going to hear this case...


...and 17 more states have joined Texas!

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led his colleagues from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia in filing the amicus brief to the US Supreme Court.


The amicus brief reads:
States have a strong interest in ensuring that the votes of their own citizens are not diluted by the unconstitutional administration of elections in other States. When non-legislative actors in other States encroach on the authority of the "Legislature thereof" in that State to administer a Presidential election, they threaten the liberty, not just of their own citizens, but of every citizen of the United States who casts a lawful ballot in that election — including the citizens of amici States.
UPDATES 10 Dec 2020

Now Trump has entered the fray:


Arizona has become the 18th state to file an 'amicus brief', though its stated reason for doing so is neutral:


Distinct from an amicus brief (which encourages a court to hear another's case) is today's filing by six states (Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah) with a motion to actually join Texas' SCOTUS election lawsuit.

106 GOP House members are now backing the Texas lawsuit:






Briefcase

Feds and 48 states hit Facebook with antitrust lawsuit: 'Buy or Bury' strategy with competitors

NY AG Letitia James
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New York State Attorney General Letitia James. Most US states have joined the lawsuit against Facebook.
Forty-eight states and the US government just sued Facebook. Even though it's long overdue, it's a move in the right direction to break up the monopoly Facebook has had for so long.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is joining the states in the antitrust lawsuit using Instagram and WhatsApp as examples.

Ironically, the Attorney General of New York Latitia James made the announcement today: "It's really critically important that we block this predatory acquisition of companies and that we restore confidence to the market."

The Attorney General of New York has been attacking President Trump and his family since she was elected. It's about time she did something worthy of investigating.


Comment: The suit was filed on behalf of 46 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Guam. Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and South Dakota did not join. According to CBS News:
Both lawsuits cite Facebook's 2012 purchase of Instagram for $1 billion and a $19 billion deal for WhatsApp in 2014 as examples of its efforts to eliminate competitors.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg's view, expressed in a 2008 email, that "it is better to buy than compete," the FTC said in its suit. "To further entrench its position, Facebook has also imposed anticompetitive conditions that restricted access to its valuable platform — conditions that Facebook personnel recognized as 'anti user[,]' 'hypocritical' in light of Facebook's purported mission of enabling sharing, and a signal that 'we're scared that we can't compete on our own merits.'"

For Facebook, the coordinated federal and state lawsuits represent the most aggressive legal action against the company to date by government authorities, culminating a bipartisan campaign to rein in big technology companies. It's the second time in two months that the government has moved against a tech giant.

"It's time that the courts put an end to Big Tech's specious claim that its products are 'free,' so 'consumer welfare' is not infringed upon and the antitrust laws don't apply," Ed Mierzwinski, U.S.

PIRG's* senior director for federal consumer programs, said in a statement. "Actually, consumers pay with our data, through a Big Tech business model of constant corporate surveillance and manipulation."

*Public Interest Research Group



Chess

Hunter Biden says US prosecutor probing his taxes

Hunter Biden
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The news comes just five days before the Electoral College is set to meet to vote for the next US president, with Hunter's father, Joe Biden, presumed to be the next president-elect.

Hunter Biden says the US Attorney's Office in Delaware is conducting a probe into his taxes.

He added that he takes this matter seriously, but is sure that an "objective review" will prove he "handled [his] affairs legally and appropriately".

"I learned yesterday for the first time that the US Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs", he said in a statement released by the Biden transition team on Wednesday.

The news comes as just on Monday, Republican congressman Ken Buck called on Attorney General William Barr to conduct an investigation into Hunter Biden's business dealings, including examining the contents of his laptop.

Comment: Hopefully this won't get buried next to the Killary emails and Epstein files.


Attention

Four volunteers of Pfizer's experimental coronavirus vaccine developed Bell's palsy, regulator warns those with allergies to NOT take it

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Four people who got Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine in the firm's trial developed Bell's palsy, a form of temporary facial paralysis, according to U.S. regulators' report on the shot.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators said there wasn't any clear way that the vaccine caused Bell's palsy, but warned that doctors should watch for the alarming side effect and Pfizer should continue to keep tab on how many people it strikes.

