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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sen. Ron Johnson: China Was ‘Grooming' Hunter Just Like They Did with Swalwell
[Breitbart] On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "Hannity," Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that given how China "groomed" Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) it’s not "farfetched to think they were grooming Hunter Biden" and his connections to his father.

Johnson said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:40] "They were investing in influence. And let’s face it, we see how long-term thinking, how strategic they are. Look what they did with Congressman Swalwell. I mean, they groomed this guy. They saw, here’s an up and comer, let’s fund his campaigns. Let’s see what we can do. Let’s see how far this guy can go. And they get him placed in the Intelligence Committee in the House. And Nancy Pelosi knows about it. So, is it that farfetched to think they were grooming Hunter Biden as well and his connections to his father?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 11:50 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Horses are groomed. Human Intelligence (HUMINT) targets are spotted, assessed, then recruited and development. Some result in productive collection efforts. Others, when poorly managed, end in calamitous disaster.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Joe will give them all the intel they could possibly want and then some.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Look at those files on Hunter's laptop for the live-streaming channel & p0n account belonging to one "Robert Hunter."

Look at the text messages in which his ex-lover, his dead brother's widow, warns him to stay away from her 14 year-old daughter / his niece. This is Evelyn Mulwray / Chinatown territory.

Now try to tell us that this out of control, sick-mofo depraved maniac is NOT compromised by his CCP partners
Posted by: Glusogum Phusose6917 || 12/17/2020 13:19 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Here's More Proof That the Transgender Movement Is Insane and Extremely Dangerous
[PJMEDIA] Earlier this month, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that children under the age of 16 are "unlikely to be able to give informed consent" concerning puberty blockers.

"There will be enormous difficulties in a child under 16 understanding and weighing up this information and deciding whether to consent to the use of puberty-blocking medication," read the ruling. "It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers. It is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks and consequences of the administration of puberty blockers."

The concept that young children are not mature enough to make such life-changing decisions is hardly new. There are minimum age requirements for being legally allowed to drive, purchase cigarettes or alcohol, or to be legally competent to enter into a contract.

In response to this ruling, a transgender activist known by the name Zinnia Jones says that all children should be put on puberty blockers because they can’t give informed consent to the "irreversible" changes that occur to their bodies during puberty.

"If children can’t consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?" he tweeted earlier this month. He has nearly 23,000 followers.
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always have a belly laughter when I see covid-sceptics - who routinely bend over & spread them for "equality", "diversity", and "rights of sexual minorities" - reject mask wearing as surrender to tyranny.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/17/2020 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Wearing masks may not be "tyranny", but mandating them is a joke. All this mask wearing and social distancing and we magically have a sharp rise in cases. Sounds to me that such measures have not been too effective.

Meanwhile....(agreed, nothing works 100% for everybody, but....)
Posted by: Clem || 12/17/2020 2:22 Comments || Top||

#3  You magically have a rise in cases among people who neglect the common-sense rules* - I've seen it in Israel.

*OK, maybe the rules in Kalifornia and what's that other place, are not sense. But you have to exercise your own - would you go naked because Whitmer told you to wear a hat?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/17/2020 3:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Proof? Who needs proof?
Posted by: Cholugum Creating9793 || 12/17/2020 3:10 Comments || Top||

#5  We really do need to get these people a dose of reality.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/17/2020 3:47 Comments || Top||

#6  irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever

"Hello... err, young person. I'm Dr Khan. I'm here to professionally evaluate your puberty."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2020 3:57 Comments || Top||

#7 
Some people should be considered legally incompetent to have entered adulthood. Just saying.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/17/2020 4:00 Comments || Top||

#8  I see this new generation now has 5 sexes now vs. old school He's and She's.

He's
She's
HE-She's
SHE-He's
and SH-It's (flip-floppers)

Yes they have rights, but lets us be factual about this.

Transgender (the medical / psychiatric term is Gender Dysphoria) has been ruled a Mental Issue by major leading medical institutions.

The less than .0003% of 1% of the population should not dictate 99.9997+% of the populations must accept their mental issues as a norm.

Transgender is a mental Illness that is documented to lead to a suicide rate of over 50% for males - posing a females and 29.9% for females posing as males.

This many times greater the general population of 0.0105% , or about 7,600 times greater in the transgender community vs. the general
hetero-sexual community.

If still in doubt transgender is a Mental Illness start reading up on the research of Dr. Paul R. McHugh, Distinguish Service Professor at John Hopkins University and former psychiatrist-in-chief for John Hopkins Hospital released findings pertaining to transgenderism. He has studied transgendered people for over 40 years.

Dr. Paul R. McHugh clearly states, those who want to change their gender appearance suffer from a psychological disorder rather than a biological matter.





Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2020 5:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Transgender is a mental Illness that is documented to lead to a suicide rate of over 50% for males - posing a females and 29.9% for females posing as males.

