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Kate Bedingfield...Joe Biden's transition adviser, said..."We do not feel that it is necessary for...Biden to speak with President Trump in order to get that information," said Bedingfield, referring to details on issues such as national security, foreign policy and COVID-19 planning, among other things. "We believe that we've been getting the information that our teams need." ...Bedingfield and Jen Psaki, another transition adviser on Biden's team, said that they have made contact with over 50 agencies and commissions..."Despite a nearly three-week delay in being able to make contact with these agencies, the reception from career civil servants has been professional...

....Because authorities have lost their trust regarding everything to do with the virus. If they can’t trust them over cases and deaths, why trust them over safety and efficacy of vaccines. Indeed, polls show a steady decline in those who said they would immediately receive a coronavirus vaccine, only 58% of Americans in the latest survey. ....In the past though, haste has made not just waste but death. In 1976, after being warned that the death of a single soldier from influenza might portend a new “Spanish flu” – considered the worst pandemic in modern history – then-President Gerald Ford...

Black Lives Matter activists are calling on the Biden administration to embrace legislation brought forth by a group seeking to “abandon” police and prisons. The BREATHE Act, introduced over the summer by ‘Squad’ members Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), has been developed by the Electoral Justice Project for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). The group’s website makes clear that America “cannot achieve genuine safety and liberation until we abandon police, prisons, and all punishment paradigms.” The Act itself, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, not only seeks to defund the police but also divest resources from incarceration and...

Patrick Byrne, millionaire Founder of Overstock.com created a crack squad of cyber sleuths, hackers, ballot experts, maths whiz's etc to look at some of the ridiculous figures of alleged votes for Biden in key swing states. Bottom line: There is simply NO WAY Biden could have gotten the votes they claim he got in them late nigh ballot dumps. The odds of Biden getting thousands of votes in a row with none for Trump run in the quadrillions to 1. And the guy didn't even vote for Trump. Watch watching. Only 5:03 mins.

Explanation: How far can you see? The Andromeda Galaxy at 2.5 million light years away is the most distant object easily seen with your unaided eye. Most other apparent denizens of the night sky -- stars, clusters, and nebulae -- typically range from a few hundred to a few thousand light-years away and lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Given its distance, light from Andromeda is likely also the oldest light that you can see. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy dominates the center of the featured zoomed image, taken from the dunes of Bahía Creek, Patagonia,...

Presidents are generally expected to sort of go quietly into the night following the end of their terms. Some do not. Then there are those who need to STFU and go away. Barack Obama is one of those Things that just won't leave. And he's so full of crap. He's back to lecturing us "who we are.""We have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms-- expectations we had for a president that had been observed by Republicans and Democrats previously. And maybe most importantly-- and most disconcertingly, what we've seen is what some people...

Search says this hasn't been posted yet. Seems like a pretty big deal witness testimony. "One very credible witness described how he personally observed dozens of USB cards being uploaded to voting machines which resulted in 50,000 votes for Joe Biden in a short period of time"

A dual Venezuelan-Italian citizen who controlled multiple companies via U.S. based bank accounts was charged in an indictment returned Tuesday for his role in laundering the proceeds of inflated contracts that were obtained by making bribe payments to officials at Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge Anthony Salisbury of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami Field Office, and Acting Special Agent in...

This past August, Republicans and Dems in Congress joined to condemn “rigged” elections in Belarus. Why are they not speaking up today about the US election, where GOP poll watchers were kept from seeing the ballots? Here’s the House statement demanding election integrity —-- in Belarus: McCaul, Engel Statement on Belarus Elections and Crackdowns Press Release 08.10.20 Media Contact 202-225-5021 Washington, D.C. — Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Committee, today released the following statement about the Lukashenko regime’s violent crackdowns and voter suppression during the Belarussian presidential...

The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there. The man says to investigate a pedophile ring. Incredulous, the officer asks again. Another officer chimes in, “Pizzagate. He’s talking about Pizzagate.”In that brief, chilling interaction in 2016, it becomes clear that conspiracy theories, long relegated to the fringes of society, had moved into the real world in a very dangerous way.Conspiracy theories, which have the potential to cause significant harm, have...

Noncitizens likely voted at a high enough rate to alter the 2020 Electoral College tally, potentially flipping the states of Arizona and Georgia in the presidential election, according to an analysis by Just Facts, a research group. That’s significant, and while it wouldn’t be enough to hand the election to President Donald Trump, it potentially could have made a difference. Only U.S. citizens are legally allowed to vote in federal elections....The estimate is based on the percentages of noncitizens that voted in previous elections, predicated on a 2014 study by researchers at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, that evaluated...

