Reader’s Links for December 7, 2020

Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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94 Replies to “Reader’s Links for December 7, 2020”

  1. UK Nurse Educator’s bi-weekly post yesterday mentions in passing a “side effect” of developing the mRNA COVID vaccine: learning to builid vaccines that target other mRNA abnormalities, like some cancers. He expresses concern with and compares the refrigeration requirements of the proposed vaccines. He praises a probable US mask mandate for inside Federal buildings. He explains to his international audience that 100 in “the 100-day mandate” stems from the politics of the first 100 days in office for a new American President.
    I am posting this here to temper discussion with the mundane parts of life, like refrigeration temperature.
    https://www.facebook.com/112048663765092/posts

  2. Turkey Vows to Stand Against ‘Pirates’ Seeking to ‘Take Our Rights Away’, Favours East Med Dialogue (sputniknews, Dec 8, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202012071081381493-turkey-vows-stance-against-pirates-seeking-to-take-our-rights-away-favours-east-med-dialogue/

    “Turkey will not accept any plans or maps that aim to limit the country to the coasts off southern Antalya, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, while underscoring that his country wants peace, cooperation and justice in the Eastern Mediterranean rather than tensions, reported Daily Sabah.

    “We are not after exploiting anyone’s rights but are only taking a firm stance against pirates that try to take our rights away,” said Erdogan in a video message for the Eastern Mediterranean Workshop, organized by the International Universities Council and the Mediterranean University.

    ?The Turkish president added diplomacy needed to be given a chance if Greece wants a lasting solution to the problem in the Eastern Mediterranean.

    Erdogan questioned the EU’s choice to wrong Turkey in the dispute, while applauding his own country’s conciliatory stance despite the actions of the Greek Cypriot administration and the Greek government.

    “The European Union should get rid of its strategic blindness and not let itself be manipulated by either the Greek Cypriots or Greece itself in the Eastern Mediterranean,” said Erdogan.

    The Turkish president urged neighboring countries to jointly find a win-win solution driven by common sense and sincerity…”

  3. Middle East Peace Plan Only Trump Foreign Policy Initiative Biden Seeks to Keep, Reports Say (sputniknews, Dec 8, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202012071081381038-middle-east-peace-plan-only-trump-foreign-policy-initiative-biden-seeks-to-keep-reports-say/

    “Projected US President-elect Joe Biden, who disagrees with most of the foreign policy initiatives launched by incumbent leader Donald Trump, still intends to keep one of them, namely the Abraham Accords on the Middle East peace process, the Axios news website reported on Monday, citing Biden’s advisers…”

  4. World War 3 warning: UK, France and Germany deeply concerned about Iran nuclear programme (express, Dec 7, 2020)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1369272/World-War-3-Iran-news-nuclear-programme-UK-France-Germany-warning-IAEA-latest

    “BRITAIN, France and Germany have raised concerns over the recent law passed by the Iranian Parliament, sparking fears of a World War 3 outbreak.

    The Iranian Parliament recently passed a law which if implement would expand Tehran’s nuclear programme and limit the monitoring access of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This comes amid growing tensions across the globe.

    The three powers said in a joint statement: “If Iran is serious about preserving a space for diplomacy, it must not implement these steps.”

    This comes after Iran told the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog it plans to install three more clusters of advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.

    The agency wrote: “Iran informed the Agency that the operator of the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) at Natanz ‘intends to start the installation of three cascades of IR-2m centrifuge machines’ at FEP.”

    They added these were in addition to one of IR-2m machines already used for enrichment there.

    But under Iran’s nuclear deal with major powers, Tehran can only use first-generation IR-1 centrifuges at the underground plant.

    These are also the only machines Iran can accumulate enriched uranium with.

    This latest move comes as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his country will not agree to renegotiate elements of the international accord limiting its nuclear programme.

    He said: “It will never be renegotiated. Period.”

    The Minister also admitted Tehran will not agree to any curbs on its missile programme unless Western countries stop their “malign behaviour” in the Middle East.

    He added: “As long as they’re not able to out up, they have to shut up.”

    Under the Trump administration, the US imposed crippling sanctions on Iran after Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018.

    Iran began publicly exceeding enrichment limits set by the agreement saying it would return to compliance if the US did the same.

    Mr Zarif continued: “The US has been in grave breach of that resolution because the Trump administration has been a rogue regime.

    “Now if President-elect [Joe] Biden wants to continue to be a rogue regime, then he can continue to be asking for negotiations to implement its commitments.

    “The United States must stop, the United States must cease its violations of international law.

    “It doesn’t require any negotiations.”

    Mr Biden – who beat Mr Trump in the US election last month – has hinted the US will return to the deal…”

  5. Another Missing British Teen Girl Found in Syrian Camp for ISIS Brides (breitbart, Dec 7, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/12/07/another-missing-brit-teen-girl-found-syrian-camp-isis-brides/

    “Nasra Abukar, who went missing from her London home aged 18, has been found at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp for Islamic State family members in Syria, the same location where Shamima Begum was tracked down last year.

    Ms Abukar had been persuaded to travel to Syria to marry jihadist Aseel Muthana six years ago, according to information obtained by The Times — the same newspaper that found Ms Begum in February 2019.