An obvious self-correcting phenomenon. Dr. McHugh should mind his own business before Plugs and Big-Pharma develop a preventative vaccine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 5:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Long time past when requests of tolerance were buried by demands of submission.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2020 6:45 Comments || Top||

#11  It's mental illness to believe that 99.999% of the nation should adopt the mental illness of 0.001% in order to make them feel good about themselves and not stigmatized.
Posted by: KBK || 12/17/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#12  All this mask wearing and social distancing and we magically have a sharp rise in cases. Sounds to me that such measures have not been too effective.

We probably got a new shipment from Wuhan.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/17/2020 13:16 Comments || Top||

#13  before Plugs and Big-Pharma develop a preventative vaccine

Introducing Awoke, the only FDA (Fauci-fast track) approved treatment for clinical Hate, NBT (NonBinary Transphobia), and WSD (White Supremacist Disorder).

Vaccination with Awoke is mandatory for all known Trump supporters, rustics, registered gun owners, and anyone who wears a hat while eating or saying "nucular."
Posted by: Claique the Scantily Clad9151 || 12/17/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#14  No longer about gender dystopia.

An idea so egregious, they must herald the court's soldiers and enforcers to get their way. I question their sanity.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||

#15  /\ I hesitate to blame a medical condition where simply evil is so pervasive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||

#16  Over medicated women who want to punch their credentials ticket by turning their children into living ghosts and farces.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#17  The entire left is certifiable.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
2020 Election Fraud Is CCP ‘Assassin's Mace': Patrick Byrne
Election fraud is the secret "assassin’s mace" of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that has long confounded security hawks, according to tech billionaire and entrepreneur Patrick Byrne, who back in August assembled a cyber intelligence team to analyze the U.S. voting system.

"For 10 years or more, there have been references to a coming ’assassin’s mace’ in the Chinese literature—where they take out the United States with one stroke," Byrne told The Epoch Times’ "American Thought Leaders" program. "The national security community in the United States has been trying to figure this out: Is it their new aircraft carrier? Is that the hypersonic missile? Is it this, that, is it an EMP?"

"I don’t think so, " he told host Jan Jekielek. "The one stroke that takes the United States out is what we’re experiencing right now."

The 2020 vote involved "massive election fraud," he says. "Not voter fraud, but election fraud."

Byrne has been a driving force in the research for lawsuits filed by attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell. He has also been working together with ASOG, the company that recently carried out the forensic audit on voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan.

Byrne said he started investigations back in August, and that as a result, he anticipated the very irregularities which he later observed in the November election.

He says his team of online security experts now believes Chinese developers are "under the hood" of the software that has infiltrated at least two of the main voting systems in the United States.

Suppliers of such election software and systems involved in the U.S. election have responded to allegations of voting irregularities with consistent denial that their systems can be manipulated or that they have any such connection to foreign governments.

Reverse-engineering the Coup

Byrne described the election as a soft coup.

"We are basically reverse-engineering this coup," said Byrne, in reference to his team of 30-40 people.

Byrne says that he fell in with cyber experts who had been looking at election manipulation since 2018 when they were hired as part of a blue-ribbon commission set up to examine potential election fraud in Texas.

"That group has had two years to really reverse engineer what the rest of America has had a couple of weeks to understand," he said. "They had already figured out really about a dozen different ways you could defeat an election or hack an election—in a broad sense of hack, not necessarily just electronic cyber guys hacking."

According to Byrne, they found cheating was possible "at an industrial level, in terms of generating hundreds of thousands of fake votes."

Byrne says the pattern of manipulation can be identified through examining three key points—what he calls "three buckets of facts."

"One bucket is understanding the systems themselves and how they were built: the functionality that was built into them and the vulnerabilities that exist."

The second bucket, he says, relates to how the election process played out. "[In the event of fraud] you would expect people to have certain experiences when they either go in and vote or if they volunteer and work in the precincts."


He gives the examples of vote tabulating being shut down, of poll watchers being denied entry, and of the video of election workers pulling out cases of ballots from under a table after observers had gone home and then scanning them.

The third bucket, he says, is the extreme statistical outliers that would be thrown up by such a manipulation process.

"Things like that happened—these statistical outliers: Having 123,000 votes in a row going to one candidate; or in Pennsylvania, I believe it was 580,000 votes got processed that were 99.4 percent for Biden... and they came through exactly when all the Republicans had been told they had to leave."

"They’re on the order of you winning the Powerball lottery this week, and next week and the week after—and that happening in dozens of places around America at the same time."

"When you put those three different narratives together, they also just come together perfectly. They all reinforce each other."

Traced to China

Byrne says that the manipulation of the voting systems can be traced back to China.

"There’s a chain of command basically from China through Iran to Cuba and Venezuela," he said. "The Chinese are funding Smartmatic through the Panamanian division of Smartmatic, but it bounces through Venezuela."

"There is code buried within the Dominion machines that has been turned up that seems to show Chinese provenance."

"There are Chinese developers under the hood of this stuff back in China who are actually getting their software into the Smartmatic systems which have infiltrated at least two of the main voting systems used domestically."

"I say this as a guy who loves China," he adds. "I speak Chinese, I have a great affection for China and the Chinese people—but I’m not such a big fan of the CCP."

