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Both of the Media’s Reasons for Suppressing the Hunter Biden Story Turned Out to Be ‘False’

by Shelby Talcott
DailyCaller.com

Pre-election, much of the media disregarded the Hunter Biden laptop story first published by the New York Post.

The reasoning, as journalist Glenn Greenwald noted on Thursday, was twofold: Some members of the media claimed the story was Russian disinformation while others doubted the authenticity of the documents.

These pushbacks came despite The Daily Caller News Foundation obtaining a full copy of Hunter’s alleged laptop in October and verifying the NY Post’s “smoking gun” email, which showed Hunter receiving correspondence from a Burisma executive about an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015.

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Wyoming 38th State to Issue Mask Mandate, Sheriff Warns It’s ‘Unenforceable’

by Hannah Bleau
Breitbart.com

Wyoming is the latest state to implement a statewide mask mandate, with the order going into effect on Wednesday. However, Sweetwater County Sheriff John Grossnickle has warned the mandate is simply “unenforceable.”

The order requires masks in all indoor public spaces, as well as on public transportation, though those with medical conditions are exempt from the order. Gatherings have also been limited to no more than ten.

“Science tells us limiting gatherings of groups and using face coverings are effective in slowing transmission of this virus,” Gov. Mark Gordon (R) said, contending the steps will help the state avoid shutting down the economy.

“This is a necessary step to ensure a happy and healthy holiday season and a safer and Merry Christmas, and set ourselves in good stead for the new year,” the governor continued.

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Conservative Lawmakers and Legal Scholars Denounce Texas Election Suit as ‘a Mockery of Federalism and Separation of Powers’

The Constitution “plainly makes the appointment of electors a state-by-state matter.”

by Damon Root
Reason.com

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to directly intervene in the 2020 presidential election by overturning the results in four states—Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin—that went for President-elect Joe Biden.

In a new legal filing that arrived at SCOTUS yesterday, a prominent group of conservative lawmakers and legal scholars have denounced the Texas lawsuit as “a mockery of federalism and separation of powers.” Among its signatories are former Sen. John Danforth (R–Mo.), University of St. Thomas law professor Michael Stokes Paulsen, former Department of Homeland Security official Paul Rosenzweig, and Princeton University legal scholar Keith E. Whittington. Those names are all known and respected among the justices of the Supreme Court.

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Vaccine Trial Participants Warn: Side Effects After Second Shot Are “Intense”

by Mac Slavo
SHTF Plan

Participants in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials have a warning for those willingly taking the shot. The side effects after the second jab are “intense.”

The FDA said data from Pfizer’s Covid vaccine trials show that side effects are common, though there are “no specific safety concerns identified that would preclude the issuance of an” emergency use authorization.” According to CNBC, the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine is both safe and effective, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In a report released Tuesday morning, the FDA indicated that it could greenlight the country’s first Covid-19 inoculation within days.

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University Medical Center Won’t Order Staff to Take Covid Vaccine Due to ‘General Uncertainty’

Insufficient long-term data to make jab mandatory, medical director says

by Zero Hedge
Info Wars

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) won’t require its health care employees to take the upcoming COVID-19 vaccine, which the medical provider expects to begin offering as soon as this month, according to PennLive.

The reasons are several-fold, according to UPMC medical director of infection prevention and epidemiology, Dr. Graham Snyder. For starters, general uncertainty over the vaccine. And while the $21 billion nonprofit organization (which employs 89,000 people) has a mandatory flu vaccination policy, it’s “based on decades of experience with the influenza vaccine,” according to Snyder.

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The World is Now at a Critical Turning Point

from King World News

The world is now at a critical turning point and that has many across the globe very concerned.

Dying Capitalism & The New Feudalism

December 10 (King World News) – Matt Piepenburg at Matterhorn Asset Management: American exceptionalism, as current COVID and capitalism disasters confirm, has morphed into a distortion that resembles more of a comorbidity than a guiding light.

Despite a prior reputation for leading the world in innovation, problem solving and health care, the U.S. is witnessing record hospitalizations in a nation comprising 5% of the global population yet 25% of its COVID infections.

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Freedom is on the Run with Doug Casey

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Doug Casey knows that the world is in very serious shape right now. Governments have use the pandemic to greatly increase their power and further subjugate their citizens. And this is very worrisome to citizen off the world Doug Casey. Freedom is on the run. The only safe places he sees are Uruguay in South America and perhaps Portugal in Europe. He refers to Europe as a sinking ship and certainly most of Asia is a no-go. Depressions can last for decades and the Great Depression may go on for quite a while, just look at Russia’s 20th Century Depression that lasted over 80 years and China’s near 50 year Depression. They’re caused, directly or indirectly, by government and this one is no different. And as Doug also states, “Government is the cause of poverty.”

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They Want the Reset with Nick Santiago (Ep #174)

from Daily Market Wisdom with Nick Santiago

For more than 20 years, Master Trader Nick Santiago has been beating the markets. He’s made some incredible calls along the way and now he’s looking to spread the word. There’s no reason that the average trader should be coming up short. So now we’ve started a daily show to bring you up to date on the latest market developments. Nick will be sharing trades and concepts and discussing current trends.

