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On January 6, Trump Could Emerge As President with Harris As His VP

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(L) Rep Tom Massie, Photo: theblaze.com (C) Prof Zephyr Teachout, Photo: nydailynews.com (R) Ty Bollinger, Photo: globalhealing.com

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Today is December 28, 2020. A lot can happen in 8 days and more can happen on the big day itself, January 6, in Washington, DC. One oddball result could be that the House of Reps chooses Trump as president, and the Senate chooses Harris as VP.

Players

Herewith an inventory all the players that have some degree of official involvement in the January 6 affair. These are:

— the 435 members of the House of Reps, who must choose a president if no clear winner has emerged from the 538 Electors’ ballots;

— the states (in an abstract way, given that each of the 50 states gets only one choice of president, via its House delegation);

— the president of the Senate (who is always the current VP, so in this case, Mike Pence, as he is constitutionally in charge of the envelope-opening and sequelae (?) on January 6;

— all Congresspersons, who may be called upon, in their respective chamber, to deal with challenges concerning, say, the integrity of the voting machines;

— the 100 members of the Senate, who could be called upon to choose a vice-president if the Electors’ ballots don’t clinch it;

I don’t believe the familiar “House leaders” have any role. The courts won’t be players on January 6; nor will the executive branch of government.  All responsibility falls now on Congress.

When there is no clear winner from the electors, we have what is called a contingent election, to be conducted, per the Constitution, by the House of Reps choosing a president and the Senate choosing a Vice President.

There has only been one contingent election of a VP in US history, namely Martin Richard Johnson in 1837, and two for president: Thomas Jefferson in 1801 and John Quincy Adams in 1825.

The Choreography

All 535 members of Congress assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives at one o’clock on January 6. The president of the Senate sits in the presiding seat. Per a 1948 federal law, the following will happen:

“Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate [Pence], all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes.”

They will be opened and acted upon in alphabetical order of the states.  The tellers, after reading them in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes. The votes having been ascertained and counted according to the rules in this subchapter provided, the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the vote, which shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses.

Note: the above is the uncomplicated picture.  Below, I will describe the “choreography” in the case of controversy.

The Law(s)

Some laws inevitably come into play, as they form the background of this procedure.  I will mention clauses from the Constitution, including Amendment 12 (ratified in 1804), and statutes from federal law, and from state laws.

Article II, section 1 of the Constitution tells how a president is elected. A specific number of electors from each state (who must not be government officials) meet in December and each signs a separate ballot as to his/her choice of president and VP.

Which individuals will serve as Electors?  Per the Constitution, it is for the state legislatures to decide — there are many variations per state law.  Note: it is at the discretion of the states to tell the electors they must pledge to vote for the man or woman who won the November election in that state. Currently, 32 states, with 341 electoral votes, use the pledge system.  The other 18 states have 197 “free electors.”

Federal statutes were provided by Congress in regard to electing a president, for such niceties as what date the electors must meet (“the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December”) and also for the choreography, as mentioned above, which is easily found in Title 4 of the US Code, section 15.

The Constitution is the boss if a contingent election happens. In Amendment 12 we see that when no candidate has received a majority of the 538 electoral votes (i.e., 270), the election devolves to the House of Reps. There will be one vote per state, plus one for the District of Columbia. Their pool of candidates has to be the top three vote-getters from the Electors’ December 14th ballots.

Interestingly, in regard to choosing a vice-president, if no VP hopeful got 270 electoral votes, the Senate can only pick from the top two – which will certainly be Harris and Pence. But the final winner of the presidency could conceivably be someone other than Biden or Trump.  If an elector has put forth a ballot with the name of a dark horse, that dark horse is eligible.

Another point of interest, if we have a contingent election, is that the concept of a “running mate” does not apply.  The House of Reps may choose Trump as president whilst the Senate may choose Harris as VP. Or the pair could be Biden-and-Pence.  Or it could be Dark Horse and either Harris or Pence.

Is There a Dark Horse?

The Constitution says that the December electoral college ballots should be transmitted “sealed” to Washington. Apparently, the word “sealed” does not mandate secrecy, as some state governors have announced the names that they certified.

I have not seen a complete list for 50 states plus DC and do not know if there are any dark horses. When Republican Senator Mitt Romney broke ranks with his Party in the Impeachment trial of Trump, I got the idea he may have “plans.”

I harbored a hope that some of the unpledged electors – from the 18 “free” states would have reached out for new blood. Those 18 states (shown with their number of Electors) are: Arkansas-6, Georgia-16, Idaho-4, Illinois-20, Kansas-6, Kentucky-8, Louisiana-8, Mississippi-6, Montana-3, New Hampshire-4, New Jersey-14, New York-29, North Dakota-3, Pennsylvania-20, Rhode Island-4, South Dakota-3, Texas-38, and West Virginia-5.

I have underlined the state if it had a November 3rd victory for Trump, and bolded the November 3rd Biden states.  Total of electors from non-pledge states is 197. I sure wish more had been said about Dark Horses in the press, to let people know there could be new blood. But all was hush hush. It’s too late now to add new names for January 6. (But see below.)

Elections Are Rigged, Aren’t They?

President Donald Trump, and many others, have claimed that the November 3, 2020 election actually showed him to be the winner “by a landslide,” but that there was cheating, and therefore the White House should not be handed over to Joe Biden.

A hard-hitting attorney, Sidney Powell, came along and said the cheating was largely the product of Dominion software.  I hereby state that I do not have a personal interest in supporting Trump.  I wish we had a better candidate. But I am quite sure that the election was “stolen” and so of course I think we need to enforce the law — for the sake of enforcing the law.

In 1992, Jim Collier published Votescam. He had to work hard at getting an answer to the question: “When ABC-TV announces the number of votes, shortly after the polls close, where do they get that figure from?” He found that they make it up. It’s done by a private group of media people. Since 2003, the group has been named NEP – National Election Pool. All three TV networks, plus CNN and Associated Press belong to it.

In my best guess, all elections have been stolen. The men picked — by The Powers That Be — to become president will always manage to get sufficient “votes.” Probably TPTB only allow their two picks to run against each other anyway, so the November outcome doesn’t really matter to them. If this is so, it would be quite the turnabout for the Sidney Powell forces to prevail.

How To Proceed To Resolve the 2020 Election

Here I attempt to cite any available legal methods for challenging the November 3, 2020 election. Some have already been tried, and in at least one Michigan county there was a recount that proved favorable to Trump.

There have also been lawsuits filed in district courts and some of these went to appeal. However, US courts lower than the Supreme Court are in the habit of “not getting involved.”  Judges can easily dismiss a case on a technicality such as “lack of standing.” Thus we never hear the merits. Alas.

One creative governor, Alan West of Texas, brought his state’s case to SCOTUS.  Per Article III of the Constitution, a state in dispute with the feds gets to go directly to the US Supreme Court.  Governor West’s complaint was that if other states had fraudulent results, that disadvantaged the voters of Texas (who were pro-Trump).

Amazingly, 17 states sent an amicus curiae brief to SCOTUS, siding with Governor West. More amazingly, the Court said No. More amazingly yet, West floated the idea of secession. He said: “Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states ….”  I think that was a reasonable rejoinder.

