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Title: And the Swamp is deeper than ever!
Post by: Robertt S on October 28, 2020, 10:16:57 pm
Looks like the swamp crawlers are on every platform pushing for the King of Graft! I hope the holier than thou social platforms all have the 230 protections pulled since they are actively engaging in censorship, demonetization, and biased bans towards conservative posters/pages/ and groups!
Zuckerberg 'not aware' that Facebook election integrity official worked for Biden Anna Makanju was a policy adviser for Biden
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Post by: Robertt S on November 12, 2020, 11:05:05 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on November 12, 2020, 11:43:31 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on November 12, 2020, 11:59:45 pm
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Post by: shaun on November 13, 2020, 04:29:51 am
Well done comrade.
Title: The joke of the year
Post by: Willy The Londoner on November 13, 2020, 08:07:22 pm
American Elections
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Post by: Robertt S on November 15, 2020, 10:27:31 pm
Trump donates his presidential salary to charities and Biden goes Full Clinton with his Cancer Charity.
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Report: Biden Cancer Initiative donates no money to cancer researchOAN Newsroom UPDATED 3:11 PM PT – Sunday, November 15, 2020Tax filings revealed (https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/) Joe Biden’s cancer charity took in millions of dollars but devoted none of that money to grants or actual cancer research. Newly discovered federal tax data shows (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/07/15/joe-bidens-cancer-nonprofit-suspends-operations-indefinitely/) the charity paid out $3 million of their $4.8 million in staff salaries. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, established the organization in 2017 to help develop treatments for cancer. However, the charity reportedly never gave out a single grant to research funds. Additionally, multiple former Obama administration health officials received salaries from the charity, which exceeded the amounts they were making during their time at the White House. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, was one of the highest earners in the company. He raked in almost $430,000 in the 2018 fiscal year, which doubled his nearly $224,000 salary of 2017. Spokespersons for the group have stated the main point of the charity was not to give out grants, however, its mission statement remains ambiguous, stating the company will provide “urgent” solutions to the treatment and prevention of cancer. The charity quickly fell apart after just two years of operations in 2019, following Biden’s decision to focus on running for the President. Now, the charity has paused operations and Simon said without the Biden’s at the helm it has become increasingly difficult to gain traction.
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Post by: Robertt S on November 17, 2020, 09:27:11 pm
I am posting this video for Mark! 8)
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Post by: Robertt S on November 17, 2020, 09:36:01 pm
Looks like things are beginning to fall apart for the treasonous parties, hopefully firing squads or the noose will be options in the end!
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Post by: Robertt S on November 17, 2020, 09:43:15 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on November 17, 2020, 11:23:50 pm
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Post by: Mark on November 18, 2020, 07:45:50 am
Try Rumble instead of being manipulated by Google on YouTube.
Also consider Parler as the free speech, good old fashioned American alternative to Tweetle dee Tweetle dumb. You decide, I have never subscribed to either and never will.
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Post by: Robertt S on November 18, 2020, 09:19:59 pm
The left hasn't figured out that Trump is usually 5 steps ahead of them all the time. This is like watching a Roadrunner cartoon and the left is Wiley Coyote!
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Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election Foreign Policy (https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/) Issued on: September 12, 2018
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system. In recent years, the proliferation of digital devices and internet-based communications has created significant vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of foreign interference, as illustrated in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat.
