veteranstoday--2020-11-30--Salon: Federal Judge bars Trump-Bannon-Breitbart media censor from interfering in news coverage

President Donald Trump ’ s appointed head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media is barred from making any further editorial or personnel decisions following a series of injunctions issued by a federal court late Friday , in what journalists called a major rebuke of the Trump administration ’ s attempt to reshape government-funded news broadcasters .
In Washington , D.C. , Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled in favor of five USAGM executives who were fired or suspended in August at the direction of CEO Michael Pack , who took the helm of the agency in June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what was called a “ Wednesday night massacre.
” Current and former USAGM employees applauded the ruling , with chief strategy officer Shawn Powers tweeting that Pack “ has repeatedly and intentionally violated the First Amendment rights ” of journalists at the agency .
The five former employees sued to stop Pack , a close associate of former White House adviser and Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon , from interfering in the editorial affairs of Voice of America ( VOA ) , Radio Free Asia , and other broadcasters which operate under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pack opened an investigation into VOA ’ s chief White House reporter , Steve Herman , over unspecified concerns that he displayed an anti-Trump bias .
The plaintiffs and many other critics inside and outside of the agency said Pack violated the “ firewall ” between political appointees and the broadcasters ’ newsrooms which is meant to keep the organizations from becoming mouthpieces for the White House .
Progressive critics have long considered VOA a vehicle for U.S. government propaganda overseas , promoting American-friendly coverage of world events .
However , the overt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alarm since June .
A month after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a party-line vote to run the agency , the USAGM announced it would not renew visas for foreign journalists , potentially sending dozens of reporters who have worked for VOA and other broadcasters for years , back to countries where they could be persecuted .
The decision was attributed by many critics to the Trump administration ’ s “ xenophobia.
” Under Howell ’ s order , Pack will no longer be able to make personnel decisions for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ set to end in January when President-elect Joe Biden takes office .
He also will not be permitted to communicate directly with editorial teams or investigate editors or their news stories .
Howell said Pack ’ s investigation of Herman imposed “ an unconstitutional prior restraint not just on Herman ’ s speech , but on the speech of [ Herman ’ s editors ] and journalists at VOA.
” NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik called Howell ’ s ruling a “ tremendous rebuke ” of Pack ’ s actions during his five @ @ @ @

President Donald Trump’s appointed head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media is barred from making any further editorial or personnel decisions following a series of injunctions issued by a federal court late Friday, in what journalists called a major rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to reshape government-funded news broadcasters.
Big news. Chief Judge Howell ruled USAGM CEO Michael Pack has repeatedly and intentionally violated the first amendment rights of @VOANews journalists, an institution whose mission includes exporting those exact rights and underlying values all around the world. https://t.co/3pF5B0KRgO
In Washington, D.C., Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled in favor of five USAGM executives who were fired or suspended in August at the direction of CEO Michael Pack, who took the helm of the agency in June and promptly dismissed several career officials in what was called a “Wednesday night massacre.”
Current and former USAGM employees applauded the ruling, with chief strategy officer Shawn Powers tweeting that Pack “has repeatedly and intentionally violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists at the agency.
The five former employees sued to stop Pack, a close associate of former White House adviser and Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon, from interfering in the editorial affairs of Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia, and other broadcasters which operate under the USAGM.
The lawsuit was filed after Pack opened an investigation into VOA’s chief White House reporter, Steve Herman, over unspecified concerns that he displayed an anti-Trump bias. The plaintiffs and many other critics inside and outside of the agency said Pack violated the “firewall” between political appointees and the broadcasters’ newsrooms which is meant to keep the organizations from becoming mouthpieces for the White House.
Progressive critics have long considered VOA a vehicle for U.S. government propaganda overseas, promoting American-friendly coverage of world events. However, the overt takeover by a Trump loyalist has raised alarm since June.
A month after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a party-line vote to run the agency, the USAGM announced it would not renew visas for foreign journalists, potentially sending dozens of reporters who have worked for VOA and other broadcasters for years, back to countries where they could be persecuted. The decision was attributed by many critics to the Trump administration’s “xenophobia.”
Under Howell’s order, Pack will no longer be able to make personnel decisions for the remainder of his tenure, which is set to end in January when President-elect Joe Biden takes office. He also will not be permitted to communicate directly with editorial teams or investigate editors or their news stories.
Howell said Pack’s investigation of Herman imposed “an unconstitutional prior restraint not just on Herman’s speech, but on the speech of [Herman’s editors] and journalists at VOA.”
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik called Howell’s ruling a “tremendous rebuke” of Pack’s actions during his five months at USAGM.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/21/tremendous-rebuke-trump-appointee-federal-judge-bars-us-media-agency-head
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/935456549/voas-5-months-under-trump-ceo-lawsuits-bias-claims-and-a-sex-scandal?live=1&t=1606696265423
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veteranstoday--2020-11-29--Israel should suffer a major defeat now

Israel should suffer a major defeat now

If you don ’ t believe that Israel did assassinate Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh , then an anonymous senior Israeli official would vehemently disagree with you .
That senior official told the New York Times that , according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , “ the world should thank us for killing Iran ’ s top nuclear scientist.
” [ 1 ] Bruce Riedel , a former CIA official , declared that “ Israel had invested considerable resources of its spy agencies mostly on Iran , and that this was in part the reason of its success .
Making an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its population , Israel has established human assets networks inside Iran and bases of operations in neighboring country – such as Azerbaijan , according to Riedel.
” [ 2 ] This is not the first that Israel has assassinated Iranian scientists .
Haaretz produced an extensive list of names and locations where Israel ’ s fingerprints have been found : A computer virus known as ‘ Stuxnet ’ deployed against the centrifuges at Natanz uranium enrichment facility The most senior scientist in the Iranian nuclear program at the time , Prof. Majid Shahariari @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in two separate assassinations in Tehran A physics professor involved in the Iranian nuclear program is killed by gunmen on motorcycles in Tehran A chemistry expert who also served as deputy director of the Natanz enrichment facility was killed in an explosion in Tehran Israel broke into a warehouse where documents from the Iranian nuclear program were hidden on the outskirts of Tehran and stole tens of thousands of secret documents An explosion at Khojir , near Parchin , a base surrounded by underground tunnels believed by the West to have served as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ produces fuels to propel the Revolutionary Guards ’ ballistic missile apparatus .
