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Best of the Web: What is Mark Zuckerberg's election money doing in Georgia?

Scott Walter
The Federalist
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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© www.autospost.com/1-images/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/KJNMark Zuckerberg and State of Georgia precincts
Imagine if a billionaire of conservative or libertarian leanings — Charles Koch, say — had given $350 million to a nonprofit run by Republican operatives who previously worked at a "dark money" outfit tied to Karl Rove where they trained digital activists and campaign workers.

Then imagine this nonprofit group re-granted the millions of dollars to local election officials to "help" them carry out the 2020 election — buying drop boxes for ballots, hiring temporary staff, conducting "voter education," and the like.

Finally, imagine that in 2020, a state that usually voted for the other party in presidential elections narrowly flipped to the donor's preferred party, and counties receiving "help" were disproportionately ones that helped the Republican win the state, with many counties shifting dramatically from their historical patterns in a red-ward direction.

Even supposing there were perfectly ethical and legal reasons for all this, because of the appearance of election influence from private parties with deep pockets, it would be front-page news. The New York Times would be outraged a nonprofit gave the appearance of acting in a partisan basis in an electoral process. Elected officials in the disfavored party would be loudly objecting, threatening lawsuits, demanding investigations of the election officials who accepted the funds, and insisting election laws be changed to prevent any such effort in the future.

As head of Capital Research Center, a watchdog on the use and abuse of nonprofits, I would sympathize with the angry politicians and happily critique the scheme publicly. But I know of no such effort by right-leaning donors or nonprofits.

Comment: Did Mark Zuckerberg help to buy the election for Biden? Did he confine his calculated 'philanthropy' to Georgia's precincts or were other states willing recipients in this pay-to-influence scheme?



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Audit the paper ballots

Jose Olivera
UncoverDC
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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USA Today reports approximately 150 million voters voted in 2020, with a 4.4 million popular vote swing for Biden. For argument's sake, let's call that 72.8 million for Trump and 77.2 million for Biden. Rasmussen reports as many as 75 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of Democrats — 76 million constituents — believe fraud occurred in the 2020 Presidential election. If the extent of the election fraud is unknown, then by default, so is that fraud's impact. There is only one way to properly sort this out: audit the paper ballots.

According to the numbers, more than one half of the American voter base no longer has confidence in our electoral system. The tension in the air is palpable. For some incomprehensible reason, few political leaders are howling for a forensic audit. Why not?

Comment: Counting paper ballots is in the works, at least for crucial states in current dispute. Creating a full nation paper audit is only as good as the intentions, methodologies and honesty to actualize it. And, so far, not so good.

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President Zelensky humbled in hometown after Russia-leaning candidate thrashes his party in a mayoral election

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:59 UTC
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© Promote UkrainePresident of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has suffered a humiliating electoral defeat in his hometown, with his party trounced in the Krivoy Rog mayoral election by a politician from the Opposition Platform - For Life group.

Dmitry Shevchik, the candidate from Zelensky's Servant of the People party, was a huge favorite after long-serving incumbent mayor Yury Vilkul pulled out of the election at the last minute due to ill health. Vilkul is a former member of the now-defunct Opposition Bloc, and most recently ran as his own small party, Ukrainian Perspective.

Sunday's vote was the second round of the city's mayoral election, and was due to be a run-off between Vilkul and Shevchik. In the first round, Vilkul won 47.27 percent of the vote, and Shevchik came second with 25.94 percent. When Vilkul withdrew, Konstantyn Pavlov, who received just 9.15 percent in the initial voting, was placed into the run-off. After receiving Vilkul's endorsement, the Opposition Platform candidate won the election with 56.97%. Shevchik received just 40.49 percent.
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UN Report: 233,000 Yemenis dead after 6-year Saudi-US coalition bombings


21st Century Wire
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
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The War on Yemen continues to be very much a 'forgotten war' - six years on from when the United States-Saudi Arabia coalition began bombing the country endlessly. This has resulted in the deaths of an estimated 233,000 people, now admitted in a recent United Nations report.

