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Ukraine threatens sanctions: Nicaragua becomes first nation to open a consulate in Crimea since its 2014 return to Russia

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:49 UTC
Flags: Nicaragua/Ukraine
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Ukraine has threatened sanctions against Nicaragua after it became the first country to open a consulate in Crimea since the 2014 Maidan on Tuesday. Kiev considers the peninsula to be illegally occupied by Moscow.

In 2014, following Crimea's reunification with Russia, Nicaragua was one of just 10 countries to vote alongside Moscow at the UN General Assembly in support of the region's status as part of the country. Six years on, much to Kiev's chagrin, the country has become the first to open an honorary consulate in Crimea, in its capital city of Simferopol.

On Monday, Crimea's Deputy Prime Minister Georgy Muradov announced that the honorary consulate's opening would be attended by Alba Asucena Torres, the Nicaraguan ambassador in Moscow.

Nicaragua's intention to open the facility in Crimea has been known for some time, and has already been discussed on numerous occasions by Kiev. In August, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a complaint with Managua, threatening the implementation of sanctions. Two months later, Ukraine's cabinet met to discuss measures against Nicaragua. Now the consulate has been officially opened, it remains to be seen whether Kiev will follow through.
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Bad Guys

Dead voters & Biden vans full of ballots: Trump legal team details shocking Nevada claims

Emily Larsen,
Washington Examiner
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:24 UTC
Las vegas polling station nevada election fraud

A worker at a Las Vegas election polling station
President Trump's Nevada legal team beefed up its legal challenge to mail-in ballot signature verification in the state with startling claims of voter and ballot fraud.

Among the allegations: dead voters, votes from thousands who no longer live in Nevada, and a van marked "Biden-Harris" full of opened mail-in ballots.

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who is helping Trump's legal effort in the state, detailed grievances that the campaign has with mail-in ballot signature verification in Clark County, Nevada, which accounts for the vast majority of voters in the state.

Comment: Big League Politics adds more information:
A poll worker with the Clark County Elections Department in Nevada is blowing the whistle in a signed affidavit making appalling allegations of electoral fraud that they claim has occurred in the key battleground state.

"We were told by (my team leader), and two other assistants to advise people who wanted to register to vote and did not have the proper Nevada ID/Driver's License, that they could go out in the parking lot and make an appointment with the DMV to get a Nevada ID/Driver's License, and then bring in proof of their appointment confirmation (either a paper copy or show it on their phone to us) and then they could be registered," the whistleblower said in their deposition.

"They were then permitted to vote with a provisional ballot, even though their appointments were not until January of 2021. We were told this was being allowed all over the Valley, at all polling places," they continued.

"I personally witnessed two people handing multiple unopened mail in ballot envelopes to two other people who then opened and filled out the ballots against the side of the Biden/Harris van. The same two people who marked the ballots then put the marked ballots in official pink and white envelopes. These individuals were not poll workers," they explained.

The whistleblower added that eventually "there were 5 or 6 additional people who formed a human wall, which moved as I walked by, apparently in an attempt to block my view of the four people who were opening envelopes, marking ballots, and placing those ballots in the pink and white return envelopes." This was ignored by the team leader when the whistleblower reported the violation through the proper channels.

"I regularly saw people walking in with multiple ballots. We were not allowed to talk to the monitors or observers. We were not supposed to say anything ever to the observers," the whistleblower said.

The whistleblower's entire deposition can be seen below, with Sean Davis of The Federalist noting that Nevada's democrat attorney general Aaron Ford has not taken any concrete action to investigate these explosive claims at the present time:

Trump campaign to sue in Nevada alleging illegally cast ballots

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Eagle

NATO's Stoltenberg declares Biden White House will finally confront "assertive Russia"


Zerohedge
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:15 UTC
Stoltenberg's
© EPA
Jens Stoltenberg
With Joe Biden declared president-elect by a chorus of major networks in unison on Saturday, the same mainstream media has suddenly dropped any notion of 'Russian interference' in the election which for years had received wall to wall coverage.

Over the weekend an MSNBC host went so far as to declare without evidence "This might be the cleanest election we have ever had." And conveniently apart from the 'sudden' unprecedented leap in vaccine development and with markets soaring on the news, the foreign policy "wins" are conveniently pouring in even before Biden enters the White House on January 20.

As a case in point NATO's official message of congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris underscored that a Biden White House will finally be able to confront "assertive Russia" according to a statement by Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

"I warmly welcome the election of Joe Biden as the next President of the United States. I know Mr. Biden as a strong supporter of NATO and the transatlantic relationship," Stoltenberg's written statement began.

Comment: One could also argue that - in spite of the seemingly aggressive stances Trump has taken towards Russia, and his view of Russia as an economic competitor, that there are lines the US President simply will not cross - and that NATO seems all too willing to at least approach - and that is full-blown war or an escalation in overt aggression towards Russia. It is for this reason that puppet Stoltenberg is happy to see puppet Biden have a chance at actually being deemed President. The Biden shell still has the heart of a neocon/neoliberal and would be happy to hurt Russia if that's what he's urged to do by the Beltway crazies.

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Briefcase

Richard Pilger, linked to IRS Tea Party harassment scandal, 'resigns' DOJ post over voter fraud memo

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:07 UTC
bill barr press conference election fraud memo

William Barr
Richard Pilger, a prosecutor at the Department of Justice (DOJ) who played a role in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative groups, resigned his post Monday evening rather than investigate potential voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Earlier Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr issued a memo directing prosecutors to investigate potential voter fraud. He said that prosecutors should not, however, focus on "specious, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims."

Comment: Social media weighs in on Pilger's departure with some helpful background:





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Ted Cruz calls for investigation of voting machine software

Tom Ozimek
The Epoch Times
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:59 UTC
Ted Cruz
© Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
en. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks to media in the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 28, 2020.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview that aired Nov. 8 that he believes an investigation should be launched into software used to count ballots amid concerns of election irregularities.

The Republican senator told Fox News that the same software that was linked to an incident in which votes were switched in a county in Michigan should be investigated to rule out potential vote tabulation issues elsewhere in the country.

Antrim County in Michigan, which uses voting machines by Dominion Voting Systems, flipped from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to President Donald Trump after more than 5,000 votes were found to have been incorrectly registered for Biden.

"That same software is used in 47 counties throughout Michigan," Cruz said. "That needs to be examined to determine that there isn't a problem counting the votes. And the legal process is how you resolve those questions."
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Snakes in Suits

Team Trump to hold campaign-style rallies, will push voter fraud examples

Emily Jacobs
New York Post
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:57 UTC
Trump rally
© Reuters/Lucas Jackson
President Trump is planning to hold campaign-style rallies at which he will reveal obituaries of Americans who supposedly voted in the 2020 presidential election despite being deceased, a campaign official confirms to The Post.

The group of rallies, first reported Sunday by Axios, will be focused on highlighting the Trump campaign's legal effort to win back a lost election by highlighting specific examples of voter fraud.

The obituaries specifically are meant to act as evidence that President-elect Joe Biden won the election by what the Trump team has repeatedly referred to as "illegal" votes.

Reached for comment by The Post, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh denied that the rallies would involve the president himself.
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Pyramid

Will the Turkish economy kill Erdogan's new Ottoman Empire?

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Lira
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Turkey in the past two years has engaged in a remarkable series of active geopolitical foreign interventions from Syria to Libya to Cyprus and most recently on the side of Azerbaijan in the territory conflict with Armenia over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. Some have called it Erdogan's 'New Ottoman Empire' strategy. Yet a free-falling Lira and a collapsing domestic economy threaten to put an unplanned end to his grand geopolitical ambitions. How serious is the economic crisis in Turkey today and does Erdogan have a Plan B?