As for the court’s unwillingness (though with a few days left they may still come to the party!), note that in 2000, in Gore v Bush, the court did make a ruling that decided an election. It resulted in the recount in Florida being stopped, and this awarded the election to Bush. In a dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote:

“…It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law…. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law. I respectfully dissent.”

Back to the Choreography

Earlier I copied from 3 USC 15, mostly verbatim, the way Congress will act on January 6 if there is no dispute, no challenge to the validity of electors’ ballots. Quoting that law again (with some paraphrasing), here is what may be in store if hell breaks loose:

“Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received.”

(That is shortly after the vote count at one o’clock on January 6, 2021. A brand new senator, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, football coach, has said he wants to raise objections.)

“When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a state shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision.”

(The two chambers never debate anything together.)

No electoral vote or votes from any which shall have been regularly given by electors (whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title) from which but one return has been received, shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified.

Clearly the final arbiter in all of this is Congress, not the state, yet it is respectful to the state.

“If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State shall have been received … those votes, and those only, shall be counted which shall have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in section 5 of this title to have been appointed ….”

At this point, please note that we are no longer speaking of Reps voting en bloc per state. Voting within each chamber is by individuals and, as we know, the Democrat Party has a majority of the House’s 435 seats.

“In case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such State authorities determining what electors have been appointed … is the lawful tribunal of such State, the votes regularly given of those electors, and those only, of such state shall be counted whose title as electors the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of such State so authorized by its law…”

In other words, it takes agreement of both chambers to do anything. “But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted. …”

Fatigue May Be the Answer

In all the swing states in which Trump lost on November 3rd, the Republicans who would have been electors showed up at the electoral college. They claim to have signed the ballots.

There is going to be an extremely long session of Congress if this controversy does not settle down. However, we can think about the possibility of postponing the Inauguration. Amendment 20 of the US Constitution (ratified in 1933) says:

“If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President [January 20], the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, … the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.”

My Recommendation

Our elected leaders have been putting party loyalty above their duty to the nation. It is ridiculous. I have called it the Westminster-ization of Congress. The Founding Fathers did not intend that the legislatures’ decisions be made by edicts issued from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi or Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. They should be made by representatives of the people and with an eye to Rule of Law.

Today we are faced with serious allegations of election fraud.  The matter needs to be handled honestly and responsibly.  As the law maxim says, “Fraud vitiates everything it touches.”

If Joe Biden is wrongly handed the White House, that fraud will spell doom for everything.  It will mean that there is no way to do things in the American government other than by selfish calculation and kowtowing to the powerful.  I mean we would be saying “OK, the baddies can do as they please.”

My druthers at this moment would be for Trump to resign immediately, and withdraw his candidacy for the January 6 event. I recommend this mainly because the media has persuaded millions of Americans, over the last four years, that Trump has a personal desire for power and that this should be withheld from him.

In short, citizens are not as smart as they once were. They may be easily goaded into hostilities..  The media will cause the clash on January 6 to escalate into street violence. Then there won’t be a lawful way to settle it!

Military Involvement on Domestic Soil?

We should not be looking for a military solution to the January 6 event.  But General Mike Flynn was correct to say that the president should seize the offending voting machines. Is that not the normal job of the FBI – to investigate federal crime? The holdback is puzzling.

Were Trump to resign, Pence would become president until at least January 20.   As quoted above from Amendment 20: “the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President.”

Let there be meetings of citizens to talk about what has befallen us. The corruption in every branch of government is huge. The worst area is the DoJ where corruption (i.e., being beholden to some outside force) has for decades prevented the arrest of governmental criminals. Ergo, those criminals act with more and more impunity.

Another maxim is: Impunitas semper deteriora invitat – “Letting them get away with bad behavior always leads to worse.”  Still another one is Qui non improbat, approbat – “If you don’t protest, you approve.”

America’s Got Talent

Let Sidney Powell be a Special Prosecutor. She won’t be partisan – she is way above that. Let Robert F Kennedy, Jr be put in charge of anything having to do with children, and make Ty Bollinger “Secretary of Vaccinations.” Give Zephyr Teachout a Cabinet post – any Cabinet post. (She’s the author of Break ’em Up – about monopolistic corporations.)

Put Rand Paul in charge of the Federal Reserve Bank. Law professor Lawrence Lessig can be Keeper of the Cyber. Rep Tom Massie of Kentucky had the mettle to insist on the Legislature coming back to Washington to vote on a dicey bill. He honors the balance of powers — make him Vice President! Hey, America’s got talent.

We can use the troubles of the 2020 election to think new thoughts. Congress, as I said, has a lot of leeway via the 20th Amendment.

In a 1934 case, Burroughs v United States, which had to do with bribery, the US Supreme Court ruled:

“To say that Congress is without power to pass appropriate legislation to safeguard such an election from the improper use of money to influence the result is to deny to the nation in a vital particular the power of self-protection. Congress, undoubtedly, possesses that power, as it possesses every other power essential to preserve the departments and institutions of the general government from impairment or destruction, whether threatened by force or by corruption.”

Think back to Alexander Hamilton trying to sell us the plan for an Electoral College.  In Federalist 68, he said that the Framers were proposing that, a president would be chosen by electors “most capable of analyzing the qualities… under circumstances favorable to deliberation…. Nothing was more desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue and corruption.”  Wow.  Why can’t we have that?

 

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  1. Mary
    I congratulate you on a very technical and complex explanation of this issue. You have excelled in your articulation of the crisis. It may be one of your best this year! 🙂

    General Flynn is right that they need to be seized or confiscated by the military as the FBI cannot be trusted. I trust the military more than I trust the politicians and their alphabet agencies apparatus of deceit and criminality. Remember the Oklahoma bombing with the Clinton files?

  4. Why does nobody insist on a recount of legal votes. It is being said by many, that Trump won a landslide of votes from the public. Throw out the manipulated Dominion machines and count by hand, being verified as the count goes. It may take time but the voters have already spoken for their proper choice. Throw out any “mail-in” votes not folded or where signature verification has not been done. Sounds so simple to me. When the Constitution was written the Founding Fathers would not have foreseen counting done by machines, being used to falsify the election.

    • Ah, Mal, but the Founding Fathers did not expect any “election” at all. Just the quiet, thoughtful meeting of the “colleges”.

      Still, I agree with you that the Constitution can be re-interpreted properly to accommodate modern changes. My Dad was in the “Army Air Corps” (In WW II), so-called because the US Constitution allows only an Army and Navy, not an Air Force, But later they did change the name to Air Force, and recently added an “unconstitutional” Space Force.

      Elections are the provenance of the states. Fraud is a federal crime as well as a state crime. I am a stickler for state’s rights but states don’t exactly have a “right” to cheat.

