News (1) to (3) / Reporter : Geoff Earle, Daily Mail / Editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA / Image : Putin is Trump's best friend outside the U.S. He says the U.S. Democrat Biden administration's accusations at Russia's role in the U.S. elections are wrong.
"Where is the proof?" Putin denies claims Russia was behind cyberattacks that crippled the U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin continued to try to pick apart U.S. claims on a media tour in advance of his summit with President Biden – denying in an interview airing Monday that Russia engaged in cyber attacks and saying there was no proof it interfered in U.S. elections.
'Where is the evidence? Where is proof? It's becoming farcical,' Putin said in a sit-down interview with NBC News from Moscow.
'We have been accused of all kinds of things - election interference, cyberattacks and so on and so forth - and not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof, just unfounded accusations.'
'I'm surprised that we have not yet been accused of – provoking the Black Lives Matter movement. That would have been a good line of attack. But ...' Putin said, ridiculing the attack.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team issued detailed indictments for Russian intelligence operatives accused of 2016 election interference. But Russia didn't hand over the alleged hackers, and they have not stood trial.
The U.S. government has said Russia may be housing cyber hackers who carried out the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, but has not said it was a government operation.
U.S. intelligence does assess that Russia interfered in the elections of 2016 and 2020.
Putin's comments come as Biden kicked off the NATO summit in Brussels by saying Russia and China had not acted 'in a way that is consistent with what we had hoped.'
Putin once again sought to undermine a U.S. push the Kremlin to respect press freedoms and allow a sphere for political opponents to exist – by bringing up U.S. prosecution of rioters who stormed the Capitol on 6 January.
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Putin: The rioters are subjected to "persecution for political opinions"
Putin, who is to meet President Joe Biden at a summit Wednesday, has suggested that the hundreds of people arrested for rioting at the U.S. Capitol are being subjected to 'persecution for political opinions.'
Charging documents reveal many of those who have been arrested were carrying sticks and poles, attacked police officers, or broke through windows to enter the seat of legislative power.
Putin is likely to come under strong criticism from Biden at their meeting in Geneva for moves against his political opponents in Russia, particularly the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the detention of thousands of demonstrators protesting his arrest, and the outlawing of Navalny´s organizations as extremist.
'You are presenting it as dissent and intolerance toward dissent in Russia. We view it completely differently,' he said in an interview with NBC News broadcast Monday. He then pointed to the January 6 unrest in Washington when protesters barged into the Capitol to try to halt the count of electoral votes to certify Biden´s election victory over Donald Trump.
'Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress? ... They came there with political demands,' he said.
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Putin denies the Kremlin was behind poisoning of Navalny
Putin also reiterated denials that the Kremlin was behind last year's poisoning of Navalny with a nerve agent that nearly killed him.
'We don't have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody,' Putin said.
'Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?' Putin said, referring to Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a window that led to the House floor.
In April, the United States announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and new sanctions connected to the so-called SolarWinds cyberattack in which several U.S. government branches experienced data breaches. U.S. officials blamed the Russian foreign intelligence service.
In May, Microsoft officials said the foreign intelligence service appeared to be linked to an attack on a company providing services to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Audit organizer says hundreds of thousands of ballots MISSING in Arizona, boxes full of blank ballots
Reporter : Patrick Howley, National File
Several hundred thousand votes that were counted in Maricopa County, Arizona are associated with missing ballots, according to an audit organizer who is speaking regularly with people on the audit floor.
“We found a ballot shortage, anywhere from 5 to 10 percent of the votes,” Josh Barnett, an audit organizer who led the affidavit drive to make the audit happen, tells NATIONAL FILE. “It looks like a couple hundred thousand ballots are unaccounted for. The ballots are missing.”
“I also know that there were boxes filled with blank ballots in those pallets. There were blanks in there,” Barnett said, citing a person who is frequently at the audit site as part of the audit process. “They (election officials) were doing it for appearance, to try to hide the fact that ballots are missing by saying, ‘It’s okay, they’re all right here.’ But the ballots are blank.”
The massive enthusiasm for the Arizona audit is spreading to other states as Audit Fever sweeps America. NATIONAL FILE REPORTED: American patriot activists tell NATIONAL FILE that they are just getting started when it comes to sparking 2020 election audits in disputed states. Some of the main patriot organizers who are leading the audit effort are very optimistic that what started in Maricopa County, Arizona will now spread quickly to nine other states. Targeted states include Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Alaska, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Nevada.
Patriotic delegations from Georgia, Alaska, and Colorado visited the Maricopa County audit floor in Phoenix, Arizona this week following a visit from a Pennsylvania delegation led by State Senator Doug Mastriano, who met with President Donald Trump in Trump Tower. Insiders tell NATIONAL FILE that more states will be heading to Maricopa County.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s office signaled the Democrat governor won’t sign a GOP-backed bill that is being proposed by Republican state lawmakers, describing it as an attempt to take away voters’ rights.
Wolf vowed to veto the proposed measure and other “legislative efforts to roll back the freedoms Pennsylvanians right now have,” according to a statement his office released over the past weekend to several news outlets. Although Republicans hold significant majorities in Pennsylvania’s legislature, they don’t have veto-proof majorities—meaning their bill will likely fail when it reaches the governor’s desk.
“Make no mistake, this proposal is not about protecting voter rights or increasing access. It is an extremist proposal to try and undermine confidence in our election system,” Wolf press secretary Lyndsay Kensinger said in a statement on the measure over the past weekend.
