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Oct 13, 2021Liked by William Whitten

Given that the courts refuse to hear evidence because they fear getting involved in politics, the citizens must awaken to the need to become observers of the processes. As observers they must object when they see unusual activity. If they are unable to observe, Federal marshals must be on speed dial to enforce the laws already on the books. The signature verification process needs witnesses as does the adjudication process. The current efforts to audit every state must proceed and courts should intervene to ensure they can happen - at least audits should be free of politics. The AZ audit reveals many, many issues beyond the count. Were the ballots ever valid? The public has become aware. Hemingway's book should wake many up.

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No doubt in my mind this is what has happened very well written article and post. I really don’t believe that will ever have another honest election unless this system gets fixed in a radical way. Something like back to paper ballots and hand counts is the only way out of this if we keep using computers are republic is doomed.

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Joe Biden could become embroiled in the FBI's probe into Hunter's finances, experts say: Emails reveal they shared bank accounts, paid each other's bills --Emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, obtained by DailyMail dot com, reveal Joe and Hunter shared bank accounts and paid each other's bills --The FBI and IRS probe is reportedly also looking into Hunter's foreign business relationships and the potential for money laundering charges | 12 Oct 2021 | Joe Biden could become embroiled in an FBI investigation of Hunter's finances, experts say, as emails reveal the father and son shared accounts and paid each other's bills. Emails recovered by DailyMail dot com from Hunter's abandoned laptop between Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his business partner at consultancy Rosemont Seneca, show Schwerin was working on Joe's taxes, discussing the father and son paying each other's household bills, and even fielding requests for a book deal for the then-vice president, as well as managing the donation of Joe's senate papers to the University of Delaware.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10070093/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html

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By honoring members of the press, the Nobel committee recognized that investigative journalism represents one of the most powerful yet overlooked tools in the fight against global authoritarianism.

The crisis facing journalism and the crisis befalling democracy are related. Authoritarian rulers have understood that traditional, independent media outlets have for some time been in difficult financial straits. The migration online of advertising revenue that used to support newspapers and magazines has led to an estimated $30 billion revenue loss in 2020 alone for free-standing newspapers worldwide, according to Oxford University’s Reuters Institute.

At the same time, in a media-soaked society, authoritarians view hard-hitting reportage as a direct threat to their rule and use extreme means to counter it. Targeted killings of journalists worldwide spiked in 2020, with the number killed doubling over the year before—something the newly named Nobel laureate Muratov knows all too well, having seen six members of his newspaper’s staff killed since 2000.

Last year also saw an all-time high in the recorded number of journalists in jail, 274—the fifth consecutive year that this grim census has numbered above 250. Beyond actual violence and prosecutions, authorities plague journalists with threats, extrajudicial intimidation, audits, registration requirements, visa hurdles, travel prohibitions, and an ever-evolving array of other hurdles. Governments are also reaching beyond their own borders to target and menace journalists who have fled to exile.

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Today, people around the world praise Ressa and Muratov for their courage and their work. Tomorrow, they must make good on that praise by taking action to fight the long arm of authoritarianism that threatens to silence journalists and writers around the world.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/13/nobel-journalists-challenge-duterte-putin/

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Left unsaid and laying in the margins is the issue of the mainstream western press, especially the corporate press in the US, which uses "softer weapons' to intimidate journalists who write against the suppression of the truth in America. The situation of Julian Assange & Edward are glaringly missing in the article above. The suppression of the scientists and doctors speaking out about the phony pandemic and the toxic so-called vaccines isn't mentioned either...

The word is mum about Twitter, Facebook and YouTube ie; corporatist censorship.

Unmentioned is the fact the the US has become a 'banana republic' since the stealing of the 2020 presidential election. Or the fact that the US is a panoptic maximum security state that has developed steadily harsher since its establishment in 1947.

The 'Free Press' is an illusion in the United States, only kept alive through citizen journalist like those writing here on this forum, and a few outlets like OEN and FOX News, and various web news sources.

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More than half of surveyed Americans believe 2020 election cheating was likely

By Staff Writers -- October 13, 2021

A new poll of likely voters revealed more than half of those surveyed believed cheating impacted the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to Rasmussen Reports.

56%

Fifty-six percent of respondents said, “It’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including 41% who say it’s ‘very likely

https://americandigest.com/more-than-half-of-surveyed-americans-believe-2020-election-cheating-was-likely/

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