“Underneath the North Atlantic Ocean lies a series of sub-aquatic tunnels, connecting the rugged islands that comprise the northerly Faroe Islands archipelago. The soon to be opened Eysturoy tunnel network has already caused a splash, thanks to newly released photos of its center point – a striking new underwater traffic circle: illuminated, turquoise-blue and some 187 meters under the sea. The lights, colors and ethereal design makes the structure look otherworldly.”

“The 11-kilometer-long tunnel will likely be a welcome development for locals, shortening the 64-minute drive from Tórshavn – the capital of the Faroes – on the isle Streymoy, to the hubs of Runavík and Strendur, on the isle of Eysturoy, to just 16 minutes. And for tourists, the dazzling traffic circle could become yet another reason to visit this Danish autonomous territory, already known for beautiful scenery and wildlife. The traffic circle, located at the center of the tunnel network, was designed by local artist Trondur Patursson. It’s made of natural rock, just like the wider tunnel network. The colors regularly change from blue, yellow and green and the lights dance, creating an dazzling effect. Teitur Samuelsen, the CEO of the company constructing the tunnels, told CNN Travel that, for Patursson, the illuminated structure symbolizes the moving from the darkness towards the light – and also recalls the traditional Faroese chain dance, in which people hold hands and link up together in rings. This seems appropriate, given the tunnel network also serves as a means of connection” – CNN.

“Federal law enforcement authorities say they are aware of a website that sprang up over the weekend and began doxxing federal and state government officials at odds with Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.The site, which appears to have been created on Sunday, contains the home addresses, pictures of homes, personal emails, and photos of state and local officials who have pushed back on or questioned the president’s legal campaign. ‘The following individuals have aided and abetted the fraudulent election against Trump,’ the website, enemiesofthepeople.org, declared. A Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesperson told The Daily Beast on Thursday that the FBI is ‘aware of the matter,’ but declined to comment further.”

“The site was only online for a few days, and the identities of those responsible for it are not known. But archived versions of the site, and publicly available website registration data, show that the individual or individuals behind it used email addresses associated with a Russian email service provider and web hosting services based in the country. The possibility exists that the use of those addresses and hosting services were done to make it appear to be a Russian operation. The website was created as brewing national tensions over the 2020 election boiled over into violent threats against officials whom the president’s supporters have deemed complicit in a vast, often nonsensical conspiracy to steal the election for President-elect Joe Biden. Those claims have been rejected in dozens of state and federal court cases, and by high-level officials of both parties. Among the officials targeted—literally—by the enemiesofthepeople website were Govs. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), Brian Kemp (R-GA), Doug Ducey (R-AZ), multiple people affiliated with the company Dominion Voting Systems, and Christopher Krebs, the former top federal cybersecurity official who was fired last month for publicly debunking many of the conspiracy theories floated by Trump and his legal team” – Daily Beast.

New York Times: “State prosecutors in Manhattan have interviewed several employees of President Trump’s bank and insurance broker in recent weeks, according to people with knowledge of the matter, significantly escalating an investigation into the president that he is powerless to stop. The interviews with people who work for the lender, Deutsche Bank, and the insurance brokerage, Aon, are the latest indication that once Mr. Trump leaves office, he still faces the potential threat of criminal charges that would be beyond the reach of federal pardons. It remains unclear whether the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will ultimately bring charges. The prosecutors have been fighting in court for more than a year to obtain Mr. Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, which they have called central to their investigation. The issue now rests with the Supreme Court.”

“But lately, Mr. Vance’s office has stepped up its efforts, issuing new subpoenas and questioning witnesses, including some before a grand jury, according to the people with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the investigation. The grand jury appears to be serving an investigative function, allowing prosecutors to authenticate documents and pursue other leads, rather than considering any charges. When Mr. Trump returns to private life in January, he will lose the protection from criminal prosecution that his office has afforded him. While The New York Times has reported that he discussed granting pre-emptive pardons to his eldest children before leaving office – and has claimed that he has the power to pardon himself – that authority applies only to federal crimes, and not to state or local investigations like the one being conducted by Mr. Vance’s office.”

