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Macron's outreach to Russia is part of his De Gaulle-like plan to free France and EU partners from status as vassals of Washington

Glenn Diesen
RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:46 UTC
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President of France Emmanuel Macron • Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Russia and France have different objectives, yet both recognise the need to push back against Turkey's expansionism, the intrusive influence of the US, and the ze1 Presio-sum security architecture in Europe, which threatens stability.

Emmanuel Macron has called on the European Union to reconsider policies towards Russia and improve relations. The French President's move deserves a favourable response as rapprochement is sadly now a politically bold move in the Euro-Atlantic community.

France has also requested a role in establishing lasting peace in Nagorno-Karabakh. Paris approved of Turkey's collaboration with radical militant groups in Syria, although now objects as Ankara exports the same fighters to Libya and the South Caucasus. Paris has traditionally depicted all anti-Russian Chechens as freedom fighters, albeit it now calls for greater anti-terrorism cooperation with Moscow.

Russia has become more capable of balancing Western unilateralism in recent years, yet Russia should also support multilateral alternatives. Moscow needs a new partner for a different approach to the West. Washington is becoming more unhinged in its last stand for global hegemony, London will shore up its post-Brexit role in Europe as a security provider embroiled with Cold War rhetoric, and Berlin's vision for Europe infers it will become increasingly unreliable and belligerent.

Comment: 'He who hesitates is lost' goes the saying. Macron seems to understand this implication. Whether he can create more advantageous circumstances for future-France, is the question. He is not the most savvy nor strategic leader in the Western pack.

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Briefcase

Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

Frank Bajak
AP
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
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A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.

The server's data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state's election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case that was later obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.

The lawsuit, filed July 3 by a diverse group of election reform advocates, aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized election technology. The server in question, which served as a statewide staging location for key election-related data, made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn't fixed six months after he reported it to election authorities.

WIPED OUT

It's not clear who ordered the server's data irretrievably erased.

The Kennesaw elections center answers to Georgia's secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor in 2018 and the suit's main defendant. His spokeswoman issued a statement Thursday saying his office had neither involvement nor advanced warning of the decision. It blamed "the undeniable ineptitude" at the Kennesaw State elections center.


Comment: Brian Kemp is the current governor of Georgia.


Comment: Seems like amnesia sets in every 2 years! Doomed to repeat, as they say.

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Broom

CDC urges Americans against traveling for Thanksgiving claiming rise in coronavirus cases

Will Feuer
CNBC
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:42 UTC
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During the global coronavirus pandemic a group of people wearing personal protective equipment walk in Tom Bradley international at LAX on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday advised Americans not to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Dr. Henry Walke, the CDC's Covid-19 incident manager, said there is "no more important time than now for each and every American to redouble our efforts to watch our distance, wash our hands and, most importantly, wear a mask."

"CDC is recommending against travel during the Thanksgiving period," he said. "For Americans who decide to travel, CDC recommends doing so as safely as possible by following the same recommendations for everyday living."
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Bullseye

Do Trump's2020 election fraud claims have merit? It would appear so

Elliot Alderson
F Society
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:47 UTC
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An analysis of voting data from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin

Trump has been claiming on Twitter that the election was stolen and rigged. His legal team has said that they have evidence of this. Most of the mainstream media as well as big tech companies have called these claims baseless and unfounded. Twitter has been putting warnings on many of Trump's tweets.


Is it possible that there could be some truth to what he is saying? I decided to take a look at the data for myself. I will start with a disclaimer that I am a software engineer and not a statistician so what I am presenting is my own analysis and opinion and is not scientific.

[Ed. note: All charts can be clicked for larger view]

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Eye 2

UK's terrorism chief calls for 'national debate' on criminalizing doubts about Covid-19 vaccine, 'vaccine certificate' being considered


RT
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:19 UTC
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The UK's top counter-terrorism cop has suggested society stop allowing people to question the wisdom of a rapid Covid-19 vaccine rollout, regarding such skepticism to be life-threatening "misinformation."

Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu has pointedly questioned whether it is "the correct thing for society to allow" the sharing of "misinformation that could cost people's lives" — demonizing all doubts about quickly developed Covid-19 vaccines whose potential long-term effects are not yet known and tying them to extremist radicalization efforts.

While he didn't go so far as to call for a law to be passed banning such content, his suggestion of a "national debate" will presumably light a fire under ministers already mulling such legislation.

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Eye 2

Entering or leaving Scotland BANNED in new lockdown, MPs have 'grave doubts' parliament has the legal authority

Jemma Carr
Daily Mail
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:52 UTC
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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attends First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament on November 19. Scots who cross the border face a £60 fine BUT police won't set up road blocks and say 'enforcement' is a last resort
Crossing the Scottish border will be illegal from the end of this week under sweeping new Covid restrictions which critics have described as 'deeply flawed'.