Accordingly, I hereby order: Section 1. (a) Not later than 45 days after the conclusion of a United States election, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate executive departments and agencies (agencies), shall conduct an assessment of any information indicating that a foreign government, or any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, has acted with the intent or purpose of interfering in that election. The assessment shall identify, to the maximum extent ascertainable, the nature of any foreign interference and any methods employed to execute it, the persons involved, and the foreign government or governments that authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported it. The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security. (b) Within 45 days of receiving the assessment and information described in section 1(a) of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies and, as appropriate, State and local officials, shall deliver to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Defense a report evaluating, with respect to the United States election that is the subject of the assessment described in section 1(a): (i) the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results; and (ii) if any foreign interference involved activities targeting the infrastructure of, or pertaining to, a political organization, campaign, or candidate, the extent to which such activities materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, including by unauthorized access to, disclosure or threatened disclosure of, or alteration or falsification of, information or data. The report shall identify any material issues of fact with respect to these matters that the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are unable to evaluate or reach agreement on at the time the report is submitted. The report shall also include updates and recommendations, when appropriate, regarding remedial actions to be taken by the United States Government, other than the sanctions described in sections 2 and 3 of this order. (c) Heads of all relevant agencies shall transmit to the Director of National Intelligence any information relevant to the execution of the Director’s duties pursuant to this order, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law. If relevant information emerges after the submission of the report mandated by section 1(a) of this order, the Director, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies, shall amend the report, as appropriate, and the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall amend the report required by section 1(b), as appropriate. (d) Nothing in this order shall prevent the head of any agency or any other appropriate official from tendering to the President, at any time through an appropriate channel, any analysis, information, assessment, or evaluation of foreign interference in a United States election. (e) If information indicating that foreign interference in a State, tribal, or local election within the United States has occurred is identified, it may be included, as appropriate, in the assessment mandated by section 1(a) of this order or in the report mandated by section 1(b) of this order, or submitted to the President in an independent report. (f) Not later than 30 days following the date of this order, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence shall develop a framework for the process that will be used to carry out their respective responsibilities pursuant to this order. The framework, which may be classified in whole or in part, shall focus on ensuring that agencies fulfill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency; protects law enforcement or other sensitive information and intelligence sources and methods; maintains an appropriate separation between intelligence functions and policy and legal judgments; ensures that efforts to protect electoral processes and institutions are insulated from political bias; and respects the principles of free speech and open debate.
Sec. 2. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security: (i) to have directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in a United States election; (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any activity described in subsection (a)(i) of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or (iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. (b) Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, as amended by Executive Order 13757 of December 28, 2016, remains in effect. This order is not intended to, and does not, serve to limit the Secretary of the Treasury’s discretion to exercise the authorities provided in Executive Order 13694. Where appropriate, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, may exercise the authorities described in Executive Order 13694 or other authorities in conjunction with the Secretary of the Treasury’s exercise of authorities provided in this order. (c) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order.
Trump donates his presidential salary to charities and Biden goes Full Clinton with his Cancer Charity.
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Report: Biden Cancer Initiative donates no money to cancer researchOAN Newsroom UPDATED 3:11 PM PT – Sunday, November 15, 2020Tax filings revealed (https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/biden-cancer-initiative-spent-millions-on-payroll-zero-on-research-report/) Joe Biden’s cancer charity took in millions of dollars but devoted none of that money to grants or actual cancer research. Newly discovered federal tax data shows (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/07/15/joe-bidens-cancer-nonprofit-suspends-operations-indefinitely/) the charity paid out $3 million of their $4.8 million in staff salaries. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, established the organization in 2017 to help develop treatments for cancer. However, the charity reportedly never gave out a single grant to research funds. Additionally, multiple former Obama administration health officials received salaries from the charity, which exceeded the amounts they were making during their time at the White House. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, was one of the highest earners in the company. He raked in almost $430,000 in the 2018 fiscal year, which doubled his nearly $224,000 salary of 2017. Spokespersons for the group have stated the main point of the charity was not to give out grants, however, its mission statement remains ambiguous, stating the company will provide “urgent” solutions to the treatment and prevention of cancer. The charity quickly fell apart after just two years of operations in 2019, following Biden’s decision to focus on running for the President. Now, the charity has paused operations and Simon said without the Biden’s at the helm it has become increasingly difficult to gain traction.
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Post by: Robertt S on November 19, 2020, 09:02:53 pm
And the plot thickens! Not a bright future ahead for some Democrats!
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Post by: Robertt S on November 20, 2020, 12:13:05 am
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Post by: Robertt S on November 21, 2020, 11:48:20 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on November 22, 2020, 01:02:02 am
I would hate to be the governor and Secretary of State of Georgia right about now! Someone is going to prison over this!
Ga. gov. calls for audit following election results certification Georgia’s governor certified the state’s election results, but he does not endorse them.
