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Sunday, January 3, 2021

SHOCK! Portland Mayor Beginning To Suspect That Antifa Isn’t Interested In A Peaceful Resolution

In case you hadn’t heard, there was another riot in Portland on New Year’s Eve. Antifa and other mob members hurled firebombs at the police, fired commercial-grade fireworks at the courthouse, broke windows and set fires around the area.

Those of you who have been following the news over the past year are probably already yawning and thinking of this as another day that ends in a Y. But this particular riot produced something of a twist. For the first time that I can recall, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler made a public statement blaming the actual people who were responsible for the riot and promised to crack down on them going forward. As usual, the indispensable reporting of Andy Ngo brought us the video and a few choice quotes.

Fox News has more on this story, along with some of the background and history needed to put it in context:

Legal analysis published in October finds today's scenario favors Trump victory

As thousands of Trump supporters prepare to descend upon the Capitol this coming week amid a presidential election they are contesting, there is a mass of confusion and conflicting information about what happens next.

You may have heard that a growing list of Republican members of the House and Senate have pledged to object to the electoral count of some states during Wednesday's joint session of Congress.

Most analysts have said such objections, in practical terms, amount to nothing because while they can trigger debates lasting up to two hours, it would take a majority in both the House and Senate to reject the state results naming Joe Biden the next president of the United States.

There are other less discussed and, some insist, less likely scenarios. Some of them are examined in a legal analysis by John Yoo and Robert Delahunty. Published in October, about two weeks before the presidential election, it plays out multiple scenarios including under circumstances like the ones we face today. It is titled "What Happens if No One Wins? The Constitution provides for election crises—and its provisions favor Trump."

Here are some applicable excerpts from the analysis.
"Suppose states send electoral votes that—even if certified by the governor—remain under question, whether because of fraud in the vote, inability to count the ballots accurately under neutral rules, or a dispute between branches of a state government...

...Vice President Pence would decide between competing slates of electors...

...If the electoral count remains uncertain enough to deprive either Trump or Biden of a majority in the Electoral College, then the 12th Amendment orders that “the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President...

...If today’s House chose the president, voting by state delegations, Trump would win handily."John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, Oct. 19, 2020
An extended excerpt from the analysis follows:

...Suppose states send electoral votes that—even if certified by...

Georgia Data Shows 24,658 of Trump’s Votes Removed, Another 12,173 Switched to Biden: Data Scientists

Georgia election data indicates 24,658 votes were removed from President Donald Trump and another 12,173 votes were switched to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, data scientists testified on Wednesday during a state Senate hearing.

Lynda McLaughlin from the Data Integrity Group, along with data scientists Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, presented the results before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections.

Mealey worked as an electronic warfare technician in the U.S. Navy for nine and a half years and was a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor as a data analyst and programmer for the National Counterterrorism Center. He currently works for one of the “Big Four” accounting firms as a programmer.

Lobue is a data scientist with over a decade of experience in a number of industries.

“What we have here is we actually have fraud that we can prove in this election, there was fraud in Georgia’s election, we can prove it with data,” Mealey said. “The voting will of the people of Georgia is not reflected in what was certified by the Secretary of State.”

According to their analysis on time series election data which was published online as early as Dec. 24, Trump’s votes were decrementing in various counties instead of increasing as they do normally.

At least 24,658 votes were allegedly removed from Trump as result, including 17,650 votes in Dougherty County and 7,008 votes in Dodge County.

The removals happened at the county level and were hard to be observed at the state level because the decrements were offset by accurate data uploaded by other counties.

“I want to make that very, very clear that at no point in an incremental process, should you decrement it,” Mealey said...

DC passes bill to vaccinate children without parental knowledge, consent...

The Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act permits children as young as 11 'to consent to receive a vaccine,' with all vaccine administrators cooperating to hide the record from parents.

Last month, the District of Columbia passed B23-017, a bill that allows children to be vaccinated without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

The “Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act” permits a child aged 11 years or older “to consent to receive a vaccine where the vaccination is recommended by the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It also establishes that if a minor is able to comprehend the need for, the nature of, and any significant risks inherent in the medical care then informed consent is established.”

The bill not only permits children of this age to provide consent to doctors and other vaccine administrators without a parent’s knowledge or consent, but also requires insurance companies, school administrators, and medical personnel to conceal from parents that their child has been vaccinated.

The legislation mandates (in lines 37–38) that “[p]roviders who administer immunizations under the authority of this subsection shall seek reimbursement, without parental consent, directly from the insurer” rather than involving a parent in this process.

Secondly, it mandates that insurance companies are not to notify parents of such payouts in the standard way. “Insurers shall not send an Explanation of Benefits (EOB) [to the child’s parents] for services provided,” the bill states (line 40).

Finally, B23-017 requires a health care provider to leave part of the immunization record “blank” in order to conceal from parents that their own child has been vaccinated (lines 48–52). In addition to this being a violation of fundamental and natural parental rights, critics say it may also lead to situations where children could be double-vaccinated. Following such a “confidential” vaccination of the child in school, a parent may take him to the doctor at a later occasion, where he may be...