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By Marjorie Meyers | Jan 6, 2021 | Press Release

Senior IT Expert at Global Defense Contractor Testifies in Italian Federal Court; He and Others Switched Votes throughout America in the U.S. Presidential Race

Rome, Italy (January 5, 2021) – An employee of the 8th largest global defense contractor, Leonardo SpA, provided a shocking deposition detailing his role in the most elaborate criminal act affecting a US election. Corroborating the DNI Ratcliff’s report of international intrusion, Arturo D’elio outlined the scheme that proved successful in using Leonardo computer systems and military satellites located in Pescara, Italy. Recent reports of a hack at Leonardo now appear to have been an orchestrated cover to mitigate blowback on the corporation which is partially owned by the Italian government.

Continue reading “Press Release: Votes Switched throughout U.S. Presidential Race”

350,000 homes and businesses in Calif. to get fiber after Frontier bankruptcy.

Jon Brodkin – Jan 6, 2021 | Original Ars Technica article here.

Frontier Communications has agreed to expand its fiber-to-the-premises network and improve its poor service quality as part of a bankruptcy settlement in California.

Frontier committed to deploy fiber to 350,000 homes and businesses within six years on a schedule that would require the first 100,000 by the end of 2022, 250,000 by the end of 2024, and the full 350,000 by year-end 2026. The settlement, filed in late December, is pending approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).

Frontier agreed to the terms with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a union that represents Frontier employees; The Utility Reform Network (TURN), a consumer-advocacy group; and Cal Advocates, the public advocate office at CPUC.

To ensure that Frontier doesn’t build only in wealthy areas, the 350,000-location deployment must include 150,000 customer locations where Frontier estimates it would receive less than a 20 percent "internal rate of return." For those 150,000 locations, Frontier will have to consult with the CWA, TURN, Cal Advocates, and tribal government leaders "to discuss the potential areas for deployment, including tribal lands and tribal communities," the settlement said.

The CWA said in a press release last week:

"As part of the proposed settlement, Frontier will be required to spend at least $1.75 billion over the next four years on service quality and network enhancement projects, as well as provide a detailed plan with input from CWA, TURN and Cal Advocates that identifies needs like plant repair, maintenance, hiring, and how Frontier intends to address them. The CWA secured a commitment from Frontier to maintain its total employee technician staffing in California over the next three years, and to maintain ten call center locations across the state."

Continue reading “Frontier Agrees to Fiber-network Expansion in Plan to Exit Bankruptcy”

By Doug Dawson, Jan 5, 2021 | POTs and PANs original article here.

Anybody reading this blog already knows that I am not a fan of the recent RDOF grant program. If the FCC doesn’t figure out a way in the next few months to cancel the worse of the grant awards, when we look back six years from now we’ll find that half or more of the funding was wasted. The FCC has wasted money before, like with the $11 billion from the CAF II for big telcos that was nearly all wasted – but solving the rural digital divide has become too important to keep throwing away grant money.

The RDOF grant process was doomed before it ever got started. The amount of grant award in each Census block is based upon a massively flawed FCC cost model that pretends to understand the difference in broadband construction costs around the country. This unfortunately means that the FCC offered far too much grant funding in some places, and not enough in others. This is a nuance of the grant that everybody seemed to have missed – that the FCC pre-determined the amount of grant available for each Census block. I know areas where the FCC was offering 20% more than the cost of building a fiber network, and others where it wasn’t offering half of what is needed. The FCC’s faulty cost model does not accurately reflect the cost of getting onto bad poles or of encountering rock when burying fiber. We saw folks offering to build fiber in places where the FCC awards were overly generous, but no landline ISPs offering to build broadband where the awards were too low. People living in the Census blocks where the FCC awards were too small were doomed from the start to not see a decent broadband solution.

The FCC really blew it when it came to vetting the financial wherewithal of applicants. They allowed small companies with limited experience and weak balance sheets to claim huge amounts of funding, with the largest winning more than $1 billion in grant funding. This was not hard to foresee, and companies should have been given bidding limits according to their financial capability. Tackling this after the auction is over is a real mess.

Continue reading “FCC: Let’s Try Another Approach”

Original release date: January 05, 2021:

Cyber Unified Coordination Group is comprised of . . .

• Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI)
• The Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• The Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence (ODNI)
• The National Security Agency (NSA)

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• Link to CISA suspicious activity detection tool:
• Link to 12/22 FBI Private Industry Notification
• Link to CISA Insights: What Every Leader Needs to Know About the Ongoing APT Cyber Activity
• Link to CISA Alert: Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations
• Link to NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Malicious Actors Abuse Authentication Mechanisms to Access Cloud Resources
• Link to December 16, 2020 Joint UCG Statement

On behalf of President Trump, the National Security Council staff has stood up a task force construct known as the Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG), composed of the FBI, CISA, and ODNI with support from NSA, to coordinate the investigation and remediation of this significant cyber incident involving federal government networks. The UCG is still working to understand the scope of the incident but has the following updates on its investigative and mitigation efforts.

This work indicates that an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor is responsible for most or all of the recently discovered, ongoing cyber compromises of both government and non-governmental networks. At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence gathering effort. We are taking all necessary steps to understand the full scope of this campaign and respond accordingly.

Continue reading “Joint Statement By Federal Agencies re: Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG)”

. . . to Infiltrate Voting Machines A Year Before the 2020 Election

By George Eliason, Jan 3, 2021

Original Creative Destruction Media article here.