No one knows what exactly causes Bell's palsy, which resolves on its own most of the time.

This isn't the first time it's been linked to vaccines, but scientists have ultimately ruled that shots did not trigger Bell's in all but one case - a Swiss flu vaccine that was sold during the 2001-2002 flu season there, then promptly taken off the market.

Comment: They claim to be doubtful the vaccine is the cause and yet they're considering mandating that Pfizer track recipients to be sure. This in itself will prove difficult amidst the rushed roll out and its likely that they will lose track of a significant number of recipients and the side effects they suffer.

RT reports that Britian Chief Medical Officer will not allow those patients willing to take the risk to choose which vaccine they will have, even though it has already been well publicised that none of them are known to be safe for children, pregnant and breast feeding women, as well as those with 'significant' allergies:
Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), told lawmakers on Wednesday that people will not get to select which vaccine they want to take during the first phase of the UK's mass immunization programme.

"A situation where we have enough vaccines that you have a choice which one you wish, (that) will be a very nice problem for us to have. It is not the problem we have at the moment and it is not a problem we're going to have for the next four months," Whitty said.

"Currently, if the choice is between a good vaccine and no vaccine, I'm going to just go for whichever good vaccine is available," the CMO added.


There isn't enough data to know whether these vaccines are 'good' and as the UK's CMO one would expect that he would be scientific and honest.


Whitty's comment comes as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) issued a warning on Wednesday that people with a history of 'significant' allergic reactions should not take Pfizer's Covid-19 jab.

The alert was issued after two NHS staff members experienced adverse reactions to the Pfizer jab. They are both said to be recovering well.

The UK's mass vaccination programme started on Tuesday at hospitals across the country, using the recently approved Pfizer vaccine.

So far, the Pfizer vaccine has only been approved for use in the UK.


Even though Switzerland has ordered millions of doses of the Pfizer vaccine it has not approved it for use because of the lack of data on its safety and efficacy.


On Tuesday, Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said he was hoping that the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca may also be approved before the end of the year.
The safest option would be to not volunteer to be a guinea pig for any of these experimental vaccines, particularly for the 99% of the population who could safely rely on their immune system which would also confer a lifetime of immunity: 'And that no man might buy or sell': Welsh government to roll out 'coronavirus vaccine ID cards'


NPC

The Leftist obsession with Twitter alternative Parler reveals their infatuation with thought control

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In my recent article 'Power Is An Illusion, Control Is A Facade' I outlined the realities behind power structures and how people dominate other people by conditioning them with false assumptions and misplaced fears. For example, many people make themselves easy to control by remaining dependent on governments during crisis events and emergencies; if you actually believe the government will protect you from any and all eventualities then why would you ever learn to protect and provide for yourself? The infantization of a society makes citizens easy to dominate.

Another example would be instilling a fear of "standing out" among one's peers - Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of being seen as aberrant or in opposition to the "majority" and will seek to fit in, even when they fundamentally disagree. A ruling elite merely need to manufacture the assumption or impression that the "majority" of the population are in agreement with oppressive measures. Even if this is not the case, the perception of a majority can be used to control those people that would otherwise rebel.

Controlling a population is more about thought control or "perception management" than it is about direct force. Power is an illusion, no large group of people can be controlled by force alone; eventually, they will find a way to wear down the totalitarian system and destroy it. So, the people must be tricked into enslaving themselves and each other. The people must police the very prison they are trapped in, otherwise they could simply walk away anytime they wished. It's the only way a tyranny can survive in the long term.

Comment: Speaking of MSNBC, watch Chris Hayes try to completely dismiss valid allegations of election fraud without a shred of actual investigation on his part - in pure 'Orange Man Bad' style. The Queen of Russiagate Rachel Maddow would be proud:




Dollars

What is Mark Zuckerberg's election money doing in Georgia?

