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Monday, December 14, 2020

Espionage Emergency: China 'Floods' America with Spies

China's consulate in Houston on July 22, 2020, the day before the U.S. government closed it down for being a "hub of spying and intellectual property theft,"

Given the emergency, Washington should immediately close down all of China's bases of operation in the U.S., including its four remaining consulates — Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco — and substantially reducing the staff of the embassy. The embassy, in reality, needs only the ambassador, immediate family, and personal staff, not the hundreds currently assigned there.
China's New York consulate is also an espionage hub. James Olson, a former CIA counterintelligence chief, "conservatively" estimated that China, in the words of the New York Post, "has more than 100 intelligence officers operating in the city at any given time." New York City, he said, is "under assault like never before."
Will Beijing merely transfer spies to Chinese banks and businesses operating in the U.S.? Probably, but that will take time and, in any event, Washington can order the closure of non-diplomatic outposts as well.
Others will say American businesses in China need consular support. Of course they do. My reply is that it is in America's interest to get its companies out of that country, for moral as well as other reasons. The loss of consular support will be one more reason for them to pack their bags in a hurry

Revelations this month about U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, highlight Beijing's complete penetration of American society.

China's influence, intelligence and infiltration attempts are overwhelming America. Given the emergency, Washington should immediately close down all of China's bases of operation in the U.S., including its four remaining consulates.

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the news about Swalwell is that Fang Fang, a suspected Chinese Ministry of State Security agent also known as "Christine," first contacted him not while he was sitting on the House Intelligence Committee but when he was a councilmember in Dublin City, California.

Fang followed and promoted his career as he was elected to the House of Representatives and assigned to a committee of great interest to China.

China has hundreds — perhaps thousands — of agents in the U.S. identifying, grooming, supporting, influencing, compromising, and corrupting Americans in politics and other fields of importance to it.

To identify and work with all the Swalwells, China's collectors may even number in the hundreds of thousands. Darrell Issa, the Republican returning to Congress from California, told Fox News on December 11 that there are "hundreds of thousands of people that act like spies that are coordinated by China."

China has a "thousand grains of sand" approach of interviewing students, tourists, and businessmen and women returning to China, collecting...

New footage shows BLM protesters harass older white woman in DC: ‘F**k your grandkids!’

A group of Black Lives Matter protesters surrounded and verbally abused an older white woman and shouted obscenities at her in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, forcing police to intervene, according to a video posted online.

“F**k your husband! F**k your grandkids! F**k you!” A black woman can be heard saying through a megaphone.

Shortly thereafter, another black woman who appeared to be recording with her cellphone trotted up to the unidentified white woman and began screaming in her face, which leads a police officer to move in to separate them.

The incident was one of several over the weekend as left-wing counter-protesters from BLM and Antifa clashed with patriot groups including the Proud Boys who were in the city to march in support of President Donald Trump.

Several people were stabbed, some critically, and a number of police officers were also injured by objects that were hurled at them.

That said, both sides appeared to be looking for a confrontation.

In another video posted by Daily Caller correspondent Shelby Talcott, a group of Proud Boys and supporters of President Trump burned a BLM banner in the street, with some chanting, “F**k Antifa!”

Talcott also retweeted a photo of a Proud Boys member punching someone dressed in black bloc and holding a knife. Videos posted online indicate the Proud Boys member was one of...

Bill Gates vows COVID-19 tyranny 'til 2022

Bill Gates, the guy who turned in his Microsoft credentials for a cereal box medical degree that allows him to tell you and me to stay home due to a virus, now tells that you and me will have to stay home until, umm, let’s see, 2022. Or so.

Tyranny ‘til 2022 — learn it. Live it. Love it. Put it on a bumper sticker and drive it.

“When do you think life will fully return to what we thought of as normal back in January, no masks, no social distancing, no other protective measures necessary?” CNN host Jake Tapper asked Gates during a “State of the Union” segment.

