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If Biden seeks to put a shorter leash on Russia, he may find Putin's bite is far worse than his bark

Scott Ritter
RT
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:32 UTC
Vladimir Putin Joe Biden
© REUTERS/Alexander NatruskinVladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Joe Biden during their meeting in Moscow March 10, 2011
The SolarWinds hack, attributed to Russia, has led to declarations about the need for President-elect Biden to respond to what has been likened to "an act of war." He needs to proceed with caution, lest rhetoric becomes reality.

In the aftermath of the revelations regarding the stunning SolarWinds cyber attack which has exposed the computer networks of multiple US government departments and agencies, along with those belonging to more than 17,000 civilian corporate clients, the anti-Russian rhetoric has reached new heights in Washington, DC. While formal attribution to the hack has not yet been made, the National Security Agency has pinned the blame on "Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors," and Senator Richard Blumenthal, following a classified briefing on the matter, tweeted that the briefing dealt with "Russia's cyberattack."

Comment: Dominion Voting Systems uses SolarWinds products. As more and more evidence is showing the massive election steal and who is really behind It, the Deep state and the mainstream media are trying to put blame on Russia by hacking an important part of the software that is used by Dominion voting machines.

If Joe Biden became a new US president, it is very clear that he and his team will push even more the story against Rusia.

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Rand Paul: It was a grave mistake to let governors become 'dictators' over Covid policies


Trending Politics
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:15 UTC
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Sen. Rand Paul is sounding the alarm again over our continuing loss of liberty in the age of the coronavirus, and he's certainly not wrong.

In particular, the Kentucky Republican says Americans should really be pushing back - hard - on governors who have become "dictators" with their lockdowns, restrictions, and mandates, none of which, at this point, have anything at all to do with 'the science.'

"You know, nobody ever intended that governors would be sort of czars or dictators in charge of the economy," said Paul in a Christmas morning interview with Newsmax.
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Mitch McConnell warns GOP off Electoral College brawl in Congress

Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick
AP
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
Mitch McConnell
© Tom Brenner/Pool via APSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., removes his face mask as he arrives for a news conference with other Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.
Fending off a messy fight that could damage Republicans ahead of Georgia Senate runoffs, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned fellow GOP senators on Tuesday not to join President Donald Trump's extended assault on the Electoral College results.

In public remarks and private warnings, McConnell worked to push ahead to the Biden era and unite a fractured Republican Party ahead of the runoff elections that will determine Senate control.

First, the Republican leader heaped praise on Trump's "endless" accomplishments as he congratulated President-elect Joe Biden during a morning Senate speech. Then he pivoted, privately warning Republican senators away from disputing the Electoral College tally when Congress convenes in a joint session Jan. 6 to confirm the results.

Comment: This was two weeks ago. Now from Gateway Pundit:
OUTRAGEOUS! Mitch McConnell Will Reach Out to Senator-Elect Tommy Tuberville and Urge Him To Turn His Back on Trump in Electoral College Vote
Jim Hoft December 25, 2020 at 5:41pm

Last week news broke that senator-elect Tommy Tuberville may challenge the Electoral College votes on the US Senate floor in January.
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But Mitch McConnell does not stand for President Trump and he does not stand with Trump's voters.

Mitch stands with the globalists and the Democrats and he is reportedly reaching out to Tommy Tuberville to warn him about creating a messy situation next week.

Wow!

Via The Hill:
Senate Republicans say Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will reach out to Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) in an attempt to avoid a messy floor fight next month over finalizing the results of the Electoral College vote.
Absolutely disgusting.

It's almost like old Mitchy is actively trying to dissuade his party from winning the election. Now what could prompt him to do that?

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Eye 1

Best of the Web: Yes, it was a stolen election

John Perazzo
Frontpage Mag
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 08:51 UTC
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As Americans continue to watch the 2020 election controversy unfold, the very same publications that spent years lying about President Trump's "Russia collusion" are once again telling us what we are dutifully supposed to believe. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, assures us that Trump's "baseless" and "dangerous" claim "that the election was rigged to benefit Joe Biden" has been thoroughly "debunked."[1] The New York Times proclaims that "Trump's false election fraud claims" are founded upon nothing more than a "torrent of falsehoods."[2] Sneering at "how Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen," The Washington Post mocks Republicans who "are still pretending that there was election fraud."[3] And CNN.com warns that "Trump's obsession with overturning the election" has now begun to spiral "out of control."[4]

But so much for what the comic books have to say. What follows is a compilation of vital facts that will demonstrate, to anyone interested in following the truth wherever it may lead, that the 2020 presidential election was indeed rife with fraud, and that Joe Biden, if he should in fact be sworn into office next month, will be an illegitimate president from the very start.