Now that the Biden Administration will be a scandal plagued mess for years to come, it is much easier for the Supreme Court of the United States to follow the Constitution and do what everybody knows has to be done. They must show great Courage & Wisdom. Save the USA!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020

Now it turns out that my phone call to the President of Ukraine, which many, including me, have called “perfect”, was even better than that. I predicted Biden corruption, said to call the A.G., who perhaps knew of the corruption during the impeachment hoax?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020

AP: “Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spent much of Donald Trump’s presidency trying not to provoke confrontation with the president or his fervent defenders. He almost made it through. But when state law required Ducey to certify Arizona’s presidential election results and sign off on Trump’s defeat last week, four years of loyalty wasn’t enough to protect him from the president. ‘Republicans will long remember!,’ Trump tweeted in anger at the governor.”

“Since then, the episode has spiraled into a public and politically damaging dispute between Ducey and influential Trump loyalists in his own party. Those who believe Trump’s unproven claims of fraud and support his effort to undermine the will of voters say Ducey betrayed his party. His defenders have dismissed the critics as ‘nuts.’ The rift may be a preview the lasting political impact of Trump’s campaign to subvert the election results. As the president’s baseless claims gain traction with many GOP voters, Republican officeholders will be asked to take sides – back Trump or acknowledge the reality that Biden won an election with no proven claims of widespread fraud. Their choices could have long-term consequences for their own political futures.”

Hasn’t been officially announced by Time yet, but because the four finalists were Biden, Trump, Fauci/Frontline Health Care Workers, and the Movement for Racial Justice, and the last two were both just now awarded the consolation prize of “Guardian(s) of The Year”, we at National Zero have deduced the winner to be President-elect of The United States Joseph R Biden Jr.

Nice touch by Time to put Trump in the finalists and get his hopes up. Wonder if any of his fans will photoshop his face over Biden’s like they did with Greta Thunberg last year.

UPDATE 10:59 pm 12/10/20: Well I was slightly off… The Time 2020 Person of The Year is Joe Biden AND Kamala Harris.

“The Trump administration on Thursday carried out its ninth federal execution of the year and the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years, putting to death a Texas street-gang member for his role in the slayings of a religious couple from Iowa more than two decades ago.”

“The case of Brendan Bernard, who received a lethal injection of phenobarbital inside a death chamber at a U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, was a rare execution of a person who was in his teens when his crime was committed. Several high-profile figures, including reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, had appealed to President Donald Trump to commute Bernard’s sentence to life in prison. With witnesses looking on from behind a glass barrier, the 40-year-old Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. Eastern time” – AP.

Wall Street Journal: “Attorney General William Barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings since at least this spring, a person familiar with the matter said, and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign. Republicans and President Trump have pressed Mr. Barr for months to pursue Mr. Biden, especially as his father, Joe Biden, gained momentum in his ultimately successful bid for president. Mr. Barr has staved off pressure from Republicans in Congress for information into the investigations, the person said, without elaborating on his actions.”

“One investigation became public this week after federal investigators served a subpoena on Hunter Biden. The subpoena sought detailed financial information in connection with a criminal tax investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware, according to people familiar with the matter. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had also been looking at Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings, as part of a broader criminal investigation that two people familiar with the matter described as an international financial investigation that had been going on for at least a year. Hunter Biden is implicated in that investigation but was never a specific target for criminal prosecution, the people said. They declined to provide details on the substance of the probe.”

As he attempts to subvert the legal votes of tens of millions of people in other states, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office was served a federal subpoena Wednesday to turn over records related to an ongoing federal investigation into corruption accusations, KHOU CBS-11 reported.

The state Attorney General received the subpoena from the FBI for records related to charges, spurred by whistleblowers in his own office, that Paxton used his office to benefit Austin investor Nate Paul, who had donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates in the last decade.

Per the report, “[s]ources confirmed to KVUE the requests for information were issued on Wednesday at the agency’s headquarters on West 14th Street. It was not immediately clear how many subpoenas were issued or what information federal agents sought.”

On Thursday the semi-sovereign megacorporation Disney announced a new animated film Lightyear by its studio Pixar, scheduled for 2022 and centered on the iconic character Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story series of films. No specifics were given besides that Trump-supporting Republican actor Tim Allen would not be voicing the role he originated in the 1995 original film and reprised another 3 times over a quarter of a century, but to the not-Trump-supporting Democrat actor Chris Evans, most famous for his role as Captain America in Disney’s Marvel films. Now, it appears that the film is not a sequel to Toy Story, but a universe-within-a-universe from which the Buzz Lightyear toy’s design was based off of. Buzz Lightyear is actually a spaceman and not an action figure that thinks he’s a spaceman in this new film.