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Platinum! with Chris Vermeulen

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Chris Vermeulen returns… Markets are in for a very wild ride. Covid taking front and center and the stock market is still holding up in spite of the threat.There’s an attempt at the Santa Rally, we’ll see if it succeeds. However, markets will close higher for the year. Renewed investor interest will keep things moving to the upside. They’re looking beyond. Rally will continue into January. More stimulus is certainly coming and the markets can’t get enough of it. At some point there will be a pretty sharp connection. Perhaps another March crash. But until then, individual industries are rocketing higher. EV market is on fire. Big money is flowing into it. How long will they print for and drive the Dollar down? Nominal returns aren’t real returns.

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Good News and Bad News

by James Rickards
Daily Reckoning

As of yesterday, nearly 15 million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19, while over 281,000 people with the virus have died.

Caseloads are actually higher than they were in April (although fatalities are not as great because of improved treatments and new therapeutics).

The U.S. registered over 4 million infections in November alone, more than double October’s record 1.9 million infections. But here’s the good news:

Several highly effective COVID vaccines are already approved for use or are expected to be approved shortly.

The major pharmaceutical companies are geared up to produce billions of doses (and several billion doses are already produced, just waiting for the final approvals).

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Who Will Be the Fraud Deniers?

by Jay Valentine
American Thinker

“These are just anomalies. They happen in every election.”

Well folks, anomalies cease to be anomalies when they all go in one direction. When every outlier favors Biden, we enter the realm of prima facie fraud.

Fraud.

It’s an ugly word.

It does not have a pretty synonym. Too bad.

Election fraud at the industrial scale perpetrated in the 2020 election is a crime most Americans will remember all their lives. Books and movies will come out. Retired math PhDs exiled to the basement by their spouses will continue to find statistical patterns that simply do not happen in straight data sets.

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Seventeen States Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit Alleging PA-MI-GA-WI Elections Were Unconstitutional

by Hannah Bleau
Breitbart.com

Seventeen states filed an amicus brief Wednesday supporting the state of Texas’s lawsuit — filed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court — which targets Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin over claims of unconstitutional practices in their respective elections.

The states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia:

States that have joined Texas’ Lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court:

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Hunter Biden Says His ‘Tax Affairs’ Are Under Investigation

by Damjan Tutarkov
LaCorte News

President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, revealed Wednesday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware is investigating his “tax affairs” and said he takes the probe “very seriously” and is “confident” he conducted his dealings “legally and appropriately.”

Hunter’s statement: “I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,” Hunter Biden said in a statement, according to Fox News.

The network cited an anonymous source who said the investigation began in 2018.

“I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors,” Hunter said.

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Ray Dalio Sees ‘Flood of Money’ with Soaring Asset Prices

by Bloomberg News
News Max

Ray Dalio stressed the importance of diversification in a Reddit Ask Me Anything event on Tuesday where he said that a “flood of money and credit” was unlikely to recede.

“Assets will not decline when measured in the depreciating value of money,” the billionaire investor told users of the discussion network who asked for his perspective on where financial markets are headed. “I believe that with the enormous amount of debt and money that has been created and will be created in the future, the most important thing to pay attention to is the value of debt and money relative to the value of assets and other currencies.”

Dalio added that he saw no reason that stocks couldn’t trade at 50 times earnings and recommended “smart diversification” among asset classes, currencies and countries.

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Record IPO & SPAC Bubble Fattened by Ridiculous DoorDash IPO. Airbnb Next.

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

Startup investors making hay while the sun shines. Public in blindly exuberant feeding frenzy. But the IPO ETF is down 3.0% today, on too much hot air?

Food-delivery outfit DoorDash sold 33 million shares to institutional investors yesterday for $102 each, raising $3.37 billion, for an initial market value of $38 billion. Shares [DASH] started trading mid-day today, went on to around $190, for an initial pop of 86%, giving it briefly a ridiculous market value of $70 billion, before backing off. In 2018, the company had a “valuation” of $1.4 billion.

But this was only the third-largest public listing this year, behind Bill Ackman’s $4 billion SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company), a blank-check outfit that will attempt to buy something later, and Snowflake’s $3.86 billion IPO.

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The Past Lives On: The Elite Strategy to Divide and Conquer

by Edward Curtin
Off Guardian

“They call my people the White Lower Middle Class these days. It is an ugly, ice-cold phrase, the result, I suppose, of the missionary zeal of those sociologists who still think you can place human beings on charts. It most certainly does not sound like a description of people on the edge of open, sustained and possibly violent revolt,” wrote the marvelous New York journalist, Pete Hamill in “The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class” in New York magazine.

He added:

The White Lower Middle Class? Say that magic phrase at a cocktail party on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and monstrous images arise from the American demonology. Here comes the murderous rabble: fat, well-fed, bigoted, ignorant, an army of beer-soaked Irishmen, violence-loving Italians, hate-filled Poles. Lithuanians and Hungarians….Sometimes these brutes are referred to as ‘the ethnics’ or ‘the blue-collar types.’ But the bureaucratic, sociological phrase is White Lower Middle Class. Nobody calls it the Working Class anymore.

He wrote that on April 14, 1969. Yesterday. Little changes.

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Bitcoin vs Gold – Part 1

by Marin Katusa
Katusa Research

Ok this week I will introduce my two part series on Bitcoin vs Gold.

To all the crypto players out there, I am on your side.

But what I am going to share this week – and conclude next week – will shock the Bitcoin world… using advanced math to prove that the model many of the talking heads and crypto gurus are using, is actually wrong.

I’ll get to that shortly. But first… let’s cover where we’ve been.

It was just mere months ago that gold broke to new all-time highs of $2,089. Though it has pulled back since then, gold has since settled in at a level not seen in a decade.

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