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  • Deep State Falsely Convicts Oathkeeper Founder For Seditious Conspiracy. (He was nothing more than a bumbling membership dues collector)

    Deep State Falsely Convicts Oathkeeper Founder For Seditious Conspiracy. (He was nothing more than a bumbling membership dues collector)

    November 29, 2022 at 05:38PM Right-wing Oath Keepers founder convicted of sedition in U.S. Capitol attack plot

    WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss – an important victory for the Justice Department.

    Rhodes, a Yale Law School-educated former Army paratrooper and disbarred attorney, was accused by prosecutors during an eight-week trial of fomenting a plot to use force to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump.

    His was the first verdict read out on behalf of the 12-member jury in the most significant of the numerous trials arising from the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta has presided over the trial.

    The other verdicts were still being read.

    The four co-defendants of Rhodes in the trial are Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins and Thomas Caldwell. Rhodes, who wears an eye patch after accidentally shooting himself in the face with his own gun, is one of the most prominent defendants of the roughly 900 charged so far in connection with the attack.

    Rhodes in 2009 founded the Oath Keepers, a militia group whose members include current and retired U.S. military personnel, law enforcement officers and first responders. Its members have showed up, often heavily armed, at protests and political events around the United States including the racial justice demonstrations following the murder of a Black man named George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer.

    Prosecutors during the trial said Rhodes and his co-defendants planned to use force to prevent Congress from formally certifying Biden’s election victory. Meggs, Watkins and Harrelson all entered the Capitol clad in tactical gear.

    The defendants was were accused of creating a “quick reaction force” that prosecutors said positioned at a nearby Virginia hotel and was equipped with firearms that could be quickly transported into Washington if summoned.

    Fifty witnesses testified during the trial. Rhodes and two of his co-defendants testified in their own defense. They denied plotting any attack or seeking to block Congress from certifying the election results, though Watkins admitted to impeding police officers protecting the Capitol.

    Rhodes told the jury he had no plan to storm the Capitol and did not learn that some of his fellow Oath Keepers had breached the building until after the riot had ended.

    Prosecutors during cross-examination sought to paint Rhodes as a liar, showing him page after page of his inflammatory text messages, videos, photos and audio recordings. These included Rhodes lamenting about not bringing rifles to Washington on Jan. 6 and saying he could have hanged U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat reviled by the right, from a lamppost.

    Watkins, a transgender woman who fled the U.S. Army after being confronted with homophobic slurs, and Caldwell, a disabled U.S. Navy veteran, also chose to testify.

    Watkins admitted to having “criminal liability” for impeding police officers inside the Capitol and apologized. At the same time, Watkins denied having any plan to storm the building, describing being “swept up” just as enthusiastic shoppers behave on “Black Friday” when they rush into stores to purchase discount-price holiday gifts like TVs.

    Caldwell, who like Rhodes did not enter the Capitol building and never formally joined the Oath Keepers, tried to downplay some of the inflammatory texts he sent in connection with the attack. Caldwell said some of the lines were adapted from or inspired by movies such as “The Princess Bride” and cartoons such as Bugs Bunny.

    Four other Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy are due to go to trial in December. Members of another right-wing group called the Proud Boys, including its former chairman Enrique Tarrio, also are due to head to trial on seditious conspiracy charges in December.

    via Reuters 
  • Apple Threatens To Ban Twitter From App Store, Won’t Say Why: Musk

    Apple Threatens To Ban Twitter From App Store, Won’t Say Why: Musk

    November 29, 2022 at 07:33AM Apple Threatens To Ban Twitter From App Store, Won’t Say Why: Musk

    Having seen waves of extreme over-reactions to Elon Musk’s take-over of Twitter – and demands for all sorts of censorship being reinstated – we have seen an armada of virtue-signaling among advertisers pulling their spending from the free-speech platform.

    Following demands from numerous former blue-checks for the deplatforming of such a dangerous app as Twitter has surely become…

    In a New York Times op-ed, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, wrote Twitter under Musk’s leadership is at risk of being removed from Apple and Google’s app stores if they fail to follow guidelines:

    “Failure to adhere to Apple’s and Google’s guidelines would be catastrophic, risking Twitter’s expulsion from their app stores and making it more difficult for billions of potential users to get Twitter’s services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes,” Roth said.

    He explained, “as I departed the company, the calls from the app review teams had already begun.”

