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PA Supreme Court Says Stop Counting Illegal Ballots

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Election Boards to Stop Counting Illegal Ballots

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is ordering Boards of Elections throughout the state to follow its previous rulings and not count “mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply” with the state election code.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its ruling on Monday, as elections board officials in Bucks County, in particular, have defied Pennsylvania Supreme Court precedent and moved to count ballots that the court has determined cannot be counted.

The ruling reads in part:

The Court hereby ASSUMES its King’s Bench authority over the instant Application, see 42 Pa.C.S. § 502, only to DIRECT that all Respondents, including the Boards of Elections in Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County, SHALL COMPLY with the prior rulings of this Court in which we have clarified that mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Election Code, see 25 P.S. §§ 3146.6(a), 3150.16(a), SHALL NOT BE COUNTED for purposes of the election held on November 5, 2024.

The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania brought the lawsuit against all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, as all eyes are on the U.S. Senate race where Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) refuses to concede to Sen.-elect Dave McCormick (D-PA) despite the Associated Press calling the race for McCormick more than week ago.

The ruling comes days after Bucks County commissioners Diane Ellis-Marseglia and chair Robert Harvie Jr. moved in a 2-1 vote to count 405 misdated or undated mail-in ballots on November 12, as counsel for McCormick pointed out in a separate lawsuit against the Bucks County Board of Elections in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.

“The Board did so even though its legal advisers recommended rejecting the ballots ‘based on the current state of the law,'” the appeal read.

After a warning from the county legal advisers that counting the ballots would likely lead to a lawsuit, Ellis-Marseglia said, “I just can’t vote to reject [these ballots]. I just can’t,” per the filing.

Walter Zimolong, McCormick’s counsel, wrote that the “Board violated the Election Code’s mandatory date requirement and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s repeated orders holding that the date requirement must be enforced.”

Soros Glad US Approved Use of Long-Range Missiles in Ukraine

Alex Soros Celebrates Reports of Biden Approving Ukraine Missile Strikes in Russia as ‘Great News’

Democrat mega-donor Alex Soros has hailed the reported decision by outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use American-made long-range missiles to strike targets within Russia.

On Sunday, legacy media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal reported — citing unnamed U.S. officials — that with just two months left in his term, President Biden had reversed course and signed off on Kyiv using Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles to strike targets within Russia.

Previously, the 81-year-old Democrat had been wary of making such a decision over widespread concerns that long-range strikes with American arms could spark an escalation in the conflict between Western nations and the world’s largest nuclear power.

Apparently, unconcerned with the potential of an escalation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations Alex Soros wrote on X, “This is great news!” in response to a report about the sign off on ATACMS strikes inside Russia.

The scion of globalist George Soros’ international influence network has been an outspoken proponent of Ukraine continuing the war with Russia, and has even entered into partnership with a charity sponsored by President Zelensky’s wife.

Since Ukraine gained independence from Russia, the Soros family has been very active in the former Soviet state through its International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) in Kyiv.

According to the Open Society Foundations, the IRF has been the “largest independent funder of Ukraine’s vibrant array of civil society and citizen’s groups for more than three decades.”

Over the past decade, alone, the Soros organisation has poured over $230 million into the country, including to help establish the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine in 2015.

As with the network’s operation elsewhere, the Soros foundation has long sought to influence the political environment in Ukraine, with George Soros admitting in 2014 that Open Society played an “important role” in the Western-backed Euromaidan movement which toppled the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych for opposing cutting off ties with Moscow.

Soros's supportive post on X might be actually telling us it is a terrible idea indeed.
Let's hope Russia won't start using nukes after learning about this sudden approval.

National Security Adviser Admits American F-16's & Tanks Didn't Help Ukraine

Jake Sullivan: F-16s, Tanks We Provided to Ukraine Didn’t Make Much Difference, Ukraine Must Do Better

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Monday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan responded to criticism of the Biden administration for delaying providing tanks and F-16s to Ukraine by stating that those haven’t made a significant difference on the battlefield and “the straightest line between Ukrainian performance and inputs” is “mobilization of manpower.” And “Ukraine needs to do more, in our view, to firm up its lines, in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines.”

