A pedophilia website operator has been arrested in the kidnapping of a 12-year-old California girl

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/us/virginia-kidnapping-12-year-old-fresno-denver/index.html

 A Virginia man authorities describe as a "White supremacist" and "an advocate for pedophilia" is facing charges in California and Colorado for traveling across the country to kidnap a 12-year-old girl, officials said Saturday.

Nathan Daniel Larson, 40, is in Denver County Jail on a misdemeanor charge and faces felony charges in California for the kidnapping that authorities say utilized such "sophisticated" grooming methods that they fear there may be more victims.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky: People 'need' to get coronavirus vaccination

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/rabbi-kanievsky-says-people-must-get-coronavirus-vaccination-652761

 Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, widely considered a highly influential rabbi and posek (final authority of Jewish law), urged people to get vaccinated for the coronavirus on Sunday.

In a video posted on Whatsapp, his followers posed the question to the rabbi whether "it is possible to [get the vaccination], or one must get it," with Kanievsky responding that everyone "needs" to get the vaccination in order to stop the spread of the virus.

New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55388846

 The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher restrictions on mixing at Christmas in England, Scotland and Wales, and other countries placing the UK on a travel ban.

Legal Experts Explain Defamation Lawsuit Threat Made by Dominion Voting Systems Against Sidney Powell

 https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/legal-experts-explain-defamation-lawsuit-threat-made-by-dominion-voting-systems-against-sidney-powell/

 Conservative attorney Sidney Powell and her legal team have been spreading a series of false statements and bizarre accusations against elections systems vendors via court filings and during various media appearances in service of their failed Kraken lawsuits. While privileges afforded to lawyers in most states suggest Powell doesn’t have much to worry about regarding her pleadings, her out-of-court appearances could be another question entirely.

 

Dominion Demands Sidney Powell Retract ‘Knowingly Baseless’ Voting Machine Conspiracy Theory

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/17/dominion-demands-sidney-powell-retract-knowingly-baseless-voting-machine-conspiracy-theory/?sh=4a7f46893db0

 Dominion Voting Systems called on former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell to retract her groundless accusations of voter fraud involving the company’s voting machines, which it characterized in a letter to the right-wing lawyer Wednesday as “wild” and “knowingly baseless,” and threatened to take legal action against her.

Trump's talk of martial law sends White House staffers rushing to the press

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/media/stelter-trump-martial-law/index.html

 Trump dismissed reports of the martial law discussion as 'fake news' in a tweet Sunday, but two people familiar with the matter told CNN that the the plan was argued in the Oval Office Friday -- although it remains unclear if Trump endorsed the idea.

 It's a concept she calls "acceleration," in which violent extremist groups, especially White supremacists, try to overthrow the United States government. These groups believe that will take place through a civil war and look to "accelerate the chaos, accelerate the coming of the civil war."

The American Yeshiva Day School fraud

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/293430

Gone are the days of real ideological disputes between misnagdim and hasidim, Modern Orthodox and yeshivish. Those were for the simpler times, when Jews were still poor and sidelined members of society. Today, when we have reached the pinnacles of success in the secular world, the hashkafic distinctions that once defined us are no longer real.

 

 

 

Trump responds to Bolton's 'incompetence' claim, hints he could reveal 'stupid stories' about former adviser

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-bolton-election-martial-law-michael-flynn

 Bolton called Trump "unfit for the job" during an appearance on CNN on Saturday night.

"There's a theory out there, I know, that Trump is getting worse as Jan. 20 approaches," Bolton said. "No, he's not. It's the same behavior repeated over and over again. Let's take the idea of putting military capabilities into the swing states and running the election again. Look, there's a difference between incompetence and malevolence. In Trump's case, this is incompetence

President Trump hit back after former national security adviser John Bolton blasted him for "incompetence" amid reports that Trump discussed invoking martial law with another former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

"Martial law = Fake News. Just more knowingly bad reporting!" Trump tweeted in the early hours of Sunday morning.

'Appalling': Bolton reacts to Flynn's pitch for martial law

 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/12/20/trump-oval-office-meeting-martial-law-bolton-tsr-sot-vpx.cnn

Former national security adviser John Bolton weighs in on news of a heated Oval Office meeting involving aides to President Trump, lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The gathering reportedly devolved into screaming matches over Powell and Flynn's suggestions about overturning the election.

John Bolton: Russia Hack Is Huge, ‘Cannot Underestimate Its Significance’ | MTP Daily | MSNBC

Trump is still only out for himself

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/politics/donald-trump-martial-law-election-2020/index.html

Rep. Adam Smith, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called Trump "an aspiring fascist" who admires Putin and wants the same kind of control that Putin exerts over his own country and its elections. Smith said the reports that Trump entertained Flynn's theories about invoking marital law were "unbelievably disturbing."

"He is talking about basically leading a coup against the United States government and destroying our Constitution," Smith told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room" Saturday night. "There needs to be strong bipartisan pushback against this. It is an unbelievably dangerous thing for the President to be talking about."

 

“You Can’t Reason With Him at All”: Trump Spends Final Days Plotting Revenge Against His Enemies and Pardons for Everyone Else

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/trump-spends-final-days-plotting-revenge

At the nadir of his 1990 debt crisis, Donald Trump bunkered himself inside Trump Tower for days on end, subsisting on a steady diet of hamburgers and French fries. As his real estate empire was collapsing, and his first marriage unraveling, Trump simply refused to accept the reality that his life was in a tailspin. “Do people really think I am in trouble?” Trump asked Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner at the time, to which she replied, “Yes, they think you’re finished.” One of Trump’s lawyers, meanwhile, told Brenner, “Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory. If you say something again and again, people will believe you.”

Sweden’s king says country’s coronavirus strategy has failed

 https://www.ft.com/content/d1e581a4-b7d9-4215-8a82-b1a4884c592c

 Sweden’s king has admitted that the Scandinavian country has failed with its coronavirus strategy, which has left it with a far higher death toll from the pandemic than its Nordic neighbours. Carl XVI Gustaf told Swedes in his annual Christmas address that the country had suffered “enormously in difficult conditions” and that it was “traumatic” that many relatives of the almost 8,000 people to die with Covid-19 had not been able to say goodbye to them. “I think we have failed. We have a large number who have died and that is terrible. It is something we all have to suffer with,” the king added, in comments released on Thursday and due to be broadcast in full on Monday.

Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html

 President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as some of Trump's aides pushed back on Powell and Flynn's more outrageous suggestions about overturning the election.

Flynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump could invoke martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden -- an idea that arose again during the meeting in the Oval Office, one of the people said. It wasn't clear whether Trump endorsed the idea, but others in the room forcefully pushed back and shot it down.