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💥💥 Situation Update, Dec. 7th – DNI John Ratcliffe, the bogus science of PCR testing and China’s GMO super soldiers

✅ I cover the bogus science behind PCR testing, explaining from a lab science point of view why no PCR instrument can “quantify” anything,
[M. Adams]

 1. whether it’s a coronavirus viral load or the percentage of a food that’s GMO. In fact, literally all the tests currently conducted with PCR equipment are scientifically invalid when it comes to diagnosing illness or determining infectiousness. The sample acquisition used for
2. PCR tests — nasal swabs — aren’t even standardized! (100% bogus junk science).
After covering PCR tests, today’s update then goes into detail about Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe, pointing out that he will be issuing a report on foreign interference
3. in U.S. elections on or before Dec. 18th. If this report confirms the existence of foreign interference that was capable of altering the outcome of the election, it gives President Trump full justification to declare the election null and void and dispatch military troops
4. to seize all ballots and hold a new count under military authority.

👉 Podcast notes and sources:
The office of military commissions has cleared its calendar for December:
https://t.co/u4nFRiUj8m

US military STOCKPILED Pfizer’s mRNA vaccineBEFORE it was approved by theFDA
5. Massive air lift operation into Nellis AFB, sources say in preparation for civil unrest among West Coast cities, after Trump victory.

Confirmed Insurrection Act is ready to be invoked. Confirmed US troops will be deployed as needed.

Trump Team Begins Forensic Examination of
6. 👉 Dominion Machines in Michigan – The Epoch Times.
https://t.co/eJQHGMZc9x

President Donald Trump’s legal team began a forensic analysis of Dominion voting machines in Michigan after a judge on Friday permitted the examination...
7. 👉 Raid: Investigators seize devices from Fountain Hills residence in voter data theft case – AZ Central.
https://t.co/zp7DlLyLim

Law enforcement officials served a search warrant at the home of a Fountain Hills man (Elliott Kerwin) and seized computers, hard drives and other
8. storage devices as part of an investigation into voter data theft from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office website...

👉 Lin Wood Plans Supreme Court Petition After Court Rejects Georgia Appeal – The Epoch Times

https://t.co/5kfy44EvxO
9. Attorney Lin Wood said Sunday he plans to file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court denied his appeal in a case seeking to block the certification of the 2020 election in Georgia.

“The stakes are high as the case deals with a disputed
10. Presidential election,” Wood said in an email to The Epoch Times. “I intend to timely file a petition with the United States Supreme Court.”

✅ John Ratcliffe, DNI

👉 A background in cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and cyber terrorism: from the official
11. https://t.co/dBid1IKfkU website https://t.co/Yc5D67jz51

✅ Ratcliffe’s bombshell article in the WSJ, calling out China as humanity’s worst enemy – https://t.co/7vX5VFFiRv
https://t.co/DmDemiwBu2

The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest
12. of the planet economically, militarily and technologically. Many of China’s major public initiatives and prominent companies offer only a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party...

✅ DNI John Ratcliffe States He Has Produced Thousands of
13. Declassified Documents For Special Counsel John Durham to Use – Washington Examiner https://t.co/xoHtWUGD2h

“There was an abuse of power and of legal authorities, and it’s not a question about whether those things took place — they did. I mean, there’s an FBI lawyer who
14. is going to jail for counterfeiting evidence before the FISA court"...

✅ Ratcliffe names 5G and genetically modified super soldiers as growing threats against America, engineered by China

“I am hoping now that the election is over, now that people have voted, and if there
15. is a Biden administration, that they will get past politicizing intelligence and be honest about China and acknowledge that China, and China alone is the greatest national security threat that we face.”

Ratcliffe told Fox News that China intends “to dominate economically,
16. militarily and technologically, and is the only country capable of challenging American supremacy across the board.”

“All of the threat streams that we have, from all aspects, militarily, economically, supply chain issues, foreign investment, technologically, cyber issues,
17. cyber warfare, 5G, telecommunications — China is in all of those and they are the only country to be in that space and the only country that threatens America supremacy,” Ratcliffe told Fox News.

When asked whether the United States was in an offensive or defensive position
18. with regard to China, Ratcliffe said the U.S. remains in an offensive place.
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💥🔴🟠🟡 Situation Update, Dec. 17th – Ratcliffe confirmation of foreign interference hands Trump justification to SEIZE ballots, voting machines

There is an incredible dynamic unfolding today as the deep state is pressuring DNI Ratcliffe to try to delay the foreign


interference report that’s due this Friday (the 18th).

🔸Fauci says 85% of Americans will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the U.S. to reach ‘herd immunity’ – https://t.co/xgPjoY6noa

🔸Experts slam the use of infrared forehead-scanning thermometers to screen for

Covid-19 as ‘unreliable, inaccurate and ineffective’ – https://t.co/zpE4U0VAQT

🔸Candace Owens Calls Dr Fauci, Bill Gates & Big Pharma ‘Evil" - “Dr. Fauci is evil. Bill Gates is evil. The pharmaceutical industry is wrought with corruption and pure evil” Owens wrote to her 2.8

million followers. Owens previously vowed that she will “under no circumstances” take any coronavirus vaccine, “Ever. No matter what,” she wrote back in April. https://t.co/jpl5AyPYiD

🔸Office of the DNI DELAYS the foreign interference report – Tweets
Amanda Schoch, ODNI

Director of Strategic Communications: “This afternoon the DNI was notified by career intelligence officials that the Intelligence Community will not meet the December 18 deadline, set by Executive Order and Congress…”

“to submit the IC’s classified assessment on foreign threats
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✅ 🇺🇸 ✅ How can Joe Biden be inaugurated if Democrats circumvented the state legislatures, defiled the Constitution, and forced the certification of a fraudulent popular vote?

Even though the Democrat Party and their media cohorts are pushing Joe Biden into the presidency as
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🇺🇸🇺🇸Rep. Gohmert sues Pence to grant the Vice President the authority to save the republic from a rigged election.

Since it all comes down to what Congress decides to do on Jan. 6 concerning the legitimacy of the Dec. 14 Electoral College vote, Trump-supporting Republicans like
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Situation Update – Nov. 26th – Flynn in place, DoD aligned, rendition flights ACTIVE:

The Situation Update bombshells just keep getting more intense by the day. Right now, the average American news consumer is 100% clueless of reality, having no idea that treasonous...
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✅💥✅💥 Situation Update, Dec. 8th – All ballots after Nov. 3rd are NULL AND VOID; Texas files lawsuit with SCOTUS to nullify rigged elections in FOUR swing states

💥 👉 Today’s Situation Update covers the bombshells now getting catapulted into the election battle,
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