US military funds CIA-backed firm to develop algorithm aimed at websites promoting 'disinformation' related to COVID-19 and vaccination plans

[Lori Price]

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26 November 2020 - Part 1

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U.S. military funds CIA-backed firm to develop AI algorithm aimed at websites promoting suspected 'disinformation' related to COVID-19 and vaccination plans --Cyber war declared in U.S. and UK to quash vaccine hesitancy as nations prepare for mass inoculations | 16 Nov 2020 | In just the past week, the national-security states of the U.S. and UK have discreetly let it be known that the cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 "war on terror" are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting "vaccine hesitancy" and information related to COVID-19 that runs counter to their state narratives. A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the U.K.'s signal intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be "propaganda" that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored COVID-19 vaccine development and the multinational pharmaceutical corporations involved. Similar efforts are underway in the U.S., with the U.S. military recently funding a CIA-backed firm -- stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State -- to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting "suspected" disinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis and the U.S. military–led COVID-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed. Both countries are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored COVID-19 vaccination efforts, now that Pfizer's vaccine candidate is slated to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by month's end.

Pennsylvania governor announces new COVID rules, including wearing a mask in your house | 17 Nov 2020 | Pennsylvania is planning to take additional steps to [battle] coronavirus, including requiring masks to be worn indoors with limited exceptions, officials said Tuesday. In addition, starting Friday, anyone who enters Pennsylvania must be tested at least 72 hours before arrival, and if they can or do not get a test, they must quarantine for 14 days. The order does not apply to people who commute to neighboring states for work or health care, officials said, and will be largely self-enforced. Pennsylvania already has a statewide mask mandate, limits on indoor and outdoor gatherings and occupancy restrictions at bars and restaurants. But the new rules go even further. Masks are required outside where it isn’t possible to maintain at least a six-foot distance from others, according to the order, and inside where people from multiple households are gathering, even if they can maintain a social distance.

Delaware Democratic governor imposes new COVID restrictions, including what you can do in your home --Gathering in people's homes are limited to 10 people | 17 Nov 2020 | Delaware Gov. John Carney (D) announced new restrictions Tuesday that will go into effect next Monday, Nov. 23rd amid surging coronavirus cases in the state and country. People will not be allowed to have gatherings inside their homes of more than 10 people. Gatherings indoors that are at locations other than people's homes -- such as weddings and funerals -- are capped at 30% of the venue's stated fire capacity up to 50 people. All outdoor public gatherings are limited to 50 people. Restaurants cannot serve more than 30% of fire capacity indoors, but can serve more people outside.

Police break up large Berlin protests as Germany passes tougher coronavirus laws --Large crowds protested in Berlin against the German government's push to enshrine coronavirus restrictions into an existing law. | 18 Nov 2020 | Several thousand people gathered in central Berlin, banging pans and blowing whistles, to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German government's push to better enforce coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday. Some 190 protesters were arrested and nine police officers were hurt in the clashes that ensued, Berlin police said. "Police calling on demonstrators to leave. Lots of booing. Demonstrators want to access cordoned-off area around parliament where new additions to infection law are being debated [at the moment,]," DW reported from the scene. A tense standoff ensued, as police tried to convince the crowd to disperse amid cries of "We are the people!" and as some protesters started singing the national anthem.

Justice Department Asserts Unreviewable Discretion to Kill US Citizens | 16 Nov 2020 | Drawing alarm at the D.C. Circuit, a lawyer for the United States argued Monday that the government has the power to kill its citizens without judicial oversight when state secrets are involved. "Do you appreciate how extraordinary that proposition is?" U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett asked Justice Department attorney Bradley Hinshelwood, paraphrasing his claim as giving the government the ability to "unilaterally decide to kill U.S. citizens." The hearing before the federal appeals court came as the government fights to hold off allegations by two journalists who say it wrongly targeted them as terrorists in Syria.

Australia braces for 'brutal truths' in Afghan war crimes report | 18 Nov 2020 | Australia's prime minister has warned the nation to prepare for "brutal truths" as a long-awaited report into allegations of war crimes by its Special Forces troops during the Afghan conflict is set to be released on Thursday. The findings are the outcome of a four-year inquiry by the inspector general of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) examining accusations Australian troops had committed war crimes, including allegations of unlawful killings and cruel treatment, in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2016. Earlier in the year, the IGADF said the probe was investigating some 55 separate incidents, "covering a range of alleged breaches of the Law of Armed Conflict, predominantly unlawful killings of persons who were non-combatants or were no longer combatants."