    Abukar had two sons with the Muthana, Faris and Talha, with the former being killed in a coalition airstrike that also injured her husband. The Somali-heritage 24-year-old wants to return to the United Kingdom with her three-year-old surviving son; however, like Begum, she, too, has reportedly been stripped of her British citizenship after authorities deemed her a security risk.

    The newspaper reports that social media posts allegedly attributed to the young woman showed her promoting life in the Caliphate and sneering at the 2015 Bataclan terror attacks, typing the word “Paris” followed by a “crying with laughter” emoji shortly after jihadists slaughtered 130 people.

    The report claims that Nasra Abukar and her husband Aseel Muthana were committed to Islamic State to the very end, and were present at the terror group’s last stand at Baghuz in March 2019 when coalition forces drove out the jihadists…”

  6. Indonesian police kill 6 supporters of firebrand cleric (abcnews, Dec 7, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indonesian-police-kill-supporters-firebrand-cleric-74579449

    “Indonesian police early Monday fatally shot six followers of a firebrand cleric who returned last month from a 3-year exile in Saudi Arabia after criminal charges against him were dropped, officials said, prompting fears of more violence.

    Jakarta Police Chief Muhammad Fadil Imran said police were following a car carrying 10 supporters of Rizieq Shihab, the leader of the Islamic Defenders Front, early Monday morning. The followers attacked the police with guns and swords, threatening the officers’ safety, he said.

    “The officers then took firm and measured action so that six died from the group of 10 people,” he said at a news conference. He did not give further details of the violence.

    An official of the Islamic Defenders Front, Ahmad Shabri Lubis, gave a different account, saying that Shihab and his family were heading to a place to deliver a sermon and that guards traveling with them had been shot…”

  7. Baffling statement: Biden will ‘develop some disease and resign’ in case of dispute with Kamala Harris – Liberty Unyielding
    J.E. Dyer
    5-7 minutes

    Remember in October when Joe Biden solemnly assured his audience that “We [presumably referring to Barack Obama and him] built one of the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”?

    Good times. The LU staff speculation was that Biden may have been referring to the literal voter fraud organization operated by the activist group ACORN on the Obama-Biden campaign’s behalf.

    Another interpretation was that Biden meant to refer to the team of 600 or more lawyers assembled by his campaign and the DNC in 2020, purportedly to investigate voter fraud, as opposed to committing it.

  8. (Richard: It is worth the time to read and it tells volumes about how much control of anything Biden will have if he is sworn in)

    Baffling statement: Biden will ‘develop some disease and resign’ in case of dispute with Kamala Harris – Liberty Unyielding
    J.E. Dyer
    5-7 minutes

    Baffling statement: Biden will ‘develop some disease and resign’ in case of dispute with Kamala Harris

    CNN interview with Jake Tapper and Kamala Harris, 3 Dec 2020. CNN video, YouTube

    Remember in October when Joe Biden solemnly assured his audience that “We [presumably referring to Barack Obama and him] built one of the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”?

    Good times. The LU staff speculation was that Biden may have been referring to the literal voter fraud organization operated by the activist group ACORN on the Obama-Biden campaign’s behalf.

    Another interpretation was that Biden meant to refer to the team of 600 or more lawyers assembled by his campaign and the DNC in 2020, purportedly to investigate voter fraud, as opposed to committing it.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/12/06/baffling-statement-biden-will-develop-some-disease-and-resign-in-case-of-dispute-with-kamala-harris/

  9. Brooklyn protest | Anti-vaxxers burn face masks at ‘Rally For Freedom’

    Dozens of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine demonstrators gather in Brooklyn to protest against New York COVID restrictions

    • Dozens of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine demonstrators gathered at Grand Army Plaza in New York City’s Brooklyn at the so-called ‘Rally For Freedom’ on Sunday to protest against strict anti-coronavirus measures.

      A group of Antifa counter-protesters disrupted the event, with scuffles breaking out between two groups.

      “It was supposed to be 15 days to stop the spread, and it turned to almost a year now,” said one of the anti-lockdown protesters, adding that, “the lockdowns didn’t work before and the only thing they are accomplishing is destroying the city, destroying the economy, destroying people’s mental and financial health. Enough is enough.”

    • GLOBAL NEWS – Coronavirus: Anti-lockdown, anti-vaccination beliefs remain as UK rolls out its vaccine

      Just as the UK prepares to launch mass COVID-19 inoculations to get the pandemic under control, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and vaccines, some experts have warned, have gone mainstream — and no longer confined to the fringes.

      “Around a quarter (of Britain’s population) are entertaining such thoughts. Another quarter is consistently thinking in terms of conspiracy beliefs, and around one in 10 people seem to have a very high rate of endorsement of conspiracy beliefs.”

      At a recent protest in central London on Nov. 28, hundreds of people shouted slogans against COVID-19 lockdown measures and vaccinations. Followers of QAnon say a so-called Great Awakening is coming to bring salvation.

    • GLOBAL NEWS – Explaining Africa’s low number of reported COVID-19 deaths

      More than 1.5 million people around the world have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

      About half of those have been in North America and Europe.

      So far, only 53,000 deaths have been recorded in Africa.

      Researchers are still unsure why the number is so low, but it could be a vast underestimation of the true figure.

      And as the world starts distributing vaccines, countries across Africa are asking not to be left behind. Redmond Shannon reports.

