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Cuomo among contenders for Biden's AG pick

Eric Tucker
AP
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Cuomo
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is one of several contenders under consideration by President-elect Joe Biden for the role of attorney general, a person with knowledge of the search process said Friday.

The other three contenders at the moment include outgoing Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, said the person, who cautioned that no decision had been reached and no announcement was expected imminently. The person was not authorized to discuss the search process by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

The AP reported earlier in the week that Jones, who lost his Senate seat last month, and Garland, who was spurned by Republicans four years ago for a spot on the Supreme Court, had emerged as the two front-runners in the search process.

Spokespeople for Cuomo did not immediately return emails seeking comment Friday.

It was not clear to what extent the disclosure this week that federal prosecutors were investigating the finances of Biden's son, Hunter, might have scrambled the attorney general search process since the person who is ultimately picked would inherit the probe, assuming it remains active next month.

Comment: We can safely speculate the Hunter Biden 'probe' will be active next month, next year...in one form or another.

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COVID craziness: China recommends flight attendants wear diapers to avoid using lavatories

Ben Hooper
UPI
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:23 UTC
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China's aviation authority released new COVID-19 safety guidelines that include the suggestion that flight attendants wear diapers to avoid using plane lavatories.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China's document, titled Technical Guidelines for Epidemic Prevention and Control for Airlines, offers suggestions for hygiene practices to prevent flight crew members from contracting the coronavirus.

The document, which includes recommendations for use of medical masks and other personal protective equipment, drew attention online for one unusual suggestion: "It is recommended that cabin crew members wear disposable diapers and avoid using the lavatories barring special circumstances to avoid infection risks."

The recommendation comes after a woman flying from Italy to South Korea in August contracted COVID-19 during her trip, and investigators cited her visit to the lavatory -- the only place on the plane where she removed her mask -- as a possible cause of her infection.

Comment: Carl Vernon: Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get More Ridiculous...



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Ice Age Farmer Report: 2021: Empty shelves - Shortages in sight - Soybeans explained


Ice Age Farmer
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:10 UTC
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As Brazil's drought continues, the USDA has further marked down soybean stocks, and China continues to buy everything in sight. Love or hate them, soybeans permeate our food supply, and a shortage of them, coupled with canned & frozen food shortages "due to COVID" sets the stage for empty shelves -- just what the UN, WEF & Rockefeller ilk want to make the case for a Great Reset of Food, and leverage to force people to acquiesce to their agenda. Christian breaks down why soybeans may be the keystone that triggers an avalanche of food shortages we've been promised. This is not a "good, lol soyboys" situation. Watch.


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Election censorship: Twitter removes 'like,' 'reply' and retweet count functions from multiple Trump tweets about the election

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 09:20 UTC
Twitter censorship
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Twitter disabled "liking" and replying to multiple tweets from President Donald Trump about the election on Saturday morning.

The platform also removed the retweet count, so that people cannot see how many times it has been shared.

Users are now required to quote tweet the messages if they would like to share them. When you attempt to do so, a a window pops up saying "this claim about election fraud is disputed." There is also a "find out more" button that takes you to a curated list of tweets about how "election fraud of any kind is exceedingly rare in the US, election experts confirm."
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Australia's CMO: No need for vaccine this year - emphasizes 'impenetrable hotel quarantine system'

Andi Yu
Epoch Times
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 09:02 UTC
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Acting Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says Australia's success against coronavirus means, unlike other countries, we can wait for full vaccine approvals.

Australia's top doctor says news of the U.S. drug regulator granting emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine — like the UK and Canada have also recently done — is not necessary in Australia.

"We don't need any vaccine this year," Kelly told reporters in Canberra on Saturday. "Other countries are in far different state than us and they should be prioritised."

Australia will wait for the Therapeutic Goods Administration — the national drug regulator — to run through its own approvals of the Pfizer vaccine with the expectation it will be distributed in early 2021.
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NATO and the EU are sending a 'message' to Russia. Again

The Saker
The Unz Review
Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Bear surrounded by wolves
I lived most of my life in Europe and even though by the time I moved to the US (2002) Europe was already in a very bad shape, what I see happening there now never ceases to amaze me. In fact, it makes me wonder if the Europeans or, more accurately, the European leaders have gone completely insane. Either that, or maybe they have some kind of death wish?

The first thing which absolutely amazes me is the fact that the EU leaders are acting as if this was still the 1980s when Europe still mattered and when the European continent was relatively prosperous. And even when EU leaders acknowledge the problems facing Europe today (crime, immigration, lockdowns, civil unrest, tensions with Russia, self-defeating sanctions under US pressure, etc.), they systematically deal with them (so to speak) by minimizing their actual and potential impact and consequences. And if nothing else matters, they use the riot police forces to "solve" the issue.

Then there is NATO which now seems to believe that mantric incantations and some really dumb military "for show" activities along the borders of Russia will terrify the Kremlin and turn Russians into Poles. Apparently, the entire analytical apparatus of NATO has never opened a history book. Either that, or they have decided to ignore the lessons of history, because "this time around" the Russians will definitely surrender.

