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UK wasted BILLIONS during lockdown by awarding gov contracts to unqualified 'associates'


RT
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:52 UTC
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A New York Times investigation into the UK's handling of the pandemic reveals misuse of government funds on a massive scale during its Covid-19 response, calling it "one of the greatest spending sprees in Britain's postwar era."

The report, titled 'Waste, Negligence and Cronyism: Inside Britain's Pandemic Spending', was published on Thursday. In it, the Times says that "about $11 billion went to companies either run by friends and associates of politicians in the Conservative Party, or with no prior experience or a history of controversy."

The newspaper based its findings mainly on data provided by Tussell, a research firm that has been tracking UK government contracts and spending in response to Covid-19 since the pandemic began in February.

Comment: Using the manufactured crisis as cover, democracy has been subverted and vast sums have been siphoned from the public purse: A UK MP expressed the situation succinctly:





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Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will challenge Electoral College votes on Jan. 6

Janita Kan
The Epoch Times
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:01 UTC
Rep. Matt Gaetz
© Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesRep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing with members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 9, 2020.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said on Dec. 19 that he plans to challenge electoral votes when they are counted during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6.

"On January 6, I'm joining with the fighters in the Congress, and we are going to object to electors from states that didn't run clean elections," Gaetz told a crowd during the first day of Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, held in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Republicans in Congress are considering whether to join the effort to challenge the 2020 general election results. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) initiated the push when he announced his intention to object to the electoral votes come January, while several other Republican lawmakers from both chambers have remained open to participating in the effort.

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Brick Wall

California appeals court blocks judge's order allowing San Diego restaurants to resume indoor dining - keeps Newsom's lockdown in full effect

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:48 UTC
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A California appeals court on Friday evening blocked a judge's order that allowed San Diego restaurants to resume indoor dining.

Governor Newsom's lockdown order is now in full effect in San Diego.

A California judge on Thursday snubbed Governor Newsom's authoritarian Covid order and said San Diego restaurants can resume indoor dining.

Comment: Well that was short-lived. Guess we couldn't expect one judge to have the power to take down a petty-tyrant fascist like Newsom in one blow.

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Light Sabers

Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court

Bradford Betz
Fox News
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:42 UTC
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© APAttorney General William Barr listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican state attorneys general.
President Trump's campaign team on Sunday filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse several cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to change the state's mail ballot law before and after the 2020 presidential election.

The president's campaign alleged in a statement that the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court's changing of the law was a violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and Bush v. Gore.

Attorney General William Barr listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican state attorneys general. (AP)

The petition cites a "related Pennsylvania case" where Justice Samuel Alito and two other justices observed the constitutionality of the state court's decision to extend the statutory deadline for receipt of mail ballots from 8 p.m. on Election Day to 5 p.m. three days later.

The campaign team said the constitutionality of the court's decision had "national importance" and may violate the U.S. Constitution.

The petition marks the latest episode in an ongoing saga of lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Trump still refuses to concede and continues to promote allegations that there was massive voter fraud.

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Pirates

UK defence chief says they will focus on 'сyber escalation below war threshold' against Russia and China


RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 07:06 UTC
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© Reuters / Peter ByrneFILE PHOTO: British Defense Staff Chief Sir Nick Carter arrives to attend the VJ Day National Remembrance event, in Staffordshire, UK, on August 15, 2020.
The UK needs to "beat" Russia and China "at their own game", General Sir Nick Carter, Britain's defence chief, told the Times newspaper after outlining an 'up-to-date' strategy that appears to be rooted in Cold War mentality.

Cyber attacks, asymmetric conflicts and digital surveillance - the list of "threats" and "challenges" posed to the UK and its allies by an assertive Russia and China appears to be long, at least in the mind of the British top brass. General Sir Nick Carter defined Moscow as an "acute threat" and called China a "chronic challenge" in an interview with the Times.

The general believes the UK needs a brand-new strategy if it hopes to meet this perceived challenge posed by the two powers that supposedly view the world as a "no-holds-barred continuous struggle," as the Times put it.
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UK's lockdown extension will have "severe" economic impact

Elizabeth Piper
Reuters
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:53 UTC
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© REUTERS / John SibleyFILE PHOTO: A bus drives past a sign displaying the measures imposed by the government against the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the first day of a newly imposed lockdown, in London, Britain, November 5, 2020.
London and southeast England may stay under tighter curbs for some time to stem a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain, Britain's health minister suggested on Sunday, as COVID-19 cases surged by a record number for one day.

