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Evidence? Numerous election night 'errors' caught on video

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The Gateway Pundit has reported several times on the extraordinary number of switched votes that appeared in real-time during this year's election.

Now there is a new video by ElectionNightFacts that explains and displays several of the instances of switched votes in Pennsylvania and across the US on election night.

Comment: Ironic: Democratic senators warned of potential 'vote switching' by Dominion voting machines prior to 2020 election


Water

Water, the most basic and essential resource, is now just another Wall Street commodity

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Water may be the basis for all life on earth, but it may soon become one of the hottest commodities on the Wall Street futures market due to its scarcity as a good.

Water will soon see its price fluctuating like other commodities including wheat, gold, and oil, now that the CME Group has launched futures contracts tied to the spot price of water.

The Nasdaq Veles California Water Index, which measures the volume-weighted average price of water in California's five primary watersheds, began trading under the ticker NQH20 on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Monday.

On Tuesday morning, it was trading at about $486.53 per Acre Foot ($/AF).

The contracts will let both investors and farmers bet on future prices of the precious liquid with contracts tied to the $1.1 California spot water market, reports Business Insider.

Historically, this is the first time that water has been traded this way.

Comment: There may be an increasing scarcity of water in some many places, but ALSO severe rainfall and flooding in others. But getting to the point of the article - it does seem as though the crucial substance is being commodified and manipulated in ever increasing ways over the past few years.

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Bad Guys

The Great Reset: 'Building Back Better' Means Technocracy & The End of Liberalism And Democracy in One Fell Swoop

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To suggest that there has been an overreaction to the coronavirus pandemic may be the understatement of the century. The spark that began as a rational fear of disease has been fanned into flames of widespread panic which have raged through state and civil institutions. The spectacle of the US election aside (or perhaps a case in point), it is fair to say that democracy no longer exists. The rule of law has been suspended.

A 'state of emergency' persists throughout much of the world and will likely remain indefinitely. All of this has been normalised under cover of a declared medical emergency, and like some modern Milgram experiment, the masses have fallen into line. Anyone who dares to even question the new normal - the constant hand-sanitizing; the ubiquitous temperature-taking; the social distancing; the contact tracing - is now perceived as a threat to society.

If there's an elephant in the room it's probably the fact that there seems to be no pandemic to speak of. Regardless of the overblown case reporting there is no significant spike in the overall number of deaths compared to a normal flu season.

Covid-19 manifests as a mild flu in the majority of people who get sick from it, while presenting no symptoms at all in most people, it scarcely impacts children, and according to a growing number of physicians it can be successfully treated with inexpensive and readily available medications such as vitamins D, C and zinc.

Mail

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announces signature audit for absentee ballots in Cobb County


Comment: Interesting. This would not have happened without pressure from 'below'. Note that they waited until after the Electoral College met to yield to a proper audit. No doubt they'll carefully select their audit sample, but whatever the outcome, local and state officials are responding to pressure from ordinary Americans to prove the election was not fraudulent.


Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger

Brad Raffensperger
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday announced a signature audit in Cobb County.

"We stand ready to answer each and every question out there," Raffensperger said. "Every Georgian should have faith in our elections."

The audit should take two weeks to complete according to Raffensperger.

Pistol

Gunman opens fire outside St. John the Divine church in Manhattan after Christmas choir performance

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© Reuters / Jeenah Moon
Police officers surround a suspect who was shooting outside the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, December 13, 2020.
Police have neutralized a gunman outside St. John the Divine Church in Manhattan, after the suspect fired rounds into the air and at cops at the end of a Christmas choir show. The shooter died of his wounds in a hospital.

The shooting took place at the steps of the cathedral at the very end of a Christmas choral concert, attended by 200 people, according to police and numerous witnesses who fled the scene in panic.

"He was shooting it up in the air and toward police," a police source told the New York Post, while a Reuters photographer heard the man shouting "Kill me!" and "Shoot me!"

Attention

The EU now wants to colonise our minds

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© Getty
The rule of law is a foundational principle of democratic society. It is a principle which ensures that all individuals and institutions are protected by the rule of law. This protection extends to private-property rights and the right of individuals to exercise the freedoms laid out in their nation's constitution.