      + comments on the YT page

    • sky news – There is no evidence of a pandemic’ says anti-vaxxer

      Despite the thousands of deaths caused by coronavirus, some anti-vaxxers say there is no pandemic.

      One in five people in the UK say they unsure about taking the vaccine and Kate Shemirani, an anti-vaxxer, claims that vaccines have never saved any lives, despite sizeable scientific evidence proving otherwise.

      The spread of misinformation and falsehoods about the COVID-19 vaccine by anti-vaxxers is worrying experts who say the government must step in, otherwise the circulation of the false claims, circulating widely on social media, will lead to more deaths.

    • UN Sec-Gen: Vaccine “cannot undo” decades worth of damage

      UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that the world could be fighting the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic for decades to come even if vaccines are quickly approved.

      Opening a special UN summit on the virus, being held virtually as a safety precaution, Guterres hailed the quick scientific progress but cautioned that vaccination was not a panacea for the ills affecting the planet.

      Guterres said a vaccine “cannot undo damage that the world has to face for decades.

    • Turkish Born Muslim Scientists Behind Pfizer COVID19 Vaccine

      Muslim scientists are in the forefront of dealing with this challenge

    • CBC – Provinces to hold dry runs for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today

      The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is getting a practice run in Canada on Monday.
      Health workers, officials and members of the military will be involved in a rehearsal of the delivery and distribution of the vaccine, without the actual vials.

      + comments on the YT page

    • DAILY MAIL – Ilhan Omar’s husband received $635k in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm, despite congresswoman paying his company a staggering $2.25M this year alone

      Ilhan Omar’s husband Tim Mynett received $635,000 in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm, according to records

      Mynett co-owns the Washington D.C. firm E Street Group

      The company received $134,800 in Paycheck Protection Program loans and $500,000 for in Economic Injury Disaster loans in April, records show

      E Street Group was also paid $2,256,700 since the start of 2020 from Omar’s campaign for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and website production

      Omar announced in mid-November that her campaign was terminating its contract with the firm after scrutiny about the payments

      She claimed: ‘Tim – beyond his salary at the firm – received no profit whatsoever from the consulting relationship the firm provided’

      DailyMail.com revealed that Omar married the political consultant in March

      Mynett began working for Omar during the 2018 election – which she won by a landslide – while they were both still married

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9026589/Ilhan-Omars-husband-received-635k-Covid-19-bailout-money.html

    • CBC – Quebec to start COVID-19 vaccinations next week, health minister says

      Province’s first doses of Pfizer vaccine to be deployed at 2 unspecified long-term care homes

      Quebec expects to begin vaccinating residents of long-term care homes against COVID-19 next week, Health Minister Christian Dubé said.

      By next Monday, Dubé said, the province should receive four boxes of the Pfizer vaccine, which will allow for 2,000 people at two unspecified long-term care homes to be vaccinated.

      Between 22,000 and 28,000 Quebecers will be immunized against COVID-19 by Jan. 4, as the province receives more doses of the vaccine, he said.

      Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced earlier Monday that up to 249,000 doses of the two-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be available in Canada this month.

      Trudeau said the first shots should arrive next week, if Health Canada gives the product the green light. Dr. Supriya Sharma, the chief medical adviser at Health Canada, has said her department could approve the Pfizer product as soon as this week.

      Dubé cautioned that all the Quebec-specific targets depend on whether the vaccine gets that approval.

      He also said Quebecers must still make sacrifices until a good proportion of people are vaccinated, because the vaccine doesn’t cure COVID-19.

      “Yes, today’s news is good news, but let’s not let it distract us. We have to stay focused.”

      Quebec, along with Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, has been experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases of late.

      A Quebec Health Ministry spokesperson said the surge in the province can be explained by an increase in community transmission as well as outbreaks in schools, workplaces and in some long-term care homes.

      Who gets the vaccination first?

      Residents of long-term care homes and health-care workers will be the first to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Quebec.

      People living in private seniors’ residences and those in isolated communities, including Indigenous communities, will be next, provincial public health officials revealed during a technical briefing Monday.

      Those four groups represent about 547,000 people living in Quebec, which has a population of about 8.5 million.

      The strategy aims to directly protect the most vulnerable members of the population, instead of betting that they will be indirectly protected if those around them are immunized, officials said.

      The next groups of people to receive the vaccine will be organized by age group, starting with those 80 and up, then 70 to 79, and 60 to 69, followed by those who are 60 and under and have other risk factors.

      20 vaccination sites in Quebec

      There will be 20 vaccination sites, developed in conjunction with Pfizer, across Quebec, Dubé said — four in Montreal, two in the Montérégie region, and one each in 14 other regions.

      Provinces and territories will receive Pfizer vaccine doses in numbers proportionate to their share of the population.

      Trudeau said these doses will be delivered by the company directly to 14 distribution centres across the country that are equipped with the cold storage needed to keep the vaccine at the required –80 C.

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/who-will-get-covid-vaccine-first-quebec-1.5831377

    • Montreal Gazette – Quebec announces COVID-19 vaccine plan; aims for 650,000 vaccinated in first three months of 2021

    • CTV NEWS – Majority of Canadians want the federal government to make the call on mandatory COVID-19 vaccine: survey

      MONTREAL — As provincial leaders decide whether a COVID-19 vaccine should or should not be mandatory, a new poll suggests Canadians want the federal government to make that call.