Lira Freefall

By the end of October, as open conflict between President Erdogan, who demands low interest rates from the central bank to stimulate growth, and financial markets who demand higher rates to "offset risk," the Turkish Lira dropped a sharp 3% in a day. To date in 2020 the Lira is down 34% against the US dollar and by 70% over the past five years. While some think it would stimulate Turkish goods exports, what it is doing is exposing the entire Turkish banking system and economy to a colossal debt blowout. The problem is that to spur Erdogan's growth agenda, Turkish banks have turned to the dollar-based low-interest rate inter-bank market to borrow funds to lend on to Turkish consumers to build houses or open hotels and other small businesses. Every time the Lira falls against the dollar, it needs that much more Lira to repay the old dollar debts, 34% more since January as of this writing.
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Black Magic

Rudy Giuliani says dead people voted 'big time' in Election 2020: "We have the proof."


NewsNOW from FOX
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:08 UTC
Giuliani
© ABC thisweek
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani
In an interview with Fox5 on the Fox network, well known, liked and respected lawyer/politician Rudy Giuliani says that he will prove that the US Election is fraudulent and that President Donald Trump will be re-elected.

He says that without question, major fraud has occurred with States such as Pennsylvania showing "dead people voted", says the New York Mayor who was in charge on the morning of 9/11.


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Chess

Putin: Russian peacekeepers headed for Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan & Armenia sign armistice


RT
Mon, 09 Nov 2020 04:17 UTC
putin
© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi
Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Baku and Yerevan have struck a deal to end the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, and that Russian peacekeepers will be deployed along the line of contact.

The agreement will create conditions for a long-term settlement of the crisis in the interests of both peoples, Putin said shortly after midnight Moscow time on Tuesday (22:30 GMT Monday), confirming reports of the armistice Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan described as "painful" but necessary.

According to the text of the agreement that appeared in Russian media around midnight Moscow time - when the armistice was to take effect - Russia will deploy almost 2,000 peacekeepers along the line of contact and the "Lachin corridor," the road connection between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia proper.

These peacekeepers will move in as the Armenian armed forces withdraw, and will stay for five years, according to the draft. An automatic five-year extension of their mandate is envisioned, unless any of the parties objects six months before its expiration.

Comment: The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, also announced the signing and while saying it was "not a victory," it will signal a rebirth of Armenian national unity. On the other side, Azerbaijan admitted its guilt in shooting down a Russian helicopter over Armenian territory. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "the fact that Baku immediately admitted its guilt is positive."

Azerbaijan had apologized for the downing of the Russian helicopter on Monday, in which two crew members were killed and one suffered injuries. The foreign ministry in Baku described it as a "tragic incident, which is an accident by nature and was not directed against the Russian side."

The president of Azerbaijan praised the historic deal and also stated that Turkish forces would join Russian peacekeepers in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

While each country's leader was doing their best to quell tensions, crowds ended up besieging the parliament and government offices in the Armenian capitol of Yerevan after the deal was announced. Armenia has agreed to cede land that Azerbaijan has taken recently, along with more land to come in the recent months. It is unknown right now where the Armenian PM is residing.

Minutes after the peace deal was announced, Russian peacekeepers began deploying to the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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Passport

New COVID-19 security measures will make record of vaccination a prerequisite for travel using CommonPass

Raul Diego
MintPress News
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
The CommonPass generated QR code

The CommonPass generated QR code is shown. Original image sourced from the Common Project
As the multi-sector, global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties, CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health.

Imagine standing at a TSA security checkpoint on your way home for the holidays. You're getting ready to go through the awkward travel procedures instituted almost immediately after 9/11 when the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) was created and air travel in the United States morphed into a search and seizure operation with the implied possibility of your detention and interrogation.

The initial outrage such expressions of implicit state violence caused early on eventually gave way to begrudging acceptance. But now, a new layer of "security," that could restrict freedom of movement even further, is being rolled out at several ports of entry in partnership with health technology industry leaders, academic institutions, and government health entities in more than three dozen countries.

A new digital certificate called CommonPass, designed to serve as a clearance mechanism for passengers based on a health diagnosis underwent its first transatlantic test on October 21 under the watchful eye of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Heathrow Airport in London. There, a group of select participants embarked on United flight 15 to Newark, New Jersey after being screened and tested for COVID-19 at the point of departure in a largely ceremonial exercise that included initiative co-founders, Paul Meyer and Bradley Perkins.
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