“NewsHour” Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin asked, “In the past, you’ve tried to avoid provoking the Russians from escalating, at times. You didn’t provide tanks, and then you did decide to make that decision to provide tanks. You didn’t provide F-16s, then you did provide those F-16s. Do you believe, at this point, looking back, if you had provided any of those authorizations earlier, it would have made a difference to Ukraine in the war?”

Sullivan responded, “Have we seen a marked difference since we have provided tanks to Ukraine, in terms of the battlefield? Similarly, on F-16s, have we seen a marked difference? Our view has been that there’s not one weapons system that makes a difference in this battle. It’s about manpower. And Ukraine needs to do more, in our view, to firm up its lines, in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines. It’s about munitions, and it’s about all of the other things that go to a country’s national strength, their morale, their cohesion, their industrial base.”

Schifrin followed up, “But I ask because Ukraine is losing more territory today than at any point this year. So, do you really believe that nothing the U.S. could have done earlier would have changed that?”

Sullivan answered, “We provided the tanks, we provided the F-16s, we provided the HIMARS, we provided the Patriots. We provided many of the things that you said earlier we wouldn’t provide. And it’s not back then, it’s rather today that Ukraine finds itself in a more challenged position on the battlefield, suggesting that there’s not a straight line between those weapons systems and how it does on the battlefield. Where is the straightest line between Ukrainian performance and inputs? It’s on mobilization of manpower.”

HHS Officer Against Trump's Reforms

Head HHS ‘Climate Change’ Officer Vows to Resist Trump’s Reforms

John Balbus, who heads the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, says he is hardwiring his office’s work into the agency to resist President-elect Donald Trump’s vowed reforms of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Balbus’s plan of action entails senior executive service employees, who are the hardest to fire, creating and disseminating a global warming “training module” to all employees for “climate literacy.”

The goal is for his training module to remain even if Trump axes his Office of Climate Change and Health Equity.

“Health systems are recognizing that this is a business issue, this is a financial risk issue, that it’s a threat to the mission,” John Balbus told PoliticoPro on Monday.

PoliticoPro reported on the agency’s fear of Trump vow to purge the administrative state:

With President-elect Donald Trump’s second term looming, the leader of the climate change office that President Joe Biden created at the Department of Health and Human Services hopes its work can live on in atomized form.

Trump is expected to shutter the three-year-old HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, whose small staff focuses on efforts to communicate climate-driven risks to health-care operations and public health. The office has subsisted on staff detailed from other federal agencies.

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Yet Trump represents a threat to many of the initiatives Balbus’ office has touted because they rely on the Inflation Reduction Act, which Trump has vowed to reverse. Biden’s climate law has supplied key funding for health-care and hospital systems to improve their defense against the effects of climate change, particularly through direct payments supported by Treasury Department tax credits, Balbus said.

The term “administrative state” describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, exercising power to create and enforce their own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not formed by the Constitution.

Before Trump left office in 2021, he signed an executive order (EO) to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability and job performance within the bureaucratic agencies. “You have some people that are protected that shouldn’t be protected,” Trump said in April about Schedule F.
President Joe Biden canceled the order in 2021, but with Trump’s victory, he could reimplement the executive order and purge the unelected technocrats steering the federal government.

Harrison Ford's Climate Hypocrisy

Climate Doomer Harrison Ford Seen Disembarking Private Jet in LA After Promoting Climate Change Activism

Hollywood star Harrison Ford, who has publicly promoted climate change activism, was recently seen disembarking a private jet, reportedly en route from celebrating the birthday of his wife, actress Calista Flockhart.

Harrison Ford was snapped on Monday stepping off the jet in Los Angeles, one day after Flockhart’s 60th birthday, according to a Daily Mail report.  The actor is a regular flier of private jets, having been photographed numerous times in the past despite his support of climate change activism.

Ford called the effects of climate change the “greatest moral crisis of our time” in a 2019 video. The following year,  he said “this shit is going to kill us,” referring to what he called a looming climate disaster.

He has also backed Greta Thunberg, saying that young climate activists like her represent the “moral army.”

None of these declarations appears to have dissuaded Harrison Ford from using private jets, whose carbon emissions put the actor way above the average American’s yearly output.

Harrison Ford recently endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House, claiming that Harris and running mate Tim Walz “believe in science.” Ford was one of numerous Hollywood celebrities who endorsed Harris in the days leading up to the presidential election.

But all that Hollywood star power failed to carry Harris over the finish line, with President-elect Donald Trump winning both the electoral and popular votes.