      Over half of Canadians Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies polled (57 per cent) said they felt the Justin Trudeau Liberal government should make the call to determine whether a potential vaccine is mandatory or not.

      Alberta and the Atlantic provinces (59 per cent) felt most strongly, while 54 per cent of Quebecers felt the feds should make the call.

      Just 15 per cent of Quebecers felt Francois Legault’s provincial government should have the authority.

      At the same time, 55 per cent of those surveyed felt the vaccine should be voluntary, and 17 per cent said they would not take the vaccine. Forty-one per cent said it should be mandatory.

      On that note, over four-in-10 surveyed (41 per cent) said they would contest a mandatory vaccination as a rights violation with 52 per cent between 25 and 34 years of age agreeing it would be a violation of rights.

      More with children (47 per cent) than without (39 per cent) agree that a mandatory vaccination order would be worth contesting.

      When it comes to the border, the poll’s numbers are clear: no crossing the 49th parallel without a vaccine.

      Seventy-eight per cent of those asked said they either strongly agree (48 per cent) or somewhat agree (30 per cent) that cross-border travel should be prevented to people that refuse to take the vaccine for the novel coronavirus.

      In addition, 83 per cent agreed with barring people from the US and elsewhere from entering Canada without vaccination.

      The study was conducted online between Nov. 27 and Nov. 29 and included 1,566 adult Canadians.

      https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/majority-of-canadians-want-the-federal-government-to-make-the-call-on-mandatory-covid-19-vaccine-survey-1.5218679

  10. MAC’S Public House
    December 5 at 8:59 AM

    Mac’s will be open for service from 6pm-10pm tonight with strict safety procedures in place including masks worn while standing. We thank everyone for your support but capacity with be severely limited so we can ensure safety.
    Update:
    Danny was arrested after we closed and was getting in his car! 25 sheriffs in unmarked car swarm him like he is a violent felon who murdered someone! He just finished working an 18 hour day to provide for his family and save our establishment!!!
    https://www.facebook.com/macspublichouse/posts/703668463620195

    “Staten Island pub holds press conference in front of his bar”
    Fox Business – Streamed live 67 minutes
    See description box.

  11. n a direct move to provoke China, France is all set to enter the East China Sea with US and Japan

  12. Whistleblower USPS truck driver reveals trailer filled with up to 288K ballots disappeared | NTD

  13. Supreme court moves mail-in ballot case deadline; Georgia burst pipe was overfull urinal: Inspector

  14. Dominion software allows manual vote entry; Georgia poll watcher finds room for fraud during recount

    • U.S. election: Georgia plans to re-certify election result after recount confirms Biden victory

  15. China’s Coronavirus Lies Confirmed
    Richard Shinder
    9-11 minutes

    On March 12 of this year, I wrote for these pages a piece entitled “China and the Coronavirus — A Reckoning.” While the origins of COVID-19 were at that time murky (and remain so), what has become increasingly clear is the culpability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in obfuscating the extent and severity of the initial outbreak in Hubei province. A report from CNN last week (“The Wuhan files”) extensively details from leaked primary sources the inconsistencies between what local and national authorities in China believed to be occurring and what was reported publicly, which significantly downplayed the outbreak’s severity.

    Specifically, leaked documents show that a wide range of data on two specific days, February 10 and March 7, were at odds with what officials said publicly at the time. These documents show the full extent of what officials knew, but chose not to share with the public. On February 10, for example, when China reported 2,478 new confirmed cases nationwide, the documents show Hubei actually circulated a total of 5,918 newly reported cases. The CNN feature stops short of alleging a coordinated effort by Chinese officials to deliberately conceal information and willfully mislead Chinese citizens and the world, but the volume and breadth of inconsistencies revealed in the reporting of CNN and others, along with China’s continued failure to cooperate with international medical experts and the WHO, support the colorable position that the CCP’s lies related to COVID-19 were — and are — maliciously intentional.

    https://spectator.org/china-coronavirus-lies/

  16. Sidney Powell Suspects CIA In RIGGING Elections

    Sidney Powell suspects CIA in rigging the 2020 elections.

    Why? Don’t miss this exclusive as she tells all regarding the Trump legal battles, election fraud, and more!

    Watch Gov. Mike Huckabee’s interview with Sidney Powell now!

  17. GEORGIA – RUBY FREEMAN & NO ADDRESSES ON BALLOTS TOTE #33 . HER OWN VIDEO HERE.

    Parler Account https://parler.com/profile/EllieBOffi… cited/used in part pursuant to the Fair Use Act of 1976 regarding limited use of copyrighted material for Educational Purposes.

    RUBY FREEMAN video obtained open source listed above and shows she is presented with Fulton County ballots mailed in absentee ballots with zero return address on ballots Mr. DION gives her to work with.

    MS. RUBY was highlighted of late for her and others seen pulling tote cases of ballots which were hidden under a draped table and pulled out and processed after they told poll watchers to go home. Such is now under investigation and a major media story.

  18. Reported Burst Pipe in Atlanta Ballot Counting Area Was Overflowing Urinal: Investigator
    By Zachary Stieber
    December 7, 2020 Updated: December 7, 2020
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    The Election Day incident in Atlanta’s State Farm Arena that was first reported as a burst pipe was an overflowing urinal, a state investigator said Sunday.