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The Empire doubles down: Open Society Foundations will now be run by Soros ally and Dominion Voting head Lord Malloch Brown

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00 UTC
Brown and Soros
The hubris of empire has always struck me with shock and awe.

I mean it really takes balls to get caught with a prostitute and instead of apologizing to your wife, to instead buy the hooker a new fur coat and parade her publicly at a public event.

Such has been the case with George Soros' long time bosom buddy Lord Mark Malloch Brown who after being revealed as a leading force behind the software used by the infamous Dominion Voting systems via Smartmatic (which transferred its operating systems to Dominion via Sequoia Inc), has now been made the president of Soros' global Open Society Foundations.

What is the logic behind such a decision?

Simple: If these characters were truly guilty of the crimes they are being accused of, then why would they behave so unapologetically in public? Surely to be so confident, they must be innocent of wrongdoing. It may sound overly simplistic, but this formula has proven most effective in recent years.

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Hunter Biden lists Joe, Chinese business partner as 'office mates' in leaked email

Kyle Olson
Breitbart
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:36 UTC
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An email reportedly from the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop called his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, and a Chinese business partner "new office mates."

The email, reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, was sent on September 21, 2017, by Hunter Biden to Cecilia Browning, the manager of the "House of Sweden" office building:


"Please have keys made available for new office mates," Hunter Biden wrote, and listed several individuals:
  • Joe Biden
  • Jill Biden
  • Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother
  • Gongwen Dong (Chairman Ye CEFC emissary), referring to the Chinese oil company. Ye is Ye Jianming, the founder of CEFC China Energy Company Limited.
Hunter Biden indicated he wanted the signage to reflect the link between the Biden Foundation and "Hudson West," which was affiliated with the Chinese communist energy entity.

Comment: But just trust Joe. He knew nothing about his son's business dealings. Honestly.

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Biden administration looks like one more try at liberal technocratic government pushing Great Reset agenda

Dominic Green
The New York Post
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:12 UTC
Janet Yellen
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Joe Biden's Secretary of the Treasury nominee Janet Yellen.
Technocracy, climate cultism & dumb wars

Are you ready for the Great Reset? It's the Great Leap Forward of 21st-century technocracy. It's time, we are told by the likes of Davos guru Klaus Schwab, to reboot our passé, 18th-century ideas about rights, democracy and constitutions — and surrender to the smooth rule of the ­experts and the climate cultists, not forgetting, of course, their financial advisers.

The reality, however, is less Great Reset than Great Preset. What elites who talk this way really want is to turn the clock back to circa 2014, before Donald Trump's ascent, before Brexit, before populists swept to power across the West on a wave of discontent with the liberal-technocratic order.

Look at who Joe Biden, the great hope of resetters, wants to drive the economic recovery. Janet Yellen, who was President Barack Obama's choice at the Federal Reserve, for Treasury. Neera Tanden, the corporatist Clinton sidekick, for the Office of Management and Budget. Adewale Adeyemo, president of the Obama Foundation, as Yellen's deputy.

Comment: Biden's new administration (if it ever makes it into the White House) appears to be an all-star cast of neo-liberals, neo-conservatives, warhawks, Big Agra, Big Pharma, and Big Banking types whose incompetence and track record for greed and corruption know no bounds.

What could go wrong?

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Trump approves filing retooled Texas-style election challenges: Giuliani

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:12 UTC
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President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Dec. 7, 2020.
President Donald Trump's legal team is planning on filing retooled lawsuits, his lawyer said Saturday.

"We move immediately, seamlessly, to plan B, which is to bring lawsuits now in each one of the states. We had them ready. They're just a version of the one that was brought in the Supreme Court. So last night, the president made the decision," Rudy Giuliani said during an appearance on "War Room: Pandemic."

Texas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan, alleging the elections there were run contrary to the Constitution. The nation's top court rejected the suit late Friday.

Trump's team is going to file suits or has already filed in the four states as well as Arizona and Nevada. The suits will incorporate allegations in the complaint filed by Texas.

"If the state doesn't have standing, surely the president of the United States has standing. And certainly the electors in the states have standing. So they will be bringing those very cases right in those courts, starting today," Giuliani said. "And let's see what excuse they can try to use to avoid having a hearing on that."

Courts have been using the matter of standing to dodge facing the facts, he alleged, adding, "Nobody wants to face the reality that this election was stolen."

Comment: Pennsylvania Republicans are also asking the supreme court to review their challenge over their state's mail-in voting, which they say violated the constitution.
A Pennsylvania judge said the plaintiffs would likely succeed and blocked the state from certifying the results of the Nov. 3 election but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the injunction days later. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week denied a request for immediate relief.

Petitioners responded by filing an emergency application for writ of injunction, or an immediate stay, pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, or a review of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.

"The basic framework of our democracy forbids the dilution of votes and the devaluation of core constitutional tenants. Procedural gymnastics aside, the central issue in this case is that Act 77 is unconstitutional under the Pennsylvania Constitution and, therefore, a violation of the U.S. Constitution," attorney Gregory Teufel, lead counsel for the petitioners, said in a statement.
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The rejection of the request does not preclude the court from accepting the petition.

"All that happened is we were not granted temporary injunctive relief," Kelly said this week. "The case is still alive and well."


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