    …Elon Musk has just broken the news that, seemingly confirming the rumors, Apple is threatening to pull Twitter’s app from its app-store… and won’t say why…

    Musk is not taking this lying down as one would expect, first questioning where Tim Cook hates free speech?

    Then asking his 119 million followers if Apple should publish its censorship actions…

    Which for now is extremely tilted towards ‘yes’…

    As a reminder, Phil Schiller, Apple’s App Store head honcho, just deactivated his Twitter account, which observers are not necessarily reading as a great sign. As Bloomberg’s reporter on the Apple beat, Mark Gurman, summed it up, “We appear to now know how Apple’s App Store chief feels about the new Twitter.”

    Musk has made it clear how he feels about Apple’s monopoly…

    …and what he thinks about Apple’s monopolistic pricing model for the App store…

    Apple would clearly benefit greatly from Musk’s new $8-a-month Twitter Blue subscriptions – scraping 15-30% of that revenue.

    Finally we note that Musk unveiled a simple plan Friday night if Apple or Google decides to boot the social media platform from their stores: build a smartphone. And how hard could that be? 

    Musk responded to conservative commentator Liz Wheeler, who tweeted: “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?”

    “I certainly hope it does not come to that,” Musk told Wheeler, “but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.”

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  • Mike Lindell is Running for RNC Chair Position, Discusses Decision with Steve Bannon

    Mike Lindell is Running for RNC Chair Position, Discusses Decision with Steve Bannon

    November 28, 2022 at 04:48PM Mike Lindell is Running for RNC Chair Position, Discusses Decision with Steve Bannon

    CEO businessman Mike Lindell announced earlier today he is running for the position of Republican National Committee Chairman, a challenge to current RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel who has stated her intention to run for reelection to the position.

    Several current RNC members have announced their continued support for Mrs. McDaniel, including former RNC Chair Reince Priebus.  However, former republican congressman Lee Zeldin has also stated his interest in running for the position.

    Mike Lindell explains to Steve Bannon his intent and purpose for entering the very important race.  {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:

    The election for the two-year RNC Chair will take place at the RNC winter meeting in California late January.

    The winter meeting of the RNC is taking place January 25-27th, in Dana Point California at the Waldorf Astoria – Monarch Beach Resort.  There are 168 members who will be in attendance (3 from every state) along with various RNC and national republican leadership.

    In addition to the RNC chair election, this RNC corporate meeting and the votes by the members, will determine the Republican Club rules for the 2024 election cycle.  Rules on primary dates, sequence, apportionment of delegates, distribution of delegates, state sequencing, qualifications and much more.

    The billionaire donor class and corporations who currently operate the financial mechanisms of the RNC have already expressed their intent moving forward is to remove the populist movement and realign the RNC with corporate objectives.  This chairmanship election is going to be pivotal for the future of the party.

    via The Last Refuge 

  • Facebook Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign

    Facebook Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign

    November 28, 2022 at 07:05AM Facebook Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign

    In case you were unaware, big tech companies have been working with the United States military to control the official narratives using propaganda. One such covert operation has been confirmed by Meta, Facebook’s parent company and they were pushing pro-U.S. and anti-Russia narratives.

    Meta has acknowledged the discovery of several clusters of fake accounts and pages believed to be linked to individuals “associated with the US military,” according to the company’s latest adversarial threat report published this week according to a report by RT. The U.S. ruling class has been trying to control and brainwash the public into compliance with their enslavement for decades. This isn’t news, except, Meta is now admitting it.

    “Although the people behind this operation attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to individuals associated with the US military,” the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

    The influence campaign was discovered earlier this year and in total Meta removed 39 Facebook and 26 Instagram accounts, as well as 16 pages and two groups, all for violating the company’s policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

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    The social media giant admitted that the large-scale operation ran beyond those several dozen accounts and across many other internet platforms, including Twitter, YouTube and Telegram – as well as major Russian social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. It seemingly attempted to downplay the discovery by insisting that the “majority of this operation’s posts had little to no engagement from authentic communities” and highlighting similar “deceptive campaigns”by China and Russia.-RT

    Meta’s acknowledgment substantiates a bombshell investigation by the Washington Post that revealed the Pentagon was forced to launch a “sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare,” after a variety of social media accounts, which its operatives used to target foreign audiences in elaborate psychological warfare efforts, were exposed.

    The ruling class will stop at nothing to ensure complete compliance and total enslavement of humanity. We need to continue to be aware of what they are doing as a way to cement and expand their own power. If they can no longer control the narrative and the flow of information, they will lose and they know it.

