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Defense One, a subsidiary of The Atlantic, came out with a story last week about a man named Jim Jeffrey. If you haven't heard of him, don't feel bad, but he's pretty important in Washington, D.C. Under his fancy title, he's been appointed to oversee the U.S. fight against ISIS and what are supposed to be the limited operations of the American troops who still remain in Syria.
Jeffrey is now also a hero in D.C., because in the interview with Defense One he bragged about how he misled President Donald Trump and other top White House officials about the real number of U.S. troops in Syria. "We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there," Jeffrey told the Defense One reporter.
Chinese parts, hidden ownership, growing scrutiny: Inside America's biggest maker of voting machines
The nondescript name and building match the relative anonymity of the company, more commonly known as ES&S, which has operated in obscurity for years despite its central role in U.S. elections. Nearly half of all Americans who vote in the 2020 election will use one of its devices.
That's starting to change. A new level of scrutiny of the election system, spurred by Russia's interference in the 2016 election, has put ES&S in the political spotlight. The source of the nation's voting machines has become an urgent issue because of real fears that hackers, whether foreign or domestic, might tamper with the mechanics of the voting system.
That has led to calls for ES&S and its competitors, Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems and Austin, Texas-based Hart Intercivic, to reveal details about their ownership and the origins of the parts, some of which come from China, that make up their machines.
But ES&S still faces questions about the company's supply chain and the identities of its investors, although it has said it is entirely owned by Americans. And the results of its government penetration tests, in which authorized hackers try to break in so vulnerabilities can be identified and fixed, have yet to be revealed.
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You may recall him infamously calling someone a "lying dog-faced pony soldier," threatening an autoworker to take him "outside" and even screaming in CBS's Ed O'Keefe's face, grabbing his lapels and tapping him in the chest with his fist. But he's often been very churlish with the media, despite them bending over backwards to toss him softballs or cut him a break.
But there has been at least one reporter who has been trying to do his job when it comes to asking questions of Joe Biden. That's Bo Erickson of CBS News. But that of course has earned the continuing ire of Biden. Biden let Erickson have it for daring to ask a real question today.
"Why are you the only guy that always shouts out questions?" Biden declared, trying to mock Erickson. I'm sure that Biden didn't actually get how revealing his comment actually was. Erickson is the only guy willing to pursue questions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin • Former US VP Joe Biden
In comments to the Rossiya-1 news channel, Putin said that it would have been improper to pre-empt the conclusion of the contest while the results have still not been made certain.
"There is no hidden motivation and nothing unusual and nothing that could cause our relationship to deteriorate... This is purely a formality."Earlier this month, the president's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, informed reporters that Russia would wait to see the final results, or for one candidate to concede, before reaching out to either. He reiterated that "we consider it correct to wait for the official summing up of the results of the elections."
Comment: It would not be unreasonable if Putin did snub Biden, considering the slam game against Russia by the Democrats for the past four years! Putin, however, is far more honorable than they will ever be.
"I'm at home with my family. I'm in my safe zone" Cuomo intoned in the voice message, posted to Twitter on Thursday, before dropping his voice to a menacing whisper: "Your safe zone is not a safe zone. Your safe zone is dangerous this year. Love is sometimes doing what's hard," the governor continued, returning to his previous tone. "This year, if you love someone, it is smarter and better to stay away."
Comment: Not to be outdone, Canadian PM Trudeau threatens Christmas:
"We are facing [a] winter that's going to drive people inside more and more, and we're really at risk of seeing caseloads go up, and hospitals get overwhelmed, and more loved ones dying. So we need to do everything we can right now to slow the spread of Covid-19, to stop the spike in its tracks. A normal Christmas is quite frankly right out of the question."Covid-19 has been a gift to authoritarian leadership, especially those with a lockdown-the-herd mentality.
Meanwhile Trudeau brushed off claims that Ottawa would use emergency powers to re-introduce its own national-style lockdown, saying he is "not looking to bring in a federal hammer to try and do things."
Chief Public Health Officer Dr Theresa Tam warned "we are not on a good trajectory" as she discussed the latest Covid modelling. "I think across the board, across Canada, we have to say the time is now, with urgency, that we limit contacts."
Some of them may require witness protection.
She says that Smartmatic is known for stealing elections all throughout South America and the world.