As of 6pm on Friday, entering or leaving Scotland without a reasonable excuse is banned and anyone caught doing so could be slapped with a £60 fine.

People living within Level Three or Level Four lockdown areas - which includes vast swathes of central Scotland - are also not permitted to leave their area.

But First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been hit with claims that the rules cannot be legally put in place by Scottish parliament - sparking fears that lockdown-defying travellers could dispute their fines.


Comment: The issue at hand involves a bit more than fine disputes, this appears to be a tyrannical power grab that has no basis in current law.


In other developments yesterday:

Comment: For the truth behind this tyrannical farce, see: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Bizarro Earth

The 'Great Reset' is trending: Here's why

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:28 UTC
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Joe Biden punts the globalist propaganda for his masters
The Great Reset has been trending on Twitter. Once you're familiar with what it means for the future of our civilisation, you'll understand why...

Put simply, it is the blueprint for a complete transformation of the world economy. There will be no money, no private property, no democracy. Instead, every key decision — what you do for a living, how much stuff you consume, whether you can take a vacation — will be decided for you by a remote, unaccountable elite of 'experts'.

It sounds like a conspiracy theory — and is often dismissed as such by people who imagine they are being savvy and sophisticated. In fact, though, the people pushing for the Great Reset are perfectly open about their plan. Indeed, they can scarcely stop talking about it...

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Russian Flag

Nothing to hide: Top Russian lawmaker offers UN officials trip to Crimea amid US-backed human rights anti-Russia rhetoric


RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:00 UTC
Molochnoye, Crimea
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The sun sets behind the radio telescope RT-70 in the village of Molochnoye, Crimea June 7, 2020.
Accusations of human rights violations on the Crimean Peninsula are an invention, according to a leading Russian politician, who has told United Nations representatives to visit the region and see for themselves.

After the UN adopted a resolution condemning alleged discrimination in Crimea, which was reabsorbed by Russia in 2014, Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the Russian Parliament's Committee on International Affairs, said the body was "biased." According to him, the move was driven by "the collective West and its satellite states."

Slutsky criticized "conclusions about mythical oppression and violations of human rights in Crimea that are made in absentia, without evidence and without proof." He added that "none of the accusers has ever been to the Peninsula and do not have a picture of what is happening since it became a part of the Russian Federation."

According to Slutsky, if UN officials want to verify the situation in the region, which Ukraine still claims as part of its territory, they should see it first-hand. "I am happy to help organise a special UN fact-finding mission to Crimea as soon as the global epidemiological situation allows... Because the simple fact is that allegations of harassment and persecution in Crimea do not correspond to the truth."

Comment: More sour grapes from the US - that not only helped implement the 2014 Coup in Ukraine, but when Crimea decided to vote about whether to stay with the neo-nazi-led nation or not - democratically voted to re-join Russia! What a laugh! And what a dismal and obvious failure on the part of the neoliberal regime changers of the Obama administration. But, of course, the anti-Russia fervor never really ended in Washington.

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Snakes in Suits

UK's Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding having to self-isolate after alert from her own app

Greg Heffer
Sky News
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:00 UTC
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Baroness Harding is having to quarantine until 26 November
Baroness Harding's husband, Conservative former minister John Penrose, had already been in self-isolation.

The under-pressure head of NHS Test and Trace is having to self-isolate after being pinged by the scheme's smartphone app.

Baroness Dido Harding revealed on Twitter she would have to quarantine until 26 November after receiving an alert.

Alongside a screenshot of the NHS Test and Trace app, she posted: "Nothing like personal experience of your own products ....got this overnight.

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Bullseye

House Republicans call for Congressional probe into integrity of 2020 election

Mimi Nguyen Ly
The Epoch Times
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
The Capitol in Washington
© Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
The Capitol in Washington on June 4, 2019.
The most senior Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees are calling for an immediate congressional investigation into the 2020 general election, amid multiple legal challenges that allege a variety of voting irregularities across a number of states.

In a letter on Nov. 18, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) want immediate hearings to "examine the integrity of the 2020 election amid troubling reports of irregularities and improprieties."

The letter, addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), called for them to "fully examine" allegations of election errors and misconduct.

"Given your role as leaders of a political party that spent four years baselessly calling into question the legitimacy of the 2016 election with debunked allegations of Russian collusion, you owe it to all Americans to fully examine allegations of actual election errors and misconduct," they wrote.


Comment: A good zinger aimed at the hypocritical and egregiously lying political animals of the Democratic party!

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