    Meta is pretending to be the innocent victim in this, but they knew what was going on and what the ruling class is doing to its subjects. They have been guilty of all kinds of censorship and we know they are working with the masters to keep the slaves distracted, deceived, and divided.

    Article cross-posted from SHTF Plan.

    via NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes

  • BREAKING: Kari Lake Files First Complaint Against Maricopa County, Says She Has Whistleblowers And Smoking Gun Evidence Of Uncertified Printers And Dominion Employees With “Unfettered Access”

    BREAKING: Kari Lake Files First Complaint Against Maricopa County, Says She Has Whistleblowers And Smoking Gun Evidence Of Uncertified Printers And Dominion Employees With “Unfettered Access”

    BREAKING: Kari Lake Files First Complaint Against Maricopa County, Says She Has Whistleblowers And Smoking Gun Evidence Of Uncertified Printers And Dominion Employees With “Unfettered Access” (VIDEO)

    Kari Lake appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room this morning to discuss a new complaint that her team filed against Maricopa County as they push forward to certify another rigged and stolen election.

    Lake told Bannon that she has “whistleblowers coming forward and at least one smoking gun in it.” She then revealed that her sources inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center witnessed Dominion employees were given “unfettered access” and they “walk around like they own the place.”

    “I almost think there’s maladministration and maliciousness, the way they’re running this,” Lake said.

    The Gateway Pundit reported on the serious issues in Maricopa County’s General Election on November 8. Due to the incompetence of Maricopa County and Katie Hobbs, tabulators were down, printers ran out of ink, and long, long lines kept Republican voters waiting to cast their ballots. Republican voters were told to drop their ballots into “box 3” to be counted later.

    Election experts and election workers later reported that these uncounted ballots were mixed with already counted ballots, leaving no way of knowing if all legal votes were counted!

    Kari Lake also told Bannon that the County never certified the printers used on election day, “and that story is about to fall real soon.”

    Despite this issue occurring at well over 30% of polling locations on election day, Maricopa County officials would have us believe that only 17,000 ballots were affected and dropped into Box 3.

    The County admitted to 30% of polling locations having issues, but a new report reveals that over 60% of polling locations were experiencing these anomalies and extreme wait times.

    The Gateway Pundit recently reported that Jennifer Wright, the Assistant Attorney General from the state of Arizona, fired off a letter to Maricopa County demanding answers to these tabulation errors and commingling of ballots in duffle bags by November 28.

    The Gateway Pundit reported last night that Trump-Endorsed Arizona Attorney General Nominee Abe Hamadeh filed the state’s first election contest in the Arizona Superior Court.

    Read Abe Hamadeh’s full complaint here.

    BREAKING: “SEE YOU IN COURT” – Arizona Attorney General Nominee Abe Hamadeh Files FIRST Lawsuit Contesting Rigged 2022 Election In Arizona

    Today, Kari Lake filed the following application for an order to show cause and special action complaint against County Recorder Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County Supervisors, and Election Directors Scott Jarrett and Rey Valenzuela.

    Kari Lake Application for Order to Show Cause by Jordan Conradson on Scribd

    Kari Lake Verified Complaint by Jordan Conradson on Scribd

    Included in these filings are 23 exhibits of evidence, including unfulfilled public records requests to the County, signed affidavits from roving attorneys, poll workers, and voters who were unable to vote, the Arizona Elections Procedures Manual, and the recent demand from the Attorney General’s office.

    Kari Lake Exhibits_Redacted by Jordan Conradson on Scribd

    Despite the massive irregularities, lawsuits against the County, and an obviously compromised election, Maricopa County will move forward with canvassing and certifying the 2022 General Election on Monday.

    f you were disenfranchised in Arizona by long lines at the polls, tabulators not working, being told to place your untabulated ballot in box 3, or you were prevented from voting in Arizona, visit all three of the following websites to document your experience so these problems can be remedied!

    https://forms.defenddemocracyaz.com/landing/arizonans-defending-democracy

    https://www.azag.gov/complaints/election

    saveaznow.com

    Lake appeared on Bannon’s War Room this morning to give this major update. She then indicated that they will drop a major lawsuit if this corrupt election is certified.

    Watch below:

    Bannon: Where do we stand? We understand you just put a shot across the bow in your first of many filings but walk us through, set the thing for the audience, who has been kind of one step removed, watching all these disparate moves. Now that you’re at the head of the tank column here now, what is exactly going on?