And Gates replied, as Breitbart noted, “Certainly, by the summer we’ll be way closer to normal than we are now, but even through early 2022, unless we help other countries get rid of this disease and we get high vaccinations rates in our country, the risk of reintroduction will be there and, of course, the global economy will be slowed down, which hurts America economically in a pretty dramatic way. So we will have, starting in the summer, about nine months where a few things like big public gatherings will still be restricted.”

Heads up, restaurants.

Heads up, Easter worshippers — as the Barack Obamas of the world put it. From Gates’ lips to Democrat government’s whips.

We’re headed for more lockdowns, continued restrictions, ongoing executive orders against...

Monday essentially will be the real presidential Election Day, or is scheduled to be, as electors gather in their respective state capitols to cast votes.

When voters pick their candidate for president on Election Day every four years, as well as in early and mail-in voting this year, they actually choose a slate of electors associated with a candidate.

Each of those electors later casts his or her vote for president on behalf of the state and according to its election results.

In past presidential election years, the day the Electoral College convenes to vote goes largely ignored, as most of the public stops paying attention after Election Day.

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This year is different. Amid allegations of voter fraud, litigation in key states, and state legislative hearings, the public is more focused on the electors’ voting set for Monday.

In 2016, some Democrats attempted to raise the prospect of a Electoral College revolt to overturn the state results in the presidential election, but the haphazard effort was unsuccessful.

Major media outlets projected beginning Nov. 7 that former Vice President Joe Biden won the election by 306 electoral votes to President Donald Trump’s 232 electoral votes, with 270 needed to win. Trump hasn’t conceded, but has said he would do so if the Electoral College votes for Biden.

Here are seven things to know before the Electoral College meets, what’s different about this year, and what past controversies looked like.

1. Is Electoral College Sure to Vote Dec. 14?

It’s likely but not certain that electors will meet in each state Monday, as is the custom, to cast votes for president and vice president.

“Yes, there is time [to pursue legal issues],” Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said at a virtual press conference Tuesday, the deadline for states to certify electors.

DiGenova said that Dec. 14 is “not set in constitutional stone,” but “statutory stone,” adding:

They can be bent because if the Supreme Court were to find that there was fraud, that there were illegal ballots, that states violated their own constitutions allowing mail-in ballots, and the court were to nullify those votes, it could take enough time to have an oral argument in those matters and could issue an order saying the Electoral College would be postponed for a week or so. There is nothing in the Constitution that would prevent them from doing that. The dates for the Electoral College are not in the Constitution.

Texas sued Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan on Tuesday, alleging the four states imposed unconstitutional election rules and asking the high court to order them to conduct new elections. On Friday evening, however, the Supreme Court rejected the complaint, saying Texas had no legal standing.

All four states had made changes to the election laws without the approval of their legislatures, either through the state bureaucracy or state courts.

Should Texas have prevailed, the result would by necessity at least delayed certification of electors from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

2. How Does the Electoral College Meet?

Traditionally meeting in their respective state capitols, electors in each state record their vote on six Certificates of Vote. Those will be paired Monday with six Certificates of Ascertainment, according to the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency that coordinates certain Electoral College functions between the states and Congress.

The electors then sign, seal, and certify the electoral votes.

A set of electoral votes consists of one Certificate of Ascertainment and one Certificate of Vote, according to NARA.

The certificates of results from each state are sent to multiple offices: Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as president of the Senate; each state’s secretary of state; the National Archives and Records Administration, and the presiding federal judge in the district where the electors meet.

The votes are provided to the judge as a backup copy to replace the official copy sent to the president of the Senate if votes are lost or destroyed, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

After that, all of the total electoral votes, or Certificates of Vote, must reach the president of the Senate and the National Archives and Records Administration no later than nine days after each state’s electors meet. This would be Dec. 23, two days before Christmas.

3. Can State Legislatures Appoint New Electors?