  5. My scenario is a bit different but I don’t guarantee it in any sense or part as the actual outcome.
    It is partly based on fate as we saw Judge Ginsberg die at an appropriate time, much the same as Bob Hawke died the day before Bill Shorten lost the election (yes, LN coalition didn’t win, Shorten lost convincingly and continues to undermine the ALP, lucky for us, who are scared of surveillance communism now). These timely deaths have to be factored into probabilities.
    So.
    The electors having all received their death threats (horse-head in the bed, ladder on window, duck on table etc) all vote for Biden, then there is a splurge of releases some concerning Judge Roberts (remember Trump got Bill Clinton’s rape accusers on stage at the last minute), Judge Roberts gets locked up, the supreme court starts fast-tracking Joe and other people into jail (and onto death row, as we have seen Trump warming up the execution apparatus lately) and out of the chaos, Trump is inaugurated on the 20th.
    I guess this will invite yet another response from the Veggie putting it about that I am a Jewish child-molester but that’s the small price I have to pay to raise my occasional ideas.

    • By the by, on March 18, 2017 Gumshoe ran a long quote from Gedhart’s “Elements of English Law.” It included this on insurrection:

      “’Levying war’ again has been extended by Judicial interpretation so as to include insurrections against the Government, insurrections intended to intimidate Parliament, and even insurrections for any general public object (e.g. in the eighteenth century it was held treason to cause an insurrection for the purpose of destroying all dissenting meeting-houses).”

      OK, so if Facebook threatens to expunge all criticism of vaccination, is that like “destroying all dissenting meeting houses”?

      Has the US DoJ taken a position on the street actions by Black Lives Matter? If aimed at police, recall President George Washington’s reaction to the Whiskey Rebellion (which was an action against Tax Collectors!).

      • Laws get plastered on top of laws until you have to rely on “rulings” which are political.
        Slowly society morphs, in my lifetime for example I think in Tasmania marrying a 12 year old was lawful and sodomy was illegal, around the 1980’s, now it has flipped.

  6. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2020/12/x22report-deep-state-builds-the-false-flag-narrative-patriots-at-the-ready-countermeasures-in-place-must-video-3558984.html

    Note the 5 minute mark and the reference to Powell’s 270 page document on the election fraud. I have provided Dee with the link to the 270 pages. Have fun reading it and understanding it when she posts it. (it is a bit much for me)

    TV will no doubt read it and tell us all about it and explain why T will not win.

      • Ned, I shan’t be reading a single sentence from Powell’s 270 page document nor listening to a single syllable from X22.

        Because, at the end of the day, the powers that shouldn’t be have anointed Biden as the next SPOTUS (Sock Puppet Of The United States).

        So people, get used to it.

        • Everyone should take close note of Veggie’s predictions, only 2 days ago he was saying the US military was rubbish and the F35 plane couldn’t fly and today on MSM the F35s are all done and being exported and Australia is getting 17 billion worth of them. Apparently they can run some sort of drone and robot battle on the ground from up in one of these things. But that’s surplus to the point, which is that Veggie is an extremely reliable futurologist if you just take the OPPOSITE of what he says you will probably outperform all the indexes.
          Get his phone number, go to the casino, ask him “red or black” and put your chips on the opposite, James Packer will take a serious hit.

          • Everyone who read my piece the other day on the F35 knows I said it was a dud and was beaten in a dogfight by the F16 (an aircraft that came into service in 1974).

            The fact that there was a ‘dogfight’ implies that the F35 could get airborne and ‘fly’ – as opposed to w3’s claims that I said it couldn’t fly.

            You see readers, ‘w3’ is peeved that he can’t discredit the veracity of my statements so he resorts to his signature modus operandi. ie: he just come out and tells Porky Pies – and he’s come out with some whoppers over recent times.

            And yet other commenters exchange comments with him like he’s a benign entity.

            He’s isn’t.

            He has a purpose being here, an agenda.
            That being to obfuscate and spread disinformation.

    • Make up you mind Tomkinson.

      Either sanity prevails OR Trump gets a second term (seeing as they are mutually exclusive).

      That’s not to imply that sanity will prevail under Biden.

      No, it’ll just be a CONTINUATION of the insanity of the Trump term.

      ie: more neocon scum appointed in senior cabinet positions, increases in the depth of the swamp that Trump promised to drain (a swamp whose depth increased significantly these last 4 years), more war, more provocations / sanctions and bullying of smaller nations.

      • Take no notice of the Veggie, he is fixated, dreams of a crusade like 1000 years ago riding his horse to the sunny mediterranean and murdering lots of Jews, unfortunately the reality is he is riding his uber-eats bike around Paramatta narrowly avoiding being murdered by motorists

  10. Fascinating the story that W Bush has got himself a plea bargain, too cowardly to take the lethal injection, I guess anyone can see he is the weakest link, not really cut out to be a super-villain like some of the others. Maybe they will give him a job reading something out on Jan 6. Only a week to go, this is so much better than P.T.Barnum’s circus.
    Bypassing the usual numerology, notice P T Barnum is an anagram for Trump-nab

        • I guess after Sleepy Joe and Judge Roberts are locked up the US is going to go the full Weimar Republic and be totally debt-free from the world, then to get back on track they can start using God-backed money instead of counterfeit because it says somewhere “In God We Trust”

          • We shall see what time brings. Lots of rumours and fake news about this that and the other. It could be good or not be. It depends on a number of things. There are so many things that Trump has not done so that tell me something. He has had a long time to sort. I know it is a filthy vile corrupted infiltrated system to do anything. It is just so vast now to fix it just has to implode

        • Yes of course Mary, the 21 % figure isn’t plausible.

          The fact is, under Trump, the money supply has increased at a FAR greater rate than that.

          Firstly, let’s clarify what is meant by the money supply.
          Unlike in bygone eras, increases in the money supply are not just increases in the physical quantity of banknotes and coins in circulation – represented by M0 (ie: the M-zero money supply)

          These days, the overwhelming bulk of the money that is ‘printed’ is digitally created.

          Therefore, a better representation of the U.S money supply is the M1 – defined as follows :

          What Is M1?
          M1 is the money supply that is composed of physical currency and coin, demand deposits, travellers’ cheques, other cheque-able deposits, and negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) accounts. M1 includes the most liquid portions of the money supply because it contains currency and assets that either are or can be quickly converted to cash. However, “near money” and “near, near money,” which fall under M2 and M3, cannot be converted to currency as quickly.

          The graph below is a representation of the U.S M1 money supply increase over the last 12 months :

          https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

          The scale is in billions so a figure of 6048 for example means 6048 X $ 1 billion = $ 6.048 Trillion.

          As you can see, it has gone from just under $ 4 Trillion in Jan 2020 to just over $ 6 Trillion in November (an over 50 % increase in 10 months).

          Of course, it’s even HIGHER today.

          I suggest readers click onto the 25Y (25 Year) tab for a better perspective encompassing the last few SPOTUS’s (Sock Puppets Of The United States).

          Bear in mind, that the M1 figure of $ 3.976 Trillion as at January 2020 represents the AGGREGATE money supply ‘printed’ under every President COMBINED since the beginning of the Republic 230 odd years ago up until the start of this year.

          Then, Trump came along and increases it by over 50 % in TEN MONTHS.

          So, when I previously posted comments that Trump’s tenure as President has represented fiscal and monetary recklessness ON STEROIDS, this is no idle boast.

          (If anything, I probably toned down the severity of what he’s accomplished).

          And, there’s going to be a hell of a lot more debasement (aka money creation) of the USD in the months and years to come – hence ensuring that the U.S loses it’s reserve currency status, quickly followed thereafter by the destruction of the USD.

          And, for the sake of peace and goodwill between all men on Earth, it cannot come a minute too soon.

      • Yes we need a better deal for former presidents on death row, we can’t be giving them all lethal injections, after Carter goes there will be none left

  11. “The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.”
    Robert Anton Wilson

    ‘Stand and deliver’
    written by Van Morrison performed by Eric Clapton

  12. “On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge maximum security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jailbreak.”
    Robert Anton Wilson

  13. Now I can see some of the background why Australians are not resisting…

    Desertion, VD, murder and rape: the flip side to the Digger myth
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/desertion-vd-murder-and-rape-the-flip-side-to-the-digger-myth-20100801-111gv.html

    ‘Australians were 10 times more likely to go absent in the Great War than British soldiers, or the Canadians or New Zealanders,” says the British-born Dr Stanley, who was principal historian at the Australian War Memorial before moving to the National Museum of Australia.

    ”It embarrassed Australian commanders and it infuriated British officers like Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig that so many Australian were legging it. The British wanted Australia to introduce the death penalty for desertion, but Australia never did.”

    Dr Stanley’s latest book, Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force, published today, is described as ”a frank history” that explores aspects of the AIF that are usually omitted.

    Dr Stanley says there was no official cover-up. ”All the records are sitting there in National Archives.

    But Australians have preferred to dwell on the positives: on the best commanders, the best battalions, the great battles. ”And they have been reluctant to ask questions which result in awkward answers.”

    Portrait of the Anzacs: deserters more interested in booze, brawls and sex
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/portrait-of-the-anzacs-deserters-more-interested-in-booze-brawls-and-sex-20100801-111f3.html

      • No recognition from Hillary at all in shaking hands with Trump. Lol What does that say? No envelops for Cheney. Its a good confession note short and sweet before his lethal injection. So what does the world have to show for it with no new pronouncements?
        Anyway good riddins to an evil criminal!!!

        • Also on WWI, expanding further on what I posted in my comment below, it should come as no surprise, that an Australian (Henry William “Harry” Murray, VC, CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM ), was the most highly decorated infantry soldier of the British Empire during the First World War

          Murray rose from the rank of private to lieutenant colonel in three and a half years.
          Not a bad effort considering he started at the absolute bottom rung of the ladder.

          I knew nothing of him until I stumbled across a statue dedicated to him in the little town of Evandale, Tasmania many years ago.

          I then decided to look up the history of this fellow and determine why a statue was warranted.

          What I found out absolutely floored me.

          If you’re ever in that part of the world, look out for his statue – not hard to miss in this tiny hamlet.

          • Still on The Great War and unparalleled achievements of the Aussie Diggers, we have this :

            “On 8 August 1918, the Battle of Amiens was launched. Allied troops under the command of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, predominantly Rawlinson’s British 4th Army (consisting of the Australian Corps under General John Monash and the Canadian Corps under Sir Arthur Currie, and the British III Corps), attacked the Germans.
            The allied attack was spearheaded by the Australian Corps, who had been given the capture of enemy artillery as a key objective in the first phase by Monash in order to minimise the potential harm to the attacking forces. The battle was a strong, significant victory for the Allies, causing the Germans to recognise that for them the War was lost.

            The defeated German Head of the Army, General Erich Ludendorff, described it in the following words: “August 8th was the black day of the German Army in the history of the war”.

            On 12 August 1918, at Château de Bertangles, Monash was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on the battlefield by King George V.”

            Yes readers, you read right. The King of England rushed to the front and knighted Australian General Monash ON THE BATTLEFIELD – an unprecedented* event in the Great War to my knowledge, such was the magnitude of the victory that the Australians had achieved.

            (* Knighthoods are almost invariably conferred at a later date, and it’s always a case of the soldier going to the King’s residence to get bestowed – never the other way around).

            The Australians then achieved a series of victories against the Germans at Chuignes, Mont St Quentin, Peronne and Hargicourt. Monash had 208,000 men under his command, including 50,000 inexperienced Americans.

            Monash planned the attack on the German defences in the Battle of the Hindenburg Line between 16 September and 5 October 1918. The Allies eventually breached the Hindenburg Line by 5 October, and the war was essentially over.

            On 5 October, Prinz Max von Baden, on behalf of the German Government, asked for an immediate armistice.”

            Do not underestimate the role the Australians played in ending the Great War as early as it did – the Diggers played ‘THE’ decisive role.

            And that my friends, is why Sir John Monash features on our $ 100 bills.

          • TV
            Wow that is amazing!! War is chaos and hell and many never get the recognition they deserve. He learned tactics quickly or he just had it in him! 🙂

    • Arlyn, your stats for Aussie soldiers that went AWOL may well be correct.

      But, the diggers that stayed and fought were the BEST Allied troops of The Great War (with the Canadians a close second).

      By any metric you choose to utilise, there is near unanimity amongst objective military historians that, man for man, the Aussies outperformed all of them.

      Mind you, our diggers paid a heavy price for said achievements as they suffered the highest casualties per head of population. That’s because they were consistently used as shock-troops due to their high morale, excellent training and high combat effectiveness.

      The fact they were an entirely volunteer army, were well-paid, highly motivated and in physically peak condition made them useful as shock troops. Along with the equally effective Canadians, they were instrumental in turning back the 1918 Ludendorff Offensive when the British were on their last legs and the French were either almost totally spent or actually in a state of semi-mutiny.

      They then spearheaded the counter-offensives against the Hindenberg Line in 1918 that effectively finished the War.

      Yes Arlyn, you read right.

      Ground soldiers of NO other nation could match the remarkable territorial gains made by our diggers as they punched a massive hole in the Hindenburg Line during the last months of the war, a hole so great in depth and breadth that it was the DECISIVE factor leading to the eventual collapse and overtures of Armistice from the German high command.

      • In comparison, the U.S had only one year of active involvement in WWI, recording around 53,000 combat deaths (compared to Australia’s 61,000), but it’s achievements were totally overshadowed by the Aussies.

        The fact is, knowing that the war was in its twilight stage, U.S commanders recklessly engaged their troops in the final weeks of the war in an attempt to enhance their personal reputations and score ‘bragging rights’, knowing full well that an Armistice was being negotiated.
        No other Allied nation had such catastrophic casualty rates whilst concurrently posting such poor metrics in terms of territorial gains / enemy killed and captured.

        More often that not, their troops were shredded by German machine gunners in pointless charges, with little or no gain to show for it.

        • TV
          Thank you for bringing that to my intention. What sort of irks me is the Long Tan battle. They held their own for sure but it was the American artillery that gave them good support. Without them they would have been mince meat and they are never recognised for their support to the Australian diggers.

          I remember I didn’t have an Au dollars and the Aussie diggers said no worries mate will shout ya. 🙂 Anyway I had just two quick drinks as we stopped off in Darwin to come to Sydney for R & R and I was a bit wobbly as the Americans gave us the low alcohol beer so I wasn’t used to it in hot weather and downing it down before we took off again. I needed a bit of a hand. Lol

          • Yes Mary, I was referring to the Great War but Arlyn changed the focus to a Vietnam War skirmish so I will address that also.

