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Joe Biden fractures foot, needs walking boot

Tamar Lapin
New York Post
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:39 UTC
joe biden and dog major
© Stephanie Carter/Delaware Humane Association via APPresident-elect Joe Biden and his dog Major in 2018.
President-elect Joe Biden fractured his foot while playing with one of his dogs — and will need to wear a walking boot for several weeks as a result, his doctor said Sunday.

The 78-year-old Democrat slipped while playing with his German Shepherd, Major, on Saturday and visited an orthopedist in Delaware for an examination on Sunday afternoon.

While initial X-rays showed "no obvious fracture," a subsequent CT scan "confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot," according to a statement from his doctor Kevin O'Connor.

Comment: More from Gateway Pundit:
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Joe Biden on Sunday afternoon went to visit an orthopedist: "out of an abundance of caution, he will be examined by a doctor."

Biden's team was blocking reporters and wouldn't allow them to see Biden go in or leave the Orthopedist's office. Repeated requests were denied.

In fact, a press van was maneuvered so that reporters and photogs couldn't see Biden as he entered the building.

But one photog captured feeble Biden as he hobbled out of the orthopedic office.


Joe Biden's doctor said "there is no obvious fracture and he will be getting an additional CT for more detailed imaging."


Cristina Laila began writing for The Gateway Pundit in 2016 and she is currently the Associate Editor.


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Magic Wand

Now that election is over, quack Dr. Fauci says it's OK to open schools after all

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:57 UTC
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Back in July Senator Rand Paul, who is a medical doctor, slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci for failing to provide leadership on the closing of schools due to the coronavirus.

Senator Paul argued that spread of the virus is very low among young people and that America should send children back to school.

This was a scathing attack on the power-drunk Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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Question

Judge blocks, unblocks, then blocks Georgia from wiping or resetting election machines

Ivan Pentchoukov and Petr Svab
The Epoch Times
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC
Gwinnett County election workers
© Megan Varner/Getty ImagesGwinnett County election workers handle ballots as part of the recount for the 2020 presidential election at the Beauty P. Baldwin Voter Registrations and Elections Building in Lawrenceville, Ga., on Nov. 16, 2020.
UPDATE: In a third order issued late Sunday night, a federal judge overseeing Sidney Powell's Georgia lawsuit granted a temporary restraining order on elections officials in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee counties, to prohibit them from allowing "alteration, destruction, or erasure of any software or data on any Dominion voting machines" used in the 2020 elections. The judge's decision allowed Powell to amend a previous complaint to include the counties in possession of the voting machines.

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A federal judge presiding over a major election lawsuit in Georgia on Nov. 29 issued and then reversed an order directing the state to cease and desist wiping or resetting election machines.

"Defendants are ordered to maintain the status quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the court," U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. wrote in an emergency order issued Nov. 29.

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Trump on 2020 presidential contest: 'This election is a total fraud'

Alex Nitzberg
Just the News
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 11:08 UTC
President Trump on Nov. 26, 2020
© Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Trump on Nov. 26, 2020.
"This election was rigged," Trump said during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.

President Trump during an interview on Sunday continued to make allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, as legal battles over the all-important contest are being pursued weeks after Election Day.

"This election was rigged," Trump said during an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "This election is a total fraud."

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NPC

Team Biden hails 'barrier-shattering' all-female White House communications team


RT
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:33 UTC
Jen Psaki
© AFP / Brendan Smialowski
Presumptive president-elect Joe Biden is again making an identitarian breakthrough - this time proudly announcing an all-female White House press team - with former State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as his new spokeswoman.

Kate Bedingfield, who was communications director for Biden's presidential campaign, has been named White House communications director, while former immigrant-rights advocate Pili Tobar will be her deputy, the Biden transition team announced on Sunday.


Jen Psaki, who oversees confirmations for the transition team, has been named White House press secretary, meaning she will be the lead spokeswoman for the president in media briefings. Former MSNBC political analyst Karine Jean-Pierre will be her principal deputy.

Comment: Looks like the US might have their very own version of Justin Trudeau. Let's hope not!

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Pistol

A war in the shadows: The record of Iranian nuclear scientists killed over the decade

Matthew Daniel
Sputnik
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 16:32 UTC
assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists
© Wikipedia/Reuters/publication.aut.ac.ir/Alchetron/www.habilian.ir/KJNAssassinated Iranian Nuclear Scientists
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh • Masoud Ali-Mohammadi • Majid Shahriari
Fereydoun Abassi-Davani • Darioush Rezaeinejad • Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan
The killing of a leading Iranian nuclear scientist has caused outrage in the Middle East, and threatened to up-end an already precarious geopolitical situation between Iran on one hand, and the US and Israel on the other.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, described by the West and Israel as the leader of Iran's alleged covert nuclear bomb programme, was killed in an apparent assassination on 27 November.

Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweeted that, "terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice - with serious indications of Israeli involvement - shows the desperate war-mongering of the perpetrators." An American official has claimed that Israeli fingerprints were all over the attack.

Israel has said it refuses to comment publicly on such reports.

However, Mr Fakhrizadeh is not the first Iranian nuclear scientist to have been assassinated over the past 10 years whose death the Iranian authorities have been blamed on western-backed Israeli operations.

Comment: Professor Fakhrizadeh was on the top of Israel's list:
The assassination of Imam Hussein University professor and senior Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi was the "highpoint" of a long-running "Israeli strategic plan" aimed at sabotaging Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme, and deprived Tehran "of an irreplaceable source of knowledge", The Times of Israel has reported, citing local Hebrew-language media. "This is a diminution in knowledge that is irreplaceable," the official was quoted as saying.

Channel 13 reportedly indicated that the scientist had been a "target" of multiple Israeli prime ministers, and several different directors of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency responsible for intelligence collection and covert operations, including assassinations and sabotage abroad.

The Jerusalem Post compared Fakhrizadeh's murder to the 1985 mafia killing of New York Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano, suggesting the assassination showed "the power of those responsible" and that "any Iranian linked to the nuclear programme can be found and killed."

Prime Minister Netanyahu singled out Fakhrizadeh in an intelligence presentation in 2018, urging the international community to "remember that name", and alleging that the scientist was the head of an Iranian programme aimed at building a nuclear bomb in secret.

Israeli media have reported that its embassies around the world have been put "on high alert" in the wake of the assassination. The Times of Israel believes several other options for Iranian 'retaliation' are possible, including a major missile attack, a ramping up of Iran's nuclear program, and attacks on Tel Aviv via 'Iranian proxies' in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.

Spontaneous rage broke out in Tehran and other major Iranian cities over Fakhrizadeh's death, with protesters burning American and Israeli flags, as well as portraits of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and demanding a halt in talks of any kind with Western powers.
And...Israel says the world should be grateful for his 'removal':
An anonymous Israeli official, who has allegedly been involved in tracking Mohsen Fakhrizadeh for years, has told the New York Times that the world should thank Israel for the assassination of the scientist, described by Tel Aviv as the head of Iran's purported nuclear weapons programme.
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Propaganda

'End the war on whistleblowers': Snowden slams 'bulls**t' smear from GOP politician that he & Assange are 'Russian agents'


RT
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 18:01 UTC
Edward Snowden
© REUTERS/Vincent KesslerEdward Snowden
Edward Snowden is calling for an end to "the war on whistleblowers" after he shot back at a politician who slammed him and Julian Assange as "Russian agents."

"Snowden and Assange are Russian agents who pose a direct threat to the US national interests," Tony Gonzales, a congressman-elect to the Texas House of Representatives, tweeted.

The message was in response to a plea from Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for both Snowden and Assange to receive full pardons.

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Dollars

Note to China

Michael Hudson
michael-hudson.com
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00 UTC
China scene
© Sam Seasley/eltps
My book Super Imperialism was about how the United States has gained a free lunch by establishing the dollar as international reserve currency by replacing gold. I also showed that the U.S. balance of payments deficit is almost entirely military related to support its 800 bases around the world. Ending the gold-exchange standard in 1971 created a situation in which the excess U.S. dollars thrown of [sic off] by the U.S. payments deficit end up in foreign central banks.

For these central banks, the inflow of surplus dollars poses the problem of what do we do with them. Central banks don't buy stocks and bonds, or control of corporations, because that is risky and also does not directly help their own economy. So central banks buy US Treasury bonds and bills - IOUs of the U.S. Government. For the United States, the money that is spent on running a balance-of-payments deficit on account of the military and on American investors buying Chinese stocks and Chinese companies, dollars are recycled back to the United States to buy US Treasury bonds.

That is how the U.S. balance of payments deficit serves to finance the domestic government budget deficit. The larger the U.S. balance of payments deficit grows as the U.S. spends more militarily and politically around the world, the more foreign central banks end up financing the domestic budget deficit.
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New rule could allow gas, firing squads for US executions


Newsmax
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:45 UTC
Firing Squad
© Dreamstime
The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas.

The amended rule, published Friday in the Federal Register, allows the U.S. government to conduct executions by lethal injection or use "any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed." A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad.

It remains unclear whether the Justice Department will seek to use any methods other than lethal injection for executions in the future. The rule - which goes into effect on Dec. 24 - comes as the Justice Department has scheduled five executions during the lame-duck period, including just three days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

The official told the AP the federal government "will never execute an inmate by firing squad or electrocution unless the relevant state has itself authorized that method of execution."
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Israel's self-investigation shields its soldiers

Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada
Thu, 26 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Palestinians great march
© Mohammed Zaanoun/ActiveStillsPalestinians participate in Great March of Return • December 2019
Only one Israeli soldier has been indicted over the use of live fire against unarmed protesters during the Great March of Return demonstrations held along Gaza's eastern boundary. Israeli forces killed more than 215 Palestinians during those protests, which began in late March 2018 and were suspended last December.

The vast majority of those fatalities are still under preliminary review by the Israeli military's self-investigation apparatus, according to a new report by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din. Israel's failure to earnestly investigate alleged violations committed by its forces may leave it liable to prosecution by the International Criminal Court.

In addition to those killed by Israeli snipers during the protests, nearly 10,000 Palestinians were wounded by live ammunition and survived. Some of the injured are permanently paralyzed or have had limbs amputated as a result.

After filing freedom of information requests, Yesh Din learned that not a single incident of live fire that didn't result in death has been reviewed by the military's self-investigation apparatus. Some 20,000 more Palestinians were injured during the protests by means other than live fire, such as rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas.

Comment: Neither Israel, nor the US, is under the jurisdiction of the ICC. It is structured as a voluntary commitment. This technicality allows each to skate accusations and consequences. Palestinians need a champion and recourse for justice. It is not Israel, nor the US and not the ICC. Find another way.

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