1) "The FBI has warned of possible armed protests being held across the US as Trump supporters and far-right groups call for demonstrations before Joe Biden is sworn in as president. There are reports of armed groups planning to gather at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC in the run-up to his 20 January inauguration. Security will be tight for the event"..
* Tuesday:[12Jan2021] The House of Representatives will vote on a resolution calling on Vice-President Pence and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to declare the president unfit for office and remove him immediately. The resolution is likely to pass as Democrats hold a majority, but Mr Pence has shown no sign he is planning to act * Wednesday:[13Jan2021] Democrats vow to hold a vote on impeachment. As they have a majority, Mr Trump is likely to become the first president to be impeached twice. The single article of impeachment - a formal charge - will then need to be sent to the Senate where a trial will be held but the timeline is not known https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55625707;
An internal FBI bulletin, reported by ABC News and other outlets, carries a warning that one group is calling for the "storming" of state, local and federal courthouses around the country if Mr Trump is removed from office early and on inauguration day if he is not."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55625707
12Janu2021;6:54am
2) FBI notifying that more attacks on Washington are planned by various groups:
"Capitol security officials are warning lawmakers that thousands of extremist supporters of President Trump are planning to try to storm the Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration. Lawmakers were told of four specific armed threats against the Capitol, White House and Supreme Court during a call late Monday night, according to a source familiar with the discussion. "...
"They were talking about 4,000 armed 'patriots' to surround the Capitol and prevent any Democrat from going in," Lamb said. "They have published rules of engagement, meaning when you shoot and when you don't. So this is an organized group that has a plan. They are committed to doing what they're doing because I think in their minds, you know, they are patriots and they're talking about 1776 and so this is now a contest of wills."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533805-lawmakers-briefed-on-security-threats-ahead-of-inauguration
12 Janu 2021; 4:48pm
3) US State Dept cancels all foreign travel b/c of risk of violence:
"WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has canceled what would have been his final official trip abroad as concerns grow over potential violence at next week’s presidential inauguration, the State Department said Tuesday."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pompeo-cancels-trip-abroad-concerns-violence-grow-75203766?cid=clicksource_4380645_6_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed
12Janu 2021; 4:57pm
4) US Senator Susan Collins 'testimony of events on 6th January in Capitol:
quote: "Sen. James Lankford had just started speaking when, all of a sudden, the Capitol Police and staff from the Sergeant at Arms burst into the chamber and removed Vice President Mike Pence who was presiding. Shortly thereafter, the two Senate leaders were also rushed away.
My first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike the Capitol,"
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/01/11/opinion/contributors/democracy-prevailed-over-the-rioters-who-sieged-the-capitol/
11Janu 2021;5:02pm, found again by google search since it vanished from The Hill news where it was early this morning.
5) Sedition?
"A Justice Department “strike force” is seeking to assemble a sedition case against some of those involved in last week’s riot at the Capitol, which is now being treated as a massive crime scene, a top prosecutor said Tuesday.
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, Michael Sherwin, said a team of his colleagues was examining whether to file those serious charges, which carry a potential penalty of up to 20 years in prison."...
The prosecutor also indicated that federal authorities were treating the investigation of the Jan. 6 events as the equivalent of a counterterrorism or counterintelligence investigation, throwing massive resources into the effort to follow finances, communications and movements of the perpetrators."...
Sherwin also mentioned that journalists were targeted by some of the violent actors and that a separate task force of prosecutors had been set up to examine those incidents. “"Some of those rioters specifically targeted members of the media and assaulted them," he said."...
Authorities appear to be preparing for the worst....At least 15,000 National Guard troops will be stationed in Washington on Inauguration Day, with 43 states and territories providing support."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/capitol-riot-sedition-charges-458309
12 Janu 2021; 4:34pm
6) Joint Chiefs of US Military on 6th January events:
"CNN)America's most senior general Mark Milley and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is comprised of the heads of each military branch, issued a statement Tuesday condemning the violent invasion of the US Capitol last week and reminding service members of their obligation to support and defend the Constitution and reject extremism.
"We witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection," they wrote in the statement."...