During a press conference (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-recount-brian-kemp-audit-certified-election-results/) Friday, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) announced the state had finished their count and brought the results to his desk to certify, which he did. However, he did not endorse those results and instead called for another full hand recount. Gov. Kemp said the initial recount produced evidence of significant errors in the election process in at least three counties. He went on to say this can not be allowed to happen or Americans will lose faith in the system. “We cannot have lost memory cards or stacks of uncounted ballots,” the Georgia governor stated. “We must have full transparency in all monitoring and counting. Every legal vote must be counted and the security of the ballot box must be protected.” Because the vote is within a half-percent, the Trump campaign will have until Tuesday to request a recount that would be paid for by the state.
I would hate to be the governor and Secretary of State of Georgia right about now! Someone is going to prison over this! Hopefully Trump Ga. gov. calls for audit following election results certification Georgia’s governor certified the state’s election results, but he does not endorse them.
During a press conference (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-recount-brian-kemp-audit-certified-election-results/) Friday, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) announced the state had finished their count and brought the results to his desk to certify, which he did. However, he did not endorse those results and instead called for another full hand recount. Gov. Kemp said the initial recount produced evidence of significant errors in the election process in at least three counties. He went on to say this can not be allowed to happen or Americans will lose faith in the system. “We cannot have lost memory cards or stacks of uncounted ballots,” the Georgia governor stated. “We must have full transparency in all monitoring and counting. Every legal vote must be counted and the security of the ballot box must be protected.” Because the vote is within a half-percent, the Trump campaign will have until Tuesday to request a recount that would be paid for by the state.
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More than halfo of American voters know the election is over. Can someone tell the miinority that.
Willy
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Post by: Robertt S on November 25, 2020, 11:09:43 pm
;D 8)
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Post by: Mark on November 30, 2020, 05:57:06 pm
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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Post by: Robertt S on December 13, 2020, 10:16:37 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on December 14, 2020, 10:59:41 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on December 14, 2020, 11:04:27 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on December 14, 2020, 11:10:33 pm
Comes as no surprise! 8)
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Post by: Robertt S on December 14, 2020, 11:20:56 pm
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Dominion uses SolarWinds, the software currently under attack by hackers
The report of the Dominion voting machines forensic examination in Antrim County will be released this morning. The code will be redacted. This is the case where thousands of votes were switched from Trump to Biden. The radical Michigan Secretary of State said it was a ‘human error,’ but forensic computer scientists say the machines are responsible. THE SOFTWARE THEY USE IS CURRENTLY UNDER ATTACK Dominion uses an Internet technology firm that was hacked and crashed Google, YouTube, et al. Dominion uses SolarWinds software, according to their webpage (https://archive.vn/S5j0R) as first reported by The Epoch Times.
The SolarWinds hack allowed foreign actors to gain access to the US Commerce Department and, reportedly, the Treasury Department. Malicious actors are currently exploiting SolarWinds as of 9:22 ET. According to FireEye, a cybersecurity firm, the hackers inserted malicious code into legitimate software updates for SolarWinds Orion software. The code allowed the attacker to gain remote access to the victims’ systems.
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Post by: Robertt S on December 15, 2020, 10:31:14 pm
And the plot thickens! 8)
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Post by: Robertt S on December 15, 2020, 10:39:41 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on December 15, 2020, 10:47:03 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on December 15, 2020, 11:00:52 pm
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Post by: Robertt S on December 15, 2020, 11:45:31 pm
8) Buckle up kiddies, this is gonna be a wild ride!