Before the Election: How We Got Here

Fifteen years ago, a landmark report by the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, known informally as the Carter-Baker Commission, advised all U.S. states that in order to guarantee free and fair elections, they should: increase voter ID requirements; minimize the use of mail-in ballots, which "remain the largest source of potential voter fraud"; disallow ballot harvesting by third parties; purge voter rolls of all ineligible or fraudulent names; allow election observers to monitor ballot-counting processes without restraint or obstruction; ensure that voting machines are accurate in their tabulations; and encourage news organizations to "delay the release of any exit-poll data until the election has been decided." All of these recommendations were widely ignored in the elections of November 2020.[5]
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Roger Stone on 'the Special Counsel's redacted justice' - an exclusive report

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:39 UTC
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© Hollis JohnsonRoger Stone
In this exclusive report from Roger Stone, he explains his entire ordeal after being targeted by the Mueller gang and placed in front of Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson. In this lengthy and detailed account of what he endured, Stone lays out his case and then asks that he be fully pardoned by President Trump.

Guest post by Roger Stone:

Late in the night on election day 2020, just hours before the legal deadline imposed, the U.S. Department of Justice complied with a federal court decision ordering it to release the last remaining redacted sections of the so-called 'Mueller Report' that had been hidden since the report's publication nearly 18 months earlier.

At midnight on election day November 3rd, 2020- the busiest news day of the year and timed to get as little press coverage as possible, the United States Department of Justice released the remaining unredacted sections of the Mueller Report regarding me specifically, in which they had admitted that despite two years of intense investigation, spending millions to pour through every aspect of my life, dragging 36 witnesses to the grand jury and after obtaining all my electronic communications for four years ( literally millions of e-mails and pages of documents, tax returns, banking and financial records - they found no factual evidence of any collaboration or coordination between me and WikiLeaks regarding the release of emails regarding John Podesta, the Democratic National committee or Hillary Clinton or that I had any advance knowledge of the timing, content or source of their disclosures).

Even BuzzFeed, who won the release of the data in a lawsuit, actually said I was "vindicated". The rest of the media? They reported nothing at all.

Comment: Roger Stone's ordeal should happen to NO ONE. The crimes in this case were those of the prosecutors, not the victim.

See also:

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Dollars

COVID relief and Trump's revenge: Pocket veto of coronavirus package is payback for McConnell's perfidy

David Catron
The American Spectator
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 12:01 UTC
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© Reuters/Leah MillisSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
President Trump has been deeply dissatisfied by the reluctance of the Republican establishment to support his challenges to November's election results that he and millions of voters attribute to vote fraud. Trump has been particularly unhappy with the laissez-faire attitude of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has discouraged GOP senators from openly backing Trump's effort. The president had his revenge Tuesday night when he denounced the coronavirus stimulus bill that McConnell had finally finished Monday evening and hailed as a "historic rescue package to help American families through this pandemic." Trump demanded a "suitable" bill that includes $2,000 checks for individuals and contains no wasteful spending.

If Trump refuses to sign the McConnell legislation, which includes $600 for individuals and contains all manner of special interest funding unrelated to COVID-19, the Republicans may well lose two Georgia Senate seats and control of Congress. The McConnell bill was cobbled together largely because of the January 5 Georgia runoff for two Senate seats that protect the GOP majority. Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have been selling themselves as alternatives to the GOP incumbents, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, whom they accuse of being too abstemious to provide much needed assistance to Georgians hurt by the pandemic. Both Democrats immediately exploited the president's criticism of the package.

Comment: See also:

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Supreme Court sets Pennsylvania response date in Trump election challenge for 2 days after Biden inauguration

Nicolas Rowan
Washington Examiner
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:54 UTC
Supreme Court
© ReutersUS Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to shun President Trump's Pennsylvania election challenge by setting the date for the state's response to Jan. 22 — two days after President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

Trump, who filed the suit on Monday, requested that the court expedite the case's proceedings and require Pennsylvania to respond by today. In a petition filed to the court, Trump's lawyers wrote that speeding up the timeline is essential "because once candidates have taken office, it will be impossible to repair election results tainted by illegally and belatedly cast or absentee and mail ballots."

"Without expedited review, petitioner's appellate rights-and this court's power to resolve the important constitutional and legal questions presented for this election may be irrevocably lost," wrote John Eastman, Trump's attorney in the case.

Eastman told the Washington Examiner that he expects the court to expedite the case and move up the response date.

Comment: If election fraud (the result of which impacts the entire country and a sitting president) isn't enough to motivate SCOTUS to accommodate this issue before it becomes inconsequential, then what is its 'supreme' purpose and intent?

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Syrian air defenses respond to 'Israeli aggression,' explosions heard over Hama countryside


RT
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:19 UTC
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© TwitterBlasts in Syria
Syria's air defenses have been activated to repel a suspected 'Israeli attack' in Hama Governorate, as the country's state media report blasts in the skies over Masyaf.

The alleged strikes came on Friday morning, in the early hours of Christmas Day, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency. The attack reportedly targeted military sites near the city of Masyaf, located some 23 miles (37km) west of Hama. Unconfirmed footage of Syria's defenses in action has circulated online.