    Lake: Well, we kind of follow it up with our own filing today. We need information from Maricopa County. They ran the shottiest election ever in history, and we want some information. We’re on a timeline, a very strict timeline, when it comes to fighting this botched election, and they’re dragging their feet. They don’t want to give us the information, so we’re asking the courts to force them to give us information. This is not our main case. When our main case drops, they will hear it. Trust me, they will hear it. And they better think really hard before Ducey and Hobbs sign their John Hancock to that certification. They better think long and hard about what they know about what happened in this election. Because when we drop our lawsuit, they will hear it. We have whistleblowers coming forward and at least one smoking gun in it. And we will not stand here and watch them make a mockery of our sacred vote. So we’ve asked for the courts to get involved and force the Maricopa County clowns to give us information.

    Bannon: You’re supposed to have a real flow of this information from your observers and your attorneys. Are you saying in this filing that they have restricted your flow of information as they hurtle towards this certification on Monday?

    Lake: Well, we’ve included a lot of the information that we’ve obtained from people who were poll watchers working at the polls, but we’re needing information from Bill Gates and from Thomas Liddy down at Maricopa County; information that only they have. And it’s part of the information we saw in the AGs letter. I believe they’re withholding it. They’re dragging their feet on this. They’re trying to run out the clock. But we will get that information. Even without it, I think we have just a killer case here. And we need to remember what they’re trying to do here with our elections. They did it in broad daylight. It was blatant. There was no subtlety about what they did when they discriminated against people who chose to vote on Election Day. 63% of polling places were inoperational or only partially operational on election day. Hour-long waits, two-hour, three-hour, four-hour long waits. I had one report, Steve, where they rolled somebody in a bed to vote, an elderly person who wanted to vote. When that person got up to vote, they watched as their ballot went in and out, in and out, never got counted. This is absolute outrageousness on behalf of Maricopa County. I don’t know how it’s coincidental. I can’t even imagine. I mean, don’t insult my intelligence by acting like this was just, oops, we screwed up. And you know what else they didn’t do? They never certified the printers, and they’ll lie and tell you they did, but they never certified the printers being used at the polling places, which were not good printers. The only printer they certified were the million-dollar Runbeck printers. And that story is about to fall real soon when we find out that they didn’t even certify the equipment they were using at these polling places.

    Lake: You know, one of the polling locations, the person in charge, when everybody showed up to help work, he said, ‘Oh, don’t worry. I’ve already done all the testing. It’s all been done,’ and they’re supposed to have witnesses there. We actually have watchers and eyes in the counting center downtown MCTEC. And we found out from one of our people that are down there that two employees with Dominion badges have free range of that counting center where all the ballots are. Two employees with Dominion badges walk around like they own the place, unfettered access. They’re on all of the computers, we’re told, and they’re actually even telling county employees when to take a break and when to leave the room. This is run in a way that is not just, I almost think there’s maladministration and maliciousness, the way they’re running this. It’s not just accidental, what they’re doing here, Steve, it’s in all different areas from the polling places to where they’re counting the ballots.

    Lake: This is just beyond 2020. I mean, what they did in 2020. It looks like they’ve done that again and then some. And for the governor, if he says he’s going to certify this, and Katie Hobbs to certify this, I think they really better think long and hard.

    via The Gateway Pundit

    November 23, 2022 at 05:11PM

  • Patriots In Arizona Plan HUGE Protest In Front Of AZ Capitol This Weekend

    Patriots In Arizona Plan HUGE Protest In Front Of AZ Capitol This Weekend

    November 23, 2022 at 06:35AM Patriots In Arizona Plan HUGE Protest In Front Of AZ Capitol This Weekend

    Patriots in Arizona demanding a redo of the 2022 general election have organized a protest near the Arizona Capitol this Friday at 9 am and through the weekend before counties canvass the results.

    The protest will include a peaceful gathering and opportunities to hold signs and banners on highways across the state.

    The Arizona election was an uncertifiable mess due to voters having their ballots stolen, not counted, or being prevented from voting altogether.

    The Gateway Pundit reported on the serious issues in Maricopa County’s General Election on November 8. Due to the incompetence of Maricopa County and Katie Hobbs, tabulators were down, printers ran out of ink, and long, long lines kept Republican voters waiting to cast their ballots. Republican voters were told to drop their ballots into a separate container called box 3 to be counted later. Election experts and election workers later reported that these uncounted ballots were mixed with already counted ballots, leaving no way of knowing if all legal votes were counted!