It's a painful reminder, even in the midst of a daily onslaught of COVID-related 'grim milestones' peddled by mainstream media, that an entire population of a country has seen more death and destruction visited upon it by foreign invaders than any 'pandemic' could ever do:
Almost a quarter of a million people have died in Yemen's war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on its website on Tuesday, confirming the huge toll from a conflict that has ravaged Yemen's economy and created the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Comment: This slow motion horror show is almost too terrible to even read about; evoking a feeling of helplessness among any normal person of good will who can imagine even a little of the God-awful aggression and atrocities that the Saudi, US, Israeli and UK governments have been perpetrating over the past several years.

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Former Army Intelligence data analyst: Of course there was mammoth election fraud in 2020

Joe Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:29 UTC
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© OANDan Ball at OAN (L), Seth Keshel, data analyst (R)
Three more examples from statistician working with Sidney Powell and Lin Wood

Dan Ball at OAN was on with former Army Intelligence Officer and Sidney Powell - Lin Wood Legal Team Advisor, Seth Keshel.

Keshel is a statistician and a member of the Powell - Lin team. The results of his data analysis show more instances of results so far out of line that the only reasonable explanation is fraud.

Comment: Sidney Powell explains her next moves in a Newsmax report:
A federal judge listened to oral arguments Monday, but he had already prejudged the case in granting leftist "interveners'" motions of dismiss, including the Democrat National Committee, according to former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell on Newsmax TV.

"The court wouldn't pay attention of it," Powell told Monday's "Greg Kelly Reports" of her lawsuit calling for the decertification of Georgia's election results amid evidence of election and voter fraud. "It's obvious the judge had made up his mind before he hit the bench, and he read from prepared notes when he granted the motion to dismiss...

...U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten ruled the case had no standing to sue, the case belonged in state court, was filed too late, and the relief sought was "extraordinary."

"We're going to proceed immediately with an emergency appeal, and we expect to get relief in the Supreme Court," Powell told host Greg Kelly.



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Daily Mail pushes baseless conspiracy theory that Putin is using Covid-19 to kill Brits

Paul Robinson
RT
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:51 UTC
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Russia was the world's first country to register a Covid-19 vaccine and many prominent Russian public figures took part in its Phase III trial. Despite this, the British media is, amazingly, accusing Moscow of being "anti-vax."

'Vladimir Putin doesn't want you to take the Covid vaccine', so said Britain's Daily Mail in an article on Saturday, citing a British minister who claimed that Russia's president was spreading anti-vaccination propaganda via social media "due to the fact that he's worried about Russia being seen to lag behind on producing its own vaccine."

"We are not simply under attack from the Covid virus," concluded the Mail, "We're also under direct attack by a hostile foreign power. Putin is trying to use Covid to kill people on the streets of Britain."

Comment: Leaving aside the tiresome anti-Russia propaganda, there is a wealth of data showing that there is good reason to be concerned about vaccines, more so the experimental coronavirus vaccines that have been rushed out, and particularly those using the unproven RNA technology that could have potentially devastating consequences: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Red alert: Chinese academic boasts of operatives 'inside America's core circle of power'

Bill Gertz
Washington Times
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:54 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik/APIn this file photo, Chinese president Xi Jinping, center, waves after he is greeted by Ambassador Peter A. Selfridge, left, Chief of Protocol of the United States, upon his arrival at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2016.
China influenced American policies for decades through a covert network of "old friends" — sympathizers and agents — who had penetrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and financial institutions before the Trump administration, according to an academic linked to the Chinese government.

Di Dongsheng, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, also suggested in a Nov. 28 speech that China's Communist Party helped Hunter Biden, a son of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden, obtain Chinese business deals.

On influencing the United States, Mr. Di said, he could not provide further details about the work of Chinese agents without compromising their identities. However, he said President Trump's trade war with China upset decades of close ties between Washington and Beijing that the agent network facilitated.

Disputes such as the Navy's EP-3 midair collision with a Chinese jet in the western Pacific in 2001 and the mistaken U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Serbia in 1999 were resolved within months because of the influence operations.