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the ability of persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States to interfere in or undermine public confidence in United States elections, including through the unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation, constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election, foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America’s free and open political system. In recent years, the proliferation of digital devices and internet-based communications has created significant vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of foreign interference, as illustrated in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with this threat. Accordingly, I hereby order: Section 1. (a) Not later than 45 days after the conclusion of a United States election, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate executive departments and agencies (agencies), shall conduct an assessment of any information indicating that a foreign government, or any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, has acted with the intent or purpose of interfering in that election. The assessment shall identify, to the maximum extent ascertainable, the nature of any foreign interference and any methods employed to execute it, the persons involved, and the foreign government or governments that authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported it. The Director of National Intelligence shall deliver this assessment and appropriate supporting information to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security. (b) Within 45 days of receiving the assessment and information described in section 1(a) of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies and, as appropriate, State and local officials, shall deliver to the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Defense a report evaluating, with respect to the United States election that is the subject of the assessment described in section 1(a): (i) the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results; and (ii) if any foreign interference involved activities targeting the infrastructure of, or pertaining to, a political organization, campaign, or candidate, the extent to which such activities materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, including by unauthorized access to, disclosure or threatened disclosure of, or alteration or falsification of, information or data. The report shall identify any material issues of fact with respect to these matters that the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are unable to evaluate or reach agreement on at the time the report is submitted. The report shall also include updates and recommendations, when appropriate, regarding remedial actions to be taken by the United States Government, other than the sanctions described in sections 2 and 3 of this order. (c) Heads of all relevant agencies shall transmit to the Director of National Intelligence any information relevant to the execution of the Director’s duties pursuant to this order, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law. If relevant information emerges after the submission of the report mandated by section 1(a) of this order, the Director, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies, shall amend the report, as appropriate, and the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall amend the report required by section 1(b), as appropriate. (d) Nothing in this order shall prevent the head of any agency or any other appropriate official from tendering to the President, at any time through an appropriate channel, any analysis, information, assessment, or evaluation of foreign interference in a United States election. (e) If information indicating that foreign interference in a State, tribal, or local election within the United States has occurred is identified, it may be included, as appropriate, in the assessment mandated by section 1(a) of this order or in the report mandated by section 1(b) of this order, or submitted to the President in an independent report. (f) Not later than 30 days following the date of this order, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence shall develop a framework for the process that will be used to carry out their respective responsibilities pursuant to this order. The framework, which may be classified in whole or in part, shall focus on ensuring that agencies fulfill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency; protects law enforcement or other sensitive information and intelligence sources and methods; maintains an appropriate separation between intelligence functions and policy and legal judgments; ensures that efforts to protect electoral processes and institutions are insulated from political bias; and respects the principles of free speech and open debate. Sec. 2. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security: (i) to have directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in a United States election; (ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any activity described in subsection (a)(i) of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or (iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. (b) Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, as amended by Executive Order 13757 of December 28, 2016, remains in effect. This order is not intended to, and does not, serve to limit the Secretary of the Treasury’s discretion to exercise the authorities provided in Executive Order 13694. Where appropriate, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, may exercise the authorities described in Executive Order 13694 or other authorities in conjunction with the Secretary of the Treasury’s exercise of authorities provided in this order. (c) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order. Sec. 3. Following the transmission of the assessment mandated by section 1(a) and the report mandated by section 1(b): (a) the Secretary of the Treasury shall review the assessment mandated by section 1(a) and the report mandated by section 1(b), and, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, impose all appropriate sanctions pursuant to section 2(a) of this order and any appropriate sanctions described in section 2(b) of this order; and (b) the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the heads of other appropriate agencies, shall jointly prepare a recommendation for the President as to whether additional sanctions against foreign persons may be appropriate in response to the identified foreign interference and in light of the evaluation in the report mandated by section 1(b) of this order, including, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, proposed sanctions with respect to the largest business entities licensed or domiciled in a country whose government authorized, directed, sponsored, or supported election interference, including at least one entity from each of the following sectors: financial services, defense, energy, technology, and transportation (or, if inapplicable to that country’s largest business entities, sectors of comparable strategic significance to that foreign government). The recommendation shall include an assessment of the effect of the recommended sanctions on the economic and national security interests of the United States and its allies. Any recommended sanctions shall be appropriately calibrated to the scope of the foreign interference identified, and may include one or more of the following with respect to each targeted foreign person: (i) blocking and prohibiting all transactions in a person’s property and interests in property subject to United States jurisdiction; (ii) export license restrictions under any statute or regulation that requires the prior review and approval of the United States Government as a condition for the export or re-export of goods or services; (iii) prohibitions on United States financial institutions making loans or providing credit to a person; (iv) restrictions on transactions in foreign exchange in which a person has any interest; (v) prohibitions on transfers of credit or payments between financial institutions, or by, through, or to any financial institution, for the benefit of a person; (vi) prohibitions on United States persons investing in or purchasing equity or debt of a person; (vii) exclusion of a person’s alien corporate officers from the United States; (viii) imposition on a person’s alien principal executive officers of any of the sanctions described in this section; or (ix) any other measures authorized by law.