    If a voter had already checked into a polling location to vote but needed to leave due to long wait times, they were not allowed to vote at another location.

    Despite this issue occurring at over 30% of polling locations on election day, Maricopa County officials would have us believe that only 17,000 ballots were affected and dropped into Box 3.

    The Gateway Pundit recently reported that a group of citizens in Arizona released a statement calling for a new election to be held on December 6.

    IT BEGINS: Patriots in Arizona Call for a New Legitimate Midterm Election on December 6

    Patriots and candidates are not going to accept this corrupt election.

    Trump-Endorsed Kari Lake, who had her victory stolen on election day, recently said, “I will become Governor.“

    Former State Senate candidate Jan Dubauskas also joined calls for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to hold a re-vote this morning.

    According to Ballotpedia,

    A redo election, also known as a revote or special election remedy, is the process of voiding election results and holding a new election.[1] The specific reasons for calling a redo election vary, but might include deliberate efforts to obscure the results such as electoral fraud or mistakes like a broken voting machine.

    Most commonly, states or courts only call for such a redo election if the number of ballots affected is large enough to change the outcome of the election or otherwise call the results into question.[1] However, there have been instances when courts call a redo election even when the number of affected votes would not change the outcome or is unknown.[2]

    Typically, states or courts call a redo election only after an interested party—normally a candidate, voter, or election official—contests the election results.[3] Contesting an election usually involves an interested party claiming ballots counted that should not have been, ballots rejected that should not have been, or some other issue that affected the outcome of the election.

    Grassroots activists organized the protest on Friday to take back Arizona’s corrupt elections. Bad actors who seek to cause harm to this movement will be shunned, and law enforcement will be encouraged to arrest them immediately.

    Organizers told The Gateway Pundit that they want this to be similar to the Brazil protests, where millions took to the streets to peacefully fight back against stolen elections.

    Food trucks, vendors, and more are expected to attend this massive gathering.

    Attendees will be encouraged to call out bad actors and remain peaceful.

    From AZRevote.com:

    Prayer and Protest events are planned for Friday and Saturday Nov 25th & 26th beginning at noon. Please show up with signs/banners as described below to the locations listed below. Your help is needed! And, please spread the word via social media, emails, phone calls, etc. Remember, this post can be shared to Facebook and Twitter via the buttons at the bottom. You can copy/paste for emails.

    This is now growing and we will have two primary pushes – The Drive awarness on overpasses and the Friday Protest at the capitol.

    Specific for this initial push of #AZRevote campaign:

    #AZRevote Friday Protest:

    Meet at the capitol at 9 AM BLACK FRIDAY and let your voice be heard peacefully, prayerfully! We have many big names coming to speak We will put up here once confirmed today. Who we do have confirmed are Joe Oltmann & Friends, David Clemens, Pablo Martinez, Liz Harris, James Knox, Michelle Dillard, Shiry Sapir, Gail Golec and many more!

    #AZRevote Overpass Campaign:

    1. We will organize to have the troops out in forces with banners for Noon Friday the 25th and Same time Saturday the 26th. (See locations suggested below.
      1. Banners can be made from cheap painter tarps spray paint block letters #AZRevote
      2. Any repurposed yard signs the same to be placed by malls for the Black Friday push
    2. The campaign should include praying for our state and judges and be peaceful
    3. Recommended locations (please feel free to add and recommend changes)
      1. Maricopa County Sites
        1. Broadway & I-10
        2. Mill Ave & 60
        3. Baseline & I-10
        4. Country Club & 60
        5. East Williams Field Rd. & 202
        6. N. 7th St and I-10
        7. N. 7th Ave & I-10
        8. N 67th Ave & I-10
        9. Greenway and 51st (Piestewa Freeway)
        10. Bell and 51st (Piestewa Freeway)
        11. Bethany Homes Road & 17
        12. West Rose Garden Ln & 17
        13. N Priest & 202
        14. E Thunderbird & 101
        15. Carefree Hwy & Cave Creek Rd (No overpass)
      2. Tucson Area
        1. I19 and Irvington Rd
        2. I19 and Valencia Rd.
        3. Cordero Farms Rd and I10
        4. Twin Peaks Rd and I10.