Comment: Israeli strike is responsible for deaths and destruction:
A British-based group monitoring the Syrian conflict says at least six Iran-backed fighters have been killed in an Israeli rocket attack in central Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on December 25 that the Israeli attack launched in the province of Hama also destroyed depots and rocket-manufacturing facilities belonging to pro-Iranian militias.

Earlier, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported that Israeli rockets had targeted the area of Masyaf in rural Hama. The agency, citing a military source, added that Syrian air defenses had intercepted the "hostile" rockets and destroyed most of them.

SANA did not report any casualties nor damage resulting from the reported attack. State television aired footage purporting to show air defenses responding to the attack. There has been no comment from Israel, which rarely confirms details of its operations in Syria.

Israel has carried out more than 30 air strikes on targets across Syria so far in the present year, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Israel is facing another election. Like clockwork, 'indispensable' Netanyahu increases aggression during such times in order to shore up public, military and Knesset support.

See also: Israel calls 4th election in 2 years as unity government collapses

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Kiev's Christmas gift: Ukraine pledges to sabotage Russian efforts to avert humanitarian crisis amid water shortages in Crimea

Jonny Tickle
RT
Fri, 25 Dec 2020 19:48 UTC
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© Sputnik / Konstantin MihalchevskiyA view shows Ayanskoe reservoir in Crimea, Russia.
Russian officials have hit back at Ukraine after Kiev revealed plans to hinder Crimea's attempts to avert a humanitarian crisis due to a lack of water. Many local residents have been affected by restrictions.

In many parts of the peninsula, water is issuing from taps for only six hours a day. Crimea has experienced water shortages since 2014, when the Ukrainian government built a dam on a canal that had previously provided around 85 percent of the area's water. The canal was constructed by Moscow, when Russia and Ukraine were both part of a union state.

Since the blockade, Russia has repeatedly accused Kiev of human rights violations. However, Western nations have remained remarkably silent on the matter, as have non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights.

Comment: Crimea has been forced to take steps to deal with the crisis:
Authorities in Yalta will begin restricting water use to just mornings and evenings, with the peninsula's supply at critically low levels due to light rains and Kiev's blockage of a canal to the disputed territory.

Crimea has experienced water shortages since 2014, when the Ukrainian government cut off freshwater supply from the Dnieper River, following Russia's reabsorption of the peninsula.

Kiev built a dam on the North Crimean Canal, which had previously provided the vast majority of the peninsula's water. The canal was built by the Soviet Union when Russia and Ukraine were both parts of the same union state. Moscow has called the blockage a "violation of all conceivable conventions."

On October 13, the local authorities declared high alert after calculating that the region only has enough water to supply Crimea's largest city, Sevastopol, for 81 days.

The measure to limit Yalta residents to just six hours of water comes after an order from Crimean head Sergey Aksenov, who told local authorities that they must regularly publish information about water reserves. Citizens will now be limited to three hours of water in the morning and three hours in the evening.

"You have a difficult situation. The water supply system of Yalta is different from other regions of the Republic of Crimea," Aksenov explained. "People should understand that these three hours will be enforced, one hundred percent."

The regional head also noted that local authorities received 1,268 water-related complaints in the last week, including citizens reporting that upper floors of buildings were receiving no supply.

Yalta is just the latest Crimean city to receive the bad news about water restrictions, with limits already being imposed in Simferopol, the peninsula's second-largest city. In Yevpatoria, another resort town, residents have already been told that they will not have hot water until the end of the year.

In October, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin revealed that the federal government would spend five billion rubles ($64.5 million) to fix water supply issues.


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Vader

US continues its long history of using death squads, this time in Afghanistan. This is nothing but horrifying

Daniel Kovalik
RT
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:14 UTC
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© REUTERS/James Mackenzie
The dark story of the CIA running death squads in Afghanistan recently broken by the Intercept follows a very long pattern of US foreign policy going back to the 1960s.

According to The Intercept, "Beginning in December 2018 and continuing for at least a year, Afghan operatives believed to belong to an elite CIA-trained paramilitary unit known as 01, in partnership with U.S. special operations forces and air power, unleashed a campaign of terror against civilians." This unit carried out night raids in which they reportedly killed civilians, including children. In one night raid alone, targeting a religious school known as a madrassa, 12 children were killed.

The use of such death squads to kill civilians is shocking, but it is not at all surprising given the US' long-time use of death squads to destroy insurrectionary movements in the developing world. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is standard operating procedure for the US.

The very idea for the modern use of death squads traces its roots back to the early 1960s when US General William P. Yarborough first conceived of them as an instrument to advance US economic interests by violently destroying the progressive social movements in Latin America which began to emerge at the time in response to the Cuban Revolution and the Second Vatican Council which inspired the rise of Liberation Theology and the focus on uplifting the poor.
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