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James O'Keefe of the conservative media platform Project Veritas over the weekend claimed that supporters of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, central to her political base in Minnesota, illegally harvested ballots during a recent Minneapolis City Council election.
Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-primes-democrats-chance-house-decides-presidency
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is preparing for the off-chance that neither President Trump nor Joe Biden will win an outright Electoral College victory - leaving the fate of the presidency to the House of Representatives.
“Red zones”, travel bans, quarantines, “red lists”. A “Second Wave” has been announced. The fear campaign has gone into overdrive. Millions of people are lining up for Covid-19 testing.
Black Box Voting, founded in 2003, performs nonpartisan investigative reporting on elections in an attempt to stop vote rigging.
Link: https://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-question-the-science-go-to-gulag/
It’s not the science that is settled. What appears to be ‘settled is the impulse to silence anyone who asks ‘why’?
The $330 million request covers spare parts for "F-16, C-130, F-5, Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), all other aircraft systems and subsystems, and other related elements of logistics and program support," the Pentagon said, adding that it notified Congress of the possible sale. Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) makes the F-16.
The Pentagon said the proposed sale is required to maintain Taiwan’s "defensive and aerial fleet," and would not alter the military balance in the region.
Chinese defense ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang: China "strongly" urged the US to honor "One China" principle and immediately revoke its sales of military hardware to Taiwan, saying that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan were a serious breech of international law and harmed Chinese sovereignty and security interests.
Greece is apparently battling a “black economy” in one of its most popular tourist attractions: the island of Santorini. According to tax authorities, the area has become a hotbed of tax evasion, primarily by day trip organizers who are not properly recording their income.
As reported by Yahoo News, the country has turned to high tech to equip their coast guard with drones that can physically look for hidden transactions.
Based on data from the drones, authorities were able to establish how many passengers were on board, then cross-referenced it with declared receipts and on-site inspections.
Nine tourist vessels checked were alleged to have not issued a number of receipts, totalling about 25,000 euros ($29,460). Their owners now face fines.
Ambrosia Medical— a startup that fills the veins of older people with fresh blood from young donors — in the hopes that the procedure will help conquer aging by rejuvenating the body's organs. The company plans to open its first clinic in New York City by the end of this year.
Link: http://tass.com/economy/1022890
Leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, promised that work on a canal running across the Baltic Spit (or Vistula Spit, as it is called in Poland) to connect the port city of Elblag with the Baltic Sea would start soon, despite Russia’s protests that it might harm the environment.
The politician said the project is important for the county’s independence and sovereignty, because right now vessels have to sail through Russia’s territorial waters to get to Elblag. Kaczynski pledged that work would get underway in a month’s time. Replying to a question about Moscow’s opposition to the project, he said Russia had always been against it, but Poland was not going to abandon its plans.
Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201809051067759605-norway-refugees-safety-protection/
The Norwegian government rejects human rights activists' claims that this step violates international rules and undermines integration efforts.
Norway has announced plans to deprive 1,600 Somali immigrants of their refugee status, as their homeland is considered safe enough to return to, the newspaper Nettavisen reported.
Link: https://www.activistpost.com/2018/09/wendys-sued-for-violating-illinois-law-against-biometrics.html
A class-action lawsuit was filed in Illinois against a fast food restaurant chain of the Wendy’s franchise. The suit accuses the company of violating state laws for the way the business stores its employees’ fingerprints, ZDNet reported.
The complaint alleges that the practice of using a biometric scan of employees’ fingerprints to clock when they arrive at Wendy’s for work, when they leave, and when they use the Point-Of-Sale and cash register systems, is a violation of the state Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) law. Wendy’s fails to inform employees in writing of the specific purpose and length of time for keeping fingerprints collected, stored, and used, as required by the BIPA.
The suit also suggests the company never obtained a signature from employees giving consent to obtain and handle fingerprints.
The suit also expressed that Wendy’s doesn’t provide how long it stores the fingerprints data including for its former employees.
Plaintiffs are further requesting that Wendy’s disclose whether or not the company “sold, leased, traded, or otherwise profited from Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s biometric identifiers or biometric information,” and if Wendy’s or NCR (the company Wendy’s uses) have ever used any of their data and any subsequent class filers’ fingerprints to track or monitor them in any way shape or form.
China has shut down thousands of websites and online accounts following a three-month campaign against "harmful" content, the state news agency Xinhua announced.
The content, on 4,000 sites, included infringements of copyright and material spreading "improper values, vulgarity or obscenity", it said.
China tightly controls the country's internet access.
Previous targets have included lottery apps and material containing pornographic or violent content.
Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/banned-drugs-found-in-your-meat_092018
The four drugs identified:
•Chloramphenicol7 — Antibiotic associated with toxic effects in humans, including aplastic anemia (inability to produce new blood cells.