Blasting into theaters June 17, 2022, Lightyear is the definitive story of the original Buzz Lightyear. Voiced by Chris Evans, get ready to go to “infinity and beyond” with Lightyear.🚀 👨‍🚀 pic.twitter.com/DBqk3cTXbt

— Toy Story (@toystory) December 11, 2020

But that doesn’t explain why Tim Allen was fired. He last voiced Buzz Lightyear in 2019’s Toy Story 4. It’s not like he’s too old to read his lines in a recording studio. We have the MAGA kids constantly complaining about some conspiracy in Hollywood against them and this sure as hell won’t do anything to calm them down. So let’s just operate under assumption that this casting change had something to do with politics and have a good laugh about it.

On Thursday, the total number of confirmed fatalities due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States exceeded the number of American military members killed in action during World War II.

As of Thursday at 8 p.m., the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus tracker registered 292,091 fatalities in the US since the coronavirus pandemic was identified in the nation at the end of January, just 11 months ago.

In the four years the United States fought World War II, 291,557 soldiers, sailors and Marines were killed in combat, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“I am declining to join this effort… As is sometimes the case, the legally correct decision may not be the politically convenient decision. But my responsibility is to the State of Idaho and the rule of law” – Idaho state Attorney General Lawrence Wasden via CNN reporter Ryan Struyk.

Hayden Christensen returns as Darth Vader, joining Ewan McGregor in OBI-WAN KENOBI. The Original Series begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Revenge of the Sith, and is coming to #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/9WR2npRUkk

— Star Wars (@starwars) December 10, 2020

Bro, that fucking logo. Holy shit. Wow. Isn’t so cool how they made it an 8-second long video instead of just an image in that tweet? I am so pumped to see what they’ll unveil next. You think they’ll show what Obi-Wan’s house looks like on Tatooine?

“President-elect Joe Biden has not said whether he’ll commit to keeping the Delaware U.S. attorney investigating Hunter Biden in his position in the new administration. It’s standard for new presidents to ask for the resignation of all U.S. attorneys upon entering office, but given the conflict of interest, Fox News repeatedly asked the Biden transition team whether the president-elect would keep David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware, in his role until the investigation into Biden’s son’s taxes was complete. The Biden team did not respond. Hunter Biden confirmed Wednesday his ‘tax affairs’ were under investigation in Delaware.”

“‘I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,’ Hunter Biden said in a statement. ‘I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.’ A well-placed government source told Fox News that Hunter Biden is a subject/target of the grand jury investigation. According to the source, a ‘target’ means that there is a ‘high probability that person committed a crime,’ while a ‘subject’ is someone you ‘don’t know for sure’ has committed a crime. The source said President-elect Biden is not a subject of any grand jury investigation at this time” – Fox News.

“A key Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday recommended the approval of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in people over 16 years old, the last step before the FDA gives the final OK to broadly distribute the first doses throughout the United States. If the FDA accepts the nonbinding recommendation from the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee – which is expected – it would mark a pivotal moment in the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected more than 15.4 million people and killed roughly 290,000 in the U.S. in less than a year” – CNBC.

Lynchburg News & Advance: “Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has dropped a lawsuit alleging the evangelical Christian institution he led for 13 years defamed him after he resigned in scandal this summer. Lawyers for Falwell notified Lynchburg Circuit Court on Wednesday that their client will not pursue his claim that the school damaged his reputation by repeating what he labeled as lies about his participation in an extramarital affair involving his wife and a former business partner.”

“Judge James Watson granted the motion, terminating the suit without prejudice. Watson’s ruling leaves open the possibility of Falwell refiling a similar suit at a later date. Under Virginia law, a plaintiff is allowed one nonsuit. ‘I’ve decided to take a time out from my litigation against Liberty University, but I will continue to keep all options on the table for an appropriate resolution to the matter,’ Falwell said in a brief statement Thursday.”

As Reuters reporter Brian Heath quotes from the GOP House members’ amici brief–and please remember what’s written below is a verbatim transcript from the brief:

But now, in the election of 2020, the principal enunciated by the Texas Supreme Court in Ramsey v. Dunlop in 1947 is threatened, not by ill-defined precinct lines in Texas, but by credible allegations of cabal and oligarchy in the four Defendant states which threaten the operation and integrity of the nationwide Republican Form of Government.

Specifically, Texas has alleged, and we the undersigned amici will join, in charging that “[a]n elite group of sitting Democrat officers in each of the Defendant States coordinated with the Democrat party” to subvert the Presidential Election of 2020 so as to deprive the majority of states of their lawful electoral power.

Let’s delve into this a little, shall we?