            Arlyn, the Diggers did indeed get artillery support during the Battle of Long Tan but the decisive factor was from the RNZA (Royal Regiment New Zealand Artillery).

            Now, that’s not to say there wasn’t aerial support from U.S forces, but that proved to be ineffective.
            There was also some artillery support from U.S ground forces which certainly aided the Aussies but this was overshadowed by the input of the New Zealanders.

            Here’s a condensed account of some of the major events :

            “The Australians called for the waiting aircraft to drop napalm across 11 Platoon’s eastern frontage. The F4 Phantoms soon arrived, but the rain and low cloud obscured the coloured smoke the Australians had thrown to mark their position through the trees.

            The artillery fire recommenced as the VC (Vietcong) formed assault waves. Major Harry Honnor—officer commanding 161st Battery, RNZA attached to 6 RAR in direct support—served as Townsend’s artillery advisor at Nui Dat and during the battle controlled the fires of the three field batteries and the American medium artillery.”

            So, in a nutshell, although Australian, N.Z and U.S forces all participated and none shirked their responsibilities, the Aust and N.Z inputs deserve the bulk of the accolades.

            I don’t profess to know all the factors pertaining to this battle and will gladly defer to those of you that are more knowledgeable.

          • Dear Mary
            Yes I know thanks. I was just recalling m good times with the Australian diggers. I was just referring to another war as we know history is written by the winners and not necessarily the truth

          • TV
            No that’s a fair comment. Historians should write all who participated and they probably do except when the MSM comes along and the PR for the military circumstances change and the story does not get all of the facts or circumstances of the battle or of war. The saying is “The first of casualty of war is truth”

      • TV
        As an ex soldier I do understand completely what some of the guys went through particularly with heavy odds and heavy fire and heavy bombardments of artillery
        It used to be fight for your country but now it is fighting for the corporations and bankers

        • War, what is it good for?
          In the communist regime, I came from, they said a man did not mature unless serving a few years in the army. My late father lost three fingers, operating primitive three phase industrial spindle moulders, so missed military service. He was heads and shoulders above those that did, in all skills even with seven fingers. Carved sculptures in stone, went to the art gallery here in cbd, and they told him Renaissance was passé. In their eyes, a rusted 44 gallon drum with a few bits of welded metal added, was sculpture modern. Everything is bull shit, all bases loaded by people with absolutely no concept or experience in living. We are led by idiots and war pigs, many pedophiles. Most men that have served, never talk much about it, cause the pointless suffering is not worth mentioning. There is nothing heroic about murder – kill or be killed. All wars are banksters wars!

      • The Project Gutenberg EBook of Glorious Deeds of Australasians in the Great War, by E. C. Buley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg …

        https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51427/51427-h/51427-h.htm

  14. Oh, third try so you will have to adapt W3 and TV if you want to put a wager on this fo some GS entertainment.

    xhttps:x//www.xbitxchute.com/video/xzaj0xABr0EJi8x/

    I will sit, wait, watch and see………could be fun.

  18. I have to say this on behalf of the electors that wrote Biden on their ballot. If Biden won in their state, they did the right thing. (At least if they live in the 32 pledge states).

    The wordng of 3 USC 15, which I quoted at length, is not exactly tailored to the current situation whereby Powell (or anyone) discovered machine tampering.

    This is bigger than a breadbox.

  21. Lol Yeah you don’ want to miss that to be spruiked up or the NY Eve celebrations if any…At least you will be prepared just in case. 🙂

  23. Yes indeed he will and he deserves it bar none! He has lots of contacts and he now has more motivation but he is a general who will have all the eggs in the basket to get them at the appropriate time. How far he is allowed to go is another matter.

    Personally I am in favour of seizing those Dominion machines and invoking the Insurrection Act for a temporary measure to round up all those insurrectionists. It’s long overdue and the infiltration of these seditious and treacherous traitors is long overdue. If it does not happen then we know the game is over and the people have been played once more.

    Apparently JFK created Special Ops because of the criminal CIA actions to counter act
    Special Forces Raid CIA Run Server Facility in Germany ~ Seize US Election Servers
    https://c-vine.com/blog/2020/11/29/special-forces-raid-cia-run-server-facility-in-germany-seize-us-election-servers/

    • Arlyn, have not yet perused your link, but see if anyone in US is “insurrecting” at the moment. I think they are. Per 18 USC 2338:

      “Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

      Notice that last part of he punishment!

  24. Veggie, it was nice to hear your praise of the Diggers. I thought you were incorrect about conscription, but I just looked ii up. Joan Beaumont says this:

    “Conscription was the most divisive issue in Australian politics during the First World War. The expeditionary force which the Australian government offered to Britain in August 1914 was composed only of volunteers, since earlier legislation forbade the deployment of conscripts overseas. As the casualties on the Western Front mounted, voluntary enlistment proved unable to fully replace the losses in battle. In two referenda, in October 1916 and December 1917, the Australian electorate narrowly rejected the introduction of conscription, after bitter debates that split the governing Australian Labor Party and profoundly divided the population.”

    Fathom it — “earlier legislation forbade the deployment of conscripts overseas.” Fathom it.

    • The reason I had held that misapprehension? the song by Eric Bogle about Gallipoli:

      When I was a young man I carried me pack
      And I lived the free life of the rover.
      From the Murry’s green basin to the dusty outback,
      Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
      Then in 1915 my country said, “Son,
      It’s time you stop rambling, there’s work to be done.”
      So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
      And they marched me away to the war.

      • Yes Mary, there was the propaganda from the government that one had to show their support for King and country, coupled to the surge in Nationalism and pride for this newly Federated nation but, at the end of the day, the Diggers were all volunteers.

    • Mary it was the same for the US as well! Remember the Vietnam War protests of the likes that we have never seen? That is what should be happening now with this hostile takeover of Australia

  25. Check this out. The new stimulus bill is cornucopia city. Per cnbc.com:

    It puts nearly $30 billion into distributing Covid-19 vaccines and ensuring Americans can get shots for free. The measure also directs more than $20 billion to state testing and contact tracing efforts.

    Along with extending the eviction moratorium, it puts $25 billion into rental assistance. The airline payroll assistance is part of more than $45 billion in transportation relief.

    The package also directs $82 billion to K-12 and higher education.

    • Money printing is just fascinating, it is the fuel of empires. The Japanese used to print “Bank of Japan Dollar” notes for distribution all down the coast from Korea to Singapore in the early 1940s, they suddenly became worthless in 1945.
      Everyone has heard of the Weimar Republic and the wheelbarrows full of German marks but less well known is the finance minister who apparently fixed it and remained in the job throughout the war and after while German treasurers were cycled through. The German wars must have been partly financed by money printing, buying stuff from Turks, Serbs, Arabs, anyone who would take their printed scrip I guess. They would have been unable to print their own, and it would have had less legitimacy anyway. Now the Germans are trying it on again with the Euro 4th reich, the English are at least smart enough to break from it.
      Everyone should know the British Empire went broke in 1947 and handed over global hegemony to the US leading to the US triumphalist period up to about 1971 when the big cars came to an end. The guy Saud at the time was swindled into some petro-dollar arrangement and the Arabs got hung out as scapegoats for the US inflation of the 70s.
      Money printing has been going exponentially starting with the 2007 crash of W Bush.
      Apparently 21% of US dollars were printed in 2020.
      We all know the “great reset” is underway, in Australia the housing market is going strong, who would want to be holding too much cash in this climate.
      This must be the last big splurge before years of total austerity.
      It’s worse for the average US deplorable with limited resources, they are heading for a cliff with no way of knowing what is below the edge.
      All I can do is recite the old saying, boom bust depression war.
      Even Kamala right now would have no idea where she would be supposed to be taking the world, it would be news to her and all of us as she read it off the teleprompter.
      If you get rid of enough useless eaters, what’s left seems like a bonanza for the survivors.