The drug was found in beef, chicken, pork and turkey samples.
•Phenylbutazone — Anti-inflammatory pain reliever known to cause aplastic anemia in humans, blood disorders and cancer.
•Ketamine — Ketamine is a hallucinogenic anesthetic, used experimentally as an antidepressant.
•Nitroimidazole — Antifungal drug with suspected carcinogenic activity, of 5,756 beef, pork and poultry samples, 667 contained the drug.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/439190-russia-il20-downing-reaction/
Within two weeks Russia will deliver to Damascus an S-300 air defense system, previously suspended on a request by Israel. It comes as part of response to the downing of a Russian Il-20 plane amid an Israeli air raid on Syria.
Moscow accused Tel Aviv of failing to inform Russia about its impending attack on targets in Syria, which resulted in a downing of the Russian electronic warfare aircraft by Syrian return fire. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the defense ministry to take several measures in response to the incident, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/439246-russian-mod-israeli-f-16-hid/
Data captured by Russia’s S-400 system proves Israeli jets were responsible for the downing of the Russian plane, the Defense Ministry said, adding that the Syrian missile changed its course shortly before hitting the Il-20.
Data gleaned from the S-400 air defense system deployed at the Russian Khmeimim air base in Syria’s Latakia province has revealed that the Syrian anti-air missile was, in fact, targeting an Israeli F-16 jet before it abruptly altered its course and eventually hit the Russian aircraft. This, and the position of all the aircraft at the moment of the September 17 incident, proves that an Israeli jet was de facto using the larger Il-20 as a cover, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov told journalists at Monday's news briefing.
Link: https://www.rt.com/business/438098-apple-production-asia-trump/
Apple’s Asian suppliers are facing a sell-off in their stocks Monday after US President Donald Trump tweeted that the Californian company should move its production back to America.
Shares in the Chinese-based suppliers Luxshare Precision, Shenzhen Sunway Communication and Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing all plunged as much as 10 percent. Taiwan, camera lens-maker Largan Precision fell almost 8 percent, Foxconn, a major manufacturer of Apple products, plunged 3.4 percent, while assembler Pegatron lost nearly 4 percent. Apple is worried that a new round of Trump’s tariffs against China, on a further $267 billion of goods , will result in a price hike of its products. Trump tweeted “Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China – but there is an easy solution where there would be ZERO tax, and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of China.”
Apple manufactures some parts in the US.
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/438010-pension-reform-protests-navalny-arrests/
Countrywide protests against raising of the pension age, organized by supporters of opposition figure Aleksey Navalny, have ended in calls to disperse and mass detentions from the police. The pension reform law, passed by the Duma in July, will see the working age eventually extended by five years – to 65 for men, and 60 for women. Multiple surveys conducted by leading pollsters during the summer showed 9 out of 10 Russians oppose the legislation.
Since the first reading of the law was approved, Vladimir Putin’s personal ratings have fallen by double digits, and the president proposed softening the terms of the reform in a televised address last week
Link: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/moneygram-fined-100-million-for-wire-fraud/
U.S. Justice Department announced that MoneyGram International had agreed to pay a $100 million fine and admit to criminally aiding and abetting wire fraud. U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania brought conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges against 28 former MoneyGram agents.”
“MoneyGram has 293,000 agent locations in 197 countries and territories,” “more than twice the locations of McDonald’s, Starbucks, Subway and Wal-Mart combined.” The company has settled a bevy of other fraud-related lawsuits, including a case in 2008 with 43 U.S. states, and an $18 million fraud case brought in 2009 by the Federal Trade Commission.
Following Australia’s offer of fast tracking visas for White South African farmers in April, Russia has now agreed to take 15,000 Boers. The decision by the Russian government to allow the immigration follows the well documented troubles in South Africa, where White farmers are being attacked or killed in an attempt by the ANC to reclaim land. In Australia, The Boers are already making a successful home for themselves in and around Perth.
The reason for Russia being an ideal country for the newcomers is they can help with the agricultural economy in the South. With the families having a background in farming, and Russia, being vast, needs help in this area. The first of the migrants have already reached Russia and been warmly welcomed by locals.
Chaos and confusion erupted across Venezuela, and most stores were shuttered on Saturday, after president Nicolas Maduro announced that the government would enact a massive currency devaluation, implement a new minimum wage, hike taxes, and also raise gasoline prices for most citizens even as the country struggles with the greatest hyperinflation on record, surpassing even that of the Weimar Republic.
As a result of the enacted actions, the new version of the bolivar will be pegged to the value of the state cryptocurrency, the etro, which according to Bloomberg amounts to a 95% devaluation of the official rate, and will trade in line with where the black market was; the government will also raise the minimum wage more than 3,000 percent, which works out to about $30 a month.
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