Explosion – attributed to Israel – at Natanz damages a structure containing advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment .
It is estimated that Iran ’ s nuclear program is set back by one to two years .
Blast reported at a power plant in Isfahan , in central Iran Leader and key coordinator of Iran ’ s nuclear program , Mohsen Fakhrizadeh , is assassinated near Tehran The timing for this recent assassination , says Haaretz , is tremendously “ significant , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make life a living hell for president-elect Joe Biden .
All of that is happening under Donald Trump ’ s watch .
What we are seeing here is that Israeli officials again and again are not willing to abide by universal principles or the political order .
They want to create chaos where there is no chaos .
They don ’ t give a damn about whether the West will agree or disagree ; they just want to pursue their diabolical/Talmudic/satanic activity at the expense of virtually everyone on this planet .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists , the entire Western world would go up in flame saying that Iran needs to be bombed immediately .
But when Israel commits terrorism , much of the West seems to portray Iran as the villain because they are trying to “ create ” nuclear weapons .
Another crucial observation here is that America is giving Israel at least three billion dollars every single year , and Israel is using that money to conduct terrorist activities in places like Iran .
Dear fellow Americans , do you really like that ?
Did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this Mephistophelian manifestation ?
Didn ’ t they say that America should never get involved in supporting foreign entities like Israel ?
Do you really want your precious money to be sent to a country that has been involved in terrorist activities since the beginning of time ?
[ 3 ] So , what is the solution to Israel ’ s diabolical manifestation ?
Put Israel on a diet .
In other words , Israel should not be receiving at least 3 billion dollars from the United States .
Moreover , Israel should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it continues to get involved in terrorist activities under the name of “ self-defense.
” It was Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein who boldly declared that “ Israel has to suffer a major defeat ” in order to join the civilized world .
[ 4 ] He was right on target .
• [ 1 ] “ World Should Thank Us for Killing Iran ’ s Top Nuclear Scientist , Senior Israeli Official Tells NYT , ” Haaretz , November 28 , 2020 .
• [ 3 ] For scholar studies on this particular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Arie Perliger , Jewish Terrorism in Israel ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 ) .
• [ 4 ] Finkelstein has detailed Israel ’ s diabolical activities in numerous studies .
See for example Gaza : An Inquest into Its Martyrdom ( Oakland : University of California Press , 2018 ) .

If you don’t believe that Israel did assassinate Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, then an anonymous senior Israeli official would vehemently disagree with you. That senior official told the New York Times that, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “the world should thank us for killing Iran’s top nuclear scientist.”[1]
Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official, declared that
“Israel had invested considerable resources of its spy agencies mostly on Iran, and that this was in part the reason of its success. Making an effective use of Farsi native speakers in its population, Israel has established human assets networks inside Iran and bases of operations in neighboring country – such as Azerbaijan, according to Riedel.”[2]
This is not the first that Israel has assassinated Iranian scientists. Haaretz produced an extensive list of names and locations where Israel’s fingerprints have been found:
JANUARY 12, 2010
Senior Iranian nuclear scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Mohammadi assassinated in northern Tehran
SEPTEMBER 2010
A computer virus known as ‘Stuxnet’ deployed against the centrifuges at Natanz uranium enrichment facility
OCTOBER 29. 2010
The most senior scientist in the Iranian nuclear program at the time, Prof. Majid Shahariari, and another nuclear scientist are killed in two separate assassinations in Tehran
JULY 23, 2011
A physics professor involved in the Iranian nuclear program is killed by gunmen on motorcycles in Tehran
JANUARY 11, 2012
A chemistry expert who also served as deputy director of the Natanz enrichment facility was killed in an explosion in Tehran
JANUARY 31, 2018
Israel broke into a warehouse where documents from the Iranian nuclear program were hidden on the outskirts of Tehran and stole tens of thousands of secret documents
JUNE 26, 2020
Explosions rock Parchin military base where Iran reportedly tested explosive triggers for nuclear weapons
JUNE 30, 2020
An explosion at Khojir, near Parchin, a base surrounded by underground tunnels believed by the West to have served as a large ammunitions depot. The base produces fuels to propel the Revolutionary Guards’ ballistic missile apparatus.
JULY 2, 2020
Explosion – attributed to Israel – at Natanz damages a structure containing advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment. It is estimated that Iran’s nuclear program is set back by one to two years.
JULY 19, 2020
Blast reported at a power plant in Isfahan, in central Iran
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Leader and key coordinator of Iran’s nuclear program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran
The timing for this recent assassination, says Haaretz, is tremendously “significant,” largely because Israel is trying to make life a living hell for president-elect Joe Biden. All of that is happening under Donald Trump’s watch.
What we are seeing here is that Israeli officials again and again are not willing to abide by universal principles or the political order. They want to create chaos where there is no chaos. They don’t give a damn about whether the West will agree or disagree; they just want to pursue their diabolical/Talmudic/satanic activity at the expense of virtually everyone on this planet.
If Iran had the audacity to kill Israeli scientists, the entire Western world would go up in flame saying that Iran needs to be bombed immediately. But when Israel commits terrorism, much of the West seems to portray Iran as the villain because they are trying to “create” nuclear weapons.
Another crucial observation here is that America is giving Israel at least three billion dollars every single year, and Israel is using that money to conduct terrorist activities in places like Iran. Dear fellow Americans, do you really like that? Did the Founding Fathers die and fight for this Mephistophelian manifestation? Didn’t they say that America should never get involved in supporting foreign entities like Israel? Do you really want your precious money to be sent to a country that has been involved in terrorist activities since the beginning of time?[3]
So, what is the solution to Israel’s diabolical manifestation? Put Israel on a diet. In other words, Israel should not be receiving at least 3 billion dollars from the United States. Moreover, Israel should face the consequences of its actions if it continues to get involved in terrorist activities under the name of “self-defense.”