    • I’ve spent months in military hospitals, I was even a pay officer one month where I went around to all the wards and paid the blokes in the beds. I’ve got some stories, but nobody wants to here those stories…

      • I’d like to hear them Terry.

        Perhaps you can drip feed them in from time to time as stories filter into Gumshoe articles about yet another treacherous attack by the Apartheid Israeli state or the U.S hegemon on yet another poor and impoverished country.

      • Terry,
        Pardon me, for unintentional disrespect in comment above. Write freely as you do, you’re experience and thoughts always good to read. You’ve survived hell that is war, and have prepared accordingly, knowing what can happen if shelves in mega stores become empty. Enjoy the fruits of your labour in good country rural Oz.

  27. COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Oxford-AstraZeneca Linked To British Eugenics Movement
    by GreatGameIndia

    The developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have previously undisclosed ties to the re-named British Eugenics Society as well as other Eugenics-linked institutions like the Wellcome Trust. ………….

    Eugenics under another name

    Despite these safety concerns and clinical trial scandals, close to 160 countries have purchased the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, and now reports are suggesting that India, the country with the second largest population on Earth, is likely to approve this vaccine by next week.

    As documented here, while the vaccine may be heralded as “vital for lower-income countries,” the Oxford-AstraZeneca project is no mere philanthropic pursuit. Not only is there a significant profit motive behind the vaccine, but its lead researcher’s connection to the British Eugenics Society adds another level of warranted scrutiny.

    For those encountering stories of eugenicists, it’s common to dismiss such activity as that of “conspiracy theories.” However, it’s undeniable that several prominent individuals and institutions that remain active today have clear ties to eugenicist thinking, which was not so taboo just a few decades ago. Unfortunately, this holds true for the individuals and institutions associated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, who, as demonstrated in this article, immerse themselves in studies of race science and population control – primarily in Africa while working closely with institutions that have direct and longstanding links to the worst of the Eugenics movement.

    As this series has shown, there are many concerns regarding the points where race and the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the US and abroad intersect, both publicly and privately. Part I of this series raised questions about the policy-shaping role of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which suggested that the US government make COVID-19 vaccines available to ethnic minorities and the mentally challenged first. Part II explained how in order to allocate COVID-19 vaccines in the US, health agencies are using a program created by Palantir, a company with a record of helping the US agencies target ethnic minorities through immigration policy and racist policing.

    Furthermore, there are plans in place to exercise what could reasonably be described as economic coercion to pressure people to “voluntarily” get vaccinated. Such coercion will be obviously be more effective on poor and working communities, meaning communities of color will be disproportionately affected as well.

    Considering these facts, and the case for scrutinizing the safety of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s “affordable” vaccine option made above, any harm caused by vaccine allocation policy in the US and beyond is likely to disproportionately affect poor communities, especially communities of color.

    As such, the public should take all vaccine rollout policy with a grain of salt, even when they come cloaked in language of inclusion, racial justice, and public health preservation. As the co-founder of the American Eugenics Society (later renamed “Society for the Study of Social Biology”) Frederick Osborn put it in 1968, “Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under a name other than eugenics.”

    Report by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb for Unlimited Hangout

    https://greatgameindia.com/covid-19-vaccine-eugenics/#Eugenics_under_another_name

  28. You Will Never Be Told the Truth About the Nashville Incident
    https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/you-will-never-be-told-truth-about-nashville-incident

    AT&T is connected to the CIA and NSA so we see more behind the bombing

    ‘CIA pays AT&T millions’ for phone records
    https://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/cia-pays-att-millions-for-phone-records/news-story/4df6a51903bdc5466a73187500b9555c

    Revealed: AT&T Offers CIA Subpoena-Free Access… for a Price

    Ongoing program allows intelligence agency to review global database for $10 million a year
    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2013/11/07/revealed-att-offers-cia-subpoena-free-access-price#

    The Wiretap Rooms
    The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
    https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

  30. Remember we are in he 21st Century not in the 1980’s

    Situation Update, Dec. 28th – Orbital weapons platforms reveal Trump is in a WAR much bigger than any election
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-28-situation-update-dec-28th-orbital-weapons-platforms-trump-war.html

    Here are the highlights from the podcast:

    FBI claim of DNA matching from the scene of the explosion carried zero credibility.
    The explosion disabled the ZME air traffic control comms out of Nashville, blinding air traffic control to high-level aircraft on that day.
    The FAA issued a highly unusual “ground stop” order.
    Aftermath of the explosion reveals the AT&T building was hardened like an NSA bunker, with reinforced concrete and a fake public facade, with fake vents.
    The AT&T building carried an NFP warning sign which explains, “Flammability 4 = will vaporize or readily burn at normal temperature, or is readily dispersed in air and will burn readily.”
    The materials warning sign also carried a “W” symbol: W = Reacts with water in an unusual or dangerous manner.
    The AT&T / NSA center had intercepted all the traffic of Dominion voting systems software updates and real-time remote manipulations from China and other countries.
    Data stored to magnetic tape, which was physically unharmed by the explosion but may have been subjected to electromagnetic interference sufficient to cause some data loss.
    The Nashville FirstNet comms system also served the Huntsville, Alabama FBI “second headquarters” which Trump was setting up as a “white hat” FBI campus. CNBC reported on the $1 billion FBI building there.
    CodeMonkeyZ shares tweet: I heard there was a BIG meeting last night discussing “significant intel that is so much bigger than anyone can imagine”.
    “Fairview” is the name of the NSA program to spy on Americans through AT&T data gathering.
    City Blue Imaging in Rochester burned down as part of a campaign to systematically destroy the evidence of voter fraud. This is the subcontractor involved in the printing of mail-in ballots. All equipment was destroyed in the three-alarm fire.
    Fake ballots in AZ arrived via a cargo plane from Korea, ballots were protected by AZ National Guard and transported to Maricopa County for counting in order to steal the election. This is the report from Stew Peters (see 2nd video below).
    Bobby Piton reveals new details of how “phantom voters” were used to rig the election, where people with common last names like Jones, Williams, Jackson were replaced with unique last name phantom voters who voted for Biden.
    Piton concludes, “a sophisticated State Actor was able to optimize a desired outcome for both the State of Georgia and the State of Pennsylvania.”
    Far-left journalist charged in BLM firebombing attack on police cars.
    Texas says pregnancy is a “medical condition” and plans to prioritize all people with medical conditions for covid vaccines, starting with Black and Brown people, as part of a eugenics / depopulation program to eliminate Hispanics and Blacks.
    It appears that Trump is dealing with much more than an election war, but rather a global war against human beings as citizens of Earth.

