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California clearly violated election law; votes are invalid

Daniel Bobinski
UndercoverDC
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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California has been mostly absent from the discussion of election law violation, but new information reveals that wording legally required to be on its ballots was missing, in direct violation of its own state law. This means the ballots should not have been cast or counted, yet California certified its ballots, and thus illegally cast its electoral votes for Joe Biden.

Let's be clear about something: Our nation's founders tried for years to work out their differences with England's King George. But George was a tyrant, and a war broke out that lasted eight years. After that war, our founders avoided creating a government that was ruled by a man — they decided to be governed by laws.

Unfortunately, we now have states ignoring their own state and federal election laws, and by disregarding these laws, their election results must be nullified. Either that, or we're no longer a country governed by laws.
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Iran's government delays implementation of law ordering a ramping up of nuclear program

Golnaz Esfandiari
RFE/RL
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:16 UTC
Rouhani
© AP/Office of the Iranian PresidencyIran President Hassan Rouhani
The Iranian government has delayed implementing parliament's controversial legislation that ordered an immediate ramping up of the country's uranium-enrichment program.

Iran's President Hassan Rohani had opposed the bill, saying it was detrimental to diplomatic efforts, while the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said in a recent interview that the bill did not designate funds to implement the law, which calls on the government to enrich uranium at 20 percent immediately.

"Where is the money for [implementing it]? Where should the [money] come from?" Salehi said on December 21.

On December 28, Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri announced the adoption of a bylaw for the implementation of the parliament's legislation that was sent to relevant bodies. The legislation was adopted by parliament on December 1 and quickly approved by the powerful Guardians Council.

The bylaw says Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, which is in charge of the country's nuclear activities, will have two months to prepare a report on the technical and financial requirements for enriching uranium at 20 percent as ordered by the hard-line-dominated parliament, which passed the legislation following the assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Arrow Up

Gallup Poll: President Trump is most admired man in 2020


New York Post
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:39 UTC
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© Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesPresident Trump rocks the house, again
​President Trump tops the list of the most admired man for 2020, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

The annual survey asked respondents which man and woman living anywhere in the world they admired most this year — and 18 percent said Trump and 10 percent named former first lady Michelle Obama, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris coming in second with 6 percent.

Trump's first-place finish unseated former President Barack Obama from atop the list — a place he held for the past 12 years.

The president and his predecessor tied last year.
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Light Saber

'Dozens' of House members to challenge Electoral College results, Rep. Brooks says

Jack Phillips
Epoch Times
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Rep. Mo Brooks
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesRep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) speaks during the DC March for Jobs in Upper Senate Park near Capitol Hill on July 15, 2013, in Washington, DC.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), the Republican leader of a plan to challenge Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, said that "dozens" of House members are going to sponsor a measure to object.

"There are dozens in the House of Representatives who have reached that conclusion that I have; we're going to sponsor and co-sponsor objections to the Electoral College vote returns," Brooks told Fox News on Dec. 28.

The move, which must occur during the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, requires a member of the House and a member of the Senate to carry out. So far, Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has suggested he might join Brooks and the other GOP House lawmakers. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has suggested he might as well. Neither Tuberville nor Paul has made public statements affirming the effort.

Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-Ky.) has said that he thinks the effort led by Brooks is doomed to fail regardless of who joins.

Meanwhile, Brooks said in the Fox interview that it isn't clear whether any Republican senator will take part in the challenge.

Comment: Brooks' comments about others in the GOP not doing their homework - hits the mark. Many in leadership are far too lazy, apathetic or corrupt to question their assumptions enough to get to the bottom of things; perhaps if they did, they know that they would then actually have to do something about it; something inconvenient, laborious and likely to incur the reactions of conventional authoritarian groupthinkers who refuse to "buck the system" and question the conventional narrative.

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Broom

Russia expels Bulgarian diplomat in retaliatory action following accusations of spying


PressTV
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:13 UTC
Russia foreign ministry building
© Sputnik / Valery MelnikovRussian Foreign Ministry's building.
In a retaliatory move, Russia has expelled a Bulgarian diplomat days after Sofia declared a Russian diplomat persona non-grata.

In a statement on Monday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in response to the "unjustified and groundless" expulsion of its diplomat from Sofia, it had summoned Bulgaria's ambassador to inform him that Lieutenant Colonel Mitko Borisov, the embassy's assistant military attaché, is persona non-grata.