Last week, state Republican lawmakers led by state Rep. Seth Grove—the chair of the House State Government Committee—introduced an overhaul of the Pennsylvania election system, including more stringent voter identification requirements and mail-ballot signature verification. The bill, among other measures, would eliminate the state’s permanent mail-in voting list, establish a new Bureau of Election Audit agency, and allow early in-person voting starting in 2025.
The most significant proposal within the bill is the new voter identification requirement, a measure that Democrats nationwide generally oppose. Voters would have to present identification every time they vote, although all current forms of identification would be accepted or they would have to present signed affidavits if voters do not have identification.
The legislation furthermore includes a voter’s bill of rights, which includes the right to have a replacement ballot issued due to mistakes, and the right to receive voting assistance.
With their proposed legislation, Kensinger said, it suggests GOP state lawmakers “don’t like the outcome of the November election and now they are retaliating against the voters.” President Joe Biden was certified as the winner of Pennsylvania last year.
After Wolf’s office issued their critical statement, Grove told CBS21 that Wolf and his staff “obviously did not read the bill.”
“If they think in-person early voting is voter disenfranchisement and suppression, that’s in the bill. Curbside voting to help ADA disabled Pennsylvanians vote is voter suppression? That’s in the bill,” he said.
Other GOP-led states including Arizona, Florida, and Georgia have passed similar bills that Republicans say will secure the integrity of state elections. Democrats at the state and federal level have expressed near-unilateral opposition to such measures, saying they’re tantamount to “voter suppression.”
The Pennsylvania GOP’s proposal comes after a technology company, Wake Technology Services Inc., carried out an assessment of the voting systems in Fulton County, finding that while there were “five issues of note,” the election was carried out efficiently with little-to-no anomalies.
One of the issues was that Dominion Voting Systems, it alleged, failed to meet Pennsylvania’s certification standards. Dominion disputed the findings and said that Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools—which Wake TSI said shouldn’t be installed on election-management systems—is “a federally-certified component of Dominion’s system, which meets U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Voluntary Voting System Guidelines.”
The Epoch Times has contacted Grove’s office for comment.
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Globalists are launching a concerted effort to undermine and even potentially criminalize Bitcoin as the global finance class fears that their grasp on currency power might be slipping. Finance class stooges including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell are spouting increasingly desperate rationalizations for why Bitcoin is supposedly bad. Bitcoin enthusiasts see the cryptocurrency as a potential replacement for paper money if the dollar and other currencies crash during the almost certain financial instability that lies ahead of us.
“I also think with bitcoin, and with the other cryptocurrencies, I think there’s a real issue about the environmental impact as well, this whole notion of how much energy is consumed just to keep the currency tracking going,” said the Massachusetts Democrat senator Elizabeth Warren, who proved herself to be a puppet for Wall Street when she demanded that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) step in when populist Redditors bought GameStop stock to short-squeeze the hedge fund Melvin Capital, which tried unsuccessfully to tank GameStop. “You don’t consume that kind of energy, in order to have money on deposit at a bank or a mutual fund. In that sense, bitcoin is very different and in a 21st century, we’re becoming a lot more sensitive to the worldwide impacts of the choices we make.”
“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing,” said billionaire and genetically-modified mosquito army funder Bill Gates in an interview. Meanwhile, Dr. Darrell Duffie laid out criteria for criminalizing Bitcoin in a dopey U.S. Senate virtual hearing.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen smeared cryptocurrency across the board in her Senate confirmation hearing, stating, “You’re absolutely right that the technologies to accomplish this change over time, and we need to make sure that our methods for dealing with these matters, with terrorist financing, change along with changing technology. Cryptocurrencies are a particular concern. I think many are used – at least in a transaction sense – mainly for illicit financing.”
In a typically stuffy appearance on CNBC, Yellen said, “I don’t think that bitcoin … is widely used as a transaction mechanism. To the extent it is used I fear it’s often for illicit finance. It’s an extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions, and the amount of energy that’s consumed in processing those transactions is staggering.”
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell griped about cryptocurrencies, “They’re highly volatile, see Bitcoin, and therefore not really useful as a store of value. They’re more of an asset for speculation. So they’re also not particularly in use as a means of payment. … It’s essentially a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar.” Powell’s snotty remarks were credited with a subsequent Bitcoin price drop.
But Bitcoin believers are not backing down. Economist Max Keiser ripped up paper money on a CNBC broadcast and declared “He who has the bitcoin makes the laws” after a television media person warned him that ripping up paper money is allegedly illegal. Keiser is best known for his campaign to “Crash JP Morgan-Buy Silver,” which he broadcast on The Alex Jones Show.
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey moving into the Bitcoin world, with a planned multi-million dollar investment in bitcoin mining, is disturbing for some Bitcoin people, because the globalists are always trying to infiltrate and co-opt alternative currency movements. Even President Donald Trump denounced Bitcoin, signaling that major financial institutions are getting concerned about the rise of cryptocurrency. But Bitcoin optimists see the establishment’s fear as a good thing, meaning that Bitcoin is effective and so powerful that it is now making the elites get nervous. This debate will continue to play out as global financial systems become very uncertain and globalists including Biden’s Energy Secretary, left-winger Jennifer Granholm, hint at possible upcoming disturbances to the electric grid.
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US assessing reported leak at China's Taishan nuclear energy plant
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