We support and defend the Constitution. Any act to disrupt the Constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values, and oath; it is against the law," the statement said." https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/joint-chiefs-condemn-sedition/index.html
12January 2021; 4:39pm
7) NY Judge's son arrested by FBI for part in 6th January mob:
Quote ABC: "The FBI arrested Aaron Mostofsky, son of a prominent New York judge, at his brother’s home in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning."...Mostofsky, 34, is facing four charges, including felony theft of government property, knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, engaging in disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with intent to impede government business, and unlawful entry and disorderly conduct, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday....At the Tuesday court hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Hafetz said there is video of Mostofsky "inside of the Capitol with a police officer's riot shield and appearing to wear a police officer's bulletproof vest, neither of which he had the right to."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fur-pelted-man-photographed-capitol-police-shield-facing/story?id=75202170&cid=clicksource_4380645_8_three_posts_card_hed
12Janu 2021; 4:52pm
8) "The resolution, brought forward by Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, calls on Vice President Mike Pence "to immediately use his powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments in the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified nation: That the President is unable to successfully discharge the duties of his office."
It further calls on Pence to assume "the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."...
The House will vote Tuesday evening on the resolution urging Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump, and then will plan to vote Wednesday at 9 a.m. ET on the impeachment resolution, Hoyer said....Invoking the 25th Amendment would require Pence and a majority of the Cabinet to vote to remove Trump from office due to his inability to "discharge the powers and duties of his office" -- an unprecedented step. Pence has so far given no indication that he would take that action."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/house-vote-25th-amendment-trump/index.html
12janu2021; 6:15am
9) USAToday trying whip up persecution of Pres Trump:
"Upon leaving office, Trump will be the beneficiary of a number of taxpayer-financed benefits, all of which would be wiped out if he were successfully impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate.
Gone would be the $200,000 a year stipend.
Gone would be the $1 million a year travel budget.
Gone would be taxpayer subsidies to finance his office and staff.
Gone would be the pension for the spouse of the president.
Gone would be the lifetime of Secret Service protection."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/01/12/impeach-trump-deny-millions-benefits-after-presidency-column/6624252002/
12 Janu2021; 6:20am
10) Missouri Capitol pumps up security:
"Missouri Capitol Police called in park rangers and Highway Patrol troopers on Tuesday to bolster their ranks. The Missouri House also approved a rule change giving its sergeant-at-arms police powers and the ability to hire trained law enforcement officers"...
https://www.ky3.com/2021/01/12/missouri-capitol-boosts-security-as-lawmakers-cite-concerns/
12Janu2021;4:28pm
11) Other changes to Missouri laws:
"The House now allow members of the public to testify virtually, an option meant to accommodate those concerned about spreading or catching COVID-19 at the Capitol. But video or telephone testimony will only be offered if approved in advance by committees.....
The House passed a change that allows the chamber to investigate ethics complaints against members for alleged misconduct that occurred before they became lawmakers. ...The House voted against Democratic proposals to ban discrimination against people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender House employees. A rule against referring to lawmakers as either ladies or gentlemen, the current custom, and instead calling all members “representatives” also failed."
https://www.ky3.com/2021/01/12/missouri-house-adds-rules-to-allow-virtual-feedback-on-bills/
12 Janu 2021; 4:pm
12) Minnesota pumps up Capitol security also:
quote: "Law enforcement agents read the AP an internal memo put out on Sunday that said “[a]rmed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the U.S. Capitol from 17 January through 20 January.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/533910-minnesota-governor-to-deploy-national-guard-to-protect-state-capitol
12 Janu 2021;4:45pm
13) Twitter Inc. has permanently suspended more than 70,000 accounts dedicated to sharing QAnon-associated conspiracy theory content and ratcheted up its enforcement in the wake of the Washington, D.C., riot last week.
Many of the affected accounts were run by individuals who were operating several of them at a time, Twitter said in a statement detailing its actions. As part of its latest measures, follower counts for some users may change by as many as thousands. The company had warned against the sharing of QAnon material in the summer and said accounts that tweet or retweet it will continue to have “limited visibility across search, replies, and on timelines and are prohibited from being recommended to others by Twitter.”
You're in private...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/twitter-bans-over-70-000-qanon-accounts-in-conspiracy-crackdown
12Janu 2021;6:22am
14) "Trump plans to note that 400 miles of border wall went up during his time in office, a White House spokesman said.