  31. Beware the New Alt-Right Media

    ……………….The sister publication to NTD is the Epoch Times, originally a Chinese language anti-CCP newspaper circulated in San Francisco and NY Chinatown has expanded to the English language to further promote its anti-CCP message and further the Holy Masters message to westerners.

    As for the NTD/Epoch Times Holy Master goes, simple examination shows that the Master and the organization known as Falun Dafa is a full-blown hardcore cult, with a dooms-day belief and rather bizarre and peculiar religious beliefs that they call ‘Practices and exercise’ that are embodied through a set of five religious postures that the followers MUST perform each day.

    http://www.renegadetribune.com/beware-the-new-alt-right-media/

  32. Ned’s link from above to a short video is worth a look, it’s about bank transfers evidence, could be as Pompeo said, “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration”, well who knows
    RICK WILES: “MR. BIDEN WILL NOT BE SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT. HE WILL BE ARRESTED.”
    https://www.bit
    chute.com/video/zaj0ABr0EJi8/

    Joe doesn’t seem too concerned if you look at his twitter account, his wife is filling it with fluff about xmas trees, dogs etc.

    • Meanwhile channel 7 this morning is telling us to get ready for a war with China, presumably they are talking about a Biden administration

      • Ned, (Re: you comments below), I have no crystal ball.
        I just connect the dots as best as I can.

        If being on the ‘wrong horse’ entails the unravelling of the cabal, then I’ll gladly back all the wrong horses in the field.

        However, my reading of the tea leaves suggests TPTSB (The Powers That Shouldn’t Be), have greatly consolidated their financial base under Trump’s tenure.

    • Rick Wales claims that his ‘source’ told him, that Biden will ‘capitulate’. Not surrender or [‘concede’, my interpretation]
      That suggests to me that the Hunter Biden tapes and available evidence of money transfers from China through to Biden will be Biden’s undoing and he will be given the opportunity to capitulate. Actually it seems that he will have no other real choice?
      Trump would surely expect Biden to make a public statement .
      I note that the Rick Wales report has now turned up at whatreallyhappened.com … bit slow Mike!
      Sorry TV! Seems that you might be on the wrong horse……but we will see, Unlike you, I do not have a crystal ball……….not even one with snow falling on Santa clouding the scene.

    • It’s all part of the theatre Ned.

      Trump will be the ‘opposition in exile’ and will continue moaning about how he was cheated out of a second term for the next four years in preparation for the 2024 election.

      He may not run himself in 2024 but Trump will always be the ‘spiritual leader’ of the movement.
      Come 2024 he’ll probably endorse Pompeo or perhaps even ex-Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, a disgusting war criminal that Trump pardoned a year ago or so :

      https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/476389-the-unpardonable-pardon-of-eddie-gallagher

      From the article above :

      “SEAL members recounted in gripping detail how Gallagher stabbed a wounded and defenseless teenager to death.

      Trump promotes this mindset by glorifying Gallagher and defending other accused and convicted war criminals. Consider that the president fired U.S. secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer when he challenged the effort to restore Gallagher’s rank. He recently invited Gallagher to his Mar-a-Lago estate for a photo op.

      Contrast that with the deafening silence Trump has displayed toward the SEALs who reported Gallagher’s alleged crimes. Their testimonies are noteworthy not just because they chronicled the horrifying actions of Gallagher, but because they did so at great professional risk. By breaking the normal “code of silence,” several of Gallagher’s platoon members put the integrity of the armed forces above their own self-interest.

      Regrettably, Trump’s words and actions since granting clemency for Gallagher have only made promoting a culture of integrity in the U.S. military – a challenge requiring ceaseless effort and vigilance – more difficult.”

      Think about that Ned. What sort of a man invites Jack-the-Ripper into his home for a PHOTO OP ????

      What sort of twisted and depraved mindset would fathom that ?

      Ned, it’s not as though Trump’s pardoning of Gallagher was an outlier, a one-off error of judgement and never to be repeated – as evidenced by Trump’s recent pardoning of the Blackwater war criminals.

      How is it that people cannot see that Trump is allied to / aids and abets / surrounds himself with the most depraved and immoral misfits on the planet.

      I’m mystified.

  37. Why We Should Bring Back the Tradition of the Christmas Orange
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-we-should-bring-back-tradition-christmas-orange-180971101/

    was the Saturday before Christmas, and all thro’ the malls, people were queuing, to purchase last-minute hauls.

    https://thefederalist.com/2016/03/17/why-you-should-wear-orange-this-saint-patricks-day/
    Orange Order calls on Protestants not to use the phrase ‘RIP’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40705687

  38. berry
    The pagan sun-god Mithraism Latin Roman Catholic Church-State military-political organisation is based on fraud, lies, murder, deception and presumption.

    Donation of Constantine fraud
    http://radiochristianity.com/donation-of-constantine-fraud/
    History’s greatest fraud was a monk who lived some time in the middle of the 8th century. We don’t know his name, but he wrote the Donation of Constantine. The Donation of Constantine is a document in which the Roman Emperor Constantine “donated” most of Europe to the Pope— the lands that later became the Holy Roman Empire. According to the document, Constantine made the donation out of gratitude because a Pope cured him of leprosy and converted him to Christianity. The Donation of Constantine is a fake.

    https://www.thoughtco.com/the-donation-of-constantine-1221782
    The Donation of Constantine (Donatio Constantini, or sometimes just Donatio) is one of the best-known forgeries in European history. It is a medieval document which pretends to have been written in the early fourth century, giving large areas of land and related political power, as well as religious authority, to Pope Sylvester I (in power from 314 – 335 CE) and his successors. It had a little immediate impact after being written but grew to be heavily influential as time went on.​​

    http://hebrewswakeup.com/resources/The_Greatest_Fraud_Divine_Right_to_Rule.pdf

    Constantine and the Sabbath Change
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Sabbath_change_Constantine

    Paganism and Catholicism: Mass
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_paganism_Catholic_mass_silver?escaped_fragment=#!
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_Catholic_pagan_Christmas_feasts