    Patriots from around the country are encouraged to help Arizona peacefully and patriotically protest against fraudulent elections.

    via The Gateway Pundit https://ift.tt/rOE1oIW

  • FBI Paid Out $42 Million a Year to Confidential Human Sources

    FBI Paid Out $42 Million a Year to Confidential Human Sources

    November 22, 2022 at 07:00AM FBI Paid Out $42 Million a Year to Confidential Human Sources

    A 2021 report by Open the Books revealed that the federal government paid over $548 million to informants in recent years. That’s over half a billion taxpayer dollars.

    And the FBI paid out $42 million a year to its confidential human sources.

    We know a few of the more famous FBI operatives.

    Stephan Halper, a crack cocaine addict, was paid over $1.05 million to spy on Trump associates and help set up the Trump-Russia hoax.

    Update: Obama Deep State Spy Stephan Halper Was Paid Over $1.05 Million — His Work Spying on Trump Officials Went Well Into 2017

    The FBI used at least 12 informants out of 15 individuals to plot, plan, pay for, and execute the Whitmer kidnap hoax.

    It Was a Set-Up: FBI Used at Least 12 Informants in Whitmer Kidnapping Case With Only 6 Defendants

    And one FBI took her job so seriously that she slept with her target.
    She was just doing her job.

    Just Doing Her Job… Female FBI Agent Slept with Target Barry Croft in Hotel, in Same Bed, During Training Weekend Paid for by FBI and Smoked Pot with Him in FBI-Hatched Whitmer Kidnapping Hoax

    Oh, and cutout Ray Epps.

    Forbes reported:

    Federal agencies paid out at least $548 million to informants working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in recent years, according to government audits.

    • A few informants became millionaires, with some Amtrak and “parcel” delivery workers making nearly $1 million or more.
    • Many informants were authorized to commit “crimes” with the permission of their federal handlers. In a four-year period, there were 22,800 crime authorizations (2011-2014).
    • The FBI paid approximately $294 million (FY2012-2018), the DEA paid at least $237 million (FY2011-2015), and ATF paid approximately $17.2 million total (FY2012-2015) to informants.

    Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com compiled this information by reviewing federal reports. While some of the data is several-years old; it’s apparently the most recent available.

    The FBI spent an average of $42 million a year on confidential human sources between fiscal years 2012 and 2018. “Long term” informants comprised 20 percent of its intelligence relationships (source: DOJ IG 2019 report).

    What’s worse is that the informants often commit crimes.

    Federal informants often commit crimes, and often do it with the permission of their federal handlers, according to a 2015 audit by the General Accountability Office (GAO). In fact, the GAO reports:

    “Since 1980, the Guidelines have permitted agencies to authorize informants to engage in activities that would otherwise constitute crimes under federal, state, or local law if someone without such authorization engaged in these same activities. For example, in the appropriate circumstance, an agency could authorize an informant to purchase illegal drugs from someone who is the target of a drug-trafficking investigation. Such conduct is termed “otherwise illegal activity.”

    via The Gateway Pundit https://ift.tt/rOE1oIW

  • Arizona’s ‘Election Integrity Unit’ Demands Answers From Maricopa County Over Election Day Problems

    Arizona’s ‘Election Integrity Unit’ Demands Answers From Maricopa County Over Election Day Problems

    November 21, 2022 at 07:04AM Arizona’s ‘Election Integrity Unit’ Demands Answers From Maricopa County Over Election Day Problems

    The Arizona Attorney General’s Elections Integrity Unit sent a letter to Maricopa County demanding answers on problems that took place with the election on Nov. 8.

    In a letter to Civil Division Chief Thomas Liddy of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright said the AG’s office had “received hundreds of complaints since Election Day,” and the complaints “go beyond pure speculation [and] include first-hand witness accounts that raise concerns regarding Maricopa County’s lawful compliance with Arizona election law.”

    According to Maricopa County election officials, at least 60 of 223 voting locations experienced technical problems related to ballot-on-demand (BOD) printers having “non-uniform” printer configuration settings.

    These non-uniform settings resulted in some ballots “unable to be read by on-site ballot tabulators.”

    County officials estimate the technical problems may have impacted more than 17,000 ballots on Election Day.

    “Based on sworn complaints submitted by election workers employed by Maricopa County, the BOD printers were tested on Monday, Nov. 7, without any apparent problems,” Wright said in the letter (pdf).