This will be the first public appearance for Trump – beyond video statements – since Wednesday morning [6Jan2021]"
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/955740906/trump-takes-one-last-look-at-his-border-wall-as-congress-considers-impeachment;
12Janu2021;6:24am
15) Blacks who broke into Capitol NOT arrested for being black?
Quote: "Sullivan, who is the founder of Insurgence USA, a social justice group that calls itself anti-fascist and protests police brutality, was detained by Washington police for about an hour and a half Thursday night, a day after he talked to local and national media about what he witnessed Wednesday.
Just after people broke into the building, Sullivan — wearing a gas mask and wielding an iPhone on a stabilizing stick — and a woman who said Wednesday that she was making a documentary on Sullivan, are on the first porch area outside the entrance looking back over the throngs of people around the Capitol. They can be heard encouraging people to climb the wall, saying, “Come on. Let’s go!”...
“As far as them storming the Capitol, I knew that was going to happen,” he said. “I’m on chats that are underground that are sending out flyers that are just like, ‘Storm all Capitols on the 6th.’ It wasn’t anything that was secret. It was something that was out there ... and they did it.”
After making his way inside the Capitol during the riot, Sullivan said he witnessed the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt, and the Twitter account for Insurgence USA retweeted video from someone with Sullivan that shows the shooting and the aftermath....
In the wake of widespread condemnation, including from some lawmakers who support Trump and had planned to object to the electoral votes, there were assertions that those who stormed the Capitol, fought with police and injured officers, ransacked offices, and damaged public property, were actually members of groups like antifa or Black Lives Matter. In fact, Sullivan’s picture was circulating on social media as “evidence” that the rioters were not Trump supporters."
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/1/7/22219733/utah-activist-inside-u-s-capitol-says-woman-killed-was-first-to-try-and-enter-house-chamber-sullivan [Utah]
12Janu2021; 6:27am
16 ) Quote: "Legislation proposed in the New York City Council seeks to update hiring discrimination rules for the age of algorithms. The bill would require companies to disclose to candidates when they have been assessed with the help of software. Companies that sell such tools would have to perform annual audits to check that their people-sorting tech doesn’t discriminate."...The proposal is a part of a recent movement at all levels of government to place legal constraints on algorithms and software that shape life-changing decisions"...More than a dozen US cities have banned government use of face recognition, and New York state recently passed a two-year moratorium on the technology’s use in schools. Some federal lawmakers have proposed legislation to regulate face algorithms and automated decision tools used by corporations, including for hiring. In December, 10 senators asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to police bias in AI hiring tools,"....Cahn wants any law to define the technology covered more broadly, not let vendors decide how to audit their own technology, and allow individuals to sue to enforce the law. “We didn’t see any meaningful form of enforcement against the discrimination we’re concerned about,” he says."
https://www.wired.com/story/new-york-city-proposes-regulating-algorithms-hiring/
12Janu 2021; 6:34am
17) Health care regarding covid vaccine:
The mutation, identified in a variant first seen in South Africa and separately seen in another variant in Brazil, changes a part of the virus that your immune system’s antibodies get trained to recognize after you’ve been infected or vaccinated. Lab studies show that the change could make people’s antibodies less effective at neutralizing the virus. The mutation seems to help the virus disguise part of its signature appearance, so the pathogen might have an easier time slipping past immune protection.
It’s not that the mutation will render existing vaccines useless, scientists stress. The vaccines authorized so far and those in development produce what’s called a polyclonal response, generating numerous antibodies that home in on different parts of the virus. Changes to any of those target sites raise the possibility that the vaccines would be less effective."...
The more contagious variant raising global alarms, which was first seen in the United Kingdom and is referred to as B.1.1.7, is not thought to have mutations that will greatly affect vaccines, the evidence so far indicates....“We need to be monitoring for these mutations,” said Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary virologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who with colleagues published a paper about this specific mutation, known as E484K, this week."
https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/07/coronavirus-mutation-vaccine-strength/
12Janu2021;6:40am
18) Quote "Deutsche Bank and Signature Bank will cut ties with President Donald Trump in the wake of his supporters storming the Capitol, Bloomberg reported Monday.
* Deutsche Bank and Signature Bank will cut ties with President Donald Trump in the wake of his supporters storming the Capitol, Bloomberg reported Monday""
bloomberg.com; 12Janu 2021;6:49am
19) The wear-ur-mask-in-retail-Police? Or is the citizens tattle on each other group?