The 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN. If the information below doesn’t convince you, it’s because you’re part of the problem. Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

If you’re American and care about your country and it doesn’t matter what side of the political aisle you’re on, if you don’t support Donald Trump now, you lose. We all lose. American Democracy came in with a bang and left with a whimper. The country is lost.

America, it’s time to say HELL NO!

With the Georgia run-off election happening on January 5th, you will get angry with the information you’re about to read. Voters in every other state using Dominion/Diebold systems, ES&S, Unisyn, or other electronic voting system during the 2020 election will be angry.

GA Secretary of State Brad (SoS) Raffensperger posted what is essentially a guide to hack Dominion, ES&S, and Smartmatic voting systems during the summer of 2019, one year ahead of the 2020 elections. This made every aspect of the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite open for business to anyone in the business of skewing elections. Raffensperger gave them a year to prepare with the actual components Dominion uses and perfect the methodologies used to hack the GA election.

This link is to the redacted GA Master Technical Evaluation. Although redacted, the report left every route needed to hack and control each technical component Dominion uses as well as adding an actual vulnerability to get hackers started.

The GA evaluation also lists the scanners needed to find the source code and all possible routes into all three systems. I’ll be getting back to this later but it even identifies Dominion’s source code.

Just to make sure I have your attention, below is a list of every piece of Dominion equipment that GA certified. Each piece is listed from the evaluation as a link showing how to hack it. A comprehensive breakdown is in the GA contract. There is no mention of a firewall on the Dominion system at all in the evaluation because it’s not “online,” even though routes to every sandboxed system are available to hackers through WiFi and Bluetooth components inside the sandbox itself.

In short, there is no security on the Dominion system at all. Most importantly, you’ll see how the election is being stolen from the inside.

Continue reading “Geogia’s Secretary of State Raffensperger Gave Hackers A Roadmap”

By Mike Adams Podcast | Original Natural News article here.

Jan 1, 2020 — Jeffrey Prather Interview	Jan 2, 2020 — Big Reveal

• Jan 3, 2020 — Situation Update: Senators Announce 10-day Emergency Investigation
• Jan 2, 2020 — Situation Update: The Big Reveal
• Jan 1, 2020 — Jeffrey Prather Interview: Here’s What Happens After Trump Secures Victory

Today’s Situation Update for January 2nd discusses the “big reveal” that President Trump has announced for January 6th. On this day, Trump’s team will present information to Congress before they vote on the contested slates of electors from the swing states where massive election fraud occurred.

We know it’s something that has never been presented previously in a court case, nor to the public. The possibilities are endless:

• Jeffrey Epstein bombshells?
• Declassified intelligence on China’s financial payments to the Biden crime family?
• Smoking gun proof that Dominion machines rigged the election?
• There are even rumors that two intelligence agencies for other nations have proof of election fraud and are handing it over to Trump.

Continue reading “The Big Reveal: How US History May Change on Jan 6”

By Jordan Williams Jan 2, 2021 | Original The Hill article here.

Vice President Pence’s chief of staff said in a statement on Saturday that the vice president “welcomes” an effort by some lawmakers to "raise objections" on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to certify the Electoral College vote.

Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff said in a statement to The Hill

“Vice President Pence shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election. The Vice President welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th."

The comment is the most extensive remark Pence’s office has made on the Jan. 6 proceedings following a highly contentious election between President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden.

Continue reading “Pence Welcomes Efforts of Lawmakers to Raise Objections to Electoral College Results”

By Derrick Broze, Dec 31, 2020 | Original The Last American Vagabond article here.

The Next Administration will inherit a massive facial recognition infrastructure which was set into motion by the Trump administration.

In November, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) proposed a new rule that will exponentially expand the use of facial recognition surveillance at the border. The rule is now being opposed by several branches of

1. the American Civil Liberties Union,
2. the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
3. Fight for the Future, and other rights organizations.

Continue reading “The Trump Administration Is Setting The Stage For A Surveillance State”

By John Carter, Dec 30, 2020 | Original article here.

Members of Georgia’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to study Georgia’s Election Laws, and their past and present impact on the current Election cycle.

The star of the show on Wednesday was inventor Jovan Pulitzer.

Pulitzer explained how he could quickly audit their results using his technique of identifying fraudulent paper ballots and said he will do it for free.

Mr. Pulitzer said he has “no regard for the smoke and mirrors of how the machines work.” – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PAPER BALLOTS.

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer Testimony at GA Senate Judiciary Committee

“I don’t care about the machine. I don’t even care about the code that was written in the machine. What I care about is that physical artifact [ballot] and that physical artifact has material differences district to district that should not be there.”

Pulitzer said it would take him two hours to look at 500,000 ballots. The Georgia State Senate Judiciary Subcomittee unanimously passed a motion to audit Fulton County’s absentee ballots with the process Pulitzer outlined during today’s hearing.

Here is the vote → https://twitter.com/rusttt34/status/1344384542270869505

By Jack Phillips, Dec 30, 2020 | Original Epoch Times article here.

President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in file photographs.

President Donald Trump’s campaign adviser said the team is aiming to present evidence during a potential congressional debate on Jan. 6 if lawmakers in the House and Senate object to states’ Electoral College votes.

As of Wednesday, it appears that at least one member of the Senate, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and a number of House lawmakers will object to the electoral votes during the Joint Session of Congress. Hawley announced he would object to the electoral vote, pointing to previous Democratic efforts to do so during the 2004 and 2016 presidential elections. After the objection, an hours-long debate will occur.

Campaign Adviser Jason Miller said that evidence could be presented in Congress, which would differ from what the Trump campaign presented in courts over the past several weeks.

Continue reading “The Trump Team Wants to Present Specific Evidence on Jan 6”