The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
How Could I forget about the story regarding how they "fortified" the election for Biden... but remember - this doesn't substantiate the conspiracy claims by Trump supporters....
Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army (May 17)
"60,000 people"
Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life"The entities controlling the largest swaths of the internet generally are telecommunications giants whose names are familiar: AT&T, China Telecom, Verizon. But now at the top of the list was Global Resource Systems — a company founded only in September that has no publicly reported federal contracts and no obvious public-facing website."
Corruption confessions in China surge ahead of party congress
"16,000 people turning themselves"
"The execution was as swift as it was unexpected. It also sent shock waves through China's bureaucracy and led to a flurry of self-initiated confessions of accepting bribes."
"The surge follows the discipline committee's January 2020 decision that officials who voluntarily surrendered would be shown leniency, while those repeatedly accepting bribes would be dealt with harshly."
Russian government resigns as Vladimir Putin plans future (January 15)
"ministers did not know about the government's resignation ahead of the announcement." It was a complete surprise,""
Putin's Proposed Changes:"If approved by the public, the proposals would transfer power from the presidency to parliament."
"Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that the government was resigning"
"Currently, the president appoints the prime minister"
"Constitutional reforms included giving the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, "greater responsibility" for the appointment of the prime minister and the cabinet."
"Limiting the supremacy of international law"
"Amending the rules that limit presidents to two consecutive terms"
"Strengthening laws that prohibit presidential candidates who have held foreign citizenship or foreign residency permits"
"These changes, when they are adopted... will introduce substantial changes not only to an entire range of articles of the constitution, but also to the entire balance of power, the power of the executive, the power of the legislature, the power of judiciary,"
"In this context... the government in its current form has resigned."
"Under the current rules, Mr Putin must step down as president in 2024"
"now he's slightly weakened the powers of Russia's president"
"unveiled a series of plans to increase the number of children being born in Russia"
Is Putin limiting the power of the executive branch by decentralizing and sending power back to the regions of the country?