EUROPE

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Ukraine: Iranian Missiles & Drones Hit Energy & Power Infrastructure

Zelensky Says Russia Used Iranian Missiles, Drones in Infrastructure Attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s energy and power infrastructure with hundreds of drones and missiles, including Iranian-made weapons.

Russia is very fond of Iran’s Shahed series of propeller-driven suicide drones. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry claims Russia has launched over 8,000 Shahed drones over the past two and a half years.

“The enemy’s target was our energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine. Unfortunately, there is damage to objects from hits and falling debris. In Mykolaiv, as a result of a drone attack, two people were killed and six others were injured, including two children,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian president said his forces were able to intercept 144 of the Russian-launched drones and missiles before they hit their targets, but the attack was so massive that many of the projectiles got through.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing explosions in Odesa, Zapoizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipro, and the capital city of Kyiv. The major port city of Odesa was reportedly left without power after the attack, forcing hospitals to run on emergency generators. Several other regions reported blackouts.

“The situation is most difficult in Odesa and Odesa district. Unfortunately, it is not yet technically possible to supply power to the critical infrastructure in the Kyivskyi and Primorskyi districts of the city,” Ukraine’s power distributor DTEK said on Monday.

DTEK said power was restored to about 400,000 homes as of Monday morning, while 321,000 customers were still without power. The regional governor of Odesa, Oleh Kiper, said work was proceeding on restoring water and heat to the region, but, meanwhile, 445 shelters had been established for residents.

Ukrainian officials warned rolling blackouts would affect most regions of the country on Monday, lasting up to eight hours in some regions.

Kiper said the Russian attack killed at least eight civilians and injured 18 more.

Russian Nuclear Doctrine Updated

Ukraine War Day 1,000: President Putin Updates Russian Nuclear Doctrine in Clear Missile Strike Warning

Russia has updated its nuclear doctrine, stating that in some circumstances attacks against it with conventional weapons will be considered sufficiently threatening to launch a nuclear retaliation.

Today is the 1,000th day since Russia attempted a blitz attack to capture Kyiv and other key Ukrainian cities, meeting stronger than expected resistance and logistical difficulties, leading to a bloody near-three year war. Following an apparent signal that the United States in the dying days of the President Joe Biden administration is willing to step up the war by permitting Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia, the Russian Federation has articulated that it could consider such attacks a matter for nuclear retaliation.

Ukraine wasted no time, however, and it is claimed they made their first long-range missile strike on the Russian interior this morning.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the nation’s new nuclear doctrine into existence by decree on Tuesday morning, Kremlin state media says. The document, now on its third revision in 15 years, is said to have been prompted by “new military threats” faced by Russia after its decision to re-invade Ukraine.

Per a statement from Moscow: “The amended doctrine expands the range of countries and military alliances subject to nuclear deterrence, as well as the list of military threats that such deterrence is designed to counter”.

Crucially for Western military planners, Russia now considers “any attack” by a non-nuclear country that is supported by a nuclear power — as could be argued is the case with the United State, France, and the United Kingdom’s support of Ukraine — as a “joint attack” and liable to a nuclear response. Such attacks include conventional weapon strikes that threaten Russian “sovereignty” and “large-scale launch of enemy aircraft, missiles, and drones targeting Russian territory”.

As well as Russian territory, the doctrine also encompasses Belarus — which has a considerable border with the European Union — and which has lately been fully locked into the Russian nuclear defence system.

President Putin signing off on the new document has been interpreted specifically as a response to U.S. President Joe Biden allegedly agreeing to allow Ukraine to launch long-range missile strikes deep into Russia’s hinterland. Those claims have yet to be confirmed by the White House, and the new Russian nuclear doctrine has been in the works at least since September, when conversations about the possibility of longer-range Ukrainian strikes with American and European weapons were kicked up a gear.

Nevertheless, Russia reacted with extreme aversion to the claim the White House had signed off on missile strikes, with several Kremlin leaders warning of escalation and even President Putin’s previous claims that such an attack would mean a state of war between the U.S. and Russia.

Emphasis is mine. Yes guys, things are moving faster than ever before now that Biden knows he has few days left in office.

Soros's supportive post on X might be actually telling us it is a terrible idea indeed.
Let's hope Russia won't start using nukes after learning about this sudden approval.  