"Now, I'm going to drop a bomb: Because we had people up there inside America's core circle of power, we had our old friends," said Mr. Di, adding that he needed to speak carefully because "I can't sell out these people."

A video of the remarks was posted on Mr. Di's Weibo social media account but was quickly removed. Copies of the video, however, survived and went viral.

Comment: No doubt many nations could boast the same. Israel, for example. But note that through all of Russiagate, they couldn't find one Russian to make such claims. Yet while harping on about non-existent Russian collusion, relationships like the above were ongoing among the "establishment" politicians. You can't get much more hypocritical than that.


Tucker Carlson covered this story last night:




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Email leaks reveal OPCW executives praised whistleblower and criticized Syria cover-up

Aaron Maté
The Grayzone
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:07 UTC
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Documents obtained by The Grayzone show that OPCW executives privately criticized the manipulation of a Syria chemical weapons probe, and supported a dissenting veteran inspector. One official, however, feared helping the "Russian narrative." These private admissions further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it.

Since the explosive revelation that an investigation by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Syria was manipulated, a smear campaign has been waged against a pair of veteran OPCW scientists who challenged the cover-up.

The two whistleblowers have been dismissed as rogue, uninformed, and duplicitous actors. Their detractors include the current OPCW director general; NATO member-state ambassadors; and anonymous, self-described OPCW officials laundering fabricated claims through NATO member state-funded outlets.

OPCW documents and correspondence obtained by The Grayzone offer a stark contrast to these public attacks. Among several revelations, they show that before the attempts to discredit the whistleblowers, OPCW directors privately criticized the chemical watchdog's suppression of the investigation, and supported the inspector who vocally protested it.

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'Hypocrites': Sky News broadcasters caught flouting lockdown restrictions at party, after spending months scolding others


RT
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:03 UTC
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© Joel Ryan/Invision/AP/ file photoSky's Kay Burley is under fire for breaching Covid-19 rules at her 60th birthday bash.
Sky News presenter Kay Burley and a host of her colleagues are being branded hypocrites for flouting Covid-19 restrictions for the anchorwoman's 60th birthday party after spending months chastising others about breaking the rules.

Burley and several of her Sky colleagues including Beth Rigby, Inzamam Rashid and Sam Washington were in a group of 10 people that attended the presenter's milestone birthday bash at the Century Club in Soho, London, on Saturday night.

While the glamorous gathering appeared to break the UK's 'rule of six', the group tried to get around the coronavirus restrictions by spanning across two separate tables at the swanky establishment.

Comment: One outcome of this manufactured crisis is that the masks of many character disordered people are slipping. One particularly shocking example that happened just today is the UK's Health Secretary pretending to cry whilst actually stiffing laughter during TWO separate interviews about the UK's roll out of its experimental vaccine:

Interview #1


Interview #2



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White Helmets founder Le Mesurier proclaimed a mainstream saint, but leaked docs raise questions about his widow's role

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:40 UTC
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© Getty Images / Elif Ozturk/Anadolu AgencyEmma Hedvig Christina Winberg, wife of former British military intelligence officer James Gustaf Edward Le Mesurier on November 13, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey
An extraordinary, concerted establishment campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier has unfolded over recent months.

First, in late October, came a 6,000-word hagiography in The Guardian — less than a fortnight later, the BBC transmitted a 15-part radio documentary on his firm, Mayday Rescue.

Emma Winberg, Le Mesurier's spouse and Mayday's Chief Impact Officer, played a starring role in both efforts, in the process breaking the public silence she'd rigidly maintained since her husband's mysterious death in November 2019.

Strangely though, discussion of her professional history was almost entirely absent. The Guardian was slightly more informative on this point than the BBC, sparingly describing Winberg as "a former British diplomat" working for a "communications firm in northern Iraq" when she became romantically involved with Le Mesurier in March 2016, before joining Mayday in January 2017.

Comment: The hagiography extends even to Wikipedia. Its infamous (and possibly ficticious) editor 'Philip Cross' has extensively modified Le Mesurier's entry. The full-court press to present Le Mesurier and the White Helmets as 'humanitarians' should set everyone's BS meter buzzing.

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