Quote: "SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A new social media group encourages people to call out businesses that don’t enforce Springfield’s face-mask ordinance and to praise those that do.
“Some businesses are enforcing it and others are not. That creates the problem,” said former Springfield mayor Robert Stephens.
Stephens said he wants to see his Springfield neighbors overcome the coronavirus. He helped start a Facebook group called, Springfield Supports Masks: Businesses Who Do and Don’t. He said the goal was primarily to applaud the businesses that do abide by city ordinances with masking and capacity limits. Sometimes, he said those who don’t comply are called out.
“Actions have consequences. If you’re not wearing the mask when you should be, and somebody takes your picture, that’s not our issue. That’s your issue,” he said"
https://www.ky3.com/2021/01/12/facebook-group-discusses-which-springfield-businesses-comply-with-city-ordinances/
12Janu2021;6:50am
20) "The FBI has warned of possible armed protests being held across the US as Trump supporters and far-right groups call for demonstrations before Joe Biden is sworn in as president.
There are reports of armed groups planning to gather at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC in the run-up to his 20 January inauguration.
Security will be tight for the event"..
* Tuesday:[12Jan2021] The House of Representatives will vote on a resolution calling on Vice-President Pence and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to declare the president unfit for office and remove him immediately. The resolution is likely to pass as Democrats hold a majority, but Mr Pence has shown no sign he is planning to act
* Wednesday:[13Jan2021] Democrats vow to hold a vote on impeachment. As they have a majority, Mr Trump is likely to become the first president to be impeached twice. The single article of impeachment - a formal charge - will then need to be sent to the Senate where a trial will be held but the timeline is not known
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55625707;
21) An internal FBI bulletin, reported by ABC News and other outlets, carries a warning that one group is calling for the "storming" of state, local and federal courthouses around the country if Mr Trump is removed from office early and on inauguration day if he is not."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55625707
12Janu2021;6:54am
22) Big TECHNOLOGY has power to destroy a business and its reputation and also private citizens but banning the President of the U S.is insanity and proves the intent of so-called social media to be propaganda for the so-called elite to decide who gets first amendment liberties:
Quote :
"With a flick of a switch then, Parler, a fast-growing app seen by some as a free-speech alternative to Twitter, was no more. For now."...
'Problematic' ban
What is unprecedented though is the targeted approach against the president....
European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have described the move as "problematic".
EU commissioner Thierry Breton described the events on Capitol Hill as "the 9/11 moment of social media", writing in Politico that "the fact that a CEO can pull the plug on Potus' [President of the United States] loudspeaker without any checks and balances is perplexing".
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said social networks were now "taking editorial decisions", adding that platforms were "choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice".
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55624630
12Jan 2021; 6:58am
23) Covid vaccine distribution changes:
Quote:
"Azar also announced that in two weeks Warp Speed is going to change the way that doses are allocated "to support rapid vaccination, and to focus on the most vulnerable." The change will allocate doses to states by the pace of administration, as reported by the states and population of people age 65 and older."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/azar-trump-administration-longer-hold-back-shots-recommend/story?id=75198254&cid=clicksource_4380645_6_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed;
12Janu2021;4:55pm
Like all Americans I was stunned by events at the U.S. Capitol on 6th January. I happened to have watched the entire thing LIVE via T.V. because I was alerted the day before of a possible plane flown into US Capitol planned by Iran to retailiate for death of their Soleimani, who died in US Military airstrike a year ago. So, I was watching news on both ABC & CBS to see if that happened? And saw the attack on the Capitol as it happened. It had a surreal feel to me emotionally. A can this be happening in The United States of America feel to it. Since then I have read every article and watched every video about it. There are some appalling imagesin the FBI files of that day that all news agencies posted to get public to identify the perpetrators. I posted a similar summary a few days ago on a different blog of mine, so you can catch up news on it, if you missed it elsewhere.
As always this blog is owned by and created by me Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse, artist, occasional photographer, white, woman, U.S. citizen, mother of 2 grown daughters Jennifer and Leigh, and author , cartoonist ; from my own private apartment in Springfield Missouri on my own equipment.[As usual].
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Today is 12th January 2021 at 5:39pm as I write this.
Gloria Poole,R.N., artist; Springfield Missouri