Peter Neffenger is the President and Chairman of the Board of Smartmatic . He is also on Joe Biden's transition team and guess what his alleged field of expertise is?
Homeland Security.
Now, is that ironic or merely corrupt?
I guess Biden decided to reward him for all the help he received in the election.
Comment: If you listen to Powell's above interview with Howie Carr, she guesses that "probably, at least, 10 million fraudulent votes went to Joe Biden, maybe more."
Trainor said his review of evidence, including numerous affidavits claiming voter fraud and a sworn statement by a prominent mathematician flagging up to 100,000 Pennsylvania ballots, met the first level of legal scrutiny under what's known as motion to dismiss or "Rule 12(b)(6)" of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which would dismiss less credible claims.
Noting the subsequent legal threshold beyond a "motion to dismiss" is the "summary judgment phase," Trainor said that under this phase, the credibility of witnesses is presumed to be accurate, especially given the caliber of the testimonies Trainor has observed to date.
"When considering a motion for summary judgment, a judge will view all evidence in the light most favorable to the movant's opponent," explains Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute website.
"What I would be concerned with, if I were on the other side of these election contests that are going on around the country, is that if you look at the level of evidence that has been provided by these affidavits — hundreds of affidavits that corroborate events that have happened on the ground — in a summary judgment phase of these cases, you have to take the evidence of the plaintiff as being true," Trainor told "Just the News AM" television show Friday morning.
Comment: Trump's lawyers are planning a new Georgia lawsuit which attorney Jordan Sekulow says will be "shocking."
"It's nothing that we have talked [about] before. It's not what you heard in the press conference [on Thursday] either.A state judge has rejected the final pending Arizona lawsuit (brought by two private citizens), which alleged election officials failed to follow proper procedures.
Sekulow, the son of Trump personal attorney and impeachment defender Jay Sekulow, said it is "something completely separate" from the allegations contained in the press conference held by lawyers Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Rudy Giuliani.
"They've got to be outcome determinative, but I will tell you, the Lt. Gov. [Geoff Duncan] in Georgia, the Secretary of State in Georgia [Brad Raffensperger] in Georgia, they're in for quite a shock on Monday and Tuesday about how poorly they run and they ran — there's going to be a proof — of how poorly run they ran the elections in one of their major counties," Sekulow said.
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Sekulow said that his team is working on a constitutional case, while Powell, Giuliani, and Ellis are working on a case involving voting machines and allegations of fraud.
Laurie Aguilera had claimed she was denied the right to vote because she was not given a new ballot after her vote was rejected by the tabulation machine. Meanwhile, Dovocan Drobina claims that his vote was not properly counted by the machines.Former 8chan admin and cyber expert Ron Watkins points out that, despite officials saying nothing to see here, using sharpies can cause an error. Officials say that's fine, because the vote can then be tabulated manually. But that's the problem. Software techs can then tabulate the vote any way they want. Poll observers don't watch them do it.
"I believe that it is the appropriate resolution and that is what I'll be doing," Mahoney said at the bench without elaborating on her reasons for dismissing the case with prejudice. She added that she would be issuing an order with her decision in writing at a later time.
Aguilera believes her ballot was rejected because she had used a sharpie to fill it out. Her lawyers had asked the judge for injunctive relief to allow Aguilera to cast a new ballot prior to the state's certification of the election results.
State officials had previously said that sharpies would not affect the ballots.
A federal judge shot down the campaign's latest lawsuit in Pennsylvania:
US District Court Judge Matthew Brann has ruled to dismiss the lawsuit from the Trump campaign on Saturday, saying the president's legal team failed to present "compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption" which would have warranted the court "disenfranchising almost seven million votes."
"That has not happened. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence," Brann said in the 37-page statement.
The court refused Trump's legal team the right to amend the complaint on the grounds that it had already been amended once, and pointing to the looming Monday deadline for Pennsylvania to certify the votes.
The lawsuit, filed by the Trump campaign on November 9, claimed that electoral officials in some of the state's counties allowed voters to cast provisional ballots if they ran into any problems with mail-in ballots, such as the lack of "secrecy envelope," while other counties didn't. The complaint argued that the different treatment of voters in such cases amounted to a breach of the US Constitution.
Brann dismissed the argument, calling the legal challenge a "Frankenstein's monster" which did not justify the remedy proposed by the Trump campaign - to invalidate allegedly illegal votes.