    “Many of those election workers report that despite the successful testing the night before, the tabulators began experiencing problems reading ballots printed by the BOD printers within the first thirty minutes of voting on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.”

    The letter said that based on a “plethora of reports from election workers, poll watchers, and voters, including the county’s admission of widespread printer problems,” the Elections Integrity Unit requested:

    • The voting locations that had problems with either BOD printers or tabulation
    • The specific problems at each voting location
    • Any other issues related to BOD printers and/or tabulators that may have contributed to the problems at voting locations
    • A comprehensive log of all changes to the BOD printer configuration settings (to include the identity of individuals making changes)
    • Maricopa County’s standards for the BOD printer configuration settings
    • The precise time the non-uniform printer configuration settings were found to be the root cause of the problem
    • The method used to update or reconfigure the printer configuration settings at each voting location

    The Elections Integrity Unit will also look into election day “check-out” procedures in which affected voters received provisional ballots or instructions to go to another polling location.

    Wright said the unit also requests a detailed report on poll worker training regarding check-out procedures and the “legal basis” for these procedures.

    The unit also wants to know “why Maricopa continued to publicly encourage voters to leave a voting location after having been notified … that poll workers appeared to be improperly trained on ‘check-out’ procedures.”

    “Due to the widespread problems in non-uniform printer configuration settings, many voters were unable to tabulate their ballots on Election Day using on-site tabulators,” Wright said in the letter.

    “Instead, voters were instructed to deposit their ballot in ‘Door 3.’”

    Maricopa officials have said that the ballots would be taken at the end of the day to the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center to be counted.

    Wright said in the letter the county “appears to have failed to adhere to the statutory guidelines in segregating, counting, tabulating, tallying, and transporting Door 3 ballots.

    “In fact, Maricopa County has admitted that, in some voting locations, Door 3 non-tabulated ballots were commingled with tabulated ballots at the voting location.”

    In sworn testimony, one poll watcher indicated that more than 1,700 Door 3 non-tabulated ballots from one voting location were “placed in black duffle bags” meant for tabulated votes.

    “Arizonans deserve a full report and accounting of the myriad problems that occurred in relation to Maricopa County’s administration of the 2022 general election,” Wright said.

    Wright said the issues are related to “Maricopa County’s ability to lawfully certify election results,” and requested a response from the county by Nov. 28.

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  • Pete Santilli Announces Platform For 2024 Presidential Run

    Pete Santilli Announces Platform For 2024 Presidential Run

    This morning I officially expressed my disgust in the corporation of the United States fraudulently representing itself as a Constitutional Republic. Additionally, I announce that I am filing for divorce citing irreconcilable differences with the people who have hijacked our government. I love what my country used to be, and I love my fellow Americans, but I can no longer continue to fight for a country that has become destructive towards our pursuit of life, liberty & happiness, and more importantly, I don’t feel right fighting for country that nobody else want to fight for themselves.

    Here are some of the primary tenets of my platform. Some of you might be “butt hurt” about the hard cold realities and facts affecting our lives, but so be it. Don’t vote for me.

    I will be one of the very first politicians to not pander for your vote by compromising my integrity.

    • COVID / MRNA: If elected, at the moment I raise my hand to be sworn in, all individuals who are involved in the mass genocide of millions of people around the world with COVID-19, and the subsequent MRNA injections will be rounded up, arrested, tried, convicted and executed swiftly for crimes against humanity.
    • OPERATION WARP SPEED: Throughout my campaign, I will insist that President Trump publicly acknowledge that “Operation Warp Speed” was not a good thing for humanity. I will also insist that his “freedom of choice” versus mandates montra has compounded his culpability and complicity in mass genocide, particularly because people cannot make an informed choice when half of the information they need is censored or prohibited as conspiracy taboo by the medical industrial complex. Operation Warp Speed is undoubtedly responsible for the deaths and injury of many hundreds of thousands but the continued denial of responsibility for those deaths must be placed squarely on the shoulders of President Trump.
    • U.S. CORPORATION: On day #1 of assuming office, I will begin the process of swiftly dissolving the U.S. Corporation. On day #2, the Corporation will be bankrupted and its charter sent to the shredder. Corporate CEO’s who remain in their positions will be held criminally liable for treason against the United States of America — our Constitutional Republic.
    • At the time of my inauguration and exact moment of swearing in, I will direct former Congressman Ron Paul to proceed to the Federal Reserve with a rental truck, repossess the U.S currency printing press, and immediately deliver the printing press to the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. will return to it’s constitutionally mandated “sound-money” by strictly adhering to asset-backed currency.
  • RNC Had Roving Attorneys Quietly Monitoring Maricopa Voting Centers, One Has Finally Released His Damning Finds: Report

