Day: January 6, 2021
Sec Mike Pompeo: China’s Communist Party Is ‘Inside the Gates’
When it came to the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan said America should “trust, but verify.” Now, as the Chinese Communist Party has broken promise after promise, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls for a policy of “distrust but verify.” In this episode, we sit down with Sec. Pompeo to discuss why it is important to distinguish between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese nation, why religious freedom is at the core of U.S. foreign policy, and what it will take to protect the American republic from the Chinese communist regime. This is American Thought Leaders 
, and I’m Jan Jekielek.
SEE ALSO: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/china-threat-real-and-upon-us-dw-wilber/
Data Scientists Show More Than 432,000 Trump Votes Removed in Pennsylvania
BY C. MITCHELL SHAW
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
As allegations of voter fraud continue to come forward — only to be dismissed out of hand by Democrats — a group of data scientists with the Data Integrity Group say they have uncovered evidence that more than 432,000 Trump votes were nixed in Pennsylvania. Those vote removals happened during the vote tabulation process, and this happened in at least 15 counties across Pennsylvania, according to a report by The Epoch Times.
That report includes a video presentation from those data scientists that shows the breakdown of the removed votes. The report states that vote removals included both Election Day (in-person) votes and absentee votes:
The group said that Election Day vote removals happened during the vote tabulation process in at least 15 counties, including Lehigh County, Chester County, Allegheny County, Armstrong County, Westmoreland County, Northampton County, Delaware County, Montgomery County, Lackawanna County, Dauphin County, Pike County, Carbon County, Washington County, Erie County, and Luzerne County.
Meanwhile, absentee vote removals happened in Allegheny County, Chester County, and Lehigh County.
At least 432,116 votes — 213,707 election day votes and 218,409 absentee votes — were removed in total.
It goes on to say that though there were “vote movements across all candidates,” there was one major difference. “We did not see the same type of negative decrements to any of the [other] candidates that we saw with President Trump’s tallies, and they happened repeatedly with no explanation,” Lynda McLaughlin, a member of the group, told The Epoch Times.
And while — as stated above — Democrats have dismissed claims of election fraud without so much as a passing glance at the evidence, it should be noted that the Data Integrity Group is not a consortium of tinfoil-hat-wearing fringe lunatics. On the contrary, their bona fides are impressive. As The Epoch Times reported:
The Data Integrity Group is a group of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts who have been working together to check whether or not there was manipulation of data in the 2020 general election.
The group’s lineup of data scientists includes Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue.
Mealey is a nine-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, where he worked as an electronic warfare technician, cryptologic technician, and Arabic linguist. He worked at the NSA as a mission manager for Levant/North Africa and later worked as a CIA contractor at the National Counter-Terrorism Center.
Lobue has 12 years of experience in data science and machine learning across financial services, telecommunications, and research consulting industries. He currently specializes in artificial intelligence applications.
This is a far cry from the wild, unsubstantiated claims Democrats and their mainstream media accomplices made about election fraud during the 2016 election. Only then, those claims led the news cycles as “facts” — though no evidence was ever offered to prove their claims.
And the Data Integrity Group is careful to stick to verifiable facts and demonstrable data. Not making claims about blame or jumping to any conclusions about what may have caused the removal of the votes, the group told The Epoch Times, “The bottom line is the errors were made. Data confirms these errors and it shouldn’t matter if they were machine or human, they’re still errors and deserve a second review and thorough analysis with forensic audits to find the answers.”
Indeed. But Democrats and other establishment types do not appear to want answers. They already have the only “answer” they want: Biden won according to the count, and that is that. Nothing else to see here, folks.
As such, the report from The Epoch Times states:
Pennsylvania’s electors cast their votes for Biden and Kamala Harris as president-elect and vice president-elect on Dec. 14, 2020.
State-certified results show Biden won the Keystone State by 80,555 votes.
But, if 432,000 Trump votes were removed, that 80,555 gap closes considerably. And — here, this writer will speculate, though given what is known, the speculation is not wild — if any sizable number of those votes were counted for Biden, that gap may disappear altogether, meaning that Trump actually won Pennsylvania.
To show that such a possibility is not a stretch, consider that — as The Epoch Times reported — a widely-circulated video clip of CNN’s live election night broadcast shows 19,958 votes being switched from Trump to Biden in 30 seconds.
That “oops” moment was brought to you by Edison Research and was corrected. But then that error was broadcast nation-wide on CNN. How many such errors were not seen on your television and computer screens and therefore not corrected?
None of this is about partisan politics and which candidate won. Instead, it is about the integrity of the entire election process. If the establishment can simply slap its imprimatur on a victory that has so many unaddressed problems stemming from what appears to any honest person to be fraud, then moving forward, the United States has an election system that makes banana republics look honest by comparison.