The rule of law requires an independent judiciary and a clear separation of power between the courts and political institutions. In practice, however, it is difficult to maintain the separation of power between the judiciary and parliament. This is why clear efforts must always be made to maintain this distance between politics and the law.

Unfortunately, the EU has adopted a legalistic ideology that erodes the distinction between politics and the law. It is weaponising the rule of law in an attempt to force some of its member states to adhere to moral values that are alien to their own national cultures. The political philosopher Judith Shklar described the ideology of legalism as an outlook in which questions of morality are always reduced to simply following rules. This sums up the EU's approach to the rule of law.

Over the past decade, the EU bureaucracy has been working behind the scenes on cobbling together so-called rule-of-law instruments to 'safeguard fundamental values'. What the EU oligarchy means by 'fundamental values' are the latest fashionable ideals promoted by anti-traditionalist culture warriors. For example, the LGBTIQ culture, and the values associated with it, is now being instrumentalised by the EU against societies that feel uncomfortable with the ideologies promoted by woke identitarians.

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Yellow Vest

'Free men don't ask permission': New Jersey gym owner DEFIES Covid closure orders despite facing '$1.2 MILLION in fines'

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Ian Smith, a gym owner in New Jersey who has railed against closure orders and mask mandates amid the Coronavirus pandemic, remains adamant that he will keep his facility open despite reportedly receiving over $1 million in fines.

Smith, who co-owns Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, has been operating as normal for large parts of 2020 despite the ongoing Covid-19 situation decimating large sections of the economy, and has refused to co-operate with shutdown orders put in place designed at limiting the spread of the virus which has killed almost 300,000 Americans this year.

And Smith outlined on social media, he intends to keep operating as normal - despite being hit with massive fines from authorities.

Books

Conservative youth organization offers students books banned by their school district

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© Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
California's Burbank Unified School District has removed five classics from its curriculum over racism charges, but a conservative youth organization is stepping up to offer the books to students.

On Sept. 9, Burbank announced "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," "The Cay" and "Of Mice and Men" will no longer be used in classrooms, at least temporarily, after four parents, three of them Black, challenged their use as racist.

On Nov. 27, Superintendent Matt Hill announced that the district was removing the novels from its core reading list and banning the use and reading of the N-word in classrooms.

Young America's Foundation (YAF) announced it will now offer the books to students free of charge.

Bad Guys

Texas gang leader who received commuted sentence from Obama charged again

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© AP/Jacquelyn Martin
Local, state, and federal law enforcement officials teamed up to arrest a San Antonio man who previously received a sentencing commutation from then-President Barack Obama. The man, and seven others, now face federal drug trafficking charges.

This week, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas announced an eight-count federal indictment against a 41-year-old Texas Syndicate lieutenant, Hilario Nieto (aka "Shorty"), and seven other men. The eight alleged conspirators are charged with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, federal officials said in a written statement.

Alleged conspirator Danny Rivas, a 41-year old Texas Syndicate lieutenant from San Antonio, is also facing two counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Prosecutors also charged 31-year-old Daniel Castaneda and 40-year-old Melissa Molina, both from San Antonio, with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

Attention

Poverty is rising fast, but it's part of a decades-long project which the lockdowns of 2020 will only accelerate

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© REUTERS / Eddie Keogh
A new study highlights worrying levels of destitution in Britain, with the situation worsening. But it's no accident: lockdowns and The Great Reset are the latest stage in an elite-friendly project shovelling wealth ever upwards.

Don't say you weren't warned. While 'centrist' neo-liberals and faux-progressives lauded turbo-globalisation in the nineties, one 'insider' Sir James 'Jimmy' Goldsmith - a billionaire financier who never indulged in groupthink - told us that it wouldn't end well.

In his books The Trap and The Response, Goldsmith predicted that GATT and global free trade would create unemployment and poverty in the industrialised world, while ravaging the third world. His thesis was that the ability of the world's biggest companies to go anywhere in search of increased profits, and employ anyone from a greatly expanded world labour market -which had increased due to political changes by 4 billion, soon to rise to 6.5 billion - was bound to have a downwards impact on living standards.