    RNC Had Roving Attorneys Quietly Monitoring Maricopa Voting Centers, One Has Finally Released His Damning Finds: Report

    November 21, 2022 at 06:50AM RNC Had Roving Attorneys Quietly Monitoring Maricopa Voting Centers, One Has Finally Released His Damning Finds: Report

    With the first round of counting over, and the battle just barely beginning, some preliminary shots are being fired in what is expected to be a bruising post-election struggle over which ballots should be counted in the race to become Arizona’s governor.

    Media organizations have proclaimed Democrat Katie Hobbs the winner, although the gap between her and Republican Kari Lake is less than 20,000 votes, which means even in the best of times, a recount would be held.

    But these are not the best of times. With trust in short supply and scars from the state’s battles over the 2020 election results still fresh, both sides are digging in, lawyering up and firing broadsides at the other before the recounting and lawsuits begin.

    According to a report in Time, Lake’s campaign spent $2 million to monitor the counting of votes and to be prepared with lawsuits based on the facts when necessary. Time said 40 lawyers were in one central “war room” while roving attorneys monitor polling places and vote-counting operations.

    “This is the most robust Election Day operation and post-election operation that Arizona has ever seen,” Brady Smith, the Lake campaign’s chief political strategist, said.

    A glimpse at what the Lake campaign might use as fodder for its lawsuits was shared with The Western Journal in the form of a report from Mark Sonnenklar about what the roving attorneys saw on Election Day. The Western Journal has not independently verified the claims in this report.

    Sonnenklar said 10 roving attorneys out of 16 responded to a survey he sent them, and that his report covers 115 voting places out of the 223 places in Maricopa County.

    Overall, he wrote, “72 of the 115 vote centers (62.61%) we visited had material problems with the tabulators not being able to tabulate ballots, causing voters to either deposit their ballots into box 3, spoil their ballots and re-vote, or get frustrated and leave the vote center without voting.”

    “In many vote centers, the tabulators rejected the initial insertion of a ballot almost 100 percent of the time, although the tabulators might still accept that ballot on the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth attempt to insert the ballot,” he wrote.

    Did delays and errors in Arizona have a significant impact on the elections?

    100% (954 Votes)

    0% (3 Votes)

    “However, many ballots were not able to be tabulated by the tabulators at all, no matter how many times the voter inserted the ballot. The percentage of ballots that were not able to beread at all by the tabulators ranged from 5% to 85% at any given time on election day, with the average being somewhere between 25 percent and 40 percent failure rates,” he wrote.

    Sonnenklar noted that at many polling places, “the printer/tabulator issues persisted from the beginning of election day until the end of election day.”

    The report identified a presumed cause of the glitch

    “The strong consensus regarding why the tabulators would not read certain ballots was that those ballots, in particular the bar codes on the side of the paper, were not printing dark enough for the tabulators to read them,” he wrote.

    The report said the findings contradict county officials that only 70 polling places had issues and that they were “insignificant in the entire scheme of the election.

    The other major finding in the report was that at “59 of the 115 vote centers we visited (51.30%). In many cases, voters had to wait 1-2 hours before they received a ballot for voting.”

    Sonnenklar noted that “because Republican voters significantly outnumbered Democrat voters in the County on election day, such voter suppression would necessarily impact the vote tallies for Republican candidates much more than the vote tallies for Democrat candidates.”

    Sonnenklar tied the two issues together.

    “It seems very clear that the printer/tabulator failures on election day at 62.61 percent of the vote centers observed by 11 roving attorneys, and the resulting long lines at a majority of all vote centers, led to substantial voter suppression,” he wrote.

    As mentioned above, while The Western Journal did not independently verify the findings of this report, reporter Randy DeSoto did visit a polling location that clearly showed an aggressively long line to cast a vote:

    The issues were on the minds of several people attending a Nov. 16 meeting of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, according to KUTP-TV.

    “You look into your own soul, and you look back at yourself in the mirror, and realize you are the cancer that is tearing this nation apart,” resident Matt Baker said.

    “You need to resign,” Lizette Lindt said. “You need to resign today, and I pray that God is going to convict your heart.”

    This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

    via The Gateway Pundit