The government faced criticism for abruptly scrapping plans to ease restrictions for Christmas and imposing an effective lockdown on more than 16 million people. Health minister Matt Hancock defended the decision, saying evidence showing the new strain was causing spiralling cases had forced the action.

The variant, which officials say is up to 70% more transmissible than the original, also prompted concerns about a wider spread. Several European countries, including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium, said they were taking measures to prevent people arriving from Britain, including bans on flights and trains.

Comment: The UK economy was tanking before the lockdowns, and, once the sadists deign to remove the harsh restrictions, and they pull the 'rescue' packages, small and medium businesses will be left to claw back what's left of their livelihoods: And check out SOTT radio's:

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The Gyre Widens

James Howard Kunstler
Clusterfuck Nation
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump
© Mandel Ngam/AFPUS President Donald Trump
The mind-numbing weirdness of Joe Biden's insertion into the election of 2020 — like the furtive groping of an intern in a cloakroom — only signals the Democratic Party's reckless drive to self-destruction, dragging the republic over the edge of an abyss with it. How did this hollowed-out figure of a grifting old pol find himself pretending to national leadership, and in an historic moment of crisis that goes far beyond the mere wrecking of an election? Who wanted him there so badly, and why?

My guess would be Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and John Brennan anxious to stay out of prison, heading a long list of officials present and former who committed crimes trying desperately to protect them, with accessories aplenty across the aisle. That's what this four-year coup has been about, snowballing criminality, culminating in an orgy of blatant ballot fraud. At this fraught stage of the drama, they're hiding behind the pretense that all the old rituals of torch-passing must be observed for the sake of decorum, and they're mistaken.
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Tackling the infrastructure and unemployment crises: The 'American System' solution

Ellen Brown
The Web of Debt Blog
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the "American System" of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country's biggest problems.

Millions of Americans have joined the ranks of the unemployed, and government relief checks and savings are running out; meanwhile, the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure. Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects seems an obvious solution, especially given that the $600 or $700 stimulus checks Congress is planning on issuing will do little to address the growing crisis. Various plans for solving the infrastructure crisis involving public-private partnerships have been proposed, but they'll invariably result in private investors reaping the profits while the public bears the costs and liabilities. We have relied for too long on private, often global, capital, while the Chinese run circles around us building infrastructure with credit simply created on the books of their government-owned banks.

Earlier publicly-owned U.S. national banks and U.S. Treasuries pulled off similar feats, using what Sen. Henry Clay, U.S. statesman from 1806 to 1852, named the "American System" - funding national production simply with "sovereign" money and credit. They included the First (1791-1811) and Second (1816-1836) Banks of the United States, President Lincoln's federal treasury and banking system, and President Franklin Roosevelt's Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) (1932-1957). Chester Morrill, former Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, wrote of the RFC:
"[I]t became apparent almost immediately, to many Congressmen and Senators, that here was a device which would enable them to provide for activities that they favored for which government funds would be required, but without any apparent increase in appropriations. . . . [T]here need be no more appropriations and its activities could be enlarged indefinitely, as they were, almost to fantastic proportions."
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Simple math shows Biden claims 13M more votes than there were eligible voters who voted in 2020 election

Joe Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 07:30 UTC
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The 2020 election will go down as the most corrupt US election in history. The US election was corrupted in so many ways.

A Twitter-blocked tweet from Kanekoa @KanekoaTheGreat: When you win a record low 17% of counties, lose Black & Hispanic support, lose 18/19 Bellwether Counties, lose Ohio, Florida, & Iowa - and lose 27/27 House "Toss-Ups" - but you shatter the popular vote record! (Image seen above.)

Bill Binney, of US Intel fame tweeted out a message yesterday noting that more people voted in the 2020 election nation-wide than were eligible to vote.
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Trump lashes out at 'dumbest' ex-adviser Bolton after CNN interview about 'appalling' idea to rerun election under martial law


RT
Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:26 UTC
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© Reuters/Carlos BarriaUS President Donald Trump • Ex-staffer John Bolton
President Trump blasted reports he's considering imposing martial law as "fake news" and called his former National Security Advisor John Bolton "one of the dumbest people in Washington," after Bolton called the idea "appalling."

"Martial law = Fake News," Donald Trump tweeted, before targeting Bolton, a former member of his administration who became a vocal critic of the incumbent president after parting ways with Trump in September last year.

Trump reminded his Twitter followers how, in 2018, then-advisor Bolton threw a wrench into the talks with North Korea on its nuclear arsenal by suggesting it follow a "Libya model" of disarmament.

Comment: Just more evidence: Bolton has a self-serving grudge and trots it out at every opportunity for all to see. Good riddance!

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