It was Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein who boldly declared that “Israel has to suffer a major defeat” in order to join the civilized world.[4] He was right on target.


veteranstoday--2020-11-29--The ‘Dastardly Hun’ Is On Maneuvers Again!

The ‘ Dastardly Hun ’ is on maneuvers , again !
If he succeeds in his plan to install Joe ‘ Chinese ’ Biden as dictator of America in January he will have achieved an ambition going back to the last quarter of the 19th century to undermine American democracy .
Americans are taught to revere their Constitution and rightly so , but struggle to understand the contempt which countries like Germany have for the very concepts of freedom and democracy .
No one in Germany really cares whether Biden won fairly and squarely or not .
Of course I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in referring to him as the ‘ Dastardly Hun ’ .
All y ’ all know what a Woke I am !
Every psychiatrist however knows that if you use ‘ dastardly ’ in a word association test , ‘ Hun ’ will come up nine times out of ten .
If Harry Hun doesn ’ t like it he should stop sponsoring terrorism , invading Poland , pushing the European Union and rigging elections .
Having destroyed democracy in Europe , the Hun , sadly , has now turned his attention to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overwhelmingly clear that Biden lost , by a wide margin .
It ’ s also clear that the CIA panicked on election night .
The Correa Group algorithms designed to rig the election through manipulation of electronic voting machines in swing states simply weren ’ t designed to cope with the scale of President Trump ’ s victory .
Counts were stopped for no reason and huge parcels of votes for Joe Biden were inserted , mostly in the early hours .
The MSM know this but are staying silent – they don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as long as he won .
To say that there is no evidence of electoral fraud when multiple precincts reported over 100 % turnout is ridiculous .
One township in Michigan had a 350 % turnout .
Even Stalin didn ’ t pretend to have won 350 % of the vote !
Judge McCullough in Pennsylvania has already ruled that the plaintiffs in one case ( The Honorable Mike Kelly & ors v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Case No 620 M.D .
2020 ) have a probability of winning .
Her Honor was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State Supreme Court but the case is now on its way to the Supreme Court .
One thing we know about voters is that they are whole people – what mathematicians call ‘ integers ’ .
You can not have half a voter .
However that ’ s what Dominion Voting Systems have been reporting .
So , how does that work ?
“ Sorry , sir , you only have one leg , so you only get half a vote ?
” ” What about me ?
I ’ m completely legless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a vote , sorry.
” “ I ’ m a veteran , I got blown up by the Taliban ” “ This is a Democrat-run city , you scumbag – we back the Taliban , so you don ’ t get to vote at all.
” “ I ’ m a Democrat , I only have half a brain , so do I only get half a vote ?
” “ No sir , you get two votes – one now and one you can mail in later.
” In one county @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leak – nearly everybody left , except a couple of Democrats , who busily entered votes for Biden .
Sidney Powell , sensibly with respect , has asked for the CCTV footage .
She also wants electronic vote records to be kept and is in a race against time against corrupt Georgia officials who want to wipe the evidence of their fraud .
For some reason everybody is treating the timetable in the Constitution as though it were binding .
I ’ m not so sure it is .
We lawyers have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you have what is basically a two-party race and one of the parties tries to steal the election with systematic fraud why should an election not be rerun ?
The Founding Fathers assumed good faith .
I know what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have said .
This may come as a surprise to some readers , but many of your Supreme Court justices have brains .
We can expect intellectual rigor , at least from the majority .
The 2000 race , don ’ t forget , was effectively decided by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might have involved more subtle reasoning , no offense intended .
( I well recall congratulating that nice man Bill Rehnquist on his decision , but he seemed a bit sheepish about it ! )
It ’ s all down to the Supreme Court now .
I can ’ t see any of the state supreme courts in the battleground states giving a principled decision , no offense intended .
The majority of American judges , sadly , appear willing to throw over the Constitution and install Joe Biden as dictator in what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recall the weakness of America ’ s judges when ‘ von ’ Obama became the first non-citizen President .
As that nice man General Tom McInerney and others have reported , there was a raid on a server farm in Frankfurt am Main , Germany , in which servers involved in the election fraud were seized .
This was initially reported as having been a US Army raid , which it can ’ t have been , even though there ’ s been a denial from the Pentagon .
The location has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gieβener Strasse and a building on the outskirts of Frankfurt .
The US Consulate doesn ’ t seem a likely location from which to interfere in a presidential election .
Correa Group , which controls the CIA , might have had a separate server farm , but I suspect it ’ s more likely that the servers were at their HQ , which is adjacent to the airport .
The ‘ Dastardly Hun ’ , no offense intended , may have underestimated American intelligence , in both senses of the word , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American fighting efficiency in World War II .
The special forces troops involved are far more likely to have been retired US Army Special Forces .
They may well have been choppered in in V-22 tiltrotors , but of course the V-22s would have taken off from a European location , as they lack both the range to cross the Atlantic and the speed to do it in a reasonable time .
Initially there were reports that CIA Director Gina Haspel was amongst the casualties , but sadly ( no offense intended ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is possible however that the real head of the CIA , in other words the director of the Correa Group , was either killed or wounded .
If he was captured so much the better , as he might cough after a bit of waterboarding .
There does seem to have been a bit of a firefight .
The President does have an intelligence group reporting to him , indeed I ’ m in touch with it , but there are cross-currents within the group .
In particular it ’ s not clear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been handed over to the President or either of his able legal teams .
The vital intel about the MI6 dossier , for example , was withheld from the President .
Assuming , as I am prepared to assume , that the reporting was accurate , it looks as though someone at the Pentagon has decided to hang on to the data and use it to cut a deal with Joe ‘ Chinese ’ Biden .
