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Brexit: EU diplomats to get trade deal briefing

EU ambassadors are to receive a Christmas Day briefing on the post-Brexit trade deal reached with the UK.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will update the diplomats on the agreement, reached after months of fraught talks on fishing rights and business rules.
The UK is set to exit EU trading rules on 31 December - a year after officially leaving the 27-nation bloc.
MPs are still waiting to see the full text of the free trade deal ahead of a vote in Parliament on 30 December.
Labour said it was a "thin agreement" but they would back it as the only alternative to a no deal, meaning it should win approval.

Well, it was about time they reached some agreement.  

Hunter Biden still owns 10% stake in Chinese private equity firm, business records show

Joe Biden pledged in October 2019 that his family members wouldn't engage in foreign business

President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter still owns a 10% stake in a Chinese private equity firm, less than one month before his father is set to take office, business records reviewed by Fox News show. 
The development, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, contradicts Joe Biden's October 2019 pledge to keep his family free of foreign entanglements if he was elected president.
Chinese business records reviewed by Fox News show that a U.S. company, Skaneateles LLC, owns a 10% equity stake in Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co. Hunter Biden is the sole beneficial owner of Skaneateles, according to Washington corporate records.
Hunter previously sat on the Chinese firm's board -- whose financial backers include the Bank of China -- before announcing in October 2019 that he would be stepping down over mounting scrutiny from his father's presidential bid.
A source close to Hunter told Fox News on Wednesday that he is still in the process of offloading his stake in the Chinese investment firm. The Biden transition team didn't return Fox News' request for comment.

Oh but they were not involved with China in any way possible.
 

Woman sent photos of mutilated body to MI election official
who initially refused to certify Biden win

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A woman was arrested in New Hampshire for making threats against – and sending pictures of a naked, mutilated body to – a Michigan election official who had initially refused to certify local votes in favor of Joe Biden, according to officials.
Katelyn Jones, a 23-year-old former Olivet, Mich., resident, was arrested Wednesday and charged with sending threats and "threatening communications" to Monica Palmer of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, authorities announced in a same-day press release.
Palmer headed a raucous meeting of the Board of Canvassers on Nov. 17. She and a fellow Republican on the four-member board initially refused to certify Wayne County’s election results, typically a routine step on the way to statewide certification. They cited problems with absentee ballots in Detroit.
When the meeting turned to public comment, Palmer and William Hartmann were criticized for hours by people watching on video conference. They subsequently changed their votes and certified the election totals, saying they were assured by the board’s two Democrats that a post-election audit would be performed. Biden won the county on Nov. 3 with 68% of the vote.

Why on earth did they ever change their votes!? Isn't that a crime? Why weren't they arrested as well?

Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica begin mass vaccination

A Mexican nurse became the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday.
Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 doses of the US-German Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The country has one of the highest pandemic death tolls in the world, behind only the US, Brazil and India.
A short time later on Thursday, Chile and Costa Rica also began administering Pfizer-BioNTech.
Argentina also plans to start inoculations in the next few days but has chosen the Russian-produced vaccine Sputnik V for its initial phase, with a delivery of 300,000 doses arriving in the capital Buenos Aires on Thursday morning.
Brazil, which has recorded the highest number of deaths in the region, is not due to start until mid-February despite a recent surge in the number of cases.

I wonder if both vaccines are safe enough. Well, even Western scientists know little about Sputnik V.

Supreme Court in no hurry to hear Trump campaign case, sets response deadline two days after inauguration
Trump campaign previously asked court to decide case by January 6

The justices this week set a reply deadline for Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and the other respondents named in the case of Jan. 22. The campaign had asked for the Supreme Court to order those on the other side of the litigation to respond by Wednesday and have reply briefs from the Trump campaign submitted by Thursday. It also asked the court to rule by Jan. 6. But the court did not oblige.

Now it's 100% clear Justices no longer care about the elections or perhaps even the Constitution.

Miami mayor urges Wall Street firms to leave NYC for friendlier city
City taxes, business environment key draws for big banks

Miami's Republican mayor said Thursday he hopes to draw some of the big financial firms from Wall Street down to Biscayne Boulevard, as a relief from the high tax burdens and other restrictions of New York.
Mayor Francis X. Suarez told "Your World" he is already having success in talks with firms like Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
New York State continues to be near or at the top of the list when it comes to taxation and other categories that businesses take heed of, while Florida does not impose a state income tax among other benefits.

I do think this is better than convincing them of moving abroad due to the heavy taxation of Democratic New York City.

Amistad Project Releases Report on Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Dark Money’ in 2020 Elections

The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society released a report Wednesday documenting the effect of donations by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to private-public partnerships that turned out the vote in key Democratic counties in 2020.
The report, titled “The Legitimacy and Effect of Private Funding in Federal and State Election Processes,” alleges that when Zuckerberg gave money to government institutions to assist with elections during the coronavirus pandemic, the donations were targeted at Democrat-heavy areas in swing states with the specific purpose of tilting the election to Joe Biden.
The report, according to Amistad Project director Phil Kline, documented the use of “more than one half of a billion dollars, more than the federal government expended [$400 million] in the CARES Act, to fund the election during the COVID crisis.

Meanwhile MSN lied about that claiming they were saving the elections.

Detroit suing Black Lives Matter activists for ‘civil conspiracy’
The city alleges that injuries to police officers have included “cracked vertebrae, lacerations, and concussions"

Detroit has filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter activists, alleging a "civil conspiracy" and claiming the protests in the city "have repeatedly turned violent, endangering the lives of police and the public," according to reports.
The city claims the activists participated in the conspiracy, "defamed" the mayor and police, and contends that the city should be awarded damages, The Intercept reported.
The city cites four protests that occurred in the city this year, and alleges that injuries to police officers included "cracked vertebrae, lacerations, and concussions," according to the report.
The repeated violence should negate BLM protest group Detroit Will Breathe’s claims that the demonstrations should be protected under the First Amendment, the city asserts, the report said.

I wonder why it took them such a long time to either arrest them or sue them anywhere in the US.