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Post by: Robertt S on December 16, 2020, 12:07:44 am
What's up my friends in China? 8)
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Post by: Robertt S on December 18, 2020, 10:29:15 pm
8) Gonna be a helluva time in the States!
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Post by: Robertt S on December 19, 2020, 01:03:33 am
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enate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians were attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential elections "as we sit here."McConnell said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bills because they were "so partisan," but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnellreceived a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country. "Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent," said McConnell on the Senate floor.
The plans would likely burden the two largest electronic voting machine vendors in the United States, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems, with new regulations and financial burdens. Together, the companies make up about 80 percent of all voting machines used in the country and both have far-reaching lobbying arms in Washington D.C. Many of those lobbyists have contributed to the McConnell campaign, reportedSludge (https://readsludge.com/2019/06/10/as-he-blocks-election-security-bills-mcconnell-takes-checks-from-voting-machine-lobbyists/) last month, an investigative outlet that focuses on money in politics.
Sludge found that Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lobbyist David Cohen (https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/r/301020287), who has workedon behalf of Dominion Voting Systems this year, donated $2,000 to McConnell during this time. Brian Wild (https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/r/301020287), who works with Cohen and has also lobbiedDominion, gave McConnell $1,000.
Around the same time, on February 19 and March 4 Emily Kirlin and Jen Olson (https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/r/301019451), who have lobbied on behalf of Election Systems & Software over the last year donated $1,000 to McConnell each. Thursday's first bill, presented by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer would authorize $775 million to bolster election security and require states to keep paper trails of all votes cast. The second, presented by Senator Richard Blumenthal, would require political candidates and their staff and family members to notify the FBI about any offers of assistance from foreign governments. Election Systems & Software's CEO Tom Burt (https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/paper-record-every-voter-time-congress-act) did speak in favor of creating paper trails for digital election systems and urged Congress to pass legislation requiring states to do so. Election Systems & Software has said it no longer sells machines without paperless ballots, so a rule change would benefit them.
"It's not surprising to me that Mitch McConnell is receiving these campaign contributions," the Brennan Center for Justice's Lawrence Norden told Sludge (https://readsludge.com/2019/06/10/as-he-blocks-election-security-bills-mcconnell-takes-checks-from-voting-machine-lobbyists/) last month. "He seems single-handedly to be standing in the way of anything passing in Congress around election security, and that includes things that the vendors might want, like money for the states to replace antiquated equipment." McConnell's actions seemed even more out of balance with his party, as the Senate Intelligence Committee—led by Republicans—released a report later on Thursday claiming Russians have targeted voting systems in all 50 states in 2016. Though there was no evidence votes were changed, in Illinois "Russian cyberactors were in a position to delete or change voter data." In 2018, there were 14 states that used electronic voting systems in 2018 with no paper trail, that means that if votes were inaccurately tallied or machines malfunctioned, there would be no way to investigate or recover those votes. Voting machine companies are not currently subject to any federally-mandated security standards. https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-election-security-russia-1451361?fbclid=IwAR2qrf4h4ZBLKzMdf0AmamdP-3qLeBr9VQ40QwDKCCWHgjBC-XzHNZrLX-8
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Post by: Robertt S on December 24, 2020, 02:03:58 am
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Post by: Robertt S on January 02, 2021, 10:17:51 pm
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Post by: Willy The Londoner on January 08, 2021, 08:18:00 pm
My last word on Trump.
LOCK HIM UP LOCK HIM UP
Willy
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Post by: Robertt S on February 06, 2021, 09:51:39 pm
Interesting video! https://michaeljlindell.com/
Title: Re: And the Swamp is deeper than ever!
Post by: Robertt S on February 06, 2021, 10:19:51 pm
I am going to post this link also since YouTube is taking these videos down.