UK govt are ‘poodles’ for US & want Julian Assange to die in prison – Roger Waters to RT

Washington’s willingness to punish WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won’t change with Joe Biden in office – and the UK government will do anything to help the US achieve this goal, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has told RT.

A decision by a British court on Assange’s extradition to the US, where he is wanted on espionage charges over his leaks of classified documents, is to be announced on January 4, 2021.

https://www.rt.com/uk/508942-assange-extradition-biden-rogers/

Biden election success β€˜not statistically impossible, but statistically IMPLAUSIBLE,’ pollster says

Patrick Basham, founder of research organization the Democracy Institute, broke down the β€œimplausibility” of Joe Biden’s presumed presidential victory for Fox News, as Donald Trump continues to insist there’s β€œno way” he lost.

Joe Biden’s apparent victory over the incumbent Trump is β€œstatistically implausible,” Basham told Mark Levin on Sunday night during β€˜Life, Liberty & Levin’, describing a lot of processes that went against all expectations during the elections.

He says that the Democrat defied theΒ β€œnon-polling metrics,” which Basham claims have β€œa 100 percent accuracy rate,” includingΒ β€œhow the candidates did in their respective presidential primaries, the number of individual donations, [and] how much enthusiasm each candidate generated in the opinion polls.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/508921-biden-win-implausible-trump/

Trump regulators leave a warning for the Biden team

New York (CNN Business)As they head out the door, Trump-led financial regulators are warning the incoming Biden team that a little-known yet critical corner of Wall Street is broken.TheirΒ concern centers on the short-term funding market, which provides money to businesses, local governments and market players. When this market breaks down, the entire economy can screech to a halt.Β 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/07/investing/wall-street-biden-trump-regulation-fsoc/index.html

Giuliani hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus

CNN)Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and the face of his longshot legal challenges to overturn the presidential election results, has been hospitalized after testing positive forΒ Covid-19.The 76-year-old former New York mayor was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital on Sunday, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Giuliani appeared to confirm his positive diagnosis, hours after it was announced on Twitter by Trump, byΒ tweetingΒ that he’s “getting great care and feeling good.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/06/politics/rudy-giuliani-coronavirus-positive/index.html

Beijing may have built bases in the South China Sea, but that doesn’t mean it can defend them, report claims

Hong Kong (CNN)Beijing has spent yearsΒ turning islands and reefs in the South China Seainto military bases and airstrips — but such territory could be vulnerable to attack and nigh indefensible in the event of war, a new report has warned.Β The bases are “lonely in the distant sea,” and far from both the Chinese mainland and other islands in the vast disputed waters, which span some 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles), said Naval and Merchant Ships, a Beijing-based magazine published by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, which supplies the People’s Liberation Army.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/07/china/south-china-sea-bases-military-intl-hnk/index.html

Monolith Appears in Netherlands, Adding More Mystery to ‘Invasion’ of Metal Monuments Worldwide

According to the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper, no footprints were visible around the structure and nobody knows how it appeared there. 

A monolith has appeared in the Netherlands recently as a companion to the mysterious metal objects which have already been discovered in Romania and the United States.

The structure was spotted in the Kiekenberg nature reserve near Oudehorne, a village in the province of Friesland, on Sunday, theΒ Algemeen DagbladΒ newspaper said. It added that nobody saw how the pillar had been placed there and no footprints could be seen around it. The report noted, however, that this structure was not shiny like the pillars which had been discovered in other countries.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202012071081381609-monolith-appears-in-netherlands-adding-more-mystery-to-invasion-of-metal-monuments-worldwide/

Alongside Sisi, Macron says France will sell arms to Egypt irrespective of rights

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairo’s ability to counter terrorism in the region, a comment likely to draw the ire of critics.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-egypt/alongside-sisi-macron-says-france-will-sell-arms-to-egypt-irrespective-of-rights-idUSKBN28H0BG?il=0

Russia jails ex-Ukrainian soccer player for 12 years in spying case – court

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sentenced a former Ukrainian soccer player to 12 years in jail on Monday after convicting him of spying for Kyiv at a trial held behind closed doors, a court in Moscow said.

Vasily Vasilenko, who played at Ukrainian soccer clubs Tavriya, Torpedo and Druzhba from 1992-2001 according to Russian media, was detained in October 2019, held on smuggling charges and later charged with spying.

https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-ukraine-espionage/russia-jails-ex-ukrainian-soccer-player-for-12-years-in-spying-case-court-idUSKBN28H1O0?il=0