Pennsylvania accepted mail in ballots for 69 hours later than what is allowed by lawPennsylvania accepted mail in ballots for 69 hours later than what is allowed by law.Article 1, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution says:“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”Source: https://constitutionallawreporter.com/article-01-section-04/#:~:text=Text%20of%20Article%201%2C%20Section,the%20Places%20of%20chusing%20SenatorsPennsylvania law says:“NO ABSENTEE BALLOT UNDER THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE COUNTED WHICH IS RECEIVED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS LATER THAN [EIGHT O’CLOCK P.M. ON THE DAY OF THE PRIMARY OR ELECTION]”Source: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2019&sessInd=0&billBody=S&billTyp=B&billNbr=0421&pn=1330NPR said:“Pennsylvania Supreme Court Extends Vote...

A cross-country lobbying campaign for Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' Senate seat has pitted factions divided by race, gender and geography against one another and heightened internal tensions within at least one influential caucus on Capitol Hill...

“Giving Thanks in--and for--2020” (Philippians 4:6-20) We have come together today to celebrate America’s Day of National Thanksgiving. This is the time every year when we gather in our churches to give thanks to God for his blessings on our country. However, this year is 2020. And if you listen to most folks, you would think there is nothing to be thankful for this year. But is that really the case? Today I want to tell you that it is possible to have a happy Thanksgiving this year, under the theme, “Giving Thanks in--and for--2020.” All of our readings today...

Thanksgiving Day, November 26th this year, is an annual holiday in which we thank God for our blessings. It’s a source of nostalgic family memories of past Thanksgiving dinners, as well as remembering those who have passed away. This year, 2020, is the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival to Plymouth Rock. Remember the song, “The year 1620 the Pilgrims came over …”? Well, 1620 was 400 years ago. Who were the Pilgrims?

A prison inmate involved in a notorious Hartford prostitution ring that trafficked 14-year old girls and turned other young women into sexual slaves told a judge Wednesday he is afraid of dying in prison from coronavirus and pleaded for early release from his 30-year sentence. Dennis Paris, now 48 years old and 11 years into his sentence, was one of 10 men and women charged in 2006 in a case that drew national attention to Hartford and the brutal trafficking of teenaged women and girls who were made virtual captives and forced into the sex trade for extended periods.(snip) Paris...

We have been discussing the use of the criminal code by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) to threaten people who post videos on alleged voter fraud or legislators who raise such objections in the state. These threats are coercive and abusive, particularly when targeting opponents of your party who are challenging the victory of your candidate for president. Yet, as shown by a congressman seeking to disbar dozens of Trump lawyers, such threats are popular in today’s rage-filled politics. So, Nessel continued her threats of prosecution on Monday in warning that a former state senator could be prosecuted for...

In threat to Iran, US sends heavy B-52H Stratofortress Bombers to Middle East via Israel FROM TIMES OF ISRAEL: In a highly irregular move, the B-52H Stratofortress planes were seen flying toward Israeli airspace on Saturday en route to the base where they will be stationed, likely in Qatar. The aircraft were spotted on civilian tracking software approaching Israel before they apparently turned off their transponders, rendering them invisible on those applications. It was the third time in the past year and a half that B-52 bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons and other powerful munitions, have been...

The Ohio General Assembly voted last week to strip Gov. Mike DeWine of the “ultimate authority” accorded to his health department to impose statewide pandemic orders. Senate Bill 311 was approved in the Ohio House on a party-line vote by a margin of 58-32....Rep. Scott Wiggam, a Republican and cosponsor of the bill, announced on Facebook that checks and balances have been restored to state government. Senate Bill 311 “will allow the Ohio House and Senate oversight through public hearings into the Department of Health order....s,” he wrote. “The General Assembly will be able to rescind the orders with a...

American B-52s, the massive strategic bombers, arrived in the Middle East on Saturday. They are part of the Fifth Bomb Wing at Minot AFB in North Dakota. These veteran, giant aircraft were last deployed in the region in May 2019 and the US Central Command says they are here to “deter aggression and reassure US partners and allies.” The B-52s have been sent to the region as the US appears to be drawing down forces in Iraq. The Pentagon has said that hundreds of troops are leaving Iraq and Afghanistan. As the US seeks to end twenty years of involvement...