This is dangerous – at the very minimum Peking will demand trapdoor access to ‘ Five Eyes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as US climb-downs over Hong Kong , the South China Sea and Afghanistan , where the initiative has already been handed back to Terry Taliban , thanks to our failure to execute captured terrorists and the crazy decision to release them to kill some more .
The UK , Canada , Australia and New Zealand will have to withdraw from Five Eyes if Biden becomes President and cease all defense cooperation with the United States .
Sidney Powell has uncovered the Dominion Voting System connection to Venezuela and in particular the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chavez .
Unfortunately she thinks that he was a communist , which is a bit like saying that Karl Marx was a Marxist or Mother Teresa a sex maniac .
Chavez of course was a German asset ( DVD ) .
He amassed huge wealth offshore by illegally trading Venezuela ’ s oil wealth , which wasn ’ t his to trade .
He cared not one jot for Venezuela ’ s poor .
He was also far too intelligent to be a communist .
( Only stupid people believe in communism .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ came to be introduced to Dominion , which is not in fact run by commies .
For the avoidance of doubt , by the way , Mother Teresa was not a sex maniac .
She was quite nice actually , and incredibly tiny .
She remains the only official saint I ’ ve ever met .
( I don ’ t think that Tony Blair qualifies ! )
There is no way that you ’ ll see any of this in the MSM .
They ’ re all out for Biden and are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They ’ re not so much burying their heads in the sand as burying themselves in the sand up to their ankles , head first .
Indeed if you live in a swing state and see some feet sticking up out of the ground they ’ ll probably belong to an MSM hack .
The reporting of the 2020 presidential race has seen a race to the bottom by the MSM , with networks trying to outdo each other in demonstrating their bias and lack of integrity .
Fox News , sadly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bottom on election night , with their ludicrous call of Arizona for the Chinese , sorry , Biden .
Election joke of the week , apart from Joe Biden Granddaughter : “ I see grand-pappy voted a straight Democratic ticket this time .
He ’ d never have done that when he was alive.
” We have by the way reached the stage where anyone claiming that Joe Biden won should simply be laughed at .
He won the dead vote and the Guatemalan vote , and that ’ s about it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 20th he ’ ll have about as much democratic legitimacy as Chavez did , or Joseph Stalin .
The notorious Argentinian hand-baller , sorry footballer , and drug addict , Dago , sorry Diego , Maradona finally snuffed it this week .
He will forever be remembered for cheating his way to victory over England in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup .
Since you guys call football ‘ soccer ’ you can be forgiven for not knowing that you ’ re supposed to play the ball with your feet , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ score a brilliant second goal , but only against a demoralised England team , who realised that they were playing against 12 men – the Argentine team and the Tunisian referee , Ali Bin Nasser , no offense intended .
The incident showed what a huge mistake it was not to have bombed Buenos Aires in the Falklands War .
My old friends Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss , then AOC-in-C Strike Command , and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham , then Chief of the Air Staff , had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Aires flat as a pancake at night with Avro Vulcan V-bombers .
It would have worked a treat .
As it was far too few Argies died , sadly , as indeed was the case with Harry Hun in the last war .
Their ridiculously light casualties led both countries to believe that they could carry on cheating in World Cup matches against England and waging quasi-war against Her Majesty .
There weren ’ t very many flowers from England at Maradona ’ s chaotic funeral .
Maradona wasn ’ t the only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Even though he never scored a goal with his hands Mossad very properly decided to take out the head of Iran ’ s illegal nuclear weapons program , Mohsen Fakhrizadeh .
If you believe that he was only interested in the peaceful uses of nuclear power you probably also believe that Biden won Michigan and that Liberace was a heterosexual .
Iran of course already has nukes , at least 30 , made using hot plutonium sourced from France after the great Allied invasion of Iraq in 2003 .
The weapons are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to prevent the Iranian mullahs following Saddam Hussein down the pan .
Both Iran and Iraq of course were involved in 9/11 .
What ’ s more , they knew we knew .
Teheran was worried that they would be next .
No one in 2003 could have foreseen the success of the audacious DVD propaganda operation to absolve Saddam of complicity in 9/11 .
The smear campaign against our nice Home Secretary , Priti Patel , who has sound views on the death penalty with respect , has failed , thankfully .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ staff , Cabinet Office code for standing up to them and not being a house-trained idiot .
The ‘ inquiry ’ set up by the Cabinet Office wasn ’ t a serious inquiry at all , of course – Cabinet Office inquiries never are .
Interestingly the Sir Alex Allan who managed to find that the Home Secretary had breached the ministerial code is the same Sir Alex Allan who managed to find that Chancellor Rishi Sunak didn ’ t need to declare his wife ’ s huge shareholding in an Indian IT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Since the father-in-law who owns most of the company is an Indian billionaire and most Indian billionaires participate in the offshore high-yield money markets there is an obvious conflict of interest .
Just about every billionaire on the planet , including the Big Tech mob , some of whom have been bankrolling the coup against President Trump , will be hoping that the new British government doesn ’ t try to recoup the extra borrowing due to Covid from those corporations and high net worth individuals who have been playing in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has no plans to do so , indeed he wants to reduce the British government ’ s tax revenues by raising tax rates .
I knew it wouldn ’ t take long !
All sorts of UFO nuts , no offense intended , have been emerging from the woodwork to claim that the ‘ mysterious ’ monolith planted in Utah was put there by aliens , presumably fans of 2001 : A Space Odyssey .
What they don ’ t explain is why a bunch of aliens would come all the way here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , of all places , indeed why would an alien want to visit Utah at all ?
( “ We ’ ve got to see Utah ?
” “ Why ?
” “ They ’ ve got Mormons.
” ) Where are these aliens supposed to have come from ?
“ 2001 : A Space Odyssey ” wasn ’ t broadcast on TV until 1977 .
Only aliens within a 32 light year radius of Earth would have seen it .
