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Judge Emmet Sullivan is still refusing to dismiss Michael Flynn case

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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn
In a Freedom of Information case related to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, District Judge Reggie Walton said on Friday that Judge Emmet Sullivan doesn't have a lot of options in dealing with the fact that President Trump granted Flynn a full pardon, "unless he takes the position that the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon."

Walton, according to the National Law Journal, said:
"I don't know what impact that would have, what decision he would make, if he makes that determination that the pardon of Mr. Flynn is for a period that the law does not permit. I don't know if that's correct or not. Theoretically, the decision could be reached because the wording in the pardon seems to be very, very broad. It could be construed, I think, as extending protections against criminal prosecutions after the date the pardon was issued. I don't know if Judge Sullivan will make that determination or not."
Emmet Sullivan, who was presiding over the case, refused to dismiss the charges even though there was no one attempting to prosecute the case. The legal process has dragged on through the appeals process, and finally President Trump issued a full pardon on November 25. On November 30, the DOJ notified Sullivan of the pardon, but he has still refused to drop the case.

Comment: See also: Justice: Trump pardons former NatSec Adviser Michael Flynn


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Iranian nuclear scientist was killed using satellite-controlled gun, Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims

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A satellite-controlled machine gun was used in last week's assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in a gun and car bomb attack on the outskirts of Tehran on Nov. 27, was driving on a highway east of the capital when the weapon "zoomed in" on him "using artificial intelligence," Mehr said on Sunday, quoting Commodore Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Various accounts of his death have emerged since the incident. While early news reports said he was caught in a gunfight between his bodyguards, others said that he was fired at by a remote-controlled machine gun mounted on a pick-up truck operated by someone who later fled the country.

Comment: Also today: Video of alleged killing of 'Mossad Commander' in Tel-Aviv goes viral

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WHO threatens 'coronavirus crisis' not over as experimental vaccines rolled out

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Britain is training healthcare workers to administer the Covid-19 vaccine after it became the first country to approve one for public use
Britain is training healthcare workers to administer the Covid-19 vaccine after it became the first country to approve one for public use

The World Health Organization warned that vaccines were no magic bullet for the coronavirus crisis, as Russia started vaccinating its high-risk workers Saturday and other countries geared up for similar programmes.


Comment: Except Russia's vaccine is based on proven technologies and has undergone much more rigorous and extensive testing and hasn't needed 'emergency authorization', unlike those coming out of the West.


The WHO warned about what it said was an erroneous belief that the COVID-19 crisis is over with jabs on the horizon, nearly a year after the start of the pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people worldwide.

"Vaccines do not equal zero COVID," said WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan, adding that not everyone will be able to receive it early next year.


Comment: Since when did medical professionals ever claim to want 'zero flu'? They don't. Because some viruses you just have to learn to live with. Especially when 99.5% or more of people suffer little to no symptoms.


Comment: Switzerland may have banned carrolling but the country didn't lockdown for a second time and the public have been quite against any further tyrannical restrictions: Switzerland defies EU pressure to lockdown, ski resorts stay open much to the chagrin of neighbors

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According to Prince Harry, pandemic is due to 'climate change'

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Prince Harry, a member of the British royal family, said on video that he attributed the pandemic to "Mother Nature" and "climate change".

"Somebody said to me at the beginning of the pandemic, it's almost as though Mother Nature has sent us to our rooms for bad behavior to really take a moment and think about what we've done," said the royal figure.

According to the New York Post, the Prince went on to say that he wishes everyone could be a "raindrop that falls from the sky and relieves the parched ground."

Comment: It's a rather convenient narrative and hardly surprising it's being pushed by the elite. But considering the likelihood that the virus was actually man made, it has nothing to do with 'nature' or 'climate change'.

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UN warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe

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FILE PHOTO: Diplomats arrive through the delegates entrance at the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, which is being held mostly virtually due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York, U.S., September 22, 2020.
Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Friday.


