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79-Years Ago on December 7, 1941 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii The December 7, 2020 American Indian Tribal79 -NewsYears * Ernie Ago C. Salgado on December Jr.,CE0, Publisher/Editor 7, 1941 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii America Entered World War II 85-90 Million People Died WW II Ended - Germany May 8, 1945 & Japan, September 2, 1945 All the Nations involved in the war threw and a majority of it has never been recovered. Should the Voter Fraud succeed in America their entire economic, industrial, and scien- Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia and the and the Democratic Socialist Party win the tific capabilities behind the war effort, blur- 2020 Presidential election we will become Pacific, was at war with China by 1937. ring the distinction between civilian and mili- Germany 1933. World War II is generally said to have begun tary resources. on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of And like Hitler’s propaganda news the main World War II was the deadliest conflict in hu- Poland by Germany and subsequent declara- stream media and the Big Tech social media man history, marked by 85 to 90 million fatal- tions of war on Germany by France and the fill that role. ities, most of whom were civilians in the So- United Kingdom. We already have political correctness which is viet Union and China. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of anti-free speech, universities and colleges that It included massacres, the genocide of the campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered prohibit free speech, gun control, judges that Jews which is known as the Holocaust, strate- or controlled much of continental Europe, and make up their own laws, we allow the mur- gic bombing, premeditated death from starva- formed alliance with Italy and Japan. Adolf dering of 300,000 unborn human beings annu- tion and disease, and the only use of nuclear Hitler’s reign of terror lasted 12-years, from ally, anti-Christianity, anti-American flag, a weapons in war. 1933 to 1945. $20-Trillion debt, 12-million illegals and let’s not forget Antifa, the Socialist Brown Shirts. It is estimated that 6 million Jews we mur- As we head into 2020 the Socialist political Saul Alinsky 101. dered by the German Nazi’s and millions of policies are at the forefront of the American dollars of money and valuables were looted political electoral. GOD SAVE AMERICA! Photo right: Smiling President Trump at the White House shak- Iwo Jima February 23, 1945 ing hands with Peter McDonald former Navajo Tribal Chairman next to an unidentified Navajo Code Talker. Photo below is a Navajo Code Talker and photos of him that appear on the cover of many books. “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” Corporal, Ira Hamilton Hayes, and five other U.S. Marines were photographed raising the American flag in the inland of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945 by Joe Rosenthal. Three of the six Marines depicted in the photograph, Sergeant, Michael Strank, Corporal, Harlon Block, and Private First Class, Franklin Sousley were killed in action over the next few days. The three surviving flag-raisers were Corporals Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, and Harold Schultz. Hayes was born on January 12, 1923 at Sacaton on the Gila River Indian Reservation in south central Arizona. He died on January 23, 1955 at the age of 32. Navajo Code Talkers stand for the National Anthem The December 7, 2020 Page 2 of 6 Alaska: President Trump Kamala Harris & Dominion Halts Pebble Mine Project Voting Software Connected By Joaqlin Estus, November 25, 2020 By Amalia White, November 30, 2020 President Trump‘s admin- istration denied a permit for a controversial gold and cop- per mine near the headwa- ters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska Environmental and tribal or- ganizations are celebrating President Trump’s decision. The Army Corps of Engi- neers said in a statement that the permit application to build the Pebble Mine was denied un- manent protection of the Bristol Bay der both the Clean Water Act and the watershed is achieved. “Future genera- Rivers and Harbors Act. tions should not have to live with the threat of mining developments that More bombshell findings keep Georgia is one of the top battle- The corps also said the discharge plan would devastate our cultures, communi- coming revolving around Do- ground states President Trump from the Pebble Limited Partnership, ties, and existing economies. We must minion Voting Software and and his team have been contest- the mine’s backers, doesn’t comply with ensure that Bristol Bay’s pristine lands this time it implicates Kamala ing. So far, more than 3,000 Clean Water Act guidelines. and waters are protected in perpetuity. Harris. votes for the president went The statement from