Even travelling at C30 ( thirty times light speed ) it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reach Utah , then they would have had the construction works on I-70 to contend with .
There aren ’ t a lot of candidates for intelligent life within 30 light years of Earth , fewer even than in Utah , no offense intended .

The ‘Dastardly Hun’ is on maneuvers, again! If he succeeds in his plan to install Joe ‘Chinese’ Biden as dictator of America in January he will have achieved an ambition going back to the last quarter of the 19th century to undermine American democracy. Americans are taught to revere their Constitution and rightly so, but struggle to understand the contempt which countries like Germany have for the very concepts of freedom and democracy. No one in Germany really cares whether Biden won fairly and squarely or not.
Of course I intend no offense at all to Jerry in referring to him as the ‘Dastardly Hun’. All y’all know what a Woke I am! Every psychiatrist however knows that if you use ‘dastardly’ in a word association test, ‘Hun’ will come up nine times out of ten. If Harry Hun doesn’t like it he should stop sponsoring terrorism, invading Poland, pushing the European Union and rigging elections. Having destroyed democracy in Europe, the Hun, sadly, has now turned his attention to you guys.
It’s now overwhelmingly clear that Biden lost, by a wide margin. It’s also clear that the CIA panicked on election night. The Correa Group algorithms designed to rig the election through manipulation of electronic voting machines in swing states simply weren’t designed to cope with the scale of President Trump’s victory.
Counts were stopped for no reason and huge parcels of votes for Joe Biden were inserted, mostly in the early hours. The MSM know this but are staying silent – they don’t care how their man won, as long as he won. To say that there is no evidence of electoral fraud when multiple precincts reported over 100% turnout is ridiculous.
One township in Michigan had a 350% turnout. Even Stalin didn’t pretend to have won 350% of the vote! Judge McCullough in Pennsylvania has already ruled that the plaintiffs in one case (The Honorable Mike Kelly & ors v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Case No 620 M.D. 2020) have a probability of winning. Her Honor was promptly overturned by the pro-Biden, anti-democracy State Supreme Court but the case is now on its way to the Supreme Court.
One thing we know about voters is that they are whole people – what mathematicians call ‘integers’. You cannot have half a voter. However that’s what Dominion Voting Systems have been reporting. So, how does that work? “Sorry, sir, you only have one leg, so you only get half a vote?” ”What about me? I’m completely legless!” ”You only get one-third of a vote, sorry.”
“I’m a veteran, I got blown up by the Taliban” “This is a Democrat-run city, you scumbag – we back the Taliban, so you don’t get to vote at all.” “I’m a Democrat, I only have half a brain, so do I only get half a vote?” “No sir, you get two votes – one now and one you can mail in later.”
In one county in Georgia they had a fake plumbing leak – nearly everybody left, except a couple of Democrats, who busily entered votes for Biden. Sidney Powell, sensibly with respect, has asked for the CCTV footage. She also wants electronic vote records to be kept and is in a race against time against corrupt Georgia officials who want to wipe the evidence of their fraud.
For some reason everybody is treating the timetable in the Constitution as though it were binding. I’m not so sure it is. We lawyers have a saying – fraud unravels everything. Where you have what is basically a two-party race and one of the parties tries to steal the election with systematic fraud why should an election not be rerun? The Founding Fathers assumed good faith. I know what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would have said.
This may come as a surprise to some readers, but many of your Supreme Court justices have brains. We can expect intellectual rigor, at least from the majority. The 2000 race, don’t forget, was effectively decided by the Supreme Court, although their decision might have involved more subtle reasoning, no offense intended. (I well recall congratulating that nice man Bill Rehnquist on his decision, but he seemed a bit sheepish about it!)
It’s all down to the Supreme Court now. I can’t see any of the state supreme courts in the battleground states giving a principled decision, no offense intended. The majority of American judges, sadly, appear willing to throw over the Constitution and install Joe Biden as dictator in what is essentially a coup. I well recall the weakness of America’s judges when ‘von’ Obama became the first non-citizen President.
The Special Forces Raid on Frankfurt
As that nice man General Tom McInerney and others have reported, there was a raid on a server farm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in which servers involved in the election fraud were seized. This was initially reported as having been a US Army raid, which it can’t have been, even though there’s been a denial from the Pentagon. The location has been variously identified as the US Consulate on Gieβener Strasse and a building on the outskirts of Frankfurt.
The US Consulate doesn’t seem a likely location from which to interfere in a presidential election. Correa Group, which controls the CIA, might have had a separate server farm, but I suspect it’s more likely that the servers were at their HQ, which is adjacent to the airport. The ‘Dastardly Hun’, no offense intended, may have underestimated American intelligence, in both senses of the word, in much the same way that he underestimated American fighting efficiency in World War II.
The special forces troops involved are far more likely to have been retired US Army Special Forces. They may well have been choppered in in V-22 tiltrotors, but of course the V-22s would have taken off from a European location, as they lack both the range to cross the Atlantic and the speed to do it in a reasonable time.
Initially there were reports that CIA Director Gina Haspel was amongst the casualties, but sadly (no offense intended) they proved to be exaggerated. It is possible however that the real head of the CIA, in other words the director of the Correa Group, was either killed or wounded. If he was captured so much the better, as he might cough after a bit of waterboarding. There does seem to have been a bit of a firefight.
The President does have an intelligence group reporting to him, indeed I’m in touch with it, but there are cross-currents within the group. In particular it’s not clear that the intelligence yield from Frankfurt has been handed over to the President or either of his able legal teams. The vital intel about the MI6 dossier, for example, was withheld from the President. Assuming, as I am prepared to assume, that the reporting was accurate, it looks as though someone at the Pentagon has decided to hang on to the data and use it to cut a deal with Joe ‘Chinese’ Biden.
This is dangerous – at the very minimum Peking will demand trapdoor access to ‘Five Eyes’ and all US defense technology, as well as US climb-downs over Hong Kong, the South China Sea and Afghanistan, where the initiative has already been handed back to Terry Taliban, thanks to our failure to execute captured terrorists and the crazy decision to release them to kill some more. The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will have to withdraw from Five Eyes if Biden becomes President and cease all defense cooperation with the United States.