Comment: If the statistics are anything to go by, a significant number of citizens in Western nations do not want the vaccine and it's only due to government coercion that they will be forced to suffer it. Let's also not forget that Russia and China currently have vaccines with the best track record, and they're already in production, and yet the West tries to deny that they even exist.


World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley and World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a special meeting on COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year and has so far infected 65 million globally.


The pandemic, measures taken by countries to try to stop its spread and the economic impact have fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian help, the United Nations said earlier this week. It has appealed for $35 billion in aid funding.

Comment: The coronavirus is turning out to be the ideal 'shock doctrine' event for those working towards a dystopian future:


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Nancy Pelosi admits she blocked COVID relief bill for months

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference in Washington on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said today that the reason she's been holding up COVID relief since May because she just really doesn't like President Donald Trump.

"Don't characterize what we did before as a mistake as a preface to your question if you want an answer," Pelosi said. "That was not a mistake it was a decision and it has taken us to a place where we can the right thing without other shall we say, considerations in the legislation that we don't want. I'm very proud of where we are."

The HEROES Act, costing some $2.2 trillion, would have been the second round of coronavirus stimulus for the American people, but it was held up in Congress because Pelosi would not negotiate the terms of that bill with the White House. She repeatedly blamed Trump for not stooping to her terms, and now, it turns out, that her reasons were primarily that she was never willing to capitulate anything.

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Video of alleged killing of 'Mossad Commander' in Tel-Aviv goes viral

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According to unconfirmed reports, the killing of a man who was reportedly identified as a 45-year-old Israeli and a senior Mossad official, occurred in the Israeli capital city of Tel Aviv on Thursday evening.

The video allegedly showing the moment of the killing of a man described in Iranian media as a senior Mossad official named Fahmi Hinavi, went viral as netizens speculate that the reported assassination might have been Tehran's retaliation for the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

According to the unconfirmed report by Iranian state-controlled Press TV, the deceased is said to be a Mossad officer, shot in Tel Aviv after 15 bullets were fired at a car he was driving when he stopped at a red light.

Comment: The alleged assassination also brings to mind the old motto of the Mossad which has been translated as "By way of deception thou shalt make war.":


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US ends cultural exchange programs with China, calling them 'soft power propaganda'

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FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019.
The U.S. State Department said on Friday it has ended five cultural exchange programs with China, calling them "soft power propaganda tools."

The Department said on its website it had "terminated" the Policymakers Educational China Trip Program, the U.S.-China Friendship Program, the U.S.-China Leadership Exchange Program, the U.S.-China Transpacific Exchange Program and the Hong Kong Educational and Cultural Program.

It said that the programs had been set up under the auspices of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act - a 1961 law signed by President John F. Kennedy and aimed at boosting academic and cultural exchanges with foreign countries.

Comment: One would hope that they will be replaced with something that both parties believe puts them on an equal footing. However, if the US is cancelling them in the hope that it will somehow stop the 'influence' of China, they'll be sadly disappointed.

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And so, the smearing of the victim begins: Prince Andrew's accuser LIED about her age & was 'prostitute' paid off by Epstein, court papers show - report

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Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew, pictured separately.
Prince Andrew's chief accuser was a prostitute who lied about her age and was paid "half a million" by disgraced businessman Jeffrey Epstein, new court papers allege, according to the Telegraph.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who is now an advocate for victims of sex trafficking, has claimed she had sex with the royal at least three times in 2001, when she was 17.

Giuffre claims this happened after she met with American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with procuring underage and young women for powerful clients, together with his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Survey of congressional Republicans finds little acknowledgement of Biden's win: report

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A survey conducted by The Washington Post found that only 25 congressional Republicans acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election, amounting to about 1 in 10 GOP lawmakers.

The Post reached out to all 249 GOP members of Congress and asked three questions: Who won the election, do you support President Trump's efforts to claim victory and will you accept Biden as the "legitimately elected president" if he wins a majority in the Electoral College?


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