Smartmatic says its products were used only in one LA county in the U.S. 2020 election and has consistently denied any claims of wrongdoing or involvement in voter or election fraud past or present. It says it has no involvement with any governments or political parties or with Dominion.

Dominion Voting Systems has also consistently denied any wrongdoing or vulnerabilities in its systems and said that it does not use software owned by Smartmatic and that it has no ownership ties to the governments of China, Cuba, or Venezuela. Dominion products are used in 28 states.

Byrne, however, says that software created by Smartmatic went through a series of corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and licensing agreements before ending up in at least two of the main commercial voting systems being used in the United States, including Dominion. "Its genetic lineage [goes] back to the software," he says.

A number of other analysts have signed affidavits to the same effect.

Dominion has also come under scrutiny for its ownership structure after its parent company raised funds with the help of a Swiss bank before the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The transaction, peculiar in several ways, has led some to speculate that a Chinese entity could be an indirect investor in the company.

Byrne says that stealing the national election doesn’t require cheating across the board. "There are six counties that you need to steal. If you steal these six counties around the country, that flips the six states they’re in, which flips the electoral college votes that come with them, which flips the nation, " he said. "You’ve got to take six places and cheat like crazy there."

He says that some online security experts, who he describes as white hat hackers, say that they would give the election systems a rating of just one or two out of 10 for security.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 11:38 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  According to Byrne, they found cheating was possible "at an industrial level, in terms of generating hundreds of thousands of fake votes."

It doesn't take many if they are well-placed. IMHO the Dems/CCP got panicky and sloppy. I guess we will see.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 16:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They really think we're stupid
Posted by: Enver Hupaling7297 || 12/17/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Enver__ millions did actually vote for Plugz. Maybe "they" have a point?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/17/2020 19:34 Comments || Top||


Trump Card (2020) Trailer, Documentary, Dinesh D'Souza
Trump Card is an informative, provocative and thrilling exposé, not merely of the ideas but also the tactics of the socialist Left.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 08:38 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Sen. Rand Paul says voter 'fraud happened' and 'the election in many ways was stolen'
[The Blaze] Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that voter "fraud happened" in the Nov. 3 election and that "the election in many ways was stolen," pointing to examples of allegations raised in several states.

The Republican made the comment during a Senate hearing addressing election irregularities as President Donald Trump continues to challenge the outcome of the race despite President-elect Joe Biden officially winning the Electoral College vote.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 05:56 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sen. Rand Paul says voter 'fraud happened' and 'the election in many ways was stolen was stolen in many ways' FIFY
Posted by: KBK || 12/17/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Not stolen yet; so what are you going to do about it?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 15:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Indeed, the Dems/CCP made a full assault on the election process from many directions and in many ways.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 17:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Republicans, especially Senators, need look no further than Chris Pratt to see what is planned for them if they don't fight now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2020 18:10 Comments || Top||


The Battle of Athens
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 04:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See also the Battle of Sugar Point.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 12/17/2020 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Ken Rex McElroy comes to mind as well. Example of a huge failure of law-enforcement and the justice system.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/17/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
Nation's No. 1 High School Poised To Pick Students Based On Race, Not Achievement
[Federalist] FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — After a crusade by educational arsonists targeting the nation’s No. 1 high school, America’s meritocracy is about to go up in flames.

The Fairfax County School Board is set to vote Thursday night to gut the race-blind, merit-based admissions testing process at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. T.J. is a state-chartered magnet school legislated to serve academically gifted and advanced students. The school board plans to replace the testing with a lottery or subjective selection process akin to a popularity contest.

The results of Freedom of Information Act inquiries reveal the attack on the school was months in the making. The campaign included one of the people most entrusted to protect the school, its students, and its families: the principal, working in sync with public school officials and radical alumni activists. The school principal and district officials didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 08:14 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are simply reflecting a decades old federal government trend. Appears to work well for them. The five counties surrounding the nation's capital have the highest per capita income in the country.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2020 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't the Fairfax school board vote last week to change the name of Thomas Jefferson High School?

Not named after Jefferson, no need for meritocracy!
Posted by: Bobby || 12/17/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  TJ > George Jefferson HS

Washington & Lee > Booker Washington & Lee Harvey Oswald

James Madison U > James Mason & Ashley Madison U

College of William & Mary > College of Whoopie & Ellen
Posted by: Don Vito White6036 || 12/17/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Legislated to serve academically gifted and advanced students. The school board plans to replace the testing with a lottery or subjective selection process akin to a popularity contest.

This has been going on since at least 30 years. In most cities, a gifted and a talented school within a school was set up in a failing school district (read minority) to bring the average scores up in the district. Basically putting the gifted kids in danger to make the school district administrators look good.

What was different about TomJeff is that the gifted had a school to themselves, isolating them from the budding thugs. All good things must be destroyed in Woke America.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818 || 12/17/2020 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  I live in Northern Virginia and have been hearing about the recent silliness associated with the gifted school. Sadly the admissions previously were blind (no name, race or gender) only test scores. Can it truly be considered a gifted school In the future and what about the small number of minority students that earned their way in?
Posted by: Airandee || 12/17/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||



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