Hugo Chavez
Sidney Powell has uncovered the Dominion Voting System connection to Venezuela and in particular the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo ‘von’ Chavez. Unfortunately she thinks that he was a communist, which is a bit like saying that Karl Marx was a Marxist or Mother Teresa a sex maniac.
Chavez of course was a German asset (DVD). He amassed huge wealth offshore by illegally trading Venezuela’s oil wealth, which wasn’t his to trade. He cared not one jot for Venezuela’s poor. He was also far too intelligent to be a communist. (Only stupid people believe in communism.) His German connections explain how he came to be introduced to Dominion, which is not in fact run by commies.
For the avoidance of doubt, by the way, Mother Teresa was not a sex maniac. She was quite nice actually, and incredibly tiny. She remains the only official saint I’ve ever met. (I don’t think that Tony Blair qualifies!)
The MSM
There is no way that you’ll see any of this in the MSM. They’re all out for Biden and are ignoring any evidence of election fraud. They’re not so much burying their heads in the sand as burying themselves in the sand up to their ankles, head first.
Indeed if you live in a swing state and see some feet sticking up out of the ground they’ll probably belong to an MSM hack. The reporting of the 2020 presidential race has seen a race to the bottom by the MSM, with networks trying to outdo each other in demonstrating their bias and lack of integrity. Fox News, sadly, decided to join the race to the bottom on election night, with their ludicrous call of Arizona for the Chinese, sorry, Biden.
Election joke of the week, apart from Joe Biden
Granddaughter: “I see grand-pappy voted a straight Democratic ticket this time. He’d never have done that when he was alive.”
We have by the way reached the stage where anyone claiming that Joe Biden won should simply be laughed at. He won the dead vote and the Guatemalan vote, and that’s about it. If he is sworn in on January 20th he’ll have about as much democratic legitimacy as Chavez did, or Joseph Stalin.
Dago, sorry Diego, Maradona (1960-2020)
The notorious Argentinian hand-baller, sorry footballer, and drug addict, Dago, sorry Diego, Maradona finally snuffed it this week. He will forever be remembered for cheating his way to victory over England in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup.
Since you guys call football ‘soccer’ you can be forgiven for not knowing that you’re supposed to play the ball with your feet, not your hands. Maradona went on to score a brilliant second goal, but only against a demoralised England team, who realised that they were playing against 12 men – the Argentine team and the Tunisian referee, Ali Bin Nasser, no offense intended.
The incident showed what a huge mistake it was not to have bombed Buenos Aires in the Falklands War. My old friends Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss, then AOC-in-C Strike Command, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham, then Chief of the Air Staff, had a lovely little plan to bomb Buenos Aires flat as a pancake at night with Avro Vulcan V-bombers. It would have worked a treat.
As it was far too few Argies died, sadly, as indeed was the case with Harry Hun in the last war. Their ridiculously light casualties led both countries to believe that they could carry on cheating in World Cup matches against England and waging quasi-war against Her Majesty. There weren’t very many flowers from England at Maradona’s chaotic funeral.
Maradona wasn’t the only Bad Guy to snuff it last week. Even though he never scored a goal with his hands Mossad very properly decided to take out the head of Iran’s illegal nuclear weapons program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. If you believe that he was only interested in the peaceful uses of nuclear power you probably also believe that Biden won Michigan and that Liberace was a heterosexual.
Iran of course already has nukes, at least 30, made using hot plutonium sourced from France after the great Allied invasion of Iraq in 2003. The weapons are of Chinese pattern, the idea being to prevent the Iranian mullahs following Saddam Hussein down the pan.
Both Iran and Iraq of course were involved in 9/11. What’s more, they knew we knew. Teheran was worried that they would be next. No one in 2003 could have foreseen the success of the audacious DVD propaganda operation to absolve Saddam of complicity in 9/11.
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 25: Home Secretary Priti Patel arrives at 10 Downing Street on July 25, 2019 in London, England. Britain’s New Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, appointed his Cabinet yesterday evening with 17 of Theresa May’s Ministers replaced. The number of Leave supporting Ministers doubled from six to 12 and 31 Ministers are now entitled to attend Cabinet. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Priti Patel
The smear campaign against our nice Home Secretary, Priti Patel, who has sound views on the death penalty with respect, has failed, thankfully. She was accused of bullying Home Office staff, Cabinet Office code for standing up to them and not being a house-trained idiot. The ‘inquiry’ set up by the Cabinet Office wasn’t a serious inquiry at all, of course – Cabinet Office inquiries never are.
Interestingly the Sir Alex Allan who managed to find that the Home Secretary had breached the ministerial code is the same Sir Alex Allan who managed to find that Chancellor Rishi Sunak didn’t need to declare his wife’s huge shareholding in an Indian IT company doing business with the British government. Since the father-in-law who owns most of the company is an Indian billionaire and most Indian billionaires participate in the offshore high-yield money markets there is an obvious conflict of interest.
Just about every billionaire on the planet, including the Big Tech mob, some of whom have been bankrolling the coup against President Trump, will be hoping that the new British government doesn’t try to recoup the extra borrowing due to Covid from those corporations and high net worth individuals who have been playing in the offshore money markets. Rishi Sunak certainly has no plans to do so, indeed he wants to reduce the British government’s tax revenues by raising tax rates.
The Utah monolith
I knew it wouldn’t take long! All sorts of UFO nuts, no offense intended, have been emerging from the woodwork to claim that the ‘mysterious’ monolith planted in Utah was put there by aliens, presumably fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
What they don’t explain is why a bunch of aliens would come all the way here just to dump a monolith in Utah, of all places, indeed why would an alien want to visit Utah at all? (“We’ve got to see Utah?” “Why?” “They’ve got Mormons.”) Where are these aliens supposed to have come from? “2001: A Space Odyssey” wasn’t broadcast on TV until 1977. Only aliens within a 32 light year radius of Earth would have seen it.
