“A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble,’ her lawyer said.” reuters.com/article/us-hea…
“On March 7, when Wuhan’s top Communist Party official said residents should undergo ‘gratitude education’ to thank the government for its anti-epidemic efforts, Ms. Zhang walked through the streets, asking passers-by if they felt grateful.”

nytimes.com/2020/12/25/wor…
“‘But as someone who cares about the truth in this country, we have to say that if we just wallow in our sadness and don’t do something to change this reality, then our emotions are cheap,’ Ms. Zhang said.

Not long afterward, Mr. Fang disappeared.”

nytimes.com/2020/12/25/wor…
This was Zhang Zhan’s 2nd to last video.

CCP cop: “If you post this online, you’ll have to take responsibility.”

Zhan: “I take responsibility for all my actions. You have to take responsibility for your actions as law enforcement, too.”

(Translated)

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25 Dec
THREAD: I have discovered something online that *could* be relevant to the Nashville explosion, but I want to be extremely clear that I don't know what - if anything - to infer from it.

I'm hoping appropriate experts and authorities can take a look.
A video on Youtube has gone viral showing the scene of the explosion.

The account that posted it is called "S McG" and has no bio or info, and has never posted until today since joining in 2014.

Vid:
Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCNzhd…
The account that posted the clip to Twitter only joined this month and has also never posted before today.

The video turns black and white following the explosion in both uploads.

The next tweet is the curious part.

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25 Dec
I have obtained exclusive new video of the December 22nd arrest of Eric Braden, who participated in a maskless protest at the North Star Mall in San Antonio Texas against pandemic restrictions.

”I’m a disabled veteran of the United States Army," Braden could be heard shouting.
Additional footage shows that at least 50 participants marched into the mall to participate.

While they all were in violation of the mask requirement, only Eric Braden - who is also a frequent participant in militia activity across southern states - was arrested.

The rest left.
"Braden was arrested and charged with criminal trespass-private property. SAPD says he was taken to University Hospital by EMS 'with complaints of a pre-existing back injury.'"

ktsa.com/maskless-prote…
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23 Dec
Here we have a perfect example for people to watch the proliferation of fake news in real time.

Not only does this individual have no source or ostensible access to Trump, but Kyle Rittenhouse is charged in state court, not federal, where Trump does not have pardon power. Image
At most theoretically, Trump could try to offer some sort of preemptive federal pardon to Rittenhouse to prevent Biden’s DOJ from charging him with a federal crime, but that’s on the margins of legality and clearly this random person on Twitter would not be privy to that info. Image
For the record, the individual who tweeted “BREAKING: Donald Trump plans on granting a full pardon to the Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse.” now says it was a “joke.”

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21 Dec
Very important section I just found reading the 5000+ page government spending bill:

On page 2487 is a repeal of Section 711 of USC Title 18, which provided six months in jail for misuse of the "Smokey Bear" character or name.
Technically, you could go to jail for six months right now for - for example - advertising pipe tobacco with Smokey the Bear on it smoking from a pipe.

When this spending bill comes into place, letting Smokey smoke will be effectively legalized.

This is a real product on Amazon, but not available in the United States.

When the new government spending bill passes, you won't risk going to jail for 6 months for printing it anymore.

amazon.ca/Smokey-Bear-Sm…
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21 Dec
Toward the beginning of the Omnibus spending bill at page 415 and 416 is a quarter billion dollars for "enhanced border security" for the nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.

Not less than $150,000,000 of it shall be for Jordan though.
If you skip about about 1000 pages from the Jordanian border security funding section of the US government budget, you'll find that "not less than" $1.65 billon is for Jordan's government overall, but they're required to use $425,000,000 of the American dollars for military.
In total, page 1310 of the new US budget explains that a bit over $6 billion in taxpayer money will be for financing foreign militaries, but by law, at least $3.3 billion of that will have to be for Israel.
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21 Dec
Trump supporters continued to rally Saturday in Phoenix, AZ, despite the electoral college formally voting for Joe Biden.

The "Stop the Steal" supporters continue alleging fraud and hope to challenge the results ahead of the January 6th congressional vote to certify the results.
"Imagine this, that you get to go back home, once we conquer the hill. Donald Trump is returned to being the president," said AZ Congressman @DrPaulGosar. "Amazing things will happen in four more years."

"Four more years!" the crowd in Phoenix chanted. "Stop the steal!"
Rep. @DrPaulGosar says he has friends in CIA and forensic auditing of banking industry, who tell him "it is easy to see contamination," of the election.

"They don't wanna open up and talk about it."

@RepGosar's uncut speech, filmed by Sean Campbell:
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