REPUBLICAN SENATOR Josh Hawley: ‘Antifa Scumbags’ Threatened ‘My Wife and Newborn Daughter’ at Home
BY TYLER O'NEIL
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
On Monday night, a leftist mob with Shut Down D.C. marched to Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) house in Washington, D.C. They carried signs opposing Hawley’s effort to block the counting of Electoral College votes on Wednesday, shouted into a megaphone at his front door, and placed signs at his front door.
The target of the mob’s rage wasn’t even there. Hawley later explained that he was in Arkansas, but the mob succeeded in harassing his wife and his newborn daughter.
“Tonight while I was in Missouri, Antifa scumbags came to our place in DC and threatened my wife and newborn daughter, who can’t travel,” Hawley explained on Twitter. “They screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door. Let me be clear: My family & I will not be intimidated by leftwing violence.”
Shut Down D.C. organized the harassment as a “vigil,” supposedly for democracy. The organization explained that the mob targeted Hawley because he “was the first of 12 Republican senators who pledged to join more than 100 Republican House members in their plan to derail Congress’ acceptance of Joe Biden’s election win on January 6.”
The leftist group bragged about harassing Hawley’s family and “delivering” a copy of the Constitution to his door. The mob chanted, “Shame! Shame on Hawley!” and “Protect democracy from the GOP.”
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“Now ‘vigil’ means screaming threats through bullhorns, vandalizing property, pounding on the doors of homes and terrorizing innocent people and children,” Hawley responded.
“We’re not going to let these bastards, racists, and ignorant people come into our town and come into our community,” one leader shouted into a megaphone.
At one point, Hawley’s wife came out the front door, asking the mob to stop shouting for the sake of the neighbors and her newborn baby. “We need a future for your baby,” the mob responded.
“Why are you disturbing our neighborhood and scaring our kids?” one neighbor demanded.
Over at American Greatness, David Reaboi and Kyle Shideler revealed the history of Shut Down D.C., which is connected to antifa groups and whose leaders have worked in left-wing activist groups. Liz Butler, who played a role in organizing protests against George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2001 and protests against the IMF in 2002, helped lead the group, as did Patrick Young, a former SEIU employee who now works for the Teamsters.
I oppose Hawley’s effort to block the counting of Electoral College votes because, as Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) pointed out, it is unlikely that the election irregularities in 2020 — which the legacy media shamefully ignores — gave the election to Joe Biden, and President Donald Trump has been unable to prove it in court. As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) pointed out, blocking the Electoral College vote counting will only embolden Democratic attacks on the Constitution.
None of that means the American people made the right decision in electing Joe Biden — I believe it was a disastrous decision. However, the voters in the states decide the president, not Congress. If Congress overrides the states’ certification of the Electoral College votes, that will set a dangerous precedent.
None of that justifies harassing Hawley’s wife, his newborn daughter, and his neighbors in the middle of the night. The mob was wrong to harass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at their homes in California and Kentucky, as well.
Americans should be able to disagree with one another civilly, without targeting the homes of public officials. When mobs target homes, they may disturb the official in question, but they also unjustly harass that person’s family and that person’s neighbors. Such harassment serves as a chilling testament to the erosion of American norms amid the country’s worsening partisanship.
Yet the mob’s justification for harassing a newborn baby may be the most horrifying aspect of this episode. When Hawley’s wife came out to protest the bullhorns, members of the mob shouted back that they know what Hawley’s newborn daughter needs better than her own mother. Pleas for peace and quiet met with loud declarations that this “protest” is ultimately for the baby’s own good. How disgusting — and how revealing.
Members of the mob truly believe that they are in the right, not just to oppose Hawley’s action but to harass his family over it.
Tyler O’Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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Terrifying Report: U.S. Funded Specific Research at Wuhan Lab that Led to Coronavirus
BY RICK MORAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
The World Health Organization is beginning an investigation into the scientific origins of the coronavirus. They’ve assembled a blue-ribbon panel of doctors, researchers, and scientists to get to the bottom of the mystery.
As it turns out, investigative reporter Nicholson Baker did most of the work for them. Writing in New York Magazine, Baker reveals a horror story about an accidental release of the coronavirus deliberately created in a lab funded by U.S. tax dollars.
With meticulous research and some shocking interviews with scientists involved in the project, Baker crafts a narrative both frightening and convincing that includes the direct role Dr. Anthony Fauci had in pushing for the creation of the specific SARS-2 coronavirus.
Not bioterrorism. It was bio-stupidity. It was a bunch of scientists who got together and decided to play God by creating a Frankenstein monster of a coronavirus just to see how bad it could get. Their motives may have been noble — using the new coronavirus to develop vaccines for all coronaviruses. But given the possibility of an accidental release that could result in a worldwide pandemic, was it really worth it?