    Officials in Fulton County said late Nov. 3 that a pipe burst in the arena around 6:07 a.m., causing a delay of several hours in counting absentee ballots. They also referred to the incident as “a water leak.”

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office opened an investigation into the incident.

    Frances Watson, the chief investigator for the office, said in a court filing Sunday that the investigation revealed the water leak “was actually a urinal that had overflowed.”

    The overflowing “did not affect the counting of votes by Fulton County later that evening,” she wrote.

    Gabriel Sterling, voting implementation systems manager for Raffensperger’s office, told reporters last month that what happened “wasn’t a water main break.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/reported-burst-pipe-in-atlanta-ballot-counting-area-was-overflowing-urinal-investigator_3607741.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-07-1

  19. So Durham is Now a ‘Special Counsel’? – What Does That Mean?
    Chris Farrell

    A couple of days ago, Attorney General William Barr (pictured) announced the appointment of a special counsel for the criminally fraudulent “Russia!” Hoax. The special counsel is none other than the current US Attorney investigating the case – John Durham. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

    A couple of days ago, Attorney General William Barr announced the appointment of a special counsel for the criminally fraudulent “Russia!” Hoax. The special counsel is none other than the current US Attorney investigating the case – John Durham.

    The appointment is troubling on three fronts: 1. Durham has produced only one indictment of a lowly Justice Department staff attorney; 2. Durham’s appointment may not be legal; and, 3. Barr did not make the appointment (back on October 19) public until now because he was concerned it was too political during an election season. Of course, one can also argue that NOT making the announcement was too political. The inactivity is strikingly similar to the pharmaceutical companies waiting until about three days after the election to announce their 95% effective COVID vaccines. Seems President Trump must not be credited with anything that

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16830/durham-special-counsel

  20. Turkey: Erdogan Threatens Europe

    by Uzay Bulut
    December 7, 2020 at 4:00 am

    Europe has once again been targeted with Islamist terror attacks.

    On October 16, Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was beheaded in Paris by an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim who acquired refugee status in France this past March. The teacher was murdered after showing cartoons from Charlie Hebdo depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad to his students, during a discussion on freedom of expression.

    On October 29, three people were murdered and several others wounded in an Islamist knife attack in the Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption in Nice, France; one victim was decapitated.

    After the attack in Nice, France raised its nationwide terror alert status to the “maximum emergency” level. Approximately 4,000 military personnel were deployed to guard schools, churches, and other places of worship.

    In Vienna, on November 2, four more people were murdered and 22 injured (including a police officer) in another Islamist terror attack that took place in six locations across the Austrian capital.

    After Paty’s murder, French President Emmanuel Macron defended freedom of expression and freedom of religion:

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16809/turkey-erdogan-threatens-europe

  21. Voter Rights Group Notifies DOJ of Pakistani Link With Nevada Election Email System
    By Ivan Pentchoukov
    December 6, 2020 Updated: December 7, 2020
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    A U.S. voter rights group informed the Department of Justice on Dec. 3 of a link between the Nevada election emails system and a Pakistani company with ties to military and intelligence.

    True the Vote requested the Nevada voter file from the secretary of state after the Nov. 3 election. The state responded with a voter file in an email, but the message was copied to Waqas Butt, CEO of Pakistani-based Kavtech Solutions Ltd.

    In a letter (pdf) to Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers, Catherine Engelbrecht, president of True the Vote, wrote that she was shocked to discover the Pakistani address in the carbon copy field of the email.

    “The fact that this company was cc’d on an email containing access to the Nevada voter registration database appears to be evidence of a breach within the Nevada Secretary of State’s email system,” Engelbrecht wrote.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/voter-rights-group-notifies-doj-of-pakistani-link-with-nevada-election-email-system_3606561.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2020-12-07

  22. Biden Victory ‘Not Statistically Impossible’ But ‘Statistically Implausible,’ Pollster Says
    By Isabel van Brugen
    December 7, 2020 Updated: December 7, 2020
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    A victory for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election is “not statistically impossible” but is “statistically implausible,” pollster Patrick Basham said on Dec. 6.

    Basham, the founding director of the Democracy Institute, told Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin” that based on current projections, Biden defied “non-polling metrics” in the Nov. 3 election against President Donald Trump.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-biden-victory-not-statistically-impossible-but-statistically-implausible-patrick-basham_3607414.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2020-12-07

  23. 222 Republican Congressmen Won’t Say Biden President-Elect
    By Sandy Fitzgerald |
    3-4 minutes

    An overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans won’t acknowledge Joe Biden as the President-Elect, according to a Washington Post survey.

    The survey was taken the morning after President Donald Trump posted a 46-minute video claiming he’d won the election and alleged “corrupt forces” were trying to steal his victory. Just 25 out of 222 Republicans acknowledged Biden’s win.

    Ninety percent of Senate and House GOP members have yet to say who the winner is. The Post survey asked lawmakers three questions: Who won the presidential contest, do you support or oppose Trump’s continuing efforts to claim victory, and if they will accept Biden as the legitimately elected president if he wins the electoral college majority.

    https://www.newsmax.com/politics/lawmakers-biden-trump-post/2020/12/05/id/1000179/

  24. Dominion Advisor Met With John Podesta Offering ‘Anything’ That Would Help Defeat Trump, According to Email Released by WikiLeaks

    An email previously released by WikiLeaks reveals that a Dominion Voting advisor met with John Podesta during Hillary Clinton’s campaign to discuss ways that they could help to defeat Donald Trump.