Yeah, I admit that opinion of mine isn't aging very well.

Putin's Ideologist Makes it Clear: Russia Wants to Annex Ukraine!!

Putin’s ‘Brain’ Slams Peace Proposals, Warns Trump ‘Underestimates’ Russia’s Demand for ‘Full Control’ of Ukraine

Russia’s demands for Ukraine go beyond peace deals or territorial compromises, with “full control over Ukraine” being a non-negotiable goal for Moscow, according to Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin. Dugin is known as “Putin’s brain” and has described the West as the “source of absolute evil,” claiming that Trump “underestimates” Russian ambitions while admitting that Moscow had failed to accurately explain to the U.S. “what we really wanted.”

In an interview on the New Rules podcast, Russian ultranationalist and political philosopher Alexander Dugin revealed Russia’s uncompromising stance on the Ukraine conflict, asserting that any negotiations must begin with full Russian control over all Ukrainian territory.

“Nobody in Russia [has] yet to clearly explain to your [U.S.] administration what we really want of Ukraine, but we really want the full and total control over Ukraine as part of our space,” he admitted.

Dugin dismissed current Western-backed peace proposals, such as ending the conflict or delaying NATO membership for Ukraine, as entirely unacceptable. 

“We start speaking about the freezing of the conflict after we have guarantees that all territory of Ukraine will be under [Russia’s] control,” he demanded, adding that “the only way for us to start peace talks is to get full control over all the territory of Ukraine.”

Dugin further elaborated that Russia considers Ukraine’s existence, in any form, incompatible with Russia’s own survival, arguing it is an existential necessity in Moscow’s geopolitical calculus. Acknowledging that former U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection could shift dynamics, the nationalist Russian philosopher warned that Trump “underestimates” the strategic importance of Ukraine to Russia.

“[The] existence of Russia is incompatible with the existence of any form of Ukraine, and maybe that could seem to Trump a bit exaggerated, but that is a very realistic approach,” he stated, insisting that the incoming U.S. leader “understand that it is not an exaggerated claim but rather an existential necessity of Russian geopolitical being.”

While Trump may view the conflict as an “annoying” inconvenience inherited from his predecessors, Dugin emphasized that for Moscow, Ukraine represents an “existential ontological priority” that outweighs all other concerns. 

“I think that the problem is he doesn’t understand the real importance of Ukraine for Russia. He may be misjudging the situation thinking that it is just about some new acquisitions of our earths, of territories, and not recognizing it as an existential threat to Russia,” Dugin said, stressing that any future U.S.-Russia negotiations must start with the West acknowledging Russia’s unyielding demand for the entirety of Ukraine to be part of its sphere of influence.

Threatening the unleashing of Russia’s ability to “cause pain” to both the West and Trump in particular, including the complete destruction of the world, Dugin noted that the issue of Ukraine is “not the only thing” that stands between Russia and the West.

“There are many other issues, and in these issues, we could behave ourselves much more aggressively than we did before,” he warned, adding that the U.S. should calculate its gains if Russia would ultimately “start nuclear conflicts” and “destroy humanity in response to the extremist globalists position in Ukraine.”

Yeap, that portion of the article HAD to be emphasized.  How terrible!

Denmark Wants to Convert Farmland into Forests

Denmark Set to Convert 10 Per Cent of Country’s Farmland Into Forests

Danish lawmakers on Monday agreed on a deal to plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest and natural habitats over the next two decades in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage.

The government called the agreement “the biggest change to the Danish landscape in over 100 years.”

“The Danish nature will change in a way we have not seen since the wetlands were drained in 1864,” said Jeppe Bruus, head of Denmark’s Green Tripartite Ministry, created to implement a green deal reached in June among farmers, the industry, the labor unions and environmental groups.

Under the agreement, 43 billion kroner ($6.1 billion) have been earmarked to acquire land from farmers over the next two decades, the government said.

Danish forests would grow on an additional 250,000 hectares (618,000 acres), and another 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres), which are currently cultivated on climate-damaging low-lying soils, must be converted to nature. Currently, 14.6% of land is covered by forests.

The deal was reached by the three-party Danish government – made up of the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the center Moderates – and the Socialist People’s Party, the Conservatives, Liberal Alliance and the Social Liberal Party.

A vote in parliament on the deal is considered a formality.

In June, the government said livestock farmers will be taxed for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming.