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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today assessed a $250 million civil money penalty against JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. The OCC took this action based on the bank’s failure to maintain adequate internal controls and internal audit over its fiduciary business. The OCC found the bank’s risk management practices were deficient and it lacked a sufficient framework to avoid conflicts of interest. These deficiencies constituted unsafe or unsound practices and resulted in a violation of 12 CFR 9.9, which requires a suitable audit over all significant fiduciary activities. The bank has remediated the deficiencies that led to...

In Arizona, Republicans requested an audit of ballots that had been “fixed” by election workers. Democrats tried to block the audit. The audit happened. Now, even Associated Press is admitting that the Democrats in Arizona cheated.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)December 3, 2020Republicans demanded this audit of 100 ballots in Arizona. These particular ballots had to be “fixed” by election workers because they had been rejected during machine scanning.The Democrats later demanded that they – and they alone – be allowed to examine these “fixed” ballots. They also demanded that this info be withheld from the public. The...

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Facebook over allegations that it discriminated against Americans in the way it hired temporary foreign workers for thousands of well-paid positions. The lawsuit contends that Facebook failed to properly advertise at least 2,600 jobs — and consider applications from U.S. citizens — before it offered the spots to foreign workers...

As promised, here’s this week’s election fraud update. Lots of hearings, lots of lawsuits, lots of evidence of fraud, and no indication yet that anything is getting overturned. Sydney Powell’s election fraud presentation. Caveat: PowerPoint, and the links appear to be broken. Here’s the presentation on Michigan, with the same caveats. “Giuliani, Trump Pull Off ‘One Hell Of A Hearing‘ On Pennsylvania Election Fraud”:

For decades, scientists say something alarming has been happening in the streams and rivers where coho salmon return from the Pacific Ocean to spawn along the West Coast. After heavy rain events each fall, the fish have been turning up dead in huge numbers before they spawn, a mysterious phenomenon that has been the subject of intense research for years. Now, scientists think they have found a key piece to this morbid puzzle...tires...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden says he is keeping Dr. Anthony Fauci on as a chief medical adviser and a member of his COVID-19 advisory team. Biden made the comments Thursday during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. He said he spoke with Fauci earlier in the day about the need to instill confidence in any coronavirus vaccine and the fact that “you don’t have to close down the economy” to combat the virus. Biden says he’d be “happy” to get a vaccine in public to prove its safety. The president-elect said it was also his “inclination" that, on...

When a huge silver monolith was spotted in a very remote section of the desert in southeastern Utah, it immediately created a media sensation. But then it disappeared. A similar monolith had also been discovered in Romania, but now it is gone too. Then on Wednesday, everyone was buzzing about a third monolith that had been spotted in California. They are being called “alien monoliths”, but nobody knows who created them or if the three monoliths are even from the same source. But after being bombarded by the science fiction movies that Hollywood has been creating for decades, the world...

The head teacher of a primary school in Spandau, Berlin has told German media that an 11-year-old Muslim pupil threatened to behead his teacher after defending the murder of Samuel Paty in France. Karina Jehniche, the head of the school, told Der Tagesspiegel that fellow students were stunned when they heard the pupil tell his teacher “I’ll do the same with you as the boy did with the teacher in Paris.” The pupil was also allegedly involved in an earlier shocking incident during a minute’s silence in memory of Paty. The 11-year-old reportedly told a fellow student that it was...

Austin, Texas, Mayor Steve Adler is claiming he’s no hypocrite for vacationing in Mexico while telling residents to stay home due to COVID-19. But his claim that the situation worsened only after he traveled is belied by releases from his own office. Adler, a Democrat, said in a video posted Wednesday night he’s sorry for setting a “bad example” by taking the trip, but that he actually complied with his own health guidance when he embarked for the beach at Cabo San Lucas. The mayor hosted a wedding for his daughter in Austin two days before he filmed his infamous...

Specifically, the Campaign makes the following distance claims with respect to alleged invalid ballots: Whether absentee ballots issued in-person to voters by municipal clerks’ offices in Milwaukee [and] Dane Counties without the required written applications are illegal and invalid. Whether absentee ballots accompanied by incomplete certifications or on which municipal clerks added missing information in contravention of Wisconsin law are illegal and invalid. Whether absentee ballots cast by electors claiming “Indefinite Confinement” status, which status was claimed on or after March 25, 2020, for which there was no voter identification provided are illegal and invalid. Whether stationing poll workers, receiving...