Responding to the ruling, the Trump campaign's legal team, headed by Rudy Giuliani, said that although they were "disappointed" that they "did not at least get the opportunity to present our evidence at a hearing," they would seek "an expedited appeal" to the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, which has a conservative majority.
The campaign apparently found a silver lining in the ruling - which is seemingly another blow to the president's legal efforts to contest the election - saying the decision "turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the US Supreme Court."
Trump himself vowed to appeal the decision, blasting it on Twitter as "a continuation of the never ending Witch Hunt."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: The Great White North's virtue signaller-in-chief
Asked at a press conference Friday about concerns raised by conservative lawmakers about his use of the term 'Great Reset', Trudeau said,
"We're in a time of anxiety, where people are looking for reasons for things that are happening to him, the difficult moments we're in. It's nice to be able to find someone to blame, something to point to, something to get mad at.
"We're seeing a lot of people fall prey to disinformation. If conservative MPs and others want to start talking about conspiracy theories, well, that's their choice. I'm going to stay focused on helping Canadians get through this, on learning lessons from this pandemic, and making sure that the world we leave to our kids is even better than the world we inherited from our parents."
Comment: That is some brazen gaslighting!
What a liar!
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"We've got tons of evidence; it's so much, it's hard to pull it all together," Powell told Saturday night's "The Count" co-hosted by Rob Schmitt and Mark Halperin, teasing the explosive allegation of the Georgia governor in a contested and key battleground state.
"Hopefully this week we will get it ready to file, and it will be biblical."
"It's a massive project to pull this fraud claim together with the evidence that I want to put in," she added.
"You name the manner of fraud and it occurred in Georgia."
Comment: We're inclined to believe Powell regarding the scale of the fraud she is suggesting took place; this election was probably rigged to the tune of millions of votes 'flipped' from Trump to Biden.
Powell's idea that the rigging was meant to be more straightforward fits with what we saw happen. Digital flipping of votes occurred 'mid-stream', on the night, as they came in... but that there were too many for Trump so the system became overwhelmed somehow ("the algorithm crashed"), forcing the 'pause', followed by manual dumps of fraudulent ballots for Biden over subsequent hours and days.
Having said that, we're also wary of QAnon-like claims about 'justice being served any day now'. It's been 4 years and Killary is still very much free. The 'Venezuela-Cuba-China-Commies-did-this-to-us' angle is also, of course, pure BS. We're scratching our heads as to why the Trump legal team would sully their case with such provably false claims. Powell DOES also keep name-dropping the CIA, so at least she occasionally hones in on the most likely perps...
What Powell appears to be doing, in general, is drumming up popular support for Trump's case - and thus 'pressure' that can be applied on US Supreme Court judges when they do finally hear and see the evidence Powell, Giuliani et al present of mass vote fraud.
People can question the wisdom of this, but don't forget that those judges will be coming under far greater pressure from the deep state to certify the election of Joe Biden, 'or else'...
As things stand, Trump's going to need a 'hail mary' from 'on high' to 'un-steal' this election.
UPDATE 23 Nov 2020
In the space of a few hours, from conducting press conferences side-by-side with Powell to retweeting her interviews, the other lawyers representing Trump's re-election campaign have suddenly distanced the president from her:
And Powell's response:
Trump's chances of re-elections likely just took another dive.
You couldn't tell, when you read above the entrance of the World Bank the noble phrase, "Our Dream is World Free of Poverty". To this hypocrisy I can only add, "...And we make sure it will just remain a dream." This says both, the lie and the criminal nature of the two International Financial Institutions, created under the Charter of the United Nations, but instigated by the United States.
The front of these institutions is brilliant. What meets the eye, are investments in social infrastructure, in schools, health systems, basic needs like drinking water, sanitation - even environmental protection - over all "Poverty Alleviation", i.e. A World Free of Poverty. But how fake this is today and was already in the 1970's and 1980's is astounding. Gradually people are opening their eyes to an abject reality, of exploitation and coercion and outright blackmail. And that, under the auspices of the United Nations. What does it tell you about the UN system? In what hands are the UN? - The world organization was created in San Francisco, California, on 24 October 1945, just after WWII, by 51 nations, committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.













Comment: President Trump turned out to be wiser than they thought. The PTB couldn't let that happen.
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