Trump orders Pentagon to pull 2,500 troops from Afghanistan and Iraq | 17 Nov 2020 | President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to pull 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq by mid-January, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller announced Tuesday. The Defense Department will cut the number of troops in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 and the number of forces in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500 by Jan. 15, days before Trump [may] leave office. "I am formally announcing that we will implement President Trump's orders to continue our repositioning of forces" from Afghanistan and Iraq, Miller told reporters at the Pentagon.

Arizona Governor Won't Accept Election Results Until All Lawsuits Are Settled | 19 Nov 2020 | Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced the state's election isn't over until all court cases have been settled, as the Trump campaign and state GOP filed lawsuits in Maricopa County in a bid to block officials from certifying the election results due to alleged voter irregularities and improprieties. "There are legal claims that are being challenged in court and everybody on the ballot has certain access rights and remedies and if they want to push that they are able. Once those are adjudicated and the process plays out, I will accept the results of the election," the Republican governor said in a news conference on Wednesday.

Wisconsin Elections Commission Agrees to Order Partial Recount After Trump Request | 19 Nov 2020 | The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday night issued an order to recount ballots in two counties following a request by President Donald Trump’s campaign. Commissioners in a video teleconference on Wednesday argued for nearly six hours before ultimately agreeing to conduct the recount... But members of the commission, which has three Republicans and three Democrats, debated for hours over how the recount would be conducted. Some said state law governing a recount contained ambiguities. Republican Commissioner Dean Knudson said he believed the commission should issue guidance to canvassers that they should set aside ballots that had a correction made to the witness address.

2 men charged in voter fraud involving 8,000 ballot applications for 'fictitious' or dead voters --Voter fraud scheme was an attempt to help one of the accused men win his bid for mayor, attorney general says | 18 Nov 2020 | Two Los Angeles men have been charged with voter fraud after attempting to submit 8,000 ballot applications for nonexistent or deceased voters. Hawthorne, California, mayoral candidate Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, 53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, planned the effort in an attempt to help Montenegro win his bid for mayor, Los Angeles District attorney announced Tuesday. The county is accusing Montenegro of submitting more than 8,000 fraudulent ballot applications on behalf of "fictitious, nonexistent or deceased" voters between July 1 and Oct. 15 of this year, according to a felony complaint.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees to Review Cases of Election Irregularities | 18 Nov 2020 | The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up cases in which the Trump campaign is challenging over 8,300 votes cast in the 2020 presidential election. In an unsigned order, the state's top court granted a request by the Philadelphia County Board of Elections asking the justices to take over the cases that have been appealed to the Commonwealth Court, a Pennsylvania appellate court. The Trump campaign had appealed the cases after a trial judge denied five petitions requesting a review of the county’s board of elections decision to count votes that appear to have errors or irregularities because voters did not print their name or their address in the space provided on the outer envelope. The trial court said that the ballot already contains the voter’s name and address on the pre-printed exterior envelope and that neither filling out the printed name and address sections are "requirements necessary to prevent fraud.”

Zuckerberg-Funded 'Safe Elections' Project Announces Grants for Georgia Senate Runoff Elections | 18 Nov 2020 | The Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) announced on Tuesday that it will provide additional "safe elections" grants to county election departments in Georgia in advance of the two U.S. Senate runoff elections that will be held on January 5, 2021. With majority control of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be spent in the two runoff elections in Georgia between incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, and incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock. Between September 1 and October 30, Facebook founder Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated 350 million to CTCL for its "safe elections" project. Critics charge that the project is simply a Democratic Get-Out-The-Vote effort disguised as charitable good government contributions to a 501 (c) 3 non-profit that acts more like a partisan SuperPAC.

Third Georgia County Finds Memory Card With Uncounted Votes | 18 Nov2020 | A third county in Georgia discovered a memory card with uncounted votes, a majority of which were cast for President Donald Trump, according to Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer. "Our monitors tell us that Walton County election officials have found a memory card that was apparently not uploaded. The number of uncounted votes is not as large as in Floyd or Fayette but the President will pick up votes," Shafer wrote on Twitter. According to Walton Tribune, Trump netted 176 votes as a result of the discovery. At a press conference on Tuesday night, Gabriel Sterling with the Georgia secretary of state's office told reporters that, in Walton County, "there may be a memory card with 224 votes on it from an Election Day polling location." "We're still trying to see if that was a batch that might have been missed, or there's actually memory cards that we--I don't have a final answer on that," he added. Fayette and Floyd counties previously reported discovering memory cards with uncounted votes.

