Homeland Security Cmte Chair Thompson/Oversight Cmte Chair Maloney on hack: Given the urgency of this matter and the many unanswered questions, we have demanded ..DHS and other agencies to return to Capitol Hill to give us an in-person briefing as soon as possible.— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 18, 2020
Democrats Protect Chinese Communist Propaganda ‘Confucius’ Groups From Punitive ActionSwalwell *knowingly* engaged in a relationship with a CCP spy, and Pelosi just blocked the U.S. from defending itself against Chinese Communist propaganda orgs.
America has a FULLY compromised political party & a media paid by China to look the other way. https://t.co/MTRTnRCj6U— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) December 18, 2020
House Democrats revised a bill targetting universities that house Chinese government-funded “Confucius Institutes,” blocking the Department of Education’s ability to restrict their funding and curtail Chinese Communist Party influence on campus.
The bill, which unanimously passed in the Senate, included a provision that allowed the Department of Education to withhold funding from universities hosting Chinese government-backed Confucius Institutes.
The amended version, which passed Congress on December 11th, significantly neutered this provision. Now, only the Defense Department to withhold federal funding from universities.
According to a senior congressional aide, the amendment narrowed the bill to “safeguarding Defense-funded research activities instead of the broad range of protections the original bill contemplated.” This also would make it easier for Confucius Institutes to continue operating on the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
The Trump administration designated Confucius Institutes “foreign missions” in light of their Chinese government funding and dissemination of propaganda geared towards making students “advocate for the interests of the Chinese Communist Party.”
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NEWS: State Dept. sanctions company for "providing electoral hardware and software to [Maduro] regime-aligned government agencies." @EpochTimes
Company bought 1,000s "of voting machines from China, routing payments thru the Russia" and shipped via Iran. https://t.co/ECOEaaZTzi— Ivan Pentchoukov (@IvanPentchoukov) December 18, 2020
The United States has sanctioned Ex-Cle Soluciones Biométricas C.A. (Ex-Cle C.A.) for their support of the illegitimate Maduro regime’s fraudulent December 6 legislative elections. The Treasury Department action also targets Guillermo Carlos San Agustin and Marcos Javier Machado Requena for having acted for or on behalf of Ex-Cle C.A. San Augustin, a dual Argentine and Italian national, is a co-director, the administrator, a majority shareholder, and ultimate beneficial owner of Ex-Cle C.A. Machado, a Venezuelan national, is a co-director, the president, and a minority shareholder of Ex-Cle C.A.
Ex-Cle C.A. has millions of dollars of contracts with the illegitimate Maduro regime, providing electoral hardware and software to regime-aligned government agencies. Ex-Cle C.A. was aware of and involved in the regime’s efforts to rig the fraudulent December 6 elections, thereby undermining democracy and suppressing the voices of the Venezuelan people. Ex-Cle C.A. also helped Maduro’s coopted National Electoral Council to purchase thousands of voting machines from China, routing payments thru the Russian financial system. They shipped the voting machines through Iran using rogue airlines Mahan Air and Conviasa, both previously targeted by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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Dr. Keshavarz-Nia, "results were forwarded to servers located in Frankfurt, Germany."
Col. Phil Waldron, "We observed packet traffic going to a server in Frankfurt, Germany."
Is this US election data being sent to Frankfurt, Germany on election night❓ It couldn't be... right❓ https://t.co/eMt4gktG4J— Kanekoa (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 19, 2020
On election night in the United States, bandwidth between the United States and Frankfurt Germany reached a new record: DE-CIX Frankfurt hits 10 Tbps peak traffic - DE-CIX https://t.co/Ky0UTagZaC— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) December 18, 2020