It was an accident. A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, began its existence inside a bat, then it learned how to infect people in a claustrophobic mine shaft, and then it was made more infectious in one or more laboratories, perhaps as part of a scientist’s well-intentioned but risky effort to create a broad-spectrum vaccine. SARS-2 was not designed as a biological weapon. But it was, I think, designed. Many thoughtful people dismiss this notion, and they may be right. They sincerely believe that the coronavirus arose naturally, “zoonotically,” from animals, without having been previously studied, or hybridized, or sluiced through cell cultures, or otherwise worked on by trained professionals. They hold that a bat, carrying a coronavirus, infected some other creature, perhaps a pangolin, and that the pangolin may have already been sick with a different coronavirus disease, and out of the conjunction and commingling of those two diseases within the pangolin, a new disease, highly infectious to humans, evolved.
Baker is right that it still may have been a naturally occurring virus and that a series of random, unlucky — and unlikely –steps in nature led to the creation of it. But Baker has asked questions that need to be answered both by American and Chinese scientists.
As it turns out, China isn’t the only nation with a vested interest in proving (or pushing the narrative) that the coronavirus occurred in nature. If, in fact, the coronavirus was engineered in a Wuhan lab, the United States is, at least, guilty by association.
We should have known better.
In the early 2000’s, Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, reportedly shifted his focus from an AIDS vaccine to combatting biological warfare. By 2003, his anti-terrorism budget at the National Institute of Health had reached nearly $2 billion. A significant chunk of this funding, and NIH research, went to genetically modifying certain pathogens, both in search of vaccines and to investigate their possible use as bioweapons.
Scientists raised red flags about these “gain-of-function” (GoF) experiments, arguing the danger of creating new, deadly, highly transmissible diseases outweighed any possible benefits. “The consequences, should the virus escape, are too devastating to risk,” read a 2012 New York Times editorial.
At the center of the American effort to fund the Wuhan lab is University of North Carolina’s Dr. Ralph Baric. Baric began a collaboration with the Chinese in 2015 in Wuhan trying to develop bat-to-human coronaviruses. Shouldn’t they have picked a more secure site for their research?
The new BSL-4 lab in Wuhan, the first in China with the highest level of safety classification, was opened in 2015. However, it reportedly took time to become fully certified and there were numerous concerns about its staffing.
A leaked 2018 State Department memo obtained by the Washington Post alleged that the lab had “a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.” The memo said the lab needed more help from the U.S. to do the dangerous work they were trying.
There are some genetic markers in the SARS-2 coronavirus that point to the strong possibility it was engineered to be more infectious than it would have been in nature. But how could it escape the confines of a secure lab?
According to Intelligencer, lab accidents are more common than people think and scientists had previously warned that this type of pandemic could very realistically result from one. “More than 1,100 laboratory incidents involving bacteria, viruses and toxins that pose significant or bioterror risks to people and agriculture were reported to federal regulators during 2008 through 2012,” according to a USA Today report.
The WHO panel of experts has been specifically instructed not to work to assign blame for the coronavirus. How convenient for China. And how convenient it is for the U.S. government to avoid its own responsibility in this nightmare.
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Epidemiologist Says Influenza Cases Are Being Counted as COVID-19
"Influenza has been renamed COVID-19 in large part."
BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/posts/epidemiologist-says-influenza-cases-are-being-counted-as-covid-19/;
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Top epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski says that the massive drop in influenza cases can be attributed to the fact that many are being falsely counted as COVID-19 cases.
Wittkowski, former Head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at Rockefeller University, cautioned that, “Influenza has been renamed COVID-19 in large part.”
According to CDC figures, the cumulative positive influenza test rate from late September into the week of December 19th was just 0.2%, compared to 8.7% from a year before.
According to Wittkowski, this is because many flu infections are being incorrectly labeled as coronavirus cases.
“There may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the ‘presumed COVID-19’ category of people who have COVID-19 symptoms (which Influenza symptoms can be mistaken for), but are not tested for SARS RNA,” Wittkowski told Just the News.
Those patients may “also may have some SARS RNA sitting in their nose while being infected with Influenza, in which case the influenza would be ‘confirmed’ to be COVID-19,” he added.
Wittkowski challenges the notion that masks and social distancing have resulted in a drop in flu cases, asserting that flu and COVID-19 viruses are “more similar than people want to acknowledge.”
“People know everybody is wearing masks and distancing, and so people want to come up with things that are good about it,” he said.
In places like California and Pennsylvania where mask wearing is most common, COVID-19 cases have continued to skyrocket.
As Just the News notes, “Data indicate that more than nine out of every 10 Americans in most states are wearing masks in public regularly; those numbers have been above 80% since the early fall. Yet average positive COVID-19 tests have multiplied by nearly seven times since the spring peak.”