At least nobody in the Soviet Union voted for Brezhnev — the elections were a sham with Communist party candidates running unopposed. Everything was a sham, actually. In his mumbling, robotic tones, the general secretary delivered long-winded, heavy on Marxist cliches and utterly incomprehensible televised speeches. The economy flattened, dissidents were subjected to psychiatric torture, corruption proliferated, and the rate of substance abuse skyrocketed. That period of Soviet history is known as zastoi, or stagnation. It only made sense that the man on top was some sort of sclerotic. Like Brezhnev, Biden’s rhetoric is ridden with clichés, but of a...

If you're wondering whether your employer can require you to get a COVID-19 vaccine to return to work, the short answer is yes. But that doesn't mean employers won't face a "legal minefield" if and when they decide to implement a vaccination policy. Although employees can be required to take a test as a precondition of their returning to work, according to trial attorney Misty Marris, "there is no world where there is a COVID-19 mandatory vaccination policy that doesn't have exceptions to it." Marris, who deals heavily in employment law, is the co-managing partner of the New York office...

An Austrian publication is reporting that Al-Albany had wanted a bloodbath and tried to enter St. Rupert’s Catholic Church, where a Catholic youth group was gathered. VIENNA — A gunman affiliated with the Islamic State had planned to attack a Catholic youth group meeting at a church in Vienna during his Nov. 2 terror attack, according to local media. On Nov. 2, a gunman killed at least four people and injured more than 20 others in Vienna. The attack began at about 8 p.m. near the city’s main synagogue, with a heavily armed man firing a pistol and machine gun...

We have no idea what kind of disruption might be headed our way. Is it possible to share shortwave websites here or would that just point disrupters to locations to "take down." A FReeper recently posted wishing to line up short-wave radio resources ahead of time. FReepers/radioheads - can you offer advice, links? :)

Former CIA head John Brennan blasted the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, calling the assassination “highly reckless,” then ended up in a Twitter war with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over his comments. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was slain Friday when a gunman ambushed him in his car near Tehran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed revenge on Saturday, and pledged to continue the work of the man some called Iran’s Oppenheimer. “This was a criminal act & highly reckless,” tweeted Brennan, who ran the CIA under President Obama from 2013-2017. “It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict....

Kat Cammack, one of more than a dozen pro-life women elected to Congress in November, might never have been born if her mother had listened to her doctors. This week, the congresswoman-elect told Fox News that her mother chose life for her against the advice of both her doctors and her family. She promised that she will fight for unborn babies in the U.S. House just as her mother fought for her life 32 years ago. “For her to make that choice against the advice of her doctors and against the urging of her own family, that’s pretty powerful. So...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the election results in November, giving Joe Biden the state’s 16 electoral votes. “Working as an engineer throughout my life, I live by that numbers don’t lie. As secretary of state, I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct,” Raffensperger said during a news conference. “The numbers reflect the verdict of the people, not a decision by the secretary of state’s office or our courts, or of either campaigns.” Raffensperger then took no questions. Even at that time the recount appeared to be rigged because elections officials were not...

Many in the media argue that there’s no such thing as late-term abortion. But a new report confirms that thousands of unborn babies – at or past 21 weeks gestation – are destroyed in abortion each year. On November 27, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its latest annual Abortion Surveillance report detailing U.S. abortion data for the years 2017 and 2018. That data revealed that 1 percent of reported abortions in 2018 were performed at or after 21 weeks gestation. While 1 percent might sound small, that figure translates to thousands of late-term abortions. And, as...

If he becomes president, high on Joe Biden’s list to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo. The pro-abortion Democrat governor recently signed a bill legalizing abortions up to birth in her state, and she, like Biden, believes killing unborn babies in abortions is “health care.” Politico reports two people connected with Biden’s transition team confirmed that Raimondo is being considered for HHS secretary. They said the Rhode Island governor has strong leadership experience, and they mentioned her quick response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Governors are very familiar with health care because...

Abortion businesses are closing at a rapid pace as abortion rates drop and more women choose life for their babies. A new report from the Abortion Care Network found that 41 independent abortion facilities (excluding Planned Parenthood) closed in the past two years, and nearly 200 shut down since 2012, Time magazine reports. Now, five states have only one abortion facility, and the coronavirus could lead to even more closures. All of this is good news for mothers and unborn babies. Women do not need to abort their unborn babies to be healthy or successful, and pro-lifers have been working...