"The analysis also revealed that there were more than 600 party members across 19 branches working at the British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered in 2016. Both have drawn criticism for their response to Beijing's crackdown in Hong Kong."
"Firms with defense industry interests including Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce employed hundreds of [Chinese Communist] party members, the analysis showed."
"While there is no evidence that anyone on the party membership list has spied for China – and many sign up simply to boost their career prospects – experts say it defies credulity that some are not involved in espionage."
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One of the most important statistics about modern science:
"More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments."
Email exchange between Christopher Scott and Robert Johnston (Crowdstrike), Adrian Hawkins and Jason Lowder (FBI), and Michael Sussmann (Perkins Coie).
On July 27, Johnston says Chris Scott is the CrowdStrike point of contact for the DNC/DCCC hack.
That July 27, 2016, email is a good who's-who of the FBI team working the DNC hack, including some names I never heard before: Adrian Hawkins, Joshua Hubiak, J.K. Mularski, Gerald Cotellessee, Christian Schorle.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argues that the court SHOULD decide whether the Constitution permits state courts and state executive officials "to alter the rules by which presidential elections are conducted."
"The People need an answer, too. Until they get one, elections will continue to be plagued by doubts regarding whether the President was chosen in the constitutionally prescribed manner." -- AG Yost
The following 8 paragraphs of legal background in the Texas SCOTUS election case are a fascinating historical context worth sharing in a mini thread:
“The individual citizen has no federal
constitutional right to vote for electors for the
President of the United States unless and until the
state legislature chooses a statewide election as the
means to implement its power to appoint members of
the electoral college.”
State legislatures have plenary power to
set the process for appointing presidential electors:
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.”
U.S. CONST. art. II, §1, cl. 2
BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed an *election* lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the United States Supreme Court.
Texas brought the suit straight to SCOTUS. Key allegations:
1. Unconstitutional changes to election laws 2. Unequal treatment of voters within each state 3. Voting irregularities "consistent with
the unconstitutional relaxation of ballot-integrity
protections."
From the bill of complaint: "These flaws cumulatively preclude knowing who legitimately won the 2020 election and threaten to cloud all future elections."