Col. Damon Dela- The fact that this permit denial comes The Dominion Voting Soft- uncounted in Floyd county un- rosa, commander of the corps’ Alaska from a pro-development administration ware Scandal Keeps Getting til it was uncovered. district, says the agency “concluded that speaks volumes to the need for strong, Worse Kamala Harris Minion Uncov- the proposed project is contrary to the permanent protections for the Bristol As tensions rise over the wide- ered. public interest.” Bay watershed and all it sustains.” spread use of Dominion Voting Aric Thompson is the Domin- A coalition of area tribes, in a prepared Robert Heyano, the coalition board Software and its high probabil- ion representative who was also statement, said tribes and others are president, added, “The people of Bris- ity that it switched votes from a ballot scanner. celebrating the Corps’ decision “as the tol Bay have long known that our home Donald Trump to Joe Biden. decision reflects the sound science and He worked for radical Demo- is no place for a mine like Pebble. To- Now a Dominion representa- crat Senator Harris in 2019, overwhelming public opposition to this day, we celebrate the appropriate action toxic project.” tive who was responsible for the which can be seen from taken by the USACE in finally acknowl- scanning of ballots in Floyd his LinkedIn profile. The United Tribes of Bristol Bay, a edging this underlying truth: Pebble’s County, Georgia has been He also has an online portfolio coalition of 15 federally recognized proposal is too toxic for our region and named as a former Kamala Yup’ik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq tribes in cannot be built without devastating the pictures of him with Harris. Harris campaign worker. He Southwest Alaska, said the threat of environment that sustains our cultures was an official photographer for large-scale mining will loom until per- and communities.” the campaign last year. Michigan is Going Through the Motions' No Intentions of Seeking the Truth Prima Donna, Republican state Sen. Ed tems contractor assigned to the Detroit TCF McBroom, the chairman of the Michigan Center testified that election workers were Senate Oversight Committee, did not al- scanning the same ballots as many as ten low President Donald Trump’s attorney times. Rudy Giuliani to testify at the hearing to re- She said she reported the illegal activities to view elections operations in the state. her supervisor and the election supervisor In effect, McBroom told Jonathan Oosting, a but was rebuffed. She also testified that she reporter for Bridge Michigan, Giuliani had contacted the FBI and has yet to hear from no “first-hand knowledge” of election fraud. them. Now she had 3-minutes to inform the The hearing allowed only those with first- hearing committee. hand accounts of irregularities who have sub- “I don’t think anything will cause the state to mitted affidavits to testify. change its certification on the election. We’ll On that note, McBroom said if the Trump be bringing in people who have first-hand campaign has “somebody with first-hand accounts that they want to share with us, that knowledge who wants to come in, they can they’ve already shared through affidavits,” put in a card and wait in line with everybody McBroom told RRN before the hearings. else for their three minutes.” “Like I said, some of the affidavits are just One witness, an IT Dominion Voting Sys- plain silly. But there are a few that are very serious.” WOW: Fresh Election Fraud Info Released By Anastasia Boushee, November 39, 2020 Contributed by Franklin Motte, Moreno Valley CA Once again, Detroit is proving to be An article from David Harris one of the most corrupt cities in Jr.’s news outlet reported: “Now, America. New evidence from the it is true that if you go to the reg- 2020 election shows that a substan- istrars office it wouldn’t show up tial number of absentee ballots were but do you believe 203,311 did not applied for or mailed to voters. that? “…There are enough of those er sent an absentee application. each individual whose name is on In Wayne County, 566,788 absen- votes in Detroit alone to flip the With the new Online Absentee Ap- one of these ballots, to ensure that tee ballots were cast. Of those, election and that doesn’t count the plication lots of voters sent an app they actually voted. 203,311 ballots show that no appli- 252,456 in the rest of the state.” in through MVIC so they were nev- According to the Michigan Bureau cation for an absentee ballot was A data vendor in Michigan who er sent one.” of Elections, “If that field is blank it mailed or sent to the voter, meaning conducts regular business in front of MVIC is the Michigan Voter Infor- simply means that the voter was nev- that 36% of absentee votes were the Secretary of State said, “This mation Center, which is run by the er sent an absentee application”.
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