Even travelling at C30 (thirty times light speed) it would have taken them about a year to reach Utah, then they would have had the construction works on I-70 to contend with. There aren’t a lot of candidates for intelligent life within 30 light years of Earth, fewer even than in Utah, no offense intended.


veteranstoday--2020-11-29--The Mystery of Hunter Biden’s Imaginary Laptop part of Russian ‘Firehose of Falsehood’

There is a huge coverup involving the “ Hunter Biden laptop.
” Why ?
It was created by Russian intelligence working with Trump family members and a key attorney now filing endless fake lawsuits .
This is the first time treason has been on the table , with the reality of capital punishment of those closest to Trump .
Yes , there is a coverup , this time of treason .
VT : Yesterday , someone spent $ 4 to deliver a copy of Epoch Times to my home .
This fake newspaper , published in Taiwan by a religious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agencies unfriendly to the US , is a favorite with Trump .
They claim the FBI has Hunter Biden ’ s laptop , the one they claim is filled with child porn videos of Hunter Biden and proof he looted Ukraine right under Rudy Giuliani ’ s nose .
What is more important is this ; after the massive hoopla about this alleged laptop , those who spread the stories , Russia Today , Sputnik News , Epoch Times and Murdoch/Israeli owned Fox News , all went silent .
Not only did they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump ’ s sons went silent as well .
Why ?
Oh , and they stayed silent , they are still silent , now pretending the magical Hunter Biden laptop that was going to rig the election for Trump never existed , but why ?
The answer is simple , it was shown to have been fabricated by Russian intelligence and fed into the GOP through the Trump family .
There is no way something like this can be forgotten or simply disappear but for weeks now , the GOP has pretended nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bad dream .
The problem , of course , is that complicity in treason against the United States on behalf of dozens of key figures , many at Fox and other GOP friendly fake media outlets , that and all of those close to Trump is inexorable .
When Russia fabricated Hillary ’ s emails and then laundered them through Wikileaks into Trump ’ s hands , it worked like a charm , particularly when FBI Director Comey announced a new investigation hours before the election .
What we do know is that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and over prior to coming up with the magic laptop according to NBC News , based on FBI and CIA reports .
Expert breaks down the ultimate goal of Trump ’ s ‘ classic Russian-style disinformation campaign Alternet : Jonathan Rauch , a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute , spoke with CNN ’ s Brian Stelter on Sunday to explain the ultimate goal of President Donald Trump ’ s false accusations of a rigged and stolen election .
Rauch was asked by Stelter if the issue is Trump is simply trapped in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Joe Biden in the 2020 election .
“ No , actually , I don ’ t think it is , ” Rauch replied .
“ It ’ s hard to know what ’ s going on in the mind of the president , but you don ’ t really need to .
What you need to know is that what he is running right now is a classic Russian-style disinformation campaign of a type known as the firehose of falsehood .
That ’ s when you utilize every channel , not just media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even litigation to push out as many different stories and conspiracy theories and lies and half-truths as you possibly can in order to flood the zone if with disinformation.
” “ The goal here is to confuse people , and he is doing very well at that , ” Rauch continued .
“ This is a classic propaganda tactic .
he is very good at it .
doesn ’ t matter what ’ s going on in his head .
what matters is what he is doing .
Rauch described Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguing he ’ s “ manipulating and organizing the social environment and the media environment to confuse and discombobulate [ his ] enemies , to isolate them , to demoralize them so they don ’ t know what ’ s true or false anymore , they get very frustrated.
” Stelter then asked if the issue is that Trump is engaging in a “ massive conspiracy theory ” which in turn creates a “ collective identity ” among his supporters .
Rauch disagreed with that suggestion .

There is a huge coverup involving the “Hunter Biden laptop.” Why? It was created by Russian intelligence working with Trump family members and a key attorney now filing endless fake lawsuits.
This is the first time treason has been on the table, with the reality of capital punishment of those closest to Trump. Yes, there is a coverup, this time of treason.
VT: Yesterday, someone spent $4 to deliver a copy of Epoch Times to my home. This fake newspaper, published in Taiwan by a religious cult we believe is controlled by intelligence agencies unfriendly to the US, is a favorite with Trump.
They claim the FBI has Hunter Biden’s laptop, the one they claim is filled with child porn videos of Hunter Biden and proof he looted Ukraine right under Rudy Giuliani’s nose.
What is more important is this; after the massive hoopla about this alleged laptop, those who spread the stories, Russia Today, Sputnik News, Epoch Times and Murdoch/Israeli owned Fox News, all went silent.
Not only did they go silent but Giuliani went silent, Trump’s sons went silent as well. Why?
Oh, and they stayed silent, they are still silent, now pretending the magical Hunter Biden laptop that was going to rig the election for Trump never existed, but why?
The answer is simple, it was shown to have been fabricated by Russian intelligence and fed into the GOP through the Trump family.
There is no way something like this can be forgotten or simply disappear but for weeks now, the GOP has pretended nothing happened, that it was all a bad dream.
The problem, of course, is that complicity in treason against the United States on behalf of dozens of key figures, many at Fox and other GOP friendly fake media outlets, that and all of those close to Trump is inexorable.
When Russia fabricated Hillary’s emails and then laundered them through Wikileaks into Trump’s hands, it worked like a charm, particularly when FBI Director Comey announced a new investigation hours before the election.
What we do know is that Rudy Giuliani met Russian intelligence agents over and over prior to coming up with the magic laptop according to NBC News, based on FBI and CIA reports.
Source: NBCNews.com
Expert breaks down the ultimate goal of Trump’s ‘classic Russian-style disinformation campaign
Alternet: Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, spoke with CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday to explain the ultimate goal of President Donald Trump’s false accusations of a rigged and stolen election.
Rauch was asked by Stelter if the issue is Trump is simply trapped in the delusion that he actually beat President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“Is delusion a fair word for these election lies?” Stelter wondered.