    In 2018, Dominion Voting announced that it had been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, who was being advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dominion-advisor-met-john-podesta-offering-anything-help-defeating-trump-according-email-released-wikileaks/

  25. Breaking: GEORGE SOROS Appoints Lord Mark Malloch Brown – The Former President of Smartmatic – to Lead Open Society Foundation

    On Saturday afternoon billionaire far left funder George Soros announced new leadership at his Open Society Foundation.

    Lord Mark Malloch Brown, the former UN deputy secretary?general and UK minister and president of Smartmatic voting systems, will replace Patrick Gaspard at the helm.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/george-soros-appoints-lord-mark-malloch-brown-former-president-smartmatic-lead-open-society-foundation/

  26. (Richard: If this happens [please Lord let them change electors] that will take 43 electoral collage votes away from Biden and give them to Trump. This would elect Trump for a second term and cause the Dems/left to reveal more about who the really are. Obama said he was going to transform America and thanks to Hillary and Biden his promise has been carried out. If Trump is reelected for a second term the US will be moved well away from the Socialist hellhole that Obama envisioned for us.)

    Rudy Giuliani: 3 State Legislatures May Change Electoral College Voters
    By Jack Phillips
    December 6, 2020 Updated: December 6, 2020
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    President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that the legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan might end up deciding what electors are sent to the Electoral College, suggesting it could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Giuliani said that the GOP-controlled legislatures in the three states could vote on sending their own slate of electors, noting that such a move is supported in the U.S. Constitution. Both Giuliani and fellow Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis have lobbied state legislatures in recent days to reaffirm their power to choose their own electors due to evidence of fraud during the Nov. 3 election.

    The former New York mayor told Fox Business on Sunday that Georgia lawmakers “started a petition to hold their own session, which they’re allowed to do under the Constitution,” adding the GOP members are “disgusted” by the evidence that was shown during a hearing last week.

    On the program, Giuliani made reference to the State Farm Arena surveillance video in Atlanta that showed election officials pulling black containers on wheels from underneath a table after poll observers and election workers were sent home. While state elections officials have said the process was not unusual, they have not yet answered key questions raised by Trump’s team when presenting the video.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/rudy-giuliani-three-state-legislatures-may-change-electoral-college-voters_3606962.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-06-5

    • Georgia Lawmakers: Special Session on Potential Electors Needed Because of Fraud
      By Zachary Stieber
      December 7, 2020 Updated: December 7, 2020
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      A group of Georgia senators are pushing for a special session of the legislature to consider choosing electors for President Donald Trump because of alleged election fraud.

      “What we’re seeing in Georgia is a violation of the law, there’s fraud,” state Sen. William Ligon, a Republican, told The Epoch Times on Monday, pointing to ballots being counted after poll watchers were effectively told to leave and a water leak that halted the counting of ballots for four hours on Election Day, as well as a consent order that was entered into by state election officials and Democrat activists.

      “We’re saying that there were votes from felons and others that weren’t qualified to vote that were counted, the laws regarding verifying signatures on absentee ballots were not followed, instead a consent order was followed which was not approved by the legislature, and that’s contrary to law and the Federal Constitution,” Ligon added.

      https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-lawmaker-dont-need-governor-to-call-special-session-on-election_3607979.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-07-4

  27. Globalist “Great Reset” Author Klaus Schwab Received Chinese Foreign Honor in 2018 – Big League Politics
    Published 3 days ago on Dec 4, 2020 By Richard Moorhead
    3 minutes

    Banks are among the institutions most committed to pushing a nefarious LGBT agenda under the auspices of “diversity” and “inclusion.”

    Jennifer Bilek runs The 11th Hour Blog, which is devoted to exposing the relationship between big business, technology, and woke ideology. One of her most recent posts explains how the largest banking firms normalize transgenderism, pronoun usage, and so on.

    “According to Business Statement for ‘Transgender’ equality, Bank of America, Citi Bank, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Deutsche bank, Ernst & Young, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase and Co., Morgan Stanley, US Bank, and Visa are just a handful of banks, credit card companies, and investment houses that are all-in for trans, under a banner of ‘inclusivity and diversity (I&D),” writes Bilek. “This I&D corporate-speak is being rolled out everywhere and looks a helluva lot like uniformity of thought and behavior that people are being punished for not abiding by.” [sic]

    https://bigleaguepolitics.com/globalist-great-reset-author-klaus-schwab-received-chinese-foreign-honor-in-2018/

  28. Trump: ‘Big Things Happening Over the Next Couple of Days’
    By Jack Phillips
    December 7, 2020 Updated: December 7, 2020
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    President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that people can expect to “see a lot of big things” over the coming days.

    On alleged election fraud, “I think the case has been made,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “And now we find out what we can do about it. But you’ll see a lot of big things happening over the next couple of days.”

    He did not elaborate.

    The president was answering a question about what his strategy will be after electors vote in the Electoral College, which is scheduled for Dec. 14.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-big-things-happening-over-the-next-couple-of-days_3608505.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-07-4

  29. (Richard: Well they have a large enough pool of test subjects. Of course if Trump is reelected the CCP probably won’t remain in power long enough to finish the project.)

    Director of National Intelligence: China Using ‘Gene Editing’ to Boost Military
    By Jack Phillips
    December 7, 2020 Updated: December 7, 2020
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    Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Sunday said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using “gene editing” to boost its military.

    Ratcliffe noted that if the CCP supersedes the United States to become the world’s superpower, it would imperil “individual liberties, freedoms” around the world, adding that “free enterprise [is] all at stake.”

    China is “altering DNA,” citing intelligence reports, Ratcliffe, the top U.S. intelligence official, said on Fox News Sunday.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/director-of-national-intelligence-china-using-gene-editing-to-boost-military_3607957.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-07-3

  30. Haftar’s forces intercept Turkish ship in Libya waters: Spokesman
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-haftar-forces-intercept-turkish-ship

    “Forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar have intercepted a Turkish ship off the North African country’s coast and towed it to the port of Ras al-Hilal, east of Benghazi, the renegade general’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) said on Monday.

    LNA general Ahmed al-Mismari said the vessel was sailing under a Jamaican flag and heading to the western city of Misrata – hundreds of miles from where it was captured.

    Turkey has been the main international backer of the UN-recognised, Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), which Haftar is trying to topple by force.

    Mismari said the ship did not respond to calls inquiring about its identity as it entered a military restricted area of Libyan territorial waters.

    “The ship’s crew is made of nine Turks, seven Indians and one Azerbaijani sailor. It is being investigated for its violations of maritime laws and regulations,” Mismari added in a statement.

    He did not reveal what the ship was carrying. In a Facebook post, Mismari showed photos of crew members in blue and orange overalls having their passports inspected by LNA members.

    Turkish officials have not commented publicly on the incident…”

  31. Moroccans Migrants Decry Conditions in Canary Islands Arrival Center
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/12/328148/moroccans-migrants-decry-conditions-in-canary-islands-arrival-center/

    “Many irregular Moroccan migrants are not satisfied with their “inhumane” living conditions in the Barranco Seco military camp on the Canary Islands, Spanish outlet OK Diario reported on December 7.

    Moroccan migrants who spoke with OK Diario said they “have not taken a shower for days.” They also stated that they feel “cold at night” and that they “have no light in the tents where they sleep.”

    The Moroccan migrants OK Diario interacted with at the Canary Islands arrival facility wore nearly no clothes—the lucky ones had a sweatshirt while others wore a t-shirt and shorts. Most have “only a thin and small blanket.”

    After migrants pay smugglers for a dangerous Atlantic crossing to reach Europe, especially Spain, December nights in Las Palmas can dip to temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius and are often humid.

    Language often presents a barrier for migrants and “hinders their communication with the police and health workers.”

    Approximately 10 kilometers from Las Palmas’ city center, the Barranco Seco camp was an army munitions warehouse before it turned into a camp to receive irregular migrants. Arrivals spend a maximum of three days at the facility before transfer.

    Beyond struggling to meet standard basic needs, the COVID-19 situation in the camp poses another difficulty. Poor hygiene conditions could lead to a speedy spread of the virus.

    On November 20, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska commented during a Moroccan visit about a surge in arrivals of irregular migrants in the Canary Islands.

    The minister highlighted the intensified bilateral efforts Morocco and Spain have set to counter irregular migration.

    According to UN Migration (IOM), more than 16,000 irregular migrants had arrived in the Canaries as of mid-November, a “substantial increase” compared to 2019. In addition to conflict, IOM identified the pandemic’s impact, climate change, and food insecurity as major drivers of the phenomenon.”

  32. Home ministry orders action against armed wings of political, religious parties
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/2275018/home-ministry-orders-action-against-armed-wings-of-political-religious-parties

    “The home ministry on Monday ordered provincial governments to take effective measures against armed wings of political and religious parties.

    A letter issued to the provinces by the home ministry maintained that various political and religious parties have formed their own militias, wearing uniforms like the armed forces, in violation of Article 256 of the Constitution and the third point of the National Action Plan (NAP).

    The letter further started that the security situation may worsen if action is not taken, adding that these organisations are setting a wrong example and will create a negative image of the country.

    The home ministry directed that the provincial governments should take immediate notice of the situation, and the federal government offered all possible assistance in this matter.

    Addressing a seminar in July this year, Interior Minister Brig (retd) Ijaz Shah said the implementation of the NAP against terrorism was among the government’s top priorities.

    “The graph of terrorist activities has witnessed a gradual decline,” he told the participants of the Command and Leadership Programme 2020 at the National Defence University, Islamabad.

    “This allowed the government to embark upon initiatives to curb radical tendencies, extremism and intolerance in the society through people-to-people and people-to-state initiatives,” he added.

    The minister said the unprecedented success achieved against the scourge of terrorism had become a reality due to national resilience, effective state policies and sacrifices of the security and law enforcement apparatus.”

  33. CBC news – British Columbia – Surrey imam who misrepresented himself to immigration officials jailed for sexual assault

    […]In 2017 he was convicted for assaulting the woman who he came to know through his work in the Muslim community in Surrey.

    His story shows the lengths he went to in misleading immigration officials to stay in Canada and the lack of intervention provided by the B.C. Muslim Association, which described his criminal case as a “personal matter.”

    The assault happened in July 2016, three months after he had been ordered to leave the country.

    […]Abdur Rehman Khan’s attempts to live in Canada span almost three decades.

    […]During the appeal process, Khan successfully obtained a visitor visa under the name Abdul Rehman and once in Canada, in February 1999, he made a refugee claim under the name Ibuhuraira Khan.

    […]In September 2001, he was deported from Canada, under the name Ibuhuraira Khan.

    It was only after he’d been removed from Canada that in 2003 he was actually accepted for permanent residency to Canada under the original 1993 application.

    […]In April 2016, the Immigration and Refugee Board issued an exclusion order against Khan but he appealed the order on the basis of humanitarian and compassionate considerations.

    A year later, in April 2017, the Immigration Appeal Division dismissed his appeal and at that point it was up to the CBSA to execute his removal order.

    Two months later, though, when Khan was arrested and charged with sexual assault the removal process was stalled.

    […]Khan’s subterfuge with immigration officials also involved multiple marriages aimed at achieving residency in Canada.

    […]Meanwhile, in Pakistan, Khan already had a wife and five children which he never disclosed to immigration officials

    […]According to Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) documents, it’s unlikely he ever divorced his wife in Pakistan. As well, he remains married under a different name to his brother’s wife.

    more :

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-imam-who-misrepresented-himself-to-immigration-officials-jailed-for-sexual-assault-1.5827561?cmp=rss

  34. Primary Schoolchildren In Afghanistan To Be Educated At Mosques

    KABUL — All Afghan primary schoolchildren in the first three years are to be educated at mosques to give students a “powerful Islamic identity,” in an unprecedented move that has drawn widespread public criticism.

    Under the Education Ministry plan, students from grades one to three would attend their nearest mosque, according to a ministry statement published late on December 5.

    After completing their third year at a mosque, the students would continue their education at regular secular schools, the statement said.

    The plan is aimed at giving Islam a more central role in education, the statement said.

    The announcement has already sparked widespread criticism, as many believe the move would further encourage extremism in the country.

    Prominent Afghan writer Yaqoob Yasna wrote on Facebook that the mosques did not have a proper teaching environment, and sending children there would be a misuse of education and religion.

    A well-known Afghan journalist, Mukhtar Wafayee, said the policy was a move toward the Talibanization of society. While normal schools operated during the Taliban regime in the 1990s, madrasahs or religious schools were common.

    Even now, the Taliban asks students in areas under their control to regularly attend religious schools, in addition to their secular education.

    Afghanistan has one of the worst records for school attendance in the world. According to a United Nations report, an estimated 3.7 million children cannot attend school due to war, poverty, and cultural barriers, 60 percent of those are girls.

    https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/primary-schoolchildren-in-afghanistan-to-be-educated-at-mosques/30987730.html

  35. Turkey: journalist gets six-year jail term for ‘PKK ties’
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2020/12/07/turkey-journalist-gets-six-year-jail-term-for-pkk-ties_e0bbb809-707a-4cbe-b47c-02daa81d64b8.html

    “A court in Diyarbakir, the Kurdish ‘capital’ in south-east Turkey, has sentenced journalist Aysel Dogan to six years and three months in prison on charges of ”belonging to a terrorist organization”.

    According to the judges, the reporter is a member of the Democratic Society Congress (Dtk), an NGO suspected of ties with the Kurdish PKK, classified as a ”terrorist organization” by Turkey, the US and the EU.

    Dogan had worked as the head of programming of pro-Kurdish opposition TV Imc, which was closed as part of a crackdown following the failed coup on July 15, 2016. The reporter will appeal the sentence, her attorney said.

    According to independent local observatory P24, there are at the moment 87 people who work in the media detained by Ankara.

    Turkey ranks 154th among 180 countries for freedom of the press, according to Reporters sans Frontières.”

  36. Iraqi man from Czechia who fought for IS faces up to 20 years in prison
    https://rmx.news/article/article/iraqi-man-from-czechia-who-fought-for-is-faces-up-to-20-years-in-prison

    “The Czech Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against an Iraqi citizen with permanent residence in the Czech Republic for flying from Prague to his homeland and participating in the combat and propaganda activities of the Islamic State (iS). The man faces from 12 to 20 years in prison and possibly forfeiture of his property.

    The man, a native of Baghdad who had a permanent residence in the Czech Republic, traveled from Václav Havel Airport to Istanbul in January 2015. According to the public prosecutor, he left to join the IS fighters, which he succeeded in doing.

    He came from Turkey to the territory of northern Iraq, which was then controlled by the IS. In April 2015, he allegedly took part in a combat offensive at Iraq’s main oil refinery in Bajji, and according to the indictment, he was “intending to inflict injury or death on opponents of the Islamic State“.

    The prosecutor further stated that the man attacked the Iraqi army and coalition forces and was injured in a raid by a US guided missile.

    The indictment reports that he subsequently appeared in an IS propaganda video where he said in Arabic “after the wind brought us your ammunition, this ammunition returns to suffocate you with its smoke with the permission of Allah, and we are now in the middle of the refinery”.

    According to the indictment, the man also cooked food for other IS members at the scene of the fighting and later participated in the propaganda of the terrorist organization in Mosul, for which he received a salary at least from February 2016 to May 2017.

    Furthermore, he allegedly worked as a teacher, in the department of aerial photography, in the department of daily press releases, and in the department of mujaheddin affairs.

    The Prague City Court will start dealing with the case in January, in the man’s absence. This follows from the indictment, which was obtained by the Czech News Agency…”