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Mark Zuckerberg and State of Georgia precincts
Imagine if a billionaire of conservative or libertarian leanings — Charles Koch, say — had given $350 million to a nonprofit run by Republican operatives who previously worked at a "dark money" outfit tied to Karl Rove where they trained digital activists and campaign workers.

Then imagine this nonprofit group re-granted the millions of dollars to local election officials to "help" them carry out the 2020 election — buying drop boxes for ballots, hiring temporary staff, conducting "voter education," and the like.

Finally, imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly flipped to the donor's preferred party, and counties receiving "help" were disproportionately ones that helped the Republican win the state, with many counties shifting dramatically from their historical patterns in a red-ward direction.

Even supposing there were perfectly ethical and legal reasons for all this, because of the appearance of election influence from private parties with deep pockets, it would be front-page news. The New York Times would be outraged a nonprofit gave the appearance of acting in a partisan basis in an electoral process. Elected officials in the disfavored party would be loudly objecting, threatening lawsuits, demanding investigations of the election officials who accepted the funds, and insisting election laws be changed to prevent any such effort in the future.

As head of Capital Research Center, a watchdog on the use and abuse of nonprofits, I would sympathize with the angry politicians and happily critique the scheme publicly. But I know of no such effort by right-leaning donors or nonprofits.

Comment: Did Mark Zuckerberg help to buy the election for Biden? Did he confine his calculated 'philanthropy' to Georgia's precincts or were other states willing recipients in this pay-to-influence scheme?




Control Panel

The Covid-19 Vaccine: Is The goal Immunity or Depopulation?

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"There is absolutely no need for vaccines to extinguish the pandemic... You do not vaccinate people who aren't at risk from a disease. You also don't set about planning to vaccinate millions of fit and healthy people with a vaccine that hasn't been extensively tested on human subjects." Dr. Mike Yeadon PhD, Pfizer's former Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory Disease
"What we know about coronavirus from 30 years of experience is that a coronavirus vaccine has a unique peculiarity, which is any attempt at making the vaccine has resulted in the creation of a class of antibodies that actually make vaccinated people sicker when they ultimately suffer exposure to the wild virus." Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Here's what I think is currently going on in our country and across much of the western world. A public health crisis - that was manufactured and gamed - out before the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China - has been used to short-circuit long-held civil liberties, strengthen the authority of political leaders, collapse the economy, dramatically remake basic social relations, and impose absolute control over work, school, gatherings and recreational activities. Public policy is now set by unelected technocrats who operate behind the cover of lofty-sounding organizations that are entirely controlled by the world's biggest corporations and richest oligarchs. President Dwight Eisenhower anticipated this troubling scenario 70 years ago when he said:
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

Camcorder

No, the Georgia vote-counting video was not 'debunked' - not even close

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A Big Tech-backed "fact" "checking" outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence in support of Republicans' claims of significant election problems at a Thursday Georgia Senate hearing. It didn't. Not even close.

Newly discovered security footage from Georgia's State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County. After they left, a small remnant of about four workers began pulling trunks containing thousands of ballots from underneath a table with a long tablecloth and running them through machines.

The footage supported claims from Republicans that they were told counting had stopped for the night, only to find out hours later that it had kept going on. You can and should watch the 12-minute portion of the testimony from Jacki Pick here.


On Friday morning, a group called Lead Stories published a "hoax alert" falsely claiming to have debunked the security video. The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other outlets followed along, criticizing non-leftist journalists for giving the video traction. In fact, none of the claims made by the Republicans were debunked.

Lead Stories' "fact" "check" says government officials told them everything was fine with the counting, that the ballots were in "containers — not suitcases," and that "party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night."

Leaving aside whether relying solely and uncritically on government officials' claims constitutes anything close to a "fact" "check," let's look at the claim that party observers were never told that counting was over for the night. In Lead Stories' regurgitation of the government officials' claims, only the people who cut open the absentee ballot envelopes were sent home, while ballot counters and scanners were retained and kept working — and no one told the press or other observers they were done counting.