    THE ORIGIN OF FUTURISM
    http://pdf.amazingdiscoveries.org/eBooks/THE_ORIGIN_OF_FUTURISM.pdf (Abstract click on link for full article)
    Perhaps I should tell you something about “Futurism” and its origin. Many of our people know little or nothing about this dangerous deception. After over 40 years in full-time city evangelism I have come to the conviction that Futurism is one of the deadliest deceptions in Christendom today. This conviction is shared by other men who have devoted their lives to working for souls.For instance:Futurism has tainted and corrupted the whole evangelical system everywhere.Where did Futurism originate?This question demands a clear answer, so here it is:-The Reformers, one and all, applied the prophecies of the “Man of sin” and the“Antichrist” to the Papacy.John Knox, for instance, wrote, “The Pope is the head of the Church of Antichrist. As for your Roman Church as it is now corrupted.I no more doubt but that it is the synagogue of Satan, and the head thereof called the Pope, the man of sin.”Cranmer at his trial, gave what he knew was his dying testimony, “As for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ’s enemy, and the antichrist with all his false doctrines.”It was this conviction based on prophecy that made the Reformation. Bible prophecy added great strength to this God-led movement. Bible prophecy may not be the sole foundation but it provided a solid foundation. The Papacy was condemned by both precept and prophecy.Martin Luther never felt free to break with the Church of Rome until he discovered Justification by faith and had nailed his thesis on the church door. He still believed the Pope was the vicar of Christ and the church of Rome was Christ’s church. He merely aimed at reforming the Catholic Church. It was the discovery from Bible prophecy that finally gave him strength to make the full and final break. He discovered that the Pope was the Antichrist, the “Man of Sin.” He then burned the Pope’s Bull. To him his former church wasbut a counterfeit system. Now separate from Rome was not separation from Christ, but separation from Antichrist. This discovery produced the Reformation. It gave it it’s foundation and strength. The Reformation, we do well to remember, was born of a dual discovery:- The discovery of the true Christ and the discovery of the Antichrist. Prophecy had foretold the Reformation and prophecy had given the foundation. Is it any wonder that the Papacy, felt that at any cost, it must turn the evidence. The stigma must be removed.Ribera, a clever Jesuit was selected to do the removing of that damning stigma

  39. Boasts of the Roman Church about Sunday
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Sabbath_Sunday_Catholic_Church?platform=hootsuite#!
    The Catholic Church claims responsibility for the change from seventh-day to first-day Sabbath. Here is an explanation from The Catechism of the Catholic Church Section 2 Article 3 (1994):

    Denominational Testimony
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Sabbath_Sunday_denominations

    The Story Of Revelation Plays Out
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_Great_Controversy_Rome_Church_Christian#!

    Pentecostalism
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-pentecostalism_Reformation_Catholic_doctrine#!

    Seven False Teachings Of The Roman Catholic Cult
    https://soulrefuge.org/archives/6074

    Rome and the Orthodox Church
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Greek_Orthodox_Russian_Catholic

    Rome and American Evangelicals
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_America_Billy-Graham_Robert-Schuller

    Unity across Religions
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-unity_Pope_Vatican_Catholic_Mother-Teresa

    • The Law of Liberty

      Romans 14: 1Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. 2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. 4 Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

      5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; [a]and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died [b]and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of [c]Christ. 11 For it is written:

      “As I live, says the Lord,
      Every knee shall bow to Me,
      And every tongue shall confess to God.”

      12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. 13 Therefore let us not judge one another [d]anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.

  43. The First Beast’s Wound
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_beasts_wound_Mussolini_Napoleon#!

    666: The Number of a Man
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_beast_666_Vicarius-Filii-Dei
    https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/media/e/364/t/666-and-the-mark-of-the-beast

    3-Volume Books
    https://store-us.amazingdiscoveries.org/kock-the-truth-about-666-and-the-story-of-the-great-apostasy-book
    https://www.mustardseedministries7.com/uploads/4/2/9/2/42923535/edwin_dekock_the_truth_about_666.pdf

    Mark of the Beast
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/mark-of-the-beast-antichrist-papal-authority

    Mark of the Beast – Understanding the Context
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_mark-Beast_law

    And all the World Wandered After the Beast”
    https://lastcrisis.blogspot.com/2009/02/all-world-wandered-after-beast.html

  44. Mark of the Beast – The Image of the Beast
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_mark-Beast_image

    Mark of the Beast – Sunday: The Roman Catholic Emblem
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_mark-Beast_Sunday

    Mark of the Beast – Why is the Sabbath Commandment Relevant?
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_Sunday_Sabbath_seal

    Revelation 13 Commentary
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-beast_sea_earth_Revelation-13-commentary?escaped_fragment=

    The Beast, The Dragon and The Woman
    https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/book/e/53/t/the-beast–the-dragon-and-the-woman
    https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/book/e/53/t/the-beast–the-dragon-and-the-woman

    The Second Beast of Revelation 13 Introduction
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_beasts_earth_Revelation_power

    The Second Beast is a Lamb and a Dragon USA in Bible Prophecy | Revelation 13
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_lamb_dragon_America_Constitution

  45. Bowing to Babylon
    https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/storacle/e/5338/t/bowing-to-babylon

    Babylon The Mother Church The Doom Of Mystic Babylon
    http://pdf.amazingdiscoveries.org/eBooks/BABYLON_MOTHER_CHURCH.pdf

    The Final Confederacy: End-Time Babylon’s Components
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_beast_false-prophet_dragon#!

    The Scarlet Woman
    https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/book/e/72/t/the-scarlet-woman

    Symbolism in the First Angel’s Message
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/RT_encyclopedia_Revelation-14_symbolism#!

    The 3 Angels’ Messages, … Proclaiming God’s Final Message to the World
    http://www.the3angelsmessages.com/amazing_discoveries_doc_v01.html

    Revelation 18 Commentary
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception-Babylon-doom-Revelation-18-commentary

  46. Sola Christos, Sola Gracia
    We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man (See Hebrews 2). He is our ONLY means of salvation, and it is only by His grace and His grace alone through faith in Him that we are saved. We can do nothing to earn our salvation but through Christ, within us (His imparted righteousness) we are able to obey God.

    Sola Scriptura

    We believe in the veracity of the Bible as God’s holy unerring Word of God that has creative power. It is the Word of God from cover to cover. We believe the Bible is the guidebook through which all may find salvation and restoration and recommend it to be read slowly, prayerfully, and frequently

    HEEDING BIBLE PROPHECYUNDERSTANDING SATAN’S PLAN To Counterfeit the Second Coming of Christ & the Restoration of All Things
    http://pdf.amazingdiscoveries.org/References/RB/275%20PDFs/heeding-bible-prophecy-slide-82.pdf

  47. Quotes concerning The Bloody History of Papal Rome
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/R-Roman_Catholic_Inquisition_Jews_Protestant

    Stories of the Reformation
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/R-reformation-reformers-luther-ridley-huss#!

    The Bloody History of Papal Rome—A Timeline
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/timeline-of-bloody-history-of-papal-rome-oppression-of-protestants#!

    The History of Protestantism
    http://pdf.amazingdiscoveries.org/eBooks/THE_HISTORY_OF_PROTESTANTISM_03.pdf

    Protestantism Destroyed
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/R-Jesuits_Protestantism_Reformation_doctrines
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_Babylon_Protestant_Sabbath

    The Counter Reformation
    https://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_end-time_Babylon_Revelation_Reformation#!

    The Sabbath In Prophecy
    https://www.sabbathtruth.com/sabbath-history/the-sabbath-in-prophecy

    The Jesuits in History
    http://pdf.amazingdiscoveries.org/walter/39881790-The-Jesuits-in-History-by-Hector-Macpherson.pdf

  48. Here is a great precedent of why not many get tried of Treason
    20 Acts of Treason in American History
    https://historycollection.com/20-acts-of-treason-in-american-history/
    According to federal law, as defined in 18 United States Code Section 2381, “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason, and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States”. It would seem clear from a laymen’s reading of the statute that the entire Confederacy was guilty of treason during the American Civil War, but no Confederate leader was ever convicted under the law. There have been others though, Americans convicted of the crime against the United States.

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