The ministry also told the Bulgarian ambassador that the said diplomat had to leave the Russian Federation within the next 72 hours.
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Light Saber

Nord Stream 2 work in Germany is complete: 'We won't do US bidding, even if Biden is in charge', FM Maas says


RT
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:33 UTC
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© Reuters / Maxim ShemetoFILE PHOTO.
Berlin will not change its position on the Nord Stream 2 project after the new US administration takes office, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said, adding that Europe's sovereignty does not equal doing US bidding.

"We do not need to talk about European sovereignty if it means that, in the future, we will only do everything Washington wants," Maas told Germany's dpa news agency while commenting on the German government's stance on the Russian gas pipeline project.

"The federal government will not change its position on Nord Stream 2."

Comment: See also:

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Law's Ahab: Weissmann makes the case for a Trump self-pardon

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
Andrew Weissmann
Andrew Weissmann
Below is my column in the Hill on claims by former Deputy Special Counsel Andrew Weissmann that the recent pardons by President Donald Trump reinforce a possible obstruction of justice case against him. We have previously discussed how Weissmann has proven critics correct in their description of his animosity and bias toward Trump. For my part, his book and recent statements reinforce the view of an abusive prosecutor, particularly in his untethered view of obstruction. Indeed, Weissmann seems intent on making the best case for Trump to grant himself a self-pardon. He is calling for prosecutors to use grand juries to pursue Trump and others in an unrelenting campaign based on unfounded legal theories.

Here is the column:

In the debate over pardons, some Democrats seem to be making the case for Donald Trump and against themselves. Consider Andrew Weissmann. After the recent pardons, he declared that Trump effectively proved the case for an obstruction charge against himself and called on prosecutors to summon those who were pardoned into grand juries with the threat of later perjury charges. It was unfounded and dubious. It was also vintage Weissmann, who made the case against himself as someone who shows bias against Trump that overwhelms all other considerations.
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Evidence of foreign influence in 2020 election: Nevada secretary of state caught sending voter data list to Pakistani firm linked to ISI

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:07 UTC
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Catherine Engelbrecht
This is just stunning!

Catherine Engelbrecht is the Founder and President of True The Vote the nation's largest voters' rights group.

The organization for over ten years now has been on the front lines of election fraud prevention by building action-oriented election integrity movements in key states, counties, and precincts. 'True the Vote' does not advocate for particular parties or candidates only for fair elections at all levels.

Comment: More from OANN:



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War Whore

House overrides Trump veto of defense bill

Rebecca Kheel
The Hill
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:53 UTC
US capitol building
The House voted Monday to override President Trump's veto of a must-pass defense policy bill, the first successful override vote of Trump's presidency.

The House voted 322-87 to override Trump, easily surpassing the two-thirds majority needed to overcome a veto.

The action now moves to the Senate, which also needs to muster two-thirds support in order for Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to be overridden.

Comment: Also from The Hill:
House passes bill boosting stimulus checks to $2,000 in bipartisan vote

The House on Monday passed legislation that would increase the amount of direct payments in the recently signed coronavirus relief package from $600 to $2,000.

The bill passed in a 275-134 vote, with support from 44 Republicans. It needed a two-thirds majority under the procedures that were used for consideration.

The measure faces an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled Senate. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of Senate Republican leadership, said last week that he didn't think a bill to increase the stimulus checks to $2,000 could pass in the upper chamber.


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Best of the Web: Stockholm Syndrome: Swedish government folds, goes full Covid, embraces casedemic, declares emergency powers to enforce lockdown


RT
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:13 UTC
Malmo
© Johan Nilsson / TT News Agency / ReutersChristmas shoppers at a mall in Malmo, Sweden, December 20, 2020.
The Swedish government has proposed a bill that would allow it to close businesses and fine Covid-19 rule-breakers. Officials previously said the old model of containing the virus was a "failure."

If approved by parliament, the law would take effect on January 10 and stand until the end of September 2021.


Comment: That's strange because Russia's authorities think any 'threat' (real or manufactured) posed by Covid will be over by spring.


"In very serious situations, the government will be able to decide on more extensive measures to prevent crowding," Health Minister Lena Hallengren said at a news briefing.


Comment: At the moment, governments consider an alcoholic drink without a 'substantial meal' as a serious enough situation that it necessitates legislation, so one can't really trust governments to exercise reason when considering a situation's seriousness.


Comment: Sweden of course has no 'high death toll from Covid'. It just has deaths, like everywhere else.

Sweden's refusal to lockdown exposed the deadly lockdowns for the nonsensical, totalitarian power-grabs that they are. We suspected the small country wouldn't be able to hold out forever. It's actually remarkable the Swedes held out as long as they did.

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