Georgia Recount Witnesses Saw Trump Votes Counted for Biden --Affiants also swore to have seen suspiciously pristine, uncreased mail ballots, uniformly and perfectly filled out | 18 Nov 2020 | Witnesses of the recount of the presidential election in Georgia have signed sworn statements testifying to having observed ballots cast for President Donald Trump being counted as though they were cast for former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump campaign attorney Lin Wood filed the affidavits with a federal court in Georgia on Nov. 17 as part of an emergency motion seeking to block the certification of the election results in the Peach State. Nine of the affiants swore to have seen suspiciously pristine, uncreased mail ballots, uniformly and perfectly filled out, almost always for Biden. In one case, a batch of such ballots included 500 ballots in a row all cast for Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee. The lack of creases is strange considering that mail ballots have to be folded to fit in an envelope. Some of the witnesses said the perfect markings, all in black and never outside the voting bubble, appeared as though they were printed by a machine or stamped.

Rep. Brooks: Congress Has 'Absolute Right' to Reject a State's Electoral College Votes | 18 Nov 2020 | Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said that the final outcome of the presidential election may be decided according to the 12th Amendment and Article One and Article Two of the U.S. Constitution when Congress convenes in early January. "The ultimate say over whether to accept or reject" Electoral College votes for any state "is not a court's job," he said. "It is Congress's job under" the Constitution "coupled with federal statutes that govern this issue." "Congress has the absolute right to reject the submitted Electoral College votes of any state, which we believe has such a shoddy election system that you can't trust the election results that those states are submitting to us, that they're suspect," Brooks told The Epoch Times this week. "And I’m not going to put my name in support of any state that employs an election system that I don’t have confidence in."

Dominion Part of Council That Disputed Election Integrity Concerns in DHS Statement --Dominion Voting Systems used statement, which obscured company's council membership, to dispute concerns over voting systems | 16 Nov 2020 | After allegations emerged that called into questioned the integrity of voting machines produced by Dominion Voting Systems, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) -- part of the Department of Homeland Security -- issued a statement on Nov. 12 disputing the allegations, saying "the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history." What the agency failed to disclose, however, is that Dominion Voting Systems is a member of CISA's Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council, one of two entities that authored the statement put out by CISA. In addition, Smartmatic, a separate voting machine company that has been the subject of additional concerns, is also a member.

Lawyer Who Represented Trump in Pennsylvania Placed Under Protection After 'Threats of Harm' | 19 Nov 2020 | A Philadelphia lawyer who had represented the Trump campaign was placed under official protection after receiving "threats of harm," according to court papers that were filed Nov. 18. The attorney, Linda Kerns, was "the subject of threats of harm, to the point at which the involvement of police and US Marshals has been necessary to provide for her safety," the filing stated. Judge Matthew Brann allowed Kerns to be "withdrawn as counsel" for the Trump campaign, according to a court filing. Earlier this week, Kerns sought sanctions against a lawyer working for a law firm representing Democratic Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar after Kerns received harassment and a threatening phone call over the weekend in connection to her representation of President Donald Trump's campaign.

Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell: 'President Trump Won By a Landslide, We Are Going to Prove It' | 19 Nov 2020 | Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell asserted during a Thursday press conference that President Donald Trump "won by a landslide," saying that their legal team will prove it. "We will not be intimidated. We are not going to back down. We are going to clean this mess up now. President Trump won by a landslide. We are going to prove it. And we are going to reclaim the United States of America for the people who vote for freedom," she said. "American patriots are fed up with the corruption from the local level to the highest level of our government," Powell added. 

Hunter Biden associate got $6M from Chinese firm, say Senate Republicans | 19 Nov 2020 | Senate Republicans issued a supplement Thursday to their recent report on Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings-- and said 6 million in wire transfers further ties the son of Joe Biden to China's communist government. The five-page addendum focuses on former federal official John Robinson "Rob" Walker, who's described as a "longtime business associate" of Hunter Biden. Walker has also been accused of warning Tony Bobulinski, who was formerly a business partner of both Walker and Hunter Biden, not to go public with information about their commercial affairs. "Ah, Tony, you're just going to bury all of us, man," Walker said, according to Bobulinski. Walker, who held jobs under then-presidents Bill Clinton -- for whom he was also a key campaign aide -- and George W. Bush, is the sole owner of Robinson Walker LLC, according to Thursday's report, which cites a May 21, 2017, WhatsApp message provided by Bobulinski.

'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Of Mice and Men,' and Other Books Banned From California Schools Over 'Racism' | 13 Nov 2020 | Schools in Burbank will no longer be able to teach certain classic novels, including Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, following concerns raised by parents over racism. Middle and high school English teachers in the Burbank Unified School District received the news during a virtual meeting on September 9. Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor's The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Four parents, three of whom are Black, challenged the classic novels for alleged potential harm to the district's roughly 400 Black students. All but Huckleberry Finn have been required reading for students in the district.

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