“No, actually, I don’t think it is,” Rauch replied. “It’s hard to know what’s going on in the mind of the president, but you don’t really need to. What you need to know is that what he is running right now is a classic Russian-style disinformation campaign of a type known as the firehose of falsehood. That’s when you utilize every channel, not just media, but also the bully pulpit, even litigation to push out as many different stories and conspiracy theories and lies and half-truths as you possibly can in order to flood the zone if with disinformation.”
“The goal here is to confuse people, and he is doing very well at that,” Rauch continued. “This is a classic propaganda tactic. he is very good at it. doesn’t matter what’s going on in his head. what matters is what he is doing.
Rauch described Trump’s tactic as “information warfare,” arguing he’s “manipulating and organizing the social environment and the media environment to confuse and discombobulate [his] enemies, to isolate them, to demoralize them so they don’t know what’s true or false anymore, they get very frustrated.”
Stelter then asked if the issue is that Trump is engaging in a “massive conspiracy theory” which in turn creates a “collective identity” among his supporters. Rauch disagreed with that suggestion.
Source: Altnet.org


veteranstoday--2020-11-29--Vital: Court Protects Anonymity of Researchers Reporting Links Between Trump and Russian Bank

Security researchers who reported observing Internet communications between the Russian financial firm Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization in 2016 can remain anonymous , an Indiana trial court ruled last week .
The ruling protects the First Amendment anonymous speech rights of the researchers , whose analysis prompted significant media attention and debate in 2016 about the meaning of digital records that reportedly showed computer servers linked to the Moscow-based bank and the Trump Organization in communication .
In response to these reports , Alfa Bank filed a lawsuit in Florida state court alleging that unidentified individuals illegally fabricated the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alfa Bank ’ s lawsuit asserts that the alleged bad actors who fabricated the servers ’ communications are different people than the anonymous security researchers who discovered the servers ’ communications and reported their observations to journalists and academics .
Yet that distinction did not stop Alfa Bank from seeking the security researchers ’ identities through a subpoena issued to Indiana University Professor L. Jean Camp , who had contacts with at least one of the security researchers and helped make their findings public .
Prof. Camp filed a motion to quash the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in support of the motion to ensure the court understood that the security researchers had the right to speak anonymously under both the First Amendment and Indiana ’ s state constitution .
By sharing their observations anonymously , the researchers were able to contribute to the electorate ’ s understanding of a matter of extraordinary public concern , while protecting their reputations , families , and livelihoods from potential retaliation .
That is exactly the freedom that the First Amendment seeks to safeguard by protecting the right to anonymous speech .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ security researchers ’ findings to attempt to retaliate against them , which is what Alfa Bank tried to do .
That ’ s why EFF ’ s brief also asked the court to recognize that Alfa Bank ’ s subpoena was a pretext : [ T ] he true motive of the litigation and the instant subpoena is to retaliate against the anonymous computer security researchers for speaking out .
In seeking to impose consequences on these speakers , Alfa Bank is violating their First Amendment rights to speak anonymously .
In rejecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indiana court ruled that the information Alfa Bank sought to identify the security researchers “ is protected speech under Indiana law ” and that the bank had failed to meet the high bar required to justify the disclosure of the individuals ’ identities .
EFF is grateful that the court protected the identities of the anonymous researchers and rejected Alfa Bank ’ s subpoena .
We would also like to thank our co-counsel Colleen M. Newbill , Joseph A. Tomain , and D. Michael Allen of Mallor Grodner LLP for their help on @ @ @

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/victory-court-protects-anonymity-security-researchers-who-reported-apparent
Security researchers who reported observing Internet communications between the Russian financial firm Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization in 2016 can remain anonymous, an Indiana trial court ruled last week.
The ruling protects the First Amendment anonymous speech rights of the researchers, whose analysis prompted significant media attention and debate in 2016 about the meaning of digital records that reportedly showed computer servers linked to the Moscow-based bank and the Trump Organization in communication.
In response to these reports, Alfa Bank filed a lawsuit in Florida state court alleging that unidentified individuals illegally fabricated the connections between the servers. Importantly, Alfa Bank’s lawsuit asserts that the alleged bad actors who fabricated the servers’ communications are different people than the anonymous security researchers who discovered the servers’ communications and reported their observations to journalists and academics.
Yet that distinction did not stop Alfa Bank from seeking the security researchers’ identities through a subpoena issued to Indiana University Professor L. Jean Camp, who had contacts with at least one of the security researchers and helped make their findings public.
Prof. Camp filed a motion to quash the subpoena. EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the motion to ensure the court understood that the security researchers had the right to speak anonymously under both the First Amendment and Indiana’s state constitution.
The brief argues:
By sharing their observations anonymously, the researchers were able to contribute to the electorate’s understanding of a matter of extraordinary public concern, while protecting their reputations, families, and livelihoods from potential retaliation. That is exactly the freedom that the First Amendment seeks to safeguard by protecting the right to anonymous speech.
It’s not unusual for companies embarrassed by security researchers’ findings to attempt to retaliate against them, which is what Alfa Bank tried to do. That’s why EFF’s brief also asked the court to recognize that Alfa Bank’s subpoena was a pretext:
[T]he true motive of the litigation and the instant subpoena is to retaliate against the anonymous computer security researchers for speaking out. In seeking to impose consequences on these speakers, Alfa Bank is violating their First Amendment rights to speak anonymously.
In rejecting Alfa Bank’s subpoena, the Indiana court ruled that the information Alfa Bank sought to identify the security researchers “is protected speech under Indiana law” and that the bank had failed to meet the high bar required to justify the disclosure of the individuals’ identities.
EFF is grateful that the court protected the identities of the anonymous researchers and rejected Alfa Bank’s subpoena. We would also like to thank our co-counsel Colleen M. Newbill, Joseph A. Tomain, and D. Michael Allen of Mallor Grodner LLP for their help on the brief.